stubborn thief

Chapter 320
The war is over.

Going back to Juerwan, the source of Huangshui, the people cheered and greeted the triumphant army on both sides of Huangshui, but Liu Chengzong's heart was very heavy.

Along the way to the east, he saw that many large canals and branch canals had been built on both sides of the Huangshui River, which could irrigate thousands of hectares of fields, but the fields reclaimed in Xining Prefecture were far from so many.

But there are a lot of people around, old Mongolian men and Western women in ragged clothes can be seen everywhere, even the Han people are very poor in their clothes and dresses, and suddenly they feel like returning to the hungry and cold northern Shaanxi.

The mess on both sides of the Huangshui River and the refugee tents that can be seen almost everywhere are far from planning and construction. This is very different from the most affluent place in Xining Prefecture in his imagination.

When he looked suspiciously at his elder brother and Li Wanqing, Liu Chengzu, who was riding with him, said: "Before Lazun fled, he sent [-] old and weak women and children. Entering Xining, the imperial court sent troops to Lanzhou, and my father had to move all the people to Juerwan."

After all, Liu Chengzu said helplessly: "That's why I said that the 3 people you brought can only stay in Haixi and Haibei. Juerwan can't accommodate people."

Liu Chengzong's heart sank, he frowned and said, "La Zun sent 7000 people?"

He didn't consider these 5 people when he surrendered Nanshan Fort.

"It's okay. You don't have to worry about the crowds. If there are too many lice, you won't bite. Anyway, Xining Mansion originally only had [-] registered residents. If it's [-] or [-] more, to be honest...the difference is not big."

After Liu Chengzu said it, Li Wanqing also nodded in agreement. He looked at this matter quite openly, pointed to the east and said, "In the past two years, [-] hectares of land have been opened to the west of Xining, and more than [-] hectares have been opened to the north and south of Xining. Triumph, take a good rest when you come back, we can survive.”

Liu Chengzong counted from left to right, more than 600 hectares of land, and could hit [-] stone grain. He really didn't know where his brother and Li Wanqing had the confidence to survive, and asked: "What's the father's plan?"

"There is grain in Xining City, and it will be able to last until next summer. I will use the silver to buy grain in the Hehuang Valley. This year, there will be people, and the canals will be repaired to reclaim the land..."

Liu Chengzu spoke clearly and logically, and he couldn't help worrying: "I'm just afraid that I won't be able to last the autumn harvest."

"It's enough to last until summer, and it will be autumn after a while."

Liu Chengzong didn't believe what he said, and said with a wry smile: "If you get through it, you get through it, if you can't get through it, you hit Lanzhou."

The elder brother laughed out loud when he heard the words, as if the war in Lanzhou could still be stopped: "Tch, don't think about fighting Lanzhou, isn't it scary that tens of thousands of frontier soldiers in Gansu who are waiting to be fed have surrendered to you? Why not? Hit Hami."

After all, Liu Chengzu shook his head and said: "Money and food are trivial matters, there must be a way for the car to reach the mountain, and I am waiting to ask you about important matters in Juerwan."

"What's the big deal?"

"You'll know when you go, I'll ask you first." Liu Chengzu suddenly said seriously, "Where is that Mongolian aunt?"

"Ah?" Liu Chengzong was confused by his brother's sudden change of subject: "What Mongolian mother-in-law?"

Liu Chengzu stared and said: "Now you can get [-] Mongolians without tickets. Didn't you ask me if I plan to find you a Mongolian sister-in-law? Where is the Mongolian sister-in-law?"

Liu Chengzong suddenly realized, laughed and said: "So that's what brother said, there are all defeated generals around, it's hard to find someone who is worthy of big brother!"

In fact, his idea at the time was to marry his eldest brother a daughter of the chieftain of Qinghai Mongolia, but now both Bai Yan and Razun have gone to Wuzang, and there is no suitable age population for Bai Yan's family, Razun... Razun is full Just run away, genes are unreliable.

"How about I send someone to ask Cha Han Hu Duntu to see if there is any suitable girl in his family?"

Liu Chengzong pondered for a moment, then shook his head to deny himself, and said: "Not very good, Chuoketu wants to drag him into Qinghai, so he will send someone to ask him, I feel very strange, as if I want to send my brother to be married."

Li Wanqing had a sullen smile, and Liu Chengzu laughed loudly: "That's also a trickster who came to marry you, why do you still want me to be the door-to-door son-in-law?"

"Why don't you ask Wa, wait!" Halfway through Liu Chengzong's speech, the smile on his face suddenly froze: "Brother, you said just now that you are waiting to ask me about something important in Juerwan, could it be..."

Li Wanqing couldn't hold back any longer, and looked at Liu Chengzu, the two burst into loud laughter, and said to Liu Chengzong: "It's a big deal in life!"

not good!

To be urged to marry.

With the complicated mood of being urged to marry, Liu Chengzong led the escort team slowly approached Juer Bay, approaching [-] miles, the scene in the valley finally stopped decaying, the surroundings changed from desolation to harvested fields, mixed with wooden houses of ordinary people houses, and even cave dwellings were built on the mountains on both sides of the river.

If you get closer, you can see the endless workshops and markets, as well as the newly built city walls.

It was not a big one, Liu Chengzu said, it was where the military training camp and academy used to be. After the news of the victory in the Southern Expedition came back, his father thought that Xining needed to build a marshal's mansion, so he took advantage of the surrounding canals to dig soil and build several Brick kilns, planned city walls, fired bricks and rammed earth, built the Qinghai Marshal's Mansion inside, and built low and thick city walls outside.

When Lhazun fled, a large number of Huangnan Mongolian people who had no food took refuge in Xining. Considering that they had no food, my father built several brick kilns and covered the city wall of the Marshal's Mansion with green bricks.

Liu Chengzong wondered: "I think it's an earthen wall, am I wrong?"

"That's right, it's not finished. The blue bricks that were originally fired were used in the warehouse repair yard and the academy." Li Wanqing said with a smile: "The imperial court Chen Bing Lanzhou put down the bricks that were first packaged from the east of the city, and the whole building was built. Good for next year."

After Li Wanqing finished speaking, he sighed and said: "Ever since the news of the nine victories in the nine battles of the Marshal Yu Huangheyuan came back, the old man had already expected that the population of Xining Mansion would skyrocket after this battle. In the marinating field and fried noodle field, whole heads of pigs, beef, and sheep are marinated, and fried noodles are fried in a hundred pots."

The closer to the Marshal's Mansion, the better Liu Chengzu's mood.

For Liu Chengzong, food rations were a big problem for which he was not mentally prepared, but for everyone in Xining Mansion, all preparations had been made.

All the stored grain was taken out, and almost all the grain, oil and livestock that could be bought were bought from the east of Xining, and even a lot of fodder was prepared.

Apart from planning the next war, there was nothing they could do, no matter whether the surrendered population was 80 or [-].

But even planning the war is very helpless. The only thing they can fight with is Lanzhou, but the Gansu frontier army must be considered when attacking Lanzhou.

And Hami is actually an unrealistic direction. Although the distance is about the same as that of the expedition to Nangqian, the Mongols provided supplies along the way to the southern expedition, and they were supported by Nangqian chieftains when they arrived. Now they have nothing. Not to mention starving to death halfway, even if you can survive and fight, you will lose.

After considering all the possibilities, Liu Chengzu has given up thinking about these things, and takes one step at a time. Compared with the crisis that will only come next year, the lion will come back and have the same difficulties as him. Being urged to marry together is obviously the happiest thing for him recently. thing.

If there is a choice, Liu Chengzu would rather go to the South by himself, and let the lion stay with his parents and be forced to marry.

After all, for most people in the Lion Army, there is half a year of food storage, can it still be called a food crisis?

Liu Chengzu can't solve the current ration dilemma, but he hopes that the lion can help him solve the marriage dilemma.

Liu Chengzong is just the opposite.

Ten miles outside the city, Xining officials, students from the academy and generals and soldiers greeted each other. Liu Chengzong saw his father and mother standing in the middle of the road from a distance, and the anxiety in his heart suddenly disappeared without a trace along the way.

He patted his horse and ran for more than ten steps ahead, and saw his father and many officials clasped their hands and said in unison: "Congratulations to the Marshal who has returned from victory!"

Liu Chengzong reined in his horse and turned around, cupped his fists on the horse's back to salute everyone, then got off the horse, his own guards took the reins, and he walked forward, looking at his father who gritted his teeth slightly and smiled at the corners of his mouth, and his mother whose eyes were red, Obediently bowed down and saluted: "Mother, my son is back!"

Mrs. Cai was about to cry, but she smiled through her tears, stepped forward to help him and said, "Mother thought you would be dark and thin, why are you still fat?"

Liu Chengzong smiled on his face, but he had mixed feelings in his heart, he only said: "Mother, don't worry, how can I let myself suffer."

In fact, he didn't suffer much, just running back to Nangqian from Dajianlu, and riding [-] miles in [-] days, he lost a lot of meat.

It's just that he came back from the two months waiting for the attack on Bajiao City in the Heka Grassland.

Liu Xiangyu's second son was relieved that he was not thin, nodded and said, "Look at your marshal city."

The crowd then walked into the city. The city gate was in the southwest corner. When entering, it was a rammed earth urn city. The city gate inside opened to the south. The Marshal's Mansion and several houses in the distance.

The Marshal's Mansion is quite well built, occupying almost one-tenth of the center of the city. The four-entry courtyard faces south, and there are two-entry courtyards from east to west. Four gaps are formed at the four corners of the mansion, and fenced watchtowers are built. Used to garrison troops.

There are more than 70 rooms in the entire mansion. The architectural style gives Liu Chengzong a very familiar feeling. The decoration regulations are like Han Wang's mansion, and the feeling of entering the door is like entering a large yamen.

He even looked to the left and right as soon as he entered the gate, and his face was full of understanding. As expected, his father arranged six rooms in the courtyard. After careful questioning, his parents and elder brother did not live here. Come and live there, mainly in Xining City.

Liu Chengzong thought that his father's method of urging marriage was very unique, so he directly built a palace for him, hoping that he would realize that the mansion was unpopular.

But he didn't expect that the meal had already been prepared in the back hall, and the family sat around for dinner. No one mentioned the marriage until the end of the dinner. They just chatted about the experience of Nanzheng until only he and his father were left at the table.

Liu Xiangyu lightly knocked on his pipe, drank a glass of thick wine, frowned slightly and looked at Liu Chengzong without saying a word for a long time.

Liu Chengzong was a little flustered by his father, and asked, "Big, what's the matter?"

Liu Xiangyu put down his pipe, sighed heavily through his nose, and then said, "Shiba, it's a big deal."

"You tell me."

"Don't go to Kangning's mansion again, leave the matter over there to you, Mr. Yang, and let Chengyun come back."

"This..." Liu Chengzong never expected that what his father said was actually this matter, he was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Why?"

"Why else?"

Liu Xiangyu picked up the pipe again, frowned at him for a moment, then sighed and said, "Shiba, I haven't had time to ask you, what are you going to do next?"

Liu Chengzong thought about it, and it would be much easier for him to ask about it.

"Expanding the Ordnance Bureau in Juerwan. When I came here, I saw that they were all workshops. The workshops should be merged and a large factory with a clearer division of labor should be established to produce hydraulic and lifting tools, and mass-produce guns, armor, and gunpowder. ;Establish a complete recruitment and training system... push the army to the mouth of the Lanzhou River, fully occupy the Hehuang Valley, and solve the problem of food and grass."

Liu Xiangyu listened all the time, nodded slowly, and waited for him to finish speaking: "Daye is planning to push the army to the mouth of the river. Fighting Lanzhou can't support Gansu, and fighting Hami can't bear the huge amount of luggage, but it is imperative to occupy the Hehuang Valley." , but this is not what I want to ask.”

Master Liu leaned forward, stared at Liu Chengzong and said, "Do you want to be king in the northwest and southwest, or fight for the world in the east?"

Liu Chengzong did not hesitate: "The imperial court is about to run out, and we will fight for the world."

He seemed to hear the sound of a boulder falling to the ground in Liu Xiangyu's heart.

Mr. Liu looked around, and there was no one else in the hall at this time, he said slowly: "Since you want to fight for the world, you can no longer go to Kangning. You are good at martial arts, but it is difficult to guard against the backstabbing."

Liu Chengzong wanted to be stubborn, but in the end he didn't say anything, not because he felt that he would be in danger in Kangning Mansion, but because he really didn't need to go back to Kangning in a short time, so he nodded and said: "Big, I know. "

Mr. Liu said firmly: "You don't know."

"If you want to stop here and occupy the land and become king, rely on your big bones and two brothers to support the shelf here; but if you want to fight for the world."

Liu Xiangyu shook his head slowly: "I am not a powerful clan, I am afraid that time will not wait for me, you wait for the three brothers to get married as soon as possible, there is no etiquette and law, marry whoever you like, marry as many as you can... Then, in two or three years, When your eldest brother has a few babies, transfer Mr. Yang back to Xining."

Liu Chengzong's mouth froze involuntarily, it was not at all like what his father said he knew.

Liu Xiangyu turned his hand to himself: "After a few years of operation, the carrier will take over Xining, you can enter Xi'an; I will enter Kangning with your elder brother, go straight to Sichuan, attack Hanzhong, and take half of the country."

In Liu Chengzong's mind, his father's two-way route to the army almost appeared. He shook his head and said, "Big, it's very difficult to enter Sichuan from Dajian furnace."

That road is much more difficult than the northern line to attack big cities and important towns.

Unexpectedly, his father shook his head directly and said: "It is not difficult to instigate a rebellion, and it is difficult. It will not delay your marriage and childbirth. If you and your brother did not enter Sichuan, then no one should enter Sichuan."

Liu Chengzong knew the meaning of his father's words, he nodded heavily and said: "Father, don't worry, the child knows."

Seeing his answer, the father's expression was no longer so serious, and he said with a smile: "Listen to your brother, you want him to find a Mongolian mother-in-law, where can I find it, and insert a Chinese tiger into a rabbit?"

"Wala, Hudun Rabbit, as long as it has the ability, it will not be defeated by others."

Mr. Liu was noncommittal about this, but took a sip of the pipe leisurely, and said with a smile: "Send someone to try... When my father was in Mizhi, I never thought that my eldest son would be Wala Tabu .”

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)