The consorts in the palace still had the leisure to fight and calculate, so it was clear that the Rong attacking the city was not going well.

But defending the city side is not smooth the imperial army military discipline has been slack for a long time, although the number of people, but the combat effectiveness is poor outrageous. Especially Gu Xiaode at that time because of the birth is not noble enough, after suppressing them, another rise Xuanjiawei, with Xuanjiawei stood feet. First, there is a former grudge second, energy is limited, he to the imperial army outside the Xuanjiawei pawns and generals do not pay much attention to it.

This not only caused the pawns in the imperial army to fail, but even the officers were ignorant as hell.

Later on, it was still the Imperial Master who took the lead and asked the nobles in the city to bring together their private soldiers and guards, and then integrated them into the Imperial Forest Army after they were broken up. Relying on these private soldiers and guards usually trained and taught, only barely suppressed the front, can see that the imperial forest army are deserted into what kind of situation!

This is the city, plus a few more hard-working king's troops.

The nearest army is the one in Yanzhou that Su Xiuming and Shen Zangfeng are guarding, mixed by 20,000 Xilang troops and 40,000 Donghu troops, all of which are the elite of Wei today in terms of combat power. But the number is too small! And also have to guard Yanzhou, even if they want to rescue the imperial capital, but simply can not get out of the way.

On top of that, it would take a few days for the majority of the Donghu's men and the Xuanjia Guards to arrive.

The problem is that after the expected day when both sides should have arrived there is still no one in sight.

Xuanjia guards side is good guess, most likely bad luck, received the news has been with the stragglers on the fierce battle, a time can not get out of the way.

But the Liu family side ...... even the lieutenant was the master of the private asked, do not dare to guarantee according to the imperial capital is surrounded by such a big thing, in the east of Hu's army does not say that the nest out, at least the immediately mobilized a large part of the people to come over the king of the diligence of the king. After all, the Liu family is still Wei's subjects, the imperial capital there are many Liu's blood which!

Even if Marquis Weiyuan has a long-standing grudge against the Imperial Captain, isn't Liu Xixun's family, the younger generation cultivated by Marquis Weiyuan for many years, still in the Imperial Capital?

But the city outside the city is watertight, the Rong people day after day attacked the city, the city generals have never found any direction of the Rong people back abnormal. Wei Yuan Hou in the end stored what mind ...... to this time who can not be suspicious?

Xuanjiawei only 100,000, with provisions enough for a few months, but also played an exclusion county, how many people can come back how many provisions are not easy to say. If there is no rescue from the Marquis of Wei Yuan, then the Imperial Capital can only hope to hold out until the Western Liang Army comes over on a long journey. And between the imperial capital and the western Liang thousands of miles, the news passed, the army is not to say that the departure of the departure, but also to select the main general, select soldiers, packing bags to prepare food and grass......

That's if there's no delay over there.

To know that Ming Pei Hall after Shen Xuan took over is also before and after the fight for more than ten years, and now Ming Pei Hall this clan has prestige all not in the Western Liang, in case that side of the clan start what mind ...... are not good to say.

The Qingzhou army might not appear to be sitting this one out, but the Qingzhou army itself isn't quite off the hook Zezhou hasn't even been fought down to this point.

Therefore, on the one hand, the Taishi ordered to conceal the fact that the king's troops had missed the deadline, and on the other hand, he privately ordered to collect the food in the city and divide it in a uniform manner.

This latter decision was opposed by many "The hearts and minds of the people are afraid that they will be disorganized by it."

In fact, this was only one reason, the other reason was that in the hands of Lai Shu, how could there be much food? The ones with the most food reserves were the big families. That's why they were able to eat as well as they did after the siege. If they are collected together, even if they are allocated more than the Rishu, in the end, it is not as good as holding it in their own hands to rest assured and free.

The Taishi knew their mentality like the back of his hand, and said indifferently, "Now that the chaos is in progress, the stock of food is still plentiful, and it can still be suppressed! If we don't control it, if the Rong people still haven't retreated after a few months, how can we continue? In the end, this city still depends on people to guard! The people don't have enough food in their hands, once it's gone, they won't sit down and die. If we don't give them food, there will be chaos! Why don't we exchange food for labor, and let them help to build more fortifications in the city, and train with the private soldiers in their spare time, so that we can give our soldiers a new hand, and also prepare for the future?...... Can we rely on us and the private soldiers to make the big imperial capital a success? If it can be done, then I'll let you do it!"

He also said that the Duanmu family would take the lead in handing over their food stocks, "along with the medicinal herbs that their granddaughter has accumulated for public use."

Having said that, the other families also agreed one after another after a while of silence.

After all, in case the Imperial Master is right, the Imperial Capital will be under siege for a long time, and if we don't save some food now, what will we do in the future? Born in the embroidery pile of a group of people, can not stand people eat each other that tragic their own suffer, but also have to consider the many children and grandchildren.

But promise is promise, the big head is handed over, no one's family can be so stupid as not to leave some backhanded.

But this has played a great role in pacifying the hearts of the people in the city, see a carload of grain to the storehouse, a pile of mountains, from the royal family down to the populace feel a peace of mind in the midst of fear.

But those are the ones who don't care and think that it looks like that much food must be able to last for a long time.

The people who can do the math can't feel at ease, Wei Changying looked at the table reduced to four dishes and one soup meal, did not move chopsticks, first frowned "Even if the reduction to this, according to the storehouse stacked in the grain, I'm afraid that can also be used for seven months for the city. After seven months, if the Rong people still do not retreat ......"

"In seven months' time, not to mention the rest, our Western Liang's army will be able to arrive." Huang reassured her, "After all, the Fifth Prince and the Great Sun Prince are both in Xiliang, not to mention that our Prince is not in the Imperial Capital either! Since the Rong people have besieged the Imperial Capital, how can they still besiege Yanzhou? Our sons will be able to break through the siege and join the Western Liang army, and we're still afraid that the Rongs will not retreat?"

Wei Changying thought that even if her husband wanted to meet up with the Xiliang army, it would only be possible if the Xiliang army arrived at this neighborhood. Otherwise, with Shen Zangfeng's handful of troops, it would be safer to keep Yanzhou City safe. But the Western Liang army ...... she is with her husband in the Western Liang stayed for a few years, which also do not know that those clansmen over there who do not have some small mind?

Even Shen Yujia, who had been the lieutenant of Xilang for more than ten years, was the same.

Shen Zangji and Shen Shuming one is young and two are spoiled, their own talent is not enough to go to the Western Liang and not many days, not to mention the experience of war, there is no prestige and foundation. Previously respected but also because of the father and brother's sake.

What if those uncles and uncles have a different agenda and join together to screw the clan ......

If not considering this possibility, how could eunuch Shen Xuan agree to the request of the eunuch? This time, the Shen family took out the most grain, because before, for the sake of the arrival of those 60,000 Western Liang troops, fearing that the court delayed not giving grain and grass, the Shen family had long raised a batch of grain and grass in preparation.

Although most of this grain and grass was placed in the manor outside of the city, it was also filled in the mansion and several other homes within the city.

These can all be bought by the Shen family themselves with silver money.

If he had confidence in the Western Liang army, Shen Xuan would not have paid any attention to the Tai Shi's request.

Now the Shen family's biggest hope is that Shen Zangfeng is not also trapped in Yanzhou. In this way, even if Shen Zangji and Shen Shuming were unable to persuade the Xiliang army to move, Shen Zangfeng could still personally rush to Xiliang. With his prestige in the Xiliang army, as well as the clan's consistent orthodox status, it is possible to suppress those clansmen with dissenting views, and bring an army to the rescue.

Of course this is a long eternity of coming and going not counting how Shen Zangfeng got out of Yanzhou.

Shen Xuan is considering this that is why he handed over 70% of the grain stocks, so that the imperial capital can hold out for some more days, until this son comes to rescue.

Wei Changying thought about all the messy news he had heard in the past two days and felt his heart sinking.

And after she had dined and coaxed her two sons, she heard the servant report that Dewdrop had come again.

"Tell her to come in." Wei Changying knew what Luzhu had come for, and indeed, after summoning her, Luzhu cried and begged to come back to be a servant girl again she had asked for her body contract from Nian Jieyou.

The reason why Dewdrop said is that firstly, Nian 苼薬 has long forgotten her to the back of her mind, and secondly, she is now very bullied in the backyard of Nian family, even the things that Wei Changyi asked Ni Wei Yi to send over every month to help make up for the past have been stolen and snatched from time to time....... Therefore, now she feels that it is still better to come back to wait for Wei Changyi.

Wei Changying had a guilty conscience about giving the young and beautiful Luzhu to Nianjie, who knew that she would be fond of the old and the new, and when she heard this request, she sighed and agreed, saying, "I will let Auntie Huang arrange an errand for you later on, and you can go to the back to find a place to live down first."

Dewdrop was overjoyed and rushed to give her a firm kowtow before leaving.

For Wei Changying, this was just a small matter, but what she didn't expect was that in the next few days, her other daughters-in-law in the stores, inns and other industries, and some of the Shen family sons who had some face, were all looking for excuses to get into the inner mansion to serve.

"Nowadays, all the families in the city have limited their rations, but it's not so bad that they won't feed the people." Wei Changying ordered someone to inquire about the reason, then frowned and said to Huang, "What do they mean by this? Is it because the people of Lizhu are not in chaos yet, but they are in chaos first?"

Huang sighed, ''Right now, there is nothing. But there is a rumor in the city that is the reason why the Imperial Master ordered the collection of each family's grain storage and unified distribution. It is because this time, the siege of the Imperial Capital is not something that will be lifted soon like what Madam said earlier, but rather, there is no telling how long it will be besieged! But the city's grain stocks are always limited ...... and are still being distributed to the common people today, once the time comes when the grain stocks will be exhausted, then it will definitely be the first to take care of the royal family and these high families like us. So they are now begging to enter the house to serve, in order to be close to the water tower to get the moon first."

After a pause, Huang added, "Perhaps this is what Luzhu was thinking, and that is why she went to ask for the body contract from Nianjie Yaku and came back to Jintong Yuan."

Wei Chang Ying was silent for a moment and said, "The Rong people are foreigners after all, they have been besieging the city for so long, and the people of my Great Wei are not dead people, so how can we possibly let them keep spreading their wildness on the land of my Great Wei? This rumor is all nonsense."

Huang asked, "And these people?"

"People are confused!" Wei Changying turned the bracelet on her wrist and said in a deep voice, "Tell them what I just said, and tell them to behave themselves! They're still servants of our family, and many of the common people are looking up to them! Now everything is fine in the city, what are they doing? Dewdrop is a special case,......, and if this causes any unrest outside, if father blames them, don't expect me to say anything on their behalf!"