"Although Lao Kong and I are generals, since we surrendered to you, we have never had two hearts! Shandong suppressed bandits, Sichuan exterminated the remnants of the Southern Ming Dynasty, we have done it properly.

But now you want to match me and Lao Kong to a barren land, handsome, our brother has absolutely no second heart for you! Why can't you even reward us with a mouthful of rich rice! "I heard that I was going to Qinghai, and this news was like a bolt from the blue for Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming.

For so many years, it has been a battle that people don't look down on to drill mountains and holes. The weapons used are also eliminated by others, and even the military resources are less than those of other people's field armies. After seeing Li Xiao's descendants of the Liao Army Field Army, their subordinates said that they were raised by their stepmothers.

Now they are going to be sent to Qinghai, which is simply not raised by the stepmother, it is simply raised by the maid.

Kong Youde is in his sixties this year, but he just knelt on the ground and sobbed without speaking. Kong Youde, nicknamed Geng Er, knelt in front of Li Xiao with his neck bent, and the tears on his face flowed like a stream. Those eyes were full of unwillingness and grievances.

What he said is indeed right, after following Li Xiao for all these years, the dirty work, hard work, and tiring work are all done by the two of them. From Shandong to Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan. They are all doing such work as digging holes in mountains and chasing down bandits.

Although the combat effectiveness of their troops can only fight such a battle, they have also fought after all. What's more, in Sichuan, they also successfully defeated Zhang Xianzhong and successfully killed the Emperor of Daxi.

On merit! Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming have nothing to say, and now it is normal to run to Li Xiao and cry and make trouble.

"Get up!" Li Xiao sat on a tiger skin chair, and not far behind him, Li Lin looked at these two white-bearded guys curiously, crying like dolls in the month.

This crying method is as sad as his beloved little tiger being taken away by his father. Could it be that their little tiger was also confiscated by Daddy? Daddy is good at everything, but it's not good to like confiscating other people's tigers.

"Handsome! What about the more than 20,000 brothers behind our brothers? If you don't give us a word, our brother will die here today. It's better than going back and being poked in the back by the brothers. Geng Zhongming is worthy of being Geng Er's stunned, and he just doesn't stand up with his neck stalked.

If he doesn't stand up, Kong Youde naturally won't stand up either.

"Oh!" Li Xiao stepped around and looked for a while and stretched out his hands helplessly: "There is really nothing in this tent that can kill you headlong, or you will hit me?" ”

"Uh......!" At this moment, not only Kong Youde was dumbfounded, but even Geng Zhongming was dumbfounded. Dashuai, this is going to ...... Unloading the mill and killing the donkey?

"It's a shame that you're still a general with troops, and your brain is dumber than a pig. I ask you, all these years. Which subordinate have I treated badly? There are many people who surrendered to our Liao army, who have you seen who was killed by unloading the mill? As long as I don't rebel, which of my high-ranking officials is not generous?

You also said that you two have worked hard all these years without merit. In my Li Xiao's opinion, you have all the credit and hard work. It was you who exterminated the bandits in Linyi, and it was you who exterminated Zhang Xianzhong. With rudimentary weapons, you kept wandering around the mountains in Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi.

Without the hard work of the bandits like you, the future would not be so peaceful.

Of course, I didn't do you any wrong. Both of you have the rank of general, and if your subordinates are reasonable, I will also promote them as appropriate. Suppressing bandits is hard work, but you don't have less money.

Kill Zhang Xianzhong, you handed over 10,000 taels of silver. Zhang Xianzhong has been tossing all the way in Daming all these years, and you say that he only has 10,000 taels of silver...... Do you believe it yourselves? ”

Li Xiao's two eyes, like a tiger, stared at Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde who were kneeling on the ground.

"Daming silver can't be circulated, you asked Zheng Sen's younger brother Tagawa Nanaemon to help you with silver dollars, I don't feel sorry for you in this matter. Such a large amount of silver dollars, if I hadn't nodded, Ai Husheng would have exchanged them for you? ”

"Handsome! We are guilty, we are guilty! The blame is all our brothers' own, whether you raid your house or kill your head, our brothers have all confessed. Who made us long-handed, took money that shouldn't have been taken. But the brothers who followed us are innocent! In these years, they let them go for the sake of the Ming Dynasty's expedition to the west, and don't send them to Qinghai where birds don't. Kong Youde knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "bang" and "bang", and his words were very single.

"Who the fuck said Qinghai is a place where birds don't shit? Do you know that Qinghai is bounded by the Sun Moon Mountain and the northern edge of the Qingnan Plateau, with pastoral areas in the west and agricultural areas in the east, and glaciers, Gobi, deserts, grasslands, waters, woodlands, and cultivated land distributed in a trapezoidal pattern from west to east.

Just for the cultivated land, you can't divide the 20,000 people under your command with 100 acres per person. What's more, the water and grass around Qinghai Lake are abundant, do you know what the price of wool is now?

You have been fighting bandits all day long, and you have gone to the plateau to catch some herdsmen, and you have made a lot of money just like wool. Do you want me to say it? ”

Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde blinked, as if what Li Xiao said was indeed reasonable. Just now he said that the two of them were corrupt, and now they are pointing out the way to make money, and these two guys can't keep up.

"Handsome! You should go ahead and talk about it! Kong Youde was cunning in the end, and he suddenly found that it seemed that Li Xiao had no intention of disposing of them, let alone exiled them. Going to Qinghai doesn't seem to be a pit, but a big opportunity to make a fortune.

The shameless Kong Youde stood up, picked up the teacup from the tray held by Junzi, and carefully placed it on the small table beside Li Xiao.

"There's a place in Qinghai called Tarim, and there's a big salt lake. But there's also something out there, called potash. You can think of this as a mine, and the potash made from this mineral can significantly provide the yield of the field. Moreover, it can make the crop stalks grow strong, prevent lodging, promote flowering and fruiting, and enhance the ability to resist drought, cold, diseases and pests.

How much arable land we have in the Ming Dynasty, think about it yourself. One pound of potassium fertilizer per acre of land is used a year, how many pounds is that? Do the math yourself? This is a sea of gold and silver! You have earned a pound of copper brother, and you are still fucking fat and thin, you don't want to go, I will find a place for you to retire in Jiangnan. Qinghai is a place where another person is assigned. I think Zu Dashou is good, these years ......! ”

"Dashuai!" Geng Zhongming roared.

Li Lin was startled, and he didn't understand if this person was going to get up and fight with his father.

"Handsome! The most right thing our brother has done in his life is to follow you. Qinghai this place is handed over to our brothers, and the Tubo people dare to take a step down the plateau, so you can ask our brothers.

In the future, whoever dares to question the decision of the marshal, our brother will be the first to refuse. As long as you are handsome, we will not hesitate to go to the soup! In this life, it is sold to the handsome, and in the next life, we will give birth to cattle and horses, and repay the kindness of the handsome. ”

Facts have proved that Geng Er was not stunned. Kneeling on the ground, his head "bang" "bang" smashed to the ground, and blood flowed down in just a few strokes.

"Don't you say that I unloaded the mill and killed the donkey?" Li Xiao was made to cry and laugh by Geng Zhongming.

"Whoever dares to slander Dashuai, I'll kill him!" Geng Zhongming showed his white teeth, this mouth has eaten people's hearts and livers.

"Since you want to go to Qinghai, let's take people with you. Man Ye has almost caught the people there, so if you want to shepherd slaves, you can only go to the plateau to find them. If you want to hire a Ming person, the price should be fair. If I hear that there is something that harms the people of the Ming Dynasty......! ”

"Sir, you twist off my head and kick it as a ball."

"The one called Gesar, you can use it. And to make sure that he will live. This person is of great use to me, and once he dies, Lao Tzu's loss will be great. ”

"No! Don't worry, Dashuai, if you don't let him die, even if you reach the ghost gate, our brother will have to pull him back. In order to shoot Li Xiao's horses, Geng Zhongming was already a little shameless.

Even if he has great powers, it is estimated that he will not dare to rob people with the king of Hades.

Li Xiao doesn't care about this, Qinghai needs to garrison a strong Han army to ensure the safety of the Hexi Corridor. The existing field division sent to Qinghai has been ruined, and with the incident in Lanzhou last time, the garrison division does not seem to be safe.

Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming are two suitable brothers, their subordinates are fierce and good at fighting, and they have made a lot of military achievements over the years. Giving Qinghai to them can be regarded as a reward for them. In the future, potash mining will indeed be a very large income.

At the same time, the crops of the Ming Dynasty are applied with potassium fertilizer, which will greatly promote crop yields. It's a win-win in every way.

When he came, he was full of grievances and anger, and when he left, he was elated and grateful. Sometimes Li Xiao feels that sitting in this position is the role of a benefit distributor.

After Sun Chengzong's teaching, Li Xiao knew that just by talking about it, it would never be a big deal. When your subordinates know that you are just a big fool, you are not far from defeat. Li Xiao understands this sentence to mean that if there is a boss who is not interesting enough, there are employees who are not interesting enough.

Therefore, Li Xiao tried his best to put himself in the role of a distributor of interests, and this interest must be a win-win situation for the empire and his subordinates. Otherwise, sooner or later, the balance of power will be broken. When the time comes, these proud subordinates will become hungry wolves. Whether it will bite you or not, it definitely depends on whether there is a greater benefit.

It is not easy to do this and requires a lot of political skill and skill. Fortunately, there are teachers like Sun Chengzong and assistants like Zhang Huangyan.

If others are still rallying around Li Xiao for all kinds of interests. These two people are purely for the sake of faith, a belief that allows the Chinese nation to take off. For the sake of this belief, Sun Chengzong refused those requests from the family. Let only the military-talented grandson Sun Zhijie be the head of the guard!

The eldest son, who was quite scheming but had no city government, was simply driven back to his hometown to farm. In an atmosphere where great importance is attached to the cultivation of the eldest son, Sun Chengzong needs a great deal of determination to do so.

Zhang Huangyan is more pious than Sun Chengzong, and he has always acted in the interests of the empire. When some dirty and bad things will leave a reputation for eternity, he will rush to do it, without taking into account his history like a knife a hundred years later.

Moreover, Zhang Huangyan has been in Beijing for so many years, and there is only one wife, one concubine and one old servant in the family, and all the children stay in their hometown to study. The eldest daughter was married, and she was married to a showman in her hometown. At a time when wealthy families are popular to marry each other, this is a rare clear stream.

For these two people, Li Xiao is unconditional trust. Because they are not selfish!

"Daddy! Did you confiscate their tiger cubs too? Li Xiao, who was hysterical in the spring breeze in the northwest, felt that someone was pulling his sleeve.

Li Lin was very worried about his father's confiscation of his tiger, in his eyes, the little tiger was a bigger cat, very docile, and he liked the gift given to him by his third uncle Li Hu.

At the mention of this tiger, Li Xiao was so angry that his head smoked. Last winter, Li Hu didn't know where to get a Siberian tiger cub. It was given to Li Lin, who didn't know the height of the sky!

Children like small animals, and Li Lin naturally loves this "big cat" for ten minutes. All day long, I eat, sleep and study together, and drag the little tiger around the big handsome mansion when I have nothing to do.

Li Xiao was shocked when he saw the little tiger, although it was only a little tiger that had just been weaned, but the big yellow dog at the door was scared when he saw it. Let the child raise the tiger, and Li Hu can figure it out.

Can a tiger grow at the same rate as a human? This is a big tiger in the Northeast, which has grown into a behemoth of more than 200 kilograms and a body length of three or four meters in one or two years. The bite force is the best in the animal kingdom, and the force of a single paw is two tons. In front of such a beast, Wu Song is a snack.

In a year or two, even if Li Lin grows against the sky, he is only more than one meter tall and weighs dozens of pounds. A slap down the amount of negligible preschoolers, physiologically just beginning to withdraw teeth. Li Xiao was very worried that one day when they were playing together, Li Lin would be accidentally killed by a tiger.

decisively confiscated Li Lin's tiger, and as a result, Li Lin cried for several days. Several times, they pestered Li Xiao, saying that they could write a hundred big characters a day in exchange for the poor big cat.

"They don't have tigers in their house, they are two wolves, and they have come to eat. Tomorrow, your fourth uncle will come, you will follow your fourth uncle back to the capital, the northwest wind and sand are strong, and you are not suitable to stay here. Li Xiao patted Li Lin's head, the child is too young, let him spend a happy childhood. Children whose teeth haven't started to recede yet,Mixed in a gang of killers all day long.,It's a strange thing to learn well.。。

"I don't want to go back to the capital, the sky here is very good, and no one has forced me to write big characters yet."

Although Li Xiao knows that no one is forced to write in large characters. He still looked up at the sky, the northwest sky was very blue, and the clouds were very white, as if clumps of cotton were hanging in the sky and kept floating.

In spring, the northwest wind and sand are strong, and there are many sandstorms. Li Xiao led tens of thousands of troops to guard Hami, and it was not a wise choice to rush forward at this time. It's better to wait until the summer, when there is no sandstorm, and the airship can freely take off to reconnoitre, and then attack.