Chapter 44: Winter Snow

Chen Cang is not as good as Longcheng, this city is high and strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, whether it is Zhang He or Cao Zhen, will not be stupid enough to use cavalry to attack the city, therefore, Li Xian ordered all the subordinates to strangle the danger even if it is as strong as Sima Yi unless the enemy is lured out of the city, otherwise it is extremely difficult for Chen Cang to lose, so Zhang He's army camped in Weishui, and did not want to attack, but on the day Zhuge Liang just left, he carried out an effective assault on the army stationed outside Li Xiancheng, of course, thanks to Wang Lang's strategy, Therefore, although Cao Zhen's army was shot back by the bed crossbow that night, it was also a victory in a small battlefield, although this army retreated very quickly, but it lost the camp tents and other materials that had just been established, fortunately, there were only hundreds of casualties, after all, Cao Zhen suffered a big loss from the sneak attack last time, so he did not dare to launch a large-scale surprise attack, but the cavalry led by Zhang Hu charged over, but because of the huge lethality of the bed crossbow, there was no time to clean the battlefield, so even the rattan armor on the dead soldiers was withdrawn one by one, The inventory is correct before processing.

Chen Cang is too guarded.

"It looks like it's going to snow." Li Xian sat on the desk, staring at the sky outside the mansion with his eyes, and there was still a moment of leisure when he was rarely fighting, so he raised his hand and picked up the tea bowl and took a sip on the side of his mouth, his thoughts flew around, thinking about the dreamlike scene in the past few years, from the beginning of the escape from Yiling Hell until the battle of Longcheng repelled Zhang He, and even he didn't dare to imagine, if the situation has changed today, history is destined not to go towards his original tricks, what if he faces such a famous general and wise man again, his thoughts are repeated, and he feels bored, I wanted to take a nap, and I was just about to lie down, but I heard someone report that a group of Nanzhong businessmen had come, and the person headed by Sun Zusong wanted to see Taishou.

"Let him in." Li Xian lazily raised his hand, and then yawned.

After a short time, Sun Zusong had already walked in quickly, and when he looked at it again, this person's whole body was almost full of silver jewelry, and his body was also clanging when he walked, and he looked a little jeweled for a while.

"Hey, Brother Sun has made a lot of money in Nanzhong?" Li Xian smiled, "What a little silver man." ”

Sun Zusong was also smiling when he heard this, and hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Where is it, it is still the blessing of the general, and this is only a little successful in Nanzhong." ”

Only then did Li Xian ask: "Now that Chen Cang is on the front line, Brother Sun is here, aren't you afraid of war?" Sun Zusong arched his hand and said: "General, what is this saying, if there is no general, Nanzhong has today's situation, not to mention that I came with the king's order this time, one is to ask the general whether the front line is hard, and ordered me to bring some unique medicinal materials in Nanzhong, and secondly, the vulture bone king and my king have become brothers in Taojiang, this vulture bone lord ordered me to send 10,000 pairs of rattan armor, 5,000 pieces of rattan armor horse armor as a thank-you gift, but halfway through the king Meng Shu felt that the rattan armor was gray and dark and not atmospheric enough, so I soaked it in yellow dye, It's like this. After that, Sun Zusong raised his hand and ordered someone to carry a cart of rattan armor, and the moment he opened the goods, a dazzling light instantly shot out from the cargo box, until Sun Zusong opened him completely, and it was a pair of armor and the armor according to the drawings that Li Xian had given to the vulture bone.

"It's... Rattan armor...? Tian Dali looked at it and was stunned for a while.

Yes, it's the rattan armor, the golden rattan armor, the earliest gold fraud case, is it going to appear in Chencang? Li Xian was also stunned for a while, but if he looked closely, it was obviously not as shiny as metal, but if it was in the daytime, it was really difficult to distinguish for a while.

"Yes, it's the rattan armor." Sun Zusong arched his hand.

Li Xian hurriedly put away his originally stunned and abnormal expression, and said: "Your king is really generous, 10,000 pairs of rattan armor is enough for him to feel distressed." ”

Sun Zusong shook his head and said: "General, this is not the wish of the king alone, but the wish of the entire people of Nanzhong, they are grateful to the general for raising business with balls and farming with business, and now the prosperity of Jianning is no worse than Chengdu, and many people in Jiaozhou have migrated over, which has caused the Wu army over there to be very dissatisfied, but there is nothing to be done." ”

Li Xianyan also nodded, his mind moved, and he said to Tian Dali, Gong Jie, and Xu Zhen in a blink of an eye: "You three, see it, we must put the people first at all times, we are from the people, and naturally we have to return to the people, any decision that deviates from the needs of the people is wrong, and any behavior that stands on the opposite side of the people is a hostile behavior, understand?" ”

The three of them nodded frequently when they heard the words, and they didn't know if they understood or not, anyway, Xu Zhen should not understand, and they had to nod, Li Xian said at this time that a great man had taught us, and then replaced the people with the people.

Sun Zusong arched his hand and said: "The general cares about the people, Kuang supports the Han family, we are businessmen with a low status, if it weren't for the general's support, I'm afraid that I would have died in an unknown corner of Nanzhong by now, and I still want to do my best for the country." ”

Li Xian nodded and said: "In this way, these rattan armors, the three of you will lead the headquarters to replace them with new armor, and the old ones will be used by the new soldiers, don't forget, ask General Liao and General Zhang if they need more, and we will keep more horse armor for ourselves." ”

When the three of them heard this, they immediately gave up their orders and went out of the Taishou Mansion and happily went to distribute the armor.

Li Xian glanced at Sun Zusong, who was sitting under the hall, and asked, "Brother Sun is here to transport goods all the way, is the Sword Pavilion plank road easy to pass?" ”

When Sun Zusong heard this, he immediately came to the spirit: "General, you don't know, it turns out that the Sword Pavilion plank road is really difficult to walk, and it basically depends on manpower to transport the goods out of there, and if you are not careful, it is a cliff, at that time, there were many people who transported grain died there, and later heard that the prime minister wanted goods to pass Qiang Hu, these merchants in order to make profits, they actually contacted all the rich merchants to start renovating the Sword Pavilion plank road, and they were together in the book, and got the consent of His Majesty, these people have money to gather a lot of people, Nowadays, although the Sword Pavilion Plank Road is still on the cliff, it is extremely spacious, and there are iron plate paving roads in some places, which is convenient for the black wheeled vehicles transporting goods to move around. ”

"And such a thing?" Li Xian was also stunned for a while, what he didn't expect was that these businessmen really didn't want to die in order to make money, and it was unheard of for them to renovate the plank road in their own joint venture, and they could also pave the road with iron plates. ”

"By the way, General, there is another thing, this is a medicinal herb that I specially got back from Nanzhong." As if he had forgotten something, Sun Zusong hurriedly took out a small box from his arms, and as soon as the box was opened, Li Xian actually smelled the familiar question that he had not seen for a long time, and immediately exclaimed: "Yunnan Baiyao?" ”

Sun Zusong was also shocked: "General, why don't you know that he is white?" ”

Li Xian was also stunned, he didn't control it for a while, and quickly reined in, how could this Sun Zusong know that this thing brushes his teeth with this every day, and he didn't hold back for a while. Li Xian also hurried to see the box, a piece of green with white, white with green luster emerged, the key is that the white medicine technology at this time is not mature, so there is a lot of green light.

"Brother Sun, let me ask you, do you Nanzhong people use this to deal with bruises and sprains?" Li Xian asked.

Sun Zusong was shocked again: "General, have you used it?" ”

"No, I've just heard someone mention it, okay, don't dwell on this matter, didn't Brother Sun bring this here to replenish armaments?" Li Xian asked.

Sun Zusong also nodded when he heard this, and said: "This thing is quite effective in treating external injuries, and it is not an extremely expensive medicinal material, mainly notoginseng grass and borneol, etc., and the best people will also pour some people to participate in grinding and cooking, but the military consumption is large, so there is no need to use it. ”

"Brother Sun, what are you arranging now? This Chen Cang has just been taken and is still in the midst of the war, and some places are still being repaired, so it should not be suitable for business at present. Li Xian also nodded and quickly opened the topic.

Sun Zusong arched his hand and said: "Where is the general talking about, the sage Yunda is both helpful to the world, and the poor are good alone, this Chen Cang has just experienced the war, and the people are suffering, it is when I need to help, the general is like a useful place for me, but with a word of knowledge, everything goes." ”

Li Xianyan also admired such a kind of affectionate and righteous businessman, he did not make a fortune, and it was intolerable for him to drink a cup immediately, and after three rounds of drinking, he ordered someone to take him to the west of the city to settle down.

After Sun Zusong left, Li Xian took a closer look at the enemy camp outside Chencang City, and there was no movement for several days, and he also felt that it was surprisingly quiet, so he wanted to send someone to investigate, and immediately ordered that the night owl army should go to explore the truth at night.

However, this time the night owl's temptation seems to have tried a lot of things, especially Zhang He's arrangement of troops seems to have changed people, not like Cao Zhen's style, could it be that Cao Rui has changed his commander before the battle? However, what is certain is that Cao Zhen is still in the Wuzhangyuan camp.

The next day, Li Xian looked at the gloomy weather, as if he was shrouded in a layer of confused fog, and then it snowed heavily, and after a while, the snow in the school field was already up to his knees, and it seemed that he could not continue to exercise military exercises today, so he warmed tea in the Taishou Mansion and talked with all the soldiers.

Among them, Liao Hua is obviously the oldest, but he is very respectful, but it makes people feel a little unable to let go, and his words are extremely cautious, while Zhang Ning is much stronger, and he chatted with these people after a while.

"Report! General, General Zhao Yun is critically ill in Chengdu, and there is a letter to the general! ”

"What! Master! Li Xian was like a thunderbolt from the sky, he couldn't stand steadily, and the voice in the hall suddenly went out......