When Li Longji's team was about to return to the capital, it was getting closer and closer to the New Year.
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, who wanted to go to the capital for a rest, had to separate from the big team ahead of time on the road and head towards Jilizhou with the fastest speed.
Also traveling with him was Li Shaogu, the person with the highest Khitan status in name.
Li Shaogu did not follow Zhang Xiaobao voluntarily. He counted the days and found that even if he went back, he would not be able to catch up with the Chinese New Year. Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan could return to Jilizhou on the twenty-eighth or twenty-ninth lunar month. He thought again. If you go by land, you will inevitably have to travel on the road that year.
But he couldn't hold back Zhang Xiaobao's invitation. Zhang Xiaobao said "Jilizhou military and civilians invite you to spend the Spring Festival together to enhance exchanges between the two places", Wang Juan said "should not harm the good wishes of the people", and Li Shaogu had to go.
He is afraid of giving Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan an excuse to send troops. He who has seen the power of pistols knows very well that once the Songmo Governor’s Mansion and Jilizhou are at war, unless they do not engage in short-term combat, the people on his side will follow Jiamaizi. The same, one stubble falls down.
Rather than short-handedly, it was just in line with Wang Juan's combat style, Qingqi came and went like wind.
Although it can be said repeatedly that Wang Juan’s method of warfare is wrong, he always has the chance to win with the odds. This method of war will not last long, but who dares to use such a reason to prove that he can force Wang Juan to fight the battlefield. To hedge against you
Li Shaogu just wanted to see in person how the development of Jilizhou was. They all said that Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were very good at building the place.
The fleet sailed along the water and sailed fast. The days of Beckham and others were as fulfilling as usual, playing games, studying, listening to stories, sleeping, and eating.
Xiaobei, who has been promoted to the fifth-rank official, has to come out every day to let people see her beautiful clothes to prove that her fifth-rank official goods are genuine. A goldfish bag is hung on the waist and a silver fish bag at the same time. The bag is allowed by Li Longji, and it can be worn if the grade is not enough.
Seeing that when he reached the estuary, Zhang Gang, who rarely took the initiative to find Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, came to look for him, who was the son of Qianghu.
Zhang Fang followed him, and Zhang Fang looked very shy and a little scared.
"You two haven't slept?" Wang Juan, who was discussing with Zhang Xiaobao about organizing activities in Jilizhou for the New Year, asked Wang Juan, who was going to arrange for the pigeons first to see the two children and pulled one into his arms.
Zhang Fang was silent, and buried his head in Wang Juan's arms. Zhang Gang plucked up the courage and said, "Sister Juan Juan, I want to ask, is it true that people with powerful weapons are powerful."
Hearing what Zhang Gang asked, Wang Juan was stunned for a moment and turned to look at Zhang Xiaobao.
Zhang Xiaobao came over, touched the little guy’s head, and said, “It depends on what weapon, as long as the weapon can’t destroy the race at one time, it may not be powerful. Beat him without a pistol.
Weapons are dead, and people are alive. Don’t always think about fighting. Those who are good at war have nothing to do with them. They are the most powerful generals. "
"Is it just like Sister Juanjuan now? Even if she doesn't hit people anymore, others are afraid. Is that older brother or Sister Juanjuan?" Zhang Gang is now more sensible, and he is thinking about what he will do when he takes over as the patriarch. The thing, this is the result that Beckham always instilled in him.
Zhang Xiaobao was silent this time. He didn't want to let the little guy come into contact with the darkness of human nature prematurely now, the older one.
Wang Juan took the words and said, "No one is the most powerful. You can only see who is more suitable. Now your brother Xiaobao is the most suitable. Will you recite the Dao De Jing? Your brother Xiaobao is now war-fighting, very wary, war may not be necessary. Force must be used, and force is only a guarantee and a deterrent."
Now the little guy can't understand. Isn't fighting a killing? Why did it become a fight without a fight
In order to make him understand as much as possible, Zhang Xiaobao asked: "Who is the best when you are together?"
"Xiaobei!" the two little guys replied at the same time.
"Why?" Zhang Xiaobao asked again.
"She can let others stand with her, and whoever provokes her, she will let others not play with him." Xiao Gang has a deep understanding.
"Then did she hit you?"
"No."
"This is what the Art of War refers to, attacking one domain with other domains, and begging for one person with others. Go back and think about how to deal with this situation."
"Okay, Brother Xiaobao, you must not tell Xiaobei, otherwise she should know in advance, she is very good."
"Well, Lagoo."
"Pull... Hook... Up... Hang... For a hundred years... No change..."
Watching the two little guys leave one after another, Wang Juan shook his head helplessly: "Xiaobao, do you think we taught them too much? I don't know if it is good or bad."
"Who stipulates that childhood can only be ignorant? As long as they are happy, it is enough to maintain the tranquility of kind people. Someone needs to choose conspiracy. There are always people who do evil. How to choose depends on their own development. , A soldier who has fallen without a fight can be used for the Chinese New Year this year."
Zhang Xiaobao looked towards the cabin where Li Shaogu was and said.
Li Shaogu didn't know that anyone was thinking about him at this moment. He actually didn't need to know. Now he can be said to be restless, and he wants to know as much as possible about Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan when he is traveling with the boat.
It turns out that the more he understands, the more he can’t understand. He has seen Xiaohai teach arithmetic to his younger brothers and sisters. The things he said sounded strenuous, but Xiaohai was very relaxed when he spoke. He asked Xiaohai. Do you know a lot, but Xiao Hai's words scared him.
At that time Xiaohai told him, "The more you know, the more you will find yourself ignorant. When you can calculate the end of the sea, there will be stars."
Li Shaogu was shocked by the thoughts of the little guys, and also by the age of the little guys. There are so many people with such a little understanding. No matter how big they are, wouldn’t it be that there will be a lot of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan? Isn't that enough? Khitan could not find such a baby.
"Come here." When Li Shaogu was taking a nap, after being frightened into a cold sweat by the things in his dream, he didn't care to wipe it, and shouted at the outside of the cabin.
The person responsible for protecting him opened the door and said respectfully: "Master, the little one is here."
"Can you get in touch with the Dudufu Palace?" Li Shaogu dreamed that one day countless troops in the Tang Dynasty would slaughter Khitans with artillery like Jilizhou gunboats and pistols they saw on the road. After being frightened, he woke up. I remembered the situation in the Dudu's Mansion.
"I've been in touch, and I'm about to tell you that it's a good time over there, and Jilizhou has sent a lot of things, including oil, salt, and silk, and taught the local kang. Money, and a lot of grain, sold to people in the capital at a very low price."
The guard told Li Shaogu what he had just learned.
Picking up a glass of water, Li Shaogu poured it vigorously. Only then did he feel that his throat was not so dry. He wiped his sweat again and asked, "What request can Jilizhou make?"
"no."
"Okay, let's go out." Li Shaogu rubbed his head, watched the door closed, and muttered to himself: "What do Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan want to do? Are they really kind to help the Dudufu's people? Be careful, never mind. Be careful. You are too strong, and the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is finally unable to bear it. Now he has sent Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan over, and I hope you can still deal with it."
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In Songmo’s governor’s mansion, I can suddenly and wonder. Jilizhou has recently sent a lot of things. Except for food sold at very low prices, the others are all free of money. There are medicines for curing diseases and some from the sea. Dry goods, as well as cloth for making clothes, although the silk looks a bit close and there are still broken places, but after all, it can be used for making things, and it can be used as money.
Could it be that Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan are afraid of themselves? It seemed impossible. The 130,000 people and 10,000 soldiers in Pingjili State said that they were afraid of themselves, so they might as well expect the sun to come out to the west.
The price of food is too cheap. It is so cheap that you can exchange it for half a month's worth of food with a better fur. It is so cheap that the food you grow here consumes more manpower than hunting.
Be careful, don't let them drag the people from the Dudu Mansion to Jilizhou.
Thinking of this, Ke Yu suddenly shouted to the outside, "Come, tell people who know that everything is sent from Jili State, and they are not allowed to announce it."
When the people outside agreed, he looked at the bow hanging on the wall and shouted again: "Tell the person in charge that you don’t have to worry about farming after the New Year. Let people practice martial arts diligently. They will hunt for me and use prey. In exchange for more things."
After someone outside responded again, he suddenly murmured: "Zhang Xiaobao, Wang Juan, no matter what your plans are, and no matter how good you are, if you meet me, you won’t be thinking about me. Benefits are obtained here, huh!"
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When the fleet of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan arrived at the port of Jilizhou on the evening of the twenty-seventh lunar month, the affairs of Songmo Dudu Mansion also spread to the capital, and the letters written by Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan also followed.
When Li Longji watched the people in the palace manage the New Year's affairs, he first got the situation of Songmo Dudu Mansion and called Gao Lishi to his side.
"Luxury, do you know how Xiaobao and Juanjuan are planning?"
At this moment, Gao Lishi just received the letter from the pigeon. He just read it and quickly replied to Li Longji: "Your Majesty, the letter from Xiaobao and the cuckoo has arrived. Let's talk about this."
"Tell me." Li Longji really couldn't figure out what benefit would Zhang Xiaobao and Zhang Xiaobao provide so many things for Songmo Dudu Mansion? Isn't this using his own money to raise thieves
"In response to your Majesty, Xiaobaoxin said that after the annual meeting, a large amount of land will be rented in Songmo Dudu Mansion to grow Bai Diezi. Then the local people will take care of it. After the harvest, a catty of Bai Diezi will be taken care of. It can be exchanged for Lizhou ten catties of rice or white noodles. As long as the person who grows Baidizi, the prey that he hunts can also be exchanged for a lot of vegetable oil and salt."
Gao Lishi replied, without having to ask Li Longji, and then went on to talk.
"Your Majesty, sending good things to Songmo Dudu Mansion a year ago was the third link of the chain, so that the people of Dudu Mansion were used to using good things and living on the warm Kang, knowing that the things in Jilizhou are better than the Dudu Mansion where they are. The government is better.
After the new year is the fourth ring, rice is cheap and no one grows grain, and if oil is low, no one grows beans. Planting white piles can be used for farming. You can provide grain monthly and harvest leather to train the people, so that the people will be wild. Diezi is harvested in winter, and if it is not replaced with it, the people will be angry and militant, and will be forced to go to war.
War, the Jili state army has been completed, use the Khitan to train troops, as an excuse to attack, if you don’t fight, you will lose the heart of the people, the people will be unstable, and there will be no food. State. "
Li Longji listened quietly. With good concentration, he was frightened by Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan's plan after all, cold sweat oozing out of his forehead.
When Gao Lishi finished speaking, he said: "So, Xiaobao and Juanjuan want to use their own food to dispel the minds of the people in the Songmo Dudu Mansion to farm, consume their land, let them fight more beasts and make the people brave. When Bai Diezi came out, the food was cut off, forcing them to fight
With 10,000 soldiers in Jili State, plus good weapons, they can’t be beaten suddenly. Don’t think of a stable position if you don’t want to hit him. Unless he uses the army to suppress it, this plan came from Xiaobao, and I can see it. Little Treasure is more ruthless than Cuckoo Cuckoo, Cuckoo Cuckoo will be handsome, only using soldiers, Xiao Bao is the one who kills people without seeing blood.
Hey... Thanks to Zhang Wang's family being my Datang people, if I change the country, how can my Datang have a peaceful day? This matter should not be spread outside. I am waiting for Xiaobao and Juanjuan to sort out the northern part of Hebei Province to me, and we will definitely reward them again. "
"The minister understands, your majesty, just now that the minister knew that someone had impeached Xiaobao and the cuckoo, saying that the two of them produced salt but not civil affairs, and that they were used up to build the lake, only to be played by the Yushitai after a few years."
Gao Lishi agreed and said one more thing.
"Suppress, all impeachment of King Zhang's family will be suppressed." Li Longji said with a sinking face.