The Yellow River is far above the white clouds, a lonely city and ten thousand mountains; Why should Qiang Di complain about the willows, the spring breeze does not pass the jade gate.

Qinghai Changyun dark snow mountain, lonely city looking at Yumen Pass. The yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles, and Loulan will not be returned if it is not broken.

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Since Liu Xian led the army to Xinjiang, Zhang Miaotong suddenly liked to read the poems of the Tang Dynasty. Silently chanted, silently sad. Although the personal maidservant, and even the Zhang family in Chengdu have a letter to explain, it is not effective. Even if Liu Xian's victory in Xining in May and June directly earned her the title of Mrs. Yipin, it didn't make Zhang Miaotong half faced.

If it is really not polite, Zhang Shouyan has to write a letter to his hometown Wudi and invite Zhang Miaotong's mother to come to Hanzhong.

But fortunately, Zhang Miaotong just has no energy to take care of some things that have been handed over to her in Liu Xian's small backyard, and her body has not become bad because of her bad mood.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, Liu's house was very deserted. In the backyard, Zhang Miaotong invited Wang Luying, Liu Wanshu, and Wang Biyun to a banquet, but the four girls sat together, and talked about Liu Xian and the wind and snow in a few words.

Zhang Miaotong, who is a graduate of a university in later generations, immediately remembered the first sentence of the opening sentence of Cen Shen's "Bai Xue Ge Sends the Military Judge to Beijing": The north wind swept the white grass and folded, and Hu Tian flew snow in August. Tears flowed unconsciously.

Then this Mid-Autumn Festival banquet was soaked in the full of grievances and sorrows.

"The young woman in the boudoir doesn't know how to worry, and she condenses her makeup on the green building in spring. Suddenly, I saw a strange willow color, and the penitent husband was looking for a marquis. ”

Zhang Miaotong didn't care about Liu Xian's expedition, but took the initiative to petition. was still forced to chase ducks on the shelves, and this poem was set anyway.

Liu Xian went on an expedition for half a year in Hanzhong Town, Hanzhong Prefecture, just like the silent Liu Mansion. Calm without waves. Zhang Miaotong, who was gloomy and worried, did not implement the power in his hands, so naturally some powers that should not have been taken by the people below were 'had to' be taken by the people below.

Because of this, these rights are well divided among the upper, middle and lower layers of the small backyard quietly.

At this point, no one dares to swallow half of it.

Zhang Miaotong just doesn't want to take care of things, it's not that people are dead.

If you provoke the anger of others because of greed and stab the matter in front of the mistress, it will not only be the consequence of all the benefits and benefits, but the end of your own mistakes!

There are one hundred and thirty or forty subordinate Zhuangzi in the entire Liu Mansion. There are more than 20 deacon offices and 10 inspection teams, and above the middle-level 'cadres' such as the head of the village, the deacon, and the inspector, there are also one principal, four deputies, and five chief managers. Coupled with the many mineral mines and shops in the mansion, the number of people who participated in this gluttonous feast can be two or three hundred, and so many people tacitly agree with each other to take their share, and there is no major dispute and riot to alarm the Liu Mansion. power, interests. The art of compromise and the ability to seek common ground while reserving differences. The fruit is incomparably powerful.

The intelligence department secretly sent a steady stream of news to Liu Xian's army, seeing this, Liu Xian couldn't help but feel annoyed in his heart, these bastard things, many people were homeless people two or three years ago, and now they are starting to put things that don't belong to them in their arms. But he didn't give the order to set things right!

More power means more responsibility and more work. Since his wife does not belong to the category of strong women, how about distributing these rights to the following?

Liu Xian is very hot. It's more because the dignity of the superior is offended.

-- What I give you is yours, not what I don't give you. You can't even hold it in your hand!

This is the mentality that any superior has towards his subordinates.

However, Liu Xian is also helpless. As soon as his foundation was erected, he really didn't have the courage to pull out a batch of 'governance foundations' that he had cultivated in the past two or three years.

These people are now doing small things the size of sesame seeds, but as long as they are familiar with this set of 'order', in the future, Zhuangtou will become the mayor of the town, the deacon will become the county magistrate, the inspector will become the police, the judge and the prosecutor, and the governor will become the prefect.

Liu Xian set up another rule in his small backyard, and no one cared. With a total population of 70,000 or 80,000, he raised so many 'redundant officials', and it was because he burned more money himself. No one will say a word no!

It hardly affected him. Not even the impact caused by the change in the military system of the Qin army was not significant.

When Zeng Guoquan was looking for Liu Xian stubble, he mentioned that the Qin army had a very different imperial system, and at that time, Liu Xian could directly be punished. And the establishment of the system in the small backyard is not even realized by the own people in the Qin army.

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Expeditionary forces in the Qaidam Basin.

In mid-September, it was the early cold of late autumn in the Central Plains, but in Qaidam, it was already dripping into ice, and the cold was to the bone. The temperature was at least 20 degrees below zero, so many officers and soldiers in the army did not even dare to go out of the earthen huts where they lived. And the troublesome matter of carrying a stick every time he urinates and defecates makes almost all the soldiers miserable.

Unlike Dong Fuxiang's subordinates, these people are children of Gansu, and the direction of that place is bitterly cold. Although it was even colder on Chaidamu's side, Dong Jun could still stand it.

The Qin army is an absolute Chinese atomic junior, from an official to a soldier, you can't find a person north of the Great Wall to come [except for the hussar battalion]. The coldest winter these people have experienced is far less than that of Qaidam at this moment, and the severe winter cold on these two sides is not at the same level at all.

Liu Xiantun Bing Ga Xiu Naoer.

In the western part of Qinghai, where the annual rainfall is not as heavy as that of a summer rainfall in the Han region, seven or eight thousand people and more than 20,000 war horses are gathered in one place, and if they do not find an abundant source of fresh water, they will have to find their own death.

Gaxiunaoer is a lake with an area of several square kilometers, and there are seven or eight rivers fed into it. Compared with Qinghai Lake, or compared with Xitai Jiner Lake two or three hundred miles away, Gaxiunaoer is a small pothole. But this is enough for the expeditionary army to survive the winter!

The water of the lake was a bit bitter, and at first, Liu Xian had to make tea to drink it. But it's definitely fresh water, it's the source of life.

After a radius of hundreds of miles, you don't even have to think about finding a second freshwater lake that can supply the entire expeditionary army. This is also the end of August, when Liu Xian stopped marching. The army was directly stationed on the shore of Tunga Xiunaoer Lake and built a winter earthen house.

A few days into September, the temperature dropped significantly. At that time, the expeditionary army still had strict training every day. But after the temperature plummeted, not to mention the training of the whole army, even Liu Xian himself was unwilling to go out without leaving the house.

Dripping water into ice, into sticks, I originally heard that the Northeast, Xinjiang, and Tibet are so cold, Liu Xian will really see it.

After the crossing, the last thing he felt loved was the toilet. Now we have to move to a dirt house. Man bows his head completely in front of nature.

Fortunately, the Mongolian horses are really durable, and they still live a moist life in such weather. On the vast wilderness around Gaxiunaoer. They can also eat withered yellow weeds with relish. Coupled with the essence of the army-black beans, Liu Xian does not need to worry about the transformation of his cavalry into infantry tomorrow spring. And the manure pulled down by the horses is also good fuel, or in the current situation. The fuel that sustains the lives of the expeditionary army. Fortunately, horse manure has little water content. It didn't turn into an ice lump in the extremely cold weather of Qaidam.

Compared with the earthen houses where the soldiers lived, Liu Xian's houses were not only larger in size, but also taller. It's just that the four walls don't open the windows, so that the mud house is just as dark without a brazier.

Clothed in a leather mattress, Liu Xian sat on a chair and read the newly sent information from behind.

As soon as Hanzhong is safe, the business of Songpan Hall has been done in Tibet. A series of arms orders made the artisan battalion in Hanzhong twice as large as it was when he left. In July, the military salary of Hanzhong Town was given by the imperial court. It seems that the war in Xining was still effective, and the payment of military salaries in Beijing in the past few months was all delayed. Discounted deductions.

A brigade-sized mixed infantry army had already arrived at the city of Tangar from Songpan. The military and political governments in the Xining area and the Mongolian and Tibetan ethnic groups in the area of Qinghai Lake are still respectful and respectful to the city of Dangar. I don't see any signs of something wrong yet.

Ma Zhanao of Hezhou personally led his troops to attack Jishi Pass. This is the second time that the Hezhou riot army has attacked Jishi Pass. The previous Ma Haiyan was the first wave, and it still didn't succeed.

Huang Wuxian garrisoned seven or eight hundred troops at Jishi Pass, equipped with 12 large and small mountain splitting cannons that could be reached from Songpan, and more than 200 muskets and guns. Relying on the dangers of Jishi Pass, Ma Zhanao lost his troops and lost his generals.

There is also news from Shanghai. Wang Qing's subordinates already had one or two thousand men, and the name of the Axe Gang in Shanghai was directly superior to that of the Qing and Red Gangs, and the extended branch, the Workers' Association, was already operating in the docks. Its influence among the coolie workers at the various docks in Shanghai is growing day by day. However, the financial deficit of the Shanghai station is also increasing rapidly with the expansion of the strength of the Axe Gang. In May, Hanzhong lost 30,000 taels of silver to Shanghai, and in July, Wang Qing reached out again to ask for money.

Liu Xian was so satisfied with Wang Qing's development that he forgot what he had said at the beginning, and he didn't care about Wang Qing's hand-out to Hanzhong to ask for money in the report.

After reading this, Liu Xian reached out and picked up a piece of paper in his hand. Compared with what he saw before, the letter paper he was holding in his hand was the most important content of the Hanzhong newspaper this time. Regarding the situation of the twisted army, Liu Xian was not in a hurry to see it before.

It is now September of the sixth year of Tongzhi. The historical Twist Army, when Liu Xian was still serving as the Governor of Hubei Province last year, was divided into two, one to the northwest and the other to Shandong Jianghuai, and completely became the East and West Twist Army. But today's reality is that after Ren Huabang and Zhang Zongyu merged and defeated the Huai army, the two did not separate again. In this time and space that Liu Xian traveled, the Eastern Twist Army and the Western Twist Army have turned into ashes and will never appear in the historical text again.

After Liu Xian led the army back to Hanzhong, that is, the time entered the sixth year of Tongzhi this year, and the scope of activities of the Twist Army in the spring and summer was always in Henan, Shaanxi, and Shanxi provinces. Just when Liu Xian was marching on the prairie in the eastern part of Qinghai, the Twist Army suddenly turned around and moved into the Hebei area, Zhang Zongyu and Ren Huabang led the army north to Dingzhou, turned into Nanpi, and went straight to Tianjin, and Beijing shook for a while.

The news that Liu Xian knew before was the battle report of the Twist Army in mid-May. Beijing urgently dispatched "the troops of Hunan, Chu, Lu, Henan, Zhi, Anhui, and Jili entered the defense at night", and the army had already turned around and left Baoding. (To be continued......) R1292