Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 875

Ye Chen picked up his precious little daughter and walked forward, and the little silver wolf jumped over again, clinging to his leg, dragging a straight tail, and followed him step by step.Ye Chen glanced at the little silver wolf, and said with a smile: "Really, the little silver wolf is so misbehaving, okay, wait a while for Daddy to spank its wolf's butt, and teach her a good lesson."

Yu'er giggled when she heard it, and said happily: "I knew Daddy would say that, Daddy is busy, so I can hit it myself, hehehe..."

Ye Chen couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this, he gave her a look and said: "Little girl, she learned to lie before she was three years old. Your mother is so cute, gentle, and kind, but you little girl is cunning and clever."

Yu'er's white jade-like face was full of anger, and she said in a childish voice, "Daddy, Yu'er is also very good. The first aunt and the second aunt have praised Yu'er like this."

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Today's Hetao Plain is different from the past. If you look down from a high altitude, the wasteland of eight hundred miles in the past has been covered with an endless goose-yellow green carpet to the horizon. Seven squares are square, and the length and width are ten miles With the trend of the Yellow River, the city is dotted like seven black pearls.

The Yellow River, which looks like a yellow dragon, divides this light yellow and green carpet into two halves, and then the two halves are restored and dug deeper and wider. And around these two big canals, every three miles, there is a huge wind-powered waterwheel standing on both sides, similar to what Duanmu Zhongren saw in the villages and towns outside Shunzhou City. There are not only waterwheels here, but also some watermills. It is placed on a specially tightened canal, and the turbulent water drives the huge blades of the water mill, which then drive the huge stone mill to crush the newly matured wheat and other grains, and then grind the white flour.
Under the force of the constant wind in the northwest, the tall waterwheel scoops the river water into the tall water platform with buckets, and then pours the water into the small high place along the tall water platform. In the canal, there are small canals running across the fields, flowing everywhere.The fields are full of industrious farmers working hard to tend these precious seedlings.

Everyone in the court of Xiangfu Kingdom knew that the [-]-mile Hetao Plain had become the largest granary in Xiangfu Kingdom.It has almost become the most important area in the hinterland of Xiangfu Kingdom except Xia Jing. A few days ago, Zhang Bo suggested that the imperial court should send at least two brigades to stay here. It is the resident place of the newly established Volunteer Corps, but considering that the Volunteer Corps is likely to go to the Hexi Corridor, Ye Chen ordered the military hub to send some officers there, recruit [-] soldiers locally, train nearby, and set up a brigade. Responsible for the city defense mission of the seven counties.

Later, Han Xizai and Ma Wentao took the opportunity to propose to build a state here, but Ye Chen directly threw out a bigger proposal to build the capital here, or to move the capital here from Xia Jing, and asked the Zhongshu Ministry and the Military Commission to discuss the administration and The feasibility and necessity of relocating the capital are deduced from the military aspects.Although this news was not made public in order to prevent people's hearts from fluctuating in Xiajing City, it caused a disturbance among the high-level officials of Xiangfu Kingdom. This incident will inevitably become the biggest event in the second year of Tianding in Xiangfu Kingdom.

On the Ningxia Plain farther away towards Helan Mountain, hundreds of thousands of people from the Liao Kingdom were coerced and lured to reclaim new farmland. Every time [-] mu of land was reclaimed, and after the canals were dug, craftsmen sent by the Ministry of Agriculture Five huge wind-powered waterwheels were placed by the river to pump water to remove the salinity. Officials rode horses to patrol around, the constant carriages, and the lively labor scene filled the world with a sense of prosperity.

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Compared with the other six counties, the crops in the farmland outside Dangxiang County are somewhat different. Every field is also green.But this greenness cannot stand a closer look. In the paddy field where the ditch reaches, the wheat seedlings are crooked.There are no ditches, and in the dry fields leaning against the rolling hills, hemp and buckwheat are planted, but they are all messy. On the contrary, some fruit tree seedlings planted in the fields are growing very well, mixed with weeds, and decorating the earth beautifully. Spring is in full bloom.But this does not affect the owner of the field, because it is the first time in their lifetime that they get a very rich harvest from the field and they are very happy.

Ye Li Mayong is a 17-year-old boy from the Nakano Li Clan of the Seventh Dangxiang Clan. Although he is only 17 years old, it is generally believed that he can mount a horse and kill the enemy at the age of 14 and become a warrior. The Dangxiang Clan can already do anything. This includes getting married and having children, starting a business to earn money, and supporting a family.According to the instructions of the Han people, he is now very proficient in doing farm work. It is particularly difficult for his hands who are used to drawing bows and holding knives to do farm work.

However, he was a little absent-minded at this time, thinking of the mighty and exquisite armor and military uniforms of the dozen or so tribesmen who came back to visit his relatives a few days ago, and all of them who had just opened from the city. Fu Qianzhuang was carrying out a large bag of silver coins with a high-spirited look, but his heart had already flown to the black wolf army he heard about yesterday, eight hundred miles away.

Regardless of the objections of the Minister of Military Affairs of the DPRK, Ye Chen forced the military to implement the annual paid vacation and family visit system for officers and non-commissioned officers during the non-war period, which was unanimously welcomed by the soldiers of the entire army, and their morale was extremely high. However, there were also many officials from the DPRK and China And the officer was very worried.In ancient times, because there were many deserters, the household registration system was not perfect, and officers often deducted soldiers’ salaries and other reasons, soldiers often fled once they had the opportunity. Therefore, soldiers never dared to implement the system of taking vacations and visiting relatives in that dynasty.

Not all of the dozens of Dangxiang fighters who were on vacation had their relatives moved to Dangxiang County. After they arrived, some of them persuaded their relatives to fight several battles with their military pay. With the saved reward money, he bought a house in Dangxiang County, left the Dangxiang tribe, and moved into the city.

One of them is named Su Kashi, a first-class non-commissioned officer of the Black Wolf Army, who happens to live next to Yeli Mayong's house. Yeli Mayong also played with Sukashi when he was a teenager, and the latter invited him to stay in the city these days After eating and drinking in the best restaurant, the ostentation, the momentum, especially Sukashi wears military uniform every time, and there is a finger-sized pentagonal sign made of silver with exquisite patterns on his chest, It made him envious to death.

Once the two of them met the magistrate Kou Zhun on the road, and Kasushi was called by the magistrate to point to the five-pointed sign and say a few words.Nowadays, there are newspapers and storytellers in the teahouses and restaurants in Dangxiang County, so Yeli Mayong knew that the five-cent silver medal was a military merit medal, and later learned from Su Kashi that it was a second-class military merit medal. A team of scouts from the Liao army unexpectedly had an important piece of information on them. Because of that piece of information, they ambushed and wiped out 100 Liao soldiers.That's why he awarded the second-class war merit medal and awarded [-] taels of silver.

In addition, Yeli Mayong also heard that with this medal, he will not need to kneel down to worship any official in the future, and if he is injured or returns to his hometown after serving in the army for more than 15 years, the government will also arrange formal errands for him in the yamen .But Yeli Mayong knew that Su Kashi didn't want to go back to his hometown as an errand.He still remembered that at that time, Su Kashi was drinking a jug of good wine worth ten silver coins, and said: "I don't want to retire after 15 years and go home to be an official here. I have already asked the company commander, As long as you make one more second-class merit or three third-class merits, you will have the opportunity to study in Xiangfu Military Academy, and as long as you can pass the graduation examination, you can jump into the dragon's gate and become an officer. This is my ideal."

Regarding the word "ideal", Ye Limayong didn't quite understand it at the time, until yesterday at a street tea stall, he heard Liu Laosan, a Han Chinese tea stall owner who read newspaper part-time, mention this word in the newspaper and explained it to everyone After understanding the meaning of this word, he realized that this word that makes young people's hearts throbbing when they heard it was actually invented by His Majesty the emperor who is as great as a god.Since then, in the past two days, there was a flame burning deep in Yeli Mayong's heart, and it was burning more and more vigorously.

A woman's cry came from the field ridge. It was Yeli Mayong's wife Marenzhu, who was only 15 years old this year.

Standing up straight and beating his back, Yeli Mayong looked at his wife, thinking that now he has a field, a house, and a wife, so he doesn't have to starve and freeze, and he doesn't have to hunt grass and valleys like vicious dogs and fight with people everywhere. Isn't this kind of life great?
"No, I want to be the same as Ye Li Ma Yong. I want to be a soldier, I want to make meritorious service, I want to be an officer, and I want to have ideals..." Thinking of this, Ye Li Ma Yong shouted out.

His wife Marenzhu looked at Ye Li Ma Yong in astonishment, he didn't hear or understand what his man had just said, so he asked, "Ah Lang, what did you say?"

Yeli Mayong said his thoughts loudly again, and soon the crying of 15-year-old woman Ma Renzhu and the 17-year-old Yeli Mayong's abuse came from the field, which could be faintly heard Marenzhu cried and said, "Ah Lang, you want to be a soldier. We also have a city defense army in Dangxiang County. You can be a soldier here. Why do you have to go so far to serve as a soldier?"

Ye Li Ma Yong said: "What do you know, our Dangxiang County is located deep in the hinterland of our Xiangfu country, and there will be no enemies all year round. Except for occasionally going out to fight wolves and robbers, they just guard the city gates." It’s nothing more than the city wall, not to mention the low salary of the soldiers, and they will never be able to make meritorious service.”

Ma Renzhu cried louder.

The party members who were also doing farm work in other fields not far away shook their heads when they saw this.

(End of this chapter)