Saying goodbye to Song Laosan, it was already early on outside, and he hurriedly went straight to Shan Xiongxin's house, and he gave a good greeting post yesterday, and today he had to finish everyone anyway. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Shan Xiongxin had seen Fugui before, in order to avoid his suspicions, he sent Fugui back to the house first, Fugui knew that he was not suitable to be exposed now, nodded and found his way back.

"Wheat!" Shan Xiongxin still had that rough and bold appearance, and patted Wang Mai's shoulder vigorously, "Brother has been waiting for you for a day." ”

"The second brother has worked hard for my business, and he has brought some gifts......

Before Wang Mai could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Shan Xiongxin: "My brother, don't see outside." Besides, I really didn't help you with anything, but last year I happened to lead the troops on the expedition, and when I came back, I heard that you were no longer in prison. ”

Wang Mai had to tell him the situation again: "...... That's it, I'm in danger this time, and I'm worried about my second brother. ”

"These bald donkeys," Shan Xiongxin scolded, "I knew that I would have led a battalion of soldiers to burn down his broken temple and destroy his Buddha statue." ”

When the two of them entered the house, Shan Xiongxin had already asked people to prepare the dishes, and the wine was naturally the aging wine treasured by Wang Mai.

Before entering the table, Wang Mai took out another box: "Congratulations to the second brother for his happy son, a little gift for his nephew." ”

Shan Xiongxin has been leading troops to fight over the years, although there have been many dew marriages, but it was not until the beginning of this year that he had a son. It was Wang Shichong who rewarded him with his favorite concubine, although it was not as exaggerated as marrying a princess in Romance, but after entering Luoyang, it could be regarded as a beauty.

Qin Qiong, Cheng Biting Jin, Luo Shixin and others voted for Tang, which gave Wang Shichong a lot of stimulation. He is considered to have learned well this time, and there is only such a single general as Shan Xiongxin left under his hands, whether it is sincere or not, he treats Shan Xiongxin very well anyway. In addition to rewarding the favored concubines, when he ascended the throne, he gave Shan Xiong an envelope, although the marquis of Da Zheng Guo is not valuable, but it can be regarded as a favor.

Shan Xiongxin summoned the waiting servant and asked him to inform his concubine to take his son out. After a while, a young woman Yingying walked up, followed by a middle-aged woman, who should be a maid such as a wet nurse.

The woman was holding a red swaddling cloth in her hand, Shan Xiongxin took it, Wang Mai came to the side to see, the little guy was a little timid, and when he saw outsiders, he cried out with a grin "wow". Shan Xiongxin hurriedly handed over the child to his concubine, and Wang Mai took out a puppy made of glass from the box, which was vivid, crystal clear and yellowed under the light, and looked really beautiful.

"This year is the Year of the Dog, my brother has nothing to do, this glass puppy gives a gift to the child...... "This is the previous glass workshop when the blowing method was experimented with, the color of the burned frit is a little yellow, not suitable for making lenses, so I used it to practice." When I went out today, I was thinking about what gift to give Shan Xiongxin, and when I heard that he was happy with his precious son, I remembered this puppy.

Shan Xiongxin took a breath of cold air, although the handiwork of this puppy is very rough, but I am afraid that there are no less than thousands of glazed ware of such a color, I have long heard that Wang Mai is rich, but I didn't expect it to be so generous.

Wang Mai smiled when he saw Shan Xiongxin's expression: "This glass will become less and less valuable, second brother don't be surprised." ”

Shan Xiongxin smiled when he heard this: "Whether he is worth anything or not, in short, it is a brother's heart to me." He took it and carefully put it in the box and handed it to the concubine.

"Thank you, uncle......" The woman saluted Wang Mai and withdrew happily.

"Did you take the child's name?" It was only when I entered the table that I remembered that I had forgotten to ask the child's name just now.

Shan Xiongxin patted his head, this matter should be his initiative to introduce him as a father, but he didn't need to see Wang Mai, and hurriedly said: "It's called Shan Daozhen." ”

After a few glasses of wine, the two talked about the barracks again.

"Luo Shixin is like a loach, slippery and does not leave his hands...... Now the prince led the troops to rescue Cijian, and the news was not optimistic. Shan Xiongxin said worriedly.

At the beginning of the year, Wang Shichong saw that Li Tang's army had no time to fight in the north, so he invaded the territory of Tang on a large scale. Li Yuan was an old oilman, and although he didn't have many available troops under his command at this time, he came up with a clever plan, he sent Luo Shixin, the head of the Shaanzhou Road marching army who had just surrendered, to lead thousands of elite cavalry to the hinterland of Zheng Guo to fight a raid.

Although Luo Shixin is young, he has been in the army for many years, and he has followed two famous marshals Zhang Xutuo and Pei Renji, and the two old marshals are focusing on cultivating him, so he is extremely old and spicy when he uses soldiers. What's more, he fought in Luoyang for many days when he was in the Wagang Army before, and he was very familiar with the terrain and the Zheng army, so the battle plan he arranged was extremely clever.

He divided these thousands of cavalry into more than a dozen small units, and began to harass those military strongholds around Luoyang, and after one blow, he fled for hundreds of miles, which was quite a guerrilla war.

In this era, the speed of information transmission is slow, Zheng Jun just heard the information here, and as soon as the army pounced, the people were long gone, and Wang Shichong was overwhelmed. The most outrageous time, Luo Shixin drove more than 1,000 cavalry to Luoyang's nose and burned Luoyang's Waiguo Qinghua Lifang City to the ground.

This time, Luo Shixin didn't seem to be satisfied with a small fight, and directly gathered a large army to surround Cijian, Zheng Guo's military stronghold. Wang Shichong was not only not angry when he heard this, but was overjoyed, good guy, I couldn't catch you before, but now I dare to take the initiative to do something. Hurriedly sent the crown prince Wang Xuanying to rescue Cijian with an army of 30,000, and asked him to eliminate this annoying fly.

Wang Xuanying has just started to lead the troops, and he is eager to make meritorious contributions, so he can't help but be a little frizzy, but he also has the ability to be proud. First of all, there is a huge disparity in the comparison of the forces of the two sides, plus this is a local battle, occupying a favorable location, and the soldiers are also elite soldiers specially selected by Wang Shichong, which can be said to have taken advantage of the right time, place and people. But he fought with Luo Shixin several times, but he didn't take advantage, and Luo Shixin grabbed the flaws several times and taught him a hard lesson.

"The prince is young after all, so it should be good to have a general like the second brother in charge." Wang Mai said. In the final analysis, do you really think that Wang Shichong will be intimate with you?

"This is Your Majesty's arrangement, we just need to obey the orders of the above, and we can't discuss it." Shan Xiongxin heard the meaning of Wang Mai's words, and hurriedly stopped it. However, he understood in his heart the reason why Wang Shichong did not send him to fight this time, after all, he and Luo Shixin were both Wagang generals, and it was better to avoid the matter of melon fields and plums.

"That's a natural ......" Wang Mai hurriedly snorted and said, "Speaking of Luo Shixin, I miss him a lot, and Brother Qin, I don't know how they are in the Tang Kingdom?" ”

Shan Xiongxin was silent for a while when he heard this, raised his wine glass and drank dry: "It's all good......"

At the beginning, the banquet was lively and lively, but the atmosphere was a little cold at the end. Shan Xiongxin sent Wang Mai to the door, retreated and whispered: "I know that brother, you have a grudge against Your Majesty because you were implicated in Luo Shixin's matter, but as a courtier, you should be loyal first." It's just a matter of saying these things here with the second brother, don't say them in front of outsiders in the future, you know? ”

Wang Mai nodded: "Naturally, ......"

It seems that Shan Xiongxin is not so easy to be convinced, Wang Mai sighed on his horse. Now what is even worse is that he has a son in Luoyang, and there is a wife arranged by Wang Shichong who may be a spy, I am afraid that every move cannot be hidden from outsiders, and living cautiously is also to avoid unnecessary trouble.

But he clearly knows his final end, and he doesn't want him to really get to that point, and he has to plan slowly when it comes to persuasion. Even if it wasn't for the Li Tang Dynasty, with this friendship, he couldn't watch him end up in a different place.

The news that Li Tang was about to attack on a large scale came at about the same time as Wang Mai's edict, but there was not much laughter in the mansion. Even Rou Niang, who never asked about politics, knew that Luoyang City was going to face war again, and she was very worried that Wang Mai would be sent to the battlefield by Wang Shichong this time.

Wang Mai took her hand and comforted: "Don't worry, this general is not going to be a general on the battlefield, but just working with a group of craftsmen." ”

"The slave family naturally knows, but I just heard Ning'er say that the prison will sometimes go out with the army......" Rou Niang leaned her side face on Wang Mai's shoulder, full of sorrow.

"No," Wang Mai patted her hand, "I have another task this time, do you remember the Buddha treasure in the White Horse Temple?" ...... "In order to reassure her, he explained to her what happened.

"Thanks to Lang Jun for saving some grain in advance, the price of rice in Luoyang is now changing three times a day, fortunately, the summer harvest has just passed, otherwise the price of grain will rise to the sky." Rou Niang is also a person who has experienced the famine in Luoyang, and when she remembers the dilemma of not having three meals at that time, she is afraid for a while. At that time, she had just finished the funeral for Sun Yu's father, and she had no money left in her hand, so she gave her son some food first, and finally she was so hungry that everyone was swollen, and she was fortunate to survive the catastrophe.

"Food will become more and more expensive, you should try to buy as much rice and noodles as possible, and don't spare money." Wang Mai said.

"The slave family knows."

Wars devastate civilians more than natural disasters, especially sieges. Natural disasters can still be avoided by escaping famine and other methods, but once the city is besieged, the people can only hope that the war will end as soon as possible.

Luoyang has experienced several wars, and the common people are very sensitive to the news of the war, and as soon as they heard that Li Tang was coming to fight Luoyang, they all rushed to buy food. Before the war began, Luoyang began to suffer from a food shortage.

Wang Shichong really played with his life this time, issued a death order, strictly forbade the people to flee privately, and recruited tens of thousands of Luoyang young men and women to enlist in the army, determined to fight Li Tang to the end. The edict to Wang Mai was also very intense, asking him to make a pendulum clock as soon as possible to reassure the people.

Wang Xuanying's 30,000 horses were defeated by Luo Shixin's thousands of people, and the combat effectiveness of Li Tang's army made Wang Shichong frightened, he had suffered countless defeats in his life, and his self-confidence was not very strong. In the past, when Li Tang's army had no time to look east, the morale cultivated by taking advantage of it several times was destroyed by the First World War, and the military and civilian soldiers in Luoyang were panicked and could only find their morale through other methods, so they were more concerned about making pendulum clocks.