after being kidnapped by the general

After the news reached Jizhou, Yuan Li laughed out loud, "Okay!"

He asked the talented Cui Yan to write articles. Cui Yan was a native of Youzhou who had been invaded by foreign enemies. After hearing the news, he couldn't help but write two wonderful articles. An article about the Huns and an article about Karasuma are both catchy and catchy, making people overwhelmed and can be said to be handed down from generation to generation.

Yuan Li, who already knew about this, read his article happily and with enthusiasm, and one can imagine how other people would react.

He immediately gave Cui Yan a thumbs up, "Wonderful, wonderful."

Cui Yan blushed, and smiled embarrassedly, "I've been busy researching and developing agricultural tools in the Artifacts Department these days, but I neglected to write articles, as long as Wen Gong is satisfied."

Yuan Li was very satisfied. He even felt that based on his experience of reciting several excellent works handed down from generation to generation, these two articles were likely to be selected in the Chinese textbooks of later generations.

Thinking of this, Yuanli was even more satisfied.

He then announced this article to the world, releasing the two events of the Huns being destroyed and the Karasuma people being betrayed and killed.

Such a big event doesn't need Yuanli to fuel the flames, it will spread extremely fast.Whether they are literati or ordinary people, they will rejoice and encourage them. They write letters or run around, hoping to spread this joy to others as soon as possible.

A few days later, Yuanli received a letter and learned that Chu Hechao and others would not be back until the end of the month.He waited patiently and prepared to hold a celebration banquet for these heroes when they came back.

Chu Hechao wore the stars and the moon, and the army returned to Yecheng in the middle of the night a few days ahead of schedule.

Yuan Li was sleeping when he came back, Chu Hechao didn't disturb him, and got into bed quietly after washing.

He wanted to die for Yuanli, he kept touching and hugging Yuanli, and kissed several times before he fell asleep contentedly.

Yuan Li was about to wake up vigilantly, but after smelling the familiar scent, he continued to sleep with peace of mind.Early the next morning, when he opened his eyes, he was startled by the wild man on the bed. He subconsciously raised his leg and kicked Chu Hechao out of the bed.

There was a heavy bang.

Chu Hechao snorted a few times, the veins on his forehead tensed up, "Mr. Yuan Le."

Yuan Li realized that he had kicked the wrong person. He coughed and pulled Chu Hechao up, "When did you come back?"

Chu Hechao used his strength to roll onto the bed and hold him down. He closed his eyes and said, "Last night, I didn't sleep well for several days. Let me sleep for a while."

Yuan Li said: "Don't press me down, go to sleep at the same time."

"No," Chu Hechao pressed Yuanli's limbs and said with a deadpan face, "You sleep with me. Just give me a kick in the morning, and ask you to give me a piece of clothing to relieve lovesickness. If you don't give me, you won't." Do you know that I feel sorry for your man?"

In the end, there was a bit of resentment.

Yuan Li sighed, "I love you, but you are so heavy, it will make me uncomfortable."

Chu Hechao let out a muffled laugh, bowed his head and kissed Yuan Li, and sighed, "Silly boy, why am I willing to keep pressing you down?"

After finishing speaking, he let go of Yuan Li, lay down beside him and held Yuan Li's hand, "You can leave after I fall asleep."

Yuan Li obediently responded, and it didn't take long before he heard Chu Hechao's deep breathing.He turned around and looked at Chu Hechao intently, and saw the dark spots under the man's eyes and the chapped lips.

Unshaven, it looks like he came here day and night.

Yuan Li got out of bed quietly, and called Lin Tian to ask, "The general came back in the middle of the night last night? Why didn't you wake me up?"

Lin Tian agreed first, and then said: "The general ordered not to wake you up, let you sleep well."

Yuan Li couldn't help laughing, "Is the army back?"

"That's not true," Lin Tian had already guessed that Yuanli would ask, and he asked the soldiers around Chu Hechao in advance last night, "The general came back early with his soldiers, and the army will not arrive until the end of the month. My lord, general I also brought you a lot of things, including a bloody horse, which is being fed in the stables, would you like to take a look?"

Sweat BMW?

Yuan Li's eyes lit up, and he immediately got up and went to the stable.

As soon as he passed by, he saw this brown-red bloody BMW was burying his head in eating refined grains.The ponytail is dangling, extremely elegant and handsome.

Yuan Li took a closer look, and found that the horse's fur was so red that it shone brightly, and there was not a single variegated hair.

It is extremely vigilant, and when it sees someone approaching, it raises its head and yells threateningly, snorting, unruly.

Seeing its bright eyes, strong and slender limbs, and its loud cry, Yuan Li fell in love with it almost instantly, "Let it out, and I will drive it around."

The servant who fed the horse hurriedly persuaded: "Mr. Wen, this horse is too fierce, and it is dangerous to ride it now."

Yuan Li smiled and said: "Sweaty BMW, it should be a bit wild. Don't be afraid, let it out."

The servant could only release the bloody BMW.

Yuanli has never lacked exercise in these years, and his riding skills are also excellent.He rolled up his sleeves and put them on. When he was sweating all over his head, the sweaty BMW was too tired. He stopped making noise and rubbed Yuanli's palm.

Yuan Li put on the reins and harness for it, and took it for a run, "Go, let me see how powerful you are."

The blood-sweat BMW is a legendary thing in future generations, and it is ridiculously expensive.It was the first time for Yuanli to ride a bloody horse, and he knew that the horse was expensive.

When he came back again, his hair was blown tousled by the wind, but there was only a lot of smile on his face.Yuan Li got off the horse, touched the horse's neck affectionately, and said lovingly: "You will follow me from now on, may I give you a name?"

Lu Bu had Chitu, and Xiang Yu had Wuzhao. Yuan Li felt that he should have a resounding name that would go down in history, but now the bad taste rose, "How about calling you Xiaohong?"

"...then you might as well call it sweat and blood."

Yuan Li turned around with a smile on his face, "Are you awake?"

Chu Hechao came to him in a loose robe, with a strange expression on his face, "You really want to call it Xiaohong?"

"That can't be done," Yuan Li chuckled, "I'm just teasing it."

Chu Hechao was amused, "See if it can understand your words?"

Yuan Li glanced at the steed next to him who was concentrating on eating horse food, and felt that it didn't understand.

"According to me," Chu Hechao said casually, "What about Zhuifeng and Chiyu, just call them one name."

Yuan Li thought it was okay, "Then call it Akabane."

Of the [-] horses that Chu Hechao acquired, there were only about a hundred horses in them, the most beautiful of which was Akabane.

Yuan Li and Chu Hechao planned to have a try breeding sweat-blooded horses. They wanted to use Akabane as a stallion, but Akabane was unwilling, so they had to settle for another strong and powerful sweat-blooded horse.

At the end of the month, the army arrived with trophies. In addition to the eye-catching cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock, the more than [-] Huns and Karasuma captives also attracted attention.

Chu Hechao didn't kill these captives, and Yuan Li didn't plan to kill them either.He asked these captives to reclaim wasteland, build cities and roads, and asked them to take off their own tribe's clothes and change into Northern Zhou clothes. They were not allowed to speak Xiongnu and Donghu, but only Northern Zhou dialect.

Assimilation, intermarriage, if they behaved well, the children they gave birth could be Northern Zhou people and enjoy the power of Northern Zhou people, instead of captive slaves.

After dealing with this matter, Yuanli did not forget to write a letter to the emperor, and sent a few good horses over by the way.

He did this not only to say to the emperor, "I think of you all the time, and I will give you the good things as soon as I get it", so as to get rid of the emperor's favor, and also want to see the current situation in the south. How's it going.

More importantly, he planned to sell livestock such as cattle and sheep to the south, so as to tie in with southern businessmen.

During these years, Yuanli got to know many great merchants in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and had done business with more than [-]% of them.Especially in the affluent southern region, his white sugar and soap brought a lot of money and rice to Yuanli.

During the war, Yuanli's connection with southern merchants has never been broken.Although soap is no longer sold, white granulated sugar is a rare item, and southern merchants are never willing to give it up.

After Yuanli made a five-year covenant with King Chen, more and more businessmen were doing business secretly.They are not people who don't understand the current situation, but people can kill and set fire for profit, so why are they secretly dealing with each other?

It was also through doing business that the intelligence personnel of the Grain Institute infiltrated into King Chen's influence in a low-key manner, and under Yuanli's assignment, they secretly bought a lot of rice grain shops.

Over the past few years, it has gained considerable influence.

The navy did not come together overnight. Yuanli proposed a five-year alliance back then, one for training the navy, and the other was that he was not sure whether the navy could beat Chen Wang, so he found another way to fight Chen Wang A trade war.

The economy in the south is developed, which means that as long as Yuanli controls the economic lifeline of the south, half of the south will be paralyzed.

Now that Karasuma has lost, Yuanli doesn't have to hide the fine salt.He is going to use fine salt and white sugar in a two-pronged approach to secretly occupy the southern market.

There are always some people who don't eat sugar, but salt is something that everyone eats every day. Yuan Li believes that no one can refuse fine salt.

But this matter needs to be done carefully. Now that he knows what he intends, there are only a few confidants besides Chu Hechao.

After the horses were sent out, it rained for several days in Jizhou.

The summer is hot, but the nights in the north are somewhat cool.There has been plenty of rain this year, and the grains in the fields are growing well.

Time passed quickly, and it was August in a blink of an eye.

Thanks to the abundance of rain, the fish in the river this year are more plump than previous years.Baskets after baskets of fish were sent to the Chu Palace, and there were [-] ways to eat them.

When Yuanli was getting tired of eating fish, his teacher Ouyang Ting sent him a letter.

This is rather strange, Yuanli took the envelope, "Didn't the teacher deliver the letter two months ago?"

What could have happened to make Ouyang Ting send another letter so quickly?

Lin Tian whispered: "My lord, the horse that delivered the letter has run away and died. This is an urgent letter from six hundred li."

Yuan Li's eyelids twitched, and he immediately opened the letter.

Inside the envelope was only a thin sheet of paper with scribbled writing on it.

Yuan Li's expression sank.

This is a distress letter.

Xuzhou was flooded!