There are more and more people who follow Xu Shu's guidance to come to Dayang City, and Dayang City is relatively popular, but there are more people, and trouble will follow.

Most of the people who entered the city dragged their children with their daughters, and the redundant population would inevitably increase the consumption of grain and grass. The people who came to Dayang City were all in rags, except for the tattered clothes, and the valuable things had already been looted by the Xiliang army.

This kind of population increase will not bring any benefits to Dayang City, but will add many contradictions that need to be reconciled.

What's even more annoying is that the spies of the Xiliang Army mixed among the people and entered Dayang City in batches, adding many difficult troubles to the maintenance of stability in the city.

Standing at the head of the city, Liu Wei looked at the south, and muttered secretly in his heart: "Yuan Zhi, Yuan Zhi, what are you doing?" Several times, instead of sending back the blades, armor, grain, grass, and wealth, they sent me so many mouths. Don't you want to see if I have the ability to feed these people? ”

On the way back to the government after leaving the city wall, Liu Wei was thinking about how to settle these people.

"Tell General Zhou that after the people recognize their relatives tomorrow, they will all be gathered in the street market in the city, and this king has something to say!" As soon as the front foot entered the front yard of the official mansion, Liu Wei suddenly stopped, turned his head and said to the soldiers behind him: "As for the sturdy men who have not been recognized, they must be strictly investigated, and if they are found, the spies will be killed, and the rest of the people will also be brought to the market!" ”

"No!" A personal soldier answered, turned around and ran out of the official mansion, and rushed to the barracks to convey Liu Wei's order to Zhou Cang.

entered the backyard of the official mansion, and as soon as the door was opened, Tao Huanniang in the house greeted her.

"Your Highness has something on your mind?" first blessed Liu Bian, and seeing that Liu Bian's face was a little bad, Tao Huanniang asked timidly and softly: "Is the newcomer to the city causing trouble to His Highness again?" ”

"How can you not be annoyed?" Liu Wei shook his head, entered the room, walked straight to the low table and sat down, raised his eyes to look at Tao Huanniang who was following him, and said to her: "Two groups of people, don't say that the thieves and spies are mixed in, even if there are no spies, nearly 20,000 mouths, how can I afford it?" If this continues, within a few days, Dayang grain and grass will run out! The common people don't have enough food and clothing, but they want to make trouble! ”

Tao Huanniang lowered her head and pursed her lips, looking at Liu Wei who was full of worry, and her eyes also revealed a heavy worry.

Returning to the government, Liu Wei sat at the low table all the time, thinking about how he would settle more people if Xu Shu continued to send people back.

Tao Huanniang, who saw that Liu Wei was annoyed, but was unable to help him, went out and carried a small brazier into the house, boiled some boiling water on the brazier, and poured a hot tea for Liu Wei from time to time.

She has never left Taojiazhuang in the past, and she will only do some sewing and mending, slurry washing and washing work on weekdays, and she doesn't know anything about the world's major affairs.

"Your Highness!" Liu Wei was sitting in the room thinking about countermeasures, the door was opened, Zhou Cang quickly broke in, and shouted to Liu Wei: "What is the military advisor doing? So many people have been brought back, but the grain, grass, and wealth have not been seen at all, and the soldiers are now giving the army food to the people. In the long run, the soldiers will have to go hungry! ”

"The military advisor must have a reason for doing this!" Glancing up at Zhou Cang, who rushed into the house, Liu Wei said to him in a flat tone: "Previously, this king asked people to go to you, asking you to gather all the people who entered the city in the streets of the city tomorrow, just to solve this matter!" ”

"Your Highness has thought of a countermeasure?" As soon as Liu Wei said this, Zhou Cang's mood calmed down a little, and he asked, "I don't know what His Highness is going to do?" ”

"There is a price to be paid for eating food!" Liu Wei pressed his hand twice at Zhou Cangxu and said to him: "Yuanfu and sit, let King Ben come to you carefully!" ”

Zhou Cang knelt opposite Liu Wei, and Tao Huanniang also poured him a cup of hot tea. Holding the tea bowl with both hands, Zhou Cang leaned forward slightly, and asked Liu Wei: "Your Highness means to ask the people to ......."

"Yes!" Without waiting for Zhou Cang to finish speaking, Liu Wei nodded and said to him: "When a soldier eats food and leads the army's salary, if there is a male in the family, he is recruited into the army, and the whole family can be fed and clothed; If there are no men, give them some food that can only last their lives, so that the two sides will be compared, and there will be many more people who are willing to join the army. The military advisor asked the people to come to Dayang, and I am afraid that he also thought of this layer. ”

"In this way, those people who have no one at home to serve as soldiers will have to fend for themselves, and it will not cause much trouble to the army!" Zhou Cang picked up the tea bowl, took a sip, his boring mood suddenly improved a lot, and nodded to Tao Huanniang on the side and praised: "Huanniang's tea, but it is getting better and better!" ”

"Brother Yuanfu is all joking!" Tao Huanniang scooped some tea with a wooden spoon, helped Liu Wei and Zhou Cang fill the tea cups, and said softly: "When did the eldest brother drink the tea cooked by the slave family?" ”

"I haven't drunk the tea that Huanniang boiled, and I haven't drunk the white water?" Zhou Cang smiled awkwardly, drank all the tea in the tea bowl in one gulp, stood up and clenched his fists and said to Liu Wei: "The last general will go to inquire about those men who have entered the city, and he will not let the thieves' spies get away." ”

Looking up at Zhou Cang, Liu Wei didn't speak, just nodded silently.

Thinking of a way to increase the number of soldiers and relieve the pressure on the supply of grain and grass in the city in a small amount, Liu Wei's mood was not as relaxed as Zhou Cang's.

The immediate measures can only temporarily alleviate the difficulties, but they cannot solve the problem at its root. If he wants to deal with this matter thoroughly, he must have a piece of land that belongs to his power and allocate fertile land to the people and let them cultivate, only in that way can he not only solve the problem of tens of thousands of mouths to eat, but also create a powerful logistics supply base for the army.

But at the moment, Liu Wei does not have the strength to compete for territory, he has too few soldiers, and the Central Plains is surrounded by strong enemies, even if he wins the territory, he may not be able to hold it.

The only way is to wait for Xu Shu's army to return, immediately go north, away from the Central Plains, and get a piece of the pie from the Hebei heroes!

In the city, the officers and soldiers were intensively investigating the young men who had entered the city, while Liu Wei sat in the house all day thinking about what to do in the future.

The sky gradually darkened, and the light through the window quietly receded.

Tao Huanniang lit the white candles on the candlestick one by one, and gently picked out the burning wick with a knife.

The candles flickered, and the room was filled with soft candlelight.

"The slave family fetches water for His Highness." After picking out the wick of the white candle, Tao Huanniang gathered up and blessed Liu Wei, and said softly: "Your Highness has been tired for days, and it will be sharper to burn your feet." ”

"There is Lao Huanniang!" Sitting at the table, Liu Wei, who was thinking about how to go in the future, thanked Tao Huanniang first, and then shouted outside the door: "Someone!" ”

A personal soldier heard the shouting and entered the house, but Tao Huanniang walked out of the room at this time.

"Order General Zhou to send a scout horse to survey the area around Yucheng!" Raising his eyes and looking at the soldiers who walked into the house, Liu Wei said to him: "Be sure to find out the distribution of the defenders of Yucheng and the surrounding forces!" ”

"No!" The soldier answered, turned and exited the room.

Xu Shu led the army to the south bank of the Yellow River, it has been more than half a month, according to the schedule, it will not be long before they should return to Dayang, since Xu Shu mentioned Yucheng earlier, it is only a matter of time before taking it, rather than waiting until the march to send out a scout, it is better to send people in advance to find out the situation.

"Your Highness, it's time to wash!" Not long after the soldiers received the order to leave, Tao Huanniang walked into the house with a wooden basin filled with steaming water, put the basin in front of Liu Wei, and said to him: "The slave family has boiled some hot water, which is just right to burn His Highness's feet." ”

"I've been a little tired these days." Glancing at Tao Huanniang squatting in front of him, Liu Wei smiled slightly, untied the linen wrapped around his feet, sat on the ground, and put his feet into the wooden basin.

Squatting next to the wooden basin, Tao Huanniang gently helped Liu Wei scrub his toes with her hands.

The little hand rubbed Liu Bian's feet, Tao Huanniang's cheeks were red, her head was lowered, and a pair of beautiful eyes just looked at Liu Bian's feet soaked in the basin intently.

"Huanniang, you take care of me so much, one day, I will even have to ask you to feed me." Looking at Tao Huanniang, who was full of shyness, Liu Wei said to her softly: "There are some things that I have done by myself." ”

"The slave family is willing to serve His Highness for the rest of his life!" Lowering her head and gently rubbing Liu Wei's feet, Tao Huanniang replied a little distractedly, probably feeling that this sentence was a little inappropriate, and as soon as the words came out of her mouth, her cheeks turned a lot redder than before.

After washing Liu Bian's feet and serving him to lie down, Tao Huanniang blew out the white candles in the house, walked to her bed in the dark, and took off her clothes in a stumbling manner.

The covers of the two were very close to each other, and when Tao Huanniang was undressing, Liu Wei faintly smelled a faint fragrance.

This faint fragrance is not the aroma of fat powder, nor the fragrance of flowers and plants, but the unique fragrance of some young women.

Liu Wei also hugged Tao Huanniang in his arms, but every time he hugged Tao Huanniang, Tao Huanniang was wearing thick clothes.

The clothes covered the overflowing fragrance, so that Liu Wei could not smell such a refreshing fragrance.

The light in the room was very dim, Tao Huanniang took off her silk clothes, and Liu Wei could only faintly see a carcass with a faint luster appearing in the dark night.

The hazy beauty can sometimes be more stimulating to the senses. If you want to see clearly, but you can't see it vaguely, it can induce the most primitive desire of human beings to explore.

may have felt that Liu Wei was looking at her, and after taking off her deep clothes, Tao Huanniang got into the mattress very dexterously, wrapped the mattress tightly around her body, only her head was exposed, and a pair of beautiful eyes also looked at Liu Bi who was lying only two feet away from her without blinking.