Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

On May [-]th of the second year of Jianji, the north and south of Yinshan began to mobilize again.

Yang Jue, the privy envoy of Beiya, rushed to Shengzhou to supervise.

The privy envoys are here, so the people below naturally dare not procrastinate.What's more, the tribal chief Hao went down to various pastures separately, urging the herdsmen to stop their work and rush to Shengzhou to gather.

For a while, on the big post road in Fengsheng Erzhou, people came and went, and there was a lot of traffic.

Liu Xiuniang sat under the locust tree in front of her house, quietly looking into the distance.

Her house is rich now, and the courtyards with three fronts and backs are beautifully repaired.The sons and daughters are all married, and they all live nearby, so it is convenient to travel.

Over the years, His Majesty has given a lot of money in private.Li Yanling, Lu Huaizhong and other officials and generals also sent people to send money and silk.In fact, not only her family, but also the brothers in His Majesty's early team who were killed or injured five years before Qianfu, all received large sums of rewards one after another.

Up and down Toyosu, who dares to say that today is not a good day?I'm afraid he will be beaten to death and thrown in the grass for the wild wolves to chew on.

Another group of people passed by on the post road.

Judging by their attire, they are definitely not from the area around Toyosu, not even from Shanzhao Quanzhuang Langbu.The local people know that the Tibetans in Mandunquan, Keduncheng, Dijinze, Kujiesha and other places can speak a lot of Mandarin, and their attire is also different from the traditional Tibetans. It should be between Han people, It is very different from these pure and rough aboriginal people.

"A group of free-cubs, I have to talk to the county. The next group of people will go to the northern grasslands, and they will not be able to cross Fengzhou." Lizheng Chen Datou came over and complained.

Liu Xiuniang smiled and continued knitting the sweater in her hand.

Chen Datou swallowed.

Liu Xiuniang's husband died long ago.After distribution to Helong, the sage personally ordered a search, but he couldn't find it. Everyone said that he had died somewhere in the wilderness.

It is impossible for such a pretty widow to say that no one is envious.But rumors spread everywhere that Xiu Niang was having an affair with Jinshang, and that her husband was killed by a sage.There were even "perpetrators". Li Yanling and Lu Huaizhong secretly captured him and turned off the guards. Li Yixian and Qian Shousu shot him, strangled him to death with bowstrings, and threw his body into the valley.

It sounds a little outrageous, but ordinary people love to hear these gossips, and they still believe them.

Under such circumstances, no one dared to make a move on this woman.Even county and township officials were affected, and treated her politely—what if it was true?What hobbies do saints have, don't you know?
"The army crosses the border, people eat horse chews, not a single blade of grass grows, alas," Chen Datou said, seeing that Xiu Niang didn't answer, he walked away in despair.

Xiu Niang looked up at the waterwheel on the bank of the river in the distance.

With the rumbling sound of the car, buckets of water were brought ashore, poured into the pond, and then slowly flowed into the field, nourishing the rising wheat in the field.

By the waterwheel, a large group of Fan people sat on the ground.They pitched tents and fetched water for cooking.

Meals are provided by the county, and the amount of old rice transported from Cangcheng must not be enough.The Fan people had to get some milk for themselves, and dig some wild vegetables to deal with it.But the frontier soldiers had already wiped out the pastures in the field. The new grass had not had time to grow taller, and the cattle and sheep couldn't eat enough, so how could they produce milk? …

What Li Zheng said was right, this road can no longer be walked, so we have to take it easy.The grass in the wild seems to be unowned, but the locals often drive cattle and sheep to graze.Now there is nothing, alas, it is not easy for everyone!
At the end of the post road came another group of knights.

They didn't go far, but patrolled around.Obviously, these are the government soldiers who were temporarily recruited to maintain order.

Liu Xiuniang didn't know how many government soldiers there were in Da'an County, but there were indeed, and she even saw them.

Hundreds of soldiers with non-local accents scattered among the villages, numbly accepted their fields, orchards, and a small amount of livestock, and left their names on the military register of Zhechong Mansion.

They don't know how to farm, and everyone can see it.

The government hired some Fan people for them, but the number was too small.So some people started to run away, but they were quickly caught back. The fate is unknown, but it should be
It won't be good.

Such a good world still has to run away, and he has failed the government's painstaking efforts, even if he dies, he deserves it.

The sun is gradually setting.Liu Xiuniang packed up her things, picked up the Maza, and went home to cook.

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"This kind of scenery is really refreshing." Sima Ye got off the horse, picked up a handful of water, washed his face, and said with emotion.

He is also an old man, from Wenxian County, Mengzhou, and currently serves as the transfer envoy of Guanbei Road.

In the early years, he served as a judge in Wang Bian's Huazhou shogunate.

When Shao Shude entered Henan, he set up Shaozhou, and Sima Ye was transferred to Shaozhou Biejia and post inspector.

In the third year of Qianning (896), he was promoted to Shaoyin of Henan Prefecture.

After the founding of Daxia, he was transferred to be the transit envoy of Guanbei Road.

Sima Ye was a professional bureaucrat.Do what you do and love what you do, and when you work in a certain place, you just sit there.For example, the imperial court and Guanbei Road discussed the division of taxes for a long time, but they didn't figure out a clue.Until the mobilization of the war, this matter will be shelved indefinitely. After all, it is not appropriate to talk about this matter during the war.

"Sima Caosi should come out more often. In fact, the scene of the desert is quite interesting." It was Shu Cong, Commander of Guanbei Road, who spoke.

As a descendant of Liang Jun, it must be said that he was lucky enough to be in this position.But many people don't know how this good fortune came about, and they are very puzzled.This kid's ranking in Zhu Quanzhong's tent is not high, why was he favored by the saint, and became the commander of the capital, managing the soldiers of the whole state.

But then again.The general of the Forbidden Army more or less looked down on the state soldiers, and was not willing to manage the state soldiers.The lack of competition may be an important reason for Shi Shucong's ascendancy.

Shi Shucong cherished this position very much.

Those who have never been unemployed do not know the pain of taking a break.Ordinary people look forward to being free and relaxed, but people like them, who have been generals, usually greet each other with crowds and crowds, and the scenery is incomparable.But once you are at home with nothing to do, you don't know how painful it is.This kind of psychological and status gap is difficult for ordinary people to accept.

Therefore, Shi Shucong has worked very hard in the past year or so.

He traveled to a state almost every month, and then squatted there, training the sergeant hard to improve his technical and tactical level.

Guanbei has been in peace for many years, and the former backbone of the state soldiers have been transferred away one after another. The rest of the people are not crooked, their level is really not good.After Shi Shucong took office, he carried out a vigorous rectification. He didn't have the kind of cautiousness of surrendering generals. Unqualified soldiers got out of the state army, incompetent officers were demoted or fired, and vigorously promoted capable new generals. The morale of Dao San Wanzhou soldiers has been severely reversed. …

Of course, he did so at a price.

Officials of the Ministry of War went to the shuffle several times, saying that someone in Guanbei Road reported that Shu Cong was nepotism and intended to plot rebellion.

This level of accusation is quite frightening to be honest.Fortunately, Shao Shude chose to believe in Quan Cong after listening to the report from the Department of Listening and Watching, and supported him to vigorously rectify his troops—in fact, he did not believe that a general from Liang Jun could rebel in the land of Longxing in Guanbei at all, are you kidding me? ?

Shao Shude's reaction made Shi Shucong a little surprised, and he had a higher evaluation of this new sage, and he did it with more confidence and boldness-although he didn't know who was reporting Lao Tzu, but it was enough to practice hard up.

"Shidutou, after the troops from the state are assembled, please restrain the troops." Sima Ye said, "I also need your department's help for the transfer of grain and grass."

"It's all about the imperial court's business. It's not about helping or not." Shi Shucong replied casually, but his eyes fell on a group of soldiers who had just arrived.

This group of light cavalry, armed with spears and bows, numbered over a thousand.

Judging from the smoke and dust in the distance, the large army should still be behind.

"Silver Spear Army?" Sima Ye subconsciously said.

"This is not the Silver Spear Army." Shi Shucong said, "The Yinshan Town Army came from Fengzhou."

Sima Ye suddenly realized.

He knew about the town soldiers. After all, the food and payment would eventually be distributed by the various warehouses under the jurisdiction of the transfer envoy's yamen.But he hadn't dealt with him face to face, so he didn't recognize him for a while.

Shi Shucong stared at these people silently for a long time, and only then looked away when they were all over.

"The Zhongwu army and the Huaixi army are not very good. If you are a town soldier like this, if you meet a barbarian who is more brutal, wouldn't it make people laugh?" Shi Shucong sighed.

"Where did the barbarians come from?" Sima Ye smiled, "In the north and south of the Yin Mountains, there are all extremely docile Tibetans."

"That's exactly what I'm worried about." Shi Shucong shook his head and said, "Household dogs are not as vicious as the wild wolves outside. These years, all the ministries of Yinshan have been focusing on doing business, and the stench of copper is very strong. I don't think it is a good sign. Zhuanglang clan, Geshu clan, Hun clan and other tribal chieftains are extremely extravagant and depraved. It is better to say that they are recruited to fight every year. When the horses are sent to Nanshan in the future, their combat effectiveness will degrade very quickly. Sima Caosi also I have seen the Tibetans from the west of the river, how do you compare with the tribes in Yinshan?",
"The Tibetans from Hexi..." Sima Ye recalled it carefully, and said, "It is true that they are more fierce. It may be that their life is too hard."

"I have a little understanding of Hexi Road." Shi Shucong said: "The Hexi Fans were at odds with the imperial court, but they were flattened and had to surrender. But their internal affairs are very complicated, with the largest number of party members, followed by Uighurs and Tubo. There are also many Changmo, Sogdian, Longjia, and Tatars. Even though the imperial court is suppressing them, internal strife is still frequent. In the north, Uighurs and Tatars also go south to plunder from time to time, and there are not many wars. After the death of this generation, they will definitely not be able to compete with the Hexi people.” ·

"Why do you care so far away?" Sima Ye said with a smile, "Go and set up camp."

The Rouzhou camp is located in Jining County.

At this time, there are already a lot of banners and flags, and people are shouting and neighing.

The Forbidden Army, Town Army, State Army, Fan Army, and Tutuan villagers gathered here, more and more every day.

And on the post road extending in all directions, the endless team is still moving forward slowly.

Once the military machine is started, it is difficult to stop without blood.
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