"Yes, especially when the Chinese New Year is approaching, the weather in the north is cold and the supplies are scarce, and some wandering horses will climb over the anticline mountain and enter the city to rob!"

"Aren't they afraid of death?" Tong Xiaowu knew that this question was naïve, but she still couldn't help but ask.

"Don't be afraid, those people are outlaws, and besides, the city wall here in Beizhou is in disrepair, and there are some places where you can easily climb over the wall to get in, so it's easy to enter ......the city," the matchmaker continued.

"Hmmm! Then let me ask you again, who is the biggest official in Beizhou City? Who is the richest? Who has the most rights? What about the relationship between the officials and the people? And what is abundant here? What's missing? What's the worst? And who is the leader of the North Hells Xilin Tribe, and who are the people around him? ”

is worthy of being a native of Beizhou, this matchmaker told all of them, but what she said was all good things, who was the best, who was good, who was capable, etc., and turned around to say that there was no offense to people.

She doesn't know anything about Beiming, so it can be seen that she also has a heart.

Tong Xiaowu nodded, and when all the questions were asked, she was sent out of the palace, and then found two people with different identities, one was a slave sent to Beizhou, and the other was a person from the Sayi ethnic minority after questioning, and then combined the answers of the three people, she also knew a little about Beizhou.

The weather is cold, the winter in Beizhou is really cold and biting, a provincial capital in Nanzhou has a population of more than 2 million, and a whole city in Beizhou, counting the army of 200,000, is only 500,000 population, and also counting the population of several counties, it can be seen what kind of existence is here?

After this questioning, Tong Xiaowu is even more sure that the most important thing in Beizhou now is not development, but stability!

"Princess, no, the main entrance of the palace has been blocked, and many people are crying outside?" Mama Zhang had never seen this kind of battle, and when she entered the inner room, her voice trembled a little.

"What's wrong?"

"It's slaves and refugees, because they have nothing to eat, they have blocked the entrance to the palace!"

Early this morning, after King Xuan left, the main entrance has been closed, and it is not a matter of asking someone to ask about this kind of thing, so Mama Zhang brought people in from the back door.

But he didn't want it to be almost noon, and the doorman came in to report that there were a lot of poor people gathered outside the palace gate.

Mama Zhang climbed up the wall and took a look, almost frightened, what the hell is this place? People live in a mansion, and this kind of thing can happen?

Are these people so poor and crazy that they dare to come to the door to block people? Mama Zhang had never encountered such a thing, so she had to come in and report it.

When Tong Xiaowu heard this, she stood up, she frowned, and walked around the inner room, the ground here is paved with green bricks, the white mud on the walls has fallen off, and the entire palace needs to be repaired, and there is coal, and the most lacking thing in the palace now is coal.

One of her palaces can be like this, not to mention the ordinary people who have been harassed by the North Underworld all year round.

"Has the prince come back from the military department?"

"Not yet!"

Tong Xiaowu was glad that the broken courtyard wall was repaired last night, otherwise it would have been even more troublesome for these refugees to enter the courtyard.

"Princess, what should we do?" The little maid on the side was nervously holding the handkerchief, when they were in the capital, how could they have encountered such a thing.

"What's the price of grain here?"

"It's not a secret, there is no market, this morning the old slave went to the market for a turn, rice is six cents per catty, and it can't be bought, white flour is five cents per catty, and you have to make an appointment in advance, even cornmeal is three cents a catty, and meat is more expensive......"

When Tong Xiaowu heard this, her heart collapsed.

"Go, find a local old farmer to come over, and someone from the grain store to come over, I want to ask!" Tong Xiaowu's back was cold, she knew that Beizhou was the most difficult of all the state cities in Xuanyuan, but she didn't expect it to be like this.

After questioning, Tong Xiaowu soon knew that although the land here is vast and sparsely populated, most of the land is in the hands of the officials, and because of the climate, planting crops for a year is not enough to pay the rent, so they don't even plant the land.

And the grain store is also pitiful, because the people didn't eat, the grain store was robbed two or three times, and then they still found someone from the government to help, and then the business started again, because of this, their grain store also specially found thugs to guard the store, just afraid that someone would rob the grain.

After the two left, Tong Xiaowu found that the problem here was getting more and more serious, and if the people couldn't eat for a long time, the problem would be even more serious in the future.

It is no wonder that after they entered the city in a mighty way, they would be beaten by the common people, because the gap between the rich and the poor was too large, which caused some people's hatred of the rich.

If you think about it carefully, you can understand that they don't have the strength to make money, but they can't eat because they have the strength? Under such conditions in Beizhou, they can't live a good life if they want to!

Tong Xiaowu walked out of the house, it was so cold outside, she stood in the north wind, listening to the cries of refugees outside, and her heart was entangled.

"Princess, I inquired, other officials and eunuchs chose to ignore them, and after two days they couldn't see hope, so they left!"

Mama Zhang sighed slightly, but what can she do now? Even if the princess wanted to give porridge, there was no food, and when I asked the shopkeeper of the grain store just now, he only saved ten generations of each grain, which was not enough for these refugees for a day.

If someone can eat and someone can't, causing chaos, it will be difficult to suppress it at that time, so it is better not to give porridge in the first place.

"How much food do we have?"

"I didn't bring much, I thought I could buy it here, but now if I count it, it's enough to eat and drink for half a month." Mama Zhang knows better than anyone else about the material of the palace.

"Got it, Lu Xing, you go to the military department, if the prince is busy over there, let him take the town of Beijing Juntruer over there, I have something important to discuss with them!"

Although they lived almost well, and they were not in a hurry to eat and drink, but those refugees outside, if they were delayed for a day, they didn't know how many people would die.

"Yes!" Lu Xing turned around and left!

In the afternoon, Xuanyuan Yuchen returned to the palace with his busy side, because the front door was blocked, and they also entered the courtyard through the back door.

"General Trull!" Tong Xiaowu suddenly lowered her body and bowed her head to him.

Trull looked surprised, and hurriedly stepped forward to make a gesture of asking for help, "The princess has tormented the princess, I don't know what the princess has to do, as long as the lower official can do it, the lower official will work hard." ”

"I ...... I would like to ask, can I borrow military rations? Tong Xiaowu knows that this kind of thing is impossible, but what about so many people outside?

Hearing this, Trull's brows furrowed, and he looked back at Xuanyuan Yuchen and shook his head.