Zhao Ziliang, who returned to his hometown in Jiangling, is now unofficial and light, practicing martial arts every day, usually reading and practicing calligraphy, and going to the fields to cultivate when he is interested, and he is tired enough to work in three thousand acres for two days, with today's output, even if it is 30,000 mu a year, there is not much money, Zhao Ziliang simply rented these fields to nearby villagers for cultivation at a very low rent, and only needed to pay 20% of the grain harvest every year. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The biggest and most famous local product in Jingxiang area is of course the river fresh, the unique geographical environment and water quality make the fish and shrimp in the water extremely delicious, Zhao Ziliang has been in the north for so many years, every day gnawed on the steamed bun baked cake pot stickers, it is extremely difficult to eat a meal of rice, and now return to his hometown, each meal of rice is enough, a large number of fish and shrimp meat is tender, the soup is delicious, this small day is really comfortable.

The unpleasant thing is that Mrs. Meng and some personal guards, they are all northerners, they have been eating pasta as a staple food since childhood, if they eat rice at every meal, they are extremely unaccustomed, Zhao Ziliang had to send someone to the city to buy some white noodles.

If you want to eat fish and shrimp at any time in your hometown, but if you want to eat meat, you can only eat pork, and if you want to eat beef and mutton, it is difficult, although a few years ago under the auspices of Zhao Ziliang, a large number of cattle, sheep and horses were sold from the north to the south, but the climate and geographical location of the south were not suitable for large-scale breeding of cattle, sheep and horses, and the local government still prohibited the slaughter of cattle and horses in order to ensure that there were enough cattle and horses for farming.

At the beginning of August, Mrs. Meng was about to give birth, Zhao Ziliang in order to ensure the safety of adults and children, specially sent people to the city to invite Wen Po to deliver the baby, with the medical conditions of the Tang Dynasty, the probability of safe birth is not very high, in order to improve the probability of safe childbirth, Zhao Ziliang invited the experienced Wen Po.

On the eighth night of the first month of August, Mrs. Meng kept calling in the delivery room, in the words of later generations, after all, it is an advanced maternal age, and it is very dangerous to give birth naturally, although Zhao Ziliang is already the father of several children, but this is the second time to wait for the birth of the child in person, and he is quite nervous and irritable.

Two hours later, Wen Po walked out with a big fat boy in her arms and said happily to Zhao Ziliang: "Congratulations to the prince of the county, Mrs. gave birth to a big fat boy, and the mother and son are safe!" ”

Zhao Ziliang was overjoyed, hugged the child and looked at it, and said continuously: "Good, good, good!" Come on, tip! ”

Wen Po was very happy, and immediately thanked her: "Thank you for the reward!" ”

Zhao Ziliang walked into the room with the child in his arms, and Mrs. Meng was already covered with a thin blanket at this time, and her forehead and hair were covered with sweat.

"Ma'am, are you alright?"

Mrs. Meng was a little weak, shook her head and smiled: "It's okay, let me see it!" ”

Zhao Ziliang handed the child over and put it beside Mrs. Meng, Mrs. Meng looked at the big fat boy who held his little finger in his mouth and smiled lovingly, touched the child's little face with his fingers, and said to Zhao Ziliang: "Husband, give the child a name!" ”。

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said, "He was born in Chudi, so let's call Zhao Chu!" ”

The child is naturally taken care of by Mrs. Meng and the maidservants, Zhao Ziliang does not have to personally carry the feces and urine, since the return to his hometown, officials, scholars, and celebrities from all over Jingchu often come to visit, and the officials are just that, especially those students and celebrities, Zhao Ziliang is very overwhelmed, he is not a scholar, and these students and celebrities do not know what to do.

Although he gave birth to a child, Zhao Ziliang did not plan to hold a banquet, after all, he did not have any personal contacts in his hometown, but he was just going to invite the soldiers and the old and young people in the village to have a meal, but he didn't expect that the nearby officials and celebrities sent congratulatory gifts after getting the news.

There was no way, Zhao Ziliang had to invite more cooks, buy more ingredients and wine, and at the same time ask Du Fu to write an invitation and send someone to these gift-giving officials and celebrities, so that they could come to eat and drink in a few days.

After several months, there was no war in the north, until the fifth day of November, Wang Can received the news and immediately reported to Zhao Ziliang, who was practicing martial arts.

"Lord Wang, news of war is coming from the north!"

Zhao Ziliang was practicing martial arts, and he didn't stop, Wang Can reported when he saw this: "In early October, Wang Chengye gave Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi orders respectively, asking them to attack Yunzhong and Changshan. On the eighth day of October, Li Guangbi concentrated 30,000 horses to take the lead in attacking the rebels in Changshan, Shi Siming ordered Cai Xide to lead 50,000 troops to reinforce Changshan, Li Guangbi wanted to destroy the rebel reinforcements with the method of encircling and reinforcing the army, and set up an ambush in the north of Changshan, but he did not expect Cai Xide to be cautious by nature, and saw through Li Guangbi's ambush, and planned to plan, Li Guangbi not only did not succeed in setting up an ambush, but also lost more than 3,000 people, under the unfavorable situation of the battle, Li Guangbi had to withdraw his troops and return, retreat to Jingjing Pass and other important passes, Cai Xide led his troops to attack for more than ten days, After a long time of attack, he led the army back to Changshan! ”

"On the tenth day of October, Guo Ziyi concentrated 25,000 Shuofang troops to attack Yunzhong, Gao Xiuyan led the army out of the city to meet the battle, with 10,000 elite infantry to confront Guo Ziyi, with 8,000 elite cavalry from the left and right sides of Guo Ziyi's side attack, Guo Ziyi's Shuofang army infantry is strong, many troops, but the number of cavalry is small, the combat power is slightly weaker, the cavalry covering the left and right flanks was defeated by Gao Xiuyan's cavalry, Guo Ziyi had to order a large number of archers to scatter with bows and arrows, blocking Gao Xiuyan's cavalry from attacking the flank, and retreating to the rear at the same time, When Guo Ziyi retreated, the army was not chaotic, and he was on guard while retreating, Gao Xiuyan did not dare to pursue when he saw this, so he collected his troops and returned to the city.

"On the battlefield of the southern front, the rebels heard that the imperial court had seized the prince's military power, and their morale was greatly boosted, and they began to counterattack, on October 15, An Shouzhong, Tian Qianzhen and others in Xingyang sent soldiers and horses to attack Gongyi and Mi County from Bishui Pass, and now Gongyi has been taken by the rebels, and Mi County is still under the control of the imperial court under Li Siye's counterattack!"

Lu Jiong, Wang Sili and others under the order of Wang Chengye, from Yuzhou to attack Yingchuan, October 17, Yin Ziqi ordered his general Yang Zongwang to command 100,000 troops out of the city to meet the attack, the two sides encountered forty miles west of Yingchuan, Yang Zongwang launched a comprehensive attack, Lu Jiong, Wang Sili and others were caught off guard, the army was in chaos, the soldiers fled one after another, the rebels took advantage of the situation to cover up, Lu Jiong, Wang Sili suffered heavy losses, 100,000 people went out, fled back to only a few thousand. Lu Jiong, Wang Sili and others who fled back to Yuzhou had less than 10,000 troops in their hands, and the rebels followed the pursuit, so they had to lead their troops to withdraw to Ruzhou, and the rebel Yang Zongwang was now approaching Ruzhou. Li Siye's department in Mi County was worried that the rebels would go north to capture Dengfeng, so he cut off his retreat and led his army to retreat to Dengfeng on October 19! ”

"In this way, the deployment of the imperial court soldiers and horses in the surrounding area of Luoyang has begun to shrink in an all-round way, although the loss of troops is not large, but the strategic situation has begun to be unfavorable to the imperial court, and now the rebel army is in full swing, and it is not easy for the imperial court to reverse the situation! In order to keep their grain and retreat, they had to divide their troops to garrison Yexian to prevent the rebels from going south to cut off their grain and grass, but in this way, wouldn't it be in the hands of the rebels? Yin Ziqi's department can just concentrate his forces to break them all! Now Yin Ziqi has personally led an army of 100,000 to attack Ye County! There are less than 5,000 people stationed in Ye County, and the situation is worrying! ”

After Wang Can finished reading, Zhao Ziliang also just finished practicing, put the weapon on the weapon rack, took a towel from a servant girl holding a tray and wiped a handful of sweat, and said: "The northern rebels have an absolute advantage in terms of strength, and the imperial court has a slight advantage in the terrain, attacking a large number of rebels with a small number of troops, which is not wise in itself, Wang Chengye wants to attack the north and south in an all-round way, and fully blossom, this move is wrong, one wrong step, that is, the whole game is lost!" ”

Wang Can didn't mention the war again, but said another thing, "Lord Wang, in recent days, there are often some strangers in the village, these people are acting strangely, I am afraid that the comers are not good, I have discussed with the chief of the personal guard, Nuer, to raise the level of security alert, and raise the vigilance awareness to every personal guard, not afraid of 10,000, just in case!" ”

"Oh?" Zhao Ziliang turned around and asked, "Do you know who it is?" ”

Wang Can said: "For the time being, I don't know where these people came from, but it seems to be suspected of being assassins in the rivers and lakes, after the outbreak of war in the past two years, several assassin sects have arisen on the rivers and lakes, and the last general has also sent people to investigate, these people are secretive, their whereabouts are uncertain, and it is difficult to explore the whole picture!" ”

Zhao Ziliang frowned and said: "Now that I have been disarmed and returned to the field, it stands to reason that there is no threat to anyone's interests, who else wants to kill me?" ”

Wang Can said: "Lord Wang, it's hard to say about this matter!" In the past, the prince held the military power, and there were often guards around him to protect him, and it was not easy for someone to attack the prince, and he might expose himself, but now it is different, now the prince is at home, his spirit and mood are relaxed, and it will be relatively easy to assassinate, and there is an important point, now the impact of assassinating the prince will be much worse than before, if the mastermind behind the scenes is powerful enough and has enough means, it can be turned into a big thing, and a small thing can be turned into nothing! In the past, the prince was in the position of a lieutenant, the deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, and held a heavy army, if the prince was assassinated at that time, the impact was immeasurable, and the court was bound to chase and kill to the end until the mastermind behind the scenes was found, but now it is difficult to say! ”

At this time, Mrs. Meng's maidservant Xiaocui came over with a teacup and said, "Lord, tea is here!" ”

"Oh, good!" Zhao Ziliang took the teacup on the tray and was about to drink it, but suddenly felt that something was wrong, the voice was wrong, this was not Xiaocui's voice.

Xiao Cui suddenly became fierce, a cold light flashed in his hand, and stabbed Zhao Ziliang's chest like lightning, Zhao Ziliang's cold hair stood up, the distance was too close and too close, it was too late to dodge, he quickly controlled the pectoralis major muscle contraction, and the force reached his level, and he had already controlled the muscles and strength of the whole body to the point of subtlety.

Xiao Cui's dagger pierced Zhao Ziliang's chest, but it was tightly clamped by his pectoralis major muscle, unable to enter an inch, but he couldn't pull it out, Zhao Ziliang shouted: "Bold!" ”

With a sharp grasp of his right hand, he grabbed Xiao Cui's neck, Xiao Cui didn't expect that this blow would be blocked in the flesh, and he couldn't escape after being held by Zhao Ziliang's neck, his arm was not long enough, and the arteries in his neck were pinched, Xiao Cui only felt that his eyes were dark, his head was dizzy, and he soon fell into a coma.

Wang Can was stunned, and when he came back to his senses, he immediately bowed to the ground and asked for guilt: "The last general inspected, and even let the assassins blend into the mansion, please ask the prince to confess!" (To be continued.) )