The eldest girl went out with Li Mingli, there was no one in the area around the entrance of the village, only a few dogs kept barking, Li Mingli carried two more bags of grain from the entrance of the village and carried it on his body, and the eldest girl carried back half a cabbage. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"What kind of dish is this, weird and heavy?"

Li Mingli smiled and said, "It's all pickles, it's shelved, and there's a lot of salt, it's not convenient to buy these things at Lianshanguan." The meat is only a pig's head, so we'll smoke it tomorrow and bring it over. ”

The eldest girl said distressedly: "A pig's head is enough to buy half a bag of grain, why are you spending money so indiscriminately." ”

Li Mingli said: "The silver was given by Uncle Cao, in addition to these grains, I also bought some farm tools, my knife and bow should also be neat, and the rest is the grain bought, I think your father is too weak, give him some meat to make up, maybe it will be good." ”

The big girl's eyes were red, Lao Ding's health was getting worse and worse when he came back from the Thirteen Mountains, and he had begun to cough up blood recently, this is actually tuberculosis, not to mention that there is no money to treat it, even if there is money at this time, it is a terminal illness that cannot be cured, everyone knows that he is staying up, Li Mingli is willing to buy this pig's head, and he also wants Lao Ding to eat a few good meals before leaving.

"It's just that the road to Lianshanguan is not very easy, there is only one official road, and it is very dilapidated......"

Li Mingli saw that the eldest girl was about to cry, so he opened the topic and didn't make this girl too uncomfortable.

Lao Ding helped his wife out at this time, and when he heard Li Mingli's words, he said: "No matter how difficult it is, I have to go, even if I die on the road, I have to go." ”

"What's wrong?" Li Mingli said: "What bad things have you heard? ”

"Hmm." Lao Ding said: "Recently, a lot of bannermen and nobles have been copied in the city, and all the good things from trade have been given to the officials, and there are some furniture or something, which have either been smashed or burned, and our official villages have spread, saying that they want to cut off trade with He Yusheng, and not ask them to earn all the gold and silver on the side of Dajin." ”

"I said, why have food prices gone up again!" Li Mingli suddenly realized that he had been worried about Cao Zhenyan with Cao Shixuan recently, and he didn't pay much attention to other things, and he didn't see any obvious signs.

Lao Ding said: "We can survive, that is, a year of 100,000 stone and Yusheng grain transported in, the price of grain has dropped from 201 stone to less than 4 taels now, and when the summer and autumn are over, there are no wild vegetables and fruits, and the grain is cut off, you will see how many people will starve to death in the winter of this year." ”

Li Mingli said: "Maybe next year's harvest will be good?" ”

"God's business, who can say accurately, who dares to play this package of tickets?" Lao Ding's face was coughing and swollen, but he still struggled to say: "Even if you rely on the sky to eat, you have to rely on people, let's go to your Uncle Cao's official village, someone will take care of it, isn't it better than staying here?" ”

"Well, that's settled." Li Mingli rubbed his face and said: "You have a good rest in the past two days, our family's grain in Guanzhuang this year has been paid, I will turn over the grain, prepare all the belongings, and when the Cao family leaves, we will follow together." ”

"It's all up to you." Lao Ding coughed a few more times, and said sadly: "I used to be the head of the family, and now this family can only rely on you." ”

Li Mingli looked around, the four walls of the rammed earth were empty, the roof of the grass hut had not been turned over this year, there was a smell of rotten grass, and the grain tun made of mats was empty, only the bags of grain that he had just bought with the silver selected by Cao Shi, and when the eldest girl saw the grain just now, the smile on her face was palpitating.

In the past, who would have thought that he would suddenly be in such an environment and encounter everything in the present?

Li Mingli felt an indescribable feeling in his heart, and he said in a muffled voice: "Don't say such things, everyone is struggling to move forward, this world, as long as you can survive." ”

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When Li Mingli was ready for everything, Cao Shixuan missed the appointment.

When he went to see Shi Tingzhu, just in time for Shi Tingzhu to be ordered to lead the troops to go out, followed by the two red flag armies led by Bei Ziyuetuo and Bei Zishuoto, in addition to Shi Tingzhu in the Han army, there are also Bao Chengxian and Sun Degong and other Han army generals to accompany him, it is expected to dispatch 2,000 Jurchen soldiers, and the Han army is also 2,000 people, all on horseback, this time the task is to go out to crusade against the Bahrain Department, because the Bahrain Ministry's Nanuk Belle betrayed the alliance and plundered, robbed a lot of war horses and cattle and sheep of the Horqin Department, killed and injured many herdsmen, Obadeiji of Korqin therefore appealed to the Old Khan for help, and although the army of the last expedition against Mongolia had just returned, Nurhachi decided to send troops.

Shi Tingzhu therefore said to Cao Shixuan: "I know that you have only given the imperial reserve, and you are bent on running the official village to avoid the disputes here, which is very good, but this expedition to Mongolia is equivalent to sending military merits. ”

"That's just as well." Cao Shixuan pondered it for a while, and said angrily: "Since the brother has seen it, of course I have to follow the left and right." ”

Shi Tingzhu said: "The situation in Mongolia has been very unstable recently, and people say that Lin Dan Khan is going to move west, maybe we will go to the next to crusade against Mongolia This is one or two times." ”

Cao Shixuan was very interested and said, "Lin Danhan wants to run?" ”

"Hey." Shi Tingzhu laughed, looking disdainful. It's no wonder that he was a serious Ming deputy general, and it was not the first time he had beaten the Beiyu, and the civil officials didn't know what was going on with the Beiyu, but the military generals knew it. Immediately said: "Lin Dan Khan himself doesn't think so, he feels that Mongolia is divided, and he can't beat Dajin's side because he can't work together, so he has been beating the tribes in the east for the past two years, and squeezed those Taiji to our side, to see if things are not in harmony, he feels more and more that he can't be handy in the east, so he simply wants to move west, saying that he wants to recollect the Karaqin and Tumut and Mobei departments under his subordinates, as well as the set of departments, Ordos, if he is called to do it, there are still 300,000 strings, but, What the hell can you call him to do it? He passed, and we can't pass? Sibeile said today that Lin Dan Khan really wants to move westward, and within a year, he personally led thousands of elite soldiers all the way to the west, and the Chahar Department will not be turned upside down. ”

About Huang Taiji did not expect that one of his westward migrations would solve Lin Dan Khan, the old troublesome old enemy, God was simply favored by Houjin at this time, Lin Dan Khan was sick and whined, Chahar's hundreds of thousands of herdsmen were led by Lin Dan Khan's big and small wives to rush to surrender, Tumut, Chahar, Mobei all surrendered, without the Great Khan of Mongolia who was born from the descendants of the Golden Family, the Jurchens officially became the masters of the grassland, this is really a lucky thing, but there is no Huang Taiji Expedition, I'm afraid that good luck will not befall the Jurchens, so in the final analysis, the mandate of heaven will still be attributed to manpower.

"Sibeile has always been tenacious," Cao Shixuan said, "I don't think Lin Dan Khan's westward migration will be smooth, and I heard that He Yusheng's power on the grassland is not small. ”

"No one knows exactly what happened now." Shi Tingzhu said: "Many people say that it is an exaggeration, a group of businessmen with some guards can really break a large foundation on the grassland?" I don't believe it. What matters now is that we first solve these Mongolian Taijis who have repeatedly made trouble, and when Lin Dan Khan really moves west and destroys his foundation, the time has come for our Dajin to succeed. In the past two years, the old khan is to solve the trouble of Mongolia, once the Mongolia is subdued, from the flank of western Liaoning to the border of western Mongolia to send troops to the Ming Dynasty, thousands of miles of border walls can be battlefields everywhere, it is not as simple as this side of Liaoxi can block us out with a male pass! ”

When Shi Tingzhu said this, his face was also full of excitement, and his eyes showed a fierce light.

Cao Shixuan didn't dare to make a sound, and only said after half a sound: "Xiao'er's matter, I still hope that Shi Gong will say one or two in front of the forehead." ”

"It's easy to do." Shi Tingzhu said in a big way: "Ling Lang has just come back from the Thirteen Mountains, don't go to Mongolia this time, send him to your official village to be a hundred chiefs, your Cao family is the household of the fourteenth elder brother, as long as the fourteenth elder brother does not object, others will not say too much." ”

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In less than 10 days after Cao Shixuan saw Shi Tingzhu, a large number of military horses set off from Liaoyang and other places, and in less than 20 days, they bypassed the grasslands outside Guangning and went straight to the territory of the troublesome Bahrain Department.

The leader is Yue Tuo, who is the best at leading soldiers among Nurhachi's grandchildren, this is a twenty-five-year-old young man, burly, unusually strong, the muscles on his shoulders almost want to burst the robe, his face is the unique melon seed face of the Aixin Jueluo family, his complexion is relatively fair, at least white enough for the fishing and hunting people, but his appearance is thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he has a long sideburns beard, which looks like it gives people a feeling of both roughness and meticulousness.

Yue Tuo rode motionless on the horse, like a well-carved stone statue, his temperament is majestic, rough with calm, the cavalry followed behind him, only felt that the commander in front of him had rich experience and incomparable self-confidence, and the unique heroic spirit of young people, ordinary people couldn't help but be shocked by his temperament.

His cyan war horse has a short mane and tail, much higher than the average Mongolian horse, because of the need to observe the situation ahead, Yue Tuo rode patiently on a high slope, his eyes are also full of wisdom, compared to his uncles and brothers, Yue Tuo is not a pure reckless man among the young nobles of the Later Jin, he is good at charging with cavalry, but before each battle, he is also happy to move his mind.

Different from his father Dai Shan, Yue Tuo and several brothers all had a good relationship with the Eighth Uncle Emperor Taiji, or in other words, Yue Tuo's demeanor and many habits of leading soldiers at this time came from learning from his Eighth Uncle.

In the war is brave and tenacious, strong-willed, brave when rushing forward, whether it is riding or using spears and broadswords, or riding and shooting skills on horses must be practiced stronger than ordinary Jurchen soldiers, in these years, under the strict requirements of Nurhachi, the nobles of Houjin have practiced a strong ability, from Jin to Qing, in addition to the soldiers of the Eight Banners, these Nurhachi's sons and nephews are also very similar, a bit of a tiger father and son soldiers, the feeling of being brothers in battle.

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