"This king has traveled all the way, and there is really no official who dares to ask Xiao Wang for money for food and lodging." Zhao Yi couldn't help but pull down her face.

Jiang Long immediately vomited bitterness.

Digging rivers, leveling fields, making shovels, food expenses for migrant workers, and recruiting sergeants and servants to maintain law and order in the city...... Wait, everything needs money.

Zhao Yi listened to it, she didn't even dare to drink the tea, and left with her legs.

Looking at this frame, it is impossible to be free of accommodation fees, and Jiang Long still wants to reach out to him to borrow money.

"Little prince, don't go." Jiang Long caught up closely.

Zhao Yi snorted, and the speed under his feet was faster, "This king still has to find a place to stay, so he won't disturb the office of Jingxian County." ”

"Then you can leave such small things to the butler."

"Oh, yes, yes......"

Zhao Yi got into the carriage and immediately asked the coachman to start.

Jiang Long stood in front of the county government and sighed.

Steward Zheng is just confused, what's going on? What did the two say earlier? Why does his little prince look like he is afraid of Jiang Long? This Jianglong is too bold, the little prince is a member of the royal family, even if he kills you Jianglong, what can he do?

Thinking like this in his heart, Steward Zheng was not slow at his feet and wanted to catch up, but before pulling Ma Jiang on the horse, he was stopped by Jiang Long.

"What for?" Steward Zheng glared angrily.

"Let me tell you, you will be fined silver for riding horses in the city, and if any of the people are knocked out of the way, you will pay for it with your head!" Jiang Long was unceremonious.

Steward Zheng's face immediately flushed, "You dare?" ”

"If you cut down your minion, the little prince will not turn his face with the official, I don't believe you try." Jiang Long turned around and left, not forgetting to instruct: "Come on, follow this steward, if the horse is taken down immediately, if you hit someone and hurt it, everything will be done according to the law." ”

"The surname Jing, don't be rampant, even if the housekeeper is in the capital, he will walk sideways!" Steward Zheng turned over and got on his horse when he shouted, "Who dares to do this housekeeper?" ”

"This is not the capital!" Jiang Long turned around abruptly and stared at Steward Zheng's eyes, full of murderous aura.

Steward Zheng just shuddered, his angry head calmed down a little, and suddenly it occurred to him that Chang Qian and Qian Dai's subordinates had died in Jiang Long's hands before.

How dare he?

Steward Zheng was shocked.

Thinking about the scene when Zhao Yi was hiding from Jiang Long before, he was afraid.

No one is not afraid of death.

With a shake of the rope, Steward Zheng trotted away on horseback, and several palace guards followed.

Zhao Yi really didn't look for trouble, and he didn't mean to seize power, he found a place to settle down, and after resting for a few days, he took his guards out of the city, looked at the scenery on the prairie, and after feeling bored, he stayed in his residence every day to listen to the opera and singing he brought.

Every few days, poems come out.

Jiang Long collected a few songs, and he thought it was really good. If you weren't born in the royal family, maybe you would be able to take the top prize or something.

Han Qing, the champion who came before, has been immersed in things, and gradually walked with Xia Lin.

If Xia Lin is free, he will take a few people to find Zhao Yi, several of them are talented and full of poetry and books, and I heard that the relationship is very good.

Jiang Long only paid a little attention to these things.

Digging rivers and leveling barren fields is the focus of Jianglong's work.

Time flies, and the river project is progressing rapidly, and it is mid-April in the blink of an eye. That night, the black-clothed guard brought news that it was a great drought in the north! When he said this, the black-clothed guard looked faintly excited.

Great drought?

Jiang Long's heart shook when he heard this.

In this era, the great drought represented that the poor people had no food to eat, that the rich chambers of commerce wantonly hoarded grain to make the country rich, that corrupt officials would harshly withhold the Zhenji grain allocated by the imperial court to the disaster areas, and that the tragedy of starvation and cannibalism occurred everywhere.

Yizi cannibalism is the exchange of children between neighbors, killing and eating meat.

When Jiang Long was in a heavy mood, he got good news.

Mike, the leader of the caravan who had come to Daqi with a convoy of wine last year, arrived with a group of alien blacksmiths. Last year, Jiang Long bought all the grapes at the right price, talked to Mike, and asked Mike to help him find some blacksmiths from his own country.

Mike used to sell wine and go deep into the territory of Daqi, and it took three years to go back and forth.

After Jiang Long bought it, the time was greatly shortened, but it would take about a year and a half to come here. However, after returning to his hometown, many blacksmiths heard that the treatment here was very good, so they organized and unanimously asked to come early, while Mike wanted to please Jiang Long, hesitated for a few days, and finally rushed over as quickly as possible.

met Mike outside the county yamen, and saw nearly a hundred blacksmiths standing behind Mike, but after Mike's introduction, he realized that these people have a large number of apprentices, and there are only twenty masters, but even so, Jiang Long is also very happy.

These people came here to learn the art of smelting.

To teach yourself, twenty people are enough.

Then sit down and discuss, in addition to Jiang Long's previous treatment unchanged, Jiang Long added additional silver, and asked these people to teach the skills to the blacksmiths of Daqi. Because the amount of silver was sufficient, the blacksmiths readily agreed.

Then Jiang Long arranged accommodation for these people.

In the evening, the blackcoat came again and brought something with him.

When Jiang Long saw that thing, he stood up in shock, because it was a gun! It's not a spear, it's a gun that shoots bullets!

"What do you mean?" Jiang Long took it to the palm and stroked it, the process was very rough, and some hands were grinding.

The black-clothed guard explained to Jiang Long what this thing was, and then said that he had encountered a problem in making the gun and was stuck in the quality of the barrel, so he wanted to ask Jiang Long to help him get those blacksmiths from foreign lands out.

The nose is really smart!

Jiang Long couldn't help but pout.

At the same time, it is also a secret shock, and you can't underestimate the people of this era. Jiang Long invented explosives, but gunpowder had already been invented. Some people have secretly conceived of guns, and the black-clothed guards have also started to make them, but they have encountered many problems, and so far the guns have only been in appearance and have no lethality.

"If it is really done, it will be far more powerful than a bow and arrow!" The black-clothed guard said excitedly.

Of course I know it!

Jiang Long thought secretly in his heart, thought for a while, and said: "Twenty masters, give you fifteen, and it is useful for me to keep the other five." ”

"This ......," the black-clothed Wei Zhi Dao felt that twenty was too little.

"Don't forget it." Jiang Long waved his hand.

The black-clothed guard could only reluctantly agree.

Jiang Long only knew that the black-clothed guards of Lu Dao were very able to spend money, but he didn't know what Lu Dao was doing, but now he finally understood a little bit, just if he wanted to invent guns, he had to spend a lot of money.

The next day, fifteen exotic blacksmith masters left Lingtong County with many apprentices, and then were quietly picked up by the black-clothed guards.

The emperor is very dissatisfied with the situation in Lingtong County!

Zhao Yi didn't make a fuss, so quiet!

As far as he knows, Zhao Yi has always been proud of his talent and talent, and he also has great ambitions, but why did he go to Lingtong County all day long and only know how to listen to music and have fun, and he didn't want to make a career? Could it be that King Pingjiang gave Zhao Yi a good lesson? Really convinced Zhao Yi?

The old emperor didn't believe in evil, thinking that young people had a big temper and were easy to be impulsive, but several dark lines inserted into the palace team provoked Zhao Yi several times without success. said how capable Jiang Long was, and wanted to arouse Zhao Yi's indignation.

said that Jiang Long had no ability, and wanted to make Zhao Yi have the idea of seizing power.

But it didn't work.

Then the emperor was entangled by the drought in the north and lost the energy to make a bad move.

The area of the drought is too large, occupying almost half of the northern country, and the emperor has come up with one method after another to raise food and wages for the disaster, but the people are still mourning.

In the summer, there is still no major incident, at most there are a large number of displaced people, but when it is time to harvest the harvest season and there is no food, then the matter will be big. I don't know how many emperors in Ludao were taken away by refugees because they didn't handle the disaster well.

The old emperor didn't dare to be careless, and hit the idea to the south.

The grain in the south can be harvested twice a year, and it is a real granary.

It's just that as the news of the great drought in the north spreads to the south, the people in the south have hoarded grain, and even the rich and unkind businessmen have raised prices wantonly, so that the old emperor is anxious and has no choice! Sometimes I really want to send an army to grab it.

A series of decrees were issued to execute one unfavorable Southern official after another.

The price of grain remained high, and the emperor had no way to deal with the merchants, so he used officials to open the knife. Officials want to survive, and then force businessmen.

But the officials naturally did not force those merchants who stuffed themselves with silver or connections, so those serious merchants were unlucky and copied the homes of these merchants, and the imperial court had some income, but the price of grain still could not fall.

In July, the fiery summer is coming to an end, and autumn is coming.

There is finally chaos in the north to the state.

Tens of thousands of people who had no food to eat tore their flags and rebelled, and a city was laid. For a time, the whole Zhizhou people panicked, many people went out with their wives and old people to hide, not to mention the officials, those who had soldiers under their hands wanted to encircle the rebellion, and those who did not have soldiers fled with their families and money.

The old emperor immediately ordered the transfer of 50,000 troops to the state to quell the chaos.

This rebellion was put down in half a month, but the old emperor's face was not happy at all.

It's just autumn, and many people still have surplus grain to eat at home, but when the autumn harvest time is over, there is no rice at home, what should I do?

In order to raise more food, the old emperor worked hard for days and fell ill directly.

Only the power can be temporarily handed over to the crown prince.

The crown prince is in charge of the country!

Although the young prince is smart, can he compare with the old emperor? When it comes to really dealing with government affairs, he has no idea at all, and he has to ask the emperor about everything, which makes the old emperor more and more sick until he can't get out of bed.

At this critical juncture, the emperor found that several sons were about to move.

Within a few days, the old emperor was angry and vomited blood.

Jiang Long is in Lingtong County, he also frowned, and he asked the black-clothed guards to help buy a lot of food before, so he doesn't have to worry that the people will have no food to eat, but if there are really people in the vicinity who rebel, they will take Lingtong County, which has food, as the primary target.

Now that the army in Wangsha County is tight, even Jiang Qi has no way to take care of Lingtong County.