Song Liyun stayed in the Guard Mansion for another day to learn housekeeping skills from Mrs. Guard. In the evening, Zhao Tingduo entered the gate dusty.
Ever since he received the news about the homing pigeon, he has been on the road without stopping. He traveled across hundreds of miles of Gobi Desert to pick up the pigeon without rest for a whole day.
Seeing him, Song Liyun seemed to see a giant Buddha, and was so excited that tears filled her eyes.
My head hurts from being talked about by Mrs. Guard all day long, talking about female workers and female celebrities, wives and mothers, and I almost asked her to write about women's virtues and women's precepts.
Zhao Tingduo hugged Song Liyun tightly and threw herself into his arms with tears streaming down her face.
He just felt so tender and sweet in his heart that he wished time could stop at this moment.
I miss Ayun every day, and Ayun is nothing like this. After being apart for half a month, I feel like I miss her like a disease.
The two of them ignored the affection and affection of others, and had already shocked the guarding lady who came out to be dumbfounded. This... all the training they had received all day long was in vain!
The maids and servants around him lowered their heads in shame, but kept glancing at her.
It was Zhao Tinlei who relieved the embarrassment: "Ahem, Third Brother! Your horse has run away!"
Mrs. Guard had already prepared a family dinner, and the atmosphere was warm.
Brothers Zhao Tingduo and Zhao Tinglei were chatting and laughing happily.
Mrs. Guard also put on a smile and asked Zhao Tingduo about his life in detail, and then asked the maid to put the carefully cooked mutton soup into his bowl without mentioning any etiquette rules.
In the evening, Zhao Tingduo finally enjoyed Song Liyun's service. He undressed and took off his belt, and took a bath.
These are what Mrs. Guard said a wife should do for her husband.
Now Song Liyun.
The two of them got tired of each other, and eventually Song Liyun also rolled into the tub, and the hot water overflowed all over the floor...
Wait until daybreak the next day,
Mrs. Guard also said that as a wife, she should get up earlier than her husband and prepare hot water earlier.
That's right. Ah Shi worked hard on the road during the day and hard at night. You should prepare a breakfast for him as a reward!
She wanted to get up, but someone didn't want to.
Then he pushed an arm away from his chest, put a thigh on his belly, and his whole body was still tightly hugged.
A sleepy male voice whispered in his ear: Ayun, it's still early, let's sleep a little longer!
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Xia Shiguan is built in the mountains. The city is more than two feet high and one foot thick. It is made of large pieces of bluestone.
Like a gate, with its majestic appearance, it blocked the Di cavalry from the densely populated villages of the Wu Dynasty.
This was Song Liyun's first time out of the customs. Zhao Tingduo accompanied her through the customs wall, pointed to the vast desert in the northwest and said: "Ayun, the road we can measure is this way, but we need to cross the Gobi Desert, which is the most difficult.
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Zhao Tinglei said before that when Zhao Tingduo wanted to capture the Mida Valley, he was unable to get the Zhenbei Army to come out to help. This was because Hecheng Xia Shiguan went to the middle of the Mida Valley to remove pastures and still carried a few pieces of Gobi.
The yellow sand of the Gobi Desert makes it impossible for a horse to gallop and hide in the face of an enemy attack.
Moreover, these places lack water resources, making it difficult for large groups of people to stay for a long time.
Now Zhao Tingduo is running back and forth in the middle, trying to find a suitable water source for the camp and build a rest stop to provide fresh water and fodder for the caravans that will walk there in the future.
It's April now, and the cold wind blows hard on my face. It's not as biting but still sharp.
Song Liyun was wrapped in a turban and looked at the Gobi Desert with only exposed eyes.
In the garrison, after several people discussed it, we decided to open the mall as soon as possible.
Together with the new city, it will definitely be like a shining pearl, attracting tribes from all over to come and trade. In this way, the commerce and trade in the whole city will be more developed.
Whether it is taxation or the crackdown on smuggling traders in the Dilu tribe will also be more focused.
Mida Valley has a special status, being located in the middle of the grassland and surrounded by many tribes.
As long as the Wu Dynasty's Zhenbei Army stands firm here, it will be like setting up a springboard in front of the Di Clan's imperial court.
The benefits are self-evident, otherwise Zhao Tinglei and Zhao Tingduo would not have planned this matter early.
But before you can see the benefits, there is one more crucial thing.
silver!
After the new emperor ascended the throne, the Zhenbei Army has no longer been deprived of military pay. However, the weapons and armor have suffered serious losses in the past twenty years, and it will take time and a lot of money to replace them.
The Zhenbei Army was not wealthy.
Building a rest stop, even if it is dug into a hole in the ground, where people live and eat horse chews, still costs money.
With the personal abilities of the Wuda tribe and Song Liyun, they could only build an empty city with walls.
The buildings inside still need to be added slowly, and we cannot afford the cost of a rest stop.
Zhao Tinglei has already written to the court as soon as possible, requesting an increase in the number of Zhenbei Army troops stationed in Yunzhou and an increase in military resources to cope with the plundering of the Di Clan Royal Court.
But with the red tape in the imperial court and the speed at which the palace discussions are going on, I don’t know how long it will take for this to happen.
People always have ideas, and there are many capable people in the Zhenbei Army.
The Zhao Tinglei brothers had discussed privately to prospect for minerals in the Mida Valley area.
Zhao Tinglei had inspected gold mines in Broken Gold Town before. The Dilu Grassland is large enough and the Mida River Valley is long enough. As long as you search carefully, you can always find one or two places.
You can also find jade and agate in the Gobi Desert, which are sold for military supplies.
This is a good thing for the Zhenbei Army.
As for the troops used for protection.
The result of everyone's discussion was just as Song Liyun thought. The Zhenbei Army could not send troops openly, but it could change its uniform.
With the goal of Mida New City, each rest stop is a military station, with a small station at twenty miles, a large station at fifty miles, a small team of ten people, and a large team of fifty people.
After hundreds of miles of journey, there is a serpentine formation of several hundred people, plus the 400 people from Leizi Camp, Zhao Tingduo can mobilize thousands of troops...
Song Liyun's group was not large, with more than a dozen people in five carriages.
In addition to Zhao Tingduo and Wu Dan riding horses, Yu Lao, who was in charge of prospecting, rode a carriage, carrying food, water and refined beans for the horses.
Accompanying him were fifteen elite soldiers selected by Zhao Tinlei personally and dressed as guards.
Song Liyun's space cannot be used when outsiders are present.
The route from Hecheng to Mida New City was planned early. Song Erlang and Lin Qingyuan were there to transport building materials last year, leaving a rut in the desert.
Wu Dan ran ahead with a bow on his back. The small bow was replaced by a large bow, which Zhao Tingduo rewarded him with.
Knowing that Wu Dan had killed two Jie Dao men on the road, Zhao Tingduo praised him profusely and gave him his commonly used longbow.
From Song Liyun's words, Zhao Tingduo learned the reason for the chaos in Mida New City these days.
A few days ago, he was in Mida New City. Although the chaos on the construction site had subsided, the atmosphere still felt wrong, and he could not find the root cause.
Ask Song Erlang.
Song Erlang looked embarrassed. Although the people from Qingping Town who came with him were furious, they found it hard to speak.
Although Zhao Tingduo has the blood of the Wu Dynasty, he grew up in a grassland military camp and has a straightforward personality. He is very tired of these people's intrigues.
Zhao Tingduo knew that there was a group of people named Xia who behaved particularly arrogantly and bossed around the migrant workers from Qingping Town when they first arrived.
Song Erlang still had a lot of protection, which made the migrant workers so angry.
Now I know that just because it was the Xia family who married their sister to Song Dekui, they considered themselves a relative of the young lady.
The migrant workers in Qingping Town were worried that Zhao Tingduo would also recognize his relatives, so they dared not say anything.
After understanding the whole story, Zhao Tingduo felt extremely speechless and only said two words: "It's ridiculous!"
Now that Xia Hong has died at the hands of Song Liyun, the group of Xia family tenants have no need to show mercy.
They should be punished, for Song Erlang's sake, let them live.