Not far from the Metropolitan Governor's Palace, there is a large mansion that receives visits from foreign envoys, members of the imperial court or other local officials. The four tribal chiefs all lived here, living next to each other.

Tonight, the four of them got together again, and they all sat quietly in the wide courtyard, silent.

"Alas...... Are you willing? After a while, a sigh of loss came out. Under the reflection of the hazy lights and the silvery snow, his face was gloomy and wide, and he seemed even more lonely. Although I know that big things are going to happen, I am always unwilling.

The leader of the Daji tribe also sighed and remained silent. Obviously, he was also unwilling.

Looking at the expressions of the two, the patriarch of the Gang clan said lightly: "Da Jize, if after we attacked Shunzhou Mansion in the past, the Xiaoguo army attacked directly, would your department be able to resist it?" ”

"I can't resist it, otherwise, I won't give in to the Xiaoguo Army that day." Da Jize said in a sullen voice. Thinking about it now, they all regret their deaths, if they hadn't listened to the idea of the Fenwen Ministry, they would not have taken advantage of the fire to loot and attack Shunzhou Mansion. As a result, I got myself into it, and I am in this situation.

"Then when the north and the south were fighting, if it weren't for the power of the Xiaoguo Army that night, what do you think would happen to our three divisions?" He asked with a smile.

"This ...... Dead and annihilated! Da Jize changed his face and said, now, he somewhat understood what he meant.

"Yes, the dead clan is annihilated, we are still the patriarch of the clan, we can still live well, and we can save a lot of money for future generations. Isn't that enough to satisfy you? On the grassland, for thousands of years, I don't know how many races have died out, brother, why bother to let your family ruin for the sake of that impossible existence? Anyway, for me, I don't have to worry about the safety and life of nearly 100,000 people, and I don't have to worry about the people being looted. ”

Hu Xuan then glanced at the loss of the broad, and said: "The alliance of the five northern divisions should have been wiped out, probably because there were too many prisoners, and the three divisions and the Xiaoguo army could not be properly settled, so the lost brother escaped. Otherwise......"

Lost Kuo suddenly broke into a cold sweat, yes, now that even the name was deliberately left by someone else, what qualifications do you have to ask for it? If you say it, there is another meaning, without you, Fubu is still Fubu, and there are many people who are willing to take your place.

He hugged his fists and said, "Thank you Brother Hu for waking me up, Brother Hu can see it." I'm going to get a caravan, and we're going to compete to see who makes more money. ”

He smiled and said: "It's not that I can see clearly, but my stool department and the lone department are the weakest, and they have been bullied, and we have long wanted to throw the burden in our hands." Therefore, I am on the outside, so that I can see clearly. Brother Lost wants to compete with me, haha, if you want to say that I can't compare to you in the war, do you do business, you have to bow to me. ”

Seeing that Da Jize was still a little depressed, he smiled and said, "Brother, are you still struggling?" The Han people have a saying that those who know the times are handsome, so why bother to expect those impossible things? It doesn't matter who he is, as long as he lives well and lives in peace, he should be satisfied. ”

Da Jize smiled bitterly and said, "That's it...... My brother and I also went to the merchants, and it is said that the merchants of the Han people sold our goods to the Central Plains, and they made several times, or even dozens of times the profits. Anyway, let's take a bite too. ”

"That's good...... Let's compare and see whose caravan develops faster! ”

"Compare and compare, who is afraid of whom!"

A madness and a drunkenness, leaving all the troubles in my heart out of the clouds.

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Whether the words of the four of them in the mansion were true or false, they were transmitted to Zhao Xun's ears, and when Zhao Xun heard this, he chuckled and said: "Only those who have self-knowledge can live for a long time." As long as you do things well, you will be prosperous and rich all your life, if you have bad intentions, then don't blame me for being ruthless. ”

Then he sighed, "But some people just ignore our kindness. Those who know the times are junjie, since you don't know the times, then don't blame me for being ruthless. ”

News came from Zhao Hai that this Qingzhou Navy General did have a reason to be arrogant to the Xiaoguo Army. Between their marches, they were accompanied by hundreds of personal guards. What's more, except for Laizhou County, the rest of the places do not go at all. However, Laizhou County is the land base camp of the Qingzhou Navy Army, surrounded by 50,000 sailor soldiers, and there are no less than 30,000 people stationed in the camp. It is difficult for outsiders, except for a few, to enter and settle here. What's more, this general of the Navy Division seems to be running very well in Laizhou County, and even the people are looking to him. This makes it difficult for the Shadowdivision to start.

In order not to startle the snake, Zhao Hai did not approve the forcible action of the Qingzhou branch, but reported the information to Zhao Xun, and Zhao Xun decided.

Zhao Xun once again asked the Secretary for Administration to issue an official document to reprimand, but was once again ridiculed by the general of the navy. In this regard, Zhao Xun was determined to solve him. To this end, the Shenji Battalion sent a detachment to cooperate with the Shadow Division to enter Donglai Mansion and prepare a plan to kill the General of the Water Division.

In addition, what also made Zhao Xun secretly frown was that the government armies of Pingyuan Prefecture and Tai'an Prefecture that were handed over from Qingzhou and Northern Hebei were all transferred from other prefectures and counties, that is to say, the government armies of the two prefectures were all transferred from other prefectures. Not only that, but these government troops also seem to be on strict guard against the Xiaoguo army in northern Hebei.

"It seems that our actions are too big, and Qingzhou is not easy to get along with. The army we bought was directly dismembered, and it seems that someone recruited the governor of Qingzhou. After hearing the news, Li Huaiyuan said in a deep voice. For the Governor of Qingzhou, as the former Governor of Youzhou, he is naturally very familiar. Most of the governors of the government and military in the interior are not brave generals or famous generals, at most they are fierce generals, and the rest are some installed people.

"It's a bit bigger, but it doesn't have any effect on me, after all, we don't have the intention of attacking Qingzhou yet. If we really want to attack Qingzhou, we will attack from the north and south, unite with the Xuzhou army, and it will not be difficult to swallow them. Situ Liang said indifferently.

"However, this Qingzhou Governor seems to be at odds with the Navy General, although the removal of the two government troops is to guard against us, but he also secretly and indirectly tells us that the other mastermind at this time is the Qingzhou Navy Division, and even, if we act, they will not stop it." Pei Yi said with a strange face. The armies of the same state are hostile to each other?

Li Huaiyuan shook his head and said: "They don't really want us to kill the navy, but they want us to force the Qingzhou navy and make him completely fall to Murong Cheng's side." In the past, this navy army was self-reliant, and they didn't listen to the announcement, and Murong Cheng couldn't subdue them. Even the maritime merchants in the east of Yangzhou and Jiangzhou had to pay tolls to the Qingzhou Navy when they traveled to and from the north, which made Murong Cheng extremely dissatisfied. ”

"If we can press into Donglai Mansion and force the Qingzhou Navy to camp on land, then the camp of the Qingzhou Navy can only choose between Yangzhou, Jiangzhou or Xuzhou, of course, he can also be a pirate. But pirates are not easy to be, without the righteous name of the court, many things cannot be replenished, and the soldiers are not willing to abandon their families and children. Therefore, the general of the navy only needs to fall to Murong Cheng and apologize to the lord, so that we are facing the navy, and Murong Cheng takes advantage. But our maritime traders are bound to suffer a severe blow. Li Huaiyuan said in a deep voice.

"Yes, it's because we're worried about the sea lane, so the Qingzhou Navy must be annexed by us. This time, the Shadow Division and the Divine Machine Battalion were dispatched on the road to kill a few generals who had prejudices with us. At the same time, our sailors dispatched to make a forced landing on the Qingzhou sailors. Zhao Xun looked at the map and said.

"Situ Liang, has the Youzhou Sailor arrived at Bohai Mansion now?"

"Hui Lord, he has arrived, and he is waiting for the military order there!"

"Then act on December 10th, and go home for the New Year with victory." Zhao Xun slapped the place in the eastern part of Qingzhou on the map with one palm and said coldly.

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The snow fell and stopped, and the ground was covered with white, and the whole land was white.

Zhao Xun approved the transportation of a batch of materials to the north, which contained a large amount of coal, and if there was anything bad about the grassland people, it was that there were no solid houses, and they suffered from a continuous heavy snowfall.

Snow disasters on the grasslands, often referred to as white disasters, are extremely dangerous. Mainly the snow covers the grassland, and more than a certain depth, some snow is not deep, but the density is larger, or the snow surface is covered with ice to form an ice shell, livestock is difficult to pick up the snow layer to graze, causing hunger, sometimes the ice shell is also easy to cut the hooves and wrists of sheep and horses, causing frostbite. As a result, the livestock is emaciated, often resulting in the miscarriage of the mother animal, the survival rate of the young animals is low, the old, weak and young animals are hungry and cold, and the death rate increases. At the same time, the snow also obstructs traffic and crushes the sheds.

At the same time, due to the cold weather and the lack of food and grass, personnel will also be injured and frozen to death.

Whether it is out of soft-heartedness or out of buying the hearts of the people, Zhao Xun really doesn't want these people who have just been captured to freeze to death on the grassland, no matter how to say, they are also their own people and have surrendered. As long as there was no rebellion, Zhao Xun had no intention of killing them for no reason. Killing the enemy on the battlefield and killing the people who surrendered were different then.

After the war, Zhao Xun asked the captives to build homes in various places in an organized manner to store grain and grass, and on the other hand, he asked the Shunzhou Mansion to transport the hoarded grain to the north, and of course, brought back a lot of livestock. In addition, a lot of coal was transported.

"Is it because I have a son and daughter that I have become soft-hearted?" Zhao Xun shook his head and thought.

Because of the heavy snow, there is nothing to deal with, and Zhao Xun is rarely idle in the back house and his few wives and concubines in the garden to enjoy the snow. Well, it's actually a sore idea. On such a cold day, go to enjoy the snow? Zhao Xun thinks that he is not the kind of literati who plays with elegance. However, his wife and concubines were all playing in the garden and enjoying the snow, and Zhao Xun could only touch his red nose in the small pavilion.

The five-month-old daughter Zhao Han, after getting used to her father's embrace, cried loudly as soon as she was taken over by Zhao Xun as she did at the beginning.

Zhao Xun looked at the tightly wrapped child, and really didn't want him to come out with him. However, the pavilion is surrounded by several layers of wind-proof light veils so that the cold wind does not blow in. And the small pavilion is even more burning with charcoal, not feeling cold at all, very comfortable.

"Hanyue, what's wrong? Why do you keep rubbing around? Looking at the woman in his arms, rubbing around, Zhao Xun's head was as big as a fight.

"Governor, I'm afraid Miss is going to ...... I want to feed, so ......" A crisp voice came from my ears.

"Are you...... Are you the ...... That Asri? After a while, Zhao Xun turned out the name of the beautiful woman in front of him from his mind.

"Yes, Grand Duke! Governor, please drink tea! Asri blushed and lowered her teacup respectfully.

"Poof......" Zhao Xun took a sip without looking at it, and immediately spit it out.

"You added milk to your tea?" Zhao Xun looked at the strange tea and asked sideways.

Asli didn't know why Zhao Xun spit out the milk tea he had specially cooked, and said with a pale face: "Yes! The slave and maid only added milk to it, but nothing else. ”

"It's okay, I'm just not used to adding things to tea, the Han people and the tea are different from your northern Hu people. In the future, don't add anything to it. Looking at Asli with a nervous face, Zhao Xun continued.

"The slave knows! Slaves and maids take it to heart. ”

"By the way, your sisters are still comfortable living in the house?"

"Thanks to the blessing of the Grand Governor, a qiē is fine." Asri hurriedly responded.

"Call Mrs. Su back and nurse the baby!"

"Milk tea? Such a strange way to drink...... The earliest version of milk tea? Zhao Xun shook his head and muttered to himself.