The death of the emperor, except that he could not wear red and green, and could not marry, had no other impact on ordinary people. But for Yunqing and Yuxi, the impact is great.

Yuxi and Yunqing said: "When the crown prince ascends the throne, he must be fighting for power." "The battle in the capital has no necessary connection with them, but Yuxi doesn't want the prince to win. The crown prince won, and she is not far from death.

Yunqing said: "It's not that easy. Even if the crown prince wants to seize power, he will have to take three or five years. Now the key is Chen Yu, if Chen Yu succeeds in suppressing bandits, we will be very passive. "Chen Yu is also a very courageous person. During this time, he selected 3,000 people from the six guards and formed a new army, which was directly named the Bandit Army. And the soldiers brought by Chen Yu were all put down below and began to train these people. In half a month, let these people be reborn. If the two were not opposed, Yunqing would appreciate him very much. But the two are hostile, Chen Yu is so capable, it is not a good thing for Yunqing.

Yuxi's point of view was different, and he said: "Chen Yu's ability is indeed very strong, but with Ji Xuan and others, it is not so easy to succeed in suppressing bandits." He Rui, I'm worried now that after the crown prince ascends the throne, what will I do if I want to recruit you into Beijing?"

Yun Qing was not worried about this, and said: "This will not happen, there will be a war in the spring, even if I really make a holy decree to let me enter Beijing, I will refuse on the grounds that I want to prepare for war at that time." ”

Yuxi nodded, and did not go to the capital on the grounds of preparing for war, but it was reasonable: "Herui, I think it is better to reserve more food." She remembered that the Yellow River burst its banks in the year she died, and there were countless casualties, but she had no memory of anything else. It's just that Yuxi has a feeling that something will definitely go wrong this year. If you don't have money, it's fine, Yunqing now has money, Yuxi thinks it's better to store more food.

Yunqing didn't agree with Yuxi's suggestion: "The imperial court has no money to buy food until now, and there is no money. "The money that is hidden, Yunqing doesn't want to use it. Those who are at the cusp of the wind and waves, will they not be given the handle when they are used? This is the name of the whole family and the people around him, and Yunqing is very cautious.

Yuxi said: "I took out 200,000 taels of silver to buy food." Anyway, the gold and silver are not marked, so there should be no problem. Seeing that Yunqing still disagreed, Yuxi said: "If not, take out the loot that stored the zài secret passage and sell it." No matter how much money you get, you will exchange it for food?" That's more than ten boxes of gold and silver, and it's worth more than 100,000 taels of silver.

Yunqing did not object to exchanging the loot he had hidden for food, but he had a question: "If we buy such a big move in food, it will definitely alarm the imperial court." "If the court thinks they are rebelling, it won't be beautiful.

Yuxi smiled and said, "No." ”

Seeing that Yuxi was so determined, Yun Qing looked puzzled and asked, "How are you so sure?"

"At the end of last year, I wrote a letter to my eldest brother saying that I guessed there might be a drought this year. We are buying grain now, and even if the imperial court knew about it, it would definitely think that we were preparing for the coming drought. ”

Yun Qing was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "What did you say, drought, how did you guess that there was a drought?" Every time there is a catastrophe, the food is particularly nervous, the soldiers have to tighten their stomachs to fight, and the people of Yucheng can only eat wild vegetables and roots.

Yuxi smiled: "I suspect that the secret of my communication with my eldest brother has been deciphered, so I deliberately used such a method to test one or two." ”

Yun Qing was a little angry, and said: "How can this kind of thing be predicted at will, if there is really a drought this year, do you think the prince will let you go at that time?"

Yuxi didn't care, and said, "No matter what I do, the prince will not let me go." You forgot about it, the prince was ready to kill me a long time ago. "If she hadn't known that the prince would kill her, she wouldn't have done it this way.

After a pause, Yuxi said: "If the prince really knows the secret of my correspondence with my eldest brother, maybe he won't kill me immediately, so it can also buy me time." In addition, we took advantage of this to buy more food in advance, and the prince would not suspect us of rebellion. "In fact, even if you buy 200,000 taels of silver, you will only buy 800,000 or 900,000 stone of grain, which is only two or three months' rations for an army of 100,000. Where it comes to rebellion. You must know that the most important thing in rebellion is weapons and equipment, and only food is enough.

Yun Qing's face was ugly, but he didn't reprimand Yuxi, he just said: "If there is such a thing in the future, you must tell me first, and you are not allowed to make decisions without permission." "Yuxi is doing this, which is equivalent to gambling with his life, which he does not allow.

Yuxi nodded hurriedly and said, "Not in the future." "That being said, when it comes to something like this, she's going to do it. Because she knew very well that Yunqing would not let her do dangerous things.

Yunqing asked the question he was concerned about: "Is there really a drought this year?"

Yuxi shook his head and said, "That's my casual nonsense, but this winter is often sunny, and I'm worried that there will be insect plagues this year." She vaguely feels that this year will not be peaceful, but whether it is a flood, a drought, or an insect plague, she does not know.

After hearing this, Yun Qing said, "In addition to the things in the secret passage, I will add another 100,000 taels of silver to it." "If you buy more food, you will have more insurance.

Yuxi said: "This matter has to be done, otherwise the price of food will have to rise." "In two or three months, it will definitely go up by several percent. If there is a natural disaster or something, it will double the price.

Yun Qing said: "The weather is good, let Han Ji take someone to Jiangnan!" Yun Qing also knew that Han Ji was very good at doing business, and let him be a housekeeper, which was a bit condescending. In Yucheng, unlike in the capital, there are not so many people and contacts, so the role of the housekeeper is much smaller.

Speaking of Jiangnan, Yuxi remembered one thing and said, "Isn't your cousin a child of the Jiang family of the Jiangnan Wang family? This time Han Ji went to Jiangnan, shouldn't he come to visit?" The old lady of the Jiang family, Yuxi still remembers it very clearly.

Yun Qing was silent for a moment and said, "You can call the shots in this matter." "If it were according to Yunqing's temperament, he would definitely not take the initiative to contact the Jiang family. It's just that one more friend means one more way, not to mention that they still have a relationship with the Jiang family.

Since he talked about the Jiang family, Yuxi asked the question that had always been on his mind: "Isn't Jiang Hongfu your cousin? I remember that you had a good relationship at the beginning, why didn't you contact each other later?"

Yun Qing's expression was a little gloomy, and he said: "My situation is very dangerous, and I am afraid of implicating him, so I broke off the relationship." At that time, his situation was very dangerous, and he was worried that the Song family would use Jiang Hongfu to deal with him, so he took the initiative to break off his relationship with Jiang Hongfu. Since then, Jiang Hongfu has not written to him again.

Yuxi sighed slightly and didn't continue the question.

At the same time, Han Jianming, who was in the capital, had a headache. Because the prince has extended an olive branch to him. Han Jianming asked Mr. Zhao: "What do you say should be done now?" Yu Jia is unreliable. It's just that once they take refuge in the crown prince, well, they will be the emperor soon, it will be tantamount to betraying the Yu family, and the Yu family will definitely not give them good fruits to eat at that time. But if he doesn't take the olive branch stretched out by the prince, the prince won't be able to clean up Yu Xiang and Uncle Song, but it's still easy to clean him up. Therefore, this will be a dilemma for Han Jianming.

Mr. Zhao couldn't do better. The crown prince will ascend the throne as emperor in a few days, and it is not wise to offend the future emperor.

Han Jianming is a little regretful, it would be nice if Yuxi was here, maybe that girl would have a good Jianyi!

Han Gao walked in and said, "Grandpa Guo, Madame has fainted. ”

Han Jianming hurried over when he heard the news. Although the Ye family failed to give him a son, there are many shortcomings, but after so many years, the husband and wife still have feelings. He didn't want anything wrong with the Ye family.

Han Gao followed closely and said as he walked: "Grandpa Guo, it was Mrs. Ye who passed by, and Mrs. fainted when she found out." "Say half a sentence and leave half a sentence, it's really urgent.

Han Jianming knew that it was not Ye's body that had a problem, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. When he arrived at the main courtyard, Han Jianming saw Ye Shi with a white face full of tears, and asked, "When I change my clothes, I will go to Ye's house." "My mother-in-law has passed away, so I have to hurry over to the funeral.

Ye cried very sadly: "Master, I haven't seen her for the last time." "Mrs. Ye has been depressed in the past few years, and her health has not been very good. Qiu is a very generous person, and he did not forbid his daughter-in-law to go back to her parents' house often like other mothers-in-law, but on the contrary, knowing that Mrs. Ye was not in good health, she often asked Ye to go back to her parents' house to visit Mrs. Ye. This time, Mrs. Ye left too suddenly, and no one expected it.

Han Jianming hugged Ye and said, "Let's go talk to my mother." ”

Such a big thing, how could the Qiu clan not know. Seeing the Ye family crying like a tearful person, he said with a loving face: "Hurry over and see if you can help, don't worry in the mansion, I and your brothers and sisters are here!"

After Han Jianming and his wife left, Qiu said: "It's really a sin! If it weren't for Second Master Ye's disobedience and unfilial piety, Mrs. Ye would not have been able to go like this." "Mrs. Ye is not very old, she is three years older than her, and she is less than fifty this year. Before Ye Erye withdrew, his health had always been very good. But after Second Master Ye retired and insisted on marrying Ke Minjie, Mrs. Ye's body was not good. It can be said that Mrs. Ye is gone now, and Second Master Ye will be half responsible.

Mother Li said: "The old lady is the most blessed, the eldest master and the second master are extremely filial to the old lady." Now I don't know how many people in the capital say that the old lady teaches her children well. ”

A smile appeared on Qiu's face and said, "This is not right, Yuxi is also extremely filial. "Qiu's heart knows very well that the two sons have always been very filial, but they are not as caring as they are now, and there is a lot of credit in this. R1148