Wang Ze met his father Wang Yong who returned from outside the city, so the two talked for a long time before they found that they had blocked the road outside the city.

Seeing that it was not early, the two walked towards the city, talking about their longing for nearly two years, and Wang Ze was chatting with his father while looking around inside and outside Gaomi County, which had changed greatly.

Compared with the appearance of just an ordinary county town at the beginning, now there are soldiers everywhere in and around Gaomi County, with teams of cavalry riding war horses around them from time to time, and a large number of horses trotting under the drive of herdsmen or cavalry can be seen in the wilderness farther away.

When Wang Ze was presiding over the Weishui defense line, he vaguely remembered that the outside of Gaomi County was not like this at that time, and in the past, there were dozens of miles of vast and flat farmland around Gaomi County, although the villages were not as dense as in later generations, but there were more than a dozen villages around.

Now these farmlands have all become the pastures of the cavalry under Wang Yong's command, not to mention, even the dozen or so villages that were distributed at the beginning have disappeared without a trace, except for some grazing cavalry and some herdsmen, Wang Ze did not see the existence of many ordinary people, but Wang Ze was puzzled.

After asking Wang Yong, Wang Ze knew that after the Battle of Weishui, Wang Yong launched an attack again in order to prevent the Northern Qi army from going and returning, so he was stationed in Gaomi County near Weishui for a long time, and with Wang Yong came as many as 50,000 troops stationed here all year round.

After all, Gaomi County was only a county town that only accommodated a population of more than 100,000 people, compared with Qingzhou City, Jinan City and other prosperous county towns, the scale of Gaomi County is not large, with the increase in the number of troops, tens of thousands of troops will inevitably affect the living space of the local people.

At this time, due to the impact of the Battle of Weishui, hundreds of thousands of Qi troops brought great panic to the people along the river such as Gaomi County, and they were willing to stay away from this city close to the front line, so these people moved to Zhucheng County (formerly Jiaozhou County), Jiaozhou County (formerly Jiaozhou Port) and other places under Wang Yong's arrangement.

At that time, there were nearly two million people who fled to the six counties of Qidong from the land of Sanqi, and in order to alleviate the huge pressure of the six counties of Qidong, Wang Yong strongly encouraged the sending of immigrants to the counties of the East China Sea, so most of the people of Gaomi County and some other people from the counties closer to the front line moved to the East China Sea.

Through the efforts of Wang Yong, Liu Xin, Pu Yangxun and others, after more than two years, most of the people within 30 miles of Zhuzhou County near Weishui have been relocated, and most of the remaining people are small families, and they have horses, or simply herdsmen, these people can help the army graze war horses, and at the same time can also act as sentinels.

In this way, the remaining people in the six counties of Qidong have also dropped rapidly from the original 2 million to 15.6 million, which is basically the same as the population of the counties in the East China Sea, and if the slave population is added, it is even less than the people in the counties of the East China Sea.

In terms of land area, the combined land area of the counties in the East China Sea is at least ten times that of the six counties in Qidong.

This is not counting the Beji land that has just been occupied and developed, and the various places in Nanyang that have initially occupied a few strongholds, if these places are added, I am afraid that they are more than 20 times larger than the six counties of Qidong, so at present, the center of gravity of Wang Yong and Wang Ze's father and son has actually shifted to the East China Sea, which is also a tacit thing for everyone.

Wang Ze rode on a horse and watched the soldiers and horses coming and going inside and outside the city, and the atmosphere in Gaomi County was extremely tense, and he suddenly asked curiously: "Father, I see the hustle and bustle of soldiers and horses inside and outside Gaomi County, everyone is in armor, but the Northern Qi army is coming to attack again?" ”

Who knew that Wang Yong just shook his head and chuckled: "Da Lang doesn't know, the Northern Qi doesn't have the time to take care of us now, they are now busy with the Northern Zhou Dynasty in Pingyang, Luoyang and other places, these are all for the Northern Zhou envoy to see, and let him know that our soldiers and horses are not weaker than them!" ”

Although he lost a lot of troops in the Battle of Jeju, the Battle of Qingzhou, and the final Battle of Weishui, after a two-year recovery period, Wang Yong has now trained a group of elite troops with as many as 120,000 people.

Although it is not as good as the elite soldiers who have been trained in many battle formations, it is enough to defend against the invasion of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

In addition to Wang Yong's full preparations, the Northern Qi also lost a lot of troops in the Battle of Weishui at that time, so they had to retreat to Weixian and Changle on the west bank of Weishui, and then they were attacked by the old rival Northern Zhou, so they had to concentrate some nervous forces mainly on the western front.

Therefore, although Gaomi City is a frontline city close to the Northern Qi Dynasty, it is actually very safe.

Wang Ze can probably guess some of the reasons why the Northern Qi Dynasty did not attack, thanks to the light of the two bloody TV series "The King of Lanling" and "The Legend of Lu Zhen" in later generations, Wang Ze also had a glimpse of the history of the Northern Qi Dynasty, although most of them were not remembered, but Gao Zhan, Gao Wei and his son, who were famous for their mediocrity and brutality, remembered them clearly. Variety Literature

Especially Gao Zhan, who is currently in power, this guy has no other skills, and no one can compare to his mediocre and brutal skills, even Gao Yang, who has always been known for his brutality, can only be stunned, and the rapid decline of Northern Qi is also the decline of his Gao Zhan's hands.

For Gao Zhan, Wang Yong, who is currently retreating to the six counties of Qidong, is just a small trouble, and now the Northern Zhou, who often attacks the Northern Qi, is the real enemy, and even the Hu Lawyers Association, who fought with Wang Yong and Wang Ze repeatedly, has now been transferred to Luoyang.

In the view of Northern Qi, Wang Yong's side, which was also greatly damaged in the Battle of Weishui, was bound to be unable to continue to attack Qingzhou and other places, especially because of the terrain on the Jiaodong Peninsula, as long as the Qi army closely defended the cities in Weixian, Changle, and Qingzhou, there was no need to worry about Wang Yong sweeping Sanqi again.

The southern Qingzhou in the south of Zhucheng County is currently also heavily defended by the Northern Qi army, and Pi Jinghe, who had suffered defeat outside Gaomi County before, took over the position of Dugu Yongye, the general of the defeated army, and became the governor of Northern Xuzhou and Southern Qingzhou, responsible for defending Wang Yong from the southern front.

Therefore, the Northern Qi Dynasty, which was greatly relieved, now only left about 50,000 troops to hold the city defense line from Weixian to Qingzhou, and Wang Yong was also unable to attack because of a series of previous losses.

Back in the city, Wang Ze was not in a hurry to meet the envoy of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, it was important to visit the old lady first, otherwise he would be able to pull Wang Ze's ears and train him for a few months after annoying the old lady, and there were two young brothers who had not seen him for a long time, and Wang Ze missed it more.

Gongxi's is young after all, although Wang Ze hasn't seen his wife for two years, but it doesn't seem to have changed much, but he is very sad that Wang Ze, a ruthless child, hasn't come back to see him for two years, and it was Wang Ze who begged for mercy to make Gongxi's forgiveness in distress.

However, although Wang Ze passed this hurdle, the Gongxi clan began to complain that Wang Ze didn't bring Zhu Qingqing and Cheng Xueyan back when he came back, and then complained that even Zhu Bofu and Cheng Hu didn't bring them to reunite with their families, anyway, it was Wang Ze's fault.

Of course, Wang Ze has nothing to say about this, he can only accuse again and again, and what makes Wang Ze even more depressed is that he has not seen him for two years, so that his two younger brothers don't recognize him a little, the eldest brother Wang Hui is better, at least he still has some impressions, and the third brother Wang Yu doesn't even have a little impression, at this time, he is carefully hiding behind the Gongxi clan, poking out a pair of big black eyes to look at Wang Ze.

In the end, it was Wang Ze who made a killer move, grabbed a handful of fruit gummies recently produced in Yizhou County, and sure enough, the second brother Wang Hui, who had some recognition of himself just now, became familiar with him all of a sudden, and shouted "big brother, big brother".

However, the third brother Wang Yu still didn't dare to approach, but he was very greedy for the fruit gummies that Wang Ze took out, so he had to hold a pair of small hands and drag the corners of Gongxi's clothes, and then kept looking at the small pile of gummies that Wang Ze took out, the meaning was self-evident.

Wang Ze couldn't help frowning at the actions of the third brother Wang Yu, the third brother who looked good was so timid that he didn't even dare to come forward for such a trivial matter, but turned around and begged the adult to come forward.

Saying that he was three years old and saw the old, Wang Yu was already five years old this year, and he didn't dare to come forward with such a thing, which made Wang Ze somewhat disappointed, but since it was his younger brother, he still took out a handful of gummies and distributed it to this younger brother, and then he heard Wang Yu say sweetly, "Thank you, big brother!" ”

After the family had dinner with He Meimei in the evening, Wang Ze followed his father Wang Yong to the Gaomi County Guard's Mansion, and when Wang Ze entered the lobby, he found that Liu Xin and Pu Yangxun had arrived, in addition to these two, even Cheng Chong, Zhu Rui, and Yuan Jia were also there.

These people are currently the top civil and military officials in the six counties of Qidong, and in order not to leak the matter of this discussion, the number of participants in the meeting has been limited to a minimum this time.

"Mr. Liu, please tell me about what you have discovered in the past two days!" After Wang Ze finished greeting with the elders, he immediately opened his mouth to Liu Xin, except for Liu Xin, everyone else was stunned, and they didn't know what Wang Ze asked Liu Xin to say.

After Wang Ze finished speaking, he just looked at Liu Xin and smiled without saying a word, Liu Xin took a sip of tea and then said: "Sure enough, I can't escape the eyes of the little marquis, I have been chatting with the envoy of the Northern Zhou Dynasty for the past two days, but I have learned a lot of things from that person's mouth!" ”

At this time, even Cheng Chong, Zhu Rui and others, including Wang Yong, knew that Liu Xin had not only been chatting with the envoys of the Northern Zhou Dynasty for more than a month, but also had the meaning of the words of others, but they didn't know what Liu Xin knew from the envoys.

However, everyone admired Wang Ze's power even more, and as soon as he came back, they guessed that Liu Xin was going to talk to the envoys of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and they didn't know how Wang Ze saw it, but this time everyone was more concerned about what Liu Xin knew, so they directly ignored Wang Ze and looked at Liu Xin with their eyes.

Being looked at by everyone at once, Liu Xin was not a little nervous, he smiled and said: "Actually, I didn't have much to gain, but I just learned that this envoy didn't just come alone, they also had another envoy who didn't appear, and these two envoys were only sent by Emperor Zhou Yuwen Yong!" ”