Hold His Hand - Chapter 162

On New Year’s Eve, when Xie Chengze read the letter and missed Lu Yanzhou, Lu Yanzhou also missed Xie Chengze.

After Lu Yanzhou, who goes by the pseudonym Yan Hang, arrived in Jiangnan, he didn’t rush into activities. First, it was New Year’s Eve, and secondly… his beard hadn’t grown yet.

When Lu Yanzhou was in the capital, he spent most of the time in Xie Chengze’s village and rarely appeared in front of people, but there were still some people who knew him.

In order to avoid being recognized, he planned from the beginning that he would wait until the beard grows before appearing in front of people.

His beard grows very fast, but it will take a while to grow. Recently, Lu Yanzhou has found some other things to do, such as refining weapons.

But on New Year’s Eve, he didn’t do anything, but called A, B, C, Ding, and some other people he had arranged to come to Jiangnan together, and then they all had dinner together for the New Year.

“I don’t know if Aze received what I sent, or if he is thinking of me.” Lu Yanzhou sighed.

A, B, D, and D were not young, so Lu Yanzhou taught them as children, and they had a good relationship with Lu Yanzhou.

Recently, I realized that Lu Yanzhou and Xie Chengze have a good relationship, and they are even closer to Lu Yanzhou: “You can rest assured, Master Yan, the master must be thinking of you!”

They didn’t know what to call Xie Chengze before. After all, it was easy for someone to discover Xie Chengze’s identity if they were careless. After thinking about it… they simply asked Lu Yanzhou.

Lu Yanzhou didn’t hesitate: “Isn’t that your master? Just call him master.”

So A, B, B, and Ding were called that, and so did the others, although their current master was actually Lu Yanzhou.

At this moment, everyone said: “Yan Shao, the master must miss you very much.”

“Master likes you the most.”

“Master has never liked anyone else!”

…

“That’s true, he only likes me, he must be thinking of me.” Lu Yanzhou agreed with their words.

Except for him, Xie Chengze could not like anyone else!

A, B, C, Ding and others also nodded in agreement. Eunuch Xie had a cold face towards others, and only spoke softly and tenderly to Lu Yanzhou. He must have loved Lu Yanzhou very much.

Although they like women and don’t quite understand how two people get together, Young Master Lu and their master are really an enviable couple!

Lu Yanzhou reminded them again: “You remember to write a letter and tell him that I have been thinking of him.”

Everyone immediately agreed that they would definitely help Lu Yanzhou to say good things, and let their master not forget Lu Yanzhou!

The atmosphere was very lively, but Lu Yanzhou and the others didn’t eat well.

Dayan will come to an end, and it has been related to the aristocratic family and the royal family, so that the people are displaced, and it is also related to climate change and natural disasters in recent years.

If there were no natural disasters, Dayan would be able to survive for a few more years, but now the natural disasters are too serious, many places have a shortage of food, and the price of food is not cheap, and the price of meat is even more expensive.

Lu Yanzhou and the others spent the New Year hastily.

After the new year, Lu Yanzhou’s beard has grown out, and he deliberately tanned himself a little bit, coupled with a completely different style of clothing… He has changed from a handsome boy to a tall and strong man with a full face and beard .

Looking at himself in the mirror, Lu Yanzhou couldn’t help but said to Xie Jia, “If A Ze sees me like this, will he not like me?”

Xie Jia was used to being asked this way for a long time, and knew how to answer: “No, the master likes you the most!”

Lu Yanzhou was really satisfied with the answer, and added: “He likes me now, but if I was like this when we first met, he would definitely not take me home!”

Xie Jia: “…” This can’t be answered, and he thinks… this is a fact.

Father-in-law Xie couldn’t have seen a big bearded man on the road and snatched him home.

In this young age, many people starved to death.

Some people are used to being enslaved and endure all the hardships silently, but some people are ready to fight when they face death.

But how can these people beat the fat and strong guards raised by the big family? They couldn’t rob the granary of the aristocratic family at all, these scrawny rioters, the final target of the robbery was the tenant farmers or farmers who were struggling at the bottom like them.

The life of the robbed peasants could not go on.

Some robbers went too far, not only robbing food, but also burning houses to kill people, and even displaced many people.

Displaced people, when desperate, will become robbers, which is a vicious circle.

What is even more terrifying is that when the weak cannot survive, they will bully the weaker. At this moment, women and children are already struggling to survive.

Lu Yanzhou didn’t wait any longer. He took the hundreds of soldiers he had trained and started to fight robbers and robbers.

Kill those who do evil things, and the rest, young and strong, will be incorporated into the army, and the old, the weak, the sick and the sick will let them farm the land… Lu Yanzhou, with his sophisticated weapons and disciplined men, quickly occupied a piece of land .

At this time, in other places, someone has already laid down a large area of ​​the country.

Lu Yanzhou was not in a hurry, he worked hard to manage his own territory, and divided the land among the local tyrants.

In addition, children and teenagers in the areas he occupied were also gathered by him.

Lu Yanzhou asked people to teach them to recognize simple characters and learn Arabic numerals. He will definitely need a lot of officials in the future, and he can start training them now.

The things that these people learned were set by Lu Yanzhou early, and the textbooks were written when he was in the capital, and now they can be used directly.

In order to quickly popularize knowledge, Lu Yanzhou also promoted sentence reading and improved papermaking and printing.

While busy, Lu Yanzhou kept in touch with Xie Chengze.

It’s just that in a chaotic world now, he doesn’t send many things, only people send letters, and he only dares to write some love and love things in the letters, and he doesn’t write secrets.

Occasionally there are confidential letters, or important things to send, then we have to arrange a special person.

Xie Chengze is also the same. Every time he receives a letter from Lu Yanzhou, he will ask the sender to bring a reply letter to Lu Yanzhou. The letter he wrote is not long and does not involve any secrets.

But from time to time, Xie Chengze would arrange for someone to send Lu Yanzhou some supplies, such as iron, that Lu Yanzhou was in short supply.

At this point, I have to say that Xie Chengze has great powers. He can always get what Lu Yanzhou needs without knowing it, without exposing himself at all.

Sometimes those who help deliver the supplies don’t even know who sent them so much.

Lu Yanzhou has a knowledge reserve far beyond ordinary people, and has secret support from Xie Chengze. Although the land he occupies is not large, it develops very well and steadily.

However, in the eyes of officials in the DPRK and China, he has not many people, nor is he crazy to expand, and he belongs to the kind that is not threatening, so that no one cares about him.

Their armies are dealing with those who are the most violent.

Just like that, Lu Yanzhou developed quietly.

Time passed quickly, and a year passed in the blink of an eye. In this year, the grain harvests in various places were still not very good. Only in the places managed by Lu Yanzhou, because of his special attention, the harvests were not bad.

At this time, in the capital, Xie Chengze’s power is getting bigger and bigger.

There were frequent wars in various places, the aristocratic family felt that it was the fault of the emperor, and the emperor felt that it was all the fault of the family.

At the end of the year, the palace must hold a banquet, and today there is another palace banquet.

This year, the number of people attending the banquet was much more than usual – some places became chaotic, and the gentry there fled to the capital, crowding the already crowded capital.

These people have been clamoring for the emperor to send troops to recover the lost territory, but it costs a lot of money to send troops to fight, and the emperor is naturally unhappy.

In the afternoon, the gate of the palace was already crowded with carriages.

Countless people got off the carriage, slowly entered the palace, and then found their seats and sat down according to the arrangement.

Some of these people go to the palace from time to time, but some come for the first time. At this time, there is a young man who has just arrived in the capital and is entering the palace for the first time. He talked to the people around him: “The capital is really different. , there are many things that I have never heard and seen before, and they are also very prosperous.”

“Indeed,” said the man beside him, “there have been a lot more delicacies in Beijing recently.”

“It’s a pity that the imperial eunuchs took over the government!”

“That Xie Thief is really hateful, he acts arrogantly and doesn’t take us seriously at all!”

The two were discussing when they saw a man in a dark red costume with a peerless appearance slowly coming in from the door.

After he came in, the whole banquet scene was quiet for a moment, but he glanced around for a week, and the corners of his mouth curled into a shallow smile, which inexplicably gave people a feeling of looking down on the world.

The young man who entered the palace for the first time stopped breathing, his heart beat fast, and he couldn’t help asking, “Who is this beauty?”

The person who was chatting with him before let out a sigh of relief and calmed down: “He is Xie Chengze.”

That Xie Chengze, who was shouting and beating everyone, turned out to be like this? The young man who had just arrived in the capital was stunned.

A year ago, Xie Chengze was relatively low-key and had a good temper, but this year…he suddenly became flamboyant, and his temper was even more uncertain.

In this regard, the officials in Beijing, in addition to cursing, also gloat in misfortune.

Xie Chengze is retribution for doing too many bad things! No, his man is dead!

It’s just… Without that Lu Yanzhou, Xie Chengze would be even more difficult to deal with!

Xie Chengze, who was thought to be more difficult to deal with, was actually in a good mood. Not long ago, Lu Yanzhou sent him a lot of things, including sugar.

And he sold the sugar for a good price to them, His Majesty.

He plans to exchange the money for supplies and send it to Lu Yanzhou in a few days.

A year later, he now thinks that Lu Yanzhou might really be able to change the dynasty… that’s good.

It’s a pity that more and more people are in the way in this capital.

He can raise it for a while, and when the time is right, he will kill all that should be killed.

At this palace banquet, there was sugar.

The sweet and sour pork ribs and pastries made of white sugar amazed everyone. White sugar surpassed vegetable oil and instantly became the most popular thing in Beijing.

No matter how hard the life of the common people is, the people of the aristocratic family will still spend a lot of money for a can of sugar.

The sugar was made by Lu Yanzhou, but after he made the sugar, he didn’t keep it at all and sent it all to the capital.

First, he can’t let people know that he made it, and secondly… what he needs is food, not such a “luxury”.

“I don’t know how Ah Ze is doing in the capital, whether he has lost any weight.” Lu Yanzhou was still celebrating the New Year with A, B, C, and Ding as usual.

Xie Jia said: “It shouldn’t be thin.” There is definitely no shortage of meat in the capital, and they are different here.

They usually don’t have any meat to eat, but they don’t lack fish.

Lu Yanzhou knew a lot of things. He improved the boat and occupied an entrance to the sea. After recruiting some fishermen, they could also go into the sea to fish.

Lu Yanzhou sighed again at this time: “I’m exposed to the sun and rain every day, and it’s getting rougher and rougher. I don’t know if we meet again, and A Ze will dislike me.”

Xie Jia: “…” He has answered similar questions too many times, and now he doesn’t want to answer.

A, B, C, and Ding tilted their heads and fell asleep.

They have recently started to expand, are really busy and haven’t had a good rest for a long time.

Lu Yanzhou ate all the unfinished food and fell asleep with his head tilted.

In the first year, Lu Yanzhou was not visible, but as time went on, he became more and more noticeable.

In the territory of Dayan, many uprisings were no different from bandits, and disappeared after a lot of burning, killing and looting.

Some uprising people are quite capable, but after several battles, there are victories and defeats.

Only Lu Yanzhou, or don’t fight, but if he fights, he will definitely win.

The life of the people in the area he occupied is far better than anywhere else!

In the end, it turned out that wherever Lu Yanzhou’s army went, the people were eager to welcome him.

In the blink of an eye, another four years have passed.

Dayan is still there, but the defeat is obvious. In addition to Dayan, there are two most powerful forces.

One of these forces is the force of the new emperor who entered the capital on the original historical trajectory. This man’s surname is Sun and his name is Sun Chongshao. After a lot of hardships, he encountered misfortune in his family later. As soon as he was ruthless, he rose up. Now there are hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands.

As for the other force…the one led by Lu Yanzhou.

The strength of the two sides is equal, and the stalemate cannot be over.

The capital, the Wang family, and Wang Tingyun are discussing with the people of the clan.

The aristocratic families have already begun to consider the way back, and even some families have chosen people to take refuge in.

“On Sun Chongshao’s side, many people have already gone to seek refuge. When our Wang family passes by at this time, they will definitely bow their heads!”

“Yan Hang doesn’t have anyone there, but Yan Hang is said to be born in poverty, and he doesn’t like the powerful. Most of the officials on his side are from poor families, and even ordinary people. If we go to him, we must first liquidated.”

“Zhou Jia Erlang voted for Yan Hang and is working with a group of mud-legged people at this time!”

…

There was a lot of discussion, and Wang Tingyun said, “Who do you think will win?”

Everyone looked at each other in dismay, and finally said: “Now the strength of the two sides is equal, and Yan Hang’s troops are still fewer, but Yan Hang has won the hearts of the people… Since ancient times, those who have won the hearts of the people have won the world.”

“Yan Hang’s army is strong and strong, and the army is strictly disciplined. Even if he can’t win for a while, as long as he lives, he can always win.”

“Yan Hang loves the people like a son… Before Sun Chongshao’s soldiers met with his soldiers, they went directly to the enemy.”

…

Whether it is Wang Tingyun or the rest of the Wang family, they are more optimistic about Yan Hang.

However, Yan Hang has always treated everyone equally, and he must act according to his rules when he joins the family in the past.

They are also cautious about taking refuge in Yan Hang.

Wang Tingyun said again: “If we voted for Sun Chongshao, would we have the ability to let Sun Chongshao win against Yan Hang?”

Everyone estimated for a long time, and finally said: “I’m afraid it can’t.”

Wang Tingyun said: “In this case, we might as well make a decision earlier and go to Yan Hang.”

An old man from the Wang family hesitated: “Why don’t you wait?”

“We have waited for a long time, and if we wait any longer, it will be empty,” Wang Tingyun said, “not to mention… the capital will be in chaos.”

Wang Tingyun knew his nephew very well, and since the world was in chaos, his nephew’s actions became more extreme.

Xie Chengze… wants to destroy this big swallow.

If they don’t leave, they may be buried with Dayan!

The Wang family finally made a decision to join the family in Yan Hang.

Xie Chengze soon heard about this matter, and his face darkened after hearing it.

The Wang family is going to take refuge in Lu Yanzhou, what will Lu Yanzhou do?

But he couldn’t stop it, and he couldn’t stop it either.

Now he is dispensable to Lu Yanzhou.

When the capital city is broken, he will also come to the time of death.