[Chapter 2073 Yan Wushuang Fanwai (28)]

The food in the northwest was piled up like a mountain. Han Yuxi didn’t even need to borrow the food, and he even asked the court to rescue him. For the first time, Meng Nian noticed that Han Yuxi’s face was so thick.

This result was expected by Yan Wushuang, and she did not feel that Yuxi was brazen. Because if it was exchanged, he would also do the same: “Han didn’t say that, did he just say that he wouldn’t borrow food? If so, those officials in the court would have a reason to spray them.”

A civilian’s pen is sometimes sharper than a weapon. Han Yuxi is not the kind of person who is willing to dormant in the northwest, so naturally he will not let himself bear the notoriety of not caring about life and death in the world. This method of retreating into progress works well.

Meng Nian was at a loss for words. After a while, he said: “My lord, what should we do now? We can’t really watch the refugees outside the city starve to death, right?”

Yan Wushuang looked down at the official letter that Yuxi replied: “Han said in the official letter that there will usually be a locust plague after a severe drought. If this is the case, even if the imperial court distributes grain seeds to them, they will still be fruitless.”

With the lessons from last year, Meng Nian dared not take Oak Xi’s words seriously this time: “Then what should we do?”

Yan Wu didn’t have a better idea in his eyes: “First squeeze out some money for disaster relief, and let Guo Zhong and the others transport the grain from Tianjin to Beijing.” If it doesn’t work, I will transfer a batch of grain from Liaodong. However, he would not use Liaodong’s grain unless he had to.

In fact, Yan Wushuang regretted being the regent. He killed Zhou Jing that day and killed the Zhou family, so he would just return to Liaodong after revenge. To be the king of Liaodong, just take care of Liaodong. It’s not like being scolded as a dog by those pedantic scholars who work hard every day, it’s really thankless.

Meng Nian disagreed with Yan Wushuang’s words: “My lord, it is not suitable for Tianjin’s food to be transported to the capital for the time being, otherwise there will be more disaster victims flocking to the capital.”

After a pause, Meng Nian came up with an idea. Since there is so much food in the northwest, it is better to disclose the news and let those victims go to the northwest. In this way, it can also reduce the pressure on the court.

After hearing this, Yan Wushuang looked at Meng Nian and said, “Do you know the consequences of doing this?” The northwest continued to fight, and the population of many places was reduced by more than half. Letting the victims go to the northwest now is like giving Yunqing and Yuxi away.

Meng Nian naturally knew the consequences, so he lowered his head and said, “Your Highness, it is important to solve the current crisis.” If all the victims of the disaster flock to the capital, they will most likely rebel without food. Although they have more than 200,000 soldiers and horses enough to suppress these refugees, Yan Wushuang will definitely be infamous for doing so. Even history books have to make a note.

After Yan Wushuang was silent for a while, he finally agreed with this method of drinking poison to quench his thirst. If you don’t agree, no, these refugees will definitely cause trouble when they come to the capital. He is not afraid of killing people, but he also does not want to kill these unarmed people. Furthermore, if hundreds of thousands of victims flock to the capital, no one knows what will happen.

Yuchen saw that Yan Wushuang was working so hard that everyone was losing weight. In order to share her worries, she invited the wives of the most famous people in the capital and the wives of wealthy businessmen to come. Of course, it was a banquet on the surface, but it was actually encouraging everyone to raise money. After a banquet, Yuchen also raised hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

“My lord, although it’s not much, I can buy some food. My lord, one can save one.” Today’s food has increased twentyfold this time last year. And, it’s still going up.

Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver is just a drop in the bucket. However, Yan Wushuang still said: “I have a heart.”

After finishing speaking, Yan Wushuang leaned back on the chair and said tiredly, “Play a light tune for me.” These days, he was so busy that he couldn’t sleep well.

After the news that there was food in the northwest was released, many victims began to flock to the northwest.

It didn’t take long for Meng Nian to get the news: “My lord, Han Yuxi only accepts young and middle-aged people into the northwest.” The families of these young and middle-aged people can also follow into the northwest, but others are not accepted.

In fact, except for places near the northwest, most of the people who fled to the northwest from rivers and other places were young adults. The old, the weak, the sick, and the sick basically died on the road.

“Han Yuxi has hoarded a lot of food, but he can’t help all the disaster victims in the world. The northwest is short of people, and young and middle-aged people who enter the northwest can directly enlist in the army.” I have to say that Han Yuxi’s abacus is very good.

And these young adults, enlisting in the army can earn a living for themselves and their families. And if you don’t enlist in the army, you may not be able to survive the winter. Therefore, if you get this news, you will only actively sign up. I’m even afraid that I won’t be able to get in one step later.

Meng Nian smiled bitterly and said, “It’s really a good plan.” Han Yuxi did this, and the people below would not object. After all, they are not free to rescue these people.

Yan Wushuang said: “If there is no accident, Yunqing is afraid that he will send troops next year.” With soldiers and horses and food and grass, Han Yuxi’s temperament would be no longer willing to guard the northwest.

“What does the lord mean, Han Yuxi wants to conquer the world?” If it was a few years ago, he would have thought it was a fantasy. But in the current situation, it is really possible.

Yan Wushuang hummed: “Yun Qing is good at fighting, and she has the talent to govern the country. It is not impossible for the husband and wife to join forces to conquer the world.” As for whether or not to succeed, it depends not only on strength, but also luck.

When Meng Nian heard this, he immediately said, “Then let them be distracted.”

“Easier said than done.” Yun Qing wasn’t stupid, he said that he won the world with Han Yuxi, even the Northwest might not be guaranteed. Therefore, it is difficult to provoke the relationship between the two couples.

“Always try.”

Yan Wushuang hummed: “If I guess right, Yunqing may send troops to attack Jiangnan next year. You can send someone to Jiangnan and make arrangements.” It is a waste of manpower to decide that Yunqing cannot be tricked into the northwest. financial resources.

Meng Nian nodded and said, “I’ll send someone to make arrangements.” I just hope that this arrangement will work.

This winter has been extremely difficult.

Yan Wushuang has done everything he can to help the victims, and even he himself began to frugal, from six dishes per meal to one dish. The money and food saved have helped the victims. But the court has no money and no food, and it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. He alone cannot save so many people.

Every day, I heard the following ministers say that a large number of victims outside the city froze to death, and many people in various provinces froze to death and starved to death. Every time Yan Wushuang saw these excerpts, he was in a bad mood.

Yuchen played a qin to the exhausted Yan Wushuang, and after he fell asleep, he sat next to him and read a book.

When he woke up, Yuchen said with concern: “My lord, you have to be careful about your body too.”

With a sigh, Yan Wushuang said, “Take good care of A Bao and A Chi, I don’t need to worry about you.” After that, she went out.

Yuchen felt uncomfortable in her heart, but she endured not to show it in front of the maid.

After struggling through the cold winter, in the spring of March, the court persuaded the refugees who survived the hardships to return to their hometowns.

But when refugees return to their hometowns, they also have to be entangled. Otherwise, you will have to starve to death on the road.

Yan Wushuang copied the former royal merchant Ma’s family, and there is no need to fabricate the charges, there are a lot of ready-made ones. A large number of valuables such as gold and silver jewelry and antique china were found from their homes.

After raising more than one million taels of silver, the court distributed the money to the refugees for entanglement, and promised to return to their hometown and the government would give them grain and seeds.

Last year there was no way, these talents fled to the capital. Now, the imperial court has promised to give crops to the land, and in spring, food can be recruited everywhere. These people went home after receiving the money.

In May, Yan Wushuang got news that Beiyu had dispatched 500,000 troops and divided them into two groups. All the way to attack Yucheng, all the way to attack the West Sea.

Meng Nian breathed a sigh of relief and said, “My lord, it seems that Yunqing will not attack Jiangnan and Shanxi for the time being.” Yan Wushuang was afraid that Yunqing would send troops to attack Shanxi, so he secretly sent a team over.

Yan Wushuang also had this idea. It didn’t take long for the result to know that it was wrong. Yunqing didn’t care about the army of Beijiao, which was approaching half a million, and instead divided his troops into three ways. Yun Qing brought 100,000 troops to attack Shanxi, while Du Zheng and Xu Zhen attacked Henan and Hubei respectively.

Meng Nian was shocked by Yun Qing’s boldness.

But Yan Wushuang said: “Yun Qing dares to fight like this, it is the confidence of the people under the opponent.” Feng Dajun, Du Zheng, Xu Zhen, Liu Yongnan and others are all generals who can fight well and stand on their own. Moreover, these are also loyal to Yunqing.

He also sent people to contact these generals before, but all the people he sent turned in.

Meng Nian said, “Your Highness, you can’t let Shanxi and Jiangnan fall into his hands.” Both Shanxi and Jiangnan fell into the hands of Yunqing and Han Yuxi, so it would be difficult for them to compete with them.

It was naturally impossible for Yan Wushuang to watch Yun Qing occupy Jiangnan. Jiangnan is a land of fish and rice. If Yunqing and Han Yuxi are to gain Jiangnan, I am afraid that they will have to enter the capital in a few years.

He dispatched 100,000 soldiers and horses to Jiangnan to support Yu Baojia, but most of the 100,000 horses he dispatched went in.

When the news came back to the capital, Yan Wushuang smashed his favorite ink jade tiger paperweight. After that, all the bad news came back. Yan Wushuang was so annoyed that he couldn’t eat well and couldn’t sleep.

Within a few months, Jiangnan fell into the hands of Yunqing. Yu Baojia took the family wealth accumulated over the years and fled to the capital in a hurry.

If possible, Yan Wushuang really wanted to kill him. But it means that Baojia went to the capital to dedicate most of his family wealth to the imperial court. With the eldest master of the Yu family interceding with many courtiers, Yan Wushuang could only endure the bad anger in his heart and let Baojia temporarily go.

Meng Nian looked at his ugly face and said, “My lord, let him be proud for two days. We’ll take care of him after a while.” If Yu Baojia was willing to follow his master’s advice, Jiangnan would not be able to be so quick. It fell into Yunqing’s hands.

Yan Wushuang hummed and said, “When the wind blows over, I will take care of him.” After so many years of business, Jiangnan was lost in more than three months. Not only is he a useless wretch, but his subordinates are all rubbish.

Meng Nian nodded and said, “Okay.” Yu Baojia has been a blessing in Jiangnan for so many years, and his death will only make people applaud.