Wei Dabin and Zhao Yu sat on the grass, eating pork jerky, French fries, and steamed buns comfortably. This was a treat they had never received during marches and wars before.

"Zhao Yu, why do you think she is so good at making delicious food? This pork jerky tastes very good and is easy to carry."

"If it's delicious, eat more. Even delicious food can't stop your mouth. You talk so much." Zhao Yu didn't want to talk behind her back.

The more he talked, the more he wanted to go home. He, Zhao Yu, had never thought about going home since he left the Minister's Mansion when he was a teenager. Now, he also has a family.

Living with me and the others is their home, whether it is the old wooden house or the mansion that was built soon.

In the castle, at the top of Suzaku Street, there was a luxurious mansion, Zhao Mansion, in the third row. After it was completed, he wanted to take his men to live in it.

Compared with Wei Mansion and Nie Mansion, the Zhao Mansion has half the area, but at least a thousand people can still live there.

Zhao Yu refused to ask for such a big mansion at that time, but she said, "Zhao Yu, you will get married in the future, have sons, and your sons will have grandsons, and you will live in this courtyard for generations to come."

Zhao Yu thought, it made sense, that way he could look at the special palace of Chu Mansion and be neighbors for generations to come.

Wei Dabin did not think about his Wei Mansion at this time. Not only did his clan only come to have more than 2,000 people, even 5,000 people could live there!

"Master Zhao, we have just found out that the imperial guards will pass by here in one day." Wang Ergou reported excitedly.

He deliberately emphasized the word imperial court because they were also named Jinyiwei, although they only have a few hundred people now.

"Go and find out more about how they eat and rest along the way." Zhao Yu ordered.

"Boss, we have found out clearly that they only go to Fucheng to rest along the way. They usually take trails, usually rely on hunting to satisfy their hunger, and set up camp at the foot of the mountain."

"Oh! This makes it easier to go hunting in the mountains. At this time, everything is revived. The mountains here are full of wild vegetables, but they won't starve to death."

Wei Dabin said a little unhappily that if in a densely populated area, the wild vegetables would be dug up and eaten by the villagers to see if they could get their share.

"General Wei, I will leave the Snow Wolf Team to your command. I will lead these bastards to lead people up the mountain." Zhao Yu thought for a moment and said.

Since they will camp at the foot of the mountain, they will be lured up the mountain to compete. Zhao Yu wants to beat them so that they have no energy to go to Lundi Town.

The madam said that if the commander went to Mud Town and saw their gorgeous palace, he would definitely be jealous.

"I don't think there is any need to lure them. The commander is a very scheming person. If he does it deliberately like that, he will be suspicious of me."

Wei Dabin said: "If they are at the foot of this mountain, what is the difference between the mountain and the foot of the mountain!

There are no people anyway. Affected by the locust plague, many mountain villages in the north are deserted."

Wei Dabin's words made Zhao Yu think about it. In recent years, there have been constant wars and the locust plague. Many people have starved to death in the counties close to the capital, and the population is scarce.

How could anyone come to this barren land to settle down and start a business? The water towns in the south of the Yangtze River are fertile and suffer from locust plagues, so the villagers there move closer to the capital.

People from the north went to Jiangnan to settle down. Anyway, they just wanted to get closer to the capital.

Wei Dabin and the others passed through Youzhou Fucheng and walked for a day until here, but they didn't meet anyone. The village was all empty.

The people in Youzhou City instead went to the border town to join King Zhenbei. Now there are less than 200,000 people in Youzhou City.

The whole Dongchen Kingdom is divided into dozens of state capitals, and each state capital has more than a dozen counties under its jurisdiction, which is equivalent to the relationship between modern provinces and cities.

Because the population of Dongchen Kingdom was not very large, generally speaking, a population of more than 100,000 belongs to a large county.

In other words, Shangni County and Xiani County near the capital are two large counties that are equivalent to the state capitals on the border. Each county has nearly one million people.

The population of Dongchen Kingdom was less than 300 million, but tens of millions of people starved to death during the locust plague and famine.

Then the population of counties across the country is also decreasing. Prefectural cities such as Luoyuan Prefecture, Songjiang Prefecture, and Jialing have slightly larger populations.

The population has reached several million, so the counties under the jurisdiction of these prefectural cities have an average population of hundreds of thousands.

For places such as Youzhou and Yazhou in Dongchen State, the population is relatively sparse, with the county population only being in the tens of thousands.

Of course, there are also counties with very small populations, such as Xihe County where Lanni Town is located. The entire county originally had only more than 10,000 people.

When there was a famine, the people fled and died of starvation. Only Taifu Cheng and his five hundred people were left hiding in the cave.

"Hey! The further north Jinyiwei and the others go, the counties they pass through may not have many people, and there may be no food, so they can only live at the foot of the mountains and hunt wild animals and eat wild vegetables."

Zhao Yu felt that there was no need for Wei Dabin to be angry. He understood the nature of the leader too well. If it was a place with a large population.

They will rob the people of their food and drink. They, the commanders of the imperial guards, stand at the pinnacle of power and will not care about their reputation.

Reputation is a thing that, if used well, will bring constant benefits. A bad person will do a thousand bad things and even one good thing will make people feel that they have changed. This is the root of human bad nature.

They are always domineering in the capital, but occasionally they do something for the people, and the people will be grateful.

"After being frozen in the ice and snow for several months, there won't be any good tender meat anymore," Wang Ergou said.

Because he has been here for thirteen years and is very familiar with the environment and wild animals here.

"That would be the best. If we rely on hunting wolves and tigers, then they would be a bit pitiful."

"Yes! Hunting tigers and wolves requires a lot of energy, and the meat is not delicious."

"It would be different if Madam encountered this situation. She is very good at cooking, and no matter how good the meat is, it will taste delicious after passing through her hands."

Yang Yulong bit into the meat and recalled their miserable twelve years and several more years of savage life.

The commander of the Jin Yiwei, who was being discussed by Wei Dabin and Zhao Yu, led his more than a thousand men and was in a hurry every day.

At this time, at the foot of a mountain more than two hundred miles away from Zhao Yu and the others, everyone was roasting wolf meat.

"Sir, the further north you go, the less people there are. There are a lot of wild vegetables here, but it's a pity! You can't hunt wild boars." The town governor said while roasting wolf meat.

"It's too cold in the north. Some wild boars have been frozen to death by the snow. This wolf meat can only be eaten roasted. The cooked wild vegetables are too fishy and difficult to eat."

"Yes! We passed by a village before, and there were refugees fleeing the famine there. It is said that they were potatoes left by the previous exile team.

The wild boar stewed with potatoes tastes really good. If I had known better, I would have dug out more and brought it to us to eat on the road. It has been three days and we have been eating such good wolf meat!"
Chapter completed!