For common people in the market, building a house is a top priority, and erecting beams, which symbolizes the completion of a new house, is also a top priority. Then on the day when a state, county, frontier fortress, city or military town is built, the implication of hanging plaques is equivalent to the raising of beams for ordinary people, so it is of great significance.
Today, the city outside the Liangzhou Pass is the day to hang the plaque. They did not deliberately choose a good day and auspicious day, but when the last main city wall was completely completed, they unanimously passed a resolution to hang the plaque on that day without delay! It's not that the big gang of Beiliang bosses who supervised the construction of the city don't care, it's because the situation is urgent and they don't care about the icing on the cake. Otherwise, the group of civil servants led by Li Gongde, the economic envoy of Beiliang Road, stayed in this place where nothing shits like a bird for nearly a whole year, and almost everyone would eat loess and drink wind and sand with the soldiers and servants every day. With so much effort, wouldn't you want to find an auspicious day to hang that plaque? This kind of deep affection may not be less than that of a daughter getting married.
The construction of this city may be said to be unprecedented. Not only is it larger than Hutou City, the first border city in the northwest, but it also takes less time. "Tiger" consisted of two heavy cavalry armies with more than 9,000 cavalry. Almost all Liangzhou frontier troops participated in the construction of the city in rotation. The number of Beiliang people outside the prefectural customs has been roughly maintained at around a hundred thousand. In history, the so-called construction of a giant city and giant town with the power of the whole country often paid attention to saving people's resources and not delaying farming time. Most of them were "stop in 30 days and quickly build the wall", and then it took several years intermittently to complete the project. The large-scale construction project that almost exhausted the Xu family's wealth in Qingliang Mountain was a feat of breaking the boat and sinking the boat. Only the loess used to build the main wall hollowed out the two hills of Dragon Head and Huwei in the south of the city!
At dawn in the early morning, Li Gongde and Song Changsui, a Mohist who lived next door and served as the deputy envoy of the Mohists, got up early. The Master Economic Envoy, who had already lost 20 pounds, stomped his feet subconsciously and habitually. The old man with frosty temples then smiled triumphantly. With my iron cock, Li Gongde, staring at him with wide eyes all day long, who would cut corners? What's more, no one would dare to slack off. This is not just a matter of money or money, but the most obvious truth before everyone, "This city is in Liangzhou, and this city will die in the pass"! The civil servant leader of Beiliang, who has been pampered and pampered in the officialdom all his life, looks much thinner, but his body is much tougher. If the official civil servants of Lingzhou can come here, he will be surprised to see this Mr. Li, and he may even recognize him. If it doesn't come out, Li Gongde's slick aura that has been accumulated for most of his life in Gongmen practice fades away, replaced by the kind of heroic aura that can only be possessed by a general family. After all, the old man was born as a literati. He stretched out his hand to touch the low wall inside, and said with a chuckle: "In the past, in the meeting hall with more martial arts and less literature in Qingliang Mountain, I always couldn't understand what the general was talking about with those rough guys. Ah parapet, I just realized it when I got here, just like this parapet, in fact, I have dealt with it in books a long time ago, and it has been sung in many frontier poems. It’s still a good name, every time I walk around the city, I always think of the troublesome girl at home. In the past, it was Hanlin who made us feel helpless as parents. , Fengshui turns around! Now that I think about it, the general still has the foresight to say that in the world, fathers and daughters tend to raise children, and the later, the easier it is for the son to support, but the more troublesome it is for the daughter."
Song Changsui said in a deep voice: "Old Li, you also know that I have never been the kind of person who likes to praise others. Your Hanlin is really good. The battle of Longyan'er Pingyuan was beautiful! Dong Zhuo's subordinate Wuya Lanzi in Beimang, All the elite scouts were annihilated, this battle is truly a joy!"
Li Gongde with chapped lips twirled his beard and smiled, "Well, for this kind of thing, it's only comfortable to be praised by outsiders. No matter how much I say as a father, it always tastes wrong. To be honest, Lao Song, you are really serious. Hold your breath, I've been waiting for your words for a long time! I'm so suffocated that I almost have internal injuries."
Song Changsui said helplessly, "Before this, I was so busy that I didn't have the energy to gossip with you."
Li Gongde said with emotion: "It's true. I boast that I have a lot of experience in being an official in this life. In short, I think about it all day long, thinking about others. Although I can't say that I don't do things at all, but I have to do things like this. It's unimaginable. It's like in just one year, I paid back all the official pragmatism that Li Gongde owed me all his life."
Song Changsui smiled knowingly.
Li Gongde suddenly slapped the arrow stack hard, and said loudly: "If you still can't defend such a good city wall, let alone be killed by the barbarians in Beimang, even if you scold me, you will be scolded to death!"
Song Changsui was stunned for a moment, then looked around, and saw the most familiar city building scene inside and outside the city, with the sound of chants one after another. Although the giant city under his feet could already hang plaques, there was still considerable construction to be done. Mojia Juzi asked with a soft smile, "Are you really willing to scold them?"
Li Gongde, who was originally aggressive, suddenly lost all arrogance, and just murmured softly: "There are so many soldiers from Beiliang... Even if I, Li Gongde, am willing to scold my son, I am also reluctant to scold them."
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The new governor of Liangzhou, Bai Yu, can go to Wudang Mountain to meet his friends for a while, but someone who is a transfer envoy and deputy Jiedu envoy of Beiliang Road can't be idle for a moment. Qingyuan Military Town at the gate, until the curtain of the car is lifted, the outline of the male city outside the pass can be seen. It seems that Xu Beizhi has been running around since the moment he left Qingliang Mountain for Lingzhou. He was a rice governor, built granaries in various places under his jurisdiction, acted as a transshipment envoy, and planned the strategy. He even went to Lianghuai Road to talk to Han Lin. We had a private meeting. Not long ago, we went to Lantuo Mountain in the Western Regions to bring 20,000 monks and soldiers to the defense line of Liuzhou Qingcang City. After attending the plaque-hanging ceremony this time, we will go to Lingzhou again immediately, and we will not be relieved until we personally watch the grain entering Liangzhou. .
He has lived in no fixed place for these years, and it seems that he is either on horseback or in a carriage, which is bumpy anyway.
Outside this carriage, there was not an elite cavalry escort from the Beiliang frontier army. It stands to reason that with Xu Beizhi's super high rank and his own significance to the ensuing war, even if he was sent a thousand Beiliang cavalry as his followers No exaggeration.
But just like this, the status of this young counselor in the Qingliang Mountain of the Xu family or in the hearts of the young feudal lord is even more incomparable.
Because there are only 80 escorts around the carriage.
Eighty riders, everyone bears a sword.
There are eighty people in the Wu Family Sword Tomb!
The contemporary sword champion Wu Liuding, the sword attendant Cuihua who carried the ancient sword Su Wang on his back, the devil Zhu Huang who is notorious even in the sword tomb, Helian Jianzhi who has a deep understanding of the way of swords, Zhang Luantai, Gongsun Xiushui, Nalan Huai Yu...
If this is not considered extravagant in battle, it is estimated that there is no retinue in the world who can be called an elite.
Xu Beizhi, who was full of exhaustion, was extremely sleepy, but still couldn't fall asleep. He closed his eyes several times and opened them for a long time. He simply sat cross-legged, took out the old notebook written by Li Yishan from his arms, and flipped through it lightly. .
I heard from Xu Fengnian that the large golden plaque in Tingchao Pavilion was written by the old emperor of Liyang himself. The four big characters of Beiliang Wangfu on the gate of Qingliang Mountain are the handwriting of Princess Wu Su. Later, if the first city outside Beiliang Pass needs to be built, a plaque will be hung. Xu Xiao's original intention was that he would not be ashamed of being a big bastard, and wanted Li Yishan Do it for me, but Li Yishan refused, so Rentu had no choice but to go to Wutongyuan to ask His Royal Highness Shizi for advice on writing. In the end, I don’t know how many baskets were filled with discarded rice paper. Xu Xiao even finished writing the words for his next life. Afterwards, the plaque on the mansion of Liuzhou Governor in Qingcang City was the young vassal who selected those words from the writings left by his master Li Yishan. Liuzhou is even more meaningful. Before listening to the treasures of Chaoge and Wutongyuan scattered in the Central Plains one by one.
Xu Beizhi and Xu Fengnian once had a conversation that sounded very relaxed and leisurely.
"You don't feel bad?"
"Who am I, Xu Fengnian? The eldest son of Xu Xiao! I haven't seen any good things in this world. When did I become such a stingy person? Back then, I showed those poor scholars who could write beautiful essays and poems. The fortune-teller who spreads out the word has always spent a lot of money without blinking his eyes!"
"Oh? Then why, when I picked up the "Child Climbing the Urn" just now, and when I threw the "Mountain Journey" inkstone into the box, your eyes blinked so much that you could blow a strong wind." gone?"
"Didn't I remind you to be gentle in your movements, bumps and bumps hurt your appearance, so it's not easy to sell."
"Returning the appearance? It's nothing more than a low price of tens of hundreds of stones for grain and grass. Isn't it a bit arty to talk about the appearance?"
"There is a difference of a few stones between each item, and the accumulation of less becomes more, and it is also a lot."
"You really don't feel bad?"
"I don't feel bad. Orange, you have asked this sentence at least seven or eight times."
"Oh, I don't know why, every time I ask you, I feel quite refreshed, much more comfortable than drinking that green ant wine."
"Orange, you do your work first, I'm going to drink the green ant wine."
"One last question..."
"I really don't feel bad!"
"It's not this, I just want to ask, all your belongings have been ruined by me, so what about the dowry gift for you to marry a daughter-in-law?"
"Old rules! Cucumbers! Salad!"
Xu Beizhi put away the notebook, and also put away his thoughts, lifted the curtains of the car, and looked at the majestic Northwest New City.
In troubled times, the least valuable thing is the external things. When even human life is not worth a penny, what else is valuable
A Hongjiabei flight that caused countless scholars to flee has already proved this point. In the old days, the swallows in front of the prince's hall flew into the homes of ordinary people. Countless priceless antique calligraphy and paintings are first picked up from the muddy ground, rural latrines, under the table of vendors, and piles of tiles in the corners of small courtyards.
Xu Beizhi would not have sold it at such a low price in the first place, but after the accident in the Chunxue Building, the territory of the Central Plains has become chaotic. Will gather things at this moment, no matter how cheap it is, it may be more affordable than what others give for nothing after the war together? Therefore, unless it is a rich and scholarly family who is really obsessed with literati and has a hobby of collecting, they will come here at this time after hearing the news. It is one thing for them to work hard to come to Beiliang. It's another thing. Whether those first-class honorable officials in Tai'an City who have been enjoying the blessings of the water transport for twenty years are willing to open the back door for their face is the third thing. These water transport officials with deep backgrounds, For the sake of money or love, they are willing to take out grain from Caohe under their respective jurisdictions, but after weighing the thickness of their thighs from their families, it is not enough to compete with Wen Taiyi, deputy governor of Jing'an Road, and Ma Zhongxian, deputy governor of Jing'an Road. The fourth thing is whether you dare not be afraid of the two prosperous frontier officials who will write them down for their wrists!
But the really important thing is not that the cultural relics are sold at a low price, or even that the food is sold to Liang, but that Beiliang can follow the Guangling Road through this move, and the two dark and light forces of the Fish Dragon Gang and Fushuifang Infiltrate into Xiangfan City, Qingzhou!
Once Beicheng falls, Liangzhou and Liuzhou are doomed to be wiped out, so the remaining frontier troops in Beiliang will not be too at a loss. The army can still have a road to slant into the hinterland of the Central Plains!
That being the case, how could Xu Beizhi not be defeated
It's just that after Xu Beizhi put forward this intention straight to the point, the young vassal king agreed without saying a word, which made his full of reasoning in preparing the draft meaningless.
And in the depths of Xu Beizhi's heart, there is even a hidden thought that he will not tell.
That is, as long as Beiliang wins the second reckless battle.
So how can the competition in the Central Plains lose my share in Beiliang
Xu Beizhi sighed, and was about to put down the curtain when a rider who was already close to the cart rode closer, and asked with a smile, "Master Vice-Jiedu is so anxious to enter the city?"
The person who asked the question was Nalan Huaiyu, a sharp-tempered but delicate female swordsman from Jianzhong. The heroic posture of the horse with the sword on its back is indeed a beautiful scenery.
Xu Beizhi smiled and asked, "Nalan Huaiyu, if I sold your saber for three or four taels of silver, would you feel distressed?"
Nalan Huaiyu was confused, and then smiled sweetly: "I don't want to say if I feel sorry for you, but I will definitely beat you until your parents don't know each other!"
Xu Beizhi smiled and said, "You haven't answered the question yet?"
Nalan Huaiyu laughed and said: "I don't feel bad! I don't know your relationship with the prince. If you dare to sell my things like this, I dare to go to Chaoge to get better things! My sword is a hundred The history of the next year, the material is also ordinary, not worth a hundred taels of silver, I feel sorry for my mother!"
Xu Beizhi smiled, and sighed inexplicably, "I feel very distressed."
Nalan Huaiyu, who has always been unscrupulous in words and deeds, couldn't help but joked: "Master Xu, is your brain broken by the carriage?"
Xu Beizhi suddenly smiled playfully: "Nalan Huaiyu, do you want to know how someone evaluates you?"
Nalan Huaiyu narrowed his eyes, like a cat whose tail was stepped on.
Of course, as one of the top of the Wu Family Sword Tomb, she is more powerful than a tigress.
Xu Beizhi lowered his voice and said, "It looks like you want to hear it. That person said, Nalan Huaiyu must be very tired from life."
Nalan Huaiyu frowned and said nothing.
Xu Beizhi glanced at her, and quickly put down the curtain.
Nalan Huaiyu followed his earlier gaze and lowered his head slightly.
It seems to be my own breast.
Nalan Huaiyu suddenly realized, and was not angry. He laughed loudly and cursed at the carriage: "You have no evil intentions, and he has no evil courage! Neither of them is a good thing!"
Xu Beizhi, who was lying in the carriage, smiled knowingly, and slowly closed his eyes.
In fact, Xu Fengnian certainly didn't say that comment that deserves a beating.
But Xu Beizhi felt that that guy was someone who could say such things, so he took it for him.
But Nalan Huaiyu didn't have the guts to say it, it's very chewy.
Xu Beizhi thought about this, and found it quite interesting.
Closing his eyes and meditating, Xu Beizhi said to himself: "So many people have died at Miyunkou in the Western Region, and people have already started dying at Qingcang City in Liuzhou. Next, it will be the turn of Liangzhou Pass. So I hope there will be more people in the future." One day, Nalan Huaiyu, you can tell him what is in your heart. So you have to live...you have to live."
Between the last two sentences, Xu Beizhi paused for a long time.
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The Baima market outside the new city is said to be a market, but in fact it is no different from the slightly larger town in Lingzhou.
And this bustling market must be the most mixed place in the world today. There are Beiliang frontier soldiers in armor and sabers patrolling inside and outside, there are people from the rivers and lakes who traveled northward after participating in the battle against the devil in the Western Regions, and some come here to do business. There are all kinds of Lingzhou merchants, there are scholars from the Central Plains who come here to appreciate the scenery of the frontier, there are people from the three prefectures in Beiliang Road who come here to participate in the construction of the city, there are Taoist monks who tell fortunes and help write family letters, and some are full of blood. The generals and civilians who ran away from home and came here to join the army but were rejected, and the vagabonds who came here to fish in troubled waters when they were full... Even occasionally, you can see the civil servants of Beiliang Road in twos and threes, come here to sit and rest, Drink green ant wine, just serve a plate of peanuts and a bowl of sauced beef, sneak away from the busy schedule, and come and go in a hurry. There are scholars from various academies, under the leadership of elderly scholars, come here to study and travel in groups. It is said that not long ago even the well-known Shangyin School Master Yu brought his disciples who had read poetry and books to travel here, and there is even a gossip that said that Master Yu, who has a long history of family education, has a bit of a disagreement with our prince. Qingdao unknown relationship...
Everyone may be busy or leisurely, but they all know it well, from the moment the young vassal king appears in this new city.
The second reckless battle.
That's what really kicked off.
For thousands of years, regardless of the Central Plains or the grasslands, the largest number of cavalry in the world will go all the way south until they hit the most powerful iron cavalry!
Today is the day to hang a plaque in this Jubei city!
The sun was shining.
More and more people in Baima Market can't help but flock northward along the east and west walls.
Then those servants and people who participated in the construction of the city were able to stop their work, leave the city through the east and west gates, and join the two massive dense teams.
Reject North City, reject North City.
The main entrance is naturally in the north!
The sword of the Beiliang frontier army is pointed at, and the spear of the Xu family's iron cavalry is pointed at.
Been north for twenty years!
How the people of the Central Plains perceive it, and how the Liyang court calculates.
I am the best iron cavalry in Beiliang, and I never bother to pay attention to it.
Numerous civil and military officials, headed by Beiliang Capital Protector Chu Lushan and Beiliang Dao Jinglue Envoy Li Gongde, have already gathered under the main gate of Jubei City, and set up a ladder, just waiting for the piece of Beiliang covered with Xu Ziwang Banner The plaque was raised high and finally hung on the top of the city.
The 10,000 snow dragon cavalry army is like white snow rolling over the ground.
Under the leadership of Yuan Zuozong, the horse first stopped in the vast open space north of Jubei City.
Followed by two heavy cavalry troops, the Zhihu Army and the Weixiong Army stopped at the left and right wings of the Daxue Dragon Cavalry Army respectively.
Finally, there are cavalry troops on the left and right outside Beiliang Pass under the command of He Zhonghu and Zhou Kang.
After the thunder of horseshoes, there was a brief silence.
I don't know who was the first to look up.
Everyone could see the sky in the distance, and a bright white rainbow slowly pierced the sky.
That white rainbow crashed down on the top of the city!
After he showed up, Li Gongde and Chu Lushan looked at each other and smiled, and asked people to raise the plaque.
The young man waited until the huge plaque hung above the city gate, then slowly drew out the saber from his waist.
At the same time, everyone in the cavalry under the city silently pulled out their Beiliang sabers.
The water was deep and silent.
The hoofbeats of Beiliang Iron Cavalry are the most majestic war drums in the world.
Xu Dao.
Refuse to go north.
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That scene.
Euphorbia Hengjiang.
After a hundred years and a thousand years, it will be a big wind.