As March comes, the pace of spring is unstoppable, and the north is also open with rivers, grass grows and birds fly, and the earth is green. Liu's body has not become weaker because of this, but his face has become rosy. In the past, he will be out of breath after walking a few steps, but now he can walk around the camp without breathing.

At that time, Liu Yin repeatedly contradicted the Southern Dynasty emperors, and then the other people who followed him were awarded the reward of officials by the Southern Dynasty for their merits in surrendering, but he did not regret it. With the idea of ​​not surrendering to the Song Dynasty even if he died, he stayed in the camp of the Southern Dynasty emperors. At first, he had the idea of ​​committing suicide and dying for his country, but he hesitated again when he saw his old wife who was "captured" in the same place. If he died, he would have no choice but to destroy his life.

Thinking of this, Liu Yin also thought about it, with the attitude of being at peace since he came, he should eat and drink, and it was impossible to surrender. However, the emperor of the Southern Dynasty seemed to have forgotten him, and even if he did not cause trouble for him, no one came to persuade him to surrender, he lived the most comfortable life in his conscious life.

He naturally has no worries about eating and drinking. Although it is not a delicacy, it is much more refined and has a large amount of food. On weekdays, he also has a doctor asking for pulses, prescriptions and medicines, and even the old diseases he suffered from in the past have been cured. He has a car to take advantage of, and when camping, he will arrange a house for him and his wife, or a tent to live with him and take care of his life in person.

In addition to having no worries about food and clothing, and having illness can be cured, what makes Liu Yin the most happy is that the carriages accompanied by the Southern Emperors had a lot of books, including many classics he had never seen before, as well as the works recently compiled by the Southern Confucians in recent years. After he got familiar with the old pavilion shelf, who managed books, he could borrow them at will. This is the best day for Liu Yin, who loves books as much as his life.

"Wife, why did you go out again?" After a few days of arrival in Zhuozhou, they had been staying in the inn for more than ten days, and the guards on duty did not restrict their exit. However, Liu Yin was a prisoner and never took a step forward in the camp, while his old wife would sometimes go out to buy some daily necessities.

"My husband, the weather is getting warmer, it's time to change my spring clothes. I think I'm going to buy some cloth to make new clothes for my husband, but unfortunately I don't have enough money!" Liu sighed.

"It's okay, take out the silk floss from the cotton coat and make a jacket!" Liu Yin saw his old wife looking embarrassed and looked at her winter clothes full of patches. He felt even more guilty and forced a smile and said.

"Alas, the silk and linen sold from Jiangnan are both top-notch and not expensive. Unfortunately, the treasure money we have is still not enough!" Liu sighed.

"Baochao? The vendors also collect Baochao?" Liu Yin asked in surprise. Although he did not like to ask about the common affairs of firewood, rice, oil and salt, his family was in trouble, but he often heard his wife nagging and knew something. Because in order to make up for the financial shortcomings, the Yuan court issued Baochao uncontrollably, resulting in soaring prices. Baochao was like waste paper, and even a thousand guan could not buy a kilogram of salt.

"The local vendors do not accept them, and the vendors from Jiangnan are indeed willing to accept them. It is said that after they receive them, they can exchange them for the Qianguan Baobao money for Baiwen Song Ting Tongbao to the government." Liu replied.

"Oh, there is such a thing!" Liu Yin was even more surprised, but then said, "The Jiangnan valued merchants, and the merchants were unrighteous, so they would definitely benefit a lot from it."

"Wrong, the goods sold by the Southern Dynasty are much lower than those of the Central Plains. The salt is only 40 cents per pound and brown rice is only 80 cents per dou. It is still a good idea to exchange it for the people at this price." Liu waved his hands repeatedly.

"It's indeed a good thing for the people, but the low price of rice is definitely difficult to buy!" Liu Yin nodded and asked again.

"I heard that when the Southern Army first entered the city, the subsequent Jiangnan grain vendors sold grain at low prices did cause rush purchases, and some local grain vendors even bought a large amount of them, preparing to sell grain at high prices after the southern grain was sold out. However, the Southern grain was continuously transported in, and the price was slightly lower, which made the local grain vendors complain. "Liu said with some gloating pleasure.

"During the war, a large amount of southern grain was transported into the Central Plains. It seems that Jiangnan is prosperous and the court is in danger!" Liu Yin sighed after hearing this.

"If you die, you die. The people in the Central Plains were experiencing miserable life. Now that the arrival of the Southern Dynasty not only distributed land to the people, distributed seeds and farm tools for free, exempting taxes owed to the government and lamb loans from the Otu people, but also reduced the land tax by almost 10%. The people all said that if the Southern Dynasty knew that the Southern Dynasty treated the people so well, it would have opened the city to offer surrenders and welcomed the royal army into the city." Liu said.

"Stop talking, don't talk nonsense! The people are so numb. They don't want to resist the invasion of the Southern Dynasty, but they are willing to be the Southern Dynasty obedient people for small profits. You can also look at them with a smile!" Liu Yin was angry after hearing this. Hebei was already the core of the capital, and Zhuozhou was only more than a hundred miles away from the capital. The people should rise up and resist to help the court resist the Song Dynasty. But what surprised him was that the people not only did not resist, but wanted to open the city to surrender. He couldn't help but scold his wife.

"My husband, this is not what I said, why bother me!" Liu said for a moment, "You have never gone out in the museum all day long, so naturally you can't hear rumors in the market, you can't see the miserable scenes of the people. You only believe in the words of the saints in the book, but you can't be a meal!"

"You actually slandered the saint..." Liu Yin said even more annoyed when he heard this.

"The saints do not eat the fireworks of the world, but we cannot live without firewood, rice, oil and salt. Not to mention the court at that time, now the governments in various places forced the civilian food first, and then the official army plundered the people's property. All the food and property of the hundred miles around the capital were robbed. Now it is the time of spring famine, and many people died of starvation. If it weren't for the Southern Dynasty's grain relief, and the food in the south of the Yangtze River was transported, the city would be full of starvation!" Liu frowned and retorted.

"The Southern Dynasties' governments distributed land to the people, suppressed bandits and robbed the Mongolian officials who harmed people, arrested and imprisoned the property of the unscrupulous Otu merchants and distributed it to the poor people. The Southern Dynasties' royal army not only did not enter the people's homes, but also did not robbery. They also helped the people repair damaged houses, rob farmland, and sow seeds. The people naturally could distinguish who was good and who was bad. On the contrary, you were always obsessed with the Mongolians!"

"You... are hopeless!" Liu Yin thought that he didn't even have money to change his spring clothes, and felt guilty about him. He wanted to scold him, but he couldn't say it.

"Don't be angry!" Seeing that her husband's face was unwilling, his palms were trembling. He realized that he was talking too much, so he quickly stroked his chest and advised him.

"I'm not annoyed you, but I'm angry at the short-sighted and women's knowledge!" Liu Yin patted his wife's hand, "The Jiangnan and Hebei are more than a thousand miles apart. Now it's spring again, the rivers are exhausted and the canals cannot be navigated. How can such a large amount of food and supplies be transported by land? Now it's just a small favor to the people, to stabilize the hearts of the people, and the shortage of daily food and grass will be retrieved thousands of times. At that time, the people will suffer."

Although Liu Yin is a nerd, he reads a lot of books and knows that the losses caused by war are huge. Those who start war will try their best to pass on the burden of war. The more elegant one is because of the food from the enemy. To put it bluntly, after entering the enemy territory, they rely on seizing and looting the grain of the enemy country to satisfy the supply.

This method can save a lot of military spending. At the same time, due to the sudden drop in logistics pressure, the speed of the attack can be greatly increased during offensive operations. As long as there is enough food in front, the combat range is almost unlimited. This is why the Mongols were able to fight tens of thousands of elite soldiers for several years, crossing more than 10,000 miles from Mobei to Persia.

But he also understood that once the army stops and still relies on this method, it will lead to serious consequences. Usually, the land output is only a small amount of surplus except for the local people's consumption. Once tens of thousands of troops suddenly come, it will be like a locust plague, which will soon consume the local surplus and cause soaring prices.

The occupying army lacking food will rob residents of food without hesitation. Nothing can arouse fierce resistance from the local people than this behavior. At that time, the occupiers will tear off the hypocritical mask and turn to use the army to suppress it unscrupulously. At that time, there will definitely be blood flowing into a river and corpses everywhere.

Therefore, Liu was angry that ordinary people did not know the overall situation. Just because the Southern Dynasty gave some favors, he abandoned the court and ignored his life and death, and gave up resistance and became the Southern Dynasty's people. He also knew that the supply line of the Southern Dynasty was long and was prone to damage and harassment. After all, the court still occupied Dadu and had a large number of troops. The war could not end in a short period of time, and it was full of variables.

Once the Southern Dynasty failed in the war, and because of the short supply of food for thousands of miles, or the huge military expenditure was too large to make ends meet, they would only seek back thousands of times, and then they would regret it. If the Southern Dynasty retreated and the court regained the Central Plains, with the tyrannical nature of the Mongols, they would definitely retaliate. The tragic situation at that time made him unimaginable.

"No one knows what will happen in the future, but now the people can't survive anymore. Who will think about what will happen in the future?" Liu didn't think so much and muttered in a low voice.

"You...ah, go!" Liu Yin waved helplessly when he looked at his unconcerned wife.

"Master Chen!" Liu turned around and wanted to leave when he ran into Chen Shi when he squatted down and said.

"Madam Liu, Mr. Jingxiu!" Chen Shishi bowed and returned the gift, took another package and handed it on, "Now I have changed my spring clothes, so I have asked for two more sets for Mr. Jingxiu. There were no women's clothes among them, so I had to ask for a piece of cloth and ask the lady to tailor herself!"

"I thank Master Chen!" Liu gave another tribute and took the passage happily.

"This..." Liu wanted to refuse, but seeing his wife's happy look, the hero couldn't help but breathe a shortness of breath and swallowed the words back.

"It's just a matter of raising hands, so don't be too polite. But the clothes are sewn uniformly by the workshop. If they don't fit, you still need to trouble Mrs. Lao to modify them!" Chen Shishi instructed again.

"If Master Chen is not busy, it will be fine for a while!" Liu Yin asked his wife to cook tea and asked Chen Shishi to come into the house.

"Then I'll bother Mr.!" Chen Shishi did not refuse, and followed him into the house and sat down, "Sir, do you need Chen's help if you have something to do?"
Chapter completed!