Ten years have passed in Xining, and in the past year, Yuan Rui said that he was leisurely, not counting, if he was very tired, he would not be tired, after all, many things did not need him to do by himself, but he was tired and irritable.

Especially now, he understands these things more comprehensively, and he can't go wrong in the early stage, and the loss is secondary, but if he smashes the pot, it will be difficult for him to explain.

From Jijiazhuang to Tonghai and then to Songjiang, Yuan Rui's plan to create wealth is to be fully rolled out.

Many outsiders see the Sun family and the Lu family, a car, a boatload of goods from the sea to the surrounding states, there are all kinds of colorful silk quilts, men's and women's down vests, down knee pads, and even down quilts.

In addition, unable to withstand the entanglement of the second son, the roast duck of the Yuan family was finally born, and two stores were opened in Tonghai and Shuyang in the early stage.

Of course, it must also be opened, the amount of down is too large, and those duck meat and goose meat are too troublesome, so you can't just throw it away, many people can't even eat enough.

Who knows, people nowadays care so much about food, as soon as they start selling, the hundreds of roast ducks prepared every day are gone all at once.

There's no way, no matter how much, Yuan Rui can't get it, and now he doesn't have those electrical equipment, so it took a lot of effort, if it weren't for Yuan Rui learning some fireplace barbecues that were uploaded in writing, he wouldn't even be able to make a hundred.

In fact, it's no wonder that most of the food now is boiled except for some cold dishes, and the current seasoning is still too little, and the cooked things are tasteless, so you can only mix a full stomach, where will there be those delicious enjoyments in the future.

As soon as the roast duck came out, it was undoubtedly the best delicacy in this era, especially Yuan Rui also used the later generations, fried all the skeletons of the meat, and marinated them with some cumin, soy sauce and other seasonings, the taste is absolutely amazing.

In the end, Yuan Rui thought that if he didn't take some time to bring over those spicy hot pots and hot pots in the future, this is a popular food anywhere, and the prospects are broad.

Now, the entire Yangzhou, Jingzhou and Tanzhou have begun to complete the layout.

Most places are in accordance with Yuan Rui's ideas, from the local procurement and production, inevitably, there are also a lot of imitation roast duck, roast goose, the Chinese people's ability to copy is really not covered.

Originally, the second son was a little worried, but Yuan Rui didn't have any sense of prevention, he already had a spectrum in his heart, these things are very simple and easy to do, and it is impossible to block.

Besides, this form of development is most conducive to the growth of the industry, and more people will be involved in promoting upgrading, and the acceptance of society will become more and more extensive, and the business can be better and better, and more and more money.

Here I would also like to thank Lu Ergongzi's father-in-law, the Zhang family is making ingredients and hotels, and has its own channels in many places, and the rapid expansion of roast duck has a great relationship with the Zhang family's investment.

Yuan Rui even thought one day that he should not go to Pennsylvania and Nantoe in the south to see if he could get the chili pepper back, then he could make some spicy braised vegetables, duck neck, duck wings, and of course, hot pot is also needed.

Yuan Rui also did a big thing in this year, that is, he, Wang Bo and Dashan began to quietly improve the rice seeds.

Since mid-March, he has cultivated seedlings that can be planted more than ten acres in the house next to the vegetable garden, and these seedlings can be quickly germinated and grown with the help of the so-called greenhouse cultivation method in later generations.

On the edge of the Yuan family's house, Yuan Rui asked Uncle Wang to prepare more than ten acres of paddy fields early, and turned the ground and fertilized it completely according to Yuan Rui's ideas.

Before the Qingming Festival, the paddy fields that had been deeply ploughed twice were already very well prepared.

Uncle Wang found a few more skilled hands, and under Yuan Rui's slightly nervous attention, he planted all the seedlings very carefully.

Uncle Wang didn't care, although Yuan Rui told him in advance, if it wasn't good, these more than ten acres of rice fields might not be harvested in the end, Uncle Wang felt that it didn't matter, even if the autumn harvest was gone, wasn't it just a few thousand catties of rice, it's okay!

Yuan Rui didn't have any hope for this attempt, as long as it didn't stop harvesting, it would be good, even if it was a big step.

Since the early rice was planted, Yuan Rui had one more thing, when he was fine, he ran to the edge of the paddy field, watched the seedlings grow little by little, and watched the ears grow little by little.

In fact, he doesn't understand, the quality of the growth of these crops, let alone the quality, the only thing he knows is that rice can't have too many ears.

Day by day, finally waiting for the final harvest!

There was no big surprise, but it still exceeded Yuan Rui's expectations, and if one acre of paddy field was planted, the harvest would be less than two hundred catties!

The battle in Xining's ninth year was finally won.

After King Huai got the news of the expedition, he immediately grasped the key.

He was stationed in Yulin Town for eight years, and he was very aware of the actual situation of the border army, and he also knew which places were the key.

He had actually made some arrangements before the court issued the decree.

He actually has a connection with Li Yan, the general of Yulin Town, mainly because many of his original subordinates have become the middle and low-level backbones of the Yulin border army.

As a general familiar with the war, he knew very well that the border army could not resist this attack.

He specially sent people to rush to the front of the army, hoping to move the 30,000 people of the Anning Station, which had been expanded by 5,000 veterans of the Huai Army, to the sand castle north of Ansai, just in case.

sent a thousand pro-army guards around him to Longzhou overnight, which would be considered a rebellious move, but he couldn't take care of it, and the border pass was important.

Of course, he also has an eighty percent hope of becoming the general who leads the army again, and if so, everything will be justified.

It can be said that before that, the only thing he didn't expect was that the thorn would march so quickly, or his arrangement might have been more cautious and timely.

Shenmu's general made a meritorious service, he did not put up a desperate resistance in Shenmu, and directly evacuated all the officers and soldiers into Yanshui City behind him.

Shenmu has no need for defense, the city is short, and the surrounding area is full of valleys, and there is no defensive danger that can be relied upon.

Salt water is different, this is a city jutting out of the plateau, the terrain is high, just choking the passage in and out of the grassland valley, and behind it is the desolate Loess Plateau.

That is, in Yanshui, the officers and soldiers of the border gave full play to their own advantages in the entire defense, and stubbornly blocked the pace of the rapid march of the flower thorns.

They took advantage of the terrain of the plateaus on the left and right sides of the city to keep the enemy facing frontal attacks from officers and soldiers on three sides, and suffered heavy losses.

However, in the face of the attack of hundreds of thousands of troops, the city was breached by the thorns after paying the price of almost all the deaths of 5,000 officers and soldiers defending the city.

At this point, the last pass in front of Ansai was lost, but the thorn spent a full twenty days here, with more than 30,000 dead and wounded.

The general of this defender was surnamed Xu, the third son of the Duke of Wei, Xu Guanghan, who died in Yanshui City, Longzhou, at the age of twenty-five.

It was these more than 20 days that bought the last time for the Ansai defenders, and the 8,000 Ansai defenders strengthened the city day and night, prepared a large number of defensive materials, and evacuated all the people in the city to the rear.

He also transferred all the militia regiments and defensive equipment in several counties in the surrounding counties, and dismissed the people in the county, turning Ansai into an isolated city.

After waiting for more than ten days, when the Thorn army came to Ansai, the entire Ansai city was almost a hard turtle shell.

Ansai City is a place where logistics materials are stored, and the materials are sufficient, and the daily necessities prepared in advance can be used for at least a year.

The Thorn army launched a non-stop siege day and night for more than ten consecutive days, and all the trebuchets and rack carts were pulled up, especially the bows and arrows that kept going day and night also brought great damage to the city.

But the advance preparation in Ansai City is not in vain, in the face of the ever-changing tricks of the thorns, the Ansai defenders deal with them one by one, and do not panic in the face of strong enemies.

For Ansai, the bow and arrow that came in were drawn and shot back, and the stone that was thrown smashed was smashed as a rolling stone to defend the city.

In this way, after 20 days, the officers and men defending the city got rid of the hundreds of officers and soldiers who could not dodge and were directly shot to death, and the others were slightly wounded.

Ansai's form made the generalissimo of the thorn Mudorata furious, and the delay of more than fifty days made the advantage that the thorn had carefully prepared in the early stage and was not easy to occupy was lost.

At the same time, the exploration of the surrounding area has been reported, and there is not a single officer or soldier, a single civilian, or a grain of grain within a radius of 100 miles.

Now there are two options for Thorn, one is to do everything possible to defeat Ansai and then march in the direction of Chang'an, and the other is to leave part of the troops to besiege Ansai, and the rest of the troops to bypass Ansai and attack Chang'an.

Of course, it is best to attack, once the siege is not fought, no matter what the future holds, Ansai will become a key nail, and I don't know when it will become a nightmare for the thorns.

In fact, without waiting for him to hesitate too much, there was not much time left for him, and the spies came to report that King Huai's reinforcements had arrived in Chang'an.

Of course, these courts didn't know that King Huai had also led an army of 50,000 to a place a hundred miles south of Ansai.

The 100,000 border troops led by Li Yan, the general of Yulin Town, have already inserted the thorns from Yulin to Hu Ritu, the rear of the thorns, and once again took the 30,000 light cavalry of Anning as the vanguard, which is one of the countermeasures discussed by Li Yan and King Huai in advance.

Li Yan, born in Longyou Li family, ancestor for the Song Dynasty famous general Li Jilong, father and ancestor three generations are a famous general, great-grandfather once followed the Huai army marshal General Han to fight against the Mongols, made great achievements, was canonized by Emperor Xia Liguo as the Marquis of Shangyang.

Li Yan not only personally led the army north to cut off the back road of the thorn, but also sent a general to lead the army of 50,000 to kill An Ning and block the back road of the retreat of the thorn army.

His idea, even if he can't leave all the Thorn army behind, will let the Thorn suffer heavy casualties, and at least five years will not have the strength to go south.

With King Huai chasing after him, and constantly intercepting and attacking on the way, waiting for Hu Ritu to launch the final blow, Li Yan can be said to be a camp step by step.

In the first half of the next stage, almost all of the thorn marches were in Li Yan's calculations, and the 30,000 guards only blocked the King of Huai for ten days, and they were all annihilated in Shenmu.

After five days of attacking the 50,000 troops who had reoccupied the city, the Thorn army suffered heavy losses and had to make a detour.

Just when Li Yan's 100,000 army was intercepted in front and King Huai's 100,000 pursuers in the back, the generalissimo Mudorata made a very unexpected decision at this time.

The army stopped its retreat to the north, went straight to the west, crossed the Yellow River from Zhongning, and once again entered Helan along the edge of the desert, returning to Huathorn from Jinsha.

At this point, the battle came to an end, with 500,000 soldiers marching and less than 200,000 returning.