The words that the land is thin and the pines and cypresses are planted and the poor children are reading are words used for generations in Fujian to warn the younger generations to work hard.

The reason is that Fujian is a mountainous and hilly area, and the land is barren and has very little area suitable for cultivation, so if you want to get ahead, you often have to pay more hardships.

Brought into this group of thatched cottage farmers, their various resources and conditions are far behind the children of the family, so they have to pay ten times or a hundred times more efforts than the other party to close the gap on the starting line.

That's why Li Tingxiu must come back overnight to make up for these two lessons!

"Alright, you two don't stand under the windowsill, let's go to the gazebo over there and sit down."

Li Tingxiu waved his hand, and then walked straight towards the pavilion in the center of the courtyard, in fact, he didn't want his conversation with the students to affect the learning of the children in the house.

It's just that he just sat down, maybe the stone chair in the pavilion was cold, Li Tingxiu covered his mouth and nose lightly and coughed a few times. Seeing this situation, Shen Yichen hurriedly asked, "Sir, is your body still sick?" ”

"Well, every time the weather turns cold over the years, I cough a few times from time to time, and it's out of the way."

Seeing this situation, Li Da on the other side also said with concern: "Sir, you are not in good health, or you will return to Jingshi with us this time, where the doctor's medical skills are much better." ”

Faced with Li Da's suggestion, Li Tingxiu shook his head with a smile and said: "Good intentions are understood by the teacher, but only by teaching and educating people in this countryside can the teacher find the value of his own existence, which is very important." ”

In fact, Li Da's idea was persuaded by Shen Yichen in his letter a long time ago, but for Li Tingxiu, in the eyes of the outside world, he was only left with the identity of Shen Yichen, the first assistant of the cabinet, and he could no longer be free to be himself.

Whether it is a student or a teacher, everyone has their own different values in life. Li Tingxiu doesn't want to participate in the rights and wrongs of officialdom, let alone face the complex human feelings, being an ordinary teacher, watching the students grow up day by day, this life is enough!

"But sir......

Li Da still wanted to persuade, but was stopped by Li Tingxiu with a wave of his hand, and turned his eyes to Shen Yichen and said: "Xiangbei, although I have been teaching in the countryside and villages for many years, I often pay attention to your governance, especially the publication of "Wenbao" so that the village farmers can also understand the major affairs of the family and the country. ”

"What kind of big truth are you talking about nowadays, as a teacher may not necessarily be proficient in you, the only warning that can give you is that no matter what you want to do before you are at the height of the temple, think more about the people at the bottom who are far away from the rivers and lakes."

"They don't have fine clothes and food, and they can't talk about it, but they are the cornerstone of the entire country."

"Whoever governs the country must first enrich the people. If the people are rich, it is easy to govern, and if the people are poor, it is difficult to govern. ”

Li Tingxiu has always been at the bottom, he knows better the living environment of ordinary people, the student Shen Yichen has reached an unattainable position, and there are not many things that can be taught as a teacher, only to tell the people to pay attention to the common people.

"Sir, rest assured, students will never forget the truth that the people are rich and the country is strong!"

Shen Yichen nodded very seriously and assured that he never felt that the teacher had nothing to teach him, on the contrary, it was just like Li Tingxiu that thousands of low-level literati supported the cultural heritage of the Ming Dynasty and taught generations what it means to be truly virtuous.

If he came to this world and met a teacher who was not Li Tingxiu, he might also become a corrupt official who was refined and self-interested, so why bother to seek hardship and take his family and country as his own responsibility?

"As a teacher, I believe you will do it."

"The reason for believing is not because you are my student, but because the people in the fields in the past few years, they praise Shen Ge Lao and their joy that life is getting better day by day."

"For all this, I am proud of my teacher."

Li Tingxiu said the last sentence with a smile on his face, but Shen Yichen was emotionally turbulent, he didn't expect that the teacher, who had always been introverted, would so directly recognize the achievements of his rule in the past few years.

Compared with Shen Yichen's emotion, Li Da, this kid, was a little heartless, and couldn't wait to ask Li Tingxiu: "Teacher, what about me?" ”

"It's also good, and it's a good thing."

That's right, the years when Li Da was stationed in Liaodong were the weakest years of the Ming Dynasty, but he stubbornly withstood the attack of the Mongolian iron cavalry, and also trained a strong Liaodong army.

Got the teacher's praise, Li Da grinned and blossomed, he has been studying in the family school in the outer courtyard of the Chengguo Mansion for ten years, and he has hardly received a few words of praise from Li Tingxiu, and today he has got what he wanted.

After a few simple words of praise for the students, Li Tingxiu changed the topic and talked about some trivial things in life. The reason is that he knows very well in his heart that the achievements of Shen Yichen and Li Da in their careers have exceeded the limit level of what he can coach.

Blue is better than blue, so why bother pointing fingers?

Just when Shen Yichen was enjoying the joy of the reunion of teachers and students, the Chijin Mongolian Guard outside Jiayu Pass in the northwest was full of war clouds at this moment. Shi Heng, the loyal prince of the Ming Dynasty, led 50,000 soldiers and horses of the Western Expeditionary Army, united more than 5,000 soldiers and horses of the Chijin Mongolian Guard, and confronted the 50,000 Mongolian iron cavalry led by the Heavenly Sage Khan, and the battle between the two sides can be described as imminent!

Chijin Mongolia is one of the seven guards of Guanxi canonized during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the location is next to Jiayu Pass, and the territory includes half of Qinghai Lake in later generations, but it is called the West Sea during the Ming Dynasty.

In that year, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, ordered Xu Da, Li Wenzhong, Feng Sheng and other founding generals to send troops to the northwest, among which Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, was simply unstoppable, and soon defeated the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and the territory of the Ming Dynasty expanded to the Jiayuguan generation, and set up Ganzhou, Suzhou, Liangzhou and other guards in this place, which also became the Ganliang two guards often mentioned in the history books.

However, although the Great Yuan Empire has come to an end in the Central Plains, the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, one of the four major khanates attached to the Mongol Empire, is still a vassal of the Yuan Dynasty in name, and there is a hostile relationship with the Ming Dynasty.

After several successive northern expeditions, Zhu Yuanzhang realized that it was impossible to completely exterminate the Mongol tribes, let alone conquer the four khanates by moving westward. Therefore, the strategic center was shifted from the northwest to Liaodong and southwest, and an agreement was reached with the remaining Mongol independent forces in the Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions, and the Kansai Qiwei was established as a buffer zone with the Eastern Chagatai Khanate.

In the final analysis, the Kansai Seven Guards were not the result of the Ming Empire's military conquest, but more of a compromise with the Mongol Khanate. This also led to the fact that the Guanxi Qiwei only nominally accepted the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, but in fact it was a completely independent small kingdom, with political, economic, and military self-management, and all internal officials were held by Mongolian nobles.

Of course, from the perspective of the Ming Kingdom, in fact, he didn't really regard the Kansai Qiwei as his own territory. After occupying most of the Hexi Corridor, a Jiayu Pass was built during the construction of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, which completely separated the Guanxi Qiwei from the Ming Dynasty and physically cut off the relationship between the two sides.

Historical records record that in the Ming Dynasty, officials were only sent once to the farthest Hamiwei, and even the nominal canonization of the subject state seemed a little unworthy of the name.

The Chijin Mongolian Guard, one of the seven guards in Guanxi, is the closest guard to Jiayuguan, and the relationship with the Ming Dynasty is relatively frequent. Although he was a Mongol, he remained loyal to the Ming Dynasty and helped put down the rebellion of Suzhou Hui Haramaya in the eighth year of Yongle.

This friendly relationship lasted until the eighth year of orthodoxy, until after the rise of the Warat Mongols, Tiansheng Khan also sent envoys to the Chijin Mongol Wei and Shazhou Wei to send horses and wine, in an attempt to reach a political marriage, but was rejected by the leader of the Chijin Mongol Wei and Wang.

However, as the Warat Department became more and more powerful, and the Ming suffered a crushing defeat at Tumubao, the new leader of the Chijin Mongol Guard, Asu, no longer dared to disobey Yexian's request for marriage, and the two sides reached a substantial vassal relationship.

But even so, Chijin Mongolian Wei still maintained contact with Daming, indicating that he was forced to do so. One day, when the heavenly soldiers are coming, then they will inevitably return to the Ming Dynasty!

This day did not make the Chijin Mongol Guard wait too long, at the end of the third year of the Ming Dynasty, the Western Expeditionary Army arrived at Jiayuguan, and the Zhongguo Gong Shiheng sent a group of soldiers and horses to contact the leader Asu, and after confirming that the other party was still loyal to the Ming Dynasty, the troops went out of Jiayuguan and stationed in the territory of Chijin Mongolia, preparing to march towards Shazhouwei further west.

But at this time, Shi Heng received an edict from Shen Yichen, ordering him to suspend the pace of the march and stop the expedition against the Seven Guards of Kansai.

To tell the truth, after receiving this order, Shi Heng, the prince of Zhongguo, was very unhappy in his heart, after all, he finally arrived at Jiayuguan after marching for half a year, and he also took the Chijin Mongolian Guard without blood, just waiting for a big battle to establish power.

As a result, everything was ready, and before the battle was fought, he was stopped by the center of the imperial court, and asked him to act according to orders later.

In other words, Shi Heng, who was flying and domineering in the past, what kind of hanging thing is the first assistant of the cabinet, even if it is ordered by the emperor himself, it is estimated that he will not fully comply with it, how can he have to touch the bottom of the Shazhou Guard, and break his wrist with the Mongolian iron cavalry of the Heavenly Saint Khan.

But time has passed, and the current Shi Heng is still a "guilty body" to be precise, coupled with Shen Yichen's methods and personality charm, he was completely convinced, and he could only honestly obey the orders of the garrison Chijin Mongolian Guard, waiting for the order of the next march.

It's just that Shi Heng's Western Expeditionary Army has not moved, and the Mongol Khanate has also taken the lead in the soldiers and horses, and they will not obey Shen Yichen's order to truce. After more than a month of rapid marching, 50,000 Mongolian iron cavalry arrived at the periphery of Jiayu Pass, united with Shazhouwei and Andingwei in the southwest of the Guanxi Seven Guards, and formed a situation of encirclement of the western expeditionary army.

What kind of soft persimmon is Shi Heng, the prince of Zhongguo, when the siege of Jingshi was the weakest in the Ming Dynasty, he dared to lead the soldiers and horses to chase and kill the Vara rout for thousands of miles, and he killed until he went to Liaodong to help.

Now that he has met the old opponent of Yexian, of course, he has to fight-for-tat in order to vent the grievances in his heart.

In the yellow sand land in the northwest, the Ming Dynasty confronted the Mongolian soldiers and horses, and the sun sprinkled on their armor, quite a kind of artistic conception of the desert in Wang Weibiansai's poems, and the sunset on the long river.

And this is different from the period of the orthodox dynasty, both the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia have experienced a low period of recuperation, and both sides have regrouped and set out again, both of which are at the highest point of morale and fighting spirit. Coupled with the generals who commanded the soldiers and horses on both sides, it can be said that they are also the leaders of an era, and the combination of various factors makes it quite a kind of prediction of a great war!

"Great Khan, all the soldiers and horses have arrived at the place where they are preparing for battle, when will we attack?"

The cowardly Xue army was full of Mandulu, and with an excited face, he also asked for his life to the Heavenly Sage Khan.

As a warrior of the steppe, there is nothing more exciting than meeting an evenly matched opponent, especially when the opponent is Shi Heng, the prince of the Ming Kingdom, and the Mongolian child who killed him did not dare to cry at night.

Once humiliated on the periphery of the Beijing Division, the Mongolian Iron Cavalry wanted to treat them in the way of others, so that the children of the Ming Dynasty could not sleep at night!

"The time has not come, continue to wait."

Tiansheng Khan also replied first, and then locked his eyes on the "stone" word battle flag of the Ming Dynasty in the distance.

If Shen Yichen was the most powerful enemy of the Ming Kingdom, then Shi Heng was the most formidable opponent on the battlefield in his heart. This time, 50,000 Mongolian iron cavalry, plus 20,000 soldiers and horses of Shazhouwei and Andingwei, compared with 50,000 Ming troops and 10,000 Chijin Mongolian servant army, they did occupy a certain advantage.

But don't forget, next to the Chijin Mongolian Guard is the Jiayuguan of the Ming Dynasty, and the two prefectures of Ganliang are both one of the nine important towns of the Ming Dynasty, with more than 10,000 permanent troops, and it is impossible for them to stand idly by and watch Shi Heng's Western Expeditionary Army.

After all, it is Shen Yichen who is in charge of the Ming Dynasty now, not Zhu Qizhen, who was so happy in the Ming Dynasty, and it is difficult to reproduce the first battle of Tumubao.

We are also waiting for an opportunity, a chance to win!

On the other side, in the Ming army array, Shi Heng, the prince of Zhongguo, rode on a war horse with heavy armor, looking mighty like a god of war. You must know that Shi Heng was originally burly, and the war horse he rode was not a traditional Mongolian horse breed, but an improved breed of Arabian horse from the Western Regions.

Compared with ordinary Mongolian war horses, they are as tall as 30 centimeters at the shoulders, and they feel like they stand out from the crowd in the military formation.

Shen Yichen has been in charge of the government for many years, recovered the horse breeding land in southern Mongolia, and the implementation of horse politics greatly restored the number of war horses in the Ming Dynasty. The quantity has gone up, but the quality has not fundamentally changed, because it is impossible to obtain enough excellent war horses to improve the horse breed.

Recovering the Western Regions will open up the Silk Road on the road, and those good horses that exist in the history books of the Han and Tang dynasties will be sent to the Central Plains in a steady stream. You must know that one of the reasons for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to go on an expedition of thousands of miles is to obtain the sweat and blood of the Dawan Kingdom, which is enough to see the importance of horse breeds in the feudal dynasty.

"Uncle, the chief is also in front of you, as long as you give an order, I will let him hang his head in the north!"

Dingyuan Bo Shi Biao is also full of battles, he is a warrior who is purer than Shi Heng, but a few years ago, he was in the center of the imperial court, and he could only delve into those political conspiracies that were deceitful.

Now that he can finally charge into battle, it seems that his blood has been ignited, and he can't wait for a moment.

"Are the flanks blocking the Shazhou Guard and the Anding Guard in place?"

Shi Heng opened his mouth to ask, whether it was Mongolia or the Ming Dynasty, it was impossible to use the servant army as the main force, and they were placed in the flank defensive position.

"Rest assured, the Red Jin Mongolian Wei Erlang will definitely not let the rebels advance at all!"

Chijin Mongolian leader Asu, who was canonized as the governor of the Ming Dynasty in the ninth year of orthodoxy, regarded himself as a Ming soldier and horse, so Shazhouwei and Andingwei naturally became rebels.

"Okay, the brave wins when we meet on the narrow road, since we are ready, let's also see the courage of Da Ming Erlang first!"

Shi Heng, the prince of Zhongguo, immediately slashed his sword, and a hideous smile appeared on his face, as if the strong Mongols in front of him were just a group of prey in his eyes! a>vas>div> scan the code to download the red sleeves and Xiaoxiang to send benefits Newcomers read div>div>div > for free for a limited time