Chapter 103 Let's go to Ding Zero

"Then—I think so! The chief manager here has sent someone to teach him how to grow grain, and the man is more familiar, so let him accompany you!"

"I'm here just to want the two of us to go together, we're colleagues and talk!"

He knew that he had palpitations, and this time he insisted on asking him to go with him. It seems that it is impossible not to go. Li Ling pondered: "Well-since General Wei can afford me, then I will accompany you for a while." When are we leaving?"

"You've been busy for a few days, and you're tired, so you have a day off and set off the day after tomorrow. Wei Lu said, "Your food here is delicious!"

Li Ling thought about it, got up and said to Wei Lu: "Then General Wei is out of company! I have to immediately explain to Chief Manager Zhao about the apprenticeship of the workshop, and take it with me when I leave, and return to the royal court.

Let's not detour, just go back. ”

Li Ling returned to the town, discussed with Brother Zhang, and sent someone to the Baikal Sea to find Liu Yongyi, and asked them to immediately go to Ding Ling to send a letter to Tenghu, saying that Wei Lu was going to arrive and do a good job of entertaining......

Jiankun and Ding Ling were neighbors, both of which were the northernmost fiefdoms of the Xiongnu, and at that time, the Marquis of Yu divided the two Han generals into the two sparsely populated and most wild places in the north, in order to prevent them from coming into contact with the Han and preventing them from turning against the water.

And there is a deeper layer in this northern land, although the winter is cold, but the water is abundant and the land is fertile, and the spring and summer are hot and suitable for growing grain. The Hu people have been grazing and living with the grass for generations, and their character is rough and uninhibited. Let the Han people transform the Hu people here and teach them to grow food......

Five days later, Li Ling arrived at Ding Ling with more than a dozen Hu apprentices selected from various workshops in Jiankun, as well as his entourage and Wei Lu.

Tenghu Roar has already set up a half-new tent and two old tents. As soon as they arrived, they immediately asked the chef to cook and entertain them.

I still eat mutton soup, but this time there are two more pieces of meat, and the taste is better than last time with salt, and it is also served with bread and flour naan.

Wei Lu watched Li Ling and his entourage eat with relish, but he was like chewing wax and couldn't swallow and asked, "Right Colonel King, how does it taste?"

"There is meat and food to match, this is much better than what was eaten on the battlefield in the past!"

Wei Lu roared at Tenghu as the master: "Ding Ling, get some wheat noodles to eat!"

Tenghu roared: "The wheat planted last year has become seeds and planted in the early spring of this year. Just out of the seedlings, harvest in the fall!"

"Isn't there a little bit?"

"No more. It's the season of food shortage, and it's good that the shepherds can eat such food!"

"Really! You are far worse than Jiankun! You have to work hard!"

"Yes!

In the past few years, Wei Lu's hands have been very greedy, and he always dislikes the lack of cattle, sheep and grain sent by Ding Ling, and the small tribute tax. Teng Hu once looked for Liu Yongyi and talked about it, Liu Yongyi also mentioned it privately with Li Ling, and Li Ling couldn't say anything directly.

It just so happened that this time Wei Lu asked him to come with him to Ding Ling. Taking advantage of this, Li Ling sent Liu Yongyi to arrange this matter in advance, and wanted to teach Wei Lu not to be too dark and his hands too greedy.

Teng Hu roared according to Liu Yongyi's arrangement, pretended not to know Li Ling, and said to Wei Lu after the meal: "Lord Wei, I think this is also the prince, you two princes live in this top."

Good tent, there are special people standing guard at night, very safe!"

Wei Lu looked at the three tents and reluctantly agreed.

In the tent, under the candlelight, Li Ling lay on the couch with his head rested and his arms on his back to close his eyes and recuperate. Wei Lu lay on the couch opposite and thought, this time, the environment here is obviously much cleaner and tidier than in the past.

Although the shepherds' lodgings were not as good as those of Jiankun, they all lived in large and spacious tents. In all fairness, this Tenghu Roar is a good manager, much more capable than the two previous Wei family managers.

He sat up and asked Li Ling, "Right Colonel King, do you think there has changed a lot here?"

"Oh, I've never been here, I don't know what it looks like. However, as soon as we arrived, we had a place to eat and stay. It seems that the director is still good!" Li Ling said slowly.

Wei Lu thought about it and asked, "Did you arrange the matter of growing food here?"

Li Ling knew that Wei Lu was afraid that he would interfere with Ding Ling, so he pondered: "Teaching all over the country and trying to grow grain is a big thing to agree to, and it is also my duty. I don't have such a great ability alone, and I can't visit one place after another. ”

Li Ling's eyes swept over him, and seeing the confusion on his face, he said as if "I can only entrust the chief manager of Jiankun to implement this matter." I don't know who he sent to Ding Ling to grow grain!"

"Haven't you really been here?" Wei Lu's attempt was nakedly exposed.

"Except this time you asked me to accompany you, have you seen me or been here?" Li Ling said seriously.

"Hahahaha!" Wei Lu laughed, "I'm just, just-"

Li Ling lay motionless and ignored him.

"Hey, right colonel, I'm smiling! I just thought, Ding Ling has changed so much, you must have made a lot of efforts!" Wei Lu slyly.

"You say that, but it's disrespectful to Da Shan Yu!" Li Ling blocked his mouth and his heart.

"Wei Lu doesn't dare!" he thought about it, "Oh, Right Colonel King, can I ask you something?"

"What's the matter?"

"You say, in the past few years, the number of people and animals has increased greatly, what should I do?"

"What do you say?" Li Ling remained motionless.

"I think, I think? Well, Shan Yu probably thinks so too. ”

Li Ling was still motionless.

He tentatively said: "The Huns are wild, and if they have savings, they will fight!"

Li Ling didn't want to say anything more to him, and pretended to be asleep.

Wei Lu shouted: "Right school king! right school king!"

Li Ling did not agree. Wei Lu thought, how could this person be so indifferent to the big things that were going to happen, and he could still fall asleep?

The purpose of his visit was to check the savings of the shepherds here. In the past few days, the grain has been harvested year after year, but the tribute tax paid to him by Ding Ling has not increased......

Since the land has been replanted, waiting for the crops to emerge and grow. Most of the young shepherds drove their cattle and sheep to a place where water and grass were abundant to set up cattle and graze, and all that was left of the family was the old man and the doll.

Tenghu roared with Wei Lu and his entourage, visited various houses in the town, and most of the people he met were old people and dolls who didn't care about family affairs, and they couldn't find anything. When you enter their house, you can see the simplicity of the house, and you can see at a glance the good or bad life of the family.

Wei Lu asked Teng Hu suspiciously, "Is that all there is in the town, is there a place to store supplies?"

"Yes, it's the tent you came to live in!"

"Haven't you had anything common in town all these years?"

"Yes, it's still the tent you came to live in!"

"There should also be a prince's mansion here!"

"Since the prince's mansion was burned down by fire that year, the prince has not come back, who built the prince's mansion?" Teng Hu asked with a wry smile.

"You have to build a mansion for the prince!" Wei Lu said solemnly.