In the four counties of Hezhou, there are also some spring droughts.

However, because Jiangpu County, He County, and Wujiang County are all near water, they are irrigated during spring ploughing, and the crops look good to grow.

Only Hanshan County, backed by Xiaohan Mountain, is farther away from the river, and the spring drought is more obvious.

Although the people of Hezhou are soft and lack a bit of fierceness, if they are really hungry, they are not afraid to wear shoes barefoot.

The security of Hezhou Prefecture, Jiangpu, and Wujiang is good, but here in Hanshan County, the people are used to entering the mountains to become bandits in famine years.

The bandits of Xiaohan Mountain used to be as famous as the bandits of Black Python Mountain.

Before fighting Hezhou last year, Tang Guang was ordered to suppress bandits in Xiaohan Mountain, and only in Hanshan County could he be considered to be safe.

Now, it's time to prevent a resurgence.

Xiaohanshan is at the junction of Chuzhou and Hezhou, and if there is chaos inside, it will affect the security of the two places.

How to appease the hungry people?

If you can't do it, you can't be exempted from agricultural taxes, and if you can't do it, you have to give it to you.

Everyone estimated the harvest in the fields of Hanshan County, but they were relieved.

Even if Hanshan County needs relief grain, it is not as serious as Quyang County, and it is estimated that it is similar to Binjiang County.

"Luzhou is not afraid, it depends on Shouzhou and Shuzhou......"

Monk Zhiran frowned.

The Chuzhou army seems to occupy a place full of grain and grass in the south of the Yangtze River, but now the number of soldiers has reached hundreds of thousands.

Raising troops comes first, and An Min has become second.

If there are many places in need of relief, food will be scarce.

There is no major event in Hezhou, and everyone has walked around and arrived in Luzhou.

When I arrived in Luzhou, I couldn't avoid the Chaohu camp.

Now the person in charge here is General Yu San, the third son of the old marshal Yu, who is responsible for training the new soldiers of the sailors.

General Yu San is in his twenties and has not yet married, and now he is a "golden bachelor" in the Chuzhou army.

He and his niece Yu Da Girl, they both had a marriage contract before, and after the "Chaohu Change", Luzhou changed the world, and also made the uncle and nephew change their relationship.

The eldest girl Yu has been married to her aunt's cousin since she was a child, that is, the son of the Sheng family in the three families of Chaohu Lake Sailor Yu, An and Sheng.

He is the eldest son of Sheng Shuangdao, one of the commanders of the Chaohu Water Division.

General Yu San's marriage was Sheng Shuangdao's cousin, and the wedding date was originally set for last winter.

Yu, An, and Sheng's families are in contact with each other, so they are also close to each other.

As a result, Sheng Shuangdao was persuaded by the right protector of the Maitreya Sect last year, Shou Tianwan, to cooperate with the poisoning of the old capital commander who was kind to the water master, and then united with the Luzhou Zhizhou to calculate the Yu and An families, wanting to dominate the Chaohu water division.

As a result, Yu Xiu, the old head of the Yu family, jumped out of Luzhou and sent his son-in-law An Yong to Chuzhou for help in person, begging for the Chuzhou army, and solving the dilemma of the water division.

Sheng Shuangdao originally wanted to set up a "Hongmen Banquet" and poisoned the Yu and An families, but Mr. Lin, who was rushed over, saw through and blocked him, and was afraid of Sheng Shuangdao's strategy, and also arrested Sheng Shuangdao.

Sheng Shuangdao is not only Yu Dahai's sworn brother, but also Yu Dahai's brother-in-law.

Mrs. Sheng begged her sister Mrs. Yu and released the Sheng family privately.

Sheng Shuangdao gathered the old department and wanted to get out of Chaohu Lake and go to Anqing, but was blocked by Yu Dahai.

There was a water battle between the two sides, and Yu Dahai personally slashed Sheng Shuangdao under the knife.

has become a mortal enemy, Yu Dahai is not a merciful person, knowing the entangled relationship between the Sheng and Yu families, but he is ruthless, and let the Sheng family leave Chaohu Lake on the surface, and privately ask someone to follow him, and after entering the Yangtze River, he smashed the Sheng family's boat.

For this reason, Mrs. Yu was sick and recuperated for ten months......

Then Huo Yu married and Huo An married, but there was nothing to do with General Yu San.

When the Chuzhou Army arrived in Jinling, the Huo clan also came into everyone's sight.

Marshal Yu really asked people to pay attention to Huo Chun, but the result was to let Shui Jin take the lead.

has come and gone, and the dust has not yet settled on General Yu's family affairs.

General Yu San is the same age as Shui Jin, although the two have the name of teacher and student, they are actually fellow generations, and they are also very happy to meet again.

For Huo Bao, the "young master", General Yu San is also respectful, and there is no lack of respect.

As a landlord, General Yu set up a banquet for everyone to receive the wind.

It's the beginning of June, and it's time for Huxian to go on the market.

Whitebait, white shrimp and crab are the "three fresh foods of Chaohu Lake".

It's just that the crabs won't be on the market until August, and now the crab paste from last year is used to stuff tofu on the table.

Song Lin and Zhiran monks drank rice wine and ate lake freshness; But the water entered, but I only felt that the fish and shrimp were too vegetarian, guarding a plate of big elbows to satisfy my hunger.

Huo Bao's attention is on the table, and it is not on the table.

It was the first time he had come to the nest of the Chaohu Water Master.

This is the largest island on Chaohu Lake, and the house is built Lang Kuo, but it looks like it is not short and a little dilapidated.

Looking at the utensils on the table again, the patterns are magnificent, but if you look closely, they are not exquisite.

It's the kind in the Beijing flavor building in Chuzhou City, fooling outsiders, but it's actually not worth any money.

Thinking about An Changsheng's dress again, he looks like a young master of the official gentry, but it is not extravagant.

And An Changsheng's new clothes are all counted, there are only a few sets in a season, and the rest are all half-new and not old.

An Changsheng is also the eldest grandson of the An family, and is the first junior male in the Yu and An families.

The family background of the Yu and An families seems to be thinner than imagined.

Before, Huo Bao thought that the two lake bandits were from two families, and their family background must be very rich, but now it seems that he thinks badly.

Not only did Huo Bao pay attention to these, but Monk Zhiran also saw them.

Since he is in charge of the Supervision Department and supervises the people of the Chuzhou Army, he naturally has no reason to fall behind the two families of Yu and An.

Because the two families were born in the lake bandits, Zhiran and Shang Ben were a little prejudiced against the two of them.

But in fact, for most of the year, there is nothing wrong with the Yu and An families in the Supervision Department.

On the contrary, the Supervision Department found some old things about the Yu and An families.

That is, although the Yu and An families became local military attaches before, they acted kindly, not only did they not drink the blood of the soldiers, but they also waited for the soldiers under their command to be extremely kind.

Sailors usually practice to come in the wind and go in the water, water and fire are ruthless, and it is common for soldiers to be reduced.

What's more, in addition to the three families of Yu, An, and Sheng, there were other lake bandits in Chaohu, and the three of them began to suppress bandits after they voted for the imperial court, and they also lost a lot of manpower.

If the Chaohu Water Division loses soldiers, the Chaohu Water Division will arrange corresponding pensions, and there will be more care for the family members' orphans.

Marshal Yu and An Yong Weng's son-in-law are both famous people for a while, whether they are deliberately trying to win people's hearts or have a generous nature, this alone has cost a lot of money.

Since the beginning of a few years ago, the imperial court has withheld local military salaries, and the Chaohu Water Division is naturally no exception.

Although the Yu and An families did not advance military salaries on behalf of the imperial court, they had to put a lot of silver to supplement the armaments, grain and grass.

A sailor is not the same as a foot pawn.

There is nothing if the foot soldiers do not change their armaments, and they can fight with old weapons.

The sailors did not repair the warships, but they did not even send troops.

In this way, it is a large amount of silver, and it is difficult for Yu and An families to pay out of their own pockets.

Huo Bao took a bite of crab roe tofu and thought about Chaohu.

This is a cornucopia, and it is too wasteful to only use the water source of the tuntian.

After the reception banquet was over, Huo Bao found General Yu San.

"Lotus root?"

When General Yu San heard this, he couldn't help but smile: "There have already been people raising it, Xiaoshan Island, dozens of acres of lotus root fields, if Bao Ye likes to eat, let them send two boats to Jinling in the autumn......"

Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to eat the water.

There were more than 20,000 people in Chaohu Water Village, and the food and clothing could not be purchased completely, so they tried to be self-sufficient in order to save money.

Huo Bao shook his head and said: "It's not that I want to eat, I can use it like the tuntian by Chaohu Lake, which is exclusively for military supplies, and it can also be regarded as finding work for the families of the sailors......

General Yu San's eyes couldn't help but light up.

The Chuzhou army's military procurement is different from other places.

Other places are eager to use the banner of military quartermasters, and take things at low prices or for nothing.

The Chuzhou Army is based on the market price, at most because of the large quantity, it takes eighty or ninety percent of the market price, which is considered a wholesale price.

This thing is not expensive, but it can't stand its large output.

There are also lotus root fields, which can be cultivated along the shallow waters of Chaohu Lake and around the islands in the lake, so that the total yield will not be low......