After the Great War, everything was left to be done. Although it was not poisoned by the war, the same is true of Guangmu County, which lost many Dingkou in this battle. It was supposed to be the autumn harvest season. However, under the order of Zhang Yuanjun in Guzang City, seven or eight out of ten Dingkou in the county were requisitioned to go to war, and the women, children, old and weak struggled to harvest grain in the fields, and the efficiency was naturally not as good as those strong men. It has been busy for more than a month, and there are still large tracts of farmland that have not been harvested on both sides of the water outside the county. Women often put their young children in baskets and worked tirelessly to harvest in the fields under the scorching sun.

Many of the family's Ding Zhuang were killed in the battle. Among them, Lingju is the most. Among the displaced people resettled in Yongdeng County last year, many of them also died in the battle. Fortunately, the officers and assistants in the army took a lot of effort to count the names of these newly joined the army and compile them into a book. Then they made spirit tablets for these fallen soldiers, and then enshrined them in the Martyrs' Shrine. In the days after the war, there was an endless stream of people who went to the Martyrs' Shrine to pay their respects. From the county government to the peddlers' pawns, the final memory of this battle is fixed on the thousands of new spiritual seats in the martyrs' shrine.

Under the care of Xin Fujun, the families of the fallen soldier Ding Zhuang received a large amount of pensions. and the privilege of tax exemption this year and next. These lenient measures have made the families in the county who have lost their Dingkou seem to have diluted their grief a little. After all, the dead are gone, but the living still have to continue living. However, in the military households in the north of the county capital, as well as in the countryside, children are always heard crying, and the call of father and father is heard from time to time. The voice called, and the feelings were desolate, which made Li Yanzhao feel sad when he heard it.

He began to feel that Zhang Yuanjun's decision was wise. If you don't take the opportunity to make peace with Liu Yao. And if this war is allowed to continue, I don't know how many families will go to the abyss. How many Ding Zhuang, who could have been engaged in productive labor, had to be sacrificed on the banks of the river needlessly. Today's Liangzhou is indeed not strong enough, so that it does not even have the confidence to refuse to negotiate peace. Li Yanzhao watched everything around him, and gradually began to analyze the gains and losses of the war from a military point of view.

Some of the helpless realities that I saw with my own eyes warned Li Yanzhao. A military victory, even a temporary victory at the strategic level, does not mean everything. If a large number of Dingkou are lost for production, the current situation in Liangzhou will turn into a slump. There are four or five thousand people out of Lingju County this time, and only half of them will come back. Therefore, up to now, among the three counties under the county government, the progress of harvesting autumn grain in Lingju County is also the slowest among the three counties.

Previously, it undertook the manufacture and supply of ordnance, plus the pension allocated to the families of the dead Dingkou after the war. Even the treasury of the county government, which was rich in wealth before, was empty. Fortunately, after Xin Fujun was on the table, the governor of Guzang immediately allocated a batch of goods and sent them to the county. Although it is not much, and it is not even as much as the expenditure of the county government to make ordnance, but it is better than nothing. It also made Xin Fujun, who was worried about looking at the treasury, secretly relieved.

After the state officials who escorted the goods untied the goods, they were not in a hurry to leave. They pulled Xin Taishou, who was inspecting the goods, and handed him a letter. Xin Taishou opened a rough list, but saw that the letter was written by Zhang Yuanjun, saying that the contribution and sacrifice of the Guangwu army in this battle were quite large. Ordered the Guangwu army to rush to Guzang as soon as possible on behalf of Sima Li Yanzhao. Xin Tai Shouben was a little surprised. However, thinking of the blood letter that Li Yanzhao presented with his upper table, he was relieved again.

Li Yanzhao, who was leading his troops to assist the common people in harvesting autumn grain in Lingju County, received the order from Taishou, and rushed to the county government in a carriage sent by Taishou. His injuries are still not healed, and excessive exertion could cause even more pain at any time. Therefore, horseback riding is not allowed. Taishou also knew this, and the move of sending a carriage made Li Yanzhao feel flattered for a while.

The speed of the carriage was much slower than that of a horse. Li Yanzhao bumped on the road for nearly two days before he arrived at the foot of Guzang City. The defenders of the city gate saw that the carriage was the regulation of a county guard, but they did not dare to stop it. It's just that the city gate official stepped forward and made a routine inquiry. When Li Yanzhao took out Zhang Envoy's letter to the county government, the city gate official suddenly panicked, not only immediately let him go, but also personally sent his subordinates to send Li Yanzhao to the inn near the left side of the Assassin's Mansion.

This time, the treatment is very different from the last time. This inn was originally opened by the Assassin's Mansion, which is equivalent to the guest house of later generations. When the innkeeper saw the official letter presented by Li Yanzhao, he immediately arranged two rooms for him personally. One was for him to live in, and the other for the coachman and two county guards who had come with him. Several people carried Li Yanzhao into the guest room, and after settling down, the two guards immediately went to the Assassin's Mansion to contact. In order to put the matter of the envoy's meeting with Li Sima on the agenda.

The officials of the Assassin's Mansion read the official letter, registered it, and told the two guards that Zhang Yuanjun was not in the Assassin's Mansion at present. When Zhang returns, they will immediately notify the envoy. The two guards returned to the inn and returned to Li Yanzhao. Li Yanzhao also said that he was not in a hurry, gave the two of them a lot of money, and asked them to bring some food back. As soon as the two of them returned, he hurried some of his meal, and then lay down and fell asleep.

That day, he went to the Martyrs' Shrine to find Liu Jiwu, because he was in a hurry along the way, and was accidentally beaten by Liu Jiwu, Li Yanzhao after returning to the camp found that the abdominal wound burst open again, so he summoned the military medical officer and came to bandage it. Although a few days have passed, the wounds that have not yet healed are still dull.

The wound on the shoulder is the most superficial and therefore heals the fastest. Now it's a bloody scab, and it's starting to itch faintly. Li Yanzhao knew that this wound would not heal in a long time. Leg wounds are also not a big problem. It's just that the wound in his abdomen still bursts from time to time, which makes him very painful.

I slept all night in a daze. In the early morning of the next day, Li Yanzhao still woke up early. Then he got up, replaced the wound medicine in his abdomen with a new one, and wrapped the wound with a new white cloth. The two guards had also woken up, and at Li Yanzhao's request, they went to the Assassin's Mansion to inquire again. Soon after, the two returned, and at the same time brought back a member of the Assassin's Mansion. When the official arrived at the inn, he asked Li Yanzhao to go to the county government. Li Yanzhao put on a set of military attache uniforms and Liang Guan, which Xin Taishou had hurriedly prepared for him before he came. Then he followed the officials of the Assassin's Mansion and walked out of the door.

Seeing that Li Yanzhao was going out to assassinate the Shi Mansion, the two guards also stepped forward to accompany him, but they were hurriedly dissuaded by Li Yanzhao. The two of them also obeyed Li Yanzhao's command and turned around and returned to the inn. The scribe of the Assassin's Mansion immediately took Li Yanzhao out of the inn and walked towards the Assassin's Mansion.

When he arrived at the gate of the Assassin's Mansion, the scribe told Li Yanzhao to stop and wait for a while, and then he entered the mansion to report, and after a while, he returned, and then took Li Yanzhao to the mansion. When the officials in the Assassin's Mansion saw Li Yanzhao coming under the guidance of the scribe, they avoided it one after another. For a while, the huge Thorn Mansion seemed a little empty.

The two of them went to the main hall used by Zhang Envoy Jun to review the official documents and meet his subordinates, but saw that Zhang Mao himself was already waiting in front of the hall, and Li Yanzhao hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed. Zhang Mao smiled and stepped forward to help Li Yanzhao up, and then the two walked side by side towards the hall. Seeing this, the scribe who led Li Yanzhao to come immediately retired. Zhang Mao marched Li Yanzhao into the hall, and then sat down separately after several cases in the hall. Zhang Mao looked at Li Yanzhao's grinning appearance as he pulled the wound, and asked with concern. It wasn't until Li Yanzhao sat down with the pain that the worry and concern on his face slowly calmed down.

"I can't bear to send a letter to Yanzhao this time." Zhang Mao first broke the awkward silence and said in a low voice.

"The summoning of the king is a glory that others cannot ask for, and how can I refuse to come?" Li Yanzhao hung his head slightly, and said respectfully: "I don't know what the envoy has, Zhaoding should do his best to live up to the envoy's trust." ”

Zhang Mao smiled and said gently: "It's not a big deal. It's just that Yan Zhao is loyal and brave, so he was specially summoned to meet him. With the whole self and my little nephew's respect for the bloody warriors. ”

When Li Yanzhao heard this, he didn't know whether Zhang Mao was talking about him fighting to the death in the camp or writing a bloody letter of advice, so he was speechless for a while. Zhang Mao was unaware of Li Yanzhao's unnaturalness at that moment, thought about it and said: "The name of Yanzhao collides with the name of Emperor Wen. The last time I looked through the paperwork, I remembered. It's better to do this, I'll trespass once and change one for Yan Zhao, okay? ”

Li Yanzhao was shocked at this time that the name of his previous life was used here, and he unknowingly committed the taboo of Sima Zhao, Emperor Wen of Jin. He didn't realize it, Xin Taishou didn't know if it was negligence, or some other reason, and he didn't even remind himself, let alone a cadre in the army. Under the embarrassment for a while, he had no choice but to say: "Listen to the envoy's orders." ”

Zhang Mao smiled, and then picked up a piece of paper on the table, on which was written a blaze character: "After thinking about it, I think this character is good." Why don't Yan Zhao change his name to this, what do you think? ”

Li Yanzhao thought secretly in his heart. The same photo of the word is also a good word. So he immediately gave up his hand and agreed: "What the envoy said is very true." Zhao will change his name to Ji in the future, and Yan Ji will thank the envoy for giving him the name! With that, he bowed respectfully.

"Yan Zhi is not polite." Zhang Mao smiled and got up to help him up, and said, "Yan Bing hasn't had a table yet, right?" ”

When Li Yanzhi heard about Zhang Mao's question, he felt that his head was as big as a fight for a while. In this era, people generally have table characters. However, he came here suddenly, and it was not what he wanted. There must be no such thing as a table. Let Zhang Zhijun take care of the name list, which makes him feel faintly awkward in his heart. Even so, he bowed respectfully and said, "There is indeed no such thing." ”

When Zhang Mao heard this, he was relieved, and after sitting back for a few more cases, he picked up the brush on the case, wrote the table for a while, and then handed the paper in his hand to Li Yanzhi again: "How about this word?" ”

Li Yanzhi looked up, but saw two big characters written on the paper handed over by Zhang Mao: Dingdong!

Li Yanzhi took over this ardent expectation and heavy responsibility, and for a while he knelt in place and was stunned.

Zhang Mao gave him the words, but did not follow the convention in the general sense, so that the words and the name were juxtaposed, or assisted, or contradictory. Zhang Mao just wrote down his ardent expectations for himself. In view of this, Li Yanzhi actually felt that the piece of paper in his hand was like a thousand weights, and he didn't know how to respond for a while.

"What? The word is not good? Zhang Mao got up and looked at Li Yanzhi with a little regret. Li Yanzhi woke up like a dream, and hurriedly kowtowed: "My subordinates thank you for giving you words!" ”

Let's stay in the house and eat today. I think this is a reception and a farewell banquet. Dingdong must not refuse. The words he took just now, Zhang Mao shouted quite smoothly.

"The subordinates have thanked you for your kindness!" Li Yanzhi knelt down and thanked him, then raised his head and said, "But there are still a few followers still in the inn...... Your subordinates can't leave them behind and enjoy the food to themselves......"

When Zhang Mao heard this, he smiled faintly and said, "I'll prepare some meals for them too!" Dingdong must not shirk this time! ”

Li Yanzhi hesitated for a moment, and then had to agree. A provincial governor-level cadre invited him to dinner, and it was the first time that the two generations were combined, and he couldn't help but be afraid.