Time flies, time flies.

More than three years have passed since the Great War in the Northwest.

At this time, it was already the seventh year of He'an, and there was still civil unrest in the territory of Great Wei, and there was almost no peace.

The reason for this is that the taxes are too heavy, which makes the people in various places miserable and miserable.

In order to pay taxes, it is not new for people to sell their houses and fields, and it has become commonplace to sell their children and daughters.

Inside and outside the city, beggars were everywhere, and the scene was almost no different from that of troubled times.

The so-called official coercion and civil rebellion, in this situation of almost waiting for death, people naturally do anything in order to survive.

As a result, anti-flags were raised one after another in various places, and they spread rapidly like sparks burning the prairie fire.

Most of the local health centers in various places have never fought seriously, and they are already too busy to take care of themselves, as long as the chaotic people do not move, they are already thankful, where do they dare to go to suppress.

Under the trend of one another, there are more and more rebels.

Among them, in the Jiangdong area alone, Du Jin, who proclaimed himself the king of Jiangdong, has developed the rebel army to more than 600,000 people, becoming the largest force among the many rebel forces.

In the face of the chaos that continued to emerge in various places, the Great Wei court did not send a large army to suppress it as before, but concentrated its forces in the provinces south of the Yangtze River, and even the news of the imperial court's intention to move the capital to Jiangnan was even reported in the capital.

At first, few people believed the rumors, thinking it was just nonsense.

After all, the capital is the capital of the Great Wei Dynasty, and it is also the place where the imperial tombs of the past dynasties are located, as long as the emperor is still surnamed Zhao, it is impossible to move the capital.

But as the imperial court sent a large number of elite soldiers, including the five military camps, to Jiangnan, and transported a large number of materials to Jiangnan as well, all those who originally did not believe in this rumor couldn't help but begin to waver.

Could it be that the imperial court really plans to move the capital?

In fact, while many people and scholars were skeptical about this matter, the major families and officials in the capital already knew that the move of the capital was imperative, and it was almost not officially announced.

Since the defeat of the imperial court and the Northwest Army three years ago, the Xie family and others led by An Guogong began to take a defensive stance against the northwest.

But as long as anyone who experienced that great war knows, the Northwest Army is not only brave and good at fighting, but also adds an unprecedented powerful weapon.

In front of the Northwest Army's firearm array, even the cavalry equipped with horse armor and armor was not an opponent at all, and was beaten to the ground.

Fortunately, the Northwest Army was short of food at that time, so it did not launch a large-scale counteroffensive against the capital.

Otherwise, in the face of such a big killing weapon as the firecracker, who else can resist the attack of the Northwest Army.

Although the imperial court is also working hard to develop firecrackers, it is a pity that two years have passed, and the Ministry of Industry is still making slow progress in the manufacture of firecrackers, and it is impossible to equip the army in large quantities.

Under these circumstances, moving the capital to Nanjiang became almost the only option to prevent the invasion of the Northwest Army.

First of all, the provinces south of the Yangtze River were the main grain and tax centers of the Great Wei Dynasty, and as long as the south of the Yangtze River was not lost, the imperial court would not have a problem at least in terms of money and grain.

Secondly, the waterways and terrain in the Jiangnan region were complex, which made it much more difficult for the Northwest Army, which had a large number of war horses, to attack the Jiangnan region, which was full of rivers and lakes, than to attack the capital of Pingchuan.

These two factors are the main reasons why the imperial court wants to move the capital to Jiangnan.

In order not to startle the snake, the imperial court has long begun to secretly prepare for the relocation of the capital, and even the civil unrest that continues to break out in various places has no time to care.

At this time, in the eyes of everyone in the Xie family, there is nothing more important than moving the capital to Jiangnan.

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Just when the civil unrest in the Great Wei was everywhere and everyone in the imperial court was busy moving the capital, the northwest and northeast ushered in an unprecedented bumper harvest.

The main protagonist of this bumper harvest is not conventional crops such as rice, wheat or sorghum, but an exotic crop called "potato".

Farmers in the northwest, in particular, couldn't help but burst into tears when they saw the heavy potato skewers dug out of their fields.

For many years, the northwest, which has always been arid and barren, and countless people have starved to death, has ushered in a bumper harvest.

Not to mention this kind of thing in this generation of farmers, even the longest-lived old people have never heard of such a miracle.

But now that this miracle has really happened, how can this not make these people in the northwest who have been hovering on the hunger line for a long time very excited.

Many people have also heard that this foreign crop called "potato" was specially brought back from overseas by the Ning family, in order to give the people in the northwest a real full meal.

Not only that, but the head of the Department of Agriculture of the Ministry of Agriculture, who is responsible for promoting potato cultivation throughout the northwest, is a great benefactor who was entrusted by the Ning family to bring this thing back from overseas.

When many people really saw the scene of the harvest, they were extremely excited to thank the Ning family and the handsome, and wanted to see that Master Jian with their own eyes, so that they could kowtow to him and thank him in person.

In fact, outside the official residence of Jian Shuqi in Pingnan County, it was already surrounded by local people, and they all spontaneously came to express their gratitude to Lord Jian.

In anticipation, the door to the mansion finally opened.

Jian Shuqi, who was the director of the Agricultural Affairs Department, walked in quickly from inside under the protection of several guards.

As soon as all the people saw him, they immediately knelt down in unison, and then excitedly shouted in unison: "Hello Lord Jane. ”

"Fathers and fellow villagers, please get up, please get up! I, Jane, can't afford to be so gifted by you. Jian Shuqi hurriedly returned the salute.

A middle-aged man said angrily: "You can afford it, of course you can afford it." If you hadn't brought the potatoes back, where would we have had a bumper harvest this year, don't you think? ”

"That's right, thank you Master Jane, we're kowtowing to you."

"Thank you Lord Jane, our family will finally stop starving to death, thank you Lord Jane, thank you Lord Jane!"

"Yes, our family will no longer have to let the cubs drink water to fight their hunger. Thank you, Lady Jane, for saving your life! ”

"This is all the merit of the handsome, Jane is just doing his best. Please come up quickly, fellow villagers, if this continues, Jian will lose his life. Get up, get up. ”

Jian Shuqi hurriedly helped the people who kowtowed to him one by one, and he was so anxious that he was sweating.

After some persuasion, he persuaded everyone to go back.

After returning to the mansion in a little embarrassment, as soon as Jian Shuqi entered the hall, he saw his new wife Lan Qing looking at him with a smile, and then walked in and took out a white handkerchief from his arms to help him wipe the sweat stains on his forehead.

Looking at his wife's moving smile, Jian Shuqi couldn't help but grab her hand, and then looked at her and smirked.

This kind of surging feeling will only appear when facing Lan Qing, a newlywed wife who finally married into the door, and he didn't have this feeling when he was with his ex-wife Luo before.

"Fool, what are you laughing at?" Lan Qing, who was holding his hand tightly, blushed and said softly.

"Aqing, I'm so happy, really happy. I did it, I finally did it......" Thinking of the gratitude shown by the people just now, Jian Shuqi's heart was also excited. I just want to talk to my sweetheart about my feelings, but I don't know where to start for a while.

Lan Qing looked at him with excitement and his face flushed, and his eyes became more and more gentle.

She is well aware that her husband has spent a lot of effort and time in the past two years to promote potato cultivation in the northwest.

And he did this not to get promoted and make a fortune, but just to make the people of the two norths no longer hungry, and to let more people in the world have enough to eat in the future.

Such a great man has become her husband, and she sometimes thinks about it incredible.

Almost subconsciously, she reached out and hugged her husband, and then said with red eyes: "I know, I know that Xianggong is doing this for the sake of the people."

And what you do, the people are watching, so they will spontaneously come to thank you.

Xianggong, I am proud of you, and it is great to be able to marry you. ”

Jian Shuqi hugged his wife very excitedly, and tears unconsciously appeared in his eyes.

Sure enough, she is someone who can understand herself.

If a wife is like this, what more can a husband ask for?