Chapter Ninety-Six: Your Ideals

It's autumn, and the sky is high and cool.

Walking along the path in the middle of the wheat field, a cool autumn breeze ripples by, and the refreshing smell of wheat wafts to the nose. Spreading in the wheat field, smelling the faint smell of wheat, it is also a pleasant enjoyment.

Most of the wheat fields have been harvested, and the neat patches of wheat stubble exposed on the grass tell passers-by that this was once a wheat field. Not far away, flashing a few busy figures, waving the sickle in their hands to harvest wheat, their faces are full of happy smiles, the greatest happiness of farmers in this era is to harvest the land that they have sprinkled sweat and worked hard.

When He Tengxiao passed by those busy people, those honest farmers stopped what they were doing and smiled at He Tengxiao. His demeanor was full of respect, He Tengxiao now enjoyed great prestige among the soldiers and civilians of Pingshan Fort, and besides, it was rare to have such a quiet and peaceful land in Liaodong, where the wolf smoke was everywhere.

"This is the first time we have cultivated this fertile land, and perhaps this is also the last time we have cultivated this land." He Tengxiao said as he walked.

"With the general here, we will be able to work on this land for a long time." Ling Feng looked around at the wheat fields around him and said with a smile. This year's season was unsatisfactory, the first half of the year was smooth, I thought it would be a rare harvest year, but the hope of a good year was to let a continuous rainstorm a month ago be extinguished.

Although this year is not a good year, this year's harvest is still mostly satisfactory, at least feeding the thousands of mouths of Pingshan Fort is not a problem, and there may be some surplus.

Zhang Yuyang was silent, just quietly followed behind He Tengxiao, admiring the beautiful autumn harvest of this dress. What He Tengxiao said is not unreasonable, it is very likely that this will be the last time they will cultivate this fertile land under their feet.

He Tengxiao's judgment of the general trend of Liaodong is still relatively accurate, at least for most of the year, He Tengxiao has not misjudged the trend of the situation in Liaodong, and the overall trend of Liaodong is still running as He Tengxiao expected.

It's not just that He Tengxiao is not optimistic about the situation in Liaodong, anyone in Liaodong, as long as there is no problem with his mind, should know that the emerging Liao Empire is like the sky, and the Great Zhao Empire is not the opponent of Liao.

Peng Chaodong managed Liaodong to stabilize the Zhao army in the thirteenth year of Zhenyuan, after the defeat of the army, the army collapsed for thousands of miles, lost the army and lost the land, and the two countries fell into a stalemate on the front line of Yingzhou. Suddenly, the two countries seemed to be at a stalemate in Liaodong, and the armies of the two countries were stuck in the front line of the confrontation.

But this situation did not last for a few months, and Liaodong, who was unwilling to be in a stalemate, finally opened up the situation in turn, formed an alliance with Menggu, and forced to land on Goryeo, once again forming a crushing advantage over the Zhao Empire.

After the forced landing in Goryeo, Zhao and Liao had several small-scale military frictions on the front line of Yingzhou and Haizhou. The disadvantaged Zhao army lost in these two military frictions without any suspense, losing several military forts north of Yingzhou. The Liao army had a tendency to further oppress Yingzhou.

He Tengxiao knew very well that Peng Chaodong was a pragmatic and current minister, although Peng Chaodong and the Qin army under his command were under the slogan: expel Manyu, recover Liaodong, and share worries for the monarch. But that's just a slogan, it's just a flag. Expelling Manyu, recovering Liaodong, and worrying about the king's worries The role of condensing the loose hearts of the people in Liaodong is far greater than the meaning of his words itself. Expel Manyu and recover Liaodong. How inspiring these simple eight words are, but they also seem very distant, and how easy it is to solve the border problems accumulated over the past decades in a short period of time once and for all.

After recovering Yingzhou, Peng Chaodong did not make any aggressive moves, indicating that Peng Chaodong had no confidence to continue north. The biggest source of lack of confidence is its own lack of confidence, to put it bluntly, the military strength of the Zhao Empire in Liaodong is far inferior to that of the Liao Empire. If He Tengxiao didn't guess wrong, Peng Chaodong's current purpose is nothing more than to operate the narrow corridor of the Western Liaoning Corridor and protect the Beijing Division, and the situation in Eastern Liaoning has eroded to such an extent, he can clean it up, and if he can't clean it up, he will stabilize the defense line of Western Liaoning and prevent the Liao State from threatening the Beijing Division.

If the Liao army wants to enter the customs and gain a foothold in the Guannei, it must open up the western Liaoning corridor and closely link the Guannai with the prosperous place of the Liao State, Liaodong. Otherwise, even if the Liao State entered the Guannei, it would not be able to gain a foothold in the Guannei, and finally had to withdraw from the Guannei in disgrace. At the time of Mu Zong, the ancient people of Meng went deep into the Great Wall and the army poured into the pass, defeated the 500,000 town army in the north of the Great Zhao Empire, and then the ancient people of Meng occupied almost half of the north Zhili, and the city of Beijing was surrounded by the Mongolian army in three layers and three layers outside, surrounded as solid as an iron bucket, and finally the ancient people of Meng still withdrew from the pass.

Without a solid foundation, the ancient people could only look at the towering towers of Jingshi City and sigh helplessly. The grand cause of restoring the hegemony of the ancestors is close at hand, but it is not possible to realize it.

Unlike Gao Guang, Peng Chaodong's backing in the court was much more reliable than that of Gao Guang, the former governor of Liaodong. Song Yuren is extremely a kind of Xu Hongqian, almost everyone in Dazhao knows it, there are no special accidents, Peng Chaodong will not be forced to go north like Gao Guang's unlucky bastard.

Behind Peng Chaodong's Qin army stood the huge Great Zhao Empire, which could not yet fight the Liao State, and the strength of the He Nationality was naturally pale in the face of an increasingly powerful empire of the Liao Empire.

Perhaps He Fangxiong, a veteran who was about to die, had realized that the defeat of Liaodong was inevitable, so he favored He Tengxiao. He Tengxiao's purpose of asking for Changsheng Island and Middle Island may not be too busy for He Fangxiong, an old man, and He Fangxiong knowingly happily divided these two seemingly barren and useless islands into He Tengxiao's fiefdoms, isn't it a tacit approval of He Tengxiao?

"Ling Feng, if you were them, what would be your greatest ideal?" He Tengxiao pointed to a few busy figures and suddenly asked Ling Feng an insignificant and profound question.

Ling Feng thought about it, as if he was thinking about it very seriously, and after some serious consideration, Ling Feng told He Tengxiao: "Plant more food, buy more land." ”

"And then?" He Tengxiao asked, Ling Feng's answer was in his expectation, Ling Feng was born in an ordinary farmer, and in his father's generation, the family conditions improved, from the original farmer to a small landlord. Ling Feng is still a typical farmer in his bones, and his ideals are not much different from those farmers who are working hard.

"Buy a house, marry a daughter-in-law, have a baby, ......" Ling Feng lowered his head and folded his fingers, word by word replied.

"What about after I bought a house, married a daughter-in-law, and had a baby?" He Tengxiao did not relent.

"Landmark, of course! Have more babies! More land! Ling Feng said without thinking, almost blurted out, he originally wanted to say that he would marry more daughters-in-law, but after thinking about it, he swallowed the phrase marrying more daughters-in-law back into his stomach.

"Then your sons and grandsons will buy more land, marry daughters-in-law, and give birth to more children, and they will never change for generations, won't they?" He Tengxiao smiled, it is indeed a typical Chinese farmer, for thousands of years, most of the people who have grown up on this land for generations are not so simple.

"And what about the general's ideals?" Ling Feng scratched his hair, looking embarrassed, and full of curiosity about He Tengxiao's ideals, "Expand the territory? Will you enter the knighthood? Leaving a name in history? ”

Ling Feng said a few lofty words, he felt that only a capable person like He Tengxiao was worthy of these three lofty ideals, this is the ultimate ideal of a martial artist in this era, is He Tengxiao's ideal also to expand the territory, worship the general, and leave a name in history?

"Stay alive ......"

He Tengxiao's simple answer somewhat surprised Ling Feng, Ling Feng really wanted to ask He Tengxiao like He Tengxiao asked him just now, and asked He Tengxiao: It's that simple?