Yu Zizhen had been preparing for six whole years. During these six years, she had only the meager assets she got from the Zhenbei Palace at the beginning, and she had finally developed to the point where she now had people, money, food, and medicine.
She racked her brains to make full use of all the people she could use, whether they had become her subordinates or were still just her friends.
According to the available cannon fodder information provided by the system and the plot of the original book, Yu Zizhen sat in the capital and gave remote commands, making her subordinates who were scattered all over the place by her, as well as the bodyguards Chen Qing and Zheng Yuzhi who had met her once and had been exchanging letters with her over the years, as well as their brothers and sisters and their bodyguard companions, all run around in circles.
With the help of these people, Yu Zizhen successfully completed her huge plan of storing grain, medicine, and other things, and transporting these things to the four states and some counties around the four states that were about to suffer from drought and locust plagues.
As mentioned earlier, in the original book, Chen Qing and Zheng Yuzhi were a famous pair of chivalrous lovers in the martial arts world. They were born in the Liuhe Martial Arts School in Cangzhou, and after completing their apprenticeship, they both went to the local Hengtai Escort Agency to work as escorts.
This couple is not only skilled in martial arts, but also has a chivalrous heart and is very popular in the underworld.
Yu Zizhen got to know them because when they were escorting a caravan to Beijing, they happened to encounter a situation where Yu Zizhen was ambushed and his carriage lost control, almost hitting a child who had no time to dodge.
Zheng Yuzhi came to the rescue, and Yu Zizhen got to know the couple.
According to the original book plot provided by the system, the couple will die in this disaster due to the deliberate frame-up by Liu Jinchang, the magistrate of Cangzhou.
Liu Jinchang is the brother-in-law of Lu Mian, the third branch of the Lu family, and the uncle-in-law of Lu Heng, who is at odds with Yu Zizhen.
In the original book, he first approached the Hengtai Escort Agency and asked them to help escort the disaster relief grain to the counties below. Then he had people drug and intercept the grain on the way, and finally framed the escorts for embezzlement.
All the escorts, including Chen Qing and Zheng Yuzhi, died in prison because of this case.
Yu Zizhen had deliberately made friends with these two people from the martial arts world. In addition to admiring their martial arts and character, this was also an important reason for her to take the initiative.
She wanted to save this couple and all the people in Hengtai Escort Agency who died unjustly along with this couple.
With this idea in mind, Yu Zizhen has never stopped exchanging letters with the two of them over the years, and because of this, their relationship has always been very good.
Otherwise, Yu Zizhen would not have included them, their fellow brothers and sisters, and companions from the escort agency into his plan.
As soon as the signs of drought appeared, Yu Zizhen asked her trusted subordinates, led by the Lu Mingxuan brothers, who were good at skills, to go to the four states in advance with the escape route map she had prepared.
The route map was drawn up by Yu Zizhen and Xiao Yuanjin together. During the drawing process, Yu Zizhen referred to the existing map of Da Qi and the water distribution map of the four states and surrounding counties provided to her by the Xiaonayin system.
She had people buy and deliver in advance, in batches, all kinds of supplies including food, salt, salt substitutes such as pickled vegetable paste, brown sugar, vinegar and lime, medicinal materials, cloth, shoes and socks, ready-made clothes, livestock, vehicles, straw mats, wooden barrels, water bags, large nets, ropes, etc. These were also stored in advance by the people she had sent along the escape routes she had planned. However, at that time they did not know that these storage locations were carefully selected by Yu Zizhen according to the escape routes she had planned.
It was not until this time that they got the route map, material storage locations and storage lists that Yu Zizhen had prepared long ago. Only then did everyone realize that Yu Zizhen had already been preparing for this drought as early as that time.
Lu Mingxuan, who was the first to get these things, was very surprised. He moved his lips several times, but in the end he still couldn't ask the questions he wanted to ask.
"Want to know why I can predict the future?" Yu Zizhen's smiling voice suddenly sounded, startling Lu Mingxuan who was trying hard to control his curiosity.
"It's nothing, actually. I just had a dream about this drought a long time ago." Yu Zizhen used the name of a dream to briefly recount the content about the drought and locust plague in the original book.
Lu Mingxuan was completely numbed by what he was saying. From the moment Yu Zizhen started to tell her dream until she finished, Lu Mingxuan remained motionless, his eyes wide open and his mouth slightly open.
Good guy, he exclaimed in his heart.
Why did he only dream about eating, drinking, and chopping off the heads of Lu family members' dogs, while his eldest son dreamed that there would be drought and locust plagues in a few years?
Are you sure this isn't God's way of treating you differently?
By the way, he didn't ask himself to dream of such a big thing. After all, he was very aware of his own abilities. Even if he dreamed of this thing, he didn't have the ability to turn the tide like his own prince. He had experienced the so-called disparity among human beings countless times since he started following his own prince.
But since God can predict the future, why doesn't he let him know in advance how the Lu family will deal with his uncle?
As soon as this extravagant idea came up, Lu Mingxuan couldn't control his emo.
Yes, he doesn't deserve it. How could the almighty God care about the joys and sorrows of others?
The reason why his son could have such a predictive dream was, on the one hand, because he was kind-hearted and capable. Since he had such a dream, he would most likely spare no effort to do something to turn the tide. On the other hand, it was probably because this was a matter of life and death involving countless people.
Didn’t you hear what his eldest son said? After this incident, the total population of Da Qi was reduced by more than 30%.
Lu Mingxuan thought with some sadness that perhaps only when it comes to matters that concern the life and death of so many people, God will show his kind side to the people of the world.
What he didn't know was that the one who was merciful wasn't the "God" he imagined, but the guys from the Space-Time Administration, who had been despised by Yu Zizhen. It was they who issued the cannon fodder rescue mission.
"Remember not to spread the news about my dream. Firstly, it's too shocking, and secondly, it will easily make me a thorn in the eyes of more people."
"I will keep my mouth shut." Lu Mingxuan was in a very complicated mood at the moment, but his mind was unusually calm.
He admired Yu Zizhen very much. Just because of a dream that seemed ridiculous at the time, Yu Zizhen had spent so many years preparing for a rainy day. Thinking about the number of people Yu Zizhen had saved and helped privately before, he couldn't even count them.
Lu Mingxuan, who had also been in deep trouble, understood very well how important people like Yu Zizhen were to those who were desperate and in urgent need of help.
Yu Zizhen's "good guy" attribute further strengthened his determination to be loyal to and protect Yu Zizhen.
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