The strength of his personal foundation has boosted Li Qin's self-confidence. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 A few days after info, he ordered people to close the backyard where he was, and he was entrenched on the rockery in the backyard of Dangtu Houfu to swallow his vitality and strengthen himself.

Who said that the exhaust gases continuously discharged by the Ma'an Iron and Steel Factory have polluted the sky within a radius of more than ten miles, making the vitality here greatly lower than that of other places in the world, but because it is not good to leave a few unstable characters to go to other places, Li Qin can only settle.

Fortunately, Li Qin still has a Yangping Zhidu Gong Seal in his hand, which can habitually purify filth and regulate vitality, and with Li Qin supporting it to cultivate, the speed at which it absorbs the vitality of heaven and earth is not much slower than that of other places.

After a few days of hard work, Li Qin had already filled seventy percent of his upper, middle and lower three dantians, and the rest would take some time to complete, but Li Qin had no time to continue.

Because he received information from Fengtianqing: Xiangyang and Chunling in the north, Nankang and Changsha in the south, and Badong in the west all showed signs of troop and horse mobilization-Li Qin saw a few points on the map where they were moving, and inadvertently remembered a term: "Anti-XX Alliance." ”

"The forces bordering us on all sides have shown hostility towards us, and even Qian Duguan and others have begun to mobilize their troops...... It is simply impossible to say that there are no people in tandem here. Li Qin understands this very well. After receiving such news, where could he continue to practice in retreat? As a bigwig, when his own forces were invaded by foreign enemies, he naturally had to stand up and deal with the overall situation.

So, in the meeting hall of Dangtu Houfu, Li Qin's subordinates, those generals and staff who had not been sent out suddenly gathered together to discuss the problem they were encountering at the moment.

"Why is this happening? Why was there still something to be discovered until they were connected in series? Wasn't there anything going on beforehand? This is a dereliction of duty on the part of the intelligence services. Yu Shinan first asked such a pointed question.

Yu Shinan, the word Boshi, Han nationality, Yuezhou Yuyao people, the son of Yu Li, the prince of the Chen Dynasty, and the younger brother of Yu Shiji, the chief historian of the Sui Dynasty. Unlike his eldest brother, who loved vanity, he was a rather strict and self-contained person. When the Jiangdu Incident occurred, Yu Wenhua wanted to kill his brother, and he knelt down beside Yu Wenhua and begged for his life.

Although Yu Wenhua did not spare his brother in the end, he did not kill him. When Li Qin raided Jiangdu, rescued him, and collected his brother's bones for him, he felt Li Qin's kindness, and naturally joined Li Qin's army.

Now, he is a member of the army under Li Qin, and he advises Li Qin on strategy and advice.

As soon as he heard that the situation around him had deteriorated so much, he immediately asked to pursue Feng Tianqing's "guilt", which in his opinion was Feng Tianqing's dereliction of duty.

"We didn't receive any information about their tandem beforehand. There were only a few clues that I had ignored at the time - there were always some monks coming and going in and out of these people's mansions these days. The news came in sporadic ways, and I did not conclude in time that it was my dereliction of duty, and I implore the Lord to punish him. Feng Tianqing earnestly pleaded guilty to Li Qin.

"Reprimand? People make mistakes sometimes, and it is understandable...... Too much punishment is not necessary. Punish him for half a year, and let him make meritorious contributions. Li Qin thought for a moment and made a decision.

In fact, he didn't take Feng Tianqing's "guilt" seriously, because he knew that it was the ghost of the group of people in Cihang Jingzhai. Although Shi Fei Xuan has been placed under house arrest by himself, Li Qin knows that Cihang Jingzhai's strength is definitely not limited to Shi Fei Xuan.

"Cihang Jingzhai has another courtyard, isn't it the people I met over there before?" Li Qin muttered in a low voice, and finally gently put it down to Feng Tianqing.

"Who's behind it, I basically know. There is no need to investigate why this is the case, but for now, let's think about how to face the situation in front of us. Li Qin defined the topic for the next step.

"Lord, in fact, we don't need to worry too much about the current situation." Li Qin's voice fell, and everyone pondered for a while, but it was Shen Luoyan who spoke first.

"How?" Li Qin was first taken aback when he heard this, and then nodded thoughtfully. He looked at his subordinates, and saw that many of them still did not know why, so he asked.

"Qian Duguan is a person with no ambitions. He knew how far he could go, so he didn't have to care too much about Xiangyang in the north, the key was Zhu Yu in Nanyang...... This is a man-eating demon king, and if he is allowed to wander to Jingling, it will still be very destructive to us. Shen Luoyan first analyzed the situation in the north.

"Zhu Wei? It's very simple to deal with him, organize the people, train the militia, shoot our military town directly, and break it into pieces, plus a few heavy military towns with firearms, I think it should be appropriate to maintain a 20,000-strong army in Jingling. Li Qin thought for a moment and said.

"Lord, Zhu Wei is good at wandering. I suggest that you can directly organize cavalry in Jingling and recruit the children of Pegasus Ranch as soldiers......" suggested Xu Xingzhi, who had just joined Li Qin's command.

"Yes...... However, it was still too cumbersome to train cavalry...... I think we can increase the formation of mounted infantry towns. Li Qin thought for a moment, nodded slightly, and then said his thoughts again.

"Mounted infantry?" Everyone was a little surprised.

"You can ride a horse, and all the ordnance and supplies will move with the horse. As for combat, this was mainly on foot and did not require soldiers to charge on horseback. Li Qin explained this.

"I see!" The crowd nodded their heads in understanding, and they quickly thought of the benefits of doing so:

After all, the people of the Central Plains are not nomadic herders who have grown up on horseback since childhood. Although there have been frequent wars in the Central Plains for more than two hundred years, the people worship martial arts, and some people who do not worry about food and clothing also subconsciously train bow horses, but riding horses and fighting on horseback are completely different things...... The latter is still a minority among the people.

Therefore, if there is to be a large-scale expansion of cavalry, this corresponding troop base is a problem. Li Chin's move is undoubtedly the best way to avoid such troubles. There are not many soldiers who can fight on horseback, but there are still many soldiers who can ride on horseback.

"If we follow this standard, our team can still expand by tens of thousands." The Void muttered to himself.

"I don't need tens of thousands...... Just try to organize Zhu Yi's flow first, and if you can kill him directly. Li Qin whispered: "Inform the counties and counties in the Hanshui Valley, tell them that Zhu Wei was tempted by the disciples of Buddhism when he went south!" Splash dirty water on the Buddha Sect, and inform the martial arts sect of the Han Shui generation to organize Zhu Yi if they don't want to be eaten. ”

"Understood!" Everyone bowed their hands to Li Qin and wrote down Li Qin's orders.

The matter in the north was thus decided, and the formation of a new army to strengthen the local forces was Li Qin's current strategy.

As for the battle against Zhu Ji, Li Qin completely handed it over to Chen Ling to be responsible. Li Qin believed in Chen Ling's ability: since he was able to stop Du Fuwei's threat to Jiangdu with the same number of troops, then after he gave him so much support now, he should also be able to stop Zhu Yue's threat to Jingling and other counties.

So so in the North, what about the South?

"Didn't the lord say that he was going to Lingnan? Then we will focus on defense at this stage, if the lord can get the refuge of Song Que in Lingnan...... Then we will be able to attack Lin Shihong and Xiao Mo from both the north and south directions. If not...... Then I think it's better for us to go north first to eliminate Qian Duguan and Zhu Yi. "Hypothetical Xingzhi suggested to Li Qin.

"Depending on the results of Lingnan, will you go north and south?" Li Qin pondered for a moment and nodded approvingly, "Well, that's it...... Ready, I'll head south. ”

"To the south? That...... The people over there? Shen Luoyan frowned slightly.

"The people over there? Do you mean Concubine Xuan and Hou Xibai? Li Qin understood Shen Luoyan's scruples: "Tomorrow you take them to the experimental site and let them see our most powerful armament." You tell them that the reason why we don't act now is just to put the people first, and if he provokes us, I don't mind looting all the temples in the south and then leading troops north to destroy the temples in the north. ”

"I understand!" Shen Luoyan nodded clearly.

The strategy was thus decided, and everyone quickly got busy. Li Qin also began preparations for going to Lingnan.

He sent someone to find the Song family disciples in Jiangning City, and gave them a copy of the worship note, so that they could try to transfer it to Song Que.

This is a matter of politeness, Li Qin knew that the ancient people valued this very much, and Song Que attached great importance to Han Tong, so after consulting Cai Yan, Li Qin wrote such a letter of worship according to the etiquette of the Han Dynasty scholars visiting the teacher, and handed it to the children of the Song family, everything according to the ancient law.

After that, Li Qin found Lu Miaozi and entrusted him with his next most important thing: "...... There are still frequent wars in the north, and I hope that Master Lu can find a way to gather more displaced people from the north. We gathered these displaced people and organized them into households, thinking that these military towns -- these military towns were actually military towns that did not fight, and that we needed a large number of people and labor to build railways, first connecting Dangtu, Jiangning, Yuhang, Jiujiang, and other places...... These Geng Xun and Wang Hua have relevant documents, you can refer to them. ”

"Railroad? Connecting Dangtu, Jiangning, Yuhang, Jiujiang? It's a big project...... Now that Yang Guangyin has learned from the past, I am afraid that you will ...... if you do this" Lu Miaozi felt that such a large-scale labor was not a good thing for the people.

"I know what you mean, but I'm not servitude. I pay for the wages and pay for the rice...... For those homeless people, as long as they have food, they are willing to do whatever you ask them to do. Li Qin smiled and explained his thoughts to Lu Miaozi: "In the future, the country, the country I want to establish will no longer have conscription, and what the country wants to do, it must pay the people money." If there is pay, there is income, equal exchange, and that's it......"

"This is the politics of virtue!" Lu Miaozi was very excited when he heard it, but he also put forward one point: "The lord's idea is very good, but in this way, the country's finances will be unbearable." ”

"I know, so...... In the future, the audit of various projects will become a very important thing. Li Qin said faintly: "Of course, that is later." As for now, if I can do it, let's do it first! The steel is rusting in the warehouse. ”

"Well, I see!" Lu Miaozi nodded: "Don't worry, my lord, when you come back from Lingnan, you will definitely see the start of the railway." ”

"Then I'll see." Li Qin smiled and pressed the most important burden on Lu Miaozi's shoulders.

After explaining these final things, Li Qin burned incense and bathed, fasted for three days, made a full posture, and went to the Songjia Mountain City in Lingnan under the transportation of the Song valve sea ship.

This matter is known to the whole world, but because Li Qin's naval strength is world-famous, coupled with the prestige of the Song valve in the south, it seems that there is no long-eyed thief who dares to take Li Qin along the way.

The people of the world watched Li Qin go south so calmly and entered the sphere of influence of the Song Valve.

Li Qin arrived in Ningyue County by sea ship and disembarked from the Qinjiang Port in Ningyue County to change horses. Walk northeast along the Qinjiang River and Zunhua Road, and finally arrive at Ningpu in Yulin County. Here Song Lu, an old acquaintance of Song Valve, received him, led him to change ships, and went east along the Yushui River to arrive at the foot of Yulin City.

Songjia mountain city is located at the confluence of the Yushui River, three sides of the water, the majestic mountain towers, the stone city is built from the mountainside according to the mountain situation, along the mountain graceful, the main buildings stand in the mountains to open up a large piece of flat land, the situation is precipitous, there is the spirit of a husband and a man, the king is near the mountains and plains, and the Yulin county town is far away, symbolizing the dominant force for the safety of the entire Lingnan District.

It was a bustling mountain town, and Li Qin noted the wealth of Yulin County and its thriving trade: dozens of large warehouses and hundreds of large and small wharves were built along the Yuhe River. When Li Qin followed Song Lu to the east, he saw that the wharf was full of large and small ships, and the traffic on the river was endless, and the momentum of prosperity taught him to nod secretly.

"Not bad!" Li Qin sighed: "The mountains are lingering, the water is circulating, the rugged and dangerous obstacles, such a terrain, unless I take all the surrounding territory, spend years repairing the road, and transport the big killing weapon, even if I have tens of thousands of elite soldiers, I am afraid that it will be difficult to conquer." ”

Song Lu said with a smile: "This mountain city has consumed a lot of manpower and material resources, and it will still take more than three generations and more than 100 years to build its current scale. The city has a long-term reserve of grain for more than a year, and there is spring water, which is sweet and delicious, and making tea is a must. ”

Li Qin smiled when he heard this, his eyes fell slightly on the ramp that could accommodate five horses galloping together, and nodded lightly: "Then I will drink two more sips!" ”

Song Lu said: "The construction of the mountain city is mainly greedy for its strange dangers and difficulties, but if there is no wealth of Yulin County, the mountain city only has a magnificent appearance, and now it can be multiplied by each other, and the benefits of water and land transportation can reach the whole country." ”

The boat docked on the shore, and there were already more than a dozen men in Tsing Yi sent by the Song family to lead the horses to greet them, all of them were in high spirits, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, all of them were strong and good hands, and they were very respectful to Li Qinjun, showing a look of admiration and respect. Apparently they had all heard of Li Chin's reputation.

The two flew on their horses, and under the escort of the Song family's good hands, they left the dock area and galloped up the mountain.

Standing on the mountain road of the city, whenever you gallop to the dangerous place of the mountain cliff, it seems to be hanging in the void, and the river below is rolling, and the wonderland is endless.

Li Qin was relieved to see it, and he couldn't help but be extremely excited when he remembered the purpose of his trip and the challenges that were about to erupt. He couldn't help but let out a long howl, and urged him to go.

Everyone should whistling, more than ten horses ran through the mountain road like a whirlwind, the open city gate lowered the suspension bridge, and Song Zhi, the long-lost "earth sword", bowed his hand and said: "The lord of the valve has an order, please Wu Gong immediately go to the grinding knife hall to see him." ”