Chapter 231 A leaf of duckweed returns to the sea

"Thaoyi, you came to Dadu. Why didn't you say anything? If you come to Dadu this time, just stay for a while!" Minmin sat in the car and said to He Zhaoyi, "Is your family all right?"

Hearing this, under He Zhaoyi's long eyelashes, there was already a dark spring surging, and the crystal tears were soon coming out of his eyes in his red and swollen eyes.

Family members? Who else is in the family now? His father and eldest brother have passed away, and the relationship between the second brother and himself is already very cold. When his father was alive, he wanted to marry himself to the Lianghuai salt transporter. Now his father and eldest brother are gone. If he goes back, his eldest brother will marry him without authorization.

"Thaoyi, Zhaoyi, what's going on?" Minmin saw that He Zhaoyi was in a bad mood and shook her hand and asked.

"Alas, Minmin, it's hard to say," He Zhaoyi resisted his inner grief and said, "Gaoyou Mansion is very fierce now. Yangzhou is very close to Gaoyou Mansion. At the insentice of the second brother's, my father wanted to move his family to Dadu, leaving only the second brother to do business in Yangzhou. Unexpectedly, the canal had frozen, so he had to go by land. When I was about to arrive in Dadu, I met the Red Turban Army, and my father and eldest brother were unfortunately killed. If the expansion general hadn't appeared in time, I'm afraid I would have suffered misfortune!" As He Zhaoyi said, tears fell down.

"I want to follow!" Minmin hugged He Zhaoyi's head. He Zhaoyi finally couldn't help crying.

"It's okay, it's okay. People can't come back to life after death. My condolences! In the future, you will live in Taishi Mansion, and you will have a good sister to play with me. Minmin said.

"This can't be done. The master said that it is reasonable. How can I, a civilian woman, always disturb the master's mansion? I'd better stay in the inn for the time being!"

"You're welcome!" Minmin said, "If you don't live, I'll be angry!"

He Zhaoyi had to nod gently, but she made a decision in her heart. After living for a few more months and the canal opened, she could leave in the name of going home to bury her father and eldest brother. This Taishi Mansion is not something that ordinary people like herself can live in. Although my family is in Yangzhou, which can be regarded as a big family, when it comes to the capital, it is nothing. The royal relatives and nobles and rich here are a lot of them.

However, there are also many business opportunities here. For example, if the refined salt sold from Zhang Shicheng can be sold to most of the capital, it will definitely be a huge profit. 80% of the salt here is refined salt, and the cost of shipping from the distant northwest is very high. If you take the waterway from the south, it will be very convenient.

The He family mainly does business in the south, but the north has never been involved. This time, Mr. He's family moved to most of the capital. In addition to escaping the war, why don't he want to make his family's business bigger?

"Taishi, because we took a two-line battle, focusing on attacking the Xuzhou Uprising Army and the Nanyang Xiangxiang Uprising Army, and Isolating Liu Futong's troops in the center. Especially some time ago, the Taishi wiped out the Red Turban Army in Yingzhou, which greatly encouraged the morale of our army. There is also the army under the command of Li Siqi fighting in blood. Now, the anti-thief Liu Futong's department is already like a grasshopper after autumn, and it can't jump!" When he saw the detachment, he expanded his profile and said.

"Well, in this case, the whole Chinese book province will have peace of mind." Totoku breathed a sigh of relief. Over the years, the situation has become more and more rotten, especially Liu Futong's uprising, which is too close to most of them. This threat must be eliminated. Now the situation is developing in a favorable direction, and Dutoku is also relieved.

"However, there are some problems in Huainan River's northern province." The expansion said, "Guo Zixing's troops are not afraid. They have not been out of Haozhou City for half a year. They are all incompetent rats. However, one of Guo Zixing's fierce generals named Zhu Yuanzhang is a battle between the east and the west, and now they have fought a long way."

"Zhu Yuanzhang?" Totout meditated on the name in his heart, "Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang, sure enough, he is really a figure."

"Compared with Zhu Yuanzhang, what I'm more worried about now is Zhang Shicheng, who is in turmoil in Gaoyou Mansion." The expansion continued: "Zhang Shicheng of Gaoyou Mansion is not an ordinary person. He can suddenly rise in just a few months and seize Xinghua and Taizhou in one fell swoop, especially Taizhou. As a military town, and there are 20,000 soldiers and horses guarding the city, he can be captured by the other party, which shows that Zhang Shicheng is very powerful." The expansion continued.

He nodded. As a stream of rebels, it is not easy to attack a heavily defended big city. Zhang Shicheng has several skills.

"Is he also a red scarf army?" He asked. He said.

"I have carefully checked that Zhang Shicheng was originally a Yanmin of Xinghua and had no contact with those Red Turban Army." The expansion said, "However, it is strange that there are not many troops under Zhang Shicheng, only a few thousand people, but the combat effectiveness is very strong. I heard that the timid general will be defeated by Zhang Shicheng's army in the field battle. Zhang Shicheng's army is equipped with a kind of powerful fire, which is not sharp at all.

"Oh?" A sharp light flashed in his eyes. Zhang Shicheng was even more unusual. However, he had let the bank deal with it. Zhang Shicheng had become Yin of Xinghua County and Yin of Taizhou Prefecture, and obeyed the court. Although these are two different state capitals, and there has never been a part-time job, the imperial court also agreed to the provincial arrangement. As long as you can appease the rebels and don't make trouble, you have the energy to deal with the most annoying ones. When you free your hands, you can break them one by one.

"Originally, Zhang Shicheng was Yin of Xinghua County and Taizhou Yin, which was also a great gift from the court. However, Dalu Huachi of Gaoyou Mansion came up with a poor assassination plan on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month. Instead of killing Zhang Shicheng, Zhang Shicheng, who was angry, counterattacked into Gaoyou Mansion. It is estimated that the provincial government Wen is about to arrive. When I come back this time, I mainly want to ask the master for instructions. If necessary, the expansion is willing to go south and capture Zhang Shicheng back to the court. Expand the outline and say.

"Forget it, you just came back and you're tired. Go down and have a rest first!" He suddenly said.

The expansion is unclear, but there is no doubt about the words: "Then the expansion will leave first."

Waing for the expansion to go out, I took off and opened my eyes. If possible, he didn't want to cut down all the rebels. However, at present, the most important thing is to solve the threat of Liu Futong, who is close at hand. During this period of time, he has been a physical meeting with the combat effectiveness of the imperial army. It is low and very low. They have no longer had the tough and comfortable life in their blood, which has worn out their fighting spirit. Now that they have been appeased. Zhang Shicheng, and this incident was caused by the Gaoyou Department, so let the province deal with it first! The expansion is a good general. Good steel has to be used on the blade. Let's destroy Liu Futong first.

Expanding the profile full of doubts, he walked out of the master's backyard and walked to the front yard.

"Brother, why didn't you tell me when you came back!" Suddenly, there was a complaint in front of me.

When she looked up, she saw two women coming. The one in front of her was Miss Minmin, the daughter of the master. Isn't the one behind Miss He the one she saved?

What's going on? The expansion is even more confused.

"Expansion General." He Zhaoyi has made a blessing.

"You don't need to call me General. Just call me Brother Extension like Minmin, or call me Brother Baobao." Expand the outline and say.

Baby brother? He Zhaoyi blushed. How could this general laugh so much?

"His name is expanded Timur, and there is also a Han man whose name is Wang Baobao. The protection is not the treasure of treasure." Minmin said aside.

Only then did He Zhaoyi realize that he had a bad idea just now, and he couldn't help blushing with shame.

After entering the Central Plains, Mongolians, especially Mongolian nobles, like to give themselves Han names. For example, Minmin around them has a Han name called Zhao Min. When they were in Yangzhou, they always used this name.

"You are also true. Zhaoyi came to Dadu, and you also hid her. Why didn't you bring her to the Taishi Mansion?" Minmin then blamed the expansion of the corridor.

"It's not my fault that Miss He refused to come." The expansion said, "Since we all know each other, after you settle down, let's go to the 'Smile Building' outside and have something together."

Before He Zhaoyi refused, Minmin said, "Then it's a deal. Zhao Yi, let's go. Let's decorate the room you live in first. Later, we will go out to play outside. In most of the past two days, a group of tricks have come. It's very interesting.

In this way, He Zhaoyi temporarily lived in Dadu, and happened to meet the familiar Minmin Timur, met Wang Baobao, and became good friends with each other.

......................................................From the base, Zhang Yang's second destination is Taizhou.

Judging from the current situation, Zhang Yang occupied Taizhou and Gaoyou. To the south is the Yangtze River, which is like a pliers, forming a trend of encirclement of Yangzhou, but Zhang Yang does not want to attack Yangzhou now. Yangzhou is the capital of the whole province. As the saying goes, thin camels are bigger than horses, playing Gaoyou and Taizhou. If you fight Xinghua, you won't hurt the muscles and bones of the province. If you fight Yangzhou, I'm afraid that all the troops besieging outside will turn around to deal with Zhang Yang. That's very famous, but it's very unwise.

He got Taizhou and Gaoyou, but Zhang Yang wanted to let Yangzhou not fight, but to find an opportunity to cross the south of the Yangtze River, which is the hometown of fish and rice. It is the richest place in the whole Yuan Dynasty. Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province is a larger treasure basin.

However, before that, we had to expand the scale of the army and establish a navy. After all, Zhang Yang can do things righteously with the hat of the imperial court. The reason for the last time was so sufficient that the province had nothing to say.

Let Tang He train a new army here to prepare for the future. From the perspective of territory, the place occupied by Zhang Yang can raise tens of thousands of troops. However, Zhang Yang does not want to spend all his money on armaments and restore the economic development of the occupied areas, which plays a more important role.

It's just the beginning. When the people in other areas around see the people here living and working in peace, they will definitely raise their palms to welcome themselves. They are going to "liberate" them. Moreover, the scale of the army does not mean that the bigger the better. Zhang Yang has never liked the tactics of the sea of people. Fighting is definitely not a simple comparison of the number of people, otherwise, there will not be Mongolians who are less than 1% of the Han population to rule the country.

Zhang Yang's weapon is to surpass the Tianque of this era. The concept of fighting is also advanced. Try to destroy the opponent at a long distance, enter less white-edged battle, kill more enemies, and protect yourself. Only by protecting yourself can you better attack the enemy. Therefore, Zhang Yang needs elite soldiers.

In addition to Zhang Yang's concern about the weapon manufacturing of the base, the four new battalions convened by Tang He came down. Also, under the rule of Li Huafu, can Taizhou become the Taizhou of ordinary people?

With the guard and riding a steed, Zhang Yang rushed to Taizhou.

The head of the city that was blown up last time has been rebuilt, and the water of the moat is flowing slowly. At the gate of the city, it has been replaced by guards with Tianque, who are checking the people in and out.

Seeing the horses coming from afar, the soldiers guard knew that their own people were coming. Looking at the man in the middle, it was his eldest brother. Although he had only seen him a few times, he could not forget his appearance.

"Big brother, big brother is here! Go down and meet me!" Several ten chiefs on the head of the city said hurriedly.

When Zhang Yang approached the gate, all the soldiers at the top of the city had come down and lined up in two teams to welcome the Yang into the city.

"Where is Ding Chen?" Zhang Yang asked.

"It's in the barracks in the city, and the soldiers are being trained. Brother, you go to the city first. When you go to the official office, you can rest. I'll call the little one for you." A ten-husband said.

Today is only the fourth day of the Chinese New Year, and Tang He has started training? Zhang Yang was overjoyed: "Don't report it. Take me to the military camp. The rest, continue to guard the Acropolis Gate.

"Yes, big brother." The ten-husband who was called came over and led Zhang Yang's horse to the city.

The barracks are in the north of Taizhou City. After attacking Taizhou City at the beginning, the barracks were devastated by Zhang Yang's troops and blood flowed like a river. When the battle was over, Tang He reorganized the place. As a new barracks, Zhang Yang asked Tang and recruited soldiers to be stationed here for training, which could have been used by 20,000 horses. There are only a few thousand horses now, of course it's more than enough.

Before entering the barracks, Tang He's loud voice floated with the wind: "The spear should be raised flat. When it is stabbed out, you should be strong. You can't stab the other party. You are the one who die, you know? Obey the officer's orders. If anyone doesn't care anymore, be careful of my whip whipping you!" Then, there were two "pop" whips, and it was Tang He doing a demonstration.

This soup knows how to be gentle with your brother with violence! Zhang Yang smiled, clamped the horse's abdomen hard, and then walked forward.

In the open space in front of the barracks, there are already people who can't see the edge. Their hands are red with cold, holding steel spears, and exercising the same movement again and again.

The sound of horses' hoofs came. None of the soldiers trained on the field looked up, which made Zhang Yang feel gratified and disciplined. It can be taken out from these small details. This is exactly what Zhang Yang needs. With strict discipline, there will be a result of victory in a hundred battles.

Tianque has not yet been sent to the hands of these soldiers. Their current weapon is still a spear. Use spears first, and then Tianque, which is already an unwritten rule. If you use Tianque as soon as you join the team, then it will give the soldier a sense of superiority, thinking that if you destroy the enemy from a long distance, it will be over. If the enemy is close to you, you will not know how to resist in panic and cultivate them and the enemy's flesh first. The tenacious will of fighting is the right way. In the future, even if Tianque fails, they will take the Tianque with a bayonet or pick up the spear on the ground and rush up fiercely.

"Brother, are you coming over?" Tang He found the cavalry entering the barracks. Looking at it carefully, it was his eldest brother and immediately ran over to greet him.

"Well, I'll come and see how these soldiers are training."

"Brother, do you have a combat mission?" Tang He's eyes were shining, and Zhang Yang's unconscious words made Tang He see hope.

I knew that there was a war. Tang He didn't let Tang He participate in the fight against Gaoyou. He was already suffocated here. "Brother, these four battalions have been almost trained."

Only half a month, do you want them to go to the battlefield? I don't want to. Zhang Yang knows that the fastest death on the battlefield is a new recruit.

"In the past two days of the Spring Festival, is the team's food good enough?" Zhang Yang changed the topic.

"Of course, there is meat to eat all day. Look how hard they train. Tang He said, and then looked around. The shouting of killing was lively, and they were desperately practicing assassination. It was unknown whether it was for Zhang Yang to see.

"There are no thousand commanders in these four newly established battalions, right?" Zhang Yang suddenly asked. With an officer and a top-down command structure, it is a complete team.

"Yes, but in order to better train these four battalions, I have temporarily appointed ten husbands and centurions among them, and the four thousand husbands are temporarily appointed by my four centurions." Tang He said.

Needless to say, Zhang Yang also saw that Pan Yuanming, Pan Yuanshao, Xu Yi and Zhang Tianqi stood in the four directions of east, west, north and south, seriously monitoring the trained soldiers. When they saw that there was a lazy person, they would go to train alone.

Tang He really wants to do it first. Zhang Yang knows that Tang He is righteous. In order to better train these four battalions, in fact, there must be his own Xiao Jiujiu. These four people are hundreds under Tang He. Now, Tang He has raised them to the position of commander. Thank you very much. Tang He, in this way, these four camps have become his Tang He. Although Tang He is very loyal to himself now, although Pan Yuanming, Pan Yuanshao, Xu Yi and Zhang Tianqi are all salt farm brothers who have followed Zhang Yang for many years, the personnel of these thousand husbands must be selected by themselves. This rule cannot be broken, even if Tang He can't play the edge ball like this.

Zhang Yang thought so and said, "Well, yes, Dingchen, I'm very relieved that you and these four brothers will train. The four of them will temporarily serve as the commanders of the training. When the four battalions are completed, I will assign them to Shiyi, you, Lu Zhen, and Bian Yuanheng to let the troops of each of your battalion. For a thousand people, so that you thousands of men should be worthy of your name.

500 people per battalion, which is Zhang Yang's original standard, which is more suitable for the original situation. However, up to now, it is a little inconvenient. Although the number of people is not the main one, his own 500 people can withstand the attack of two or three thousand people. However, sometimes, it is not convenient, because for tens of thousands of enemies, the scale of their own team is still relatively small. For example, to guard the Taizhou city, 500 people are overstretched, and so is Gaoyoufu. And when two battalions are transferred, there is a question of who obeys whom. They are all equal-level commands. They may not be able to cooperate well with each other. It's better to expand the current establishment. One battalion has 1,000 people. For example, for Tang He, it's almost the same to guard Taizhou.

Moreover, in this case, without these thousands of husbands, these four brothers have nothing to say. It's better to go back and be a centurion. In the future, the team will expand its scale and raise them up by themselves, so that the potential danger will be eliminated invisibly.

Tang He was very happy to hear that his subordinates had changed from five hundred to one thousand: "Thank you, brother!" Tang He just wanted to shout: Long live the eldest brother.

"Brother, it's too cold outside. Let's go back to the government to talk." Tang He said.

(to be continued)