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Chapter 142 The parents on the road to escape (End) (Page 12)

early morning.

Yuan Xi's eyes widened and he looked at the panel floating in front of his eyes. He rubbed his eyes to see what big melon he had eaten so early in the morning.

Dongzhou surrendered and now became Jingguo's territory.

Yesterday, he was still worried about the war between the two countries, and he had already thought about Zhangjiacun's retreat. After sleeping, the world changed and everyone became his own people.

Yuan Xi lay down peacefully again.

At the beginning, Yuan Xi speculated that Beizhou could only hold out for about twenty days. Sure enough, Beizhou held out for nineteen days and was completely captured by Jingguo.

Two months later, Jing Guo attacked Xizhou. It took a total of ten days to capture Xizhou, and most of the time was spent on the road.

Xizhou, which had just suffered a drought, was completely empty of houses and had no resistance at all. The Anguo court could not protect itself and had long since abandoned Xizhou. Even Xizhou's troops had withdrawn to Zhongzhou, trying to concentrate their forces against Jingguo.

Jingguo's army marched through Xizhou unimpeded, as if they were entering uninhabited territory.

After taking Xizhou, Jingguo took advantage of the victory and pursued Zhongzhou from two directions.

As soon as the news spread that Jingguo was going to attack Zhongzhou, the emperor and the civil and military officials rushed to Nanzhou overnight. The morale of the troops left in Zhongzhou can be imagined. In one month, Jingguo captured Zhongzhou, and then Chen Bing prepared to attack Dongzhou on the border.

As we all know, Dongzhou is a place of exile, and the officials in Dongzhou were squeezed out of the court because they refused to join the others.

Yuan Xi checked in and got a lot of information about officials in Dongzhou. After reading it for several days, he couldn't help but sigh. Dongzhou is really a gathering place for talents. No wonder Dongzhou's arrangements for the refugees are in an orderly manner. Although there are corrupt elements, such as Qi Wenshu and others, the general administration is clear and there are no cleverly named taxes like those in Yu County.

Even the common people's land tax is collected at 50% in accordance with the decree of the capital. As for Yu County and even Xizhou, which charge 60% or even 70% of the land tax, you can tell with your toes that it must be those corrupt officials who are lining their pockets. All the officials in Xizhou are colluding together, and they are really ruthless in their raids.

If those officials from Dongzhou were in charge of the overall situation in Anguo's court, Anguo would not be so messed up that it was about to destroy the country.

Jingguo's army faced off against Dongzhou's army for seven days. The people of Dongzhou became more and more nervous day by day. Some newly settled refugees packed their luggage overnight and wanted to flee.

Yesterday, the emperor who had fled to Nanzhou showed his presence. He issued an imperial edict to Dongzhou. The general idea was to let Dongzhou withstand it, not being afraid of any sacrifice, and delaying time for Nanzhou.

"The imperial edict arrived yesterday, Dongzhou surrendered today, tsk tsk tsk."

"Actually, Emperor Anguo is an undercover agent of the Jingguo faction."

This assist made Jing Guo go crazy with joy.

During breakfast time, Yuan Xi looked at the sad faces of his sons and knew that they were worried about the war. Yuan Xi, who already knew that they could not fight, just watched them worrying and ate happily.

"Dad, why aren't you worried at all?"

"worry about what?"

"It's about the war. Our village finally settled down, but something like this happened again, alas."

"Why are you worrying about this? Don't worry, even if there is a fight, we will have a way out." What's more, there is no way to fight.

They believed in their father's abilities, and felt relieved when they heard that he had prepared an escape route early.

After a few days, news of Dongzhou's surrender finally reached Zhangjiacun.

With mixed feelings, everyone in Zhangjia Village came to the government for comfort. Soon, they found that life was still going on as usual, and things were still the same as usual. Gradually, no one paid attention to the war. Who became the emperor had nothing to do with ordinary people like them.

The new emperor is even better. Refugees like them who have just settled down after opening up wasteland will not collect taxes for five years. After five years, they will only collect 30% of taxes. I heard that they will never increase taxes. Officials from the county town went to the countryside one by one to read the emperor's edict, which helped Emperor Jingguo win the hearts of the people.

No matter how furious Emperor An Guo was in Nanzhou, Dongzhou's surrender was a foregone conclusion.

Of course, there was not much time to make him angry. After Jing Guo took over Dongzhou, he launched a general attack on Nanzhou. I thought that Nanzhou, which had assembled all the elite troops of Anguo, would hold on for a while longer. However, in just two months, Anguo was declared destroyed.

Yuan Xi closed the panel without any surprise and basked in the sun leisurely in the village.

There were proofs in Dongzhou, and many officials and even generals in Nanzhou surrendered readily, and they did so without any hesitation. Jingguo's army arrived in the morning, and the city gate was opened at noon.

As a result, Jingguo's crusade was overwhelming, and he did not encounter any decent resistance during the period. Even Anguo's elite troops collapsed at the first touch. Emperor Anguo burned himself directly in the palace, and took away a group of wives, concubines, and children; the remaining members of the royal family directly sacrificed their lives for the country, while the others either escaped or passively died for the country.

Time flies, and Yuan Xi had a premonition a month before his death. He found the current patriarch of Zhangjiacun and established a letter of title to his sons to completely separate the family. In fact, he had already separated himself from his sons in private, and now he called people over to bear witness.

He didn't do anything serious in the second half of his life. He was always eating, drinking and having fun, and occasionally gave two classes to the village's ethnic studies.

This clan school was established when the old patriarch was still alive, but he never found a suitable master. Therefore, Yuan Xi and his brother often took turns to be the masters and taught literacy to the villagers. No matter whether they were adults or children, men or women, they could come and learn.

Zhangjia Village is also a well-known cultural village. Most of the villagers in the village are literate. The county magistrate is very happy. His rule has a prosperous literary style, which is also a great achievement, especially since he will be re-elected for several years. If there are more outstanding people in Zhangjia Village, people, that’s even better. With this in mind, he also specially praised Zhangjiacun and recommended a master to the village.

In this world, Yuan Xi finally lived to be ninety-two years old and died.

……Extra…

My name is Xiuxiu, and I have a younger sister named Huihui. According to my grandfather, it comes from the word Xiuwai Huizhong.

At home, I am also known as the lucky bag.

My mother said it was because I dug up a pot of gold and silver in the yard when I was a child.

To be honest, I have no impression, but my mother probably wouldn't lie to me. I heard from my grandfather that if he didn’t have that money when he was fleeing famine, several people in the family would have died.

I only have a vague memory of escaping from famine in my mind. Most of my memories of my childhood were in my grandfather’s village by the sea. It was so fun there.

When I was six years old, I moved to the county town with my parents and younger brother. My grandfather said that my father had some talent for business. I heard that he invested a sum of money and came up with ideas from time to time. The business grew bigger and bigger. He had several shops in the county and even bought a big house.

The mansion was very big, so it was convenient for my father to take my grandfather over to live there, and he even prepared a yard for my uncle and the others.

However, my grandfather didn’t like to live in the county town. His favorite was Zhuangzi. In fact, I also liked that Zhuangzi more. The city was a bit boring.

Another day of missing my playmates in the village.

Fortunately, my father would take us back to stay for a while every month.

When I was eight years old, my eldest brother Zhang Fan was admitted as a scholar, and I suddenly became the scholar's younger sister. My mother always said that with my eldest brother, I can marry better in the future.

When he was eleven years old, his eldest brother passed the examination. Our family's business has also expanded from the county seat to the prefectural city. I heard that my father said that it was because of his eldest brother as a backer that he expanded the family business to the prefectural city. My family also moved from the county seat to Fucheng. My eldest brother wanted to go to school in Fucheng, so he had a place to stay.