567 Cold Front, Golden State Canal

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In Dengzhou City, in a medicinal herb shop, a young man walked in.

"The shopkeeper has a hundred-year-old ginseng from Liaodong!" The young man asked as he stood at the counter with a smile.

The middle-aged man behind the counter raised his head, glanced at the young man, and said, "There is no hundred-year-old ginseng from Liaodong, but there is a century-old wild ginseng from North Korea, do you want it?" ”

"Okay, get me three."

At this time, the middle-aged shopkeeper's face was no longer expressionless, but showed joy, and said politely: "Please come with me!" ”

Leng Feng followed the middle-aged shopkeeper to the backyard, and the middle-aged shopkeeper immediately bowed down to the young man and said, "Subordinate Zhuge Guan see the deputy commander."

The subordinates had already received the news in advance and knew that the deputy commander had returned in the past few days, so they were waiting here in person. ”

"Well, you're the person in charge of Dengzhou?" Leng Feng asked with a cold face as always, and asked in a cold voice.

"Yes, I'm the head of Dengzhou." Zhuge Guan responded respectfully.

"How's it going?"

"Lord Hui, Shi Qinghua, the current prefect of Dengzhou, is an old stubborn, loyal to Daming, and it should be impossible to persuade him to cooperate with us.

Therefore, we focused on Dengzhou guarding Yu Youlan, grabbed some of his handles, and gave him a sum of silver.

Two days ago, he finally relented and was willing to cooperate with our actions.

However, Yu Youlan does not seem to be able to fully control the defenders of Dengzhou, as far as we know, there is a hundred households in the defenders of Dengzhou, who is the nephew of the prefect Shi Qinghua.

This person relies on Shi Qinghua's identity, and he has always disobeyed Yu Youlan's orders.

If the general wants to take Dengzhou City without making too much noise, the Dengzhou prefect and his nephew are a variable.

Moreover, Shi Qinghua may never cooperate with us, this matter is very difficult to handle. ”

Zhuge Guan told Leng Feng what he knew.

After Leng Feng heard this, he nodded slightly and said: "I know about this matter, I came this time to deal with these things personally, if things are easy, you still need me to come."

Since the general has given the order, we must do our best to complete it, and if the one surnamed Shi stands in our way, then don't blame us for being ruthless.

Inform your subordinates who are in charge of monitoring the prefect, from now on, keep an eye on Shi Qinghua and his every move of the hundred nephews, and report them at any time. ”

"Yes, my subordinates understand."

Leng Feng, the current deputy commander of the White Dragon Army Intelligence Bureau, that is, Zhang Fugui's deputy, is not very old, but he is a ruthless master.

Leng Feng's father used to be a Ming brocade guard Qianhu, but unfortunately he was framed a few years ago, and the whole family was killed, only he went out and survived.

The identity of a brocade guard like Leng Feng's father, when he gained power, everyone was afraid and respectful, but once he lost power, it was a large piece of the wall that everyone pushed down and fell into the well.

Perhaps it was inherited from his father's skills that he also had the ability to act as a good agent.

In just a few years, after he joined the Intelligence Bureau, he made several great achievements one after another, and even attracted Li Zixiao's attention.

Similarly, because of his contributions, he was promoted step by step from an ordinary intelligence officer to the current deputy commander.

This person's personality is completely different from Zhang Fugui, more ruthless and insidious, unscrupulous to achieve the goal, and at the same time resourceful and strategic.

Li Zixiao is now short of such a person, this is a good knife, if used well, it can solve a lot of trouble for Li Zixiao.

This time, when Leng Feng came to Dengzhou, he was naturally ordered to assist the White Dragon Army, and he was bloodless, and he wanted to enter Dengzhou City justifiably.

Li Zixiao didn't want to make too much trouble, if Li Zixiao directly sent troops to occupy Dengzhou City, with the garrison strength of Dengzhou City, it would definitely not be able to stop it.

But when the time comes, he will definitely be impeached by countless officials in the court.

With the urine nature of those court officials, Li Zixiao will definitely be charged with raising troops to rebel at that time.

After all, Kong Youde mutinied in Dengzhou nine years ago, which makes this place more sensitive.

At that time, even if Chongzhen is in the way of face, he will definitely react to Li Zixiao's 'rebellion', but at this time, Li Zixiao does not want to completely tear his face with Chongzhen.

The best way is to let the White Dragon Army get a reasonable identity, and then quietly enter the city, don't shoot.

Even some senior officials in the imperial court, even after Chongzhen knew the news, at least they couldn't find Li Zixiao's charge of 'rebellion'.

Even if Chongzhen ordered Li Zixiao's men to withdraw from Dengzhou at that time, Li Zixiao could drag it, but he didn't know that it was easy to invite God and difficult to send God.

And just when Leng Feng started to act in Dengzhou, Li Zixiao had already landed in Lushun, and after staying in Port Arthur for a day, he went to Jinzhou.

In addition to the busy farmers, women and children in the fields, more young and strong men were organized by Li Sheng and were widening the canal of the Golden State Isthmus.

"General, you're here. Please forgive my subordinates for not being able to meet them in person. When Li Sheng saw Li Zixiao coming, he ran over and saluted.

After not seeing him for half a year, Li Zixiao found that Li Sheng had lost a lot of weight, which shows that he was really busy during this time.

Moreover, according to the news sent by Zeng Qi of 'Tianting Pavilion', Li Sheng still insisted on supervising the construction site every day during the half month of his illness.

Working hard all day, plus because of illness, it's no wonder that Li Sheng is not thin.

Li Zixiao was relieved that he could have such a capable subordinate, so he asked in a harmonious voice: "I heard that you were sick some time ago, are you getting better now?" ”

"Thank you for the general's concern, the illness of my subordinates has been cured, and it is out of the way."

"Pay more attention to rest in the future, things can be done slowly, but the body can't collapse, understand?"

"Yes, my subordinates remember."

Seeing that Li Zixiao cared so much about his health, at this moment, Li Sheng felt that all his hard work was worth it, and he had the idea of dying as a confidant.

When Li Zixiao saw Li Sheng's excited look, he knew that his 'benevolent' image of sympathetic to his subordinates was not bad.

I have to say that a leader can not be smart, not capable, or even mediocre, but he must learn to win people's hearts.

Even if a leader has mediocre abilities in other aspects, but only if he is good at winning people's hearts and can attract a group of talented people with strong abilities to work hard for you, then you are a relatively good leader.

In this regard, what Li Zixiao needs to learn most is Liu Bang and his descendant Liu Bei, who will be hundreds of years later.

Liu Bang in the Chu and Han hegemony struggles, if he is compared with Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, he is simply inferior in all aspects.

But Liu Bang is only stronger than Xiang Yu, that is, he knows how to buy people's hearts and can gather a large group of talented people around him to help him.

On the other hand, on Xiang Yu's side, although he has the courage of '100 enemies', his strength alone cannot withstand everyone after all.

The same Liu Bei, not to mention, the tears flowed as soon as he said it, if this is placed in the future generations, he will definitely be a super-first-class actor, and his means of winning people's hearts are extremely strong.

From this point of view, I have to admit that Uncle Liu Huang is estimated to be the real Uncle Huang, and he is worthy of being a descendant who has inherited Liu Bang's bloodline.

Today, Li Zixiao also tried his hand and received good results.

"Li Sheng, take us to see the canal you dug up."

"General, please."

Li Sheng took Li Zixiao to the south of Jinzhou, where the canal was being widened.

When Li Zixiao arrived at the scene, he found that there were still thousands of young men busy here, and the entire canal was still almost five meters wide.

"Li Sheng, tell me about your masterpiece." At this time, Li Zixiao looked at Li Sheng with a smile and said.

"Yes." After hearing Li Zixiao's words, Li Sheng was also excited.

He knew that his efforts had obviously been recognized by Li Zixiao, and it was not in vain that he had spent a lot of effort on this canal in the past six months, practicing day and night.

"General, we have dug this canal in the relatively narrow area of the Jinzhou Isthmus, which is less than twelve miles long, and now it has connected Jinzhou Bay and Liangang Bay.

In order to do this, we started in the winter and mobilized tens of thousands of young laborers, which took more than three months to complete.

This is also thanks to the tens of thousands of people who moved from Fuzhou and Yongning, otherwise I really wouldn't have found enough people to carry out this big project. ”

Li Sheng took Li Zixiao along the canal to the west, telling him as he went.

"General, after the winter, we have accelerated the pace of digging, and even during the busy agricultural period of spring planting, we have maintained three thousand people here.

Like now, it is the summer harvest period, but these young laborers will still come to work, and all the family's agricultural work will be handed over to the family.

These young and strong laborers just want to earn an extra piece of silver, a ration, and go back to make their wives and children live a better life. ”

"Now the width of the canal is close to more than a zhang wide, and the depth of the water is almost half a zhang deep, which is not far from the minimum standard of the general.

I estimate that by the end of the summer harvest and planting, we will recruit more young and strong laborers to work on the project, and we will be almost complete by the end of September. ”

"Well, Li Sheng, you're doing a good job."

After Li Zixiao heard Li Sheng's story, he also nodded with satisfaction, looked at Li Sheng and said.

You know, to organize such an excavation work, especially to manage up to tens of thousands of people, this is a very difficult job in itself.

Fortunately, the distance between the Isthmus of Jinzhou is not too long, and the amount of work on this canal is not too large, otherwise it is really difficult to complete.

Think about the time when Emperor Yang of Sui built the Grand Canal, it was simply piled up with human lives, and at the same time, it also buried the national fortune of a powerful dynasty.

Fortunately, the amount of work in the canal in Jinzhou is at most a fraction of the amount compared with the Grand Canal, and it will take Li Sheng almost a year to complete it.

Li Sheng had the experience of excavating the Jinzhou Canal this time and properly resettled it at the same time, and Liu Chong's experience of tens of thousands of people from Yongning and Fuzhou made Li Zixiao realize that he had another talented person with outstanding ability.

Li Sheng came out of the White Dragon Army, and his trustworthiness is undoubted, this kind of loyal and reliable subordinate with outstanding ability, how can Li Zixiao not like it.

Next, Li Sheng took Li Zixiao to see a few villages, all of which had just been built less than half a year ago.

And the people in these villages are all migrated from Yongning and Fuzhou.

Because the area around Jinzhou is small and the degree of agricultural development is limited, he organized the people to develop fisheries while organizing the people to reclaim wasteland.

You must know that this place is frequently close to Liangang and Lushun Port, and such a unique advantage is in front of him, of course Li Sheng has to take advantage of it.

Otherwise, relying on agriculture alone, in the small area of Jinzhou, it would not be able to support so many people who migrated here, after all, the yield of arable land at this time was too low.

Unless all of them get sweet potatoes, that's fine, but Li Sheng still feels that he can take advantage of the advantages of the two ports to vigorously develop the fishing industry, and he is optimistic about the prospects of the fishing industry.

"Yes, that's good! Liu Zhong is fighting on the front line, and you are guarding the rear for him, which is very good. ”

After a day's visit, Li Zixiao was very satisfied with what Li Sheng did in Jinzhou.

"Let's go, let's go back." As the sky got dark, Li Zixiao and Li Sheng led people back to Jinzhou.

Li Zixiao ordered people to set up a banquet, Li Zixiao and dozens of scribes and generals in Jinzhou had a meal, and it was indispensable to have another reward, bribing and buying people's hearts!

After the banquet, Li Zixiao summoned Zhou Dazhu and Li Sheng to the study, looked at the two and said, "Liu Chong hasn't rushed back yet, I don't plan to continue here, wait for him to come back."

There is news from Dengzhou, I need to rush to Dengzhou, and Jinzhou is here for you.

Before leaving, I would like to tell you that your main task in the Golden State in the future is very simple, that is, to defend the Golden State.

And the main purpose of holding this small area of Golden State is to keep the Port of Arthur and the Port of Liancheng behind you.

The Golden State is the final bottom line, and the Tartars must not be allowed to cross the Golden State Canal. ”

Li Zixiao's tone softened and continued: "This time I will bring you 10,000 reinforcements, Zhou Dazhu's 'pioneer battalion', and three other battalions of the city defense army.

These 10,000 people don't need to go north to support Liu Chong, you are responsible for guarding Jinzhou, refusing to defend the Jinzhou Canal, and at the same time deploy defenses in the area of Daheisheng.

After a while, let Liu Chong also bring people back, and give up on the side of Hongzui Fort, Hongzui Fort is a little far from here.

Liu Chong didn't have many troops in his hands, and if the Tartars came quietly and cut off his path back, then he would be finished.

When Liu Chong returns, you will rely on the mountains around the Great Black Mountain and the Little Black Mountain, as well as Jinzhou City, as well as the last line of defense, the Jinzhou Canal, to form a strong defense line.

How to design this defense line, you and Liu Chong will discuss it in detail, and what materials are needed, then send someone to inform Hong Sheng, and I will ask Hong Sheng to organize a group of ships to supply you.

In a word, I will hand over the future Jinzhou to the three of you, but after the Tartars end the Songjin War, how will they carry out a crazy attack on you.

I want you to hold on to the death, and never let the Tartars take this place back. Can you be confident that you can do it? ”

"Don't worry, general, if the Tartars want to cross Jinzhou, they must first step on the corpses of me and my vanguard soldiers."

Zhou Dazhu patted his chest and shouted heroically.

Li Sheng next to him also looked grim at this time, but he also said in a resolute tone: "Don't worry, general, I will do my best to help the two generals and hold the Jinzhou defense line."

The line of defense is there, and the people are there! ”

"Very good, then I'll be relieved."

Immediately, on 15 July, Li Zixiao hurriedly left Jinzhou, crossed the strait directly by boat, and headed for the opposite city of Dengzhou.

(End of chapter)