On the cyan mat or cyan tatami mat in the study, Empress Xiao and Yi Lazy each knelt behind a low table and wrote.

On the table in front of Lu Ning, there are local fruits and dried seafood, Lu Ning has no requirements for tongue desires, and at this moment, he is sitting cross-legged without instrumentation, holding the table with his arms on the table, and thinking about things with his cheeks.

Huang Baoyi knelt beside him and gently fanned the fan for him, and at the end of spring, this new Qi city gradually became hot.

The three beauties are all wearing brightly colored kimonos and snow-white socks, and the fragrance lingers in the room, full of spring.

Empress Xiao and Yi Lazy both wrote a reply letter to the right minister Fujiwara Shisuke, according to Lu Ning's meaning, in the letter to explain that the Heavenly Army came here, originally to clear Ezo and pacify the sea frontier, but did not want this barren land, thieves are prevalent, and the barbarian people call the royal lord, and even colluded with Ezo to resist the Heavenly Army, so they were exterminated one by one, the remnants of the bandits, educated, and implemented the national policy of great Qi leniency, and included them as Qi people, and finally made the barbarians gradually disappear in the north of Xinqi City.

As for Tsushima Island, it is said that the Great Qi will exterminate the Daoyi and return Yinshan Island to the land of civilization.

Probably this is the meaning, but how to phrase it, there is intimidation in Kuanren, and it shows that the Qi people have no idea of continuing the southern invasion, and the writing is extremely decent, and it can withstand the test of history in later generations, etc., Lu Ning handed it over to Empress Xiao and Yi Lazy, and asked them to write a reply letter and choose the best one among them.

Of course, this reply letter will be stamped by Yang Ye and sent to Heianjing in the name of the Governor of Andong Prefecture.

And after Yelu Sage was captured by the Jurchens of the East China Sea, Empress Xiao and Yi Lazy not only had some subtle changes in their attitudes towards Lu Ning, but the relationship between the two, which was not harmonious, became even more broken.

In fact, the two rarely saw each other, but this time they came to Dongying, but they were brought by Lu Ning, and they couldn't help but face each other day by day, and the slightly embarrassing atmosphere of the two meeting before gradually turned into a faint needlepoint to Mai Mang.

Generally speaking, although Yi Lazy married Yelu Sage in a political marriage, and within a few months of the marriage, Yelu Sage personally went to Youzhou, but she obviously still hopes that Yelu Sage will not be cut off her head, even if from the perspective of her own desire to survive, if Yelu Sage is cut off her head, she, the former queen, is committed to serving the enemy? It is the thinking of the steppe tribe, which is also a bit shameful, and if Yelu Sage is forgiven, from the customs of the steppe tribe, she will have a good reputation, and it is a valuable quality of the steppe woman to please the enemy in order to help her husband live.

Yi Lazy may not be constrained by the old customs of the grassland tribe, maybe she and Yelu Sage really have a relationship, after all, a night of husband and wife, the most intimate contact, will always make the two sides feel closer.

And Empress Xiao, after discovering that her husband's death was really inextricably related to Yelu Gong Sage, naturally hoped to execute Yelu Gong Sage, not to mention, Yelu Sage was her enemy, imprisoned her and ruined her reputation, and made her family a salt household, if it wasn't for the Qi people's Northern Expedition, she might have been killed in Yunzhou.

Yes, these two women, more or less, are a little secretly competitive.

This made Lu Ning laugh secretly in his heart, yes, it was to write a reply letter to the Dongying people, and also asked them to write together, and there was competition, which would naturally prompt them to make a splendid article.

While pondering, a woman's delicate voice came from outside, "The Lady of the Chengxiang Palace, the Lady of the Lijing Palace, the son of Shibata Masao, the lord of Sanshan Castle, Shibata Zhang Daiyu, the son of Shibata Masao, ask to see the Lord of the Castle Lord's General Hospital!" "The pronunciation is a bit stiff and inaccurate.

The maid of the Chengxiang Palace is Queen Xiao, and the maid of the Lijing Palace is lazy.

This name is the name of the Emperor's Daughter.

Emperor Toei has seven halls and five houses, and lives the most important concubines, princes (princes) and inner princes (imperial daughters).

Chengxiang Hall and Lijing Hall are among the seven halls.

And the emperor's most favored concubine will be crowned with the title of the queen, and the lady who has obtained this title will be the main candidate once the middle palace (queen) is vacant in the future.

When it comes to this Dongying, the real titles of Empress Xiao and Yi Lazy must be concealed, but they can't be too despised by them, after all, one is the county lord of North Korea, and the other is his own Baolin, so Lu Ning simply made fun, so he gave them a "Chengxiang Palace Female Palace" and a "Lijing Palace Female Palace" title, which is not a Central Plains title, but more of an interesting name for coming to Dongying, but in this Dongying land, it is a kind of honorific title.

There are also some of them, and the concubine of a four-rank official in Qi and Earth is about the same as the status of your emperor's most important concubine.

Listening to the voices outside, Empress Xiao and Yi Lazy both looked at Lu Ning.

Lu Ning bowed his head slightly and made a gesture.

Empress Xiao and Yi Lazy said in unison: "Come in, the main courtyard has something to ask you." ”

The felt paper lattice door was then opened, revealing a deep-eyed woman with a strong figure and some vigorous hair, and her soft voice was extremely incongruous, she was wearing a black hunter suit similar to Lan Chan back then, black cotton wool cloth armor, protecting the vital parts of the torso, Kong Wu's powerful arms and thighs, except for the elbows, wrists, knees and ankles protected by black cloth armor, the rest of the parts were mostly bare, so that there was a certain protection in the mountains and hills, and the action was light, but the whole person, It's like a hunter outfit with very sexy game power in later generations, of course, the Ezo hairy girl in front of Lu Ning can't be linked to sexy.

This kind of black armor is specially made for them, and only in Dongying, where the armament is not developed and there are even few bows and arrows, this kind of cotton wool cloth armor can play a protective role.

This hairy girl, Lu Lihua, was one of the first thirty-five Ezo slaves to be captured from Hokkaido.

Three years ago, for the first time, the Daiki Naval Division took slaves from Hokkaido and presented 35 Ezo slaves to the Kyoto Division.

It's just that Lu Ning was in the field at that time, and he didn't have any curiosity about these Ezo, so these thirty-five Ezo slaves were sent to Zhaoyuanwei, three of the male slaves died of castration infection, and the rest lived in peace.

This Lu Lihua, with great strength, can stand up to a few ordinary men, and is also very talented in ordnance, etc., and soon became the head of the team and the head of the Zhao Yuanwei regiment, and was given the surname of the country, and married Zhao Yuanwei An account verification, is a very good and beautiful young man in the Central Plains, this Lu Lihua, it can be said that his personal value and family are very complete.

This expedition to Dongying, Yongning remembered this person, and heard that after the sailor conquered Donglai City, the Donghai fleet was going to Donglai City, so he ordered her to accompany her and send her to the "General Institute of Culture" to see if she could be of any use.

Although Lu Lihua didn't know who the Wen General Yuan was, she had to be summoned by the queen mother and asked her to serve the "Wen General Yuan" like the Holy Son of Heaven.

When Lu Lihua arrived in Dongying, Lu Ning was just thinking about how to liberate the Xuanfu Battalion, after all, with the dispersion of troops, the Xuanfu Battalion was already an extremely powerful force with combat effectiveness, and if he always followed him as a bodyguard, he would not be able to play to his strengths.

It also happened to be out of the feather and the Mutsu Aodi, the men withered, and the proportion of women was extremely high, especially the Ezo men, who were killed by the He clan, and came by themselves, and killed again, and some of the prisoner groups, almost all of them were women.

Lu Ning thought about it for a long time, and had already ordered the first batch of immigrants from the Central Plains, and the objects selected were all singles, especially older young people were preferred.

In fact, at the same time as this edict was issued, it already represented that the land of Dewa and Mutsu had no room for failure, that is, Dongying could pour the strength of the whole country and mobilize forces that he did not expect to fight with him, and if the war was unfavorable, he would rather transfer troops and horses from the mainland, but also ensure that Dewa and Mutsu were firmly under the rule of Daqi.

At the same time, Lu Ning also recruited strong and healthy women to come to Xinqi City, similar to female maids, if they can be trained successfully, coupled with the servant security army like the samurai Ashigaru, at least the security of the city, there is no need to spend too much energy on the Xuanfu camp.

These female guards, Lu Ning called them Ji warriors, a total of 300 people, of which more than 250 were Ezo fierce women, these people who grew up in the ice and snow are indeed stronger than the southern ethnic groups, and the women's physique is incomparable to the women of the Central Plains.

There are more than forty people, all of whom are women of the He clan, some of them are really strong, but there are many of them, mainly because of their beauty, and many of them are powerful families who have been exterminated.

Of these three hundred Ji warriors, Lu Ning ordered Yi Lazy and Empress Xiao to take charge and train them.

Their main weapon is a new torsion crossbow from the Central Plains.

While developing the role of gunpowder on ordnance, the development of various crossbow arrows and ballistas in the Central Plains is also changing with each passing day.

This new type of crossbow uses leverage and twisting force to open the crossbow string by turning a small turntable at the crossbow machine, rather than relying on arm or waist strength.

Although the range of this crossbow is much shorter than that of the Central Plains Crossbow, the adjustment of Wangshan makes it more accurate, and it is ten times easier to train than training a Divine Arm Crossbowman, and a hundred times easier than training an archer.

However, now the Central Plains Forbidden Army has experienced a lot of elite soldiers in a hundred battles, and this kind of crossbow is not useful for a while, and it is not produced in large quantities.

This kind of light crossbow, known as the "Little God Machine Crossbow", has many advantages and disadvantages, and may only be used as a surprise soldier in a campaign that needs to temporarily replenish a large number of reserve pawns, but because of its characteristics that can become an army in a short period of training, this Eastern Crusade, Lu Ning brought some, originally prepared to equip the Ezo slave army and the Dongying servant army, but he didn't want to, so he used it for the female pawn first, but it also happened to be used for the female pawn.

Even these female pawns, Lu Ning hopes that they can really go to the battlefield, although they can not use it, but in critical moments, hope can also be used as a force.

In fact, don't say that the women of the Central Plains, as long as they become Qi Min, women of all ethnic groups, Lu Ning is the defender of the firm war to let women go away, however, this Ji warrior team, in Lu Ning's eyes, is not a woman, more than 80% of the Ji warrior team are Ezo fierce women, taller and stronger than many Dongying men, no matter their image or style, it is difficult to see them as women.

The most important thing is that from the bottom of his heart, Lu Ning has not yet regarded them as his own people.

Speaking of which, the vast majority of these Ezo women and Dongying women have lost their male relatives, some have lost their fathers and brothers, some have lost their husbands and even children, and some of the women's male relatives have died at the hands of the Qi people or the Qi people's servant army. However, they are all extremely stoic, Lu Ning sometimes observes them training, but sees that they are all extremely hardworking, as if, the women of these two ethnic groups have a natural obedience, admiration, fear and obedience to the strong.

I hope that this kind of loyalty can be rewarded and favored by the strong.

Now, they are, and even they are thrilled by a compliment of their own.

Moreover, they never shout excitedly, but silently express their excitement in a more perverted way, such as biting their lips, writing loyal words in blood on their foreheads, backs, and even chests, etc.

Lu Ning broke out in a cold sweat on his back, only feeling that the psychological state of this group was too deformed, and the emotions between the groups seemed to be contagious, originally, not all Ji warriors were like this, but those Ezo people who were not too civilized in their minds were the majority, but gradually, they were also infected to the women of the He tribe.

And now, Lu Lihua, who came in to deliver the letter, is one of the few Ezo girls with Central Plains thinking, and now, she is also the captain of this Ji samurai team.

Empress Xiao and Yi Lazy's so-called commanders trained them more of a supervision, and the instructors of the Ji warriors were actually this Lu Lihua.

She gently opened the grid door, knelt down, walked on her knees, and took a few steps in front of Lu Ning's desk, her body prostrate on the ground, "Lord of the General Academy, Shibata Masao's father, Shibata Zhang Dayou, the lord of Sanshan Castle, was killed by bandits in Murayama County in Michinoku Shanxi, Shibata Masao came to beg your lord, send troops to exterminate the bandits, and avenge his father." After a pause, "Those bandits, who claimed to be "driving the crowd", killed Shibata Manmen, and said that those who served the Qi people, they would all be killed! ”

Lu Ning bowed slightly, this Lu Lihua, who has lived in the Central Plains for more than three years, really opened his mind and knew what the key point was, and finally added these words, if it was Shibata Masao himself, it might not be an important thing to describe, but focused on his father's death, begging him to help him take revenge.

Driving the crowd together? Lu Ning nodded, sure enough, gradually approaching the native land of the Dongying people, and finally encountered the rebel army, in the northern region, it was against the Qi people, and it was also Haoqiang who fought to keep his town and land, and most of them had no awareness of being invaded by foreign races.

Shibata Masao's father, Shibata Daiyu, was originally a powerful man in Shibata County, southeast of Xinqi City, and ordered the foreign official Shibata County to escort the envoy.

After Lu Ning came to Xinqi City, he did not march south, but the counties in the south that originally belonged to the Dewa country were strong, and Lu Ning sent envoys to recruit them.

Shibata County, which was renamed Sanshan County, sent an envoy to appoint Shibata Daiyu as the lord of Sanshan Castle, and gave him the surname Zhang, and ruled Sanshan County.

The rest of the counties were the same, changing the county to the county, and appointing Hao Qiang as the lord of the renamed county guarding the city.

The counties of Dongying, many of them, are actually smaller than the ordinary counties of the Central Plains, and they are even more incomparable than those counties in the Central Plains and the border counties and border towns with a vast border territory.

Shibata Zhang Dayou was one of the few local tycoons who swore allegiance on the spot on the orders of the envoy, and then he expelled the nominal county guard.

Shibata Daiyou, and it became Shibata Zhang Daiyou.

Shibata is not their surname, but a Miao character, similar to the guy called Dayou from Shibata.

However, despite having a surname, when they officially reported the door, they still put the Miao character in front.

This habit, Lu Ning is thinking about helping them change it.

But I don't want to, this one is great, but now he is being killed by some "driving the crowd".

With a slight bow, Lu Ning said, "Ask Zhengxiong to come here to see me." ”

The area of Mutsu is too large, and in the north of Xinqi City, there are more than 20 counties occupied by Daqi, and there is a large area of barren Ezo in the far north.

In the south of Xinqi City, there are sixteen counties that belong to the Mutsu Kingdom, of which only the nearest counties are strong or have the real right to rule, and the rest are either false and unwilling or refuse on the spot.

If he doesn't help him take revenge, how can the heroes of the counties in the south of Xinqi City still believe in Daqi's promise?

Moreover, it is not just revenge, originally, the messenger sent out only gave the surname to Haoqiang himself, but did not clarify this surname, and his descendants can use it, mainly because he has not wanted to give the hereditary power of the lords of Haoqiang in the southern counties, if the descendants all give the surname together, I am afraid of sending them the wrong signal.

But now, at least this Shibata Masao also gave the surname Zhang, and made him hereditary rule of Sanshan Castle, which is also a signal to the heroes of the southern counties.

This temptation is bound to be full, and the hereditary city lord recognized by Daqi will make many heroes who originally refused to surrender change their ways.

Of course, both Dewa and Mutsu can be included in Qi soil.

These subordinate heroes made them attack the southern kingdoms, and in the future, they all moved to the southern city of the city lords, so that they could also create a buffer zone between the territory of Daqi and the lords of Dongying.

Of course, this is the result of the smoothest implementation of their intentions.

Who knows what will happen in the end? It's just a matter of looking at it step by step.

pondered, but saw Lu Lihua crawling backwards, out of the grid door under the wooden steps and wearing boots, then listened to the footsteps and walked away, and went to call Shibata Masao.