Delong

Chapter 349 River Walk (6)

"But is the Dragon Clan's finances sufficient?" Ma Wei asked earnestly with alcohol. "Although the Dragon Clan has been in power for more than two years, except for Dongjun and Jiyin, the other five counties and one prefecture in the east, plus the three counties in Hebei, have only experienced one spring plowing, and Hebei has not even experienced autumn harvest. Once, the soldiers couldn’t see the benefits of granting the land because of this, so they had to replace it with something they could see, but if so, they must be short of money, right?”

"It's not just Hebei that hasn't seen the autumn harvest. The other five counties and one prefecture in the east also had a rush harvest last year, and the sergeant didn't see any profit." Wang Wulang still understands the morale of the army. "In addition, the food control in the gang is extremely strict, and everyone is still very nervous... It's just that at the beginning, everyone thought that it would be good to survive, and that it was enough to be stronger than the previous rebels, and then they kept fighting. , so it didn't happen."

"That's the truth." Xie Minghe nodded to Wang Shuyong, and then proudly pointed to Mawei. "But Ma Jiusheng still didn't understand... You must know that our Dethroning Dragon Gang is not the former rebel army, who can easily roll out tens or hundreds of thousands of soldiers in a single county, but divides the soldiers and horses into warriors, government servants, and field soldiers. There are three categories, and this time the rewards are for soldiers with military merits, ten counties and one prefecture, the total number of soldiers from the north and the south is only [-] to [-] registered sergeants, and the rewards are limited to military merits."

"I see." Ma Wei tried to calculate, but gave up immediately. "So, the reward this time is to set the plate, and there will be no extra rice?"

"Not only that, but you can still cook with rice." Xie Minghe continued to talk proudly. "As I said just now, there is another key point, which is the real thing... cloth, silk, gold and silver are real things, lacquerware furniture is also real things, iron pots are real things, fur swords are also real things, and even good armaments are real things. You have to have these Only things can be called real things.”

"If a slut has no family and no mouth, he thinks that survival is the most important thing in the battle, and he buys a set of armor with all his military achievements, but he is buying armaments for your own?" Ma Wei sneered. "And if someone wants to replace it all with Qianbo, there are not so many? Can we only buy a few more Zhangqiu iron pots?"

"Almost." Xie Minghe answered proudly. "But we can't let them suffer, so we have to draw a line. For example, the soldiers in Hebei can use at most half of it to withdraw money, and the other half must go through the way of granting land. If the land is already available, then it can be relaxed so that only one-third or one-fifth of the military merits are reserved for additional land... But if you have a family background, you can only use one-third of the military merits as a replacement unconditionally. This is not only protection, but also a further step. Limit the upper limit of rewards."

"Boss Xie is really thoughtful." Ma Wei rolled his eyes and took another glass of warm wine to drink.

"This is actually the effort of everyone. Jiangling's documents are by no means mediocre." Xie Minghe was praised frankly, and he did not forget his colleagues.

"Oh?" Zhang Xing seemed a little surprised. "So, are you in a hurry? After staying in the dignified county, he abandoned the county to find Li Longtou?"

Of course, Ma Wei has nothing to say, since yesterday he went to someone's table and drank his wine, he should go with him today, so he did what he said, had breakfast, got on a horse, and then went Row.

It was only when I saw a group of people with tall horses appearing on the ridge of the field that I was cautious and cowered and dodged... This is the instinct of farmers and women and children who have no males at home.

"Dragon head." At this moment, Xie Minghe suddenly reminded. "Since Li Gong is in front of the yellow-headed leader Zhuangzi, why don't we get together and explain the matter face to face? We will do this matter in the future."

The customs of the Tang Dynasty are still unresolved, what do Zhou Dao generals hope for?

Wild plains and reeds are combined, and villages are barren and thick.

"We should drink in Weicheng County... Huangtouling Village." Fang Yanlang was still honest.

Thinking of this, Huang Tou-ling looked at Cui Silang with a slight complaint as a matter of course.

"Li Gong's meaning is very simple. First of all, he is worried that this is a strategy to slow down the army, and secondly, he is worried that this is a strategy of killing time." Cui Silang blurted out. "Dare to ask Mr. Li if you are?"

After reciting a poem, Li Dalong couldn't help himself, leaning on the porch pillar, looking up at the sky and weeping bitterly.

Huang Junhan probably realized what was going on, and couldn't help but brow up with joy, so he also raised his wine glass, ready to stand up and speak.

People like Chen Bin, Dou Lide, Yan Qing, and Cui Suchen should do well for him.

"Fangtou Ling thinks too much." Zhang Xing disagrees. "How can such a kind person as Huang Touling harm Li Longtou? If you are really okay, why not come with us... We are busy here, and we are probably going to come to Jiyin to have such an encounter, just take a look .”

At the time when Zhang Xing had a rare feast here, Li Shu and Li Longtou in Weicheng County, Dongjun County, which was not too far away, also rarely got a little drunk... There was no way, it was too difficult for him, and he was under too much pressure. Fan Duo drank a few cups, and the spirit of the wine came up. I really didn't want to use my true energy to force the wine, but I took advantage of the situation to let it go.

"Why is the head of the house here?" Zhang Xing was obviously puzzled.

To be honest, at this time Ma Wei unexpectedly felt the effect of the ice's true energy. Following this Zhang Longtou, not only would someone help warm the wine at any time, but he would not be afraid of the heat when traveling in summer.

"You hid three thousand private soldiers. We made a promise at Sikouguan on the first night. You said, I will make all the private soldiers regular for you." Zhang Xingsi said slowly. "But 3000 people are too many, and there is too much pressure on the extra battalion for no reason, so you have to withdraw 3000 people from your original 17 soldiers, Guo Jingke's troops, and the navy of Lu and Dalu, and the county soldiers in Dongjun. ... The list has been made before, and there are [-] people who turn into this village from here and want to be cleared. It is one thing to make it clear from the army over there. Whether there is any difficulty in the family is one thing... I will not do anything else before making the decision, but I will walk through the six counties and townships with you."

Li Shu was stunned for a moment, stood up, raised a glass of wine to respect the other party: "Cui Silang shocked the drunk man! Please accept my glass of wine!"

Not only that, even Wang Shuyong and Xie Minghe also stared at this person.

At this moment, Cui Silang sighed again: "Mr. Li, although Huang Tou-ling's words are straightforward, there is some truth... There are two key points in this."

"That's right." Li Shu wiped his face, turned around, and suddenly smiled again with tears in his eyes, but he came to the table and poured himself a glass, then raised his glass and said. "The Emperor Hun of the Tyrant Wei suddenly had three conquests. I didn't dare to stay in Dongyi anymore, so I came back alone in a hurry, so that no one knew about the wild road, and the villages along the way, because they escaped from the three conquests, or the corvees from the three conquests had already chased them to their homes, were inevitably abandoned. Dilapidated, miserable and unspeakable, I felt it on the road, so I have this poem."

Looking at and listening to a lot of feelings, moving and leaning on the lapel alone. "

"..."

Xu Shiying was already stunned when he heard half of it, and his face turned red when he heard it, and he turned his head and remained silent.

"Are you blushing hotly, or do you feel that you have been humiliated? Or is it a rare feeling of shame?" Zhang Xing finally stood up, asked seriously, and then asked himself to answer. "You are the top among the masters of Nei Ning Dan. Even I dare not say that you are better than you. Of course, it is not hot; as for the humiliation, don't say that I didn't mean to humiliate you deliberately, it is a real humiliation. I follow your instructions Habits don't take it seriously, so you can take it calmly... So, do you really feel sorry for those subordinates?"

Li Shu smiled awkwardly.

Around noon, another group of dozens of riders came from the northeast, but it was Wang Xiongtan who had disappeared leading the way. After he dismounted, he did not rush forward, but stood still, looking at a young man behind him.

"At that time, there was no support for the dragon head, feeling sad, and it was only natural to write such a poem." Huang Junhan had already tasted the taste at this time, but he felt that Li Shu was a bit hypocritical, and the matter was important, and he must not let it go in spite of. "But now at this level, how many people are under one person and over ten thousand people, and they will soon sit on the land of three counties and show their grand plans, so why should they get involved again?"

"Today, we must stop drinking for the time being, and have some breakfast." Zhang Xing also said immediately. "Then come with us."

In this way, a group of people galloped north and arrived between the two counties of Kuangcheng and Weicheng in Dongjun County, but stopped at an official road intersection at the junction of the two counties, and then quietly dismounted and waited under the shade of trees beside the road.

Wang Wulang and Wang Xiongdan were more real, they just listened with their ears up.

Everyone was speechless, and Fang Yanlang had mixed feelings, but he still set off together.

The blame is Cui Silang, not just saying that Zhang Sanlang is "sincerely not to compete with him".

"It's nothing serious." Although Fang Yanlang didn't want to pretend to be smart, he was more or less angry, so he simply answered. "It's just that Li Longtou's mind has been depressed recently. I'm afraid that he will encounter some accident... Who knows if he will be killed by someone in Dongjun?"

"That's right." Huang Junhan tried to persuade him. "Leader, the land of the three counties is the foundation, don't put the cart before the horse!"

Huang Junhan couldn't bear the pressure, he just asked sternly: "Cui Silang understands Li Gong's meaning on this matter?"

In the end, Ma Wei was not as perfunctory as he was yesterday, he slightly cupped his hand to signal.

When Huang Junhan heard this, he simply became impatient: "How could it be a strategy of delaying the attack, and how could it be a strategy of killing time? If it is a strategy of delaying the attack, it should be agreed immediately so that the other party cannot take this delay. If it is a strategy of killing time, there are three ways The bait for wasting in the county? Leader, with all due respect, you are doing nothing here now, which is even more wasting."

"That's fine..." Zhang Xingnu replied. "I called you here today because I have something to do... It's all right to make a formal decision. Before you head, it's not easy to let you go to Hebei to replace Shan Tonghai, but you can't let you idle. The inspection work will continue, especially because of your Because of this, I have added a new job, and you have to do it with me."

"Cui Silang, please enlighten me." Li Shu bowed his hands.

In the morning of the next day, Ma Wei woke up, remembered what happened last night, found it interesting, pushed the door out, but saw Zhang Xing and others, Xie Minghe and Wang Shuyong sitting in the courtyard waiting, he couldn't help being a little panicked.

With that said, he got on the yellow puma and turned around to go to the fork in the official road.

The man lowered his head, got off his horse, stepped forward and cupped his hands, speaking in a low voice: "Third brother."

This evening, poor Tushi, Yu Tao heartbroken.

Obviously, Ma Zhou's performance seemed to make Zhang Xing's staff team, which was also under some kind of siege before, look a bit dead, so Xie Minghe couldn't wait to say something.However, under the same smugness, Chiping Jiusheng still maintained a sharp mind, and then quickly realized this, and took advantage of the opportunity to start meaningless compliments after obtaining effective information, while Jiangdong Liuhe was obviously a little drowsy. I don't know it.

Fang Yanlang was puzzled for a moment, but he glanced at many people beside Zhang Xing and nodded.

Once the fortune will meet, the posthumous posthumous name will be passed down through the ages.

"It's good to know the shame." Zhang Xing nodded upon seeing this. "This kind of shame is the rarest thing, and it makes me think it's worth saving your life... let's go."

But at this time, smoke and dust billowed in the distance, and more than a dozen riders came along the official road from south to north. Zhang Xing stopped to look in surprise. This is Dongjun, the earliest core site of the Dragon Clan. Wang Shuyong naturally had nothing to do. It can be said that he directly reined in his horse to meet him, and after a while, he brought back the people, and the leader of them was actually Yanlang, the back room of Jiyin Liu.

Of course Zhang Xing didn't know that someone had decided to accept a political compromise, and after Xie Minghe and Ma Wei were drunk, he wrote Ma Wei's opinion and his own approval into a document, and then handed it over to Wang Xiongsheng for the latter to pass it on.

"I also agree." Xu Dalang replied in a low voice, and he was really obedient.

Huang Junhan seemed to realize that he had lost his composure and was embarrassed, so he quickly lowered his head.

"Ma Jiusheng, although you drink well, your cultivation level is not enough. It's not like I sober up quickly." Xie Minghe laughed first. "Still drink less."

And, why are you crying like this?Isn't it just asking Cui Silang to help analyze the situation within the wave of the world and the Dragon Gang?

Unexpectedly, Cui Xuanchen was a little stunned at this time, but he was not looking at Huang Junhan's eyes, but at Li Shu's poem: "This evening is a poor man, Yu Tao hurts the heart... Longtou, this should be an old poem, right?"

This actually gave him a little shock, because Zhang Longtou's control over this big leader Xu has actually reached such a level.Of course, if you think about it the other way around, this faucet is not only good at warming wine, it would be strange if it has changed from an empty faucet to the current situation abruptly.

Because at noon, as far as the eye can see, there are already tall millet seedlings, and there are farmers everywhere, hiding in groups of three or four to rest in the shade of the trees, and there are many strong laborers, including some healthy women, even in front of their eyes. At noon, the sun was still weeding and digging ditches in the field.

Zhang Xing thought about it for a while, but then shook his head at Huang Piao: "Mr. Li is a rare pastime, why should we bother? Besides, we returned to the Eastern Border this time just to inspect the place, and this matter is the most important thing... Don't worry." Putting the cart before the horse."

He was the same as Xu Shiying before, his face turned red, but he didn't know whether it was from the heat or from the shock.

On the contrary, Cui Xuanchen said to Huang Junhan seriously at this time: "Huangtouling, the situation is the situation. You only talk about the handover of the three counties, but you don't understand Li Gong's meaning at all."

"Xu Dalang." Zhang Xing sat under the tree without moving. "I figured it out. This matter only deals with the culprit, father and son. Your family assets will be confiscated. The rest will be limited to private soldiers. As long as you hand over the organized private soldiers with more than 200 people, you will forget the past... including caravans. For business or something, as long as it pays taxes properly, I agree with it... You are still the big boss, where are you going?"

However, just after leaving the official road and crossing a forest, when Zhuangzi appeared in the field of vision, the group realized that this visit might encounter a huge difficulty.

"The golden wind blows at the beginning of the festival, and the jade dew withers the late forest.

Li Shu didn't answer in silence.

Only then did Ma Wei realize that this person was actually Xu Dalang.

Shenwu is an apprentice in the market, and Qian Yi is a knife and pen official.

Li Shu also let out a long sigh of alcohol.

"Don't dare!" Cui Xuanchen immediately got up and raised a glass of wine. "After all, Li Gong's ambition has not fallen."

Li Shu immediately nodded.

Huang Junhan held the wine and listened for a long time. Seeing Cui Xuanchen shaking his head all the way, he sneered in his heart, but at the moment when the recitation was over, he immediately put down the wine glass and clapped his hands in praise:
"Mr. Li is so ambitious!"

Cui Xuanchen sighed, and finally smiled: "I know that Mr. Li probably has great ambitions, and he doesn't want to be removed from his position easily and fall under others... But now, how can one person repeat the situation? Li Gong, if you ask ten thousand times again, the current situation is that Zhang Sanlang is in the north, supporting Dengzhou on the left, and controlling the [-] battalions of elite soldiers on the right, you really can't compete with him!"

Huang Junhan was dumbfounded by the sidelines. Although he was born as a county magistrate, but such things as poetry culture... can only say that the words can probably be written, what do you mean? It doesn't mean that you can't try to solve it, but it will be embarrassing if you make a mistake. up.

What kind of literary talents are you selling?

Everyone had mixed feelings, but at this moment, Xie Minghe suddenly recited a poem loudly:

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Li Shu drank it all by himself, but turned around, came under the porch pillar again, and then pointed at the stars and recited, actually following the old poem before, and continued to compose , and the tone is obviously becoming more and more passionate, before turning decadent:
"What do you do with your lapel, and feel nostalgic for the past.

Regarding this, Zhang Xing didn't bother to say anything, he just warmed and poured the wine, just being an honest toolman.

"Where is Li Longtou?" Zhang Xing was even more surprised.

"Yes." Xu Dalang raised his head slightly. "Please ask the third brother to order."

"At noon on the day of hoeing, sweat drips down to the soil. Who knows that every grain of Chinese food is hard work?"

Li Shu couldn't stop laughing and crying, but looked at another person: "Cui Silang also meant the same thing?"

It is a shame to be a hero in the world. "

"First, you don't want the land of these three counties, and the rest of the Henan leaders who are still attached to you don't want it? Don't lose the hearts of the people because of this, that's one of the fundamental reasons." Cui Xuanchen persuaded seriously. "Secondly, it doesn't matter whether he spends it or not. The key is whether Guild Li will lose his ambition because of it? My own heart is the fundamental two."

"Go pick up Li Longtou." Fang Yanlang glanced at Xu Shiying, and answered bravely. At this time, he dared not lie. If he concealed it without authorization and was misunderstood by the other party about what Li Shu was going to do, that would be called being smart.

After reciting a poem, the man looked back to the left and right, and finally smiled at Fang Yanlang: "After Fang stays, can this poem be handed down to the world?"

Fang Yanlang ignored it, and the others were also silent. They just looked carefully at Zhang Xing, who had obviously reacted, because the ice zhenqi suddenly spread, causing everyone to shiver.

Zhang Dalong was silent for a while, and gradually restrained his true anger, he just opened his mouth, but he didn't bother to pay attention to Xie Minghe, but his tone was rare, and he said a nonsense amidst Ma Wei and Fang Yanlang's surprise:
"They're avoiding us."

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