Yao Pingkang is a cautious person.

Li Kou followed closely behind the soldiers, he watched Yao Pingkang line up in a marching formation under the mountain road, with two cavalry in front, three cavalry led by him in the middle, and three cavalry in the back, most of the infantry in the middle, a few infantry in the back, and the infantry behind drove the cart.

In addition, Yao Pingkang sent three more horsemen to explore the way ahead.

"Return!" Yao Pingkang waved his hand to let the horse go back.

The probe horse galloped out first, circling two or three miles away.

At this point, the snow is getting heavier and heavier.

Li Kou and Zhu Wen followed behind the car, the torches sounded, and the team silently marched towards Weizhou, occasionally falling spots on the car, which were congealed by the blood of the Western thieves and frozen by the wind and snow.

Li Kou sighed secretly, he really didn't like this era.

If he is at home at this time, the snow is falling on the road, and the street lamps render a small town as if it were daytime, he still has the heart to walk on the snow, and sends WeChat messages to his younger siblings to ask "Is this snow beautiful?"

At that time, the heavy snow also had the smell of coal, and the snow was crystal clear at this time, making it even more lovely.

But he couldn't love it.

After walking for two or three miles, Zhi Yanzhi suddenly said behind him: "Look! ”

Everyone looked back and saw the Iron Whip Temple blazing into the sky.

It turned out that Cao Xiu saw it really on the mountain, and when he saw Yao Pingkang's handsome army returning, he was angry for a while, and wanted to go down the mountain to find food and grass, but he didn't push open the secret room to see, there was not even a grain left in it, and he was cold and hungry, Cao Xiu was angry and set fire to an iron whip temple.

Li Kou suddenly felt a layer of water appear on his back.

If Yao Pingkang listened to his advice and left a few people in the Iron Whip Temple to guard-

Cao Xiu is a master, and he is very good at arrows.

If he comes to retaliate, he is afraid that a few soldiers will not be able to defend the Iron Whip Temple.

"I only think about the era of peace and stability in the present world, but it is not here, this is the border city of the Song Dynasty where wars occur from time to time." Li Kou was extremely vigilant.

It's a vigilance against himself.

At this time, he really knew what ancient times were, and what was called restless antiquity—this was the era of cannibalism.

"Don't talk too much about what you don't understand." Li Kou told himself in his heart.

Yao Pingkang didn't say anything, he turned the horse's head and came back to take a look, and saw Li Kou's expression was cold, he pursed his lips tightly, and couldn't help but look at this person in the firelight.

"It's a Han'er species from our Kansai region!" Yao Pingkang thought of this person's majesty of killing more than a dozen people with a spear, and he admired it in his heart, that is, he suddenly encountered more than a dozen western thieves, and he was afraid that he would be afraid of it.

So he said, "What is your name?" Dare to sit in the car? ”

Li Kou glanced at the car and said, "The living are not afraid." ”

But he didn't go to the car to sit down, and looked at Yao Pingkang's horse twice.

It's not as tall as the horse that his fifth grandmother's family used to raise.

Yao Pingkang smiled when he saw him looking at the horse: "This can't be given to you, but with your ability, if you really want to meet the thief again, you capture a few, take the horse, and if you have three, you can keep one horse, but you have to pay taxes for your own use, and the horse will cost 30 times, and if you can't be a military horse, the military horse must be more than 50 times." ”

This is what Li Kou can understand.

During the Song and Song dynasties, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei traditional horse breeding area was in the hands of the Khitans, and the Shandan Military Horse Farm in Gansu was in the hands of the Xixia people.

Li Kou asked, "If you are riding a military horse?" ”

Yao Pingkang simply jumped off the horse, and he couldn't bear to walk slowly in the snowstorm.

Yao Pingkang said: "Such a horse is also a good military horse, and one out of ten is not bad." ”

Li Kou looked at the horse, and he was afraid that it was no more than five feet from beginning to end.

This is supposed to be a Mongolian horse breed, not tall but full of stamina.

Sure enough, Yao Pingkang said: "This is from the grassland, but it is not a Liangzhou horse, although it is not resistant to rushing into battle, but walking on the mountain road is like walking on flat ground, and the endurance is much higher than that of Liangzhou horses. ”

Li Kou was vigilant, didn't this guy ask him to say this?

Yao Pingkang said: "The Sprinkle family asked you, do you want to join the army?" ”

Sure enough, it's for this.

Before Li Kou could answer, Zhu Wen immediately said, "Da Lang wants to study." ”

As soon as these words came out, Yao Pingkang immediately took a sip and said: "Read, read, read, what bird books, learn from those dirty hearts, it's not good to be happy." ”

He flew on his horse and went forward.

Zhu Wen told Li Kou: "Da Lang returned from Pingxia City alone, and he has a tutor, so he can't abandon his family." In this world, being a general, after all, is not as noble as an eight-grade county, once you make a part of these generals, it will be guarded against by the imperial court day and night. ”

Li Kou asked him to speak in a low voice and said, "I just need to go home." ”

Zhu Wenqi said: "How did Da Lang know where his home was? ”

"You can't be wrong, there is a guide in the dark." Li Kou diverted the topic and said, "When did you get to the inner city?" ”

Zhu Wen didn't want it, so he said that he would only arrive in the inner city on the evening of the 17th.

He recounted the scene in detail, and it turned out that when they arrived, the river was already frozen, and the government only asked them to ask Zuo for some wheat straw to live in for the time being, and called another group of early arrivals to build a large house outside the inner city, which was given to the displaced people when the city wall was repaired these days.

Zhu Wen asked again: "When did Da Lang go?" ”

Li Kou said: "When I arrived, I only saw that you were all in the river, and you were sheltered under the bridge piers, where you were sheltered from the wind," he asked rhetorically, "Why don't you go and settle under the bridge?" ”

"People deceive people at times, and there are many drowning people on the bridge at night." Zhu Wen said.

Li Kou understood in his heart that the locals bullied the homeless people and secretly ran out in the middle of the night to pee on the bridge.

That's a good time to clean up.

Zhu Wen said again: "There is another government notice under the bridge, which of the displaced people is willing to be next to the notice?" When I arrived later, I didn't get along with those people, so I looked for a sheltered place under the bridge and settled down, and I didn't want to meet Dalang. ”

Listening to him say that can explain some of the oddities.

Li Kou only said: "No wonder you haven't found my food and clothing hidden behind the bridge piers." ”

The two of them were not sleepy when they spoke, and after a while, they could see the fire on the wall of Weizhou Guo from afar.

The scout in front galloped to the city, checked the military order documents early, and when the brigade arrived, the suspension bridge fell on the city, and it turned out that the jack gate did not fall at this time.

Li Kou didn't look at the Weizhou city defense at night, he just wanted to see something as soon as possible, but he could go back to the ravine to find some familiar breath earlier.

The team entered the city, the soldiers greeted each other with a smile, Yao Pingkang shouted and scolded loudly and didn't know who to greet, and after a while, Zhi Yanzhi and Teacher Zhou took Wang Xiaoyi to the side of the army, and seemed to go straight to the inner city.

Zhu Wen said in a low voice: "Wang Xiaoyi is casting artillery, and Da Lang gave him treasures, Zhe Yanzhi must take him to see Zhe Jinglu first, it is inconvenient to greet here, let them go." ”

Li Kou said: "When are we going to see Zhe Keshi?" ”

"Da Lang must restrain some rebelliousness, when he settles down, with Da Lang's ability, he will definitely have a future above the Zhi clan, but at this time, you can't call him by his name, less trouble, more comfortable." Zhu Wen persuaded.

Li Kou nodded and said, "It's up to you." ”

Zhu Wencai said: "It's getting late today, I'm afraid that I won't see it until tomorrow, and I hope that the day after tomorrow will send us to build the city wall - but Da Lang is not old enough to be afraid that he can't eat that bite of food, Mo Ruo will go, I will go to build the city wall, Da Lang will take a look at the scenery of Weizhou first?" ”

Li Kouxin said: "It turns out that people don't want it when they are not old." ”

He had a plan in his heart, and only said that he would see it in the future.

It's just that tonight we won't let him and Zhu Wen wait all night outside the Jingluo Envoy's Gate, right?

The snow is getting heavier and heavier.

Zhu Wen was familiar with this kind of operation, so he said that he should send them to find a small family reunion first.

The government is not afraid that they will run away at night.

"It's just that there's nothing wrong with that, and I only know the usual arrangements." Zhu Wen said.

Li Kou guessed that he was afraid that he would fall on the glass he took out.

At this time, Yao Pingkang came over with a black face and said: "You two are also good hands, and the family will be your guarantor, and you will go to make peace with the family, but don't forget, you must settle down in the store outside Zhang Yuan's house for a long time. ”

He glared at Li Kou, and rode his horse to the west gate of the inner city first.

This guy is also a cool person, Li Kou thought to himself.

He was also eager to find a sheltered conservatory earlier, and he had to introspect after doing a few things today.

Cao Xiu will come to retaliate, and this is one of them.

Someone will ask for the glass bottle, and it doesn't hurt to give it, but if you ask for it every day, it will be a trouble.

The second is something that I haven't thought about in detail.

There is also this third, which is Zhiyan's attitude towards him and Yao Pingkang's hot and cold views.

These two should be the best among the young people in Weizhou, and the two of them have to guess carefully.

As for the notes that warn oneself that "he is not an all-rounder, he must be cautious in his words and deeds if he does not know what to do".

In addition, when others build cities, what will he find to make a living?

Is there a place where you can't settle down and restless?

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"I heard that the rebel thief has three volumes, one is called "Knowing People", and then it is called "Governor's Record", and it is also called "Self-Knowledge", it can be seen that it is cunning and insidious, and it is as far as Si, but his people have a good way, and the skill of controlling people can be described as superb, Your Majesty is concerned that the people with equipment in each imperial camp have two hearts, and they can be used to the thief as the standard, and they are accustomed to the technique, and the other is the art to strengthen Your Majesty's might, isn't it beautiful?"

—— "The Book of the State, the Book of the Pseudo-Dynasty, Qin Hui's Book of Gaozong on the Matter of Controlling the Rulers"

"The emperor has three books, one is "Knowing People", the second is "Governor", and the third is "Self-Knowledge". "Knowing people", recorded from the previous dynasty Huizong Daguan three years ago, the beginning of the dynasty, during this period for the emperor to know, encountered, how its ability, how to behave, how the advantages and disadvantages, one by one detailed preparation, the emperor so control people, teach to make up for the shortcomings, so that the perception of the strengths also, the emperor tastes all over the generals and ministers, all one by one.

"Governor" is based on the shape of mountains and rivers, customs and customs, and the foundation of educating all people, the so-called 'four wilderness and eight wildernesses, those who enter China, will be treated with China, regardless of Huayi, where Xuanyuan is the ancestor, I love it as one'.

"Self-Knowledge" is a volume of more repairs and deletions, for the emperor's self-examination policy, the wording is harsh, not to be above his own people for no scruples, so the emperor takes the world, and the Zhao family asks for half of the country and cannot get it.

These three volumes can be regarded as the foundation of the "Selected Works of the Li Family", and by the time of the National Dynasty, middle schools had been adopted as teaching textbooks. Those who attack the puppet dynasty with the 'theory of controlling people' are stupid, and they are really a bunch of stupid people. ”

——Li Qingzhao, "A Collection of Small Words: Refuting the Pseudo-Dynasty's 'Theory of Controlling People'"