The ancestor of the apocalypse is so cool after being reborn!

Chapter 263 Yuzhou has arrived

In the end, the two maids were more clever and brought a screen over from somewhere.

Placing the screen in the middle of the carriage, the carriage suddenly became two independent spaces. Xia Jing looked at the men isolated in the other carriage and breathed a sigh of relief.Finally I can lie down peacefully for a while.

Li Chengmu's servant Chang Lu was also smarter. He brought a chess set from the train conductor's lounge, which was just right to relieve his master's boredom.

The men were satisfied with watching the strange things, but they didn't dare to disturb Xia Jing's rest. The chess piece Chang Lu took just solved their dilemma.

There were several small stations along the railway, which were supposed to stop, but because the queen and the prince were on the train, the conductor did not dare to take risks and ordered the train to go directly to Yuzhou.

Xia Jing slept on the train and had dinner with her sons. Everyone rested for a while. The train arrived at Yuzhou Station around ten o'clock in the evening.

Ye Fei had already made arrangements for this trip. As soon as the train arrived at the station, he took the officials with him to the original annex of Prince Qian's Mansion in Yuzhou.

Of course, if an official has an annex in Yuzhou, he can go back to his annex to rest.

But the reality is that everyone follows Xia Jing tacitly, and no one wants to miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have such an opportunity to accompany the queen and the prince.

Early the next morning, Xia Jing woke up on time according to her biological clock. After exercising outside, she unexpectedly found her sons here.

"Didn't you sleep a little longer today?"

"Mother, I experienced riding a train yesterday. I was excited all night last night and woke up early in the morning. It seems that it will take me some time to get used to it before I can calm down." Li Chengyi said.

Xia Jing nodded: "Then sit down for a while and have breakfast with me later."

With that said, he passed them and went directly into the inner room.

Three pairs of eyes watched Xia Jing enter the inner room. Li Chengyi turned around and asked, "Mother insists on exercising every day. Have you done your morning exercise today?"

Li Chengmu leaned back and said, "Don't look at me. Since leading the army, morning exercise has been an essential part of my daily routine."

Li Chengli turned to Li Chengyi, "Fourth brother, since you asked, let me ask you, did you do your morning exercises today?"

"Hehe, practice, practice. Although I am as naughty as my father when he was young, I can still persevere with the persistence I deserve!"

Everyone saw Li Chengyi's erratic eyes.

Li Chengli was also a wizened person. After listening to his words, he looked him up and down, and nodded seriously: "Now it seems that the fourth brother's exercise is still effective. After the morning exercise, I can't feel that you have done it. It seems that you are still exercising." The strength is not enough. Wait for the mother to come out later, and ask her to increase the amount for you, otherwise the morning exercise will not be effective!"

Li Chengyi felt dizzy when he heard what he said, "Third brother, my good third brother, tell me what the effects of proper exercise will be."

Li Chengli pointed at himself and Li Chengmu, and said: "If the morning exercise intensity is appropriate, I will be in the same mental state as Xiao Wu, full of energy and vitality, and I will not be as depressed and black as you, fourth brother. , my feet are weak when walking!”

He looked like he was obviously overdoing it.

I wonder how many girls the fourth child has brought harm to when he comes to the capital?

After hearing this, Li Chengyi glared angrily and pointed at himself, "Is my image so bad? After all, I have the image of a romantic and suave prince, Yushu Linfeng. How come it comes from your mouth, Third Brother? I can't believe it." Are they no different from the street gangsters on the street?"

"Who is the street kid?" Xia Jing washed herself, changed her clothes and walked out.

The three brothers stood up with smiles and greeted Xia Jing.

After Xia Jing sat down, the brothers took their seats one after another.

Li Chengli smiled and said: "Who else could it be? We are talking about the fourth child."

Xia Jing said "oh" and stopped discussing the conversation between their brothers. Instead, she invited the brothers to go to the dining room together.

"Mother, what are your plans today?"

Xia Jing looked back at Li Chengli and smiled: "Have a day off today and return to the capital tomorrow. If you each have something to do, you can do it today."

When he walked to the dining room, Li Chengli gently helped Xia Jing sit on the main seat. After she sat down, he returned to his seat.

"That's fine. Today I was thinking of going to the streets to pick out a few shops. I have nothing to do today so I can do this."

When Li Chengyi heard this, he felt itchy, "Third brother, you can buy property in Fucheng, Yuzhou. Why didn't you warn me earlier? I don't have much money now!"

"Fourth brother, do you need me to lend you some?" Li Chengmu frowned slightly and looked at him.

Li Chengyi glanced at Xia Jing without leaving any trace, and shook his head: "Forget it, it's a rare trip to Yuzhou. Xiao Wu, you also want to buy some properties."

"Then don't say that I didn't lend it to you afterwards. I lent it to you and you didn't ask for it!"

"Pfft!"

Xia Jing couldn't help laughing after hearing Xiao Wu's words, "Ahem, I don't say anything when I eat, and I don't say anything when I sleep. Let's finish eating early and rest early!"

"Mother, we just got up not long ago."

"Then go back early after eating!"

After breakfast, Xia Jing sent away her two stepsons and left the courtyard with Li Chengmu and the personal guards.

Yuzhou City was the first state capital to be recaptured among the state capitals occupied by the rebels.

The streets of Fucheng are criss-crossed. In addition to the buildings on the main streets that are pretty good, the areas where ordinary people live are also dirty and messy.

The conditions were so bad that after Yuzhou was recovered, there was no money in the finances. The newly appointed governor of Yuzhou just imitated the capital and paved the main streets of Yuzhou City with cement pavements.

"The recovery of Yuzhou before the autumn harvest only made the people's lives a little better. In fact, their lives are still struggling below the poverty line."

Xia Jing observed the people on the street while walking, and it was not difficult to find from their expressions, speech and behavior that their lives were still not satisfactory.

However, now that there is less war, it will take a lot of effort to restore people's livelihood.

"The Queen Mother has the common people in her heart, which is their blessing." Li Chengmu glanced at the thinly dressed common people, "It's just that post-war reconstruction requires a long process, so you don't have to be too impatient."

Xia Jing also knew that Rome was not built in a day, but she just wanted to make the people live a better life, a little better, a little better.

She didn't want a city to stand still, she wanted them to get wider as they walked.

"Next year, sweet potatoes will be promoted in Yuzhou. They do not occupy fertile fields and can be planted on slightly barren land. As long as the barren land where sweet potatoes are planted will be exempted from taxes next year, let everyone take it easy." Li Chengmu agreed very much. : "Mother's great love!"

The mother and son had not been strolling on the street for long when Lin, the governor of Yuzhou, came up to them with officials of all sizes in Yuzhou.

"I will pay my respects to the Queen and the Crown Prince."

"Get up!"

Got it!
The original plan to visit Yuzhou City was ruined again.

Since she couldn't go shopping, Xia Jing walked past Yuzhou Governor Lin and said, "Since Mr. Lin is here, let's go to Guancang to have a look."

When they passed through Yuzhou and headed south, they caused great harm to the official warehouses in Yuzhou. This time she wanted to see how the official warehouses in Yuzhou were recovering?

When Mr. Lin heard this, he was startled, but he didn't show it on his face and said with a smile: "Wei Chen will lead the empress and His Highness over right now."

Seeing him wiping his forehead, Li Chengmu couldn't help but feel a little confused: "Mr. Lin, how is the official warehouse recovering now? How much grain has been harvested this year?"

"Going back to Your Highness, the official warehouse has been repaired now, but the grain in the official warehouse in previous years was destroyed by the rebels. The grain and grass piled up in the official warehouse now are all the tax grain collected this year, which is about one third of the warehouse. Not even one." Governor Lin replied truthfully.

When Li Chengmu heard this, he stopped and turned to look at him in disbelief, "Why did you collect such a small amount of food?"

Governor Lin gave a wry smile and said, "To collect these grains, Governor Zuo turned the tide and collected a little grain. Otherwise, the people would not have handed over any grain as soon as they were recovered."

"Now that Yuzhou has been handed over to me, I don't dare to force the people too much. Everything in Yuzhou today is due to Zuo Cishi!"

The Zuo Cishi mentioned by Lin Cishi was Xia Jing's personal guard captain Zuo Jing. When he followed Li Chengmu to Yuzhou to quell the rebels, because Yuzhou Yingchuan needed a county guard, he stepped forward resolutely and temporarily served as Yingchuan County Sheriff.

Later, after Yuzhou was recovered, he was temporarily transferred to Yuzhou City as the governor.

And such frequent transfers are actually to do one thing for the court, that is, land reform, re-measurement of the fields, and cleaning up the hidden houses hidden under the powerful power of the aristocratic families.

Later, Xia Jing led her soldiers and horses into Jizhou, where she caused a lot of trouble and forced the good Jizhou governor to go to the army, letting him lead the troops to fight and strive for wealth for future generations.

Xiao Qi, the governor of Jizhou, was transferred to counter the rebellion. At that time, Xia Jing transferred Zuo Jing, who liked hanging his book bag, to Jizhou. Now he is the governor of Jizhou, but he does not have military power, but only handles government affairs and manages people's livelihood.

Even though he only had to govern the local area and lost half of his power, for Zuo Jing, climbing from a refugee to the position of governor was the pinnacle of his life, and he was very satisfied.

He doesn't dare to relax when it comes to government affairs!

Now that the state capital has been reorganized, the governor is no longer a one-man hall in the local area.

Local armaments have been handed over to local garrison commanders.

Under the leadership of Governor Lin, Xia Jing and her party entered the official warehouse unimpeded.

The official warehouse was tightly guarded. I guess it was not the same as when she came here. I guess Zuo Jing had changed a lot of rules.

There are many official warehouses, but less than one-third of the grain is stored, and less than one-third of the warehouses are used.

The guarding officers and soldiers first opened a warehouse filled with grain. Xia Jing looked at the plump grains and could imagine that Yuzhou had a bumper harvest this year.

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"Why are these grains so dark?"

After listening to Xia Jing's words, Li Chengmu couldn't help but asked doubtfully: "Isn't all millet this color?"

Xia Jing glanced at Governor Lin who was obviously uncomfortable, grabbed a handful of millet and put it in her hand, "The reason why I said the color of this millet is a bit dark is because I suspect that these millets are old grain."

"Chen Liang?" Li Chengmu first wondered if he had made a mistake, but then he thought that his mother was not an innocent person, and she would definitely not speak randomly about things that she was not sure about.

Governor Lin tugged at the corners of his stiff mouth and said harshly: "My Lady, are you mistaken? Everyone is short of food at this time. Where can we get the old food? These are the newly collected tax food this year."

"Really?" Xia Jing threw the grain in her hand onto the grain pile and walked to another corner. She grabbed another handful of millet and carefully identified it under the sun.

"The grain here is also old!" Xia Jing threw the grain into the grain pile angrily, "Prefect Lin, come and explain to us, what's going on?"

Governor Lin wiped his forehead, which was actually sweating in the winter.

"Weichen doesn't know about this either. When Weichen took over Yuzhou, the granary was like this."

"Oh, are you planning to shirk responsibility?" Xia Jing just glanced at him lightly, and it was just a faint glance, and she did nothing else.

This made Governor Lin feel cold all over, as if his heartbeat would stop in the next second.

Governor Lin waved his hands hurriedly, "The minister is not trying to shirk responsibility, but he really didn't check the millet. Otherwise, he would have known it was Chen Liang, and he would have told the superior officer anyway."

Governor Lin glanced at the well-trained soldiers standing behind Xia Jing. Did he have to fall here today?

Li Chengmu looked at the warehouse full of old millet and said, "Master Lin, don't tell His Highness that you can't distinguish between grains and your limbs are not diligent, right?"

After hearing this warning, Governor Lin's head thumped and he went blank for a moment, "Wei Chen. I seldom do housework, and my wife arranges everything at home."

"Okay, stop being sophistical. Even if Mother doesn't tell you, it's hard for me to discover that the husk of this year's new grain is golden and very beautiful. But the husk of old grain is dull and lackluster. It can be seen from this that in your warehouse, The grain is not stored in previous years, but has been stored for who knows how many years!"

Li Chengmu didn't know where Governor Lin found so much Chen Liang, but it was obvious that he was teasing the court as if he were a fool, and he was lucky enough to think that he would not be discovered by the court.

But today his good luck seems to have run out.

Xia Jing didn't expect this kind of thing. It is said that Yuzhou was regained and there was a big purge in the officialdom. After the big change, the officialdom should be able to clean up their style.

But obviously, Xia Jing's expectations were too high, and this man disappointed her.

The human heart is often the most difficult to control!

Xia Jing looked at Governor Lin expressionlessly, "Mr. Lin, what's going on with the grain in the warehouse? Aren't you going to explain it to us? In front of me, if you make a mistake, I always implement the principle of frankness and leniency. , be strict if you resist! Between speaking or not speaking, you'd better think carefully, because there are not only the people standing behind you, but also your family!"

Governor Lin was so frightened that he trembled all over after hearing Xia Jing's words. When he heard his family again, he trembled even more.

Li Chengmu and Xia Jing looked at each other, what did it mean?
Did someone threaten him with his family and ask him to help do illegal things?
But Xia Jing will not forgive you just because you committed a crime or because she had no choice but to do it.

So she said to the guards behind her: "Take off his official hat and escort him down!"

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