"Your Majesty, summon us in such a hurry, but what happened?"

"General Murong just sent an urgent report!"

"There have been deaths and injuries in these newly accepted places in Yu County due to the lack of warm clothing and charcoal."

"I called you here to discuss a countermeasure, and we can't watch the people freeze to death."

The ministers talked a lot, and they couldn't come up with a solution for a while.

Li Wei thought for a moment, and then stood up.

"Your Majesty, the top priority is to prepare clothes and charcoal to be sent to Yu County, and in addition, we must send people to neighboring countries to buy charcoal and cotton clothes, so that we may be able to last until the snow stops."

"But it's snowing heavily, I'm afraid I can't buy it!"

"Yes! And the road is slippery in snowy weather, so I'm afraid the delay will be longer. ”

"Your Majesty, there is no other way but to make a desperate bet."

"Just do what the prime minister said, send someone to the counties to collect the excess clothes, and send them to Yu County for emergency first."

"In addition, organize caravans to buy cotton clothes and charcoal in the surrounding areas, and the money will come out of the treasury, and buy as much as you want."

"Yes!"

……

On the other side, Murong Fuhai divided half of the charcoal of the soldiers and sent it to the counties, and then led people around to cut wood.

Although the wood was very watery, there was no other way now, and they were left to rely on themselves until Hou Sui's support arrived.

The wood was piled up next to the campfire, and it could barely be lit for a few days, even if the smoke was a little bigger, but it was better than freezing to death.

On the official road, a convoy pulled all kinds of materials and rushed towards Yuxian with difficulty.

The car is full of all kinds of materials collected, not in large quantities, but it can also be used at the top.

The snow was still falling, which caused a lot of trouble for the convoy, and it took three days to arrive after a day's journey.

"Is General Murong here?"

"I am!"

"General, this is the material raised by His Majesty, and the rest will be delivered in two days."

"It's hard work, let's go have a hot tea first!"

"General Xie!"

Murong Fuhai didn't dare to delay, and immediately sent someone to send the things to the city.

Although I have been busy these days, there are still many people who have not survived, and with these things, at least I can live a few more.

The disaster situation here has not been dealt with yet, and the caravan sent out has problems again.

A total of six caravans went out, only four returned, and the rest all unfortunately rolled down the cliff, and even the bodies could not be found.

The harvest of the caravan that came back was also very average, with less than ten truckloads of supplies, which was not as much as the one requisitioned in the country.

"Your Majesty, half of this is bought from Ling County, the Wu Kingdom of Ling County is very close to us, and the snow there is much smaller than here."

"Then why didn't you buy more and come back?"

"Your Majesty, we want to too! But when we said what we wanted, those guys kicked us out. ”

He frowned, he didn't expect that the thing that was most lacking now was actually in the hands of his enemy.

"That's it, all stand down!"

"Yes!"

……

Inside the palace of the state of Wu.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now that Hou Sui has suffered this catastrophe, should we express it?"

"Your Majesty, since they are short of cotton clothes and charcoal, we might as well sell them at a high price and make a fortune."

"Huh! Your pattern is small, do you remember the war horses they took? I'm going to take it all back this time. ”

"Liu Xin!"

"The minister is here!"

"You continue to send envoys to Hou Sui and tell them that as long as we return our war horses, my Wu State is willing to provide them with a batch of materials for the winter."

"Your Majesty, what if they don't want to?"

"Don't worry, now the initiative is in our hands, don't worry!"

"Yes!"

After receiving the order, Liu Xin did not dare to hesitate, although he did not really want to go to Hou Sui, but now that he was under the status of Wu State, he had no right to refuse at all.

……

Three days later, the snow stopped for a while, and the sky cleared up rarely.

"Your Majesty, Wu Guo Liu Xin asks to see you!"

"Is him again?"

"Your Majesty, do you want to see you?"

"Bring it on!"

"Yes!"

……

"Your Majesty, don't come unharmed!"

"Why are you here again?"

"Your Majesty, I'm here to talk about cooperation this time, Hou Sui is very short of charcoal and cotton clothes now!"

"Yes, what do you want?"

"Hey, hey! My Majesty wants to exchange the winter supplies for the previous war horses! ”

"I knew, go back and tell him it's impossible."

"You don't think about it anymore?"

"I don't have to think about it, but I have something to ask you."

"What's the matter?"

"What is your position in the official residence of the Wu State?"

"Ahem! I'm just a little courtesy. ”

"Really? You're so talented, you're just a courtesy. ”

"Your Majesty said that I am very funny, I have a lot of people in Wu Guo, so I naturally can't get on the stage."

"Really? Then are you interested in coming to my Hou Sui? ”

Liu Xin was stunned for a moment and looked at him in disbelief.

"Don't be so surprised, my Hou Sui is no worse than Wu Guo, and you are so unimportant in Wu Guo, it's better to plan early."

"Your Majesty is laughing!"

"Don't be in a hurry to refuse, I'm not missing you, but right now I do have a chance to make meritorious contributions, as long as you promise to help me, I will appoint you as the squire of the Ministry of Rites at that time, which is much more than your little ceremonial official."

"In addition, I will give you a large sum of money, even if you do nothing in the rest of your life, it will be enough for you to be chic."

"Think about it, I'll give you two days."

Liu Xin walked out of the hall silently, but his heart was a little moved.

He did nothing in Wu Country, and he was not very important, every time he did any dirty work, he went to work, and several times he almost died in a foreign country, not only did he not be rewarded when he went back, but he didn't even have a good face.

"Why don't you try it somewhere else?"

Liuxin shook his head, his wife and children are still in Wu Kingdom, he can't mess around.

"If you can take your family away, you can try, but I don't know if he will agree."

"Forget it, think about it again!"

The next day, the snow began to fall again, and it seemed impossible to stop for a short time.

In the imperial study, Liu Xin finally made up his mind after a night of ideological struggle.

"Your Majesty, I am willing to help you, but I still have one more request."

"Speak!"

"I hope Your Majesty can take my wife and children over, if I run away by myself, Lin Xiao will definitely not let them go."

"Yes, I promise you."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Okay, I'll tell you the plan now, you listen carefully."

"I want you to go back to Wu now, just say that I agree to the exchange, but the supplies will be doubled, all you have to do is to persuade him to agree to my conditions, and make sure that there are no problems with the materials."

"When the time comes, you bring them here, and I'll have people ambush them here and catch him off guard."

"Your family doesn't have to worry, I'll send someone to pick them up, and all you have to do is cooperate with me to complete the plan."

"Still have questions?"

"Nope!".

"Okay, you can go back now!"

……