In the state assassin's mansion, Niu Zude slapped the housekeeper in the face, and saw that Rao is big housekeeper was very aggrieved in his heart, and he didn't say a word to defend himself at this time. （

He knew Niu Zude's temperament, and understood that no matter what he said now, it was wrong, and the more he said, the more wrong he was.

Perhaps it was because of the frustrations and depression he had encountered too much before, Niu Zude's bad temper inevitably exploded after he climbed to the position of the assassin of > Prefecture and firmly controlled the power, and that slap was far from enough to relieve his anger, especially in the face of these familiar subordinates, there was no need to hide it, and his work continued.

The arrival of An Beijia rescued the scolded dog bloody housekeeper, Niu Zude's temper is certainly big, but his anger is also first-class, no matter how angry he was before, he can always calm down when he needs to calm down the most, and he has always been very restrained in front of An Beijia's deputy.

After An Beijia walked in, he stood quietly for a while, and waited for Niu Zude's heavy wheezing to calm down before he spoke, "It has been verified, and the Changping grain in the official warehouse in Benzhou is indeed only thirty percent."

After saying this, An Beijia looked at the old butler standing on the side, "Providence is unknown, no one knew that Benzhou would encounter such a major drought this year, and if it was normal in previous years, thirty percent of the grain would be enough." Doing such a big business and making a living, he didn't give a penny of money and grain, and Hu Cao was tightly controlled by the household department. In the past few years, the trade has been able to do so smoothly, and the dispatch of the cattle pipe home has made great contributions, and it is inevitable that there will be occasional small mistakes, and adults will be aware of it."

Hearing this, Steward Niu threw a grateful glance at An Beijia, and the more self-pity became in his heart, he didn't give a penny but the annual dividend of filial piety was half a penny, how difficult should it be for him, a person who works in the middle? What else can he do if he doesn't know when it will come in handy?

Seeing the grievance on the housekeeper's face, Niu Zude glared at him fiercely, "How did the official explain to you when the Changping grain was transferred that day, fifty percent!" At any time, there must be no less than 50% of the grain in the warehouse, and you dog has taken my words as the wind on your ears."

"My lord, now is not the time to talk about these places", Ann Bei took a step forward, "The relief documents in several counties have arrived, and how to arrange these grain stores still has to be determined by the adults."

Niu Zude didn't look at the housekeeper again, turned back to the seat and picked up the tea cup on the desk and drank two big sips, behind him, after An Beijia glanced at the housekeeper, he stretched out his hand and pointed outside, and then the housekeeper quietly withdrew.

After drinking tea and sitting down. Niu Zude didn't say how to arrange the grain storage in the warehouse. "Sent to the Taoist letterhead?"

"Expedited delivery. The lower officials personally arranged the land". An Bei paced to Niu Zude and sat down. "Adults have worked hard for so many years. Min-sama also knows. It's just that some food was transferred from other states to come over for emergency. I'll fill it in next year. It's not a big deal. Lord Min will not stand idly by. Rest assured, adults."

"It's not a small hole. Let's hope so." Niu Zude's face was gloomy. "No matter what, you can't run away with a reprimand."

Hearing this, Ann said goodbye, but only sighed slightly, and didn't say anything. The lord above knew that too. It's really a loach. When it comes to reaping the benefits, you can drill faster than anyone else. But once the danger is present, it is earlier than anyone else. This time, the state government made a mistake in such a big dry land. Although he will fill the gaps. But > state government must not be able to stand it. A reprimand! That's the lightest.

After a moment of silence. Niu Zude put aside this thought. "Which counties are the places where the petition for relief is sent?"

"Wende. The mountain was reached two days ago. The gantry has just been delivered." Mouths spoke. An Beijia handed over the official document he brought.

Niu Zude ignored the first two official documents, and directly copied the relief documents from Longmen County.

Flipping through this official document that was obviously much thicker than the other two, a look of surprise flashed on Niu Zude's face, "There are really few talents in Longmen County?" After carefully reading the official document that was more than ten pages long, he sneered and pushed it in front of An Beijia, "Although the official document is well written, it is a pity that Tang Cheng has lost his mind and gone crazy, and he really treats the state government as a good hall."

"Xia Guan Shicai was also startled when he looked at it", An Bei smiled in agreement, "Why don't you press it first?" ”。

"Press?" , Niu Zude shook his head with a dumb smile, "Why do you want to press?" Immediately allocate half of the 30% of the grain in the official warehouse to him, and keep the other half to support the remaining five counties first, and in any case insist on the grain transferred by Lord Min."

"Give him half?" , An Beijia was stunned for a moment, and then vaguely understood what Niu Zude meant, because he smiled: "Tang Cheng spent a lot of effort to write such a request for relief, and the state gave less than forty percent of what he requested, not to mention that he had to take into account more than 20,000 Tang people, even to appease Xi people is not enough, but I am afraid that he may not be willing to stop like this."

"The state government is not a good hall, it is okay to give him these to go there", after a pause, Niu Zude lowered his voice a little and said: "Recently, you keep an eye on Longmen Ximan, and the chaos will come to report to me immediately, this Tang Chengsheng is a paradox, he has not even been smooth this time, so he took advantage of this time to get out."

"Hmm", after nodding, Ann Beijia packed up his official documents and prepared to leave.

"Slow", Niu Zude stretched out his hand and pressed the official letter of relief from Longmen County, "Pass this to all the Cao in the East Courtyard to see, and in the future, the documents submitted to the government will follow this style."

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In the small leather tent on the Longmen grassland, Tu Yehei's father and son sat opposite each other across the fire pit.

Even if the cold wind on the grassland in winter was biting, Tu Yezhuo, who walked in from outside, did not put down the curtain of the leather tent, and the cold wind cut in like a knife, blowing the cow dung fire in the fire pond to sway left and right.

Looking out from the wide open tent door, the two elder brothers of Tu Ye Heidi were riding horses and galloping on the dry grassland outside, practicing riding and archery with bows and arrows, Rao is cold wind like a knife, but they are very thinly dressed, trying their best to show their physical strength, the two are running outside the leather tent like flying, as if they have no distractions, but Tu Ye Hei keenly noticed the burning eyes of the two brothers who glanced here from time to time.

Since returning from the county, he has been snubbed, and today his father took the uncharacteristically initiative to come to his leather tent, and the two brothers should be nervous again. Thinking of this, a very shallow and faint sneering smile appeared at the corner of Tu Yesi's mouth.

"Do you know it's wrong?" , Tu Yezhuo's voice is deep and deep.

"Got it".

"What's wrong?".

"The son's mistake is that he doesn't know people, and he doesn't know how to respond to the situation, which not only ruined his father's years of hard work in the county, but also caused many innocent people to die tragically."

"That's all?".

What else? Tu Yehei, who was sad because of the memories of the old events in the county, raised his head and looked at his father who was sitting like a mountain behind the fire.

"After so many days of closing the accounts, you have realized this?" , Tu Yezhuo

Although it is gentle, the disappointment in the tone is very clear, go to see it from afar, leave tomorrow, don't rush back, Yangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, Chang'an in Gyeonggi and Rao Le are all going to see, so take a walk in this Tang land."

Hearing this, Tu Yehei, who had never changed color in the face of the sudden change in Longmen City that day, turned pale instantly, "Father...... Now is the time of danger in the clan, how can the son go? ”。

"What's the use of you staying if you don't leave?" Tu Yezhuo's voice was flat and almost cold, and as he spoke, he glanced at the two sons who were trying to show their muscles outside the leather tent, "Fight like your two elder brothers?" ”。

Tu Yezhuo's coldness was like a knife deeply pierced into the heart of Tu Yehei, who had been blaming himself for this time, and the tiger stood up and protested: "Father, don't forget, I am the one who gets the most color at the annual horse race, although my son is stupid, but he will not lose to the two brothers when he fights."

The disappointment in Tu Yehei's eyes became even stronger, and he waved his hand when he stood up, "Go ahead, leave early tomorrow morning, and come back after seeing clearly and thinking clearly."

"I'm not leaving", seeing that Tu Yezhuo was about to go out, Tu Yeji grabbed two steps, "This natural disaster is really a great opportunity, my father should take advantage of the situation, and use the disaster relief to force Tang Cheng away to avenge the revenge of the day, and then return to the clan through the court of the Rao Le Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, if this matter is successful, with the greatness of Rao Le, how can his father's talent be limited to the head of a clan?" In time, there will be a place for a father among the five chiefs of the Xi tribe, and at this time it is the opportunity for the prosperity of the clan, and I will not leave."

"If you don't leave by noon tomorrow, I'll expel you from the clan", he didn't hear Tu Yehei's infinite words, and Tu Yezhuo walked out of the tent without looking back after leaving this sentence.

Seeing that his father only stayed in the leather tent of the third child for a while, he came out with a cold face, and then saw the third child who chased out of the leather tent with a pale face, the eldest and the second wrong horse smiled heartily, and the shouting of the horse and the bow became louder.

Tu Yeji went quietly the next morning before dawn, riding alone, without the slightest demeanor of the consul general in the Shuntian warehouse.

In his infinite frustration and loneliness, he couldn't have noticed that in the big tent not far behind him, Tu Yezhuo, who was dressed up, was watching through the curtain as he gradually melted into the back of the night before dawn, and a beautiful middle-aged woman on the couch covered with tiger skin in the big tent was sobbing on her shoulders.

"Little Hina can only fly into an eagle if he has seen the sky, this is a good thing for him, what are you crying about", although Tu Yezhuodi's voice was not loud, but the beautiful woman didn't dare to cry anymore after hearing this, revealing a piece of snowy skin and sobbing silently.

Seeing her like this, Tu Yezhuo frowned in annoyance, although Tu Yeji is smart, but he is too proud and narrow-minded, his arrangement is really painstaking, but who can understand his painstaking efforts?

The frowning was only a matter of moments, and his face immediately turned cold, "Someone."

With a shout, the slave girl who was on duty in the outer tent immediately walked in on her knees.

"Changing clothes, grooming, and preparing horses", Tu Ye Zhuo violently ripped off the fox fur he was wearing, "Let Cudo be ready to go to the county seat with me."

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When Tu Yezhuo, who had left early, had already faintly seen the Longmen city wall in the distance, Tang Cheng in the county government in the city was discussing with Yang Jiao, Jia Xu, and Qian Sanscar.

The bookcase in the office room has long been cleaned up, and there is a somewhat simple geographical map of the mountains and rivers of Longmen County on it, Tang Cheng held the iron ruler carried by Qian Sanscar and pointed to the two places in the map, "Although the mountains in Longmen County are almost the same, but if it is gentle and suitable to repair the terraces, these two places are just attached to the county seat, and it seems that the person who chose the site for the county seat that day really took a lot of effort."

At this point, Tang Cheng, who was stroking the iron ruler in his hand, turned around with a smile, "This place on the left side of the city is going to be handed over to the Tiancheng Army, don't bother us, the three scars, can they move?" ”。

"The first batch of 1,100 people of the Tiancheng Army left three days ago, even if it is not tonight or tomorrow, it should be there."

"Okay, we don't have to worry about food and shelter for these people, but you have to hurry up about the three scars of collecting farm tools and recruiting blacksmiths, this person can't be idle when he comes over, let them start doing it when they come, and the more they do, the better", Tang Cheng's words caused Jia Xu and the three of them to laugh.

Tang Cheng also smiled to himself and continued: "The one on the left is handed over to Tianchengjun, and the one on the right is all up to us." Jia Xu, the proclamations that were discussed two days ago can be issued, except for the necessary stays, those scribes in the eastern courtyard must go down to each room, be sure to explain things clearly to the people, and do a good job of mobilization."

"Yes, the subordinates will do it immediately."

"Hmm", Tang Cheng nodded, turned his head to look at Qian Sanscar, "Sanscar, you and your subordinates have to work hard these days, after you are busy with the farm tools, you will go to the right place to check it, take the books of Hu Cao, be sure to figure out each household, and ensure that people can quickly find a place to start working when they come, the food relief is limited, so many people have to eat for nothing, how much do they have to spend a day?" You have to lighten the burden for Mr. Yang."

"The subordinates know".

The last one is Yang Jiao, "Mr.'s responsibilities need not be said much, from picking his subordinates to help to receiving relief grain, to daily diary workers and putting grain accordingly, these are the most grinding and easy to cause trouble, this county please", after speaking, Tang Cheng put down the iron ruler and bowed to Yang Jiao.

"After a few years, but now I can participate in such unheard of things, I should thank the Ming Mansion", Yang returned the gift, "but I foolishly think that although the Ming Mansion has good intentions, but in such a year of great drought, the choice of this time is not very appropriate, not to mention, this relief grain alone is definitely not enough, in addition, the matter of large livestock is not easy to do, and it is difficult to continue in the meantime."

The more the crisis, the more you can do great things, every time there is a big economic crisis in later generations, it is the peak period of large-scale infrastructure construction, the United States in the thirties of the twentieth century in the Great Depression, and the same is true of China before the crossing, the benefits and truths of this are naturally clear to later generations, but it is difficult to explain clearly to the Tang people 1,200 years ago, which is the difference of the times, but also the core of the hard advantage. Since it was difficult to explain, Tang Cheng didn't bother to speak, and smiled when he heard the words, "Mr. Yang, do your best, I have the food and big livestock to do."

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After coming out of Tang Cheng's office, Yang Jiao didn't go back to his special office directly as he had done the previous times, and called Jia Xu and Qian Sanscar to his side in the courtyard.

Regarding the origin of Yang Jiao, Tang Cheng did not hide it from Jia Qian and the others, with the importance of him and the county respect, and he really showed his hands in the past few days, Jia Xu and Qian Sanscar naturally did not dare to underestimate him, although he did not have any duties, but now the Longmen County Yali seems to respect him except for Tang Cheng.

It hasn't been around for long, but Yang Jiao has obviously adapted

Deeply branded with Tang Cheng's style of doing things, he didn't say a word about Jia Lu with a solemn face, the most capable people must be selected in the East Courtyard to send them down, and there is money to always arrest, the task on your side is heavier, and after the people gather, you must pay close attention to it, and the connection with the Tiancheng Army cannot be broken every day, is there not still 700 people on Jiang Duwei's side? Consult with him and see if you can move them to the vicinity of the designated area for the time being."

Seeing that the big plan that made them stunned when the county zun said that day was about to start, Jia Xu and Qian Sanscar were full of excitement, and when they heard Yang Jiao's words, their hearts were all chuckled, "Mr. ......."

"Just in case", Yang Jiao waved his hand, "Tang County's thinking and courage are certainly beyond the reach of people, but it is really too many, and it is difficult for him to do this big thing even in a bumper harvest year, let alone ...... But now that we have made up our minds, we won't say anything, but the three of us have to focus on doing our part well, and dance a hundred pounds of heavy wood as a weak child, and it is really impossible to make mistakes."

"Hmm", between Jia Xu and Qian Sanscar, the expressions on their faces were much more solemn. Since the county lord insists on promoting such a big thing now, then everyone will do their best to do it, and the priest will die for his confidant, but that's it.

When the three of them finished speaking, they were about to separate and do their own things, but they saw the old man at the entrance of the yamen walking in in a hurry, and Jia Xu stopped him casually, "Lao Jiang, what's the matter?" ”。

"There are a few Xi barbarians outside who want to see the county lord", Lao Jiang was not shocked, "The barbarian claimed to be the patriarch of the Xi people in this county."

"What?" As soon as they heard this, Jia Xu and the three of them were stunned, and then followed the anxious Lao Jiang back to Tang Chengdi's office.

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Qian Sanscar, who pressed the waist knife in his hand outside the room, and Di Kuduo, who was stroking the scimitar on the other side, looked at him angrily, and Tang Cheng and Tu Yezhuo sat across the case in the room, and they didn't speak for a while.

Tang Cheng, who was holding a tea cup in his hand, squinted his eyes slightly and carefully looked at this patriarch, who was known as the most outstanding patriarch in decades, and was surprised that he could still have such a strong body at his age, and was also surprised that he and Tu Yezhuo had such a tacit understanding, and when he was about to look for him, he came to the door first.

Tu Yezhuo, who was doing the same thing, was even more surprised in his heart, although he had heard Cudo say it before, but even if he saw it with his own eyes, he still found it hard to believe that Tang Cheng, who could use such a thunderous method, was so young, younger than his third son who had high hopes.

After looking at each other for a while, Tang Cheng raised the teacup and took a sip of it slowly, "The Tuye patriarch came to see this official in the cold, what is the matter?" ”。

"Since the beginning of winter, there has been a great drought for days, and a certain one has come for the disaster relief of the tribe."

"Oh?" , Tang Cheng dragged a long nasal voice, which made his official tone more expressive, "The patriarch of Tuye has gone to the wrong place, he wants to give relief, and the tooth tent of King Xi in the north is where the patriarch should go."

Tu Yezhuo not only did not change his face when he heard this, but laughed, "When did the imperial court have the will to let the clan return to Raole, and the county order can be taken seriously?" ”。

"The imperial court does not have this will, but the county is preparing to submit an official document to ask the imperial court to return to the clan", at this point, Tang Cheng leaned forward and stared at Tu Yezhuo with a smile and said: "Returning to the clan after decades, isn't it the long-cherished hope of the people of Longmen?" ”。

With just this sentence, Tu Yezhuo's heart suddenly cooled, although this Tang Cheng was young, he was much stronger than Tu Yezhuo, and at this point, the smile on his face could no longer be maintained. "This is a later story, and now the clan is still the people of Longmen, and it is the responsibility of the county government to provide relief in case of drought."

"Well said", Tang Chengmeng patted the case in front of him, "It is true that disaster relief is the responsibility of this county, since Naer and the others admit that they are the people of Longmen, it should be their duty to pay taxes, but they don't know where the taxes of the Tuye patriarch have been paid?" You don't pay taxes every day, but what relief does the county give to you during this disaster? Isn't it all grain and fodder that fell from the sky? ”。

Tu Yezhuo rose up in response to the situation, but ignored Tang Cheng's questioning and only sneered: "In this way, Tang County Ling has made up his mind to see more than 20,000 of my clansmen starving to death?" ”。

"You can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense, the patriarch of Tuye heard clearly, this county is not not not giving, but it is powerless to give", staring at Tu Yezhuo, Tang Cheng smiled colder than him, "Who did you wait for the cattle and sheep in previous years to give, who should you find to help now."

"Okay", Tu Yezhuo's eyes shrank suddenly, and he actually pulled out a famous sentence in "Lao Tzu", "The people are not afraid of death, so why should they be afraid of death".

At this time, I was still dragging the article and pretending to be stupid, intending to intimidate and coax myself to reap the benefits, what did the old guy think of me? Tang Cheng laughed, "If the patriarch's words make Captain Jiang of the Tiancheng Army listen to it, he will definitely be very happy, he was not very happy when he calmed down the city last time."

As they sat and stood, their eyes splashed between each other, and the office fell into a suffocating silence for a moment.

After a long time, Tu Zhuo Zhuo, who had taken his eyes, sat back slowly, and Tang Cheng smiled faintly when he saw this, and picked up the teacup again.

"What is the constitution of Tang County, let's take it out."

"This county is just going to do a big thing, need to call a lot of big livestock, rather than hiring in the field is better to call nearby, let your people come, one person to lead a big animal, do a day to receive a day's relief grain, do not grain for forage can also be. If you don't do it, you won't have it", Tang Cheng raised the teacup and took another sip, "There is no free food in the world, at least not in the territory of this government." This name is called cash-for-work, and the Tuye patriarch must remember it, so that it can be explained to the clansmen."

"Tang Cheng, don't deceive people too much, even if I follow you, how much can you use with more than 20,000 people from my clan, and the rest should starve to death?"

"The big livestock I want to call is far more than you think, and it's simple to think that your family won't starve to death, tell you that the people of the local tribe will save some food from the relief food they receive every day, and in the year of the catastrophe, even the landlord's family will have no surplus food", at this point, Tang Cheng paused and looked at Tu Ye Zhuo and smiled, "Tu Ye patriarch and >." The caravan of the state cattle family has been trading for many years, and I don't know how many livestock and skins have been sold, and the man of financial resources has been able to burn more than 10,000 good leather goods as if they were nothing. This official has heard that the most bartered land used by the Niu family's caravan to trade with the patriarch is grain, and the patriarch came in a rage this time and kept saying that he wanted to starve to death, did he deceive me or deceive himself? ”。

"Good Tang Cheng, my inferior son is not wronged when he is planted in your hands", Tu Yezhuo's anger just now not only dispersed in an instant, but then laughed out loud, "No matter how many people and big animals you want to call, I will come out, and I don't want a grain of relief grain for you to do for nothing, so, but I don't know what Tang County's order can give me?" ”。

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ps: 6,500 words slightly make up for yesterday's uninterrupted deficit, and the chapters promised to be made up last time will be sent two days after tomorrow.