Chapter 177 I, Liu Shishan, are back again

The most important thing in the world is smart people, Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng competed, and he gradually understood. Since Li Yuan is jealous of Li Jiancheng's merits and prestige, even if he can defeat Li Jiancheng and become the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, he will not be able to sit firmly in the position of this prince.

So he calmed down and developed Hedong with peace of mind. The news that Chen Ying received was. Since the end of the spring ploughing in the sixth year of Wude, Li Shimin began to build a large number of construction projects in the east of the river, building embankments such as the Sanggan River, the Hutuo River, and the Zhanghe River.

In the newspaper, there is a special fold of Li Shimin in Beijing. Li Shimin planned to start from the mouth of the Yanggu Valley of the Yuanzi River in Shuozhou in the west, along the Sanggan River, Shanyin, Yingxian to Xin, and the whole journey was 278 miles of river.

It is not surprising that Li Shimin squeezed out Li Shiji, Feng Li, and other officials appointed by the Eastern Palace or the imperial court from the Bingzhou Governor's Mansion, and installed all the civil and military officials from the Qin Wangfu Department in the 24 prefectures of the Bingzhou Governor's Mansion. It's just that Li Shimin attached great importance to water conservancy projects and began to focus on operating Hedong, which Chen Ying did not expect.

Although it is said that the Prefecture Governor's Office is not a scarce freshwater resource, however, the more than 1,000 large and small rivers under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office are basically seasonal rivers, and the seasonal changes are very large. In particular, the upper reaches of the Sanggan River flow through the arid Loess Plateau in northern Shanxi, and are called the Sanggan River. Its downstream is often plagued by floods, so it often changes the river course, so it is commonly known as the Wuding River.

"Poor and uncertain riverside bones, like a person in a spring boudoir dream." It's about the lower reaches of the Sangan River. In the northern part of the state, the weather is dry, but during the rainy season and flood season, the Sangan River also floods. It seems surprising that the arid northern part of the state can also be flooded. Of course, the political significance of Li Shimin's construction of the ditch is far greater than the practical significance.

Dry land, the mu yield can be called good land. Once the ditch is completed, millions of acres of dry land will be transformed into productive paddy fields, which will be of great significance to strengthening Li Shimin's foundation in the Hedong region. Of course, the important thing is that Li Shimin withheld the taxes of the twenty-four states under the rule of the Governor's Office under the pretext of building ditches.

This made Chen Ying feel jealous.

Chen Ying pointed to the Tang copy of the Di Bao, looked at Li Xiuning and said, "Do you know who is behind His Royal Highness the King of Qin and gives him advice?" ”

Li Xiuning looked at Tang Copy, and said with a slight surprise: "Erlang has grown up, and he knows that he has shared his worries for the imperial court......"

At this moment, Li Xiuning noticed Chen Ying's strange look, and asked suspiciously, "Isn't this good?" ”

Chen Ying has a thousand-year-old understanding, and it is easy to see that Li Shimin is implementing the overall strategy of "building a high city, accumulating grain, and slowing down the king" at this time.

Now that Li Shiji and Feng Li are in Hedong to balance Li Shimin, Li Shimin has become the king of Taiyuan, and now Li Shimin has soldiers, food, and people, and the kind of stubbornness that never admits defeat.

If you don't get it right, the Tang Dynasty has no Xuanwu Gate, and there is the Tang Dynasty's "Jingjing", I really don't know how many years it will take for Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin brothers to fight before they can tell the winner.

Chen Ying looked at Li Xiuning slightly distracted, and asked aloud, "What are you thinking?" ”

Li Xiuning smiled helplessly: "When I was thinking about my childhood, at that time, the eldest brother and Erlang ...... Why has everything changed now? ”

"People in the rivers and lakes are the reason for it!" Chen Yingdao: "This is not a problem between brothers at all.

Li Xiuning said: "What's the problem?

Chen Ying said: "This is a problem between the East Palace and the Qin Palace. ”

Li Xiuning was even more confused, looking at Chen Ying blankly.

Chen Ying sighed and explained: "If the crown prince takes the initiative to sue for peace in this matter, then in the future, it will be the Qin Palace's palace that will press the East Palace. If the King of Qin takes the initiative to sue for peace, then the East Palace will ride on the head of the King of Qin's mansion in the future. Even if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince or His Royal Highness the King of Qin wanted to be brothers and sisters, the people from the East Palace and the Qin Palace, they would not agree! ”

It's not that Li Xiuning doesn't understand, but she really doesn't want to accept this reality.

It's just that Li Xiuning also understands that the crown prince and the king of Qin may not be able to stand alone.

Li Xiuning leaned over Chen Ying's chest and murmured, "Chen Lang, I'm so tired and annoying......"

"Don't be afraid!" Chen Ying stroked Li Xiuning's back and said, "Everything has me!" ”

Li Xiuning was silent for a long time, and asked Chen Ying abruptly: "The position of Prince Chen Lang...... Is it precarious? ”

After Li Xiuning asked, he stared at Chen Ying tightly, and his breathing became cautious unconsciously.

Chen Ying shook his head lightly and said, "Everyone is wrong, the prince's position is as stable as Mount Tai." ”

Li Xiuning let out a sigh, but the smile he had just shown stiffened on his face.

Chen Ying said with some bitterness: "Actually, I am the one whose status is in jeopardy!" ”

Li Xiuninghuo's eyes widened, he looked at Chen Ying in disbelief, and said in an undoubted tone: "Impossible! ”

Chen Ying muttered: "Wang Shichong is finished, Dou Jiande is finished, and now even the only remaining Du Fuwei has been in Chang'an as a duke, the country is unified, the world is Chang'an, Datang, there is no longer a need for Chen Ying......"

Li Xiuning's eyes were filled with mist, and he looked at Chen Ying in disbelief.

Chen Ying smiled and said: "Sanniang, don't worry, I won't admit my fate, and I won't admit defeat, if Datang can't tolerate Chen Ying, Chen Ying will stay away from Datang and go to the extreme west, or the open sea, as long as our family is together, where we are, where is our home, even if there is no home, I can kill a family!" ”

The next day, it was just dawning. A thick war drum suddenly sounded, and the officers and men of the Anxi Army understood that it was time to get up! The officers would kick open the door with whips made of fine sand poured into the slender strips of cloth, rush into the dormitory, and violently kick them out of the dormitory, and when they saw any of them lying in bed and could not get up, they would whip them fiercely. This thing won't hurt the muscles and skin when hit on the body, but it hurts to the bone marrow, and people who have been whipped once don't want to be whipped a second time in their lives!

When they gathered in a field of chickens, flying dogs, and jumping, waiting for them was a fully armed five-kilometer cross-country run, the soldiers of this era, the physical fitness is much stronger than the milk baby soldiers of later generations, even if they are wearing armor and holding blades, these soldiers are still running like flying. In the five-kilometer cross-country run, none of the recruits were left behind, which made Chen Ying a little disappointed.

Chen Ying rode his horse and jogged while shouting: "Whether it is cavalry or infantry, it is necessary to have a pair of iron feet, the war horse will be tired to death, at that time, if you can't outrun the enemy, there is only one way to die!" ”

The food in Chen Yingjun's army is very good, at least the recruits of the Anxi Army who have eaten the first meal feel that it is worth selling their lives for this stuttering. For breakfast, there are steamed buns, big meat buns, salted egg porridge, and by the way, there are buckets of milk soup cooked hot.

Of course, there can be no cows in the army, and fresh milk is not to be thought about. The milk was preserved as a cheese that was harder than a brick, and every morning the cooks would take out some of the cheese and boil it in boiling water, and each soldier would have a drink before breakfast.

Meimei ate a good thing that she couldn't necessarily eat during the New Year, and everyone began to conduct the hateful queue training.

A group of unscrupulous instructors stood in front of them with a sinister smile and quickly shouted the command: "Turn left." ”

Turn right ......

Turn Back ......

"Walk in place ......"

For a group of recruits of the Anxi Army who couldn't even distinguish between their left and right feet, the simplest four-sided turning method quickly made them dizzy, and they couldn't tell the difference between east and west, north and south.

I can't tell the difference between east and west, north and south, and I don't want Kun, I can stand in a military posture, and some hateful guys deliberately take them to the grassland where there are a lot of mosquitoes and flies, and in less than a minute, three colorful mosquitoes lie on the tip of the nose, sucking with relish, itching so much that they can't fight anymore, and they do to fight mosquitoes or make small moves...... Ducks are waiting! By the way, and the damn housekeeping, the hell knows how these unscrupulous instructors did it, the quilts are folded like tofu blocks, everything is neatly arranged, there is absolutely nothing superfluous in the dormitory, the floors and windows are spotless, and then ...... Everyone is on par with this standard, and you feel good if you can't do it!

What these Anxi soldiers don't understand the most is that as recruits, it is rare that they do not need to practice bows and crossbows, archery, horsemanship, knife skills, spear skills, and combined attack skills? If you turn around, can you turn the enemy to death?

Chen Ying didn't want to explain, and those unscrupulous veterans began to change their ways to clean up these Anxi Army recruits.

The recruits of the Anxi Army were abused to death in just one month of cohort training, and when they could end these tortures in the future, they did not wait for the end, but waited for more severe training.

Ten kilometers of armed cross-country in the morning, carrying forty or fifty pounds of sandbags in the morning, starting to exercise endurance, running another five kilometers before dinner in the afternoon as an appetizer, and then one hundred and fifty push-ups after dinner Is it because the instructor cares about your body? Sometimes in the middle of the night, the third watch kicks people into the carriage and pulls them ten miles away, so that people walk back in the dark, because they are afraid that the long night will be long, everyone is too bored, and everyone will have some fun.

The training of the Lancers and the Modao Army was even more painful. The internal affairs requirements of these two branches of the military are not so strict, but the training is frighteningly strict.

In addition to queue training, armed cross-country training and combat training, there are also special large muscle groups and small muscle group training, barbells, dumbbells, bungee ropes These things have become their good friends, the purpose of training is to fully mobilize the strength of every muscle in their body, so that they have stronger explosive power, more durable endurance, more agile skills, and stronger will, this kind of training is undoubtedly very painful, often one day of training is over, the next day there is no joint in the whole body, There is not a single bundle of muscles that does not drill the pain of the heart, not even the palm of the hand.

The worst thing is that this kind of training is not completed in ten days and half a month, but must accompany them for several years, as long as they are still serving in the barracks and their physical conditions permit, they must be trained in this way.

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Outside the city of Zhaozhou, Liu Shishan, who was dressed in cloth on the official road, looked up at the tall and majestic city wall of Zhaozhou City.

Around Liu Shishan was a group of merchants dressed as Turks, and some Hu merchants had already entered the city.

Liu Shishan muttered: "Yuzhou, I, Liu Shishan, are back again!" ”