100,000 grassland troops besieged Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, Weiyuan three fortresses, for two months, can not be overcome, when it is nearly July, the temperature has been high like a day, under the three fortresses, although the camp of the grassland army still exists, but the war has not broken out for more than ten days.

Bayar changed the strategy, the strong attack turned into a siege, the red flag, the blue flag, the yellow and yellow four flags have been not far from the three fortresses, ready for a long-term siege, in addition to the army, more personnel came to the three fortresses, they brought a large number of cattle, sheep and livestock, grazing on the spot, in order to relieve the pressure of logistics. Since Li Qing implemented the practice of clearing the fields in these three places, then Bayar had no intention of sending troops to go deep into these three places, as long as Li Qing was allowed to maintain this strategy of clearing the fields for a long time, hundreds of thousands of residents of the three places would become a heavy burden for Li Qing. Hundreds of thousands of people eating, drinking, and sleeping is not a simple problem, thinking that Li Qing drove a large number of herdsmen to flee to the depths of the grassland the year before last, but there were less than 100,000 people, which made Bayar very sad.

So between Dingzhou and the barbarians, a strange front was formed, the upper forest of Dingzhou probed far into the grassland, threatening the fundamental place of the barbarians, and on the Dingwei line, the barbarian army was approaching the city of Dingzhou, and both sides seemed to be very happy with such a stalemate.

Bayar's strategy is in Li Qing's arms, Li Qing is waiting, waiting for a blow from the rear of the barbarians, the Murwei people have almost completed the army, and the armor eliminated by the Dingzhou army transported by Dingzhou across the ocean is a supreme weapon for the Murwei people, there is a sense of pie in the sky, 50,000 troops are put on leather armor, picked up a strong bow, have iron knives and guns, the officers from Dingzhou helped the Murwei people reorganize the army, and the 50,000 Murwei people were reorganized into ten battalions, everything is ready, You need an order, and you're ready to fight.

Since the general of Xidu came to the territory of the Murowei people, the first thing he did was to urge Tienig to send a large number of scouts, completely blocking all news about the Green Ridge Pass and here, and before he launched his own attack, the barbarian guards of the Green Ridge Pass still did not know that a Dingzhou army had come here.

After arriving in January, the 20,000 people of the Xidu Mountain Moving Division finally got all the war horses from the Murwei people, and it was indeed not a good idea to ferry the war horses from the sea, most of the war horses of the Moving Mountain Division died at sea, and only a small number were lucky enough to reach the Murwei people, so when they got off the ship, the cavalry of the Moving Mountain Division became infantry, and it was not until the war horses were re-equipped that these cavalry had a smile on their faces.

The craftsmen who arrived with the fleet were working hard all night to make equipment, these things were completely poor for the Murowei people, and of course, the mountain wind did not intend to let these guys who had just evolved a little from the barbarians understand this, and the craftsmen were completely secret from the Murowei people here.

The port was built to finally allow a large ship like the Fubo to dock, and although the troops had arrived, a large number of baggage was still gathering here. Seeing a large amount of supplies being carried from the ship to the shore every day, Tinig ran more and more frequently to cross the mountain wind.

The mountain breeze likes Tenig to run to him, you want more supplies, it's not impossible, but you have to come up with something in exchange, but what do the Murowei people have? They are basically poor and white.

And Tienig naturally knew it, after generously promising that the Murwei people would be the vanguard of the attack on the Green Ridge Pass, he got a batch of siege engines, Mengchong cars, and eight-ox crossbows from the mountain crosser, and after that, whenever Tinig made a promise, the mountain wind would give him a little benefit like squeezing toothpaste.

Just when the mountain wind was ready to go, Dingzhou was in full swing of infrastructure construction.

In the three counties on the first line of Dingwei, nearly 300,000 people moved to the interior, Li Qing of course will not raise such a person in vain, that will make him eat down and drag him poor, so many people live in the interior of Dingzhou, if there is nothing to do, it will breed countless incidents, so a large number of plans in Dingzhou came out one by one, and began to build roads and water conservancy in the interior of Dingzhou.

With Dingzhou City as the center, the Chi Road extending in all directions is all built at one time, and the road leading to the counties is full of hot scenes, these people are basically the people who moved within the three counties, building roads, one and two meals are full, and they can also get a few pennies a day for wages, although the wages are really less, but everyone knows that it is now wartime, it is very good to have food and be full, even if there are a few people who are dissatisfied in their hearts, they do not dare to make trouble, because although the people who moved inward are still divided into districts according to the previous villages, However, Dingzhou has already issued an announcement that military control will be implemented in wartime, and it will be a headache to make trouble at this time.

Since the stalemate in the war, Li Qing returned to Dingzhou City, the entire Dingfu Erzhou, a thousand things waiting for him to make a final decision, which made his head a little big, not a family does not know the price of firewood and rice, now he has Dingfu Erzhou, even if he understands the difficulty of being the boss, it is much more complicated to simply command the army to fight a war before, and many things are involved in the whole body, and have to be handled carefully.

"Dashuai, the construction has been going on for several months, and now the road from Dingzhou City to the counties is about to be completed." Lu Yiming is happy and authentic. Now Dingzhou compared with before, there have been too many changes, just a gallop road in all directions, as the chief civil servant of Dingzhou, he is proud enough, you know, this is under his direct command to build the completion, presumably the history books will inevitably leave a strong stroke for him, the improvement of the road, led to the rapid development of Dingzhou's economy, if you want to get rich, first build the road, the marshal said before is really incisive! Now Dingzhou no longer has to worry about traffic, the distance of the previous two days is now shortened to less than one day, it is these poor and remote places, but also connected by the road, so to speak, there is no dead end in Dingzhou now.

The post station was built, every fifty miles, there was a post station, each post station not only provided food and lodging, but also carefully fed more than a dozen good horses, any place what happened, can be in the shortest possible time to feedback the situation to the marshal's mansion. Of course, there was another dispute over the ownership of the post station in Dingzhou, and in the end it was Qingfeng's Statistical Survey Department that had the upper hand, and all the post stations in the state were assigned to the Statistical Survey Division, which made Shang Haibo unhappy for a long time, but the Military Intelligence Investigation Department promised by Li Qing was finally established, and the military intelligence was officially drawn out of Qingfeng's hands, although the director of the department has not yet determined the candidate, but a deputy director transferred from the army has officially taken office and started to build, which made Shang Haibo close his mouth chattering from morning to night in front of Li Qing.

For the contradiction between Shang Haibo and Qingfeng, Lu Yiming has always maintained an impartial attitude, everything is not a person, whoever is reasonable will help whom, for example, the post station, Lu Yiming originally wanted to classify it in the people's livelihood, but when Qingfeng said the important surname of the post station for intelligence collection, he immediately turned to support Qingfeng, but the financial part of the post station was firmly controlled in his hands, which can be regarded as a certain restraint on the Statistical Survey Department. His position also gave him a lot of points from Li Qing, and now he is acting more as a buffer when Shang Haibo and Qingfeng broke out in an argument.

"After the road is built, the water conservancy will be built!" Li Qing said with a smile: "Let the ditches extend in all directions, Lord Lu, the construction of these ditches can be done once and for all, don't build it today, and repair it next year, it will cost the people and money, it is better to repair him once and for all." ”

Lu Yiming nodded and said: "Dashuai is right, water conservancy is currently being planned, but Dashuai, water conservancy is a huge project compared to roads, which also involves the construction of large reservoirs, which requires more funds." ”

"Is there a problem with the funds?" Li Qing asked with concern, silver has now become the lifeblood of Dingzhou, whether it is the start of these projects, or the hundreds of thousands of people who have moved inward, the daily cost is thousands of taels of silver, once there is a problem with the funds, then the matter will be big.

"No problem." Lu Yiming said categorically: "The residents who moved inward imitated what we did in Chongzhou back then, organized camps and military management, and concentrated on providing food and supplies, although they were not rich, but they would not provoke any popular uprising, these people, whether they were young or strong, old and weak, women and children, had food to eat, something to do, and education, compared with a few years ago, I don't know how many times better, which greatly relieved our pressure." The trade route of the Commerce and Trade Division is now fully opened, and a large amount of silver money flows into Dingzhou every day, and Cui Yicheng is there! Lu Yiming coughed dryly, looked at the people present, and said with some embarrassment: "It's not an exaggeration to say that it is said to be in the gold fight!" ”

Everyone at the meeting laughed, Cui Yicheng put it bluntly, he was a smuggler of salt, and he was a smuggler with an official position and a yamen. After taking over all the salt farms in Fuzhou, a series of new policies in Dingzhou were implemented in these salt farms, and the output of salt rose sharply, and except for a small part of the salt farms, most of them were sold by Cui Yicheng in the form of private salt, and all the huge profits flowed into the official treasury of Dingzhou.

"Although it is not the right way, the current situation can also alleviate our temporary difficulties!" Li Qing smiled, "When the war is over, let's adjust slowly!" ”

Turning his head to look at Shang Haibo, "Mr. Shang, what is the income of the craftsman camp?" ”

Shang Haibo said with a smile: "The Craftsman Battalion is now fully supplying its own army, and the ordnance has basically stopped being sold to the outside world, but some livelihood supplies are still on sale, which is better than nothing." The silver thing has to be borne by the old road! However, looking at Lao Lu's current appearance, he should still have plenty in his pockets, otherwise what we see now should be a bitter gourd face. ”

Everyone laughed.

Li Qing turned his face to Qingfeng, "Is there any new situation on the side of the Statistical Survey Division?" ”

Qingfeng opened the file in front of him and said: "According to the information sent back by Luoyang, now the Xiao family has basically controlled the defense of the entire Luoyang, which means that Luoyang has fallen into the hands of the Xiao family, and the attitude of several states near Luoyang is also very warm, and the Xiao family has dealings with either open or secret, all the forces in Luoyang's underground intelligence network have begun to feel a lot of pressure for a period of time, and have to shrink, I suspect that the Xiao family must have something big to unfold, but now, We don't know exactly what they're trying to do. ”

Second, the Li family sent back the news, and now it has been determined that the rebellion in the three southern states is indeed supported by King Ning, Qu Yongjie has led the army to retreat to Gaizhou, and the other two states have all fallen into the hands of King Ning. Moreover, the green wolf has infiltrated Gaizhou, and it is very likely that he wants to persuade Qu Yongjie to join King Ning. If he succeeds, then King Ning will undoubtedly become the number one force in Great Chu. ”

Li Qing sighed, "It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, now we are too busy to take care of ourselves, but when we defeat the barbarians, let's go back and deal with these things!" Qingfeng, your Statistical Survey Department has kept a close eye on some of the forces in Da Chu to see what they want to do. ”

Standing up, Li Qingdao said: "Do our own thing, defeat the barbarians, and run the Dingfu Erzhou well, no matter what some people want to do, but at that time, in front of our powerful army, all the conspiracies and tricks will be floating clouds, and they will disperse as soon as the wind passes, gentlemen, let's work together!" ”

(To be continued)