The winter days in Dali are much better than those in Qinling and Bianjing.

Dali's attack on the Great Zhou Lingnan failed, but instead detonated its own contradictions, which were divided into three.

To the west of the Lancang River, it is the direct jurisdiction of King Duan Qirui. To the east of the Lancang River, the north was controlled by the eldest prince Duan Linjie, bordering the Sichuan and Shu of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the south was ruled by the second prince Duan Linlie, and was adjacent to the Qianzhou Detention Division of the Great Zhou.

Guocheng Lu Yiming, holding a thick stack of papers, put it on the princess's case.

The old king Duan Qirui only had one princess, Duan Lintian. When the queen died, the king drank alcohol every day and handed over all the affairs of the country to the princess and the prime minister.

The princess is like the deceased queen, and is loved by the nobles of Dali. Put it on the princess who is less than eighteen, and it is okay to say that she likes it, after all, the princess has not recruited a horse. Princess Duan Lintian was obsessed with medical skills, took over the mantle of her mother, and continued to apply medicine to save the people.

But the old king is not on the council, and the princess always has to ask about some important things, otherwise Lu Yiming will definitely be responsible. The hat of "domineering and domineering" is buttoned down, even if Lu Yiming is talented and loyal, he can only ensure a good death.

Duan Lintian put away the medical book, asked the guards to remove the equipment for pounding and dispensing medicine, invited the prime minister to sit down, and began to look through the thick paperwork.

"Da Zhou buys horses from his eldest brother, how many more do you want?" Duan Lintian looked at a piece of music and asked Lu Yiming, "What is Da Zhou going to do when he buys so many Dali horses?" It's not that Dali has little horsepower and is not good at bearing weight, and now he does not hesitate to exchange ordnance, but why? ”

Lu Yiming thanked the princess for giving him tea and cleared his throat, "The situation in the north of the Great Zhou is unstable, and the Jurchen attack on the Liao State again is just around the corner." The envoys of the Liao State had already arrived in Bianjing and were running around, wanting to join forces to resist the Jurchens. No matter how it was decided, it was not surprising that Da Zhou had to make some preparations and buy a horse from the eldest prince. ”

"As for the problem of small strength and weakness, it is secondary. The Great Zhou Ma Zheng was deserted, and the pastures in Guanzhong, Jingdong East Road and Xuzhou were also taken by high-ranking households to herd sheep. ”

There is another point, Lu Yiming did not mention it.

The northern part of Dali occupied by the eldest prince is almost all steep mountains and mountains, and there is a shortage of food, even if there are more horses, he can't win the second prince who has more food. Da Zhou will not "provoke the border", the eldest prince exchanged horses for armor, swords and guns, although it was helpless, but it was not a loss.

After all, Duan Lintian was frail, overworked after supervising the government, his round face had disappeared, and he had a pointed chin. Hearing Lu Yiming so amused, she pursed her lips and smiled, put down the report, and replaced it with the next one.

"Tengyue Mansion has 20,000 acres of newly opened fields, the three prefectures north of Tengyue and the west of the Great River have 30,000 acres of cultivated fields, and the eight prefectures south of Tengyue have 110,000 acres of cultivated fields." When Duan Lintian saw this report, he was so happy that his tone changed, "The prime minister is really my Dali's Dinghai Divine Needle, and this princess has thanked him." After speaking, the princess gave Lu Yiming a salute, and the countryman, the princess, and the palace tent constituted a picture of the ladies' salutes.

Lu Yiming also gave an ancient ceremony. This great Confucian worked day and night in exchange for the initial stability of the situation west of the river, and he deserved the princess's gift.

The eldest prince and the second prince continued to rub each other, and a large number of displaced people, including even some large households of Tusi, ran to the west of the Lancang River. For Lu Yiming, the person who defected to the old king is both wealth and risk, and the key depends on how to deal with it.

To the west of the Lancang River, the terrain is in the form of strip-shaped mountains, especially in the north. Small patches of alluvial plains and valleys dominate the landscape.

For the sake of a variety of grains, Lu Yiming encouraged the displaced people to go to the mountains to cultivate the fields, although the harvest was not good, but they could barely survive. This move caused dissatisfaction among the local people, but Lu Yiming had a follow-up move.

After all, there are a number of mountains that can be reclaimed, and in order to settle the population more, Lu Yiming encouraged large households, toasts, and exiled magnates to open workshops and recruit displaced people.

Compared with Bagan in the southwest, the Black Tooth tribe in the rainforest in the south, and Siam further south, Dali's handicraft industry is developed. Lu Yiming also dispatched craftsmen from the displaced people to mine copper and iron ore and smelt it for national use. There are also some hills, which cannot be farmed, but are full of shrubs and grasses, and horses and sheep can be raised, and Lu Yiming did not let go.

Lu Yiming made full use of the contradictions between the outsiders and the local people, united with the exiled big households and Tusi, and pulled and beat the local big Tusi, and finally settled down the situation.

Lu Yiming is quite far-sighted, and the forces of several parties west of the river are relatively balanced, and no side can be defeated. In the chaotic situation, the western part of Dali, which has always been barbaric, has become a paradise, and Lu Yiming's ability can be seen. It is conceivable that as more mountain fields are cultivated, more workshops are established, and more trade routes are opened, the situation west of the river will get better and better.

But Lu Yiming has a huge hidden worry in his heart: after all, the west of the river is a deserted place, if the situation east of the river collapses, where can the west of the river be left alone......

"The Black Tooth tribe is so rampant, they actually plundered my Dali border! Bagan in the southwest and Siam in the south of the jungle actually have small moves......" Duan Lintian put down the report in his hand and asked Lu Yiming worriedly: "Prime Minister, do you think Bagan, Siam and Li Chao have the possibility of uniting to attack my Dali Kingdom." ”

Lu Yiming admired the princess's wisdom very much, and thought for a few breaths, "Between my Dali and these three, there are dense forests and mountains and rivers, and if the foreign enemy can't pacify Dali within a few months, it will be in vain." ”

"The premise that my Dali country can protect itself is that Dali is not completely chaotic. The eldest prince and the second prince maintain the current situation, and it is better to say that they don't fight much, otherwise Dali will be in chaos, and those few families will have ghosts if they don't send troops. ”

Duan Lintian nodded, put the report away worriedly, and took out a few secret letters, "The Prime Minister's worries are really good. The Gao family under the eldest brother, as well as the Dong family under the second brother, really secretly hoarded grain and grass to recruit the dead. ”

Lu Yiming read the princess's secret letter and compared it with the information held by the Lu family, "Since the founding of Dali, these two families have produced many powerful ministers, and even rebelled, and now they see an opportunity, and they may take advantage of the chaos to raise troops at any time." ”

"Once the Dali Kingdom is in chaos, these two families will definitely set up the eldest prince and the second prince, forming a situation of high in the north and Dong in the south. Then His Majesty and the princess will be in danger, and before these two families fight, they will definitely attack the west of the river. They took advantage of the struggle between the eldest prince and the second prince to seize power, how could they tolerate His Majesty and the princess profiting on the side? ”

When Dali was founded, the Gao family and the Dong family made great contributions.

The two Gao Dong families relied on their military exploits, army and land to fight against the royal family, and the direct territories of the two families were almost a country within a country.

The Great Zhou Dynasty founded the country and advocated cultural governance.

Dali and the Great Zhou army fought two battles, although the land was kept, but the national strength was almost exhausted, the king of Dali entered the table and called the minister, and comprehensively studied the Great Zhou.

Decades after the imperial examination of Dali was implemented, the new scholars and some large families and Tusi turned to the royal family, and in the next hundred years, the monarch of Dali no longer worried about the rebellion of the Gao Dong family.

Nowadays, the situation has changed greatly, and Dali is worried about domestic and foreign troubles, according to the history books of the Great Zhou Dynasty, that is, "if you divide for a long time, you must be together, and if you are divided for a long time". Gao Dong and his family saw the opportunity and were ready to set aside the royal family at any time, and then decide the winner to decide the ownership of Dali.

As the largest scholarly family in Dali, the Lu family has a huge network of relationships. Duan Lintian took over the responsibility of his father, and also inherited the accumulation of hundreds of years of royal family, and he is the most well-connected and convenient in news.

Lu Yiming and the princess shared information, and after agreeing to deal with Gao Dong's family together, they walked out of the palace. said that it was a palace, but in fact, it was the mansion of a big salt merchant in Tengyue Mansion, which was requisitioned by the royal family.

Sitting in the bamboo sedan chair, Lu Yiming shook his head and sighed, thinking: The Lu family has been favored by the Dali royal family for hundreds of years, and the old man can only accompany the princess and His Majesty to the end. Whether it is the Gao family or the Dong family, they will not allow the Lu family to have the same status as in the past......

Li Xiang rode a high-headed horse, walked east from Sanwangzhai, and returned to Mingyuezhuang.

Li Mengkong, Zhang Wanli, Zhao Bo, Liu Sheng, Carpenter, Lei Blacksmith, Zhen Laoshi, Zhang Laotou, Liu Zhihe, Wu Xiaoling, Aunt Lei, Aunt Xiong, Xiong Chengwen, Zhang Zhanjun, Four-eyed Boy, Radar, Cheng Clerk, Tang Guohao...... Li Xiang's cronies either hugged their fists, or made a gesture, or bowed, or bowed, and welcomed the owner with corresponding etiquette.

At the gate of Mingyue Village, Li Xiang slowly swept over these people's bodies, and his heart was happy: In the past few years since he came to the Great Zhou, there is such a group of followers, it is really not a waste of time.

Of course, Li Xiang saw Liu Xiadu in the crowd and Liu Xiadu's grandfather, but he didn't care. will only count the garbage of the people around him, of course Li Xiang can't look down on it, and he doesn't bother to look at it......

In the cheers of the earth-shattering cheers, Li Xiang dismounted, returned the salute to his subordinates and ordinary villagers, and strode into Mingyuezhuang.

Liu Xiadu, under the admonition of his grandfather, bent down and bowed to Li Xiang, he was already very dissatisfied, and when he saw Li Xiang ignoring himself, he almost couldn't bear it. He asked his grandfather in a low voice, "Why don't you find a few dead soldiers and kill Li Xiang here directly?" ”

"It's that simple. Li Xiang spared his life, there were many guards in the open and in the dark, and he was not allowed to hold weapons in Mingyue Fort. "Liu Xiadu's grandfather has always been wise.

The old man shook his head, and then said: "If you really want to assassinate Li Xiang, Carpenter, Wu Xiaoling, Tang Guohao and the like, if they don't run away, how much of their belongings will be left?" Therefore, Li Xiang can't die in Mingyuezhuang, he has to die in the hands of the government, and then you can convince most of the villagers to close the village and defend themselves against the gentry and wealthy merchants. ”

"At that time, the carpenters and others can only stay, and you can slaughter them slowly. You think it's better to catch the sheep one by one after the sheep have scattered. It is better to keep the sheep in the sheepfold and kill them one by one and eat the meat. ”

Hearing what his grandfather said, Liu Xia secretly said: Jiang is still old and spicy!

Liu Xiadu began to fantasize about the luxurious life after taking control of Mingyue Village, he disagreed with many of Li Xiang's practices, and said in his heart: "Li Xiang's house has stolen the position of the owner of my Liu family, and he deserves to be killed!" He's so stupid, he can make too much money, but he has to hide it. ”

"Wait for me Liu Xia to take over as the owner of the village, first squeeze out more than half of the workshops on the side of the Han River, and then sell the production of Mingyuezhuang to the whole Zhou."

"Qinling village wants to eat cheap food? There are no doors, so you have to exchange good things! How can the workshop in the village be handed over to craftsmen and widows? Take it all back! Is the charcoal furnace related to the lifeblood of shipment? Nonsense, what is polite to those martial artists? Mingyuezhuang should be built to the death, and it can earn as much as it can ......"

"Li Xiang still doesn't let the lowly villagers kneel? Fooling around, when I take over as the owner, everyone will kneel when they see me. When the time comes, I will marry a lady again, and I will raise people in the exam, but I am afraid that someone will target Mingyuezhuang? No, I'm going to have to change my name then......"

"Money and grain in the left hand, Zhuang Ding in the right hand, those gentry really dare to risk forcing me to rebel and share Mingyuezhuang?"

If Li Xiang knew what Liu Xiadu was thinking, he would definitely die of laughter.

After all, Liu Xiadu hadn't experienced much of anything, and he was a little careful when thinking about things, and in the "big plan" to unite outsiders to deal with Li Xiang, many of the ideas were taken by his grandfather.

His grandfather had calculated Liu Chengdong's position very early, and now the interests of Mingyuezhuang are attractive, and Li Xiang has a bad relationship with the gentry, and the old man who sees the opportunity naturally has to fight hard for his children and grandchildren and his old age.

Lao Ji is in the woods, and his ambitions are thousands of miles. The old man is in his twilight years, and his heart is full of strength.