After a day's work, when I returned to Huiji City, it was already evening. They were tired and walked slowly, and none of them wanted to talk.

Yue Wang Fan Li and Jiang He are both martial arts masters, they gallop on the battlefield and are invincible. But this is not the same thing as doing farm work. After a day of work, the results are not big, but I am tired to death. This made them realize more deeply that every grain of grain is not easy to come by.

When the people on the street saw them, they stood on the side of the street, bowed their heads and saluted, and the king of Yue beat his spirit, smiled and saluted everyone, and sometimes stopped to chat with everyone.

Suddenly, King Yue walked over to a stall selling pork.

The king wants to buy pork? Fan Li and Jiang He followed closely. In a huge capital, there is only this pork stall, it is already evening, and there is still a lot of meat on the stall, which shows that there is not much sold, and from this point, it can also be seen how poor the people are.

When the meat seller saw the king coming, he hurriedly put down his work and knelt down: "The little people see the king." ”

King Yue took a quick step and pulled him up: "Hurry up, I'm also a working person now, don't be polite." Is business okay? ”

The meat seller lowered his eyes: "It's not good, I'm the only one who sells meat in such a big capital, and there is still no sales." ”

King Yue said: "All our things have been robbed by the people of Wu, and we are poor. Theoretically, there should be a hundred meat sellers in Huiji City. ”

The meat seller said, "When the king returns, our hearts will be steady, and in a few years, there will be more people eating meat in Huijicheng." ”

King Yue smiled: "I love to hear this." In order to encourage everyone to work hard to produce, the imperial court has introduced some new policies, have you all heard about it? ”

The meat seller said, "Got it." ”

King Yue said: "How do you feel about it, are you still welcome?" ”

The meat seller said, "Back to the king, the new deal is really good, don't mention how happy you are." In particular, it is very good that the imperial court borrowed food from large households to help the poor. That's it, how many fewer people starved to death. ”

King Yue nodded and said, "Each person cultivates five acres of land, are you willing?" ”

"Of course you do, the king, you have gone to clear the wasteland, can we not go? My family is three strong men, and we must open up fifteen acres of land. ”

King Yue said, "Okay." ”

While chatting, King Yue's eyes swept over the pork. The pork seller said, "Take some meat, king, for I will honor the king and not take any money." ”

Yue Wang Yaoyao's head. Fan Li said: "King, you haven't eaten meat for a long time, let's take some back." I have the money to pay the bills. ”

King Yue still shook his head, his eyes fell on the pork liver, the meat seller was very clever, and said: "King, if you don't take this pork liver back to eat, I said, I don't want money." ”

King Yue still shook his head, pointed to the pork liver and said, "What is this?" ”

"It's pig gall."

"Can you eat this?"

"I can't eat it, it's too bitter." The meat seller explained: "As long as you break it a little, this pork liver will be bitter and uneatable." I didn't take him off, but I told the people who bought the pork liver that the pork liver was not broken, so he could buy the pork liver with confidence. ”

King Yue nodded. His brows gradually tightened, and his eyes revealed a little sadness, and a little heroic. He said, "Will you please pluck the pig gall bladder for me?" ”

The meat seller was stunned for a moment, and wondered: "King, this thing can't be eaten." ”

King Yue stubbornly said, "Please take it off for me." ”

The meat seller was full of suspicion and plucked the pig gall, wrapped it in lotus leaves, and handed it to King Yue.

Not only was it the confusion of selling meat, but Fan Li and Jiang He couldn't figure out what King Yue wanted to do with this bitter guts. This is the last thing that the pig has on it and can only be thrown away. Now the king of Yue wants a bitter gall, what is the use?

Back at the stone house, King Yue took a wisp of ramie, hung the pig gall above his straw shop, and stood there, the pig gall was just as high as his mouth.

Fan Li said with some horror: "King, what are you going to do? ”

King Yue said in a dumb voice: "I want to taste it, is this pig gall more bitter than the days of the widow in the Wu Kingdom." ”

"No!"

Fan Li shouted and knelt down: "The king can't!" ”

Yayu's face also changed color, she knew that King Yue had a habit of cleanliness, and the bile was fishy, smelly and bitter, and it would kill him. Yayu cried and knelt down: "King, you will not forget the hatred, we will not forget the insult and harm that Wu Guo has done to us, and one day, we will take revenge." King, you don't need to toss yourself, listen to the concubine, that dirty thing will make you unbearable. ”

Yayu pleaded, slamming his forehead to the ground. Fan Li also said with tears in his eyes: "King, you know that you love cleanliness, why do you torture yourself." Why don't you let the minister taste this bitter gall in your place? ”

King Yue said unmoved: "A widow is also a person, and as soon as the days are comfortable, people will slack off." The widow needs to remind himself from time to time, not forget hatred, and revive the country! Arise all of you, for the widow has made up his mind, and there is no need to persuade him any more. ”

King Yue took a bone needle and gently punctured the bitter gall a little bit, and the black-green bile slowly oozed a small drop.

King Yue opened his mouth, took the bitter gall in his mouth, sucked it gently, spit out the bitter gall, pursed his mouth tightly, closed his eyes, and frowned.

Suddenly, as if he had been struck by lightning, he was slammed to the ground, followed by a violent vomiting, followed by a violent cough. After coughing, it was another endless spit, accompanied by a violent cough.

Yayu cried and shouted, "The king—"

After tossing for a long time, King Yue slowly calmed down, and by this time he was already sweating profusely, panting heavily, his face was pale, and there were tears in the corners of his godless eyes.

Fan Li suddenly remembered an idiom he had learned in high school: "Lie down and taste the gall!" ”

Although he already knew this story, when this story happened right in front of him, his heart was still extremely shocked!

...... In the middle of the night, Fan Li was on duty at night, and Xiangguo came back.

"Did the king sleep?"

"The king cleared the wasteland during the day, and after a tired day, he had already slept."

"Can you wake him up?"

"Does it matter?"

"I'll report the situation and I'm leaving."

Fan Li shouted softly, and King Yue got up. Light an oil lamp. said: "Xiangguo has worked hard. Let's talk about it. ”

"After the implementation of the new policy in various places, it caused great repercussions among the people, especially those who were weighed down by debts and could not hold their heads up, and the poor who were so poor that they could not open the pot, were liberated at once. In addition, the participation of the king and the courtiers in the reclamation of the land had a great incentive effect. The enthusiasm of the common people is unprecedentedly high, and the enthusiasm for production has been mobilized to the greatest extent, and next year is expected to have a bumper year. Yue Guo relieved himself. ”

King Yue was very happy and said excitedly: "Okay! Good! The launch of the new deal is indispensable. ”

Fan Li said: "Thank you for the king's compliment, the minister just did what he had to do." I laughed secretly in my heart, where could I come up with this, not to learn from the practice of "fighting local tyrants and dividing the fields" in later generations.

King Yue said: "What is the reaction of the rich people in the countryside? ”

Wen Chong said: "They must be unhappy, and there are some troublemakers, kill a few, and the situation has completely calmed down." ”

King Yue said: "Okay, Xiangguo is doing a good job. ”

Fan Li pondered for a while and said, "We still have a long way to go if we want to catch up with Wu Guo. It's like two people in a hurry, he walks in front and we chase behind, and we have to be much faster than him if we want to catch up and overtake him. It would be much easier for us to overtake them if we were to speed up and catch up and find a way to slow him down or even go backwards. ”

King Yue said, "That makes sense, but how can we make them go backwards?" ”

Fan Li said: "I'll go to Wu and find a way to make them go backwards." ”

King Yue said, "What is the young uncle going to do?" ”

Fan Li said: "Toss! ”