after being kidnapped by the general

Yuan Li was dragged by Ouyang Ting to the mansion, his expression was blank and dazed.

Before he could react to Ouyang Ting's words, his chest was already jumping faster.

Chu Hechao's... letter?

Was it really the letter written by Chu Hechao?

Chu Hechao... is he really alive?

Ouyang Ting took Yuan Li all the way to the study, and asked the old slave to take out the hidden baggage.

The bundle was wrapped in gray coarse cloth with mud, dust and dry grass on it, even if it was thrown on the ground, it wouldn't hurt.

From the appearance of this burden, Yuan Li's eyes were glued to it, and his feet were glued to the ground.

He hoped that it was really something sent by Chu Hechao, but also feared that it was a trap set up by King Chen.My mind is pulling left and right, I am afraid that after the hope rises, there will be joy in vain.

Ouyang Ting turned to Yuan Li and said, "Open it and have a look?"

Yuanli's Adam's apple rolled. After all, he was not a stagnant character. After taking a deep breath, he walked over neatly and unpacked the burden a few times.

The dust was shaken off on the table, Yuan Li lowered his eyes to see that there were two simple coarse clothes in the bag, which were very ordinary.

Ouyang Ting added from the side: "It was a bit strange for me to receive this package that day, and it was even more strange when I opened it. If I hadn't found a letter in the middle of the clothes, I would have missed this package."

Yuan Li heard the words, picked up the clothes, and sure enough, he saw a letter underneath.

After seeing the letter, Yuanli's movements slowed down instead.He seemed to be able to hear the sound of his own heart beating in his ears. He stabilized his slightly trembling hands and calmly took out the letter. Before he opened it, Ouyang Ting asked repeatedly: "How? Is it Chu Hechao's handwriting?"

Yuan Li smiled wryly, "Teacher, I haven't watched it yet."

Ouyang Ting said anxiously: "Then take a look."

Ouyang Ting's interruption made Yuanli much calmer.

He opened the envelope directly, and was stunned after just looking at it.

Ouyang Ting didn't see anything from his expression, and felt a sudden in his heart: "Le Jun, how are you?"

Yuan Li murmured: "It's his handwriting... Teacher, it's really his handwriting."

The handwriting in the envelope was flying like a dragon and flying like a phoenix, so vigorous and powerful that the strokes almost broke through the paper. These were Chu Hechao's characters. Yuan Li didn't even look at the contents of the letter paper.

Chu Hechao is not dead.

People are still alive.

The tense mind that had been tense for several months suddenly relaxed, and Yuan Li felt a little dreamy. His hand holding the letter paper was so hard that it turned white, and he almost burst into tears.

Ouyang Ting was overjoyed and laughed from ear to ear. He kept saying, "I knew it, I knew it, Chu Hechao is very fateful, and he will never die so easily!"

He wished he could tell the good news to the world, and when he turned his head, he saw Yuan Li's expression of crying and joy, and Ouyang Ting's eyes became hot. He knew that Yuan Li must calm down and read the letter, so he walked out thoughtfully Study room, "This is a good thing, a great thing! I'll ask your mistress to cook two more dishes, Le Jun, you want to drink a few more glasses of wine with me tonight!"

After he left, the study fell silent.

There are birds chirping outside the window. I don't know if they are happy that spring is coming, or they are busy building their nests.

It took Yuanli a long time to recover, his eyes were moist, and he looked at the letter seriously.

The man who wrote the letter knew him well, and began with a gentle sentence, "Don't cry when you see the letter, my heart will be at ease."

Yuan Li endured the tears of joy and became a calm and strong Wen Gong again.

Chu Hechao seemed to be afraid of being unsafe, so he didn't write much in the letter.They only said that he was fine, but didn't mention where he was or what he was doing.

The rest are asking how Yuanli is, how is Xuzhou, and how is Youzhou.There are a lot of questions about Yuanli.

He asked Yuanli if he was scared, asked Yuanli if he was crying, asked Yuanli if he had eaten and slept well, and asked Yuanli if he missed him.

Yuan Li nodded while reading the letter, thinking that Chu Hechao was really bad.

At the beginning, I asked him not to cry, and then wrote so many words that made him unable to hold back tears, his head never stopped nodding.

Scared and cried.

Eat well and sleep well, I miss you.

Chu Hechao also seemed to know Yuanli's answer, and later told how he missed Yuanli.

It's just that he couldn't guarantee whether the letter would be successfully delivered to Yuanli, for fear of being seen by others, every sentence in the letter was extremely restrained and reserved, suppressing all the turbulent emotions of Chu Hechao.

Yuan Li's eyes were red after reading it.

He put the envelope away and hid it away.Walking out the door and looking, Ouyang Ting was standing not far away.

Yuan Li smiled again: "Teacher."

Ouyang Ting looked back and saw that Yuan Li's face was radiant, as if he was a different person, that smile made him feel comfortable.Ouyang Ting also laughed, "You can feel at ease now."

Yuan Li raised his lips and smiled, "Teacher, I want to meet the person who sent the letter."

The person who delivered the letter had already been detained by Ouyang Ting. A quarter of an hour later, a thin and ordinary man who looked to be in his early twenties walked in.

As soon as he saw Yuanli, he bent down to salute respectfully, "My subordinate Ji Cong has seen the lord."

Yuan Li was a little surprised, "People from the Grain Institute?"

The visitor nodded, and after seeing that there was no one around, he took out a letter from his shirt, "Return to my lord, this is another secret letter from the general, and I only give it to you. If you have Others intercepted the letter, and would rather destroy it than deliver the letter to others."

Yuan Li's expression froze, he took the letter and read it carefully.

If the previous letter was just an ordinary letter to ensure safety, then this letter was completely read by Yuanli alone.

Chu Hechao made it clear about being ambushed above, and he also informed Yuanli of his plan to change ships to Jiaozhou one by one, and explained the reason for doing so.

Chu Hechao wanted to go to Jiaozhou to borrow troops to attack the rear of Yangzhou, so that he could join forces with Yuan Li and Li Yingwai to attack King Chen together.

He estimated the day when Yuanli would formally start a war with King Chen when he returned from Youzhou. When Yuanli fought with King Chen in the front, he would start from the rear.

Yuanli raised and frowned from time to time.

In the letter, Chu Hechao only mentioned his injuries in one stroke, saying that he was mostly healed now, but Yuan Li was afraid that Chu Hechao was announcing good news rather than bad news.

As for Chu Hechao's borrowing of soldiers, Yuan Li didn't know if it went well or not, and what happened to him now.

But Chu Hechao has his own plan, just like Yuanli has his own idea, all they can do is trust each other and not miss the opportunity.

Apart from these things, there are too many blatantly missed words in this letter, all in vernacular, half meat and half vegetarian, which made Yuan Li blush with embarrassment, and from time to time he pretended not to care and glanced at the people in the Grain Institute, I'm afraid Ji Cong knows what's written in the letter.

However, his extra glances made Ji Cong misunderstand.As if being inspected by the top leader, Ji Cong straightened up immediately, and told the story of meeting Chu Hechao without panting, as skillfully as if he had recited it hundreds of times in private.

Chu Hechao's letter arrived in Xuzhou a month ago.

In fact, the day after Chu Hechao opened his eyes after being seriously injured and comatose for half a month, Chu Hechao was about to write a letter to Yuanli.

But Chu Hechao had only a few dozen remnants of soldiers around him, and he was drifting on the sea with no way out.It wasn't until he changed ships to Jiaozhou that he finally found the "Wansui Rice Grain Store" in the local area, and wrote two letters to the owner of the Wansui Rice Grain Store.

The Wansui Rice Grain Store is the property of the Grain Institute, and the people who run the store are naturally the staff of the Grain Institute.

At that time, Chu Hechao's life and death were still a secret, and the owner of this rice and grain shop didn't know that Yuanli was looking for Chu Hechao in Xuzhou.But he also saw from the appearance of Chu Hechao and others that things were unusual, so he decisively took out the money in the rice grain store to support Chu Hechao, closed the rice grain store that night, and personally sent a letter to Xuzhou .

At that time, King Chen had already started to attack Xuzhou, and the channels for transmitting information were almost destroyed, and the cities were not allowed to enter or leave.

The staff of the Grain Institute had gone through untold hardships to hide the envelope in the bag and send it to Ouyang Ting's mansion a month ago.

Before seeing Yuan Li, he didn't dare to hand over the secret letter to anyone else.

He wanted to pass the news back to Youzhou, but by the time he sent the news back, Yuanli would have returned long ago.Not to mention that he was even more dangerous after he arrived in Xuzhou, he really couldn't send the letter out.

After hearing what he said, Yuan Li no longer felt ashamed. He coughed and asked Lin Tian to take Ji Cong down to rest, and then looked down again.

Having played enough hooligans, Chu Hechao still felt that it was not enough, and at the end sighed authentically: "I am eight years older than you, and I have spent eight years less with you. Now that I am separated for one more day, I will lose my companions." The days you get along with each other, these days are hard to change in the end."

Yuan Li's heart was like still water, but because of this sentence, he became sour.

He sighed and thought in his heart, let's meet as soon as possible.

He slowly folded the letter, his eyes became colder, and a sharp look appeared on his face.

Since Chu Hechao is fine, it's time for him to settle the score with Chen Wang.

Chu Ciye was right.

The sooner we meet, the less regretful day will be.

That night, Yuanli ate the most comfortable and enjoyable meal at Ouyang Ting's place in the past few months.

His appetite made Master Lu's wife smile all over her face, she rolled up her sleeves and went to refill the pot for the master and apprentice with her own hands.

Only Yuan Li, Ouyang Ting and Ouyang Ting's grandchildren were at the dinner table, and the others were sensible and did not get involved, leaving a place of leisure and quiet.

With two children for company, Yuan Li was full of smiles.The children's Tongyan Tongyu made people laugh. They liked Yuanli very much, they hugged Yuanli from time to time and did not let go, and innocently and cutely raised their heads and asked Yuanli where he had been before.

Yuan Li also softened his voice, "I went to buy candy for Yue'er and Sheng'er."

The eyes of the two children were shining brightly: "Wow!"

Yuan Li held back his laughter, had someone bring a box and put it aside, and said to them: "Go, the candy is in the box, as long as you can open the box, the candy inside will belong to you."

The two children suddenly couldn't sit still, and ran to the box cheering.

The box was the size of two children, and the two little guys gave another "wow" and hugged the box with their hands.

Ouyang Ting also went to look at it, and found that the box was not locked, but was tied up with a thin string, and a piece of paper with the title was worn where the string was knotted.

Look at the question again: round when drawing, square when writing, warm with it, cool without it-type a word. *

Ouyang Ting didn't even think about it, he knew it was a word for "日".He found it interesting, and it was even more interesting to see his grandchildren's frowning and thoughtful faces, but he still walked up to Yuanli and said in a low voice, "There are too many candies in this big box. Didn't you say that you eat too much white sugar?" Will it break your teeth?"

Yuan Li blinked at Ouyang Ting, "Teacher, just keep watching."

After the master and apprentice had finished drinking half a jug of wine, the two children also solved the mystery.The servant untied the rope, and the two children clenched their fists and cheered excitedly. Before the excitement was over, the servant brought out a smaller box from the box. A rope and a rope were still wrapped in the box lock. a riddle.

The two children were suddenly dumbfounded.

Seeing them like this, Ouyang Ting laughed happily, and Yuan Li couldn't help smiling. He put one hand on the table and held his forehead to look sideways. , with a hint of teasing on his face.

Lin Tian, ​​who was watching Yuanli from the side, wiped the corners of his eyes, and thought joyfully in his heart: It's great that the Lord is like this.

Twenty days later, He Lang and Guan Zhihuai led troops to Xuzhou.

Yuanli's staff of the Grain Institute ambushed in Yangzhou also secretly sent a message: After returning to Yangzhou, King Chen began to mobilize troops.

Yuan Li burned the note with a calm expression.

It's time for him to settle accounts with Chen Wang.

The time has come to pacify the world.

As long as he can win King Chen, he will have seven states in his hands, and they are still the seven most important states in the world, occupying almost half of the world.The rest of the states have no power to resist. If they are obedient and smart, they will naturally bow down to him.

From now on, Yuanli has turned 27 this year.

Nine years of hard work, nine years of planning, will finally usher in the final result.

Yuan Li had no fear in his heart, on the contrary, he was full of passion and fighting spirit.

Chen Wang is the toughest and most difficult opponent Yuanli has ever met, but Yuanli is sure that he will only win this battle.

There is no second result.

Yuanli ordered the army to prepare, and led an army of 30 to approach Yangzhou mightily.

At the same time, he also ordered the staff of the Grain Institute in Yangzhou to take action.

Inside Yangzhou.

After receiving the order, the staff of the Grain Institute quickly closed the rice store and emptied the grain in the warehouse at night.

Over the past few years, more and more rice and grain stores have been secretly controlled by the staff of the Grain Institute.

They will buy rice grains at high prices after the autumn harvest, and they act fairly. The surplus grain was sold to them to make a profit, and the government rarely made things difficult for them.

This large amount of money has had a remarkable effect. For many years, most of the rice and grain stores in Yangzhou have been secretly controlled by the Grain Institute. Even the common people have recognized the rice grain store under the name of the Grain Institute to sell grain.

Not only the rice store, but also many fields in Yangzhou were bought by the Grain Institute. Instead of growing five grains, they only grow inedible cotton.

Most of the cotton clothes and quilts used by the soldiers under Yuanli came from the cotton grown in Yangzhou. The local people in Yangzhou were clever enough to see that big businessmen from other places came to Yangzhou to collect cotton, and the money for cotton was higher than that of grain. After that, they also moved to grow cotton.

After the cotton growers got rich, more and more people switched to cotton planting, and the number of people who took the money to buy grain at the rice store also increased year by year.

Chen Wang knew about it, but he didn't care.He was busy fighting the world, how could he have thought that Yuanli was preparing to fight a trade war with him?

joke.

Who would have thought that the barren and desolate north would dare to fight a trade war with the rich and prosperous south.

At this moment, in just one night, most of the rice and grain stores in Yangzhou were closed.

The common people didn't pay attention to this matter at the beginning, but when the price of grain continued to rise and the remaining rice stores were crowded with people to buy grain, they realized something was wrong after a while.

Why don't the store owners who closed the rice store open?

If they don't open the door, there won't be enough food for their family!

It was just spring, and there was no food in the fields.Many people are used to buying food with money. Yangzhou is prosperous, and they never thought that there would be a day when they could not buy food with money.

The common people were dumbfounded, and the officials were also dumbfounded.

Food is the lifeblood of the people. Without food, the people of Yangzhou suddenly panicked.

When the news reached King Chen's ears, people like King Chen who showed no signs of expression were slapped on the table in anger, "Yangzhou is rich and rich, it is a land of fish and rice, and it is famous all over the world! How can such a place be possible?" No food!"

The subordinate said tremblingly: "For some reason, the rice store in Yangzhou was closed for most of the night. I took people to force open their granaries, and found that there was not a single grain of rice in these granaries... I checked again and found that these rice stores Every year, the store collects grain at a high price after the autumn harvest. People are used to selling surplus grain to the rice store, and then go to the rice store to buy food when there is no food at home. When the rice store closes, the price of food will suddenly rise. The people who can't buy rice have already started to feel restless... My lord, I'm afraid someone did this on purpose."

"Nonsense, it's up to you to say that!"

Chen Wang was furious and short of breath, but he calmed down after his anger reached the extreme, "The person who can quietly deploy such a means in my Yangzhou, except Yuan Li, would not think of anything else. He is making a sudden move now, presumably he is going to fight me First withdraw my Yangzhou food, which will make the people of Yangzhou panic, and then force my government to release food, so as to weaken our army’s combat pay, good strategy, good patience.”

If Yuanli hadn't thought about it a few years ago, Chen Wang wouldn't believe it!

He was surprised and angry, the one who was surprised was that he didn't find out about it, and the one who was angry was that he didn't even find out about it.

If it wasn't for Yuanli's move this time, Chen Wang would not have known that Yuanli's forces had infiltrated his territory...

It was like sleeping peacefully for a long time at night, only to find a sharp dagger hidden in the bed. How could this prevent Wang Chen from being terrified.

And the matter of lack of food is even more difficult.

If it is other states and counties, King Chen can ignore it.But if King Chen really ignored the people in his fiefdom, then he would really go to the point of betraying their relatives.

He doesn't even care about the people in his fiefdom, so how can he manage the world?

No matter how false the name of benevolence is, we must do a good job in saving face.

This is a conspiracy, Chen Wang knew it, but he had no choice but to exploit it.

He closed his eyes, half of his anger suddenly dissipated, and he said wearily: "Let the government release the food."