The Lantern Festival is over and the Beginning of Spring is coming, and the weather in Chang'an City will gradually get warmer. At this time, it has just passed, and even if the weather is warm, it is only very warm.
Changsun Chong started taking care of the farmland here early, and he brought his two sons and one daughter with him.
The sons followed their father's hard work in hoeing the ground, while the daughter carried a basket and sprinkled fertilizer into the newly plowed land.
In the past, the little girl had to carry special equipment when going to Jinchangfang, but now she can handle manure with her bare hands.
Li Hong felt that Changsun Chong was deliberately teaching his son and daughter how to face the upcoming hard life during this period.
This is the last help a wise father can give his children, teaching them to farm, teach them to work, and teach them to survive tenaciously with their own hands.
Seeing this scene, Li Hong felt a little jealous. His father never taught him how to live. He only made a lot of demands on him and waited for the results to be accepted.
"You don't have to do this." Li Hong said to Changsun Chong from a distance.
Changsun Chong put down his hoe and looked at Li Hong and said: "In the East Palace, all the people in the East Palace are supposed to be bear warriors. I am not a bear warrior, so I should be a tiger and wolf. But in the end, I am not a tiger or wolf, and I am not even an eagle or dog."
superior.
At this time, I should lower my head and act like a cow."
Li Hongdao: "Do you want your sons to leave the barrier of the East Palace? If so, I can help you send them out."
Changsun Chong shook his head and said: "No need, it's always good to have an extra moment of reunion. Relatives who are separated may not be as good as being together after death."
Li Hongdao: "Don't always think about death. You should look forward. Living is meaningful."
Changsun Chong said with a smile: "I can live until now because Your Majesty allows me to live until now, not because the Crown Prince allows me to live for such a long time. If His Majesty thinks that I need to die, I will never survive tomorrow."
Li Hong nodded and said, "This is a true statement. Don't say it again in the future. If you say it too much, I feel bad."
Changsun Chong bowed and said, "Thank you, Prince, for your kindness."
Li Hong shook his head and said, "You don't have to thank me. I brought you some bad news today. Your brother Changsun Jing was accidentally bitten by a poisonous snake when he was crossing Meiling. He died after ineffective treatment."
Changsun Chong had tears in his eyes and looked up at the sky. Tears were rolling in his eyes, but they never fell.
It wasn't until he leaned over and started hoeing that two strings of tears surged down like a river bursting its banks.
Li Hong looked at Changsun Chong in pain, and for some reason his unhappy mood immediately improved, and he took Li Si's hand and went to his study.
Sun Shenxian was discussing with his father in Tai Chi Palace, but he would not be able to return to Prince Ji's Mansion in a short time. Li Si didn't like staying in Tai Chi Palace, so Li Hong had to take her back to the East Palace.
Li Si rummaged around in Li Hong's study for a long time, but she still couldn't find anything that could satisfy her.
Seeing Li Si pick up a fist-sized colorful bronze tripod, Li Hong sighed and said, "That's a Shang tripod."
Li Si threw it on the ground and said, "It's too heavy to play with, and Yun Jin won't like it either.
Don’t you have any good-looking gold here?”
Li Hongdao: "I don't have these things here."
Li Si pulled off Li Hong's sleeves and took a look inside, saying disdainfully: "Aunt Naha will be back soon. If you don't get some money, what will you do if she asks you to pay back the money?"
Li Hong smiled and said: "Just compensate me to her."
Li Si looked at the prince's brother with disdain and said, "What do I want you to do?"
Li Hong raised his head and looked at the algae roof of the hall, and said slowly: "It's none of your business!"
Li Si said angrily: "Okay, okay, next time you ask me to ask the old gods to see the father, the emperor and the queen, I won't go or help you."
Li Hongdao: "Next time I'll invite you myself."
Li Si was very sensitive. Seeing his brother's gloomy expression, he cautiously came over and said, "Why are you unhappy? Mr. Cui Yao taught me that it is better to laugh than to cry, and to be happy than to be sad. He also said that even if it is heaven,
Even if it collapses, you still have to laugh at the moment when the sky hits your head."
Li Hong asked in confusion: "Why?"
Li Si chuckled and said: "Sir, you will see the blue sky hit the tall people's heads first... Hahaha."
This joke is not funny at all to Li Hong, because he belongs to the tall type of people, especially in front of Li Si, when the sky is about to fall, even if he has a hundred ways to escape,
As long as Li Si didn't run away, he could only hold on and let the sky smash him.
After asking the kitchen to prepare a bunch of delicious food for Li Si, Li Hong began to study the map alone. This was a map of Longyou. There was a red line marked on the map. Now the end of the red line is Ganzhou in Longyou.
The governor of Ganzhou was named Zhang Yuan, and his nickname was Hou Ting. There were two Zhechong Prefectures in Ganzhou, one in the south and one in the north. Ganzhou people used to call them Nanya and Beiya. The two Zhechong Prefectures were reorganized, plus Ganzhou.
The prefecture's local government troops who can be recruited at any time total 12,000 soldiers and horses, which is equal to the number of soldiers and horses of one of the sixteen guards of the capital.
Zhangye is rich in water and grass and is a land of plenty on the Hexi Corridor. However, there is a disadvantage. There is an opening here called Biandukou. Passing through Biandukou and taking Menyuan, you will reach Qinghai.
Everything is relative. You can reach Qinghai from Ganzhou via Biandukou, and you can naturally reach Ganzhou from Qinghai.
In Qinghai today, the country of Tuyuhun has ceased to exist in name only. Sun Zai Xu Jingye, who was expelled from his home by the British Duke, is now burning, killing and looting in the land of Qinghai. He does all kinds of evil and almost forced King Tuyuhun and the two princesses sent by the Tang Dynasty to marry.
There is almost no place to stand.
Even though Yunchu once told Li Hong the significance of Xu Jingye's occupation of Tuyuhun to the Tang Dynasty, Li Hong still felt strongly unhappy.
Datang needed a group of people who could defeat the air plague on the plateau and attack higher places.
Such people are not born, they can only be cultivated slowly. When there are more Tang people in Qinghai, they will no longer be able to take the upper hand when facing the Tubo people.
Li Hong always felt that his father was raising a tiger to make trouble, that the Ying Gong was secretly cultivating the family's strength, and that his master Yunchu might have underestimated Xu Jingye.
Now, the master is about to lead the largest caravan in the world through Ganzhou. God knows if Xu Jingye has evil intentions and launches an attack on the caravan led by the master.
In the past few years, the number of troops under Xu Jingye's command has exceeded 50,000. Although they have never harassed Ganzhou from beginning to end, Li Hong feels that how much control Xu Jingye has over a group of extremely vicious gangsters.
It remains to be discussed.
Li Hong learned from his master Yunchu about the evaluation of Xu Jingye by Li Ji, and also knew that Li Ji had set fire to the mountain to burn Xu Jingye to death.
Li Hong still respected the heroic father Li Ji very much. It was this old commander who helped his father through the most difficult days in his life.
However, between the country and the family, Li Hong thinks that the master is right. Xu Jingye is a ruthless and unjust person. He is capable of sacrificing the whole family for power and status.
After carefully studying Xu Jingye's connection with Ganzhou and the master's caravan, Li Hong believed that there was an 80% chance that the caravan led by the master would be attacked from Qinghai.
Xu Jingye can just stay still, he only needs to send some puppets to harass the master's caravan.
As long as these people find out the truth about the master, this guy might launch a large army to raid the caravan.
Li Hong believed that he should be prepared in advance. If the master became careless and was successfully attacked by Xu Jingye, he should prepare a retreat for the master early.
But, where should we start? Li Hong thought for a long time, but couldn't come up with any good solution, so he decided to discuss it with Di Renjie.
So, Li Hong took the well-fed Li Si out of the East Palace and went straight to the Yamen of Dali Temple.
Li Si felt that Di Renjie's place was much better than the prince's brother's study, especially the various torture instruments hanging on the wall. Just look at the mottled and dried blood on the torture instruments, and you would know how many people these things had harmed.
Li Si took a leather whip and whipped it on the table. Although the noise was very loud, it still did not delay Li Hong's discussion with Di Renjie.
"Your Highness, don't worry, Yunchu will not suffer the backlash from Xu Jingye."
"Backlash? Why do you use this term? Could it be that Xu Jingye is actually a puppet controlled by his master?"
Seeing that his words aroused the prince's interest, Di Renjie smiled and said: "Back then, after Zhang Jianzhi was defeated by Xu Jingye in Tyuhun, he returned to Chang'an and wanted to seek an official position. As a result, he was rejected by us.
Blocked Zhang Jianshang's way forward.
So, Zhang Jian returned to Tyuhun in anger and now became the mastermind of Xu Jingye's subordinates."
Li Hong snorted and said, "Does this plotter mean to murder Xu Jingye?
Xu Jingye has the help of Ying Gong behind him, can Zhang Jianzhi manage the complicated environment in Tyuhun?"
Di Renjie said quietly: "Zhang Jianzhi has the talent of being a prime minister and an assistant."
Li Hong said in confusion: "You also know that now is the time when I am thirsty for talents, but you have sent a talented prime minister and assistant to the rebel army?"
Di Renjie shook his head and said: "Zhang Jianzhi has a strong heart and real abilities, but he is also a hawk-like figure, and the prince cannot control him yet.
I have discussed with Yun Chu and we agreed that Zhang Jianzhi is a person who can be entrusted with important tasks, but after using this person, he must be discarded immediately, otherwise he will breed tigers and become a problem."
Li Hong's eyes began to light up, and he looked at the wolf with eagle eyes. He was talking about Sima Yi. Could it be that there is really a person in this world who can rival Sima Yi?
When Di Renjie saw that Li Hong was interested in talents, he smiled and said: "Your Highness, you don't have to worry about this Zhang Jianzhi. We have a lot of talents in the Tang Dynasty, and with Your Highness, we have not yet reached the point of using such dangerous people.
I have already found a talented person for Your Highness, and as long as this person enters the East Palace as a guest, Your Highness will not have to worry about the matters of the East Palace."
Li Hong said happily: "Where is he? What is his name?"
Di Renjie smiled and said: "Lou Shide, Lou Shide, a new scholar in the second year of Xianqing's reign, is a man of literary and military skills. He can be regarded as an immediate choice."
When Li Hong heard that he was a new Jinshi or a Jinshi who was still observing politics in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, he was disappointed and said: "Who said he is a talented person?"
Di Renjie smiled and said: "Your master Yun Chu, although we don't know where his confidence comes from, he categorically said that this person is a temporary choice. When we refuted him, he spat at us and turned back.
, this is the first time that I have seen Yun Chu so confident."