Lu Min's face froze, and he was speechless.

He understood what Liu He meant, Youzhou has to count on the wealth of Qingzhou and Jizhou every year to make up for the shortfall, and now that Qingji and Hebei have been hit by disasters, the victims have arrived in Youzhou, and the big families in Youzhou will not only not contribute, but will take advantage of these opportunities to recruit the displaced people as vassals and compete with the court for population. It is not lawful to recruit subjects, but who dares to punish them now? If you really want to force them tightly, they will push out all those displaced people, then Youzhou will be chaotic, Liu Yu can't afford this responsibility, and the county guards can't afford this responsibility, they can only pretend not to see it.

After all, it is better for these big families to recruit the homeless as vassals than to let the homeless starve to death on the road.

This is no way, it's not that Liu Yu and Wen Shu don't want to help the homeless, they are powerless, because they have no money or food in their hands, Qingzhou and Jizhou can't be counted on, but the rewards of the Hu people have to be given every year, where does this come from? What else can they think of other than borrowing from those big families?

Now Youzhou looks very stable, but in fact, there are troubles outside, there are homeless people inside, they are simply sitting on the fire, as long as there is a spark, this fire will become a raging fire, burning all over Youzhou, at that time, Xianbei people are like entering a no-man's land, not only can disturb Youzhou, and may even go straight to Hebei.

Preparing for war? Liu Yu doesn't know if it's prepared, but you have to think about the possible consequences of arousing the anger of the Wuhuan people and the Xianbei people, and you must have the ability to bear the consequences.

Lu Min suddenly understood why his father Lu Zhi asked him not to be reluctant, not to be too stubborn, he had been in the court and had rich experience, and he might have thought of this, but he was black-eyed and didn't know the situation outside.

But Lu Min didn't regret it, if he didn't go out of the study, how could he see this?

Lu Min became even more silent, silent as a stone, cold and lonely.

Mao Yan rode on the horse, pulled the reins lightly, and her melancholy eyes fell on Lu Min's body from afar, and sighed softly. Lu Min's silence made her very depressed, she wanted to go up and persuade him very much, but she didn't know how to persuade him. Liu He's words also include the Mao family, Zhuoxian Simao has a share, for these families, the homeless people are the wealth that falls from the sky, as long as they are given a bite to eat, they can have countless extra laborers, usually let them plough the land, collect most of the rent, in case the Hu people come, they can also take up arms to go into battle to protect their manor.

The government has lost a large number of people, and it has lost a large amount of wealth and military resources, but for them, big families and powerful people, it is an opportunity to make a fortune, a great opportunity to expand their strength unscrupulously. The government is getting weaker and weaker, they are getting stronger and stronger, and when they are facing the assassin and the Taishou, they will have more confidence and can speak louder.

In the final analysis, Ximao advocated preparing for war, more to take this opportunity to establish his own prestige, rather than for the sake of Zhuoxian.

The only person who really thinks about Zhuo County may be the man who is so silent that it makes people feel distressed.

"Who is that?" Liu Xiu's voice interrupted Mao Yan's musings, Mao Yan glanced at Liu Xiu, and followed his finger to look at a carriage not far away. The carriage stopped on the side of the road, covered with blue curtains, and a young woman in a green dress jumped out of the car, took a burden from the car, and strode towards a woman sitting on the side of the road, the woman was holding a dying child in her arms, and there was only despair in her sunken eyes, and she looked up at the woman in the green dress.

The woman in the green dress squatted beside the woman, stretched out her hand to open the child's eyelids, looked at it, took a piece of bread from the baggage, broke off a piece, put it in her mouth and chewed it, and then took out a little with her fingers and sent it to the child's mouth. The child, who had been motionless, suddenly opened his eyes, opened his mouth and bit the woman's finger.

"Hehe, it's quite strong, it seems that you can't die." The woman in the green dress laughed, chewed a little more bread and fed it to the child, then put the rest of the bread into the woman's hand, turned around and gave another piece to the people next to her.

When she was feeding the child, the scattered homeless people had already gathered, but what made Liu Xiu strange was that they just gathered around, looking at the fingers of the woman in the green dress reaching out to the child's mouth and the cake in her hand, the protruding Adam's apple rolled up and down, showing their unbearable hunger, but no one stepped forward to grab it, just waited cautiously on the side.

This is too far from the scene that Liu Xiu saw the homeless people fighting for a piece of cake, he didn't believe that the moral cultivation of these homeless people was higher than that of other homeless, he believed that this woman in a green dress was a little weird, not to mention the awe of those homeless people, just said that it was a strange thing for her to dare to carry a bag of bread alone in the wild full of homeless people, she was not like Liu Xiu and a large group of people, enough to make the homeless people jealous, not daring to make trouble easily, she was not afraid that the homeless people who were already hungry and green-eyed would eat her as meat.

"It seems to be a Taiping Dao person." Mao Yan said uncertainly, "Look at that carriage, there is a sign on the left side of the trigram." ”

Liu Xiu was stunned for a moment, then he looked at the carriage covered with green curtains again, he just thought that the carriage was very magnificent, but he didn't pay attention to the signs on it, and took a closer look, only to find that there was indeed a hexagram painting on the carriage, with four short horizontal lines lined up in two rows on the top and a long horizontal horizontal below, which was the shock hexagram in the gossip.

His heart was shocked, and he suddenly thought of one thing: Yellow Turban? Oh, no, now they don't call it the Yellow Turban, it seems to be called Taiping Dao.

This...... This is a cult, it is these people who make him dare not stay in Zhuo County with peace of mind, and he is bent on leaving this place of right and wrong, it turns out that ...... It turns out that these people are really in Zhuo County.

"What's wrong with you?" Mao Yan saw that Liu Xiu's eyes were wrong, and asked in surprise.

"Why doesn't the government care about this...... These people? Liu Xiu secretly wiped a handful of cold sweat, and then looked at the woman in the green dress, and her eyes obviously changed.

"Official?" Mao Yan chuckled and shook her head again and again: "They don't break the law, why should the government care about them?" ”

"Not breaking the law?" Liu Xiu's eyes narrowed in surprise, these people don't break the law, so what is a crime? You must know that the Celestial Empire was a rare and resolute way to deal with that wheel back then, why, it was not because the hidden danger was too big.

"They taught people to do good, healed the poor, gave food, and saved the government a lot of things, and the government didn't have time to thank them." Mao Yan didn't want to say more to Liu Xiu, kicked the mount lightly, walked towards the woman in the green skirt, stood five steps away from the carriage, and bowed to the woman in the green dress sitting behind the car: "Zhuo County Ximao Mao, dare to ask the girl which messenger is seated." ”

The woman in the green dress raised her eyelids, glanced at Mao, and smiled and gestured: "It turned out to be Aunt Mao of the Ximao family, and she is really a good woman who doesn't let her eyebrows go." She paused, glanced at the sign next to the carriage and said, "Since the girl has seen it, why should she ask again?" Miss Mao, we still have to hurry, so we don't have time to talk about each other, so let's leave it to the back. ”

Mao Yan was a little embarrassed, but she didn't say anything, and then turned the horse's head and retreated. The woman in the green dress got into the carriage, and the coachman shouted, raised his whip, and whipped it, and the carriage drove briskly forward.

Although Liu Xiu was far away, his eyesight and ear power were very good, and he could hear the words of Mao Yan and the woman in the green dress clearly, and he could see every move clearly, and he couldn't help but be a little curious about the reserved woman in the green dress. He was about to ask Mao Yan, but when he saw Mao Yan closing her mouth tightly, with an expression of I don't want to talk to you, he couldn't help but shake his head in embarrassment. He thought about it, urged the horse to lean forward, stood side by side with Mao Yan, looked at the green curtain carriage that was gradually moving away in front of him without squinting, and said softly: "Miss Mao, let's reconcile?" ”

Mao Yan snorted and ignored it. Liu Xiu scratched the tips of his hair helplessly, and said: "I will give you a book, a volume of "Dong Hu Zhi" that is exactly the same as that in my senior brother's hand, you and I have revealed the misunderstanding in the past, can you?" ”

Mao Yan's eyes flashed, she turned her head, squinted at him, and after a while, she said coldly: "I can no longer pursue the matter between us, but you don't want to ask me about Achu." Liu Xiu was just about to speak, but she raised her hand and interrupted: "It's not that I hold a grudge, it's really for your good, because ...... You simply can't have this opportunity. ”