Chapter Seventy-Two

After playing for a while, they held hands and returned to the ruins, only to see three black shadows flash out of the ruins, and in the blink of an eye, no one was there. "What a handsome skill, faster than me. Phil sighed and lay down on the haystack. Tianxiao went to check what was missing, but found that the two leather bags for food and drink on the saddle were missing, so he couldn't help but sigh lightly and came to Fei'er to sit down, and smiled helplessly: "It's miserable, Fei'er, all the food and drink have been touched away, and there is not even water left, so what will I do tomorrow?" Fei'er leaned her face on Tianxiao's lap, grinned and said, "I often do this kind of thing." But they are not so desperate, they will not take all the master's food and drink, basically take half and keep half. After a pause, he continued: "Except for some towns and villages at the junction with Mo'erwo, the entire Wanqiang Pond, as well as Kunlun Mountain, connecting the Mabili Chiba Mountain, and then to this large piece of land in Yongning Mansion, except for Lingzang, Naquka, Qamdo, Guanjue, and Mo'erkan, there are almost no people, let alone villages. So, if you miss a town, you can only steal other people's food. If you are unlucky, you can only leave the bones here, and you will never be able to return home. Once, because I couldn't find anything to eat, I almost died in the area of Lake Bidoron. These words were very sad and cold, and Tianxiao couldn't help but pick her up and hold her in his arms and comforted: "Fei'er, after the two of us have completed this journey, this large piece of land will never be as uninhabited and lacking in life as it is now." There won't be no place to sell food and drink, and people won't starve to death here. ”

At this time, Fei'er was very happy, snuggling in Tianxiao's arms like a bird. Quietly listening to the heartbeat of his loved one, he threw all his qi into his grand blueprint. "Xiao'er, in this way, then this land will be saved. Tian Xiao tightened his hands. "If we can harvest something on this land, it will at least alleviate the plight of Longqing's lack of grain. Fei'er, if you were the Emperor of Longqing, what would you do?" Fei'er grinned: "I'm not going to be the emperor." It's already a dream to have a queen mother. Then he talked about what he saw, heard and thought about this land, which benefited Tianxiao a lot, as if he had swam through this large area, and he felt like he was there. He thought Phil's idea was good. Decided on Zhaling Lake. Ngoling Lake, Aqu Lake, Namu Lake, and Biduolun Lake each build a small city of more than 10,000 people. Then appease or exterminate a dozen horse thieves of different sizes led by Grass Fly. to protect the people of the towns. and passing merchants. And set up a town of 1,000 people in half a day when the horses are galloping. And around the town, there are villages of 100 people. In the vast grasslands of the town and the town, there are herdsmen who raise cattle, sheep and horses.

The next day, they had poison on their heads. I didn't dare to rest when I endured hunger and thirst, and I didn't dare to find a place to shade the sun, except for the grassland and the desert, not to mention the village on the way, and I couldn't even see the single-family and the yurt, and their lips were chapped. Fortunately, before nightfall, a stone city finally appeared in the distance, and it was Mo'er who had surveyed it. "Haha, finally there is water to drink. Fei'er shouted happily, beckoned Tianxiao to raise his whip and hurry up, and enter the city before the gate closes, otherwise he would have to wait until tomorrow morning to enter the city. But what are you afraid of, when you are only three or four hundred feet away from the city, you watch the city gate slowly closed by the defenders. Looking at the city gate that had just been closed, Tian Xiao looked up and sighed: "It's a pity." Dismounted and looked at the depressed Fei'er, stretched out his hand to carry her off the horse, and said with a smile: "Hey, then I can only enter the city tomorrow." But nowadays, as long as Fei'er is with her sweetheart, she is happy even if she eats and sleeps in the open. "Let's go, Xiao'er. She pointed to the dozen houses outside the city gate with her horsewhip and said, "Find an inn to drink and eat." After eating, take a beautiful bath and fall asleep. ”

However, it is said that there are three guards in this Mo'er survey, the main general is Wei Qingshuang, and the deputy generals are Zhang Yun and Liu Xi, leading 5,000 soldiers, ten earth cannons, and five artillery. This Wei Qingshuang is also a junior from Pukou Tianbo Mansion and the second son of Wei Yang. Back then, together with Shen Zhongzhu, they stole out of Tianbo Mansion and rushed to Mingsi Mansion to save Feng Li, and then conquered the city all the way to establish a reputation, experienced more than 100 battles, and could be regarded as the founding hero of Longqing. Since he was sent to garrison this city as the main general, he married a wife and had children here, and also brought the nurse Shou and his brother and sister to live together. His wife, the Mogula clan, is the largest tribe within a radius of 300 miles from Mo'er Kan, and his father is the leader of the tribe. When the news reached Mo'er Kan, Wei Qingshuang took Shou and his wife to go to the funeral for his father-in-law, and he just came back today, but he also missed the time to enter the city. But fortunately, he is the main general here, and this city can naturally enter, but the Mogula clan likes to eat the chicken called Hua made by an inn outside the city, and said that he wanted to buy it and take it home to eat.

As soon as the family entered the inn, Shou saw a familiar and kind face, very surprised, but afraid that people would be dazzled and recognize the wrong person, so he hurriedly grabbed his son's arm, pointed to Tianxiao, who was eating, drinking and laughing with Fei'er three tables apart, and asked: "Qingshuang, look, is this the emperor?" Wei Qingshuang saw that it was indeed the emperor, and he hurriedly beckoned his family and soldiers to come over, knelt on the ground, and said: "The minister Wei Qingshuang has seen the emperor." Long live my emperor, long live, long live. As soon as the innkeeper heard that the emperor was eating and drinking in his own shop, this was the great luck of the green smoke on the ancestral tomb, and he called out his wife and children, all the old and the young, and naturally knelt on the ground. "Long live my emperor, long live, long live. "Fortunately, when the city gate was just closed, there was no one else in this inn, and if an hour later, there would be more people eating, drinking, and staying in the hotel, and it would not frighten the others.

"Get up. After Tianxiao said, seeing that Fei'er's eyes were very cute, he wanted to kiss her on the mouth a few times when he was impulsive. But this is not the time, nor the occasion, and he can't take care of her for a while, so he first beckoned the Shou clan and the Mogula clan to sit down, and said to Wei Qingshuang happily: "This time I remember, you are the son of Lord Weiyang Wei, and your mother is the loyal lady of Longqing." This old lady next to you should be your nurse Shoushi, right?" Seeing that the emperor still remembered himself, Wei Qingshuang was indescribably happy, nodded hurriedly and said "yes", and then introduced his wife and child. "Your Majesty. This is the Mogula clan, the inner man of the minister. This is his son Wei Jian and daughter Wei Lan. Then he beckoned a pro-soldier and after a few words, the pro-soldier ran out with a "whoosh". He asked hehehehe: "Your Majesty, why did you come here to Mo'er to investigate? What about the guards of Li Fei and the Fei family brothers and sisters?" "Aiqing, this is the future queen mother of Longqing, the granddaughter of the thousand-armed Guanyin, the grandson of Duan Wen, and she is the one who is known as the heart-destroying Fei'er. Wei Qingshuang heard this and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, this is really a coincidence." Yiyang Finger and Thousand-Handed Guanyin had just been to Mo'er Kan a few days ago. said that he was going to the Valley of Hundred Flowers to save someone, and he gathered and others in Mo'er Kan. After four or five days, more than a dozen people came one after another. Tianxiao was stunned. "Hundred Flowers Valley?" Then he told Li Fei, the four brothers and sisters of the Fei family, and Yin Yang Shuangfei to go to the Valley of Hundred Flowers to save the twelve gods of heaven and earth. He saw that Fei'er had already eaten. He raised his hand and called the shopkeeper. And he took out a minot, ten taels of silver, and put it on the table. smiled and said: "Shopkeeper, your chicken is very distinctive, it can be said that the meat is tender and delicious." Oily but not greasy, its fragrance is attractive and very catchy. I thought that if you can go to Dali Mansion to open a branch, it will be a prosperous business. The flattered shopkeeper refused to ask for silver, and asked the man to put the five chickens that had just come out of the pot into a box, gave them to Fei'er, and said, "You seem to be the shopkeeper of Fei'er Restaurant and Xiao'er Inn in the city." I've tasted the pastrami in your restaurant, and it's delicious. Fei'er nodded and smiled and was just about to speak, when drums suddenly sounded outside the inn, but it was Zhang Yun and Liu Xi who led 2,000 troops, and Mo'er surveyed the official Shi out of the city to welcome the emperor into the city. "Your Majesty, please enter Mo'er Survey. Wei Qingshuang said a word, and led the emperor and the future queen of Longqing out of the inn, and the big and small officials saw that they were busy kneeling on the ground, and shouted with the three thousand soldiers and horses holding torches in the city: "Long live, long live, long live." ”

After entering the city, I saw the people of the whole city holding lanterns and holding torches high, standing on both sides of the street to see the dignity of the ancestors of Longqing. Suddenly, flowers flashed in the sky above the city, which reminded Tianxiao of the night when he first came to Pukou ten years ago to patrol the streets. As he walked, Tianxiao suddenly grabbed the reins, because he saw two strings of red lanterns hanging on the eaves picked out by the roadside, and the signboards of "Fei'er Restaurant" and "Xiao'er Inn" on the lanterns were very conspicuous. It's just that unlike Dali Mansion, this inn restaurant is not face-to-face, but shoulder to shoulder. "Look, the person next to the emperor is the eldest lady Fei'er. After someone suddenly exclaimed at the window on the second floor of the Fei'er Restaurant, Fei'er Restaurant and Xiao'er Inn had their own guys waving their hands, indicating that they had seen them.

During this walk, Tianxiao was surrounded into the mansion, Fei'er was not used to the atmosphere of this officialdom and said to leave first, and wait for him to come back to cook supper and eat. Mogula also followed, saying that he wanted to take the three called chickens back, but the motive was to make love with the future queen mother and contact the feelings.

Tianxiao is also difficult to get this grinding investigation, so naturally I don't want to go through the motions, I have to understand something, so I let everyone talk freely. And what everyone said was basically the same as what Fei'er thought, and it was also a request to build more towns and villages along the lake and river, and also talked about raising cattle, sheep and horses, but exterminating horse thieves and protecting the people and passing merchants were the most talked about topics today. "Okay, if you don't destroy the horse thief, the people will not be at peace, and I will play. "Tianxiao is a good emperor who is serious, does what he says, and thinks about the livelihood of the people everywhere, so he immediately made a holy decree. "From Mo'erkan, Guanjue, Qamdo, and Naquka, one guard general and one thousand soldiers and horses were each transferred, and then four guards and two thousand soldiers and horses were drawn from Lingzang, and an army of thieves was immediately formed, with Wei Qingshuang as the main general, to quickly exterminate the horse thieves and return the people to peace. After Wei Qingshuang received the holy decree, he said: "Your Majesty, the minister still has a plan to play." Tian Xiao asked, "What is the matter?" Wei Qingshuang said: "Your Majesty, the five surnames of the Mogula clan, the Duan clan, the Tanggula clan, the Duoluo clan, and the Gutara clan are the largest, most powerful, and most influential tribes and families thousands of miles away. The minister thought that these five surnames could build a city in each of the places designated by the imperial court as their territory. However, it is not allowed to be crowned king, soldiers and horses are not allowed to be recruited, and the height of the city is not allowed to exceed the length of the zhang. They could also issue a document within a radius of thirty li outside the city for their pastoral or cultivated land, but they would pay a certain amount of taxes, silver, cattle, and grain to the court every year. In this way, it not only makes use of grassland resources, but also avoids the five surnames fighting for pastoral areas, and can also add a valuable income to the imperial court. Tian Xiao nodded and smiled: "Quasi-play." "I am also glad that Longqing has such a virtuous minister as Wei Qingshuang, and I think what kind of reward should I give him.

This night, Tianxiao did not live in Wei Qingshuang's general's mansion, nor did he stay in Mo'erkan's post station, but slept in his "Xiao'er Inn" according to Fei'er's heart, and took a comfortable bath before going to bed, changed into clean clothes, and slept until dawn.

When I got up in the morning, I saw a set of brocade clothes on the table, and I knew that Fei'er had come, and I thought that it was good to have Mrs. care. Tianxiao changed into brocade clothes, went downstairs to the hall, and saw that Fei'er was talking to more than twenty guys and was putting in the place, so he didn't bother. When he arrived in the courtyard, he first punched and kicked and jumped for a while, until someone came and called for dinner, and then returned to the store to have breakfast. "Who allowed you to get up so early. Fei'er muttered and gave Tianxiao two breads and a bowl of porridge, and said while eating: "Xiao'er, I'm used to the market life, can I not enter the palace to be the queen's mother?" Tianxiao was not surprised, and said with a smile: "Fei'er, how can the emperor not have a queen? Don't think nonsense, just follow me into the palace obediently, but I will never restrain you." After the meal, the two went to the courtyard and whispered side by side, Fei'er kissed Tianxiao and said that he was busy.

Tianxiao arrived at the mansion, and saw that the civil officials and military generals had arrived, so he took out a brocade bag from his arms and came to Wei Qingshuang. "Wei Aiqing, send your henchmen to the palace six hundred miles in a hurry and deliver the letter to the regent. Wei Qingshuang took the brocade bag and left, he sat down, took a pot of hot tea from Zhang Yun and gave it to Liu Xi, took out a stack of paper from his arms and carefully spread it on the table, but it was the "Longqing Town Territory Map" he brought from the palace, pointed to Namu Lake and said to Zhang Yun: "Zhang Aiqing, you mobilize manpower and materials to build a camp that can garrison 30,000 soldiers to Namu Lake, and then hand it over to Sun Litang's army." Later, Sun Litang used the timber and bricks brought by Sun Litang to build a large granary that could store 200,000 stone of grain, and a breeding farm that could store 5,000 cattle, 8,000 sheep, and 1,000 horses by the Duolun Lake, 478 miles west of Naquka. Zhang Yun suddenly said happily: "Your Majesty, have you really adopted the idea of the ministers and want to set up a command here?" Tianxiao nodded and smiled: "Zhang Aiqing, don't be happy first, the grain in the granary and the cattle, sheep and horses in the feedlot were collected from the five surnames and transferred to the border cities." Your 5,000 soldiers and horses, as well as Sun Litang's 30,000 troops, will eat and drink all by yourself. Remember, I will not give you a grain of food. Zhang Yun also had a score in his heart, and immediately said happily: "Your Majesty, the minister has already thought about it, the army exercises for one day, and cultivates the land for two days, this grain and grass can not only be self-sufficient, but also raise the defenders of the four cities of Moerkan, Guanjue, Qamdo, and Naquka." Ministers can make military writts. Tianxiao smiled, and then asked everyone to look at the map and discuss where it is more reasonable to put the territory of the five surnames, and where to build towns and villages, pioneer farming, and graze cattle and sheep. After discussing it until noon, Tianxiao put away the map and put it in his arms, and was sent out of the palace by the courtiers. (To be continued......)