For Cai Yan, the head of the Cai family, he felt that he could not support the door.

Cai Jing had eight sons in total, the second son died young, and his eight sons were still young. The third son Cai Chong, who served as the Minister of Rites and the Grand Secretary of the Baohe Palace, was sentenced to death in the first year of Jingkang. The fourth son Cai Tao, who served as the Huiyou Pavilion, was now exiled to Baizhou. Because Cai Yan was the son-in-law, he was unable to hold a seat with his father and stayed in Bianliang. His father and three brothers were all punished. He is now the eldest son of the Cai family and the head of the Cai family.

For the sake of Emperor Maode, Zhao Huan did not make too much trouble for Cai Huan. Cai Huan also inherited some of his father's calligraphy and painting skills and the shamelessness of his elder brother. He was often recruited by Zhao Huan into the palace and acted as a jester. Sometimes he sang poems and paintings, and sometimes he wore white cream to apply on his face. He took the Cai family through the first year of Jingkang.

Just two days after the dynasty, the Cai Mansion was busy repairing the mansion. At the end of last year, Tai student Lei Guan led the people to demolish the rockery of Taishi Bridge as a stone bomb for a stone thief, and set off a fire. According to history, "Cai Jing's fire is the most fire, and its light is spread across the sky, and the residents' neighbors' houses are not violated. The Ming Dynasty's houses burned but not as good as those of the neighbors, and they are all quick." Therefore, the burned mansion needs to be restored, and at least celebrate the New Year's Day.

Just when Cai Yan left the housekeeper in the outer hall and hid in the study to rest, the housekeeper suddenly came to report: "Liu Ziyu, the military officer of the Privy Council, was going to visit the master."

Cai Yan was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that his father and brother were no longer there, and the "master" refers to himself. Liu Ziyu is the son of Liu Yan, a scholar of Shugu Palace. He is said to be knowledgeable about military affairs and is deeply loved by the officials, but he still cannot refute his face.

So Cai Yan met Liu Ziyu. After seeing him, Cai Yan was depressed.

Emperor Maode was very virtuous and specially asked the maid to come and ask.

Cai Yan said: "There is no need to bother Mrs. Lao about it. It's just that my father is in trouble and everyone has to come up to bully me. Liu Ziyu asked my Cai family to get three thousand stones of food and lend it to the four troops guarding the city."

The maid went back. After a while, she brought Maode's words back: "Mrs. The Han guards the city and the army guarding the Song Dynasty. As the prince, he should share the worries of the country."

Cai Ling said: "Mrs. She is right. She just took out three thousand stones of food at once, which is really a bit difficult."

The maid said, "Mrs. I'll do it within my power."

That afternoon, another military officer Zhao Bozhen came to find Cai Yan to deliver the food. Cai Yan did not see him, but just asked the housekeeper to tell him: "I can't take out three thousand stones, only five hundred stones, I'll show my feelings."

Zhao Bozhen sucked her for a long time, but the housekeeper did not let go. Zhao Bozhen had to say seriously: "It was not the army begging for the government, but the order was to collect grain. The sage family (Zhu family), the Empress Dowager Zheng's family, the Queen Mother Qin's family (Xiang family), and the Queen Mother Xuanren's family (Gao family) have all prepared grain. If it is not allowed today, I have to pay attention to it tomorrow."

Cai Yan was eavesdropping outside. When he heard this, he was so angry that he rushed to the lobby and slapped the table: "I'm afraid you won't come tomorrow! I'll bring the imperial edict tomorrow, and I'll give you all the life of the Cai family."

Zhao Bozhen bowed: "I will say goodbye today."

"Not giving!".

The next day, the people from the Privy Council came again, but they were just a military general. Hu Yangeng, the current Xuanfusi, took the lead. Hu Yangeng showed Cai Yan directly the imperial edict without saying a word. Cai Yan said: "The food is only 500 stones. You go to the mansion to search, and one extra grain will be released for you to move away."

"If there is no food, you can give the price of silk. The Cai family is famous all over the world, so how can you not get it?"

"When my father was discussing his crime, the money and silk had been confiscated and there was no cash. My family had to sell some antiques to make a living."

Hu Yangeng looked at the four walls of Cai Yan's house: "This is not what you want to live by selling antiques? Your silver lamp and various utensils are all kinds of utensils, haha."

This "hehe" angered Cai Yan: "This is all Mrs. Maode's dowry, so where can I sell it?"

"Since it is the dowry of Emperor Maode, it should be used as military pay."

Cai Yan was so angry that he couldn't speak. At this time, he heard a coquettish shout outside the hall: "So bold, who wants to take my dowry?" At this time, a woman in the palace dress, came into the lobby with a veil covering her face.

Cai Huang quickly saluted.

Hu Yangeng knew it was Emperor Maode, and he felt funny and bowed slightly.

Maode was not interested in his incomplete etiquette and asked directly: "Are you going to get my dowry?"

Hu Yangeng said: "It's not the Sa family, but the soldiers of the Song Dynasty are going to take them."

"It's a mess."

"I dare to ask Your Highness, our soldiers will defend the city, will they protect the Song Dynasty?"

“…”

"Is the Great Song Dynasty belonging to the Zhao family?"

"The soldiers and generals have no food to eat. Should the Zhao family pay the money?"

"Is Your Highness a member of the Zhao family?"

Hu Yangeng asked a series of questions, stunned Maode's question. After a while, he said, "It's a matter of persuasion. The military pay and food of soldiers should ask the Privy Council, the Ministry of War, and Kaifeng Prefecture. What do you want to find a wife in my family to do?"

"Is the Great Song Dynasty from Kaifeng Prefecture? Is it Xu Bingzhe?"

"snort!"

Seeing that Maode's momentum had temporarily suppressed, Hu Yangeng looked at him as if he was reasonable and convincing: "We have asked Kaifeng Prefecture for military rations, but Kaifeng Prefecture has only 15 days left. For this insufficient part, please ask the royal relatives to share the worries of the officials. What's more, the saints, Queen Mother Qin Sheng, Queen Mother Xuande and other noble families have already distributed food."

By moving people with emotion: "Even if the food and grass are cut off like Taiyuan, the three thousand elite soldiers, and ten thousand people are strong and starved to death, the living people will live with mice and bark, and they will still protect the Song Dynasty and His Highness's completeness."

Speaking of Taiyuan, Maode was moved by it and sighed.

Hu Yangeng sighed when he saw Maode, and a stone in his heart fell to the ground. Maode's fate in another time and space was very miserable. He was tortured to death within one year after being captured in the Jin camp. In Hu Yangeng's mind, these women who were "compensated" to the Jin Kingdom were innocent, and they should not be buried with Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan. But is the noble girl who grew up in the deep palace worth saving? Hu Yangeng came to replace Zhao Bozhen today to personally understand Maode's attitude. If she was like some royal relatives, she had no concern about the life and death of the military and was indifferent to it, then there was nothing to say, go to death.

In order not to make mistakes, Hu Yangeng took a small risk. If Cai Hua really sued Zhao Huan, Hu Yangeng would have to hide for a few days until the Jin soldiers broke the city wall and showed up again. As for the greater risks, with Zhao Huan's weak character, could he still dare to turn against the army defending the city while the Jin soldiers besieged the city? He repeatedly issued an order to raise food, but in the end, Zhao Huan's execution ability could be seen with few responders.

So after weighing the risks, Hu Yangeng came to Cai Yan's mansion in person today. The reason he understood in his heart was naturally to judge whether Maode was worth saving, but subconsciously, it was a spontaneous behavior of a time traveler, and he himself had not realized it yet.

"Well, the silverware brought by me was of no use, so I paid 1,000 taels of silver as military pay." There was no official price for silver and money in the Northern Song Dynasty, but silver was expensive and the money was low. One thousand taels of silver was enough to buy two thousand stones of rice.

"Your Highness is very wise," Hu Yangeng took a bamboo joint as thick as an index finger, which was a commonly used message tube in the army. It was engraved with a unique mark of a military general, which could clarify who sent the message to or whom. Hu Yangeng's message tube was engraved with a tiger squatting on the rock, which was homophonic to Tiger Rock. "If your highness's life is at stake, you can use this message tube to send it. As long as it is handed over to the Shenwu Southern Army camp, the news will come to the hands of the subordinates. The subordinates will come to rescue Your Highness."

Maode smiled and said, "You give it to him." After saying that, he pointed at Cai Huang and turned around and left.

Hu Yangeng handed the letter to Cai Yan again. Cai Yan waved his hand to refuse, but thought that Maode had accepted it, he did not dare to disobey Maode, so he accepted it. Hu Yangeng went outside to greet the military man and did not mention it.

Zhao Bozhen did not come to Cai’s mansion today, but went to the palace commander Wang Zongyi’s mansion. Wang Zongyi was the elder brother of Concubine Wang. Just by seeing him become a businessman in the front office of the hall and ranked first among the three yamen, he knew how favored Concubine Wang was. Zhao Bozhen entered the mansion and the following members met Wang Zongyi on the week of the visit, and asked Wang Zongyi to help him with three thousand stones of food.

Wang Zongyi made some excuses as usual, and saw that he was really excusing, so he said, "I would like to pay 300 stones of grain."

Zhao Bozhen said: "This is less than 10%. Does the Grand Marshal regard us as beggars? This is to pay grain according to the order."

"When I go out, I am the only one who scares the emperor. How can anyone scare me with the emperor?" After Wang Zongqiu said that, the housekeeper brought a few servants and was about to drive them away. Zhao Bozhen hurriedly bowed and escaped from the Wang family.

After a few days of traveling, the grain collected from relatives and the money and silk converted into food were all added up to only twenty days. Together with the original reserves of Kaifeng Prefecture, it was only enough for the city guards to support until the end of the first lunar month, not to mention the relief of the people of Bianliang.

When Hu Yangeng heard that Zhao Bozhen was driven out by Wang Zongqi, he immediately wanted to go to the Palace Commander's Mansion to argue, but Liu Ziyu persuaded him. Hu Yangeng thought about it again. In another time and space, Wang Zongqi's sister Concubine Wang was also sent to the golden camp as compensation. He asked Ding Teqi, who was beside him, and said, "Ding Jun, how is your "Bloody and Tears" written?"

Ding Teqi is writing a record of the Jingkang Dynasty, which is the "Bloody Views and Experiences". He replied to Hu Yangeng: "The merits of all the generals defending Bianliang have been recorded."

"Can you record what Wang Dianshuai did?"

"Record truthfully."

"That's good, Ding Chanjun, you have to write about Wang Dianshuai, Wang Guifei, and the Zhao family who have not yet paid food. Look at what they have done to preserve the Song Dynasty."

"Yes, it makes it difficult for these people to escape from their mouths."

"Where, I'm just keeping accounts for the Zhao family."
Chapter completed!