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That night, the army stationed on the outskirts of the city drove into the city. With the support of Dong Lu, Long Xingwen and others, they successfully controlled the entire town. By the early morning of the next day, the army had been distributed in the outskirts of Lingnan, completely controlling the entire Lingnan city...

On the tenth day of May, in the main hall, local gentry bureaucrats were already waiting for Liu Ce to arrive in the hall. They were all worried and secretly prayed that the rumored murderous frontier commander could spare his and his family's lives.

Among the crowd, only Dong Lu held his head and chest up, with a calm expression on his face. He still had a calm and calm look on his face. He had no psychological fluctuations at all about his bold words in the hall yesterday, "swearing to live and die with Yan State" and saw that he did not blush or beating, and he looked at the people in the hall with a righteous face, fully demonstrating the temperament that he should have as an old official, which made the rest of them sigh.

"Why haven't the Governor come yet?"

Half an hour passed, but Liu Ce's figure had not appeared in the hall for a long time, which made the gentry officials who were anxiously waiting to fall even more frightened.

Before the storm comes, the most painful thing is to wait...

Liu Ce did not come to meet these gentry bureaucrats, and had not even taken a step forward in the "harem" because he was now dealing with a more difficult problem.

food!

"Mr. Military Governor, my subordinates have personally visited the city's grain warehouse. There is no grain of rice grain in the city. More than 200,000 people in the city have probably been out of stock..." Xu Wenjing stood beside Liu Ce with a serious look on his face, pointing out to him the biggest problem facing the city now.

Liu Ce sighed and said, "Give me instructions and order people to make porridge to help the people in the city. Let's stabilize the situation in the city first..."

"Hundreds of thousands of people..." Xu Wenjing said with concern, "Mr. Military Governor, although we brought a lot of food and supplies from Liyang this time, we can't stand this trouble. Of course, my subordinates understand that the military Governor cares about the people and cannot bear to see them hungry, but my subordinates still want to remind the military Governor that Lingnan City is not under your rule now, so there is no need to consider it as thoughtful."

Liu Ce said: "Don't you know what the military governor you said? It's just that the situation is urgent now, and this military governor needs these people to temporarily stabilize so that they can make the next plan and completely dismantle the forces blocked by the ancestors.

These days, we have obtained information from various places in Zhuozhou. As long as the forces of Zuqi and Shi Kui collapse, Zhuozhou will basically be pacified. After all, Zuqi still has more than 200,000 young and strong soldiers in his hands, and the power should not be underestimated. If he fights him head-on at this time, he will inevitably have the risk of being anxious to jump over the wall. This military governor does not want his soldiers to lose too much here in vain."

Xu Wenjing thought about it and knew that Liu Ce's words were very reasonable. He continued to propose: "Mr. Military Governor, the people in this city have no food, but those rebels must have a lot of food in their hands. My subordinates thought that if they want to solve this problem, it would be better to attack those traitors of the gentry?"

"I'm too impatient..." Liu Ce shook his head and said, "The situation in Zhuozhou is different. Liyang, and the involvement of various forces is very complicated. If you attack them, it is really possible that the other forces will temporarily put aside their prejudices and unanimously target our military supervisor. This is not consistent with the strategy of quickly pacifying Zhuozhou. Before you have to, please press this thought for the time being..."

Xu Wenjing nodded, stopped persuading each other, and said, "Mr. Military Governor, the local bureaucrats have been waiting for you in the hall for a long time. Shouldn't it be time to set off to meet them?"

"You go and stabilize them for me..." Liu Ce's face showed a hint of disgust. "These flattering people, I really disdain to waste time on them..."

Xu Wenjing was stunned and asked carefully: "Mr. Military Governor, how can my subordinates negotiate with them for you?"

"Stop pretending, just treat it as the military governor giving you a chance to show his face..." Liu Ce said in one sentence, "Everything is a first time, how to deal with it properly, I hope you don't let this military governor down..."

"Thank you, Mr. Military Supervisor!" Xu Wenjing bowed excitedly and bowed, "I will definitely not let down the high expectations of Mr. Military Supervisor..."

Liu Ce gave up and said to Xu Wenjing: "Go, I am going to take this time to go around the city to see if I can come up with a solution to the problem of food shortage in Lingnan..."

Xu Wenjing hurriedly advised: "Mr. Military Governor, the city is not peaceful at this moment. I suggest not to show up in public. What if there is a mistake..."

Liu Ce smiled and said, "The Hu Nu outside the Great Wall can't do anything to me. What kind of threat can a Lingnan City pose to our military supervisor? What's more, there are soldiers of the Guards who come with you, just deal with the affairs at hand..."

"Okay, the military governor must be careful and take your leave..."

Xu Wenjing respectfully bowed out of the door and walked towards the hall. Liu Ce saw with his own eyes that Xu Wenjing's walking posture also became a little "relative" and was obviously very excited. He couldn't help but smile bitterly, and then packed up his military uniform and walked out of the gate.

As soon as he arrived at the exit of the backyard, Liu Ce saw a shiny bald head buried in the taro half the size of his head, eating with relish. Yu stepped forward and gently kicked the bald head with his feet and said coldly: "Are you a hungry ghost reincarnated? Are you full?"

Wei Dian raised his head and wiped the debris at the corner of his mouth, swallowed the taro meat chewed in his mouth, and said vaguely: "It's only 60%..."

Liu Ce said: "It's almost 60% away. Let's have lunch together and accompany my military commander to the street..."

Wei Ding didn't say much nonsense. He put down the taro in his hand, carried the two pitch-black iron halberds on the edge of the table, stood up and followed Liu Ce, and walked towards Lingnan Street with a swagger.

Along the way, Liu Ce saw all the people who were worn-out, pale and thin, and timid. From their empty and unsightly pupils, they could see that they were very confused about their future life, without any hope, exactly the same as the people in the city that Liu Ce saw when he first came to the Far Eastern Han Tomb to take office...

Of course, in addition to this, there are also some rogues wandering on the streets, looking at the passing pedestrians from time to time to see if they can catch a "fat sheep" to blackmail. However, when they saw Liu Ce and Wei Ding, who was more than two meters tall behind him, they were so scared that they immediately shrank into the darkness and dared not show up...

Liu Ce looked at these scenes and couldn't help but shake his head secretly. Lingnan City was recovered, and the people did not feel any joy at all. How was it before and what it is now, there seemed to be no difference...

"If this is the case in the entire Great Zhou Dynasty, then there is no need for him to exist, but I hope he can hold on for a while and prepare me for enough time so that I can have the opportunity to change all this..."

From Heyuan to the Far East, and now from the Far East to the Heyuan, Liu Ce found that the situation of the people has not improved at all, but has become more difficult than before. He is more determined to overthrow this dynasty that has been corrupted to the core and establish a new order.

However, if you really want to implement it, you will find that it is much more difficult than you imagined. This is not achieved by the existing military force in your hands. If you do not get the support of the people of the world, you will also go into the backbone of your family. This requires a gradual process. Moreover, there is a powerful and barbaric alien regime outside the Great Wall. You have to be prepared for it at all times. Everything should be followed by the strategy established by Xu Wenjing and Ye Yin. First control the eastern grassland and ensure that there is no threat from foreign enemies in the rear. Then you can develop with confidence. Then implement new strategies for all parts of the Central Plains.

In addition, what made Liu Ce dare not let go is the shortage of food. If the land grain output under his control now is as large as the output in his previous life, then he would really do whatever he wants. Unfortunately, he understood that with the current productivity level of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he could only imagine and entertain himself in his spare time...

"Thank you, thank you girl..."

Turning a corner of the street, Liu Ce suddenly heard a noise and couldn't help but feel curious. He and Wei Ding stepped forward and looked carefully. He saw a woman in white and light clothes and graceful figure escorting her under the soldiers next to her. When he passed by, he distributed the coarse grains in the basket in his hand to the hungry people begging for food on both sides of the street...

"Xue Ruyuan? Why is it her?"

Although the woman wore a hood on her head and a scarf on her face, Liu Ce still recognized the woman as Xue Ruyuan at a glance. However, from her clothes, we can see that she must have had something to do here and rescue the victims...

Xue Ruyuan's fate was miserable, and her chastity and dignity were trampled by the barbarians of Xia Kingdom. Although she tried hard to pretend to be indifferent to the world in front of everyone, Liu Ce understood that she actually felt a deep sense of inferiority in her heart.

After all, a beautiful talented woman like Xue Ruyuan who once fell into the capital was chasing stars and celebrating the moon, but now she can only hide her identity. The psychological gap in this is not something that ordinary people can understand.

In this era, how precious is a woman's reputation for chastity? Especially the daughters of aristocratic families attached great importance to it. In the past, the Wei sisters were rescued by Liu Ce, but they were almost forced to death by Wei Wenran, who had received the news, with three-foot white silk and a glass of poisonous wine. Then it was the Hanling under Liu Ce's rule. If he hadn't gone to the school to inspect and prevent the tragedy from happening before he went to the Far East, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

"I hope you can have a good home, and I hope Shi Zongjie can show the kind of a man should have, so that he will not let Miss Xue down for the second time..." Liu Ce sighed, silently wishing Xue Ruyuan could untie her knot as soon as possible and stay away from this right and wrong with the one she loves.

Just as Liu Ce turned around and wanted to leave, Xue Ruyuan caught a glimpse of Liu Ce. Her eyes lit up immediately, and she bowed gently to him and nodded.

Liu Ce looked at her and lowered her tiger eyes slightly. He simply stopped avoiding her. He passed by Xue Ruyuan. When he arrived in front of her, he also lightly tapped his head without stopping too much.

However, just as the two of them were wrong, Xue Ruyuan suddenly had a thin waist held by a pair of big hands, and then her body rotated uncontrollably. When she stabilized her body, her entire body was wrapped in a burly cloak. She leaned over her wide chest, and her ears were filled with Liu Ce's exclamation and a twisted vibration of air...

"Be careful~"

"Swish~"
Chapter completed!