Zhu Di lowered his head and pondered for a moment, looked at Cheng Yuan and asked, "Boy, if I don't go back to Beiping City, what do I need to do if I stay on the periphery?" ”

Cheng Yuan said: "What the prince has to do is to constantly eliminate the main force of the Southern Army, and keep fighting guerrillas with them, anyway, it is to delay the progress of the Southern Army on the battlefield." ”

Delay the consumption of grain and grass for the Southern Army.

Leave plenty of time for reinforcements.

Zhu Di had a headache, he had never been so annoyed when he attacked Mobei in the past, and it was too much of a loss to have few troops.

Cheng Yuan drew two circles on the map, "Now that the southern army is heading north, the prince's Yan army is very familiar with the north, isn't this heavenly help?" Send a few soldiers and horses to cut off their grain and grass transportation, give full play to the advantages of the Yan army, and drag them down.

Now it is almost September, and after two or three months of cold in the north, the prince will cut off their route so that the southern army will have no clothes to wear and no food to eat, and will be defeated without a fight. ”

Zhu Di heard Cheng Yuan's arrangement, and after comparing left and right, he decided to adopt his way: "Boy, boy, this king didn't mistake you." ”

Cheng Yuan said: "Now the prince needs to do two things, one is to arrange for the lobbyist to borrow soldiers and horses from Zhu Quan, the king of Ning.

The second thing is to let people take Geng Bingwen directly back to Beiping Mansion to defend the city, they must be held, those corn has matured, and the sweet potato seedlings planted by the people have also produced sweet potatoes, these are the winter food of the Yan army, and they need to be harvested. ”

Zhu Di patted the back of his head, and said with some embarrassment: "I'm afraid Zhu Quan won't agree, I'm not very sure." After all, this Wang Jingnan raised troops to invite him several times, but he avoided it. I'm afraid I won't borrow troops. ”

Cheng Yuan said: "Borrow the first text, if King Ning doesn't borrow soldiers, let's borrow it!" There is no room for further delay. ”

Zhu Di understood what Cheng Yuan meant, and persuaded King Ning not to listen, so he forcibly snatched his soldiers, and he said, "Boy, who do you think is appropriate?"

Gao Chi? Longevity? Or Zhu Neng, Zhang Yu, them? ”

"The Master and I." Cheng Yuan smiled.

Dao Yan can't let this mosquito-like guy go to King Ning's side to buzz and brainwash him.

"Although King Ning did not agree to raise troops with the prince, he did not accept the arrangement of the imperial court to go back to Beijing, so we can try to work hard and light the flame of King Ning's attack on the imperial court."

Zhu Quan's domain is in Daning, east of Liaodong, west of Xuanfu, here is the place where soldiers must fight, and the king of Ning has 80,000 armor, and there are 6,000 leather cars, and the king of the vassal is the best except for the king of Yan.

King Ning Zhu Quan was also suspected, and Zhu Yunwen took back King Ning's three guards, and then continued to urge King Ning to return to Beijing. But Zhu Quan has not returned to Beijing for a long time, and he is still staying in his Daning.

After Cheng Yuan prompted, Zhu Di remembered that Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, had a brave and good fighting Duoyan Sanwei cavalry, as well as 80,000 elite divisions.

If these 80,000 elite soldiers can be collected under his command, the "Battle of Jingjing" he launched will have another chance of victory.

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In Beiping Mansion at the beginning of September, it was the dry and rainy season, and the corn of the 100-acre garden in Yanwang Mansion had matured.

In this era, corn planting will naturally have some grains that are not full, but each tree simply bears two to three corns.

An Cheng looked at Zhu Gaochi at the edge of the corn field and said, "Big brother, what did he say in his letter?" ”

Zhu Gaochi looked around, pulled the letter out of his sleeve and said, "This is given to you by Mr. Cheng." ”

"It is said that Geng Bingwen has returned to his father, but the court ordered Li Jinglong to take command, and the southern army of more than 500,000 marched north.

The Yan army attacked Zhending City several times, but did not capture it, Jiangyin Marquis Wu Gao led the men and horses to start attacking Yongping, and the father said that let us guard the city of Beiping, and would arrange for the men and horses to come back to help us. ”

"Arrange for people? Could it be Cheng Yuan? The county lord of Ancheng stood there prettyly, looked at Zhu Gaochi and said, "Is it him?" ”

Zhu Gaochi looked at his sister, peeled out a piece of corn and said, "Look at this corn, the soldiers have food for the winter." ”

Seeing that his eldest brother deliberately didn't say anything, the county lord of Ancheng took his dress, walked to the field of the greenhouse, broke the corn and said, "Big brother, tell me quickly." ”

Zhu Gaochi said: "Because the Yan army is not enough soldiers, Mr. Cheng decided to take someone to Daning to borrow troops from Uncle Huang, if Uncle Huang refuses, Mr. Cheng is naturally in great danger." ”

An Cheng naturally knew about Zhu Quan, and was a little worried, and said with red eyes: "He just doesn't want to come back to see me, so he has to go to Daning." ”

At this time, Princess Yan Xu brought Xu Miaojin and them over, and when they heard that the corn was going to be harvested today, everyone rushed to help.

Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, also went down to the ground, peeled out a corn and said: "Cheng Yuan said, this thing called corn is ground into flour and called cornmeal, which is the same as rice steamed buns, and this king will let people grind it later." ”

Hearing Zhu Bai say this, Zhu Gaochi hurriedly came over and said, "These corns should be set up and hung in the air, so that they will be easier to peel when the time comes." ”

Xu Miaojin looked at the corn and said, "I didn't expect this Cheng Yuan to have such a ability to grow corn like gold." ”

Princess Yan Xu also picked up the corn, and according to the method written in Cheng Yuan's letter, she ordered someone to find a few more tender ones, and said, "Come on, take these corns and boil them, and taste how they taste." ”

Gu Chengdao beside him: "It looks hard, can it really be eaten?" Can it taste good? ”

"We'll find out later." Zhu Gaochi ordered the soldiers to put all the corn stalks in a bag and put them up.

Cheng Yuan had previously told him that these corn stalks were made into forage to feed horses and cows. It's ready-made forage.

Later, the sweet potatoes were also dug out basket by basket, and the soldiers quickly counted the output of sweet potatoes this year and reported to Zhu Gaochi.

"Back to the world, this year's sweet potatoes yield thousands of catties per mu, thanks to Mr. Cheng for teaching us how to use fertilizer."

Zhu Gaochi said: "Pick a batch of sweet potatoes and store them in the cellar, as well as seedlings to cultivate, the weather has been cold these days, and put them in the greenhouse." ”

Xu Miaojin thought for a while, pointed to the sweet potatoes and corn and said, "Find a painter to draw it, and publish it in the People's Daily when the time comes, so as to publicize it." ”

When the county lord of Ancheng saw his aunt propose, he also came over and said, "Yes, I will order someone to add the sweet potato and corn harvest to the civil newspaper that will be issued in the next few days." ”

The soldiers of Beiping Mansion are busy.

Piles of corn were broken out, and sweet potatoes were transported to the ridges in baskets. The soldiers bundled all the corn stalks into bundles, took them to crush, and prepared for the miscellaneous servants to transport the horses to Zhendingyi to bring to the Yan army camp.

Half an hour later, the cooked corn was delivered by the cook in the house, and everyone waited expectantly.

Princess Yan Xu ordered the corn to be cut into small pieces, and then distributed them to Zhu Bai, Zhu Gaochi, Xu Miaojin and Gu Cheng.

"The corn is sweet and has a fragrant taste." Xu Miaojin took two bites and said that it was delicious, and her opinion of Cheng Yuan gradually changed in her heart.

Zhu Bai said: "This king has eaten sweet potatoes, is it better than sweet potatoes?" ”

Zhu Gaochi said: "Corn is sweet, it is definitely better than sweet potatoes, try it." ”

An Cheng took the corn and looked at it, this corn was still planted by Cheng Yuan, I didn't expect this guy to be so powerful.

"Mr. Cheng is a great talent......" Gu Cheng praised while eating.

Corn and sweet potato harvests. It can solve the general grain of the Yan army, and the corn stalk can also be used as grain and grass.