In the evening, the sun sets.

Anyi Camp.

"The last general will wait to see the lord!"

Outside the Yuanmen, Teng Xiao, the chief general of the Anyi battalion, led the three deputy generals Tie Xiao, Guo Meng and Jin Gu, as well as dozens of generals in the army, to wait at the gate of the Yuan Gate for a long time to welcome Li Li and his party back.

Sigh!

Seeing Teng Xiao and the others dozens of steps away, Li Li was quite pleased, and couldn't help but clamp the horse's belly with his legs. The horse under the crotch is very spiritual, and it seems to feel Li Li's intention to return to his heart like an arrow, and he immediately stoms on all four hooves, galloping dozens of steps in an instant, and suddenly stops when he approaches Teng Xiao and others, neighing and howling.

"Good horse! What a rare horse! Seeing that the lord's mount was galloping straight towards himself and others, Teng Xiao not only did not change his expression, but did not retreat an inch under his feet, but saw that he was happy to hunt, and praised the horse and the horse in a loud voice.

After Le Ma stopped, Li Lifei dismounted, walked quickly to Teng Xiao and the others, and said with a smile while stretching out his hand to help Teng Xiao: "Why should Yunlong be polite. It's been two years since we were stationed in Anyi, and every time we met, we came and went in a hurry, and we hadn't had a drink together for a long time. Today I am in charge, and everyone is allowed to drink happily and rest drunk! Hahaha??????" (Note: Teng Xiao character Yunlong.) ）

"Well, since the lord has ordered, the last general can't ask for it, and I'm happy to see it happen!" Without waiting for Li Li's words to land, Teng Xiao immediately agreed. Immediately, as if he was afraid that Li Li would regret it, he beckoned to his soldiers and ordered: "Spread the lord's general's order, except for the soldiers who guard the camp at night, the soldiers of each battalion will slaughter sheep and cook meat tonight, and reward the whole army!" ”

Li Li smiled when he heard this: "Okay, you Teng Yunlong, you are holding chicken feathers as an arrow, and you are very fast!" ”

While laughing, Li Li's tone paused slightly, and he bowed his head to the herald and admonished: "Well, since it is a reward for the soldiers of the whole army." Naturally, you can't treat the night guards badly, give them a meal of stew tonight, and let them get drunk tomorrow! The whole army is one, blessed and enjoyed, and difficult to share! ”

"No, thank you for the reward!" Teng Xiao's own soldiers were also clever, and after hearing the order, they immediately knelt down to receive the order.

After the ceremony, most of the people behind Li Li were Teng Xiao's acquaintances, and Li Xuan, Li Zhi and Huan Fei naturally didn't need to say much, the old brothers who came out of Wuwei County together. Old friends.

When Teng Xiao and Li Xuan and others were catching up, Li Li introduced him to Guo Jia and Zhen: "Yunlong, this is Guo Jia and Guo Fengxiao, with excellent strategy and unparalleled wisdom. Now it is a sacrificial wine for the military division under my command, and the right military division of the Xiliang Army. ”

"The last general has seen the military division." At first glance, I saw Guo Jia's thin and weak scribe appearance. Teng Xiao was stunned. But he reacted very quickly and immediately gave his hand.

"This is the Zhen family, the current head of the Zhen family in Zhongshan, and the caravan I ordered you to take over earlier is the Zhen family's caravan. Her original name was Zhang Ai, and she was also my concubine Zhang Ji. This time, we were able to return to Anyi from Jizhou along the forest, all thanks to Zhang Ji's mediation along the way, and the contribution was great! ”

looked at the radiant and amorous beauty in front of him. It turned out to be the famous No. 1 businessman in the Central Plains, the head of the Zhen family, Teng Xiao's expression on his face was extremely surprised, he almost couldn't believe his eyes and ears, and he couldn't believe that this qiē was true.

As the commander of the Anyi battalion. In the past two years, Teng Xiao has deeply experienced the taste of being poor.

Although he had tens of thousands of soldiers in his hands and was in Anyi, an important town in the Central Plains, he was forced by the pressure of food and ordnance, and repeatedly missed good opportunities to attack the city. Even the white wave thieves entrenched in Hedong County and Shangdang County, he was unable to send troops to exterminate them, so he could only give up the opportunity to Gao Shun's camp to kill the enemy.

Since entering the army to suppress the thieves, Gao Shun has led the trapping camp to fight with the white wave thieves for more than a year, and he has not completely eliminated the thieves until now. However, the soldiers of the trapped camp have grown up day by day, and they have still become a powerful infantry team. However, if this kind of war was handed over to Teng Xiao, he would be able to lead the Wuwei Battalion to wipe out the White Wave Thieves within half a year, and it would not have lasted so long. What made him feel helpless was that there were few people in the camp who consumed less grain and grass, and it was infantry, as long as he brought enough dry food, he didn't need to be supplied with baggage for ten days and half a month, and he came and went freely, which was very convenient. Therefore, the army fighting against the White Wave Thieves will be trapped in the camp, not the Wuwei Battalion Iron Cavalry stationed in the Anyi camp.

Fortunately, Gao Shun and the 5,000 soldiers of the camp under his account are not outsiders, and the Xiliang Army, which is also under the command of the lord Li Li, can be regarded as fertile water that does not flow into the fields of outsiders.

Having said that, Teng Xiao is the chief general of Anyi after all, and he was ordered to garrison the two counties of Hedong and Hanoi, and he saw that there were still bandits rampant in his station, but he was unable to expropriate them, and he also needed to borrow Gao Shun's department to relieve the siege, which made Teng Xiao embarrassed, and how could he turn a blind eye. Therefore, his current mind was to think about where to get some food, so he sent out a detailed investigation of the prominent merchants in the Central Plains states, to see which caravans often went in and out of the Hedong area, and which merchants were rich and unkind.

Over time, a lot of information about these merchants' homes was collected, and all of them were in Teng Xiao's mind. And the reason why he wants to do this is that if there are fighters one day, he will go to these merchants' caravans to get some money and food, and he will have to fight no matter what, and he can't go on like this forever.

Because of this, seeing the Zhen family's caravan at this time, although Teng Xiao had never seen her before, he was no stranger to her at all, and he could be called thunderous. Because he once had the idea of beating the Zhen family's caravan, but he heard that the person in charge of the Zhen family's caravan was a woman, which made him feel quite embarrassed, and he always felt that bullying women was too inauthentic, and this was not what a manly man should do! Therefore, to this day, he has not really made up his mind to rob the Zhen family's caravan, nor has he put it into action.

"Fortunately, I didn't do it, otherwise I would have caused a big disaster today!" When he heard the introduction of the Zhen family by the lord Li Li, Teng Xiao's mind was full of thoughts, and then he was very happy, and secretly called for luck.

After the introduction of the lord, Teng Xiao bowed and said, "The last general has seen the lord's wife." Before that, the last general knew that the Zhen family in Zhongshan was the richest family in the Central Plains, and the Zhen family caravans that usually came and went to the east of the river were endless, and the last general looked greedy, and even wanted to borrow some food and salary 、、、 for the army's unexpected needs. Hey, hey, hey! ”

Teng Xiao learned that Zhen was already the Duchess at this time, so he simply told the truth and told the truth unabashedly, and his intention was naturally self-evident.

For a long time, there has been a shortage of food and grass in Anyi, but now that the God of Wealth Grandma is in front of her, how can she get nothing?

What's more, the lord Li Li is next to him. It's not a shame to cry poor in front of your own father-in-law, how can you miss such a good opportunity, not to mention when to wait!

"Oh?" As Teng Xiao expected, after he said this, not only Zhen was stunned, but even Li Li was stunned.

After a while, Li Li looked at Teng Xiao and smiled dumbly, patted him lightly on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "You are really good, you are very good at finding opportunities to reach out!" The first time I met Zhang Ji. You dare to open your mouth to borrow food and wages, there is really you! But this matter has nothing to do with me, it's up to you whether you can do it or not. After all, the food and salary of each battalion of my Xiliang Army are very tight, and it is not the case with the Anyi garrison, so I can't make an exception to take care of your Wuwei Battalion; Otherwise. As soon as this example is opened, the commanders of the other battalions will rush to the front. They all came to me and cried out to me. ”

After speaking. Li Li walked to Guo Meng's side very shamefully, and pulled Guo Meng, a righteous brother, to reminisce about the past, no matter how Zhen replied to Teng Xiao.

Seeing that her husband was such a scoundrel, Zhen couldn't help but love and be angry with Li Li, but he was helpless. In fact, she had already given Li Li a large amount of money and grain, which had already been shipped a month ago. Presumably it has been loaded into the Xiliang Mansion Treasury now.

Now in the face of Teng Xiao, the main general of Anyi, asking for food and salary, Zhen knows that he is the general who is very trusted by his husband Li Li, and he is also one of the three major generals stationed on the border of the Central Plains in the Western Liang Army, and the other two generals are: Pingnan General Xu Rong stationed in Henan and Hexi, and Pingbei General Bocai stationed in Tongguan and Huayin. These three generals had more than 100,000 troops in their hands. Nearly half of the main forces of the Xiliang Army, and they are all Li Li's most trusted border generals.

Therefore, Zhen would not refuse Teng Xiao's request to borrow grain, and instead of borrowing grain, he gave him some food. But this account still has to be counted on Li Li's head, who made him the lord of Xiliang! As for how Li Li compensated the Zhen family afterwards and promised the Zhen family any benefits, this is a matter that the Zhen family has to discuss with Li Li in private, and she likes to discuss things with Li Li alone. However, like the absurd thing of being slept with three days ago, although Zhen was extraordinarily excited and enjoyed it very much, she still subconsciously felt a little difficult to accept, feeling that it was too debauched, and she was worried that after a long time, Li Li would look down on her.

"Since the Anyi camp is in difficulty, the concubine should do her best, and I hope that General Teng Xiao will not be too little." After having a plan in his heart, Zhen raised his hand with a smile and motioned for Teng Xiao to get up, and after a pause in his voice, he continued: "In this way, the concubine will fund the Anyi garrison with 50,000 stone grain and grass and 3 million money on behalf of the Zhen family. In addition, there are some summer singles in the caravan that will come later, and if the general does not dislike it, he can leave ten carts behind, and he will be a concubine to reward the soldiers for the work of guarding the border. I don't know what the general wants? ”

"Huh?" Hearing that Zhen was so generous, Teng Xiao was stunned, not knowing whether he should accept this money or food. Then he turned his head to look at Li Li, hoping that the lord would give a hint or express his position directly. I didn't think that Li Li was whispering with Guo Meng, and he didn't seem to notice the scene here, nor did he hear the number of gifts from the Zhen family.

At this moment, Teng Xiao felt like he was cocooned and self-bound, and he regretted borrowing food from Zhen's family. At this moment, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of the new Right Army Division Guo Jia smiling and nodding, looking at him with a strong look of approval in his eyes.

In an instant, Teng Xiao suddenly realized that he had done the right thing. Zhen is now the duchess, and the princess Li Li is naturally inconvenient to borrow money and food from his own woman, which is not the dignity of a man and is very faceless. As a result, it became a natural thing for the general to ask the newly promoted Duchess of the Zhen family to borrow food and wages, and the lord was also happy to see it, and it could even be said that it was in the heart of the lord.

"The last general represents the 40,000 Anyi soldiers to thank Mrs. Xie for her grace!" After figuring out the reason, Teng Xiao immediately thanked him aloud and bowed his head to bow down.

At this time, Li Li suddenly walked over and stretched out his hand to support Teng Xiao, and said with a smile: "Okay, we are not outsiders, why be so polite." Let's go, the gate is not a place to talk, let's go into the tent and talk. ”

As he spoke, Li Li turned his back to Zhen and looked at Teng Xiao with approval on his face, and then the two ministers looked at each other and smiled, all without saying a word.

―――――――――――― (To be continued)(To be continued......