Li Xilie also fell ill because of long-term indulgence in wine and excessive lewdness, and for half a month, his wife Wang and concubine Dou were waiting for his illness without unties, although his condition has improved slightly in the past few days, but his appetite is extremely poor, almost without thinking about tea and dinner, and his body is getting thinner and thinner.

However, his concubine Dou found a celebrity chef who was good at roasting meat, and specially cooked his favorite beef for Li Xilie, Li Xilie had a great appetite, and for several days, he ate extremely refreshingly, and his body gradually recovered.

At noon that day, the cook brought a bowl of beef, and the medicine was fried, and the soldiers ate a piece of beef as usual, and drank another sip of medicine.

As soon as she entered the house, Dou followed behind Wang, and she quickly poured a small bottle of highly poisonous poison into the medicine and shook it gently.

"Eldest sister, let's let the master drink the medicine first!"

Wang nodded, let him aside, Dou took the medicine and squatted down, "Master, the doctor said that this is the last bowl of medicine, and you don't need to drink it again after drinking it." ”

Li Xilie laughed and said: "My body has recovered, I can ....... at night"

Dou's face flushed, and he hurriedly took the medicine, "Please finish drinking the medicine!" ”

"Good! I drink. ”

Li Xilie is very fond of this beautiful concubine, if it weren't for his wife by his side, he would have to show his strength.

Without any doubt, he took the medicine and drank it, and said with a smile: "Bring the beef, I'm hungry!" ”

Dou Shi whispered: "Eldest sister, I'll go clean up the room first." ”

Wang snorted coldly, "You should have left a long time ago!" ”

Dou Shi hurried away with the empty bowl, where did she go back to the room, but went directly out of the small door from the back house, there were no soldiers guarding here, there was a carriage parked outside, Dou Liang waited in the car for a long time, and when he saw his daughter going out, he hurriedly opened the car door, "Come in!" ”

Dou Shi entered the carriage, and the carriage immediately started and drove towards the outside of Shouchun City.

"How?" Dou Liang asked expectantly.

A hint of hatred flashed in Dou's eyes and he nodded.

Dou Liang was overjoyed, and immediately ordered a horseback attendant outside the car: "Go to the barracks quickly and inform General Wu, just say that the big thing is over!" ”

The retinue urged the horses away, and the carriage went out of the north gate and headed for the dock outside Shouchun City, they were all ready, and after poisoning the enemy, they could finally return to their hometown.

Until an hour later, Li Xilie's lower abdomen suddenly had a sharp pain, so painful that he rolled on the ground, screaming miserably, Wang was so frightened that he hurriedly ran to find a doctor, and when the doctor arrived, a generation of heroes Li Xilie had bled to death.

.........

Li Xilie was poisoned and died, Wu Shaocheng brothers quickly controlled the Huaixi Army, they led the army to surround the palace, killed Li Xilie's wife and children, Li Xilie's brothers and nephews were all killed, but things did not develop as agreed in advance, except for Dou Liang's father and daughter, who walked fast and escaped, Chen Xianqi and Zhang Jianfeng were killed by Wu Shaocheng.

Wu Shaocheng proclaimed himself the envoy of the Huaixi Festival, and wrote to Zhu Zhu, willing to surrender to Zhu Zhu, and accepted the canonization, the Northern Tang Dynasty immediately canonized Wu Shaocheng as the king of Shouchun County, and served as the envoy of the Huaixi Festival, Wu Xiu and Wu Shaoyang were all generals, and the county duke was given.

Zhu Jun temporarily gave up his plan to attack Huaixi, transferred his troops to Hedong, and began to prepare to attack Li Huaiguang.

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Yunzhou is today's Datong, it was prosperous in the Northern Wei Dynasty, with the nomadic tribes continue to invade the south, the people of Yunzhou fled in large numbers, and now the Han people in the whole Yunzhou are less than 20,000 people.

After stabilizing the situation in Taiyuan, Guo Song led 20,000 troops to the north, this morning, the army arrived in Yunzhong County, it was the end of August at this time, the sky was high and the clouds were light, the climate was cool, outside the city was a large area of wheat fields, the yellow and clear wheat waves fluctuated with the wind, which was particularly pleasing to the eye.

Li Dian, the assassin of Yunzhou, took more than a dozen officials to greet Guo Song outside the city gate, and Li Tie, the guard general stationed in Yunzhou, also came to greet him.

Guo Song appeased everyone a few words, then in the crowd of people into the city of clouds, the county seat of Yunzhong is the foundation of the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty Pingcheng, the city is vast, the population is sparse, when the Hui people are stationed in the clouds, simply demolish all the houses in the west, form an area of four or five thousand acres of open land, here built a sheep pen and a large camp.

The city was half empty and half houses, but even then, most of the houses were empty, many of them had been uninhabited for decades, and their roofs had collapsed, and their doors and windows had been destroyed.

Li Dian introduced to Guo Song: "During the Tianbao period, the population of Yunzhong County was more than 100,000, and now only one percent is left, and the houses here are worthless, and the people can occupy land and repair the houses as they like, but in fact, there are not many families who build houses, and everyone still remains the same." ”

"Why is that?"

"The size of the house is the basis of the government's household tax, divided into large households, medium households and small households, more than five acres are large households, the annual household tax is twenty times, five acres to one mu is the middle household, the annual household tax is five money, one mu is less than a small household, the annual household tax is consistent money, and later the Hui people also learned, they also according to the house area of the tax, covering an area of one acre of consistent money, covering an area of ten acres of ten yuan of money, so every household in Yunzhong County is a small household, covering an area of nine points of land, a total of 2,300 households, 1,800 households do pottery, but also farmingOther family members grow grain and vegetables, and raise cattle and sheep. ”

Guo Song nodded, pointed to the dilapidated houses with a horsewhip and said to Li Tie: "Brothers who work hard, take the time to demolish all these dilapidated houses and level out the land." ”

"Obey the order!"

At this time, a large group of people suddenly appeared in front, as many as thousands, kneeling on both sides of the road, and they shouted loudly, "We can't live anymore, Guo Yuanjun wants to be the master for us!" ”

Guo Song frowned and asked, "What's going on?" ”

Li Xun sighed, "It's still for the sale of pottery, I buy it at the market price, but they think the price I give is too low, but their own ceramics are poorly made, and I can't always accommodate them, so it's very unpleasant." ”

Guo Song thought for a while and said, "Let them elect ten deputies, and bring some pottery, and I'll talk to them to see if there is any solution." ”

"Envoy, they are insatiable, and they can't be too accommodating to them."

Guo Song nodded, "I know it in my heart, you can arrange it!" ”

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Guo Song came to the military camp in the city, which was the big tent where the Hui people were stationed in the past, and now it is garrisoned by the 3,000 Hexi Army.

There are 500 big tents, all of them are leather tents, warm in winter and cool in summer, in addition to 300 tents, the other 200 are warehouse tents, stacked with grain and grass materials, in addition, there are more than 100,000 sheep in the sheep and horse pen.

"In fact, in addition to leaving more than 100,000 loads of forage, the Hui people basically have no other materials, and now the food and other materials in the account are the logistics baggage left by the Yuan army in Lou Fu Pass, or the materials left by the Youzhou army."

"Is there a trebuchet in the baggage?"

"Yes! There were parts of ten large trebuchets that could be assembled, as well as two battering rams and twenty-five stone cannons. ”

"Install these defensive weapons as soon as possible, and I will leave you some large iron fire mines, so that at least I can ensure that Cloudsdale is safe and sound."

Li Tie was overjoyed, there was a large iron fire thunder, and they were really safe and sound.

At this time, a soldier ran over and said, "Envoy Qi, Li Tingshi has already arranged it." ”

Guo Song nodded and said to Li Tie: "I'll go to the city to have a look when I go back, you go and arrange the camp tent first!" ”

Li Tie saluted and left in a hurry, and Guo Song came to the state office.

The state government and the county government are one, Yunzhou has only one county in Yunzhong, the population is sparse, there is no need to build two sets of people in the state and county, it is basically two brands and one team.

In the hall of the county government, ten old men are sitting in a precarious position, they are the representatives elected by the people of the county, and on the table in front of them, there are more than a dozen large pottery, which is the work that the people in the county rely on to survive.

Guo Song walked into the lobby accompanied by Li Dian, and the ten old men got up one after another and saluted, "See Guo Yuanjun!" ”

Guo Song waved his hand and smiled: "Everyone, please take a seat!" ”

He came to the table and carefully examined the pottery on the table, and the ten old men next to him all looked at him with anxiety.

Frankly speaking, these pottery pieces are indeed rough in workmanship, bulky and heavy, and the craftsmanship is extremely poor, the thickness is uneven, the round mouth is not round, the base is unstable, the clay is not good, the surface particles are very large, it appears very rough, and there is no delicate beauty.

Guo Song frowned slightly, such a thing is really difficult to deal with, how would the Hui people buy such a thing?