The location of more than a dozen tribes under Su Yeqing's command, Zhao Ning basically knew it, and ****** would report various news to him regularly. Before coming to the grassland, Zhao Ning also did his homework.

arranged for the B-shaped battalion to be stationed next to the Xiaoye Department, and the Xiaoye Department provided some food and other matters, and Zhao Ning and Su Yeqing walked side by side outside the tribe. The two of them didn't have any purpose, so they walked around the small tribe in a circle.

The moonlight is very good, and the clear light spreads on the grass stems, like a layer of faintly glowing carpet, magnificent and dreamy. After the soldiers and herdsmen rested, there was silence all around, and there was a slight rustling sound of boots on the grass.

Like a human disordered heartstring, it is touched at a moment's notice.

Yang Jiani had another task assigned by Zhao Ning, she didn't stay in Xiaoyebu, and now she doesn't know how far she has gone; Zhao Xun is in charge of the garrison of the camp, but he is only patrolling in the cavalry camp and has not come out.

Zhao Ning and Su Yeqing didn't bring guards, so no one bothered, and only followed Zhao Ning's war horse behind him, it was not that Zhao Ning planned to take Su Yeqing away at any time, but there were too many wine bags and needed to be carried by the war horse.

Under the faint light of the torches in the camp camp, Su Yeqing lowered his head slightly, and next to a few wisps of green silk stirred by the night breeze in his ears, there were red earlobes, as if telling the excitement and shame in the owner's heart.

The two drank while walking, and when they drank the second wine sac, Su Yeqing looked back at the wine sac on the war horse, and peeked at Zhao Ning with some joy and some expectation, and when he lowered his head slightly, his voice was like a mosquito and a fly:

"The wine that Childe took out tonight...... Did I make it?"

Zhao Ning smiled lightly, "The wine I drink every day now is made by you." In Yanmen Pass, I asked people to build a special wine cellar to store the wine you left behind. ”

Before Su Yeqing came to Saibei, he had a sleepless time, learning the grassland language during the day, understanding the grassland customs, preparing for this trip, and soaking in the ****** winery at night, constantly making wine.

At that time, she only slept for less than two hours a day, and what she thought in her heart was to leave more wine for Zhao Ning before leaving. Because Zhao Ning said that he liked the wine she brewed very much.

She knew that Zhao Ning would not be short of fine wine, and she might not always want to drink the wine she brewed, but she stubbornly felt that when Zhao Ning wanted to drink her wine one day, she couldn't find it.

She didn't know when she would be able to go back when she came to the desolate and wild Saibei, whether she would die here and not have a chance to go back, so she wanted to try her best to stay more.

Zhao Ning doesn't like to drink tea, Zhao Ning, as the heir to the head of the Zhao family, should also lack nothing, Su Yeqing feels that what she can leave for Zhao Ning and can make Zhao Ning think of her is only these wines.

Leaving a jar of wine is also a thought. In that way, even if she dies in Saibei, Zhao Ning will not forget her soon.

Therefore, when Su Yeqing left Yan Pingcheng, the wine she left behind was full of three not small rooms, enough for Zhao Ning to drink for many years.

Hearing Zhao Ning's words, Su Yeqing was reflected by the bright moonlight, as if her face was covered with a layer of thin veil, she was even redder, delicate, and her earlobes were almost transparent.

Zhao Ning liked her wine so much, far beyond her expectations. She had a lot of joy in her heart, but she was too ashamed to say it, so she could only let her heart beat like a drum.

Such Su Yeqing made Zhao Ning sigh in his heart. In front of her, she does not have the atmosphere of the bloody battle between the two side by side after the outbreak of the national war in her previous life, she is a little less heroic and a little more shy.

To be precise, because he didn't experience the death of his companions, he still retains the shyness of a girl, and he doesn't have the tenacity and strength that he has honed through hardships in his previous life.

Zhao Ning couldn't say whether it was good or not, but if there was a choice, he didn't want Su Yeqing to die so many relatives and friends, even if she couldn't become strong in her heart because of this.

Zhao Ning always has an extraordinary friendship with the girl in front of him, and that is the person he cares about the most outside of Zhao's blood relatives. For him, seeing Su Yeqing is like seeing his past life.

If she could, Zhao Ning would prefer her to stay in Yanping City and protect her in the future.

But he clearly knew that under the inevitable situation of the national war between Beihu and Daqi, the best way for her was to make her stronger, not only in cultivation, but also in mental ability.

In this way, she can have more chances to survive in the next turmoil.

Because of this, Zhao Ning did not object to her coming to Saibei.

The outbreak of this war in front of him is already imminent, and in order to grasp the initiative, Zhao Ning will start it with his own hands tonight. And Su Yeqing will also participate in the war earlier than in his previous life.

They may not be fighting in one place, but they are still fighting together.

After drinking the second wine bag, Zhao Ning talked to Su Yeqing about business, "There are already nearly twenty small tribes under your command, all of which are more than 100 in size, can you expand it a little more?"

One hundred, three or five hundred people in the case of unobstructed, the strength is not strong, and in the event of a battle, it can only dispatch more than a hundred young and strong combat forces, and even a slightly stronger horse thief can't compete.

Such a tribe has a relatively big survival crisis on the grassland, and if the year is not good, or if the army is short, it is likely to disappear in the blink of an eye.

Su Yeqing shook his head, pursed his lips, and said melancholy: "Most of these tribes can't continue to grow right now.

"It's not that the cultivators we have planted in the tribe are not strong enough to swallow up more scattered shepherds, but within a certain range, there are only so many prey that can be hunted in the pasture that can be grazing. ”

Under Su Yeqing's explanation, Zhao Ning understood the predicament that the tribe under ****** control was now facing.

To get to the bottom of it, the grasslands are barren, and the survival resources of an area are limited, which can only feed a tribe that is scattered up and down. With more sporadic shepherds joining, the supplies in the existing area simply can't fill their stomachs.

The solution to the problem is to expand the tribal territory outward.

But there are two problems with this.

First, the area is too wide, and the tribe has few people to control;

The second is that you will encounter relatively large tribes.

The second question involves a deeper problem:

The scattered shepherds were relatively barren areas of the grasslands, while the rich areas with abundant pastures and prey were controlled by the powerful tribes.

In other words, the scattered poor shepherds are not qualified to survive in the fertile pastures, and once discovered by the large tribes, they will either be killed or become herding slaves.

Normally, it is not a wise choice to clash with these large tribes. A tribe of more than 100 villages, with universal combat strength, has a common understanding in the grassland.

Once the tribe controlled by a cultivator shows too much strength, has too many cultivators, and defeats a tribe that is much larger than them, it will attract too many suspicious eyes.

At present, the grassland is peaceful, and the ruling order of the various royal courts (mainly the Tianyuan royal court) is very stable, and the emergence of any extraordinary forces will definitely be concerned, investigated, and even encircled and annexed by them.

So under normal circumstances – no heroes of great talent and strength, no special wars – the order of existence here is unbreakable.

The poor shepherds at the bottom will always be poor herdsmen and have a difficult life; the middle tribes will always be the middle tribes and have a nourishing life; the upper big tribes and the royal court will always enjoy their own wealth and power.

In peacetime, the strata are solidified, the upper and lower levels are alienated and estranged, and even completely separated from each other, which is a reality that cannot be changed.

"In peacetime, it's a big problem. Fortunately, if the world is really peaceful, you don't need to come here and take the low-level herdsmen to strengthen your tribe. ”

Zhao Ning quickly figured it out, "When the war breaks out and the two sides fight each other, when the Khitan Royal Court and the Tianyuan Royal Court weaken their control over the place, you will be able to find an opportunity to grow." ”

Su Yeqing nodded seriously, "Although it can't grow too much, it can indeed grow some." ”

Zhao Ning wanted to say something, opened his mouth, and suddenly stopped talking.

He suddenly thought that in Daqi, the living order of the low-level people, the middle-class rich, and the upper-class magnates was actually not too much different from the grassland, and it was all the same.

The difference is that Daqi has a higher degree of civilization and is not as barbaric as the grassland.

Therefore, the middle and upper classes of the Great Qi Dynasty did not kill people directly, but the rich and powerful embezzled the wealth of the people at the bottom - the plundering of survival resources, in fact, there was no essential difference.

Even more intense.

Because the rich and powerful people of the Central Plains Dynasty have no end to expanding their wealth, they will always stare at the bottom and try their best to annex the wealth created by the other party.

In the peaceful and prosperous era, the hard-working people of the Great Qi Dynasty had a relatively stable living environment, and the wealth created would undoubtedly be more. But the more wealth created at the bottom, the more the rich and powerful will be swallowed up.

Otherwise, the land annexation of Daqi would not be so serious now.

Zhao Ning was in a trance for a while.

If he thought correctly, then the difficult life of the people at the bottom of Daqi was much more terrible than he had expected.

In his previous struggles with the Liu family, the Pang family and other families, he only thought of the evil deeds of the big families, and did not take the middle-class rich into account, thinking that the persecuted low-level people were only a small part.

But now that I think about it, the scale of suffering of the ordinary people of the Great Qi Dynasty is only very terrifying.

If this is the case, then under the rule of Great Qi, there are too many low-level people who are struggling to survive, and they have no good impression of the imperial court.

Once the national war broke out and the war was fierce, the dynasty needed to rely on the struggle of the people to defeat Beihu, and those ordinary civilians would still go into battle to kill the enemy and fight hard because of the simple word "loyalty"?

Thinking of this, Zhao Ning couldn't help but feel chills all over his body.

He thought of the defeat of the national war in his previous life.

He felt a great terror, as if he had fallen into an endless abyss, and in despair he stretched out his hand everywhere, but he could not grasp any life.

What to do?

What to do?

What can I do?

The strength of the Tian Yuan Imperial Court has not been seen in thousands of years, and the strength of the Tian Yuan Khan is enough to defeat all cultivators!

There is no shortage of brave and light deaths among the grassland peoples, and they are not under so much pressure from the government, and they still maintain great vitality, hard work, and heroism, which Zhao Ning has seen at the dinner party of the Dadan royal court.

The Central Plains Dynasty, under the long-term unified world order, the imperial court continued to consolidate its own rule, strengthen the authority of the government, and suppress the civil force and martial style.

As a result, the people of the people have become cautious, no longer fearless and fearless, and their temperament has been sharpened to become more and more conformist, more and more timid, and less and less advocating martial arts.

The steppe peoples, who are not afraid of death and are fighting bravely, under the leadership of a strong hero and a strong army that have not been seen for thousands of years, once they start a national war with Daqi......

How can most of the people in Daqi who are oppressed by the government authority so timid and afraid of things, have no edges and corners, are submissive, bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, and only know poetry and songs, and the mouth is full of lotus flowers, how can they compete with them?

Do you want to expect those rich and powerful people of Daqi who only know how to compete for power and profit, oppress the people, embezzle wealth, enjoy wealth and show off privileges, and become the backbone of the country of Daqi?

Zhao Ning stopped, his eyes full of panic.

In his two lives, he had never been so frightened as he was now.

Even in his previous life, no matter how difficult the battle was, he was not so afraid.

At that time, he was just a warrior, he didn't think about it, and he didn't need to think about it.

But now, he is no longer just a simple warrior, what he thinks about is how to save Daqi and protect the Central Plains!

But he suddenly found that with the so-called prosperity of Daqi now, in the face of the powerful offensive of Beihu, there was no reason to win the war at all!

Daqi's current strength is just a window paper that can be broken at the slightest poke, and in the room in the window, there are rotten beams that have long been under pressure!

In the previous life, the demise of Great Qi was by no means a simple military defeat, but a country that had long been doomed to the outcome of the war!

What to do?

What to do?

What can I do?

Zhao Ning's body shook, the Venus in front of him sprung up, his vision turned black, his heart was suddenly blocked, he couldn't breathe anymore, he almost wanted to suffocate to death, his breath shook suddenly, his throat and eyes were sweet, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.

"Childe, Childe, what's wrong with you?" Su Yeqing didn't expect the two to speak well, Zhao Ning suddenly stopped, his face turned blue in an instant, and a mouthful of blood spurted out, so shocked that he lost his face, and hurriedly helped.

Zhao Ning's swaying body was strongly supported by Su Yeqing, avoiding the fate of falling to the ground, he quickly stabilized his body and waved his hand: "It's okay, don't worry." ”

It's just a moment, Zhao Ning has a lot of thoughts, as if he has experienced ten years in the world, and he has seen the vicissitudes of a hundred years.

Fortunately, he is not a fearless person who does not learn and ignorant, except for the two years when he was obsessed with Zhao Yujie, whether in his previous life or in this life, he can be called tireless and well-read.

After reading a lot of history books, he knows the truth of taking history as a mirror.

Seeing that Su Yeqing's eyes were still frightened, full of concern, and almost crying, Zhao Ning smiled easily, and did not blindly comfort the other party, but said some of his true thoughts:

"Originally, I thought that I only needed to be the future prince of Daqi and the head of the first family of Daqi, and I would be able to solve all the problems. Now it seems that I need to do much more than I expected.

"This war is more complicated and difficult than we imagined. To win it, the status of the Grand Governor is not enough. Okay, don't say too much at this point, let's do what is in front of us first. ”

Zhao Ning has already figured it out.

If you don't solve the problems you just thought of, in the face of the strong attack of the Beihu army, Daqi can't save it at all!

What he needs to do is indeed much more anticipated than he had at the beginning of his life, because what he needs to change is the entire Great Qi.

To ordinary people, this is simply a dream.

Fortunately, he is the heir to the head of the first family of Daqi.

If he doesn't do these things, who will do them?

Although it is also difficult, he has no choice, and it is not impossible to succeed.

However, after all, the internal problems of the dynasty will not have time and energy to deal with them until the end of the war in front of him, and he has successfully delayed the pace of the Tianyuan army's southern expedition.

Therefore, the current war can only be won, not defeated, and the set goals must be achieved!

If this time he couldn't let Tianyuan Khan's plan to annex the Dadan Department fall through, and the national war broke out two years later, then even if Zhao Ning had three heads and six arms, he would not be able to reverse the overall situation of the defeat of the Great Qi in his previous life.

"Alright, the hour is almost up, go to your place. Zhao Ning swallowed a Hanyuan Dan, and his complexion gradually returned to ruddy.

Although Su Yeqing was still very worried about Zhao Ning's situation, seeing that Zhao Ning's breath was stable, he also knew that Zhao Ning was fine, even though he was still a little worried at the moment, he nodded obediently and turned around and entered the tribe.

Zhao Ning stood in place for a while.

Looking into the distance, he saw that the gently undulating grassland was like the waves of the sea, and the deep night sky was full of countless stars, surrounded by a round of curved bright moons. This world will never change because of the joys and sorrows of human beings.

The corners of his mouth moved slightly, outlining a smile that was neither salty nor light.

It's a long way to go.

But as long as you are on the road, there is no reason to be arrogant and restless.

Only with a strong heart can we meet countless challenges in life and have the possibility of reaching our life goals.

He took the reins of the war horse, patted the face of the war horse, and after the war horse snorted at him, he turned around and walked towards the Yizi camp gate.

Not long after, behind him, in the endless night, the earth suddenly began to tremble.

The rumbling sound of horses' hooves broke the silence of the night, like rolling thunder and surging waves, from an unknown distance, quickly from far to near!