Words written before the update: Before the update, I was actually a little confused and hesitant. In the past few days, there has been a lot of noise, surprise, anger and other emotions. As a writer who concentrates on writing and rarely pays attention to other writers, for a while, I am really at a loss and don't know what to do. After hesitating for a long time, I decided to update. Over the years, the Gunners have been watching twice a day, and it has been a full 3,765 days since the horse stepped on the world, and the readers of the Gunners are also accustomed to seeing the Gunners' updates at 8 a.m. every day. Not for anything else, just for book lovers who can still see the efforts of the gunman when they open the pages at 8 o'clock in the morning! As for the rest, let's talk about it!

This wine was drunk until dawn the next day.

Then Liu Xinda personally sent Liu Santong out of the east gate.

Liu Santong slammed it to the ground deeply, and in the heavy package on his back, there were hundreds of taels of silver in several yards, which was Liu Xinda's gift to him. When he straightened up and hugged him, Liu Santong was already in tears.

Liu Xinda was also full of emotion, waved his hand and said: "Go ahead, it's good to be a farmer."

"Take care, General." Liu Santong choked up and said a word, turned around and strode away.

He knew that this parting would be forever.

He was a little reluctant, but it was just the love affair with Liu Xinda for more than ten years, the friendship between the top and bottom, it was all private feelings, and when it came to business, Liu Santong didn't feel that he owed the other party anything. At the time of the Battle of Pinglu, he had done his best.

Turning over the horse, his legs clamped hard, the war horse neighed softly, took small steps, and went straight into the distance.

In the whole Ezhou City, uninhabited, empty no man's land, there are occasional wild dogs and wild fox badgers are alarmed by the sound of horses' hooves and run away, but they do not escape very far, after escaping a distance, they stop and stop, turn around, and look at the knight curiously with their little eyes, but their backs are arched, but they are ready to flee again at any time.

Large areas that were once farmland are now covered with wild grass. This made Liu Sandong, who had already become a farmer, sigh secretly. Eyue is located in the middle, and the crops here should have grown better than those in Shandong, but now, the wheat seedlings in my house have grown above my knees, and here, except for weeds, I can't see anything.

War destroys not only human lives, but also human hopes.

After this battle, no matter who wins or loses, there will definitely be no harvest in this area this year.

Several horses appeared in front of them, leisurely munching on the grass, and when they heard the sound of horses' hooves, they all raised their heads and looked in the direction from which the hooves came, while at the same time, several knights in full armor also stood up from the grass.

Liu Santong rode straight towards them.

"Brother Liu, are you back?" The first person looked at Liu Santong, who was approaching on horseback, and said with a smile.

"It's back!" Liu Santong nodded, turned over and dismounted, and said, "Captain Zheng, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you, and I'll return in vain." General Liu's resistance was very resolute, and it was not something that I could be moved by words. ”

Zheng Shifu laughed, waved his hand, and didn't care: "I didn't have much hope." Didn't you come to us and say that you were going to do our best and obey the destiny of heaven? Gotta don't say anything about it first, get ready to fight. Brother Liu, what are your plans next? ”

"I don't have any plans, go back to my home in Jiaozhou, go to farming, and when I get home, the wheat will also be tasseled, which is the most critical time of the year. The agricultural official said that this year's rain may be a little insufficient, and irrigation must be guaranteed. "Liu San channel." There is a mother-in-law at home who takes out a few underage dolls, but she doesn't dare to go back late. ”

"Isn't there a Yixing Society that can help?" Zheng Shifu led the horse and walked side by side with Liu Santong.

"Yes, yes, but you also know that there are few men, women and children, the old and the weak, and every household needs the help of Yixing Society! For a person like me who has strong labor at home, if he can not trouble people, he will not trouble people! "Liu San channel.

The lack of strong men and the number of old and weak are the biggest problems in the entire Shandong province now. Although after the Yixing Society entered, it vigorously began to organize mutual aid groups in various places, but after all, there were still fewer porridge and more monks.

At the time of spring ploughing, there are a lot of contradictions, spring ploughing time does not wait for anyone, who comes first and who comes last, and the problem of coordination alone can make the government's head two big.

That is, after Zhang Xun took office as the governor of Tongdong Province, he relied on his own big head and enough face, so that Zuo Xiaowei, who was stationed in Shandong Province, supported a large number of soldiers to help the local dredge and build a water conservancy irrigation system, and finally solved part of the problem in the spring ploughing season, but as the war unfolded, after Zuo Xiaowei was pulled out, the problem of insufficient strong men became more and more serious.

"It's all Zhu Youzhen's bastard!" Zheng Shifu said angrily. During the Battle of Pinglu that year, for various reasons, the Tang army was hindered from quickly taking the entire Pinglu, so that Zhu Youzhen was able to plunder in Pingzhen, and a large number of strong men were taken away at that time, and then in the continuous war, some of these strong men died, and some were wrapped up and went to other places, and the entire Shandong Province will definitely not be able to recover in a short time. In his letter to the center, Zhang Xun bluntly said that if there was no return of a large number of strong men, it would probably take ten years for the entire Shandong province to return to prosperity.

That's a generation.

"I hope the war ends soon!" Another soldier on one side interjected: "Three times five divided by two, just kill the pseudo-beam." In this way, everyone has a good life. ”

"Of course!" Zheng Shifu turned over and said: "The pseudo-Liang is just a clown who jumps the beam, this time our hundreds of thousands of troops are besieging from several sides, and they won't be able to jump for a few days." When the world is peaceful, I will also go back to be a farmer, speaking of which, my family's land plus my Yongye field is hundreds of acres! ”

"Captain Zheng, you're joking, you work hard, but you can be a general." A soldier said.

"Far away from the general! It's still three levels away! Zheng Shifu smiled, "The higher you go, the more difficult it will be, and if you don't make a great contribution, it's difficult to go up again." How? Do you still want to be a general? ”

In the Tang military system, except for a very small number of special departments and some technical arms, ordinary soldiers, if they are not promoted to the rank of general or above, will be retired after a certain number of years. Only when you become at least a guerrilla general under the fifth rank can you truly become a professional soldier.

"Of course you have to fight. I'm just twenty years old! Before the age of twenty-five, if I can be promoted to colonel and captain, I can work until I am thirty years old, and when I am thirty years old, if I can be able to become a captain of Zhenwu, I can work for another ten years. In ten years' time, I can certainly try to attack the General. The soldier smiled: "My family is from Yizhou, there is not much land, and the family is more engaged in work or small business." ”

Yizhou Zhenzhou these places, is now the central area of the entire Beidi imperial court, but also the gathering place of foreign population, more and more people into the nationality, resulting in less and less land available for distribution, and industry and commerce under Li Ze's encouragement to rise in a big way, compared with agriculture, industry and commerce are more relaxed, and more money is made, resulting in more and more people in need there, like a sponge, constantly absorbing nutrients from other places. Many provinces have written to restrict the outflow of locals, but this proposal was categorically rejected by Li Ze.

Li Ze believes that the shortage of manpower is short-lived, and it is an inevitable pain in the process of a locality's development, and it is also the driving force for promoting the efforts of various localities to improve the local economy. It is only when people move that the economy can be revitalized, and if the number of people is confined to one place, it will be good for the local people in the short term, but in the long run, it will be bad for the whole country.

Li Ze disagreed, and this proposal was stillborn.

Now people are indeed moving, but they are moving to places with better economic conditions, like those territories that have just been reclaimed, and the officials are miserable. However, as Li Ze said, in order to attract locals not to run out, one by one policies to benefit the people have been introduced one after another.

"Brother Liu, in Ezhou City, there are a lot of fellow villagers in Pinglu when you were in Pinglu, right? What is their morale now? Zheng Shifu asked suddenly.

"Didn't come into contact with ordinary soldiers, just drank all night with the old general." Liu Santong said bluntly: "But after a shallow glance, it doesn't matter whether the morale is high or not, everyone is a little numb, right?" ”

"Ezhou City is not easy to fight!" Zheng Shifu Road.

"It's hard to fight!" Liu Santong was silent for a long time, he knew Zheng Shifu's intention to say this, but from the bottom of his heart, he really didn't want to say more. But after chatting for a long time, he finally got a little moved. The day before the war ended was indeed a blessing and blessing for ordinary people.

As an experienced general, he knew a rough idea of many arrangements in the city, even if he only glanced at them cursoly. Know where the focus is, where the weaknesses are, and where the pitfalls are.

After listening to Liu Santong's brief narration, Zheng Shifu nodded with satisfaction.

"Thank you, Brother Liu, with this information, our arrangement is more targeted. This could have reduced many casualties and saved many lives. This one, I will follow up and reflect it and credit Brother Liu. ”

Liu Santong shook his head bitterly: "Forget it, I'm a farmer, don't mention me if you want any credit." Just if I didn't say anything! ”

Zheng Shifulng proved for a while and nodded: "I understand, Brother Liu has a hard time." Just do what Brother Liu wants! ”

The few people stopped discussing this issue and marched along the river all the way to the east.

In this large no-man's land, you can encounter the scout cavalry of the Tang Army from time to time, which is why Zheng Shifu and others have been escorting Liu Santong away. The Liang army in Ezhou City had already given up patrolling outside at this time, and devoted all their thoughts to the defense of Ezhou City, and the only patrol direction was also to the north, to ensure the safety of the only passage between them and Yingcheng, Suizhou, Guangshui, and Xinyang. Maintaining this line is also a life-saving route for the Ezhou Liang army to retreat smoothly at the last moment.

Zheng Shifu suddenly stopped his horses, and on the river, there were dense sail shadows, the sound of military trumpets, the dense sound of war drums and the signal flag raised by Diao Touzhi, which made him suddenly excited.

"The water division, the water division under the command of Zheng Wenchang of Dongting, they are going to war with the Ezhou water division. We've got to find a good place to take a look. He said happily waving his arms.