After recording the trivial things that needed to be recorded, and after Hou Yuanyong came to pick up Yu Hezhong, the teacher asked Xiaoling to bring in some more food. She took a piece of pastry, continued to think about the news that Yu Hezhong had just stated, and raised her head. Seeing that Xiaoling was hesitant to speak, she asked, "What's wrong?"
"I think...Miss Shishi is really worried about her husband..."
Xiaoling smiled, but her words were somewhat contrary to her will. Shishi ate the cakes, and then she also laughed: "Xiaoling, your opinion of Mr. is actually not good, right?"
"I just think... it's so late, Miss Shishi should rest early..."
She is Shishi's life secretary, and she usually understands and follows up on all kinds of trivial matters. After knowing Yu Hezhong's daily character, she certainly doesn't agree with him very much, especially when Shishi has recently treated him. This round of arrangements can be said to be all-out efforts, but in reality, it naturally requires a lot of effort and time, which is naturally a bit incomprehensible.
Shishi thought for a while behind his desk, and then spoke after a while: "Mr. Ning... often talks about revolution."
"Um……"
"The word revolution means revolutionizing one's own life and revolutionizing other people's lives. How can we change other people's lives? Xiaoling." The teacher held a writing brush in his hand and smiled: "We set up a school in the countryside and write in books." When some people learn something and are inspired by stories written on the Internet, of course we are very happy. We feel that these people are... positive and motivated, and feel that they are worthy. We also like it after reading it, but Mr. Ning... once told me Starting, he said, Master, look at this world, there are some people who are born with good character, or when we get to know him, he becomes self-motivated and becomes someone we like, but more people , No matter in the city or in the countryside, they are lazy in mind and hateful in appearance. Sometimes even if you are kind and put good things in front of them, they will not take it. You will break up the good principles and tell them to them. I don’t understand either…then what should we do with these people?”
The teacher paused: "The former Chinese Army... united some people who were enlightened first. As comrades, they would also start to enlighten those who were easy to be enlightened through various means. Back then in Bianliang, for those who were still enlightened, For people who have not awakened, Mr. Ning said they will die... But sooner or later, when the Chinese army goes out, all the people will come to us. Xiaoling, what about those people with shortcomings? Just talking doesn't make sense. Tell them stories, but they don’t understand. What should we do with those people who are cheating, cheating, or simply lazy and selfish? What should we do about this? The main thing is, what should we do? Sooner or later, we have to think about it. Thought……"
She raised her head slightly, thought for a while, and smiled slightly: "I remember...at that time, I mainly protested to him, why couldn't our story be written more elegantly? He said it could be more elegant, but more vulgar. Yes, because we will face these people in the future. If they commit crimes, we can deal with them or even kill them. If he just doesn't seek to make progress, or is lazy and stupid, then should we consider using various methods to punish him? In this way, for example, if the story is more beautiful and the truth is broken down more, even if you don't think it is so beautiful, it may be of some use to others..."
"...Brother Yu is a very ordinary scholar. He came under my care when he was in his teens or 20s. He has seen the scenery, has limited abilities, and is somewhat unwilling to make progress. In the past year or so,
The Wenrou Township also made him forget about himself. Compared with many people in the Chinese army, he was a bit hateful. But looking from another direction, he at least read and knew how to write, understood some principles, and was not very courageous, but
He can listen to some advice. Even if he is powerful, he can only spend money to throw money at people instead of using his power to bully others... Is there some way for such a person to make him... make a little progress? "
"... Of course, because Brother Yu is my friend, I thought of some such methods and used people from the Chinese Army just for him. I have some selfish motives. Whether it should be right or not is not easy to say, but just
It's like the monks I saw when I was a child. They save people in the world, and they also save one person. Being able to save one person brings a certain amount of joy... Xiaoling, for example, if you have such a annoying friend around you, when you can help him,
Will you help?"
"Uh..." Xiaoling struggled for a moment, "I just... think Miss Shishi can help more people by paying attention to her health, and... I didn't think so much..."
Shishi laughed, and after a while, when Xiaoling was about to turn around, she asked: "Xiaoling, have you heard about the rumors about Li Rulai, General Li?"
"General Li...what rumors?"
"...There are rumors about him giving women away everywhere."
"Um..." Xiaoling thought for a moment, "No, I just heard... Although he is a reduced general, he is very important. There are rumors outside that they want his military power. In order to reward him for his service, maybe he will
His wealth allowed him to open many factories. But giving away women... no one else knows about this and won't tell me..."
"I understand." Master nodded.
After Xiaoling went out, the teacher sat there and thought for a moment. Li Rulai sent women to the army, which touched Ning Yi's bottom line, but as Xiaoling said, even if someone knew about it, they would not follow it easily.
Zhang Yang, the female soldier, asked whether Ning Yi knew about this matter. He had already blacklisted Li Rulai. So, whether he should ask about this matter, or whether he would mention it after verification, is something that needs to be considered.
.
Theoretically speaking, if Ning Yi is vigilant, he should know about this matter. But if not, how can he check it? If he wants to ask, who should he ask?
So what should we do if we don’t enjoy the benefits of Li Tathagata? We have to be vigilant.
It would be great if she could run a brothel... Thinking about it later, this idea came to her mind. The brothel has always been a gathering place for all kinds of information. When she was in the capital, all kinds of news, big and small, would sooner or later fall to her.
But now, thinking about Ning Yi's possible attitude when she proposed this idea to Ning Yi, she couldn't help but laugh.
After thinking about this for a while, I went to bed to rest.
When she got up the next day, there was light snow in the courtyard outside. She did a set of dance moves outside as exercise. Then she returned to the study, sorted out her thoughts, and wrote a letter to Ning Yi.
When you go to work, take it to the secretariat and ask the secretariat to hand over this "secretly folded" wax seal.
This is the early morning of December 17th.
The Secretariat packed up all kinds of important information and letters summarized yesterday, and quickly left Chengdu. At around midnight that afternoon, it met up with Ning Yi's convoy that was on its way to patrol. At this time, Ning Yi's team was in the north of the plain.
A military camp of the Fifth Army of the Chinese Army took a break. At the same time, Ning Yi met with He Zhicheng, the commander of the Fifth Army of the Chinese Army, who happened to be here. They had to talk carefully about Dai Mengwei's "big move" in the past few days and the current situation of the Chinese Army.
Talk.
At two o'clock in the morning, the skylight had somewhat dimmed. The two of them did not bring many guards and were fishing by a small river outside the military camp. There was a thin layer of snow on the surrounding land and mountains.
As the commander of the Fifth Army, He Zhicheng is thin. In addition to taking care of the army, his only hobby is occasional fishing. He has a calm temperament, meticulous and patient work. Some people even joked that it was because he liked fishing that Ning Yi let him
He is in charge of the military affairs of the Fifth Army.
About noon, Ning Yi mentioned something about fishing, and was dragged to the river by He Zhicheng. Then he told him a lot of fishing rules. It was cold in winter and the best time to go out was noon.
The hook should be placed deep, and the bait should be live bait as much as possible, with a strong flavor. Ning Yi pays attention to efficiency and actually doesn't like fishing. He likes to use nets or simply fry fish, but the words have already been spoken, so he can only pretend to be so.
We sat with each other for two hours.
We talked about military affairs in the middle.
After the victory of the Southwest War, at this stage, the two main forces of the Chinese Army are both militant. It is not a problem to carry out a new round of propaganda and cooperate with the land reform. But...
"...Recently, I have been thinking about letting the troops go less to Chengdu and Zizhou. The idea is still brewing, and I originally planned to discuss it when we meet during the New Year."
"what happened?"
"You are so drunk and lavish, something happened." He Zhicheng said, "Originally, it was nothing in the Wu Dynasty. You know, being a soldier is a job where you get paid and hang your head on your belt. But if you break up, you will be a soldier."
You want to have fun, and sometimes even when you win a battle on the battlefield, you can't hold back your troops, they burn, kill, loot, and bully women... In the years after you killed Zhou Zhe, you led everyone to manage and train the troops.
Enlightenment, the army has a different look, this is my happiest thing..."
"Say a little but."
"But in the past year and a half, something has changed. In the past, it was always hard and the places were poor. From Xiaocanghe to Liangshan, I have survived the hard times and my discipline has improved. But recently, Chengdu and Zizhou are very lively.
Compared with Bianliang in the past, it was no less concessionary. Some soldiers went there and talked about it. They talked about such and such delicious food and fun, and they didn’t want to come back. In fact, just spending their own money, even if they find a woman
, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, that’s okay. Soldiers want to have some fun while living. But many times, some people are willing to get to know them and entertain them..."
"..." Ning Yi listened quietly.
"In August this year, Niu Chengshu led a team to Chengdu for business. A few of his men went to a brothel and almost got into a fight with people from his brother's army in the street. Niu Chengshu finally came to his senses and punished everyone and immediately took them out of Chengdu.
, and reported to the boss that any vacation will be canceled within a year, and no one will be allowed to go there again... I have carefully investigated, and I am afraid that similar things do not happen twice at once. Sometimes one or two soldiers get drunk in the city drinking wine.
I'm very brave and fight fiercely, but it doesn't make too big a fuss, but sooner or later someone will treat me to a big problem... Regarding this matter, I can only strengthen discipline at the moment. Even if it is a holiday, there is no need to go to a few places.
It's a big city, but people are on holiday, so it's impossible to really restrict them..."
"Who are the guests? Are there any records?"
"There are some records, and there are all kinds of things. It was not strange in the Wu Dynasty in the past to smoothen the relationship, and to try to increase the relationship. But people just entertained people. Now there are not many people who commit crimes, and they can't be arrested.
Ah, and it’s just because it’s been rare in the past ten years, and suddenly it happens again, I don’t know whether it’s normal or abnormal.”
Ning Yi nodded, was silent for a long time, and then sighed complicatedly, as if talking to himself: "Developing capital... will affect the army..."
"As I said, it wasn't a big deal in Bianliang before, but you have trained the army so well, and I suddenly feel a little reluctant to part with it. Such soldiers are rare... It cannot be said that in order for the soldiers to fight, we cannot destroy the city.
Prosperity, it must be prosperous, but... we have to think of some ways. I will strengthen discipline here, and you can see what else you can do over there. In fact, I have found out several typical cases of crime, and they are all done.
big……"
"It will get bigger gradually."
"Otherwise, we should fight out early."
"... Land reform needs to be completed, manpower needs to be trained, and the army needs to be expanded, which will take another year or two. I give you such a big place outside, how do you manage it? Even if we add Chen Fan, Zhu Biao, and Liu Chengzong, we can't
I just took a breath, it’s all a matter of taking up space. If you look at a land reform, there are very few people who can use it, they have to be able to hatch eggs..."
"Okay, I know that too. I'll continue to maintain the army here..."
"Strengthen discipline, and I'll think of a way to give you some extra food, and how about getting a few more art troupes together?"
"The little girl is pretty, a bunch of animals fight with each other every day, and there are a lot of side things..."
"Pursuing love is better than taking money to go out for fun. You can get married to stop caring. Moreover, if there is a fight, you can find excuses to punish them. You can go cross-country and have some training. That's good. Okay, let's add some people..."
"I still have the power to expand the cultural troupe, why do you worry about this..."
"Isn't this my advice to you, Lao He?"
After chatting about trivial matters until it was getting dark, Ning Yi just took a few big fish from He Zhicheng's fish basket and walked back together. After returning to the barracks where he lived, he spent the time before dinner
, opened various intelligence and requests for instructions from Chengdu, and made a reply. Along with these things, there were two relatively important letters, and he opened the one from his master first.
The message in this letter is relatively soft. In addition to the implicit love poem at the beginning about missing him, the middle roughly explains the new stage of public opinion confrontation in Chengdu, as well as some of her selfish actions towards He Zhong, and the rest of the letter.
Half, he paraphrased the questions asked by He Zhong about Li Rulai.
Since it was not clear whether Ning Yi knew the inside story, after careful consideration, Shishi decided to hand over the investigation of this matter to Ning Yi, because if Ning Yi knew about it, there was no need to mention it. If he did not know about it, this matter
The impact will be huge.
Finally, she also mentioned the idea of whether the Huaxia Army's intelligence system should be in Chengdu, with Zizhou and others running several brothels.
After reading the details of Li Rulai's incident, Ning Yi sat there and was silent for a long time. When he saw the brothel's suggestion, he couldn't help but smile, but his face was still cold.
His fingers tapped lightly on the table. The room was as quiet as ice. This continued for a while before Ning Yi put away the letter and opened another one.
This is a letter from Lou Shuwan who came from Jin.
This irritable woman didn't have anything nice to say, but most of what she talked about was business matters. Ning Yi opened the letter and saw that the other party went straight to the point and started talking about the issues in the northwest.
Since the Jurchens went south, the entire Central Plains has been in chaos. By the time the Jin people withdrew their troops for the fourth time, many places had been beaten to pieces and could not be recovered.
After several years of fighting in Xiaocanghe, the northwest was almost slaughtered to ashes by the Jurchens. After the Jurchens left, the Zhejia and other surrendered warlords were left to guard it. However, a few years ago, the Zhejia were massacred, and the group had already
The grassland people who conquered Xixia entered the Central Plains from there. Later, taking advantage of the emptiness behind the Jurchens, they went north from Yanmen Pass to the Golden Realm, plundered and then returned to the grassland.
When Nianhan's army went south for the fourth time, they did not let go of the Tiger King of Jin who vigorously resisted. Lou Shuwan even burned Weisheng to the ground for a time. Even though Liao Yiren died later, Jin still had a breath of vitality, but
Up to now, the population north of the Yellow River is still sparse, and it is impossible to take care of many places.
The northwest is the gateway to the Central Plains.
After several massacres, there were almost no roosters crowing in that area. Only some horse bandits licking blood from their knives and a very small number of refugees were still living in it. It was said that the living environment was harsh, and many places had become a completely lawless purgatory atmosphere.
After receiving technical assistance from the Chinese Army, Lou Shuwan once looked around for a new home. She set her sights on the grassland people in the northwest and even beyond. When she sent people in this direction and investigated the nearby ecology, she had already realized
There is a huge problem here.
If the grassland people advance eastward from here, the original Hengshan defense line will no longer be defendable. Of course, there are still doubts about whether the grassland people are so vicious and whether they are enemies. They may be fighting against the Jin Kingdom, or they may be plotting against Tibet.
They may even become comrades-in-arms, but he took a step back and said that even if they fight into the Central Plains, they may not pose a threat to the Jin Dynasty, just like Zou Xu can kill across the Yellow River, even if he kills, Lou Shuwan will not be afraid.
But in any case, despite the shortage of manpower, Lou Shuwan was still considering the idea of retaking the northwest, establishing a Hengshan defense line, and starting operations early out of the idea of preparing for a rainy day.
Of course, her proposal was more clever. In the letter, she talked about the glorious years of the Chinese Army fighting in the northwest, saying that this area is now an unclaimed land, but the Chinese Army still has a grand reputation.
, Ning Yi should consider transferring Liu Chengzong's troops from Liangshan back to the ownerless land in the northwest, and by the way, cooperate with the manpower of Lou Shuwan and Wang Juyun to jointly develop and manage this fertile land.
The recent year has been the best in Jin. Even when she talks about major events in her letters, she can clearly feel Lou Shuwan's relaxed mood. She does not really regard the gang of horse bandits in Xixia as a serious enemy.
From past communication and exchanges, Ning Yi could feel that she was actually coveting the Liangshan army.
During the period shortly after Tian Shi was assassinated when the Jurchens went south for the fourth time, Zhu Biao and others led more than 10,000 Chinese troops and fought vigorously with the Jurchen West Route Army until Wang Shanyue was trapped in Daming Mansion.
More than 10,000 people went to the rescue before they were dispersed. However, the remnant soldiers later gathered again. In the past two or three years, they had a hard time relying on the autumn wind that hit the Jin region. However, Lou Shuwan was willing to show goodwill and lend food in addition to the southwestern part of the country.
This transaction is not just drooling over Zhu Biao, Liu Chengzong and others.
When the Jurchen East Route Army returned to the north, they almost started fighting with Liangshan again. She even secretly hinted that otherwise these people would all come to Jin to take refuge - this woman actually wanted to use all kinds of sugar-coated bullets to recruit these people.
Support the Chinese army.
After taking a breath, Lou Shuwan wanted to expand to the northwest and reorganize the Hengshan defense line. This may be a casual move, but also a provocation or test of the southwest. If Zhu Biao, Liu Chengzong and others really come, she will be even more
You can take advantage of the cooperation to recruit people nearby - but for Ning Yi, from this letter, he felt something else that needed to be taken more seriously.
--Mongolia.
Lou Shuwan despised them. Although she saw the key to the northwest due to her political acumen, she was not afraid of the prairie people. Even if the prairie people came to compete with her for Hengshan,
She subconsciously believed that there was nothing to worry about if the three parties joined forces.
So what are the grassland people doing? If Lou Shuwan has vaguely felt this...
Ning Yi folded the letter and placed the two letters on the table.
What a wonderful feeling.
The most important information of the day actually came from letters from two women.
It's not even easy to tell which letter contains more important information.
He watched quietly and thought for a while. It wasn't until He Zhicheng came in from outside and asked him to come over to eat fish that he put away the letter and got up to go out.
The new year is approaching.
Lou Shuwan said.
He needs to make a decision early.
This chapter was originally intended to be called "Letters from Two Women"