Although Shen Lan never asked Lu Xu for confirmation from beginning to end, she was basically certain that Lu Xu was determined to hold on to the mountain.
As for whether Lu Xu can hold on? Shen Lan is not a military person, so she has no way to judge. Fortunately, she has relevant talents under her, and she decided to find someone to evaluate it after she returns.
Within a few days, Shen Lan left. Before leaving, Shen Lan said in Wen Yueqi's ear: "The gift that Brother Lu gave you was the one my sister and I chose for him."
"Now it seems that that thing is of no use? My sister also knows that the Guanyin Guanyin in Xiangguo Temple is very effective. Do you want me to go and ask for one for you?"
Wen Yueqi's face turned red after being told by Shen Lan. She was a little angry and beat Shen Lan away. She was indeed beaten away, but she still explained the matter. She felt that Shen Lan was right.
After all, Wen Yueqi was also from the capital, and she also knew that the Xiangguo Temple in the capital seemed to be very effective in this regard. So she left the matter of praying for the statue to Shen Lan.
After sending Shen Lan away, Lu Xu began to actively prepare for the war. Among all the preparations for the war, there were two aspects that were the most important. One was naturally to quickly repair the stockade using wood-bone mud technology.
On the other hand, it is necessary to collect food!
It's winter now. From Lu Xu's perspective, the climate conditions this winter are pretty good. Even in the grasslands further north, the climate will never be that cold.
Then the cattle and sheep on the grassland will not be frozen to death on a large scale, and the Beiting people should be able to have a good winter. In this way, the possibility of them launching an attack in winter will be much smaller.
But with the productivity of the Beiting people, their food reserves will not be too much. I am afraid that in the spring they will come to Daliang to plunder, in order to help them maintain their livelihood.
In that case, the war should happen in the spring. And until next autumn, Lu Xu may only be able to eat the food he has collected so far, so he must increase his efforts to collect food.
Fortunately, since Lu Xu traveled through time, he has always attached great importance to food storage. After such a long period of hard work, even if the population of the village will further increase in the future, Lu Xu feels that he can hoard enough food.
After Shen Binhong was gone, Wen Yuanzhong's purchase of grain from other places became much smoother. Lu Xu also benefited a little and bought a lot of high-quality and low-priced grain.
As one of the peripheral members of the Qingliu faction, Lu Xu, with the help of the Liu family, also bought a lot of preferential grain from the Qingliu faction. This further helped Lu Xu's grain collection work go smoothly.
During this period, the Liu family also showed great sincerity in cooperating with Lu Xu. They sent many children from outside the Liu family, as well as accountants and shopkeepers trained in some of the Liu family's shops to help Lu Xu enrich their talent pool.
Although these talents are not valuable, they are indeed the talents Lu Xu needs most at the moment. Lu Xu has a much better impression of the Liu family.
Along with the Liu family, there was also news about Liu Xiangling and his daughter.
Ever since they were deprived of all kinds of benefits by the imperial court and their shops were taken away by the Liu family, life for Liu Shinhou and his daughter has become much more difficult.
The first person who couldn't accept this change was Liu Xiangling. She used to be the eldest daughter of an imperial examination family. Although she was not as good as Chen Yueqi in the past, she was still very prosperous in the past.
But what about now? She is not even a eldest lady from a scholarly family, but has become the daughter of a rich country man.
What's even more frightening is that her reputation has been completely ruined by the Liu family. Now the folks in the village are praising the Liu family for being upright and upright in exterminating relatives and being a model for the village, but they all come to accuse Liu Xiangling of being shameless.
How could the arrogant Liu Xiangling accept this? She didn't dare to go out now, so she could only close the door at home and try her best to maintain the dignity of a young lady in front of her servants.
However, days like this still make Liu Xiangling feel angry. With her personality, she naturally has to find ways to vent her anger.
So she took it out on the servants of the family!
Normally, since Liu Xiangling had given her money, the servants at home would let her beat and scold them as she pleased.
But one time, Liu Xiangling injured a maid, which caused big trouble!
Because Liu Shinhou is different now from before. He no longer has the ability to buy maids from maids.
A maid from a clear family needs to be trained from an early age. If you want to buy a ready-made one from a maid, the price will be high.
It's not like Liu Xinhou has never thought about cultivating him by himself, but how can Liu Xiangling afford to wait? She can't live without suitable people by her side.
So Liu Xinhou had no choice but to recruit some maids from outside for Liu Xiangling, and finally managed to maintain Liu Xiangling's dignity.
However, these recruits are all good people who have received rewards and deeds from wealthy families. They are just working in the Liu family, not slaves who can be beaten and scolded at will.
So when the maid was injured by Liu Xiangling, they immediately filed a complaint with the previous victim to sue Liu Xiangling. Now Liu Xiangling had caused a big trouble for Liu Xinhou!
Ryu Shin-hoo is no longer the scholarly tycoon he used to be, he is just a country rich man.
According to Daliang's decree, although Liu Xinhou is no longer a "scholar", he can still be regarded as a "gentry", and country squires like him can hurt people.
As long as the other party is not seriously injured or disabled, and as long as the squire can afford to pay, nothing will happen.
The victim was considered reasonable, or the victim was also afraid of the Liu family's power in the village, so they didn't want to really let Liu Xinhou and Liu Xiangling go to jail, as long as Liu Xinhou could come up with the money.
But the problem is money!
Because Liu Xiangling still thought about the days of the charming young lady in the past, Liu Xinhou almost tried his best. There were many people beaten by Liu Xiangling before, and several companies jointly needed to compensate a lot of money.
More importantly, there were so many injury cases that Liu Xiangling was rampant in the countryside, which meant that this case required a large price to settle, but where did he have enough cash to pay for it now?
No matter how reasonable the victim was, they couldn't let Liu Xiangling's beating go in vain. Seeing that Liu Xinhou had no money, the victim didn't know who got the advice from an expert, so he went to find the most prestigious person in the village to mediate the matter.
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So who is the most prestigious person in the village? It is the old lady of the Liu family, Liu Shinhou’s mother!
Mrs. Liu did not protect her son, but she also did not really ignore her son. She took out her dowry to compensate Liu Xinhou, but asked Liu Xinhou to write an IOU and asked Liu Xinhou to take part in the harvest from the fields.
The debt must be repaid in installments. If Mrs. Liu dies during this period, the debt will be transferred to the Liu family.
This IOU will become effective after it is filed with the county government.
Originally, this matter was settled satisfactorily, but when Liu Xinhou returned home, he found that Liu Xiangling had already caused trouble at home!