"The Xu family army has now taken the whole county of Yuyang, if we wait any longer, not only Your Majesty will be in danger, but Zhuo County will also be in danger!"

Liu Qi bowed heavily and pleaded: "I hope that the prince will make a quick decision and send troops to rescue the driver as soon as possible!" ”

At this time, a gust of autumn wind blew into the hall, Zhao Yu suddenly felt a chill down his spine, and couldn't help but shiver.

He paused slightly, looked up at the gloomy sky outside the hall, and suddenly asked:

"How is the harvest of the people this year?"

Liu Qi couldn't answer this, he was stunned for a moment, I don't know what kind of nerves Zhao Yu had and suddenly cared about the people.

The waiter standing beside Zhao Yu replied: "This year's rain is not as good as last year's, the people's harvest is worse than last year, this year's plan is afraid that there will not be much grain tax, winter is coming, this year the people will definitely have a hard time." ”

As the saying goes, what kind of master has what kind of servant, Zhao Yu is kind to the people, and his servants are also very concerned about these specific numbers.

The master and servant glanced at each other, and their eyes were stained with a lot of sadness.

When Liu Qi didn't know what the master and servant were going to do when they sang and harmonized, he saw Zhao Yu stand up and sighed:

"General Liu, I won't tell you the truth, this king has already exhausted the grain stock of the government when he sent 10,000 taels of gold to His Majesty, and this year's harvest is not good.

Liu Qi was dumbfounded, "What does the prince mean by this? Could it be that these people are more important than His Majesty's golden body? ”

Zhao Yu didn't like to listen to this, and his expression turned cold.

Liu Qi consciously lost his words, and hurriedly changed his tone to save, after all, there are some things that cannot be said on the surface.

The people don't care about these words, just say them in private, but if you say them openly, you will be scolded by the Confucian scholars in the backbone!

"Lord Wang, Your Majesty has been weak since childhood, and left Your Majesty in the hands of the rebels, if something goes wrong with the dragon body, how can you and I explain to the people of the world?" Liu Qi said urgently.

Zhao Yu shook his head helplessly, an unbearable look flashed in his eyes, but the words that came out of his mouth made Liu Qi's heart cold.

"There's no way, then let's suffer Your Majesty again."

Zhao Yu raised his hand to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes and turned to leave.

Liu Qileng was left alone in the center of the hall, and Zhao Yu's sentence was repeatedly replayed in his mind, "Then suffer Your Majesty again", which gradually became messy.

Liu Qi wanted to speak and stopped: "No, I, the prince, you ......."

It's a pity that Zhao Yu has already disappeared, and even if he has more to say, he can only hold back.

......

In mid-September, there was a sudden torrential rainstorm in the north.

The rain poured down, as if the Tianhe River had leaked a huge hole, and the raindrops the size of beans fell from morning to night, and it rained for a month.

Just when Xu Yue and others, who had just taken the entire county of Yuyang, thought that there would be a flash flood and were always on alert, the heavy rain suddenly stopped.

The natural geographical advantages allowed Yuyang County to survive this rainstorm.

However, due to the heavy rains in the past month, the infrastructure construction process has been greatly affected, and the original plan to complete the cement laying of the county's main roads by the end of the year has been shattered.

Although the plan could not be completed on time, Yuyang County was lucky.

In most areas of Bingzhou and Jizhou, north of the Yellow River, the Yellow River flooded farmland, and countless houses were washed away.

The surviving victims began to rush to Youzhou further north, and Yuyang County, under the rule of the Xu Jiajun, became the first choice for the victims.

Great disasters are often accompanied by great epidemics, at this time in the northern land, starvation is everywhere, like hell on earth, three steps can meet a dead body eaten by wild beasts, together with the fleeing refugees lined up in a long line on the official road, no edge can be seen at a glance.

Xu Yue felt that she was just waking up from a sleep, and outside the border acropolis of Yuyang County, there were countless more victims.

Now, after all, it is in the name of the rebel army, so Wang Pingping's control of her own territory is very carefully arranged.

Outsiders should be blocked from the newly renovated acropolis walls, and if they want to enter the camera, they must be checked layer by layer to make sure that they are not spies sent by other forces, and then they are allowed to enter the boundary of Yuyang County.

In the early hours of the morning, the soldiers of the Xu family army stationed in the acropolis had just changed their shifts, and as soon as they raised their eyes, they saw the dense crowd of victims under the city wall, and they were suddenly startled.

The sky was already white, and in the faint light, with the help of the telescope left by the general, it could be seen that countless victims were coming towards this side on the official road outside the city.

In just a few minutes of surveying the situation, there were dozens more people under the city wall, and these refugees all shrank under the city wall as if they had made an appointment, looking at the strong and tall guarded wall, hoping to see hope.

They were in rags, and some of them had no clothes to wear, and they only wore a straw mat over their bodies to barely cover their bodies.

There are both men and women, young and old, but most of them are young people with stronger physical strength, and the old people are rare, and even if they do, they are protected by a large group of people in the middle.

The children hid behind their parents, shielded by their parents with straw mats or linen clothes, keeping their green eyes out.

By this time, it was late October, the temperature was already very low, and the victims were cold and hungry, so they lit fires under the city gates to keep warm.

By daylight, the vegetation on the surrounding hillsides was visibly bald.

The raw wood burned, and the smoke billowed from the outside of the entire acropolis, so that people couldn't open their eyes.

At this time, these victims knelt down under the acropolis as if they had made an appointment again, some sold themselves, some wanted to sell their children, and some shouted that they wanted to join the Xu family's army, just begging for food to eat.

What scared the sheep the most was that the women, with their clothes open, could take her back for an hour with half a bowl of rice.

As for what she can do in this hour, she can do whatever the employer wants.

Such women are quite beautiful, and those women who look ordinary still cast envious glances at them, envying them for food that they can exchange their faces and bodies for.

In such a predicament, no amount of shame or loyalty can be compared to a mouthful of corn porridge.

The husbands of the women were also present, and shouted hard about their wives, and the husband and wife were not ashamed of this, but secretly rejoiced that they could take their children with them in exchange for food.

Eighteen-year-old Yang Wazi is now a volunteer soldier of the Xu family, after Xu Yue and others took the entire territory of Yuyang, the army expanded again, and the young people of Yuyang County who passed the audit such as Yang Wazi were all thrown into the arms of the Xu family.

However, unlike the mercenaries in the old era, the group of sheep babies are voluntary soldiers, and there is no military salary, but they are given food and shelter to share the land, and if the economy is rich, subsidies will be issued from time to time.

Many of the children of tenants in the old era volunteered to join the Xu family army for the possibility of dividing the land.

Because of such a policy, the interests of both sides have been completely bundled, and the newly recruited volunteers are desperate for the Xu family's army, and their will to fight is much higher than that of the mercenaries of the old era.

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