"In this case, you should immediately return to the Yaya, prepare the official documents, and send them to Liangzhou together with my reply tomorrow morning.

Let's disperse. Taifu stayed. ”

After the six Shangshu went out, the emperor asked the Taifu, "Why didn't Mr. say a word?" ”

"Your Majesty has already made a calculation in his heart, so why do you need to say more about the old minister."

The emperor asked, "Sir, do you think Changqing can do this?" ”

"I don't know." Taifu held up what Meng Changqing had written, "The minister wants the two princes to take a look." ”

The emperor instructed Gonggong Qian, "Call the crown prince and the third prince." ”

In the end, they lived in the palace, and the two princes came relatively quickly, "The son saw his father and the emperor, and he saw the Taifu." ”

"Go to Taifu's side and look at two things." The emperor refused to say a word to his son.

When the prince saw that it was written by Meng Changqing, he was more excited, but he was soon attracted by the content of the congratulatory message, seeing the bad environment in Beishan County, he couldn't help but miss him and feel sorry for the people of Beishan County.

After reading the two things, the prince's first reaction was to look at the map, and the third prince also followed when he saw this.

"What do you see?" The emperor asked.

Before the crown prince could speak, the third prince preemptively said: "If there is this wall, the land area of my Daliang can be increased, and the people over there can also live a good life." ”

The Emperor looked at the crown prince.

The prince said: "The location of Beishan County was originally our territory. Changqing's original intention was to seek a way for the people of Beishan County to survive, but at the same time, this move was beneficial to the three nearby counties.

Although this matter was proposed by Changqing, it has been approved by the prefect of Liangzhou, I wonder if my father finally agreed? ”

"What do you think?"

"The son thinks that the father should agree." The prince said, "When the imperial grandfather was there, in order to recapture Liangzhou City from the Yan army, tens of thousands of soldiers filled with their lives, and now Changqing only needs these things, he can occupy the position of Beishan County for Daliang, and there is no more cost-effective deal in the world."

The father should believe that Changqing is a reliable person, and he will never mention it if he is not sure. ”

The emperor asked the crown prince, "In your opinion, he can build a forty-mile wall in two months?" ”

"Changqing once took his sons to dig the soil of the imperial garden in winter, the capital is not as cold as Liangzhou, and the frozen soil is more than a foot deep in the winter months. Erchen himself dug and knew how hard it would take to dig up such soil.

Changqing knows this better than Erchen.

And the time to build a long-distance city wall has always been measured in years, and Erchen has never heard anyone say that such a city wall can be built in more than a month.

However, Changqing did not write how high and wide the wall he wanted to build, or what kind of material it was made of.

So Erchen thought that Changqing must have his way. ”

Although the prince was standing in the imperial study, he seemed to see Meng Changqing in front of him, the forty-mile city wall that had been built in Beishan County, and the different worlds facing the wind and sand on the same piece of land.

Bafang rushed into the cave yamen with water.

As soon as the door curtain was opened, the candle on Meng Changqing's table was almost blown out, "Young Master, it's not good, there are a lot of people outside!" ”

Meng Changqing put down his rice bowl, put on the big coat next to him and was about to go out, "Who are they?" ”

"Looks like it's from the barracks." Bafang put down the water in his hand on the spot and followed Meng Changqing out, "The leader is Li Zhutou from the prefect's yamen, it won't be because of the people you killed, right?" ”

Meng Changqing walked forward quickly.

"Li catches the head." Meng Changqing threw his hand at him.

Li Ting immediately replied, "Lord Meng, your subordinates have already reported to Lord Futai about killing the mountain bandits, and Lord Futai said that the matter is urgent, and you are not at fault, but your lord is worried that you are not safe with few people here, so he selected seventy people from the military camp to come." ”

"Thank you, Lord Futai." Meng Changqing saluted in the direction of Liangzhou City.

This time, Meng Changqing was not polite, and all the people sent to him stayed, after all, these people could come in handy in a few days.

But in the past few days, Meng Changqing can't let them be idle, eat her food, and always have to do things for her.

There were only 200 people digging the foundation of the wall, and there was really no need for more than 100 people to guard it.

It is not appropriate to let these seventy people dig the foundation of the wall together, because I don't know what they are, so I don't feel at ease to mix them with the people for the time being.

Meng Changqing thought, it's time to build a decent stove house.

This snow is five days at once, the shed built before, has been crushed by the snow, sitting under the shed is not only unsafe, but also does not block the wind, if you drink slowly with a bowl of porridge in your hand, the bottom sip is cold.

There was no surplus manpower before, and this shed has been in use, but now that there are manpower, hurry up and build it.

After Li Ting and the others said goodbye, Meng Changqing discussed his plan with Yang Zheng.

Let Yang Zheng lead them to dig the pit where they sleep first, and then start building the stove house tomorrow.

The strength of these seventy people is not comparable to that of the displaced people at the beginning.

Although they didn't have many tools, they dug the hole before it got dark.

Ten of them lived in a pit, and seven more were dug next to the hole where the soldiers had lived.

Zhang Yuan sat by the fire, holding the millet rice in his hand but didn't have the heart to eat, "Brother Yang, is the county order very busy?" Why is there no one to be seen? ”

"Brother Zhang has something to tell Master Meng?"

"It's not that there's anything wrong, it's just that I go to work under adults, and I have to meet adults."

Yang Zheng stood up after eating the rice in the bowl in a few bites, "You eat first, I'll go over and take a look, if Master Meng is free, I'll take you over." ”

"There is labor."

Yang Zheng came to the Yamen of the Underground Cave, "Is Master Meng here?" ”

"Come in."

Yang Zheng lifted the curtain and went in, and saw Meng Changqing writing something quickly, with a bowl of untouched white rice in the corner of the table, and Bafang was sitting on a small stool grinding ink for him.

Meng Changqing put down the brush and asked, "Is there something wrong with Captain Yang?" ”

"Among the seventy people who came today, there is an infantry captain named Zhang Yuan, and he wants to meet you."

"You told him about building the stove tomorrow?"

Yang Zheng: "I haven't said this yet. ”

"Then bring him here."

While Yang Zheng was going to call someone, Meng Changqing hurriedly took a few mouthfuls of rice.

The two lieutenants came quickly, and Meng Changqing got up to greet him, "Please sit down, and serve tea in all directions." ”

"The county magistrate doesn't have to be polite, I heard Brother Yang say that you are busy with official business, and I don't want to delay much." Zhang Yuan said, "I came here this time just to meet you, get to know each other, and you can just tell you if you have something in the future." ”

"Captain Zhang is polite, I have something to bother you to do tomorrow." Meng Changqing said about the construction of the stove house, "You come to me, it is even harder than in the barracks."

The food is not good, and there is a lot to do, in addition to this, you have to defend against the Yan army outside and the mountain bandits inside.

If any of you don't want to stay in Beishan County and want to go back to the barracks, just let me know. ”

"Don't worry, my lord, I will discipline my subordinates well, since they have joined the army, they are afraid of any hardship."

Meng Changqing threw his hand at him, "The two captains go back and rest, I still have accounts to settle, so let my attendants send one to you." ”

"Your Excellency, you're welcome."

After Bafang sent these two people, he immediately rushed back, "Young Master, didn't you say that these people came just right, why did you say that you let them go back?" ”

Meng Changqing looked at him, "When did I say let them go back?" I just told me, I didn't say let them go. ”