Chapter 99: Liu Hong's Change in the Cold Winter

The people of Dahan are very hardworking, they are not afraid of many things, they are afraid that there is nothing to do.

The autumn harvest of the entire Shanggu County took only half a month, and only patches of bare land were left outside the city.

A few days later, the straw left in the field is dried and then burned by a fire to turn into ashes and become fertilizer for next year's crops.

On the border of Shanggu County, except for the first five days, there were a lot of Xianbei cavalry who came to attack, and the number of people who came later was very low.

And these Xianbei cavalry all died at the hands of Zhao Hui's Black Wind Army.

Zhao Hui fulfilled his promise.

In this autumn, the Xianbei people were not allowed to kill a single citizen of Shanggu County, and they were not allowed to steal a grain of grain.

The granaries of every household in Upper Valley County were filled with grain.

Truckloads of grain were sent into the warehouses of the government, and one warehouse after another was filled with grain.

Xu Kuan stood in front of the granary, his mouth was about to grin behind his ears, and the fat on his body trembled.

For more than a year, Xu Kuan didn't have any worries, he just ate, drank and slept every day, and his figure was originally quite good, but in this year, he changed dramatically, and went straight to three hundred catties.

It's very worrying that one day he will suddenly not be able to walk.

After serving as a taishou in Shanggu County for five years, this was the first time Xu Kuan saw the granary filled with grain.

And that's just that one year.

If someone dared to tell him before, if he could fill the granary with grain in the autumn, Xu Kuan would think that the other party was treating himself as a fool.

I didn't see it with my own eyes, and I couldn't believe it at all, but this was just the result of a year in Ueya County.

And this achievement is entirely due to the nearly 100,000 displaced people outside the city.

Who would have thought that the grain distributed to the displaced people in the spring, the farm tools and cattle rented to them, would be rewarded a thousand times more in this autumn.

Xu Kuan wanted to say that 100,000 homeless people were coming. I can feed all the armies in Youzhou with one Shanggu County.

It's just that Xu Kuan didn't know that half of the grain and grass that had just entered the granary was immediately transferred to the Black Wind Village.

There are Zhao Hui's people in the Taishou Mansion, the steward of the granary is Zhao Hui's people, and the soldiers at the city gate are Zhao Hui's people.

And Xu Kuan, he never went to see the granary again, and even if he did, he would find that the granary was still full, but the bottom box was empty.

Xu Kuan's recital has already been handed out, and his people have already gone to Luoyang, waiting to be transferred out of Shanggu County and to Luoyang, Kyoto.

But Zhao Hui won't let him get his way, Xu Kuan doesn't care about things now, if he changes to a Taishou, Zhao Hui will have to rearrange it again, it is better to let Xu Kuan, who doesn't want to take care of things, sit in the seat of the Taishou of Shanggu County all the time.

Therefore, although Xu Kuan's recital was sent out, it was not sent to Luoyang, but after a circle outside, it came to Zhao Hui's hands.

And the people he sent to Luoyang only went to Luoyang to stay for three days, and then returned the same way.

Xu Kuan thought that his memo had been sent to Luoyang, but the court in Luoyang did not know that there was such a recital.

And all this, Xu Kuan, who is too guarded, is completely unaware. I waited for months until the people sent to Luoyang returned, but there was no news.

"With such a big political achievement, no one in the imperial court has seen it?" Xu Kuan was very dissatisfied, and wrote a letter again to send out.

But this is just a waste of his time, and the folds he wrote can only be sent out if Zhao Hui wants him to send them out.

Zhao Hui didn't want him to spread the news, and he couldn't even get out of the Taishou Mansion.

After a year, Xu Kuan thought that his subordinates were very capable and obedient, and he didn't have to worry about it at all.

But after this year, he guarded the people in the mansion too much, and eighty percent of the people were replaced, and even the guards were Zhao Hui's people.

All of this was carried out in this year, changing a few people every month, and without Xu Kuan noticing, the personnel of the Taishou Mansion had a big change.

Xu Kuan wanted to leave Shanggu County, not to ask the emperor sitting in the Luoyang Palace to agree, but to get Zhao Huixian in the Black Wind Village to agree.

Zhao Hui will definitely let Xu Kuan leave, but not now.

The golden autumn has passed, and the snowy winter has arrived.

The fields were covered with silver frost, and no one wanted to go out in this bone-chilling weather.

The autumn harvest is enough for the people of Shanggu County to spend this winter in peace.

Some farmhouses, not to mention the families, even burned charcoal fires to keep warm.

In the cold winter, their home is still as warm as spring.

But for the tribes of the steppe, it was a terrible and difficult winter.

In every tribe, people die every day.

Some people were frozen to death, others were starved to death.

Most of these dead people were old people from the tribe.

They don't have extra food to keep these old people alive.

And the tribes that sent the strongest warriors of the tribe to rob the grain of Shanggu County at the beginning, this winter day is their end.

Grassland mergers are going on in this winter.

The tribe, having lost strong men, simply could not survive on the steppe.

This winter day seems to be colder than ever.

Not only is it difficult for the people on the grassland to survive, but Liu Hong, the son of heaven in the imperial city of Luoyang, also had a serious illness in this winter.

Although it is better than Taiheal, his body is not as good as before.

And Liu Hong is not a person who cherishes his body, when he is recovering from a serious illness, he begins to indulge in indulgence before his body is conditioned.

Maybe the serious illness of winter made him suffocated.

Or Liu Hong, who is seriously ill, realizes that life is short and needs to be happy in time.

It may also be the arrival of spring, Liu Hong's interest in women is getting bigger and bigger.

A new naked swimming hall was built in the West Garden, allowing dozens of beautiful concubines and palace maids to play in the water.

Liu Hong is intelligent, but he is selfish, he is irresponsible, and he is greedy for pleasure.

After the naked tour hall was completed, Liu Hong played with the concubines in the hall every day, and no longer paid attention to the government and politics.

The person who has the most contact with Liu Hong every day, except for the palace maids and concubines, is the ten permanent servants, and the government is completely controlled by the ten permanent servants.

The courtiers of the foreign court did not see Liu Hong for a month.

The folds that need to be reviewed by Liu Hong will be sent to the naked tour hall, but in the end, they are all reviewed by Zhang Ran, Zhao Zhong and others on behalf of Liu Hong.

The contradiction between the eunuch and the scholar was intensified again, and the two sides were like fire and water.

But as long as Liu Hong was still in power for one day, it was impossible for him to let the eunuch lose power.

At the beginning, Liu Hong relied on the eunuch Cao Jie and others to kill Dou Wu, a general of his relatives who was in power at that time.

Liu Hong knew very well in his heart that if he lost the eunuchs, he would only be at the mercy of those scholars and doctors in the foreign courts.

If he doesn't want to be a puppet, then he can only use the eunuchs to resist the power of the scholars.

So no matter what mistakes the eunuch makes, Liu Hong is only heavily responsible and lightly punished.

As the emperor, he needs to control the balance of power between the two sides, and he can't let the eunuchs defeat the eunuchs, nor can he let the eunuchs crush the scholars in an all-round way.