Qingzhou trip

When Alu left the sandy sea, the red willows by the Yeqiang River had already put on a purple skirt.Li Suyue rode beside her silently, and A Lu said, "Yue Niang, send it here." They went out of the city together a few times, the first time they were slapped by A Lu, and the second time they were drugged. For the third time, there were countless words hidden in Yueniang's reluctant eyes.

A Lu smiled reassuringly, "I'm here to deliver a letter, not to go to the battlefield."

But there are horse bandits and thieves along the way, and the Zhenrong Army was set up to ensure the transportation of grain and grass, and many military routes were close to the border of Beixia.Coupled with the rising flames outside Yanzhou City, Li Jixin, Yun Fangjiang, Ye Lizhen, and Lu Jinhua will fight with each other. If Li Suyue didn't want to stay in Shahai to respond to Lu Jinhua and others at any time, she would have to go with her .

Just because she didn't want to worry his wife, Alu concealed her intention: it was Yanzhou, not Zhenrongjun, that she was going to visit.

After traveling for several days and dodging a few bandits, Alu encountered a caravan disguised as Uyghurs from Yuanzhou fifty miles away from Yanzhou City.After asking, I found out that these people could not enter the city, and they were unwilling to go back empty-handed, so they waited outside the city for an opportunity.

"Tens of thousands of people are waiting to eat salt, and they just spread their hands and say no, I will wait to see my elders without face." The caravan leader is a man in his forties. I have been a soldier.

"Didn't the imperial court give priority to dispatching understanding salt to the northwest?" Since Li Mei took over from Xie Penglai, Jieyan and Qingbai salt were stored in the warehouse, and the salt shortage in Shahai City improved for a while.

"Salt has come. However, the salt shortage has lasted for a long time, and people's hearts are fluctuating. Moreover, most of the troops allocated by the imperial court to Jieyan Town were taken away, and the government officials, cronies, wealthy businessmen and people from all over the country were divided up layer by layer, and only a little bit was in the hands of ordinary people. In addition, the government also raised the price of salt on its own initiative, saying it was to make up for other taxes..." The man didn't have to go on, and saw that A Lu's brows were already locked, "Where can the Zhenrong army swallow so much salt? Is this a meal?" The only possibility is that Guo Yixiao is hoarding salt.

Ask about the situation in Yanzhou again. These people are close and have stayed for a long time, and they talked logically, "Yun Fangjiang led the Northern Xia Xuanhui envoy and Yanzhou governor, and originally wanted to raise Yanzhou's status and attract more caravans to Yanzhou. Who would have thought that a bandit like Li Jixin would be killed outside the city, he would rob the caravan before entering the city, and he would also rob the caravan transporting salt out of the city, forcing Yun Fangjiang to ask Beixia to suppress him."

I have heard about these alus. As for Yun Fangjiang's record, he finally lived up to his mother's evaluation, "Aspiring but not ambitious, famous and jealous, barely able to keep upright and happy, but strong to open up borders is cowardly." To too much cheap Yunfangjiang closed the city gate, called "moving with the camera, consuming the enemy".

However, Yun Fangjiang understood that what he had consumed was also the trust of the Northern Xia monarch in him: he hadn't done any of the three things of getting married, sweeping up bandits, and restarting the old coins.Right now, marriage is the key to the deadlock.

Even Yue Niang, who doesn't read much, knows, "If a man in the world encounters a hurdle that he can't overcome, he will push it on the woman's head." King Jin and Master Xie also told A Lu in their letter that Yun Fangjiang had persuaded Bei Xia proposed marriage to Hua Chao, but the current situation in the capital was tense and he had no time to look outside, so he suppressed this matter.However, the candidate was revealed: the brother of the Northern Xia monarch, the governor of Ningzhou, who was about the same age as Yun Fangjiang.

"Yun Fangjiang knew that his butt was not stable. After Beixia married a few relatives, he got involved again and asked General Yeli, the commander of the military commander of the Shenyong Army Division in the left wing, to marry him. He was the elder of the Beixia Great Tribe." real father.A Lu snorted when he heard that, Yun Fangjiang was nearly fifty years old, how could he be so confident, thinking that he could strengthen his position by getting married?Could it be that he also regards himself as a marriage object?

At this time, someone came on horseback in a hurry from the north, shouting, "Li Jixin's people are here to rob again!"

It was rare to watch the battle, and Alu didn't plan to seek refuge like the group of people in the caravan.Among the panicked figures of the crowd, she suddenly found a slender figure standing still, and when she took a closer look, Ah Lu smiled and shook her head, "Mother, you really know how to hide."

The one who was called "Xiao Niang" was Ye Lizhen who came to Yanzhou to inquire in person. She had seen Alu a long time ago, and avoided it without disturbing others.

"I can't look down on your down-and-out father." Ye Lizhen was dressed as a woman from the Central Plains, and led the horse forward. She smiled and hugged each other with A Lu, and then separated, "It's a good thing you didn't go to my village, why don't you Just step on the ground."

The two of them and the caravan headed back towards Yanzhou, and as they walked, Ye Lizhen vomited bitterness to A Lu, "The 50 or so people in my village were encouraged by the newcomers and ran for more than [-] miles. Almost all of them are men."

"That's good too, so that you don't have bad-hearted bandits coming to pretend to seek refuge because of the women in your village," A Lu said.

"They all caught up. I didn't want to kill them all, but they went straight to Yunfangjiang, and told the truth in advance." Ye Lizhen was so angry that his teeth itch, "In the end, they were all slaughtered. It doesn't matter this one. Dozens of women are also rebelling. After asking, I found out that it is their...old friend." She hesitated for a while, but did not say "girlfriend".

She turned to look at A Lu, "Do you think it's easy for me to pull these people up? Why don't you take yourself seriously after sleeping with men a few times?"

"I spent some time in Lu Jinhua's stockade. There was an old Qianhu Hui Zhongfu of the Baosheng Army. He had three husbands. The first two divorced because of their poor conduct. Husbands were kicked out of the stockade and could not come back." A Lu felt that Lu Jinhua did a good job, "Hui Zhongfu and every husband had children, but Hua Niang decided to let the three babies follow her. Surname, childbearing education is in the village. With Hua Niang, men can leave if they want, but they cannot take their wives and children with them.”

Ye Lizhen touched it for a while, nodded and said, "I think that Hui Zhongfu is good, if the man is not good, he kicks and replaces him."

Alu pulled the rein and said lazily, "It's just like betting money to gamble. You can never be sure whether you will win or lose the next bet. When I was young, I liked to squat in the casino and watch the games. , The players in the game have calculated and colluded, and they will only let the strangers win the first game to satisfy their addiction. The strange thing is that for the gamblers, they all think that they will win the next game."

The two walked against the spring breeze for a while, and Ye Lizhen suddenly asked, "Alu, who is the game companion in Yanzhou and who is the gambler?"

A Lu touched the tip of his nose, "Just look at it and you will know, how many people have you brought?"

"Five hundred." Ye Lizhen replied, "Li Jixin recruited nearly [-] people, and Yunfangjiang has [-] defenders. However, after several times of exhaustion, they each suffered damage. Now one is retreating and the other is under the city. I don’t want to risk a blow, but it blocks our way.”

"It would be great if Master Xie was here." A Lu raised his head and muttered.

"Didn't you say that Xie Penglai was escorted back to the capital?" Ye Lizhen had heard about it.

"But she was also taken away, but halfway... was robbed by King Jin and returned to Luoyang to become a side concubine." A Lu had to gossip with Ye Lizhen again, "It is a last resort to say that it is a side concubine. Wang's temper will overturn Zongzheng Temple one day. How can she bear the word 'side' in thanking Master?"

"I don't think so." Ye Lizhen's tone was full of envy, "I expected that His Royal Highness would even ignore Zongzheng Temple if she got the opportunity. She wants to give Xie Penglai dignified respect, not the court's affirmation."

"Well said! It's a pity that I don't have any wine right now." A Lu seldom drank after her body recuperated. Suddenly, she reined in her horse and looked at Ye Lizhen solemnly, "Yoli, I have something to do. Please, I entrust life and death to you for the time being."

Nori really looked serious, "But I only have 500 people."

"It's enough." Alu smiled sassyly, "Let's go, let's find a place, and I'll write a few letters by hand."

Xie Penglai woke up after sleeping in the carriage for half an hour. When he opened his eyes, he saw King Jin reading the residence newspaper under the swaying oil lamp.

"Master Xie is awake?" Zhao Yifang went to Xie Penglai's side, reached out and touched her head, "Fortunately, the fever finally subsided." After Xie Penglai entered Luoyang, he was not acclimatized. Ling Zhiren, not only did not take good care of his body, but he was very easy to catch wind and cold.They took over the military power from Yuanzhou and used Guo Yixiao's hoarding of salt to give him a big blow, which basically stabilized the situation.As for who to send to rectify the Rong army, Zhao Yifang had several candidates in her mind one after another, and she still hasn't made a decision.

Xie Penglai's weak face turned blood only when talking about this matter. She compared several times, "A Lu and Lu Jinhua are fine, A Lu has the overall situation, and Lu Jinhua is proficient in military affairs. The Baosheng Army has Ah Chun, and Sha I think it's okay to be away from the sea. Ah Yue can let her accompany Ah Lu, and it's also worthy of important things."

Zhao Yifang hesitated to speak, she supported Xie Penglai to sit firmly, and held her hands in her arms, "If you take Yanzhou and the situation is stable, brother, the Deshun Army will definitely become his anchor in the Northwest." An elbow move. Cao Zhiwei of the Deshun Army will definitely not act rashly because of his grandmother's face." The king of Shang has been planning for dozens of years, and today is far from the time for the overall inventory. Zhao Yifang has only initially established a firm foothold in the northwest corner.

However, there was a sudden incident that caused ripples. Even if Xie Penglai was unwell, Zhao Yifang couldn't bear to hide it from her. Selling salt, was caught by Li Jixin."

"Bold and bold." Zhao Yifang handed her the letter, her watery eyes flickering coldly, "My daughter Sha Hai, the daughter of General Bai Zhi, when will it be Li Jixin and Yun Fangjiang's turn to discuss where to go?"

"Bold and bold." Xie Penglai quickly read A Lu's letter, "...This A Lu is addicted to being a captive."

A Lu sent it to the door by herself, and she was afraid that Xie Penglai would suffer, so she wrote a letter to remind "Master Xie, don't miss this opportunity, I will respond in the enemy camp." She will force Yun Fangjiang to go out of the city and fight Li Jixin to the death—you are not careless Want to present your daughter and relatives?Then save people first.When the two sides were at war, Xie Penglai sent troops to attack the empty Yanzhou at the same time.

It is conceivable that Li Suyue would be worried and angry if she heard the news.Xie Penglai shook her head again and again, "A Lu is risking his life." She became restless, "I have to mobilize troops, I have to go to Cao Zhiwei and Guo Yixiao, and I have to communicate with Hua Niang..." When it came to A Lu, Xie Penglai was on the sidelines. In a hurry, "You son of a bitch..." She gritted her teeth and said bitterly, "She's going to have an accident, how can I face General Bai?"

She raised the letter again and saw the last line of A Lu, "Everyone thinks that women are gamblers, and men arrange wages to lure women into the net. Now please use Bai Lu as a guide to turn things around." Xie Penglai with red eyes looked at it. Zhao Yifang said, "Xie Penglai...please lead the troops into Yanzhou."