"Wen Yan..."Emperor Yun recalled for a long time, only feeling that this name was very familiar, but he just couldn't remember what others looked like.

"Your Majesty, Lord Wen is the right attendant of the military department, and you praised him in the palace last year for the supply of war."

Seeing this, Gonggong Zheng reminded Emperor Yun in his ear.

"Oh, yes, yes, yes!" After he said this, Emperor Yun suddenly said, "This Wen Yan is indeed not bad, but in the past, Chen Zhengxiao was in charge of major affairs in the Ministry of War, and I couldn't even think of him at this time." ”

"So... Summoning Wen Yan to meet him. ”

The right candidate was finalized, and the emperor naturally approved Chen Zhengxiao's invitation to return to his hometown, and this Lord Wen Yan also successfully ascended to the position of the military department under the recommendation of the King of Jin.

Wen Yan was favored by Concubine Hui in his early years, and now he has been known by the King of Jin, and now his heart can be said to be grateful to the King of Jin, so he was naturally pulled into the camp of the King of Jin.

Carefully calculated, in addition to the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry, the remaining four Shangshu have all become the people of the King of Jin.

After leaving the imperial study, the joy in King Jin's heart was overflowing, and he did not leave, but went to Zhilan Palace.

"The affairs of the military department can go so smoothly thanks to the mother concubine."

After King Jin sat down, he picked up the teacup in front of the desk and said with a smile to Concubine Hui who was above the first place.

"The emperor has big ambitions, and the mother concubine just did what she should do."

Concubine Hui shook her head, looked at King Jin and said, "Now that King Qin is not in the capital, this is a great opportunity for you, but you must take advantage of it." ”

"Don't worry, the concubine, the son understands."

"Alas, it's only to blame the mother for being incompetent, and she can't let the emperor become famous, and in the end, she has to rely on these side doors." Concubine Hui sighed faintly, and her mood was a little depressed.

When King Jin heard this, his face turned straight, "Why did the mother concubine say this?" You have given enough to Erchen, and the rest naturally needs to be fought for by Erchen himself. ”

"What is the concubine of the main palace, the son wants to let his father know, the son-in-law, in the final analysis, is just a name, and has no effect!"

Although the transposition of Shangshu in Beijing went quite smoothly, Yun Lan and his party in Danzhou City gained very little.

"I said, this is Danzhou City?" After Huangfu Hong entered the city, he walked all the way to see the flowers, watching the people coming and going on the street, the prosperity and liveliness can be compared with the Imperial City of the Son of Heaven, where is there a scene where half of the people are bored?

Seeing that Yun Lan and the others did not answer, Huang Fuhong whispered again: "We won't be deceived, right?" ”

"Less words."

Yun Lan glanced at him lightly, and looked back at the prosperity again, always feeling that something was wrong.

"Find an inn to stay in first, and ask about the situation by the way."

The group walked some distance forward again, stopping in front of an inn called Xiying.

"Yo, are the guests going to stay in the hotel?"

"Yes, yes," Huang Fuhong replied first, "Little Er, prepare two upper rooms for us." ”

"Okay, please!"

"It's not two, it's three."

Lan Qianzhu suddenly spoke out and said expressionlessly.

"This..."

"Just listen to her."

After entering the store, the strange feeling in Yun Lan's heart became more and more intense.

"Brother Hong," Yun Lan walked closer to Huangfu Hong, glancing at the loud crowd of people eating and drinking in the store, "Do you feel that something is wrong?" ”

"Isn't that right? What's wrong? ”

Huangfu Hong was stunned for a moment, followed Yun Lan's gaze and looked carefully, but he didn't notice anything wrong.

"This Danzhou City seems to be very rich." Yun Lan chuckled lightly, her expression a little inexplicable.

Although Yun Lan's words sounded like a joke, they actually made a lot of sense. In such an ordinary inn, almost all the customers in the store are dressed in fine silk and satin costumes, and most of them are young and middle-aged, and the elderly and children can hardly see it.

After Yun Lan said this, Huang Fuhong also reacted, "Yes! ”

"We didn't even see a beggar all the way into the city, and the pedestrians in the city were either young master Kuo who was followed by several servants, or a rich man walking alone in brocade. Even Yuncheng has traces of beggars, is it true that they have become rich enough in Danzhou? ”

"It's amazing."

Yun Lan smiled coldly and didn't say anything more.

"Are you going out to eat or are you going to be sent to your room?"

The shopkeeper met Yun Lan and them at the entrance of the second staircase, and hurriedly asked.

"Let's get to the room." Huang Fuhong responded casually.

"Okay."

The shopkeeper agreed, and he was about to leave.

"Wait."

"What else do you command, this guest officer?"

"I want to ask you something." Yun Lan smiled at the shopkeeper, "We are from other places, how do you see that the streets are full of well-dressed rich people when we enter the city today?" Could it be that your Danzhou is already rich to the point that there are no poor people? ”

"Hey, those, they're not our Danzhou natives."

The shopkeeper woke up Yun Lan and the three of them with a word.

"Don't hide it from the guest officer, don't talk about the people on the street, you see that most of the people in this inn are just like you, from other places."

"But why?" Yun Lan was puzzled and continued to ask.

"You don't know that three years ago, in order to attract foreign businessmen, our government specially posted a notice that all businessmen who came to Danzhou to do business and had a certain strength were exempted from paying taxes. This immediately attracted a large number of foreign businessmen to enter the state. ”

"Our Danzhou is mainly farming, and there are a lot of people who grow all kinds of fruits and medicinal herbs. I guess it may be to facilitate export sales, so the government made this move. ”

"Oh, I see."

Yun Lan suddenly nodded slightly.

"Okay, I'll leave first if the guest officer has nothing to do."

"It turns out that these are businessmen from other places." Huang Fuhong understood now, and immediately stopped making a fuss.

But Yun Lan knew that things were probably far from being so simple.

"We'll rest here tonight and look around tomorrow."

There was nothing to do all night, and the next morning, Yun Lan and Huangfu Hong got on their horses lightly and went straight to the countryside.

After walking for nearly two hours, Yun Lan and the others came to a place called Xiaowangzhuang.

The situation here is in stark contrast to the bustling main city of yesterday.

I saw that the village was full of broken walls and ruins, and the doors of several good complete earthen houses were covered with ash layer after layer, which obviously had not been inhabited for a long time.

It was almost noon at this time, but the whole village was quiet, dead silent, and occasionally a few crows neighed, which made people feel chills down their spines.

When they came to a large area of farmland, they saw that most of the land had cracked, not to mention crops, and even wild grass could not grow.

A few miles ahead, you will see several fields of farmland that have been ploughed, and the seedlings that have just sprouted in the fields should be wheat fields.