On the sea near Denglai, the warships of the Tiger Flag contained most of Denglai's troops. After the first battle division on land rushed to Huai County, they captured Huai County in the first battle.
The entire Laizhou fell into the hands of the Tiger Flag, and Dengzhou was completely isolated. Its fall would be a matter of time.
Sun Chuanting was taken as a prisoner to Huai County.
Since the fall of Huai County, his brows have always been furrowed and his face has been filled with a dark cloud.
"People are inside."
"It's pretty good here. This Sun Boyako is treated much better than I was before."
A strange voice suddenly sounded in the yard, and Sun Chuanting looked out through the gap in the window.
The windows of the house are all made of wood and covered with paper. It is usually dark inside the house. If you want to see clearly what is going on outside, you can only open the windows and let in the light from the outside.
Because it was daytime, Sun Chuanting pushed the window open a crack, so that he could see the situation inside the yard.
Through the crack in the window, he saw a strange figure walking in the direction of the house.
Snap!
The lock on the door was unlocked, the door was pushed open, and footsteps entered the house.
"Bo Ya is so free." The visitor greeted Sun Chuanting with a smile and looked around.
Sun Chuanting looked at the visiting man again and was very sure that he had never seen him before.
"Let me introduce myself. When Boya resigned from the capital and returned to Dai County, I was the chief envoy of Shaanxi Province and participated in politics. Now I work beside Governor Li of Henan Province." The visitor said.
Sun Chuanting was stunned for a moment, then his expression changed.
Thinking of who the other party said was Governor Li of Henan, the name of the person in front of him naturally appeared in his mind.
Hong Hengjiu, the chief envoy before the fall of Shaanxi, participated in politics.
"It seems that Boya has guessed who I am." Hong Chengchou noticed the changes in Sun Chuanting's face and laughed softly.
Sun Chuanting's face turned dark and he said: "You Hong Hengjiu actually surrendered to the rebels, wasting the court's respect for you, and even rewarded your people after your death. This is how you repaid the court. If I were you, I have long been ashamed to find a place to deal with myself, so as not to bring shame to the family."
The unceremonious treatment of Hong Chengchou was a humiliation.
"Good birds choose trees to rest. I don't need to explain this to Boya." Hong Chengchou was not angry because of Sun Chuanting's humiliation, and his face looked very calm.
"You don't deserve to talk to me." After saying that, Sun Chuanting lay back on the bed and turned his head to the other side of the wall, leaving Hong Chengchou with the back of his head.
Hong Chengchou reached for the teapot on the table and found it empty, so he said to the people outside: "Come here, prepare a pot of hot tea and bring it over."
The man guarding the door came in, picked up the empty teapot on the table and stepped back.
"It's true that these people didn't even prepare a pot of hot tea for you. I'll talk about them later." Hong Chengchou said to Sun Chuanting, who was lying on the bed.
But Sun Chuanting ignored him.
Hong Chengchou continued: "When I was participating in politics in the Chief Envoy of Shaanxi Province, I saw that the people of Shaanxi lived a very miserable life. It can be said that the bones were exposed in the wild and there were no roosters crowing for thousands of miles. Such a scene, Boya Can you think of it?"
Sun Chuanting said nothing.
"The situation in Shanxi is much better than that in Shaanxi. The people can barely survive, but in Shaanxi they have already been eating each other just to survive. I participated in politics as the chief envoy at that time, and I still feel ashamed thinking about it. ." Hong Chengchou hit his chest several times with his hand, looking painful and guilty.
At this time, the person outside the door came in carrying a teapot.
"Put it here!" Hong Chengchou pointed to the table in front of him.
The other party put down the teapot and then backed out.
Hong Chengchou picked up the teacup on the table, picked up the teapot, poured a cup of tea into it, and asked, "Would you like a cup of tea? I think you haven't had tea here for a long time!"
Based on his understanding of the military, they basically drink boiled water, like
It is even less possible for a prisoner like Sun Chuanting to prepare tea specially.
After pouring two cups of tea, Hong Chengchou placed one cup across the table.
"The people of Shaanxi were miserable back then! The people who couldn't survive could only become bandits and go around grabbing food. Even so, they couldn't get much food. Not only the people, but also the frontier troops had a hard time. At the end of the day, they can only survive on gruel, not to mention the children in the family, who are often hungry. Some women even make half-open doors, just to give the children and children in the family something to eat." Hong Chengchou looked at it. The back of Sun Chuanting's head was talking about Shaanxi.
Sun Chuanting lay motionless on the bed.
"It's better now." Hong Chengchou said with some joy on his face, "Today's Shaanxi has changed a lot. Although we can't guarantee that all the people will eat with open stomachs, there is hope for the future after all. There are no piles of bones, the laughter of children can still be heard in the village, and during the New Year and the holidays, the family has enough money to pull on two feet of cloth."
"Nonsense. In places like Shaanxi, most people have no harvest. How can the people live a good life?" Sun Chuanting turned over and sat up from the bed.
Seeing this, Hong Chengchou smiled and said: "Although the situation in Shaanxi is still not good, if more ditches are dug, water trucks are used to collect water, and more drought-resistant and high-yielding grains are grown, the same land will naturally be able to feed more people, and in recent years, tigers have Ziqi has been transporting grain to Shaanxi from other places to solve the problem of food shortage in Shaanxi."
"What high-yielding grain? Jade and wheat?" Sun Chuanting asked.
When he went outside Yanmen Pass, he saw with his own eyes a lot of green and tall grain growing in the farmland under the Tiger Character Banner.
He inquired with the local people and found out that this was a kind of crop called jade wheat, with a higher yield than millet.
"Not only corn and wheat, but also sweet potatoes and potatoes have high yields, especially sweet potatoes, which have low land requirements. The key is that these things can survive." Hong Chengchou said.
[In view of the general environment,
The weather in Shaanxi has not changed with the arrival of the Tiger Flag. The people's life is still difficult, but it is much better than before under the Ming Dynasty.
As a former chief envoy of Shaanxi Province, he had to admit that if the tiger-character flag had not come to Shaanxi, there is no telling how many people would have died on the ground in Shaanxi.
Judging from the style of officials in Shaanxi, I am afraid that few officials will care about whether the people can survive.
"Yes, there are so many good things that can keep the people alive. Even the traitors know about it, but no one in the court saw it." Sun Chuanting scratched his hair with his hands in annoyance.
Hong Chengchou pointed to the tea on the table and asked, "Would you like a cup of tea? It will get cold soon and no one will make it again for you."
Sun Chuanting glanced at the steaming tea on the table, hesitated, and finally got up and walked over.
