Although it has been half a year since the last time someone came to Linyi, the trip to Linyi is far away from the mountains and rivers, and it will take two or three months. Several Linyi businessmen should not dare to delay at all, so this can
He rushed back from Linyi so quickly.
"Foreign ministers see His Royal Highness the King of Linzi."
On the second floor of the RT-Mart Grain Store, Li Chongrun met the Linyi businessmen who had sent him a message last time. Maybe they had received some order from Fan Yubi, but the faces of the businessmen were full of dust, and they looked a little pitiful.
A few people exchanged pleasantries and soon got down to the main topic.
"The foreign minister led three lucky ships this time and set off from the city. Fortunately, they did not encounter a hurricane and arrived safely. They brought a total of 5,000 kilograms of rice, some solid wood and spices, and a letter written by His Majesty the King himself."
The leading Linyi merchant respectfully took out the same Luban lock as last time from his arms, held it in both hands and raised it above his head without daring to raise his head.
Reaching out to take the Luban lock, Li Chongrun was not in a hurry to open it. Instead, he smiled and said to the businessmen and envoys: "Is Yubi okay at home? I heard it's very hot over there. Yubi is afraid of the sun, so she won't
I managed to get a little fairer in Luoyang, so I will tan again when I go back."
Although Fan Yubi is now the head of the country, her mother was only given the title of county princess before. Theoretically speaking, even if Fan Yubi inherits her mother's title, it will still be one level lower than Li Chongrun's title of county princess.
level, so Li Chongrun naturally doesn't need to be too polite.
In front of them, a prince from the Celestial Dynasty was flirting with their king from a distance, and several Linyi people were a little bit at a loss. They could only reply a few words like "Your Majesty is in peace", and carefully said
Sitting on the bench with a smiling face.
Seeing that several people did not dare to speak, Li Chongrun knew that the effect of his stage show had been achieved, so he did not continue the topic that almost scared the other party into psychosis.
The letter is not big, with densely written small characters written in pencil. Yubi's handwriting has gotten much better recently, maybe because of diligent practice, or maybe because the pencil Li Chongrun brought last time is indeed easier to use than the writing brush.
Champa City is mountainous, and Linyi's royal palace was originally located at the foot of the mountain, so Li Chongrun's home-made water air conditioner was very popular with Yu Bi, who praised it many times.
The things Li Chongrun asked for were not uncommon in Linyi, and Yubi had collected a bunch of them without much effort. However, Linyi was a small country, and even after turning over the entire country, they only found these three large ships.
Everyone was asked to come over.
As soon as the young daughter-in-law took office, she was somewhat suspicious of the young master. In her last letter, she had already complained that several senior ministers were not very obedient. Judging from this letter, the situation seems to be more serious.
Fortunately, the things Li Chongrun sent last time actually played a big role. Although Lin Yi didn't know who specifically sent so many things, the new little king's reputation in the court was greatly improved.
Big improvement.
In addition, several businessmen deliberately and unintentionally boasted about it after returning to Linyi, saying that they were received by the emperor's grandson and had a drink together. In Linyi's capital city, there was actually a current little king who had been canonized.
Rumors about the Crown Princess came out.
Although Yubi didn't say much in the letter, Li Chongrun vaguely felt that it would be unreasonable if there was no trace of the dark and thin girl behind this rumor.
But with him as his backer, even if there are people in Linyi who have other ideas, they will still have to consider the court's ideas.
At the end of the letter, Yubi wrote another very tactful love message: "The sun is the morning, the moon is the evening, and you are the morning and the evening."
Li Chongrun felt a little sour.
It's just that there is still a big crisis waiting for him to solve. If he wants to help his wife, he must first solve the tens of thousands of lives now.
Five thousand shi of rice, which is 600,000 kilograms, is enough to last for some time even if there are tens of thousands of mouths in the future.
"I wonder how many boatmen the envoys brought here?"
To catch up, Li Chongrun is in dire need of people. Anyone who can be used, no matter how big or small, Li Chongrun wants to help.
"There are 60 crew members on each ship, plus a few of us and some guards, there are 200 people."
"Two hundred people are enough to survive. The envoys can rest for a while in Yangzhou City. I will borrow some of them for a few days later. What do you think?"
Those Linyi merchants naturally did not dare to refuse. Although most of the rumors in Linyi were spread by them under the instruction of His Majesty the King, looking at the relationship between the prince in front of him and his own king,
Maybe one day he will become his own king. It is too late for Conglong Zhigong to be snatched away by others, so how dare he say a word "no".
On the sixth day of June, watch the grain ripen.
It's just that Lao Bai didn't see whether his own millet was ripe or not.
Since March, God has never missed a good show.
The rice seedlings in the fields have probably already been fed by fish and shrimps.
Lao Bai is a small landowner in Longwangpu.
Longwangpu is a small village in Yuzhou. There is no ancient well that suppressed the Dragon King, nor is there a dilapidated Dragon King temple. The reason why it is called Longwangpu is simply because the village is mainly populated by people with the surname of Long and Wang.
It is said that Lao Bai's ancestor was a soldier who followed Emperor Taizong to conquer the world. After accumulating some military achievements, he divided more than ten acres of land here. And with the help of a few copper coins dug out from Yahuazi for several lifetimes, this was passed down.
He acquired a hundred acres of land and became a member of the lowest class of the landlord class.
Lao Bai's ancestors were all illiterate roughnecks, but when he met his own mother, she was considered a concubine from a landlord's family and knew a little bit about things, so when he was young, he sent Lao Bai to a private school in the next village to listen to the old and dim-eyed scholar.
Gone to literacy.
It's just that although Lao Bai has a bright mind, he is really not the material for learning. Although Shu Xiu gives him a lot of money and the New Year pigs slaughtered every year at home have no pig heads, after only two and a half years of studying, Lao Bai is still thorough.
He gave up the great idea of letting his son become a scholar.
One was Lao Baibai’s teacher who contracted smallpox and died.
The second is Lao Bai's father, who also suffered from smallpox and died.
However, although Lao Bai has not become a scholar, after more than two years of study, he can be regarded as literate and has learned some arithmetic. Although he can't write a single crooked poem, he does not need to find a letter writer or a ghostwriter to settle accounts.
Helped.
In addition, Lao Bai has a bright mind. Although he is very lazy in studying, he is very diligent in working to earn money. He is especially good at taking care of livestock, from trimming the hoofs of donkeys to looking for cysts on cattle. Although no one teaches him, he is very good.
He learned his skills by going to temple fairs and mule and horse markets, and became a well-known veterinarian.
So when my mother died, although the family's farmland did not increase by a few acres, there was an additional oil mill and many more livestock.
When Lao Bai's mother died, she was ready to help him find a wife, but before they got engaged, she fell ill from overwork and passed away not long after.
Fortunately, my daughter-in-law is still married, and she is extremely capable. Lao Bai hired a long-term worker, and the family's life is actually better than when I was alive.
Then Xu Jingye rebelled, and the Dragon King Temple happened to be on the only way to the divine capital.
The war was chaotic, and all the family's livestock were plundered by the rebels. Although the couple saved their lives, they just hid in the cellar for a long time. Not only did the pregnant daughter-in-law have a miscarriage, she also suffered from a disease.
, I saw it with a gentleman in the county town, and he only said that I was afraid that it would be difficult to get pregnant.
The livestock were gone, but the land was still there. At that time, Lao Bai was not Lao Bai, so it was too early to think about it, and he didn't take it seriously. He still happily cultivated the land, bought livestock, and treated the animals every day.
Over the past few years, the family's land has increased by a few acres, and the sheep pens and cowsheds have been filled with livestock. In addition to slaughtering a new year pig during festivals, the family can also eat chicken every day to improve the food.
There was a severe drought in Shandong two years ago, and refugees came to Gyeonggi Province to escape the famine. Since the daughter-in-law became infertile, she believed in Buddhist monks and did not want to see others suffer, so her family took in a family of four refugees named Huang who had fled from Caozhou.
The old couple of refugees were hungry for too long and couldn't survive, so they died like this. There were two brothers and sisters left, a boy and a girl. One was left to work for Lao Bai, half as a long-term laborer and half as an apprentice, and the other followed his wife, half as a maid and half.
Help in the oil shop.
Two years later, Huang Yatou had grown up, and her daughter-in-law wanted to make the decision for her man, so that she would not lose the head of the family.
Although Lao Bai still looked like a cheerful and good man, his brother-in-law and long-term worker felt that his boss was becoming more and more desperate in his work, and he finally began to teach himself some real skills seriously.
God is like this, killing people and setting fires with gold belts, building bridges and roads without corpses.
I had just invited folks from all over the country to have a nice meal, but before my new daughter-in-law had time to take off her red hijab, it started to rain.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier. Even though the Dragon King's shop was named Dragon King, it could not get any preferential treatment from the Dragon King's hands. Not to mention the newly sprouted seedlings in the ground, even many people's shacks were watered to pieces by the continuous heavy rain.
More and more people were fleeing. Longwangpu was originally the largest village in Shili and Baxiang. There were several landlords, and there was even a grocery store selling needles, threads, and needles. The moment the flood came, all that was left was
I visited several landlords' houses, and there were still some traces of people there.
It’s hard to leave your homeland, but if there is any way, who would be willing to leave their homeland and go to an unknown place to escape.
Lao Bai originally thought that since his family had food and livestock, he would become a famous hero again when the flood subsided.
Until the day when the refugees fleeing from the north come.
Lao Bai discovered that when people are hungry, they can tear off the cowhide and swallow it alive.
Lao Bai had no choice but to flee. The harm caused by the refugees was far greater than the rebellious army.
Go south, there is food in the south.
Rumors came from unknown sources. Lao Bai carefully hid the land deed of his home and followed the surging crowd in confusion, joining the ranks of refugees fleeing the famine.
The daughter-in-law could not resist and died before crossing the Huaihe River.
The little daughter-in-law couldn't resist and died just after crossing the Huaihe River.
"Don't be afraid. As long as you breathe, you will still be my brother-in-law. You know what we are capable of. When we get to Jiangnan, within ten years, I will still be a landlord."
Lao Bai comforted his brother-in-law who was shivering at the side. He didn't know if he had been hungry for a long time. His brother-in-law, who was originally very strong, was as thin as a stick. Although it was already June, he was still swaying.
There was a person lying down on the roadside, but as soon as he fell to the ground, he didn't know whether he was dead or not, a group of people had already pounced on him, like wild beasts.
Lao Bai felt that something was wrong with his brother-in-law's vision.
"If you can't eat it, you can't eat it. Even if you die, you can't eat it."
Several figures started fighting over each other, and a stream of very sticky blood splashed into the brother-in-law's mouth. The brother-in-law smacked his lips, blood flashed in his eyes, and he whimpered and touched the place where he lay.
Lao Bai let out a long sigh, tightened the hemp rope around his waist, and continued walking south with the numb crowd.
The sun is out.
He didn’t know how long he had been walking when a sound of gongs and drums was heard. Lao Bai could recognize the words and vaguely saw a sign in front of him that said “Yangzhou Refugee Resettlement Center”.
We are all farmers here, who is this sign for?
This was Lao Bai's last thought before he passed out.