Chapter 179: Mutual Pit
Coming down from the city gate, Sun Xiangfu immediately looked at Xi Junmai to ask questions, no matter at any time, he was most concerned about his own safety, when his life was in the hands of others, he couldn't sleep well.
"This person should be a master taught by a famous teacher since he was a child, just by looking at the finger power, you know that this person must be a master of using arrows." Xi Junmai rarely commented on one person in a pertinent way.
"Master with arrows? No wonder you dare to say that even if you hide in the army, you can't guarantee your life, that, how is your archery skills? ”
Sun Xiangfu also saw the guards training archery in Happy Village, and he pulled the bow himself, with his arm strength, he couldn't even pull a stone bow, Xi Jun bought a bow and archery is very easy, but people who are really good at archery generally have many years of military career, Xi Junmai has been following Sun Xiangfu since he came out, but it is very different from his original growth trajectory, I don't know if there is talent in this area.
"What a certain is best at hand-to-hand combat, although archery skills have passed, but they are not the top in the army, and there should be some gaps compared to that Wang Xu."
Although Xi Junmai said his specialty with a hard mouth, he also had to admit that his talent in archery was only in the middle and upper range, and the most capable of shooting in the Tang Army was Xue Rengui, who had not yet debuted, and the rest of the generals did not seem to be specialized in this way.
"Well, this kind of long-range attack means guards still have to be practiced, but we are friends with Wang Xu now, and when the problem of Liang Shidu is solved, we will return to Chang'an, and he will have nothing to do with us."
Sun Xiangfu drew a big cake for Wang Xu, whether he eats it or not, it depends on whether Wang Xu is hard enough, but whether he eats it or not, for Sun Xiangfu, as long as he is willing to eat, his goal will be achieved.
The development of the Hetao is as significant as the development of Lingnan, once the grassland can be successfully turned into a suitable place for farming, it will open another door for everyone, and at that time, the Great Wall will no longer be a wall to prevent foreign invasion, but a shackle to limit the outward expansion of the Han people.
After returning to the territory of the death row camp, the captain of the war inspector looked at Sun Xiangfu with more awe in his eyes, there are not many people who can be invited as guests by the prince of the Taiyuan Wang family, and they take the initiative to meet and passively invite wine, so they don't even dare to shout at those death row prisoners who are close to Sun Xiangfu.
"General Niu has an order, the death row camp will start early tomorrow morning and march for eighty miles a day, ensuring that the army can reach the city of Mayi, the seat of Shuozhou, within five days."
"On this snowy day, you walk eighty miles a day? Moreover, if you go down a maximum of two hundred miles, you will find the enemy-occupied area of Shuozhou······"
The death row prisoners did not dare to say much about the captain's order, but Sun Xiangfu raised objections, but looking at the captain's expression, Sun Xiangfu also knew that this matter was not discussed, in the Tang Army, even the junior officers did not dare to question the commander's order, not to mention the death row prisoners who had no human rights.
After the captain walked away, Sun Xiangfu said to Xi Jun, "Li Dudu wants to launch a surprise attack on Shuozhou, it is not strange to give such a military order, but these people are not wrapped in cotton armor like us, it is estimated that they will not be able to hurry so quickly, send them our spare armor, in addition, from tomorrow, we will also distribute the food we brought to them, I only hope that Wang Xu's letter will go fast enough, and when we arrive in Shuozhou, we don't have to face the butcher's knife of the Shuozhou army." ”
The people in the death row camp are not only used for passage, but also for testing, if the Liang division is on guard against the imperial army, these people will be killed, and the army only knows the truth of the Shuozhou army at the lowest price.
At night, torches were lit in the camp outside the city that was divided into a large army, and when the people of the death row camp were all gathered by the guards and distributed to them thick cotton armor, the death row prisoners were moved to kneel down to them, in fact, a guard only had a spare armor and two spare horses, and could not equip all the people, and some people who were really unbearable took the initiative to give up the opportunity to wear armor, but there were clothes taken off by those who wore armor, which made them wear thicker.
"Let's build a snow plow overnight! One can pull three or four people, so those who can't ride horses can get faster. ”
After everyone deployed the materials that could be used, Sun Xiangfu said.
"Your Excellency, I'm going to cut down trees and make rakes."
Thirteen-year-old Guo Kui's body has not yet grown, Sun Xiangfu willingly gave him his own set of spare armor, but it was obviously a little too big to wear, Sun Xiangfu beckoned him to come over, and asked the guards to find a few pieces of rope to help him tie the cuffs and waist tightly, Guo Kui suddenly felt warmer in his body, he looked at Sun Xiangfu with a smile, and wanted to say words of gratitude, but he didn't know how to use words.
"I'm not an adult, I'm a death row prisoner like you, see this thing around my neck, don't look at him wrapped in fur, it's actually a shackle, and now I'm being shackled!"
"I heard these armor-piercing big brothers call you that, so I shouted after them, if I don't die, can I follow you like them." Guo Kui looked at Sun Xiangfu very expectantly.
"Oh, yes! If we hadn't died in Shuozhou, we would have been good brothers. ”
"I, hey, hey······"
Guo Kui still didn't know what words to use to express his happiness, so he jumped up and down and followed the guards to get wood to make snow plow rakes.
"The stupid person is honest, this baby is a good seedling, if he can not die, he can receive his hands, and he can serve you for a lifetime."
After Guo Kui walked away, Tang Fengyi ran out of nowhere, looked at Guo Kui's back and said.
"I said Old Tang, can you not think of everyone as so utilitarian, by the way, do you want to know what I talked about with Wang Xu?" Sun Xiangfu glanced at Tang Fengyi unhappily.
"Hehe, you are the most interest-oriented person the old man has ever met, but I'm curious that people like you sometimes have Li Tang's interests at heart."
Tang Fengyi didn't say anything about Sun Xiangfu's actions when he was in Lingnan before! It can be regarded as a general idea, for some of Sun Xiangfu's style of doing things, he is an average person, after analysis, he got a conclusion similar to Li Shimin, too much like a businessman who must be compared, and went to Lingnan, and the things that Lingnan can create benefits for him are almost not let go. After a trip to Jiaozhi, he didn't let go of the things that Jiaozhi could bring him benefits.
It's just that such a person can cooperate with Feng An, and he gives up a lot of interests, just to help those barbarian people in Lingnan improve their lives.
can also be willing to risk the crime of killing the head and kill the envoy of the Wa Kingdom who did illegal things in the Tang Dynasty, of course, Tang Fengyi was imprisoned at that time, and all he knew was the adapted story, in fact, Sun Xiangfu's killing of the dog Ertian Yu was indeed for the benefit of the Tang Dynasty.
"Is there a conflict between loving money and loving the country?"
"Didn't you?"
"I don't think it's at all, a genius like me can be patriotic and earn money at the same time! By the way, aren't you really curious about what I talked to Wang Xu? Sun Xiangfu didn't chat with Tang Fengyi about what kind of person he was, and asked again.
"What's so curious about this, if it weren't for some exchange of interests, you know that Wang Xu has a way to deal with Liang Shidu, and Wang Xu needs your help to deal with his two elder brothers. Looks like you've got it done. "Tang Fengyi's old god is here.
"So you don't worry about the danger of going to Shuozhou at all, you didn't even fight for a set of cotton armor for yourself, what makes you so confident in Wang Xu?" Sun Xiangfu glanced at Tang Fengyi, who was still dressed as before.
"Hehe, the old man doesn't have confidence in Wang Xu, but in Wang Rui, the contemporary head of the Wang family, Liang Shidu is just a dry bone in the mound, Wang Rui can't see it, so in order to minimize the loss of the Wang family, when the imperial army arrives at Shuozhou City, it is the time when Liang Shidu is headed." Tang Fengyi is still the same way.
"Day, I thought I had cheated Wang Xu, but it turned out that he had cheated him."
As soon as Tang Fengyi said this, Sun Xiangfu immediately reacted and took the initiative to come to the door, but it was really no good, it turned out that this Wang Xu was also a difficult character.
There must be a large number of industries of the Wang family in the land of Shuozhou, in order to keep these industries from being damaged, they originally had the intention of killing Liang Shidu and minimizing the loss, and Wang Xu used a thing he was going to do to make Sun Xiangfu agree to his request and help him win the position of the heir of the family for two years, this transaction was simply too cost-effective for him.
"What, what did you promise him?"
Tang Fengyi's teasing expression has been revealed, just wait for Sun Xiangfu to say it, he will laugh out loud, he has been playing his own little abacus in his heart, showing his talent in front of Sun Xiangfu, and gaining dependence, this can ensure that he will not die, maybe there will be a chance to make a comeback.
"Oh, it's nothing, it's just to fool him into going to the grassland to open up wasteland and farm."
Sun Xiangfu secretly said Fortunately, with Feng Zhidai's reminder before, he thought hard of a strategy to trap Wang Xu, otherwise he would have lost money in this transaction.
"Hehe, you kid is also a good person, where is the land on the grassland so easy to plant, I'm afraid it's easy to plant, but it's difficult to harvest, how can Wang Xu be so unwise?"
Tang Fengyi wanted to laugh at Sun Xiangfu for a few words, and then put forward his own suggestion, but found that this kid didn't seem to be fooled, but, with Wang Xu's wisdom, he shouldn't listen to Sun Xiangfu's nonsense! So, just laughed dryly twice, and raised his own questions.
"Of course I know that growing food on the grassland is easy to attract bees and butterflies! But if you don't, how can you survive three battles without dying? ”
"You, you're doing this to save us death row inmates?"
"What, don't you think I'm great?"
"This, no, no, what did I say earlier? Yes, how could Wang Xu be so unwise as to agree to your suggestion of cultivating grain on the grassland. Tang Fengyi patted his head and found the key point of the problem.
"Is that hard to guess? Do you think these families in the north will have nothing to do with those Hu people outside the Guan? Don't say that you don't know where the salt and iron of those Hu people come from, other people may not be able to open up wasteland and farm land on the grassland, but they can do it. ”
Hearing this, Tang Fengyi's body was shocked, and after a long time, when he looked at Sun Xiangfu again, there was a trace of awe in his eyes, he could see this layer, and the person who thought of this plan was really a person with great wisdom.