It is rainy and the world is dark. From the third day of the Lunar New Year, the northwest has started to rain continuously. This rainy weather makes people feel depressed.

After the wedding, Chu Huan has been very hard for several days. He has to handle a lot of official duties during the day. On the one hand, he has to prepare for the war materials to be transported to the front line, and on the other hand, he has to prepare for the cultivation after spring. Although the war has not yet begun and the victory or defeat is unpredictable, Chu Huan knows in his heart that no matter the final result, the spring plowing in Xiguan cannot be delayed. Once the seeds are not planted in the season, Xiguan will inevitably lack harvest this year. At that time, those who die will probably be much higher than the death toll of the two armies.

Chu Huan issued an order a while ago, and the officials of the Ministry of Revenue Department headed by Wei Wuji strictly implemented the strategy of borrowing grain sublease. Although to some extent, it did harm the interests of the gentry and wealthy families at the moment, with the seven surnames of Xiguan taking the lead in supporting this tricky thing, this originally very difficult thing was implemented.

Of course, it is impossible for all the grain borrowed from the gentry to be transported to Shuoquan City for storage. From the beginning, these grains were sublease to the people for farming. If they were gathered from all over the place and then distributed from Shuoquan, they would inevitably increase costs and losses. Therefore, the Ministry of Revenue Department had issued an order from the beginning that the grain of gentry in each county should be paid to the county warehousing of each county, and registered and counted, and then the Ministry of Revenue Department would be uniformly allocated and planned.

The Ministry of Revenue Department of Shuoquan sent a large number of officials to each county, and the Ministry of Revenue Department officials and local county officials took the grain together. The granary was closed. Without the order of the Ministry of Revenue Department, the granary must not be opened.

The lists from local counties are overwhelming and are presented to the Ministry of Revenue Department. The Ministry of Revenue Department's workload is naturally huge. Not only do we have to coordinate the population and land of each prefecture and county, but we also have to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of the land in the department, and then distribute them according to the existing amount of grain counted out in proportion. This work was originally very smooth at the beginning, but because of the Beishan Mountain, many things became much more difficult.

It’s like the stock of grain. At the beginning, it was just intended to be used for grain planting. However, because war broke out at any time, the supply of grain and grass in front must be guaranteed. There was not much grain in the official warehouse in Xiguan. To ensure that there was no problem with the supply ahead, the grain that borrowed grain and sublease must be misappropriated. However, these grains cannot be called arbitrarily. After all, the government had clearly issued a clear statement before that the grain was distributed to the people to farm, and the people had already gone to the government to rent grain. If the grain could not be taken out at this time, if there was a problem with the government's prestige, there would naturally be no one among the people of Xiguan.

Moreover, the grain paid by the gentry and tyrants was called by the government in the name of borrowing grain sublease. Many local gentry were very dissatisfied. It was just because the government was tough and the seven surnames in Xiguan were examples, and they were unwilling to pay it forcibly. Once the government embezzled a large amount of this batch of grain for military rations, people would naturally jump out. If local gentry and ordinary people make trouble because of this incident, and with external troubles, it would be even worse for Xiguan.

Chu Huan could only discuss with Wei Wuji, the Ministry of Revenue Department, that it was impossible to avoid food. Otherwise, the soldiers on the front line could not be allowed to fight on hungry. The food they called should have a limit, which would not only allow those gentry to accept it. After all, the war was right in front of us, and without any food as military rations, it was unreasonable that the soldiers on the front line could barely fill their stomachs.

These things are so terrible. After handling them for two days with the Ministry of Revenue, Chu Huan felt his scalp numb. He admired Wei Wuji, Du Fugong, and Su Linlang. He thought that these messy accounts were really troublesome. These people who handle logistics affairs would probably be more difficult than those on the front line.

In fact, Chu Huan knew in his heart that after all, it was because Xiguan’s foundation was too weak.

The land in Xiguan was already barren and the grain was not produced. In addition, when the war had just passed, there was almost no grain reserve in the official warehouse when he took over Xiguan.

If it weren't for the weak foundation and sufficient food, Chu Huan wouldn't have to worry about logistics affairs. He would have enough food and thought about the frontline war.

Sometimes I think in my heart that if this is the Jiangnan area and I want to requisition food, I am afraid there is no need to worry about military rations. In a prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River, there is no food in the warehouse of a wealthy family and gentry. As long as each household requisitions a little, it will be enough to deal with military rations. However, in the northwest, there is no way to do anything. The gentry of the Xiguan family is really better than the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. It can be described as beggars.

We have to continue fighting every day and we have to continue fighting at night. When we are newlyweds, we will welcome four women at once. We can't ignore any of them.

Having four beauties is certainly a blessing for all people, but it may not be a particularly wonderful thing to fall on any man’s head.

During this newlywed period, you have to go back and forth to a few yards.

Fortunately, Chu Huan is a smart person. After two nights, he had already summarized a route. First, he went to Dai'er's house. Because of the child, it naturally consumed the least amount. Then he went to Linlang's house. Linlang's beautiful young woman, and Chu Huan's beloved person, had a much greater body consumption. At this time, he went to Su Niang's house.

The biggest advantage of being kind to Su Niang is that it will not only not consume physical energy, but also restore energy and physical strength. This is also an extremely rare fun thing in the boudoir.

When Su Niang was satisfied, Lord Chu's energy and physical strength were greatly restored. At this time, he would reinstall and deal with Mei Niang who was so charming that he was so charming that he was very charming. Mei Niang had a lot of tricks and had to accumulate enough energy to deal with it.

Chu Huan is very tired during the day and at night, and he has to wait for the military newspapers coming from the South and Western Fronts every day, especially on the South Front, to pay attention to Xiao Huanzhang's actions.

Although Chu Huan talked and laughed when he was with his wives, he actually understood in his heart that this kind of time spent together might not last. Once the war begins, he will inevitably have more things to do, and even have to rush to the front line in person, and will inevitably not be with them all the time. So before the war breaks out, he handles official duties while spending time with them as much as possible.

By the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, several consecutive news reports came out within a day, but it made Chu Huan happy and sad.

The first military newspaper was sent from the southern line. Xuanyuan Shengcai explained in the military newspaper that on the third day of the Lunar New Year, officials went to Qingtang City to hold accountable on the other end of Beishan Road. Beishan accused three soldiers of the Xiguan army of crossing the border and entering Beishan territory and doing a horrifying thing. The three soldiers not only raped a Beishan village woman, but also killed two villagers, but also killed an old sow.

After the incident, the three soldiers were besieged by villagers and failed to escape and were all beaten to death. The officials of Beishan not only brought the bodies of the three soldiers to Qingtang, but even brought witnesses.

After the letter, Xuanyuan Sheng directly expressed his views. Of course, this incident was intentionally created by Beishan, and the purpose was nothing more than to find an excuse to start a war.

After investigation, the three soldiers were indeed Xiguan Army.

Although Chu Huan and Xiao Heng were designed and ordered Xuanyuan Sheng to withdraw the Xiguan army to Qingtang, they still sent people to patrol near Liangzihe, otherwise it would be too strange after the entire line was retreated.

The three Xiguan soldiers were scouts sent by the Xiguan army to patrol near Liangzihe. They suddenly disappeared on the night of the New Year. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the other party sent officials to Qingtang City to hold accountable.

Even if you rush from Yu Changcheng to Qingtangcheng, you will never be able to arrive in three days, so the official was obviously preparing in Danyang City in advance.

According to Xuanyuan Shengcai's speculation, the three soldiers were obviously captured and killed by the Beishan people while patrolling, and then fabricated a so-called crime and went to Xiguan to raise an army to question the crime. If that case must have existed, it was definitely not done by the soldiers of the Xiguan army, but was fabricated by the Beishan people.

Chu Huan sneered in his heart when he received this letter.

He threatened Beishan to launch an attack on Beishan, and told the other party very bluntly that it was not difficult to find a reason to start the war. He only needed to sacrifice a few people and rely on the other party to start the war. Unexpectedly, the other party actually used this trick.

As soon as this incident broke out, Chu Huan knew that Beishan must have been fully prepared to start the war. Perhaps when he received this letter, Beishan army had already crossed Liangzihe and marched towards Qingtang City.

On the same day, two more letters were sent at the same time, one was sent from a trading ground outside Yanmen Pass. The letter stated that the people of Xiliang had crossed the desert and brought thousands of war horses. At the beginning, the trade ground almost thought that the Xiliang army had killed it, and the Northwest army even transferred troops to prepare to face the enemy. However, it was soon clear that the leader of the team this time was Gusa Heiyun, the great ritual officer of Xiliang. According to statistics, the war horses brought by more than three thousand.

He even explained in his heart that Xiliang originally sent 4,000 war horses to trade, but in the desert, he encountered a storm and lost many war horses.

This is also the only thing that has excited Chu Huan recently.

Although the number of three thousand war horses seems to be small, it is very different from the number of the Tianshan Black Wind Cavalry or the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, but it is just an individual. Three thousand war horses are really an extraordinary number. Moreover, this is the first transaction, which does not mean that this is the last time. What is more important is that everyone knows that the Western Liang war horses are famous all over the world. Not to mention the northwest horses of Zhu Lingyue Black Wind Cavalry, even the Liaodong horses of Chi Lian Di, they are not as good as the Western Liang war horses.

However, the next letter that came less than an hour later surprised Chu Huan, and the content of this letter also made Chu Huan worried whether the transaction with the people of Xiliang could be completed smoothly.
Chapter completed!