What should a city have?

It should have a constant stream of people coming in and out of the city, vendors walking through the streets, shops in the city soliciting customers at the door, horses and mules neighing and donkeys laughing, adults laughing, children crying, men smoking mothers-in-law, mothers-in-law scolding the streets......

All kinds of sounds are the scenery of the city, this is what a normal city should look like, it is not like Xizhou is silent everywhere, revealing a sense of despair and despair.

Li Su is a special driver in Xizhou, the second largest person in the city, although Cao Yu did not arrange any duties for him, but after all, he is the other driver of Li Shimin's personal decree.

While walking and looking, every corner of the city, every detail, and the expression on everyone's face were all taken into Li Su's eyes.

Thinking of Cao Yu's frank admittance to the dangerous situation in Xizhou, Li Su gradually became anxious in his heart.

In the environment surrounded by wolves, Xizhou is still in the hands of Datang, relying on nothing more than the aftermath of Li Shimin's annihilation of the Eastern Turks in the sixth year of Zhenguan, so that the neighboring countries in the Western Regions are cautious and dare not act rashly, and now the armies of the neighboring countries have turned into bandits and looted everywhere in the jurisdiction of Xizhou, these actions are obviously testing Datang's reaction and seeing where Datang's bottom line is to tolerate them.

Li Su is very sure that in the near future, the situation in Xizhou will change dramatically, and the countries of the Western Regions, especially Gaochang and the Turks, have long held a grudge against the Tang Dynasty, and the long-suppressed contradictions will inevitably break out at some point. Relying on the low earthen walls on all sides and the soldiers of less than 3,000 people in just two Zhichong Mansions?

"Brother, how about accompanying me to the city wall and looking around?" Li Su said with a smile.

There was a pause. Then he said with a smile: "Li Beijia has this Yaxing, and the villain should accompany him." ”

So Na Yan led the way and led Li Su towards the city wall.

Walk through a straight and humble north-south street. Na Yan led Li Su and his entourage Jiang Quan, Wang Zhu, Zheng Xiaolou and others to the south city wall, it was already evening, the afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on the rammed earth of the city wall, covered with a layer of golden light, and the oncoming hot wind mixed with a little yellow sand and dust. Add a bit of desolation to this lonely city.

Under the city wall, Li Su looked solemnly at the wall, which was made of rammed earth and sand. After years of wind and frost, many places on the wall have cracked, and after staring at it for a long time, Li Su suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed the wall. Push hard. Then he grabbed a handful of loess.

Watching the loess in his hand turn into dust and drift away with the wind, Li Su's expression became more and more gloomy.

Who can such a wall prevent? A round of death-forgetting charges, plus a siege stake, is enough to break the city.

Xizhou seems to be strong, but up close, it is actually very fragile, and now it has not been broken by the enemy, not by defense and combat power. It was the former Tang Yu Wei, and Yu Wei. After all, it was only once, and it will soon fail, and when the armies of foreign races gather outside the city of Xizhou one day, it will be the real end of Xizhou.

Standing quietly in front of the city wall with a gloomy expression, I don't know how long it took, Li Su suddenly smiled: "That brother, you have traveled from south to north, you have seen the most, and you have walked through the most cities, can you tell me, how is this city wall?" ”

Na Yan smiled bitterly and sighed: "Li Beijia is actually very clear in his heart, why bother asking the villain?" ”

Li Su smiled, turned his head to look at Jiang Quan, Jiang Quan's expression was more gloomy than him, he was the Guoyi Lieutenant of the Right Guard, and all he saw on weekdays was the impregnable city wall of the Chang'an Forbidden Palace, how could he have ever seen such a dilapidated and fragile earthen city wall? He is a military general, and the military general knows better than anyone what such a fragile city wall represents, and if a foreign enemy attacks the city, in order to defend this dilapidated city wall, I don't know how many more soldiers' lives will have to be paid.

Looking at Jiang Quan's ugly face, Li Suxiao asked, "What does General Jiang think?" ”

Jiang Quan snorted heavily, turned his head to the side, and said, "It's just rags." ”

Li Su pondered for a moment and said, "If 10,000 enemy troops attack this city, how many days can General Jiang defend it?" ”

Jiang Quan snorted: "If other generals in this city defend the city, this city will not last for a day, and if the last general is changed to defend the city, it can be held for three days at most." ”

Li Su blinked: "What about three days later?" ”

Jiang Quan said heavily: "The city is broken, people die, only death!" ”

Li Su stood quietly for a long time, everyone's eyes were focused on him, looking at his smiling and yin face, everyone dared not speak.

After a long time, Li Su grabbed a handful of loess from the city wall, and slowly rubbed his hands, and the loess turned into fine dust in Li Su's hands in the blink of an eye, drifting away with the wind.

Li Suhaha smiled, clapped his hands, and said, "Let's go, go back to the camp." ”

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Li Su is a mortal and a lazy person, when he came to this world, he just wanted to live in peace and comfort until he was old, and the biggest ideal in his life was to lie on a bed full of money and be lazy to death.

An ordinary lazy person who doesn't have much ambition, he doesn't bother to pick it up with his hands even when the wealth and fame are sent to him, however, this ordinary and lazy person also has a bottom line, the bottom line is very low, so low that it is unimaginable, that is, keep breathing until seventy or eighty, and it is best to breathe when he is one hundred years old, then thank God.

Look, with such a low bottom line, it should be very down-to-earth and close to reality, right?

However, in Xizhou, the situation and current situation in Xizhou obviously violated Li Su's bottom line, Li Su calculated left and right, with the current situation and current situation, it seems difficult to keep breathing until the age of eighty, once there is a foreign invasion, Li Su's breathing will probably stop at the age of seventeen, and it is very likely that the enemy will chop his head with a knife in the chaos of the army.

After saying goodbye to Na Yan, Li Su led Jiang Quan, Wang Zhu, and Zheng Xiaolou to the camp outside the city, silent all the way, and the atmosphere was depressing.

Walking into the gate of the camp, the soldiers on duty saluted Li Su and the others, and Li Su nodded lightly in response.

Jiang Quan held back his words all the way, and seeing that Li Su was about to return to the handsome account, he finally couldn't help but ask.

"Li Beijia specially inspected the city wall today, do you intend to rebuild it?"

Li Su paused, turned to look at him, and said with a smile: "General Jiang thinks that to rebuild the walls of a city, what does it take first?" ”

Jiang Quan said without thinking: "I need bricks, bluestone, glutinous rice juice, sand, ......."

After saying a lot, Li Su shook his head with a smile: "Bricks, bluestones, these things, they will not fall out of thin air, so the reconstruction of the Xizhou city wall first needs a very important thing......

Jiang Quan was stunned: "What is it?" ”

Li Su sighed: "First of all, of course you need money, you need money for eating, you need money for drinking, and of course you need money to build a city wall, who will play with you if you don't have money?" Could General Jiang often eat overlord meals in Chang'an City? ”

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PS: Oops, I just found out that today's homepage was pushed...... I'm so happy, I'm so happy...... Let's have a few monthly passes to cool off together...... (To be continued......)