There was no need to wait for the thunder to wake up, as the beetles in the southwestern forests began to emerge from the dead branches and leaves, and from the cracks in the rocks. The main reason was that this year's spring came earlier than in previous years.
Li Si wore a curtain on his head, gloves on his hands, and long boots on his feet. He held an iron clip and grabbed a centipede nearly a foot long from a shallow crack in the stone.
The centipede's body is wrapped around the iron clip, its two shiny black mouthparts bite on the iron clip, and its countless hairy legs are rolled up, twisting the body into a pompom.
Li Si shook the centipede off the iron clip into a leather bag with air holes, then raised her sleeves and wiped her face. She didn't want to move forward anymore, because wherever there are such large centipedes with red legs, Nearly 80% of them contain the carcasses of large animals. Of course, these large animals also include humans.
She didn't like to see rotting corpses, but the Uman women who were invited by her to catch centipedes, spiders, snakes and other poisonous things didn't have so many taboos. One big centipede weighed one pound of grain.
Today, Li Si caught a lot of big centipedes. So, after returning to the camp, she put some of the centipedes in the head with a clamp and put them in warm water to spit out the venom, then peeled them and fried them for Aye's dinner.
The other part looked at the highly poisonous centipede, so they nailed the head with a bamboo stick to kill it, washed it, dried it in the sun, and used the best medicinal materials. Sun Shenxian said that there are many people with paralysis in Chang'an City, and this thing is just right for the disease. .
When he returned to the camp, Li Si found many strangers outside the commander's tent. When he walked into the commander's tent and saw Lou Shide, he immediately said angrily: "Where is the thing I want?"
After Lou Shide stood up and greeted Princess An Ding, he said with a smile: "Your Highness the Crown Prince does not allow it."
Yun Chu took a look at Li Si who was still talking, and Li Si muttered something in a low voice that others could not understand, and left the handsome tent obediently.
Lou Shide smiled at Yunchu and said: "He must be a prince."
Yun Chu said: [The children are obedient.]
Lou Shide said: "Your Majesty and the Crown Prince praised you for advancing one thousand two hundred miles without losing any blood."
Yun Chu said indifferently: [There are many people who call me a prodigal.]
Lou Shide said: "When it is a good time to open up new territories, why should a prince deal with fools?"
Yun Chu said: [Stop flattering us. Now that we are here, we must keep up with the government governance along the way. Taking advantage of the increasing favor of the Tang Dynasty in the southwest, it is best to arrange for officials to settle in as early as possible. There are still three years. Within the government, the responsibilities of the government should be mainly to appease, help, and serve. We should attract more people who want to make contributions, and don’t bring in people who are greedy for money.]
[If those who are greedy for money and harm the people come here, I will kill them all when I see them. When the time comes, don’t say that I will punish them without teaching them.]
Lou Shide frowned and said: "Why are there only women and children but no young men?"
Yun Chu said: "All the young men have gone to rebel, only women and children. The government has worked hard for five or six years. When the children grow up, there will be young men." 】
Lou Shide's back was covered in cold sweat by Yun Chu's plain words. Why couldn't he understand the meaning of Yun Chu's words - he didn't want a man at all.
[If there are no men, how can they survive in this remote mountainous area? 】
[This commander-in-chief did not bring any civilian husband with him on this expedition? 】
[Ah? The commander-in-chief is going to let the civilian husbands protect these women and children here, or does he want the civilian husbands to live here? 】
Yun Chu drank some water and said: [Civil men go out with the army for two years. I don't need them to go to the battlefield. I only need them to protect the women and children of the southwest for two years. After two years, those who are willing to go home will go home, and those who are not willing to go home will go home. It’s not impossible to settle here.】
Lou Shide looked into Yun Chu's eyes and said slowly: [From a rule perspective, what the Marshal said is feasible, but from an etiquette perspective, it's not considered. 】
Yun Chu didn't even look at Lou Shide and said to himself: "Those who care about their families can just go home after two years. Those who don't want to go home can be exempted from taxes for two years by being a civilian husband for two years. It can be regarded as a repayment to the family, and it makes sense to stay and live in the southwest.】
Lou Shide coughed and said: [It seems that the civilian husbands that the Marshal wants are those who are poor and have no wives? 】
Yun Chu raised his head and showed his face with a beast and said with a smile:
【The poorer the better.】
Lou Shide smiled and shook his head and said: [In that case, I wonder if you would be willing to support me with some wine pot officers? 】
Yun Chu frowned and said: [Jiu Gu Guan? What do you mean?]
Lou Shide smiled and said: [I wear a wine pot, but my heart is for the people. In the pot, the sun and moon are growing, and the people are living their lives.]
Yunchu looked at Lou Shide and said: [What do you mean?]
Lou Shide said: "Among the officials of the Tang Dynasty, a group of officials wearing silver pots appeared at some time. These people are all officials, and they are herdsmen, behave in an eclectic way, and are suspected of being dissolute. , However, these people have an excellent reputation among the people. A certain family once personally examined six people and found that these six people all had the same resume - they were born in Chang'an.】
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[Who you want to use, you should ask your Majesty. They are all His Majesty's officials. Who you want to use, you should ask the officials, not me. 】 Lou Shide smiled and said: "I feel that the Southwest is a newcomer to the Tang Dynasty. Each of these wine pot officials has their own abilities. This place is completely blank, which is just the right time for them to show their ambitions. 】
Yun Chu was silent for a moment and said: [Is it your Majesty’s idea, the prince’s idea, or the queen’s opinion? 】
Lou Shide said: [It was the lower official’s suggestion.]
Yunchu said softly: [Do you want to die? 】
Lou Shide put his face close to Yun Chu and said softly: "Commander, do you think I am afraid of death?"
Yun Chu looked at Lou Shide's firm eyes and said: "You shouldn't gather many officials in one place to use them. It's too wasteful. Besides, can you control these people?"
Lou Shide said firmly: "I'm an acceptable officer. 】
Yun Chu glanced at Lou Shide and said: [Too arrogant.]
Lou Shide said: [So, Marshal, is this accurate? 】
Yun Chu said: [They are officials of the Tang Dynasty. As long as the court needs it, there is no need to ask me. Also, have you gone to any lengths to compete with Zhang Shuzhi? 】
Lou Shide smiled and said: [Even if the handsome man spits on my face, I will remain motionless.]
Yun Chuchang took a breath and said: [I believe you have the ability to do what you want.]
After seeing off Lou Shide, Li Si came in, leaned close to Yun Chu and said: [Ah, why is that Lou Shide so sneaky?] Yun Chu said: [Because your elder brother has started to train his subordinates.]
[Training? Isn’t he always training? 】
Yun Chu smiled and said: [This time I have begun to train subordinates at the level of Lou Shide and Zhang Shuzhi. It seems that your prince brother's power is steadily increasing in Shuzhong. Otherwise, he would not have obtained the management rights in Shuzhong. At the same time, I also have extravagant hopes for the southwest.]
Li Si sighed and said: [Ignore him, he has been unwilling to listen to people's good words since he was a child, as if he knows everything, and he has become more and more hateful in the past few years. ]
[Have Aye, Ajin and the others captured Stone City? 】
[No, I heard that it is to gather more people there. I am not planning to take Shicheng immediately. I also want to see if there is an opportunity to surround the point and provide reinforcements. 】
[Ah, haven’t you defeated him yet? Didn’t Aye give him a hundred heavy cavalry? 】
Yun Chu said amusingly: [Since when are heavy cavalry used to attack cities?]
Li Sixian said: [It's good, when you can't defeat the opponent, the heavy cavalry can still give him a way to survive. ]
Yunchu looked at Li Si, a military fool, and felt speechless.
The sparse spring rain has enveloped the forests in the southwest, and this little rain is not enough to extinguish the flames of war in Shicheng.
Today, the siege war has begun
The tunnel dug by the Wuman people has reached under the stone city wall. Cuansheng heard the clanking sound of rock drilling everywhere from the large vat buried in the ground. As long as these rat-like Wuman people dug down the city wall, the stone city It broke.
Therefore, he had to
The fierce battle in the rain lasted from morning to evening, and Yun Jin also watched under the big banyan tree for the whole day.
This time the Wuman people were very organized in their battle. The Wuman people led by Shi Bao even formed a one-sided crushing force in some locations.
Therefore, Yun Jin could easily conclude that Cuan's soldiers were not as good at fighting as the Wuman people under command.
When it was getting dark, Cuan Sheng failed to achieve his goal of clearing the alleyways under the city during the battle out of the city, and reluctantly withdrew from the battlefield after leaving behind more than two thousand corpses.
[The moment the city is broken, it should be the time for Piluo Pavilion to launch a surprise attack, right?] Li Chengxiu held up an umbrella. He was unwilling to stand under a big tree on a rainy day to avoid being struck by lightning.
Yun Jin didn't seem to care. This big banyan tree was so tall that it could be used as an umbrella.
[That idiot thought that he was hiding well, that Shicheng was about to be destroyed, Cuansheng was about to be destroyed, and that he, the reinforcements invited by the Cuan family, wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the fight. How stupid is this? 】
Di Guangsi was also far away from the big banyan tree. There was just such a big banyan tree on the top of the mountain. Thunder and lightning came.
Seeing that Di Guangsi would rather stand in the rain than take shelter under a big tree, Ziqi Aguo asked: "Why don't you come in?"
Wen Huan, who was also standing in the rain, said: [Afraid of being struck by lightning.]
Zi Qi Aguo said: [This banyan tree has been growing for almost five or six hundred years. Look, it looks like it has been struck by lightning. Besides, the Waking of Insects has not yet arrived, and it rarely does.]
Di Guangsi said: [Standing in the rainy field, you will most likely get wet. Standing under a tree, you will easily be struck by lightning. The former can be resisted, but the latter cannot be resisted.]
Yun Jin didn't have time to listen to their nonsense, so he said to Li Chengxiu: "It seems Cuansheng can't fight anymore. He should send an envoy to negotiate with us. If the envoy comes, you go and try it and ask him for 500,000 kilograms of grain." .]
Zi Qi Aguo said: [How could he give you food?]
Di Guangsi smiled and said to Ziqi Aguo: [He needs time to wait for the arrival of reinforcements. Five hundred thousand kilograms of grain, in exchange for us not attacking the city for two days, should be a very cost-effective thing for Cuansheng.]
Zi Qi Aguo said: [You are about to win, why do you want to stop attacking the city?]
Di Guangsi showed his big white teeth and smiled: "Because we are the stupidest Wubarians."
