As time passed, Feng Chunxue's hatred decreased sharply. When she saw Li Kesheng, she still called him Brother Li with the same title as before.
"Yes." Lu Siqiao nodded kindly. Then she looked anxiously into the wooden house.
I don’t know how long I waited, but finally a child’s cry resounded throughout the world, and then an old woman ran out of the wooden house and said excitedly, “A baby boy is born.”
"Okay, okay, hahaha." Qiu Da took the lead and laughed.
The old woman is a professional mother-in-law in the mountains. She is very experienced. When she saw Qiu Da laughing, she also laughed. Then she thought of something and said with a grimace, "It's just that the mother's body is very weak. She is getting worse and worse every day."
It's cold, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to stay in a wooden house."
"Should, should, like this, move mother and son to the mountains. When the child is born, he and his mother will have to be given a title." Qiu Da said indifferently.
This may be what people say, mother is more valuable than son.
Li Kesheng, who was standing not far away, heard this and quickly bowed deeply in the direction of Qiu Da, "Thank you, master."
"This is what it should be." Qiu Da laughed.
Qiao Yuntian on the side didn't say anything, and he didn't feel any discomfort. Can't you still believe that he risked his life to give birth to a child for Li Kesheng?
Although he once sent people to investigate Guan Ziyin's origins, because too much time has passed, some things have long been impossible to investigate. Now that they have created descendants for the Li family, if he refuses at this time,
Qiu Da will definitely fight with himself, Li Kesheng
I'm afraid I'll hate myself.
It's better not to do evil things like this.
The worst thing is, I'll just pay more attention to Guan Ziyin and Guan Ziyin from now on, it shouldn't be a big problem.
At this time, no one would have thought that in order to complete the task of finding out their background, a woman would be willing to risk her life to give birth to a child.
From this point of view, it has to be said that Gao Taotao's ability to grasp people's hearts is so strong that some of his subordinates are willing to make such great sacrifices for it. It is no wonder that such a person will become a queen of a generation, and also has a lot of influence in history.
of fame.
In the wooden house, Guan Ziyun also learned from the midwife that she was about to enter the top of the mountain. At this moment, she smiled.
After planning for so long and spending so much effort and price, are we finally going to get access to the secrets of the people in the mountains?
Guan Ziyin fell asleep with a smile on her face and was very satisfied, as if all her previous efforts had been in vain.
Time flies, and more than a month has passed in the blink of an eye. Seeing that the New Year will be in a few days, Guan Ziyu has slowly adapted to everything in the mountains.
In order not to arouse others' suspicion, Guan Ziyin never took the initiative to inquire about anything for more than a month, but he still learned a lot from other people's unintentional remarks.
For example, the bandits on this mountain are different from other bandits in that they do not rob merchants passing by at the foot of the mountain. They only oppose the imperial court. It seems that there is some deep hatred between the two parties.
As for what kind of hatred it is, Guan Ziyin is still unclear, but one thing is certain, that is, this is indeed an organization that opposes the Song Dynasty. And in the mountains, there are more than 20,000 men, women, old and young.
This is definitely a fat one
Yu, Guan Ziyin believes that all her efforts have been in vain.
She has also seen Lu Siqiao more than once on the mountain. This woman is indeed here. Now she only needs to find out their identities and confirm that this woman is related to Su Shi. Then she can complete the master's mission and succeed.
Retreat.
After giving birth to a child for Li Kesheng, the relationship between the two became closer than before, and they seemed to have nothing to talk about.
Only when Guan Ziyun accidentally asked about Li Kesheng's true identity would the other party remain silent. Then he said, "There are some things you shouldn't know now. When the time comes, I will naturally tell you and end it."
The more this happened, the more Guan Ziyin felt that this matter was important.
Fortunately, she is not in a hurry, she is just waiting. She believes that one day the truth will be revealed, and that is when she completes her mission.
...
Xincheng in the north.
Su Shi returned here again one month ago.
On a cold winter day, with the city wall as a shield, the cold wind doesn't seem to be that strong anymore.
After Su Shi entered the city, a large amount of food also appeared in the city. Xincheng became lively again, even more prosperous than before.
Originally, there were only about 30,000 people in Xincheng, but now, the population has exceeded 100,000, and this number is still increasing, making Xincheng an important city like Zhending City.
More and more people are coming, and the number of people joining the army is also increasing.
From the previously 45,000 people's army, 30,000 people have passed the examination and joined other armies from the people's army.
For example, the number of Yang Wenguang's vanguard troops has increased from six thousand to one now.
Ten thousand.
For example, the number of black knights has increased from about 5,000 to 8,000 now.
For example, Xu Ba's original reserve force of the Forbidden Army has increased from 10,000 to 20,000 now.
For example, Lei Meng's Longwu Guards have been upgraded from the original five thousand to the current ten thousand and so on.
Even the common people's army once had more than 10,000 soldiers after the elites were selected. However, many common people joined during this period, and the number once again became 50,000.
The only thing that has not changed is the Western Army led by Di Qing.
This is not because Su Shi is guarding against Di Qing or giving him unfair treatment. It is because Su Shi knows that Di Qing's Western Army will eventually go back, and judging from some news coming from the court, I am afraid that this
The distance in time is not far away.
Excluding Di Qing's 40,000 troops, Su Shi now has an army of 100,000 available.
With these troops, there is no problem in guarding the west of the northern border. However, once the foreign tribes increase their troops and the Mongolian cavalry reappears, these troops will still be insufficient.
For this matter, Su Shi told Bao Zheng more than once that he should continue to increase troops and he would pay for it.
During this period, as people continued to enter Xincheng, the faith value continued to increase every day. Even after excluding everyone's daily food and drink, there was still a lot of surplus.
But Bao Zheng never agreed to Su Shi's proposal to expand the army.
Without it, if they were too powerful, some of the gentlemen in the court would be unable to sit still.
Even officials will worry that they are too powerful and will one day become too powerful to lose.
Bao Zheng has his own considerations, Su Shi can only sigh
.I have no strength and cannot express myself. The feeling is really depressing.
If there is no restriction from anyone, Su Shi is confident that he can expand more troops, and it is not impossible to take back the sixteen states of Yanyun by then.
But now, for fear of being suspected, they can only passively suppress their own strength.
Su Shi laid the foundation in Xincheng and while the entire army was training, others were not idle either.
Monteika Banner Tribe.
The turn of autumn and cold.
Zhebu retreated in defeat with 30,000 Mongolian troops, but he himself was not criticized harshly by anyone.
Especially after the patriarch Wurige knew that Zhebu had been defeated by Su Shi, he had no intention of reprimanding him.
Speaking of which, this time it seemed like a huge defeat, but in fact, the losers were only those small tribes who wanted to gain benefits in the later stage.
The Kaban tribe's losses were not great. On the contrary, they gained a lot of benefits especially from the early looting from the Liao and Song states, which allowed their economic strength to increase day by day.
Taking advantage of the cat winter, Wurige called a group of people to discuss the next step for the Kaqi tribe.
After Hattu, Lakshen and others finished expressing their opinions, everyone unanimously agreed with Su Shi's threat theory.
In other words, Su Shi is the nemesis of their Ka Banner tribe. If this person does not die, their Ka Banner tribe will not have the chance to develop and expand.
If Su Shi was an old man, he could also consider enduring it until the other party was old and died of old age. By that time, the threat would naturally no longer exist.
But the actual situation is that Su Shi is very young, only less than eighteen years old. Even if they die, others may not die.
Such
A young man has always been on top of their heads. It is strange that Uzhige and the others can be better off.
In order to grow stronger, they must solve this threat. Everyone agreed that while Xixia, Liao and Song were in confrontation, they took the initiative to expand their strength first.
Then the matter was handed over to the hands of the elder Hattu and the wise Lakshen of the clan.
Both of them were good at grasping people's hearts. They took out the gold and silver they had previously looted from the Liao and Song Dynasties and gave them to some of the generals in Mo Ge Shi's tribe. After promising countless benefits, they actually attracted Mo Ge Shi.
There was great chaos within the clan.
General Zidara was killed in a sneak attack by another bribed general, Bayin, and fled with the patriarch Gilgiev.
The Mogesh tribe, which was originally severely damaged by the rise of the Kaqi tribe, collapsed, and most of its territory fell into the hands of the Kaqi tribe.
When the heavy snow came, Jebu led 30,000 elite cavalry into Yuancheng, the capital of Mog's lost tribe.
Chief Jifulfu established a foothold in Suter Banner Town west of the original city and recruited his old troops again, but it was obvious that his strength had declined too quickly and he could no longer achieve much success.
The Kaban tribe did not kill them all, but continued to use money to bribe some of Gilgi's men. In their view, fighting a trapped beast to the death was not in their interests.
After capturing Yuancheng, the Kaqi tribe monopolized the three major cities of Natu, Gucheng and Yuancheng.
As a result, he controlled more than half of the entire Monte.
Now only the remnants of Jifulfu's Mog lost tribe and the Bai Dadan tribe are left.
The Bai Dadan Department has developed quite well in recent years and has quite a bit of strength.
The distance between the two sides was slightly further, so the Kaqi tribe had no intention of attacking them. Instead, they took advantage of the arrival of the cold winter to begin to integrate and digest some of the territory and troops of Moge's lost tribe.