The printing workshop is in full swing, and Li Xiao only returns home in two or three days these days.

After having lunch in the canteen that day, Li Xiao rode back to Chang'an. From Zhongwei Bridge to Chang'an, I saw many victims along the way, they all came from all over the Guanlong River, and now it is the time when the green and yellow are not connected. This year, the imperial court is abnormal, no longer transporting grain to the affected states and counties, and no longer letting the people out of the customs to eat Henan, but very benevolently let everyone come to Chang'an to receive relief, and those who have no food at home will find a way to come.

Along the way, there were civilian camps everywhere, and you could see officials, but you couldn't see many young people. The young and strong were all taken to repair the Daming Palace, and the rest of the women and children stayed here, waiting for the government to send porridge every day.

When I entered Chang'an City, I felt a completely different world.

In Chang'an City, you can't see those rags, yellow-faced, hungry and thin victims. The tall soldiers of the South Yawei Mansion and the Praetorian Guards of the North Ya had long kept the victims ten miles away from Chang'an City.

No one was allowed to enter Chang'an City.

In and out of Chang'an, there are eunuchs and business travelers, Li Xiao rode through the long street, and felt that Chang'an seemed to be more lively.

I heard that recently, the boats on the Guangtong Canal have been working day and night, and grain ships have arrived in Beijing every day. Since there was no need to transport grain further this year, all of them were in Gyeonggi to help the victims, which saved the imperial court a lot of things. It's just that after working hard in Shaanzhou, there is a section of the Yellow River that cannot be navigated by boat, and it must be transshipped by land.

First, all the grain goods were moved off the ship, and then the car pulled people to pick up and transport them for dozens of miles, and then the upstream wharf was reloaded, and finally entered the Guangtong Canal to reach Chang'an City.

It is precisely because of this small distance that the transportation capacity is seriously limited, even if the Jianghuai and Jianghan have grain, they can rely on the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal to be stuck here.

In particular, the grain in the Bashu Jianghan area is now mainly taken by the Grand Canal, first down the Yangtze River, then to Yangzhou into the canal, then into the Yellow River in Bianzhou, and then all the way up, and finally stuck in Shaanzhou.

After Yang Guang opened the canal, he also found that Shaanzhou to Chang'an could not be unblocked, even if Chang'an to the Yellow River built the Guangtong Canal, but it was still limited to this node.

This is the short board of Caoyun, no matter how long the canal is, but this board is short, the convenience of the canal is greatly reduced, and finally Yang Guang has to put his focus on Luoyang, the eastern capital, as the center of the world.

From some points of view, after ending hundreds of years of turmoil in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the world was reunified in the Tang Dynasty, in fact, Chang'an was indeed a little difficult to meet the heavy responsibility of the imperial capital in the center of the world.

It is too remote to a corner, and the financial center of the world has been transferred to the southeast, especially the grain mainly depends on the southeast supply, Guanzhong is no longer the fertile field of the Han Dynasty, but here is a thousand miles of red land.

The food economy is not self-sufficient, and the geography is too biased, so it is indeed not a good place.

But on the one hand, Li Zhi set Luoyang as the eastern capital, but he was building a large number of buildings to repair the Daming camp in Chang'an, and the eastern capital Luoyang was just the same as the northern capital Taiyuan, and it was not built as a real center.

Li Xiao came in from the city gate near the West Market, which was still bustling, and the market area known as the Gold Market was full of merchants and people coming in and out of the West Market, as well as a large number of Hu people.

After passing through the gate of the imperial city, Li Xiao came to the vicinity of the East Market, feeling that it was obviously not as prosperous as the West Market, but as a high-end business district, it was still full of vitality. In and out of here, both rich and expensive, fragrant cars and BMWs.

Shengye Fang.

The entire square area faces the street, and it is all houses.

The design and system of the square area have a long history, and only the powerful and high-ranking officials can open the door on the street.

Shengyefang Lannan County Mansion is very quiet.

The autumn breeze is warm, and the leaves are swaying in the wind.

Passing through the vestibule and entering the backyard, Li Xiao heard the sound of crying and scolding, and after listening carefully, it turned out to be the second lady Cui who was scolding and scolding Cui Yuenu.

She scolded Cui Yuenu for being a traitor, betraying the Cui family, taking refuge in thieves, and being ashamed.

Li Xiao let go of his footsteps and slowly approached.

In front of the West Wing Courtyard, under the gazebo.

Cui Yingluo is still dressed as a monk, still dressed as a girl, and refuses to coil her hair. She didn't do it herself, but she was very dissatisfied with Cui Yuenu, who had already made a haircut.

Cui Yuenu is actually very polite to this half-sister, but it can be seen that she does not regard her as a real sister in her eyes, after all, Cui Yingluo has never regarded her as a sister before, even now, she has never regarded her as a sister.

She just felt that she was cowardly, betrayed the Cui family, and lost her people.

"I advise Erniang not to make her little character good, although San Lang is a good person, but if you keep being so ignorant, you will also anger him."

"You are no longer the concubine of the Cui family in Xuzhou, you are the concubine of Li Sanlang, the son of Lantian County, you don't even have a child, let alone the imperial court's edict, if you really anger San Lang or the eldest lady, be careful that they hand you over to people to sell, and then you will never have such a good life."

Cui Yuenu's words were very objective and not a threat.

But Cui Yingluo felt that this was threatening her, and she didn't expect that she would actually help outsiders threaten her, so she suddenly got angry and raised her hand and fanned her.

But the hand fell in the air, but it couldn't go down again.

"Enough!"

Li Xiao held Cui Yingluo's raised hand, she still wanted to struggle, but how could she be Li Xiao's opponent.

"The moon slave didn't say anything wrong, it's you who is wrong. Don't you still know who you are and what you are in? Li Xiao felt a little guilty about Cui Yingluo, after all, there was no reason for his grievances with Cui Zhiyi to involve her.

But now her attitude towards Cui Yuenu makes Li Xiao dissatisfied.

Cui Yuenu was indeed the Cui family in the past, and she was indeed Cui Zhiyi's daughter, but since she has arrived at the Li family, and she really wants to integrate into this family and treat herself as the Li family, then Li Xiao, the head of the family, will defend her.

Cui Yingluo's hand was held by Li Xiao and struggled, and her eyes looking at Li Xiao were full of resentment, she felt that her life was completely ruined, all ruined in Li Xiao's hands.

Li Xiao glared at her and shook her hand away, "Go back to the house and think about it, think clearly, you are now my Li Xiao's concubine, not a high-ranking five-surnamed girl, if you don't know the system like this, then don't blame me for using the family law." ”

"You dare!" Cui Yingluo said angrily.

Li Xiao snorted, took two steps forward without saying a word, pulled her over, and then pressed her to his lap, and a big slap was unceremoniously slapped on Cui Yingluo's ass.

One, two, three······

Li Xiao smoked very hard, this was not flirting, he really didn't think about dealing with this girl, and he was still a little guilty about her, but now that this girl is so noisy, Li Xiao's psychological guilt is gone.

You're welcome to clean up.

Hands are heavy.

Pumped on top of the ass one by one, and made Cui Yingluo stupid. She was half-lying on Li Xiao's lap, only feeling that her delicate buttocks were hot.

How dare he hit me?

Still spanking me?

Bingqing Yujie's self was actually spanked by Li Xiao on his leg!

Under the excitement, Cui Yingluo fainted all of a sudden, she couldn't accept this fact at all, the impact was too great.

Li Xiao felt that she was no longer struggling, so he stopped, pulled her up to take a look, and found that she had actually fainted.

I couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed at the moment.

"Yuenu, you send her back to the room."