After announcing this important appointment, Li Mao shook Tian Qi's hand and said, "Give up everything before and help me." ()" Tian Qian nodded solemnly and snorted. At this time, Lan'er pulled a man and a woman and two children to run over, Lan'er has succeeded in settling Su Qing these days, and has been her assistant, working all day long, often exercising, muscular, flexible, and running all the way with two children, a pair of children can't even run anymore, tired, but she is not panting, and her face is not red.

Lan'er knelt beside Tian Qi, raised an arm, touched it, rubbed it with her cheek, and praised: "It's tender and soft, I really want to taste it." Tian Qian withdrew her arm and said coquettishly: "The children are watching." Anthomaniac. ”

The little girl smirked and said, "Nymphomaniac, Lan Niangniang, what is a nymphomaniac." ”

Lan'er rolled her eyes and was searching her intestines. Li Mao smiled: "Don't ask what a is, let me ask you, whose children are you, you are quite sturdy." ”

Lan'er glanced at Li Mao and said, "Do you have a father like this, my own children don't know me." ”

Li Mao smiled: "It's just a joke, you still take it seriously." Pointing to the girl, he said, "Your name is Li Rongrong, right, you are a child of Erniang's family." The girl said, "My name is Li Mei'er." Li Mao sighed and hurriedly asked, "Who is your mother?" ”

The girl burst into tears, and the boy put his arms around his sister and said, "Sister, don't cry, my father is amusing you." ”

The girl exclaimed, "It's not funny, it's not funny, he just doesn't know me." ”

Li Mao affectionately pulled the little girl's face, touched her head again, and said, "Why doesn't this kid know how to tease, my father is joking with you." () It's still this kid who is smart, you are Li Hai of Su Ying's family. ”

The boy lowered his head and sighed helplessly, and said to the girl, "My brother is wrong, and my father really can't remember us." The girl cried even louder.

Lan'er hurriedly comforted the two children, and blamed Li Mao: "If you can't figure it out, don't say a word, this is Li Muxian of Qi Yan's family." ”

Li Mao exclaimed: "Mu Xian is so old? I thought I could just walk. ”

Lan'er pushed him, pouted, and pulled the two children away.

Tian Qian looked at the two children, her eyes were full of envy, since Wei Zhou woke up from a dream, she has always wanted a child, but she has not been able to do so.

She patted Li Mao: "It's not your fault, the children grow up too fast, and they have changed after not seeing each other for half a year." ”

Li Mao laughed at himself: "In the old days, I said that I didn't know what I should do and what I shouldn't do as an official, I didn't know how much money I had, I didn't know how many wives and concubines I had, and I didn't know how many children I had. Look at me, I'm not far from them now. ”

Tian Qian said: "Over the years, you have carried the five towns of Liaodong, Yingping, Youzhou, Chengde, and Ziqing on your shoulders, and it is difficult for you." ”

Li Mao said: "Yes, yes, I am carrying others on one shoulder, but I can't even tell my own children, if I didn't enter the customs at the beginning, now I am the king and hegemon in Liaodong, how calm my life will be." ”

Tian Qian smiled: "Then why do you have to ask for hardship, it's not very good to be a carefree king of Liaodong." ”

Li Mao thought for a while: "I am a bitter background, when I followed Xue Shangshu from Baoding in the river to Chengwu County, Caozhou to be an official, at first I was a black household, and later in the county as a gold envoy, I was a very thick official, and later was promoted by General Yuhualong and went to the Qing Navy. The official is getting bigger and bigger, but his heart is getting more and more uneasy, and he is always worried that once he wakes up, he will be imprisoned and beaten back to his original shape. Therefore, I kept tossing, tossing, tossing again, tossing from Ziqing to Chang'an, and then from Chang'an back to Ziqing, to Weizhou, to Caozhou, and back to Chang'an, and went to the grassland to run a trip, leaving Xiaoru alone, and then going to Xichuan to run a set, and then out of the town of Zhengzhou, wandering, it is always difficult to have a place to settle down.

Later, when I came to Liaodong, I started from scratch, died for a lifetime, and finally laid a territory of my own, thinking that I could be stable now, but I couldn't. It's called donkey poop eggs, the surface is shiny, and the inside is an embroidered pillow, which is useless. The place is in a mess, the army is in a mess, and the finances are in danger of collapsing from time to time. I was like pushing a wheelbarrow, knowing that the road ahead was bumpy, and I could only continue to move forward, and I couldn't stop at all, so I hit the Khitan and beat the Murwei, and the Silla Fangping fought against the Bohai Sea, and then turned back and went to Yingzhou, and then the Khitan, and I couldn't stop at all, and the crisis broke out immediately and immediately collapsed.

"It's easy to break into Youzhou, the territory is bigger, the room for maneuver is bigger, and I can trade with the heart of the Central Plains, I think I can take a breath now." I didn't expect that just out of the bitter sea, and into the knife mountain, and it was a random fight, people said that I was reckless and warlike, in fact, who doesn't want to live a peaceful life, who doesn't want to recognize their children, but I sit on a volcano that is about to erupt at any time, can I settle down? Now this Youzhou, the surface is stable, but in fact it is also full of dangers, the difference is that the plate is bigger, the room for maneuver is larger, and the ability to resist risks is stronger, but if there is a big mistake, it will be a catastrophe. My foundation in Youzhou is still shallow. ”

Tian Qian felt comforted after listening to Li Mao's words, it seems that he is not an unenterprising keeper, he is always vigilant, and has an extraordinary sober understanding of crises and risks.

So he said: "Youzhou is already strong, as long as we are cautious, our chances of winning are still very big." ”

Li Mao shook his head: "At the end of the dynasty, the four seas are boiling, heroes are rising, everything has to be reshuffled, the first may not be able to have the last laugh, but the latecomers can take advantage of the situation." What should I do when the day comes? Hmph, in fact, I don't know what to do, rise up and fight for the world? I have the strength, but do I still have the ambition? In the past few years, life has been smooth and stable, who is willing to fight? I don't want to. ”

Tian Qian said: "This is simple, you can take advantage of the current situation to be stable, and practice more soldiers." Kim Chong-hee died of illness, Kim so-jong dominated Silla, and after two years, he will definitely fight back. Silla has been in internal strife for many years, the people's livelihood is withering, all industries are sluggish, and the confrontation between the government and the people is serious, Kim so-jong put this account on your head, and he told the Silla ministers and the people that the root of the disaster suffered by Silla lies in you, Li Taiwei, and now the entire Silla people hate you to the bone, and if Silla is revived in the future, Liaodong will not want to be stable again. ”

Li Mao said: "This is a cup of bitter wine that I brewed myself, and now he wants to force me to drink it." In terms of affection, he is right, but I will not let him get his wish, you are right, if Silla is revived, Liaodong will not be stable. ”

Li Mao ended his vacation on the seashore ahead of schedule and set off for Yanbei, where the war was basically over, but because the weather was too hot this year, all the tribes were reluctant to travel back to Youzhou, so they were still stranded in the grassland, enjoying the wine, fat sheep and the tenderness of exotic women from the conquered tribes.

Li Mao trekked thousands of mountains and rivers to the west of Yunzhou at the foot of Daqing Mountain, inspected 60,000 soldiers and horses of various departments, and was extremely prestigious. The left and right tribes went south to offer special products to the Tang Taiwei and asked for attachment.

Li Mao accepted their contributions, but comforted them to continue to stay in the grassland, this year in the Tang Dynasty was either drought or flood, the catastrophe has become a certainty, in vain to increase so many new subjects, according to the imperial court's consistent virtue of great success, and I don't know how many mainland residents will be deprived of rations and starve to death, this lack of virtue Li Mao can not do.

Seeing that Li Mao refused to be wronged, the grassland speculators became resentful, and the voices of complaints and slander reached the sky. Li Mao didn't want to be familiar with them, but everyone was clamoring too much, and it was inevitable that he would lose the prestige of the Celestial Empire, so he arrested the leaders of the fifteen departments to serve in the camp.

After the military parade, the various units successively returned to their garrisons, and most of the newly taken land was handed over to Fengzhou and Zhenwu Army.

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