On the vast land, a few mottled light greens occasionally appear in a piece of earthy yellow, and finally the spring flowers bloom and everything flourishes, even this desolate and remote land is beginning to revive.

It's just that the four fields are uninhabited, and there are a lot of fertile fields on the roadside, all of which have been deserted, and they are full of yellow and green weeds. Many villages are also in ruins, only broken walls and ruins remain, and no one can see them.

Come to think of it, the people in the village are either starving to death or have fled the famine.

Walking out of these dozens of miles, it is such a scene.

Liu Ruozai lifted the curtain and retracted his hand, and the curtain fell, blocking the view again. He sat back, his straight back collapsed, and he sighed dejectedly.

Compared with when he left Beijing last year to take up his post here, the situation seems to be even worse. When I came here last year, although it was also homeless people jammed on the road, the people were struggling to make a living, and the village was withered, it was not the same as it is now. Along the way, how many households can be left here? Of course, it may also be because when I came here last year, I came from the east, and now, I am going west. To the east of Datong Town, relying on Xuanfu and other places, the environment is better, there is the Sanggan River, a big river running through it, which can irrigate a lot of fertile land on both sides, and it is still much richer than the west of Datong Town as a whole.

Here, I don't dare to look at it.

Liu Ruozai is certainly lamenting that the people are not living well, but as a soldier in northern Hebei, he is more concerned about the military field. The large number of households fleeing means a large reduction in grain taxes, and at the same time, it also means that the amount of food that can be produced in the local area is also greatly reduced. On the other hand, the north side of Datong Town is so critical that it is necessary to maintain a fairly large army here. These armies eat what their horses chew, and they consume no less food. If local production is reduced, it will have to be transported from other places, not to mention how much burden it will put on the country's transportation capacity, and the price of grain will surely soar! And as soon as the price of food rises, who is unlucky?

One was the inhabitants of the city, and the other was the soldiers who received the money.

Life will be harder. In this case, can you still expect an increase in combat power?

"I don't know how much money can be solved this year? In the past two years, it has been difficult to separate from Jiannu in the east, and Liao Town is the center of gravity in the world, and there may not be much money and grain that can be distributed to Datong Town, and how many can fall to North Hebei Province? ”

Liu Ruozai secretly thought about it in his heart, and after thinking for a while, he could only sigh after all.

He, the soldier of the Dao, is the most amazing big man in North Hebei Province, but what right can he have in this kind of matter?

He lifted the curtain again, squinted his eyes, and looked at the knights outside. Around the carriage were Xie Dingkun's soldiers, on the left were Dong Ce's cavalry, on the right were Bai Tianfu's, and in the front and rear, they were all Huang Wan's family members. Originally, Liu Ruozai thought that among these people, Huang Wan's family should be the most powerful, after all, the three hundred family members under Huang Wan are also quite famous. But when I looked closer today, I found that it was not the case at all.

These cavalry can be roughly divided into three gears.

The first gear is Dong Ce's family, not only do they all have armor, spears, sharp knives, bows and arrows, they are well-armed, and they are also excellent in other aspects. They marched, with little noise, and only a few short syllables were uttered when they handed over errands. Although he was silent, Liu Ruozai could see that he was very vigilant, his eyes were always scanning around, and they were also the most sent out scouts to probe the outposts. Liu Ruozai has been secretly observing, and Dong Ce seems to have divided everyone into several groups and took turns to go out to explore the outposts.

The others, on the other hand, were sent out symbolically.

In the second gear, when it is Bai Tianfu and Xie Dingkun's people, it is much worse than Dong Ce's family.

The third gear, which is also the worst, is Huang Wan's people. These people, one by one, were listless, swaying on horseback, as if they were about to fall asleep, and it was annoying to look at them.

I used to know that Dong Ce could train soldiers, but now Liu Ruozai has a deeper feeling.

He also had some calculations in mind.

If you really want to make a difference, you must have a good army. The military salaries that were paid were not enough to feed everyone, so instead of scattering them meaninglessly, it was better to deduct some of the other more grams and squeeze out a relatively large part to support an elite army - such as Dong Ce's soldiers.

Dong Ce's training ability has been recognized by Liu Ruozai, in his opinion, as long as Dong Ce is given enough support, it is impossible to say that he can train an elite army that is not inferior to the cavalry under Cao Wenzhao.

He had already decided that when he came back, most of the resources would be tilted towards Dong Ce.

Dong Ce naturally didn't know about these things, he was just sitting very seriously about all this. is not only to perform in front of Liu Ruozai, but also for his own net worth.

In the evening, the team arrived at Takayamasho.

Although it is not yet dark, you can still walk forward for a while, but if you go further, the next place that can provide a large enough place to rest, and it is safe enough, is the Datong Left Guard, and you have to walk dozens of miles, and it is too late to arrive.

The high mountain is on the Shili River, but it is in the Shili River South, and Liu Ruozai's party, who came from the north, is in the Shili River North. The Shili River is a tributary of the Taihe River, which in turn is a tributary of the Sanggan River. Although the reputation is not obvious, the water volume of the Shili River in spring is not small, there are neither bridges nor pontoon bridges on the river, and the large army cannot cross the river at all.

I had no choice but to set up a tent in place and rest in the field.

Dong Ce's family didn't have many people to speak, they all set up tents silently and skillfully, ready to fetch water and cook, and after a while, they got off the outpost and set up the camp. And over there, Huang Wan's family couldn't cross the river and couldn't go to live in the city, they were all complaining, noisily tossing and turning there, and Tian Shi couldn't suppress it.

Liu Ruozai didn't care, he just looked at it coldly, and secretly sneered in his heart.

"When the time comes, the silver will be deducted, and the first one will be deducted Huang Wan! I don't look at what kind of stuff he raises with so much silver every year! ”

Although he couldn't cross the river, Liu Ruozai still ordered someone to take his name card to Gaoshan Station - or to be precise, it should be Gaoshan City. Datong Town has two place names named after Gaoshan, one is called Gaoshanwei, near the left of Yanghe City, Yanggao County in later generations, in fact, it is the boundary of Gaoshanwei and Yanghecheng. The mountain city on the other side of the river, sixty miles west of Datong Town, has more than 1,000 officers and soldiers stationed inside. Although the name has a city in it, its scale level is the same as that of Panshi Fort and Hongci Fort, but due to the dangerous geographical location, it does not belong to any road or road, but is directly managed by Datong Town.

Liu Ruozai naturally can't control others,

However, this time Liu Ruozai is in the emperor's order, what exactly is going to do, the governor of Datong should know. When Liu Ruozai set the departure date, he had already issued a letter to the governor and the governor of Datong, asking them to take more care of the place. It is estimated that the governor of Datong sent a message, because the city side of the mountain is very enthusiastic, and the garrison must sit in the city, and must not leave lightly, so he sent a general officer to come to visit, and with him, there is a whole boat of various supplies, rice, flour and oil, and a few fat pigs and sheep.

That night, I ate a fat meal.

Early in the morning of the second day, we continued our journey.

After passing the boundary of Datong Zuowei, he continued to the northwest, and entered the jurisdiction of North Hebei Province, which was considered to be back to Liu Ruozai's territory. The administrative structure of Hebei Province in Datong Town is very interesting. It is divided into two parts, one is to patrol the North Hebei Road, and the other is to guard the North Hebei Road. Datong Town is divided into roads, of which the territory of the North East Road is equivalent to the territory of the North Hebei Road. That is, the area north of Datong City, close to the border wall of Zhenqiang Fort, Zhenhe Fort, Hongci Fort, these boundaries. The division of Hebei North Road includes the West Road and Jingping Road, in the west and south of Datong City, and this large area is divided into Hebei North Road.

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