Listening to the noise coming from the city, you should know that there must be something different about the Kong Ming lantern in the sky.

A partial general was puzzled: "Liu Chengdong's troops are surrounded in the city, and when I saw Kong Ming's lantern, it was actually noisy, could it be that the reinforcements of the Great Zhou Army have arrived?" ”

A henchman under Ying Ming shook his head, "If the Great Zhou Army has reinforcements, it must first support the front line in Suzhou and Wuxi, and the second can also support Han Shizhong's battalion in Huzhou." Even if the Great Zhou army desperately came to save Liu Chengdong, it would stick to the hills in the north, why did it have to cross the mountains and mountains from Ji'an in the northwest? ”

Dozens of dirty, limp coolies were driven to the open space in front of the tents of the Chinese army. General Ying Ming put on armor and held a sword, majestic and majestic, "You are all mountain people in the northwest, do you know where these three Kong Ming lanterns came from?" ”

"If you can name one, two, three, the work will be halved, and the food will be increased by half." Seeing that no one answered, Ying Ming's henchman Xiaoxiao threw out the bait.

The mountain people are familiar with the large mountains between Anji and Deqing, and know the direction of hills, hills, and streams well, and the wind direction in different seasons is of course. Soon a short young mountaineer stood up and estimated the direction of the Kong Ming lantern according to the direction of the wind and the height. This submissive mountain man couldn't read a lot of words, and of course he didn't count everything, but he only made an empirical estimate.

"Moganshan?" Ying Ming looked to the northwest, "Using the three-color Kong Ming lantern to report the news, it must be Liu Chengdong's acquaintance." Whoever you are, we'll meet soon. ”

At the foot of Phoenix Mountain, on the edge of the river.

Li Xiang looked at the spring ploughing scene in front of him with a smile, "Kong Ming Lantern has been released?" Can you be sure that your father-in-law can see it? ”

"Master Qiqi, I will wait until I see the Kong Ming lantern flying towards Deqing, and I see that the torches in Deqing County have increased a lot, and then I will return, it should be no problem." Zhang Qingping clenched his fists and said respectfully.

He felt that he gradually couldn't understand the owner, such a big Kong Ming lantern had been by the owner's side, but he didn't know? What else did the owner's top-secret workshop come up with? What other hole cards does the owner have? How much arrangement does the owner secretly have?

Worthy of the owner!

Li Xiang asked about the situation of the Fang La army besieging Deqing.

Seeing that Zhang Qingping, the senior, did not speak, Ding Shihang stepped forward and clenched his fists to his chest, "Master of the village." Fangla's army had camps in the northwest corner, east and south of Deqing County. The southern side of the camp was the largest, and it was the middle of the army. ”

"Judging from the size of the camp and the light of the fire during the evening cooking, there are at least tens of thousands of people in Fangla's army."

Yang Yingdong, who set off early in the morning and went to Anji County to buy oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, meat, eggs, vegetables and vegetables, put down his things in the camp, and just came to the small river, and admired when he heard the words: "The great unification system has not diminished its courage back then. It's just that he reflexively captured the county seat of Deqing and pinned down the hand of tens of thousands of square troops, how many commanders in Da Zhou can compare? ”

Liu Chengdong contained tens of thousands of Fang Lajun?

Deqing, the nail, is not surrounded by a group, and it is over, Ying Ming has to prevent Liu Chengdong from coming to cooperate with the outside. The overall strategy of the Yongle Dynasty was also affected to a certain extent. On the whole, Liu Chengdong relied on less than 3,000 soldiers to firmly attract nearly 10,000 combatable troops of the Yongle Dynasty, and indirectly contained tens of thousands of Fangla troops and prevented them from rushing to other battlefields.

Li Xiang also admires his cheap father-in-law. Imagining the indescribable Fang La's deflated expression, the owner of the village almost laughed out loud.

Before he arrived in Jiangnan, Li Xiang heard how ferocious Fang Lajun was, but because of the influence of the original time and space experience, he still sympathized and appreciated the peasant uprising in his heart, and always felt that the scholars and doctors were running trains with their mouths.

After coming to the Great Zhou for several years, Li Xiang, who has been experiencing more and more experience, has a certain understanding of the small people of the Great Zhou: the small people, especially the small farmers facing the loess with their backs to the sky, are the most tolerant. If you are not forced to the point where you can't survive if you sell your children and sell everything, there will be no rebellion.

People are expensive to earn their lives, and they can't let people starve to death.

When he arrived in Jiangnan, Li Xiang heard the personal experiences of many small people in Huzhou City, and also saw some tragic things on the way from Huzhou to Anji. After Anji set up camp, Li Xiang received too much news. Gradually, Li Xiang's views on the regime in Phalana changed significantly.

didn't disdain, and didn't want to get rid of it quickly, Li Xiang just felt that Yongle Chao's approach couldn't solve the problem.

Although the Yongle Dynasty advertised that "it is equal to the people, and there is no superiority", its approach to the rural people is not much better.

The small people who were once oppressed killed almost all the rich gentry, businessmen, and officials they saw, and took the position of the official master, and that's it. It's just that the new dynasty was established, and the high-level leaders of the Yongle Dynasty, who were born in poverty, paid attention to restraint, and the money, food, and materials collected were enough, so that the small people could take a breath. However, the Great Zhou raised millions of soldiers, and the great enemy in the north, the Liao State, was too busy to take care of itself, and Fang La was doomed to failure.

Compared with Fang Lajun, Li Xiang had a worse impression of several officers and troops. Fang Lajun is waving a big banner, and it is mainly aimed at the privileged class. The rebellious officers and soldiers did all kinds of evil, stealing chickens and dogs, bullying orphans and widows, defrauding and extorting money, and even killing people and exterminating people, they were simply locusts in official and military uniforms.

Fang Lajun killed, and the officers and soldiers also killed. Li Xiang knew very well that the evil things he had seen so far were only the tip of the iceberg, and there must be many evils that annihilated humanity in the deeper part of the battlefield.

Fighting around, it is always the people who are slaughtered. Li Xiang has no status, and he has no ability to untie this dead knot for the time being, so he can only rescue Lord Yuezhang first, and follow Lord Yuezhang to beat Yongle Chao down as soon as possible, and then talk about the rest.

"Is it possible for the Fang La army that surrounded Deqing to attack Anji on a large scale? In other words, will the Yongle Dynasty take advantage of the spring ploughing to attack in a big way? Ding Shihang worried.

There was silence by the river.

Liu Sheng reacted lastly, even if he was as rough as him, his hands and feet were cold, and cold sweat flowed from his face.

The terrain in front of you is slightly undulating, and the hills to the west are like a carpet of colours.

In the neatly cut paddy field, the farmer uses a whip to drive the buffalo forward, his face full of sweat and anticipation. Nearby, old men, women, and women carried baskets and mixed the manure accumulated from last year into the soil. If the basal fertilizer is applied well before sowing, the harvest of the year can be guaranteed.

The children of the peasant family were not idle. The older ones helped carry the fertilizer, and the smaller ones ran barefoot in the streams and rivers, occasionally putting their little hands in the cold water to touch something.

It was obviously a scene of spring ploughing and birdsong and vitality, but the atmosphere became dull by the small river where Li Xiang was standing. With a long exhalation, Li Xiang patted Ding Shihang on the shoulder, "I hope that Yongle Dynasty has no strength to spare, and I also hope that Fang La is not so poisonous." ”

Jiangnan is already full of displaced people, and the government can only barely maintain it. If the spring ploughing is destroyed by the Yongle Dynasty again, how many people will die in Jiangnan?

Two days later, Ding Shihang's crow's beak came true.

……

Zhen is honest, born as a homeless person on Hedong Road.

As his name suggests, Zhen Honest is an out-and-out honest person, and he was often bullied in the Mingyuezhai era.

After Li Xiang came to power, he attached great importance to skilled craftsmen. Zhen Laoshi quickly got rid of the fate of being bullied, and was appreciated by the owner of the village by virtue of his conscientious attitude. After Zhao'an, the Zhen family was able to rank among the "three giants" of Mingyuezhuang with Carpenter and Lei Blacksmith.

Your own family knows your own affairs.

Zhen honestly knows very well that the reason why he has such a tepid and somewhat weak temperament can have today's family business is completely the result of the owner's attention and good rules in the public.

Today, the carpenter made the east, invited him to drink with Lei Cheng, and discussed some things "by the way". Zhen Laoshi ended his mental journey, tidied up the thick satin robe, turned the corner of the alley, and the small courtyard of the Shu family was close in front of him.

"Come on, come on, dry this bowl of fruit wine." The carpenter picked up the porcelain bowl and greeted Zhen Laoshi and Lei Cheng. They all came over in an embarrassing period, and although the carpenter had made a fortune, he still missed the sour wine he drank at the collective Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

Unlike Zhen Laoshi's small sip of slow drinking, Lei Cheng drank it dry in one sip. This kind of wine made from Qinling mountain fruits is too sour, and Lei Cheng's face is green, "Hiss, it's strong enough!" Living a good life, this person is cheap, and when he drank this wine two years ago, he only thought it was delicious. Now, hey, Lao Tzu actually finds it unpleasant! ”

The carpenter ate the scrambled mushrooms with mountain eggs, chewed them carefully, and smiled like a chrysanthemum with an old face, "Not really." My unruly grandson, why don't you entertain you two with this kind of wine, you can't get on the table. Really, I beat him up, and the good days have only been a few days, and then I forgot the years of hardship? ”

"Young people are like this, just give a beating. It's like the old woman in my family, who ran to the mountains with a group of old women all day long, staring at the hired coolies to reclaim the fields. I can't stop it, saying that there is no land at home, and my heart is empty. Zhen honestly joked with his old wife.

Carpenter Cao and Lei Cheng did another bowl and listened to Zhen honestly continue.

Zhen honestly took a sip of wild vegetable yam soup and sighed, "My old man understands it." What is to buy peace of mind, raise children to prevent old age, and set up workshops to make money, all of which are false. The key is to follow the right person. ”

"The owner of the village is exquisite, the people are kind, the rules of the public school are reliable, and the knife in his hand is hard enough, so that we can have a peaceful life. Any other courtesy, righteousness, shame, and simplicity are unreliable. Without status, nothing can be kept. ”

Lei Cheng applauded loudly and dried another half bowl. The carpenter's daughter-in-law came in and took the wine away. Lei Cheng, the youngest of the several, was also over forty-five years old and couldn't drink more.

The three of them, who had run out of wine to drink, began to brag to their heart's content.

The people of Da Zhou pay attention to a subtlety. The carpenter turned around and talked about the changes in the Zhuangzi, the future prospects, and the marriage of the owner, and then "inadvertently" said the theme, "Just like what Mengxue said, rowing against the current, and retreating if you don't make any effort." The three of us are the first to follow the little master, oh no, the owner. The first to follow the Zhuang to host the workshop to make money is us, at most plus a He Lishi who left the village. ”

"Now, the status of the three of us is not guaranteed."

"The clothes, hats, shoes and socks produced by Wu Xiaoling's workshop have become famous in Guanzhong, Nanyang Mansion and Sichuan Road, and are now being shipped to Gyeonggi Province all day long."

"Old man Zhang, Liu Zhihe, Cao Wenwen, Wang Xiaochen, and Liu ...... Ahem, these five have seen the medicine shop. Medicinal herbs, life-saving things, how important they are. ”

"Zhang Qingping's workshop produced nearly half of the bows and arrows in the village. Yang Yingdong's workshop specializes in the production of farm tools, and many people thought that their brains were broken, but now? If it sells too well, it can't be produced, and the owner must have pointed out something. There are also Na Shusen and a few families with countless blood on their hands, and I don't know how many Qimen weapons have been sold. ”

"Li Fuzi's books, textbooks, paper and pencils, Zhang Wanli's charcoal stove, Cheng Yuan's river boat, Zhao Bo's restaurant ......"

"It's amazing to be young. Qin Zhong's grain store, Ding Shihang's three caravans, the woodworking equipment produced by Siyanzai, Liu Decheng's coal mine, small iron mine, small silver mine, three young people, three young people, Da Shenger, and Da Niu have been cooperating, opening several lime kilns, stone factories, charcoal factories, and brick factories. ”

"It's not easy to get a new arrival. Not to mention the armor in Tang Guohao's house, the one named Jing Xinyi actually has a copper mine, a lead mine and a coal factory. There is also the Shen Eagle who is swaggering everywhere, and he has caught up with Tang Guohao, and he wants to produce bamboo paper pressed armor together. ”

Carpenter Cao was about to continue to talk about some of the situation in Qinling Village, when he saw Zhen Laoshi patting his chopsticks.