For a month in a row, he was worried about the affairs of the homeless, Ling Feng had been staying in the harem, saying that he was seriously ill, and he was not good at bothering, so he could only find a way by himself, together with the officials of the Department of Internal Affairs, he was completely busy. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Fortunately, the current Kaiyuan is rich in money and grain, and there is no problem at all in taking 120,000 loads of grain and grass out for relief.

In fact, the population of Kaiyuan is already enough, some time ago Huang Linggong received the amount of money from each county, and found that the population of Kaiyuan is one million more than before! This number is already equivalent to one-third of the population of the three northern counties.

In other words, it is equivalent to the population of one county, and now, the population of Kaiyuan is increasing, and it is increasing every day.

Yesterday, Huang Linggong had just returned from the south, and he had only gone out for more than 200 miles, and he saw countless displaced people walking from the official road to Kaiyuan County, which was only a few hundred miles away. And the southern Xinjiang region, what will be the situation?

After some consideration, Huang Linggong, together with the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, took out 250,000 quintals of grain, opened a porridge field again in Kaiyuan and other counties, and ordered that if there were displaced people entering the county seat, the county order must settle them, build houses, and divide the fields.

Under the strict order, the county officials of course did so, and there were precedents and experiences in settling the displaced people before, so it was not too difficult to do, as long as there was food and money, everything was easy to do.

There are more and more displaced people, but Kaiyuan is like a melting pot, no matter how many people come, they will accept the order, and they will also build houses for free, and the most important thing is that they do not have to pay taxes all year round, and they can eat the free hot porridge in the porridge shop.

Where can I find such a good thing in the world, I am afraid that only Kaiyuan can do this, and even the imperial capital does not have such treatment.

For the princes of all walks of life, the homeless people are cheap bones, cheap as grass mustard, they can't care if they love death and life, they want their own strength, money, food and territory, which is the foundation of survival in troubled times.

Although the little emperor is not as hateful as those princes, he is not much better, at least he does not dare to take out hundreds of thousands of loads of food to help the victims like Ling Feng, especially in this troubled era, it is unthinkable.

What is food? That is more important than military strength, with food and strength, more soldiers can be gathered, and the world can be pacified.

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Huai County.

In the county guarding the city, in Pang Yi's study, there were three people standing, and Pang Yi was sitting above.

The three are Jiang Yiyuan, the military advisor, Jiang Yiqu, the minister of the interior, and the general Zhou Meng.

It is necessary to say here that Zhou Meng had a big battle with Chu Jun in the first battle of the three northern counties, and his arm was cut off by Chu Jun.

Zhou Meng's strength is not bad, even if he has a broken arm now, he is still stronger than those new generals.

Since he now has one hand, his weapon is a horizontal knife, which is one size larger than an ordinary horizontal knife, a little longer, equivalent to a Mo knife, which Pang Yi specially ordered someone to build for him.

Just a few days ago, Zhou Meng relied on a horizontal knife to defeat the eight general-level generals under Pang Yi's account, although he won a bit of a fluke, but he was definitely powerful, and he could still withstand the combined attacks of the eight generals with a broken arm, and this strength was enough to be proud.

Since then, Zhou Meng has been reinstated, and his position is above all the generals.

In the study, Pang Yi said: "We now have 130,000 infantry troops, 20,000 cavalry, and the rest of the more than 50,000 military horses are stationed in various counties, in general, there are 200,000 soldiers and horses, and the strength is not as good as before, but..." ”

Jiang Yiyuan saw Pang Yi's thoughts and asked, "Does the lord want to join the battle between the imperial capital and Ling Feng?" ”

"My lord, by all means." Jiang Yiqu on the side said: "We are now in urgent need of food and silver, and we can't even pay military salaries. ”

"When our strength recovers, and then we prepare to expand outward, the minister suggests that we should first crusade against the three northern counties, and then try to open the plains after taking the three northern counties."

Jiang Yiqu's strategy is actually just four words, step by step, never do risky things, and don't do it if you are not 100% sure, otherwise the harm will outweigh the benefits.

Pang Yi sneered and asked, "Then you say, when will it take to recover your strength?" ”

Jiang Yiqu thought about it and said truthfully: "It will take three to five years to restore the strength of a year ago. ”

"Five years? If you wait until five years later, Ling Feng will dominate the world, even if you have a million troops at that time, what is the use? Besides, can Ling Feng watch you slowly become stronger? He won't call? ”

Pang Yi said: "It's better to take the initiative to attack while waiting, I think now is the time, all his soldiers and horses have gone to the imperial capital, let's gather soldiers and horses to kill the past, it may not be impossible to do it." ”

Jiang Yiyuan smiled bitterly in his heart, he felt that Pang Yi was always whimsical, every time he was like this, blindly commanding, if he continued like this, how could his strength become stronger.

"Don't forget, my lord, Ling Feng has a powerful cavalry in his hand, and he can go back and forth between the imperial capital and Kaiyuan in three days, hehe... No matter how fast we are, can we still be as fast as him? ”

Jiang Yiyuan said: "But what the lord said is also reasonable, now there is indeed an opportunity in front of us, if we can grasp it well, maybe there is a chance to turn the tables." ”

"Yiyuan, what do you mean...?" Jiang Yiqu on the side asked suspiciously.

Zhou Meng also looked at him, he was a military general, and he was only responsible for carrying out orders, so it was okay to watch from the sidelines on this occasion, and there was no need to speak.

Pang Yi asked, "What chance?" ”

Jiang Yiyuan said: "Lord, if you let the lord give up the northern frontier, is the lord willing?" ”

"What? Abandoning the Northern Frontier? Are you asking me to give up Huai County and Surabaya County? ”

Pang Yi was surprised, Jiang Yiyuan's words were unexpected, and they were amazing.

Jiang Yiqu and Zhou Meng also frowned, not knowing what Jiang Yiyuan was thinking.

"Yiyuan, you say be more careful, what do you mean."

Jiang Yiyuan said: "I received a letter from Han Ziyu the day before yesterday, the lord might as well take a look." With that, Jiang Yiyuan took out a piece of paper from his cuff and handed it to Pang Yi.

"Han Ziyu promised that as long as we are willing to withdraw from the three northern counties and go to the south to develop, he will give the lord 300,000 loads of military food and 300,000 taels of gold, which can be regarded as buying the lord's Huai County and Surabaya County, after thinking about it seriously, I feel that we can give it a try, what Han Ziyu said is also very reasonable, we will defend these two counties, and there will never be a day, because Ling Feng is stronger than us, he will not allow us to become a threat to him, without waiting for us to develop, his army will be killed, we will always be his stumbling block, and we will not be able to fight against him."

There was a brief silence in the room, and Pang Yi read the letter and calmed down.

Abandon Huaijun and Surabaya?

"Didn't that fuel Ling Feng's power even more?" Pang Yi said: "He is now Kaiyuan and the three northern counties, and he is still strong, if he gives him Huai County and Surabaya County again, then he will not fly into the sky?" Who will be his opponent in the future? ”

Jiang Yiyuan said: "Lord, we can't manage so much now, we should be rich and strong ourselves, now southern Xinjiang is in turmoil, Xiaojin Wang and Yu Wang just fought, the result is that both are defeated, if we concentrate all our forces into southern Xinjiang, we will be invincible, less than a year, we can pacify southern Xinjiang, then based on southern Xinjiang, and then develop to eastern Xinjiang, the strength will become stronger and stronger, even if Ling Feng has captured the imperial capital at that time, we also have the capital to resist." ”

Jiang Yiqu frowned and said, "Yiyuan, could this be Han Ziyu's plan?" ”

"No, he wishes we could go to southern Xinjiang."

Jiang Yiyuan said with great certainty: "I know Han Ziyu's psychology very well, he is eager to start a war with the imperial capital and wants to capture the imperial capital, so during this period, he will not provoke a war with any force, and we just take this time to completely unify southern Xinjiang!" ”

Jiang Yiqu had nothing to say and set his eyes on Pang Yi.

In fact, the population of Huai County and Surabaya County is getting smaller and smaller, Jiang Yiqu has been worried, if it goes on like this, it is not a way after all, if it is not for this time to block the road, the people do not know how much they have run, if it is really as Jiang Yiyuan said, can capture southern Xinjiang, then it is worth everything, even if there are not many people in southern Xinjiang, but at least the territory is large, and over time, it can develop better. (To be continued.) )