"Sister, Ayu, I'm back."

Chen Sheng, who had a rare morning shift, opened the door and shouted habitually. As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Zhao Qing and A Yu running out of the hall in a hurry, and greeted with a bright smile: "Da Lang is back!"

Chen Sheng looked at the big and small huddled together with their hands behind their backs in confusion, and jokingly stepped forward and said, "What are you hiding? Are you secretly eating something delicious behind my back?"

When Zhao Qing saw him reaching for A Yu's hand, he quickly forced a smile and said, "What delicious food? They are all personal belongings from my daughter's house..."

Before she could finish her words, Ah Yu, who had no resistance to Chen Sheng, obeyed and allowed Chen Sheng to pull her arm out. She saw that she was holding a palm-sized piece of Green Lake Lake's wild vegetable and multigrain steamed cake. .

He immediately understood what was going on. He pursed his lips and looked at the big and small. He smiled forcefully and stretched out his hands to caress their cheeks: "Look at what I, the king, have done...it's so painful." You guys!"

Seeing that he had already discovered it, Zhao Qing was no longer nervous, and wiped away the tears that overflowed from the corners of his eyes as gently as water, "Who hasn't had a good year and a bad year? If you endure it, the hard days will be over."

Ayu nodded vigorously: "Yeah!"

Zhao Qing took out the steamed wild vegetable cake hidden behind his back and handed it to Chen Sheng: "Were you not full in the palace? Don't get up in the middle of the night to drink cold water when you are hungry..."

Chen Sheng smiled helplessly: "I can't hide anything from my eldest sister."

Zhao Qing put his hands on his hips and smiled proudly: "That's right!"

Song Yi's 500,000 stones of grain and grain were secretly delivered to Chen Sheng a month ago.

However, Chen Sheng only left 100,000 shi of grain fodder and distributed it to the counties that were most in need of grain reserves.

The rest were resold and sent to the Youzhou Army in batches...

In early June, he sent a secret agent to Youzhou to contact Chen Ao and reported the situation of the Youzhou army back to Chen Sheng.

The situation of the Youzhou Army was even worse than he imagined.

There are no reinforcements.

There are no sources of troops.

No supplies.

The officers and soldiers of the Youzhou Army almost put down their blood-stained spears and guns, and had to pick up bows, arrows, fishing nets, hoes, sickles, fishing, hunting and farming, otherwise they would starve.

Not to mention organizing one or two counterattacks every year, as in previous years, to penetrate into the hinterland of the grassland and clean up the Quanrong tribe that endangers the Great Wall.

Now even holding on to the Great Wall is almost no longer possible...

After giving away most of the grain in hand, Han's grain storage situation once again dropped below the red line.

If the distribution was based on equal distribution per capita, tens of millions of people in the Han region would not be able to get even two taels of food per person per day...

Although farmers who make a living by farming cannot eat food a few times throughout the year, most of the time they use a very small amount of food mixed with a large amount of wild vegetables to stew the lakes and lakes to satisfy their hunger, and summer and autumn are the time of year when the products are abundant. When it is most plentiful, it is not difficult to find wild fruits and vegetables in the mountains to satisfy your hunger.

But this amount of grain is still too dangerous. If you are not careful, the order of Han Dynasty may be broken by hunger!

In order to call on everyone in the royal court to unite and overcome the difficulties, Chen Sheng reduced his rations to three taels per day.

It is not possible to issue a royal order to force the officials to starve. The officials of the Wang Ting are not yet so aware. If the king's order is used to force them to reduce their rations, it is very likely that the Wang Ting's already weak structure will be weakened. , fell apart directly!

At this juncture, if the government agencies continue to fall apart, big trouble will really happen!

Therefore, Chen Sheng could only set an example and hoped that the entire Han court would be more considerate of his difficulties and the difficulties of the Wang court.

He can also understand those who are inconsiderate, but in the future, this official position may have to be demoted rather than promoted.

As for those who are not only inconsiderate, but also secretly indulge in extravagance and waste, and work against him, when he frees his hands, no one can escape!

In order to prevent Zhao Qing and others from starving with him, Chen Sheng usually comes home very late these days, and when he gets home, he only says that he has eaten.

But I never thought that I would let Zhao Qing know.

Chen Sheng knew without asking that she must have secretly distributed the rations sent by Wang Ting to the poor people in the county.

Although Zhao Qing was unwilling to go to the stage and be worshiped by thousands of people, she never shied away from the responsibilities that were hers.

If you have such a wife, what more can a husband ask for?

…

The family had a big pot of wild vegetable soup and happily shared three palm-sized steamed cakes with wild vegetables and grains, as if they were eating delicacies from the mountains and seas...

Chen Sheng took a big gulp of the wild vegetable soup that had a bitter taste and said with a smile: "By the way, I went out to inspect the city today, and the rice in the fields has begun to turn yellow. I estimate that in half a month, we will be able to eat new rice.

Got it!"

As he expected, this year was dominated by severe drought, followed by severe floods and locust plagues.

But because he had made adequate preparations in advance, neither severe drought nor floods, nor locust plagues, had much impact on this year's grain production. Even the floods alleviated this year's drought to a certain extent.

This allowed Chen Sheng to focus more on Wang Ting's internal affairs.

It is worth mentioning that this year’s biological control strategy has played a big role!

Several counties in Yuzhou and Yangzhou were nipped in the bud by the army of chickens and ducks transported by Damao as soon as there was a tendency for locusts to overrun!

Among them, Lu Shu’s research project “On the Sustainable Development of the Local Monster Tribe” has made the greatest contribution!

He has cultivated several intelligent chickens and ducks. Although their strength is not worth mentioning, they all have the ability to command the group.

Several food defense battles involving thousands of chickens and ducks fighting millions of locusts definitely deserve the title of "magnificent"!

This also made Chen Sheng more determined in his belief that "man can conquer nature"!

"real?"

Zhao Qing and A Yu's eyes lit up, "Doesn't this mean that Wang Ting's food shortage will be over?"

Chen Sheng nodded heavily: "It's over, and no one will have to go hungry anymore!"

He has seen all the rice in the fields. The plants and ears are large and full. The expected grain yield is three shi per mu that Lu Shu expected... only higher, but not lower!

One stone weighs one hundred and twenty kilograms, three stones weighs three hundred and sixty kilograms!

This is three times more than the previous yield of one stone per mu!

"Very good!"

Zhao Qing and Ayu cheered, with tears in their eyes.

They are like Chen Sheng. They don't feel that their own life is hard, but they feel that other people living the same life as them are miserable...

"There's one more thing."

Speaking of this, Chen Sheng remembered something again and said: "The inner city of Jinling's new capital is about to be completed. After the autumn harvest, the royal court center will move to Jinling."

"ah?"

When Zhao Qing heard this, most of the joy on his face disappeared in an instant, and he was a little at a loss and said: "So fast? Doesn't it mean that the new capital will have to be built for at least one or two years?"

"It's just that the inner city has been built first, and the outer city may still take several years to be repaired..."

Chen Sheng smiled, softened his tone and said: "Don't be afraid, our family will all go together, it will be the same everywhere, and my father has built many big houses for our family there, so our family can live there...

It’s just that from now on, we may have to live in the palace.”

Zhao Qing couldn't help but look around at the seat concierge in the room, his eyes full of reluctance.

In her heart, no place is home except this courtyard.

But when she heard that the Chen family were all leaving together, her anxious heart finally calmed down a lot: "What about the folks and elders in the county? Are they going to go together too?"

After Chen Sheng pondered for a few breaths, he sighed softly: "The living conditions in Jinling are definitely better than those in Chen County, but it's hard to leave my homeland. I can't force my fellow villagers to leave with me. I'll put up a notice in advance and those who want to leave can do it."

Just go with the center. If you don't want to go, don't force it. There will still be some troops stationed here, so there won't be any trouble..."

Zhao Qing nodded obediently and said no more.

Anyway, wherever Chen Sheng is, she will be there...

"Brother."

Ah Yu, who was immersed in sucking the vegetable soup, raised his head and said, "I want to go to Kuaiji in spring."

Chen Sheng looked at her in surprise: "Why are you going back to Kuaiji?"

A Yu: "The assassin technique I have learned has reached its peak. I must return to Kuaiji to learn how to practice in this realm."

Chen Sheng raised his eyebrows in surprise and looked at Ah Yu carefully, but still couldn't figure out why.

What he practices is orthodox martial arts, which is completely different from the way of assassins. In addition, the art of assassins is known for being good at hiding. He really can't see Ayu's current strength without taking action.

After thinking for a few seconds, he said warmly: "Can I switch to other techniques? Anyway, the assassin's way is not a good way. It hurts others and hurts ourselves. We don't need to kill people to make a living in the future."

Ayu shook his head seriously: "If I switch to other techniques, all my hard work over the years will be in vain. It's not worth it!"

When this girl first arrived at the Chen family compound, she was so reticent that she seemed to have some kind of congenital defect. After years of being taught by the Chen family like an adopted daughter, she was no different from an ordinary girl in front of the Chen family, but when facing outsiders

At that time, she was still taciturn. Even when facing Jing Ke, she spoke very little.

Chen Sheng tried to make his little cotton-padded jacket give up this dark path, saying softly: "You can't say that. If you hadn't practiced the assassin's art, we wouldn't be a family. How can we say it was in vain? Since we

We are already a family, so the art of assassination has lost its meaning. From now on, you only need to live a good life and be happy. Nothing else matters. It doesn't matter whether you know martial arts or not."

Ayu shook his head stubbornly: "I don't!"

Chen Sheng looked at Zhao Qing as if asking for help.

Zhao Qing stroked Ah Yu's forehead with a headache, and said softly: "Good Ah Yu, didn't you agree to my eldest sister that you won't practice any assassin skills?"
To be continued...