In March, the surface of the river that had just froze was sparkling. From time to time, you can still see a half piece of ice floe flowing down the river, the mountains and cliffs on both sides of the river have been stained with a layer of verdant green, and all kinds of birds also skim the river from time to time, looking in amazement at the fleet of boats in the center of the river that is swimming upstream.

The fleet that is lined up along the river has about seventeen or eighteen boats, all of which are hung with the banner of the Bashu business, and they go up the river quickly, and the most strange thing is that the fleet does not have a sail, and there is no slender man who pulls the fiber, and there are mountains and cliffs on both sides of the river, and there is no river beach for the slender man to walk on the fiber. This section of the river is usually only seen by boats sailing down the river, but it is rare to see a fleet of boats going upstream, not to mention that the boats in this fleet are very strange-looking, and many wheel-like things of different sizes are installed on both sides of the ship's side, and it is these things that turn rapidly and beat the water surface to provide the basic power for the boats to move against the current.

These ships flying the banner of the Bashu Merchant are actually the two-tooth class A vehicles and ships developed and produced by the Shipbuilding Department of the Woodworking Cooperative in Yanzhou.

In fact, the concept of chariots and boats appeared very early, and Li Gao, the clan of the Tang Dynasty, once experimented with a human-powered boat driven by paddle wheels on the Yangtze River, commonly known as chariots and boats. There is actually no connection between Yanzhou's vehicles and Li Gao's, and this new type of ship was copied and modified by Zu Lin, a geometry expert at Fenglin Academy, based on a family heirloom mechanical map. On the ancestral mechanical map, this type of ship is named "Thousand Miles Ship", and its power system is called "car". Actually, it refers to the paddle wheels on both sides of the ship. The difference between the two-tooth class A car ship and the Qianli ship designed by Zu Lin is in the subtle internal structure, the A-type car ship has a more advanced transmission system than the Qianli ship, the application of iron gears and wooden gears in this system, so that the stability and transmission performance of the whole system are greatly improved, there is a large paddle wheel on both sides of the ship as the main drive system, the power source of this paddle wheel system is set at the bottom of the ship to a winch pulled by donkey and mule livestock power, and on both sides of each paddle wheel there are eight small paddle wheels evenly distributed, Each small paddle wheel is driven by a human man, which makes this kind of Minglun more flexible and efficient in power system control, even in the case of going upstream, it can sail more than 120 miles in one day and one night.

"If only there was a steam engine......"

Standing on the bow of the A-type car ship, watching the paddle wheels on both sides quickly lapping the water, Li Wenge sighed at the fine seal Minda who was standing beside him.

There are two Guanzhong donkeys on the boat, and the air quality can not be paid attention to when eating and drinking on the boat every day, although the transportation efficiency has been greatly improved, but the comfort of the ride needs to be improved.

"Angry chicken?" Xifeng Minda thought very seriously for a while, even in the entire Harrier team of the eight major tribes of the party, his brain must be considered to move quickly, whether the tribal language is good or Chinese, as long as he listens to it for a while, he can quickly become familiar with it, the Harrier is the elite of the Pingxia Department, it is not enough to rely on bravery, enough wisdom and astute reaction judgment is a must. However, the clever fine seal Minda thought hard for a long time, and finally couldn't figure out what kind of chicken is considered a "competitive" chicken, and what kind of chicken is considered "not competitive", measured by the number and frequency of eggs?

This flotilla under the banner of Bashu carried the military command center of the entire Eighth Route Army. Li Wenge, Xi Feng Minda, and Li Hu were on the same boat, Shen Chen, Wei Xun, and Zhi Yuqing were on the second boat, and generals such as Ling Pu, Yang Li, and Qin Haoran were on the back boat. At this moment, if there is a big wave on the big river, the first Xiongzhen in the northwest may be wiped out in this blue wave.

In order to maintain the suddenness of military operations, the assembly of military mobilization troops and the command system in place were carried out separately, and Li Wenge and the brains of the Eighth Route Army had been staying firmly in the headquarters of Yanzhou for dozens of days without moving, and these important generals appeared on the ground in Yanzhou from time to time, and even Taiwei Li himself personally led everyone to play one or two "basketballs" from time to time to maintain a certain chance of appearing, all of which was to cover the intense war preparations that were going on in the north.

Li Wenge's overall strategy for sending troops this time was to march on three routes, in which the two families of Zheyang combined forces to form a South Road Column to send troops to Hedong Road, sweep the Northern Han Dynasty's Lan Army, and control the mountainous areas and communication arteries in the east and west of the Shield River, and the two cavalry regiments of the Eighth Route Army Security and Huai'an, as well as the two infantry regiments of Yanchuan and Fushi, assembled with Yulin as the center to form a North Road Column, went east out of Shengzhou to attack northeast along the line of the Jinhe River, swept the southwest road of the Liao State, and then went south to cross Xuande to attack Xijing Datong Mansion, this road will be led by Li Wenge himself, Xi Feng Minda commanded two cavalry regiments, while the command of the two infantry regiments was divided between Li Hu and Di Huaiwei; The main force of the eight infantry regiments of the main force of Yanqing Town of the Eighth Route Army and the two cavalry regiments of Dingyuan and Huaiyuan under Lingxia Town assembled to form the Middle Road Group with Yongbian as the center, and with the assistance of the navy, crossed the big river east and entered Shuozhou. One went north along the first line of the Greywater River and the Sanggan River, crossed the Yingzhou Zinan Road and attacked Xijing Datong Mansion.

In the "List of Personnel Composed of the Military and Political Division, the Marching Division, and the Military Supervision Department of the Xijing South Road" before Li Wenge's departure, Shen Chenquan knew the military and political affairs of the Xijing South Road, and served as the marching envoy of the Xijing South Road, Wei Xun knew the military and political affairs of the Xijing South Road, and served as the military envoy of the Xijing South Road, and served as the military envoy of the Xijing South Road, and the deputy envoy of the Xijing South Road Marching Department and the commander of the cavalry army. Lou Shaowu served as the deputy envoy of the Xijing South Road Supervision Army and the chief of military law, Ye Jun served as the deputy capital of the Xijing South Road Marching Division and the chief of the soldiers, 6 Xun served as the commander of the Xijing South Road Xiangbing Capital, Chen Zhe served as the Xijing South Road transfer envoy, Xiao Ya left the Xijing South Road Anmin Envoy, Shen Chen, Wei Xun, 6 Xun, Xiao Yali, Chen Zhe formed the Xijing South Road Military and Political Division, and the general command of Shuozhou, Yingzhou and Ulzhou Datong Line military and political powers.

The corresponding Xijing North Road is much simpler, because this route is personally led by Li Wenge, so the Eighth Route Army is set up to make the Xijing North Road camp, with Xifeng Minda as the commander of the camp, Qin Haoran as the deputy commander of the camp and the Marquis of Yu, Cui Bao as the supervisor of the Quanzhi Xingying Camp, and Zhang Guizhi as the head of the internal guard of the camp.

For the sake of this war, Li Wenge took out almost all his family resources, the combat units of the 14 regiments were only trivial, the five regiment-level auxiliary units were deployed in the rear of the army to ensure the full power operation of the logistics system, and the naval army units that had just been formed were fully mobilized to ensure the rapid assembly and mobility of the troops. The Yanqing Trading Society, led by Chen Zhe, jointly invested in the establishment of the Northwest Road Logistics and Transshipment Trading Company, and a large number of livestock, vehicles, ships and manpower were invested in the rear of the war, not only to ensure the supply of materials for the combat troops, but also to ensure the large-scale long-distance transportation of the expected war booty.

Li Wenge retained four infantry regiments and one cavalry regiment, three of which were deployed in Yanqing, one in Lingzhou, and the Luoyuan infantry regiment in Yanzhou, ready to support both sides.

On Fenglin Mountain, the Eighth Route Army with Sima Zhou Zhengyu as the leader of the Eighth Route Army was formed to stay in the camp to ensure the stability of the rear and the smooth flow of communication lines.

For the sake of this war, Li Wenge greatly adjusted the personnel layout in his own jurisdiction.

First of all, 6 Xun and Xiao Yali were transferred to the military and political department of Xijing South Road, so Lu Duan was appointed as the judge of the Xiazhou Jiedu of the inspection school Quan Zhixia Prefecture political affairs, and the original right to know the Hetao Comfort Secretary Chu Weiyan was transferred to the Youzhou Jiedu Judge Quan Zhiyouzhou political affairs, abolished the Hetao Military and Political Division, and merged into the Xijing North Road Xingying, the former Hetao Tibetan Cai clan patriarch Liaofeng Prefecture Thorn Shi Wang Jia was appointed as the deputy commander of the Xijing North Road Xing Camp, and his son Wang Chengmei was also awarded the rank of deputy lieutenant of Zhiguo, and served as the deputy commander of the Huai'an Cavalry Regiment. The original Hetao Comfort Division was renamed Hezhou, and Zhang Nai, the deputy political envoy of the Eighth Route Army and the director of the Si Nong, was transferred to the judge of Hezhou Jiedu to know the political affairs of Hezhou.

According to the original plan, Yanzhou will take two tests a year, with March as the spring and September as the autumn, and the military action will not affect the opening of the department. Last year's autumn festival was personally presided over by Li Wenge. As a result, many scholars with vulgar writing were taken, and Qin Gu was deeply dissatisfied with this, so he claimed that he would never participate in it again if he did not change the current method of collecting scholars. After thinking about it for several days, Li Wenge made a decision that made Qin Gu even more laughable, he first appointed Hao Chongyi, the former mastermind of Wang Jun's Prime Minister's Mansion who had recently voted for him, as the military commander of the military branch, and took over the financial budget power from Chen Su, and then issued a message to Chen Su to record the military and concurrently serve as the head of the Zhaowen Academy of the Military Inspection School.

In this way, Li Taiwei once again expressed his firm determination to appoint female officials to his military generals, and according to the imperial examination practice since the Sui and Tang dynasties, the officials in charge of the tribute examination will establish their strong connections among the new generation of bureaucrats, which is called party formation. In this team, Chinese Zhang, as a representative of the older generation of bureaucrats in Yanzhou, can naturally profit from it. As a beneficiary of the new imperial examination, Zhou Maosheng naturally has to make every effort to safeguard the interests of the group he represents, so that the results of the imperial examination can be relatively balanced and not overly biased, and no matter who chooses the scholars, they will eventually have to go through the review of Chen Su, the representative of the Jiedu Prefecture, before they can officially obtain the imperial examination degree, so as to obtain the opportunity to enter the officialdom.

Of course, the disadvantage of this is that it is likely that the real scholar class in the jurisdiction who are extremely disgusted with this will collectively boycott the Spring Festival and boycott the examination, but due to the low threshold of the initial examination, this danger will not really endanger the Spring Festival itself, and the resistance of those relatively high-end readers is precisely the opportunity of the relatively low-end literate class, and those intellectuals who have fled to stay in Yanqing Prefecture are unlikely to care about the humiliating reality that the examiner is a woman in order to get rid of the status of the displaced people and get the opportunity to be promoted. Therefore, the direct result of the boycott of the local scholars was that the local forces were completely marginalized in the future Yanqing officialdom, and the representatives of the local bureaucratic forces such as the article naturally did not allow this situation to happen, so they not only could not avoid it, but also had to do their best to encourage and persuade the local scholars to take the examination with the help of the tribute authority in their hands.

Li Wenge smiled at Qin Gu's angry gaze: "I have given everyone an equal opportunity, it depends on their own ability to do what they can do, of course, no matter what they do, we can benefit from it......"

At that moment, the dignified duke of the court smiled like a complete hooligan.

To do it or not to do it, for the comrades in the article of the first year of Xiande, this is a single-choice question that can be freely chosen.

In private, Li Wenge made a decision with Li Bin, and he left Li Bin a draft proclamation of the festival, which stated that because of the article's dedication in the Chunqiu imperial examination, he appointed the article as the political envoy of the Eighth Route Army.

Whether or not this proclamation is promulgated will naturally depend on whether the comrades in the article can "work wholeheartedly" in the Spring Tribute Ceremony.

If he does, it doesn't matter what his purpose is, whether it is to form a party and consolidate his position, whether it is to maintain local forces, or to really be able to select some "talents" who meet his own standards for Yanqing, it doesn't matter, as long as he seriously faces the appointment of Tongzhi Gongju, the Jiedu Mansion will promote and promote him according to his achievements, and will never discriminate against him or even give him unfair treatment because of his past history of engaging in internal collusion to resist the Jiedu envoy's order.

If he does not act or even secretly act to boycott this Spring Festival, then naturally he will not be able to do his best for this Spring Festival tribute. Without this precondition, the appointment proclamation would be null and void. Li Wenge made it very clear to Li Bin that if the article did this, then it would show that his open-mindedness, insight and bearing could be limited to death in the ten counties of this state, and it was not enough to take on greater responsibilities and more important affairs, so at least under the condition that Li Wenge's authority could still manage officials at his level, he would no longer have the possibility of promotion and promotion within the system, until one day he no longer needed Li Wenge's permission and permission to promote his position.

Hearing these heartfelt words, the old man Li Bin grinded his teeth, this guy simply calculated people into the cracks of his bones.

After everything was arranged, Li Wenge led his command and internal security troops to board the vehicle and ship prepared by the naval division, and Shi Shiran went north to the battlefield.

Along the way, Captain Li always stood on the bow of the boat and watched the mountain scenery on both sides of the river with a relaxed heart, humming some melody and strange lyrics that no one could understand from time to time, and a slight smile appeared at the corner of his mouth from time to time.

Along the way, I saw a lot of such situations, and Shen Chen, Wei Xun and other generals turned a blind eye, and whenever the captain made some inexplicable moves, these military bigwigs hid in the cabin, plugged their ears, and pretended to be deaf.

It's just that it's hard to live in the same boat with Li Wenge, and the fine seal Minda and Li Hu......

Li Hu's worship of his own Taiwei brother is to the bone, so he has been silently recording and reciting those straightforward but inexplicable lyrics gushing out of Taiwei Li's mouth for the past few days, and later, the former Xiangfu scholars had to give up with a red face, these words may not be anything in the era of more than a thousand years later, and in the late Tang Dynasty and the fifth generation, there are still some children who are forbidden.

For Minda, the torture was even more unbearable.

Finally, after the captain again shouted "I am looking up at the ......" at the bow of the boat, the party members who could not bear it finally sat up and shouted: "Who is going to gag the mouth of that lame horse?" ”

Happiness that cannot be understood by others is a kind of sorrow......

A guy who has been a human for two lives and dragged on for a long time to appreciate a certain state of life shook his head and lamented......

How can these tasteless Qiu Ba understand the importance of such a thing as "first kiss" to people in love......

In the backyard of Yanzhou Jiedu Mansion, Luo Yiniang shook her head while drying the quilt in the yard, didn't she just kiss it, it can actually produce an instantaneous petrification effect and a mad demon alienation bonus, according to this progress...... The days of the chicks' enlightenment are really far away......

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In Bianjing City, in the Daning Palace, hundreds of soldiers under the leadership of Zhao Kuangyin quietly stood outside the dormitory and waited.

In the dormitory, Chai Rong, the son of the Great Zhou Dynasty, was dressed in bright light armor, lined with a plain white slashing robe, and a straight beard on his lips was trimmed cleanly, and the whole person ended neatly and energetically, although his body was slightly thin, he couldn't hide the surging heroic spirit in his long body.

Empress Fu personally tied the strap under the emperor's chin, gently patted his heart goggles, and said with a smile: "In different palaces in the army, there are no others to say small words, restrain your temperament, listen to the opinions and ideas of others, don't whip people with whips at every turn, treat soldiers well, they are dying for you after all!" ”

Chai Rong smiled, stretched out his hand and grabbed Queen Fu's hand, and rubbed it: "You are verbose, I am not a child anymore, where are those mothers-in-law and mothers?" ”

Empress Fu also smiled, pointed to the west, and said, "My sister-in-law, aren't you going to sue for a part?" The fourth brother is not yet a year old, and if you go, his trial ceremony may not be able to preside over it in person......"

Chai Rong looked in the direction of the West Palace, and sighed: "The troops are about to be dispatched, I won't go, it's not good to worry about my stomach, if I can't come back in time for the gift of trying, you are in charge, there are Folding Linggong in the outer court, as well as Fan Zhen and Li Gu, you don't have to worry, if the military affairs in front are not good, you can invite the princess of the Jin Kingdom into the palace, with her inside, the Folding Linggong is outside, and the big thing is safe......"

Fu's expression was solemn: "Li Chongxun has already mistaken me once, if you dare to mistake me again, he will meet in the future, I should forgive Li Chongxun, but I can never forgive you!" ”

Chai Rong was speechless, stretched out his hand and stroked Fu's head, and said softly: "I have ordered Li Wenge to deploy all the soldiers and horses in the north of the mountain, and fold and Yang Deputy to contain the thief army. ”

Fu sighed: "Feng Linggong has good intentions, he is the elder of the Four Dynasties, before you send out the army, you should have gone to see him!" ”

Chai Rong shook his head lightly: "I also know that he has good intentions, and when he returns to the dynasty victoriously, I should go to Feng's mansion to ask for guilt, but now I can't!" ”

Fu Shi shook his head lightly: "I'm afraid that Ling Gong won't be able to hold out until then......"

Chai Rong sighed: "It's me who lost Feng Linggong!" ”

Fu smiled: "But it's not good for me, you are the emperor, the Son of Heaven, carrying Kyushu Wanfang Cangsheng Li Shu on your shoulders, at such times, others can hide, but you can't hide, this layer of outsiders may not understand, how can I not know?" Since I married you, I don't want to live and be rich, but I can be the same cave when I die, I am already satisfied, I don't care if you lose Feng Linggong, but you must not bear me, otherwise under Jiuquan, you will be in a lot of trouble! ”

Chai Rong smiled confidently: "Don't worry, Liu Chong's old thief can't help your man, I will definitely be able to come back to see you alive!" ”

Fu Shi stepped forward, kissed Chai Rong lightly on the face, and said in a low voice: "I remember your words, if you come back alive, I will wait for you alive, if you encounter an accident, in Daning Palace, there is also half a coffin waiting for your bones!" ”