But at this special time and under special circumstances, Yuan Ying was disgusted with Liu Cong's concern, first, she felt that Liu Cong despised herself, and second, she felt that Liu Cong was narrow-minded in this matter.

Yuan Ying thought: "I came all the way from Hebei to avenge my father, I didn't expect Liu Cong to be so uneasy, and he actually regarded me as a weak woman who didn't dare to do anything. ”

Thinking of this, I was going to say a few words to Liu Cong, but when I looked at the environment around me, I knew that I should not be reckless when I spoke, so I turned my head and looked at the sword I was wearing, patted the sword with my hand, and said coldly: "Thank you for your concern, Yuan Ying has this weapon on her body, even if there are groups of tigers and wolves, she is not afraid." ”

After saying that, he turned to the side and ignored Liu Cong again,

Liu Cong couldn't say more when he saw it, so he had to say goodbye and go out.

He walked a few steps on the street again, and said with a dumb smile: "I already know Miss Yuan's temper, why should I be bored, really." ”

When Liu Cong thought of this, he raised his head, walked with his chest straight, and opened his throat to howl a few words when he was happy, and he didn't know what song he sang a few words, like a donkey barking, which caused several nearby watchdogs to bark for a while.

Liang Zhu'er blinked behind him and whispered: "The second master must have remembered the good things he did with the second grandmother last night, otherwise he wouldn't be so excited." ”

Liu Cong continued to walk on the east and west streets of Xiangyang, and at this time, the excitement passed, and he thought about big things, thinking: "I want to go to the bank of the Xiangjiang River to see how Wei Yan and they dug the manholes, and ,,, 60,000 refugees will dig 60,000 thousands of manholes for them, basically a soldier digs three, it is when he is young and strong, he has eaten and drunk enough to dig a few manholes, and ten days is not a problem.

However, things are not so simple, and it is necessary to mobilize the enthusiasm of the soldiers in order to complete the task as soon as possible.

Wei Yan has a way, this guy is a good general with troops,

Despite this, there is still a problem of cooperation with refugees, I don't know if Wei Yan and Deng Bao can cooperate well, I have to go over and see,

Liu Cong thought about walking like this, and when he looked up, he had already come to the bottom of the steps of the yamen, and saw two majestic guards standing on both sides of the gate on the high steps, and several war horses tied to the stone nose of the stone wall on the left side of the steps.

The crown of a tall mulberry tree in the courtyard of the yamen, higher than the courtyard wall, shows dense branches and leaves, although it has experienced frost, the mulberry leaves have not fallen greatly, still showing a thick green of Wusensen,

Liu Cong likes it, standing where he looks at it vigorously, he always likes it enough, because he plans to plant mulberry and raise silkworms to make a fortune, so he sees mulberry trees and everything about silkworm raising and doesn't like it enough.

Liu Cong was looking at it like this, and suddenly remembered the matter of transporting grain in Yizhou, and he didn't know how it was handled, so he decided: "Go to the yamen to understand the matter of transporting grain to Yizhou, and then go to the bank of the Xiangjiang River to inspect Wei Yan's digging of the ground." So he stepped into the yamen,

When I came in to see, the Yizhou envoy Cui Jinzheng and Fu Xun and others were discussing official business.

When they saw Liu Cong coming in, they stood up together to greet him.

Liu Cong continued to ask: "Fu Gongyi, did Manager Yuan just hand over the report on the number of refugees?"

Fu Xun agreed, and said, "I just came over and handed it over, and I'm reviewing it below, my lord, take a look." ”

Fu Xun said, hurriedly handed over a volume of reports with both hands, and handed it to Liu Cong for review.

Liu Cong didn't open it when he took it, put it back on the case and asked, "When can I get the food?" ”

"This ,,, lord, this is simple, the food is ready-made, it can be transported to Jiangbei tomorrow, and tomorrow will be the fifth day, according to General Manager Yuan, most of the refugees have participated in the work of digging holes."

"Well, there are 150,000 or 60,000 refugees, and whether the grain in stock can be paid for a month is roughly calculated according to one pound of grain per person a day." Liu Cong said,

Fu Xun stroked his goatee and estimated and replied: "160,000 people distribute 160,000 catties of grain every day, 1.6 million in ten days, 4.8 million in a month, ,,, the lord, the stock is more than 4 million catties of grain, it is not enough to pay for a month, and it is enough for 20 days.

However, in any case, we dare not divide all the light, and we must leave some surplus food in case of continuous needs, and at least 100,000 catties must be left, so that the food that can be distributed is only more than 3 million catties, which can only sustain the livelihood of the refugees for 20 days. ”

Liu Cong frowned when he heard this, and he didn't squeak anymore, just sat next to the case and thought about things.

Liu Cong thought for a while, looked up and saw Cui Jin, the envoy of Yizhou, looking at him over there, so he hurriedly nodded and asked with a smiling face: "Is Master Cui used to living in Xiangyang?" ”

"It's okay, it's not bad, thank you Jingzhou Yamen for taking care of it." Choi Kim smiled and said,

Liu Cong scolded in his heart when he heard this: "Damn, you can really speak, and you deserve to be a diplomat for many years." Thinking of this, he asked: "Master Cui is going back to Yizhou this time to take that waterway." ”

"Or follow the road you came, take a boat from Jingzhou along the Yangtze River Shuoshui, and walk a few days after passing Kuimen to enter the Neijiang waterway." Choi Kim replied,

"It will take about a few days to get to Yizhou."

"It's hard to say, if it's smooth, it's twenty days, if it's not smooth, it's hard to say, in general, from Jingzhou to Yizhou, it will take a month to travel by water."

When Cui Jin said this, he looked at Liu Cong with some doubts and asked, "What else does Liu Zhizhong have to order?" ”

Liu Cong shook his head and said, "I don't have any orders, I just want to know how much time it takes to send Yizhou back and forth." ”

"Oh,,, this, it's fast to come back, go down the Neijiang waterway, you can enter the Yangtze River in a few days, and it won't take a few days to go down from the Yangtze River to Jingzhou, at most half a month, you can return to Jingzhou from Yizhou."

"This?????? Master Cui, do you have to go to Yizhou to recover your life when you go back this time? ”

"Yes, every time I go back, I go to Yizhou Yamen to return to my life."

Liu Cong lowered his head and thought: "After passing the White Emperor City, we will enter the territory of Yizhou, can we let Cui Jin send back the grain as soon as possible, we in Jingzhou are waiting for the food to feed the refugees." ”

Liu Cong thought of this and said: "Master Cui, in this way, I ask you to do a favor, since we have signed a cooperation agreement, you will definitely help with this favor.

Just now you listened to Dong Cao Peng's statistics, our food here can only last for 20 days, so we are anxious to wait for the Yizhou grain to come over, so that we can keep the refugees to live here, without food, these refugees will have to wander to other places.

Hehe, in that case, our contract will become a dead letter, we don't have silkworm breeders here, and we won't be able to produce silkworm cocoons next year, how to execute the contract,

So, I just want to ask you for a favor, of course, to help us is to help you, we have refugees here, and we will provide silkworm cocoons to you in time next year, so as to expand your Shu brocade production. ”048