It's already mid-December, and every household in Xining is ready to welcome the Singapore dollar, which is the biggest expectation for the people who do not have a surplus on weekdays.

Adults can rest for a few days, no need to blow the hopeless cold wind and cold snow on the cultivated land and grass, if you have some spare money, you can share a room with three or five old friends, push pai gow, fried golden flowers, and square six pieces, and the mother-in-law and aunt at home are also blind and blind, as long as they don't sneak into the dark kiln in the city, it's easy to say anything.

The children are even more happy, whether there is food stored at home or not, on the morning of the new year, they will get a new set of clothes, and on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, there is a table full of delicious food, you can eat a mouth full of oil and fragrant, that is, naughty and nonsense, most of the elders in the family also laughed, do not have to worry about a stinky scolding and whip.

The slaves in the house not only do not have additional new clothes and delicacies, but are busier than usual, but if the old ladies are happy, they can get an unexpected reward.

The servants often take advantage of this season to hand over their bodies to the old and young masters......

Xining is the border of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the Han people in the city, the Hui people, the Tibetans are also quite a lot, each ethnic group has its own festival, but the neighbors get along for a long time, it is inevitable that they will become relatives, in the Han people's most solemn New Yuan day, they have to respond to a scene, but to say that the grand piety, it is far less than the Han people, after all, it is not their own business.

Celebrating the new yuan, naturally Li Zicheng doesn't have to worry about it, Gao Guiying and Song Yulian are in charge of major matters, and the errands will be handed over to Xiaomei Xiaolan, if there are not enough people, you can also let the soldiers help.

Li Zicheng usually went to the school in the morning, using the time before the new yuan to step up the pace of teaching, and in the afternoon, he checked the information sent back from various places to deal with military and government affairs.

In order to understand the topography of Longyou, he also asked Wang Anping, the chief flag officer of Longyou, to mark the mountains and rivers of Longyou on the topographic map, and sent them back to Xining.

In the last Northern Expedition to Ganzhou, although the rangers did not participate in the frontal battle, the Xining army almost bloodlessly took the entire fort post on the periphery of Gansu, and the rangers made great contributions.

All the major hundred households are expanding the army, and the officials of the hundred households are promoted to thousands of households, Li Zicheng did not consider promoting Wang Anping, the reason is that he thinks that the surrender of Gansu is not the best candidate for the rangers, and the focus of the next investigation of the rangers is not Gansu.

On the third day of returning to Xining, Li Zicheng summoned Wang Anping, asking him to recruit a group of suitable rangers in the Longyou area, and as long as the number of rangers reached seven small flags, they could be reorganized into two general flags.

The message was transmitted through carrier pigeons, but when Li Zicheng was healing at Gao's house in Hulushan, he once captured a carrier pigeon in Ganzhou, knowing that carrier pigeon transmission is not absolutely safe, and now Xining is in a very embarrassing period, especially after taking Ganzhou, the area under the command of the Xining army has expanded dramatically, the forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds, Li Zicheng is always worried that the current situation in Xining will be explored by the imperial court.

In order to prevent the loss of information and the leakage of Xining's military secrets, all messages are now written in the form of secret letters.

The writing of the secret letter is very simple, it is a form of Li Zicheng's love letter in later generations, and it is actually a way to deal with teachers and parents who do not respect personal privacy.

When writing a secret letter, spread two layers of letter paper, and after the words that need to be poured out in the heart are written, the upper letter with words is destroyed, and the lower letter paper leaves only some invisible traces with the naked eye, which is no different from the new paper.

If the person receiving the letter wants to see the handwriting on the paper, he only needs to spray the white paper with water, and when it is completely moistened, the handwriting will be clearly visible, just like the contents of the destroyed letter on the upper layer.

If you want to collect this letter, it is also very safe, and when the paper is completely dry, the handwriting will lose its shape again, even if it is found by parents and teachers, there is nothing to be done in the face of a wordless "book from heaven".

The reason why Li Zicheng attaches great importance to Longyou is because Longyou and Xining are only separated by the Yellow River, and they are very close geographically.

When the imperial court sends troops to Xining in the future, it will definitely pass through Longyou.

Wang Anping's rangers were almost all concentrated in Longyou, on the one hand, to investigate the information of the imperial army and give early warning to the Xining army, and on the other hand, to collect information from various guards and prefectures in Longyou.

When the Xining army wanted to expand its territory again, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the west of Xining, and the desert to the north and east of Gansu were deserts, all of which were not suitable for farming.

Longyou is the only direction that the Xining army can expand, whether it is for defense and self-preservation, or to expand the territory in the future, Li Zicheng must keep a close eye on Longyou.

According to the information sent by Wang Anping, the current Longyou is not like the northern Shaanxi Plateau, the drought is not serious, if it is allowed to develop naturally, the people should be able to eat and wear.

But Gao Yingxiang and other Shaanxi thieves, also fancy this land, in order to feed the subordinate army, are the base camp moved to Longyou, the last time Li Zicheng fled from Mizhi to Ganzhou, it was here that he met the old back thief.

After Cao Wenzhao's conquest, the thieves had already fled, but the farmland, grain, population, and health centers were all seriously damaged because of this war, especially the grain, which was almost on the verge of collapse.

Li Zicheng hoped to take advantage of the unstable hearts of the people of Longyou to lead his troops to cross the Yellow River and take Longyou into his pocket in one fell swoop, but after thinking carefully for a while, he gave up for the time being.

The main reason is food.

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