Women are sometimes very strange, all kinds of hypocrisy in front of men, but they are very real in front of the same kind, Li Chaosheng went to invite Song Sanniang and was directly refused, and the next day the county lord Changyu personally went to Song Sanniang's courtyard, Li Chaosheng thought that it would be Mars hitting the earth, and the fight was inextricable, but it didn't.

In the afternoon, the two women returned to Li Chaosheng's mansion with a smile and a smile, and Song Sanniang also officially entered the West Courtyard, and when Li Chaosheng came back from the county office, he was startled, and saw the two women sitting in the courtyard talking and laughing, and Niansheng, the girl, was running around in the courtyard, and she also had a mother to the county lord of Changyu.

When Li Chaosheng curiously asked Niansheng why he was called the mother of the county lord of Changyu, Niansheng said innocently: "My mother asked me to do this, and my mother said that he is also my father's daughter-in-law, so I want to call my mother." ”

Li Chaosheng was very surprised, why is this girl in his family so sensible, thinking of Li Chaosheng, he was a little curious, looking back at the two of them who were talking very happily, and they didn't even have time to take care of their own women, Li Chaosheng had a question mark, are these two people so good?

In fact, Li Chaosheng didn't know, the two women also saw Li Chaosheng, but both of them deliberately ignored Li Chaosheng, and as soon as Li Chaosheng turned around, Song Sanniang said: "I know that you are doing everything for him." ”

Lord Changyu smiled: "Aren't you the same? ”

Song Sanniang said: "Okay, I agree with your statement, we all love him deeply, we are willing to give in for him, you are right, he is going to be the emperor in the future, there must be countless women staring at him outside, if the two of us are internal friction with each other, maybe other women will take advantage of the loophole in the future, whether other women have ulterior motives, you and I don't know, so it is better to know each other, take a good look at him, and help him block the temptation outside." ”

The county lord of Changyu said: "That's right, as the respect of a county, the future emperor, his existence is extremely dazzling, now we can get his heart, it is our blessing, we must protect this blessing, unite, build a line of defense for him, and prevent the demons and monsters outside from ruining him." ”

Song Sanniang heard this: "Okay, I agree with your statement, we should be his arm on the way forward, not a stumbling block, so I will act according to the plan you proposed, if there are any contradictions between us, we will solve them internally, but in principle, we will be consistent with the outside world, and no one will be allowed to use us as a breakthrough to endanger him." ”

The two daughters glanced at each other and exchanged glances tacitly, and Li Chaosheng still didn't know anything about all this, and he didn't know that for him, two women who would be strong in their lives would compromise with each other, and finally reached a cooperation and gave in to each other.

The days soon got on the right track, there were a few more people in the family, and it didn't make Li Chaosheng's life jump, two women who tolerated each other, respected, and restrained, making this family seem orderly.

And the second daughter gradually has her own division of labor, Changyu County Lord has outstanding management ability, so the management work in the house is basically managed by the Changyu County Lord, and Song Sanniang is skilled in bowing and horses, plus heroic, so Song Sanniang is responsible for the management of the security work in the house, as well as some external things.

The second daughter directly put the entire county government in order, so that Li Chaosheng could concentrate on handling political affairs, and not be distracted by the affairs of the mansion.

In this way, life is quite comfortable.

In May, Li Chaosheng received Li Dingguo's front-line war report, the content of the war report was very simple, marking that since the army officially entered Gansu in April, it had been devastated all the way, and there was almost no enemy, and according to the pre-war military department planning, they quickly found the lair of the big thief Yang Liu entrenched in Gansu, and attacked it, and deliberately released water in the process of attacking, drove Yang Liu, and swept away all the bandits and bandits of all sizes in Gansu, and now they are still driving Yang Liu to continue to go to the interior of Gansu.

And Yang Liu is also aware of this, but Li Dingguo said in the intelligence that none of this is important, Yang Liu is now a fish on the eucalyptus board, and if he doesn't want to die, he has to twist his ass hard to prove his worth, otherwise Li Dingguo will look at it with a knife and let him know why the flowers are so red.

I have to say that a general's confidence is given by the forces behind him, when Li Dingguo was under Zhang Xianzhong, he was not so domineering, even if he could win in the face of a big thief like Yang Liu, he didn't dare to say it so much.

After all, the military gap between the two sides at that time was not so unreasonable, and now the military gap between Li Dingguo and Yang Liu is equivalent to the military soldiers of the beautiful country entering the indigenous tribes of Africa.

That is definitely the crushing level, Li Chaosheng looked at the military report and nodded: "Order Li Dingguo's department to continue to advance, Yang Liu still has use value." ”

For Yang Liu, Li Chaosheng still understands, Yang Liu is considered to be the old and young of the old era, when Wang Jiayin just revolted, Yang Liu participated in the uprising, and soon became a party leader, at that time with Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others were almost equal, but later Wang Jiayin died, all the rogues have their own self-reliance, and the strong can become Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong's level, the ability is not good, it has become an existence like Yang Liu, find a place where the Ming power is weak and occupy the mountain as the king.

But this will definitely not last long, so this kind of person is, in Li Dingguo's words: "County Zun, I regard them as dry bones in the grave." ”

Indeed, no matter who unifies the world in the future, Yang Liu's group has a better life, surrendered, and was made a petty official, and his life was almost lost, so he was directly taken away by a wave of soldiers and horses, and it was not worth the trouble of those in power at all.

Li Dingguo devastated in Gansu, and the accompanying administrators began to gradually restore the people's livelihood in Gansu, but the current situation is not good, because the local people in Gansu do not trust the officials of Lantian very much, and in addition to the ravages of thieves and robbers in Gansu, there is also a locust plague, and the summer grain seedlings planted by the peasants in the field are about to be eaten by locusts as soon as they emerge.

The credibility of the government in Gansu is seriously lacking, and the people's distrust of the government, coupled with the locust plague, has almost pushed the public sentiment in Gansu to an extreme.

After all, if you send your beautiful daughter over, you can also exchange ten catties of grain, and the bandits are really giving, but the government is pure red mouth and white teeth, which makes the people of Gansu regard the government as an enemy.

Therefore, the guidance given by the Political Department in response to this situation is: You can do the affairs of the government in the name of bandits, put the people first in everything, and do not cherish feathers and do not do practical things.

Li Chaosheng looked at the intelligence about this aspect and nodded: "The credibility of the government has been accumulated little by little, and now that the credibility of Gansu has been damaged to the extreme, we must re-establish the credibility of the government, so that we can do a good job in Gansu." ”

Gu Zi said: "What the county zun said is that these lieutenants and lieutenants sent to Gansu are still very good." ”

Li Chaosheng heard this, looked at Gu Zi and said, "By the way, how are Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu doing?" ”

Gu Zi heard this: "It's okay to ......"

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Gansu, thousands of miles of red land, dead bodies everywhere, the army has passed from here, this land is next the territory of his Huang Zongxi's governance, but Huang Zongxi made a mistake for the first time, he imagined the tragic situation here, and tried to overestimate the injuries of the victims, but he never expected that the first problem he faced here was not how to relieve the disaster, but that the victims avoided them, as long as they entered the village, the victims didn't want their homes, and ran directly into the mountains, you can't call them down.

This is too unexpected by Huang Zongxi, Huang Zongxi thought that his disaster relief was the same as the Central Plains, as soon as the government came, the people knelt down, and the mountain called the lord, please us, and then he waved his hand: "Open the warehouse and release the grain, and then all the people cheered, calling the Qingtian lord." ”

Then he took the seeds sent by Lantian, ploughed cattle, and waited for farm tools to encourage the people to produce, and then Lantian was tax-free for a few more years, and the people lived a life like Lantian.

As a result, when he got here, he found that what he thought was too beautiful, and the first problem he faced was not the people who were shouting in the tsunami, but the empty village, and he shouted in the village for a long time, don't run, fellow villagers, we are the government, we are here to distribute food, but no one came to say a word to him.

I can only see countless people in the mountains and forests staring at this place, but they are like frightened beasts, ready to escape into the mountains and forests at any time.

This made Huang Zongxi feel at a loss, as if he was riveting his strength, ready to knock down a cow with one punch, but the punch went down and hit the cotton, not only did he not vent his strength, but even felt a little suffocated from internal injuries.

"How so?"

Huang Zongxi rode on a horse and watched the newly grown crops in the distance being eaten by locusts, but the common people didn't come out to take care of it at all, as if the people here had accepted their fate.

Huang Zongxi fell into deep thought, he found that the books he had read, there was no countermeasure to the situation here, he used to call himself a learned man, but now he can't help but make himself doubt himself, the so-called Confucian morality has become useless in the case that the people don't even listen to you, Confucian knowledge is really as those old gentlemen said, can solve all things in the world? Monarchs, officials, who have learned the Confucian classics, can they really be a good official, a good monarch?

Huang Zongxi faced the reality and was shaken in his heart, in fact, this is also the reason why Li Chaosheng asked him and Gu Yanwu to come to Gansu to govern a county, after all, only when they face problems and they can't solve them with the Confucian classics they trust, will they reconsider their views, is it really right?

Huang Zongxi rode his horse and continued to move forward with the team, and suddenly saw a corpse on the ground crawling with emerald green locusts, which were sucking and sucking on the corpse, looking as if they were eating people.

Huang Zongxi exclaimed, "This locust is actually eating people? ”

Huang Zongxi roared, startled the locusts flew up directly, the war horse raised its hooves in fear, and took a few steps back, and at this time, Huang Zongxi's deputy grabbed Huang Zongxi's horse reins and said: "Don't panic, locusts don't eat people, they are just sucking the juice that seeps out of the corpse, you see......"

The deputy pointed to the corpse that had just been wrapped in locusts, and then saw that the corpse was intact, but the corpse had become shriveled, as if it had been sucked dry.

Huang Zongxi said: "Swords and soldiers are rampant, corpses are everywhere, and the people are like savages, is this hell on earth?" ”

The deputy smiled when he heard this: "Zhongli Chief, what kind of hell is this, the people here are quite good, back then, Shaanxi, northern Shaanxi, was much more tragic than here, and it has reached the point of cannibalism, now at least the people can dig some grass roots and bark to feed their stomachs, otherwise the corpses on the ground can still be eaten by this locust." ”

Hearing this, Huang Zongxi looked at his deputy in surprise, only to see that the deputy was only eighteen or nineteen years old, Huang Zongxi couldn't help but say, "How do you know so clearly?" ”

The deputy said: "Don't hide it from the chief, I used to be a native of northern Shaanxi, what I said, I personally experienced, I was nine years old, I was once put into a crockpot, ready to cook and eat, fortunately at that time the county sent people to northern Shaanxi to investigate the military situation, saw me and the children who were going to cook and eat together, with food and adults to replace us, everything I said, is what I saw with my own eyes, so compared with northern Shaanxi at that time, this Gansu, is nothing. ”

Hearing this, Huang Zongxi looked at his deputy and said, "I didn't expect you to have such an experience, why didn't you tell me earlier." ”

The deputy smiled: "This is not something worth publicizing, why bother to say it, if it weren't for the middle governor to ask, I wouldn't have taken the initiative to say it." ”

Huang Zongxi was silent, and his deputy said: "Chief, there is a forest five miles further ahead, we can rest there for a while, eat something, and discuss the next countermeasures." ”

Hearing this, Huang Zongxi said: "Okay, by the way, why are you so familiar with this place?" ”

The deputy smiled: "I, I have been a merchant here for two years, and I am very familiar with every grass and tree here, otherwise I would not have been sent to be the deputy of the lieutenant." ”

Huang Zongxi heard this: "I may be far better than you in the Four Books and Five Classics, but in fact, I am afraid that I am not as good as you." ”

"Hahaha, the middle chief is modest."

The group soon came to the forest that the deputy said, saying that it was a forest, but there was not a single green leaf in the forest, and the green leaf had been eaten by locusts, and as soon as the people came, they could provoke a burst of locusts to fly.

Seeing this, the deputy said to his subordinates: "You go find some dry firewood, you find another stone slab, catch some locusts, and I will make a delicious meal for you today." ”

Hearing this, Huang Zongxi became curious, what kind of food is there in this poor country, and soon he knew, on the red-hot stone slab, poured a little rapeseed oil, and then put the green locusts on the stone slab to fry and roast, and soon the aroma of barbecue meat spread.

Huang Zongxi smelled the fragrance, looked at his deputy and said, "Isn't this the food you are talking about?" ”

The deputy said: "That's it, the county invented it, fried grasshoppers, it's delicious." ”

"Invented by the county? Have you eaten it before? ”

"I've eaten it, don't look ugly about this thing, in fact, the nutritional value is very rich, especially for people who lack meat, this is a high-quality protein, which can well supplement the protein and calcium that the human body needs, and it is also helpful for our men's sexual affairs, it is a rare supplement."

"Uh...... How does the county know that it is helpful for sexual affairs, isn't it? ”

Huang Zongxi stared at the deputy with wide eyes?