Before the update: Before the update, I was actually a little confused and hesitant. These days, I have been having a lot of excitement, surprise, anger, etc. I have been in a mixed mood. As a writer who concentrates on writing, I rarely pay attention to other writers. For a while, I was really at a loss and didn’t know what to do. After hesitating for a long time, I decided to update. Over the years, the Gunner has been updated twice a day. It has been 3,765 days since the horses stepped on the world. The Gunner readers have also been used to seeing the Gunner’s updates every day at 8 am. Nothing else, it is just for book friends to open the pages at 8 am! As for the rest, let’s talk about it!

This wine was drunk until dawn the next day.

Then Liu Xinda personally sent Liu Santong out of the east gate.

Liu Santong bowed deeply to the ground, and a few yards of heavy bags were filled with hundreds of taels of silver. This was Liu Xinda's gift to him. When he straightened up and hugged him, Liu Santong was already in tears.

Liu Xinda was also deeply moved and waved his hand and said, "Go and go, it's good to be a farmer."

"Take care, General." Liu Santong said with a sob, turned around and strode away.

He knew that this farewell would be forever.

What he was reluctant to let go was just the love and friendship with Liu Xinda for more than ten years. It was all about private relationships. When it comes to business affairs, Liu Santong didn't feel that he owed anything to the other party. He had already done his best in the Battle of Pinglu.

The horse turned over and squeezed its legs hard. The war horse nipped lightly, took a small step and went straight to the distance.

The entire Ezhou City was deserted and in the empty no-man's land, occasionally wild dogs, wild fox badgers were alarmed by the sound of horses' hooves and rushed away from afar, but they didn't escape far. After escaping for a while, they stopped and turned around, looking at the knight curiously with their little eyes, but their backs were arched, and they were ready to escape again at any time.

The large area was originally the place of the farmland, but now it is covered with weeds. This made Liu Sandong, who had already become a farmer, sigh secretly. Eyue is located in the middle. Speaking of which, the crops here should have grown better than those in Shandong, but now, the wheat seedlings at home have grown more than their knees, and there is nothing here except weeds.

War destroys not only human life, but also human hope.

After this battle, no matter who wins and who loses, there will definitely be no harvest in this area this year.

Several horses appeared in front of them, gnawing on the grass leisurely. When they heard the sound of horse hooves, the horses raised their heads and looked in the direction where the sound of hooves came. At the same time, several fully armed knights also stood up from the grass.

Liu Santong rode his horse straight towards them.

"Brother Liu, are you back?" The leader looked at Liu Santong who was walking closer and said with a smile.

"Here I'm back!" Liu Santong nodded, turned over and dismounted and said, "Person Zheng, I'm afraid I'll disappoint you. I'll return without success. General Liu's resistance was very determined, and it was not something I could touch."

Zheng Shifu laughed and waved his hand, disregarding his concern: "I didn't make much hope. Didn't you come to us and say you want to do your best and leave it to fate? Well, don't say anything first, prepare to fight. Brother Liu, what are your plans next?"

"I don't have any plans. Go back to Jiaozhou and farm. When I get home, the wheat will be heading. It is the most critical moment of the year. The farmer said that the rain this year is probably a bit insufficient and it must be guaranteed to irrigate." Liu Santong. "There is only a woman who takes away a few unemployed babies at home, so she dare not go back too late."

"Isn't Yixingshe able to help?" Zheng Shifu led the horse and walked side by side with Liu Santong.

"Yes, yes, but you also know in Shandong that there are few men, women, children, elderly and weak, and every household needs the help of Yixing Society! People like me who have strong labor at home can not bother others, so they should not bother others!" Liu Santong.

The lack of strengthening men and the large number of elderly and weak people is the biggest problem in the entire Shandong Province. Although after Yixing Society entered, it began to organize mutual aid groups in various places, but in the end it was still too few to eat more monks.

During spring plowing, there are many conflicts. The time for spring plowing does not wait for anyone, and whoever comes first and whoever comes later. Just the coordination problem can make the government's head bigger.

That is, after Zhang Xun took office as the governor of Tongdong Province, he relied on his great background and sufficient face to support Zuo Xiaowei stationed in Shandong Province to help the local area clear and build a water conservancy irrigation system. Finally, some of the problems were solved in the spring plowing season. However, as the war unfolded and the problem of insufficient men became more and more serious.

"It was all Zhu Youzhen, the bastard who was doing evil!" Zheng Shifu said angrily. During the Battle of Pinglu, various reasons prevented the Tang army from quickly taking down the entire Pinglu, and Zhu Youzhen was able to plunder in Pingzhen. A large number of strong men were taken away at that time. Then in the continuous war, some of these strong men died, while others were wrapped up to go to other places. The entire Shandong Province would definitely not be able to recover in a short period of time. Zhang Xun's letter to the Central Committee said bluntly that if there were no large number of strong men returning, the entire Shandong Province would probably take ten years to recover.

This is a generation.

"I hope the war ends soon!" Another soldier on one side interrupted, "It would be better to kill the fake beam after a few seconds. In this way, everyone will have a good life."

"Of course!" Zheng Shifu turned over and said, "The pseudo-beam is just a clown. This time, our army of hundreds of thousands of troops besieged several sides, and they will not be able to jump for a few days. When the world is peaceful, I will also go back to be a farmer. Speaking of which, the fields I divided at home and my Yongye field are hundreds of acres!"

"Person Zheng, you are joking. If you work hard, you can be a general." A soldier said.

"It's far away from the general! I'm still three levels away!" Zheng Shifu laughed, "The more you go up, the harder it is. If you don't make great contributions, it's difficult to go up any further. Why? Do you still want to be a general?"

In the Tang military system, except for a very small number of special departments and some technical branches, ordinary military soldiers will be retired after a certain period of time if they are not promoted to the level of general or above. Only by becoming at least a guerrilla general under the fifth rank can they truly become professional soldiers.

"Of course I have to work hard. I'm just twenty years old! Before the age of twenty, it's extremely special to be promoted to a captain, so I can work until I'm thirty. At the age of thirty, if I can become a captain Zhenwu, I can work for another ten years. In ten years, I can of course work hard to launch an attack on the General." The soldier smiled and said, "My family is from Yizhou, and there is not much land. My family is more engaged in work or doing some small business."

Yizhou Zhenzhou and other places are the central areas ruled by the entire northern court, and are also a gathering place for foreign populations. More and more people are borrowing, resulting in less and less land available for distribution. Industry and commerce is emerging with the encouragement of Li Ze. Compared with agriculture, industry and commerce seem to be easier and make more money, which leads to more and more people there, just like a sponge, constantly absorbing nutrients from other places. Many provinces have written letters to restrict the outflow of local people, but this proposal was completely rejected by Li Ze.

Li Ze believes that the shortage of population is a short-term period, a pain that must be experienced in the development of a place, and it is also the driving force for promoting local efforts to improve the local economy. Only when the population moves can the economy be a revitalized water. If the population is limited to one place, it seems to be beneficial to the local area in a short period of time, but in the long run, it is not good for the entire country.

Li Ze disagreed, and the proposal was still born.

Now the personnel are indeed moving, but they are moving to places with better economic conditions. For those newly recovered territories, the officials are suffering. However, as Li Ze said, in order to attract local people, the policies of benefiting the people have been introduced one after another.

"Brother Liu, there are many fellow villagers in Ezhou City when you were in Pinglu? How are their morale now?" Zheng Shifu asked suddenly.

"I didn't come into contact with ordinary soldiers, I just drank wine with the old general overnight." Liu Santong said bluntly: "But after a brief look, it doesn't matter whether the morale is high or not. Everyone is a little numb, right?"

"Ezhou City is not easy to fight!" Zheng Shifu said.

"It's not easy to fight!" Liu Santong was silent for a while. He knew Zheng Shifu's intention to say these things, but from the point of view, he really didn't want to say more. But after a long time of chatting, he finally made him feel a little nervous. The war ended one day earlier, which was indeed a kind of luck and blessing for ordinary people.

As an experienced general, even if he just glanced at the city, he knew a rough idea. He knew where the key point is, what was the weakness, and what was the trap.

After listening to Liu Santong's brief description, Zheng Shifu nodded with satisfaction.

"Thank you, Brother Liu. With this information, our arrangements are more targeted. This may reduce many casualties and save many lives. I will follow up on this and remember Brother Liu's achievements."

Liu Santong shook his head bitterly: "Forget it, I am a farmer. Don't mention me any credit you want, Brother Zheng doesn't mention me. Just pretend I haven't said anything!"

Zheng Shifu proved for a while and nodded: "I understand, Brother Liu has his own difficulties. Just do as Brother Liu wants!"

Several people stopped discussing this issue and moved along the river to the east.

In this large unmanned area, you can encounter the scout cavalry of the Tang army from time to time, which is why Zheng Shifu and others have been escorting Liu Santong away. The Liang army in Ezhou City had already given up patrol outside at this time and devoted all their thoughts to the defense of Ezhou City. The only patrol direction is also to go north to ensure the safety of the only passage between them and Yingcheng, Suizhou, Guangshui and Xinyang. Maintaining this line is also the life-saving line for the Liang army in Ezhou to retreat smoothly at the last moment.

Zheng Shifu suddenly stopped the horses, and dense shadows of sails appeared on the river, the sounds of military trumpets, the dense sounds of war drums and the signal flags rising above the head made him suddenly excited.
Chapter completed!