On the fourth day of the seventh month, the drizzle in Liaodong continued, and Yanbei invited Sima Lang to visit a thousand mountains.

Stripped of his heavy iron armor, the short-robed Yanbei galloped across the field, leaving the cavalry team and Sima Lang far behind. Mercedes-Benz, it seems that only the speed and strength of Mercedes-Benz can make Yanbei regain the freedom of a few years ago, no longer swayed by the chaotic general trend of the world, and no longer pulled by clichéd interpersonal relationships.

Hunting Hongchen seemed to disappear with the wind passing by, saying that he wanted to swim with Sima Lang, but after deciding the horse race, it would be difficult for Yanbei to restrain this kind of galloping that was indulged in pleasure.

Then rein in the horses, and the eyes will reach the foot of the mountain.

The mountain road is inaccessible, but the Danshan BMW from the West Mansion is like walking on the ground, climbing straight to the pavilion set up by the ancestors a hundred years ago on the mountainside. Tie the mount at will, take off his coat and hang it aside, Yanbei knelt in the pavilion and looked at the rain and mist rising among the green pines and cypresses in the mountains, and he was stunned for a while.

Fallacy, Yanbei's life seems to be full of fallacies.

The Yellow Turban Commander is wrong, the rebel Marquis is wrong, he always tries to correct his choices, but those decisions made because of this can always get him into more trouble. The deeper and deeper I begin, I can't extricate myself from myself, I can't control myself.

Was this really the life he wanted?

Brocade clothes and jade food, thousands of horses and high teeth, although majestic...... Last night, he dreamed that when he was young, he had carried a knife and a horse to gallop through the Saibei desert, and there was the sound of the wind whistling like a ghost crying on the desert, the sky was very dark, the night was very cold, and he controlled the neighing wind of three horses alone, and behind him was the Wuhuan tribe that ignited the sky-high fire and the Wuhuan cavalry who shouted and shouted and shouted.

How happy!

But those memories always haunted his mind, but the rusty short knife and the hunger like a blunt knife scraping his intestines were the most unforgettable for him.

It seems that in the depths of memory it is always those vague and unspeakable feelings that are impressive.

Lingering.

"The general's riding skills are superb, and I admire them a lot." Although Sima Lang said this, he was quite unimpressed, thinking that Yanbei wanted to give himself a dismount, after all, he was born recklessly, and employing people was just such a clumsy method. Although the back was wet by the rain, the cool breeze in the mountains made Sima Lang, who was a little tired, feel a little tired, and as Yan Bei's eyes looked into the distance, the sunlight could not penetrate the heavy clouds, but it made the mountain clouds and mist more charming, and he couldn't help but say softly: "This is really a rare scene!" ”

"Boda is here, it's Yan who is rude, he hasn't ridden for several years, and he forgot about Boda for a while." Yan Bei's face was a little embarrassed, and he raised his head again and put himself in a thick disguise, and arched his hand and said, "Bo Dafei is not my subordinate, you don't have to be called a general...... Liaodong, compared to the Central Plains, Boda moved here, but it is still smooth? ”

Sima Lang looked at Yanbei steadily, whether it was going well or not...... It's not that they want to come!

Originally, he just wanted to take his brother to Liyang, and under the protection of his uncle Zhao Weisun, who was a confessor of Liyang, he avoided the crusade in Guandong and Kansai, but he didn't want even Zhao Weisun to follow and fight involuntarily, and they followed the people of Liyang and followed the army all the way to Liaodong, such a Liaodong County that seems to be a barren land compared to the Central Plains!

The place where General Han Du Liao arose, there was no temptation for Sima Lang, all this was just to see with his own eyes how Yanbei was poor in the whole of Liaodong so that his soldiers, horses, money and food were sufficient, out of Xiangping, there were even people in the counties and townships in the southeast of Liaodong who did not even have clothes to wear when they worked, and they could only squat in the fields when they saw people with their bare buttocks.

"Brother Yan, with all due respect, Liaodong is not a place to live for a long time." After thinking about it, about Yan Bei saw that he wanted to make himself a leader under his command, but he really didn't have this idea, instead of being embarrassed, it was better to say the truth, and said: "When I first arrived in Liaodong, it was indeed thriving, and the county government built bridges and canals, and reclaimed wasteland. And the generals and soldiers will be strong, and they can resist insults on the outside and reassure the people on the inside, which is even more rare. ”

What Sima Lang said is true, it is not Yanbei's fault that he does not want to live in Liaodong for a long time, he doesn't know what the poverty of Liaodong is like in the past, but since he took refuge here, he has indeed seen the rapid changes in Liaodong with his own eyes. Now in the past two years, disasters and abundance have alternated, but even if the harvest of 400,000 stone grain and grass in the disaster year has far exceeded the counties of Youzhou, not to mention the harvest of more than one million stone of grain last year, the fact that the county government has more than 20,000 troops in Liaodong still does not feel that the army is exhausted.

Even if you send the sages of the imperial court to Liaodong County, I am afraid that you will not be able to do things better than Yanbei, who was born in Manu!

However, it is only after living in Liaodong for a period of time that you can understand the harm hidden in the tranquility of the faction.

"The granaries of the county government are so abundant that the rats do not bother to eat the old grain at the bottom of the barns, but the people of the county are still so poor that they can't even afford to wear pants; The soldiers are strong and can eat three meals a day, but Li Minqianshou will still be starved to death and frozen to death every year; Iron Wu produced hundreds of farm tools, weapons, and handicrafts every day, and who in the county, except for a few powerful and wealthy soldiers, could afford to pile them up in the arsenal to rust or be prepared for the next war. ”

Sima Lang knew that these words would definitely anger Yanbei, but he still arched his hand and said: "Your Excellency is in Liyang, in Jizhou, in Qingzhou, and new people are constantly moving here in the whole north, but they have no other way to live except as Tianshu military households, those elderly people can only wait for the county government to give alms outside the city to survive, new homeless people are constantly being moved, but the old people are constantly leaving Liaodong to find a new way to live, general, Liaodong County ......"

The entire Liaodong County, like the newly laid Susheng Bone City in Yanbei, is a military town and a private territory of Yanbei. The pawns here are the tenants of the Yan family, the soldiers here are the soldiers of the Yan family, the merchants here are the merchants of the Yan family, and the craftsmen here are the craftsmen of the Yan family...... There was no land annexation in Liaodong County, because all the land had already been annexed by Yanbei.

Sima Lang saw the unparalleled pragmatism of Yanbei in Liaodong County, but it was this pragmatism that made the officials and people in the county divided into two worlds.

It's not even as good as those livestock in the Liaodong Horse Farm!

In such a land where everything is under the control of the Yan clan's power, how can there be a living space for scholars? Earlier, the field belonged to Yanbei, and later Yanbei handed over the field to the county government, but the county government was also the county government of the Yan family...... There was even a ridiculous change to limit the number of fields owned by each household, and Sima Lang could expect that as long as the change continued, there would not be many real scholars and heroes in Liaodong County.

A county without scholars and a powerful county is by no means a place where the Sima clan can live for a long time.

Yan Bei sighed slowly, he had long thought that Xun Yue's change would receive a slight backlash in the county, but he didn't expect that the first to oppose the change was not those subordinates and elders in the academy who were under his subordinates, but the outsider of the Sima family.