The cunning thief holds the supreme, and the destiny of heaven is his own.

But I knew that the great emperor's career would start from the magnificent Hanzhong.

"The Song Dynasty" "The Song Dynasty's poems in the Zhenyuan Temple of the First Lord" Era: Song Dynasty author: Lu You

——I am the dividing line—

The upper reaches of the Han River between the Qinling Mountains and Daba Mountains, the white and yellow fields of the Hanzhong Plain surrounded by mountains are already filled with the unique silence of early winter. By chance, you can also see corpses next to the dead road, or the starving dead in the dry ditches, indicating the miserable and sad things that happened in the ancients called "the land of fish and rice, the palace of national treasures".

As the heart of the Hanzhong Plain, Liangzhou's capital is located in Nanzheng City (now east of Hanzhong City, Shaanxi), and a team of people rushing by in the cold wind cyclone wandering. As the leading general of embroidered robe, Huang Hao, now the imperial censor and the Longnan Military Commissioner, did not go to the government office but came to the former Nanzheng residence.

Then, with the busy reports and the sound of flying dogs, the Malaysian Golden Knife went straight into the hall. After crossing many corridor pavilions, the rockery and flowers and stones came to the banquet scene under the Waterside Hall, which was melodious and harsh laughter, and stopped with the unexpected expressions of several military academys.

I saw the upper seat of the banquet. Since I settled down in Nanzheng City, I have been having a banquet and having fun all day long, which has made my figure stronger. The former Grand Marshal of the Great Qi Dynasty, the Shangshu Ling, the current governor of the Li Tang court, the Minister of the Secretariat of the Ministry of Justice, and the General of the Guard of the Guard of the People's Republic of China, the General of the Guard of the Procuratorate and the General of the Guard of the Army, and the General of the Guard of the Guard of the Army, and the General of the Guard of the Army, were eager to greet the other party:

"Brother Hao is back, why don't you come across a big fuss with me soon..."

"Master, if Shudu wants to raise troops, then how can you and I beg for your own slogans?"

Huang Hao, who had a somewhat irritable expression, came straight to the point:

"It's up to you to follow the trend."

Shang Rang let go of Mei Ji in her arms, but disagreed, said:

"When you go with the flow, you're really light! What if you're going there and you're going to drive us to be the first? Is the general manager also going to follow the will?"

Huang Hao frowned and said helplessly:

"Why not? As long as the south can get enough price, what is the difference between the foreman? When it first broke with the inner side, wasn't it just that the swordsman had already met again?"

Shang Rang strodes himself at the trembling branches of Meiji, and said without looking back:

"Can you be able to control your subordinates in this matter? I need help?"

"Is the general manager talking and joking? Don't you know the reason why the lips and teeth are cold? When the soldiers in Sanchuan move, the first thing I am in Longnan is to bear? Can those who are in peace with the support of the general manager be able to control the retreat and the faint threat of the rear? "

Huang Hao suddenly turned cold and said with a little heartbroken:

"Of course this is the reason, but what are the solutions? I wonder what Shiro has the idea and regulations, so why can he teach me?"

Shang Rang spread his hands with his powdery hands:

"Of course, the coalition forces are right. As long as Longnan and Xingyuan can work together to do their best and pull out 50,000 victorious soldiers to occupy the mountains and surround the mountain, it is not easy to force them too much even in Shudu!"

Huang Hao said firmly:

"It's also a way to join forces; it's just that Xingyuan is still incomplete and it will take some time to recruit the local area. I will first allocate five thousand stone valleys and six thousand pieces of silk; and then ask my troops to stay in Xingcheng Pass (now south of Luoyang County, Shaanxi) at Jinniu Roadkou, Xingzhou, in case what if?"

Shang Rang unconsciously groped the thighs of the woman beside him for a moment and replied without hesitation:

"Taurus and Mikura, you and I will defend the same route. They are both echoing each other, and they can also advance and retreat together with Shu!"

However, after the initial answer was obtained, he refused to invite and stay for the banquet. After Huang Hao and his party left completely disappeared, someone asked carefully during the banquet that had already been cold but had forced himself to resume the lively banquet:

"Master, can it be so satisfying that Huang Si's child is so satisfied?"

"This is just Huang Silang's tentative method. It depends on whether I have been in contact with Shudu and whether I have an opportunity to take advantage of it."

Shang Rang, who had obvious bags in his eyes and slightly swollen face, said lightly:

"Then I will stare at his every move in the city with me. I have seen anyone in private, or have communicated with him through the book, and I will report it quickly... When the big thing is happening, there are no more obsessed people who are tempted... I'll wait for him to lead his troops to meet."

"Since the old man was not enterprising after Xingyuan settled down, he had the same reason to be lucky to treat the court, so we also need to find a way to protect ourselves..."

In the team returning to the temporary garrison in the city, Huang Hao also said to his left and right confidants:

"Now the Tianxiong Army near Longnan is ready to move, and the Qishan Road may also move south at any time. In addition, the old man here in Xingyuan Prefecture is unclear. At that time, we will be swim under the net with the enemy. Do you really want to get along with the remnants of Xifan?"

"I should follow the order of the ruler!"

The left and right also responded with emotion:

——I am the dividing line with each thought—

At the northwest gate of Guanzhong, in Xiaoguanguan City, located at the exit of the upper reaches of the Jinghe Valley, there were already snowflakes as fine as pink in the sky, shrouding a layer of plain white like brocade in the gloomy and hazy world.

In this white tone that does not completely cover all the rocks, trees and city buildings, and reveals a few mottled white tones, Gai Hong, the oldest and most experienced in the New Qi Dynasty, was also patrolling the renovated walls of the city, and urging and spurring the soldiers who curled up and roasted fire and slackened from the cold to return to their positions.

Although Huang Wang had appointed him to prepare for the enemy with full authority, since he returned to Xiaoguan, the corresponding military preparation work has not been so smooth. First of all, after Huang Wang's army left, the local left-behind generals began to lose their slackness and negligence.

Therefore, when he was able to escape from the chaos in Chang'an and return to his far-reaching post with his support team and a large number of supplies, he actually found that the city of Xiaoguan inside and outside the gates and more than ten affiliated villages, forts and posts had all appeared in large numbers due to frequent escapes in the army these days.

Then, the decent reserves of equipment, grain and fodder on the books were counted, and then they found some unknown deficiencies and defects; and they were able to release the two daily meals in the hands of the remaining soldiers. The three meals during the war were mixed with a lot of chaff, grass stems and sand.

This result made him furiously executed hundreds of people, including the old camp brothers he once trusted and the warehouse managers from the township party; he also distributed the rice and cloth supplies he brought to stabilize the morale of the thousands of soldiers and the possible disintegration and separation.

Fortunately, during this period, the troops from the Hexi and Longyou vassal states did not come to attack, otherwise he would have no idea what situation and consequences he would encounter. Therefore, due to this sense of crisis, he spared no effort to step up his practice and renovate the city defense every minute, and on the other hand, he was also trying hard to ask for and accumulate materials.

At this time, Zhao Zhang, the Shizhong, who had already begun to gather people to farm and preside over various construction projects, also provided him with some manpower and material assistance; not only did he replenish more than 2,000 new soldiers (young and strong), but also sent more than 10,000 thick and thin wood that could be used to build a city and a barrier.

However, under the urging of the repeated orders from Chang'an, the towns of Fufang, Benning and Fengxiang that had been subdued again also recruited more than a thousand soldiers from hundreds of people; then some equipment and military funds from the Chang'an Armament were different from each other, and even the Huang Wang had someone to escort the salt from the hundreds of stone rivers, which also made the situation in his hands gradually improve.

But what inevitably disappointed him was that there were not many relatively exquisite and durable southern construction objects. You should know that when he was still in Chang'an, he saw with his own eyes the convoys of various military supplies and equipment transported from the Wuguan-Shangluo Road in the south, and flowing all day long! Huang Wang also repeatedly promised that the army should prepare the enemy in front of the army first.

However, these traffic-ridden things disappeared in the accounts of Chang'an Zhengshi Hall and the Guannei Transportation Department like ice and salt thrown into the water. You know, even the dozens of battalions and farmlands presided over and organized by Shizhong Zhao Zhang mostly use cheap fine iron farm tools from the south.

But when he went to ask the relevant operators, the other party was hesitant and could not tell the truth. Even when he was forced to do so, he could only beg him to let him go. After all, he was the most senior coach in the new dynasty. No matter what he did, few people dared to offend and question it. However, these minor officials and subordinates of the last micro-girls may not be able to survive.

So he could only give up his old face and disturb Huang Wang with these things. Of course, the effect was immediate. Most of the rice, grain, winter clothes, firewood, and carbon he asked for that time were immediately in place, and the officials he handled were replaced with a new batch. But he also knew that his sophistication and affection were limited, and such things could not be repeated after all.

Moreover, he also heard some kind of news and movements in the relationship between the Later Dynasties, saying that the most important and urgent thing in Huang Wang’s mind is the two most important and urgent matters. One is the reorganization and expansion of the three armies in the front of the palace and the Grand Camp of the Gyeonggi, and the other is the certain cause of generating income for the Xin Dynasty under the leadership of Zhang Zhongshu, who was in charge of the Political Affairs Hall.

As for the military affairs on Xiaoguan's side, the court was still full of discussion and questioning when the enemy was not seen for a long time. Some people even secretly speculated that this was a rumor that dispersed and weakened the power of the new dynasty; only for the sake of his old governor, he maintained intermittent losses. Little did they know that many of the subordinates who were in charge of the imperial throne were dismissed or reduced.

But Gai Hong was undeniable about this. Although he had sent out several groups of spies and wardrobes every day so far, he had never really brought back signs of the advance of the Northwest army; but this unresolved sense of threat and crisis made him more irritable and uneasy as time elongated.

Therefore, he could only choose to return to his old business by seeking the second best choice and cooperated with Zhao Zhang who was stationed in Xianyang in exchange for some aid supplies that the other party secretly received from Dachang Pass in the south. At least, those agricultural tools and tools made of fine iron were re-scaling and polishing, and they were no worse than the standard military equipment.

And such an intermittent snowfall made Gai Hong think of all his things back then in love. This was also a thin snow that could only barely cover the ground, but it became the last straw that overwhelmed him, a family of people who suffered hardships under natural disasters and heavy labor service.

Then when he finished the labor service of Caohe Lagang Ship in his tiring service for the government, he carried the two pieces of mixed bread left in his mouth; when he rushed home with his heart, he could only see the hut that had collapsed due to long-term disrepair, and the family who had frozen to death in the only ragged bed with a strange expression and hugged them together.
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