Dead vines and old trees, no crows.

The wind and snow are raging, and there is no home.

Leaving Huangji Town, Li Chenan and his entourage walked on this official road for four days.

There was a dead silence between heaven and earth, as if walking into a chaotic space.

Li Chen'an felt a little weird in his heart.

This way is not between the mountains and mountains.

Although there are hills, most of them are still flat.

Why is there no one to do?

The large area covered with snow does not know whether it is a field or a wasteland.

If it's a field, how many acres does it have?

If it is a wasteland, how much grain can be produced in a year after it is reclaimed?

For the first time, he realized how sparsely populated Ningguo was.

In such an extremely backward era, people are the greatest productive forces.

For a country to have a large population growth, it must first be stable.

The second is to ensure that all the people are fed, clothed, and carefree...... There is no other nightlife this night, and they will naturally have babies.

Can ...... now

The current Ning country is on the verge of chaos!

There are strong enemies on all sides, bandits everywhere, and even more vicious traitors inside.

Although the officials of Kyoto were thoroughly cleansed, the officials of the five provinces and seventy-two prefectures and the counties below them did not move.

It's like a person who is sick all over his body, and although he has changed his brain, his hands and feet are still full of abscesses.

This necessitates a nationwide purge.

And the land south of the Yangtze River is the top priority of the entire Ning country.

This first knife must fall on Jiangnan.

Whether it is the rivers and lakes of Jiangnan or the officialdom of Jiangnan!

Li Chen'an perfected the plan for the trip to Jiangnan on the back of a bumpy horse, Xiao Baozi seemed to be used to the hands tightly wrapped around her waist, and she still squinted, so that she could see the front more clearly.

She felt the warmth of the man coming from her back, and she waved the whip lightly, and suddenly felt that it was more comfortable to ride a horse than a donkey.

Twilight falls.

A dim light appeared ahead.

It was a city on the border between Guangling Prefecture and Pingjiang Prefecture.

It's called Wangjiang City.

When I got here, I still had a five-day walk from Zhouzhuang.

Li Chenan and his entourage honestly paid the entry tax into the city.

Five people and five horses walked slowly and leisurely on the streets of Wangjiang City, and after a while, Li Chenan saw a rather magnificent inn, and he was suddenly happy-

It's also called Yuelai Inn!

"That's it!"

The five of them dismounted, and Xiao Er was greeted very warmly.

"Guest officer, it's been hard all the way!"

"What a handsome horse!"

"Guest officer, hand over the horses to the villain, and the villain promises to wait for them well!"

Saying this, he took the reins from Xiao Baozi's hand and yelled inside: "Boss, pick up guests!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a woman in her thirties rushed out of the inn with a happy face.

"Oops, rare guest!"

"Oh, what a handsome young lady...... Hurry up, please inside, it's so cold outside, don't freeze this delicate lady! ”

Lo and behold, the big places are just different.

This shouldn't be any more shady shop.

The group walked in and immediately felt a rush of warmth.

Li Chenan looked at the lobby, of course, the makeup is not elegant, but it is still atmospheric.

There are six tables in the entire lobby in addition to the counter on one side.

There weren't many people at the moment, just two people sitting at the table.

One of them sits with six people drinking.

At first glance, it seems that they are all people in the rivers and lakes.

For they carry swords on their backs, or they have swords on their tables.

The innermost table is an exception.

At that table sat two men, an old man and a young man.

The old man's back was facing Li Chen'an, and he couldn't tell how old he was, the young man had a white face, was wearing a cyan cotton robe and a Confucian shirt, and he was wearing a Confucian crown, seventeen or eighteen years old, and he was estimated to be a showman.

They did not carry swords on their backs, nor did they carry swords.

The old man was carrying a piano case on his back, and he guessed that he was the young man's servant.

Li Chenan retracted his gaze, and the proprietress was already standing behind the counter, and asked with a smile:

"Childe, there are three upper rooms in this store, the five of you...... What do you think? ”

"Okay, how much does it cost?"

"Childe, it's very cheap, and a room is only two taels of silver."

As if seeing the surprise on Li Chen'an's face, she hurriedly said, "Childe, it's worth it!" ”

"Let's open the window in the upper room and you can see Xiujiang, Xiujiang winter scenery is a must!"

"In addition, the charcoal fire in our upper room for twelve hours is constantly ...... Childe is unspeakably expensive at a glance, and he doesn't know that the price of charcoal is not cheap this year. ”

"And let's go to the room, supply hot water at any time, the son only needs to roar, and his own subordinates will send you to the room...... If you still feel that it is not warm enough, you can add more bedding. ”

"Don't worry, it's all brand new."

"Look at the boys' way...... You're from Guangling, right? There are no people on that long road for hundreds of miles, not to mention that people like Gongzi are so gentle, even those chivalrous warriors in the rivers and lakes are tired enough to come here from that side. ”

"Two taels of silver, take a comfortable hot bath, eat a meal of good wine and food in our kitchen, and then lie down on the warm bed...... This little lady is the wife of the childe, right? ”

Xiao Baozi did not deny it, and the proprietress suddenly said lotus:

"Just look at it!"

"It's a good husband and wife!"

The little couple rolled into the bed...... Tut-tut, that's really a fairy! ”

"No, I've even raced the immortals!"

A clever tongue like a spring, Xiao Baozi said that Xiao Baozi's heart was full of joy.

As soon as her words fell, Xiao Baozi had already taken out a silver ingot of ten taels from his arms.

She placed it on the counter.

Her slender eyebrows and eyes were slightly raised, and she said very calmly: "Just three upper rooms!" ”

He added arrogantly: "No need to look for it!" ”

The female boss immediately smiled and took the ingot of silver, "It turned out to be the young lady's master, excellent, prosperous and prosperous, and the descendants are prosperous!" ”

"In the future, Mrs. Gongzi will definitely be full of children and blessings!"

"Mrs. Childe wait a minute......"

She turned her head and yelled at the second floor: "There are three rooms on the sky, it's small, come and take the guests up to rest!" ”

"Great!"

A little girl who was about twelve or thirteen years old ran down the stairs on her feet, but Li Chenan suddenly asked the proprietress:

"That section of hundreds of miles of road, with mountains, rivers, fields and land, why is there no people?"

The proprietress looked at Li Chen'an, looked around again, and then said in a low voice:

"Smoke!"

"A few years ago, when the imperial court wanted people to fight, a guy smoked a middle-aged man cleanly."

"And then there came another bandit ......"

"Starting from the place in Huangping Town, to our Wangjiang City, that mountain is called Tulong Mountain!"

"In the past two years, there have been more than 100 bandits in the mountain!"

"There are only a few young children, old and weak and women left in those villages, where can they stop the bandits from plundering? Naturally, they all moved away. ”

"Childe, you are also lucky, maybe this heavy snow has sealed the mountain, otherwise...... If you don't invite someone from the dart board to escort you, you will be more than lucky! ”

"Oh......"

Li Chenan nodded thoughtfully, and followed the little girl called Xiao Budian up to the second floor.

The young man sitting in the innermost part of the hall turned his head at this moment and looked at the backs of Li Chenan and the others.

The old man across from him also looked up and took a look.

Then the old man and the young drank and ate as if nothing had happened.

The six fierce people in the rivers and lakes at the other table raised their wine glasses at this moment, glanced at each other knowingly, with a big mouth and a bowl of wine.

There was a gleam in his eyes:

Fat sheep!

A group of fat sheep with no experience in the rivers and lakes!

……

Jiangbei.

At the foot of Jingning Mountain.

Ning Chuchu looked at the corpses on the ground, as well as the grain and grass of more than a hundred carriages, and those trembling handlebars.

She grinned too.

"Fat sheep!"

"Chen An is right, if you want to get rich, you really can't go the ordinary way!"

"Let's go, let's continue to look for the fat sheep!"