Chapter 164 Borrowing Food
"Oh my God! This family is a landlord! How can a peasant family want to sell their daughter for money to marry a concubine?"

"That's right, my family also has three girls, but I never had such thoughts."

"You're going to get stabbed in the back!"

"What an old antique that crawled out of the ground!"

"..."

The audience was noisy and shocked by what happened in San Ya's home.

The people of Northwest China are tough and the local women are tough-minded. When the Tartars invaded, they still had to pick up hoes and hatchets to fight the enemy. When the incident in Heitu Village was exposed, it almost shocked everyone.

The women who were originally exiled to Yaocheng only dared to go out after the merger. When they heard what San Ya said, they were shocked.

They had only heard of families selling their daughters in exchange for dowry for their sons, but this was the first time they heard of selling their daughters to their fathers as concubines. It was simply unheard of and unseen.

Pan Yingying patted San Ya's shoulder and glanced at the red-faced and thick-necked village chief of Heitu Village.

"Good girl, I have an idea here, please listen to me and see if it is feasible."

Pan Yingying lowered her voice and said, "Recently, there are factories in the main city that are recruiting people. You can come out to work, or you can join the army. Our Taoyuan Women's Army has been recruiting soldiers. If your family won't let you go, you can use the bonus to negotiate with them."

It was also with this situation in mind that she arranged for the Taoyuan Army to send the bonuses and prizes back to the homes of the winning athletes.

The prize money and awards will belong only to the winning athletes themselves, and no one may collect them for personal use.

Once you find that someone has collected the money on your behalf or embezzled it, you can go to the village teacher or martial arts master to file a complaint, and someone will come forward to solve the problem.

"As for anything else you want, you have to negotiate it yourself." Pan Yingying smiled. This was all she could suggest. It still depended on the girl herself as to what to do.

San Ya's eyes lit up, and she swallowed her saliva, "Madam Lord of the City, I, no, I, I want to join the army."

When she joins the army, she won't have to be afraid of the stick in her grandmother's hand anymore, and she can also protect her sisters.

"Okay, the door of Taoyuan Women's Army is always open to you." Pan Yingying smiled gently, and when she looked at the chief of Heitu Village, there was no smile in her eyes anymore.

Caohua looked at San Ya with envy and gently stroked the silver medal hanging on her chest.

She also wanted to join the army, but her daughter was still young.

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Pan Yingying did not handle the matter of the village chief of Heitu Village directly, but handed it over to Xiao Shan.

Strictly speaking, what the village chief did was not illegal, but Xiao Shan felt ashamed and personally asked his confidant to investigate.

In the past, he came to Yaocheng to be the city lord, one to avoid disaster, and the other to live a carefree life. Now that he has become a loyal person, how can he dare to just do his job as usual?

Didn't you see Cheng Hai's eyes that weren't eyes and his nose that wasn't a nose? He suspected that if he didn't handle this matter properly, Cheng Hai would come to his house and assassinate him any night!
Liao You acted quickly and soon found out everything about Heitu Village.

There are more boys than girls in the village, and many baby girls are drowned shortly after birth. The village chief is even more abominable, as he secretly sells the girls in the village to the Tartars!

Xiao Shan was furious and sentenced the village chief's family to beheading that day. Other people who colluded with the village were also punished to build a new district.

Of course, this is something.

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On the last night of the sports meet, Jiang Qinghe received a letter asking for food.

The person who borrowed the grain was the Marquis of Wu'an, who was stationed three hundred miles away.

Huo Changjin, Marquis of Wu'an, was the elder brother of the late Empress Huo Shuang. After the Battle of Tongguan, he was dispatched by Emperor Yuwen and transferred from Chengyang Pass in Linxia State in the south to Kaiyang in the northwest.

The last time the Tartars invaded Ningyuan, Jiang Qinghe asked Marquis Wu'an for help early on, thus avoiding the crisis of the city being breached.

Now that Marquis Wu'an is borrowing grain from Jiang Qinghe, he probably doesn't know that Ningyuan City has been merged.

But the construction of the city wall was such a big commotion, and there was also a sports meeting that made a sensation in the whole city. Shouldn't Wu Anhou not know about it? Could something have happened?
Jiang Qinghe hurried to Chaoxinyuan with the handwritten letter from Marquis Wu'an.

At this time, Chen Qingzhi was talking to Pan Yingying and Yu Chaosheng in the yard about the latest news he had received.

Jiang Qinghe came uninvited and brought a handwritten letter from Marquis Wu'an, which happened to match the information Chen Qingzhi had said.

It turned out that since the year before last, the food and military pay that the court should have given to Marquis Wu'an had never been seen again. Chen Qingzhi guessed that it was Yuan Xingrong's doing.

Last year, the Tartars invaded but ended up in trouble. They have been causing trouble on the border for more than half a year. The Wu'an army has no money or food, and life is difficult. Naturally, they have no energy to consider the merger of Yaocheng and Ningyuan.

They are all chewing the bark, so they don't care whether you merge or not.

There was probably no other way to borrow grain this time. Thinking that Ningyuan had just finished the autumn harvest and should have some surplus grain, Marquis Wu'an shamelessly asked.

"So should we lend this grain or not?" Chen Qingzhi stroked his chin. Actually, he was in favor of borrowing it, but he still needed to consider carefully in whose name to borrow it and how to borrow it.

Pan Yingying smiled. Marquis Wu'an had 20 troops under his command. If these 20 troops were under her command, she would have more confidence in doing things in the future.

"What's the point of lending or not? You're so polite. We're all from Dayu, so we should help each other. Not to mention that Marquis Wu'an is my great-uncle after all." Pan Yingying said in a relaxed tone, "Just think of it as a young man showing respect to my great-uncle."

Jiang Qinghe smacked his lips and asked tentatively, "Then the people transporting the grain..."

Pan Yingying turned to look at Chen Qingzhi and said, "I'd like to trouble Boss Chen and my master to go there, so that we can take the soldiers of my Taoyuan Army to broaden their horizons."

Chen Qingzhi knew what Pan Yingying meant by this after a brief pause. He smiled, stood up and bowed, "Your Majesty, I obey your command."

He and Cheng Hai are both people that Marquis Wu'an knows, and with them acting as lobbyists, they will definitely be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Coming out of Chaoxin Garden, Jiang Qinghe bowed to Chen Qingzhi and said, "I wish you success in your mission."

Chen Qingzhi returned his greeting, "What general, what subordinate? I am just a commoner now. I should be the one to pay my respects to the district chief."

Jiang Qinghe showed a disapproving expression, "General, you really embarrassed me. I believe that you will be reinstated in the near future."

Chen Qingzhi laughed, "Thank you very much for Qinghe's words."

The two looked at each other and said nothing.

After Chen Qingzhi and Jiang Qinghe left, Yu Chaosheng went over and took Pan Yingying's hand, and walked towards the bedroom together, "How much food should we give?"

Pan Yingying did some calculations in her mind and suddenly felt a little breathless.

Just now I was only thinking about conquering the Wu'an Army, but now I'm calculating how much food it will take? And I have to keep feeding them all the time!

(End of this chapter)