February, when the warbler flies, is the same everywhere, and even the plateau, which was once considered a wild place by the soldiers, is just as pleasant at this time, even though they have been nesting in their tents for almost the whole winter, and of course assisting the attached servant army to conquer the disobedient tribes.

From the time when the ice and snow melted, driven by the leather whip, nearly 120,000 sturdy people began to build the road again, but this time Li Ang didn't have to worry about the overseer, among the 120,000 sturdy, 50,000 were Yelu's free people, and they were better than the soldiers of Daqin to serve as overseers, for them, there was no such thing as a compatriot at all, and he and his Tubo were finished, from now on they were the people of Daqin, as for the 70,000 people who built the road with them, They were just slaves, and they were more than happy to take the whip from the Great Qin soldiers and tell them what they should do.

Almost every day, there was news of dead people in the places where the roads were being built, and although Leon didn't care about it, he still sent Li Cunzhi to warn the 'free people' not to go too far, and if the slaves died, they would fill their vacancies. Under Li Ang's order, those 'free people' had to be reined in, and the situation of the rations withheld from those slaves also improved a lot, which made the 70,000 slaves grateful to Li Ang, which has to be said to be a very ironic thing, at least Li Ang thought so after hearing Li Cunzhi's reply.

"Might is justice, and the conqueror's bestow on the conquered will make them forget everything that has passed! Emperor Taizu's words always make so much sense. Li Ang muttered to himself and looked at Chen Qingzhi behind him, he wanted to know. In the heart of a Confucian scholar like Chen Qingzhi. How did you evaluate Emperor Taizu, who claimed to be a believer in his fortune.

"Emperor Taizu's words do make sense, but it can't be said to be all right." After a winter of recuperation, Chen Qingzhi regained his fair and handsome face. The elegant taste that seeped out of the bones did not change in the slightest.

"Oh, you're saying that Emperor Taizu is wrong?" Li Ang looked at Chen Qingzhi with interest, waiting for his explanation, he wanted to know what Chen Qingzhi would say next, but to his disappointment, Chen Qingzhi just smiled. He didn't say anything, which made him so bored that he had to turn the conversation to Lengyanjia who returned to Guishan with nearly 50,000 slaves, "Do you think there will be a civil war in Guishan as I thought?" ”

"There is no doubt about the ability of Lengyanjia, but he is always a concubine, and the matriarchal line has no power, the only thing he can rely on is the army in his hand, but there is no support from local forces and civilian officials. Without food, grass and supplies, no matter how strong his army is, it is useless, and if he wants to sit on the supreme position of the Noble Frost Land, he can only cooperate with us. There is no second way. Speaking of Leng Yanjia, the brother-in-law of Guishan, Chen Qingzhi only thought about it slightly. So he said.

"And what about the people of the Futu Sect? What if they supported him? "Throughout the winter, Li Ang learned a lot about the domestic affairs of the Kushan from the Guishan family sent to his relatives who were seized by him and turned into private property, at least the Futu Sect, which became the state religion of the Guishan, made him very concerned, because of the Great Qin's western conquest, in the past 150 years, the doctrines of many religions have changed greatly, and these religions are no longer just spreading beliefs, in Chang'an, these religions are foreign spies and spies in the eyes of the imperial court, and among the people, the Han people who convert to these religions are naturally regarded as treasonUntil now, in addition to worshiping their ancestors, the people of Daqin have at most sacrificed to the gods of Taoism, and foreign religions have no soil to take root in Daqin.

"Futu Sect?" Chen Qingzhi laughed contemptuously, as a Confucian scholar, what he was most disgusted with was that these strange demons had crooked ways, "One of their three venerable beings died, but Legyan Jia went back intact, does the marshal think their pope will not be suspicious?" ”

"It seems that Ziyun doesn't treat your brother-in-law as his own at all." Looking at Chen Qingzhi with a calm face, Li Ang also laughed, it was his idea to use Lengyan Jia to plunge Guishan into a civil war.

"Since Lianjia is going to marry me, then she will be a person from Daqin in the future, Guishan has nothing to do with her anymore, although Lengyan Jia is my brother-in-law, but he has always been a Guishan person, standing in the position of the country, calculating him is nothing!" Chen Qingzhi didn't care at all about the so-called kinship between himself and Leng Yanjia, what should he do.

"There is a clear distinction between public and private." Li Ang looked at Chen Qingzhi with a calm face, and nodded approvingly, this is Chen Qingzhi's strongest place, public is public, private is private, and it is never confused together, although he is a Confucian scholar and usually believes in Confucius and Mencius, but when he goes to the battlefield, but

Like a Legalist believer, he has a clear distinction between friend and foe, he will never tolerate mercy when fighting, and he should be killed by mistake, which can be regarded as a rather terrible person.

"Ziyun, I know that you are from a wealthy family in Jiangnan, according to the rules of your family, as a concubine, you can't take a foreign woman, but I still let you..." Li Ang's words were interrupted at this point, Chen Qingzhi knew what he wanted to say, his marriage with Lianjia can be said to be facilitated by Li Ang, in order to recruit him, he knew this for a long time, but he was not disgusted, and more importantly, Li Ang is now confessing to him, it can be said that this is what he admires Li Ang the most, to the point that he can be so honest, Even if he didn't accept it, he couldn't do it.

"Lord, Ziyun will be nagging in your house in the future." Chen Qingzhi bent down at Li Ang, in fact, he didn't like his rule-abiding family, in his opinion, his elders who strictly followed etiquette didn't know what real Confucianism was, and he didn't like his family affairs to be decided, and under the agreement of the elders in a few words, he went to spend the rest of his life with a woman he didn't know.

Li Ang supported Chen Qingzhi, he never thought of hiding Chen Qingzhi in the past, for a wise general like Chen Qingzhi, his own thoughts are not enough for him to guess, or treat each other with sincerity to catch his heart the most, and people like Chen Qingzhi seem to be indifferent to everything, but in fact, he also has his pursuit in his heart, which can be seen from the fact that he made a lot of foreign friends when he was in the south.

"Yongzeng, I'll go and tell him." Chen Qingzhi generously accepted Li Ang's support, and then said with a smile, Ran Min has no relatives in the family, it can be said that he has no worries, as long as he speaks, he will definitely join Li Ang's family with him, and he never doubts the friendship between them.

"No, I'll go to Yongzeng personally for this matter." Li Ang looked at Chen Qingzhi and said in a deep voice, Ran Min can be said to be the person he deserves the most respect, this man is by no means just a brave general, "I want to respect his decision." ”

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"That's fine, Lord, please go!" Chen Qingzhi looked at Li Ang's gaze, and knew that it would be difficult for him to change his mind, and after thinking about it, he nodded, he knew that in Ran Min's heart, among the generals of the Manchu Dynasty, there was only Li Ang who could convince him except for those generals of the older generation.

Walking out of the tent, Li Ang went straight to Ran Min's camp, it can be said that in the army of this expedition, among the three people he wanted the most, Ran Min was the strongest person, although his soldiers were not as good as Murong, and the army was slightly inferior to Chen Qingzhi, but he was born as a god of war, born for the battlefield, as long as he solved the logistics, he was the overlord on the battlefield, and he was afraid that he was the only one who could compete with him.

Seeing Li Ang coming, Ran Min, who was wiping his blade, was stunned, but soon he grinned, "What kind of wind blew the marshal here!" With that, he put down the blade in his hand and got up to greet him, but when he saw the dragon tooth grabber in Li Ang's hand, the smile on his face became more and more happy.

"After a winter's nest, my hands are a little itchy, so I came to you." Li Ang stood at the entrance of the tent and didn't go in, but smiled at Ran Min and said, "It's better to go out of the camp to loosen your muscles." ”

"Okay!" Ran Min's eyes lit up, he took his own blade, and rushed out of the tent, all winter, there was Leng Yan Jia Greasy Sejia to accompany him to have a good time, but compared with Li Ang, Leng Yan Jia Greasy Sejia is still a lot worse, if it weren't for Li Ang is the current commander of the big battalion, Ran Min would have come to the door a long time ago.

The horses of both men were one in a million, and in a few moments, they had reached a high slope outside the camp. Ran Min didn't talk nonsense, he got off the horse directly, took his hook halberd and double-edged spear, and was going to fight with Li Ang on foot, as for the horse battle, he didn't want to accompany him, although his Zhulong horse was a BMW, but compared to Li Ang's Zi Li, it was still inferior, and if he fought, he would suffer too much.

Jumping off the horse, Li Ang mentioned the dragon's teeth, and couldn't wait to exchange hands with Ran Min, since he stepped on the plateau, he led the troops to charge the battle several times, and his attainments in gunnery have also improved by leaps and bounds, and he is a few points stronger than before, but I don't know how powerful these points are.

The agitation of Jin Tie continued to sound, and every time Li Ang and Ran Min clashed, both sides used all their strength, and they all took a fierce path, and the moves were wide open and closed, which was extremely terrifying, so that the two of them were watching on the sidelines and the soldiers were terrified, for fear that the two would lose if they were not careful.

After fighting for a long time, the two stopped fighting, and Ran Min looked up to the sky and laughed, "It's so happy!" "Since his martial arts reached the pinnacle, he has never shown ten percent of his strength in the competition with others, but today he and Li Ang are evenly matched, which can be described as enjoyable.

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