"Look at you, I didn't say anything." Cen Erniang naturally knew that he was guarding her like jade. Otherwise, waiting for him, wouldn't it be as simple as just asking.

Seeing An Sanshao's anxious face, she smiled and reached out and nodded his forehead, "Bow your head." I haven't dried my hair yet. ”

"Uh, okay." An San rarely saw that his wife was really not angry, and he buried his head with peace of mind.

"During the time you were outside, the eldest brother enslaved San Lang and his master, and he handed over the matter of building a city and palace in the southwest to San Lang with full authority, and San Lang was so busy that he was busy."

"Master and the old farmers and long-term workers who farmed in our family all asked him to send someone to escort him to Mobei. said that he wanted to grow food in the wasteland of Mobei, if it wasn't strong and small, he couldn't leave me, so I also went with Master. When you come back this time, you won't be able to see me. By the way, when you came back, you passed by Huaizhou City, did you see the newly built capital? ”

"See. San Lang's efficiency is quite high, and it has only been a long time since half of the city was built. An Sanshao sighed: "I see the new city." Spectacular! Even if it is not completed yet, standing on the top of the hill and looking at it from a distance, people can't help but admire! How much labor and silver does that need?! ”

"Shengshang and brother-in-law, this time the handwriting is also too big. Madam, I still wonder if the Holy Lord is raising troops for war, rebuilding after the war, and establishing a new capital, which requires not a small amount. Say, "Where did he get his money?" ”

"Grab it. First robbed the clans and courtiers, and later robbed the rich merchants and squires, he is simply a bandit! What are you staring at, it's not what I said, it's my father and Saburo who said it. ”

"Huh." An Sanshao didn't answer. He didn't dare to say that his eldest brother was a bandit. If his holy brother-in-law knew, he wouldn't have skinned him!

"Actually, I think the eldest brother is better at business than you Anjia." Cen Erniang said suddenly.

"What do you mean by that?" An Sanshao was a little confused.

"What he did was a business with no net profit! I heard San Lang say that the eldest brother's private treasury has not been moved much, and the treasury is still abundant, so he renovated the Daqi Dynasty, no, the Great Qi Dynasty. The grain produced in the southwest and east China Sea was enough for him to raise his troops. I see that he doesn't spend much money all year round, and he has earned enough prestige and praise from the military and civilians. Isn't it good at doing business? ”

An Sanshao nodded convincingly: "Hmm." "His eldest brother is so capable, he can do whatever he does, and he does what he does. No wonder he was the one who ascended to that throne in the end.

"Husband, you're back too. After you recuperate for a few days, we will take Zhuang Zhuang and the guards to Mobei for a trip. How is it? ”

"Why? Aren't there masters and old farmers over there? It's okay if you don't go. Madam, it's not that I don't want you to go, it's just that the environment in Mobei is too harsh, the wind and sand are big, and there is a great shortage of water, I don't want you to suffer in the past. ”

"Master wrote to me a while ago that they were in trouble in Mobei and wanted me to go over and help. Because of the strong wind and sand over there, and the extreme lack of water, I can't live by planting anything. It's the most drought-tolerant crops that we've researched and cultivated, and they don't grow well over there......."

"Since they don't grow well, don't plant them there." An Sanshao said as a matter of course: "The Mobei side is not suitable for cultivation at all. For thousands of years, I have never heard of any food grown by the people there. It is better to let the saint send troops to widen and repair the road in Mobei, and let the caravan transport more grain to the past. ”

"Roads have to be built, but it will take time. It will take years at least. In the past few years, it would be a good thing if we could cultivate crops that could thrive in Mobei. The land in Mobei is vast and sparsely populated, and if you make use of all the land over there, how much food will you have to grow! ”

"Ma'am. Don't blame me for pouring cold water on you. Unless the problem of water shortage in Mobei can be solved, no matter how much you toss, it will be in vain! There is a lot of sand and little precipitation in Mobei, and the water problem must be solved unless a large river can be conjured......"

Before An Sanshao's words were finished, he asked Cen Erniang to interrupt: "You're right! Turning a river out of the river can solve the big problem of water. Think about it, how do you change the river? ”

Cen Erniang threw down the handkerchief, left An Sanshao, and went to the study of the master of the fortune operator, looking for the map drawn by his old man.

The master's footprints were all over the Great Qi Dynasty, and he drew the mountains, rivers and towns he walked through in great detail. After Cen Erniang worshipped him as a teacher, he often took it out to observe, pointed to the marks on the map, and told Cen Erniang about his glorious past.

Cen Erniang remembered that between Mobei and the East China Sea, there was a big river called "Qingdui". The river originated in the snow-capped mountains and flowed through the Central Plains of Dajing and several prefectures, counties, villages and towns in the northeast, feeding generations of people.

From ancient times to the present, even during droughts, the Qingyu River has never been cut off. If it can be rerouted, it will flow to Mobei in a branch before it enters the sea to irrigate the land. Don't worry that Mobei can't grow food.

Cen Erniang was reminded by An Sanshao, and after having a general idea, she carefully observed the topography between Mobei and the East China Sea, especially paying attention to the place where the Qinghui River flows, to see if she can find a suitable gap, divert from there, build a river, and flow to Mobei.

She stared at the map for a day and a night, drawing thousands of blank papers, and finally found a route that could successfully divert the Qingyu River and let it flow along the terrain.

After finding out the route, Cen Erniang left her son to Cen Erye and his wife, and asked An Sanshao to escort her to the capital, and gave Cen Dalang the master's map and the route she drawn. When Cen Dalang was concentrating on the map and the road map, she told him in a gullible manner what benefits this branch would have for Mobei and the Great Qi Dynasty.

Cen Dalang is not a short-sighted person, as soon as he heard Cen Erniang's words, he understood her intentions. immediately approved Cen Erniang's proposal, and carefully selected an army of 50,000, and at the same time recruited 200,000 people from the people, mobilized many wealthy businessmen to contribute money and support, and began to dig ditches, riverbeds, and build embankments.

At the same time, Cen Erniang and An Sanshao went to Mobei to start a new round of research with the master. They experimented countless times in the sandy land and wilderness of Mobei, and finally cultivated several crops that could adapt to the harsh climate of Mobei, and began to try to grow them in several cities with water sources.

The Five Princes, Liu Guobang and other people who were spared by Cen Dalang and stayed in Mobei to eat sand called on the people of Mobei to learn from Cen Erniang and Master Bu Operator, as well as the old farmers and long-term workers they brought, and follow the farming methods and steps they said, and follow them meticulously.

In this way, the trial planting in Mobei for three years has yielded a lot of harvest.

The food grown can barely feed the people in those few cities. In other places, there is still a barren, and the people there also live on relief grain transported by the imperial court from the southwest and the east sea.

The five princes and Liu Guobang practiced themselves, and when they walked in front and led people to farm, they did not forget to develop their own power in secret. They acted very cautiously little by little, slowly trying to find ways to collect money, transport materials, raise troops, and train troops, and at the same time, under the banner of killing the Northern Barbarians, they asked the imperial court for money and grain every once in a while, and wanted to increase the number of military households that levy civilian soldiers to enlist in the army.

In order to protect the land in Mobei that can bring him huge benefits in the future, Cen Dalang agreed to their requests one by one.

He was busy supervising people to repair the river, busy persuading the group of stubborn ministers to move the capital, and had no leisure and spare energy to pay attention to the small actions of the five princes and Liu Guobang who "had broken their courage by him", and let them cultivate a group of elite soldiers and strong generals who only obeyed their commands in Mobei.

Although this repelled the northern barbarians who disturbed the border, it also laid a huge hidden danger for Cen Dalang's Daqi Dynasty.

Five years later, the tributary project of the Qingwei River, which lasted for eight years in Mobei, was finally successfully completed, and the tributaries that were separated flowed through ten prefectures, 23 counties, and 59 villages and towns in Mobei, bringing precious water resources to the people of Mobei, making Mobei no longer short of water.

At this time, the five princes and Liu Guobang were still standing still, and they silently led the local people in Mobei to farm and enrich their granaries. At the same time, favorable conditions were opened to attract scholars, businessmen and ordinary people from all over the world to settle in Mobei with their families and take root in Mobei, making Mobei prosperous day by day.

At this time, Cen Dalang had already moved the capital to the southwest Huaizhou Mansion.

The courtiers who had tried their best to oppose the relocation of the capital were coerced and lured by him to settle in the southwest, and found that the southwest was more prosperous than the capital, and the mansions assigned to them by the imperial court were bigger and more beautiful than those in the capital, and the miasma and poisonous gas in the southwest could not harm their health, so they had no complaints and began to enjoy the life in the southwest.

The relocation of the capital did not affect the prosperity of the Great Qi Dynasty, but made the national strength of the Great Qi increase day by day.

Because Cen Dalang subdued the powerful bandits in various places with iron-blooded means back then, Daqi is now singing and dancing and is harmonious. The people live and work in peace and contentment, and they do not leave Cen Dalang, a good emperor, that is, Mobei, whose hearts are almost controlled by the five princes, and many people have begun to appreciate Cen Dalang's goodness and stand on his side.

Especially after the completion of the Qinghui River project, Cen Dalang and Cen Erniang brought a group of farmers to Mobei to bring new seeds to the people of Mobei and teach them to use new methods to farm.

In the autumn harvest of that year, almost every household had a bumper harvest.

This made the people of Mobei respect Cen Erniang and Cen Dalang even more. They called Cen Erniang a peasant mother, and Cen Dalang a charity and heroic saint emperor. Many people in Mobei began to "change their minds" and no longer wanted to follow the Five Princes and Liu Guobang to betray Daqi.

The fifth prince and Liu Guobang sensed the change of the people and felt that they couldn't wait any longer, otherwise Mobei would really become the territory of the Great Qi Dynasty, and they would not have any future.

Because Cen Erniang taught the people of Mobei to plant a season of fields, and after a lot of harvest, Cen Dalang began to face up to the huge potential of Mobei's development, and began to mobilize his henchmen to come to Mobei to take back the power and strength in their hands.

Although most of the troops on the face of Mobei were in the hands of several henchmen and generals sent by Cen Dalang to assist the Five Princes and Liu Guobang in guarding Mobei, Liu Guobang and the Five Princes only controlled a few. But most of those generals were bought by the Five Princes and Liu Guobang, and they have defected, but Cen Dalang doesn't know it.

Coupled with the private soldiers that the Fifth Prince and Liu Guobang have secretly cultivated over the years, they are already a strong army with no small lethality.

If there is an incident, the five princes are also sure to take Mobei and several cities near Mobei into their palms, and rule the country across the Qinghui River with Cen Dalang.

The ambitious five princes suddenly gathered troops and sent troops, which caught Cen Dalang off guard. Because most of the Daqi's troops were concentrated in the East China Sea and the southwest, there were only a few troops stationed in the original old capital and the Central Plains.

And in those places, half of the officials and junior generals are all former ministers of Dajing, and they have already secretly thrown themselves to him after receiving the benefits of the five princes. As soon as the five princes sent troops, they joined forces with him inside and out, so that those places were quickly destroyed.

The five princes and Liu Guobang raided several cities in the Central Plains adjacent to Mobei, and it only took a dozen days to rob Cen Dalang's six prefectures and fifteen counties, plus a huge territory in Mobei, which was equivalent to taking away half of Cen Dalang's small Qijiang country, and he was so angry that he threw the royal table on the Jinluan Palace, which frightened a group of ministers into silence.

Cen Dalang, who was put together by the five princes and Liu Guobang, angrily announced that he was going to drive the expedition in person, and he was bound to destroy the five princes and Liu Guobang and take back the Daqi rivers and mountains. He ordered Cen Saburo to stay in the southwest for him and sit in the rear.

An Sanshao was also in the ranks of the royal driver.

If it weren't for the plum blossom guard of the An family, who desperately escorted him and Cen Erniang out of Mobei, they might have become prisoners of the fifth prince now, and he threatened Cen Dalang.

An Sanshao couldn't wait to chop up the five princes and Liu Guobang and feed them to the dogs. In addition to Cen Dalang, he is about the most warlike one in the Northern Expeditionary Army.

This war to recover mountains and rivers lasted for four years. In the end, Cen Dalang won a complete victory, the five princes and others were beheaded, and the three clans of Zhulian ended.

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