Since entering the first year of Yongchang, Liaodong has secretly seized the time to arrange the matter of sending troops to fight against Shile, but it still pretends to be nothing in the world. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In addition to quietly transferring the attacking units to the front line in the name of training, grain, grass, and ordnance were also being hoarded in various places.

In order to prevent being discovered by Shile, in many cases, Liaodong had to use the night to carry out troop movements, which greatly affected the progress of the preparation mission. However, in order to ensure victory in the battle, it can only be so.

At the same time, Wei Shuo publicly expressed his support for the Son of Heaven in the newspaper many times, making the outside world think that the focus of Liaodong's attention was still Jiangdong.

But these tricks in Liaodong are okay to hide from ordinary people, but it is a little difficult to fool the shrewd Shi Le.

In the past two years, the Liaodong Army has not expanded externally, which has made many Qianhu relax their vigilance, but Shi Le has always been deeply vigilant against Liaodong.

It is the middle of winter now, and inside and outside the city of Xiangguo under Shile's rule, it is snow-capped.

Because there has been no war in Jizhou for many years, coupled with the fact that Shi Le and Zhang Bin have indeed governed the local area with their hearts, it has also made Xiangguo appear a rare sign of prosperity.

In fact, before Shile established himself in Xiangguo, he did not know how to run the local area at all, and most of the military rations needed for his war were plundered, except for a part of his own self-sufficiency.

After Shile occupied Xiangguo and was assisted by Zhang Bin and other Han elites, he changed his previous bandit style of warfare and gradually understood how to carry out agricultural production.

Even Shi Le appointed Huo Hao, the right attendant, as the "doctor of persuasion", and together with others, he "followed the prefecture and county, verified the household registration, and advised the class to be a farmer".

After several years of hard work, although the agricultural production under Shile's rule was not as good as that of Liaodong, it was still a small achievement.

The city of Xiangguo in front of him is no longer dilapidated when it was first occupied, and Shile has spent a lot of money on the basis of the original Zhaodu building to carry out large-scale renovation and expansion. Not only according to the Zhou rites to build the temple community Ji Ling Tai, but also to build the east and west government offices, it took several years to complete the construction of the city.

When the construction of Xiangguo City was completed, Shi Le moved all his people to live in the city, so that the number of Qianhu people in Xiangguo City was as high as 300,000.

Together with the other Hu Lu, the entire city has been completely occupied by the Hu people, of whom there are less than 100,000 Jin people left in the city.

In addition to the large number of Hulu, another symbol of Xiangguo that obviously does not belong to China is the large number of monasteries in the city, which is obviously the credit of Buddha Tucheng.

Buddha Tucheng relied on mysterious magical means to win the trust of Shi Le, and was supported by him as a national teacher, so the Buddhist temples in Xiangguo and Yecheng increased sharply, and monks gathered.

Today, Xiangguo is prosperous, with hundreds of thousands of people living there, including Han, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Di, Qiang and other ethnic groups, and even Kangju merchants with deep eyes, high noses, curly hair and camels can be seen on the street.

Snow covers the renovated streets and castles, and since the Spring Festival has just passed, there are noticeably more pedestrians on the streets than before, and if you look closely, you can see that most of the people are walking in the direction of the largest temple in the city.

Shi Le did not become angry with Buddhism because Buddha Tucheng went north to Liaodong, but at the suggestion of Zhang Bin, he re-recruited new monks to win the trust of Buddhist believers. It was not because Shile was magnanimous, but because most of the people of the Karma people believed in Buddhism, and if Shile dared to forcibly suppress Buddhism, it was likely to cause unpredictable unrest.

But in any case, in the past two years, through Shile's continuous efforts, the strength of Xiangguo has increased, and out of the shadow of the defeat of Qingzhou, and the people's livelihood in various places has gradually recovered.

The only fly in the ointment was that there were fewer local merchants, and most caravans chose to trade under Liaodong rule such as Chang'an, Jinyang or Jicheng.

However, no one can deny that Shile has alleviated the antagonism between Han and Hu in Xiangguo City to a certain extent by reducing taxes and providing relief to the victims.

At this moment, in a restaurant next to the main road of Xiangguo City, two guests are sitting by the window. One of them was a Han Confucian dressed as a Han Confucian with gray hair, and although his eyes looked bright, he could not hide his tiredness, and opposite the Han Confucian was a deep-eyed and high-nosed Hulu.

The two of them stared at the street scene outside the window and kept watching, among them, the Han Confucian looked at the few business travelers on the street, sighed and said: "Lord, since the rise of Liaodong, the caravans between Xiangguo and Yecheng have decreased a lot every year, and I am afraid that the tax revenue will drop a lot this month. ”

This Han Confucian is not an outsider, but the mastermind under Shi Le's command - Zhang Bin and Zhang Mengsun.

And the middle-aged Hu man sitting opposite him is the famous overlord of the Central Plains - Qihu Shile.

In recent years, with the gradual prosperity of Liaodong's commerce, coupled with Liaodong's deliberate blockade of Xiangguo, the number of business travelers entering Xiangguo has been decreasing, and the taxes levied by Xianghu have been greatly reduced, which has greatly affected Xiangguo's fiscal revenue.

In the face of the lack of business travel in Xiangguo, even Zhang Bin, Kui An, Cheng Yao and other talents were helpless, and Shi Le naturally couldn't do anything, so he could only look at the deserted streets and scold Liaodong secretly.

Shi Le looked at Zhang Bin's hair that was almost completely turned white and the tired look on his face, and couldn't help but feel a little distressed: "Meng Sun, you must take care of your body!" I can't do the great cause of the country without the escort of my husband. ”

In front of Shi Le's eyes, there are always scenes replaying in front of Zhang Bin to help him establish his hegemony: from Zhang Bin lifting his sword and shouting to see him, he began to defect, and was not taken seriously at the beginning, to repeatedly suggesting that he would be the mastermind of Shi Le's think tank. It's really "a good opportunity, and there is no last resort".

It is no exaggeration to say that Zhang Bin's contribution to the founder of Shiler's foundation is the greatest.

In history, Zhang Bin really did his best to Shi Le, and then died, served as the right long history, the big law enforcement, after the Marquis of Puyang, he was a high-ranking official, a crown leader, but always modest and cautious, humble and cautious, always low-key, never gang up, in the court is outspoken and daring, words must be in the middle.

Seeing that Shi Le really cared about himself, it was impossible to say that Zhang Bin was not moved, and for a moment he almost had to tell Shi Le and Pan. Fortunately, reason overcame emotion at the critical moment, and at this point, Shi Le can't turn back, why not Zhang Bin?

"Thank you for your concern, alas, if you can't solve the problem of business travel, the gap between Xiangguo and Liaodong will get bigger and bigger."

Shi Le suddenly said decadently: "Could it be that the Mandate of Heaven is really not there? Since the rise of Liaodong in defense Shuo, our Xiangguo will be disadvantageous everywhere, not only militarily suppressed by Liaodong, but now even the development of people's livelihood is far behind Liaodong, once the Liaodong army goes south in the future, what will Xiangguo use to resist? ”

This once invincible king of the Qiang clan had a trace of tiredness on his face at this time that could not be concealed. Whenever Shi Le remembered that he carelessly gave up Youzhou and gave Wei Shuo the opportunity to rise, remorse would fill his whole body and hurt his heart.

But after all, Shi Le is a generation of heroes, but after a while, he will dispel all the decadence and sadness, and become the king of the Karma Hu that everyone fears again.

"It's been a little weird that Liaodong has been calm lately, and I'm always worried that Liaodong will suddenly attack. Although Xiangguo has deployed 300,000 troops on the front line of Hebei, I always feel uneasy in my heart, and it would be good if I could transfer some more troops to the front line of Jizhou. ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, his heart moved: "The lord doesn't have to be annoyed, although Liaodong is strong, it is not invincible. Originally, because the north and south of Xiangguo were strong enemies, they needed to be guarded by heavy troops. However, at present, there will be civil strife breaking out in Jiangdong, and the lord can completely transfer the first-line troops of Huainan to the Central Plains and Hebei to strengthen the troops of the two places. ”

"Is Jiangdong really going to be messed up?"

Shi Le was immediately excited, although there had been peace between Xiangguo and Jiangdong since the Huainan War, but both sides knew very well that this was not a real peace. No one dares to guarantee that when the Liaodong Army goes south in the future, Jiangdong will not go north to take advantage of the fire to rob?

Just in case, Shile even left 100,000 troops in Huainan to garrison.

But if Jiangdong fell into civil strife at this time, Shile not only no longer had to worry about the south being attacked by Jiangdong, but could even transfer the southern army to the north to support Hebei and the Central Plains. If Shi Le wanted to make a desperate bet, he could concentrate his forces and launch an attack on Liaodong first.

Shi Le smiled, took Zhang Bin's hand and said affectionately: "I have Mengsun to help, why are I afraid of Liaodong?" (To be continued.) )