Ever since the prince's wedding, the palace has been quiet for a while.
The fight between the empress and the imperial concubine continued. The incident that occurred during the prince's wedding was ended because several key maids committed suicide by poisoning. The imperial doctor Zhang Baozheng also died of a heart attack, so
The poisoning of essential oils also came to an abrupt end...
A group of people changed in the imperial concubine's palace, and two maids died in the queen's Fengxiang palace...
How can others tell clearly who is who and who is wrong... I am afraid that only those in the deep vortex can know the warmth and coldness of themselves.
Seeing that the New Year is approaching, the heavy snow in the capital has not stopped. Even the New Year is spent in a blanket of white snow. It was not until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month that the heavy snow that lasted for many days gradually stopped.
Many houses in the capital have been damaged by the heavy snow. Even though it is still early in the year, many people have already begun to repair their houses.
Rice prices around the capital are also quietly rising. The Lu family sent a letter to Fu Mingyu, saying that her news was indeed accurate. Now the food prices around Changshan Mansion have risen by 30%. They asked Fu Mingyu if the rice they had hoarded in Lujiazhuang was not
Have some takeout.
Fu Mingyu asked them to sell 30% of the rice at the right time, and then make up for it when spring comes, when rice from the south can be shipped in large quantities.
The news from Mobei was sent by Dabai.
Sure enough, as Fu Mingyu said, there is a shortage of everything in Mobei due to the constant heavy snow. Not only rice, but even the price of something as precious as salt has doubled.
The salt delivered by Lujiazhuang was really sold at a good price, making a lot of money. Fu Mingyu's second uncle had already taken his family and some disciples to Mobei a year ago, preparing to open a branch there.
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Originally they wanted to go there to celebrate the New Year, but Mr. Lu felt that his granddaughter was a god. Since she had come up with this idea, it was a great idea and they had to do it quickly. The old man urged, so Fu Mingyu's
The second uncle also set off with his family.
Originally, he was the second owner of Lujiazhuang. Now that he can be separated, although he is still the sub-ruler of Lujiazhuang, he will be the master anyway. Thinking of this, the second son of Lujiazhuang also thinks it is appropriate. Otherwise, what would he be in Lujiazhuang?
I have to listen to my elder brother, but I also want to show my own strength.
The road in Mobei this winter is really difficult. The road was blocked by heavy snow. The group of people were all skilled in martial arts. One of them was also on his back, almost rolling and crawling before reaching Linchuan.
Qin Rui has already served in the army as a patrol captain. He leads a team of troops on patrol all day long to prevent bandits and foreign bandits from coming to rob and harass the border residents.
However, the snow this winter made it extremely difficult for the cavalry to move, and because of the weather, bandits and foreign bandits were extremely active, causing serious losses for everyone.
They had to rely on robbing to get food and drink, and the border residents had many large animals killed by the heavy snow and road closures, and suffered considerable property losses.
Therefore, Qin Rui's mission became even more arduous. He almost never went back to the military camp to rest. Only when the rations he brought were insufficient, he would look for nearby military stations to replenish supplies and then continue to pursue bandits and bandits.
He would not let Fu Mingyu talk about these difficult things. He still insisted on sending letters to Fu Mingyu every few days to say that he was safe. In the letter, he really only said that he was safe, and did not mention anything else at all!
"Father!" By the time Qin Rui returned to the North Marshal's Mansion in Linchuan Town, it was already after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and all the lanterns in Linchuan City had gone down.
"You're back? Hurry up and have a drink of hot water!" Qin Liyang, Duke of Dingguo, looked at his youngest son and said calmly.
"Yes, handsome father!" Qin Rui, who had been out since New Year's Eve, clasped his fists, "By the way, handsome father, when my son came back, he saw the old housekeeper going out in a hurry, but what happened?"
"What can happen in this place?" Qin Liyang sighed deeply in his heart, but his face was not at all troubled. "You have just come back, so hurry up and wash up, drink some hot water, and rest."
His other sons could at least stay in the barracks, but his youngest son was the last to arrive, but he was the hardest working one. He patrolled day and night, and once he left, he would be homeless for ten days and a half.
"Okay. I got a good harvest this time out. I have asked Gengxu to sort out the paperwork and submit it. My father must have seen it!" Qin Rui wiped the snow on his forehead. It was warm inside the house, and the snow brought in from outside
It has melted and my hair is soaked!
"I've seen it!" Qin Liyang nodded, "I remember it all here."
"Okay!" Qin Rui grinned and walked to his room holding his long knife.
After Qin Rui left, Qin Liyang let out a long sigh and asked the guards standing on the side to come over, "You go to the military camp and talk to the young masters, and come back for a reunion dinner in the evening."
In this handsome mansion, everyone has not been together since the Chinese New Year.
"Yes." The guard responded, turned around and went out.
Qin Liyang sat down and raised his hand to press his forehead.
The army is out of food!
The military rations for the entire Mobei camp are enough to last for five days.
The previous batch of military rations was shipped a month ago. The food was not pure and was mixed with 30% rice bran.
When receiving this batch of military rations, Qin Liyang was so angry that he almost slashed the grain transport officer with a knife, but the grain transport officer complained that he was wronged. The grain he received from the capital was like this. It was not that he had changed it on the road.
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He also took out all the receipts for receiving grain and grass from the Ministry of War, and checked the quantities and seals.
Qin Liyang hurriedly went to the Ministry of War eight hundred miles away to ask why this batch of military rations was adulterated with 30% rice bran. How could the officers and soldiers stationed in the north eat it? The answer given by the Ministry of War was that it was snowing heavily this winter and it was difficult to mobilize food from various places. So much food was distributed first.
Come here, because the rice grain from Jiangnan cannot be transported in time, there is a lot of rice bran mixed in it. However, rice bran is also considered as grain. Let’s use it first. After the spring starts, the rice grain from Jiangnan will be mobilized to the capital, and they will transport the grain here again.
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Qin Liyang had nothing to do with the Ministry of War after receiving such an answer.
But he still concealed the matter, and asked his trusted guards to sift out the rice bran from the rice grains. It snowed constantly this winter, and it was extremely cold. In such a cold weather, where could the soldiers eat rice bran?
After all, 30% of the food is missing. This ration will not last until the next ration arrives. According to calculations, the next ration will arrive in half a month. But now the ration is only enough for five days. What can he give him for the next ten days?