"Not then?"

"What is the prince's words, what is ······?"

In just a few days, the attitude of the crown prince Liu Shengzhen towards the Huns quickly spread in all directions, with Chang'an as the center.

It's not that the entire Chang'an City has focused on the Tai Gong and Liu Sheng's every move;

But because of this time, the Huns invaded Hanbian again, which is really 'extraordinary' compared to the past few years······

"Over the years, although the Huns have also kowtowed year after year, since the first emperor succeeded to the throne, they have rarely gone south;

"Although every year after autumn, there are scattered Hun cavalry in the border areas, but most of them are as few as a dozen, more than dozens of people, and it is very rare to hear that there are groups of more than 100 Hun cavalry."

"I don't know what's going on this year?"

In the tea shop outside the East Market, the gossip party instinctively gathered together, and it was very natural to talk about the recent events that happened in the northern borderlands.

And on such a day, there are still people who have time to gather in the tea shop and dare to talk about these things, not to mention how monstrous the background is, at least there are some news channels.

No, as soon as someone asked, several people jumped up excitedly, showing their superiority of 'having more information'.

"Hi~"

"Isn't it last year, there was a bumper harvest in Guanzhong, and the Huns suffered a white plague in the winter at the beginning of the year~"

"-I live a tight life, and I can't eat a full meal all year round;"

"I heard that our Han people are rich in food and rice, and those barbarians who wear their hair and lead beasts to eat people can still sit still?"

"The cows and sheep are losing fat, the mother-in-law is not milking, and the baby is hungry and crying, isn't it just staring at our Han family······"

In the noise, a big man pretended to make a free and easy interpretation, which immediately caused everyone present to nod their heads again and again.

Last year's Guanzhong did usher in the biggest harvest in the past ten years.

As for the reason, it is natural that the whole area and a large range of 'poor harvests' in Guanzhong in the previous year have also retained a lot of fertility of the fields to a certain extent.

According to the summary of the internal history, the imperial history doctor and other subordinate officials: the overall average yield per mu in Guanzhong last year reached a full four stones and one bucket!

According to Emperor Taizu Gao's standard of 'giving the people 100 acres of land', on average, every peasant household in Guanzhong harvested 410 stone of rice grain last year.

The tax rate of thirty and one is the agricultural tax of more than thirteen stones and less than fourteen stones;

In addition, forty yuan per 'ding', which is equivalent to nearly one stone of grain.

It is no exaggeration to say that last year, the overall average net income of the people in Guanzhong reached more than 390 stone of grain!

Compared with the three years of the Son of Heaven Qi Xinyuan when the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu broke out, the net income of more than 100 and less than 200 stone per household has more than doubled!

Such a bumper harvest, if placed in previous years, although it is enough to make people happy, but considering factors such as 'grain cheapness hurts farmers', the benefits brought by this harvest to farmers are actually very leisurely.

But this year, the situation is markedly different.

- After the autumn harvest of the previous year, Liu Sheng, who had not yet been crowned the prince, was ordered to be responsible for the stabilization of grain prices;

After that, Liu Sheng logically launched the rule of Su Duwei, and formulated the policy of 'Shaofu is in charge of Su Duwei and carries out macroeconomic regulation and control of grain prices in Guanzhong'.

At that time, most of the peasant households still thought that Liu Sheng's control of grain prices and macroeconomic regulation and control of grain prices was simply to prevent grain prices from skyrocketing and to set an upper limit on grain prices, lest the people not be able to afford the high-priced grain after the price surge.

And this year, the people of Guanzhong, who ushered in a comprehensive bumper harvest and immediately began to worry about 'grain cheapness hurting farmers', finally understood what kind of official office it was;

Macroeconomic regulation and control of grain prices is very conducive to the good governance of poor peasant households.

——The year before last, there was a large-scale poor harvest in Guanzhong, and the governor of Su Du locked the price of grain at 100 yuan, or even less than 70 yuan, by selling cheap grain;

This ensured that the vast majority of peasant households in Guanzhong could afford enough food for the entire family to survive the year.

And this year, Guanzhong has a bumper harvest, and the governor of Su still stood up and issued a notice without hesitation: at the price of 40 yuan per stone, unlimited grain can be purchased!

Forty yuan and one stone, although the price of grain is slightly lower than last year, and even in previous years, it still makes the entire Guanzhong be shrouded in a burst of praise for merit and virtue.

- What a joke!

- Forty dollars a stone, or an unlimited purchase, what more bicycle?!

If this was put in the past, there would be such a bumper harvest, and the grain merchants in the customs would not know how high their nostrils would be!

Such as 'there is no shortage of food in Guanzhong this year'~

What 'love sells or not, you don't sell and some people sell'~

Even words such as 'my warehouse is almost full, I should hurry up if I want to sell it, and I will not wait for it when it expires', which will become the rhetoric of grain merchants when they buy grain from farmers at a lower price.

At some point, there may even be a farmer, because he can't sell the grain in his hand, so he has to run around, begging grandpa to tell grandma, or even giving gifts to dredge up the relationship;

For the sake of it, he just sold the grain in his hand at a price that barely counted the price of cabbage.

To sell grain, you need to ask your grandfather to tell your grandmother, and even to send favors to people, measuring tools, freight, and even the currency of delivery, which is naturally the reason in the question.

But now, with the presence of the young governor of Su Du, everything has returned to a normal trajectory.

-- Grain merchants did not put up the shelf of 'grain dividend' because of this year's bumper harvest;

As usual, we negotiated the price with the farmers in advance, and sent the carriages and horses to transport the grain on the day of the autumn harvest, paying the money with one hand and delivering the goods with the other;

Nearly one million peasant households in the entire Guanzhong, more than 40,000 stone grain, Shaofu Zhisu Duwei obviously did not even eat one-third, but the price of grain was firmly capped at the price of more than 40 yuan by the words "Zhisu Duwei".

To put it simply: the existence of the governor of Su has made the dividends of the grain harvest really fall into the hands of the hard-working farmers, instead of being eaten by the grain merchant Mi Jia and the powerful people behind the merchants.

And at this delicate moment when 'life is getting better and better', and it is getting better and better visible to the naked eye, the large-scale invasion of the Huns that has not been seen in more than ten years or even decades has undoubtedly caused a huge sensation in the 'pan-Chang'an' area with Chang'an as the center······

"Hey!"

"If you want me to say, I've endured it for so many years, and it's long overdue to have a fight with the Huns raised by the little lady!"

"-Even the baby in the family, it can't be beaten;"

"Those barbarians, if they don't hit hard, can they be honest?"

In the crowd, the mouth cannon party began to exert its strength, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.

When they saw clearly that the mouth of the cannon party was a big man with a height of more than seven feet, a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and a face full of meat, everyone turned their heads away and no longer looked at the mouth of the cannon party.

——It is completely different from the mouth cannon party and key politicians of later generations: in this era, there are very few people who 'stand and talk without backache'.

At least under the influence of this martial style that permeates the whole society, almost no one will talk about matters related to battle formations and foreign races.

said that at this moment, the people gathered in the tea shop were at least ninety percent sure: if there was a real fight, the 'mouth cannon party' who amplified the words would definitely go home to get a longbow and a short sword, and go to the inner history to sign up spontaneously, willing to become a grain carrier.

But where there are talkers, there are often also sensible people.

"That's what I said, but if you really have to calculate it carefully, what the prince said is actually not unreasonable."

"Big guy, think about it: In the past few years, why did my Han family endure humiliation and burden, send princesses and relatives to the Xiongnu Beiban, and marry all kinds of goods?"

"--Aren't you a foot soldier of my Han family, can't catch up with the Hun horse?"

"In the past few years, Emperor Taizong and His Majesty have been frugal and have built a lot of horse gardens in the northern border of Dai and Zhao, isn't it just to raise horses and form a cavalry army?"

"Let's just say that this time, he Xiongnu went south in a big way, but he didn't care about looting along the way, and just ran straight to Yanmen, ruined Yanmen Garden, and kidnapped the horses in the garden."

"Isn't this tantamount to saying: he, the Huns, is also afraid that the Han family will form a cavalry army, and then send a cavalry army to fight against the Huns?"

"The Huns are afraid, doesn't that mean that our Han family is right?"

"If it's not right, the Huns won't be frightened to go south, spending food and salary, but just to destroy a Yanmen Garden······"

As soon as these words came out, the strange atmosphere in the tea shop was finally dispelled a little by a burst of laughter;

When the big man heard this, he didn't be stubborn anymore, he only gritted his teeth a little suffocated, and nodded his head unwillingly, and at the same time didn't forget to slap his thigh.

"Alas!"

"I understand the truth!"

"It's just aggrieved!"

"——My Han family is a big country, and I am very martial!"

"How can he be a little Hun and bullied him to such an extent?"

"Special Mother's !!"

When the rational man heard this, he laughed and got up, and sighed like a sad old man.

"Alas~"

"Speaking of grievances, who is not aggrieved?"

"If we are aggrieved, others will not be aggrieved?"

"-If you really want to talk about it, Your Majesty, it's much more aggrieved than us······"

"After all, it is Your Majesty who bears the burden;"

"The edict of humiliation and affection is also the ······ of His Majesty's own seal"

···

"Even we feel aggrieved, can Your Majesty not be aggrieved?"

"Can the Queen Mother not be aggrieved?"

"Not to mention the prince, he is just fifteen or sixteen years old, which is the age when he is strong in blood and hot blood;"

"Can you not be aggrieved ???"

"In the final analysis, those who marry are all the daughters of the Liu clan, the younger generations of His Majesty and the Queen Mother, and the sisters of the prince's bloodline;"

"But even so, Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, and even the first emperor are all enduring it."

"For the sake of preparing more, lest a decisive battle be defeated, we will be crushed by these croppers, and the grace of the first emperor will be wasted······

With this sentence, the atmosphere in the tea shop finally became normal.

- In the past, although most of the people in the tea shop did not speak, almost everyone's eyes could see the fierce light that flashed from time to time!

And now, after hearing the phrase 'isn't it all for us', everyone changed from before, and when they saw that everyone hated to swallow the ferocity, they only sighed one after another.

"yes······"

"We peasants and croppers, although we also have blood and backbone, but we are also used to being aggrieved;"

"But Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, they are all people who have their own prestige, and they have never bowed their heads since they came out of their mother's womb······"

"For the sake of us peasants, Your Majesty and the Queen Mother endured humiliation and repeatedly married their daughters and relatives."

"If we talk nonsense, we really don't know what to do······"

···

"I don't know what the Huns are for this time?"

"-Hi ······"

"-It is said that a few years ago, the princess sent by my Han family is actually a fake princess;"

"——The Huns were 'unbearable', so they went south to knock on the border and ask for an explanation······"

"Hey ······"

"It's better than a bird······

···

"Then Your Majesty, this time, you can only marry a real princess?"

"-Not very clear."

"—If you make peace again, it should be like this."

"Alas······"

"The pampered daughter of the clan, but she wants to marry in the bitter cold land outside the Saiwai······"

···

"Huh?"

"I heard that this Hun will marry his mother as a mother-in-law?"

"—tsk;"

"-Uncivilized barbarian, who knows how to teach people with fart."

"-Ru Mao drinks blood, leads beasts to eat people, but these barbarians are talking about."

"Huh?"

"Is this true?"

"The Huns, do they really eat human flesh and drink human blood?"

"—don't be a 'Huns';"

"—Just those brutes, can you call people?"

"It's ······ too"

···

The bustling conversation was briefly interrupted for a moment with the noise that sounded outside the tea shop;

After the carriage and horses walked through the mighty past, in the tea shop, there was a sigh full of humiliation and helplessness again.

"So, it's the pawn's frame, right?"

···

"Such a battle is to meet the envoys of the Huns?"

···

"Alas······"

···

Before you know it, the sun is setting and the sun is setting.

The gossip parties in the tea shop also said goodbye to their friends with their own depression and sorrow, and dispersed in all directions of the northern city.

- Half an hour in time, and there will be a curfew.

For the northern half of Chang'an City, curfew means darkness.

And at this delicate juncture, even Shang Guanli, who is brightly lit and full of sheng all night on weekdays, rarely falls into a dead silence.

Only the Royal Palace.

Only the two palaces of Changle and Weiyang, when the night is approaching, are still lit with piles of bonfires and candles.

No one knows what the Empress Dowager Dou is doing, saying, and thinking in the Changle Palace;

No one knew that in the Xuanshu Hall of Weiyang Palace, Tianzi Qi had summoned those people again, and they were discussing something.

But everyone knows that this time, the Han family will most likely still retreat and compromise;

And before, the crown prince Liu Sheng, who was pinned on high hopes by the entire Chang'an and even the whole world, hoped that he would be 'strong in blood', but he appeared in the ······ on this night

It's not Weiyang Palace;

Instead, in the Changxin Hall of Changle Palace, he sat on the top couch with his grandmother Empress Dowager Dou, aunt Pavilion pottery master Liu Yan, and the young 'fiancée' and prospective princess Chen Ajiao······

(End of chapter)