According to Cao Anqing's explanation, these people were invited by Gu Wei, the official of the entrusted farm, and they were set to work for a long time, Cao Anqing said that it was expected that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would not have time to come over until the end of March and early April, so these people stayed here to take care of the farmland, and by the way, he explained that His Majesty's field was also taken care of.

Early the next morning, these people went to the prince's field to level and water, and because they did not explain what to plant, they went to turn over the emperor's field again.

On the third day, the emperor's land was leveled and watered, and then it became idle, and it was not good for them to have nothing to do there, so Gu Wei came over and asked them to help King Xin and King Lu.

Chang'an City.

The emperor's gaze left from the fold and glanced at the old general Su Mao: "The black warriors stationed 300,000 troops opposite Xifengkou, although it is more like fighting for territory with the Southern Courtyard, but these 300,000 people are there, and it is not easy to deal with them when they are in the north." ”

Su Mao pondered for a moment and said: "If you fight head-on with the black warriors, with all due respect, no matter how elite and strong the Daning soldiers are, it is just a one-for-one situation, the Southern Courtyard of the Black Martial Arts conservatively estimates that there are nearly one million troops, including the beggar army built with a lot of money, and the 50,000 people of the beggar army can beat the 300,000 people in the north courtyard to cry dad and call mother, but the Black Warrior Khan Emperor Samburu has suppressed it hard, if the black martial arts fight internally, it is not our Daning to take advantage, so if you want the northern expedition to go smoothly, the best way is to let the black warriors themselves mess up." , even if there is no way to let them fight, let them coordinate unsmoothly, dispatch and misunderstand, and the armies are suspicious and contain each other. ”

The emperor nodded: "On the northern side of Xinjiang, it may be necessary for the old general to go over in person at that time, the old general is already at this age, and I still have to force you to travel a long distance, and I am really uneasy." ”

Su Mao said with a smile: "If you fight the Black Warrior Minister, you will be twenty years younger. ”

The emperor also smiled: "If the old general is in the north town, Wu Xinyu will also be able to do things." ”

Of course, Su Mao understood what the emperor meant, although Wu Xinyu was already a general in Northern Xinjiang, his seniority and prestige in the army were not high, not to mention the eastern Xinjiang Peiting Mountain West Xinjiang talking about Kyushu, not to mention the Tang family, even now there are many people in the Northern Xinjiang army with higher qualifications than him, and there are so many generals under Tie Liuli who have been with him for more than 20 years, all of whom are arrogant people.

Wu Xinyu can barely suppress the northern frontier, and may not be able to suppress the soldiers transferred from all provinces, and the generals of the three northern frontiers may not be convinced by him, so the emperor is bent on letting Su Mao pass, and with him on Wu Xinyu's side, more than half of the people can be blown up.

"When is Your Majesty going to march?"

Su Mao asked tentatively.

"I haven't figured it out yet."

The emperor said: "The war in southern Xinjiang is continuous, and the days for the guards to be transferred back from Qiuli Island to rest and recuperate are not enough, when the northern Xinjiang guards are on the northern expedition, the southern Xinjiang will be transferred over, and it will take too long to travel for a long time, even if I order the transfer of troops now, it will take at least a year to mobilize the six guards from the south to go north and wait for them to go to the north, and the six guards will have to spend at least a year when they go to the north of Xinjiang, and the six guards will have nearly 400,000 auxiliary soldiers, and it will take a year to go." ”

"Where's the Mariner?"

Su Mao asked: "If you use the water division to transport troops, the consumption can be reduced by at least half." ”

"So I'm still waiting."

The emperor said: "Qiu Li, Qiao Guo, Nanli, although these three kingdoms are too peaceful on the surface, but the rebellion of those remnants is on the sea, and they will come by boat to attack and leave, and the coastline of the three kingdoms is too long, and there are too many sailors, so I am afraid that it will form a thief." ”

The emperor shook his head: "I still have to wait for Zhuang Yong to give me a detailed explanation." ”

Su Mao said: "That is to say, it will take two years to mobilize troops against the black forces at the earliest, but after two years, the fighter will not be ......."

The emperor frowned: "I think about these every day, originally according to my speculation, the best fighter is in two or three years, at that time the contradiction between the Heiwu Khan Emperor Samburu and the national teacher Xin Fengyue should have a result, whether it is Xin Fengyue killed Samburu or Samburu killed Xin Fengyue, Heiwu civil strife, it is the best time for Daning to march, at that time, the sea disaster in southern Xinjiang has also been calmed, and the sailor can fully deal with the battle of northern Xinjiang, but now Xin Fengyue let the 300,000 troops of the Northern Courtyard go south...... Fighters appeared sooner than I expected. ”

He looked at Su Mao: "What does the old general think should be done?" ”

Su Mao thought for a while and replied: "Don't be in a hurry about the battle of Northern Xinjiang, this battle is fought well, stabilize Daning's century-old foundation, and let Heiwu be sluggish from now on, if there is any problem because of impatience, if it is not good, it will hurt Daning, even if it is a lose-lose battle, it is not the result that His Majesty wants." ”

The Emperor snorted, "So I've been thinking about another thing these days. ”

He got up and poured a cup of tea for Su Mao: "Heiwu is in civil strife, you have to light a fire...... In Northern Xinjiang, the most contact with the black martial arts princess Qin Se was Shen Leng and Meng Changan, and later I asked Tang Lu who was transferred to the past to contact Xiahou Zhi, Qin Se didn't pay attention to it at all, and if you want to make the black martial arts chaos more thorough, Qin Se is indispensable, so I thought about whether to put Meng Changan and Shen Leng back in Northern Xinjiang? ”

Su Mao said: "There is Meng Chang'an in the north of Xinjiang, and the battle of Heiwu will be planned in two years, with Meng Chang'an's talent, he can train 100,000 soldiers in two years, His Majesty asked him to go to Xifengkou to recruit new soldiers, and negotiate with Qin Se while training, as for Shen Leng, it is better to send back the water division to go to southern Xinjiang as soon as possible to assist General Zhuang Yong and General Haisha to quell the sea disaster in the south, two years is enough." ”

The emperor nodded: "Then do what the old general said, I will let people draw up an order tomorrow, Meng Changan will return to the north to train troops, and Shen Leng will go to the south to clear the remnants of the Three Kingdoms." ”

Su Mao lowered his head: "With such an arrangement, it will be foolproof to use troops against the black forces in two years." ”

The emperor was also in a better mood and got up: "Let's go to Shen Leng's house for a meal?" The old general hasn't tasted that kid's cooking yet. ”

Su Mao smiled and said, "The minister is stained with His Majesty's light today. ”

At the same time, Dong'an alley.

Zhen Killing Shang returned to the small courtyard with a flat burden, sat in the courtyard and rested for a while, and began to count the money, a small bag full of copper coins could have three or five hundred yuan, and he made another hundred yuan, he himself could not imagine that he would feel happy because of this little money.

What's even happier is that he has recently gone farther and farther, and began to walk the streets and alleys near General Shen Leng's mansion, and also went to the outside of Mrs. Shen Leng's two shops.

These are just good starts, what he is most proud of is that he sold some things to the little girl in Shen Chayan's shop today, because he charged less than three cents and chatted with the little girl a little more, and the little girl said that he would buy him next time he went again.

How good is that.

After resting for a while, he got up and went into the house, and took out the two books that were pressed under the bed, the family tradition of martial arts, a boxing book and a knife book, he had memorized the melons and cooked them, even if he burned them, he could write two more books that were exactly the same.

After thinking about it, he hadn't practiced for a few days, so he went out with a knife and practiced in the yard for a while, but he was bored after only half a pillar of incense.

These two exercises have already been practiced so well, why do you have to practice them day after day, how can anyone be so persistent.

He didn't believe that anyone could guarantee that there would be no break for a day.

If so, is it still human?

After returning to the room and lying down for a while, he got up, and went to buy goods, which seemed to be more interesting than practicing, and thought about what the girl in Shen Chayan's shop said she still wanted, and went out with her burden.

As soon as he arrived at the mouth of the alley, two court lieutenants reached out to stop him.

"You're a permanent resident?"

One of the lieutenants asked him.

Zhen Killer hurriedly put down his burden, took out his identity credential and handed it to the court captain: "I have only been here for a long time, I live in Xicheng, there is a Taoist temple that bought my house when it was built, this is an old mansion but no one has lived in it for many years, and now I have moved back." ”

Ting Wei checked and found that there was no problem: "You are talking about Xiangning Guan." ”

Zhen Killing Shang hurriedly said: "No, I remember that it wasn't the name." ”

Tingwei smiled: "Originally, no, a few days ago, I heard that His Majesty changed the Taoist Temple to Xiangning Temple, and Zhang Zhenren will live in that Taoist Temple in the future, and the Fengning Temple in the palace has also moved over, and there will be no Fengning Temple in the future." ”

Zhen Killer Shang didn't seem to have the slightest change in expression: "I really can't remember the name, but the household department compensates me with a lot of silver, but it's useless for me to ask for so much money as a single person, so I still continue to be my merchant and be leisurely." ”

Ting Wei snorted: "Have you seen strangers appear recently?" ”

"Lately?"

Zhen Killer shook his head: "No." ”

Tingwei handed him the identity certificate: "If you encounter any suspicious people, you can go to Tingwei's mansion to report it, and there will be a heavy reward." ”

Zhen Killing Shang snorted: "Remember, remember, remember." ”

After the two court lieutenants left, Zhen Kill Shang couldn't help but sneer, and said to himself: "I'm so afraid that I don't even dare to live in Fengningguan?" Xiao Zhenren, your courage is really pitiful, but it's okay, I originally wanted to go back to visit you, but I couldn't enter Weiyang Palace, but now that you're out of the palace, I haven't given you a gift for a long time......"

He let out a long breath, thinking that it would be better to carry his burden to Xicheng tomorrow.

Xicheng, Xiangning View.

The two Taoist people looked at the newly built houses with tears of excitement in their eyes, and after waiting for so long, the new Taoist temple was finally going to be able to move in, the only thing that was not very satisfied was the name of this Xiangning Temple, which was not as good as the name of their original Taoist temple, but who called Xiao Zhang Zhenren to come?

"Two copies."

His master, Qingguo Daoren, pointed to the large courtyard in front of him: "In the future, this courtyard will be yours, and you can sweep it as you want." ”

Erben Taoist: "......"

Qinglin Daoren nodded: "The house is also yours, you can wipe it as much as you want." ”

Qingyun Dao people thought for a while: "Otherwise, the toilet will also belong to you, and you can dig it as you want." ”

The old Taoist Qiu Shi glared at them: "You three are elders in vain, you don't look like elders at all, the new Taoist temple has made a great contribution to the completion of the second book, you will hand over the matter of sweeping the yard, wiping the house and digging the toilet to him?" Is that all he can do? I have four of you're disciples, and you senior brother went to the South China Sea and don't know when you'll come back, but the three of you have only one disciple, so you have to take more care of it......"

The three Taoists hurriedly bowed their heads: "What the master taught is." ”

The old Taoist of Qiushi smiled: "At the very least, our clothes have to be handed over to Erben, and he can wash them as he wants." ”

Erben: "Thank you, master and the ancestors of the past generations." ”

Qiu Shidao looked around as if he was looking for something, and the second Taoist ran away with his crutch.

Qingguo Daoren shook his head: "What a broken child, there are no rules at all." ”

Speaking of the rules, Qiu Shidao said seriously: "No one in the backyard of the little real person goes to go in casually, especially the second book, the little real person can't be disturbed if he wants to clean up, and he has to remember it." ”

Several people hurriedly nodded: "Remember." ”

The second Taoist came back with a crutch: "Master, I heard that Longhu Mountain asked the hexagram to look unparalleled in the world, otherwise let's go find a little real person to see?" ”

Qiu Shidao snorted: "You don't have to look, you only have shamelessness in your bones, what do you see?" ”

Erben was a little unconvinced and wanted to defend: "Daozong, our lineage...... Really. ”

There is no way to argue with it.

Five people, you look at me, I look at you.

"It's all Shen Xiaosong!"

Unison.