In the middle of winter, it snowed heavily, and Gao Yu returned to Kaifeng with two thousand forbidden troops.

The two thousand forbidden soldiers have been removed from their armor by Zhang Bo, and then each of them is thrown a set of paper clothes to keep out the cold.

Every time you pass through a county town, you can go to receive a small amount of grain. If there is a looting behavior found halfway, then Gao Yu will directly be a bandit on the spot, and there will definitely be no good fruit to eat when he returns to Kaifeng.

Gao Yu's forbidden army soldiers, one counts as one, all of them are from good families in Tokyo, and their parents, wives and children are all in Kaifeng City. They were in a hurry to go back to reunite with their families, as long as they weren't hungry and crazy, Gao Yu was still very restrained, and they didn't harass the people all the way through the snow.

From Xuzhou to Kaifeng, order has been restored along the canal, and all kinds of commercial materials have been transported to Kaifeng.

State and county officials organized displaced people to dredge rivers and ordered wealthy households to provide grain for work.

There are no bonds, and that stuff is currently only issued in the Kawaka. The rest of the places are difficult to effectively control, the rich households can't trust the government, and the Zhu father and son can't trust the officials, so they can only use the previous apportionment method to tide over the crisis.

Traveling to the territory of Dongming County, the canal was completely frozen, and this year's inland river trade was temporarily suspended.

Gao Yu and the soldiers were still on the road, one foot deep and one shallow, stepping on the snow to approach Tokyo.

There are a large number of warehouses along the Guangji River, and most of the grain, cloth and other items in the warehouses were transferred by Zhao Huan to defend the city, and those who did not have time to move away were robbed by the Jin soldiers. Especially in the private warehouse, some businessmen were lucky enough to wait and see at that time, and they were robbed clean by Wanyan Zongwang.

Now that order has been restored, the private warehouse has begun to restock, and the official warehouse is still empty.

The houses on the streets along the river are all dilapidated, and the residents along the river can be said to be two or three out of ten. Because the Jin soldiers camped nearby for a month, in order to cover the battlefield, they deliberately created no one belt, many houses and entire streets were burned, hundreds of people died of starvation and disease on the way to escape, and some craftsmen and women were captured by the Jin people.

"It's getting dark, there should be a curfew in Tokyo, so let's stay here tonight." Gao Yu sighed.

A large number of dilapidated houses were empty and unclaimed, and Gao Yu took 2,000 forbidden troops to find a house to live in.

Feeling this tragic situation after the war, the soldiers of the forbidden army were even more worried about their families, and they were eager to return to the city overnight to inquire about the situation.

The eldest son, Gao Yaokang, said worriedly: "This time I returned to Beijing, our father and son really won't be disposed of, right?" ”

"Brother, don't worry, Marshal Zhu is very benevolent and righteous, and I didn't suffer last time I was captured." The second son, Gao Yaofu, was quite experienced, he was captured by the rebels in Fengxiang Mansion and released after the peace talks.

Gao Yu looked at the wind and snow outside from the cracks in the broken house, tightened his shirt and said, "I can't kill my head, and I'm not a thief." Even if they occupy land, they only occupy the barracks and school grounds of the forbidden army, and never occupy the houses of the people, let alone occupy those agricultural lands outside the city. This time, there is a great contribution to Xuzhou, how can there be a merit that is not rewarded but severely punished? But our family's wealth, I don't know if we can keep it. ”

"It's good if you can live," Gao Yaokang said, pointing outside, "At least tens of thousands of people have died in the suburbs of Beijing by the Guangji River, and there are empty houses everywhere that no one lives in." ”

I don't know how many died, but there must be more than 10,000 missing.

According to recent government statistics, the number of residential areas on both sides of the Guangji River outside the city has decreased by at least 20,000 compared with before the war. Those who could come back came back, and most of those who could not come back died of illness and starvation, or were taken captive by the Jin soldiers and taken to the north.

The inner city, the outer city, and the suburbs were all organized into wings for unified management, and the population plummeted by nearly 100,000 after half a year of war.

In particular, many people in the city did not starve to death, but died from complications caused by chronic malnutrition.

After spending the night in a dilapidated house, Gao Yu led his troops to the outside of the city, which was slightly more prosperous, but still relatively depressed, mainly due to the lack of business and entertainment activities.

Even the vendors selling snacks can't be found, because the government strictly controls grain.

"Corn flowers, it took ...... to sell corn"

There are a lot of popcorn sellers, and this winter's Kaifeng is a little looser on corn.

It's a pity that this kind of popcorn can only be eaten plain without adding sugar or salt.

The two Huaiyan areas were fighting, and Fang Mengqing was appointed as the governor of Huainan, and he fought back and forth with the salt lords and rebels who accepted Song Huizong's recruitment. As a result, the supply of salt was also insufficient, and Sichuan salt had to be transported to Beijing to fill the gap.

"Stop, who are you?" The guards of the city stopped Gao Yu.

Gao Yu took out the official document signed by Zhang Bo: "We used to be the forbidden army of the old Song Dynasty, and after conquering Xuzhou, we took refuge in Marshal Zhu. Now that I have unloaded my armor as a citizen, I have come back to reunite with my family, and I ask you to let him go into the city. ”

The guards at the city gate did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly went in to report, and soon officers and scribes arrived one after another.

Gao Yu and these people had to go to the Five Cities Terracotta Division to report first, and then go to Kaifeng Mansion to register, confirm their identities and then disperse and go home.

Gao Yu has several houses, one of which is south of the inner city wall, which was given by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty. The remainder, all north of the outer city walls, was his own real estate.

The father and son first went to the south of the city to check and found that their mansion had been seized.

After carefully inquiring about the nearby neighborhoods, I learned that one of the mansions given by Song Huizong was confiscated and confiscated, and only a small amount of floating wealth was allowed to be taken away by the original owner.

As for the Gao family, no one was arrested, and they all moved outside the northern city.

So, the father and son went out of the city to the north again, and when the son Gao Shan, who saw them, he cried: "Father, brother, the goods of our Gao family have been copied, and all the cultural and antiques that my father treasured are gone." ”

"How much floating wealth is left?" Gao Yu asked.

Gao Shant replied: "The imperial court said that my father was allowed to take away 200,000 guan for his meritorious service in Xuzhou, and one of the mansions in the north of the city can be kept." ”

"It's okay, it's okay." Gao Yu muttered to himself.

200,000 yuan of floating wealth, plus a mansion outside the city, not to mention continuing to enjoy wealth, at least two or three generations can live a good life.

Gao Shant also said: "The houses that my father built before, whether they were sold or not, were all confiscated by the imperial court. Some were demolished and rebuilt, and some were left for the soldiers to live in. I live here, and I worry about it all day long, and the people who live next door are all Sichuan soldiers. ”

In the north of Tokyo, there is a large area of military barracks and school yards, most of which have been occupied by Gao Yu to engage in real estate development, and more than a dozen companies of various kinds have been opened.

Nowadays, even the properties that have been sold have to be moved honestly, and the mansion has become a miscellaneous compound where soldiers live.

As for the rich people who were forced to move out, they loved to live wherever they wanted.

There is really no place to live, and there are still a large number of empty houses on both sides of the Guangji River and the Bianhe River. Anyone can apply to live in an ownerless house as long as it is recognized by the government, and only need to pay a low-cost subscription fee - only one subscription per household is allowed, and the household registration must be moved to prevent the wealthy from taking advantage of the opportunity to occupy the property.

These days, some wealthy families are frantically dividing their families, letting their children and grandchildren go outside the city to buy ownerless houses.

Zhao Ding's side reacted quickly, stipulating that in this special period, each household should be divided into three at most, and the multi-divided household registration would be declared invalid.

The wealthy also have countermeasures, mobilizing relatives and friends, and even mobilizing servants, to let these people buy real estate at low prices, and pick those prime locations outside the city to buy houses.

The government is too lazy to take care of this, and the wealth is moving, and it is estimated that there will be lawsuits in the future. Will the relatives, friends, and servants of the rich be willing to occupy only the name of one homeowner? There must be some of them who choose to report to the police and try to get the property that belongs to "themselves".

Gao Yu inquired about the situation at home, and then asked about the movement of the imperial court.

Gao Shant said: "I heard that Zhu Jingluo is going to be called the emperor, not only as an official, but even as a scholar discussing the name of the country. The new dynasty is neither Han nor Qi, but what Ming, many people do not approve, and some people say that this country name is related to Manichaeism. ”

"Manichaeism?" Gao Yu didn't understand.

Gao Shant explained: "There are officials from the south who say that Manichaeism is called Mingjiao in some places, and it believes in the Great Ming Zun and the Ming King. Therefore, some people speculate that Zhu Xianggong may be a Manichaean. ”

"Who's in charge of preparing for the grand ceremony?" Gao Yu asked again.

Gao said that "the great Confucian Juan country from the south. ”

Gao Yu had never heard of this name, and he did not have the slightest impression of Hu Anguo.

This is because Hu Anguo first died his mother, and then his father, and he was worried about his family for six years. At the darkest time of the reign of Huizong of the Song Dynasty, Hu Anguo Ding was reluctant to be an official after the expiration of his worry, and lived in seclusion in Jiangsu and Zhejiang until the beginning of the year, when he was repeatedly recruited by the imperial court to become an official in Beijing.

Continuing to inquire about the situation, Gao Yu wanted to find an acquaintance to lead the way.

found that most of his former acquaintances did not get high positions, and some were even exiled by raiding their homes, but several political enemies were reused.

The next day, Gao Yu took his two sons and went to the ministry to report.

In his situation, the officials couldn't handle it at all, and they had to ask the court for advice, and finally had to make the decision of the Zhu father and son.

The new emperor will definitely be crowned an official and rewarded with a knighthood, Gao Yu can't sit still, he can't wait stupidly at home, he has to trust the relationship as soon as possible, so as to catch up with the tail of the reward.

All the gold and silver in the floating wealth of the family were loaded in a car, worth nearly 10,000 yuan, and dragged directly to Li Bangyan's house.

He was even more humble when he handed over the name thorn, and only delivered it at the side door of the Li family, and called himself "the last student to enter the last school", and called Li Bangyan "the prime minister".

Even so, you have to queue up!

The two side gates of Li Bangyan's mansion were full of gift-givers, some of whom were not allowed to enter from morning to noon.

"Father," Gao Yaofu said in a low voice, "This Li Bangyan is very hot, our gift money is less than 10,000 yuan, I'm afraid he won't be dedicated when he helps." ”

"I can only wait," Gao Yu comforted himself, "We have a great contribution to Xuzhou, Li Bangyan doesn't have to work too hard, just collect the money and help with it." This money is easy to make, and he can sell face, he will not refuse. ”

The two don't have any friendship, but they don't have any holidays.

Gao Yu doesn't know how to play football at all, he can only write poetry, calligraphy and do business.

The real superb ball skills are Li Bangyan, proficient in all kinds of entertainment projects, and he has a lot of fun with Song Huizong all day long.

(End of chapter)