Chapter Fifty-Six: Hunger and Drowning
Li Xuandu groaned: "What about the table words?"
The palace official said: "I am not a woman from a big family, and no one gave me a table name." ”
Li Xuandu hesitated for a moment before he said, "Okay, the official is." ”
The palace official laughed, his eyes curled into a pair of crescents.
Li Xuandu said: "Aunt Gong...... Official, I said in advance that if I were in front of others, I would never call you that. ”
The palace official chuckled and said, "In front of others, it's in front of Sister Qin." ”
Li Xuandu said indifferently: "If you don't agree, then I can't do anything, I still call you the palace girl." ”
The palace official was silent for a moment, and suddenly said: "If others want to call me so, I still don't want to, whether it is in the Wudao Sect or the Maiden Sect, whoever dares to call me that way without my permission, I will definitely cut off his tongue." But when I met you, I begged you in every possible way, but you refused. What a sin. ”
Li Xuan was puzzled and said: "Because you can't cut my tongue, you can't help me, if it were you Holy Monarch, would you still talk to me like this? I'm afraid that I will already make me suffer." ”
The palace official didn't know when he took his folding fan, unfolded it with a "snap", covered his mouth and smiled: "Those who know me, Zifu also." If I have the ability of Zifu, I must throw you, a bad guy, into Qujiang Pond and turn you into a soup chicken. ”
Li Xuandu's heart is cold, he is not ignorant of the relationship between men and women, you must know that women have always been duplicitous, the most obvious example is the good and bad people in the woman's mouth, if you have no intention of you, you are a good person, if you are interested in you, you are a bad person. Thinking of this, Li Xuan didn't want to continue with the conversation, and said, "Without further ado, I'll help you get rid of the 'ghost curse' first." ”
The palace official lowered his eyes and said in a low voice: "The left and right are not in a hurry." ”
Li Xuandu said: "High and low are also death, do you want to die?"
The palace official turned his face away, "It's best to die, it's you who hurt it anyway." ”
Li Xuandu laughed angrily: "Left and right, high and low, anyway, people always have to be reasonable, why did I hurt it?"
The palace official snorted lightly, "Why didn't you hurt me, if it wasn't for you to know the whereabouts of the Yin Yang Sect, why would I go to Loulan City? If I care about my own safety and know that Zhong Wu is also in Loulan City, I will be slapped by Zhong Wu?"
Although the palace official's words were suspected of being strong, but there was some truth to it, Li Xuandu had to say: "Okay, just think it's my harm, and now the official has also called, it's time for me to treat your injuries, right?"
The palace official tilted his head and said, "Do you know that you are wrong?"
Li Xuandu said: "The world is in chaos, good and evil are fighting, lives are ruined, and the people are not happy, it is all my fault." ”
The palace official smiled, "If you want to say that, it's not wrong, after you went to the imperial capital, there was a change in the imperial capital, you went to the royal court, and the golden horde was in chaos." For example, half of today's changes are due to you. ”
Li Xuandu said: "Then I am really a sinner for the ages." Anyway, since you are a sinner through the ages, I won't reason with you. ”
Before the words fell, Li Xuandu suddenly pointed at the palace official.
The realm cultivation of the palace official was not as far as Li Xuandu, and Li Xuandu suddenly made a move without warning, and the palace official was immediately blocked by Li Xuandu and could not move
Get.
Li Xuandu stretched out the index finger of his right hand, and there was a six-colored breath on the fingertips, which was the earth master's peerless "Six Void Tribulations", after the practice of this martial art, in addition to the innate five Tai and the "Haoran Qi" that cultivated to the fullest, there was almost nothing, and the "ghost curse" was naturally also among them.
Although the palace official couldn't move, there was no fear in his eyes, and he looked at Li Xuandu at this time, coquettish and cowardly, which increased his pitiful state.
Li Xuandu flicked his fingers and shot a wisp of breath into the palace official's shoulder, and after about a stick of incense, Li Xuandu unlocked the prohibition on the palace official.
The palace official only felt a burst of weakness all over his body, and fell crooked on the chaise longue.
Li Xuandu asked, "How do you feel about it?"
The palace official frowned slightly, "I am weak, and I feel empty." ”
Li Xuandu nodded, "I'll teach you a mantra, and you run the qi machine according to the mantra, so that after thirty-six days, it will return to normal." ”
The palace official asked, "What will happen if I don't do this?"
Li Xuandu glanced at her, "The 'Ghost Curse' I used to resolve the 'Ghost Curse' for you, it is equivalent to fighting poison with poison, I don't have much qi into your body, this mantra can help you resolve the remaining six qi in your body, if you don't act according to this, it is nothing more than dying from the 'Ghost Curse' to dying from the 'Freedom Six Void Tribulations', but because I don't use many six qi, if I am lucky, I can still save a life, but my cultivation can't be saved, and most of it will be dissolved by my six qi." ”
The palace official let out a soft "ah", and I don't know if he heard it.
Li Xuan didn't care about her, and began to recite the mantra.
After all, the palace official didn't dare to be careless in such life-and-death matters, closed his eyes, and began to operate the qi machine according to the formula.
After Li Xuandu finished reciting a mantra, and the palace official also completed the first Great Zhou Tian, I saw a wisp of black gas rising above his head, which was very weird.
Li Xuandu glanced at her, turned around and walked out of the cabin, standing on the bow of the boat, the qi machine on his body bounced the raindrops away, only to see that the boat under his feet was already unknown, and the sky and earth were full of rain and fog, and he couldn't see anything clearly. Thousands of raindrops fell on the surface of the lake, stirring up countless ripples and sounds.
After about an hour, there was a sound in the cabin behind Li Xuandu, it was the palace official who walked out, she was holding a paper umbrella in her hand, but the words on the paper umbrella had changed, and it was the song "Yulin Bell": "The cicada is poignant, and it is late for Changting." At the beginning of the shower, the Dumen tent had no clue, and the party was nostalgic, and the blue boat was urged. Holding hands and looking at each other's teary eyes, they were speechless and choked. Thinking of going, thousands of miles of smoke waves, twilight is heavy and the sky is wide. ”
Obviously, the two paper umbrellas were originally a pair, Li Xuan saw this scene, and couldn't help but think of the paper umbrella that Qin Su gave him, and secretly thought in his heart: "I don't know if the palace officials did it on purpose, or if the thoughts of women all over the world are the same, it is such a coincidence, I must not accept this umbrella, so as not to think too much about the palace officials, and so as not to make Su Su sad and unhappy." ”
The palace official said softly: "Thank you Zifu for coming to the rescue." ”
Li Xuandu asked, "Have you checked it?"
The palace official nodded and said, "I have already seen it, the 'ghost curse' is gone, and there is no trouble." ”
Li Xuandu said: "The only fly in the ointment is that you have to compromise a little bit of cultivation." ”
"It doesn't matter. The palace official smiled, "There are so many people who died from the 'ghost curse' on the rivers and lakes
'People, don't say it's a little cultivation, I'm afraid it's half of the cultivation, they are all willing, I can meet the Purple Mansion, I am already very lucky, I can't be insatiable anymore. ”
This sentence was a pun, Li Xuandu's face was slightly gloomy, and he said: "It's a blessing to meet me? ”、
The palace official smiled slightly, and didn't distinguish with him, and asked: "No matter what, thank Zifu, I don't know how Zifu wants me to thank you?"
Li Xuandu said: "Why don't you talk to me about Xijing." ”
"Good. The palace official nodded, "I don't know what the Purple Mansion wants to know?"
Li Xuandu said: "I don't understand the arrangement of the soldiers, attacking the city and plundering the land, so I don't want to ask about the deployment of the troops of the Great Zhou, you can rest assured, I just want to know, how many rations can the people of Xijing have a day?"
The palace official was silent for a moment.
Li Xuandu looked at her, "What, is it difficult to answer, or dare not answer?"
The palace official shook his head, "Yesterday, the Purple Mansion was inquiring about the grain market, which shows that the Purple Mansion also knows that food is the key now." With food, the people will be able to stabilize, and if the people are stabilized, they will be able to have more food. On the contrary, if there is no food, the people flee the famine and become homeless, and the first thing the homeless people do is to grab the grain, then more homeless people will be created, and many people who originally had food will also be coerced into the homeless, which will eventually lead to more and more homeless people, more and more barren fields, fewer and fewer people who can cultivate the fields, and less and less food. ”
Li Xuandu said: "Yashengyun: 'Yu thinks that there are drowning people in the world, and they are drowning; 'You must not ignore your hunger and drowning. I have never had the luxury of being in harmony in the world, and what I have asked for is just to end the troubled times, so that the vast majority of people can have a bite to eat, instead of starving all over the wilderness as they are now. ”
The palace official was silent for a moment, and said: "In terms of the prefectures and counties of Xizhili around Xijing alone, there are about three million registered people, and the registered acres of land are about five million mu, of which two million fields are the granges of powerful people, families, big families, and gentry. Each mu can produce two and a half stones of grain in a good year, and two and a half stones of grain in a bad year. The grain produced is spread out to each person, and it is less than 300 catties throughout the year. If the field rent and tax are removed, it will be spread to less than five or two meters per person per day. This is still Xijing, the situation is good, and in farther places, there are only about two taels per person per day. ”
Li Xuandu was silent after hearing this.
Whether it is five or two meters, or two or two meters, it is not enough, and it is impossible to completely divide it evenly, and some people are bound to starve to death and some people to flee the famine. Qinzhou is like this, in fact, Zhongzhou and other places are not much better, maybe Qizhou and Jiangzhou are slightly better. However, the best is still the three states of Liaodong, over the years, Zhao Zhengli Liaodong three states, vigorously develop farming, quite effective, each person can have at least eight or two meters per day, although it is not the best, but looking at the entire two capitals and 19 states, it is already unparalleled. And if you join the army, each person's daily ration can have a catty of three or two or five dollars, there is no problem with the stomach, and there is also silver, so most of the Liaodong iron cavalry are children of good families in the army, and their combat power is excellent.
Thinking of this, Li Xuan couldn't help but sigh lightly, "Xing, the people are bitter." Death, the people suffer. It is no wonder that the people want to rise up and rebel, and at this time, they can't eat enough, they can't live, and they don't care about etiquette and morality. Confucianism reprimanded the displaced people for causing trouble, but they could not let the displaced people have enough to eat, and they always set up a pot to cook white rice, and there was no reason to set up a pot to cook. ”