The time entered June, the weather began to become hot, and the plague was controlled after a period of treatment, except for minor illnesses, less than one percent of those who survived serious illnesses made Wu Qing's heart heavy for a long time. But Xue Rengui was very happy, it was difficult to cure the plague in such a short period of time since ancient times, but Wu Qing did it.

Although the Tang army repelled the Turks, they did not have the strength to drive out of the Great Wall, and the Turks still herded their horses in the clouds and enslaved the border people. But the good news came that the Western Turkic Ashina tribe attacked the Western Regions, but was repelled by the army led by Wang Fangyi, the governor of Xiazhou, and continued to pursue. Tubo attacked Heyuan and was defeated by Lou Shide and Heizhi Changzhi, but Tubo did not give up and continued to attack. Raided the southwest, but returned in vain. The rain in Luoyang, the eastern capital, also stopped, the water level of Luoshui dropped, and the people of Luoyang resumed their lives again. Under the great joy of Emperor Li Zhi, the great feudal hero, of course, still did not forget to find the immortal to visit the Tao and build another palace.

At this time, after the great drought in Guanzhong, there was a locust plague, and the people sold their sons and daughters, and they were cannibalistic, which was extremely miserable.

In the county town of Mayi, in the big tent of Xue Rengui's Chinese army, Wu Qing was discussing with Xue Rengui about sending troops.

"General Xue, the soldiers have been resting for more than half a month, it's time to go to war." Wu Qing said.

Xue Rengui stroked his white beard, thoughtfully, and said: "Now that there is a great drought in Guanzhong, and there is a locust plague, which has affected Shuozhou, and the grain and grass are not enough, if we send troops, I am afraid that within half a month, our army's grain and grass will be exhausted." ”

Wu Qing pondered for a moment and said, "Either you will kill the Turkic troops, or you can save some." ”

In an instant, Xue Rengui trembled. It's a hundred times since he was killed, but when these words came out of Wu Qing's mouth, he felt a burst of shock. When he said in a deep voice: "Killing so many people, isn't the horse master afraid of heaven's curse?" ”

Wu Qing was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect his words to make Xue Rengui a little unhappy, and said with a wry smile: "That's only if they are temporarily forced to dredge the river and water conservancy, it is better than letting them eat and sleep every day." ”

Xue Rengui's eyes suddenly lit up. This is a good idea, and with a happy face, he said, "The colt still has to pay attention." In this way, 20,000 captives, you half and I half, you go and dredge the river. I ordered some water conservancy to be built. ”

Wu Qing was overjoyed. He had already discovered that on the high mountains northwest of Mayi City, there were several mountains with a large amount of limestone, which was the raw material for burning quicklime, and this time he had discovered it, how could he miss it? The army needs to recuperate, but aren't these captives free labor? If these aliens don't crush you to death, they won't believe in martial arts.

After Wu Qing ordered the captives to be escorted to the west of the city. Three thousand captives were ordered to symbolically dredge the river, and six thousand captives were ordered to dig stones in the mountains of the northwest. A thousand captives were carried out of the mountains and thrown into lime kilns for firing. At the same time, an open-pit coal mine was discovered. Wu Qing then remembered that his position was Shanxi in the later generations, where digging a spade was black gold.

So after several days of exploring in the mountains, he finally discovered a small open-pit coal mine, and Wuqing took out 2,000 of the 3,000 captives to dig coal in the mountains. In this era, coal was called carboniferous and was not very widely used. The open-pit coal mine is not easy to find, and the other has no screening, crushing, cleaning and other processes, and the firepower of the excavated raw coal is not as good as charcoal and bamboo charcoal, so it has not been promoted.

Xue Rengui was clear about Wu Qing's actions, but fortunately, Xue Rengui didn't understand these things, and only knew that the white ash from the caves could be put into the water and sprinkled in the barracks to prevent the plague. Wu Qing transferred so many captives to dig up stones and burn white ashes, and thought that Wu Qing was looking forward to the future to prevent and control the plague, so for this reason, another 5,000 captives were transferred to Wu Qing. Wu Qing was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.

Wu Qing naturally wouldn't explain anything to Xue Rengui, and when the war was over, he would have to buy a few hills in this area to develop the coal and lime business.

Commerce is business, Wu Qing did not relax for the Turks, he led the guards to Yunzhou to investigate, and decided to make a good battle plan, as soon as possible to destroy the Turks, so that he could go home and enjoy the blessings of the Qi people. Although there are two girls around him, he doesn't have the heart to move, although Yushu is beautiful, but his body is too smelly, Jiang Chuchen's face really can't pass the level in his heart. Therefore, they put all their energy on military affairs and military training.

For several years, the spear technique has not broken through to the eighth style, which makes Wu Qing a little disappointed, but thinking that he is not a martial arts training material, it is already very good to be able to practice the seventh style, at least now it seems that he has not met a master who can defeat him.

On this day, when enjoying the cool in the afternoon, I heard a shout and cheer in the barracks, Wu Qing was drinking sour plum soup bare-chested, but unfortunately the conditions in the army were really not good, otherwise the iced sour plum soup was enough to relieve the heat. Hearing such a bustle, he walked out of the military tent and saw that the two of them were competing in the field, surrounded by soldiers.

Seeing Wu Qing coming, get out of the way, Wu Qing took a closer look, and it turned out to be Cheng Wuting, the Zhonglang general, and a young man competed. Both of them use horizontal knives, Cheng Wuting is now in his forties, and he is in good health, and the young man is only in his twenties, but he is also in good shape, and he does not fall behind at all.

Wu Qing asked, "Who is this young man?" ”

"General Hui, this person is from Guazhou, called Guo Zhiyun, he came to join the army, and General Cheng Wuting is trying this person's martial arts." A soldier said.

Wu Qing couldn't help but look at the field, only to see Guo Zhiyun's ape arm and tiger's mouth, a horizontal knife played with light and shadow, Wu Qing nodded, this kid is good, he will have to be accepted as a personal guard in a while. Cheng Wu is a pharaoh with a knife, calm and powerful, and he still calmly resists in the face of Guo Zhiyun's wind-like knife technique.

After a while, Cheng Wuting shouted, picked up the horizontal knife in Guo Zhiyun's hand with a knife, and took three steps back, arching his hand: "Little brother's knife skills are amazing." ”

The corners of Guo Zhiyun's mouth twitched, he arched his hand, and said, "If you practice for another three years, the grass people will definitely be able to win the general." ”

At this time, Cheng Wuting saw Wu Qing present, and hurriedly bowed and saluted, "I've seen the general." ”

Wu Qing nodded, looked at Guo Zhiyun, and said, "Do you want to join the army?" ”

As soon as Guo Zhiyun saw Wu Qing shirtless, the muscles were one by one, he knew that this general must be a master, bowed and saluted, and said: "The grass people have seen the general, and the grass people have traveled here, and I heard that General Wu Da cured the plague in the city, and also cured a distant cousin of mine, so he came to join the army." ”

Wu Qing smiled: "You have good martial arts, are you willing to follow me?" ”

Guo Zhiyun was stunned for a moment and said: "Dare to ask who the general is, if he can defeat me, what does it matter to you?" ”

The soldier was furious and pointed at Guo Zhiyun, Wu Qingyi raised his hand and said, "It's okay, I haven't practiced for a long time, so let's practice first." Get my gun! ”

His own soldiers took the spear, Wu Qing held it in his hand, and said with a smile: "You use a horizontal knife?" ”

Guo Zhiyun said with a smile: "Eighteen kinds of blades, everything. "Arrogant is unstoppable.

Wu Qing smiled: "That's good, if you can't take you within the three combinations, I will admit defeat!" ”

"Triad?" Guo Zhiyun was a little angry, so he said: "Three in three in three!" ”

The soldiers had never seen Wu Qing fighting with others, and for a while, the soldiers in the barracks surrounded him. Wu Yidao shook his head and sat on the ground drinking sour plum soup, which was the welfare of these guards.

While!

I only heard the soldiers sigh for a while, and then looked at the field, Wu Qing's spear was pointed at Guo Zhiyun's throat.

Guo Zhiyun looked at the tip of the gun dejectedly and said, "I lost!" (To be continued......)