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Chapter 681 Reputation
It was the end of September, the weather was just right, and the autumn wind was refreshing.

Zhang Wenjing has been in Chang'an for more than ten days, and she is quite used to it.

Her hometown is Baozhou on Shuntian Road, and she followed Zhang Rou when she moved to Bozhou six years ago. She feels that Bozhou has a better climate, unlike Baozhou, which is hot and rainy in summer and cold and dry in winter.

As for Chang'an... I feel better with Li Xia around.

Li Xia is busy during the day, while she is busy decorating the house where she lives now.

She didn't live in Xingtai or Fuya in Sichuan, Shaanxi, but bought a nearby courtyard of a suitable size, after all, she was not married.

But Li Xia would come over every day after he was busy with business, so he simply stayed and occupied a guest courtyard in the west wing.

Zhang Wenjing was busy cutting some clothes for him, choosing bedding and furniture.

These things are simple to say, but from the cloth surface to the quilt core, measuring Li Xia's size to sewing a few clothes, sending people to the street to buy everything has kept her busy for many days.

In the evening, Li Xia came over, holding a long roll of cloth in his hand.

Zhang Wenjing had a tacit understanding with him, and asked with a smile, "Have the map been drawn?"

"I can't find such a big piece of paper. I'm looking for a piece of cloth to draw on. Can you help me take a look first?"

"Then I will praise the painting for Li Jieshuai's staff, but I don't know how much I will be paid every month?" Zhang Wenjing asked with a smile.

Li Xia smiled and said: "I have no money, I can only promise with my body."

"Pooh."

Although Zhang Wenjing was angry, she still entered the hall with Li Xia, and spread out the newly made large map, covering the entire hall.

She took a look, took a few steps with her hands behind her back, tapped on the map with her toes, and said, "Yanjing is here, so Kaiping City should be..."

Following Yanjing to the north, she took two steps, stepped over the Yanshan Mountains, and stepped on her embroidered shoes lightly.

"Here, on the north bank of the Luan River, there is a mountain named Longgang, and Kaiping City was built here."

"Lightning River? Duolun County?" Li Xia murmured to himself while thinking.

In his previous life, he liked to fly around. He had been to many places, but he could even name a few places.

But it was the first time he marked the location of Kaiping City on the map.

This is not as simple as it seems.

For example, Yang Guo and his Mongolian captives have never been to Kaiping City at all, and even if they have been, it is difficult for them to be visualized on the map.

"This is Chang'an, this is Bozhou, almost a thousand miles away..."

Li Xia first told Zhang Wenjing the proportions of the map, and asked, "Where are Kublai Khan and Brother Ali now?"

"At the beginning of the year, my father led the army to go north, and more than three months ago, I sent a letter to my fifth brother to prepare for the expedition..."

Zhang Wenjing walked a few steps north from Kaiping City, thinking with her chin on her fingers, and calculated according to the various information she knew.

Li Xia walked to her side, and pondered: "According to the time, it must have come to this area?"

From Yanjing on the map to Kaiping, they only took two steps, but at this time they had already taken four or five steps north.

"Well, it's almost here."

"Xilin Gol?"

"Huh? The river in the hills?" Zhang Wenjing can speak Mongolian, shook her head, and said, "There is no such place name in this area, and the Mongolians call it 'Ximu Tunaoer'."

Li Xia said: "Ximu is so stupid, is it 'a lake with what'?"

"A lake with gnats. Gnats are insects that live in water and suck the blood of humans and animals."

"Gadfly?"

"I don't know, I haven't seen it either." Zhang Wenjing also had doubts in her eyes.

Li Xia asked, "Where are Hara and Lin? Yanran Mountain?"

He took four more steps northwest.

Zhang Wenjing stepped forward, pushed him, took two steps forward, pushed him two more steps, and walked outside the map.

"My eleventh brother is the hostage in Hara and Lin. According to his letter, it is more than three thousand miles from Yanjing."

Li Xia intuitively felt the terrifying size of Mongolia's territory.

I don't usually have a concept, but on this map, he walked sixteen steps from Yanjing to Harahelin, and his Hanzhong Plain was not as big as his shoes.

"Ok."

Li Xia said: "Let's make a calculation. It's a battle in the old days. If Kublai Khan wins, he will drive Hara Helin, chase Ali Buge, stabilize the situation, and wipe out Li Fen... There will be no three or five years, and he will be powerless to fight back." In attack."

"Three to five years, it is already as fast as lightning."

"It took me half a year to attack Guanzhong after I took Longxi." Li Xia said: "Besides, if Ali is not a brother, if he wins, then, Kublai Khan will return to defend Kaiping, and then Yanshan defense line, Yanjing defense..."

"Brother Ali must have destroyed the Central Plains in the early stage, burned, killed and looted, and destroyed the foundation of Kublai Khan?"

"What I'm afraid of is that if Brother Ali wins, he will be able to enter Shanxi from Hetao within a year or two, and even... detour from Liangzhou to enter Longxi and Guanzhong to plunder money and food and replenish military supplies."

"can you?"

"This is inevitable. Outflanking is the most commonly used method of attack by the Mongols, and Kublai Khan needs to manage the land under his rule. Brother Ali never needs it. He just robs and kills."

At this point, Li Xia smiled bitterly: "What I'm afraid of now is that Kublai Khan will not win this battle. For me, the best result is that he refuses Ali Buge to the north of the Yanshan Mountains, and then counterattacks Hara Frustrated with Lin Shi."

Zhang Wenjing thought hard and said, "This situation is too difficult to control."

"It can't be manipulated anymore. Its main battlefield has been moved too far, beyond reach."

Li Xia said: "As for sending troops to Henan and Shanxi, it is also impossible. I don't have the opportunity right now, and I don't have the strength. The troops in my hand are still stretched to defend Sichuan and Shanxi. In short, we have seized all available opportunities. When you gather your strength."

Together with Zhang Wenjing, he rolled up the large map on the ground and put it away.

With this deduction, he also had a clearer inference about the situation in the north.

He prefers to have three to five years to accumulate strength.

First of all, Li Xia wanted to control Guanlong in less than a year, so that Song Ting could not reach out.

But at this time, he still can't completely control Sichuan and Shaanxi... It's still the simplest question, once he becomes self-reliant, how many people will follow.

This year, we can only plan to dispose of Sichuan and Shaanxi first, and then plan to establish the power to establish a government system, and then we can make Sichuan and Shaanxi gradually form a semi-independent situation in the next two or three years.

At the same time, soldiers, horses, money and food, and people's hearts must reach a state of being able to stand up to Mongolia and the Song court...

~~
The next morning.

Zhang Wenjing learned to do a few stretching movements with Li Xia in the courtyard, and then shared breakfast.

"What are you doing today?"

"I have an elder brother...he has arrived in Chang'an, take him to Liu Heima's house to propose marriage."

"Speaking of this, I remembered something." Zhang Wenjing pursed her lips and smiled, "When my fifth elder brother got the news from Guanzhong, he heard that the Li family and the Liu family were married. He thought it was you who wanted to marry the Liu family, but he didn't know what to do. What an annoyance."

"I don't believe it. Before you left, he couldn't have gotten such news in Bozhou. It's more likely that it was when you were in Shanxi..."

"Don't tell me."

Li Xia couldn't help laughing again, and asked, "What about you?"

"I'll help Sister Yuan sort out the manuscript."

"Speaking of this." Li Xia said: "The real Wuxi brought Mr. Yishan's manuscripts, which really excited the Chang'an literary world. Only after Yang Gong let out the news, there were many literati who refused to become officials in Mongolia after the death of Jin, and offered to let me build it again. A literary library, asking for help sorting out the manuscript. Originally, they were not tempted by my solicitation."

"Great."

Zhang Wenjing spread her hands and said with a smile, "Bring the money, and Sister Yuan and I will settle this matter."

"You know what I want to do?"

"I took the opportunity to recruit these scribes under your curtain."

Li Xia peeled an egg, put it in Zhang Wenjing's hand, and said, "Yesterday, there was a famous doctor and dozens of disciples who came to vote for me. Zhang Xiaoming, do you know him?"

Zhang Wenjing bit the egg and shook her head.

"He said that it was not because of my name as the envoy of Sichuan in the Song Dynasty, but that his uncle and Mr. Yishan were close friends, and their name was Zhang Congzheng."

Zhang Wenjing took a sip of water unhurriedly, with a gentle look, and said: "The Zhang family in Kaocheng, Zhang Congzheng, was the first of the four famous doctors in the Kingdom of Jin when Zhang Gong was alive. character, I have his "Confucianism and Family" at home."

"There is also one who claims to be a child of the Li family."

"Zhending Li's family, presumably a disciple of Li Gao and Li Gong, was also one of the four famous doctors of the Jin Kingdom when he was alive. He donated thousands of gold to learn the skills of divine medicine. "Medical Inventions", I can't remember everything."

At this point, she added a sentence.

"Mr. Zhang Gong and Li Gong were close friends with Mr. Yi Shan in those days, and they had peaches and plums all over the world. When these children heard that Mr. Yi Shan's manuscript had come to Chang'an, they must have come to pay a visit. Wait, I will ask Sister Yuan to tell you. "

……

When Li Xia went out today, he was also quite emotional.

Originally, Yang Guo was already a well-known Confucian in the north, so he attracted many scholars from the north.But compared to Yuan Haowen, his reputation and connections are still much inferior.

In the current literary world, southerners say that Wu Qian, Liu Kezhuang, Wu Wenying, and Liu Chenweng are just a few stars in the bright galaxy of the Song Dynasty, while Yuan Haowen is a lone star that illuminates the north.

The titles of "Wenxiong of the North", "Wenzong of a Generation" and "Crown of a Dynasty" are by no means just talk.

This is prestige.

Besides the contacts, Yuan Hao asked to make friends with people of all religions and schools. In addition to famous officials and powerful ministers, there were also painters, hermits, doctors, monks, scholars, and peasants.

When the Jin Dynasty died, Yuan Haowen sent a letter to Yelu Chucai to protect many Confucian scholars in the Jin Kingdom. Many of these people regarded themselves as survivors and refused to become officials, and dozens of them had become high-ranking Mongolian officials.

Li Xia had contact with Yang Guo, Shang Ting, and Bai Pu among the great Confucianists who had a deep friendship with Yuan Haowen and were still alive.

Today Yuan Yan casually mentioned a few more people, such as Yan Zhongji, Xu Shilong, Li Ye, Li Tianyi...

Among them, Yan Zhongji is not only a Ci Lin Yingjie, but also a great prince, who marched thousands of households on Dongping Road; Xu Shilong has been an official to Yanjing Road, Mongolia, as a Xuanfu envoy.

Li Ye is also amazing, not only his articles and poems are excellent, but also a figure who pioneered the school of arithmetic.

According to Yuan Yan, Li Zhi's theories on geometry, fractional equations, higher-order equations, and decimal notation...even Li Xia couldn't understand them.

I can only be shocked by the fact that arithmetic has reached such a height in the present world.

For the time being, those who really came to vote for Li Xia are only some youngsters, but the manuscripts brought by Yuan Yan and the influence of his connections are faintly impressive...

~~
"Li Jieshuai is a remarkable person."

After Li Xia left, Yuan Yan was sitting in the courtyard copying the manuscript, and suddenly said something.

"Really?" Zhang Wenjing happily responded.

"But have you thought about it, the more extraordinary a person he is, the more you have to bear when you marry him... Li Jieshuai is also frank. He has married his first wife and is pregnant. There will be children."

Yuan Yan didn't raise his head when he said this, but the speed of writing in his hands slowed down a lot.

"He's a person who can be admired and admired, or some women are willing to join his family as concubines, but with your background and your spirit..."

"He pretends to have too much world in his heart." Zhang Wenjing responded in a low voice, smiled to herself, and said, "He married a regular wife, but if I want to come, neither I nor Gao Mingyue can completely occupy his heart... ...I can take a role, I am already very good."

Yuan Yan was stunned.

Zhang Wenjing said again in a low voice: "It's really amazing. Over the years, it has been very difficult for me to occupy this role. I want to know what I want, so I feel willing."

"That you……"

"He said that Fifth Brother will definitely send someone to talk to him."

"It's good for you to be modest." Yuan Yan sighed slightly, and then muttered: "Yesterday, I met Yang Gong and talked about some past events. Later, Yang Gong said that he has no official position yet..."

"When Li Xia can establish a government system, he will naturally have an official position."

"It's not about this, Yang Gong said that he is now in Li Jieshuai's shogunate, and there are women in charge."

It was only here that Yuan Yan raised his head and asked, "You said, I also entered the Hantai shogunate, how about it?"

(End of this chapter)