For so many years, Li Yue has actually been secretly vigilant.

However, now that cheap yellow rattan paper and engraving printing have come out, another force will rise in the future and gradually disintegrate the privileges of the scholars.

Cui's has not yet reached the point of the gate valve, and he has not done anything out of the ordinary in the past few years, and all kinds of taxes are not bad.

In this great drought, the Cui family also took out 30,000 stone of grain and handed it over to the imperial court to help the people.

The so-called gate valve is the power of a state or a county, which controls hundreds of thousands or even millions of people under its command, and has its own tribes and cities.

Looking at the entire Liang Kingdom, only the Hedong Xue clan is barely half a gate valve, but that is because of the special situation, and before it returned to the Liang Kingdom, it has become a climate.

If he didn't have this kind of strength, he would have been annihilated in the Wuhu Rebellion.

Li Yue retracted his mind, the road is to go step by step, now is to annex Qin and unify the northern country, and other matters will be left for later, there will always be an opportunity to solve them.

Whether it is the Han Dynasty's mausoleum system or Wu Zetian's use of cool officials, there is no shortage of means to restrain them in history.

At present, China is weak, and the northern land is full of a large number of alien races, and the primary contradiction is not them, but how to integrate these alien races.

Fu Jian is struggling now, in fact, there are too many of these foreign chieftains, and they all have soldiers.

The army marched westward.

Although both Guanzhong and Kanto were affected by the drought, the two states and Nakju were not greatly affected.

After Xiuwu, the earth gradually turned from a withered yellow to verdant.

Although the flow of the Yellow River has decreased, the water of Hyun and Qinshui, which meanders down from Shangdang, is abundant, nourishing the land of Luozhou.

It is no wonder that the vast majority of dynasties in history had their capital at Luoyang.

There is the danger of mountains and rivers, the left is based on the Kanto, the right is in the Guanzhong, the south looks at Jingxiang, and the surrounding areas are grain producing areas.

Li Yue drove his troops to the west of the Yellow River, observing the land of Luozhong along the way, the city was solemn, the sky was longitudinal and horizontal, and the withering of the past had long been gone.

"In the future, how about my Liang follow Cao Wei's example and set up the five capitals?" Li Yue was on a whim.

"Yecheng, Xuchang, Qiao, Luoyang, Chang'an?" Cui Hong opened his mouth that Cao Wei had five capitals.

In fact, the Han Dynasty also set up Luoyang, Handan, Linzi, Wan, and Chengdu as the five capitals, and shared the world's money and grain.

Li Yue shook his head, "Yecheng is the northern capital, Luoyang is the central capital, Chang'an is the western capital, Jiankang is the eastern capital, and Chengdu is the southern capital. ”

The five capitals, directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, respectively control the five major regional plates of Hebei, Central Plains, Guanzhong, Bashu and Jiangdong.

However, three of the five capitals are not in the territory of the Liang State.

"Your Majesty...... The ambition is unexpected! Cui Hong said with a smile.

"In my lifetime, I will unify China!" Li Yue rode forward.

After passing through the Yiguan, he entered the boundary of Hedong, and Wei Shan personally led the generals of Hedong to greet him.

Wei Shan led the troops to be alone outside for many years, and became much more mature and stable.

"What's the matter with the scars on your face?" Li Yue could see at a glance that there was a long and narrow scar on the right side of his face.

"At the beginning of the siege of Deng Qiang, the ministers led the elite to invite him to fight, but I didn't think that Deng Qiang didn't encounter it, and was injured by the Qin thief's secret arrow, and the arrow almost lifted off half of the minister's face." Wei Shan said indignantly.

"Now you are also a national general, how can you be so reckless?" Li Yuegang felt that he was calm, and he was immediately slapped in the face.

Fortunately, I didn't meet Deng Qiang, otherwise I would have choked Wei Shan if I picked it up alone.

Li Yue still knows how many catties and taels of this guy is, and he is also a brave general, and he is a lot worse than the enemy of 10,000 people.

Deng Qiang is more than ten years younger than him, and he is the age of the dragon and the tiger.

Wei Shan laughed twice, trying to get by.

Li Yue killed people and said: "People want to serve the old, and charging into battle is a matter for young people!" ”

"How old is the minister?" Wei Shan argued.

Everyone around is smiling.

After some greetings, the army entered Anyi.

On the second day, Wang Meng and Xue Qiang rushed from Anyi to meet them.

Wang Meng guarded Taiyuan and presided over the affairs of the west for two or three years.

After this battle, Li Yue had to let him rest for a year and a half to recuperate his body.

originally thought that Xue Qiang was a Confucian like Wang Meng, but unexpectedly, he was dressed in Confucian armor, burly and strong, powerful and powerful, and more like a fierce general than Wei Shan.

"Minister Xue Qiang greets Your Majesty."

"Please get up, please get up." Li Yue helped him up, "Hedong Xue Clan, sure enough, there are many talents!" ”

The Xue clan stretched from the Sixteen Kingdoms to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and there were many big names.

"Your Majesty praises falsely, although there are many talents in the Xue family, they are all in China and loyal to the Great Liang." Xue Qiang's answer was leaky, and he couldn't find any fault.

If the Liang represents China, the Xue family will be loyal to the Liang.

In one sentence, you can see Xue Qiang's level, and he is worthy of becoming close friends with Wang Meng.

"Great goodness, set up a banquet, today should be drunk with you, and I congratulate Daliang on adding another Wang Zuozhicai!" Li Yue also showed his heart, and at the same time secretly held Xue Qiang's hand.

Wang Meng smiled and said: "Haha, Your Majesty's eyes are like a torch, and his talent is enough to be Wang Zuo's responsibility!" ”

Sure enough, Xue Qiang looked overjoyed when he heard this, but quickly calmed down, "Don't dare, don't dare, you are a talented person, and fortunately your majesty favors you." ”

The sedan chair carries people.

Blowing around like this, Li Yue also felt embarrassed, but fortunately, the banquet was prepared.

Everything in the army is simple, Qiang cooks and burns, eats meat and drinks in large bowls.

Although it was a simple wine banquet, Wei Shan also put his mind into it, the deer head was cooked, cut into two finger sizes, accompanied by pork as a soup, the green onion and white were boiled in the kettle together, ginger, orange peel, and pepper were crushed, and bitter wine, salt, and tempeh were used as a flavor dish.

This way of eating has been popular all over the world since the beginning of Thailand.

But the people present certainly didn't come to eat or drink.

Wang Meng and Xue Qiang picked up the wine bottle together and saluted Li Yue.

A bottle of wine in his stomach, Wang Meng went straight to the topic, "The drought in Guanzhong is very severe, and the scouts have recently sent back the news, thousands of miles of red land, cattle and horses gnaw each other's hair, the people are frightened, and the strong soldiers do not dare to send it, but the dragons have no leader." ”

Historically, major droughts have started in Guanzhong in the upper reaches of the Yellow River.

"Today, Your Majesty will lead 100,000 black cloud elites to Hedong and enter Guanzhong, and there will be heroes to respond." Xue Qiang said.

On this occasion, Wei Shan on the side couldn't interject, Cui Hong was too young to speak.

Li Yue picked up a piece of venison and put it in his mouth, it was really delicious, and it was still enjoyed by the old scholars, "I'm afraid that Fu Jian will make a desperate bet first, this is his last chance, defeat me, and all the hidden dangers in Guanzhong will be solved." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty is here, Fu Firm will speed up his hands and feet, the chaos in Guanzhong is not far away, now the Yellow River is dry, the river is narrowing, and there are many places where water can cross the river." Wang Meng drank another bottle of wine.

There are many places where the river can be crossed, but Kabasaka is stuck behind, blocking the grain road, and it is never possible to get around.

Deng Qiang has extremely strong military ability, leaving him behind, Li Yue is not at ease.

That is, the first battle of the Qin attack will inevitably break out in Pusaka.

"After three days of rest, I led a large army to attack Puban, and people said that Deng Qiang was an enemy of ten thousand people, and I wanted to see if this person could turn the tide."

"The minister has prepared siege equipment, just waiting for His Majesty's order."

Maybe it was because of his weak body, after Wang Meng drank two bottles of wine, his eyes began to wander......

(End of chapter)