Xiaocang River.

Night had already fallen, and halfway up the mountainside, in the courtyard composed of half caves and half houses, dinner was still being prepared, and the atmosphere in each room was already lively.

The master's family who came back from outside the mountain was blocking his family in the kitchen at this time - it was not the first time, in this era of paying attention to gentlemen's cooking, a big thief who had already shocked the world (anyway, he was a person who did big things), occasionally ran to the kitchen to make suggestions on the way to make meals, and even fried an egg or something by himself, which was really a disturbing thing for both the family and the cook.

Ning Yi was scrambling eggs, and in the courtyard outside, there were all kinds of chirping sounds, coming back from outside the mountain, and inevitably a bunch of people came to the door. For example, Chen Fan, Du Shu, and Fang Shuchang all came to eat and drink. Before killing Zhou Zhe, Zhu Ji's main business was to open a restaurant, and Ning Yi was quite particular about food - he was not like Cai Jing's big households, killing a hundred chickens with one dish and only frying his tongue on a plate, but he didn't like the eating habits that were generally below the standard in this era.

So when Ning Yi was in the capital, he looted a lot of cooks, Chen Fan and others worked hard in Jiangnan before, but they did not meet Ning Yi, and they failed to enjoy these treatments. At this time, although there were not many cooks who came over after entering the mountain, and most of them had to be in charge of the big pot of rice, Ning Yi always left one in his family. At present, the chef of the Ning family is called Tang Shulie, and his job is actually a green forest person, with strong martial arts, and Chen Huozi and these people are the same, but he is also quite exquisite in cooking, and over time. was nagged by Ning Yi to be a housekeeper and cook.

This Tang Shulie just likes cooking, and thinks it's a small way. At the beginning, he and Chen Huozi and others generally served as Ning Yi's nurse, and later experienced the Battle of Xia Village. In his spare time to practice martial arts, he discussed a few recipes with Chef Zhu Ji, only for leisure purposes, and now he has really become a chef, and he has a sense of pearl casting darkness on weekdays. Chen Huozi and others persuaded him that everyone should take over such things, and it would be good to protect Mr. Ning, and it would be difficult to say what he thought in private. At this time, Ning Yi actually ran to his territory to scramble eggs. As a chef, his face was quite unhappy.

Chen Fan, Du Shu and others watched at the door, provoking trouble: "Put a few more eggs, put a few more eggs, so many people." That's it, how can you eat enough, Boss Ning, it's so late. You know how to add chaos. ”

"What's the mess. The taste of the big pot dish has changed, you guys come uninvited and have opinions, don't eat what I cooked! ”

"Of course not! Don, help me fry the same ...... Look at Old Tang's face......"

"Brother Tang, Brother Tang, let me tell you, you know, I, Chen Fan, am not a troublemaker. I don't know what your temper is, but I can't bear it if it were me! ”

"The owner...... You're going to go out ......."

"What a joke! Old Don. Who is your boss, who gave you food, don't bully the soft and be afraid of the hard knowing, that Chen Fan, you find him to go out and fight alone, I bet you to win! Ning Yi waved the spatula and joked with a smile, and the people inside and outside the room also laughed, Tang Shulie looked helpless, and Chen Fan pouted and sneered at the door: "I won't fight with Old Tang." ”

Fang Shuchang, who was watching the excitement outside the door, came over and hugged his shoulders: "What heads-up?" What's heads-up? When did we Chen Fan ever be afraid of heads-up. Xiaofan, I'm not a troublemaker, I don't know what your temper is, if it were me, I wouldn't be able to bear it......"

"I can't bear anything, my husband can bend and stretch, and I still have food to eat if I am alone with Lao Tang......"

Everyone has been getting along with each other for a few months, at this time there are many people near the kitchen, and there are many people coming and going in the courtyard and surrounding rooms, including several leaders of the Badao Battalion, Su Wending and other relatives of the Su family, Zhu Biao, Chen Huozi, He Zhicheng and Liu Chengzong who came to see Ning Yi, and some disciples who were in Hangzhou before, such as Zhuo Xiaofeng, came to join in the fun. Su Tan'er took Xiaochan, Juan'er and other family members to be responsible for Zhang Luo's tables, chairs, dishes and chopsticks, and Ning Xi, who was more than four years old, ran around in the crowd and went to the kitchen to bring a bowl of water to bring back for his younger brother to drink.

His younger brother, Xiaochan's child, one year and four months old Ning Ji, was walking slowly under the eaves on the other side, saying "Daddy! Daddy! Shaking like a penguin, when he was about to fall, the watermelon that was watching with a straight face on the side would reach out and grab him, Ning Ji shook his head, saw the person clearly, and then opened his mouth to reveal the baby teeth in his mouth: "Hehe, melon - aunt!" ”

"My name is Liu Dabiao." Watermelon picked him up and corrected him seriously, "Come, call Aunt Da Biao." ”

"West-melon!"

"I'm not playing with you anymore." She put the child back in its place, sat down under the eaves and continued to keep a straight face, Ning Ji staggered towards her, and continued to open her mouth and smile heartlessly. Xiaochan passed not far away, and when she saw the helplessness of the watermelon, she also covered her mouth and smiled, and she didn't plan to care more.

Yunzhu is already pregnant, and she is just beginning to show her belly, but she can't see it when she wears thicker clothes. Jin'er accompanied her to set up dishes and chopsticks in the room, and their circle did not match Chen Fan's gang of thieves for the time being, but they also had their own things to do. Since going north, Yunzhu is mainly responsible for sorting out and managing some books shipped out of the capital, and she has the highest attainments in music, but if you want to say that the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, almost all of them are dabbled in and deepened, and if you want to say that the orthodox understanding of some ancient books and classics, she may be better than Ning Yi.

It is also for this reason that she came to Qingmu Village, and later came to Xiaocanghe, what she did, in addition to slowly archiving books, every afternoon, she would also have half to an hour to teach the orthodox Four Books and Five Classics.

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, there will be a lot of troops in the entire Xiaocanghe team at this time. The lower level is mainly to explain the problems of the Wu Dynasty, explain the situation after that, and increase the sense of urgency, and the upper level is often led by Ning Yi, who talks about the importance of efficiency to those involved in the administration, the skills of management, and the skills of arranging various things, and explains to the people of the army, which is mostly to stabilize the morale of the army and analyze various truths, and also participates in some methods similar to pyramid schemes and missionaries to incite and care for people, but these are basically short-term and medium-term tutorials based on "use", similar to short-term courses in modern education and management, forum lectures for successful people, and so on.

People who are really involved in knowledge learning and have advanced needs in this area. Not much. When Ning Yi was in Hangzhou, he talked to Zhuo Xiaofeng and other children of the "Yongle Youth League" and "Zhengqi Society" about some formal Confucian knowledge and did some enlightenment. I also used various metaphors and modern teaching methods to enable them to quickly understand some truths, and later these people came to Miaojiang, and the acquisition of knowledge came mostly from self-study. "Truth", Ning Yi sent them to Yunzhu to explain some of the words on the formal books.

Yunzhu does not have too broad views and horizons in this regard. But the explanation of knowledge is extremely correct. In the eyes of Zhuo Xiaofeng and others, such a soft and weak teacher can have such profound knowledge, which is no different from a great Confucian. I respect her more and more. In the meantime. One after another, some children of the core characters of Zhuji joined them, and although the team was not big, the life of Yunzhu was enriched.

A group of people talked and laughed, Ning Yi fried a little dish, and then moved the stove out of the way, not to hinder Tang Shulie's work. He talked about things with Du Kill Chen Fan and others in the courtyard on the side, and the topic was naturally inseparable from the Bianliang Breakdown this time, or they encountered a lot of situations when they went out. Not long after, wearing an eye patch. Qin Shaoqian, dressed in military uniform, also came, and the men went to one room to sit down and sat at two large tables, while the women and children went to the other room. Although Watermelon can be regarded as one of the leaders, she also accompanied Su Tan'er to the room on the other side and sat down, occasionally teasing Xiao Ningji, who had only spoken for a short time, and after a while, Ning Ji cried, and she coaxed embarrassedly with a cold face.

Sitting, greeting, and serving, when Qin Shaoqian asked about the situation of this trip out of the mountain, Ning Yi shook his head slightly.

The problems faced by Xiaocanghe are not small.

Of course, if it is anyone, killing an emperor and raising troops to rebel, the problems encountered will not be small......

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Since half a year ago, after Ning Yi and others killed the king, the primary problem encountered was not actually the external pursuit - although on the Jinluan Palace, Cai Jing and others broke Ning Yi's procrastination by shouting "Your Majesty was assassinated and died", but after that, Lu Liang's cavalry once rushed into the palace and carried out a round of killing with the forbidden army in the palace, and then according to the previous plan, several rounds of artillery bombardment were carried out on the rescue and peaceful soldiers in the city.

After that, thousands of soldiers of the Wurui Battalion who were opposed by Qin Shaoqian drove into the city, and even confronted the forbidden army in the city for two days and two nights after the great chaos.

At this time, the emperor died, and the ministers were leaderless, and Ning Yi and others preemptively ransacked several important places in the city, such as the Hanlin Academy, the Imperial Palace Library, the Armory of the Ministry of War, the Firearms Division, the Household Warehouse, and the Ministry of Industry Warehouse...... A large number of books, gunpowder, seeds, and medicinal herbs were stolen. At that time, Tong Guan, who commanded the army, had been killed by Ning Yi, although Cai Jing was scheming, and he had also experienced a lot of turmoil and could make a decision, but in order to survive, he instructed the forbidden army to release arrows in the palace and gave Ning Yi a handle.

Ning Yi not only publicized the scandal of the ransom of Yanyun Liuzhou in the city, the shady scenes of various households, but also arranged for people to shout the truth about killing the monarch in the city eighty times a day. Cai Jing's protégé was born all over the world, and he also knew that it was the most important moment, if it was just Tong Guan's death, he could also rush to obey the power and unify the power against Ning Yi, but Ning Yi's behavior disturbed the legitimacy of his use of the army, so that all parties inevitably hesitated and waited and watched. Ning Yi and the others packed these things and dragged them on the road in a carriage.

After leaving Beijing, the team did not go very fast, and on the way, an army chased after them. At this time, Ning Yi had 6,050 soldiers from the Wurui Battalion, 1,080 soldiers from the Luliangshan Horse Team, and more than 2,000 soldiers from the Badao Battalion, adding up to just over 10,000. Behind the chase, it is often a lineup of 450,000, and some generals realize the role of heavy cavalry, and have already put armor on the few cavalry under their command, but these are meaningless.

Ning Yi and the others scattered the chasing army twice in a row, but they did not rush to kill all the soldiers, and scattered the matter, only to chase and kill the generals of these two troops, the Luliang cavalry. Wu Huijun commanded He Ping and his guards to be pursued by Han Jing to the bank of the Yellow River to capture the head of the owl, and after that, the army chasing behind only did not work.

After defeating the resentful army, they could confront the Jurchens, and they made a big fuss in Bianliang City and killed the emperor's army, and their combat power was at its peak. But at the peak of this time, there was an air of hysteria. The really huge problem lies in the thinking and future of this army, and not many people really dare to think about it. Once you think about it, you will inevitably fall into confusion, and if you maintain this situation. In less than half a year, the army will collapse.

The core of Ning Yi's response is one sentence: "Within one year, the capital and the north of the Yellow River will fall, and within three years, all the north of the Yangtze River will fall." This is the general trend of the Jurchens, the court of the Wu Dynasty is powerless to return to the sky, and when the time comes, we will have to save the Chinese people who may be saved. Try to save ......."

In order to infiltrate this sentence into every part of the army, Ning Yi also did a lot of things at that time, in addition to letting people promote the black materials of the Wu Dynasty family to various states of the high-ranking families along the way. Shaking people's hearts also made them kill each other, and the real brainwashing was still carried out in the army. The top-down meeting breaks these things apart one by one and crushes them into people's minds. When these things penetrate in. The following judgments and prophecies. Only then did it really have a foothold.

The prophecy of the fate of the Wu Dynasty sets out the short- and medium-term goals, defines the program and correctness of the actions, and also implies that once the court falls, we will face only the enemy. In this way, the military spirit of the Wurui battalion was temporarily stabilized in such a judgment. If this assertion does not occur a year later, it is estimated that the psychology of the soldiers. It can only last until that time. However, after all, the Jin soldiers went south again.

It is somewhat ironic that the morale of an army depends on the victory of the worst enemy, but in any case, it is true. The southward movement of the Jin people made the "rebellion" of this team initially gain a foothold, and it is also for this reason that when the news of the destruction of Bianliang City came, there would be such a big morale increase in the valley, because the correctness of their own side was improved again, and everyone's confidence in Ning Yi would undoubtedly increase greatly.

However, even if the initial foundation is so ironically rooted, for Ning Yi and other high-level officials, one problem after another has just begun to be solved. In the middle of this, the first huge problem faced is that Aoki Village is about to lose its geographical advantages.

Before deciding to kill Zhou Zhe, Ning Yi had two years of planning and operation for Qingmu Village. As a business tycoon in his job, he is too familiar with the understanding and coordination of supply and demand. Although Qingmu Village is engaged in smuggling, under Ning Yi's operation, there will be active analysis and suggestions in the mountains for the care of business travelers, their advantages and disadvantages, and what they can obtain and need. In these years, not only do business with people, but also teach people how to do it, and take the initiative to coordinate the supply and demand of Wu and Jin, for businessmen, the convenience is huge, and the profits are of course huge.

Two years is not a long time, and the first year can only be said to be a start, but the secret investigation department has a lot of information, and through disaster relief, Zhu Ji has also united many businessmen. These merchants, formal and Zhuji partnership, where there is informal, Ning Yi will send Lu Liangshan people to find each other, to the second year, the Jin people go south, step through the Yanmen Pass, when the border trade stops, Qingmu Village has swelled violently.

If Ning Yi did not rebel, and the Jin people did not go south again. In the winter of the fourteenth year of Jinghan, I am afraid that Qingmu Village will take a large piece of meat from the border trade income of Yanmen Pass, and then force the army to officially turn around.

At present, there is no such worry, but the Jin people go south, seize the north of the Yellow River, break through Bianliang, once it begins to officially digest this place, the business between the north and the south can no longer talk about smuggling, and Qingmu Village will also be completely overturned by the Yanmen Pass channel.

For more than a year, Qingmu Village has looted and concentrated a large number of resources, but even if it is amazing, there is a limit, the two thousand cavalry from Luliang Mountain, and nearly two hundred ironclad heavy cavalry, are the core of this resource. Secondly, in Qingmu Village, a large amount of grain was also hoarded - this was not premeditated, but the environment of Luliang Mountain was not good after all, and everyone was hungry before.

Since the development of Qingmu Village, it has taken in the nearby mountain people, displaced people, and deserters from the north and south, and there are more than 20,000 people at present, and there are 10,000 more people to support it for about a year, which is nothing. However, Sunset has also begun to appear.

Ordinary soldiers, of course, do not know. But it was also because of these considerations that Ning Yi chose to move the new base westward, relying on Qingmu Village to gain a firm foothold first, and infiltrate the territory of the Western Army - this piece of folk customs is fierce, but the sense of belonging to the imperial court is not very strong, and the previous cultivation of the Dao and Qin Siyuan sympathized with each other, Ning Yi and others believe that the other party may sell Qin Shaoqian a small face, so as not to kill them all - at least before the Western Army can't kill them all, they may not do it easily.

In the past two or three months, Ning Yi used all the storytellers who followed under Zhu Ji to go to several states and counties in the territory of the Western Army, pretending to be survivors to tell the process of the imperial court's killing of the monarch, the truth about the six states of Yanyun, etc., and occasionally publicized the heroic sacrifice among the breeders. During this time, the Western Army did not fiercely block this, but because the people were fierce, sometimes people felt that the storyteller said bad things about the court and would beat people away. But there are also many people who are indignant at the weakness of the imperial court because of their worship of the planters.

On the other hand, Ning Yi has already begun to build a preliminary business network nearby, and he still has a lot of businessmen's information on hand, which was originally related to Zhuji and has nothing to do with it, but now of course he no longer dares to be involved with Ning Yi - but that doesn't matter, as long as there is a demand, he can always play some tricks in the middle.

As long as this territory of the Western Army can give him about a year, with his business ability, it is possible to connect a network of interests between all parties in the northwest where the forces of Tubo, Western Xia, and Jin meet. even stretched its tentacles along Tubo and into Dali...... (To be continued......)