The cold winter is coming, the icy drizzle has taken away the last trace of autumn, and everyone knows that after this autumn rain, Yanhu Lake ushered in the cold of winter.

The weather in the Wuyue Continent is colder than normal, the sequelae of the natural punishment disaster thousands of years ago still exists, no matter spring, summer, autumn or winter, it will be ten degrees colder, Chi Qiu sat in the teahouse on the side of the street, feeling the purity of nature, the air in the rain is refreshing and fresh, adding a bit of chill, and also has a bit of poetic taste.

Once upon a time, Chi Qiu also wanted to take the route of a giant in the literary world, but unfortunately he was a man of the army and had a ...... about poetry Ay...... It's hard to put into words. There are only a few popular poems that can be memorized, not to mention these, even if he can recite "Qinyuan Spring. Snow" is a popular swan song for the ages. He didn't dare to show it off, if he plagiarized it, it was estimated that the second prince would not let him garrison Yanzhou and leave Guanzhong half a step away. As a modern person, Chi Qiu thinks that he can't do the things that make his brothers go to the wall, and since he can't do it himself, he can only hope that others will have compassion. For this reason, he has not had time to protect himself all these years, how can he do something to add fuel to the fire?

Winter is about to begin, according to previous records, the Yellow River will soon be frozen, these years, the Yellow River ice period is getting shorter and shorter, indicating that the weather is gradually returning to normal, but it will still freeze every year. The wharf of Yanhu Lake is extremely busy at this moment, and the merchants who come and go from the south to the north are anxious to dock their boats, either to unload the goods or to go west as soon as possible, because no one knows whether this year's freeze will spread to the Huai River.

Weishan Lake as a big lake, nearly a hundred years has not been frozen several records, Pengcheng to Yanhu line shipping is no problem, but the surrounding canal is not necessarily, business or business should be sooner rather than later, otherwise once frozen, even if you ask someone to chisel ice, pull fiber consumes a lot, the gain outweighs the loss.

The two major alliances between the rivers: the East China Sea Alliance and the Bohai Sea Alliance fought for twenty or thirty years, and the dust settled five years ago, and the perennial war made many lords bankrupt, merchants lost their money, and the people sold their heads. Yanhu is not a prince who likes to fight, there is no foreign war, every person in power, when the internal problems are serious, will use the war to divert the attention of the people, to put it more simply, kill people, spend some money, grab something, let the unemployed vagrants join the army, let the orphans and widows take over the men who go out to serve as cheap labor, and let the internal personnel flow.

It's a pity that Yanhu Lake is very peaceful, what is surging under this tranquility? Gather too many displaced people and build more porridge shops, and contradictions will always be aroused. If it weren't for the Tianshan Mountains, Chi Qiu forcibly carved out a large piece of land to establish a corps system, allowing the Han people to reclaim it, but if it wasn't for the coincidence that Shating entered the customs and moved back tens of thousands of people, otherwise the contradictions between the various ethnic groups in the Western Regions and the Han people may still intensify, and I dare not imagine the consequences, it must be hell on earth.

But Yanhu did not give these displaced people land, but let them hover inside and outside the city. Although the construction of the outer city wall requires some labor, this progress is not enough to alleviate the pressure of the influx of population, does Yanhu really plan to supply porridge until the beginning of spring next year or the year after next year? Chi Qiu expressed puzzlement.

At this time, more than a dozen ships with the same shape on the wharf aroused Chi Qiu's idea, a team of soldiers disembarked, the neat team, beautiful uniforms made people's eyes shine, Chi Qiu pulled the shopkeeper to ask, only to learn that this is the army of the Lu Song Dynasty, probably with the Song army of the "Xitian Xing Camp" thirty miles outside the city, and some of the Song troops in the camp are good to return to Jiangnan for the New Year.

Yanhu and Lusong are on good terms, and the Songjun army has a camp in Yanhu, with a garrison of about 500. After all, after Shating entered the customs, the strategic goal was naturally transferred to the Central Plains and Bashu, and it was precisely because of the Song Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River that the Pavilion would agree to the second prince's surprise attack plan, the Pavilion Emperor had been fighting in the Western Regions for decades, as a Pavilion Emperor of nearly sixty years, he was able to unify the Western Regions in this life, and it was already exhausting his mind and even his character, occupying Guanzhong was definitely an unexpected joy, but people's desires were always difficult to satisfy, how did he not know that Shating had only been in the customs for five or six years, and the foundation was unstable, But Lu Song gradually infiltrated the river, in addition to forming an alliance with Yanhu, he also re-established the Qingzhou Mansion (governance: Qingdao, non-Jinan), so that the Pavilion Emperor felt that if he did not intervene in the river again, it was very likely to be suppressed by Lu Song.

I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, this surprise attack failed, and Chi Qiu knew in his heart that in the future game between Shating and Nansong, the Shating Empire, which occupies the geographical advantage of Guanzhong, is very likely to fight with the Lusong Imperial Kingdom, which occupies the advantages of people and people, can only fight for time in the end. What Shating needs is time to integrate Guanzhong and envelop Bashu; In fact, what Lu Song needs is time to integrate the river, the Central Plains, and the victory or defeat of the war depends on whose strategic layout is faster.

After Song Jun disembarked, most of them rested outside the city, and a squad of officers marched all the way from the long street where Chi Qiu was located, and the destination was naturally in the direction of the city lord. The familiar uniform, like the military uniform of Chi Qiu's era, even the belt, locks, and epaulettes are almost the same, Chi Qiu couldn't help but stand up and watch with other Yanhu civilians, three people formed a team, only six Song Army, just walked out of the momentum of a team, Chi Qiu's heart sank, could it be that Lu Song has completed the reform of army modernization? When the head of the school approached, Chi Qiu was even more cold, although he still wore a sword, but the holster around his waist showed that Song Jun already had a single firearm, that is, a pistol, but looking at the length, it may still be a relatively old large-caliber flintlock pistol. But what does it mean, Chi Qiu is still like a mirror. Sure enough, I still have to go out and take a look, I have stayed in the Western Regions for too long, and the frog at the bottom of the well.

Chi Qiu sits down dejectedly, is it possible that Shating will rise and become a nation that can sing and dance? Although he is a Huaxia heart, he is always a little unwilling, after all, the establishment of the Shating Empire has his hard work.

Sitting on the chair for a long time, drinking a few sips of warm tea, the thoughts were taken back, the wheel of history will always move forward, and he has finally set off a small wave in it, which is worth his life, Chi Qiu turned the small thoughts of the "mixed" days in his heart a few times, thinking that he had only been in the river for less than a month, and he had known so many beauties and pretty women, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said to himself: "Maybe the true meaning of my life is to be mixed in the Wuyue Continent, surrounded by all the beauties, and the pretty maids are serving, and the rest of my life is enough." ”