Qu Tu felt a burst of regret in his heart at this time, he knew that this Zhao Ziliang was so difficult, he should have blocked Lu Li from letting his army pass in the first place, otherwise there would be no today. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Qu Tu immediately thought of a possibility, his heart beat wildly, and a cold sweat broke out on his forehead. What if the leader of this surnamed Zhao attacks our department first when he passes? But you can't do it without borrowing the way, didn't you hear this guy say that whoever stops him will be killed first?

What to do? What to do? Uh, there is, don't the Han people have a saying that "Dead friends don't die poor?" By the way, that's it? Lu Li, I'm sorry, I have to be sorry for you! ”

After making up his mind, Qu Tu immediately said to Zhao Ziliang: "General, this Lu Li is really hateful, he has always been arrogant and does not take Xiao Khan in his eyes, Xiao Khan has long wanted to mess with him, but he has been suffering from lack of strength, and now the general wants to crusade against him, how can Xiao Khan stand by and watch?" Of course, we are going to send troops to attack Luli with the general! ”

Zhao Ziliang pretended to be overjoyed: "Oh? Okay, how many troops are you going to send? ”

Qu Tu stretched out his finger and calculated, and said, "Xiao Khan has 6,000 men and horses, how about sending 3,000 troops?" ”

Zhao Ziliang slapped the table and said, "Okay, welcome Qutu Khan to join our army to fight against Luli together!" Meet you here today, two months later! ”

Qu Tu picked up his wine glass and said, "That little Khan is waiting for the arrival of the general's army two months later!" ”

Zhao Ziliang warned Qu Tu again, to keep his mouth shut, block the news, and not let Lu Li get the news in advance.

Next, Zhao Ziliang led Wang Can, Nur and Whirlwind Eighteen Cavalry back to the east, and once again crossed the mountain pass between Alatau and Arruk Mountain to the northeast, and successively arrived at one of the five land divisions, the Setsheti Department and the Chumukun Division, of which the Setsheti Department was scattered close to Xilin Shouchuang, and the place where the Zhumukun Department lived was in the Governor's Mansion of Luyandu, just east of the strength of the Qarluq people, and the two were not far apart.

The leader of the Sheti tribe is a woman, in this era it is extremely rare for the barbarians to take a woman as the leader, but Zhao Ziliang understood why she could be a leader after seeing Tun Duo and her courtiers, this woman has a leadership style, she is bold and generous, heroic, extraordinary, fair and strict in handling the affairs of the clan, plus she is physically strong, martial arts are extraordinary, a cloud-swallowing tiger head spear makes it supernatural, few of the warriors in the clan are her enemies.

Na Yan Kun, the leader of the Mukun Division, had followed the former leader to fight Tuoyun Fort, and had seen Zhao Ziliang on the battlefield in the process of beheading the seven generals of the Tucai Shi at that time, and had seen Zhao Ziliang in the battle of the Tuqi Shi Annihilation of the Country outside the Broken Leaf City, and he was invincible among the ten thousand armies, killing the scene of the blood of the Fire Spitting Immortal.

Regarding Zhao Ziliang's sudden visit, Yan Kun was extremely awe-inspired, and the etiquette to greet him was greeted with the highest etiquette of the Mukun Department.

After seeing that Yan Kun, Zhao Ziliang directly explained his intentions, and asked him to cooperate with the Tang Army from the east to contain the Treading Power Department, and cut off the connection between the Treading Power Department and the Blazing Department of the Desert Governor's Mansion.

It stands to reason that a small Xilin guard does not have the ability to mobilize the soldiers and horses of several surrounding barbarian tribes in any case, and the level of Xilin guarding and catching cannot do so, mobilizing so many soldiers and horses of the surrounding barbarian tribes must be protected by the Beiting Mansion, that is, to send a document, but Zhao Ziliang's prestige in Anxi and Beiting is too heavy, and none of these barbarian leaders does not sell face to him, plus he now has 8,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, this force is enough to destroy a tribe, Therefore, he did not make any effort, and within ten days, he contacted the surrounding barbarians to send troops to deal with the stepping power department, and he Zhao Ziliang had such great appeal.

On April 18, Zhao Ziliang and others returned to Xilin to guard and capture, and that night, all the officials and generals came to the guard house to report to him the progress of the work in the past ten days.

After more than a month and a half of emergency repair, the city wall of Xilin has been built to the original height on the basis of widening and reinforcement, and the next step is to continue to increase the height, increase to two zhang high, due to the limited conditions, there is no mountain stone nearby to be mined, can only build a kiln to burn green bricks, and then use clay and other adhesives to build it, and gradually increase the height, more than 1,000 people have been working for a month and a half, can do this step, it is already extremely high efficiency, can give full play to the strength of more than 1,000 people, reasonable overall arrangement, make full use of manpower, save timeIn these aspects, it can be seen that the judge's ability is still very strong.

The task of the blacksmiths and carpenters at this stage is not only to build the tools for fortifying the city, but also to build irrigation tools and agricultural tools, such as waterwheels, iron plows, shovels, hoes, sickles, etc.

The food problem is the top priority that Zhao Ziliang and others need to solve now, and they must buy it from other places in the first half of the year, but they can't always buy food, so the soldiers now have to open up the wasteland in the morning and train in the afternoon, and there is almost no idle time every day, and the soldiers are busy until late every day before going to bed.

On the way to the farm, Zheng San introduced to Zhao Ziliang: "After more than a month of reclamation, now we have reclaimed more than 20,000 acres, nearly 30,000 acres of fields, basically every time a piece of land is planted, until now, all the fields reclaimed have been applied horse manure, cow dung, sheep dung and human manure, the seeds have been planted, according to your requirements general, the number of acres is enough, so the next is field irrigation, weeding, insect control, etc., the soldiers can spend a lot less time on farm work." I have more time to devote to drills, and I have already consulted with the instructors about farm work, and each battalion has a shift and spends half a day every day, and the afternoon is the same as usual! ”

Zhao Ziliang jumped off the horse, walked to the ridge of a farmland, squatted down to check the seedlings and the canal, and asked: "Judging from the current situation, the seedlings are growing quite well, the canal is well dug, the bottom of the canal is not high or low, some water should be stored during the dry season, how about water irrigation?" ”

Zheng San said: "The water in the west of Huangcaobo is salty, and the terrain is low, it cannot be used for irrigation of reclamation, fortunately there is a Zarmatu water, from east to west through the desert in the north into Huangcaobo, we can dig a big canal to bring water from the desert in the north, the distance that needs to be excavated is not long, only a dozen miles, and now I have discussed this matter with the judge Gao, the record of the army Cen and the marching Sima Chen are discussing this matter, anyway, there is not much farm work now, it is okay to transfer some manpower, in addition, I thought about it for a while, If it is a dry season, I am afraid that the river water of Zarmatu water is too low and I am afraid that it will not be able to irrigate, I plan to build a dam in the downstream of Zarmatu water in the autumn and winter this year, and open the sluice gate to release water during the flood period, and pour the dry period, I will put down the sluice gate to block part of the river water and let the water level rise for irrigation, but this project is afraid that it will not be small! ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said, "Well, that's a good idea!" I think that our Xilin Shou is very suitable for large-scale planting, and the rain is also abundant, if we can, next year, we can expand the planting area of wasteland and hoard a lot of grain and grass. Just do what you think, and I'll give you my full support! ”

Zheng San hurriedly said, "Thank you, General!" ”

"By the way, we must gather the manure of livestock and people, the manure can not be wasted, and it should not be burned for heating in winter, these are fertilizers, if you want to heat you can go to the nearby barren mountains to cut wood for materials, in addition, we have to plant some trees in places that are not suitable for planting crops, you see the edge of the northern desert, we can plant some trees, these trees can grow up to prevent the desert from continuing to expand, and can also block the wind and sand from blowing over! In addition, in the city and in the barracks to build a few more for convenience, and to stipulate that no one can defecate casually, if the residents of the city do not go to the toilet at home, outside must be in the designated latrines for convenience, the same is true for the soldiers in the barracks outside the city, if the street patrol soldiers catch those who defecate in the open will be punished, and the dung pulled by the livestock after passing through must be cleaned up and collected in time, these are done by the herdsmen! ”

Zheng San promised: "I understand, I'll write this down and make arrangements when I go back."

Zhao Ziliang remembered something and asked: "Now we use horses to plough the fields for land reclamation, right?" ”

Zheng San nodded and said: "Yes, we only have war horses this time, in addition to leaving the horses used by the cavalry, we used five hundred horses to plough the field, there are advantages and disadvantages to plowing the fields with horses, the advantage is that the horses are more flexible than cattle, and the ploughing speed is also fast, but the soil must be softer, if it is a harder soil, it will not be able to plough with horses, and it is necessary to use cattle, but now we have no cattle here, and the cattle, sheep and horses transported from Mobei have not yet arrived!" ”

Zhao Ziliang raised tens of thousands of war horses and cattle and sheep in Mobei, a total of more than 100,000 heads, these are a piece of his heart, of course, the sooner it is transported, the better, there is a hopeless grassland nearby, the grass grows taller than people, but there are no livestock, it is wasted.

Zhao Ziliang asked, "How long will it take for the first batch to arrive?" ”

Zheng San said: "I have contacted a few days ago, according to the itinerary, they should have passed through the territory of the Shatuo people, and it will take about half a month to reach here, this time it is Princess Yu Candle, the daughter of the former Turkic Dengli Khan, who helped drive the livestock away, she personally took half of the clan to follow the caravan to drive the livestock over, the caravan was under the banner of the general along the way, and no one on the grassland dared to fight the idea of this batch of livestock, so the road was very smooth!" ”

Princess Yu Zhu and her people helped drive the livestock, which made Zhao Ziliang feel a lot more relieved, these nomadic tribes were familiar with the temperament of the livestock, and the cattle would be driven quickly, which could not only allow the livestock to eat enough weeds, but also not be too hungry, and maintain the speed of the journey.

When Zhao Ziliang was in Mobei, Princess Yu Candle and Yiran Khan's little wife Yu Sailuo made it clear that they wanted to attach themselves to him, no matter where he went to serve, they would take their clansmen to follow, after all, their clansmen were not many, only hundreds, these people could move at any time, because their clansmen were relatively small, so there was basically no threat to the Tang Dynasty, so Xuanzong did not let them go to Chang'an to settle down, but the Kedun Lu Po of the Viga Khan was a little jealous of her because there were more than a thousand tent clansmen under his hands, Worried that the Turks would rise again in her hands, so she issued an edict to let her go to Chang'an to live permanently, but Zhao Ziliang promised her help to suggest that the imperial court give her better conditions, and at the suggestion of Zhao Ziliang, Xuanzong decreed that she should be canonized as the wife of the state guest, and the imperial court gave her 300,000 yuan of "fat powder" money every year. (To be continued.) )