newbobooks Chapter 904 Who is Xu Xiushan
Chapter 904 Who is Xu Xiushan
The messenger was dressed in tight clothes and knelt on the ground for a long time without looking up.
Zhou Guo took the letter and looked at him again. He felt as if he was dreaming and asked, "Is this really for me?"
The man said respectfully without even raising his head, "This letter is for Master Zhou Guo of the Zhou family in Cangshan Village."
Zhou Guo: “…”
It really was for her.
He carefully cut open the sealing wax with a dagger, took out the paper inside and unfolded it.
His brows furrowed.
There was only one word on the palm-sized paper: Food.
This is too short!
Who writes a letter with just one word?
Signed by Xu Xiushan, with another name behind it, Zhou Dacang.
She moved closer to the light and took a closer look, and found that the main text seemed to be written by Zhou Dacang, while Xu Xiushan was written by another person.
She didn't react for a moment, and couldn't help asking the person below, "Xu Xiushan, who is that?"
The man was startled, and finally raised his head, looking at her in shock. After a long while, he said in a cryptic way, "General Xu's handwriting."
Zhou Guo's mouth opened wide enough to fit an egg. He stood up from his seat and stared at him in amazement, unable to calm down for a long time.
After a while, he asked in a low voice, "Are you saying that this letter was given to me by General Xu?"
I don't believe it, "General Zhou just gave you this letter, nothing else?"
The man suddenly realized something, rummaged around in his pocket, took out a sign, and presented it to him with both hands.
Zhou Guo took it and took a look. He realized that this plaque was the one she had given him. With this thing, he could withdraw anything at will in any shop under the Zhou family. Now this plaque was directly in her hands.
That means she needs all the food in her hand!
She asked the person in front of her to stand up first and asked, "Someone has to take charge of this matter, don't you know?"
There was nothing on it. There was no telling how and where to transport the grain. She was a farmer and didn't know any secrets. How could she send it out?
The man said respectfully: "I don't know, maybe the Lord of Yunzhou will know."
Zhou Guo's eyes lit up. Yes, since she had received a letter, the Lord of the Mansion would definitely receive a letter as well.
You can't really let a small landlord like her handle such a big thing. Even if she wants to do it, she doesn't have the ability to do it.
She doesn't have many people and vehicles under her command. She can't transport so much grain one trip at a time like she did when she harvested the grain, right?
"Go downstairs and eat. After that, take a shower and rest."
The man went down respectfully.
Zhou Guo stood up, went back to the house, changed into black clothes, put on a dark cloak, called Erpang, and the two of them rode on their horses and left at night without disturbing anyone.
When they arrived in Yunzhou, it was still dark. She walked to the back door of the government office. Erpang went forward and knocked on the door. The door opened quickly. When he heard it was Zhou Guo, he let them in without saying anything.
He led them to the mansion master's study and whispered, "Please wait a moment, distinguished guest."
Zhou Guo stopped and waited outside. The lights in the study were on.
After a while, the doorman came out and said respectfully, "Sir, please come in."
Zhou Guo nodded, motioned Erpang to wait outside, and went in.
Zhang Lian climbed out of bed when he received the news. His brows jumped when he saw the letter in his hand. You want food?
The battle at the border has never stopped in the past two years. Fortunately, the people have collected more in the past two years. Otherwise, if the battle had been fought this way, the land in the north would have been stripped away long ago.
Where is the extra food?
Then the messenger took out the second letter and handed it to him.
Zhang Lian: …
The person delivering the letters is also strange. Why does he deliver them one by one?
He opened the second letter, his brows relaxed and a smile broke out on his face, it turned out that there was food.
This can't be wrong, as long as we don't let him give us food.
As soon as the two sides met, they both felt relieved.
Zhou Guo took off his hood and said straight to the point: "Your Excellency must know why I came to disturb you so late, right?"
Zhang Lian smiled and said, "Mr. Zhou has also received the letter. Very good, very good. Please take a seat."
He called out to the door, "Look at the tea."
Zhou Guo said: "I came here as soon as I received the news. I wonder what kind of news did you receive?"
Zhang Lian was silent for a moment and said, "You are not an outsider, so I will not hide it from you. The army went south in the early spring this year, but you also know what the situation is like in the south now. People are gone, large tracts of land are left, no one is farming, and food cannot be bought even with money.
There are hundreds of thousands of troops. The food that was transported over at the beginning is running out. It can only last for three months at most, so we have to rush to deliver the food to the front line within these three months."
Zhou Guo nodded and waited for him to continue, but found that he didn't say anything, so he had to ask again: "So how do we transport this food? I want to know how to transport it. Sir, do you have anyone with a car and a route?"
Zhang Lian smiled and breathed a sigh of relief, "Master Zhou, don't worry. If you still have to worry about this, then what are we officials for? Don't worry, we have been delivering food to the border for many years. We are familiar with this routine. We only lack food, nothing else."
Zhou Guo also breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good. I wonder how long it will take you to prepare the manpower and vehicles. We need to discuss it."
Zhang Lian said, "I have to discuss this matter with the governors of other prefectures. After all, we are heading south, and the journey is long. The strength of our prefecture alone is far from enough. We need the strength of the entire northern land to accomplish this."
He explained in detail how to mobilize the laborers and how to requisition vehicles. Over the past six months, the army had been making great progress in the south, and the original territory of the King of Chu had been conquered.
Unfortunately, the land of Chu had been plundered so harshly over the years that when the King of Chu fled, he took away everything he could take away and burned everything he couldn't take away. The army didn't get even a grain of food.
The civilian laborers can be recruited from the conquered territories, and they can also be given food to eat, which means killing two birds with one stone. The grain transport team is already on the way.
Nearly half an hour had passed since they started talking.
Zhou Guo listened attentively. Zhou Dacang never told her these details and only gave her the general idea, so she listened with great interest.
Zhang Lian said whatever he wanted to say. He had been holding these things in for too long and couldn't even find anyone to talk to. He finally met Zhou Guo, who was even closer to him than anyone else, so he told him everything and felt so relieved after he finished talking.
He said to Zhou Guo, "Mr. Zhou, please stay here. I have already sent letters to them all. I believe they will arrive soon."
Zhou Guo stood up and said, "In that case, I won't bother you anymore. I have a small house in South City, and I will stay there these days. If you need anything later, send someone to call me and I will come right away."
Zhang Lian didn't dare to keep him, so he nodded, "Okay, I'll see you off."
Zhou Guo put on his hood and said, "No need, sir, please stay. It will not be good if others see you."
He went out and took Erpang with him.
The two men went out dressed in black.