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A suburb of Tokyo.

A convoy of fifteen wagons was approaching from a distance.

When the convoy got closer, some passers-by were stunned to find that the owner of the convoy turned out to be a beautiful woman.

This beautiful woman, dressed in a white floor-length dress, embroidered with pink patterns on the wide hem, with a long cigarette Luo purple silk on her arms, a thin waist, tied with a purple jade brocade belt, jet-black hair tied with a lilac ribbon, a few strands of hair naughtily hung down on her shoulders, the skin that could be broken by her fingers was more white, her face was not powdered, but she still couldn't hide her stunning appearance, she looked indifferent, like a fairy who does not eat fireworks in the world.

This beautiful woman's surname is "Li", and her husband's surname is "Zhao", and she was originally left behind in Zizhou.

A year ago, the Jin people defeated the alliance and went south, and Zhao Liushou was transferred to an official because of the merit of pacifying the local deserters and disrupting the order, and he saw that the future was about to be even brighter.

Unexpectedly, after only half a year, the Jin people went south again, and Li Yan, the king of Liaodong, also sent troops to the Central Plains.

Zhao Liushou is a person who reads poetry and books, how can he do the things of those two ministers?

In the Chinese army, huh...... At that time, it should have been called the Liangshan Army, and when it reached Zizhou, Zhao Liushou was really powerless to resist, so he could only hang the seal and leave.

After that, Zhao Liushou and the Li family lived an idyllic life of ploughing and weaving.

The couple wanted to do it until they were old.

Unexpectedly, not long ago, Zhao Liushou suddenly heard the bad news that his mother died in Jiangning (later Nanjing City), so he hurriedly went south to mourn.

Soon after Zhao Liushou left, Li received news that King Zhao Kang had been enthroned in Yingtianfu in Nanjing and became the tenth emperor of Zhao Song.

Not long after, Li heard another news, the Sino-Jin war, the Song army was defeated and retreated south of the Yangtze River.

Seeing this, the Middle Song Dynasty was going to draw the river and rule.

Li couldn't help but worry - although the distance between Zizhou and Jiangning was not too far, once the Chinese Song Dynasty drew the river and ruled the river, then the two places would belong to the two countries. If the relationship between the two countries is more tense, then she wants to see her husband Zhao stay behind, but it will be difficult, and maybe, the two will be separated from each other.

After thinking about it for two days, Li made a bold decision - to go south to find his officials.

The Li family didn't want to do this, but the Li family knew that the officials were unwilling and would not be the middle ministers, so once the Chinese and Song dynasties belonged to the two countries, then the officials would probably not come back.

Therefore, in order not to be separated from the officials, the Li family began to sort out the selection collection and prepare to go south.

Li was not a layman in the world, and there was nothing she could not part with except for the classics in her collection.

However, just books and some clothes, Li still loaded a full fifteen carts.

This made it difficult for the Li family - in this time of chaos, transporting fifteen carts from Zizhou to Jiangning was simply an impossible task!

Li originally wanted to take the waterway, to the East China Sea, to cross the Huai, and then cross the river, to Jiankang.

But now the waterway has been blocked by the Chinese army - successive years of famine and military disasters, so that the Central Plains region is a large shortage of food, the Central Plains people suffer from hunger, in order to solve the big problem of lack of food, the Chinese army concentrated all China's transport capacity from Goryeo, Japan, Taiwan three places at the same time to the Central Plains to transport grain, at the same time, the Ministry of Communications also ordered that all ships were conscripted for a fee, all waterways were temporarily blocked, and all forces were concentrated to send food to the Central Plains.

Under such circumstances, it was naturally difficult for the Li family to take the waterway to Jiangning's plan to implement.

As a result, the Li family could only travel to Jiangning by land.

To be honest, the Li family was very reluctant to travel overland to Jiangning.

In Li's opinion, bandits were bound to rampant by land, and it was very unlikely that she would be able to reach Jiangning smoothly.

But Li is even more reluctant to part ways with her husband.

Therefore, gritting his teeth, the Li family finally chose to go to Jiangning by land.

And yet—

What Li never expected was that the road was far safer than she imagined.

Along the way, there are Chinese troops everywhere to maintain order.

Moreover, Li also heard that the Chinese army is suppressing bandits everywhere, and so far, all the bandits with names and surnames in Shandong have basically been exterminated by the Chinese army.

In addition, there is a hall in thirty miles, a post station in ten miles, and a pavilion in five miles, and Li can find a safe place to rest wherever he goes.

That is, the price of post houses, post stations, and post houses is several times more expensive than other places.

However, the Li family can also understand - these inns, post stations, and post houses have a large number of guards to maintain law and order, and they supply seasonal vegetables, fresh fish, and wine, which are urgently needed at the moment, which is more expensive than private stores, and it is also normal.

All in all, Lee, who thought it would be a difficult trip, came to Tokyo from Zizhou without any danger.

After walking and seeing all the way, Li faintly had an idea: it seems that it is not bad for the king of Liaodong to sit in this world.

Li, who often discusses people's livelihood and people's livelihood with her husband, knows very well how hard the people in Shandong, Hebei and other places have lived in recent years.

Not to mention the two years that the Jin people went south, the people in the two places almost lived in hell.

Even a few years before the Jin people went south, the people in the two places were also miserable, there were rebellious soldiers and bandits everywhere, people were starving to death everywhere, and there was even a situation in many areas where they were eating and eating, and everyone had no hope.

Along the way, Lee observed:

Although the faces of the people were still a little vegetable, there were no starving people on the road, let alone bandits.

There are handouts everywhere.

There are also medical points near each post house for the people to watch the soldiers for free, and even medicinal herbs are delivered for free.

Moreover, there are paid workers everywhere, everywhere is building roads, cleaning rivers, building post houses, building schools, building medical halls, building money villages, building all kinds of infrastructure, and as long as you are not lazy, an adult man can get a bucket of food and two cents of money for a day's work, which is enough for a family of five to eat for two or three days, that is, women and children can also be recruited, do some work that does not require great effort, do a day's work, you can also get half a bucket of food and a cent of money, it can be said that the people all have a way to live.

How could Li, who was full of poetry and books, not understand that the Dazhong Imperial Court was engaged in cash-for-work?

Watching the people regain their vitality little by little, they may live a life of peace and contentment, listening to the praise of the new emperor and the new court everywhere, and the Li family, who has always been loyal to Zhao and Song with her husband, couldn't help but be a little shaken, and he kept asking himself: "Will the restoration of the Zhao family do better than Dazhong?" ”

This question has plagued Li all the way, and there is still no answer.

The convoy entered the Tokyo area and walked forward for a while, when a post house suddenly appeared in front of it.

Far away, a post guard shouted loudly: "Guest officer, go into the hall and take a rest, this is the last post house before arriving at Bianliang City, if you miss it, you can only rush into the city tomorrow morning." ”

In the early spring of March, although the weather has begun to warm, people can still freeze to death at night.

Besides, Li was not in a hurry, and she even planned to go to Bianliang City to visit her relatives, stay with them for a few days, and then go south.

Therefore, hearing the call of the post officer, Li Shi Chong sat on the errand boy on the wheel and ordered: "Shunzi, you go and inform me, we will rest at the post house tonight." ”

The little maid named "Shunzi", after hearing the master's command, answered the promise, and then informed the carriage driver one by one, and then led the convoy to the post house......

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