A month has passed in the blink of an eye.

In the scorching summer, Fujian and Guangdong at this time are like a big steamer, the riverbed begins to dry up, and many fields along the river also begin to crack, like a hideous scar, shocking.

There was a great drought in Guangdong.

Fortunately, this is not the land of fish and rice, and it is okay to have a little drought, but because the water level of many rivers has dropped, it has made many merchants miserable, and many places cannot be sailed, so they must go by land, and once they take the land route, they do not know how much money they will have to spend and how many days they need to delay.

Hao Fenglou also delayed a lot of time for this, but he observed along the way, but found that the drought in Guangdong, in fact, was much lower than he imagined, the reason is nothing more than in recent years, many fields in Guangdong have been abandoned, a large number of people smuggled to Langshan, here young people would rather engage in industry and commerce, than willing to farm, so they no longer have to rely on the sky for food.

It is precisely because of this that even if there is a famine year, the grain production is reduced, and the only thing that makes Guangdong suffer is that the price of grain has almost doubled, in fact, the impact is not great, it is precisely because of the sharp rise in grain that businessmen from all over the vicinity have escorted a large number of grain to sell, although it has made life much more difficult for the local people, but they still barely have the motivation to survive the famine year.

Many times, in this era, people just want to live, and if they can live, everything else is not very important.

After all, eating bran vegetables is the norm, and everyone is used to living a hard life.

The 800 guards are now wearing summer uniforms, all of them are dressed in short clothes, but there is a lot of luggage, everyone is tanned, and everyone has suffered a lot. Fortunately, their willpower is enough, and there are no complaints.

However, their group attracted a lot of attention. I don't know how many local officials or personnel of the waterway inspection department have negotiated with the wharves and county towns along the way. Their attitude towards Hao Fenglou and the others is almost the same, they are just respectful and stay away.

Hao Fenglou's name is to send off Empress Liu, which is a bit ridiculous, but if people want to show 'loyalty', what can you say. Don't say so, even if people have no reason, what can you do when you meet someone from the Hao family?

This is Hao Fenglou's reliance, the biggest problem of this empire is. In addition to the Son of Heaven, there are few people who dare to take responsibility, the perfect decentralization system established by Emperor Taizu, a certain Cheng dù also castrated all the courtiers completely, everyone has a little power in their hands, in fact, it is equivalent to no power, no right there is no responsibility, no responsibility is only perfunctory and prevarication. As long as you don't make mistakes.

Seeing the Pearl River port, everyone knew that this king of Pingnan was a wolf's ambition. I can't say what will happen this time, but what does it have to do with them, if the court doesn't issue a document, everyone is happy to pretend to be confused. Just stay away.

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But for these two people in Guangdong, this matter is a little troublesome, one of them is Liu Yan, the political envoy of Guangdong. The other is Wang Meng, the commander of the capital of Guangdong.

I heard that Hao Fenglou was coming to Guangzhou and was about to arrive. The hearts of the two benevolent brothers suddenly went up and down, and things were a little bad. That Hao Fenglou tossed in Guilin, although the imperial court praised it, but everyone knew that the Son of Heaven had been angry, and now Hao Fenglou came to Guangzhou, and the person who came was not good.

Besides, Empress Liu and the two princes are in Guangzhou, waiting for Huangmen Qin to take over with the forbidden army.

Others can pass the buck, but although these two have no power, they have the obligation to protect Queen Liu.

Therefore, just when Hao Fenglou was about to arrive in Guangzhou City, the two of them sat in the public room in the yamen of the political envoy, first sighing for a long time, and then planning.

"Lord Liu, those who come are not good, those who are good are not coming, then Hao Fenglou has come all the way, there is no possibility of giving up, if you can't deal with it properly, you and I are all guilty of death, Queen Liu, how do you think it is arranged?"

Liu Yan twisted his beard, first sighed bitterly, and finally said: "Some things, we have to say it first, you and I are people in the same boat, so we must unite sincerely, that Hao Fenglou has instigated a rebellion in Guangxi, this Guangdong, their Hao family is afraid that there is also a lot of hidden strength, if you send Empress Liu back to Beijing, this Hao Fenglou instigated the people to abduct Empress Liu, it is a big trouble, so we must keep Guangzhou City, Guangzhou City now has 7,300 military households, there are more than 6,900 people, but these alone, I am afraid it is insufficient, Some elites must be drawn from everywhere just in case. ”

The commander made Wang Meng shake his head and smile bitterly, the crux of the problem is here, he has no troops at hand. Hao's army occupied Guilin, so in order to prevent Hao's army, most of Guangdong's soldiers and horses were stationed in western Guangdong, with more than 30,000 people, which is all the armed forces that Guangdong can handle. If all of them are transferred to Guangzhou to protect Empress Liu, do you want other places?

Seeing Wang Meng hesitated, Liu Yan said with a straight face: "In an eventful autumn, we must protect the safety of the queen mother despite all difficulties, otherwise there will be a slight mistake, how can you and I afford to be guilty?" The old man knows your difficulties, and he also knows that you are a clever woman without rice, but now, the old man still said it directly, the court has long known about it, but there is no will, but just a few days ago, the old man's teacher came to repair a letter. ”

Wang Meng suddenly showed a solemn and respectful look, because Wang Meng knew in his heart that this political envoy, where is there any teacher, the most favorite thing in the officialdom is to build a relationship, as long as he can barely get on the line, he dares to admit any relationship, just say that this Wang Buzheng, speaking of which, he is not too young than his teacher, but because when he was in Beijing, it happened that his teacher was studying in Hanlin at that time, and he happened to teach some lessons, Liu Buzheng became a protégé.

Because of this teacher, he is now very amazing, his name is Huang Huai.

Wang Meng said: "Oh, but I don't know what Huang Ge Lao said? ”

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Chapter 2 is here! (To be continued......)