Chapter 433 Chu Liang, brother and sister meet for the first time
In early May, after simply arranging Quanzhou, the Wei army set out again and headed straight for Jinzhou. The dog emperor had run out of tricks and had no one to call on, so he could only send 50,000 imperial city troops to resist, trying to stop them with the method that Wanqi Shan had used. Unfortunately, Wei Chengyi did not give them any chance at all. He directly divided his troops into several groups and took over the entire Jinzhou in just five days.
At this time, the 50,000 Imperial City Army had just arrived. Wei Chengyi would not let them leave, and he immediately led 100,000 Wei Family Army to snipe them. The two armies had just clashed, and the Imperial City Army, which had never experienced the baptism of war, surrendered. So far, Jinzhou had become their possession. Like Chu Liang and others, Wei Chengyi did not continue to advance, and temporarily ordered the army to be stationed outside Jinzhou City.
The same as them were General Peng and General Chen. They captured Qingzhou and Quzhou in late April, and moved towards the last Dazhou and Yizhou in early May. It took them half a month to capture them. The four armies were located in different directions, tightly surrounding the imperial city in the middle. As long as they wanted, they could march to the city at any time, break through the imperial city, and capture the dog emperor alive!
"Madam, General Chu is here to see you."
"Um?"
On this day, Shen Xiangwan was looking through files in the hall behind the Jinzhou government office. The nine-month-old children were running around the room in their walkers. Yuan Ying was in charge of watching them. Yuan Yue, who had been out for a while, suddenly came back in a hurry. Shen Xiangwan looked up reflexively, her pupils suddenly shrinking. The man was very tall, probably as tall as Wei Chengyi, and looked very heroic, which was different from the appearance in her memory. But she still recognized him at a glance, Chu Liang, the only person in the original novel who was kind to the original owner and the only person the original owner cared about.
"What? Don't you recognize me?"
Walking up to her, Chu Liang smiled and looked down at her. When he left home to join the army, she was just a skinny and weak little girl, but he didn't expect that she would be so beautiful now. However, no matter how her appearance changed, she was still the sister he would protect all his life.
"elder brother."
Standing up and facing him, Shen Xiangwan's voice was a little tense. Before this, she had imagined many situations of meeting him, but she didn't expect that this day would come so suddenly. Even she was a little slow to react.
"Well, Wanwan has grown up."
Just like when they were little, Chu Liang reached out and rubbed her head, his face and eyes full of doting.
"You're still talking about me, haven't you changed a lot?"
Pretending to be annoyed, she waved his hand away and pulled him to sit down: "Why are you here?"
Although she had known for a long time that they were stationed in the neighboring Huzhou, she really didn't expect that she would come to Jinzhou in person.
“Ahh…”
“Ahh…”
Before Chu Liang could respond, the two children pushed hard and the walker slid in front of them in an instant. Looking down at the two little ones with rosy lips and white teeth, Chu Liang bent down and picked up their younger sister, Xiao Yanyu. "Is this my little niece? Wanwan, she looks exactly like you when you were a child."
“Ahh…”
Seeing his sister being picked up, little Yanqing got angry and kicked his legs and kept crying in the walker. Qingying, who came back with him, bent down and picked him up: "Little guy, are you jealous?"
“Ahh…”
"Snap..."
"Ha ha···"
Little Yanqing was very lively. While waving his little hands, he slapped Qingying on the face. After a brief pause in the atmosphere, the Chu Liang brother and sister laughed out loud without any image. Even Yuanyue and Yuanying couldn't help but turn their backs and laugh secretly.
"Well, little guy, you dare to hit me, I'll beat your little butt to pieces."
Coming back to her senses, Qingying pretended to be angry and freed up one hand to gently pat him on the butt twice.
“Hmm…”
Little Yanqing immediately pouted and pretended to cry in front of him. Qingying quickly said, "Oh my little ancestor, please don't cry. Come, Uncle Qing will give you some candy."
As he said that, he actually produced a lollipop, unwrapped it and stuffed it into his mouth without saying a word. Don't ask him where the lollipop came from, just ask him to get it from Shen Xiangwan. She always used lollipops to coax the children in the past. During the Chinese New Year, in order to coax the children, he asked her for a lot of them.
“Ahh…”
Taking the lollipop out of his mouth, little Yanqing turned around and rushed towards his sister, as if he wanted to give the lollipop to her.
“Ahh…”
Seeing this, Xiao Yanyu, who was held in Chu Liang's arms, began to squirm. Shen Xiangwan quickly took out another lollipop and gave it to Xiao Yanyu: "Okay, sister already has one, you can eat it yourself."
“Ouch…”
As if he understood what he said, little Yanqing stopped twisting and put the lollipop in his hand into his mouth.
"Brother, put them in the walker and let's sit down and talk slowly."
"good."
Seeing that the two little nephews were only busy eating candies, Chu Liang and Qingying put them back into the walkers one after another. Almost immediately, the little brother and sister ran in the hall. Their movements were so smooth and graceful that Chu Liang and Qingying couldn't help but curl their lips again.
"Brother, Qingying, have some tea."
After several people sat down around the table, Shen Xiangwan poured them a cup of tea. It was already mid-May, and the weather was getting hotter, so they also started drinking herbal tea.
"How have you been these years?"
Picking up the teacup and taking a few sips, Chu Liang asked softly. Even though they communicated almost every month and Yuting had told him many times that her sister was doing well, he still wanted to hear it from her own mouth.
"It's okay, I just miss you guys a little bit. Brother, why didn't Senior Sister come?"
She didn't want to talk about the past, so Shen Xiangwan calmly diverted his attention.
"The army needs someone to take charge. Yuting, considering we haven't seen each other for many years, let me come and see you first."
Not failing to see her intention, Chu Liang followed her lead and changed the subject. After finishing the conversation, he continued, "When we go to the Imperial City together, we'll see each other naturally."
Yuting likes Wanwan very much. If it weren't for the fact that someone must be in charge of the army, she would not miss the opportunity to see Wanwan.
"Um."
Nodding, Shen Xiangwan casually asked, "Brother, have you taken down so many states and put them in order? How did you pacify the people?"
Since they sent out their troops, they often exchanged information with each other, but most of the discussions were about conquering cities and territories, and rarely involved issues such as the resettlement of civilians.
"Don't worry, everything has been put in place, and the people have no complaints."
Giving her a reassuring look, Chu Liang continued, "We had anticipated this day would come. We had been quietly recruiting 100,000 soldiers since the year before last, and we had also secretly recruited many scholars of good character. After the provincial capital was taken, those scholars were assigned to various county and prefectural offices."
"As for the common people, we're doing things similarly to you. We're distributing potato, sweet potato, and corn seeds to them, and sending specialists to teach them how to grow them. Knowing that those seeds yield thousands of kilograms per mu, the common people are grateful from the bottom of their hearts, and no one has complained. All of this is handled by the Yuzhou government office. Don't leave them out when you're rewarding them for their contributions in the future."
At the end, Chu Liang made a little joke, saying that the people are actually very easy to satisfy, and as long as they can be well fed and clothed, they will not rebel.
Why did the Li royal family lose the support of the people? It was because they not only failed to provide the people with enough food and clothing, but also completely ignored their lives. In addition, local officials continued to exploit the people and desperately squeezed their wealth.
Now that they have come up with high-yield and high-quality varieties that can completely solve the people's food and clothing problems in just one season, how could they possibly complain?
[End of this chapter]
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