stubborn thief

Chapter 231 Reorganization of Xining
Chieftain Chen's people ran around Xining, bringing news of shops in the city for the chieftains.

Within three days, the news spread to fourteen chieftains, and immediately caused an uproar in this border military town.

What can be divided in Xining City has long been divided. Now, among the fourteen chieftains, except for Qi Guoping who was awarded some land by the court because of his father's death in Liaodong, the remaining thirteen chieftains did not add any wealth to their families during their tenure.

At this moment, with such an opportunity in front of him, there is no doubt that Chen Shiwen's mood is getting worse and worse.

He can't wait to give himself two mouths... How did this brain grow?
Now that I'm thinking about asking Liu Chengzong to borrow money, why not just ask Liu Shizi for a hundred shops, lend him 3000 taels, and take care of it myself!

If you are so neurotic, you have brought in all fourteen chieftains, why did you bring them in!
This is great, there is no shortage of family members, and they all come in.

Yang Dingrui walked around the city of Xining and asked the old people in the city about how much the city had been flooded by the heaviest rain in Xining, so he made a warehouse plan to raise the ground by three inches .

The fourteen chieftains mobilized frantically, like sending troops to fight a war, digging mountains and quarrying rocks outside the city, cutting forests to get wood, and sending them into Xining City in a steady stream.

Liu Chengzong was finally relieved.

After autumn, the mountains on the bank of the Beichuan River turned red. He asked Fan Sanlang to go to the silver shop, ordered a set of silver jewelry for his mother with four taels of silver, and accompanied his mother to watch the afternoon scenery on the river bank.

But the mother was still worried, as she had been since her two sons rebelled.

"Mom, you should eat some meat. If you don't eat meat, you will look bad."

His mother hadn't eaten meat for a long time, and Liu Chengzong knew the reason because he made a vow to eat vegetarian food for their two brothers who were walking on the edge of the knife.

This is still to blame him, he is busy with military affairs and only cares about doing military work, but spends less time with his family and leaves more.

No matter where the mother is, the news that comes out every day is where the son is fighting with the army again, and where the son has led the soldiers to go.

Who can be at ease when you change to be a father and a mother?

His mother didn't answer his question, but just said: "Lion, Xining is very good, but when we enter Qinghai, when we enter Qinghai, we won't fight with others, right?"

In the past, my mother never wanted to go to Qinghai, but the big movements in Xining City these days really frightened her. Countless natives came out of the mountains, and they swept away her good feelings for Xining. It has become the most unsafe place in the world.

Liu Chengzong said with a smile: "The fourteen chieftains ordered [-] men to put all their strength on moving earth and rocks and carrying big trees. Xining is very safe. They are no match for Big Brother."

Mrs. Cai glanced at Liu Chengzong, who was sure of winning, and sighed silently.

She thought it was because you didn't know how confused Da'er was.

To be precise, since the beginning of the war, everyone she has met has been confused, and no one knows how long the days of homelessness will last.

The second child of her family was born and she was crazy and insane, but she only knew how to keep her head straight, which made him really find a way out.

It's just that listening to his son's tone at this time, it seems that Qinghai is more dangerous than Xining: "Isn't the war all over, and the court has also made peace, why do we still have to fight?"

"Mother is in Xining. Let's go with elder brother. I'll take you over after Qinghai builds a firm foothold. Eat more meat. Don't pray for me. Even if there is a Buddha, I want to save sentient beings, but it won't save me."

The mother blamed her, she was swayed by eating vegetarian food and reciting Buddha's name, she didn't see her son being so self-important, but she knew that she couldn't persuade him when she said the words, so she didn't persuade him, she just smiled and said: "How can you say that."

After speaking, a Tang horse came galloping along the coast, got close to the guards and got off his horse, and conveyed a few words, Fan Sanlang stepped forward and said: "Commander, the Tang horse sent to the West Sea has returned, Chen Qindai has news."

"understood."

Liu Chengzong replied, looked at his mother, and sighed with embarrassment and apology: "I thought it was a long time, this..."

Mrs. Cai had a look of reluctance, but still nodded her head and said: "Busy on your important affairs, mother doesn't need you to accompany her, just let San Lang accompany her for a stroll."

"Hey." Liu Chengzong responded, looked at Fan Sanlang and said, "Then you, Sanlang."

Needless to say, Fan Sanlang smiled brightly and said: "Don't worry, Commander, the scenery here is good, I will sing a song for the old lady."

With yellow leaves all over the ground, accompanied by crisp singing, Liu Shizi bid farewell to his mother, got on his horse, and headed towards the snow-topped green hills in the north.

Mrs. Cai looked at the back of the lion going away, and there was deep worry hidden in her proud eyes.

There is no one in the world who begs for a child for his mother to always win the world, and eating fast and chanting Buddha is nothing more than begging for their safety.

When people were no longer in sight, Mrs. Cai lowered her head and said softly to Shan, "Mother believes you can win."
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Liu Chengzong took two pieces of clothes and a small book into Chen Tusi's yamen, and after a while he came out frowning and called out the painters in the two teams, and finally he took in Chen Shifo, who knew Mongolian language, and the oil lamp in the main hall of the yamen was lit until the next day It turns off in the morning.

They are deciphering the code sent by Chen Qindai.

At a young age, Chen Qindai had a twists and turns, with the blood of two nationalities, he had learned many crafts from several masters.

He is also very good at instigating animals to strike iron, being a thieves and robbing the wounded soldiers. He is bold, careful and skilled in martial arts. He is a great guy.

Only Chinese characters are really limited. After entering the lion camp, I started to learn culture. I know about [-] Chinese characters and Mongolian, and I can write only [-].

The information he sent back was done very seriously, and it cannot be said to be clear at a glance, basically it is your guess.

It took two hours for Liu Chengzong and others to roughly figure out the logic of deciphering Chen Qindai's code.

The two pieces of clothes are the khaki military uniforms of the Lion Camp. The upper shirt and lower trousers, on the back of the jacket, probably depict a map of Qinghai, because the Qinghai Lake in the northeast corner is very recognizable and easy to understand.

The map is not detailed, but there are mountains, rivers and rivers, and the direction can be understood, but it is slightly different from the topographic map of Qinghai in the lion's mind.

Anyway, if there is no such lake, he would believe that this is northern Shaanxi.

The strangest thing is that the map is circled in circles. Liu Shizi thinks this may be a division of power?
But the things on the trousers are not easy to recognize, knives, guns, sticks, axes, hooks, cats, birds, chickens, and tigers, the whole picture of a childlike innocence.

The first few pages of the small book issued by the Lion Camp to the Commander are relatively clear.

They all recorded words like 'the emperor is ruthless, the gentry is useless', 'one goes up and the other up, our generation is invincible' and other words recorded during the camp.

There is also a picture of a Mongolian woman in the middle, and the writing on the bottom is "Back to Monan and bury my mother", which should be a portrait of missing my mother.

The second half of the book is full of demons. There are pictures on every page, and there are various typos and Chinese and Mongolian characters in the middle.

Liu Shizi prides himself that our level of education is higher than that of Ming Dynasty, but he really can't understand this 'Qindai style'.

Not only could he not understand, but Chen Shifo, who knew both Chinese characters and Mongolian, could not understand either.

Liu Shizi regretted it in his heart. At that time, he was patronizing to let Chen Qindai enter Qinghai so that he could understand the language. He didn't expect that Chen Qindai didn't come back, so he couldn't deliver the news accurately.

In the middle of the night, Chen Shifo was really tired of looking at his pair of trousers. He threw his trousers and clothes on the ground, and made a monk salute to Liu Chengzong: "Commander, I can go to Qinghai, I have been there before."

"Do not talk!"

The trousers thrown on the ground by Chen Shifo were covering his clothes, Liu Chengzong stared straight at him, and suddenly realized: "This is a set, look at the picture on the trousers, it is facing the big and small circles on the map."

After that, he pointed to the Shanghai and North part of the map, drew a little chicken facing his trousers, and quickly flipped through Chen Qindai's little book: "In the upper left corner, there is a page in this book that I have seen this little chicken too."

Turning to that page, Chen Qindai’s name was indeed written on it, with Daiqin from the north at the top, Qindai from the east at the bottom, and the next eight in a row, with Baihu at the back.

It's easier to understand his logic.

It means that the place where he is is occupied by a small Mongolian nobleman with [-] troops, which is about three Chen Shiwen.

Then the pictures, paintings, and notebooks were matched one by one, and Chen Shifo, who grew up in Xining, confirmed the information, and quickly summarized the information sent back by Chen Qindai.

On the next day, Liu Chengzong sent someone to send a message to Liu Chengzu and the generals in the army, inviting people to discuss matters at Beichuan River in the evening.

When everyone gathered, Liu Chengzong said with a smile: "We just arrived in Xining, this place is not bad, and everyone looks good."

With that said, the guards unfolded the map of Qinghai and spread it in the middle of the Chinese army's tent.

This map is based on the one sent by Chen Qindai as a reference, and Chen Shifo dictated it. The map re-drawn by Shiziying painters is basically only the northwest of Qinghai that is more accurate.

Liu Chengzong said: "Chen Qindai has news. In Haibei, he followed a little Mongolian noble named Dai Qing and sent him a map of the situation over there."

"This Dai Qing came from Mobei, and he has about [-] riders under him; there are also his accomplices in Qinghai, all from Mobei."

"Chen Shifo said that it was because the Huduntu who invaded the Han tribe perverted, so that the tribe dispersed. One went to the Eastern Captives, and the other fled to Mobei. Mobei Mongolia fought for these herdsmen, and they lost."

Cao Yao narrowed his eyes: "Donglu is even stronger."

Among the crowd, only he and Feng Ru had seen Donglu, but the old thief Cao had seen Donglu ten years ago, and even Yehe's tribe had not been completely subdued by Nurhachi at that time.

In the past, Cao Yao could never have imagined that Donglu would have the ability to fight Daming while wrestling with Chahar Khan.

He reminded Liu Chengzong: "Marshal, don't underestimate Donglu."

"I won't underestimate them. I think that if we can survive until the imperial court collapses, only Donglu can compete with us for the world."

The generals were all sitting, and Chen Shifo in the red robe was standing behind. Hearing this, he gasped and took half a step back, silent as if he dared not speak.

This, this Qinghai Xuanwei envoy, is the chat so tough?
The old man knocked on his pipe on the small table: "That's too far away, now we should be on guard against aggressive invasion of Qinghai, we can only win in Xihai, win Xining, or Xining, lose the enemy... Full plate All lose."

"You're right."

Liu Chengzong nodded and said: "So today I invite everyone to discuss matters, just one thing, military establishment and training."

"The first is the Xining camp. Our people have fought a few tough battles, and half of them are heroes of the frontier army. However, in the army, Yulin and Gansu made only a single type of ordnance, and other miscellaneous weapons cut corners and were difficult to use."

As Liu Chengzong spoke, he said to his elder brother: "Xining is a good opportunity to familiarize yourself with all kinds of ordnance, such as rockets, mines, chariots, and all kinds of miscellaneous guns."

"We have some in Xining, and we want to use them; we don't have them in Xining, as long as we have heard of them and know how to make them, we will refine a batch with the best quality."

"We may not be equipped with these variegated weapons in the future, but we must not have seen, never used, and do not know their appearance and power, otherwise people will die because of them on the battlefield."

The elder brother nodded in response, and Cao Yao was naturally the most excited about it: "Commander, can you do the magic arrow and the wind gun?"

"Do it, do it all, try it all."

After Liu Chengzong settled on this matter, he continued: "In addition to this matter, the army will be reorganized, and three other battalions will be established in addition to the Xining garrison battalion, corresponding to infantry and cavalry artillery."

It is not surprising to everyone to build various kinds of ordnance to strengthen the army's understanding of armed forces. It is basically a consensus in the army and has not caused any reaction.

However, when Liu Chengzong wanted to organize the third battalion, it immediately caused an uproar in the commander's tent of the Chinese army.

Although everyone knows that the army is seriously overstaffed, but at this moment, everyone still looks at me and I look at you.

This means they are going to be promoted!

But at this time, when Liu Chengzong talked about the third battalion of cavalry and artillery, basically everyone knew who the battalion would be.

The Lion Camp has three post chiefs with the most obvious characteristics of commanding troops. They are Wang Wenxiu who commands the infantry to fight tough battles, Yang Yao who leads the cavalry to outflank and encircle, and Cao Yao who is good at using artillery.

When it comes to cavalry cannons, it must be the three of them.

Then Liu Chengzong spoke, and everyone showed the same expression: "Wang Wenxiu is the general of the Buying, Yang Yao is the general of the Horse Battalion, Cao Yao is the general of the Paoying Battalion, and they are divided into three battalions. [-] members, [-] chiefs, [-] captains, [-] chiefs, and [-] troops.”

The three of them were naturally happy, but Cao Yao noticed that Liu Chengzong changed the name of the generals, those who command more than a hundred people are called generals, and those who command more than a hundred people are called chiefs, and the generals and lieutenants are separated from the names.

"Each of them has three chief executives, you can choose from them. The maids and aunts are weaving appointment letters. When you report the candidates to me, I will stamp them with a seal. But don't think that promotion is just a good thing... the soldiers have to be rotated .”

"You can regard these three battalions as training camps. Your mission is to lead troops and train troops, use veterans to lead new soldiers, use strong soldiers to lead weak soldiers, and teach officers and soldiers the tactics of the three armies of infantry, cavalry and artillery. Summarize The experience of previous wars."

After Liu Chengzong finished speaking, he said to the three people: "So I suggest that in the selection of President Qian, the past military achievements should be used as the criterion, and people without military achievements should not be recommended. A total of one thousand can form another battalion."

"In addition, I will lead a 2000-strong Chinese military battalion, and I will sit in the camp. All the seniors who are promoted to captains, the captains who are promoted to the hundred chiefs, and the hundred longs who are promoted to the general manager must enter the Chinese military camp to study."

When everyone heard this, the post commanders who didn't win the battalion general looked much better. It seemed that no matter how they were promoted, they would have a share, and it was nothing more than a matter of time.

After discussing this matter, Liu Chengzong encouraged everyone to disperse. The camp had already prepared dinner, and everyone hadn't gathered for a meal for a long time.

When the people in the tent had almost left, Mr. Liu raised his head feeling quite emotional and didn't know what he was thinking. After thinking for a while, he said, "Lion, Li Bei wants to see you."

Liu Chengzong was tidying up the map at first, but when he heard this, he stopped and laughed abruptly: "Marco was thrown into prison again when he saw him. Of course he wants to see me, and he is not in a hurry to see him."

"Let's play a scene of killing Ma Ke. I will kill him, and Da will persuade him. He probably doesn't want to teach others to assassinate me now, right?"

Liu Chengzong smiled: "It's easy for Ma Ke, as long as Li Bei becomes an instructor in my Chinese military camp."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)