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The weather is getting colder, the leaves are yellow, and the fields are bleak. In this year's autumn harvest, as Li Chao expected, most of the crops were lost, and only a small part of the crops in the fields with water by the river were able to keep the harvest, but the output was not as good as in previous years.

Li Chao learned from some letters sent to him by the imperial court that the harvest in Henan, Hebei, and Guanzhong this autumn was less than two years in previous years. The Shannan area is much better, and the harvest is about 30% of the previous year.

However, the grain harvest this year is small, but the locust harvest is good.

There were a lot of locusts this autumn, but they failed to form a big locust plague, first, because the number was not large, and second, there were still too many arrests. In all counties, townships, and villages in all states, fields, rivers, and roads, fires are lit every night, and locusts are being hunted everywhere.

Not only are the locusts unlucky, but this year, if you fly in the sky and swim in the river, it can be regarded as a disaster year. All birds and animals that can eat are included in the harvest.

Li Chao looked at the summary reports, his brows stretched slightly, the weather was cold, but the displaced people did not appear. The control of the imperial court is still very good, and this control is not by being strong, after all, there is no news reported from all over the country that has not starved to death anywhere.

Those who have no food and no money are already receiving relief food.

It's good not to starve people to death.

Prince Chengqian was trying a new set of armor, a new set of shining armor. This thing, with gold leaf pasted on the outside, is actually very thin, and if it goes to the battlefield, the effect is not as good as an ordinary leather armor. But after all, Cheng Qian is only eight years old, and this time he has just 'led' 5,000 soldiers and subdued hundreds of thousands of barbarians, so he will definitely be a little complacent.

Li Chao is also willing to let him pretend to be a one, after all, this is to add some prestige to the prince.

Originally, Li Chao meant to make an entry ceremony in Xiangyang, and then show some barbarian village leaders or something, and then let the government soldiers change into clean armor and military robes, make a neat team into the city, and then let Li Chengqian stand on the chariot and wear armor into the city.

The scene is enough.

But Li Chengqian felt that his original set of leather armor was too ordinary, it was simply the outfit of Little Soldier A and Little Soldier B, how could it match the grand scene tomorrow.

He remembered the grand triumphal ceremony when his father, dressed in gold armor, rode into Chang'an City with Li Shiji in a chariot after the Battle of the Central Plains.

Li Chengqian had to wear a set of gold armor like that, and he also asked Li Chao to ride in the chariot with him and wear gold armor together.

"Yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles, and if you don't break Loulan, you won't pay it back! Teacher, what do you think of my golden armor? ”

There was no ready-made gold armor, and the real gold armor Chengqian couldn't wear it, so Li Chao asked the craftsman to paste the original leather armor of Chengqian with gold leaf, which was also decent. There are special armor craftsmen in the army, and it is not a big deal to put gold leaf on it.

Leather armor covered with gold leaf can blind people's eyes.

However, it is true that the crown prince Chengqian is powerful, with golden helmets and golden armor, just like a heavenly soldier and a general.

"Not bad!" Li Chao nodded.

Then he continued to look back at the things in his hand, he could receive things from Chang'an every three or five times, including Li Shimin's handwritten letter to him, some political affairs hall internal references sent to him, and of course, letters from home.

Cui Yingying wrote this time, saying that her family had donated 10,000 stone of grain to the imperial court, and now she still has some food at home. She discussed with her father that she planned to lend the grain stored in the granges in Hebei, Shannan, Henan, Longyou, and Shuofang to the farmers for a year's rations without interest, and donate the rest to the imperial court.

Cui Yingying, such a shrewd and money-loving woman, was very pleased that she could take the initiative to propose this kind of plan at this time. Food is important, but the Li family is small, and the family is in Chang'an. Therefore, the rest of the grain in the various farms outside is well disposed of in this way.

Give your farmers a year's ration first, so that they can get through this difficult time. The rest will be given to the government, which is also to earn more fame.

Money is important, but today's Li family, if they want to become a famous family, they need more fame. Li Chao originally thought that Cui Yingying might come up with such a shrewd plan as exchanging grain for farm products, but fortunately, she didn't have such a plan.

In the year of famine, borrowing grain from the people, and then waiting for the debt to expire, and then letting people exchange the land for the property, this is the common practice of many large landlords, and most of the fields of those large households came from in this way. In every famine, the people suffered, and their own losses were often compensated for by annexing the land.

But this kind of behavior, in fact, Li Chao is quite opposed, and feels that he is robbing while the fire is hot. Although for many people, if they can exchange life-saving food, houses, fields, and children when they are about to starve to death, they are willing, and they will even compete for such an opportunity, but Li Chao does not want the Li family to do this.

The Li family has a way to make money, and the Li family also has a better way to expand production by purchasing land, and there is no need for this at all.

On the letter, Cui Yingying also said that her family was fine.

The six children are all very healthy, the body of Red Line and Wanyan is also very healthy, and the fetus is very good. Daddy is also in good health, and Qi Niang and the child in her belly are also healthy.

Nowadays, many people often come to inquire about the Li family, and want to marry the Li family who were not born. And those who have this intention are basically famous families.

Not to mention the five surnames in Shandong, it is the famous family in Guanxi, as well as the nobles of the imperial court and the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River, many of them are first-class portals, and they all have the meaning of marriage. Although it is not a large lineage, which famous family is not flourishing and has several branches. No matter which branch it is, it is actually enough to match the Li family, after all, the children of the Li family who are not married are only concubines.

What they value more is Li Chao's status in the DPRK and the Li family's ability to rise rapidly.

For these, Li Chao is not in a hurry for his two unborn children, and it is not too late to choose slowly when he knows whether he is a man or a woman when he is born. When it comes to Qi Niang's child, if he is born, he will be his brother, so he has to use some heart to choose a better one for him.

In the letter, Cui Yingying also said that in another month, she will bring her family and children to Xiangyang.

In another month, not only Cui Yingying will come, but Li Shimin will also leave Beijing with hundreds of officials of the imperial court and the forbidden army of Chang'an and move to Xiangyang.

There is only one month left, and Li Shimin and the imperial court will move to Xiangyang.

Li Chao not only had to prepare the palace for Li Shimin, but also prepared food and other materials after the two or three hundred thousand people came.

The time is short and the task is daunting.

At present, many large warehouses have been established in Xiangyang, but most of the warehouses are stocked with various processed relief grains. When the emperor comes, he must not let them eat locust cakes. (To be continued.) )