This year's Chang'an is shrouded in a haze, and there is no joy in previous years at all.But the Jin Mansion and the Mo family still had a lively New Year.In the second half of the past year, the Mo family went out to do business and made a lot of money, so Mo Yun rushed back for the New Year and told the Yang family and the Bai family about buying a house near the Jinguo Mansion in Chang'an and near the Yuhu Villa.It's not good to always live in someone else's house.With the help of people from the Jin State Mansion to find a house, naturally they quickly found the one they liked.Chang'an's mansion is a large courtyard with three entrances, which is naturally much smaller than the Jin State Mansion next to it, but the people who can live next to the Jin State Mansion are not ordinary people, although the house is not big, but the layout is very particular, Mo Shu is very satisfied.There is no suitable house next to the villa, so Wu Ziheng simply said that he would set aside the green calyx garden and give it to the Mo family to live in.Mo Shu thought that there was no great need to build another house in Yuhu County, and she didn't twist it to accept it.In the end, the pattern of the villa remained the same.The Mo family bought a maid and a servant, and renovated the house in Chang'an.Emperor Liu Kai of Liang heard the reports of the people below, and felt that the Mo family was planning to settle in Chang'an, and they were still worried about the war in the northwest, so they didn't pay much attention to it.After the news of Li Guodong's defeat and suicide was transmitted back to Chang'an, Liu Kai ignored the dissuasion, and soon appointed Zhang Qingjun, the general who invited the war, as the commander and marched west again.But just after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the news of Zhang Qing's defeat came back to Chang'an.This year, there are still lanterns in other places to make Lantern Festival, but because of the war in the northwest, Chang'an is very deserted on the fifteenth street of the first lunar month.Originally, Mo Shu still wanted to go out to enjoy the lanterns during the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, but she didn't make it later.Because on the fourteenth day of the first month, Wu Ziheng received the news of Zhang Qingjun's defeat before Emperor Liu Kai of Liang.Zhang Qingjun did not commit suicide like Li Guodong, but fled back to Baishi City with a few hundred remnants of soldiers, but after escaping back to Baishi City, he was quickly guarded by the officials who came to supervise the army.The army of Wuhu in the northwest pursued Zhang Qingjun and approached Baishi City.After the stubborn defense of the defenders of White Rock City and the people, the army in the northwest retreated.After returning to Chang'an, Zhang Qingjun was killed by an angry Liu Kai.No one dared to fight anymore.Although Liu Kai still did not give up and wanted to go west again, but after these two defeats, the army of Liang was already seriously injured, not to mention that he could not find so many military rations, weapons, war horses and other materials, and even the soldiers had to be re-recruited and recruited.In order to divert Emperor Liang's attention and prevent him from taking it to the west because he had some money from the private treasury, some ministers who felt that they were more intelligent took the initiative to mention the matter of digging the canal.In this way, Liu Kai really cared about the canal and the palace in the south of the Yangtze River, and temporarily let the army stick to the frontier.It's just that after two expeditions to the west, many young and strong laborers of Daliang were consumed, as well as war horse grain, in order to fill the empty treasury, Liu Kai was reluctant to use his private treasury, and the private treasury could not make up for this money, so he increased taxes.The taxes and forced labor of the Liang were not light, so the life of the people was even more difficult.And the families who have recruited strong men have fewer pillars in their homes, and their lives are even more unsustainable.But Liu Kai didn't care about this, not only did he only take a very small part of the money from the private treasury to dig the canal, but also got a lot of money from various famous families and powerful businessmen through various methods to meet his needs to dig the canal and cruise south, as well as the life of poverty and luxury on weekdays.These officials and local tycoons gave Liu Kai a part of the silver, so naturally they had to find a way to get it back, but this burden finally fell on the exploitation of the people.For a time, the people were dissatisfied, but they still dared to be angry but did not dare to speak.The people of Daliang are very obedient to their duties, not oppressed to a certain extent, and will never have the heart of resistance, even if life can't go on, someone has to take the lead, so they will have the courage to join the rebels.When Mo Shu got such news, she fell into deep thought for a while.I don't know if it's because of her rebirth, this history has changed, and the process of this war seems to have accelerated.According to Mo Shu's memory, in her previous life, until she fell from the city tower, Liu Kai did not dig the Grand Canal.Even if the defeat of the Western Expedition is to be postponed until the sixteenth year of Jing'an, that is, next year.These things are all in advance, I don't know if the disasters and turmoil will also be in advance, Mo Shu always thought that there were still a few years to prepare, but now she suddenly felt the urgency of time.We must stock up on more food as soon as possible and enhance our ability to defend ourselves and protect ourselves.The next day after thinking of this, Mo Shu immediately asked the Mo family and all the newly bought subordinates to exercise.And taking advantage of the drop in the water level of the lake and river in winter, Moshu also asked Wu Ziheng's farmers to dig five large ponds by the river near Yuhu Villa, saying that they were preparing to artificially incubate duck eggs and raise ducks.The reason is that it can be used to mass-produce salted duck eggs.The people in the villa and nearby were accustomed to Mo Shu's thoughts, and they didn't feel anything.And Mo Shu said, digging the pond is not only paid, the Wu family also takes care of the food, there is no output in the cold ground in this winter, even the wild vegetables can not be dug up, the poor people feel the most difficult, is worried about how to spend this winter, there is such a good thing, the farmers are very enthusiastic.In addition to the strong men who dug the pond, there were also several aunts who came to help cook rice and cook ginger soup to ward off the cold.The little one smelled the aroma of the meal and watched it with a blank stagger, drooling incessantly.Mo Shu couldn't bear it, and with a wave of her little hand, she added a lot of food to the food of the villagers, as long as she came to work, she could share a bowl with her own children.As for others, Mo Shu really can't care about it.When the villagers got the news, many men were moved to wipe their tears and work very hard to repay the kindness of the main family.But now it's all cold, and some wealthy families in Chang'an have porridge on the street, Mo Shu thought about it, and let people build a few porridge shacks in Yuhu County.These nearby people were very grateful, and thought that Mo Shu would distribute the chicken seedlings to the villagers in the county without receiving a penny, and only said that after the chickens were raised and laid eggs, they would hand over some to Yuhu Villa, saying that they were helping to raise chickens, which was actually equivalent to giving chickens to these villagers.And after Mo Shu raised chickens, she also said that as long as she was willing to raise them, no matter where the villagers were, they could go to the hatchery house to take three chicks back to raise, and the rules were the same as Wu Ziheng's farmers.In this way, there are fewer people who say that Mo Shu is a bad star
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