After being widowed, I pampered the rough man general by farming

at dusk.

Every household in the new villas at the foot of the mountain lit fires, and the fireworks added a touch of warmth to the extremely cold winter.

Zhu Jiangjiang left Zhu's house. When he returned, he passed by the foot of Yulin Temple and met many villagers returning from chopping firewood. Even the little master from the temple on the mountain carried a bundle of firewood and headed up the mountain.

"Grandpa Xu, get in my carriage."

There wasn't room for too many people in the carriage, so Zhu Jiangjiang only greeted the elders of the Xu family to get into the carriage and the two bundles of firewood that were full in their back baskets.

"Grandpa Xu, it's cold at night. Is this firewood enough to burn all night?" Zhu Jiangjiang chatted with them after the second elder got into the car.

Xu Laogen: "Little sister-in-law is joking, how can we afford such good firewood?"

Zhu Jiangjiang: "Huh?"

She doesn't quite understand, is there a distinction between good and bad firewood?Aren't they all going to be burned to ashes?

Seeing that she didn't understand, Xu Laogen smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, we cut these firewood back to dry, and then sold it in the city, otherwise we would have traveled all the way to Yulin Temple Mountain chop wood."

It is precisely because the firewood on the mountain near Xiaohuang Village is chopped up by the villagers for cooking, and there is no good firewood left.

That's why they came to Yulin Temple to chop firewood, some thick and straight firewood, so that they could sell it in the city.

It's been too cold recently, and the city is in short supply of firewood. People from all villages are chopping firewood to sell in the city, but this is still not enough for the city people.

Mrs. Xu Liu said, "Sister-in-law doesn't know, right? This firewood is a rare commodity now, and many families have to rely on this firewood for the winter."

Mushroom greenhouses and restaurants also need firewood, but she never asks about such trivial matters, so she didn't find any problems in the past few days. Only after hearing from Xu Laogen did she know.

And according to the tone of their two elders, firewood has now become a must-have for everyone to survive the winter.

Jiangnan Town, which has food and clothing, still has to grab firewood for the winter. Isn't it even more sad in other places?

Zhu Jiangjiang had a bad feeling.

The next day, she went to the city to look for Zhou Liang.

After entering the yamen, she asked directly, "Master Zhou, regarding the cold wave, what is the current situation in various places?"

Zhou Liang was a little surprised that she rarely cared about places other than Jiangnan Town.

But I heard that her homestay has taken in many stranded guests?Then there is nothing surprising.

"According to the news exchanged between several yamen, all parts of Dali Dynasty have been hit by the cold wave, especially the closer to Lijing, the more serious it is."

While talking, Zhou Liang took out a few letters from the drawer and handed them to Zhu Jiangjiang for her to read.

"The border is still fine, the cold wave is not that severe, but it is still a bit difficult for General Pei to come back." He told the truth.

"What about Jiangnan Town? These days, the streets are full of firewood sellers, do you know?" Zhu Jiangjiang didn't answer his topic about Pei Ji.

Whether Pei Ji can come back, she does not force, and the current situation, she hopes that he will not come back, it is too dangerous.

Speaking of this question, Zhou Liang couldn't help rubbing his forehead, looking like he was having a headache.

"Only when the problem of food was solved, the problem of clothing came again. Even the gods below can't handle such a natural disaster. The yamen can only encourage the common people to save themselves."

Zhu Jiangjiang: "Why do you make it look like you are in dire straits? We have food in Jiangnan Town, so we won't be able to survive this winter."

If it had been delayed, this cold wave would have dealt a fatal blow to Jiangnan Town.

But this time is different.

Jiangnan Town is a contracted experimental field area specially approved by the imperial court. This year, the people have a bumper harvest of grain and do not need to pay grain taxes. It is not difficult for Jiangnan Town to survive this winter.

The people don't plant the land in winter, and they are basically not affected except for a little cold.

In terms of loss, she is the most unlucky one.

Zhou Liang sighed and shook his head, and took out another item for her.

It was a soft cloth towel made of cowhide, which felt very good in the hand, as soft as holding it in water.

There are words on the cowhide scarf, and several seals that look very important.

Zhu Jiangjiang glanced at the above content, and now her expression was as serious as Zhou Liang's.

"How much do you plan to pay?" She asked Zhou Liang.

The cowhide scarf was a letter from the imperial court.

In addition to asking the yamen in various places to find ways to resist the cold wave and maintain the stability of the local people, it also requires capable yamen to support the other particularly difficult places in the letter within their capabilities.

This letter is not an imperial decree, and it has no meaning of coercion, because it is signed in the name of the Supreme Emperor.

But both Zhou Liang and Zhu Jiangjiang understood that this oral decree passed through several yamen from north to south, stamped the seals of several yamen, and finally reached Zhou Liang.

What this meant, both of them understood.

The emperor wanted to use the strength of Jiangnan Town to help the imperial court to support those places that the imperial court could not take care of in the letter to overcome this difficulty.

As for why it was a hand letter from the Supreme Emperor, not an imperial decree.

It was because the emperor knew that although there was food in Jiangnan Town, all the food was in the hands of the farmers.

The yamen has not collected grain tax since the second half of last year. At this moment, the granary of the yamen in Jiangnan Town can be said to be empty.

To complete the task assigned by the court, the only way is to collect food.

This matter fell on Zhou Liang's shoulders without any accident.

He is a new official who has just been in office for two years, how can he have such a great appeal?

"As much as I can, I'll pay as much food as the yamen has now." Zhou Liang pretended to be relaxed.

With his appearance, Zhu Jiangjiang felt that he was ready to be removed by the court because of his ineffectiveness.

"Except for the cheap grain sold to you by my family this year, the Yamen should not have sold it to you, right?"

Zhu Jiangjiang slumped on the back of the chair, hanging out with him.

Her family has more than 50 mu of land in the village, and there is a [-]-mu experimental field issued by the Yamen next to Huahai. Except for the food left to feed herself and her staff, she has no place to store the excess, so she sells it to the Yamen cheaply.

But that batch of grain, under normal circumstances, is only enough to feed a town for about ten days.

Now, the imperial court has assigned them the task of three towns. The winter is so long and the cold wave does not know when it will subside. How could they complete this task.

"Little lady, this is my duty as an official of the imperial court, and it has nothing to do with you. You should take good care of the guests who stay in your house."

Zhou Liang didn't want to trouble her anymore.

This is a task assigned to him by the court, and it has nothing to do with Zhu Jiangjiang. If everything depends on her, then it is meaningless for him as an official to do it.

Zhu Jiangjiang didn't speak, and he didn't dare to speak.

This is a big matter, and it cannot be done by her in Jiangnan Town just by talking and talking, it is related to the life and death of the people in the three towns.

Moreover, when she was in Xiaoxizhou, in order to compete with Dongzhaoguo for a share of iron mines, she used hundreds of billions of materials in her space to take them in.

Now, there are not many things left in the space.