When dawn broke, Lingyun rose from the beauty to the sound of drums and horns. These days, the drums in Huaihuang Liancheng will sound on time every morning, and they are a little unaccustomed to it at first. As a result, that morning, after the three-way drum sounded, there were no less than 800 people who did not arrive outside the city on time, but Ling Yun had no idea of not having the slightest idea of not being responsible. At the sound of an order, more than 800 minions who had been mistakenly ordered were all stripped of their pants by the leaders of the main team who were appointed as inspectors and law enforcement, and lay on the grass outside the city, revealing a dazzling piece of their buttocks, and then they were all beaten with twenty military sticks in public. After the fight, Ling Yun also directly deducted the half-monthly salary of the more than 800 people, and then rewarded the rest of the people who arrived on time with 100 yuan.

The next day, there were still mistakes, but there were less than 100 people. Ling Yun was still ruthless, and this time he increased his responsibility, with thirty military sticks per person.

On the third day, after the first drum sounded, the school field outside the city was already full of people, and no one dared to make a mistake. Even now, every morning when the drums sound, the rest of the people in Huaihuang City also get up one after another to start a new day.

Qinglian thoughtfully combed Ling Yun's hair and dressed, while Mulan prepared a towel to wash her face and willow branches and green salt to brush her teeth.

"Xuancheng is early, have you eaten early, haven't you eaten together." As soon as he finished freshening up and went out, Ling Yun saw that Wei Zheng was already waiting under the peach tree in the front yard.

"Not yet." Wei Zheng smiled, holding a fold in his hand. "Xu Gai Cheng Lou and the other seven have already come over, waiting for you."

Ling Yun nodded, "Yes." Yesterday they were going to talk to me, I didn't have time yesterday, so they came to me today, I didn't expect them to come over so early. Hey, forget it, Qinglian, you will prepare a little more early. Let people send it to Baihutai, and everyone will eat breakfast while talking. ”

When they arrived at Baihutai, Xu Gai and Shan Xiongxin, Su Yong, Cheng Lou, Zhai Rang and other seven people had been waiting for a long time.

Shan Xiongxin saw Ling Yun and stepped forward with a smile and said, "San Lang is now a spring festival every day. I don't want to wake up early. ”

"You got up early, and now it's not too late, and you see that the day is not yet bright." Ling Yun smiled bitterly, the ancients went to bed early at night. Naturally, you wake up early in the morning. Often the sky is slightly bright, and I have already gotten up. In the army, it is from five to seven o'clock in the morning. The roll call is going to be called at five o'clock, so you can see how early everyone gets up.

"You haven't used it earlier, I'll have people prepare more and use it together."

Xu Gai came over and sat down with a smile, "I know that San Lang always has delicious snacks here." We all came on empty stomachs. Eating breakfast on the White Tiger Terrace and watching the soldiers drill. It's not a good taste. ”

The White Tiger Terrace is built in imitation of the Tongque Terrace of Cao Wei Yecheng of the Three Kingdoms, it is completely the imitation of the Taiwanese architectural model of the Qin and Han dynasties, this White Tiger Terrace alone is the base of the platform has ten zhang, there are five floors on the platform, twenty-seven zhang high from the ground, although this is the Han ruler used, but there is still about 60 meters of height, on the top floor because there is a silver lacquer white tiger of one zhang and eight, so it is called the White Tiger Terrace.

This landmark building of Huaihuang Town, standing on the fifth floor, can have a bird's-eye view of the 20-mile range inside and outside Huaihuang City. This high platform is not only a superb vantage point for viewing the scenery, but also has a strong military role. The White Tiger Terrace is built in the inner fort in the north of the middle city of Sanlian City, and the north end of the middle city is the inner fort, and the north end of the inner fort is this White Tiger Terrace. The Middle City, the Inner Fort and the White Tiger Terrace share a common wall, and this northern city is extremely fortified. When the deserted city was besieged, Baihutai was a command platform, commanding from a high level, waving the flag and commanding, and heavy equipment such as catapults could be placed on the high platform to deal with the besieging soldiers and horses in a condescending manner.

Qinglian Mulan sent breakfast, and Xu Gai and the others immediately surrounded one by one, regardless of the slightest image. opened the food box, and there was a big basket of steamed buns in it, "Why are it steamed buns today, this is too ordinary, they all say that your San Lang's breakfast is not repeated every day, and it is delicious in the world, I think it is also a bit exaggerated." Xu Gai said and picked up a bun, which was larger than ordinary buns, and the skin had a crystal clear feeling. As he spoke, he picked it up and put it in his mouth and took a big bite.

"Ouch hey!" As soon as he went down, Xu Gai was already screaming.

Ling Yun just stretched out his hand and was about to stop it, but it was too late, so he had to smile and say: "Brother Xu is too anxious, I was about to sue you, this is crab roe soup dumplings, don't you see that the skin is as thin as paper, and it will be broken when you blow it." The filling is crab roe and crab meat, and the soup is plain chicken soup, which is said to be a delicacy handed down from the Three Kingdoms period. This soup dumpling is also unique in that you have to take a reed tube and poke some skin into it, drink the soup first, and then eat the skin. Remember not to grasp it with your hands, if you grab it, it will break, and you will inevitably sprinkle a body of soup. ”

Xu Gai sprinkled the soup, and at this time, he didn't care about changing his clothes after listening to the introduction, and when he saw that there were a few hollow reed pipes next to him, he hurriedly took one, and took another soup bag and poked one according to what Ling Yun said. Sure enough, it was extremely delicious, he never thought that this steamed cake would have such a way to eat. It turned out that the big meat buns made by Ling Yun were delicious enough, but I didn't expect this soup bun to be even more delicious.

Cheng Lou, Shan Xiongxin and others didn't look much better, and a group of people were like a whirlwind and clouds, and they ate all these buns at once. Shan Xiongxin wiped his mouth and took a full distance, "Third brother, are you still there, pack a cage for me in a while, and bring it back to Yingying and Ailian, as well as your younger siblings." ”

"Pack some for me, too." The others spoke in unison.

"It's all there, I got a lot of it yesterday, you just won't come, I was going to have someone send it to you later." Ling Yun smiled and said, "Okay, I've eaten the soup dumplings, it's time to get down to business." ”

Shan Xiongxin pinched a piece of soup and ate it with vinegar, and said without raising his head: "You talk to Mr. Xu about this, I'm just here to make up a number and mix some food." ”

Ling Yun actually guessed in his heart what they came to talk about, they followed Ling Yun all the way from Henan to Saiwai, with a large group of people and horses, and even many commodities, naturally they didn't just come for sightseeing. They made this trip. To put it bluntly, it is to open up the market and engage in investment. It's just that it's been a few days since Ling Yun arrived here, and Ling Yun has been busy with the affairs of the alliance. I haven't had time to talk to them about that. Now, most of their entourage has been handed over to Ling Yun, and even before, according to Ling Yun's request, they secretly transferred a large number of military horses and ordnance from the workshop in Hebei and Henan, etc., these are all real efforts, and after a long time, they are naturally anxious to see the return.

Xu Gai wiped his beard full of soup. Hehe smiled, "That's the case, didn't we bring a lot of craftsmen to the north this time." I don't think I can stay idle. It just so happens that San Lang, don't you want to fight with the Mobei people, you also need weapons and arrows. I wonder if you're going to help us pull out a block of land first. Let's get this armory workshop up first. ”

Xu Gai stopped talking to the point. said it at a very high level, he just said that he wanted to open an armory workshop, or to help Ling Yun fight. However, Ling Yun knew the meaning of the song and knew what he really meant. Xu Dan and the other seven arms dealers, Ling Yun had already obtained 20% of the dry shares, and now that they have pulled the team over, they will naturally enter the substantive link. To be honest, these people are actually quite friends. Lingyun's hussars inside the tent and the infantry army outside the tent. A total of 2,400 men. Especially these 800 hussars, of which 300 are the cronies of the King of Jin. The Gao family had two hundred private soldiers, and Ling Yun secretly transferred one hundred horsemen from the White Horse Hall, and the remaining two hundred horsemen were all loaned by Xu Gai and several other local tyrants. Personnel alone is nothing, and the most important thing in a cavalry is not a knight, but a war horse.

Although it is said that there is no shortage of horses outside the Saiwai, war horses are not ordinary horses. Not only do you need horses that are excellent in all aspects such as endurance and explosiveness, but more importantly, you need well-trained horses. An ordinary horse and a well-trained war horse are as different as an ordinary young and strong man and a well-trained guard. Just get a batch of horses, you can't call them war horses, and a random soldier with a horse can't be called cavalry.

Lingyun's 800 hussars were supplemented by well-trained war horses transferred by Su Yong from his Hebei pasture, ensuring that all of these 800 hussars were equipped with well-trained war horses. In addition, the difference between Ling Yun's eight hundred hussars and the one thousand and six foot soldiers of the auxiliary cavalry was also supplied by them with their help.

This favor is huge, and it is absolutely impossible to be gratuitous.

The more they invest in him, the more they want to get something in return from him.

"Of course it's no problem to build an armory!" Ling Yun nodded, rubbing the teacup in his hand, "The matter of building an armory workshop can be handled immediately, if you are willing, you can completely build an armory workshop in Huaihuang City, and I can pull out a piece of land for you." "An armory workshop is built in Huaihuang City, which is actually very convenient for the Tiger Alliance. Of course, he knew that Xu Gai wanted much more than that. "Actually, I've been thinking about a plan lately."

"What's the plan?" Xu Gai knew that Ling Yun would not be untargeted, and at this time he said that he had a plan, which must be related to them.

"What do you think of Huaihuang City?"

Shan Xiongxin just finished eating the soup wrapper, wiped his mouth, raised his head and said: "Huaihuang City is really good, the scenery here is extremely beautiful, and now that it is summer, there is no heat here, it is really a good place to escape the heat." ”

Xu Gai ignored Shan Xiongxin's words, and muttered: "The location of Huaihuang is indeed good, if you look at it from the perspective of a merchant, it connects the grassland and the Central Plains, and is between the Turkic, Xi, Sui and other major forces, it is an excellent place for trade and trade. ”

Ling Yun also nodded, Xu Gai's vision is very good, after going north from Youzhou or Taiyuan to the Great Wall, he has to pass through a long distance of remote places, and then after turning over Yanshan Yin Mountain, it is the vast grassland. This journey was very dangerous for the merchants who traveled back and forth between the grassland and the Central Plains. The Tiger League's helm Huaihuang City, located in the middle of this trade route, has a tall city, a population of more than 10,000, is a natural supply transit station, and even from the perspective of Xu Gai's shrewd merchants, if Huaihuang City is operated, it can become a dry wharf, a commercial market on the border in the north. Merchants are highly profitable, and the border market is actually very profitable, because the border market often means smuggling, and the smuggling profit is huge.

However, for a long time, Huaihuang City has not become a border bazaar, not even a supply transit station.

Xu Gai knew the reason for this, and Ling Yun also knew it. Before the Tiger League occupied this place, this place has always been controlled by the Turks, the Xi people and even the Tiele people in turn, they just use this place as a military outpost, and there have been continuous wars in the north over the years, and Huaihuang City does not know how many masters have changed. During the period, there were often some horse thieves and bandits who took the opportunity to occupy it for a short time, and after they occupied this place, they were more still relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, specializing in robbing the merchants in the past, and treating the merchants as sending money and food, so naturally there would be no merchants who regarded the famine as a supply station and market. A few years ago, there were constant wars in northern Xinjiang, and the Turks fought with the Xi and Khitans, then fought with the Sui Dynasty, and then fought by themselves, in the east and west, and later, the Eastern Turks fought on their own, and the southern and northern Mobei fought again. In short, the war continued, and a few years ago, Murong Ke, the leader of the extremely powerful horse thieves in the Daqing Mountain area, saw the opportunity and occupied the empty wilderness.

Then the Tigers occupied this place for several years, and created no small miracle. However, Ling Yun talked with Pei Zeng and other elders in the alliance during this time and knew some of the reasons. At the beginning, when the Xi people took advantage of the civil strife of the Turks, a tribe attacked and occupied Huaihuang City. At that time, the Turks were busy with civil strife, and they did not have the heart to understand this castle close to the Xi people. Later, the Xi people and the Tiele people fought again, and the tribes that occupied Huaihuang took away a lot of people, and Murong Ke took the opportunity to seize this place. After he seized here, the Xi and the Turks didn't have time to pay attention to it at first, and when they came out, they heard that Murong Ke was actually a member of the Sui Dynasty military, when the Sui army was strong, even the Eastern Turkic Khan was attached to Baidaochuan of the Sui Dynasty to live in sojourn, and how dare he recapture Huaihuang. And the Xi and Khitan were also beaten several times by the Sui army because of their dishonesty at that time, and they were already officially attached to the Sui Dynasty and paid tribute, and it was impossible to risk offending the Sui Dynasty to fight the famine.

In this way, Murong Ke occupied Huaihuang, although he was surrounded by fierce tigers and hungry wolves, no one dared to touch him, and all parties were able to live in peace with each other.

However, Murong Ke later refused to accept the imperial court's transfer and was finally removed. Originally, the imperial court wanted to regain control of the Tiger Alliance and control this important stronghold outside the fortress again, but the people supported by the imperial court were unexpectedly defeated by Murong Qiangrose and Ling Yun and others. At that time, the imperial court was also a little worried that if it was forced too hard, it would make Murong Qiangrose and others simply vote for the Turks or Xi people, so they were temporarily relieved.

This also caused the Tiger Alliance, a green forest organization, to occupy this important Huai Huang Lian City at the foot of Yan Mountain for several years. However, although the LTTE has occupied this area for several years, the LTTE is also a green forest organization, so it has not become a border market. Moreover, many merchants pass through this neighborhood and have to take a detour.

"I plan to wait until I have repelled the Bayogu people, and then I will start to operate Huaihuang City into a border trade market." Lingyun Road.

Xu Gai's eyes flashed when he heard this, and his heart became excited. If Ling Yun really intends to do this, and succeeds, it will have a huge market. A bazaar on the border has unlimited business opportunities. They were the first to come, and they could have a piece of the pie. Thinking of the wonderful prospects for the future, Xu Gai's mouth was almost closed, "We will fully support San Lang." (To be continued......)