Three miles outside the south gate of Luocheng, Luoshui Wharf.

The long fleet could not see the edge at first sight. One-third of the waters of the Luoshui River, nearly a hundred meters wide, was occupied by five hundred black-sailed ships. The faces of the sentrymen on the ship were rust on their faces and their bodies were stained with morning frost.

There were lined up on the pier, and all twelve berths were requisitioned. Whether it was an official fleet or a private ship, they all went to the left and continued to moor towards the pier further away.

At each berth, two-wheeled four-wheeled trucks, one after another, were shipped for miles, wearing cloaks, playing hard-working coolies, lined up one by one, carried two hundred kilograms of grain bags, turned around and walked towards the carriage twenty steps away, put them in the carriage, and turned around and lined up to carry the grain bags.

A little further away, a group of people stood high, looking at the fleet on the river, the dragons of cars on the dock, and the cold wind stroking the face, but no one blocked them.

The young man standing in the middle of the crowd, his face was like a jade plate, tall, his blue shirt fluttered in the wind, his sword eyebrows raised slightly, and he looked around.

Beside him, there were more than ten people, old and young, whispering softly from time to time. The closest to the young man with jade face was Jin Cheng, the secret master who had become famous in Luocheng.

Jin Cheng's vertical furnace smelting, iron molded martial arts, and three-phase alloys were launched, and the craze of warriors was thrilled. The fast, efficient, high-quality and low-priced weapons were asked by the Minister of Works to personally come forward and ask Jin Cheng to teach the secrets of metallurgy.

Jin Cheng declined on the grounds that this secret technique is still in the experiment, not perfect, has many shortcomings, and is at certain danger. As we all know, Jin Cheng is the remnant of the prince and the overseas secret master brought by His Highness Chu Ren. Before His Highness Chu Ren's identity was determined, Jin Cheng naturally did not want to publish the secret technique.

Although doing this violates the laws of secret masters, it makes people helpless. After all, the matter of a great throne is not far away, and it only takes more than a month to get to the throne. If Chu Ren cannot get to the throne, I think the Secret Master Jin Cheng should have such secret techniques that can benefit the Great Chu.

Who knows that this kind of thing can only be said again at that time. Even if he doesn't want to, who can force him?

If Chu Ren is defeated, it is still unknown whether he can leave Luocheng, but as a secret master, Jin Cheng is afraid that no one dares to have bad thoughts on him.

Jin Cheng built a momentum with smelting, and Chu Ren became famous in all directions for hundreds of thousands of stones of grain. At the most difficult time in Da Chu, the food he brought solved the urgent needs of Da Chu. Although hundreds of thousands of refugees could not fill their stomachs, they at least stuttered and did not cause large-scale deaths, or fought to survive.

Another team of carriages came here, and a hundred meters away, stopped. With the support of two strong warriors, an old man got out of the car.

The old man first looked at the continuous fleet on the river surface, and his eyes were filled with greed, all of which were good food.

Turning his head, he looked at Chu Ren standing in the cold wind, rejected the support of the two warriors, stepped apart, and walked towards Chu Ren slowly.

Ten steps apart, the old man stopped and looked at Chu Ren.

"Well, King Wu." Chu Ren smiled slightly and didn't care. Although King Wu Zhuoyue is an elder, he can be polite and not abandoned. According to the etiquette, Zhuoyue should give him polite and greet him first, but he did not.

"Hello, Your Highness." Zhuo Yue said with a light cough.

Looking at this face that looked very much like the third prince, a strange color flashed in Zhuoyue's eyes. It would be a pity if he was the third prince.

"King Wu, this beautiful river and mountain is already in the cold winter. The wind is so strong that the sun is cold, but spring is not far away." Chu Ren said softly.

The corners of King Wu's mouth twitched, as if he wanted to laugh. It is said that His Highness Chu Ren has a strategy, can accommodate the world, and has a long-term vision, which shows that it has been a thousand years. It is an exaggeration. After all, he is a young man. After reading a few books, he likes to play the game.

Perhaps in the eyes of young people, this is very great, but in the eyes of an old man like him, he is like a joke, just telling things when he has something to do and making useless things. Do you think that King Wu is outstanding and less studying?

"Your Highness, I'm going to come to the dock to have a breath. I don't want me to listen to this, right?" King Wu said bluntly.

King Wu was also in a dilemma. He defeated King Chu and plotted against King An. However, with the strength of King Wu's Mansion, it was impossible to overthrow the Chu family. All he needed was a successor close to King Wu's Mansion.

The problem is that no one of the three princes can stand up to the wall. The princes chosen before were helpless. The three were all defeated and could not choose a big one at all.

The appearance of Chu Ren originally made King Wu even more embarrassed. After more than a month of observation, he found that King An's vision was quite good. Moreover, His Highness Chu Ren was not a puppet of King An, not to mention that King An was no longer there at this time.

In the past month, Chu Ren did not jump up and down, lobbying all directions, and even rarely saw ministers in the court, let alone generals in the army.

Chu Ren only did two things, and the food from the ship was transported to Luocheng constantly. He set up work sites outside the city to provide labor instead of giving porridge for vain, but instead mobilizing the victims, repairing the rivers, and transporting grain. There was no work, and even the work of cleaning the streets was sent out. Over the past few days, the cleanest time in Luocheng for hundreds of years, and there was no way to see even the dead leaves on the road.

No matter what work it is, as long as you do it, you will have stuttering. No matter how big or small, only elderly people over forty can eat for free.

In addition to transporting grain and disaster relief, Chu Ren ignored the matter of Da Chu. Jin Cheng opened a construction site to recruit strong men among the refugees, build furnaces and smelting iron, and make iron molds. They can make hundreds of arrows and dozens of soldiers at a time. They also added a variety of stones to smel three-phase alloys and smelting alloys to create top-quality weapons, but the price is only 70% of that on the market.

Jin Cheng was famous for his secret techniques, and Chu Ren was famous for his benevolence and righteousness. If it weren't for the plane created by Lei Master, he would have become more popular. I'm afraid that Jin Cheng and Chu Ren's reputation would have spread throughout the Chu Dynasty long ago.

It seems that Chu Ren has done his best. He was originally the orphan of the prince and his identity is awkward. If he took the initiative to contact the court officials, the military general would probably not even be able to enter the gate.

Chu Ren's style of conduct has been supported by many ministers in the court, especially compared with the three princes, who are not a little stronger.

Although Chu Ren is the orphan of the crown prince, he is also the legitimate son and grandson of the Chu clan. Speaking of which, he is more authentic than the old King of Chu.

The prince was indeed very prodigal and did a lot of stupid things back then, but look at the three princes nowadays, they did more stupid things. The difference is that the prince at that time had the power to do stupid things, which made Da Chu suffer.

No matter what, a hundred years have passed since the prince’s affairs. There are basically no one who has experienced the incident that year. Except for An Wang Chu Xingyun, it can be said that none of them are involved.

The internal struggle of the Chu family has nothing to do with foreign ministers. Now seeing Chu Ren’s actions, many people think that instead of letting one of the three princes ascend the throne and causing trouble to the great Chu, it is better to let Chu Ren take the throne.

King An had passed away, and King Wu's mansion was silent, and Chu Mingxin was a firm supporter. As for the three princes, it was really ridiculous. They were still fighting in the internal strife, but when Chu Ren appeared, all three became turtles, and they didn't even dare to show their faces.

"Of course not. Over the past century, the contributions made by the Wu Palace to the Great Chu are obvious to all. As a junior, Chu Ren admires him, but it is not convenient to enter the palace to invite him to see the mountains and rivers of the Great Chu at the dock." Chu Ren said with a smile.

If Renault is there, I will definitely complain. There are also literary youths in Dachu.

"Yes, it's quite difficult for Da Chu to reach this day." Zhuoyue was helpless and could only accompany Wen Qing for a while. What he wanted to hear was not this.

"The prince is far-sighted and thinks what kind of changes should the Great Chu do now?" Chu Ren asked.

Ask for advice? Or take the school exam?

"For several years, natural disasters have been constant and the officials in the lower level are harsh. We should focus on stability, first benefit the people, solve the food and clothing, rectify the officials, and then seek other things." When asked about political affairs, Zhuoyue said that he was not an excellent warrior, but an excellent politician, otherwise he would not be able to fight with the King of Chu for decades without falling.

In fact, when it comes to governing the country alone, King Wu Zhuoyue really looked down on Chu Zheng. King Chu was good at plotting, but he was just conspiracy, good at seizing power and winning people's hearts. He had no achievements in political affairs. In addition, he was overwhelmed by years of natural disasters and led to the rise of refugees in the Chu Dynasty.

Chu Ren shook his head slightly: "Yes, not right."

Zhuo Yue frowned and asked himself that he had no other knowledge about the political affairs of Da Chu. Not to mention the dead King of Chu, even the several auxiliary ministers in the Political Affairs Hall were not as good as his. Chu Ren was only in his early twenties and lived overseas. How much could he know about Da Chu?

"Just taking the Great Chu theory alone, what the prince said is true and pointed directly at the key points. Looking at the bigger world, Chu Ren wants to say, "The prince is watching the sky by landing in a well." Chu Ren said confidently.

"How do you say this?" Zhuo Yue frowned. Is there something in his words?

"The problem of the Great Chu is actually not serious. To put it in disrespectful, Chu Zheng is incompetent. The Great Chu is vast and has secret masters who use secret techniques to help each other. It will never let the people get hungry. Although there are natural disasters, man-made disasters are the key. Man-made disasters are more urgent than disaster relief. If you cannot manage officials, natural disasters will be severe every year, how can you save them?"

Zhuoyue did not answer. He knew the question of Da Chu. Chu Ren said it well. The King of Chu had very weak control over the lower level. In order to defeat him, Chu Zheng focused most of his energy on the army, controlled most of the army of Da Chu, and kept himself in his hands, but his control over the lower level was getting weaker.

Many state governors were almost becoming local emperors. As long as they paid a small amount of taxes every year, they could be powerful and prosperous in the prefectures, exploit the people, and live a life of luxury, especially in several southern states, which had already been very excessive.

The further away from Luocheng, the weaker the control of the Great Chu court. In addition, the nine borders of Great Chu require a large number of troops to guard the inland security, and the security of the inland is under the control of the state army and the troops.

Zhuoyue was also suppressed by Chu Zheng and had no time to care about these things. In fact, a few years ago, he felt that the several states in the southeast had reached the point of listening to the Xuan Dynasty and not listening to the tune, and the annual tax amount was also decreasing. Several great governors kept calling for natural disasters and demanding tax reductions.
Chapter completed!