The plan of the year lies in the spring, agriculture is the foundation of the world, spring ploughing in February, labor in March, and the matter of crops is the top priority. Farmers work hard for food and clothing, scholars are driven by fame, industry and commerce run for interests, and the whole Dazheng is like a bee butterfly that has been dormant for a winter, buzzing around the flowers.

As the Son of Heaven, Shi Fangzhen is very diligent in government, getting up at the end of every day, meeting with the court, discussing the government with the courtiers, reviewing the chapters, and returning to the harem until Youzheng. There are no three thousand beauties in the harem, but it is enough for the Son of Heaven to work hard, Liu Weiguo looked at the red cheeks of the Son of Heaven due to excitement, and he was worried, and he discussed the prescription of tonic with the imperial doctor.

The major events of the court continued, farming, group training, official governance, and clearing the fields, Shi Fangzhen put his main energy on the northern expedition, and put the others aside in advance. Shi Fangzhen ordered another 30,000 soldiers and horses to be transferred from the east of the town, the west of the town and the south of the town, and the 60,000 soldiers and horses drawn from the 16 guards in Beijing to go to the north camp of the town for training.

In this way, the soldiers and horses of the Zhenbei battalion reached as many as 600,000, and the subdued desert tribe cobbled together 50,000 light cavalry as pioneers, and the Zhenbei battalion was huge, and there were 160,000 troops gathered in the area of Zhenbei City, ready to kill the Northern Desert Royal Court at any time.

On the official road, batches of soldiers and horses, truckloads of grain and grass, and countless ordnance supplies formed a long line, rolling northward. The consumption of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses is a huge number, and people with a discerning eye know that when the spring will be warmer next year, the Son of Heaven will once again take the Desert King Court in one fell swoop, drive the Desert people to the bitter cold north, and remove the threat of the north in the Central Plains for thousands of years.

The first Zhu family in Jiangmen, in addition to Zhu Yifeng, Zhu Yiguang and Zhu Yichen successively put on armor and went to serve in the army, Li Jianzhao, the son of the former Guogong, and Sun Li Jingxuan went to Zhenbei with the army of Zuo Xiaowei, and Wang Zhiping, the son of Wang Keyan, the Marquis of Yicheng, set off with the right Weiwei; Huang Jifei, the son of Xuanwu Hou, the general of Zuo Wuwei, led an army of 10,000 people on the sixth day of the first month of March, and Wei Menggang, the third son of the Han Hou, and Wei Youhang, the cousin of Wei Youcheng, were the secretary of the army......

The children of noble relatives spit generous words in the restaurant, and every time there was a sound of bullets in the green building, the topic of conversation also shifted from women and fun to who was recruited to the camp in the north of the town today, and the sentence "Why don't men bring Wu hooks" became the most lively words, and the entire capital, whether it was officials or ordinary people, were eagerly looking forward to going to the north to make contributions.

The situation of the crowd was known by Shi Fangzhen through the secret guard's recital, and the people's hearts were available to make him feel happy, twenty-two years of hard work, Da Zheng Guo had unprecedented cohesion in his hands, although the empire still had various ills, but compared to Emperor Zhao and Emperor Xuan, the people's livelihood withered a hundred times better.

The report was sorted out and collected by Feng Zhong's hand, of course he knew what the Son of Heaven was happy about, and bowed down and congratulated: "Long live the old slave congratulations, all the people are united, long live the Northern Expedition will inevitably be like a bamboo, win in one fell swoop, and achieve a thousand years of fame." ”

Shi Fangzhen was very impressed: "If I can sweep the Northern Desert, I will be able to boast in this life." Feng Zhong, what is the recent return of the spies sent to the north? ”

After returning from the northern expedition in the seventeenth year of Fengle, King Keming, the prince of Shenguo, suggested that the northern desert be blocked, strictly prohibiting the transportation of grain, tea, iron and other materials into the desert realm, and asked Zhenbeicheng to send officers and soldiers to patrol and search the caravan. In four years, the results have been achieved, the desert people live in embarrassment, the lack of food can only be based on beef and mutton, and the lack of tea bricks makes the desert people susceptible to diseases and fights

Force decreases.

Bei Mo felt the threat of Da Zheng and knew that a big war could break out at any time, and life and death were just around the corner. Under the call of the Dharma King, the Northern Desert tribes gradually focused together, and the two brothers, Kunbo and Liman, temporarily put aside their disputes and obeyed the orders of the Holy Maiden Tizhu.

In the face of Zheng Guo's embargo, Tizhu sent a caravan to cross the Heluo Mountain to open a trade route to the Western Regions, throwing a large amount of gold and silver to buy supplies from the Western Regions. Hu Rui knew that once Zheng Guo expelled the Mo people, the Western Regions would have to bear the pressure brought by the powerful Zheng State alone, and if he helped the Mo people defeat Zheng Guo, he could take the opportunity to go east to carve up Zheng Guo's territory.

Ti Zhu organized the elite of the Moren tribe and organized them into the wolf cavalry, equipped with the best equipment and mounts, and the disciples of the Dharma King joined the army as generals.

Zhou Chucun was sent to serve in Zhenbei City due to fraud in the imperial examination, and he was arranged to feed the horses in the stable. When Luo Yuefei, who was also a degraded official, quietly found him and said that he had the opportunity to defect to the Northern Desert, he did not hesitate to join the defection team. The desert people sent a master to answer, Luo Yuefei was shot dead by the pursuers, but he was lucky to enter the desert royal court and saw the reverse road.

Qu Guidao once came with Prince Liman to marry, he had seen Qu Guidao, watching Qu Guidao sit on the side seat of the royal court, the Desert Saint and the two princes respected him, Zhou Chucun found his own position, Zheng Guo can't go back, and if he wants to go back, he can only be like Qu Guidao's hands are stained with Zheng people's blood. Gritting his teeth, for the sake of glory and prosperity, Zhou Cun willingly became the second in the canal.

After becoming a traitor, Zhou Chucun was like a wolf, he had served as a horse wash in the East Palace by the prince's side, and knew some of the fine works sent by Zheng Guo to the Northern Desert, under his identification, Zheng Ren's fine work net was destroyed. Zhou Chucun still refused to give up, after Zheng Guo's caravan entered the royal court, he personally took Moqi to investigate, and was found to be hiding in the caravan A lot of secret agents, because of him, more than 30 dragon guards and secret guards died. At his suggestion, the Mo people did not allow a horse to go south to enter Zheng Guo, and did not allow Zheng Guo's caravan to enter the 500 miles of the royal court.

Shi Fangzhen was furious after learning about the Zhou Dynasty, and issued an order to behead the Zhou family, and Kong Province persuaded the Son of Heaven to go against the grain, and Shi Fangzhen sent a decree to send the Zhou family to Qianzhou, and never allowed to return. When crossing the Yuanhua River, the escorted Long Wei was angry that his colleagues were killed by Zhou Chucun, and deliberately overturned the boat, and the Zhou family was buried in the river. When the news reached the Northern Desert, Zhou Cun shaved his hair and changed his clothes, regarded himself as a desert person, and vowed to avenge his blood.

In this case, it became very difficult for the spies to get the news of the Northern Desert, and they could only rely on the masters to infiltrate and investigate, and the Sadujiao also sent masters to track down, and the masters of the Dragon Guard and the Dark Guard suffered great losses.

Feng Zhong said truthfully: "The desert people are very tightly blocked, in February, the dragon guard and the dark guard lost twelve people, and there is very little useful information, so the desert people have to focus on training in the area of the royal court to deal with our army going north." ”

Shi Fangzhen's brows furrowed, knowing this, knowing that the other side can win a hundred battles, now the situation in the northern desert is unknown, and it is very risky to go north

Big, but the army is assembled, and the daily consumption is huge, like an arrow on the bow, and it has to be sent, and next year it will start the northern expedition anyway.

After thinking for a moment, Shi Fangzhen said: "I remember that there is a group of secret agents in Huazhou who are located in the Western Regions, and the Moren have close trade with the Western Regions, so you might as well let those secret agents from the Western Regions turn into caravans to find out the news." Long Wei and Dark Guard recruit more good players, as long as they can find out the news back, they will be rewarded heavily. ”

Feng Zhong should be, seeing that the Son of Heaven had no other explanation, he bowed and left. Back at the Secret Guard Yamen, Feng Zhong pondered in his chair for a while and ordered, "Go and bring Mr. Yan." "Mr. Yan, Yan Qingze, is already the history of the Six-Rank Secret Guard.

Yan Qingze's official office was next to him, and when he heard the sound, he rushed to see Feng Zhong's gloomy face, and asked, "Dugong, what's the difficulty?" ”

A smile bloomed on Feng Zhong's face and said, "Sir, sit down." Long live today ordered me to send more people to the Northern Desert to inquire about the news, the manpower in the secret guard was lost by nearly one-third, everyone talked about the indifference, I'm afraid no one wants to go, our family has nothing to do, I don't know what Mr. has to do? ”

Yan Qingze sat down on the side, he knew very well that the spy who went to the Northern Desert had suffered serious losses, but the Son of Heaven was in a hurry, and he knew that it was Hushan and still had to send someone to go. Feng Zhong said that the Son of Heaven intended to let the spies lurking in the Western Regions turn into businessmen to go to the Northern Desert, and let the two methods of recruiting masters to the rivers and lakes, Yan Qingze said: "Both methods are feasible, most of the spies in the Western Regions are Long Wei, let Han Governor arrange it, and the matter of recruiting masters in the rivers and lakes can be organized." Huang Deputy Dutong has several masters of the rivers and lakes around him, and Jiang Zhenfu (Jiang Jian) was once a famous master in the rivers and lakes. ”

Jiang Jian is Huang Xi's loyal lackey, this person was recruited by Huang Xi when he competed in the world, and the year before last he brought back from the Northern Desert the news of the rebellion in Zhou, and the Son of Heaven crowned him as the deputy suppressor, and the official rank was still above Mr. Yan. Huang Xi got the help of King Chu'an, and now he has full wings, although he is still deferential to himself on the surface, in fact, he has already done his own thing, but the hateful thing is that there are people in the secret guard who bow down to him and don't put themselves in his eyes.

Of course, Feng Zhong is not good at stubble, and he secretly made people who obey Huang Xi's orders suffer several times, Huang Xi privately found him and said that the age difference between the two was twenty years, Feng Zhong was old, and the Son of Heaven intended to let him replace Feng Zhong as the next secret guard governor. Huang Xi hinted that if Feng Zhong did not trouble him, he would take care of Feng Zhong's family in the future, and Feng Zhong's brothers and nephews would rely on him for food in the capital, and Huang Xi's words hit the nail on his head, and Feng Zhong turned a blind eye to Huang Xi's offense. Of course, forbearance does not mean giving up, Feng Zhong is like a poisonous snake lurking in the palace for most of his life, and the only thing that can happen to him is death.

"Mr. Yan means to let our family recruit a few masters like Jiang Jian to listen to it." Feng Zhong stroked his smooth chin and said: "Jiang Jian is a special case, he was selected to participate in the world competition, I am afraid it will not be easy for our family to recruit people." Hehe, the reputation of the dark guard is not very good, and the heroes on the rivers and lakes are probably unwilling to give in. ”

Yan Qingze said with a smile: "Duke, you are doing things for the court, you can clearly order the ten major sects to send experts to listen to it." The governor may wish to start playing long live, in the name of the holy decree to spread the martial arts, preach the great man of chivalry for the country and the people, promise the people of the rivers and lakes to kill the desert people for meritorious service in the future according to the meritorious deeds of the reward, the government for its fame, build the mansion of the hero, think of countless people in the rivers and lakes willing to serve the governor. ”

Feng Zhong smiled: "Wonderful." ”