"Sister, what a good knife skill...... the soldiers patted their ass.

Someone else stood tall and shouted: "Sister Jieqiong, marry me, I will take you into battle to kill the enemy!" ”

"Sister, don't pay attention to that black fool, a talent like me is worth marrying......"

"Hey, get out of here."

The soldiers are illiterate, and they don't pay attention to etiquette, they like it, they like it, and they dare to say it if they want to marry, and it's really straightforward.

Several soldiers huddled together, limited to the military rules of no private fighting in the army, they did not dare to beat the enemy with their fists, but there was no problem with squeezing their bodies, several people squeezed and squeezed, all wanted to squeeze others down, but this squeezing all the people around them were involved, so a large number of soldiers squeezed to the east and then to the west, and the scene was chaotic.

Xue Hongqi was shocked: "Just her equestrian ...... That's it? Why do you get so many applause? When I went up to practice, only the generalissimo, the monkey, sneered beside me, and no one ever praised me. ”

Of course, she still hasn't said half a sentence, that is, if it comes to appearance, I am not much different from her, although I am a few years older, but my figure is better than her, why did countless people propose as soon as she appeared, and I still can't get married?

Poor Xue Hongqi really vomited blood.

As a result, Xu Renjie was the only one who walked over to take care of her, and Xu Renjie whispered in her ear: "You are too bad." ”

"Awesome or wrong?" Xue Hongqi was dazed.

"You're like a tigress, even if you change this rabbit skin, you're a tigress in rabbit skin. There's a little white rabbit over there, and even if she's wearing your tiger clothes, she's still a little white rabbit...... This man, I like the white rabbit more......" Xu Renjie said earnestly.

Xue Hongqi was not convinced, and defended: "The second brother of the king doesn't like the little white rabbit!" ”

"Yes, he likes chimpanzees, and he doesn't have a relationship with tigress." Xu Renjie spread his hands.

Xue Hongqi had nothing to say, only the strength to hum.

At this time, Li Jieqiong had already dismounted and ran in front of Xue Hongqi. She was a little shorter than Xue Hongqi, but not much, and when she was first rescued, she hugged Xue Hongqi's waist like a child and buried her in Xue Hongqi's arms. It looked very weak at the time. But after standing up straight, she is actually a good girl. Now that it was inconvenient for her to bury herself in Xue Hongqi's arms anymore, she shrank behind her back and asked cautiously, "Sister Hong, how did I just practice?" ”

"No!" Xue Hongqi shook his head and said, "What is this called practicing horse riding?" I'll find a rope. Tie your legs to the horse's back and let the horse gallop and you'll get a taste of what it's like to ride a horse. ”

"It didn't work?" The little girl's face darkened.

Seeing that she was unhappy, Xue Hongqi hurriedly persuaded: "But it's good to be able to do this for the first time, and other daughters will fall off the horse." You can stay up there for a while. This shows that you are talented, as long as you practice well, you will soon be able to ride a galloping war horse. ”

"Ah, that's great!" Only then did Li Jieqiong raise her pressed face: "I want to practice kung fu as soon as possible, so that I can kill the thief and take revenge." ”

At this time, the surrounding soldiers began to coax: "Sister marry me, I will help you avenge!" ”

"Isn't it a rampaging wolf? We beat him all over his head and disciplined him to call us dad once we saw him. ”

Xue Hongqi listened to these coaxies, his heart was extremely melancholy, and he couldn't help but say sourly: "You have enough of the limelight now." There are so many heroes who have taken a fancy to you, do you want to choose one to marry? ”

"Don't!" Li Jieqiong said in an extremely serious tone: "Men are all villains, lewd thieves, and bastards...... I didn't marry in my life, so I followed my sister into battle to kill the enemy. ”

Feed...... What do you mean by that? Xue Hongqi's soft intestines were broken. Do you mean that I will never get married for the rest of my life, and I can only use a knife to cut people's lives?

She really had nothing to say to this little girl, so she didn't talk to her. took her hand and walked up to Zhu Yuanzhang, and talked about a separate topic: "Brother Zhu." There is not enough iron on Dali's side, hundreds of new soldiers have been recruited, and there is not enough iron to make spear tips for them, and now they are all playing with wooden sticks, do you have more on your side? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head, the Ming Dynasty implemented the system of salt and iron government, although they could obtain a lot of official iron by relying on the county under their control, but it was unrealistic to want to arm a large number of troops only by relying on this supply. In fact, the imperial court calculated the supply of iron to each prefecture and prefecture very much, just to prevent anyone from using it to make weapons and armor in the event of a rebellion. Although Zhu Yuanzhang still contacted the group of illegal salt and iron dealers back then, the little iron they transported by wheelbarrow was far from enough.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but sigh: "It's time to think of a way to solve the problem of iron, if it goes on like this, we can't grow stronger, we have to take advantage of the ......" He wanted to say that he had to take advantage of the precious time of the imperial court to deal with the thirty-gate battalion and develop the strength of his army as soon as possible, but he couldn't say this to Li Jieqiong, this little girl who had just escaped from the thief's den had serious scars in her heart, and she knew that these were all thieves around her, and she was afraid that she would be scared to death directly.

"What do you have to take advantage of?" The little girl was going to ask.

Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to say: "We have to take advantage of the arrival of the thief army to try to improve the combat effectiveness of our militia group, so that we can kill the thief and protect our family in the future." ”

"Then ask the government for iron!" The little girl said innocently: "Aren't we a militia that kills thieves?" The government should support us. ”

Everyone laughed, this little girl was so innocent.

Although the little girl didn't understand much, she could see from the expressions of the three that she had said the wrong thing, she tilted her head, thought about it carefully, and then said in a low voice: "If you don't get iron through the government, I have a way." ”

"Huh?" Zhu Yuanzhang, Xue Hongqi, and Xu Renjie were moved at the same time.

The little girl said in a sloppy voice: "My hometown, that is, the south of Yuling Town, is the Lushi Mountains, and there are many 'mining thieves' in the mountains, and these 'mining thieves' often come out of the mountains in groups to sell illegal iron to the townspeople, we can buy them from them." ”

"Lushi Mountain?" Zhu Yuanzhang woke up suddenly and remembered that the Lushi Mountain Area was actually not far from here, it was just opposite Tongguan, and Yuling Town drilled into the mountain to the south. (that is, the location of Lushi County in later generations) here "the mountains make the sky, the tooth distance is wrong", and the terrain is very dangerous.

Usually, there is a mountain bandit in the mountains where the terrain is difficult. The Lushi Mountains are no exception, where there has always been a village of landless peasants, who make a living by privately opening mines, often bringing mines out of the mountains to sell privately, in exchange for oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and the imperial court gave them a name, called "mine thieves". Because this group of "mine thieves" is relatively low-key and never robs houses, the government turns a blind eye to them and is too lazy to deal with them, so they have taken root in the Lushi Mountains for several generations.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who has looked at history, knows that this group of mine thieves has never been included in people's field of vision, and it is not recorded in any record until Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were chased into the Lushi Mountains by officers and soldiers that Qingshi finally made a note of these "mine thieves". In fact, when these mine thieves saw the righteous army coming, they actively joined the righteous army, acted as guides, and took Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong through the Lushi Mountains, shook off the encirclement of the imperial court, and beat the imperial court with a full head.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but smile, and said in a voice that only he could hear: "Li Zicheng, mine thieves are not used to lead the way, your usage is wrong!" ”

"Huh? What are you talking about? Xue Hongqi asked.

"Oh, nothing!" Zhu Yuanzhang perked up: "Little sister Jieqiong, the information you provided is very good, and our iron ore is located there." ”

"Huh? Can my words help? Li Jieqiong was overjoyed, she wanted to contribute to the "killing of thieves", and always wanted to help do something, and now she provided useful information, and she was in a good mood.

Zhu Yuanzhang carefully recalled the geographical map of mountains and rivers in his mind, so big that he figured out where the Lushi Mountains were, so he ordered: "Generalissimo, you go and inform Li Chujiu, demarcate some grain from the treasury and stock it out, and I will bring grain to exchange for iron ......."

"How much food do you need to prepare?" Xu Renjie question.

"Hmm...... Let's get a few thousand stones first, and then prepare the second batch after the road is opened. Zhu Yuanzhang casually ordered: "By the way, send someone to inform the desperate San Lang to prepare a boat, our grain will be launched from Chengcheng and transported to the vicinity of Yuling Town." ”

Xu Renjie took the order and left.

Zhu Yuanzhang was in a good mood, if someone had reminded him a year earlier that there was an iron mine in the Lushi Mountains, he could only listen at that time, staring dryly, there was no excess grain to use as an exchange, but last year there was a bumper harvest of potatoes, and a large number of potatoes would be planted every year in the future, and after the food problem was solved, the excess grain could be used in exchange for strategic resources, and this was finally like walking on the right path.

At this time, the little girl Li Jieqiong suddenly spoke: "Sect Leader Zhu, go buy iron this time, please bring me with you." ”

"Huh? What are you going to do? ”

"I ...... I want to see Yuling Town...... The little girl'......s expression was a little gloomy.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face sank, and after a while, he nodded slowly and agreed to the little girl's request.

Li Jieqiong was overjoyed, and quickly turned around and pulled Xue Hongqi and said, "Sister will go with me." ”

"What? My sister is busy...... Not going. Xue Hongqi doesn't like to climb mountains, in fact, there are no cavalry in the world who like to climb mountains, especially walking with a little white rabbit like Li Jieqiong, who is very popular with men, she feels a lot of pressure.

But the little white rabbit was in desperate need of the tigress's protection, and begged bitterly: "Can my sister rest assured that she will throw me into the midst of a horrible crowd of men?" ”

"This ......"

"Sister going with you...... "......The little girl's coquettishness is more difficult to deal with than the enemy's knives and guns."

Xue Hongqi was finally defeated: "Okay, I'll go too." ”

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