If it weren't for the food shortage in the north, it had reached an extremely terrible point, and if there was no more grain and grass to come, not only would they eat grass roots and bark, but even their precious war horses would have to be killed and eaten.

Yan Tingfeng knew that the war horse must not be eaten, originally they could not compare to the combat power of the Tartars, and if this continued, the Tartars would really have to drive straight in.

Although Xie Chi was circling around in the imperial capital, Chang Mingda did not dare to be too harsh on the grain and grass, but the Great Xiao Dynasty was short of money.

The vicious circle of the lack of money in the treasury, the serious excesses of taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the displacement of displaced people are constantly intensifying.

And Jiangnan is probably an extremely rare place without too much difficulty, but if the grain and grass want to be transported from Jiangnan to the north, Chang Mingda can't pass that pass at all.

Yan Tingfeng also had no way, so Hu Hui set off to Jiangnan and brought Du Yunnuan over.

Hu Hui went to Jiangnan for more than four months, during which the imperial court only sent grain and grass once, but the Tartars invaded almost once a month, and he had not sat down like this for a long time to eat a good meal.

Yan Tingfeng's movements were not rude, but he ate extremely fast, Du Yunnuan hadn't eaten a few bites himself, and he couldn't help but feel a little distressed to see him eat so quickly.

"Brother Yan, don't worry."

Before her words fell, Yan Tingfeng had already eaten a large bowl of gnocchi.

She opened her mouth, thinking about it, and pointed to the clay pot with a lid on the side, "There's still one in there." ”

Yan Tingfeng nodded silently.

In the end, when Du Yunnuan finished his bowl, Yan Tingfeng ate all the gnocchi in the clay pot.

Du Yunnuan summoned the puppet to take the dishes and chopsticks away to wash them, and he took Yan Tingfeng to see the granary.

She took Yan Tingfeng to the outside of the house, and after waiting for a while, a puppet led two horses over, Du Yunnuan turned over and got on the horse, "It's a little far, it's faster to ride a horse." ”

Seeing that Yan Tingfeng hadn't moved yet, she smiled, "Why don't you take me on a horse, Brother Yan?" ”

Yan Tingfeng glanced at her, then turned over and got on the horse.

Du Yunnuan took Yan Tingfeng over from this side and circled half a circle around a very large lake, where many lotus flowers were planted and there were many fish in the lake.

When the coldness disappeared, Du Yunnuan turned his head and asked, "Brother Yan, are you hot?" If it's hot, take off your coat, in order to make the crops grow quickly, there are no seasonal changes, and there is winter, and this is the most normal temperature suitable for crop growth, so it is relatively high. ”

Yan Tingfeng changed into the clothes made by Du Yunnuan, and he didn't put on a fur robe outside, so he didn't feel hot, so he shook his head.

Du Yunnuan took Yan Tingfeng to continue forward, through a large bamboo forest, and through a large orchard, when passing by, the grapes were ripe, Du Yunnuan ordered, let her send some grapes to her mansion later, and sure enough, there was a puppet who was harvesting grapes to record this matter.

Walk through the vineyards that cover hundreds of acres before you reach a row of granaries.

There were twenty large granaries in one row, and there were ten rows, that is, two hundred granaries.

"Each granary can store about 50,000 catties of grain, and this is not the kind of grain that has not been hulled, but the kind that has been processed into brown rice and can be directly put into the pot."

Du Yunnuan explained to Yan Tingfeng, "I originally thought that it would be better to make polished rice, but your letter said that it was for soldiers to eat, so I thought that it should not be too fine, otherwise it would arouse suspicion, so I made it brown rice." ”

"The 100 granaries here are brown rice, and the 100 granaries over there are all wheat flour, and I can't help the wheat flour, try to be as rough as possible, but it's still finer than the ones here."

"And then there are a lot of cellars over there, and there are ice cubes in the cellars that I asked them to make, and there should be hundreds of thousands of catties of vegetables stored, mainly potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and Chinese cabbage, mainly because they have a high yield, so they can be planted and harvested, no problem, right?"

Du Yunnuan said while Yan Tingfeng mentally calculated, the food here has allowed these soldiers to eat for many months.

"Then I also prepared some rapeseed oil, there are tens of thousands of catties, it must be enough to use it first."

"In addition, because of the ice cellar, I still have tens of thousands of catties of pork saved, and if I win the battle, although I can't say that everyone can eat enough, but it is not a problem for one person to eat a few pieces."

"I have prepared the wine too," Du Yunnuan paused when he said this, then turned to look at Yan Tingfeng, "General, when will you win the battle, I invite you to drink!" ”

"Grain wine, high-count wine, wine, plum wine, only wine you can't think of, there is nothing I don't have."

Yan Tingfeng took a deep breath, and he looked at Du Yunnuan solemnly, "Yunnuan." ”

"Huh?"

"Thank you."

"I don't know what to say other than that."

Du Yunnuan's eyebrows and eyes curled with a smile, "You don't need to say it." ”

"In my mind, Brother Yan, you are not such a twisted person, this is something I can do, along the way, the lives I have seen have been miserable, and it has also made me understand that I have stayed in Chixia for too long, so long that I have forgotten that it is actually a paradise, and the people outside are living in dire straits."

Du Yunnuan let out a long breath, she knew that she was not a savior, Xie Chi was not, and Yan Tingfeng was not.

What they are doing now is to make those people living in dire straits live a better life, they can endure and struggle for the world, since she is a little woman who can do this, so what's the harm in contributing?

Moreover, the person who was carefully collected by her in her heart was standing in front of her at this moment, Du Yunnuan took a deep breath, warned herself not to be impulsive, and then reached out to pull Yan Tingfeng's sleeve, led him to the granary, and opened a granary.

Sure enough, it was full of brown rice, packed in sacks and piled high.

Yan Tingfeng suddenly thought of a question, "Yun Nuan, how are you going to get these out?" ”

Du Yunnuan smiled, "You don't have to worry about this, just tell me where to get it, it's best to let me get it out at once, otherwise you also know, it's too obvious." ”

Yan Tingfeng nodded.

"Don't stay in the barracks later......"

"No, you don't want to drive me away!"

"I don't want to go!"

When she didn't know Yan Tingfeng's thoughts? As soon as he came, he asked her why she didn't go to her camp, and now she wants to drive her to the town, it must be that she wants her to live in the town like other military families, she hasn't seen him for three years, how can she see enough for such a while? She was going to stay with him.

"Brother Yan, don't drive me away, I can ride a horse, I also learned martial arts, I can cook and wash clothes, can you let me stay by your side?"

In order to stay by Yan Tingfeng's side, Du Yunnuan didn't want to be cheeky, and resorted to the trick of pretending to be pitiful.