42. I planted a seed in spring, and now autumn is here
"It feels like the changes here really aren't that big..."
Looking at the street where he still had some impressions, Li Shushi sighed like this, although Lu Bu next to him looked curious.
Indeed, compared with the ever-changing Bingzhou, the county seat of Shanggui has not changed much since Li Shushi arrived a few years ago. Obviously, only a few years are not enough to make up for the impact of the previous large-scale wars.
Of course, if we have to say that there have been some visible changes here, we really can’t say that there haven’t been any, such as:
“Ramen noodle, freshly made ramen noodle~ fragrant and delicious ramen noodle~~~”
There were many similar sounds soliciting customers. At least Li Shushi could see at a glance that waiters from five or six shops were standing on both sides of the street shouting. The fragrance that spread to the street from time to time seemed to strongly confirm that they were there.
statement.
A few large pots, a few tables, a few benches, and some large stoneware bowls. This kind of street shop obviously doesn't need to be very particular, but the business in each small shop is pretty good, with three or five people.
They gathered around a table and ate hot noodles of varying widths while talking loudly or in a low voice. They didn't care even if the noodle soup splashed on their beards or clothes.
If you look more carefully, you may be able to see more clues - for example, which one has a little more money, because their pottery bowl usually has a small pot of turbid wine and a small shallow dish under it.
Although the food and wine are nothing more than pickled radish, pickled wild vegetables, etc., even a small dish of spicy chili is a rare seasoning.
Just like happiness, doesn't that feeling come from being just a little bit more than the people around you?
Then those who are content can always be happy.
And from the density of this kind of shops, it is not difficult to guess that there will definitely be no shortage of such small shops in other places. Therefore, the Tangtang Shanggui County seems to have quickly turned into a city of ramen after Li Shushi left.
Well, even the most stupid person will know who caused this change after seeing all this. After all, Li Shushi's family banquet is a repertoire used to reward loyal and hard-working subordinates, and it is still well received until now.
Of course, Li Shushi did not intend to stay in Shanggui County for too long, because his goal was not here.
In fact, if it weren't for Li Shushi's bad taste of revisiting his old place, they could have gone straight to their destination at this time.
Yes, that is Jiangjia Village on the outskirts of Shanggui, which once had a close relationship with Li Shushi. No, maybe it can be called Jiangjia Village now, because thanks to Li Shushi, their family's strength has expanded a lot, and it has now developed into Shanggui County
The leading powerful family, even compared with the originally powerful Shanggui Zhao family, is not far behind in strength. The only gap may be the problem of insufficient foundation caused by its rise in a short period of time, but this is obviously not a generation.
Things that can be reversed.
Naturally, although the land near Jiangjia Village is not completely assigned to the Jiang family, it is already within the Jiang family's sphere of influence. At the same time, the Jiang family can also occupy the most fertile farmland and precious water sources sufficient to irrigate the farmland.
It's just that Li Shushi is a little regretful that his trip to Jiangjia Village did not go very smoothly - this is not to say that they were made things difficult or despised by the increasingly powerful Jiang family. In fact, although they still disguised themselves as a group of people from Jiangjia Village,
mercenaries from Xihe, but the head of the Jiang family, Jiang Zhen, still warmly received their team of more than a thousand people. Apparently, the Jiang family did not forget so quickly what Li Shushi's "mercenary group" had done to the family's development.
Expand the help provided.
Unfortunately, things ended there. In the end, Jiang Zhen politely refused Li Shushi's proposal to recruit some volunteers to follow him to the Western Regions to make a big deal. In fact, Li Shushi could understand the other person's thoughts.
——The elite members of the clan were sent by Jiang Zhen to the next head of the family, Jiang Xu, who had returned to work in Ji County as the seat of Hanyang County. Although there was no shortage of capable people in the clan, they were not many in number and were ultimately outnumbered in strength.
The ones around Jiang Xu were still a little worse.
The strength of Li Shushi's mercenary group is very clear to the old and young in Jiangjia Village. It can be said that the strength of the private soldiers in Jiangjia Village is very different from that of the original private soldiers in Jiangjia Village. Without the training methods provided by the other party, the Jiang family would be afraid.
The combat effectiveness of private soldiers is still at the top
The place of Qiu ranked low. But now even Li Shushi is a little unsure. The battle he hopes to get support must be extremely dangerous, so even though many young people in the clan are eager to try it, Jiang Zhen still doesn't dare to take this risk.
Li Shushi, who originally had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, should not need to care about these private soldiers of the Jiang family. However, during the journey, Jia Xu still suggested that Li Shushi bring some forces that he recognized or wanted to make friends with. This was not for the purpose of increasing combat power.
It's because the Western Regions, which are somewhat useless to the princes of the Central Plains, may be very different for Li Shushi - if Li Shushi does not intend to change his original idea, then it is quite important to give away part of the benefits in exchange for some stakeholders.
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What's more, the current princes of the Central Plains may not realize the terrifying wealth-absorbing ability of the Silk Road, but Li Shushi, who understands past history, will never make a mistake on this point - Europeans were blocked by the Ottomans precisely because of this passage.
It ushered in the Age of Discovery that changed the world, and because this passage ensured that the Arabs had military strength and an equally splendid civilization that made Europeans gnash their teeth, even if they did not have enough farmland.
Perhaps Li Shushi could not fully grasp all the wealth that could be created along this route, but Li Shushi, who was actually preparing to control the Western Regions for a long time, needed enough supporters to support this trade route, because silk, tea and ceramics were the strongest industries in ancient China.
The gold-absorbing commodities are not within his control area, so it is obviously easier for the caravans of powerful people to obtain enough commodities for him than for him who has a conspicuous position.
Moreover, the profits of this trade route may not be enough to make the Central Plains dynasty excited, but for local powerful people, it is very different. Even the rise of a family can completely benefit from this place.
Of course, risks and returns are often directly proportional. Jiang Zhen, who is already quite satisfied with his current status, is not willing to pay such a huge risk investment, so Li Shushi will not force it, but the price he will have to pay if he wants to join in in the future.
It's definitely not as simple as today, although it seems that the price to be paid now is not small.
After hastily bidding farewell to the reluctant Jiang Zhen and the people of Jiangjia Village, Li Shushi's troops quickly arrived at Jixian County, which is the seat of Hanyang County. Here, Yan Gu, the son of Yan Zhong, the current head of the Yan family, is waiting for his arrival.
But to Li Shushi's expectation, he unexpectedly met an old friend before meeting Yan Gu.
Well, we can probably be considered old friends...
"Who is coming? Do you have a road guide issued by the government? Otherwise, we will treat you as someone with evil intentions."
What appeared in front of him was a combination that made Li Shushi feel a little weird - a group of people who looked like farmers and a group of people who looked like local county soldiers. There were also many foreigners mixed in and walking together, and they were crowding together.
There were several men who were also covered in dust and looked a little embarrassed, but a little more elegant. Especially the one who was clustered in the center, his face was majestic but kind, and his square face made people feel...
I feel quite good in my heart.
The one who spoke was one of the foreigners dressed as county soldiers. Although his appearance was not much different from that of the Han people, the Luoyang Mandarin was not like Luoyang Mandarin, and the Northwest dialect was not like the Northwest dialect. Li Shushi understood it really well.
A little bit difficult.
Although he could not understand the other party's meaning very well, Li Shushi still ordered his team to stop. At the same time, the other party seemed to immediately put up a defensive posture, which also made the Chinese character face who was originally discussing something with his subordinates
The man stopped his discussion and turned his attention to Li Shushi, with an obviously questioning look in his eyes.
"Looking at your clothes, you should be the soldiers and horses of the imperial court. Are you here to perform some official duties?"
The man with the Chinese character saluted Li Shu. His face was neither humble nor arrogant. After all, there were not many large armies wandering around the borders of Xiliang - the total would not exceed the Xiliang army, Han Sui army, foreign troops, powerful private armies or horse thieves.
These categories. Just obey
Decorating the latter three types can basically be ruled out, and because there are Huns (Yelida and his soldiers) in Li Shushi's army, the possibility of Han Sui's army is not too great. In comparison, Dong Zhuo
The possibility of the troops under his command is very high.
In fact, the news that the emperor was moved to Chang'an by Dong Zhuo has reached here. Although this news makes many "people of insight" sigh, it does not have much impact on ordinary people. Besides, even if there is no such news
Niu Fu's troops were originally deployed in the Mianchi area and arrived in Chang'an before that, so the other party's guess was not too far-fetched.
"I am going to the Western Regions with His Majesty's orders to fight against the Xianbei people's conspiracy. I am passing through this place intending to recruit some warriors."
While Li Shushi was speaking half-truths, he stared at the Chinese-character face opposite him. No matter how he looked at it, he felt that this face seemed very familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere, but it happened to him.
I just can't remember it.
Perhaps the other party had a similar feeling to Li Shushi, frowning as if he was hesitant to speak.
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What happened to this sudden silence? Could it be that the author suddenly had a brain cramp and forgot the words?
"How is it possible..." "Yes, yes..."
Of course, the above is completely impossible.
The real situation is: since the bosses of both parties seemed to be deep in thought, and it seemed difficult for others to interrupt, the two parties suddenly fell into a cold situation.
Of course, except for the two masters who ruined the atmosphere, even they didn't know what to say. However, the Chinese-character face opposite them laughed happily as if they suddenly realized something.
"Your Excellency must be Li Xue and Li Shushi. It's surprising how much you have changed after not seeing you for several years."
However, Li Shushi found that although the other party seemed to be talking to him, his eyes did not seem to be on any part of his body.
Well, I don’t know when Su Xiaololi poked her little head out from behind Li Shushi.
This guy...
Li Shushi didn't know how she should feel at this moment - whether she could finally be the protagonist of a YY novel and bully those bad sidekicks who molested beauties, or whether she could finally have the opportunity to try the fun of molesting bad boys.
, or maybe finally have the opportunity to legitimately rob those bad elements.
If there hadn't been the next sentence of Guozi Lian, maybe the plot would have developed like this... Probably...
PS: "Give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death." On this day in 1775, Patrick Henry shouted such a sentence, so the thirteen colonies that originally had different ideas had a common goal.
It has also become the legislative basis of a country.
Of course, it is debatable whether this sentence is applicable to all countries, but it cannot be denied that in every turbulent era, there will be one or two aphorisms, speeches, and poems that guide people forward.
, such as "I Have a Dream", is not as good as the Marseillaise and the March of the Volunteers, such as the birth of the "Quran".
PS2: Today is the day when the famous late Qing general Feng Zicai defeated the French army at Zhennanguan. I think the high school history textbook has already analyzed the significance of this battle very clearly. I won’t say more here. I just want to commemorate this old general.
, he has done everything he can, and the remaining humiliations can only further reflect the incompetence of Wanqing's upper echelons, and also reflect the difficulty of Feng Zicai who commanded this battle.
PS3: Today is also the day when US President Reagan proposed the "Strategic Defense Initiative" plan. Of course, this initiative actually has a more famous name, that is, the "Star Wars" plan. Through this plan, the United States brought down the former Soviet Union.
However, the United States itself is actually on the verge of collapse. If Clinton had not used financial instruments to bring back a large amount of money at the expense of Britain's development for more than ten years as soon as he came to power, perhaps the world would be in a lot of different situations.
Of course, now that the new Cold War has begun, we seem to have seen the ghost of Star Wars reappearing before our eyes again, such as air and space battles and ultra-high-altitude global aircraft. The United States still seems to be continuing similar actions. As for whether China will
What about becoming the former Soviet Union? A smile.
PSV: Today seems to be the death anniversary of Emperor Jing of Jin Dynasty (posthumous title) Sima Shi. Judging from the title, Sima Yan was much more kind than Sun Quan...
PSP: Finally, let me say a few words about the current hot topic—China-Russia relations.
Although various media are talking about it now, I personally think that this is just a move between the two countries to stay together for warmth when facing a super power. And even if it is to stay together for warmth, the two sides actually have a gun in your hand and a dagger in my hand.
Be on guard against each other.
Not to mention that Russia is originally composed of descendants of the northern grassland peoples, whether they are Turks, Mongolians or the aborigines of the Kipchak grassland. They may be generous and hospitable, but they have the styles of these ethnic groups in their bones, so it is not as good as
As countries develop in a serious way like agriculture and industry, they are better at getting what they need through robbery.
So we see that the construction of oil and gas pipelines between China and Russia has been stagnant for almost 20 years. They would rather sell oil to Japan than to China. So they would rather seize the property of Chinese businessmen through various means than try to find a way.
Let both sides do business in a decent manner. Even though they are looking for people from all over the world to immigrate to them, they are unwilling or dare not let go even a little bit to the Chinese. Why? Afraid, really afraid. What are you afraid of? Let’s go to history by ourselves
Find the book.
China, the United States, and Russia are just like the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu, and Wu, so as the old saying goes, there are no permanent friends, only permanent interests, so if one day you see the leaders of the United States and Russia sitting together to discuss how to deal with Beijing
Please don’t be too surprised.
Of course, under the current circumstances, China and Russia need to hold together for warmth, but I am afraid that this is limited to holding together for warmth. Even the relationship between China and South Africa is worth looking forward to than that between China and Russia.