Chapter 182: Calamity Strikes

Gu Yu and they also got the news, in fact, they had already contacted their people one day before the fifth day of the new year.

But these people are hidden in the shadows, and no one shows them in the open.

To put it bluntly, they all know everything in Fangjia Village now.

So these things that happened in Fangjia Village have actually been seen.

But what do these things have to do with them?

Jinyiwei is not for these ordinary people.

Their allegiance was to their commander, and it was the Fifth Prince who was obviously loyal to Lord Gu.

As long as Lord Gu didn't speak, then the people below would only take this as a piece of news to Lord Gu.

Gu Yu didn't interfere in this matter, naturally because their current identities need to be kept secret, not fanfare.

Although he knew that Lu Jian'an's silk mills relied on planting mulberry and raising silkworms, once the mulberry was wiped out.

I'm afraid that these people may not be able to eat well if they want to, but these are just a commercial means, after Gu Yu and the fifth prince talked about it.

The meaning of the two people is unified.

They don't interfere in this matter, but they wait until the fifth prince enters Beijing.

will send people to give them a certain amount of compensation, after all, people have helped them, but they know what is wrong with this, and they stand by and watch others suffer.

This is really a bit unreasonable, and it is quite suspicious of a white-eyed wolf.

If it is according to the temperament of the fifth son, naturally they will take care of this matter.

After all, the grace of saving lives is greater than anything else.

However, after comprehensive consideration, Gu Yu's injury has not healed, and it will take at least a month to travel from here to the capital.

They must now keep a low profile in order to avoid complications.

Otherwise, just the endless chasing and killing at that time will be enough for the five sons to eat a wave.

It's unbearable.

Master Gu no longer wanted his subordinates to continue to lose.

It is not easy to cultivate a brocade guard, and there are not many loyal people under him.

After all, he had only been the commander of the Jinyi Guard for a few months, and it would take time for those subordinates to be completely subdued.

The biggest problem now is to quickly escort the fifth prince back to Beijing and hand over the things in his hand to the emperor.

As long as the crown prince is brought down.

Even if he didn't trip the prince, he made a stumbling block for the prince.

The emperor already had a deep grudge against the crown prince, and now this son has gathered people's hearts, formed factions, and the most important thing is that many things are in his hands, and even the lifeblood of such an important silk merchant is in the hands of the prince.

And not in the treasury.

What will this make the emperor think?

He is strong and strong, and it is not yet time to abdicate, the prince is so anxious, does he want to take the throne?

It's not that the five princes did it on purpose.

It's not that he wants to deal with the crown prince specifically.

But because he has offended the prince by what he did for the emperor this time, the prince is still unending to him, if the prince does not fall this time, then the five princes will only have a lot more trouble in the future?

So sometimes it's like this, there is no way back, you can only face the difficulties.

To put it bluntly, Lord Gu and the Fifth Prince are now watching the crisis of Fangjia Village with a cold eye but not stretching out their hands.

Lu Jian'an didn't expect Master Gu and the fifth prince to be, of course this thigh had to be hugged, but he wouldn't ask someone for help because of this little thing.

If you ask Lord Gu and the fifth prince for help because of this, after this kind of favor is used up, I am afraid that if you want to use the favor to help, it will be no fun.

Of course, he wants to save this favor, the so-called favor has been accumulated, and when it is used, it will be a big explosion.

When the time comes, when he encounters something big, he wants to speak, and these two refuses are too much to say.

Besides, what she wants is the birth of a family.

From now on, what I want is the glory of the Lu family.

So I didn't pay any attention to what these two were thinking.

What they should do, what they do.

It seems that Fengshan County and Fangshan Village are safe and sound.

Under this watery calm, Yin is about to open the treacherous curtain.

The annual spring silkworm in Fengshan County is about to begin.

As soon as all the sericulture households in the surrounding area enter March, every household has begun to hatch ants and silkworms, waiting to start raising silkworms.

Ten days later, the ants and silkworms have all come out.

Half a month later, the ant silkworm has become a young silkworm.

But the county magistrate of Fengshan County couldn't sit still.

Because of what?

He is a local official, and it seems that his official position is not large, but he has a lot of jurisdiction.

The 20 villages around Fengshan County are under his management.

But now something big is wrong.

The village leaders have already reported to the higher authorities that there is a large-scale disease in the mulberry field.

Now all the mulberry fields in all the villages are no longer usable.

The disease has become so severe that it is very contagious, and it used to be a problem that occurred only occasionally in a certain village, or in a certain field in a certain village.

But this time, almost all the surrounding villages have such a disease.

Farmers are waiting for mulberry leaves to come down to feed silkworms, and every household is waiting to use it in their silkworm sheds.

But once these mulberry leaves are wasted, even if they grow up in the future, they are just waste cocoons.

It is equivalent to half a year's hard work, which is useless at all.

In a hurry, all the village leaders rushed to the Yali of Fengshan County.

Wu Zhizhou, the county commander, was already in a hurry, and personally took the officials of the government to the farmland.

I went to all the villages, and sure enough, there were almost no exceptions in the farmland, and all the mulberry seedlings were infected with diseases, even if they looked green from a distance, but as long as they got closer, they could see that there was already gray gas and spots between the leaf veins, and as long as it took half a month, these leaves would probably all die.

Don't look at the green now, just feed the silkworms to eat.

The final cocoons are probably all waste cocoons, and these experienced silkworm farmers certainly know it.

So for a while, who dares to feed indiscriminately?

At first, you could buy mulberry leaves from the big mulberry merchants, but the mulberry leaves collected by the big silkworm merchants were just a drop in the bucket.

In addition to the situation in their villages in Fengshan County, this situation is also occurring in the surrounding villages.

In this case, all mulberry leaves will be harvested.

Then this year's cocoons will also face a dead harvest.

Do you say Wu Zhizhou can he not have a headache?

The cocoon festival in Fengshan County means that silk merchants flock to Fengshan County from all over the country, and they are big tax payers in Fengshan County.

Most of the taxes and fees in Lin'an Mansion were paid by them in Fengshan County.

Once the cocoons are harvested this year, it means that Fengshan County will have no silk to sell.

Wu Zhizhou felt that the official hat on his head was no longer stable.

The problem is that the perceived crisis is not only this at all, once these silkworm farmers fail to harvest, there are still heavy taxes that must be paid, and once these farmers cannot eat, then they may face trouble.

When the time comes, it will cause a popular uprising, and I am afraid it will become a big problem.

Do you say Wu Zhizhou is not in a hurry?

I can already anticipate that after this incident, my head will move.