The sun is blazing.

Gu Chuyu saw him off at the gate of the city, and when he was leaving, he only had one word of advice: "Protect yourself." ”

Surrounded by colleagues from the military department who came to see him off, as well as hundreds of accompanying soldiers, Mei Xiaoren could only face his boss with the posture of his subordinates, and respectfully surrendered his hands.

This walk has been separated for several months, if she doesn't go, Lao Li has always been a big stone in her heart because she was dismissed, and she really wants to go home to see; went, and she couldn't bear the person in front of her.

Fortunately, they have a long way to go.

The corners of Mei Xiaoren's lips raised slightly, and he whispered: "Xiangye, take care, the turbid world is troubled, I will definitely come back to accompany you." ”

Gu Chuyu raised his sleeves, and under the cover of his sleeves, he lowered his head and kissed her on the side of the face in a whisper-like motion, and then let her go away.

He knew that her desire to see Li Daoyuan was only one of them, she had just experienced a catastrophe, and the most important thing she was concerned about when life and death was at stake, so she would miss home more than ever.

When everything in Beijing was not settled, he tried his best to help her return to the court, so that some people had grievances in their hearts and would cause trouble. He still wants them to stop here, and he can't go with her, but I hope she is okay all the way.

The people around thought that the two were just whispering, but only the person standing in the middle of the tower could see it.

Jiang Rong learned from Wei Guogong that she relied on Gu Chuyu's support to become an official again, and not to mention entering the military department, she had to travel far away.

He didn't understand why the villain was so obsessed with gaining a foothold in the court, and he was willing not to give up even though he almost lost his life, and he didn't pay attention to the short stream that had been pouring on her like a shower recently.

But if she wants to leave, he has to send it, so he will not leave the capital for a year, in exchange for his father's permission to let him see him off here.

From the time she appeared to the time when the centaurs were far away, Gu Chuyu was by her side, he thought, she shouldn't want him to show up at this time, so he climbed the city tower, but who knew that he was stabbed in his heart by what he saw in front of him.

Ei looked at the people who were drifting away

Ma, talking to himself: "Villain, take care." ”

Mei Xiaoren rushed to Xinyang with a casual soldier, then boarded a boat in Xinyang and went east by boat.

He was accompanied by several officials from the military department.

They said that since the canal was opened, the time required to go to Beijing to Xuanzhou was greatly reduced, and once a war broke out between the two countries, grain, grass and reinforcements could be transported to Xuanzhou by transport, which took less time and transported more.

Mei Xiaoren stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the receding mountain walls on both sides of the river.

When this canal was first dug out, it was rumored that this river was for His Majesty's eastern tour, and it was Chu Yu's proposal.

Because His Majesty has always been feminine and fun-loving, everyone thinks that Chu Yu is conniving at His Majesty's indulgence in pleasure, so the act of digging the canal has been criticized for working the people and losing money.

She once presided over the river workers in Xuanzhou, and knew that digging this river cost a lot of manpower and financial resources, and it did seem like she was working hard and losing money, but now that she thinks about it, it should be that Daning has been peaceful for a long time, and people have not thought about preparing for war, ignoring that Chu Yu's real purpose should be to prepare for the war between the two countries.

Now that Ningdong has this river, even if the Xia State has 100,000 troops on the border, the threat to Daning will be greatly reduced.

She couldn't understand why Chu Yu was obviously planning for Daning, why did he want to deduct the hat of a traitor on herself, even if she did a good deed, she had to pretend to be a laborer and a waste of money?

And she found that his bad reputation was like he "brought it on himself", everything he did was speaking with power, and he didn't care about his reputation like Wei Guogong, and he didn't think about what the people thought of doing things, as if he did whatever he wanted, and the impression left on the world was naturally not good.

But in fact, he has not done anything that harms Daning Sheji.

The fleet traveled on the river for more than a month, collecting grain and grass along the way, and when it was about to reach the south of the Yangtze River, there was a big news sent on board with the grain and grass:

On the seventh day after receiving Princess Haoyang, Xia Guo declared war on Daning without warning.

Chu Yu's assertion came true. For this war, Daning was not unprepared, Mei Xiaoren remembered that when she was still the county commander, Chu Yu had already scattered troops in the counties of Xuanzhou, although there were not 100,000 people in total, but they were able to resist for a while, waiting for the imperial court to send troops to come.

What makes people sigh now is not the shamelessness of Xia Guo, but the pity of Princess Haoyang.

Xia Guo turned his face, so can Xia Jun still treat Daning's princess well?

When the ship arrived in Jinzhou, it was already summer, the house leak happened to rain overnight, the war broke out suddenly, the two sides fought in full swing, Jiangnan was in the midst of external worries, and suddenly there was internal trouble......

Starting from Jinzhou, many bandits appeared out of nowhere and wreaked havoc in several state capitals in the south of the Yangtze River. They were robbed by people, carjacked cars, and when they got to the river, they hijacked ships. None of the caravans were spared, and the people, who were already suffering from the war, were even more panicked.

The government was busy dealing with the war, and the sudden bandit trouble was undoubtedly adding fuel to the fire, and the government was caught off guard by this group of bandits, and because of their strange whereabouts, the government did not know where to send troops to suppress it.

The Yamen of Jinzhou Zhizhou learned that the imperial court's grain ship had arrived in Jinzhou, and hurriedly sent troops to meet it, for fear that something would happen to the grain and grass.

Mei Xiaoren learned about this from an official in Jinzhou, and she became more and more worried about the safety of her family, because the official said that the most robbed by the bandits was the merchants' mansions.

With the protection of the soldiers of the Jinju government, the fleet escorting grain and grass was unharmed, but Mei Xiaoren had seen a freshly sacked merchant ship on Kumho catch fire, and that kind of fire was more like a provocation to the government.

When they arrived in Xuanzhou, Mei Xiaoren knew that Jinzhou City was fine, but Xuanzhou was in chaos.

When the ship first arrived in Xuanzhou, Mei Xiaoren stood on the bow of the ship and looked around, and saw many looted merchant ships floating on the river, and floating corpses could be seen everywhere, what a shocking scene.

There were too many wrecked ships and it was unsafe to sail, so Mei Xiaoren ordered to take the land route instead, but the situation in the city made her even more distressed.

The originally bustling street was empty, and the ground was full of messy things. There are worthless goods left behind after the stalls were overturned, shop signs that were smashed down, and various things left behind by the people when they fled; The shops on both sides were closed, some were ransacked, the doors were broken, and the store was in shambles.

None of the places as far as Mei Xiaoren's eyes could see were intact, and there were many places where black smoke was emitting, making her hard to imagine that this would be her hometown less than a year after she left!

She later learned that Xuanzhou had just changed the prefect, and the new prefect had just arrived when he encountered the Xia State declaring war, and he hurriedly sent the government soldiers to Yunxian County to defend the city, but the bandits arrived again, and the remaining government soldiers couldn't suppress the sudden banditry at all.

Bandits wreaked havoc in the city from time to time, and the soldiers and officials almost failed to defend the yamen of the city, let alone maintain order in the city and protect the people. The army was far away from Yunxian to defend against the enemy, and Jinzhou and Qingchuan were too busy to take care of themselves, and they had no time to send troops to reinforce them.

As a result, Xuanzhou Mansion was like a lonely city abandoned by Daning, and it fell into dire straits......