Traveling through troubled times, he fled with his stepson

Li Yuan and Cheng Feiyue walked quickly, but when they arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, they found something wrong. The gate was heavily guarded, and even the guards were on high alert.

"What's going on here?"

Cheng Feiyue wondered: "It was like this before I left."

"Come on, let's go in and take a look."

Li Yuan walked in front of Cheng Feiyue into the mansion. When the two of them passed through the front hall, two or three people came out from inside.

The two groups met each other, and Li Yuan and Cheng Feiyue saw that they were their superiors in the military camp, so they stepped forward and saluted.

"Captain Wang, Deputy Commander Ling, what's wrong today..."

"Young City Lord, Li Yuan." The person on the other side also responded, shook his head and left without saying anything to them. Ling Zizhen's father Ling Feng looked at the two of them inexplicably, and then left.

Li Yuan turned around to look at them. Wang Zuochang was the chief of a city, in charge of tens of thousands of people. He was also Cheng Qing's right-hand man. Deputy General Ling next to him could command the entire city's army when Cheng Qing was away.

There is another person who I am not familiar with, but I think he is also very important.

These ones come...

I walked into the back hall with some thoughts in mind, and saw Cheng Qing and Xu Yaluo sitting at the eight-immortal table with serious expressions.

"Father! Mother!"

Neither of them noticed the two people approaching them, and Cheng Feiyue couldn't help but call them.

Xu Yaluo and Cheng Qing came back to their senses and were surprised to see them coming over: "Didn't you go out? Why are you back so soon?"

"Li Yuan said he had something to tell you, so we came here first." After Cheng Feiyue finished speaking, Cheng Qing looked at Li Yuan.

Li Yuan seldom came to him on his own initiative. This time he came to him, probably because he had something to say.

"But what happened again, Li Yuan?"

again.

He repeated the word "again" in his mind and thought about those people who had just left. Li Yuan's mind turned a lot and he opened his mouth to say what he wanted to say.

"I just came from the evening market and got the news from Wan Ye. He said that the capital was in chaos, with seven princes fighting for the throne. The capital was in turmoil."

Cheng Qing and Xu Yaluo's faces changed drastically, and they exclaimed, "What?"

Cheng Feiyue, who was a little slower, also shouted, "What?"

"But I didn't send you any news at all..." After Cheng Qing was surprised, reason quickly took over and he glared at his son before asking.

"There are too many forces on all sides and they are too complicated. Wan Ye has already closed all the stores in the capital." Li Yuan said word by word. His face was calm and there was no sign of impetuousness, which made people feel at ease.

"I asked him when it happened, and he said it had been more than half a month since he arrived here from the capital."

In half a month, you can do a lot of things.

Cheng Qing and Xu Yaluo's already serious faces became even more solemn.

"Dad, you asked Captain Wang and the others to come over. Is there something going on?"

Speaking of this matter, Cheng Qing pulled himself out of his thoughts and said, "Since you already have your own ways to know these things, I won't hide it from you."

Although these words were spoken to two people, in the final analysis they were only useful to Li Yuan.

"I called Ling Feng and the others here this time to discuss the issue of the refugees in Xuzhou."

"There is a food shortage in Xuzhou. I heard that when the grain was being sown, it was discovered that 80% of the seeds were destroyed and the grain that was planted did not germinate at all."

"It is now the Spring Equinox. The mayor of Xuzhou reported to the capital, but there has been no response for a long time, so he came to us to buy some seeds."

"We're just sending them some seeds, not food." Cheng Feiyue said.

Everyone can imagine the geographical location of Xuzhou. It is a major grain-producing province. Because of its fertile land, the grain grown here is more and better than that of other cities.

"Sending the seeds is a small matter. There is nothing to worry about. No one wants Xuzhou to suffer a disaster."

Cheng Qing said, "But I heard that Xuzhou has been experiencing heavy rain for seven days. The continuous rain has submerged most of the land."

Li Yuan's face darkened and he looked up at Cheng Qing.

"Due to the destruction of seeds and heavy rains in Xuzhou, some people took the opportunity to spread rumors. Rumors are flying everywhere. I am afraid that Xuzhou will be in chaos."

Cheng Feiyue was just like his mother, with a bad temper and an impatient temper. He clenched his fist and slammed the table: "These bastards are spreading rumors at this time. Do they want to make the people of Xuzhou have no food to eat?"

His anger could not change anything. Cheng Qing looked at his son and sighed deeply: "There is nothing we can do about it. The ignorant people are most likely to be instigated and deceived. Once they know that they are running out of food, the consequences will be disastrous."

"The top priority is to resolve this issue and prevent Xuzhou from going in the worst direction."

Li Yuan asked Cheng Qing: "Did you come up with anything during the previous discussion?"

Compared to Cheng Feiyue's anxiety, Cheng Qing admired Li Yuan's calm expression more: "I thought of sending the seeds to Xuzhou first. After all, the rain can stop at any time. If the weather is clear for a few days, it will still be in time to sow them at the end of the spring equinox."

"As for food, I will take out some of the food from the granary to provide aid. If there is really no food to grow, at least we will have our aid and the food in the Xuzhou granary before the court provides disaster relief."

This is the best way. Li Yuan nodded without any objection.

"but…"

Cheng Qing looked at Li Yuan, wondering what he could say.

"Uncle Cheng, first send a letter to the people around Xuzhou and the mayor of Xuzhou, saying that the disaster in Xuzhou will affect everyone. We are willing to do our best and ask the people around us to send some food."

"We may not have enough food on our own."

Cheng Qing frowned, and Xu Yaluo beside him said, "Before the imperial court provided disaster relief, there were so many grains we sent over and in the granary in Xuzhou, how could it not be enough?"

Li Yuan said slowly in his usual calm tone: "What if something happened to the granary in Xuzhou like the seeds were destroyed?"

"What if the court doesn't care?"

This sentence made everyone silent. After a while, Cheng Feiyue said, "How could the court not care? That is the court..."

"The court is busy with its own affairs. The people at the top are fighting for the position, so how can they care about the affairs below? As long as the fight for the throne continues, the country will be unstable."

Li Yuan wore a gentle smile on his face and said something chilling: "Before the dust settles, who will care about the life and death of Xuzhou?"

"Okay, I'll write to other cities right away." Cheng Qing's expression eased slightly.

"Don't worry yet, Uncle Cheng." Li Yuan interrupted again. Cheng Qing didn't know what else he could say.

"Who is assigned to escort the grain to Xuzhou?"

Cheng Qing thought about the personnel he had just drafted, "Deputy General Ling, he has rich combat experience, so I'll trust him more."

Li Yuan's eyes flashed, "Also send some troops to escort them secretly, and don't let anyone know."

"Are you worried about Deputy General Ling?"

Li Yuan shook his head at Cheng Qing's question, and he remembered what Qiniang said.

“It’s called double insurance.”