Chapter 167: Hunger Strikes

At the end of the summer of the second year, Dongfang Xia Lan gave birth to a daughter to Gu Du, Gu Du hugged the mother and daughter and kissed them again and again, Dongfang Xia Lan said: "Call Yan back." ”

Gu Du was stunned for a moment, Dongfang Xia Lan smiled and said, "As you said, the son's name is Beiguan, and the daughter's name is Yanhui." ”

Gu Du's eyes turned red in an instant, Dongfang Xia Lan puffed out his mouth and looked at him, if he turned his face again, he would quarrel with him!

Gu Du said: "About the name, let's ask my father." ”

Dongfang Xia Lan said: "Don't ask, the daughter who marries out of the house spills the water in the basin, and she is called Yanhui." ”

Gu Du's tears fell, he nodded with a smile, and responded, "Okay." ”

Lixia got the news and personally took the congratulatory gift to visit the mountain, but never mentioned the matter of marrying the children's in-laws, Lixia understood Gu Du and knew that he would definitely not want to let Yanhui marry into the royal family, but the father's generation, the son's generation, the future will depend on the children's own plans.

The grain market in Lingguo has changed, from 30 wen to 40 wen, and some counties with less grain production have even risen to 60 wen per bucket.

Di Qiuhan wrote to Gu Du and asked what to do next, and Gu Du replied: Double it again, and the old grain will be burned.

The grain in the seven ravines burned for a whole day and a night, and the fire reflected the night sky red, and the flames of demonic smelting danced like evil spirits, dancing with the precursors of calamity.

Gu Du told Lixia two things, let Lixia go back and tell Emperor Ze, and he must do what he said!

The first thing is to strictly control the grain of Zeguo, and not a single grain of grain can be sold to the Spirit Kingdom. The second thing is to change the law, reward the ploughing and reward the war, and encourage the people to have more children.

Rexia asked, "What do you mean?" ”

Gu Du replied: "Pay grain to get land, the more grain you pay, the more land you get, this is a reward for farming." The award war is to fight, kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and reward meritorious service, not only to reward money, but also to official positions, and even titles, so that ordinary people can also become high-ranking officials. Encourage the birth of children, each family starts from the third son, and gives one bucket of grain per month, four sons and two buckets, five sons and three buckets, and so on. ”

Lixia said: "You said it lightly, where did you get so much food? ”

Gu Du replied with a smile: "Reward farming, the family has a large population, and there is a lot of land, and the vast grassland, are you still afraid that there is nowhere to grow food?" ”

Rexia asked, "Can't you have a daughter?" ”

Gu Du replied: "Of course, the son I'm talking about is a child, not a son, no matter whether it's a man or a woman, they all give food like this." ”

Lixia asked, "You want to fight?" ”

Gu Du replied: "It's not that I want to fight, it's to inspire the soldiers and the people, so that everyone wants to fight, and they all look forward to fighting. ”

Gu Du and Lixia did not avoid Mrs. and Dongfang Xia Lan when they talked, and after Mrs. returned to the room in the evening, she said to Dongfang Xinghao: "Fortunately, he is our uncle, otherwise I would have to get rid of him myself." ”

Dongfang Xinghao was stunned and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Madame replied, "He is a natural evildoer. ”

After listening to his wife's narration, Dongfang Xinghao smiled and said: "As soon as he succeeds and his bones are dry, he will be born with the life of a handsome, and he will do things that are dangerous. ”

The lady glared and rebuked, "Woe water, huh? Go to the study and go to sleep! ”

Li Xia returned to Zeguo and told Emperor Ze what Gu Du said, and Emperor Ze said with a little excitement: "Good, very good!" By the way, lady, did you mention the marriage with your uncle? ”

Lixia said: "The child was born and married? So what if you don't want to grow up? ”

Zedi said: "Promise me when you leave." ”

Rexia said: "That's because you kept saying that I could only agree, but you didn't say that I would do it." ”

Zedi frowned and said, "How can you cheat?" ”

Li Xia smiled, coaxed him and said, "Okay, we will make our own decisions, and the children's affairs should also be decided by the children, and we will talk about it in the future." ”

Another year has passed, the price of grain in Lingguo has risen to 100 wen a bucket, and there is no grain to sell in the counties with little grain, famine has become a disaster, and people fleeing in droves.

A man is hungry and grabs food with a dog. A group of people are hungry and grab food from others. When tens of thousands of people are hungry, they will rise up and grab food and kill officials.

The matter was big, the magistrate couldn't hold it down, so he reported to the imperial city, the Linghuang was furious, obviously the wind and rain had been smooth in the past two years, and there was no military chaos after the peace was discussed, how could there be a shortage of food to the point of gathering people to rebel? What did Gu Du do again?

The first thing that the Spirit Emperor thought of was Gu Du, after several battles, the Spirit Emperor went from contempt to understanding, and then from understanding to attention, he was sure that Gu Du was making trouble again, otherwise it would be impossible to make such a big mess!

Countless restless nights, the Spirit Emperor was thinking back to the past, he despised Gu Du too much, a mere white-robed soul master, infatuated with a girl who rebelled and surrendered, in the eyes of the Spirit Emperor, who was already a great soul master back then, Gu Du was a useless and promising waste!

Therefore, the Spirit Emperor wants to use Gu Du to establish his authority, so that everyone knows how to fear him, the new emperor, and don't think about using the first emperor to suppress him, let alone use him to compare with the first emperor.

However, he mislooked at Gu Du, and even more missaw Jin Lan.

Those who rebelled should be greedy for life and afraid of death, but Jin Lan was unexpectedly resolute.

People who are obsessed with beautiful women should not be dedicated, but Gu Du has a deep affection for Jin Lan.

Xu Zhao, Chu Qin, Wu Renxiong, Dongfang Xuan, and even Zhong Qi and Meng Yuan, these people are loyal and respectful on the surface, but deep down they all have a sense of guilt towards Gu Du!

The Spirit Emperor knew it in his heart, but he couldn't despise anyone anymore, and he couldn't add it without guilt.

Gu Du, for the sake of a Jin Lan and a child, do you really want to destroy the Spirit Kingdom before you give up? In order to take revenge, he actually let thousands of people in the spirit kingdom suffer a famine in a good year.

As the saying goes, there is no higher merit than the Savior, and no poison is better than starvation! With such a poisonous strategy, are you not afraid of retribution!

At this time last year, the caravan reported that Zeguo began to change the law, rewarded the ploughing and rewarded the war, and the grain of the whole country was collected and sold by the government, and private transactions were strictly prohibited, and violators were severely punished.

At that time, the Linghuang thought that Zeguo was preparing for war, and was afraid that the Lingguo would raise an army to the north after it recovered, and at this time he realized that Gu Du had already buried a disaster in the Lingguo, but no one noticed it, or the local government had already noticed it, but there was no evidence, so he kept lying and concealing it, so he didn't know until this disaster came out.

In the mountains, Gu Du received a letter from Di Qiuhan, informing him of the recent situation in Lingguo, Gu Du said to Dongfang Xia Lan: "Lady, I have to go back to Suxian Mountain." ”

Dongfang Xia Lan went to tell Madame, and Madame said, "You guys go, the child will stay for me." ”

Dongfang Xia Lan said angrily: "How can that be?" ”

Mrs. said: "If you go back, you will be moved, and if you can't give up the child, you won't go back." ”