Seeing that the old man's withered face gradually regained his blood color, Zhu Biao breathed a sigh of relief and asked with a gentle smile: "Old man! How long has it been since you had steamed buns? ”

"I can't remember, I can't remember! There has been no serious food for about three or four years. They all gnaw on tree bark and eat weeds......"

"It seems that I haven't even seen pork before." Zhu Li interjected unrecognizantly.

Zhu Yan glared at the kid hatefully: "Fourth! If you don't speak, no one will be dumb for you. ”

"Yes! I haven't smelled meat in over a decade. ”

The old man's miserable laughter was recalled, but the little girl next to him tilted her head and innocently said words contrary to her grandfather.

"No! Grandfather. Our family has eaten meat, but we only ate it once this spring......"

The old man's breath suddenly stagnated, and he beat his heart in pain, obviously there was something hidden.

Zhu Di couldn't bear the deception the most, and reprimanded loudly on the spot: "Old man! Your granddaughters have said that they have eaten meat, and you are lying too badly. ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" The old man cried to Zhu Biao. "Xiaomin really hasn't eaten meat......"

"Although Xiaomin's granddaughter has eaten. But it's not pork or dog meat, it's human meat! ”

When Zhu Di heard this, he was even more angry: "What? You dare to eat human flesh, are you a animal? ”

Zhu Biao vaguely understood something, suppressed his anger, and shouted in a low voice: "Fourth! Apologize to the old man......"

With the old man's tearful confession, Zhu Biao and Zhu Yan obviously saw a microcosm of the toiling masses who were forced to a dead end.

Two days before Chinese New Year's Eve last year, even if the old man squeezed out the blood, he could not save his second grandson, and the little Nizi beside him was also dying.

Although this is a girl, there is only such a species left in his whole family.

For her life, the old man had to take the body of his second grandson and go to the next door to exchange for a dead child.

They eat his children, and their granddaughters eat each other's children.

The old man turned his head and hugged the skinny girl, crying silently: "Nizi! What you know how to eat is, the third brother next door......"

The little girl stared at her eyes in a daze, and her eyes quickly overflowed with fear. She burst into tears with a "wow", coughing as she cried.

Before long, the little girl even vomited the bun that she had just eaten and had not had time to digest. It is not difficult to imagine that the third brother next door also occupied an important position in her heart.

In order to survive, he actually ate his best brother......

Thinking of this, don't say that Zhu Biao and Zhu Di have goosebumps all over their bodies, even Zhu Di and Zhu Di are also crying for it.

"I'm sorry! Sister. My brother doesn't have a heart......"

Especially Zhu Di, he said to the little girl with apologies. He was born with a fear of being forced to expose his scars.

However, the more people are afraid of something, the more they will encounter something.

Zhu Di met, but if you know that you have made a mistake, even if you peel the skin, you will be forced to admit your mistake with your family's father Zhu Yuanzhang.

The all-encompassing Jinyi Wei was shaped by Emperor Hongwu in this way, as if it had become a projection of his character.

Zhu Di was suddenly excited, and somehow, he felt that the second brother came back this time, and it seemed that he had begun to have this trend.

Zhu Biao looked up to the sky and sighed: "Xing, the people are suffering; Death, the people suffer. There is also meat in the chariots, so take it out and give it to the people. Can you cook it for them right away? But it's better not to cut down the trees around here. ”

He had already discovered that there were a few dead trees miraculously pulling out some tender teeth in the cold wind, as if it was a sign that Yangzhou would be revitalized, and even the dead trees would often grow more prosperous in spring.

The guards received the order, but they hesitated, the dead tree could not be cut down, and there was not a single grass. How do you cook meat over a fire? I had to take off my clothes and burn them.

Zhu Biao did have such an idea. But what he wanted to burn was not clothes, but planned to dismantle the car and burn it.

Just as he raised his hand and pointed to a small palace car, Zhu Yan also patted the dust on his hands, stood up, and ordered: "Send a few people to follow me up the mountain to collect firewood." ”

"Boss! Kindness is a good thing. But too much goodness, that is to indulge in evil! He paced to Zhu Biao's side and stabbed the eldest brother with his elbow.

He whispered, "Don't forget! You are the future emperor of our Ming Dynasty. I still have to take care of my own image......"

When Zhu Biao saw Zhu Yan's serious expression, he was stunned, and then he realized that he really had a hot head suddenly, his kindness was too overflowing, and he had lost his identity.

"Dick! Brother knew he was wrong. But even then, you don't need to collect firewood yourself, do you? ”

"I want to see the mountains and rivers of Yangzhou! Let's see how the river can be reclaimed so that the river can be revitalized and the farmland can be irrigated. ”

Zhu Biao was even more puzzled at this time: "Why do you want to know this?" Dick. Oh! I remember. I heard my dad say ...... a few days ago."

"You don't want to be crowned king, you want to ask him for a little Beijing official! Have you changed your mind and want to govern this Yangzhou Mansion? ”

"Sure enough, it's my own brother! Whatever I want to do, I can't escape your eyes. Zhu Yan smiled heartily.

"I feel that my father may want to set up a benchmark for the governance of Yangzhou! Anyway, I'm in the stage of recuperation, and I'm idle ......."

Zhu Yan continued as if discussing: "Wouldn't it be better to help our father share his worries." Top dog! If you want to be my younger brother, you will have to say a few more kind words for me later! ”

After speaking, he didn't care about Zhu Biao, who was dumbfounded, and blinked at the three imperial brothers who were also shocked and inexplicable next to him, and then marched to the northwest with a few guards.

There is no famous mountain in the northwest of Yangzhou for more than ten miles, and there is only one "small mound" that has been passed down by word of mouth since the Qing Dynasty and is called "Ant Mountain".

There is a famous place on the hill, called "Lei Tang", Tang Wude five years, a generation of male lord Emperor Yang of Sui was reburied here by Li Yuan.

The history books are more contained, in the eighteenth year of Zhenguan, the governor of Yangzhou, Li Xiyu, led the Huaizi River into a canal, and built a goucheng pond to irrigate 800 hectares of fertile land.

Zhu Yan thinks that it is no exaggeration to say that without this small mountain and thunder pond, it would not be possible to feed tens of thousands of civilians in the northwest of Yangzhou, and relying on the Grand Canal in the southeast alone, Yangzhou is simply not enough to be called "Yang Yi Yi Yi Two" and "Rich in the World" in the Tang Dynasty.

And if he wants to govern Yangzhou, the first task is to re-penetrate Leitang, revitalize the farmland in the northwest river of the city, and then recall the exiled people to reclaim the famine.

Having food and popularity is the foundation of Yangzhou's reconstruction, and only then can it be used to communicate with each other through the Guazhou section of the Yangzhou Canal, and gradually build it into the first port city of the Maritime Silk Road.

At the same time that Zhu Yan was going up the mountain, the several princes of the Zhu family who were on patrol had already exploded.

"Big brother! Don't listen to the second brother's nonsense. What he needs most now is to recuperate! "The most nervous Zhu Di is still Zhu Di.

Zhu Fan also seconded: "That's it! What governs Yangzhou? It's so bad here, the second brother can only fight, what can he do. ”

"Actually. You don't have to worry about it, my father will definitely not agree to the second brother doing this! Zhu Di yawned lazily.