In the Green Willow Garden, everything is as usual.

But to outsiders, this slightly nouveau riche mansion has become Henan's political center — or at least one of them.

A few days before the Chinese New Year, Shao Xun went out again: Go to the grassroots level in the New Year!

Lu Xun had a big belly and carefully helped him tidy up his robe.

Le Lanji packed his bags for him.

Looking at the two delicate flowers, Shao Xun was so satisfied!

After returning from the expedition, he quietly asked his mother and learned that the two princesses did not seem to deal with each other. But Lu Xun took her body, Lan Ji was quite polite to her on the surface, as for what she thought in her heart, Shao Xun was embarrassed to ask, and she wouldn't say.

Le's has been pardoned as a criminal dependent of the king of Chengdu, and Shao Xun officially accepted her as a concubine.

As for Song Yi, she is now Shao Xun's tool to vent his desires when he changes his taste, and she has no status.

To be honest, she wants to have good looks, talent, and talent, and she is still young, but she is really unlucky, and when she meets someone like Shao Xun, she doesn't want to spend her time on her. If you had changed to another family, you would have been spoiled a long time ago.

"That's pretty much it, I went to meet the Son of Heaven, and I didn't pay so much attention to it." Shao Xun said with a smile.

Lu Xun took two steps back, looked carefully, and stepped forward to fix the position of the bow tip, and when she saw the knot on the handle of the saber, she was happy.

"Lang Jun stands up with martial arts, and when he goes to meet the soldiers, it is better to be more powerful, and he will rely on them to fight bravely in the future." She said.

Shao Xun took her over, kissed her forehead gently, and said: "What Xun Niang said is extremely true, the hegemony of the world, you have to rely on a knife and a gun to fight, and the soldiers are the most important." ”

"Lang Jun is more important." Leshi leaned over and whispered.

Shao Xun smiled proudly, hugged the two daughters in his arms, and said unashamedly: "In the past, Fan Yang Wang Yu was also heroic and decisive, but the sky is not a holiday. Chengdu Wang Ying won first and then was arrogant, and was imprisoned, and finally could not escape death. Lang Jun has his own destiny, and he will be fine. ”

Before the words fell, the left and right waists had been pinched respectively.

Le's and Lu's pretty faces were slightly red, they glanced at each other, and they both sneered. In an instant, I felt a little sympathy.

Shao Xun felt very refreshed.

He's not a masochist, but he just feels cool and proud.

Don't say anything, the god of yellow hair has to toast him when he comes.

"The two of you will discuss the affairs of the family." Shao Xun said: "If there is a difficult decision, just ask my mother." ”

Both women wanted to speak and stopped.

"Before I leave, hurry up."

"The third brother of the concubine has already moved to Liang County......" Le Lanji said.

Shao Xun immediately understood, so he said: "If Hongmao doesn't do well on Situ's side, you can come to the Hou Mansion to be a temple chief first." ”

The temple chief is in charge of the sacrifice, which is actually quite good.

"My heir Li has come to Luoyang...... Lu Xun said.

"Sima Mo's son? To rob the family property? Hehe, ignore him. Shao Xun waved his hand, went out of the house directly, and when he turned over and got on the horse, he waved his hand at the second daughter, laughed and left.

Shao Xun's first stop was the townships of Liang County, the gathering place of the silver spear soldiers.

When they arrived at the entrance of the village, they were greeted by the sons and daughters who had received the news.

"Zhao Huai!" Shao Xun threw the horsewhip to Tang Jian and said, "In the battle of Jianshui, you beheaded two levels, right?" ”

"See Chen Hou." Zhao Huai, the leader of the Silver Spear Army, stepped forward and saluted.

In the battle of Jianshui, the original team owner could not return to the team after recovering from his injury, and Zhao Huai, the head of the team, was promoted to the team leader and took the place.

He was one of the few people who climbed from a soldier all the way to the head of the team, and Gain's rank was usually held by a student officer.

"Have you received the silk Mian reissued by the Hou Mansion?" Shao Xun looked at Zhao Huai's home and asked.

"Received, ten horses of silk, five catties of cotton." When Zhao Huai heard this, his face was full of joy.

Shao Xun entered his yard.

Zhao Huai is a native of Luoyang, and after coming to Liang County, he occupied this abandoned mansion. At the time, it looked dilapidated, but after a lot of work, it has been renovated.

Shao Xun took a closer look.

The courtyard wall is a fence made of bamboo and wood, and the fence wall is roughly divided into two large parts, left and right, and in the middle is a road leading to the main house.

On the far left side of the road is a sheepfold with seven or eight sheep, large and small.

To the north of the sheepfold was a firewood house, full of dead branches and dead wood, and a lot of dry hay that had not yet been broken.

Further north of the firewood room is the kitchen, where smoke curls and lunch is being cooked.

There are also a few fruit trees in front of the sheepfold, the firewood house, and the kitchen, two of which appear to have died, probably during the great drought in the spring and summer of this year.

On the right side of the road is a neatly groomed vegetable furrow, with a well dug in the center of the vegetable furrow and a lid on it.

There is also a small door in the northernmost part of the vegetable bed, which is open at this time, revealing the firewood and grass piles outside.

Behind the pyre is a latrine, and there is a lot of old and new manure piled up against the wall outside the latrine, which is covered with a thin layer of soil.

A typical farmhouse, and one that has been in operation for at least one generation.

Zhao Huai was lucky to be able to pick it up.

"Not bad." After reading it, Shao Xun nodded, and then under the guidance of Zhao Huai, he entered the middle hall and sat in the first place.

Zhao Huai's ten-year-old eldest son brought warm wine.

Shao Xun was not polite, took a sip of the wine bowl, and said, "Good wine." ”

"This is a sacrificial rice dumpling, brewed during the Spring Society, if Chen Hou likes it, you can drink a few more cups." Zhao Huai said.

"Sit down and drink together." Shao Xun greeted and asked Zhao Huai and a few other silver-speared sergeants who came with him to sit down together.

Everyone excused themselves again and again, and when they saw Shao Xun's insistence, they sat down and drank together.

Fermentation is a high-alcohol liquor that needs to be brewed for a long time, or even twice or three times.

As the name suggests, the sacrificial rice is a high-grade liquor made from sacrificial rice, which is also added with spices such as five eggplant skin and dried ginger, and the taste is very special - at this time, people not only like to add various things to the tea, but also the wine.

"From next year, you will have fifty acres of Lu land, and after the wheat harvest in May, the tunding will send the harvested wheat." Shao Xun said: "It's time to prepare a stone mill at home, donkeys, mules and horses, it's best to raise one or two." ”

"Thank you for the reward. Great kindness and great virtue, it is difficult to repay the powder. When Zhao Huai heard this, he immediately got up and saluted, and his eyes were a little moist.

When pulling fiber on the river, at the end of the day, there is not much gained, and it is very difficult to support the family. Moreover, the slender man is often full of injuries and illnesses, and he does not live long, and it is really difficult to describe those days.

After joining the Silver Spear Army, life gradually improved.

During the time of living in Yunzhongwu, although it was hard, the family was able to eat enough.

After moving to Liang County, he not only got this small house, but he was also promoted from the chief to the team leader, and he could receive 36 grains, 10 horses of silk, 5 catties of cotton every year, plus an income of 50 acres of Lu Tian.

If the battle is won, the spoils can be divided - Chen Hou has never been stingy in this regard.

Zhao Huai's life can be said to have undergone earth-shaking changes.

Some people in Luoyang wonder why the morale of the Silver Spear Army is so high and they dare to fight, this is the reason.

There is no such thing as love or hate for no reason. Zhao Huai is the beneficiary of the military and political group established by Shao Xun, and he has the urge to maintain this group on his own initiative.

Such an army cannot be pulled away by others!

"After the Spring Festival, you will go to Chen County with me, so that the people of Yuzhou can have a good look at the demeanor of the silver spear army." After drinking two bowls of wine in a row, Shao Xun stopped Zhao Huai, who continued to pour wine for him, and said, "The wine is already enjoyable, enough is enough." ”

Zhao Huai sat down and said, "Obey the orders of the prince." ”

"Obey the orders of the prince." The rest of the people answered in unison.

While talking, Zhao Huai's wife brought fruits, snacks and tea porridge.

Shao Xun pushed it, took the tea porridge and ate it, and asked the soldiers to also come and get fruits and snacks to eat.

Tea is generally referred to as "Tu" at this time.

Tea was not widely popular until the middle and late Tang dynasties, so that tea soup was sold in small places, and the peddlers and pawns could drink it for a few pennies.

Among the "commercial poems" of a major school of poetry in the Tang Dynasty, there are few related to tea.

At this meeting, tea is not unpopular as people think.

Needless to say, there are quite a few scholars who serve tea to their guests.

In big cities such as Luoyang, tea is also a popular commodity.

The crown prince Sima Shu at the time of the first emperor once instructed his subordinates to sell tea, vegetables and other things, so that the prince Ximajiang was unadvised.

There are also old women in Shudi who sell tea porridge in Luoyang market, and their utensils are broken by the city officials, causing disputes.

This is all a public sale, at least in big cities there are a certain number of consumers.

Tea porridge was popular until the Tang Dynasty and was called "tea porridge", and after that, it also developed something like chazuku, which is a major traditional food.

Shao Xun doesn't like to eat tea porridge very much, because there are a lot of messy spices and medicinal herbs added to it, and the taste is very touching.

But this will be in Zhao Huai's house, he eats without changing his face, and praises again and again, which makes Zhao Huai happy.

When he had finished eating, he stopped bothering and got up to take his leave.

Before leaving, he grabbed Tang Jian and gave a few orders.

After a while, Yang Qin, a personal soldier, led a horse into the courtyard and said, "Team Master Zhao, this is a horse rewarded by Chen Hou, please accept it." ”

Zhao Huai was pleasantly surprised and thanked him repeatedly.

Others also looked at Zhao Huai with envy, and after eating and drinking at your house, they gave away horses as gifts, which was too profitable.

Shao Xun smiled and turned to leave.

The "aging" of Xianbei horses in Guangchengze is very serious, and some horses are completely unsuitable for riding, but they can help farmers work, which is suitable for rewards.

After leaving Zhao Huai's house, Shao Xun went to the house of a war dead soldier named Ren Na in the east of the village.

Ren Na's parents are no longer there, leaving only three wives and children, and one brother and sister at home.

When Shao Xun and the others arrived, a large family knelt on the ground tremblingly.

Shao Xun helped them up one by one and said, "Ren Na is an old pawn, and he is very brave in the battle array, and he has made many gains. You don't need to kneel. ”

After a few people got up, they stood aside stiffly.

Shao Xun casually walked around the courtyard, and then looked at the household in the house and the food in the kitchen.

"Have you received your pension this year?" He looked at the woman in her thirties and asked.

"I got it." The woman replied softly.

"How much did you get?"

"Twelve wheat, five corn, and three beans."

"Take me to see it."

The woman nodded, turned to lead the way, but stumbled, too nervous.

After coming to the Westinghouse grain hoard, Shao Xun took a closer look.

The grain hoards are basically empty, and there is only a little bottom left.

There is still grain in a few sacks in the corner, which should have been sent a year ago - the pension was distributed in two parts, the first batch in autumn after the summer harvest was completed, and the second batch before the autumn harvest was completed.

"Did you sow it this fall?" Shao Xun asked.

"Planted a little." The woman replied.

Shao Xun frowned, it seemed that he hadn't planted much.

In fact, it is completely conceivable that there is only one woman in the family, plus two children of seven or eight years old. Renna's younger siblings are not very old and cannot do such heavy physical work as farming.

"Are there no clansmen?" Shao Xun asked.

"The concubine's family was originally in Chenggao, and after applying, she first moved to Danshanwu, and then came to Liang County, and there were no clansmen." The woman replied.

Shao Xun glanced at Tang Jian.

Tang Jian understood and left.

After a while, several pro-soldiers brought in a few bags of wheat, and there were always seven or eight whacks.

After putting it down, he took a few more iron farm tools and put them in the corner - there was not a decent farm tool in this house.

Shao Xun looked at the woman and the young men and girls behind her, and said gently: "Ren Na killed the enemy for me, I can't treat his family badly." Take these grains and farm tools. There is also a horse tied to the yard, which has been practiced in Guangchengze, and can make do with the farmland, and I will reward you with it. ”

When the woman heard this, she covered her face, shrugged her shoulders, and tears overflowed.

Everyone was saddened.

Shao Xun sighed, and asked people to take two silks and put them on the table outside, and said: "Let's live a good life, survive these few years, and when the children grow up, there will be a head." ”

"The husband did not die in vain......," the woman cried, "There has never been a prince who has been so kind to his soldiers since ancient times. ”

"My soldiers, they can't shed blood and tears." Shao Xun said: "Life will be better. ”

After saying that, he left the house.

In the next few days, he inspected the three counties of Liang, Jiacheng, and Xiangcheng, randomly visited dozens of families of the Silver Gun Army, gave gifts one by one, and helped them solve some practical difficulties.

It was not until Chinese New Year's Eve that he returned to the Green Willow Garden to reunite with his family.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, he will also visit the families of the Yamen soldiers, who are mainly distributed in Liang, Yangzhai, Yangcheng, Fucheng and other counties, and they have all been relocated in the past year or two.

After all this is done, it is time to prepare for the eastward journey.