Hearing this, Zhou Ping couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, if he remembered correctly, the commander of the Northern Song Dynasty during the Northern Expedition to Yanyun was not a large and small species, but the big eunuch Tong Guan, and later the war was unfavorable and there was also a reason for the disunity of internal command. It seems that no one knows the problem of the Great Song Dynasty, Li Bao is just a low-level sergeant of the front division of the palace, and he knows that he must not hinder the commander, but he has no choice but that this is the ancestral system of the Great Song Dynasty, and it can't be changed. Thinking of this, Zhou Ping asked, "What if it is Tong Guan?" ”

"Tong Guan?" Li Bao was stunned: "You mean to let Tong Guan serve as the propaganda envoy?" ”

"Hehe, I'm just assuming, anyway, he has also made a lot of achievements in the Western Army."

"This!" Li Bao hesitated for a while and sighed: "How can I say it, it's better than those Wenchen, although Tong Guan is greedy, he has also been trained in the Western Army, and he knows the hardships of the border soldiers, so he will not think that he can't listen to the words of the generals, at most he will make some money, but who is an official who doesn't make money?" It's better than a big turban that doesn't know anything and likes to point fingers! ”

"Yes!" Li Bao's answer surprised Zhou Ping a little, quite a corrupt official who would rather make money and work than a clean official who doesn't make money. He was about to ask him about the situation of the Western Army, but he heard someone shouting not far away: "Is Ah Ping here?" When he looked up, it was a man on horseback, it was Xue Liangchen, who had become the county lieutenant of this county not long ago. Zhou Ping hurriedly stood up, stepped forward and saluted: "I've seen Lang Jun below!" ”

Xue Liangchen jumped off the horse and said with a smile: "Why be polite, you are also a nine-grade inspection now, and you are as big as me!" ”

"If there is no father-in-law to take him in, he will already be starving on the side of the road, and the villain is Lang Jun's Lang Party, if there is no Lang Jun to raise him, how can he have today! How dare Da En forget? Zhou Ping welcomed Xue Liangyu to the tree with a smile, took the jug and handed it over, and said, "Lang Jun, drink saliva, what's the matter with me today?" ”

Xue Liangchen took a sip of water, looked at the grass pile in the field, and said with a smile: "Why did you buy this hillside land, although it is cheap, it is too far away from the river to get much grain, it is better to use this money to buy a small piece of riverside land, and you can get more grain." ”

"Grain?" Zhou Ping laughed, picked up a cross pickaxe casually, pulled Xue Liangchen to a dirt slope, dug the slope wall a few times, the dry pine soil collapsed, revealing layers of black ore layers, Zhou Ping picked up a piece on the ground, handed it to Xue Liangchen and said: "Lang Jun, there is charcoal here, I bought this land to dig charcoal." ”

"Coal?" Xue Liangchen was stunned for a moment and asked, "What are you digging this for?" I can't finish the firewood, and it's dirty. ”

"Yun Niang's family is a blacksmith shop, and a lot of charcoal is used every year, and you can save a lot of money by switching to charcoal, and you also have to burn it for heating and cooking in the county, I sell it to the city, and I can earn a lot more than farming!"

"You kid has the best brain, you really can't afford to lose!" Xue Liangchen laughed: "Then why don't you hurry up?" ”

"Let's wait for the autumn to make a big deal, now it's just a preparation. First, it is worthless to dig it out in hot weather, and secondly, there is not enough manpower in the farm. When the crops are harvested, I will bring all the archers in my inspection department, and give them twenty wen a day for pickles, which is enough for food. Zhou Ping laughed.

"So you put all the people in the inspection department back? What about business? Xue Liangchen's brows furrowed, it turned out that this patrol department is probably equivalent to the police in modern society, the main job is to arrest thieves, crack down on illegal salt, illicit tea and other economic crimes, such as the leader of the patrol department is a low-level military attache at the level of a small envoy, and the native soldier archer is mainly played by third-class households, generally speaking, there is no salary or only a small subsidy, and it is replaced every year, so as to reflect the spirit of the heavier the family property. But in fact, because the middle-class family can transfer the burden of archers to the poorer fourth- and fifth-class households by buying errand laborers, so in fact, the archers under Zhou Ping are basically fourth-class and fifth-class households.

"I didn't put it all back!" Zhou Ping smiled: "I asked these twenty people to pair up according to the village, one of every two people must come to the inspection department to be on duty, and the rest of the person must help the person who came to do the farm work at home, although it is harder, but it can hold on." It will be better after autumn. ”

"Ah Ping, you are really kind-hearted!" Xue Liangchen sighed: "But generally, fourth- and fifth-class households generally have less labor, half of them come to you, and the rest of them are just afraid that they can't reach it, right?" ”

"What Lang Jun said is, so I also borrowed a sum of money from each of their pairs and asked them to buy a ploughing cow! Wait until the autumn and then pay me back, one and a half cents of annual interest. ”

"Why are you doing that?" Xue Liangchen's eyes widened, usury was very common in the countryside at that time, and the interest rate of forty or fifty percent in a few months was very common, and such a low interest rate as Zhou Ping was extremely rare within the clan.

"Isn't that what our father-in-law taught us? If you want to train soldiers, you must first show kindness to the soldiers, and then bind strict laws before you can become an army. Am I just doing what my husband said? ”

"I see, by the way, there's a thing!" Xue Liangchen laughed: "The best Zen master has returned from Liaodong, he is now in his father Zhuangzi, I just came back from the county seat, do you want to go to see him together?" ”

"The Best Zen Master?" Zhou Ping hurriedly stood up: "You wait for me, I'll clean up and go together!" After saying that, he gave a few instructions to Li Bao and Luo She'er, then saddled his horse and rode away with Xue Liangchen.

In a blink of an eye, the two of them arrived at Xuejiazhuang, got off the horse and entered the village, and just entered the main gate when they heard the loud voice of Xue Zhangren from the hall: "Zen master, you have made such a great contribution, you will definitely be able to leave a name in history, and you will be envied by the old man!" ”

"That's it, it's just a coincidence!" Zhishan waved his hand and sighed: "Besides, if it is a hundred years or a stench for ten thousand years, maybe it's still there!" ”

"Where does this begin? If this 'alliance on the sea' is completed, it is expected that Yanyun will be restored, Zen master, you will definitely be ranked above the history, and there will be people who praise it after a hundred generations, just like that Ban Dingyuan, what kind of glory is this? ”

"That golden man is like a tiger and wolf, I am only afraid, only afraid-" Speaking of this, Zhishan lowered his head, sighed and fell silent.

Xue Zhangren said strangely: "This is strange, the Jin people are my allies of the Great Song Dynasty, naturally the more ferocious the better, if the victory is weak, then how can you divide the power of the Liao people?" ”

"I think what the Zen master means is that he is worried about the fierceness of the Jin people, and he will be the trouble of my Great Song Dynasty, especially the Liao people!" A voice came from outside, Xue Zhangren and Zhishan looked out, only to see that it was Zhou Ping who spoke, he and Xue Liangchen came to the hall, and sang a fat song to Xue Zhangren and Zhishan Zen Master: "Zen Master don't come unharmed, I don't know if you guessed it right below?" ”

"Not bad!" Zhishan nodded: "There is no need to mention that the Jin people are fierce and good at fighting, and the children of their chiefs are also brave and wise, and they are accustomed to doing things." Especially the lord of that country, who is a big face, has a broad mind and a very generous bearing, although he is only in the palm of the two realms, he has the heart to devour the Liao country, I think this 'sea alliance' may not be beneficial to my Great Song Dynasty! Speaking of this, he recounted what he had seen and heard in Liaodong one by one, and sighed: "This is clearly to make peace with both sides of Song and Liao at the same time, and then use Liao to suppress Song, and Song to suppress Liao, and make profits from it." However, the ministers of the DPRK and China regarded him as a brainless savage, and they expected the Jin people to take the land of Yanyun for the Great Song Dynasty and obediently held it with their hands, but they were afraid that they would bring humiliation on themselves! ”

The hall fell silent, and Xue Zhangren laughed embarrassedly: "The Zen master is too worried, according to the old man, there may be some twists and turns, but now is a good opportunity for Yanyun to restore Hanjiang." Come on, quickly take the wine and come up, and wash the dust for the Zen master! ”

Zhou Ping hurriedly poured them one by one, Xue Zhangren took a sip, pointed at Zhou Ping and said with a smile: "Zen master, do you know that now Zhou Ping is already the ninth product inspection of the Sanhejin Inspection Division, and there are still forty or fifty people under his command, and they have just become a family, which is really a happy event!" ”

"Seriously, that's a great blessing!" Zhishan smiled, he reached out and touched his waist, took out a golden hairpin, and handed it over: "Presumably the newcomer is that Yun Niang, this jewelry will be given to her, and it should be a congratulatory gift from the old man!" ”

"Thank you, Zen Master!" Zhou Ping did not shirk, and took the golden hairpin with both hands: "The villain has thanked the Zen master for his clumsy treatment!" ”

In the blink of an eye, the hall has been drunk three times, and Zhishan also has a little bit of wine, seeing Zhou Ping in the next head for them to persuade wine and cut meat, pass the plate and deliver vegetables, a peaceful squire look, and then think of what he saw and heard in Liaodong, somehow there was a sense of irritability in his heart, and suddenly put the wine glass on the table, his hand was already strong, and he couldn't hold it after drinking a few more glasses of wine, and suddenly the clay wine glass was cracked, and the wine immediately splashed, making everyone all over.

"My generation is drinking and having fun here, but the northerners are fighting hard and horses, if he rides south in the future, he is afraid that the north and south of the river will be all Hu Tu!" Zhishan sighed.

Zhou Ping wiped the wine beads from his face and smiled: "Zen master, I'm not just drinking!" This time, I went to Liao with Liangchen, and I also gained something. With that, he pulled out the saber from his waist and placed it on several cases. These people are all martial artists, and they can't help but take a breath of cool air when they look at it, only to see that this saber has a thin blade and a thick back, the surface of the blade has a pattern, and the knife edge faintly has a blue and faint light, and the end is cold, the handle is four inches long, and the blade is more than four feet long.

"I'll try it later!" Xue Liangwu, the third elder on the side, was the fastest, and he had already snatched the knife in his hand, walked to the side of the bamboo bush under the hall, shouted and raised a knife only to hear a sound, and the three or four bamboos were actually cut off by him with a knife, and the rest were also cut off by most of them, leaving only a little bamboo skin implicated.

"Good knives!" Xue Liangwu's eyes were shining, these are all experts, they all know that wielding a knife to break a bamboo looks simple, but in fact it is a very strong arm strength technique of the school knife hand, the bamboo bush under the hall has the thickness of an arm, according to Xue Liangwu's ability, at most he can cut two bamboos with one knife, he can actually cut three and a half with one knife, which shows the sharpness of this knife. After reading it, there are fewer clicks than last week, hehe, don't advance but retreat! It seems that it is better to let young people write online articles!