In the council building, the generals were still full of joy that the people could deliberately endure the cold and travel all the way to the border to spend the Shangyuan Festival with the soldiers.

You must know that since the change of generals, the new army in Zhenbei has come here, and it has been full of battles, but it has only been more than half a year.

And after half a year, they will be able to win the hearts of the people, which is also a proof of good governance for them.

What's more, looking at the history books, these generals know very well that you see that those soldiers and bandits are all defeated who treat the people like mustard. Everything must be at the right time, in the right place, in the right people.

And those who do great things will put the people first.

Only when the people want to do so can an iron army continue to grow.

The most famous is the historical fact that was recorded during the war of the founding ancestors of this dynasty:

"Today, with tens of thousands of people, you can only travel more than ten miles a day, how to meet the enemy when you are pursued by the enemy? It is better to abandon the people for a while. This was the opinion of the accompanying general to the general at that time.

"No." The leader of the team sternly refused.

And it was this act of not abandoning the people, and when the supply of grain and grass was insufficient after the team was broken up, the people rushed to support it.

It was also from among the people who picked up their weapons and joined the team for a while.

And no one thought that the team composed of these people would be trained into a division of tigers and wolves.

It can be said that it is still used to this day. Everywhere the soldiers went, the people still welcomed them wholeheartedly.

Because of this army of tigers and wolves, its name is Huo Jiajun.

This is the predecessor of the Huo Jiajun, which was recorded in the history books during the Kaizu period.

So it can be seen that today is indeed a slightly happier day for Huo Yunqian since he received the letter from home.

Huo Yunqian still remembers that when he was four years old, he and a cat he had at that time hid under the case of painting in his father's study to play nine consecutive rings.

The sun was shining that day, and the cat was sleepy next to him.

His father read an ancestral precept in his study, and asked his brother to read it aloud:

"Rectify military discipline, benevolence and strictness, soldiers do not violate orders, and the people do not get tired of soldiers......"

Half of the 320 words of the ancestral training are told by the ancestors of the Huo family to be people-oriented, and don't forget that the roots of the Huo family are in the people. It is even more worthy of the patriotic soul of those Chinese sons and daughters who came from the people back then.

The remaining half is just a few sentences of the way to train the army, and the art of controlling people with clear rewards and punishments.

Later, when he reached the age when it was time to recite the ancestral teachings, his father was about to teach him, and he recited them directly. He had gone out into the courtyard, and his father was still wondering when he had learned.

At this time, the generals were rarely relaxed, and they were smiling and talking about the Yangge performance below, saying that it seems that our soldiers are also very talented, suona together, you can also follow the twist two steps one by one, Jia Lai's deputy guard finally returned with a letter.

Jia Lai took the letter and knew that this matter was very popular with the general, so he was very relieved that he didn't read it first, and directly presented the letter to Huo Yunqian first.

Huo Yunqian was not polite, he originally planned to look at it first.

Let him see what the little girl dressed like a ghost fire has written.

Huo Yunqian took the letter and was stunned by the thickness.

Write a few words to him, that's called a struggle.

Write a letter to Jalai, and those who know it are letters, and those who don't know think they are writing books.

"Oh, go to someone, tell the dumplings to cook, wrap more, and let the people taste the dumplings we have here."

"Yes, General!" Sui He didn't care about waiting for others to respond, and took the lead in snatching this job.

Sui He glanced at Lu Yan with a smile again, and Lu Yan nodded with a smile, so he and Jia Lai's deputy guard went to arrange dumplings for the people.

Jia Lai smiled again and admonished: "Let's prepare some more red lanterns." ”

On this side, Huo Yunqian has already unfolded the letter.

The beginning of the letter is quite subtle, don't look at the scriptures, but Huo Yunqian understands that Xu Tianxin is confessing his mistakes.

The letter said that I recently read a book and learned that in history, the Su brothers did not follow the usual path when they were questioned in the palace examination. One scolded coolly, the other patted on the back, I didn't expect it to be high school.

And then the sycophant can still do it, and he has been fishing for his brother all his life. As soon as he got it back, his brother scolded him harshly again, and he was belittled again. Fishing again, depreciating again, and so on, it's not a big deal.

Xu Tianxin summed up from this incident, if you accidentally make a mistake, it's good to make a fool of yourself.

She summed it up all she could.

And she intends to follow suit.

In the letter, Xu Tianxin said that as a caller, she initially called on everyone to come to the border to visit the soldiers on the Yuan Festival, and her initial idea was that she also wanted to pat herself on the back and want to get a shallow look at her uncle.

Because her uncle accidentally made a mistake and mistakenly cut the century-old beauty pine listed by the Zhenbei Army. More than 80 other trees were also cut down, and the other trees had been taxed, so I didn't know what to do with this beauty pine.

No one dared to collect the tax, and I didn't know who hung the wooden sign in the Zhenbei Army, so I thought about taking a trip to get a good impression first, and by the way, I asked who was in charge of this matter and how much fine he had to pay.

Otherwise, her uncles would be in trouble. Although there was no delay in cutting later, it was also disturbing.

Huo Yunqian raised his eyebrows slightly, this is what Xu Tianxin said earlier, only a shallow fish, it is indeed quite shallow. has the relationship between Jia Lai and Lu Yan and is still worried about paying the fine, but he is quite honest and honest.

Then Huo Yunqian pondered, as long as he didn't cut down the halfway up the mountain in his photo, he could cut down the rest of the people who were willing to cut them, wasn't it just some trees? Why be careful.

While rummaging through the last page of the letter, there is a separate address.

Since that wild forest was not named, Xu Tianxin drew a topographic map of how to get there from Erdao River, her backer Grandpa Jialai.

Huo Yunqian thought to himself: The painting is very detailed, what a coincidence, it is the halfway up the mountain in his photo, and he wants to build the site of the Lin Temple there this year.

Huo Yunqian remembered that there were not many trees on the mountainside, otherwise there would be no way to build a temple.

After cutting down more than 80 roots......

Huo Yunqian was a little puzzled, there was a certain distance from the Erdao River, and a radius of a hundred miles, could it no longer stop the Xu family's progress? The expansion is pretty fast.

Huo Yunqian still remembered that the beautiful pine halfway up the mountain was an orange trunk with verdant needles, like dragon scales. The main trunk is straight and straight, with the feeling of soaring into the sky. Well, I have to say that Xu Tianxin's uncle is still quite discerning.

Okay, it's already been cut, what's the crime? They didn't know each other, pulling back timber from so far away in the wild forest, and everything was busy just for food and clothing.

Huo Yunqian knew that the Xu family would build a lot of houses this year, in order to solve the problem of more people's work, which required a lot of beams and wood.

Jia Lai peeked at the letter in Huo Yunqian's hand and found that he actually brought a topographic map, and the general only looked at the beginning, so he went to look at this map.

Jia Lai was a little puzzled, what did the girl mean in the letter she wrote to him?

If Jia Lai knew that the beginning was Xu Tianxin's admission of his mistake, he mistakenly cut down the "miracle" tree that was about to build the Dinglin Temple, which was to be used as a wishing forest.

And their general still felt that this was inappropriate, and even he would be a little surprised by the weight of Xu Tianxin in Huo Yunqian's heart.

It is important to know why the temple was built there, and the geographical location.

They expanded to the north of the town, a step in the plan.

Because from that wild forest, there is a sheep intestine path that can lead directly to the thirteen counties. Although those roads are overgrown with weeds now, if there are more people who come to make wishes, the weeds will be flattened, and no roads will become roads.

After passing through the thirteen counties, then walk a long road that has not yet been treaded, if you can go over the mountains and take a shortcut, you will soon reach another state capital. Take that state capital, where there are all directions, and the sea.

It's not like going to Fucheng from here, and then you will go to Jizhou Daying.

In short, it can be said that it was a strategic place, and the construction of temples was also public opinion.

In order to let more people know what kind of situation the Zhenbei Army is in.

In the future, there will really be a day when the muzzle of the gun will be inward, and I still hope that more people can understand it, which shows the importance of the Dinglin Temple that is about to be built, and Huo Yunqian just skipped it inappropriately.

Huo Yunqian continued to read the contents of the letter.

Xu Tianxin has already written that her grandmother decided which villages to gather that night.

This execution made Huo Yunqian feel that he was not wrong.

Xu Tianxin said that her grandmother also sublimated her original intention of shaking her cleverness, saying that if the first person knows what will happen if we cut down precious trees, even if she will still be fined money as usual, she will admit that she has already made a mistake.

Her grandmother just thought her advice was good.

Because the family's mutual market shop can make money, it all relies on the disciplined Zhenbei New Army to support the people. Go visit, as it should be.

And her family opened a shop to understand that the generals have New Year's gifts in other places, but ordinary soldiers do not.

As border people, we should consciously know that when it rains on a sunny day, peace does not dare to enjoy peace, and we must be mentally prepared at any time, if war really breaks out again one day, then it is very likely that these ordinary soldiers will go to the battlefield now.

In her grandmother's mind, she always believed that there was a passing that no one remembered.

And those soldiers who have been stationed at the border for many years have not returned home, and perhaps even their parents have forgotten what they looked like.

There was really a day, drunk and lying on the battlefield, Jun Mo smiled, and a few people came back to fight in ancient times. Her grandmother said she would talk to the older sisters about the young man she had visited. They need to remember.

Huo Yunqian put the two pages of the letter on the table and continued to read the next page.

Xu Tianxin seems to be dissecting psychology with Jia Lai.

In the letter, she said that she had her genesis at the beginning of her wit, but every day after that, she felt that the sound of response with a smile on her face was deafening to both her and her grandmother.

"Xujiazhuang, Sunjiagou, Yujiazhuang, Shanhetun, Jiaohe Village, Yangmajiazi, Xiaosanjiao Village, Sankeshu Village, Nianpangou, Baijiazhuang, Toadtang Village, Erdaohe Village, none of them.

There are two academies in the town, and the students should not be there.

Outside the money clerk and those merchants in the town, all of them should not be.

Everyone wanted to come to visit the soldiers who built the boundary monument with their flesh and blood, and wanted to bring laughter to the soldiers who were covered with frost and held on in the wind and snow, so they decided to go to the northern city in the wind and snow together. ”

Huo Yunqian finally knew why the letter was so thick.

Xu Tianxin also saw how the people fished, obviously they could be lazy, after all, they just came to visit and bring more and less, but the villagers from various villages kept fishing, saying that they would catch more and give more to the soldiers. It's cold, and if you don't eat enough, how can you stick to it.

She also wrote about how the peasant women actively cooked the vegetables and what they thought about it.

Huo Yunqian saw Xu Tianxin relaying those simple answers in the letter, and he was silent for a while.

And on the last two pages, Xu Tianxin's words to Jia Lai touched Huo Yunqian even more.

"The people of the north will always know better than any city.

An inch of mountains and rivers, an inch of blood, a handful of scorched earth and a wisp of soul.

I've been thinking about my father since I was about to go.

Back then, every family here was conscripted to have their sons taken, and no one understood better than the people here that the people in the north had to share the glory and disgrace with the Zhenbei army.

Especially now it is called the Zhenbei New Army, this time the main general has been changed, his surname is Huo, and he is hope in the hearts of the people.

The people are looking forward to the revitalization of the north, and it is the responsibility of the husband.

Second, I hope that General Huo, who comes from a century-old family, can become the Dinghai Divine Needle in the North, and the new army in Zhenbei will continue to grow, so that foreign enemies will no longer dare to invade.

Third, I hope that the enemy can go, and our army can also go.

I once asked an elderly grandfather, can you still twist Yangge with you?

He said that not only could he writhe, but he also said that the enemy had killed his own son, and if that day came, he would be able to go to the battlefield and kill the enemy.

So Grandpa Jia Lai, maybe the voice of the giant wheel of history is really too small, so that everyone only remembers the results of the victory or defeat of the war, but does not record the sacrifice of every ordinary soldier and civilian.

How the people hope that one day the new army in Zhenbei will avenge their son.

Ascend first, behead the general, capture the flag, bravely crown, take the enemy's battle flag and step on the horse, the new army in Zhenbei can go down in history and shock China.

Sincerely, I would like to salute every martyr who has never seen his face but is deeply gracious and loyal to the country.

Salute to every general who is not afraid of life and death, is fierce, and has been drinking ice for ten years.

Salute to the ordinary soldiers who stick to the frontier, stick to the northland, and guard the lights of thousands of homes.

Salute to all the soldiers who can't go home, Xu Tianxin. ”

Huo Yunqian's hand clenched the letter.

He felt that this was Xu Tianxin's New Year's greetings to him.

Jia Lai was still wondering, why the general's expression changed all of a sudden.

Huo Yunqian came to the window, the rice balls should have been cooked below, and Xu Tianxin's grandmother was telling the soldiers to eat it while it was hot.

And the other accompanying people, in order to make the soldiers happy, are still not tired and continue to twist Yangge.

Huo Yunqian took over the Northland this time, and he had already looked through the records.

At that time, there were not enough troops, and the front line requisitioned 53,000 erlang from the common people in the north to go to the battlefield, but in the end less than one thousandth returned.

I heard that a few years ago, in the northern part of the border, basically every household hung up white flags, and had not yet received compensation silver.

After making peace with the enemy, the court was satisfied, but the people in the north had nowhere to find their son's bones.

But it is these people with pain in their hearts, who came here at this time to make the soldiers happy and have an unforgettable Shangyuan Festival.

(End of chapter)