Yang, who was playing in the yard, suddenly walked towards Jiangnan happily. When she came to him, she handed him a glass bead and looked at him with a smile.
The maid came up behind and said with a smile, "If you have something good, you should give it to the young master. I just found this on the ground. I think he lost it while playing yesterday. He treats it like a treasure and won't even show it to me."
Jiangnan picked up the glass bead from Yang's hand and said, "It's really beautiful. Is it for me?"
Seeing Yang smiling and nodding repeatedly, he took off the purse from his waist and carefully put the beads into it.
Yang turned to leave, but Jiangnan led her over and sat her down. He wiped the sweat off her forehead and began to feed her some water. Yang wanted to take some cakes from the table, but Jiangnan's face darkened. Yang didn't dare to move, but her face was full of grievance.
Jiangnan waited for the maid to bring water for washing hands, and personally helped her wash her hands with her sleeves rolled up, and dried them with a towel, then smiled slightly and said: "Okay, take whatever you want to eat."
After getting approval, Yang happily took a piece of osmanthus honey cake and ate it.
The Helan City over there borrowed the iron blade and never returned it until 8,000 new recruits and 20,000 civilians were about to set off. Ye Zhou thought that the person could be returned.
Helan Cheng said that if you want to send a Buddha to the west, you have to send him to the west. These 8,000 new recruits have basically been trained by Tie Ren. Although the time is short, they are still trained by Tie Ren. Tie Ren still has to lead these 30,000 people to Shang Huaitang in Western Xinjiang.
Ye Zhou thought this guy was really taking advantage of others. So he said, "I came to southern Yunnan to help with disaster relief, not to help you take advantage of me."
Helan Cheng smiled and said, "Sending these ten thousand people away is just disaster relief and quelling the rebellion. Besides, I have an interesting job here, would you like to do it?"
Worried about Tie Ren, Ye Zhou directly assigned another thousand men to Tie Ren and took these 30,000 men to Western Xinjiang. Wei Liao asked Helan Cheng: "I only have 2,000 men, what interesting work is there?"
Helan Cheng said, "Have you heard of the Gu tribe in southern Yunnan?"
Ye Zhou asked, "You want to use these two thousand of my men to feed the Gu?"
Helan Cheng said: "Don't boost others' morale and destroy your own prestige. Two thousand people are more than enough."
Ye Zhou asked: "How many people are there in the Gu tribe?"
Helan Cheng: "About 20,000 to 30,000."
Ye Zhou turned and was about to leave, but Helan Cheng stopped him: "Just kidding."
Ye Zhou could only say: "He's fine, why are you provoking him?"
Helan Cheng spread out the map for Ye Zhou to see: "The Gu tribe is on good terms with us, but some people are not.
The Gu tribe lives in the Yin Mountains in southern Yunnan. The Yin Mountains are a barrier between our dynasty and the border countries. Since the Gu tribe lives there, our soldiers cannot completely station there and set up defenses. The military and civilians are mixed together, and their lives and military facilities coexist, leaving many loopholes.
The people from the border countries look similar to the people of our dynasty. They often pretend to be our people and enter Yinshan in groups. They gather at night and go down the mountain to plunder.
Our border troops were often unable to distinguish friend from foe, and were caught off guard, often falling prey to surprise attacks. Many civilians and soldiers suffered, and Prefect Yun Zhao was also troubled. Because the attacks were always minor, it seemed inconvenient to mobilize troops to suppress them, but if they continued in the long run, the losses would be considerable.
Now, there are no people from our dynasty living in the area below the Yin Mountains. Unable to bear the harassment, the people have abandoned their farmland and houses and retreated to a place thirty miles away.
If we give in like this, the bandits in the border countries will become more rampant. It is already a situation of one retreating and the other chasing. The recent looting has chased the people of our dynasty to 50 miles away from the Yinshan Mountains.
If we ask 30,000 Gu tribe members to come down the mountain, our army can then set up a comprehensive military defense on Yinshan Mountain. Yinshan Mountain will be set up as a military fortress, and civilians will not be allowed to enter the mountain.
This way, not only can we prevent bandits from the border countries, but we can also deliberately put them in and beat them up!"
Ye Zhou asked, "How do we get the Gu Clan to come down the mountain? If it were easy, I'm afraid Prefect Yun Zhao would have already done it."
Helan Cheng said: "The situation is different now, the situation has changed, and the Gu tribe has also taken it into consideration."
Ye Zhou asked, "Are they also infected with the plague?"
"They often come down the mountain to buy daily necessities, so they must have been infected by the epidemic. Recently, the mobile clinics and pharmacies have been flooded with Gu tribe members seeking medical treatment and medicine. Each person buys a large amount of medicine at a time, and the Gu tribe members who come to see the patients ask very detailed questions about the prescriptions and how to make the medicine."
Ye Zhou said, "There was a shortage of medical care and medicine a while ago, so they probably just held on. The village where the epidemic first broke out didn't receive timely treatment or disperse its residents, so nearly half of the population has died."
Helan Cheng said: "When they come to see the doctor again, go and talk to them and pass a message to the clan leader."
Ye Zhou asked, "Why me?"
"I'm here to do this under a secret order. You're the well-known imperial envoy who's here with all the fanfare. Who else could it be but you?"
Two days later, Ye Zhou sat down face to face with the Gu tribe leader. After exchanging a few pleasantries, Ye Zhou said, "Please ask the leader to move all our people down the mountain so they can receive medical treatment as soon as possible."
The patriarch asked, "Can we just move the patients down the mountain for treatment?"
Ye Zhou said, "You'll have to ask the chief judge of the Imperial Hospital."
The judge bowed and said, "No. This epidemic has no symptoms in the early stages and is no different from a healthy person.
If anyone who stayed behind was infected, the disease would spread to others. Living in the mountains, medical care is not readily available, and treatment may be delayed."
The patriarch continued, "How long will it take to relocate and receive treatment? When can we return home?"
Ye Zhou said, "Since we've already moved, why bother moving back?"
The patriarch heard this and asked, "What does this mean?"
Ye Zhou asked, "Chief, where did you go when you went down the mountain to buy things?"
“Just go down the mountain.”
"And then? And now?"
"Then we had to walk over thirty miles, now it's fifty miles."
The patriarch began to understand.
Ye Zhou said, "What if it's a hundred miles away in the future? The Gu tribe's home will become an isolated island. In the past, bandits from border countries used to borrow mountain roads, and there was an unwritten rule not to rob the Gu tribe. But what if there's nothing left to rob within a hundred miles? And what if the two countries go to war and a war breaks out?"
The clan leader bowed his head and said: "We have lived here for a hundred years, and now I have abandoned it."
The man next to him, who had come down the mountain many times to buy medicine, said to the clan leader, "For the long-term livelihood of the entire clan, it doesn't matter where we live. If we can preserve the clan and make it more prosperous, that is the long-term plan."
The clan leader sighed and asked Ye Zhou, "Where should we move to? Will we have a place to live?"
Ye Zhou said, "Prefect Yun Zhao has three suggestions. I'd like to hear them from the elders. Do you think any of them are suitable?"
Here, after Yang had finished her cakes, she went back to play with her maid. Wang Lingyi asked, "How did Second Aunt get sick?"
Jiangnan was silent for a while before saying, "I'll tell you everything today. I just hope you don't implicate anyone else."
Yu Minghua agreed to return to Kyoto with him, finally allowing Jiangnan to return home. Jiangnan was delighted, and his stepmother and eldest brother were also delighted to see him. His aunt wept, complaining about Yang's recent years and the hardships she endured, saying she'd narrowly escaped death. Jiangnan was also delighted to see Yingxue, but Yingxue remained calm, saying she was glad to be back and that the past was over.
For some reason, Jiangnan's heart skipped a beat when she said the past was over. Seeing her pale face, he thought she was not fully recovered yet, so he wanted to go see her that night.
Yu Minghua was very dissatisfied, saying that the whole family treated Yang Yingxue better. Now she came here in an unfamiliar place, and Jiangnan didn't accompany her and wanted to leave her here alone.
Jiangnan was afraid that she would make a fuss on the first day and the whole family would not be able to rest, so he had to stay with her and patiently told her that Yingxue had become familiar with everyone at home in the past three years, and since she had just arrived, she would get better slowly.
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