Chapter 400: Continuing to be busy, the New Year is coming

"Ah!"

Putting down the letter, Shen Xiangwan curled his lips and sneered: "As the saying goes, it is better to ease than to block. Instead of suppressing the people who are forced to resist by this method, it is better to find a way to provide relief to the victims and win the hearts of the people. If the dog emperor still doesn't take the people seriously, even if the Binzhou uprising is completely suppressed, there will soon be other uprisings. By then, the uprisings will be everywhere. How should he suppress them?"

Our ancestors said it well, he who wins the hearts of the people wins the world. The dog emperor and those so-called ministers of the court do not take the people seriously at all. They only know how to oppress them and are unwilling to give them anything. They have long lost all the support of the people. It won’t be long before they will suffer backlash and completely destroy the Li royal family’s kingdom.

"The rebels are not pushovers. They won't be completely suppressed so easily."

Reaching out to hold her hand, Wei Chengyi curled his lips and smiled, "The snow disaster has once again swept across the Tianqi Kingdom, and a large number of people have frozen to death in various places. The emperor and the court still have not taken any action. He has asked someone to secretly pass these things to the military advisor of the rebel army, asking him to publicize it widely in Binzhou. By then, the rebel army will be even more angry and their morale will be boosted, while the Binzhou army will become even more unstable. Even if the commander-in-chief is Wanqi Shan, he will not be able to easily suppress the rebel army completely under such harsh conditions."

"Ah."

Shen Xiangwan exhaled deeply and changed the subject directly, "How is the construction of the city wall connecting the three counties going?"

They have been building for almost two months, right? With hundreds of thousands of people working at the same time, the construction should be fast.

"Thanks to the cement you gave us, the newly built city wall is extremely strong. The outline has already been completed. All we need to do next is to continue to raise it higher and strengthen it."

Speaking of this, Wei Chengyi couldn't help but smile even more. What they built was not just a city wall, but a real city tower. The hollow design could store a large number of soldiers, and the wall was made very thick, about one foot thick. No one could easily knock it down. When it was completely completed, the border would have an unbreakable line of defense. Even if there were no large number of soldiers guarding it in the future, the Western Hu people would never be able to break in easily.

"The snowstorm this year is so severe that even if the Western Hu people come again, they will probably have to wait until the snow melts a little, otherwise their horses won't be able to run in the thick snow. So, they will most likely not come out until February or March, and we still have enough time to build the city wall."

The heavy snow will not only bring them inconvenience, but also hinder the invasion of the Western Hu people, buying them enough time to build the city wall. As long as the city wall is completed, they will no longer have to worry about the Western Hu people breaking in and massacring their people like they did last year. By then, the three border counties will no longer be the most dangerous counties.

"Well, we expect to have it all completed by early February at the latest."

Nodding, Wei Chengyi agreed with her statement. After the city tower is completed, they will start to build roads in Chenzhou, which is also expected to take two to three months. By then, the first season's grain will be almost mature, and they will have truly solved the refugee crisis.

“Are there still refugees pouring into Chenzhou now?”

They have been busy with their own things recently, and Shen Xiangwan doesn't know much about these things.

“It’s much less.”

Wei Chengyi sighed helplessly: "There are only two to three thousand people these days, but almost all of them have caught a cold and can't work right away. We have moved them to several villages in Daping County and sent military doctors to treat them. We will arrange work for them after they recover."

Those people were all half-dressed, it would be strange if they didn't catch a cold, and almost all of them had frostbite, which was shocking to see. "Well, I'll write a few common prescriptions for treating colds later, and you can send someone to deliver them to the military doctors and let them use them."

Shen Xiangwan also shook his head helplessly. If people hadn't been unable to survive, why would they leave their homes and rush to the border states? In the end, it was still the fault of the dog emperor and the court. If they had paid a little more attention to the people and spent their efforts to extort money from the people on disaster relief, they wouldn't have been forced to survive.

The drought had just ended, and the snowstorm came again. The people of Tianqi Kingdom were suffering terribly. Countless people were frozen to death every day in various places. Even the emperor who did not take the people seriously was overwhelmed. In comparison, the people of Chenzhou were so happy. Under the leadership of Wei Chengyi and his wife, there were no deaths in Chenzhou regardless of the drought or the snowstorm.

Wei Chengyi went out again after only staying at home for a few days. There were as many as one million refugees pouring into Chenzhou, and heavy snow was still falling from time to time. The temperature continued to drop. He had too many things to do and it was impossible for him to sit at home peacefully. Moreover, the New Year was coming soon, and the Western Hu people would soon invade after the New Year. Before that, he had to rectify the military discipline again and sort it out personally to make sure that there were no other people's spies mixed in the army.

In mid-December, all the raw materials in the warehouse were used up and the ointment workshop stopped working. Shen Xiangwan personally settled everyone's wages and paid three months' wages as year-end bonuses so that they could all have a good year. Not long after that, the papermaking and printing workshops also had a holiday. Now their printed books have been sold to several nearby state capitals, and the money they earned is slightly more than last year. After discussing with Shen Xiangwan, Zhou Changqing also paid the workers three months' extra wages as a reward.

After that, they really entered the hibernation mode. Including the children, they stayed at home every day. Shen Xiangwan got up later and later every day, and most of the time she could only make it in time for lunch. Zhao Yuping and Yun Mengyi were so distressed that they complained about it several times. Seeing that it was useless, they could only ask the kitchen to make more stews for her to nourish herself, because they all knew that she was not sleeping in, but was studying various medicines every night to prepare for the war that would come after the new year.

"Each family can get a little, and then we can set it off together."

It was the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the Chinese New Year was coming soon. Shen Xiangwan took out a large number of fireworks and asked Yuanyue and others to deliver them to the Yan family, the Zhou family, and the homes of the generals. When Wei Chengyi returned to the space to rest last night, he said that Wei Chenghe and Yan Junling would come back together today, and he would come back later.

"it is good."

After agreeing to it, Yuan Yue Yuan Ying called a few servants, found a few carts, and moved all the fireworks to be distributed to everyone onto the carts.

“Pah pah…”

"Hahaha···"

“Ahh…”

"Wang Wang Wang!"

On the other side, the little cubs were already playing with firecrackers, and their laughter filled every corner of the house. Even the seven-month-old little Dumpling, who could sit by himself, was screaming with excitement. The wolf and the dog, who had become very smart, were circling around them non-stop, and they were having so much fun.

【End of this chapter】

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