Chapter 129: Cezhou is difficult

On this day, from going out early in the morning to now, Du Jingyi has not even closed his eyes.

She is not Shang Ji, and she spends every day in the high intensity of military training, so today's rhythm is basically equivalent to relaxation.

Therefore, after returning to a familiar place, Du Jingyi didn't care about anything else, stepped forward to lift the hem of his skirt, and leaned on the pillow of the brocade group sitting on the kang.

Then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's better to go home comfortably."

Hearing this, Shang Ji couldn't help but laugh.

"But when I saw you in the Du family, weren't you very happy?"

"The general only knows one thing, but he doesn't know the other."

"I want to hear about it."

Du Jingyi saw that he was asking for advice with a serious face, and felt that his current posture was a little excessive, so he coughed lightly twice and straightened his body before speaking.

"Although the concubine is married, she is still the daughter of the Du family, and my father and mother have never been less worried about me, I used to be afraid that I would be bullied in the Guogong Mansion, but now I have to add one more worry that I will offend the nobles and cause disasters."

"Under such a tense emotion, the concubine naturally wants to do everything she can to make the two elders happy, and also let them rest assured, otherwise it won't hurt her body if she worries about this matter every day?"

"But this smile is simple, but it is difficult to laugh sincerely every time, so the concubine's body is not physically tired, but how tired she is."

Her words hit Shang Ji's heart sentence by sentence.

I've seen her smart and witty, but it's rare to have such emotions exposed.

For a moment, Shang Ji felt very sorry for his wife, so he stepped forward and hugged her in his arms, and said with a lot of comfort.

"In the future, you don't need to be only happy in front of me, you can show me joys, sorrows, and sorrows, if I do something wrong, you can point it out, I am not one of those sour masters who chew words, and it doesn't hurt to pour cold water."

His words successfully amused Du Jingyi.

"The general is telling the concubine, can you boldly teach her husband in the future?"

"Well, that's what you can understand."

"Oh? Really won't turn the other cheek? ”

"No, it won't."

Shang Ji's answer was categorical, but Du Jingyi thought about it carefully, and it was true.

Although he was a ruthless and strict general outside, he didn't even talk to her loudly in the mansion.

Even when the two first met, he restrained his temper very well.

So, thinking of these, Du Jingyi's heart was sweet.

Raised his hand back to hug his waist, buried his head deep in his arms, and then said "um", all sweet.

After a long while, Shang Ji straightened Du Jingyi's body, and then said seriously.

"Madame sit upright, I still have something to ask you for my husband."

Du Jingyi raised his eyebrows, seemingly a little incredulous.

"Excuse me? The general can say that the concubine knows everything. ”

"I just heard you talk to your father-in-law about the situation that the agricultural products near the northern land border may be affected, I want to ask, do you have a way to solve the disaster in one place?"

"A disaster in one place?"

Shang Ji nodded, and Du Jingyi was silent for a while before asking.

"Did the general mean Cezhou?"

"Well, I have been in Cezhou for many years, and I used to march and fight with my grandfather, and then I stood there by myself, so I have seen many people in Cezhou who have not had enough to eat in the coming year because of the winter agricultural disaster."

"I have also opened a position for disaster relief, but this is not a long-term solution. So if you can solve this problem for them, the people of Cezhou will be able to live more peacefully. ”

Hearing Shang Ji say this, Du Jingyi also said quite seriously.

"The concubine's previous method was just to protect the Du family's business, and it was not worth mentioning the small fights, but if you want to solve the difficulties of the people in the state, I am afraid that it will be a little difficult."

"However, please give me some time, I will think about it, if there is someone around you who knows more about the livelihood of the people in the state, can you lend the concubine a few days, I can know some news."

She didn't directly accept it because she didn't think she had such a powerful ability to really solve the difficulties of a state.

But with a little more thought, you can always see some results.

Even if it is just to reduce the loss, it is a good thing for the benefit of one party, so she is willing to give it a try.

Shang Ji heard her answer simply, and his heart was relieved, but he still said with relief.

"Madame does her best, if it doesn't work, don't blame yourself too much, the predicament of Cezhou is not just a day or two, it is too close to Dajin and the surrounding Fanbang, and there is a possibility of war breaking out from time to time, so it is so difficult to succeed."

Hearing this, Du Jingyi nodded, and there was a fleeting thought in his mind, but it was not mature enough, so he didn't plan to say more at the moment.

"Don't worry, the general knows the severity."

"Hmm."

After eating a meal, he could still eat a "military advisor", Shang Ji didn't expect it.

But now that it's all settled, he won't delay.

On the second day, Luo Yuan was asked to find Ni Yang, the lieutenant general of the Tiger Ben Army, who looked not so strong compared to Luo Yuan and Liu Xun.

But at a glance, he knew that he was a steady person, and he still had a thick booklet in his hand, so he couldn't tell what it was.

"The last general, Ni Yang, has seen the general and the young lady."

"Get up."

"Yes."

Shang Ji hurriedly introduced Du Jingyi.

"Ni Yang is one of the twelve deputy generals of the Tiger Army, in addition to leading troops to fight on weekdays, he also has a position, that is, he is responsible for the military salaries and grain and grass of the Tiger Army, so he is the one who deals with the people of Cezhou the most."

"You can ask him if you have any questions, not ten out of ten, eight or ninety percent should be fine."

When Ni Yang heard this, he also nodded.

Although he didn't quite understand why the general asked him to report military affairs to the young lady, as long as it was the general's order, he would obey everything.

"The young lady just speaks, and the general will definitely know everything, and he will say everything."

"Vice General Ni is polite, then I won't talk nonsense, do you have a list of agricultural products planted by the people of Cezhou? How many people in the state live off the fields? In addition, you can tell me as much as you know about most of the agricultural products that are affected every year, or what the damage is like. ”

When Ni Yang heard these questions, his face was a little more serious than just now.

Obviously, he didn't expect the young lady to ask such a question, but he didn't mean to look down on the woman in the back house, so he thought about it for a while and said.

"Cezhou is vast and sparsely populated, and a large area is mainly desert, there are not many fields that can be used for farming, and most of them are planted with less water and more heat-tolerant agricultural products, mainly wheat and cotton."

"And as far as the last general knows, the people of Cezhou do not have very good farmers, and there is no good way to plant and harvest agricultural products on weekdays, so as long as natural disasters are affected, the harvest will definitely fail, and there may be no harvest in a famine year, and some years will not be enough."

(End of chapter)