"Two thousand tents, one ding per account, one positive and one pair, exactly a thousand people, guarding the Great Khan!"

"So much? As far as I know, there are a lot of injuries in all departments, and it's not good to have too many transfers, right? ”

"Lord Jinong, the Great Khan is the backbone of our Chahar people, and only by protecting the Great Khan can we Chahar have a chance to rise again!" Fugu Heai replied loudly: "If Lord Jinong agrees, the villain is willing to pay two hundred accounts!" “

"Oh? You've got a heart! Liu Cheng laughed, he turned to the others and asked, "What do you think?" ”

Having said that, where would anyone be stupid enough to speak out against it, Liu Cheng nodded: "Since this is the case, then it will be decided, Fugu Heai, I will send someone to you to select the people, and you must choose the elite into the Great Khan's Hanluduo." Speaking of which, without waiting for the servant to agree to Ai, Liu Chengcheng whispered to Hao Shaoqi: "Shaking the flag, you pick the most clever and difficult guy in the guard, don't let that old guy be fooled!" Remember, don't Chahar and Tumut! “

"Yes, sir!" Hao Shaoqi answered, walked to the door, his gaze swept over the two rows of guards standing like wooden stakes, and suddenly his gaze stayed on Ozir's face.

"Ozir, come here!"

"Me?" Ozil walked up to Hao Shaoqi inexplicably, still holding the halberd used for the honor guard in his hand.

"yes, put this guy down and come in with me!" Hao Shaoqi pointed to the halberd in Ozir's hand, turned around and walked towards the hall, and Ozil hurriedly followed.

"Is that him?" Liu Cheng looked at Ozir, his brows furrowed slightly, obviously he remembered the previous story in front of the Gushi Khan tent.

"Not bad! This kid is the smartest boy under me, and that old guy can't fool him! Hao Shaoqi whispered in his ear.

"Okay!" Liu Cheng's face flashed with a wry smile, it is estimated that Hao Shaoqi had long seen that this kid was not pleasing to the eye, and found this opportunity to kick out.

"Ozir, you will follow the servant Guheai next. To choose the Great Khan, Hanluduo, you must choose the best people, understand? ”

"Yes, sir!" Ozil looked at his new colleague, the other party's face was full of false smiles, he looked at his old boss again, Hao Shaoqi's face was full of schadenfreude. Ozil had an urge to roll his eyes: "Am I so hated?" ”

"It hurts, it hurts, Minmin, you have a light hand. Tap! Liu Cheng, who was lying on the bed, let out a scream, the girl sat on his back, kneading his neck and shoulders vigorously, hearing Liu Cheng's screams, she didn't stop, just poured a little ointment from the small bottle next to her on her hand, rubbed it hard and continued to massage it, while rubbing it back, she said, "Don't shout, I asked for this medicine from Master Chesang." Knead vigorously overnight and you'll be all right the next day. ”

"Chesan would do this?" Liu Cheng asked in surprise, "Isn't he a lama?" ”

"Don't you know? What Master Chesang is best at is treating people's injuries, especially arrow wounds and knife wounds, and I don't know how many lives have been saved. The best doctor on the prairie can't match him. Speaking of this, Min Min patted Liu Cheng's shoulder hard: "Okay! ”

"Huh! It really doesn't hurt anymore! Liu Cheng moved his shoulders and neck, although it was still a little sore, but it was no longer as numb as before.

"Of course!" Min Min carefully wiped the ointment off her hands. While asking, "I just heard you say in the hall that you are about to go to the Jingshi Dynasty to meet the emperor of your Ming Kingdom?" ”

"Not bad!" Liu Cheng nodded: "Actually, I should have gone a long time ago, but I've been fighting." Can't pull out. ”

"That's great!" Min Min jumped up from the bed: "When I was a child, I heard from merchants that the peach blossom stone was like a city of gods, with a thousand and one hundred pagodas, and the towering walls were as high as mountains, and the people in the city were wearing silk, riding tall horses, and eating delicious food. ”

"Hahaha!" Liu Cheng was amused by Min Min's reverie and laughed: "How can it be so good, Jingshi is much stronger than here, but all places in this world are the same, there are poor and rich, there are good and bad, where everyone rides a tall horse and eats delicious food!" Besides, I'm going to let you stay here this time. ”

"Why?" Min Min was anxious when he heard this: "I want to go with you!" ”

"Minmin, don't worry, listen to me!" Liu Cheng stretched out his hand and grabbed the girl's hand and asked her to sit down: "I also want you to go with me, but the situation does not allow it." If I'm gone, there's no one left in charge here, and I need you to stay and take care of it all for me. “

"Don't you have a lot of men? Mr. Zhao, as well as the uncles and nephews of the Du family, and the Chesang Lama, they can all take care of these for you! And Governor Lu, his official is still older than you! Min Min retorted unconvinced.

"They can't!" Liu Cheng shook his head slowly: "Mr. Zhao, he is just a strategist, and no one will listen to him without me." The uncles and nephews of the Du family cannot command the Mongols, and the two of them may not be able to do so when I am not here, and I plan to take General Du with me; Lama Chesang is just a monk, and he may not be able to represent me at a critical time. As for Lu Boqi, he is nothing without me. Only you can do it, Gesang and Tokhtarbuhua are all my retainers, everything they already have is given by me, without me they will be beaten back to their original form immediately, and they will definitely obey you; Coupled with the Hanrudo who directly belongs to Abnay, even in the worst case, you have the ability to immediately pull out two or three thousand cavalry, which is enough to suppress those unscrupulous people! “

"Hey, you've always planned so well, but I really want to go to Jingshi with you!" Min Min, who was persuaded by his lover, lowered his head, Liu Cheng reached out and stroked her hair, and said softly: "Next time, there are many good places in the world, and when the reconstruction of Guihua City is completed, it will become a good place no less than Jingshi!" ”

"Are you really going to rebuild the City of Naturalization?" Min Min looked up, a little sparkle in his eyes.

"Hmm!" Liu Cheng walked to the window, pushed open the window, the bright moonlight poured in, illuminating the room brightly, Liu Cheng turned around and opened his arms towards Minmin: "Minmin, there are only large meadows, barren mountains, and rivers over there now; But give me five years, and there will be vast farmlands, mines, factories, cities, and caravans that will bring countless curiosities to decorate your beauty! No matter how good the Jingshi is. It's not you and mine, it's your land, your city! ”

Pingyang, Shanxi.

The moon is bright in the sky, and the moonlight covers everything with a light veil, and the flecked city walls and dilapidated watchtowers in the day are covered by their shortcomings, which looks quite poetic. The north wind swept over the city tower, and the iron horse hanging at the corner of the eaves made a crisp sound, mixed with the sound of bangs in the city, which was even more desolate.

Li Guo crossed the moat with difficulty. His luck was good, the moat was dry, only the bottom of the moat was still a little muddy. He walked cautiously through the heath overgrown with small bushes and weeds, silently walking along the base of the wall, stopping from time to time to keep his ears close to the walls or on the ground to listen to the sound of the night watchman on the tower, and the sound of the night patrol guard at hand. Li Guo carefully approached the root of the wall to avoid exposing himself to the moonlight and being spotted by the sentinels on the castle tower. I walked more than two miles. He was pleasantly surprised to find that there was a large gap in the city wall more than a foot above the ground, and it seemed that the bottom should have been washed away by rain or hollowed out by termites, and was crushed by the weight of the upper part of the city wall itself. The broken walls were not repaired, but were blocked with earthen bags and wooden fences. Li Guo could even see the fire through the cracks in the wooden fence. He carefully noted down the location of the opening, then re-crossed the moat and disappeared into the night.

The old battalion of the peasant army was located in a small village called Wangchenggang, more than 20 miles away from Pingyang Fucheng, under the encirclement and suppression of Hong Chengchou. Li Zicheng had to cross the Yellow River east in February of the sixth year of Chongzhen's reign and enter Shanxi, where he had only more than 200 cavalry and more than 1,000 infantry under his command. Compared with Shaanxi Province, which has been in turmoil since the second year of Chongzhen. Shanxi Province, just across the river, is a paradise. Li Zicheng was pleasantly surprised to find that Hong Chengchou did not chase after him, but he did not act rashly, and just attacked a few villages to obtain the necessary grain, and came here. There is a small Taoist temple on the hill behind the village, and the Taoist priests in it have already run clean, so they are vacated as a camp for Li Zicheng himself and the cavalry, he himself lives in a small two-story building in the backyard, and the cavalry rests in the corridors and mountain gates on both sides. Horses and cattle were tethered to a grove outside the temple. The infantrymen were stationed in the village below the mountain, and standing on the small two-story building behind the Taoist temple where the scriptures were stored, they could clearly see a path that winded through the entrance of the village.

Breakfast has been prepared, it is black bean porridge and multigrain dumplings, Li Zicheng has just eaten two bites, and a small leader outside walked in: "King Chuang, last night the sky was full of stars and wanted to pull people and horses to sneak away, and was caught by the brothers who patrolled the night, how to deal with it?" ”

"Want to run?" Li Zicheng put down his chopsticks and asked, "Bring him here!" ”

The little leader answered, and after a while, he came in with a few men escorting a stout man of twenty-four or five, the man's cheeks were full of acne, thick eyebrows and big eyes, with a nonchalant expression on his face, and as soon as he entered the door, he shouted loudly: "The head has a big scar, count it as a ball, break the king, you give me a happy one, I will be a good man after twenty years!" "Immediately provoked a few punches and kicks.

"That's it!" Li Zicheng stopped his subordinates' beating of Man Tianxing: "Man Tianxing, why do you want to run?" You don't want to surrender to the army, do you? ”

"Phew!" Man Tianxing spat out: "I'm not the kind of bastard who has no eggs, since I picked up the knife and gun, I won't hold the hoe and pole again." I want to go to stand on my own, pick up the guy and do it with the official army! ”

"Oh? Want to stand on your own? It's not that I'm unfair, what's so sorry for you? “

"It's not!" Man Tianxing shook his head: "I tied my head to the waistband of my trousers, and got up to work with the officers and soldiers for the sake of eating and drinking spicy food, wearing gold and silver, and having beautiful girls." It's not squatting in this village to drink black bean porridge and nibble on miscellaneous grains. If you want to eat these things, Lao Tzu will just farm at home, why should you rise up and rebel? ”

"So that's what happened?" Li Zicheng laughed: "Do you want to break through the two states and counties and make a good fuss?" ”

"Not bad!" The stars raised their heads: "People live for a lifetime, grass and trees for an autumn, since we are thieves, we have to go through the state and enter the government, live a few happy days, what does it mean to hide in the village like this?" ”

"It's not that I don't attack Zhou County, it's just that the time hasn't come yet, and you can't understand these truths when I tell you!" Li Zicheng smiled thoughtfully: "That's it, I'll let you go back first, you should attack the state and county in two days, and it's not too late for you to capture the state and county!" ”

Hearing that Li Zicheng actually let himself go so easily, Mantianxing's eyes widened, he almost couldn't believe his ears, he opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but he didn't know what to say. Seeing his appearance, Li Zicheng smiled and waved his hand to signal him to retreat, and finally Man Tianxing owed his body and retreated in a daze. Li Zicheng picked up a somewhat cold mixed noodles, and continued to study the map with his head down while eating. There are two reasons why he did not say it: 1. According to the practice of the Ming Dynasty at that time, once the local guards reported to the court that there were thieves in the local area, the court would strictly order them to be exterminated, but regardless of whether there were soldiers or not, so unless there was a local city besieged and the gentry were killed, it was really impossible to hide it, and the guards generally tended to conceal it, after all, the thieves passed through the state and county, and today they were here, and they might go to the next state and county tomorrow. And why bother yourself? Li Zicheng is very aware of this mentality of local officials, and he hopes to gain real benefits by making a name for himself, and not to provoke powerful old opponents such as Hong Chengchou and Liu Cheng before his strength is restored. 2, the Ming Dynasty's Pingyang Mansion is today's southern Shanxi Yuncheng, Linfen this area, that is, the Yuncheng Basin, where the land is fertile, the people are rich, there are salt ponds since ancient times, salt is money in ancient times, and there are rich iron ore, the Ming Dynasty has set up a special salt government yamen in Pingyang Mansion, and the transportation is convenient to go south out of Yiguan to reach Hanoi, if you can capture this place, Li Zicheng can not only solve the problem of money, grain and weapons, but also can enter Hanoi from Yiguan, go south through Mengjin Yellow River is Luoyang, and enter eastern Henan along the east of the Yellow RiverTo the north, it will enter Beizhili, and will no longer be embarrassed in the narrow areas of Shanxi and Shaanxi, and the situation will be very different.

"Uncle!" A voice woke Li Zicheng from his thoughts, and when he looked up, he just saw Li Guo coming in, his cheeks were red from the cold wind, and the cowhide boots on his feet were wet, and a thin layer of frost formed on the surface. (To be continued.) )