Chapter 495: Provoked

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The pomegranate flowers in May are in full bloom, red like fire, and the red breeze picks a pomegranate flower on the cloud temples, adding a bit of beauty to her.

"Your Highness, is it good-looking?" Red Whisk likes red very much, likes to be gorgeous, looking at the pomegranates in full bloom, she can't help but pick one down.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, midsummer is approaching, the temperature is rising, early summer has passed, and Xiaoman is coming unexpectedly. The sun is like the current Huai Huang army, constantly bursting out with that strong vitality, pouring hot energy into the earth. Everywhere is in the fiery embrace of the sun, and the fields outside Taiyuan City are slowly showing signs of thirst. The aspens on the side of the road are verdant, the wildflowers and grass are luxuriant, the fields are as far as the eye can see, the wheat waves are churning, and another harvest season has arrived.

The fields were golden, and it was time for the May wheat harvest.

The wheat harvest is about to begin, and the entire city of Taiyuan seems to be much empty. Even the shop's business has decreased a lot, and many owners have begun to give the country guys in the shop a holiday, so that they can go back to help harvest the wheat. In all villages and villages, young and old farmers, daughters-in-law and girls, they also began to sharpen their sickles, walking through the fields from time to time, observing the best time to open the sickle.

Yi Feng also took a group of people to the outskirts of Taiyuan early in the morning, and this year's harvest in Hedong was not good. During the spring ploughing, the imperial court began to mobilize in the north, especially in Hedong, which was directly subordinate to the middle battlefield, and the young and strong people in all states and counties were recruited to transport grain and grass for the imperial court, transfer ordnance, and repair and strengthen the cities on the front line. Fortunately, he can pull on the field to assist in defensive operations at critical times. In this way, there is a shortage of labor at the time of spring ploughing, and although the seeds are barely sown in various places, when it is time for the summer harvest, experienced old farmers can see at a glance that the yield of summer wheat has been reduced by at least 30% this year.

The wheat harvest is about to begin. On behalf of the landlords in Taiyuan, the Wang clan in Taiyuan asked Yi Feng to let the farmers in the prefectures and counties in Hedong go home first to harvest the wheat and then plant beans and sorghum.

Harvesting wheat is an intensive and heavy labor, you have to cut the wheat by hand, pull the wheat, cut the wheat and pull it home, and you have to play in the stalls, pull the stone squeaks around the field, and in the second half of the day, you have to hurry up again. In order to raise the wind before dark.

The wheat harvest time is still very tight, and it is necessary to harvest and store the wheat while there is good weather, and it will be quite troublesome if it is delayed until it rains.

The Wang family and other landlords all heard that the prince of the prison country was preparing to send troops south to enter the customs, and they sent troops at this time. Those government soldiers could not go home to harvest wheat, grow beans and sorghum, and not only could the government soldiers not return home. Once the troops are dispatched, a large number of strong men and men will definitely need to transport grain and grass and ordnance. If the young and strong are gone, who will harvest the wheat? Originally, this year's spring ploughing was delayed, and the harvest was lost by more than 30 percent, and if no one harvested wheat, the remaining harvest may also be greatly reduced. Not to mention, it will also affect autumn ploughing.

Ploughing is more troublesome than harvesting. Ploughing the land and preparing the land, even if it is not good today, and there is a lack of rain. Then you have to carry water to water the ground.

Although these are only agricultural problems, the people depend on food, and the army depends on logistics. Now is no longer the time to only hold the wasteland, now Yi Feng controls a large area of Hebei, Henan, and Hedi under the Taiyuan court, and tens of millions of people, soldiers and civilians. Even if it is a famine, the situation this year is not optimistic. After the war began, the Huaihuang market was basically closed. The remaining little bit of trading volume is less than one percent of what it was at the time of the boom. And the most important salt-for-grain exchange in Huaihuang has almost stopped. Now Hedong in Hebei is the territory of Yifeng. It makes no sense to transport grain from Hedong in Hebei Province to Huaihuang to exchange salt, and the left pocket will be transferred to the right pocket, and the grain will definitely not increase. The Jianghuai region, which was an important source of grain import, is now Yang Guang's territory, and it is even more unlikely that he will allow grain to circulate northward.

According to Li Gang's proposal to himself, at present, he should first suspend the army, let the soldiers of Hedong, Hebei and Henan return to their hometowns to rob, and at the same time, let the conscripted people return to their hometowns to rob, and when the summer grain is collected and put into storage, the autumn ploughing will be settled, and then the soldiers and horses will be recruited to rebel. However, it is impossible for this kind of Jian YƬ Yi Feng to agree, and it is very important to rebel, although he himself does not want to attack Guanzhong with all his strength immediately, but he does not intend to just shrink in Hedong without moving. Not only must we not be able to move still, but we must mobilize immediately.

"It's beautiful! Flowers reflect beauties, and beauties are like flowers. Yi Feng smiled reluctantly and praised a little absent-mindedly.

Hongfu immediately saw Yi Feng's absent-mindedness, and suddenly the beauty was coquettish. Fortunately, Li Mi came over at this time to help him out of the siege, avoiding embarrassment.

"Your Highness, the ministers have arrived."

"Well, I'll be right over." Yi Feng said as he turned his head to Hongfu and said, "I'm busy with affairs, I'm a little tired, I don't mean to snub you, I'll go to the meeting first, and we will have dinner together in the evening." ā€

Yi Feng was sorting out the thoughts in his head all the way, and it was really much more complicated to be in charge of the Taiyuan Imperial Court than the original management of Huaihuang. Especially in the Taiyuan Imperial Court, although it only occupies three points of the world, there are no less kinds of affairs, and in the Taiyuan Imperial Court, there are still Gao Gong and others who occupy many important positions, and Yi Feng has found that his cooperation with Gao Gong is not tacit. It's not that Gao Gong is deliberately going against himself, but the two people have completely different concepts. In addition, it has been less than a month since the establishment of the Taiyuan Imperial Court, and many positions are either unmanned, or they are not properly employed, and there are many problems such as guiding people and so on, and there is no feeling of smooth up and down when there is no waste.

"Why don't Your Highness bring your ladies here, and there are many people around you to take care of them, Your Highness is really tired during this time." Li Midao.

Yi Feng shook his head, the last time he returned to Huaihuang, he only got along with Gao Qianxue and Murong Rose for a short time, and even they didn't get along well. Gao Qianxue was relegated to Yi Feng's marriage to another main room after entering Beijing, and reduced herself to a concubine, although she had never had any dissatisfaction outside. As soon as Yi Feng came back, Gao Qianxue immediately expressed her dissatisfaction, and refused to even see her, so Yi Feng was closed, just let Qinglian and Mulan go over to serve him, and let the nurse hold Wang Xun to him for a while, and I didn't see him at all. Think about it, what woman in this era would not care about the difference between wives and concubines? The main room is a wife, and the concubine is a slut who buys and sells, and the concubine of ordinary people is simply a slave. And I think that at the beginning, when Yi Feng was not the grandson or even the emperor's grandson, at that time they got married, and Yi Feng was even the son-in-law of the Gao family. But now, Yi Feng has demoted her in Jingshi without saying a word, how can Gao Qianxue be happy. If it weren't for the presence of a son, with Gao Qianxue's stubborn character, maybe they would have left directly. was able to endure it without making a big noise, just giving Yi Feng a closed door, which was already very restrained himself.

In the face of Gao Qianxue's face, Yi Feng couldn't even lift his husband's strength, and he was at a loss. Fortunately, this is in the Sui Dynasty, if it is in the descendants, Yi Feng dares to come like this, it is possible for Gao Qianxue to cut him directly.

Murong Qiang, the second lady, has now become the third lady, and her status has not decreased much, but at this time, she must also maintain an alliance with Gao Qianxue, and resolutely draw a line with the golden branches and jade leaves in Chang'an, so it is not easy to go back to Huaihuang, and he has not been able to enter the room of Qianxue and Rose. Ji Yao is not bad, and with Qinglian Mulan and two girls comforting her, it is a little better. However, after only a short time, he led his army south again. When leaving, he also planned to take them south together, but Qianxue and Rose refused to go, the reason was because the two children were only a few months old, less than half a year old, and the road was bumpy in this era. There are no three or five years old, and they generally don't dare to go too far, for fear of encountering water and soil on the road, contracting the epidemic, and contracting the wind and cold.

The Turkic invasion had failed, Huai Huang was also safe, and Yi Feng was no longer reluctant in the end. I wanted to take Ji Yao and the two girls south, but they talked about sisterhood and wanted to stay with the shallow snow roses. In the end, there is still only Hongfu and Yubo by her side, a wild month, and she has not even seen a shadow, this lady of the Xi clan, when she left the north, said that she was going to establish a cavalry army of her own, but she has not seen a shadow until now, only vaguely knowing that she is indeed recruiting strong Hu women everywhere in Mobei, and is bent on building her own cavalry, Yi Feng had to go with her.

"Those things are not in a hurry, it is safer for them to stay in Huaihuang, there is our base camp, and there will be no incident." Yi Feng shook his head and said, "I've been busy with all kinds of affairs in the imperial court these days, and there is always a feeling that the cutting is messy, hey." ā€

Li Mi hesitated for a moment, and finally asked, "Where is the Jingshi Crown Princess?" ā€

The person sent reported that Yang Xiu had already taken her and the Xiao family into the palace, and it was difficult to snatch people out of the palace. It is said that Yang Xiu got a group of barbarian masters as guards, which are very powerful and difficult to start. This Yang Xiu, we ignored him before, but now it seems that the assassination in Jingzhong may have been planned by Yang Xiu. ā€

"This Yang Xiu, taking hostages as a threat, is really shameless."

"There is nothing shameless or shameless, in the struggle for power, everything is done, whoever is soft will have to fall, there is no room for hesitation, let alone morality. Yang Xiu is essentially normal to do this. It's just that he held my woman hostage. Yi Feng sighed.

Li Mi asked, "Do you just let him coerce?" ā€

"I have already given a secret order to the action team to find a way to rescue the crown princess and the Xiao family, if there is no chance to save people, then find an opportunity to assassinate Yang Xiu and draw a salary from the bottom of the kettle." Yi Feng is not the kind of person who is kneaded by others, if he dares to provoke his head, he will definitely fight back. There may not be a chance to assassinate Yang Xiu, but you have to give him a few colors to see.

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