Listening to the bell of the fifth watch, Han Gang opened his eyes and sat up, only one person fell asleep on the huge bed.

Su Xin and Zhou Nan are now pregnant, and Han Gang has to sleep alone. Although it has been a few months, he still feels that the bed next to him is really empty.

Yun Niang's age is also considered to be the time in this era, but Han Gang still wants to take it seriously. Although I am a little sorry for Su Xin and Zhou Nan who entered the Han family without any ceremony, Yun Niang has been at home since she was a child, and she really wants to be included in the room, so it is better to be formal to make sense.

Han Gang suddenly laughed again, this matter still has to wait a little longer, at least until Hezhou is captured and the division is returned triumphantly.

"Third brother, are you up?"

Hearing the sound in the room, Yun Niang pushed the door and came in. Dressed in a thick silk cotton jacket, he carried a copper basin.

Han Gang began to freshen up with the hot water in the basin. A pair of light brown eyes looked at him with concern. Seeing that Han Gang's eyes were bloodshot, Yun Niang said angrily: "Third brother, why did you stay up late again?" ”

"It's just a little more reading, it's not a late night,"

"If you don't stay up late, get up early to practice." Yun Niang pursed her mouth, "Third brother, Niangniang has said that no matter how busy you are, you must sleep well, otherwise you will hurt your spirit." ”

Han Gang laughed, at a young age, it is really good to teach people. pinched the little girl's tall nose, "It's getting more and more like a housekeeper." ”

Han Yunniang covered the tip of her nose that was pinched, and said angrily: "Third brother! She stared at Han Gang with her eyes wide open, but the appearance of her round eyes was only cute, but not scary at all.

Han Gang smiled slightly, it was funny when the little girl was angry, which made him feel a lot easier. I straightened my clothes, patted her on the head, and went out of the house to say hello to her parents.

In the main house, Yan Suxin and Zhou Nan are here. On one side of the table, there are large bags of miscellaneous items.

"What is this?" Han Gang asked.

"It's a travel outfit for officials." Su Xin and Zhou Nan spoke in unison.

Zhilu said that Han Gang was going to leave for Xizhou tomorrow, and they were ready for Han Gang. The two girls both knew that Han Gang was happy, and they wrapped a big package just for the change of clothes. Shoes and socks are also prepared with many spare. Even the cushion under the saddle has two backups.

"Let's subtract more, it's too much." Han Gang couldn't cry or laugh, it was not that he had never gone out in the past, and he had never been so prepared, it seemed that it was because the two girls were too idle. After being pregnant, they are not allowed to do anything, and their idle time is the rest of the work of flying needles and threads.

It's only been about four months now, and Su Xin and Zhou Nan haven't shown their feelings yet, but they just see that their waists are a little plump compared to the past. And because they are all first-borns, Wen Po and the medical officer have told them not to nourish too much, otherwise it is very likely that there will be difficult childbirth at that time. In this era, there is no caesarean section, and once it is difficult to give birth, many times it is a corpse with two lives.

Rearranging the package, Zhou Nanshun said to Han Gang: "Sister Mingzhu, the head housekeeper in front, is also pregnant, two months earlier than us. I heard her say that the Nankong Nunnery who went to worship could protect the fetus and catch up with Ming'er, and the slave also wanted to go to worship with Sister Suxin. ”

"It's better to believe in the Buddha than to believe in the doctor, what can the wooden statue do?"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Han Ah Li believed in the Buddha, and when he heard his son say this, he immediately said angrily: "The Buddha will blame!" ”

"Mother, the child only worships the ancestors. The Buddha and the Taoist can not control the children's heads. Han Gang replied half-jokingly. He also said to Zhou Nan and Yan Suxin, "It's also a good thing that you can feel at ease if you bow down, that is, you should be careful when you go out, don't bump into it." ”

After breakfast at home, when Han Gang arrived at Yamen, the former Guangrui army generals who had been requisitioned had already arrived.

This time, Han Gang signed a book in Gongzhou to recruit 3,000 people, and Liu Yuan's team was the first to arrive.

Han Gang sat down satisfied and said, "It's hard work." ”

"I can't afford to work hard, that is, it is an opportune move, and we should obey our fate." Liu Yuan bowed down, "Whether it is escorting grain and grass or guarding the city, we will do it properly for the opportunity." ”

"Liu Yuan!"

“…… Please also give me the right advice. ”

"You just follow the official, and you don't have to worry about other things."

Although Liu Yuan is exactly two hundred and fifty Baoding, nominally an archer who occupies the quota of the township soldiers, the elite is not allowed to choose a front. It's all a team of generals and colonels who can fight in battle, and it's hard to see even in Beijing. With them by their side, there is no need for extra guards. As for things like escorting grain and grass and guarding the city, it depends on the situation, and generally speaking, Han Gang will not release them from Lu.

Liu Yuan heard Han Gang's words and was about to lure them into his henchmen, so he cleverly took advantage of the situation, "Jiyi, then where are we going next?" ”

"First of all, Xizhou." Han Gang paused, "If it goes well, the next thing is Xiangzi City." ”

……………………

Wang Shao has arrived in Xizhou.

In the plan, Jing Sili and Han Gang will also go to Xizhou together.

Han Gang was hesitating whether to let Qin Fengjun travel lightly. The dry materials that were too heavy were transported to Xizhou by sled.

Since the end of the year, the Economic Strategy Division has used the modified sleigh to transport a large number of grain and military materials to Didao City. It is very easy to convert ordinary horse-drawn carriages into sleigh cars, and there is no shortage of horse-drawn carriages under the Xihe Economic Strategy Division. In the one month from the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty to the first half of February, the number of trains dispatched was close to 1,000.

It's just that now that the snow is melting, the sledding is coming to an end; The flat southern avenues of Mabang Mountain and Zhuniuling will also lose most of their capacity to carry transportation in the next two months.

After another half a month, the snow will melt completely, and the loess road surface will be easy to turn over the slurry. Cars and horses drove by, and the road was full of ruts and hoof prints, and it was full of mud. There are even places where it looks like a very shallow pool of stagnant water, but when you step on it, you will find that it is actually a pit several feet deep, and anyone can sink into it. But that's what happens on flat ground. In other words, it is a mountain road, because of the rocks under the road, there will not be too many bad road conditions with slurry. There is only one advantage, but there must be one disadvantage. When crossing the Bird and Mouse Mountain, the carts must be lightly loaded, even the wheelbarrow, otherwise they have to be carried by horses and donkeys.

Han Gang was thinking about how to arrange the march plan of Qin Feng's army this time, if he couldn't arrange it well, he would have to squeeze in the time for transporting grain.

"Yukun is thinking too much. Send people to Di Dao first, how to transport grain and grass, and think about it later. Wang Hou said with a smile, "Before you took office as a military envoy, you thought about things so much, if something happened, it could be regarded as making wedding clothes for others." ”

Han Gang said nonchalantly, "As long as the army led by Anfu can be still, it is enough to be able to attack the city." ”

Just turned his head, and an urgent edict from Beijing was handed to Han Gang and Wang Hou as quickly as possible.

It is necessary to forward Xihe's official document, and Han Gang, as a strategic driver, has the right to dismantle it first. Just seeing a name on the edict, Han Gang almost lost his voice and shouted: "Shen Kuo?!" ”

"What, Yukun, do you know him?"

Wang Hou is a little strange, this is obviously a figure who is not well-known, just a person in the New Party. As far as Wang Hou knows, even in the new party, Shen Kuo is not a stalwart member.

"It's just that Zhang Zihou heard about him in his letter."

Han Gang wasn't lying, but he actually asked Zhang Dian first. Relying on several of his inventions and unique academic views, he mentioned Shen Kuo to Zhang Dian. In Zhang Dan's reply, it was very strange that Han Gang would know that Shen Kuo was good at arithmetic, water conservancy and tools, but he still explained Shen Kuo's affairs to Han Gang in detail.

After reading Zhang Dan's introduction, Han Gang now has reason to wonder if it was his private message to Zhang Dian that prompted Wang Anshi to send Shen Kuo to Xihe.

The name Shen Kuo was just an insignificant one submerged in the names of tens of thousands of scholars in the Great Song Dynasty at this time. But after a thousand years, except for Wang Anshi, Sima Guang and the Su brothers, none of the famous ministers who are now famous can compare to Shen Kuo and Shen Cunzhong.

Judging from the edict sent, Shen Kuo's current official is the crown prince Zhongyun, who is at the same level as Han Gang. I heard that he was forty years old, but he was in the same position as Han Gang, who was only his age, and it was really sad to say. However, he was born as a jinshi, served several positions inside and outside, and was promoted to a court official in his forties, which is the normal situation in officialdom. When Wang Shao became a court official of Zheng Bapin, it was four years ago, when he was thirty-eight years old.

At the age of thirty-five, he entered the political affairs hall, Han Qi was a special case, and he was promoted to a court official at the age of twenty-one, and Han Gang was also a special case. Han Gang didn't know if Shen Kuo would be jealous of himself because of this, if he wanted to start a fight, the Jing Strategy Division would be in trouble.

"Shen Kuo has built seawalls and weirs, and is good at arithmetic, so he must be able to excel in the matter of money and grain transfer. The imperial court sent him to be a transit envoy with the army, and there would not be much harm. Han Gang couldn't tell if he wanted to convince Wang Hou or convince himself. The distance between the millennium and the thousand, no one can say for sure about the character of a person.

But things won't wait for anyone, judging from the marching speed of the Xihe Jinglu Division, maybe by the time Shen Kuo arrived in Longxi City, the Great Song Dynasty official army had already captured Hezhou City. At that time, Shen Kuo's expression would definitely be wonderful.

Secretly laughing a few times, Han Gang refocused his attention on the eyes. He doesn't deliberately embarrass Shen Kuo, and he still has some respect for him, but for his work, he won't make unnecessary concessions to anyone.

"Tomorrow, the junior brother and Jing Sili will set off with the army, and about Shen Kuo's being sent to Qinfeng Road, it will all depend on you."

"It's just a receptionist, Yukun, you can rest assured, let's think about what to do next, right?"