Wei Yunlan was worried.
The Northern Barbarians’ invasion came nearly ten years earlier than expected!
ten years.
Enough to prepare too much.
According to her original plan, ten years would be enough for her to spread the potatoes and other crops she brought back to every province in Dayong that was suitable for planting. This would allow the people to have good harvests year after year and no longer suffer from hunger. It would also be enough for Dayong to store enough food to resist natural disasters and possible wars in the future.
It was also enough for her to accumulate enough food, manpower and wealth in the north, so that she could protect herself even if there was unrest in Dayong, and even find a refuge for her relatives in the more distant Yandu Gorge or the northwestern countries after the war.
It is also enough for the prince to train enough troops in the three states of Tan, Qian and Sui in the southwest...
By then, the Wei family and the prince, one in the north and one in the south, will have both money and food and military forces.
Once the time is right, she wouldn't mind helping the prince to ascend to that position!
Only the prince, who ascends to that position and has a close relationship with the Wei family of the former Tianshi Mansion, can wash away the grievances of the past and return to the capital.
But now, the battle has been brought forward ten years, and many of the prince's deployments have not been completed.
She has not yet accumulated enough strength...
The Northern Barbarians' attack really caught Dayong off guard. It also caught her off guard.
Wei Yunlan took a deep breath and rubbed his eyebrows.
Perhaps, it is not entirely a bad thing that the Northern Barbarians chose to attack at this time.
In the previous life, ten years later, when the northern barbarians attacked, Dayong experienced natural disasters year after year. In the territory of Dayong, less than 30% of the cities were not affected by natural disasters. Even those states that did not experience natural disasters were deeply troubled by refugees and banditry. The entire Dayong was in ruins, and the people were hungry and miserable.
The military strength is becoming increasingly weak. The armies in the north and the west are not getting enough food and training. In addition, the generals have been replaced, and they are no longer as brave as they were many years ago, not to mention when the late emperor was alive.
It can be said that when the Northern Barbarian army attacked ten years later in the previous life, the national strength of Dayong was at its weakest.
Now, although the Northern Barbarians had attacked much earlier, the national strength and military force of Dayong had not been affected too much by the natural disaster. Moreover, General Shi of the Northern Army was safe and sound, and the morale of the Northern Army was stable, and they were not scattered by the Northern Barbarians' cavalry.
It is absolutely impossible for the Northern Barbarians to break through the Northern Gate and capture the capital city easily like they did ten years later in the previous life!
Wei Yunlan felt a little relieved.
When I was thinking just now, I was focused and didn't pay attention to the movements around me. Now when I came to my senses, I found that there was a lot of noise outside.
People live in the south of the city, and Jingping Lane is close to the South City Gate, so the area outside the lane is always bustling.
By now, the news of the Northern Barbarians' invasion had already spread throughout the city, and many people were already considering whether they should pack up their belongings and temporarily leave Beiguan City to avoid the limelight.
There are two families next door to the Wei family. One family has someone on duty at the City Defense Department and cannot leave, while the other family is an ordinary citizen and has already packed their bags.
Through the courtyard wall, I could vaguely hear the noise coming from the other side.
It makes people feel uneasy.
Cheng Yue'e had calmed down a lot after seeing that Wei Mingxuan was not injured, but now she was disturbed by the noise outside.
Little Jiarong in her arms was awakened directly and kept twisting her body.
Gao Shi saw this and said after a pause, "Your father is a criminal and has an errand to attend to, so he cannot leave Beiguan. So it is not convenient for me to leave either."
At this point, Gao looked at Wei Yunlan and said, "If there is really a trend of breaking the city, Lan'er, you should take your sister-in-law, Jiayan, Jiarong, and Mingxuan away and go to Huangzhou to avoid the limelight first."
"No." Just after she finished speaking, Gao shook her head again.
She rarely panicked in her life. She was at a loss only when her loved ones were in danger. She calmed herself down and regained some rationality, then continued, "If Beiguan City is breached, I'm afraid that Huangzhou will not be able to be defended. Lan'er, after leaving Beiguan City, you can take your sister-in-law and the others south and take refuge in Yueheng Mountain. Then you can ask the Duke's Mansion to send someone to pick you up."
This is the safest way.
As for her and her husband, if the Beiguan City was breached, they would most likely not survive.
With the protection of the Duke's Mansion, they held out until the last moment and died in Beiguan City. Those forces in the capital would no longer pursue the younger generation of the Wei family.
"Mother." Wei Yunlan sighed.
At the critical moment of life and death, the first thing the mother thought of was how to ensure their safety.
But she couldn't leave Beiguan, which would be a waste of her mother's efforts. At least, at this time, when Beiguan City had not been breached, she couldn't leave.
Gao looked into Wei Yunlan's eyes and caught a glimpse of the determination in her eyes. She was slightly startled, then showed a bit of realization, and then raised a wry smile at the corner of her mouth.
Her daughter, like her grandfather, is a man of great commission.
She was not in a position to give any further advice.
"It's too early to say this now. The Northern Army is well-trained, and this battle won't fail so easily." But there was no need to leave no way out. Wei Yunlan thought about it and said his plan, "It's inconvenient for me to leave Beiguan, but if a war breaks out on the border, the city will definitely become more chaotic. Then I can let my sister-in-law take Jiayan and Jiarong to our farm in Huangzhou to avoid the limelight."
Almost a year.
She has trained a lot of people in the Wasteland State and accumulated a lot of connections. Apart from anything else, at least Princess Daning and Xue Lian from the Wasteland State Command Center will protect their family a little more for her and those potato seeds.
Of course, she would not put all her hopes on others.
In addition to Liu Qingxue and others who were good at business and responsible for managing the farm, she also recruited and trained a group of guards in Huangzhou, led by the Tang Hai brothers who had helped her transport goods before, and the number of guards exceeded 200. Although their skills could not be compared with those secret guards trained from childhood in Tianshu Pavilion, they were much stronger than ordinary farmers, and at least could catch up with the strength of the bandits in Yueheng Mountain.
It just so happened that her eldest brother was also in Huangzhou, helping Xue Lian build the dam. If Huangzhou could not be defended, her men could protect her eldest brother and his wife and take a detour southward from Qingzhou to the three states southwest of His Royal Highness, or take refuge in Yandu Gorge nearby and follow the route opened in Yandu Gorge to the northwestern countries to find another refuge...
Of course, that's the worst-case scenario.
Wei Yunlan had no intention of leaving Dayong unless it was absolutely necessary.
Just when Wei Yunlan finished discussing his arrangements with Gao and others, Steward Wang, who had returned to serve Wei Maolin in the afternoon, hurried back.
"Something happened. The food and fodder in the western suburbs camp was burned!"
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