Su Dingfang's 30,000 troops were stationed in Jixian County, but Zhang Xuan did not immediately let them settle in Anle County, before the military food was not completely transported into Anle County, Su Dingfang's 30,000 troops stationed in Anle County would bring huge food pressure to Anle County, or it was better to be stationed in an area with abundant military food, Jixian County undoubtedly met this requirement best. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In the Lushui camp in the south of Jixian County, 30,000 Sui troops were training on the vast playground, with high morale and thunderous shouts, and crossbow troops, spearmen and cavalry were training in an orderly manner in their respective territories.

In the southeast corner of the training ground, Zhang Xuan rode on a war horse and watched the army training from afar, the arrival of 30,000 troops undoubtedly gave Zhang Xuan a reassurance, once the fortifications of the North Tiger Valley were completed, 30,000 troops were enough to resist the surprise attack of the Turkic army.

"Why doesn't Your Highness let the army build the Guancheng, there are too many things to let the people build the Guancheng, and it is too slow, with the experience of Weichen, let the army build at least thirty percent of the time."

The person who spoke was Li Chun, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, who had just arrived from Zhongdu, who first came to meet His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and then rushed to Anle County to preside over the construction of the castle.

Zhang Xuan smiled faintly and said: "I also know that it takes time and effort to use people to build a gate, but we can't just focus on building a gate, I think more about defense, defense not only needs soldiers, but also people." ”

"Therefore, His Highness mobilized the people to build the Guancheng, and also considered that they should participate in the defense."

Zhang Xuan nodded, "Mobilizing them early is conducive to giving full play to their enthusiasm for defending Anle County, and it will also facilitate them to form a militia after the war." ”

"Your Highness Takami!"

Li Chun praised him from the bottom of his heart, although he focused on engineering and did not think much about the influence of other aspects, but after all, he was the secretary of the Ministry of Engineering, and he could understand Zhang Xuan's thoughts better than ordinary people.

Zhang Xuan smiled and said: "After Li Shangshu arrives in Yanle County, I will take a look at the defense of the county town, although I feel good, but after all, the time is too short, and a special official like Li Shangshu needs to examine it, hoping to find a defense loophole and remedy it as soon as possible!" ”

Li Chun nodded silently, he originally planned to leave early tomorrow morning, but now he wanted to set off immediately.

At this moment, a cavalryman rushed in from a distance, rushed to Zhang Xuan and saluted: "Marshal Qiqi, the military advisor is urgent!" ”

Zhang Xuan's spirits perked, he was waiting for Fang Xuanling's news, what clues should be found, he took Fang Xuanling's express letter, opened it and read it carefully, as he expected, there was news in Hejian County, Fang Xuanling told him in the letter that Ling Jing and Liu Lancheng found Wang Baolin and got clues from Wang Baolin, and the Turkic cavalry was very likely to hide in Beihai County.

'Beihai County! ’

Zhang Xuan's heart thumped, as if a murderer was hiding in his hometown, he had a deep affection for Beihai County, where every mountain and water, grass and tree, he was deeply attached to it, and the Turkic cavalry was hiding in Beihai County?

Zhang Xuan looked at it again, Fang Xuanling thought that Beihai County was only possible, maybe it would be hidden elsewhere, or it was necessary to continue to launch scouts to conduct an all-round search, but in any case, Beihai County was an important clue, and at present, Ling Jing and Liu Lancheng had already led the army to Beihai County.

This was obviously just Fang Xuanling comforting him, and from the tone of his voice, Fang Xuanling was basically sure that the Turkic cavalry was hiding in Beihai County.

Zhang Xuan pondered for a long time, he had been thinking about a question, why did the Turks infiltrate the Northern Sui since last year?

In other words, the Turks had already planned to attack the Northern Sui, and it had nothing to do with their extermination of Liu Wuzhou.

And Liu Wuzhou was still alive when the Turks made their plans, so the Turks either took the Flying Fox Road, or they went south through Yanshan, and if they went south through Yanshan, it may be out of revenge for their destruction of the Khitan.

Obviously, the Turkic cavalry infiltrated the Central Plains in order to disrupt the Northern Sui from the inside, so as to cooperate with their invasion from the periphery, but the appearance of the Turkic people is very different from the Central Plains, if they lurk in the Central Plains for a year before starting a war, the risk of doing so is very high, generally in the spring, and the possibility of launching a war in the autumn is greater.

Zhang Xuan became more and more suspicious that the Turks' original plan was to launch an attack on the Northern Sui last autumn, but because their sudden attack on Liu Wuzhou disturbed the other side's plans, the other side had to postpone the plan until this spring.

In any case, Zhang Xuan felt that he had made a major strategic mistake before, that is, ignoring the Turks, which was a strategic mistake enough to destroy the country, and fortunately, the fall of Liu Wuzhou gave them a chance, which was the heavens deliberately favored them, so that they escaped a catastrophe.

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Although the relocation of the capital of the Northern Sui Dynasty left a great regret to Beihai County, but thanks to the foundation laid by Zhang Xuan before, Beihai County's animal husbandry, shipbuilding industry and fishery have developed by leaps and bounds in recent years, and the shipbuilding industry has made Beihai County the largest civilian ship construction center in the world, building hundreds of ships of various kinds every month, but most of them are inland civil boats below 500 stones, but at the same time, they also build large fishing boats of about 1,000 stones.

If the development of shipbuilding still makes ordinary people feel not deeply, but when it comes to the livestock of Beihai County, everyone in the world knows it, except for the buffalo in the south, the cattle used in the north, the cattle are pulled, the horses are pulled, the mules, the donkeys are the first in the world, the output of Beihai County is the first in the world, the body is strong, the size is big, the fur is shiny, the limbs are powerful, and the livestock of Beihai County has established an excellent reputation.

There are more than a dozen rivers in Beihai County, large and small, all of which are fine pastures within a few miles on both sides, and even the endless tidal flats are also planted with wild peas, alfalfa, etc., the vigorous support of the government, the ordinary people who have tasted the sweetness of the grass are actively planting pastures, and a large number of experienced folk veterinarians, these have become the supporting advantages of Beihai County to become the first animal husbandry county in the world.

Every summer and autumn, the livestock of Beihai County began to be slaughtered, mule and horse merchants from all over the world gathered in Beihai County, trading tens of thousands of livestock every year, Beihai County gradually became one of the three richest counties in the Northern Sui, either shipbuilding, or going to sea to fish, or raising livestock, even ordinary small households will raise more than a dozen livestock, sell them at a good price in the autumn, many large families will raise hundreds, or even thousands of livestock.

All this stems from Zhang Xuan's painstaking management in Beihai County, until today, the people are grateful and worship Zhang Xuan from the bottom of their hearts, and when outsiders mention King Qi, the people of Beihai County will proudly say, 'King Qi is our Beihai County people'.

Beihai County Taishou is the former Ministry of Industry Shangshu Cui Huan, the county is the former Yidu County Order Zhao Shu, the reason why Beihai can develop into today's prosperity, the main credit should belong to the county Cheng Zhao Shu, although he is not from a professional class, but he is pragmatic and diligent for the official, build bridges and roads, build schools, help the poor and help the weak, in Beihai County has an excellent reputation, the original Taishou Wang Yunqian was transferred to Gaomi County, it should be Zhao Shu promoted to the Taishou, but the court transferred the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Cui Huan, Zhao Shu was reappointed as the Lu County Taishou.

But the Beihai County Shishu who got the news jointly signed a petition of hundreds of thousands of people to keep Zhao Shu, which even alarmed Zhang Xuan, and Zhang Xuan, who learned the truth, was also deeply moved, so he let Zhao Shu continue to stay in Beihai County, but the loose official was promoted from the fifth rank to the fourth grade of the Zheng Doctor, and at the same time gave Zhao Shu's mother the wife of the fourth grade.

In the afternoon, several ice sleds crossing the ice of the Yellow River came from the north and arrived at the Yellow River Wharf in Beihai County, which is the civil wharf of Beihai County and the livestock distribution market of Beihai County, with more than 30 livestock farms of all sizes, as well as wharves and other warehouses.

The whole dock seemed a bit dirty, and there was a faint mixture of livestock body odor and manure in the air, and although it was winter and the smell was not so strong, one could imagine what it would be like to be in the autumn when the mass trade was carried out.

Ling Jing and Liu Lancheng jumped off the ice sleigh and walked ashore, Ling Jing looked at the dock, his brows couldn't help frowning, he felt that compared to before, this place looked a little dirty, Wang Baolin smiled: "There is no way, Beihai County is famous for livestock, and the taste is definitely not much better." ”

At this time, several hawkers stepped forward and greeted the customers attentively: "Take our carriage!" You can go to Linzi or Yidu, it's fast and cheap. ”

Ling Jing and their war horses were not far behind, they didn't need a carriage, Liu Lancheng waved his hand, indicating that he didn't need it, at this time, Ling Jing suddenly saw a group of officials coming out of the official office in the distance, he pointed to the officials and asked, "Where are those officials?" ”

A hawker smiled: "That's our county, come and check the dock in the past two days." ”

Ling Jing was overjoyed, he didn't expect to meet Zhao Shu here, he hurriedly sent someone to report, not long after, Zhao Shu hurriedly came with a few officials, of course he knew Ling Jing, Ling Jing did not belong to the imperial court system, but to the military, Zhao Shu stepped forward and said apologetically: "I didn't know that Ling joined the army when I was here, I was negligent!" ”

Ling Jing returned with a smile: "We have a secret mission to Beihai County, and the stakes are very high, and we need to be assisted by Zhao Juncheng. ”

The words 'important matter' came out of Ling Jing's mouth, it must be a serious incident, Zhao Shu's expression became serious, and he hurriedly said: "Please join the army and go to the dock official office!" ”

Ling Jing introduced Liu Lancheng to him again, "This is General Liu Lancheng, General Hu Benlang, who came to Beihai County with me. ”

Zhao Shu heard that this young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes was the famous commander of the Wind Thunder Army, and he couldn't help but be in awe, "It turned out to be General Liu of the Wind Thunder Army, and I have admired it for a long time." ”

Liu Lancheng also said lightly: "The matter is important and serious, and I hope that the Beihai County Government can fully assist." ”

Zhao Shu was even more uneasy in his heart, and waved his hand, "Two please!" ”

Liu Lancheng asked his men to wait for the war horses on the shore, and he and Ling Jing took Wang Baolin to follow the county Cheng Zhao Shu to the dock office. (To be continued.) )