Pei should ask Zu Ti to promise him three conditions before he was willing to let him go west. The first condition is: "Only allow you to lead 2,000 troops to the west ......"

But his words were not finished, and then he added, Zu Shizhi, you have taken away all the 2,000 elites you have painstakingly trained into the army, and that will not work. At present, all the more than 3,000 soldiers and horses in Huaiyin must be dismantled in various parts, scattered and reorganized, and then you will be trained in a unified manner until the beginning of spring, and then leave more than 1,000 soldiers who can also fight to me. And—

"Huaiyin's local pawns, you can take them all, and I won't leave any of them."

They recruited 2,000 homeless people on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and about 500 more were recruited after going north to Yulu and entering Huaiyin; In addition, the Wubao was required to serve in the military and help defend the county, and five or six hundred people were also brought in, and Pei should not be at ease at all about these people, and hoped that Zu Ti would take them all away.

Bian Yan frowned and asked: "Since they are natives of this county, their parents, wives and children are all in the county, so once they encounter the police, they will be able to fight hard and not retreat, why do you refuse to stay?" ”

Pei Gai pouted and said: "Their family members are all in the dock forts, and there are warning signs, Bian Jun thinks, will they stick to the county seat for me, or scatter to the forts?" ”

Bian Yan suddenly realized, and hurriedly said: "It's short-sighted, so what Jun said is true." However...... "paused—"In the past, they asked the Wubao to come to the county, and they said to guard the county seat, as well as the Huaishang Fengsui, but now they are driven away from their hometowns, are they willing to obey their orders?" ”

Pei Gai smiled: "Whether you follow your fate depends on how Zujun controls the troops - and you don't need to mention the troops to enter Yan and Yu, just say that you will go to Linhuai, Xiapi, Pengcheng and other counties; I am the governor of a state, and I am sent to the counties in the state, which is justifiable, who has any objections? ”

Zu Ti couldn't help laughing "haha": "It's Pei Wenyue who I know!" "I have long known that you little guy is very scheming, so I am willing to take you north to cross the Yangtze River and seek to recover the Central Plains. But when I got to Huaiyin, you were all kinds of pretending to be ghosts, and I didn't know what you were thinking about all day long, and I was a little disappointed when I didn't have the demeanor of sleeping and directing the country in the past...... Now listening to your plans, Pei Wenyue from the past is back again, very good, very good.

"Wenyue's order, do you dare to obey?" I'll listen to you, this winter, I will break up and reorganize all the soldiers, train them well, and after the beginning of spring, I will take all the local soldiers away, and not a single one will be left.

Pei Gai secretly rejoiced in his heart - as long as all this eye-catching guy is pulled out of the hundreds of miles, my next plan can be implemented!

Then he curled the second finger and said: "If the city defense is not completed, the beacon is not completed, the patrol ship is not built, and the spring sowing is not finished, I will never let the ancestor go west." ”

Zu Ti nodded, and said that there is no problem with this, I will order the soldiers to help repair the city defenses, beacons, and help with spring sowing - anyway, most of those in the reclamation land are their families, so they will not be unhappy. As for the boats patrolling the Huai water, "it is difficult to build in a hurry, but there are dozens of fishing boats in Yandu, which can be temporarily introduced into the Huai ......"

Theoretically, the specifications of river boats and sea boats are not exactly the same, but as long as they are not serious warships such as Mengchong and fighting ships, and only carry small boats of one or twenty people, they can run along the coast, and they can still be pulled into the Huaishui to patrol.

"Third, why?"

Pei should say the third, that is, I want to ask you how many people to borrow, because I don't have a suitable commander at hand - of course, I use that Gao Le quite easily, and I have to stay.

Zu Ti pondered for a long time and replied, "Liu Yetang is available. ”

In these years, there are many scholars, that is to say, there are a little identity, most of them are single names, and few have reinstatements, which is not a rule of etiquette, but a common habit that has been handed down since the new reckless era. Of course, there are always exceptions, such as Wang Xizhi - at that time, many scholars who believed in the Tao of Heavenly Masters were accustomed to adding the word "zhi" after a single name to become a double name. Theoretically, it was not until after the Tang Dynasty that the reinstatement of names would gradually increase, because at that time, it was no longer the monopoly of the scholarly family, and many military nobles of the Hu and Han ethnic groups were mixed in.

So when I heard the name Liu Yetang, there were eight achievements that were purely from ordinary people, and they hadn't read any books. Zu Ti introduced this person to Pei Gai, saying that Liu Yetang is my fellow countryman, and he has followed me for more than ten years, and I observe his talents, garrisoning a city and commanding an army, it should not be a big problem. I have left him to you, but I ask you to grant him an office in order to serve the people.

Pei Gai replied: "It can be given the position of the state guard." "I'll make him the commander of the city's defense.

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In Chinese history, the Qin and Han dynasties can be called the first empire, basically determined the Huang, Huai, and Chang river basins as the core ruling area, in this region, hundreds of ethnic groups coexisted and gradually merged into a unified nation - although there was no clear "Han" title at that time, the big guys only habitually referred to as dynastic names, or called themselves "Chinese".

But after a long time, it must be divided, and the periodic chaos of the feudal era also followed, first the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, the establishment of the Three Kingdoms, and then after the brief unification of the Western Jin Dynasty, it ushered in the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" and "The Rebellion of Yongjia", and then the "Five Hu Chaos", the separation of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and even the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Chinese history has entered an unprecedented dark whirlpool, and the little butterfly wings that Pei Gai crossed only set off a small ripple in the chaos when he was in the sixth year of Yongjia. Specifically, it only delayed the time when Shile occupied Hebei and advanced Zu Ti's Northern Expedition.

But in the distance, where the ripples have not yet reached, history is still moving according to its original trajectory. For example, the Sima Ye regime that temporarily stabilized the Guanzhong region, at the end of the sixth year of Yongjia, as recorded in the historical records, dumped an Optimus Giant Pillar -

Jia Kai Jia Yandu is the great-grandson of Jia Xu, the Taiwei of Cao Wei, "few ambitions, very great", when Emperor Huai was an official to worship stability and too guard, but for the assassin Shi Ding Xuan, he was attacked by Sima Mo, the king of Nanyang (the younger brother of Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea) in the Guanzhong region at that time. Jia Kai was initially defeated and fled to Lushui, where he immediately became brothers with Peng Dangzhong, the chief of Lushuihu, and Dou Shou, the chief of Di, and made a comeback, killing Sima Mo's military division Xie Ban and retaking Anding County.

At this time, Luoyang was under siege, Sima Mo could not be diligent to beg for thieves, and he could not pacify Yongliang when he retreated, so his fate was doomed - Liu Yao waved his army westward soon after burning Luoyang, captured Chang'an, and cut off Sima Mo's head.

Sima Mo's old generals Suo Qi and Lu Yun led the remnants of the army to the west, went to take refuge in Jia Kai, and then supported Jia Kai as the leader of the alliance, and commanded the Rong Jin soldiers (Xirong soldiers and Jin soldiers) 20,000 to counterattack Chang'an, and Fu Feng Taishou Liang Zong and others also led the crowd to join. Jia Kai used unpredictable soldiers, and Suo Qi and others were all brave generals for a while, and they defeated the Hu Han army many times. Liu Yao retreated to Chang'an, and after a few months of hard support, he was forced to drive more than 80,000 soldiers and women, abandon the city and flee.

Jia Kai chased and killed Liu Yao, and went all the way to Ganquan, where Liu Yao was hit by several arrows, almost inevitably.

At the same time, Yan Ding and others protected Sima Ye, the king of Qin, and went south to Xuanyuan Pass from the west of Xuchang, made a big circle, and had already arrived in Yongzhou. So Jia Kai and others welcomed Sima Ye into Chang'an City, proclaimed himself the crown prince, established a platform, and Jia Kai was worshiped by Sima Ye as a hussar general, Yongzhou Assassin History, and was named the Duke of Jiuquan County.

At that time, among the ministers who supported him, Sima Baotun, the son of Sima Mo, who had the highest prestige and the most powerful military power, was able to resist him, and he did not dare to go to Chang'an to compete with Jia Kai, and saw that the situation in Guanzhong gradually stabilized. However, just a few months later, at the end of that year, Jia Kai hung up inexplicably.

When attacking Chang'an before, Liu Yao saw that he could not be defeated, so he sent someone to lobby Peng Dangzhong, the chief of Lushui Hu, to ask for internal response, after Jia Kai found out the news, he was not soft at all, and directly sent troops to attack Peng Dangzhong and slaughtered his righteous brother. Peng Dangzhong's son Peng Fubao supported the crowd and rebelled, Jia Kai basically stabilized the situation in Chang'an, led the army to conquer, just a small snack a defeat, in the process of retreat, the horse lost its front hoof, fell into the ditch, and was killed by Peng Fubao.

As soon as Jia Kai died, the people's hearts were scattered, and a fierce political struggle was launched within the Chang'an regime, first of all, Yan Ding's dictatorship, killing Liang Zong without permission, and then Suo Qi and Lu Yun joined forces to crusade against Yan Ding, drive him away, and Suo Qi was in charge of the country. Chang'an City became a pot of porridge, not only was it unable to pursue Liu Yao and recapture Luoyang, but even the power of self-preservation was gradually lost......

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History has opened a new page, and in a blink of an eye, it has entered the seven years of Yongjia. In February, Liu Cong killed Emperor Huai of the Jin Dynasty, Sima Chi, and more than ten of his former Jin ministers in Pingyang. When the news reached Chang'an, Sima Ye ascended the throne in April and became emperor - known in history as Emperor Jin and the last emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty.

Of course, far away from thousands of mountains and rivers, whether Jia Kai was killed or Sima Chi was killed, the news had to lag for several months before it could reach Guangling. In the early spring of this year, the ice and snow disappeared, the grass sprouts began to sprout, and the spring sowing had just begun, and everyone in Huaiyin City probably knew these things in advance, but when it would happen, he didn't count it in his heart. One is to read history in the previous life, and the memory of the "year" is very deep, but it cannot be refined to the "month", and the other is that I am afraid that history has changed, even if it is thousands of miles away, maybe the ripples will make a slight difference.

On this day, Zu Ti, who was in the tun reclamation land, sent a letter to Pei Gai, asking him to go and meet. Pei Gai just wanted to carefully inspect the situation of spring sowing to see if there was still a shortage of manpower and material resources, so he took Zhen Sui and others and went happily.

The climate of Huainan is relatively closer to that of the south of the Yangtze River, and it is very different from the Yellow River Basin, but although the adaptability of crops is more inclined to rice planting, in terms of people's living habits, they are more inclined to eat millet and wheat; In addition, most of the people who reclaimed the land were displaced people from the Central Plains, according to the statistics of Fu Sheng, nearly seventy percent of them came from Si, Qing, Yan, and the Huaibei part of Yuzhou, and there were even many people from Hebei, and even Youzhou.

They tried to grow woad last winter, and they also gave a cart to the thorn master who lived in the county town to taste. Pei Gai felt that this Chinese cabbage was small, thin, bitter and not sweet, compared to the northern Chinese cabbage that he had eaten in his previous life, it was almost two completely different species, but the difference between this body and the food he had eaten in the first twenty years of this life was not too big. All in all, this thing can not only be planted, but also can be expanded - after all, people cannot only eat grains for a living, dietary fiber and vitamins must be supplemented.

Iron farming tools and ploughing cattle have played a very important role in the development of the reclamation land, especially the meritorious service of Fei Sheng, and specially summoned more than 100 experienced farmers from his hometown, as well as a lot of farm tools, to the north to help farming. Because there is more rice planting in the south of the Yangtze River, the transplanting period is relatively late, and there is barely time to hit such a time difference.

According to his experience in his hometown, he opened up several ponds to plant reeds and wild rice, and raised ducks and geese, and the planning prospects were quite gratifying.

Everything that should be done has been done, and the next thing is to hope that God will give a good year of wind and rain - the reclamation land is close to the ditch, and basically there is no fear of ordinary drought, but for the flood and locust plague, the peasants in this year have no good solution.

Zu Ti accompanied Pei Gai to inspect and wander, walking and walking, gradually heading north, approaching the bank of the Huai River. Zu Ti rode his horse to a high place, whipped and pointed: "There are many fertile fields along the Huai, if they can be annexed and the tun land can be extended to this point, I believe the harvest will be good." ”

Pei Gai bowed slightly: "It's all owned by the big landowner, and it's not easy to take it - I'm planning a good strategy." ”

Zu Ti pointed to the north again: "Wenyue, Qing come to see - the terrain here is better than Huaiyin, and when the Huaishui turns around, if you can build a city here, Qing will move here, and Huaiyin will be horns and control the south bank, then the land of Huaidong is under control, and you will not be afraid of the northerners to force the crossing." ”

Pei Gai stared at it for a long time, nodded slowly, and said, "What Zujun said is true." However, I am afraid that it will not be the work of one or two years......"

- He didn't know that in the direction pointed out by Zu Ti, in the original history, an important city was really built more than ten years later, named Shanyang, and the surrounding area was included in the jurisdiction, named Shanyang County, which became a more important defensive base in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties in the Huaidong region than Huaiyin.

"As the ancestor said, if you can build a city here, you can keep Huaidong safe. But if the city is not finished and the enemy has arrived, what can I do? Pei Gai sincerely asked, "Why did you teach me?" ”

Zu Xiao smiled: "I am about to talk to Wen Yue in detail, how to fortify Huai Shangdang - west of Huaisi, until Xuyi, Zongqi, broken cauldron and hundred ponds, often colluded with Huaishui, the terrain is dangerous and narrow, and the army cannot ......be crossed."

Poputang, the ancient name of Fuling Lake, is a series of isolated, or connected small lake groups, the Sui Dynasty changed its name to Hongzepu, the Tang Dynasty began, there was the name of Hongze Lake. However, at the beginning, Hongze Lake was not a whole lake, and the area was not very large, until the Northern Song Dynasty Shaoxi period, the Yellow River burst its banks, and since then it has been seized into the sea for more than 700 years, and then it gradually poured out the fourth largest freshwater lake in China in later generations.

Zu Ti told Pei Gai that it is not easy to cross the Huaishui River from above Huaisi Township, or from the area we have seen so far, especially when the army comes here, it must go through a relatively long period of preparation work and build a sufficient number of ships before it is possible to cross the Huaishui to attack. The only danger is from Huaisi Township to the current section, but for Huaiyin County, there is also a ditch on the east side as a natural guarantee, so you only need to worry about the west side......

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