stubborn thief

Liu Chengzong was not in a hurry to divide the land in Ganzhou, because summer was here.

The weather is hot in summer, and this season is inseparable from the busy farming season. During the busy farming season, you can't help but toss.

This year’s spring plowing on the Zhangye Oasis was based on the melee between the two armies. Zhang Tianlin and Gao Yingdeng’s subordinates were able to take down and reorganize the old Ming army quickly after losing their organizational system, because they had a lot of consensus, for example, they were all from Shaanxi. Hurry up and farm.

Many officers who led the army occupied the fort. The first thing they did was to urge the army to garrison the fields. The Ming army wanted to do this, and the Marshal's army wanted to do this even more.

From the perspective of the soldiers, the outcome of the battle at Gaotai, which determined the ownership of Gansu, had little impact on them, but the delay in spring plowing and the inability to eat white flour and rice in autumn made everyone suffer.

Liu Chengzong did not dare to make drastic changes, because from the moment he advanced into Ganzhou, the largest grain production area in the Marshal's Mansion changed from Hehuang to Zhangye, and he finally owned a piece of land with a production capacity per mu exceeding the national average.

The army he led fought more and more. The army that entered Jiayuguan was only [-], and now it has as many as [-].

If there is any more trouble, his soldiers will not be able to eat flour and rice in autumn; if they are tossed in autumn, their soldiers will not be able to eat Chinese cabbage in winter.

White flour, rice and cabbage are very important.

Ganzhou City is the most important place on the Zhangye Oasis. This city brings together the talents of the Ming Dynasty Commander in Shaanxi Province. Gansu Town and Gansu Governor's Yamen are here.

Ordinarily, the problem of occupying Ganzhou should be very complicated, but Zhang Tianlin's solution is simple and rude... He has soldiers and holds a super-mandated battalion of 7000 people. What does this mean for Ganzhou?
There are only more than 2 households in Zhangye, and there are only two or three people in one household in Ganzhou. Those who could serve as soldiers were killed and injured in the Gaotai battle, and there are 7000 men of all ages.

He summoned all the officials, hereditary military officials, and local snakes he could find inside and outside Ganzhou City, and told them that from now on, from Tianshan to Qilian Mountains, the surname is Liu. Gift to Liangzhou.

If you want to stay in Ganzhou, who dare not listen to Marshal Liu, don't blame me, Zhang Wu, for being rude!
The helpless Ganzhou veterans, gentry, and hereditary military officers faced his request. A few veteran generals over the age of [-], such as Zhao Zongli and Zhao Zongzhu, chose to be sent to Liangzhou, and the rest accepted the surrender. The fate of the Marshal's Mansion.

When Liu Chengzong arrived in Ganzhou City, more than a dozen fortresses passed by had already planted the Liu character banner. Facing Zhang Tianlin leading the gentry and common people on the loess padded road to Jingshuipo Street, he just stopped for a while and said a few words. He went straight into the city and went to the governor's office.

He wanted to see the governor of Gansu, Bai Yiqing.

Bai Yiqing is an old unlucky guy. Originally, when the flames of war spread to Ganzhou, he wanted to defend the city, but seeing that Li Hongsi's army was in chaos, he planned to go with Li Hongsi, but he didn't have much time to leave the city. In the distance, the team was dispersed by Zhang Tianlin's soldiers, and the driver was killed.

With no other choice, Bai Yiqing returned to Ganzhou City and recruited a coachman again. Before the second breakout, Zhang Tianlin occupied Ganzhou City. The most unfortunate thing was that the newly recruited coachman was a congregation of Three Tribulations.

This coachman is also from Ganzhou, his name is Bao Shizhong. The coachman who was laid off and turned to work is supposed to know his roots. His ancestors have been postmen for eight generations. He is honest and honest. Bai Yiqing dared to recruit him to drive a coach. Very risky occupation, the most honest people are out of order.

There was no bloody storm, Bai Yiqing and his family were sitting in the carriage, and Bao Shizhong drove the carriage into Zhang Tianlin's camp outside the city.

Bao Shizhong said to Zhang Tianlin: "General, Master Bai is a good man, he will be harmed by the court when he returns."

Bai Yiqing's life in Zhang Tianlin's hands was not very good. Ever since he heard that Yang Jiamo died on the high platform, he tried to hit the wall, and was tied up by Zhang Tianlin after the first hit. Later, he tried to go on a hunger strike, and Zhang Tianlin asked Bao Shizhong to feed him. In the end, Bao Shizhong was bitten.

Bao Shizhong was hard-pressed, no matter what he said, he couldn't help it. Seeing that Bai Yiqing was so hungry that he could hardly hold on, Liu Chengzong finally entered Ganzhou City.

In the inner room of the governor's yamen in Ganzhou City, Liu Chengzong laughed the first moment he saw Bai Yiqing. He saw a man in Qiangong Babu's bed wrapped up like a zongzi and thrown on the bed.

Zhang Tianlin explained beside her: "Marshal, I didn't put him in prison. It doesn't matter where he is held anyway. Don't even think about running out in our hands. The eight soldiers watched, except for eating or drinking. It's all good."

Liu Chengzong nodded, waved for someone to untie Bai Yiqing, and ordered the sergeant to prepare meals. Then he moved the deputy chair and sat opposite the Ba Bu bed, and said, "Governor Bai, you know who I am, and I know you too."

Bai Yiqing was so hungry that he had no energy to speak, let alone run away, sat up on the Babu bed so hard that his eyelids were fighting, looked at Liu Chengzong a few times, then raised his eyelids and said angrily: "Who are you? "

Liu Chengzong ignored his tone, just smiled, and asked slowly: "You sent a lot of scholars to Hehuang during your tenure in Gansu, and those people are now the talents of my Grand Marshal's mansion to build a reservoir. Their letters were also confiscated by my anti-smugglers, and you have all the witnesses from the marshal's mansion, why are you clamoring for a hunger strike now, for fear that the emperor will kill you?"

To be honest, the hunger strike didn't starve Bai Yiqing to death, but he was almost pissed off by Liu Chengzong's confusing words.

It's okay not to mention these things, but when Bai Yiqing mentions it, he gets angry, especially wanting to point at Liu Chengzong's nose and scold, what kind of crazy is the Marshal's Mansion?

More than a dozen letters exchanged, all those who send letters are cautious, whether they are hidden in the goods or stuffed in socks, even the letters that are put in the bottom of the layer, you can find out... The letter with Bai Yiqing's name written in his bosom could be sent to Gansu in its original form.

It wasn't until Liu Chengzong named the anti-smuggling soldiers that Bai Yiqing suddenly realized that this gang of birdmen was dedicated to investigating smuggling, and they were not responsible for interrogating correspondence.

"Gansu fell, and Bai couldn't escape the blame. What face does he have to live?"

Liu Chengzong looked at Bai Yiqing mockingly, leaned on the back of the high chair, and said: "Yang Jiamo is dead, Zhang Tianlin should have told you, I have said all good and bad things, but he refused to surrender, and ordered the soldiers to burn me with kerosene in the city The siege army was defeated in the end and went through fire and water."

"He died on the high platform, and he deserved the soldiers to serve him in a deadly battle. He died like a real man; if he was still alive, he was defeated and escaped. I look down on him."

Liu Chengzong frowned suddenly as he spoke, clapped his hands together, opened them to Bai Yiqing, and said in great doubt: "If Gansu is defeated, the commander-in-chief will die; if the army in Gansu is gone, the governor will die; if the people in Gansu are still alive, you What's so bad about a governor?"

Bai Yiqing blinked. He felt that Liu Chengzong's logic was wrong, but he didn't want to talk to Liu Chengzong any more, so he just sat cross-legged on the bed and closed his eyes, not listening to Liu Chengzong's chanting.

But Liu Chengzong didn't seem to care whether he answered or not, and he was not angry at all when he said to himself: "The day before yesterday, Mr. Qian, who set up a high platform and made the first achievement, asked me why I rebelled. I didn't tell him, and let him use his own eyes." Go and see. You have done military preparations and counseling in Shaanxi, and you know why we raised our troops."

"You are a scholar, let me ask you, is it important for Zhu Youjian's family or Zhaoli in the world?"

Bai Yiqing opened his eyes and said: "The world is not the world of your Liu Chengzong family!"

Liu Shizi was very satisfied: "That's right, have you seen Liutao? Two thousand and five hundred years ago, Jiang Taigong said that the world is not ruled by one person, but by the people of the world. Those who share the benefits of the world will win the world; Those who benefit will lose the world. Heaven has time, the earth has wealth, and those who can share it with others are benevolence, where benevolence lies, and the world belongs to it.”

"If you admit this, it means that the two of us can still communicate, and don't put on an air of being dedicated to death. People die all the time in Daming's country. One more Bai Yiqing of you is not much, and one Bai Yiqing without you is not too much." few."

"We are all going to die sooner or later. We are in a high position. What we should consider is to leave something to the world. If you die like this, reading books is worthless and work is worthless. In this way, I will make a promise with you."

Liu Chengzong said: "Talk openly and honestly, and have a meal together later. After eating, if you want to die, I will send you wherever you want to die; if you want to die, I will help you die. ?”

Bai Yiqing blinked, thinking that you bastard came to me for a long time, just to watch the fun, just to see how I die, right?
"You, officials always think highly of themselves and call people by the name of the people. What is the difference between people and people? Don't make it look like the sky will collapse when you die. They are all people. Just three days ago on Gaotai City .”

Liu Chengzong shook his head, raised his hand and pointed to the west: "There are more than 2000 people, all of whom are the same heroes and wear the same armor. For a completely avoidable battle, they used all the weapons that can be found in the world, and they all died. , compared to them, what are you and what are I?"

"Today people call me a traitor, but I just did the same thing as Emperor Taizu, so what's the crime?"

Bai Yiqing seemed to think about this question seriously, and then said: "Emperor Taizu expelled the Hulu, restored China, set up guidelines and disciplines, and rescued the people. What have you done, how can you be compared with Emperor Taizu?"

Liu Chengzong pointed at Bai Yiqing with a smile, paused in front of him, and said: "I admit that the Hulu are still alive and the people are not saved. I have not done enough. When my army takes Beijing, I can completely solve the Hulu. If there is a problem, the matter of saving the living and the people can also be solved on the way of the Eastern Expedition.”

Bai Yiqing glanced at Liu Chengzong: "Arrogance, you just occupied a corner of Hehuang, enslaved the Fanlu, broke the imperial court's national policy of isolating the Fanlu, and dared to talk about completely solving the Hulu problem."

"Where are there any Hulu Fanyi?"

Liu Chengzong grinned relaxedly, showing his neat white teeth: "Born on the high mountains is a Fanyi, born on the grasslands is a barbarian, as long as they look the same as us, bloodlines don't get stuck in the prosperous period of the Central Plains dynasty. They are all Han Chinese.”

Liu Chengzong's words caused a huge gap between the two.

Bai Yiqing said: "It's fine for Marshal Liu to lie to himself. If the country is really in a strong state, how dare you rebel?"

He thought to himself that if Zhang Juzheng was in the pavilion in the early years of Wanli, a mere general would be able to wipe out your marshal's mansion to nothing.

Liu Chengzong was silent.

He was silent for a long time, gently rubbed the short beard on his upper lip with the thumb of his left hand, sighed softly, and then said very seriously: "Mr. Bai, I mean the Central Plains Dynasty, not Daming...it is I."

"I have opened up land for three thousand miles to the southwest. With such martial arts, can't we call it a strong one? If it is not enough, when I broke through Jiayuguan, my elder brother led the officials and led the army to the Tianshan Mountains four thousand miles to the northwest to recover Hami. Is that enough? ?”

Bai Yiqing opened his mouth, bowed his head in silence.

In fact, he has a lot to say. These are incomparably great achievements. Even if these tasks are distributed to a hundred people, they can make everyone proud of their ancestors. Even after 500 years, the chieftain who has become the chieftain of Yongzhen Situ will still be regarded as a symbol of glory by the people of a place.

But he couldn't say it, on the one hand because Liu Chengzong was Daming's enemy, and on the other hand because...his throat was so hot that he really couldn't speak.

At this moment, the soldiers sent by Zhang Tianlin brought meals to the room, gluten broth from Gaotai, cold mutton from Zhangye, mutton rolls from Shandan, chicken pad rolls from Ganzhou, and even made Two bottles of rice wine.

Liu Chengzong ordered the wine to be withdrawn, Ganzhou is not a suitable place for him to drink, and now is not a suitable time for drinking, and Bai Yiqing is not a suitable person for drinking.

Things have progressed so far, it can be said that everything is moving in a good direction, and no one must die.

If he succeeds in persuading Bai Yiqing to surrender, what if this guy drinks too much, and when he wakes up tomorrow, he forgets that he has surrendered, and turns his head to find a rope and tie him to the beam of the house to hang him, how uncomfortable it will be.

On the contrary, seeing Bai Yiqing's dry mouth and seeing the delicious food without even saliva, Liu Chengzong called for a large pot of water, and finally pointed to the dishes on the table with his chopsticks and said with a smile: "I don't think so. Thanks to Mr. Bai, I haven't had a decent meal for a long time, so don't be too polite, this is enough for a dozen people, and I can't finish it by myself. Let's try to add food, don't waste food."

Bai Yiqing didn't put on airs, anyway, Liu Chengzong also said that after eating, he wanted to die and let him die. It's not polite to treat this meal as a meal, so he picked up the kettle and started drinking.

After drinking enough, he wiped his mouth and asked, "What does Marshal Liu usually eat?"

Liu Chengzong raised his hand and untied two small skin bags from his waist, opened them with a smile and put them on the table: "Eating for the march, fried noodles, dried meat, and salted fish."

Bai Yiqing took out the leather pouch and looked at it. This small pouch is exquisitely crafted, and the stitching materials are all selected. It is divided into three pieces, each containing fried noodles, dried meat, and salted fish, but the smell is not very pleasant.

They are all high-energy things, and they don't seem to contain many things, but they are enough for four or five meals.

Frowning, he scooped a spoonful of fried noodles into his mouth and tasted it. It smelled of sugar, salt, and ghee. It should be said that the taste was better than he imagined, but it might be because he hadn’t drank water for a long time. Nausea.

I took another piece of jerky, which was so salty that I frowned. It seemed that sauce was added when it was dried. The taste was much worse than expected, and it was so hard that it almost broke my old teeth.

When he raised his head again, he looked at Liu Chengzong completely differently. He thought that this Generalissimo's level of restraint was similar to that of Lord Chongzhen, and his food was not as good as that of a scholar. With me, Bai Yiqing, this decapitated meal will be considered as your New Year's Eve.

This actually made Liu Chengzong feel competitive, thinking that Lao Tzu is a great commander, commanding thousands of troops, conquering lands rich in the world, why do you look at me with such sympathetic eyes?
"This is not how you eat it. Fried noodles need to be served with water, and dried meat needs to be held in your mouth for a while. This is military rations. Do you know what military rations are? It doesn't affect the march. You need salt and oil. If you have strength, you want to eat."

Liu Chengzong patted the bowl that was put aside: "In the twelfth lunar month of winter, put this on the fire, boil a bowl of water, put three pieces of dried meat in it, stew three handfuls of fried noodles and drink it together, and you can ride a horse and fight for [-] years." round."

After all, he waved his hand: "I don't always eat this. It's useless to be poor. If I can't eat well, my soldiers can only eat worse. After the war, we should eat meat and meat, and we should eat fire." The donkey meat is burned, the horse meat is burned, and whatever animal dies the most will be eaten."

"Eat fish near the river, pheasant yellow sheep near the mountains, cattle and sheep near the nomadic tribes, eat yellow fish in Xining, eat stewed chicken with caterpillar fungus in Kangning, a big pot of caterpillar fungus, you have never seen such a way of eating in your life , the birds in the sky and the beasts on the ground, I am number one in the world when it comes to hunting.”

"In short... I will eat whatever my soldiers eat."

Liu Chengzong lowered his head and picked up a piece of cold mutton, dipped it in the refined salt brought by Qinghai, put it in his mouth and chewed slowly, then looked into Bai Yiqing's eyes after swallowing, raised his hand and pointed behind him slightly: "Go out and have a look, I didn't give it to you. The head-to-head meal was prepared, Jin Zhangye was taken down, and today my entire army will be slaughtered, what can Daming do to stop me?"