Winter is coming unstoppably, regardless of human will. As long as it comes in winter, under normal climate conditions, there will always be rain and fog in Chengdu, making it wet and cold, just like the feeling of a house snake wrapped around your body.
, this makes Yunzheng always think of his days in Douchuan.
Today, Zhou Tong, Wu Jie, and Liang Ji came back, bringing back 1,300 war horses. It seemed that the war on the Tubo Plateau was in full swing. Yun Zheng saw that many war horses bore the marks of the battlefield. These were knights.
An ownerless war horse after death in battle.
"A lot of people died!" Yun Zheng patted the front blade of a horse. There was a scar here. It had healed, but it still looked shocking.
Zhou Tong has become much calmer after this experience. He really looks like a military general with his hands behind his back. His back is straight, and his sword is not straddling his waist like a scholar, but is carried on his back. As long as he takes a look
You can chop it down with a long knife, but if you don't master it well, you will cut your own neck.
There is a joke like this: a farmer put a sickle on his neck to harvest rice in the field, but a hare jumped out from under his feet. The farmer was overjoyed and whipped the sickle on his shoulder to hit the rabbit. As a result, his own head was hit by the sickle.
Once it's cut off, it can no longer be beaten into a rabbit.
"What do you want to say? I'm not a farmer, and I don't carry a sickle on my back." Zhou Tong asked Yun Zheng in confusion.
"The reason I tell you this story is not to tell you that you can't hold a sickle, nor to accuse you of carrying a knife on your back. What I want to say is that things are full of accidents, and sometimes you can hurt yourself.
I know what you did at Dousha Pass. To be honest, Zhou Tong, you underestimated Dousha Pass. This time you brought back too many war horses and did things extremely well. You should use force to deal with them.
Yes, but you have to divide the target. People, when you should pretend to be a grandson, you must pretend to be a grandson. This time you forcefully asked the snow mountain barbarians to provide you with war horses, otherwise you will cut off their support. What you did is very unethical.
After following me for so long, haven't you learned to integrate friendship into business?
When your friends are in danger, you must fully support them. Horses are nothing. Originally, I thought it would be great if you could find 800 war horses this time, but you ended up getting 1,300. This is the root of war horses in the future.
ah.
I originally planned to let the snow mountain barbarians gradually adapt to trading seven to eight hundred war horses at a time, and the rest would be used to exchange cowhide, horsetails, sheepskins, and even those weird things made by the barbarians. It doesn't matter, even if you take it back and throw it away, you will get more.
It would be better if you come back with five hundred war horses. Do you know that because of your actions, I specially sent the Liang family caravan to send a large number of cotton-stuffed cotton-padded clothes to the snow mountain barbarians for free as an apology. I hope that the friendship we established before will not be overtaken by these few days.
Hundreds of war horses were destroyed in one blow."
Zhou Tong blushed and argued: "Don't we need war horses?"
Yun Zheng nodded and said: "It is necessary, it is very necessary. The more you act at this time, the more cautious you need to be. The snow mountain barbarians are fighting, and they are even more critical at this time. When doing things, you must take into account the difficulties of your allies."
"Are we allies with those barbarians?" Zhou Tong asked doubtfully.
Yun Zheng clung to Zhou Tong's back and said: "Studying makes you stupid, isn't it? We are soldiers. As long as the interests are suitable, we can be allies with the devil. Now you have to slowly change your thinking from that of a literati to that of a warrior.
The ideological outlook of the Song Dynasty has changed. Why did the civil and military affairs go astray in the Song Dynasty? It is because the two ideas are incompatible. In the final analysis, the disputes between civil and military affairs are also ideological disputes. You can even regard them as high-level conflicts between Confucianism and military strategists.
The fight.”
"Did I do something wrong this time?" Zhou Tong stopped and asked Yun Zheng.
"Everything was right in the front, including dealing with Lai Ba, but I didn't handle it well in the back, like..."
Zhou Tong wrinkled his nose and took a breath of cold, damp air and said: "Now that I think about what I did later, it was indeed like a stupid woman's destiny. Don't say that to me again in the future, or I will fall out."
Yun Zheng nodded and said with a smile: "You didn't kill Lai Ba, which I appreciate very much. You know how to win over the hearts of those mountain people who already have ambitions. Breaking Lai Ba's financial monopoly is equivalent to discounting his
The backbone is to divide the mountain people into five villages and twelve villages. This is simply the finishing touch. Then the control is handed over to the hands of County Magistrate Liu, allowing us to profit from it irreproachably. This is something that many high-ranking officials in the Song Dynasty cannot do.
In short, if you go to Douchuan this time, the advantages will outweigh the disadvantages."
Yun Zheng could hear Zhou Tong let out a long breath and smiled with satisfaction. There is really nothing to criticize for a young man to be able to do this except being eager for success.
"You got the war horses back, so you need to complete the follow-up matters yourself. The person you are dealing with this time is that old fox Fu Bi. They tricked us and paid for a thousand war horses, so we have to
Sending him a thousand war horses is nothing to discuss. At the same time, you also need to send breeding horses to the horse farm on Qinfeng Road. You have done all these things.
I used to deal with those mountain people, horse thieves, and barbarians, but now I have to learn to deal with the high-ranking officials of the Song Dynasty. Fu Bi was teased by me once. You will definitely encounter many difficulties when you go to Qinfeng Road this time. I don't care, you can handle it yourself, I
As long as the racecourse is safe and our manpower is safely deployed into the racecourse, this is very important. The peach trees we plant do not allow others to pick peaches indiscriminately."
"Why me? I just came back and planned to go to Lingxi Pavilion to relax." Zhou Tong pretended to be dissatisfied.
"Because you are my deputy general. You know that Xiao Lin is a spy. He is not a qualified spy at all. We also need a military justice department in the army. It is more suitable for him to do this. Running around here and there is
Should I, the general, still have to deal with the matter of the deputy general?
During the three-day holiday, I don't care if you stay in Lingxi Pavilion or not come out, but on the fourth day you must show up at the military camp on time. If you are not there when it is time to click, I think Xiaolin will be very willing to enforce military law against you."
Su Xun walked out of the house with his hands behind his back and looked at Zhou Tong who was walking in high spirits and said with a smile: "First a scolding, then a sincere speech, then a praise, and finally an important task, this is yours
The way to control your subordinates?"
Yun Zheng sighed and said: "Military law is the most ruthless law in the world. Once it is strictly enforced, there will be no human touch at all. Human love can only appear until the subordinates do not violate the military law. This is a truth. There are many famous generals in ancient times.
That’s why he would target those closest to him to improve military discipline.
Think about it, once the enemy raises his spear, you are ordering your men to rush into the forest of spears. How much courage does this require? It is instinct for people to save their lives and cherish their lives. The function of military discipline is to make soldiers forget their instinct to save their lives.
, once the war starts, even if it is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, you have to rush in when you should. This is against human nature, so there is a saying that kindness does not control the army.
Zhou Tong's temperament is the most out-of-touch, and he is incompatible with the army. It can be seen that he is working hard to correct himself, so I will give him this opportunity. The Song Dynasty will have one less useless scholar and one more warrior. This is what I want to see.
, he likes to be full of glory, and he doesn’t want to live under others for a long time. This is his nature and cannot be changed. He will definitely leave in the future. I hope we can get along well and part ways."
Su Xun nodded and said melancholy: "People's hearts are indeed difficult to fathom. You can prepare in advance. Could it be that the person who replaces Zhou Tong is Wu Jie who was with Zhou Tong at that moment?"
"Yes, Fu Bi, Han Qi and the others have resources at hand that I can't compare to. These people have been staring at us from the beginning. Once Wu Shengjun becomes famous, drawing blood is inevitable. Those people also know that they don't want to destroy
For this future powerful army, taking away my lieutenant is the best choice, but I don’t know who will succeed?"
Yunzheng and Su Xun walked towards the government office through the army that was still training hard in the rain. The long period of hard training has now gradually come to an end. What will start next is the cooperation of various formations. The only choice is to choose
Only the warriors who emerge will become the most mysterious grenadiers in the army. This is a process of selection and integration.
Under the lingering winter rain, Lu Qingqing felt that she had begun to rot. Her husband had been very busy recently, and he was in a hurry when he went home. Not to mention consummating his marriage with Ge Qiuyan, he just put his head on his belly when he saw her.
He went up to listen to the children's rhythm, then tested their knowledge in school, had a meal with the whole family, and then immediately rode back to the military camp.
He has lost a lot of weight, which is also a shame. It breaks his heart that there are more than 40,000 people who have no food or clothing...
"Qiu Yan, Qiu Yan, come here and help me turn over, little insect, go away, you will kill me!" Lu Qingqing scolded the clumsy little insect, and at the same time loudly called to Ge Qiuyan, who was busy at work and liked to do things around.
Ge Qiuyan, this is Lu Qingqing’s bad taste.
Ge Qiuyan, who hurried in, rubbed her hands together to warm them up, then carefully moved Lu Qingqing to a comfortable position for her, then took out a ledger and said, "Madam, all our silk this year has been sold.
But she doesn’t seem to like bacon very much. She always said that she should keep some silk at home and weave silk by herself. She also said that this year the Zheng family and the Liang family sold the brocade they got from Jinguan City at a good price.
All your hard work has been used by others to make money.”
Lu Qingqing took the account book and wrote a red letter on it to express his approval. These accounts can be stored in the warehouse. After hearing Ge Qiuyan's complaint, he said helplessly: "Bacon has been spoiled by the master. She has been doing everything up to her since she was a child."
She had a bad temper. Originally, our family did not have a silk reeling workshop. She said she liked raising silkworms, so her husband bought a mulberry field for her. Once there was a mulberry field, it was necessary to raise silkworms. After raising silkworms, it was necessary to reel the silk. Now
She has begun to weave brocade. There will be a lot of troubles in the future. Just watch, it won’t be long before our family will create a brocade city. My husband doesn’t know what to think of such a big girl. That’s it.
Raised at home and eventually become an old aunt?" (To be continued)