As night fell, the Li family was having dinner in the courtyard.

Ouyang Siyuan announced the news at the dinner table.

"Sister-in-law, I will be leaving for Ping An in a few days."

"Oh...what? So urgent?" Li Changle was surprised.

Ouyang Siyuan thought the other person was trying to keep him. As soon as he smiled, the person on the other side said, "You haven't harvested the sweet potatoes you planted yet. Go back after you harvest them."

It has a beginning and an end. The contribution points reward for teaching the prince how to farm have not yet arrived, so I guess the mission has not been completed well.

Ouyang Siyuan's mouth drooped, "Sister-in-law, you are really..."

Li Changle was busy serving food to Li Shixi and Yu'er, and asked casually: "What? There are fish and meat. I serve you very well. Ask Wufeng if you have gained weight recently. You must speak well of me in front of the emperor when you go back."

Ouyang Siyuan said unhappily: "You are smart. You want to get benefits just by talking."

Li Changle put down his chopsticks in disbelief. "Your Highness, don't you feel guilty for saying this?"

"Have you eaten less fruit from my house?"

"Did you eat less snacks for my baby?"

"Didn't you enjoy the delicious meat and vegetables at my house?"

"I don't even want to talk about you."

"You still say I want benefits?"

Ouyang Siyuan was speechless after being rebuked for a long time before he sighed: "Hey, this time I will really eat less. Sister-in-law, can you prepare some delicious food for me to take away?"

"I will help you to speak well of him in front of His Majesty."

There's no need for him to say anything, his father is just eating and drinking for free.

Before Ouyang Siyuan set out for Ping'an, he already felt that he would never have the chance to enjoy delicious food again.

……

In the second half of the night, in the wing room of the Li family courtyard, the shadow guard lowered his head and listened to orders.

Li Shixi had already been acupunctured for sleeping.

Ouyang Siyuan laughed as he wrapped himself in the quilt, "Don't underestimate any of these three people."

"Yes!"

"How many groups of people are there outside?"

"Your Highness's Shadow Guard, His Majesty's Eagle Guard." Their goals are the same, so both sides look after their own affairs and do not interfere with each other.

Ouyang Siyuan: "Where's Gu Jingyan? Didn't he let him out?"

Shadow Guard: "Your Highness, apart from Leng Yi and Leng Er, I haven't seen any other guards from the Gu family."

Ouyang Siyuan laughed, "Gu Jingyan is really... as calm as a mountain. He is so confident in handing his wife and daughter over to the hands of the royal family, isn't he afraid..."

He waved at the shadow guard and said, "Go ahead. Remember to keep an eye on General Gu. If a hair of the man is injured, not only the general, but also the emperor... will be in trouble."

"Subordinates take orders!"

I saw a dazzling shadow flash through the open window, and then disappeared in an instant.

Ouyang Siyuan fell back on the bed, "Oh, the master is so relieved, why should I worry about it?"

-

How can Gu Jingyan feel at ease when the real culprit has been wronged?

He and Lin Hai had already left the territory of Li County and were staying in an inn in a neighboring county, accompanied by another person.

Li Long walked in front of Lin Hai and sighed: "Your General Gu really overestimates me. The masters under my brother can't do anything to you. What can I do?"

"King Kang, this is what the general has told you to do. You cannot leave my sight for even a moment."

When Gu Jingyan left Li County during the day, he sent Lin Hai to the county government office to take away Li Long who was imprisoned in the jail.

He absolutely could not place such a person who was keeping an eye on food in Li County.

When Lin Hai saw Li Long, the other party was sitting in the prison with his legs crossed and eating roast chicken.

……

Lin Hai and Li Long entered the guest room where Gu Jingyan was staying.

Li Long felt unbalanced when he saw Gu Jingyan still had the leisure to make tea.

"General Gu, is this how you in Dayan entertain friends from neighboring countries?

After all, we just signed an armistice, so I am not an enemy, right? Besides, you have a grudge against my brother, but not against me!

Why do you have to lock me up in that cell? I'm not a criminal! If you say something, I can just disappear on my own!"

"King Kang himself doesn't believe what he said, right?"

Gu Jingyan brewed the tea and placed a cup in front of the other person.

"I have said that I need to borrow grain, but I don't have any. The fields in the north have not harvested any grain in the past two years, and the people are suffering. It is not only the people in your territory who are suffering."

"That……"

"As for the grain that King Kang happened to see earlier, it was also discovered by the common people and planted by trial."

Hearing Li Long leaning forward, he wanted to say something like "borrow some food".

Gu Jingyan raised his head to stop him from saying anything, "If you are interested, come and have a look next year. It is really not possible now.

The homes of many people on our northern border have been harassed repeatedly by your Northern Mongolian Army, and they are suffering terribly.

They can't even comfort you properly, so how can they have the time to care about the lives and deaths of your people?

Shouldn't King Kang go to ask for food from your Northern Mongolian monarch, or the Northern Mongolian crown prince who frequently stirs up disputes between the two countries?"

Li Long: "..."

It made so much sense that he had no way of refutation.

But the key point is that he beat the prince severely, and the woman in black was determined to report him.

He was lucky enough to be free from personal attacks, assassinations and revenges at this moment, but how dare you think of borrowing food from him?

As for his father...

You know the result without even asking: no food.

"Hey, I don't really need that little fiefdom. If I get it, I'll have to manage the people."

"When times are good, people will support you."

Li Long had a headache. "How about... I trade cattle and sheep with you? Fur is also acceptable?"

Gu Jingyan paused as he was refilling his tea, "Do you have any cattle or sheep to exchange?"

During a severe drought, will there still be water and grass to feed cattle and sheep?

Li Long had a painful expression on his face. "Every winter, herders have to kill a group of old cattle and sheep that cannot survive the winter, fearing that there will not be enough grass to feed the newborn lambs and calves."

"We slaughtered them early this year. There's not even a blade of grass growing on the pastures. If we don't slaughter them, they'll starve to death. We don't have many cattle and sheep to sell, and there's not much fodder left for the winter. But we have to exchange them. If we don't, we'll have nothing to feed them. It's better to exchange them for food than to let the cattle and sheep starve to death and have the whole family eat only meat, right? I don't think we'll be able to eat until spring. Or do you have some fodder to exchange?"

Gu Jingyan looked at him like an idiot, "Do you think so?"

Li Long was speechless.

If you have drought, I have drought too, and everyone has drought.

The situation on the northern border was not much different from that of his small fiefdom, except that most of the people in Da Yan were good at farming and had abundant food reserves.

There's none here, but there are plenty in the south...

Li Long drank the cold tea, shuddered, and his mind became much clearer.

Gu Jingyan tapped the table with his index finger, thinking of a possibility...

“King Kang can ask the people in your fiefdom to bring cattle, sheep or furs to the border between Da Yan and Northern Mongolia to see if they can exchange what they have.

As for the word "borrowing", King Kang does not need to say anything more."

The people outside the border city are suffering terribly, but the people inside the city or around the border are relatively better off.

The furs and meat could probably be exchanged for food or other things with the people in the city.

In the north, there were already traveling merchants who brought cloth, sugar, tea and other things to the border areas to exchange for furs, cattle and sheep. In front of Li County, there were merchants rushing to the border city to wait for an opportunity to act.

The war must be fought and money must be made.

However, during wartime, the control will be very strict for fear that spies from enemy countries may infiltrate.

Now that a ceasefire agreement has been signed, naturally, improving people's livelihood has been put on the agenda.

The horse market outside the city can be started again.

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