Chapter 507: Treading the Snow and Looking for Plum Blossoms

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After entering November, the weather is even colder, from time to time there are wind and snow hit, fortunately adobe houses or bamboo houses are easy to build, tens of thousands of people after more than 20 days of fighting, Xinzhou New City has built thousands of houses, although the terracotta is in short supply, part of the roof is covered with thatch, but the victims finally have a warm shelter in this cold winter.\\

Zhao Anmin, the new governor of Xinzhou, walked into Yang Yi's "office" and said cautiously: "Scholar Yang, most of the houses in Xinzhou New Town can be moved in now, but when the house was built, there were mud houses, adobe houses, bamboo and wood houses, covered tiles, and thatched houses. ”

Yang Yi threw down the document in his hand and thought about Zhao Anmin's words, indeed, things in this world have always been uneven. If you don't give anything, the people may have nothing to say, but if things are unevenly distributed, it will definitely cause the people to complain, and then the work will not be good.

Originally, when preparing for the construction of Xinzhou New Town, the time was very rushed, so the main consideration at that time was the speed of construction, whether it was a bamboo house, an adobe house, or a tile, and it was okay to build thatch if there was no tile, the key was to give the people a place to shelter from the cold, and how to distribute the house.

This is Yang Yi's own inconsiderate thinking, naturally he can't blame Zhao Anmin, he thought for a while and said: "You let people evaluate the new houses in a unified manner, and then count the number of victims in each family, and the families with a large number of people will be allocated to houses with high value, or those thatched houses with low cost will be properly compensated with some silver or grain, and that's basically it." ”

Zhao Anmin listened and replied: "Scholar Yang, if you compensate the thatched house with the lowest cost of money or grain, the money and grain originally allocated to Xinzhou and Dingxiang may not be enough. ”

"You go and count it first, and I'll figure out how much it's still there."

Zhao Anmin's expression was relieved, and he withdrew with a long bow.

Xiao Yi immediately said: "Guogong, since ancient times, the imperial court disaster relief has been so that the people will not starve to death and freeze to death, how can there be such a division of houses and money and food?" ”

Yang Yi said indifferently: "The imperial court has money, and it is nothing to spend hundreds of thousands more." ”

Xiao Yi immediately retorted: "That's not the case, these hundreds of thousands of guan are really nothing, but has Guogong thought about it, the territory of the Great Song Dynasty is so big, it is a year of good wind and rain, and it is inevitable that there will be drought and flood disasters in some places, you treat the people of Xinzhou so well now, what should you do if there are disasters in other places in the future?" If the imperial court provides disaster relief according to the practice of Xinzhou, the treasury is afraid that it will not be able to afford it, but if it does not provide disaster relief according to the practice of Xinzhou, wouldn't it be suspected of favoring one over the other? ”

Yang Yi thought for a while and said: "Mr. Xiao is a little worried, for example, the transmission of information in various places is not smooth today, and ordinary people will not travel a hundred miles in their lives, and it is impossible for people here in Xinzhou to know about the disaster relief situation here. As for favoring one over the other, there is no way to do it, the situation in Liao is changing rapidly, the Great Song Dynasty may get soldiers at any time, Xinzhou is located in the north of Jin, it is the frontier of the Northern Expedition, and the victims here must be resettled as soon as possible to stabilize the people's hearts, otherwise they are afraid that the Northern Expedition will be delayed. ”

"From the overall strategic point of view, this is understandable, but it is a little inappropriate to compensate with money and food after all, so it is a little uncommon to get something for nothing."

"What does Mr. Xiao think?"

"Guogong, the subordinates think about it carefully, let's not do this, change the compensation money and grain to tax reduction, and if the value of the property is low, the corresponding years of tax will be exempted, which is much better than paying money and grain directly, but it is more troublesome, and it has to be reported to the imperial court for approval."

Xiao Yi's plan is indeed much better than his own, Yang Yi is as good as a stream, and immediately asked people to inform Zhao Anmin to change the plan, and then put pen to paper to the court for a recital.

After the snow, the sun warmed up, Yang Yi since he arrived in Xinzhou, finally found half a day of leisure, and the princess of Yue crossed the sword with a bow, both galloped over the snow-capped hillside, according to the princess of Yue, more than ten miles away from Hongjiazhai in a valley with plum blossoms opened, extraordinarily beautiful, Yang Yi had nowhere to spend it, so he went with her to look for plum blossoms.

The mount of the princess of Yue Kingdom is a peach-colored BMW, and the divine horse is no less than Yang Yi's dark clouds covering the snow, one red and one black contrast each other, and the horse's hooves raise snowflakes like poplar flowers.

Yang Yi was wearing a purple robe, and the princess of Yue Guo was wearing a white fox fur jacket, the man was handsome and handsome, and the woman was charming and fit.

The distance of more than ten miles, if you rely on the feet to walk, it will take half a day, but with the feet of two horses, it can be reached in just one pillar of incense.

Outside the valley are pine forests, where white snowballs hold the pine branches low, and animal footprints can be seen in the snow from time to time.

"Terry, you go east, I'll go west, let's go along both sides of the woods, and let's hunt some game for lunch." Yang Yi took off the longbow and commanded the princess of Yue Kingdom.

The princess of Yue Guo had bright eyes, and said with a charming smile: "It looks like a full elephant, but when it comes to hunting, you are far away from me, you still follow behind me, and listen to my orders honestly." ”

Archery skills need to be practiced for a long time, and he also talks about some talent, Yang Yi's archery skills are indeed unsatisfactory, but it is always a little faceless to be looked down upon by women, he snorted: "Are you very good at hunting?" What's the most valuable game you've hunted? ”

"Tiger." The princess of Yue replied casually, the tiger skin is very valuable, and the tiger is fierce, and Yang Yi should not be able to compare with the tiger.

Yang Yi laughed and said, "What is a tiger? Do you know what the most precious prey I have ever hunted? ”

"What?"

"There are beautiful women in the north, peerless and independent. One look at the city, and then look at the country. Rather than know the city and the country? It's hard to get a beautiful woman! ”

"You're a bum."

"Am I a scoundrel? Isn't Her Royal Highness the eldest princess of Yue more precious than a tiger? Hahaha......"

"Don't bother to pay attention to you scoundrel." The princess of Yue Kingdom swept across the waves and took the lead in beating her horse and rushing into the forest.

Yang Yi did not implement his plan to outflank him on both sides, and rushed into the forest with the princess of Yueguo.

The speed of the two of them is not very fast, according to the princess of Yue Guo, too much movement is not only easy to startle the prey to flee, but also will ignore many clues left on the snow.

In terms of hunting, Yang Yi is indeed not as professional as others, he hasn't seen where the prey is, the princess of Yue Guo has already opened her bow, and with a buzz, a fat squirrel on the tree fell in response.

"Pick it up." The princess of Yue didn't even look at the squirrel, and ordered Yang Yilai very unceremoniously.

Okay, I became a little minion who started to fight, Yang Yi reluctantly went to pick up the squirrel, and hurriedly hit the horse and chased after it.

"Pick it up."

There was another buzz, and Yang Yi looked again, and there was a big gray rabbit nailed to the edge of the tree hole by an arrow from the other side of the tree.

He finally exclaimed unbearably, "Terry, don't like you, why don't you give me a chance to open a bow?" ”

The princess of Yue Guo glanced at him proudly, smiled but did not answer.

Yang Yi was furious, and he threatened viciously: "You don't let me open the bow, be careful that my overlord is hard to use the bow." ”

When the princess of Yue Guo heard this, she turned around and spat him, and a touch of red flew up her cheeks, like a flower. Although she looks only twenty-six or seventeen years old, her real age is in her thirties, which can be said to be the year of the wolf and tiger. Then after coming to Xinzhou these days, she really understood what it meant to be like a wolf and a tiger, and she really loved and feared this guy.

The princess of Yue Guo was worried that he would really make it bad, and this time she didn't dare to be strong, Yang Yi finally had a chance to walk in front.

The problem is that after it was his turn to be in front, he didn't find a prey for a long time, and the princess of Yue couldn't stand it, so she had to come up and instruct him how to find prey.

The two of them walked on a flat horse, whispering and communicating, the frightened birds on the pine trees brought pieces of snow, under the guidance of the princess of Yueguo, it was not easy to find a rabbit, Yang Yi hurriedly pulled the bow, an arrow shot out but deviated from the rabbit a foot away, and when the rabbit was about to escape from the field of vision, the bowstring of the princess of Yueguo sounded again, and an arrow nailed the rabbit into the snow.

She grinned and said, "The opportunity was given to you first, you can't shoot it yourself, don't blame me this time?" ”

"Why don't you blame, if you don't shoot, I will naturally catch up and make up for another arrow, I just haven't opened the bow for a long time, and my technique is a little rusty." Yang Yi was furious, and after hanging up his bow and arrows, he reached out and wrapped his arms around her waist and took her to his horse.

The princess of Yue Guo threw away the reins, reflexively put her arms around his neck, and the plump lips kissed gently, and the two immediately kissed passionately, letting the horse walk slowly in the forest.

After a long time, the four lips parted, and the princess of Yue Guo said with a touching pant: "Okay, we are here to tread the snow to find plums, just have this rabbit and squirrel enough to eat, let's go into the valley to enjoy the plums." ”

This proposal is good, competing with others in the field that he is not good at, after all, it is not done by a wise man, Yang Yile accepted the suggestion of the princess of Yue Kingdom.

Indeed, there are seven or eight plum trees in the valley that are quietly blooming on the side of the mountain rocks, and the fragrance of the flowers fills the surroundings, and a clear stream under the flower does not freeze, and flows towards the bottom of the valley.

The two of them hit their horses under the plum tree and enjoyed it with the snow, Yang Yi broke his mouth and whispered: "The sparse branches are shallow, how can you spare them at first sight?" I remember the spring breeze night, the inscription poem crossed the broken bridge. ”

"Good poetry!" The princess of Yue Guo praised lightly, and then said faintly, "The Buddha said: How much love is left in the world, welcome the changes of the floating world, and have lovers, do happy things, don't ask whether it is a catastrophe or fate." At this moment, I really want to live here and no longer ask about mundane things outside. ”

The princess of Yue stretched out her slender hand and twisted a plum blossom, put it under her nose and sniffed it gently.

Yang Yi didn't want to be so sad, so he said with a smile: "Terry's idea is very good, but the premise is that you have to be accompanied by a lover, you keep saying that I am ruthless, it seems that even if I want to live here with Terry, I'm afraid you won't tolerate it." ”

"Your words alone are enough to show how ruthless you are." The princess of Yue Guo seemed to be resentful, and let out a faint sigh when she finished.

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