Du Zhongxiao walked out of the car, stretched out his arms and exhaled, feeling sweet. After a night of sleep in Juyan and a day of rest, the exhaustion of his body finally went. In this era, the train was very bumpy, the road was not good, I couldn't sit steadily during the day, I couldn't sleep at night, and I sat in the car for several days in a row, which was really like being tortured. The train from Hezhou to Yizhou, due to the rapid repair, the quality is average, and the speed is much slower than other railways, and the most important thing is that it has.

A railway worker in uniform walked by, saw Du Zhongxiao, and hurriedly saluted.

Du Zhongxiao stopped the person and said, "Do you know me?" What is your name? How to do things here? ”

The man said: "The little Ding is loyal, originally a peasant in Lingzhou, but was later plundered into slavery and sold into the party as an auxiliary. Hue Dui war, the small one was captured, and has been building roads for the past two years. After arriving in Yizhou, the repairer was put as a beloved, and the little one came here to do things. ”

Du Zhongxiao nodded, he had been to the party's prisoner of war camp several times, so it was not unusual for this person to remember.

This is a soldier of the era, there is no national concept, he is conscripted as a soldier, and after being captured, he obeys the arrangement, and it is not unusual to do anything. Du Zhongxiao also saw such characteristics, so he was relieved to select talents from the prisoners of war to protect and maintain the road.

The Song Dynasty was only after the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty that nationalism arose, and one reason was that there were more readers. On the contrary, the army did not advocate reading, and after the turn of the Song Dynasty, nationalist sentiment was not serious. If you hit it at the right time, you will rush and hit it violently, and if you can't move, you will have all kinds of ways to escape.

After nothing for a while, Du Zhongxiao said to Ding: "I have been building roads for the past two years, what do you think?" Is it more bitter than before in the party army? ”

Ding Xiaozhong said with a smile: "Where is the marshal, in the party army, we are auxiliary soldiers, and we can't eat enough." In the past two years of road construction, I have always eaten corn or steamed buns, and I have always been full, how can I compare with the previous days? It is precisely because of the good food that the road has been built for two years, and everyone has been stable and there has been no incident. A month ago, I was put on as a lover, and I still felt that I was not used to it. Fortunately, I work on the railway, there is a canteen, and the food is not too bad. I heard that there were people who went to the local farms and divided the fields and divided the land, but because they couldn't cook, they went hungry. ”

Du Zhongxiao laughed when he heard this: "There is no way to do this, the countryside can only cook its own food." If you don't know how to cook, you have to learn it quickly. If not, if you have everything in your family, but you can't eat or drink well, won't you lose money? ”

Ding Xiaozhong said: "What the marshal said is true. It's just that those of us who used to be in the party, didn't have anything at home in peacetime, and we didn't eat well in wartime, and we didn't see anything before, how do we know what to do? I heard that the people who were in charge of the camp had no choice, so they sent people to each village to teach the people who went to the camp how to cook. In some villages, canteens have simply been set up for people in the camp to eat. ”

Du Zhongxiao nodded, I didn't know there was such a thing before, listening to Ding Xiaozhong, I should listen to some strange news.

The living environment in the party is too far worse than that in the Central Plains, and many poor people have never seen yellow rice in their lives, only hearing that it is cooked after boiling it with water. As a result, they were assigned to the camp and field work, and the houses and rice were distributed above, and many people could not cook them at all, and they ate raw rice. In the end, Yingtian had no choice but to assign people to teach people how to cook in the village below.

Ding Xiaozhong didn't expect this kind of thing, but he just inquired about the person who was the road guard, he was not tired, and the treatment was good, so he finally stayed to protect the road. These days, I just think it's funny to hear people talk about my former colleagues.

As he was talking, he came over from the side and said in a loud voice: "Ding Xiaozhong, the time is almost up, why don't you go and set up a sign!" ”

When I got closer, I saw Du Zhongxiao standing here, and hurriedly came over to salute, and said, "Little presumptuous, I don't know that the festival commander is here." ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Those who don't know are not guilty." I've been in the carriage for a long time, and I've come out to take a breath. ”

After speaking, he looked at his watch, and when he was still half an hour before he changed the direction of the railway, he said to Mi Laiyou: "It's still early, and it's nothing to talk about it here." What is your name? What did you do before you came here to protect the road? ”

Xialai Youliang arched his hand and said: "The small Xialai Youliang was originally a member of the party army, Hue was captured in the First World War, and the road was repaired for two years. The person who had to protect the road a few days ago thought that he didn't know how to farm since he was a child, so he stayed. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "The two of you used to be together, but now you can protect the road together, and you can still take care of it." ”

He was a little embarrassed: "Don't hide it from the marshal, when the little one was first captured, it was still the habit of the previous army." Once, yellow rice was sent down to improve the food, and I also put together the rice and ate it for myself, not for others to eat. At that time, he was advised by Ding Xiao and was cleaned up from above. In the past two years of road construction, the two of us have not spoken much, and the relationship is cold. A few days ago, we were here to protect the road, and I knew that this was a lifelong errand, and the relationship got better. ”

Du Zhongxiao couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "In the world, the most important thing is to support each other in order to go well." For the sake of some idleness, how can you have a good life when you fight with others at every turn? As long as you can protect the road here and live a good life, you should do things carefully. ”

Yu Lai Youliang and Ding Xiaozhong nodded yes together.

Du Zhongxiao looked at his watch and said, "It's not too early, you go and set up a sign, and you can do things with peace of mind in the future." ”

The two of them agreed together, turned and went off into the distance.

Du Zhongxiao looked at the backs of the two leaving, and his mood was much better. These prisoners of war built the road for two years, and they built several major arteries of the meandering road. Not only have they built roads, but they have also reformed themselves, and I hope they will have a better life in the future.

After walking outside the car for a while, Du Zhongxiao returned to the car. The guard on duty handed over a letter and said, "Jieshuai, Yizhou official letter." ”

Du Zhongxiao picked it up and found that the official document was written by Zhao Zi and co-signed by Zhang Sheng. It wrote the general deployment of Zhao Zi's department recently, occupying various important places in Yizhou, and repairing the road to Guigukou. It mentioned that the vanguard troops of Zhang Qi's department had arrived in Yizhou.

Du Zhongxiao put down the official document, thought for a while, and said to the guards: "Reply to Zhao Zi and pay close attention to Gao Chang's movements." In addition, Guigukou was passing by the Tianshan Mountains, and he was asked to send people to conduct extensive reconnaissance to prevent the Uighurs from coming from Gaochang to overturn the Tianshan Mountains. ”

The guards promised. Du Zhongxiao said again: "Don't worry about the rest, wait for me and Deputy Envoy Fu to go over." Drive the day after tomorrow and we'll be there in three or five days. I heard that Yizhou is much warmer than Juyan, and it is a good place. ”

The guard said: "When we came here, we listened to the people who stayed here for a day, and the winter here is so cold. In winter, everyone stays inside and does not dare to go out. At that time, there were many wild geese in the Juyan Sea, and they wanted to eat as much as they wanted. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "These places are vast and sparsely populated, so this is naturally the case. In Yizhou, I heard that melons and fruits are very sweet, and it happened to be autumn when we arrived, just in season. Eat some melons and fruits, everyone concentrates, and fight to Gaochang! ”

Several guards agreed together, and the atmosphere suddenly became warm.

If Gaochang is successfully occupied, the entire situation in the Western Regions will change. With this railway, it is not difficult for the Song army to enter continuously and restore the homeland of the Han and Tang dynasties.