Chapter 151: The Wizard Arrives
Half a month later, news came from the capital that Emperor Xuanyi was about to become an immortal, so he issued an imperial decree ordering the third prince to ascend the throne and Empress Xu to assist in the administration of the country.
On this side, Jiang Yu, Chen Xinli and his party rode at full speed and finally arrived at Qingmuchuan Town, where the army led by Changshan was stationed.
Afterwards, Jiang Yu received an imperial edict from Empress Xu, ordering him to return to the capital again.
"Your Highness, although the emperor is about to become an immortal, the new emperor has ascended the throne. If you go there in response to the imperial edict, it will be extremely dangerous..." Changshan ordered his men to watch the messenger carefully and admonished the young man in front of him.
Jiang Yu was playing with a small blood-red spider in his hand. He looked at him calmly and said, "We have to go back, but not now. Let's go to Shu."
Along the way, although Changshan had expressed his loyalty, Jiang Yu still did not trust him. Changshan understood that it was probably because of his identity that made him suspicious, so he stopped talking and returned to his military tent to summon the generals.
Just as he had given the order for the army to break camp, a captain named Cui Qinghe came forward to test the waters.
"General, according to imperial rules, when the late emperor passes away, the princes must return to the capital to observe mourning. Are we really not going to escort His Highness back to the capital?"
Changshan frowned and stared at the captain in front of him, whom he had promoted. He was a little confused as to whether he really didn't understand the situation or wanted the second prince to go to Beijing to die.
Cui Qinghe continued, "But... Your Highness's actions are unfilial. We should persuade Your Highness. If General Chang doesn't go, I will."
"Who are you?" Changshan stared coldly at the person in front of him.
"I am not anyone's subordinate. I am only concerned about your highness's reputation." Cui Qinghe begged for mercy and defended himself loudly, but Changshan didn't care.
Before the army broke camp that night, Cui Qinghe sent someone to secretly deliver a message. Changshan caught the man and executed him directly.
This scene was reported to Jiang Yu by Xu Huai.
Empress Xu here had always wanted to recover the one million silver taels that were robbed by Jiang Yu. After receiving the news from Shu, she was completely furious.
Empress Xu had no choice but to continue sending people to infiltrate Shu to cause trouble for Jiang Yu.
Mid-July.
Just as the new emperor of Dali Kingdom was holding his coronation ceremony, divine punishment came again.
Shanxi and Fujian were successively hit by earthworms.
The new capital of Beirong was also affected by the earth dragon, and the palace collapsed. The Khan of Beirong was furious, believing that this was caused by the frequent misconduct of the Emperor of Liguo.
In order to make up for his losses, the Khan once again ordered the Rong army to plunder the people's food and property in the Dali border area.
Empress Xu was anxious to deal with it and ordered the Minister of War Shi Tan to lead troops to the border in person to quell the anger of the Rong people.
A month later, a hurricane hit the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, destroying houses and farmland one after another and causing countless casualties.
Two months later, Henan and Huguang suffered from drought, and the summer grain harvest failed. Countless people died of thirst and starvation.
Three months later, the Japanese pirates from the island country once again launched a robbery in the southeastern coastal area, and the Dali Kingdom seemed to have entered the final stage of its destruction.
Queen Xu no longer had time to care about Jiang Yu and had to concentrate on solving internal and external troubles.
Under such circumstances, the imperial court still sent officials and soldiers to collect taxes in various parts of Jiangnan to make up for the indemnity in the Lirong Treaty.
The surviving people were forced into a desperate situation and began to flee.
In Shu, although it was also affected by a small-scale earth dragon, most areas were still relatively peaceful and many refugees began to flee to Shu.
The King of Shu no longer cared about political affairs and handed over all matters to Jiang Yu.
After listening carefully to Chen Xinli's suggestions, Jiang Yu used Chengdu Prefecture as his base to widely absorb refugees, encourage them to reclaim wasteland, engage in agriculture and sericulture, and cultivate high-quality varieties of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and wheat, and also reduce taxes for them.
In addition, in order to facilitate the irrigation of farmland, Shu began to recruit a large number of refugees to repair river channels.
In order to provide women with a way to make a living, Shu also built various handicraft workshops to produce daily necessities.
The fleeing people spread the news from one person to another, and when they heard that Shu could provide them with enough food, they flocked there, and the number of people from Shu gradually increased.
In addition, in terms of business, in order to encourage the flow of merchants, taxes were reduced for merchants, and cooperation was carried out with local gentry to build post stations, roads and bridges.
Two years later, most areas of the Dali Dynasty were in dire straits, but the Shu region began to prosper.
The large-scale planting of wheat, regenerated rice, sweet potatoes, potatoes, mochi, kudzu root, etc. has finally enabled the people to have enough food to eat.
The newly produced cotton cloth in Shu finally provided the people with clothes to wear. The soap produced by Han Xiaojiu's soap workshop was sold well in Shu. The rose cream and rose water produced in Yibin were deeply loved by women.
Chen Xinli also discovered that there were camellia trees everywhere in Shu, but they had not yet grown on a large scale. So she promoted the planting of camellia trees to the people who had just arrived in Shu.
Camellia oil has become another edible oil after lard and rapeseed oil.
Chen Xinli also transplanted some of the various fruit trees in her space, and most of them survived.
Many people then became specialized in growing fruits. Many years later, the rise of various canning workshops enriched the lives of the people in Shu again.
In the past two years, in order to prevent the imperial court from sending troops to attack Shu, Jiang Yu ordered Xue Xuan to be responsible for recruiting soldiers in Shu, and also opened various training programs to strengthen the body.
The discovery of iron mines in southwest Shu replenished the missing weapons in Shu.
Just when the entire Shu area was being completely renewed, Chen Xinli's golden-swallowing python mutated again.
Ever since Protector Li sprinkled an unknown powder on Ah Hua three years ago, Ah Hua's body not only became smaller, but she also fell into a deep sleep. Even if she woke up occasionally, she seemed to have lost her soul.
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