Chapter 60

The winter of the second year of Zhizhi was particularly cold, and the displaced people still poured into Chenguo County, and the soldiers of Chenguo County and the officials of various counties urgently blocked the passes around Chenguo County, and a large number of displaced people were blocked in the surrounding areas of Chen Guo County, and in the cold wilderness, hundreds of thousands of people were frozen to death every day, which brought great pressure to the surrounding counties of Chen Guo County, and the surrounding counties and counties were asked to take measures as soon as possible, either to allocate money and grain to help the displaced people, or to open the gate of Chen Guo County and let these displaced people go to Chen Guo County.

But no matter what way it is, the court can't agree to it, and it doesn't dare to agree.

The number of displaced people reported by various counties in Yuzhou has already reached the millions, and with the current land of Chenguo County, more than 300,000 displaced people can be resettled at most, and the number of displaced people counted in the counties of Chenguo County is almost 500,000, and the influx of one million displaced people will undoubtedly crush the entire Chenguo County.

Allocate money and grain, and the court now has money and grain allocation.

The emperor summoned the ministers of Shangshutai to discuss for several days, and Pan Lian proposed to let Yuzhou immediately arrest these displaced people and send them back to their hometowns, Qiuyun immediately objected, and these displaced people gathered together and forcibly repatriated, which was easy to provoke a popular uprising.

Gan Tang supported Qiuyun, Zuo Chen supported Pan Lian, Pan Ji was silent, the emperor was in a dilemma, and let Xue Mi and the king of Yanping County participate in the discussion, the two unanimously opposed Pan Lian's proposition, Xue Mi came up with an idea to spread rumors among the displaced people, saying that the imperial court wanted to settle the displaced people in Qingzhou and lure the displaced people to Qingzhou.

This idea was so absurd that it was unanimously refuted by Pan Lian Gantang Zuochen, but it was supported by Qiuyun, and the king of Yanping County believed that when the organization guided the displaced people to go further south and settle in Xiangzhou and Jiaozhou, which were wild lands, except for a few natives, most areas were not reclaimed, there were many borderless lands, and there was no problem in rehousing millions of displaced people.

But no matter what kind of resettlement, money and grain are needed, and it takes thousands of miles to travel thousands of miles from Yuzhou to Jiaozhou and Xiangzhou, and in this process, how much grain do you have to give to the displaced people?

The court was in a dilemma, and another problem arose, and Gu Wei and Gu Wei were also making slow progress in cleaning up the salt administration in Yangzhou, and the imperial history of Yangzhou continued to impeach Gu Yu, saying that he had accepted bribes from salt merchants in Yangzhou.

The emperor repeatedly decreed that Gu Wei should speed up the progress, and before the beginning of spring, he must provide more than 10 million taels of silver to the imperial court, but Gu Wei and Gu Wei are sparse, Yangzhou salt merchants are cleaning up, and the salt merchants are hiding the salt fields and hiding the salt households, and they need time to clean up.

The emperor was angry, but he had no choice but to keep urging.

The matter here is not over, the king of Qin is urgent, the snow disaster in the desert this year is serious, in this case, after the beginning of spring, the Hu people will either go south to invade the Central Plains, or kill each other, so, after the beginning of spring, there will be an accident on the grassland, and the court must prepare early.

In this case, the emperor did not have the heart to live the Shangyuan Festival at all, the Shangyuan Festival in the second year of the reign is the most deserted Shangyuan Festival in the past ten years, the people are also not active, the palaces and wealthy families are also not active, only the Cui Mansion and the Ding Mansion competed, last year the Cui Mansion had the upper hand, this year again the competition, both sides have deliberately suppressed the scale, compared with last year is much worse, the real trouble is still Hanhai Trading Company.

Hanhai Trading Company carried out a large-scale promotional activity during the Shangyuan Festival, the female clerks of the trading company all cheongsam and high heels, wearing ribbons along the street to solicit customers, all the goods of the jewelry store were 20% off, the flower cloth of the cloth store was hung in bright colors for half of the street, and the store door held an activity of knocking easter eggs to send rice and vegetable oil, guessing riddles and sending flower cloth, which was lively and lively for seven days.

In these seven days, Hanhai Trading Company showed its strong strength, sending nearly 1,000 pieces of flower cloth worth thousands of taels of silver in seven days, plus discounts from jewelry stores, and spending tens of thousands of taels of silver on the entire Shangyuan Festival.

After the event, Liu Han announced a two-day holiday, so that the big guy could rest and rest.

In fact, during the seven days of the Shangyuan Festival, Liu Han did not live in Liufu, but on Zhang Mei's side, but the people in Liufu did not notice it, Qingjin thought that Liu Han was in Tianna, Tianna naturally knew, but she would never say it.

Liu Han was on Zhang Mei's side, on the one hand, to urge Zhang Mei to practice, and on the other hand, to show Fan Ju.

After drinking that drink, Liu Han had a feeling that the Brotherhood was probably planning something to do, and he couldn't hold back a little, otherwise he wouldn't be so eager to develop members. Moreover, if Fan Ju fails to recruit him, he will definitely have to keep an eye on himself for a while, and use this time to observe him more closely, and maybe he can get some news about the Brotherhood.

During the Shangyuan Festival, the two families had a meal together, this time it was Liu Han who invited guests, this time it was still divided into tables, but they were all in the teahouse, divided into two tables, but this time it was just a meal, and said something irrelevant, Fan Ju asked about the things on the desert, Liu Han said some strange things, such as horse thieves, and sandstorms, how to deal with the horse team, some Zhang Mei had heard of it, and some did not, which shocked the three women, but Liu Han felt that Fan's sister-in-law was a little like pretending, and she was not really surprised.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, Shangyuan Festival, the incense of the various Taoist temples in the imperial capital is boiling, the people of the imperial capital pour into the various Taoist temples to burn incense and make wishes, Liu Han also took Zhang Mei Zuolan to the Qingyuan Temple to burn incense, this Qingyuan Temple is in the west of the imperial capital, just on the edge of the Jiangmen in the south of Jianyang Gate, this Kaijiangmen is a water gate, the north and south of the imperial capital two rivers, the north is the Luo River, the south is Yishui, between the two rivers, the previous dynasty dug a canal, this canal through the imperial capital, across the north and south.

Qingyuan view is on the side of the canal, the Great Jin Dynasty establishes the country with Taoist classics, the Jin people worship Taoism, the Great Jin Dynasty has countless Taoist temples, the imperial capital is particularly prosperous, there are dozens of Taoist temples in the imperial capital city, there are hundreds of Taoist temples outside the city, each Taoist temple is the peak of incense.

Each Taoist temple enshrines different immortals, Qingyuan Temple enshrines Taoist ancestors, many Taoist temples also worship Taoist ancestors, but at the same time as worshipping Taoist ancestors, other immortals are also enshrined, but Qingyuan Temple only enshrines Taoist ancestors, there is no matching hall, there is no deserving, there is only one main hall, therefore, the incense is a little worse than other Taoist temples, but in this festival, it is still crowded here.

Liu Han accompanied Zhang Mei Zuolan to worship incense in the main hall, donated fifty money to the merit box, and then wanted to go around in the Taoist temple, this Qingyuan Temple is not big or small, it is also divided into two parts, the front hall and the back house, the front hall has nothing to do, except for the main hall, there are no other more houses, there are many trees in the yard, but now these trees are only left with bare branches, dry branches on the flower garden.

The three of them naturally walked to the backyard, and the backyard was not forbidden to enter, but at a moon gate in the southeast corner of the backyard, the three of them were stopped, and a middle-aged Taoist priest stopped them very politely.

"This is where the brothers of Guanli are staying, all laymen, please stay. ”

The middle-aged Taoist priest was very polite, but his expression was very firm, Liu Han smiled at him, turned his head and said to Zhang Mei: "Look at it, you are not allowed to enter here, let's go back." ”

Zhang Mei naturally didn't say anything, she turned around and left meekly, Liu Han looked at the middle-aged Taoist priest, the middle-aged Taoist priest was very burly, with thick palms exposed and thick calluses on the edge of the palms. Liu Han sighed in his heart and turned to leave.

Coming out of the Taoist temple, Zhang Mei was very excited, pulling Zuo Lan to drill around the small stalls on both sides of the street, most of these vendors sold cheap headdress decorations, hand-carved statues of gods, and most of them were all kinds of snacks.

"Master, is it good-looking?" Zhang Mei excitedly took a string of paper flowers, put them on her head, and looked at Liu Han with a smile, Liu Han shook her head at her, Zhang Mei pouted, and put the paper flowers back, but Zuo Lan picked up an earring for her, Zhang Mei put it on again, and then let Liu Han take a look, Liu Han felt that this was okay.

Liu Han has actually discovered that this Zuo Lan's aesthetic vision is much stronger than Zhang Mei's, but in the end, he came from a scholar's family, even if he sold himself as a slave, the bookish spirit on his body is still not gone.

Liu Han was about to greet them, when he suddenly saw a wonderful woman, this woman was wearing a red brocade with white fox trim, and she was also wearing a red snow hat with white fox fur on her head, when she turned her back to him, he couldn't recognize who it was, but he recognized the man next to her, it was a white-clothed fluttering son, but this person was by no means one of those profligate sons in the imperial capital, but a master of profound cultivation, and he had seen it himself.

"Who is this guy chasing? This woman looks pretty good. Liu Han wondered in his heart, and wanted to go around to see the woman, but just as his figure was about to move, he heard Zhang Mei asking, "Master, is this good-looking?"

"You, what are you buying this thing for, when you make money this year, you will take you to the jewelry store of Hanhai Trading Company next year, and we will buy two good ones in a down-to-earth manner." Liu Han smiled bitterly, the hairpin she compared looked very beautiful, but it was actually a silver-plated copper hairpin.

Returning to Zhang Mei's words, his eyes were staring at the pair of men and women, and the suspicion in his heart deepened, at this time, a woman came out of the crowd next to him and walked to the side of the red brocade, this woman was wearing a satin coat, obviously, this woman was the maid of the red brocade.

But as soon as Liu Han saw this woman, his expression suddenly changed, and a fire suddenly rose in his heart, and he was thinking about whether to go over, when the man in white looked up, he was shocked, and hurriedly turned his head to look at Zhang Mei and Zuo Lan in embarrassment.

Maybe the two women are too good, the men on the street are looking at them, the man in white also regarded Liu Han as one of those men, and ignored it, the woman in red was walking forward slowly, and the man in white hurriedly followed.

Liu Han temporarily suppressed the fire, the suspicion in his heart was even greater, and he wanted to follow him, but he was afraid of the man in white, thought about it, and decided to put it down for the time being, regardless of them.

"Go back, go back, look at what you buy, waste money. Liu Han said unhappily, Zhang Mei and Zuo Lan were stunned, they were fine just now, why did they suddenly change, the two of them hurriedly put the things back, and then followed behind Liu Han.

Liu Han walked very fast, Zhang Mei and Zuo Lan had to trot to keep up, especially Zuo Lan, she didn't have a little cultivation, she didn't go far, she couldn't support it, Zhang Mei hurriedly helped her and shouted to Liu Han: "Master, wait for it, wait for it." ”

Liu Han looked back and saw that the two of them were panting and sweating, and then he realized that he had lost his temper, Zhang Mei helped Zuo Lan over, and asked suspiciously: "Master, what's wrong with you, why are you walking so fast?"

Liu Han was slightly stunned and said casually: "It's nothing, I'm used to it." Looking up at the sky: "It's not early, we have to hurry, there's a carriage and horse shop over there, hire a car." ”

Zhang Mei looked at the carriage on the side of the street, the imperial capital is too big, there are millions of people in the city, from the east city to the west city, there are dozens of miles, so the means of transportation also came into being, there are sedan cars, there are carriages and horses, if the people of the imperial capital who have a few dollars want to go far, they have to hire a car, but this is not a taxi, the carriage will not go around the street, can only be hired in the carriage and horse shop.

"It's not far, let's go slower. Zhang Mei is still very frugal and doesn't want to spend this money, and Zuo Lan is obviously the same, but she doesn't dare to speak because of her identity.

Liu Han didn't insist, and walked slowly with the two girls, at this time the two girls already knew that Liu Han's mood had changed, and after walking a distance, Zhang Mei carefully asked Liu Han what was wrong, Liu Han shook his head slightly, indicating that it was nothing.

At this time, an accident appeared, the white fox and the maid came out of the small shop on the side, the boy in white was still following on the side, Liu Han clearly saw her face, yes, it was Qingjin, the maid who followed her was Luzhu, and the boy in white was actually Jiang Ta.

Qingjin's expression was faint, there was a trace of sadness between her eyebrows, there was no smile on her fair face, Luzhu carefully supported her, and gently admonished her from time to time. Jiang Ta held a fan in his hand, and said a few words on the side from time to time, looking as if he was proposing something, but Qingjin was always faint.

"What is this *** doing?" Liu Han was puzzled in his heart, of course he didn't believe that Qing Jin would cuckold himself, he had the intention to eavesdrop, but Jiang Ta's cultivation was not weak, it was said that there was a grandmaster cultivation, after the last time he was in that mysterious courtyard, he didn't dare to use his divine sense to probe others, unless he clearly knew that the other party's cultivation was much worse than his own.

"Shall we go there to have a cup of tea and have a rest?" Liu Han saw the teahouse on the side, so he asked Zhang Mei, Zhang Mei suddenly relaxed, and shook her head carefully: "Master, Nu Na is so delicate, Lanzi,."

To say that Liu Han and Zhang Mei really didn't treat Zuo Lan as a slave, they asked for her opinion on many things, and sometimes they did what she wanted.

Zuo Lan is not as good as Zhang Mei, Zhang Mei still has more or less cultivation, and she has also broken through the rivers and lakes before, Zuo Lan has no cultivation at all, although she is not a big lady and lady, but she is not a creature like Zhang Mei that grows in the wild.

"Why don't you eat something, the maid can't walk anymore. ”

I was in too much hurry just now, and Zuo Lan's face was still red, like a layer of rouge, which was very tempting.

"Okay, what do you want to eat?" Liu Han said casually, Zhang Mei looked up and looked around, but Zuo Lan was very keen, and immediately looked at Qingjin and Jiang Ta.

Zhang Mei quickly picked a roadside stall, the stall owner is a middle-aged man in his forties, set up two tables on the roadside, Liu Han and the three sat down, Zhang Mei called three bowls of donkey broth and three cakes to the stall owner, the stall owner promised, first brought three bowls of donkey broth, and put the coriander in front of them, Zuo Lan sandwiched some coriander into the soup, and the donkey broth, which was already very fragrant, immediately became richer.

Liu Han didn't care about this, his attention was attracted by Qing Jin and Jiang Ta, and a few men in green clothes blocked their way.