The first day of June.

Li Yu returned to Xiangyang City with part of his army.

As soon as King De returned, the entire Nanyang Kingdom was excited.

At this time, the mountains are full of verdant green, the rivers are surging, the outside of the city is longitudinal and horizontal, and the city is bustling.

Since Li Yu's Dewang Mansion was relocated to Xiangyang, the economic development center of Jingxiang has gradually shifted from Nanyang to Xiangyang.

No one can stop this trend.

When the political center shifts, the economic center will also shift, unless it occupies an irreplaceable geographical location.

Li Yu's lever to leverage business is money.

At the beginning, in order to develop the economy, he borrowed a set of money models from the money shop in Xiangyang and used it to mint money.

Jingxiang is one of the legal minting money workshops, with many sets of "Xiang" money issued by the imperial court.

Now, Li Yu let go of his hands and feet, vigorously minted money, and the word "Xiang" Kaiyuan Tongbao not only circulated in Jingxiang Nanyang, but also flowed to Jingnan, Xiangbei, and Xiangnan with the progress of the war.

Now it has flowed into Jiangxi.

A boatload of heavy, yellow-orange-orange Xiangzi copper coins followed the goods from the north of the river into the south of the Yangtze River.

And the goods in Jiangnan also followed the ships to the north.

All of a sudden, Li Yu communicated with the territories of the Zhao family and Ma Yin, and commerce and trade flourished.

Several have also signed a trade agreement.

The agreement stipulates that all merchants holding their respective licenses shall only pay taxes at the place where the license is obtained, and the place of sale shall not be charged repeatedly.

As a result, a large number of shops appeared in many cities, and merchants from other places could only sell goods to the shops, and the shops could then sell them to the outside world.

In this way, the merchant pays the tax back to the place where he is registered, and the shop pays the tax locally.

Tolls shall not be charged at the checkpoints of all military checkpoints, and no entry fees shall be charged to each city.

That is, you can travel all over the country for free, as long as you pay taxes and fees at the place of registration.

Li Yu's purpose was to encourage trade and allow money and goods to flow.

After dealing with official business in Xiangyang for a few days, he returned to Nanyang with his family.

At the beginning, the family discussed it, and Xiangyang and Nanyang each lived for half a year.

As soon as June passes, I will go back to Nanyang to live.

Li Yu took a boat on the water.

The banks of the river are lined with green rice paddies.

Beside the river are huge round waterwheels, slowly rotating under the impact of the current.

Buckets of clear water were lifted up the riverbank, poured into the trough, and flowed down the trough into the distance.

"Husband, it hasn't rained until now, I'm afraid it's going to be a drought this year."

"Well, we still have to fight drought, otherwise there will be no harvest, and the people's lives will be difficult."

Li Yu frowned.

He has already issued instructions to all localities to vigorously ensure the use of water for agriculture.

It is necessary to build water trucks on major rivers to ensure water supply for farmland.

Fortunately, there are many rivers in Li Yu's jurisdiction, and there is no risk of breaking the flow even in drought.

I hope that this year's drought will not last too long, otherwise, I can still live here, and the people in other places are afraid that they will have to eat soil.

Three days later, I arrived in Nanyang.

Li Yu met a fast horse from Chang'an.

This is an edict from the imperial court.

"Under the door, the foundation of the world: there is a great drought in Guanzhong, there are hungry people gathered in Beijing, and the imperial court has no relief food, and the towns can provide relief as appropriate to share the worries of the imperial court."

Wang Houxie followed Li Yu to Nanyang, since Zhou Kuan, Gao Shi, and Li Huaixian were transferred to Jiangxi, the affairs here fell on Zhang Ge, Wang Houxie came to Nanyang to deal with the specific affairs of the states, such as the construction of water trucks, he had to follow up specifically.

In order to solve the problem of manpower, Li Yu also used the materials that could be made in the generals.

For example, Gao Luanping and Li Zhen.

They are all literate scholars, although they lead troops and manage states and counties.

Gao Luanping was appointed as the defense envoy of Suiguo, and Li Zhen was appointed as the governor of Fangzhou, the defense envoy.

The military and civilians grabbed it.

Deng Guo, Nanyang State, and Tangzhou are close to each other, so let Wang Houxie take charge of it.

Looking at the edict in his hand, Li Yu also had a headache.

Since the imperial court issued an edict to let the towns relieve, this shows that the drought is serious, and I am afraid that the harvest will be out this year. Now the common people have nothing to eat, let alone the end of the year.

If you don't get it right, the world will be in chaos.

Think about your own jurisdiction, it has just improved, a large number of displaced people have been resettled in recent years, and the wasteland in the Nanyang Basin has been almost developed, and there is not much room for arranging displaced people.

Li Yu had to send a letter to Zhou Kuan and ask him if he could find a way.

It would be nice if Jiangxi could arrange some displaced people, otherwise I really don't know what to do.

Many feudal towns did not dare to let the displaced people enter, and if they did not do so, a large-scale rebellion of the hungry people would break out.

Nowadays, the correspondence between Nanyang and Yuzhang is much faster.

There is a waterway to communicate, and it takes half a month to take the fast boat back and forth.

Half a month later, Li Yu received a reply from Zhou Kuan.

Zhou Kuan has already investigated the situation in the seven prefectures south of Zhennan, and there are still some wasteland and barren mountains that can be reclaimed, and 150,000 or 60,000 people can be resettled.

Now Li Yu has a bottom in his heart.

He immediately opened a warehouse and loaded the grain on a ship and went straight to Shangluo in Danshui.

Build a granary in Shangluo, bring down the grain on the ship, and hoard it here.

Li Xiong and others were sent to take the soldiers out of Lantian Pass in the west.

Procedures were handed over to local officials, and notices were posted to receive displaced people.

Soon, copies of such notices were posted in all prefectures and counties in Guanzhong.

This is a terrible thing.

The crowd of black oppression dragged their families to Chang'an, and then went east to Lantian Pass.

Li Xiong led the soldiers to burn dozens of cauldrons in the porridge shed.

A fresh smell of rice made the people around him swallow their saliva greedily.

"Queue up, drink a bowl of porridge first, then go over there to register, and go to Nanyang."

Li Xiong stood in front of the iron pot and shouted by his neck.

Now it is already crowded, and few people can understand his hoarse voice.

"Up, up, you're all dead!"

The soldiers around him, carrying whips in their hands, shouted and raised the whip to scare.

It worked.

Men and women, old and young, soon discharged dozens of long queues.

The soldiers spoke with a Nanyang accent and yelled, regardless of whether these homeless people could understand it or not.

Seeing that there was a twisted and crooked team, Li Xiong smiled proudly, "Open a porridge shed~~~"

The soldiers stood in front of the pot and gave porridge to the homeless people.

Li Xiong was proud, and there was a noise in front of a porridge pot.

"Master Jun, Master Jun, give me some more, I'm going to die."

"No, that's the rule, next."

The scene was full of crying.

Li Xiong glared at the beads of his eyes and pulled the person away.

"What's going on?"

"General, this person doesn't understand the rules, it's too little."

Li Xiong turned his head to look at the weeping man.

This is a young man, hungry and skinny, with very large eyes, and a broken bowl in his thin hand, in which the porridge can be seen.

"What's going on?"

Li Xiong glared angrily at the soldier in charge.

"General, this ...... It's all like this......"

"The lord has an order, the soup soup must be able to stick chopsticks, now it is so thin, can it fight hunger?!"

"Ahem......"

The soldier looked left and right, secretly pulled Li Xiong, and said in a low voice: "General, it is the arrangement of the town guard." ”

Hiss~~~

Who is the Warden?

Zhou Wu, the hero of Nanyang.

Who doesn't know that he fought in a bloody battle against Fang Chengguan?!

Now the town soldiers and generals in the prefectures and counties of Nanyang are under his jurisdiction.

This time, Li Yu arranged for Li Xiong to receive the displaced people, and the errand of transporting grain was given to Zhou Wu.

Li Xiong turned around and went to the warehouse.

These are the grains that were brought from Shangluo.

"Open the bag and I'll see."

The soldier opened the grain bag, reached in and grabbed two handfuls, the rice in it was a little yellow, and there was fine sand.

This is the food brought by the town guard?

Mistaken or intentional?!

Li Xiong walked out of the warehouse and walked around a few times outside, not knowing what to do?

The grain was clearly shoddy and mixed with sand.

Does the lord know about this?

Or does the lord know, just open his eyes and close his eyes?

If it's the latter, if you mention it yourself, won't the Lord Guild blame it?

Li Xiong thought of the robbery of the lord with Fang Xing and Fang Liang, and thought of the grace of the lord's name. His mind flipped upside down.

All that I have is a gift from the Lord, and without the Lord there would be no where I am now. Whether the lord knows this kind of thing or not, he has to tell him what to do is the lord's business, but it is not okay to know it and not report it.

So Li Xiong found his own soldiers and asked him to return to Nanyang to deliver the letter.

However, it was said that Li Yu was busy with Wang Houxie and Zhang Ge in the construction of supply points along the waterway.

Especially Xiangyang.

It's a big transit point.

The population is diverted here.

Some of them were diverted to the prefectures and counties of Nanyang, and some of them continued to go out of the Han River by boat and enter all parts of Jiangxi.

All the states and counties along the route have been notified that supply stations must be built, and ships must be temporarily supplied to provide medical treatment and food to these displaced people.

On this day, he was handling official business in the front hall of Xiangyang Jiedu Mansion, and someone came to report that Li Xiong's messenger arrived.

Li Yu was stunned.

Li Xiong's messenger?

He understands Li Xiong, he is a rough man, what can he do?

When he read the twisted letter, Li Yu's heart sank.

Did he really not expect that a Nanyang hero would do something like that?