Number of romantic figures

Chapter 1560
Feng Ziying has a premonition that food supply may be the key to the future.

Once something unpredictable happens, given that the current foundation or supporters of the imperial court are still dominated by the northern gentry, the Jiangnan forces that control Jiangnan and can even contain Huguang will definitely resort to the fatal move of cutting off water transportation.

In the case of insufficient grain in the north and severe drought, without the support of grain transport from the south, including Huguang, the north is bound to be in chaos, which may even affect the life and death of the court.

Once the water transportation in Gyeonggi, including the capital city, is cut off and food is in short supply, the impact it will bring is unimaginable. It is even possible that many people and forces who originally supported the imperial court may fall to the south of the Yangtze River. We must prevent this from happening. , It is very important to have a backup, or to establish a grain transportation channel other than water transportation.

Of course, Feng Ziying is also very clear that in the short term, whether it is a Shanxi businessman or a temporary speculator like Xue Biao, it is unimaginable to transport grain by sea to a volume similar to that of water transport. Make that kind of preparation, from the grain production area to the transportation capacity to the wharf storage, it is far from being as complete as the water transportation line.

So Feng Ziying can only say to speed up its construction process as much as possible, and make up for possible risk gaps as much as possible.

In the event of a crisis, this channel can at least prevent the imperial court from being helpless, and the Northland has no food to eat, or at least ensure that the Feng family's basic plate has sufficient food available.

In fact, the imperial court is not unprepared in this regard. For example, Jingtong Ercang has already started to purchase grain through various channels to fill the gap caused by the original deficit, but everyone knows that this situation cannot be achieved overnight. Otherwise, grain prices in Jiangnan and Huguang may rise to sky-high prices. Even so, grain prices in the south have been rising steadily, and will not be affected by the arrival of autumn grain in the slightest.

Perhaps I still need to remind Master Qi and Master Qiao that at least I must fulfill my responsibilities.

When Baoqin served Feng Ziying to bed, she could still feel her husband’s absent-mindedness, and she couldn’t help feeling a little resentful in her heart. It was rumored in central Beijing that she would marry Xiao Feng Xiuzhuan, but it would be a bit too detrimental if she was still thinking about official business even when she was going to bed. , I deliberately changed into a light clothes, but Mr. Lang seemed to turn a blind eye.

Feng Ziying didn't react until Baoqin pursed her mouth and approached, looked at the complaint in the other's pretty eyes, and then looked at the scarlet bellyband, which was small and exquisite, with silk like silk, covering the two clavicles and the slightly protruding breasts. Most of it is exposed, the lower abdomen is as white as jade, and the jade navel is like a vortex, and the lower part is even more confusing,...

I don't know the style, Feng Ziying realized that she had neglected the beautiful woman's thoughts, so she could only make up for it with actions.

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Suzhou in August is already a little bit cooler, and more than a dozen horses rode wildly across the Gobi sand.

The three gazelles dashed left and right, unable to break through the iron cavalry that had formed an arc-shaped encirclement, and slid sideways in panic, hoping to use such an emergency stop to escape the hunter's pursuit.

"Boom boom boom", at the sound of the bowstring, two of the gazelles fell down in response, struggling painfully on the sand.

Among the weeds, an unlucky Gobi bear seemed to have sensed that the crisis was approaching him, and hurriedly started to run wildly, but how could he escape if he was caught in the sight of these knights, an iron gun flew out , went straight through the Gobi bear's neck, and firmly nailed it to the ground.

There was also a Gazelle that escaped by chance, galloping in a beautiful arc, passing through the two riders without any time, thinking that he could escape, but soon a sharp pain in his neck was accompanied by a leather rope strangled tightly around his neck. For a while, it seemed that he didn't even have time to let out a roar, and was dragged a few feet away, bringing up a wave of yellow dust on the ground.

"Wenxiu, great workmanship!" A hearty voice came from the group of knights, and the first knight took the reins lightly to slow down the snorting horse, "Your skills have not been let go. .”

The knight with a yellow beard glanced at the knight who was following him, then at the other two knights behind him, and said with a strange expression: "Bai Chuan, are you really not afraid of us attacking from behind?"

The knight in front was close to forty, and his brows seemed to be a little lonely. He laughed at the words of the yellow-bearded knight, and his lonely look disappeared without a trace. He glanced at the other two who were about ten steps behind him. A knight, then said: "Wenxiu, do you think Dong Yang is so ignorant of current affairs? Or is Old Xu lost his mind?"

The yellow-bearded knight snorted, "Aren't you afraid of our revenge for what you did four years ago?"

"Hehe, revenge? Why revenge me?" A sneer flashed across the corner of the middle-aged knight's mouth, "Dong Yang didn't dare to say such a thing, even if he wanted to eat me alive at the time, but now he dares to say that I did something wrong?"

The yellow-bearded knight was momentarily at a loss for words.

To be honest, after that rebellion, several of them have replayed that battle many times, but no matter how they deduce it, the result is not optimistic, or even extremely bad.

"Hmph, Bai Chuan, you are confident." The yellow-bearded knight could only find a step down by himself, "Dong Yang and Lao Xu may not think so."

"Wenxiu, do you think so? Everyone understands in their hearts. If it is true that the Yangguan Road can be walked, who would want to go to the single-plank bridge?" The middle-aged knight didn't care, "I said the same in front of Dong Yang and Lao Xu. From the beginning We went wrong, worship is unreliable, Mongols are even more untrustworthy, and the land of Ganning is difficult to support itself, without relying on the Central Plains, it will eventually lead to a dead end."

A flash of anger flashed across the face of the yellow-bearded knight, "Then how did the Guiyi army survive in the Tang Dynasty? How did the Song Dynasty and Xixia establish a country?"

The middle-aged knight laughed loudly, "Wenxiu, why are you so naive? Times have changed, can this be the same? How many people were in the Guiyi Army in Tang Dynasty? It was extremely difficult to raise even 1 people. As for the Xixia Li family, it can be the same What? The confrontation between the Liao and Song Dynasties gave them a chance. Now that the Great Zhou Dynasty is unified, how can such a situation be tolerated, not to mention that the people's will is not there at all, and it is foolish to try to separate the regime."

The two people who followed behind obviously heard the conversation between the two sides. The expression of that person remained unchanged at the moment, but the slightly older and more capable general behind him looked displeased: "Bai Chuan, according to what you say, there is no chance at all?"

"That's true. I had some extravagant hopes before that battle four years ago, but reality has taught me a lesson. I don't have any unrealistic hopes anymore. Old Xu, if you don't believe me, ask Dong Yang. Should have a deeper experience, right?"

The middle-aged knight, that is, "Bai Chuan" in the mouth of several people, is also the current deputy commander of the Gansu Town Association Liu Baichuan who looked at the knight riding from behind without paying attention. Liu Dongyang, the chief culprit who was forced to go out to retake Hami and Shazhou to make atonement.

In that battle, Liu Baichuan took the lead in surrendering, leaving Liu Dongyang, Tu Wenxiu, and Xu Chao in a desperate situation. In the end, they were forced to attack Shazhou and Hami with a desperate fight as a condition for recruiting security.

Among the four, Liu Dongyang and Liu Baichuan are about the same age, Xu Chao is the oldest, and Tu Wenxiu, the man with the yellow beard, is the youngest.
At the beginning, the four of them had the closest relationship, and they respected Liu Dongyang, but because of the collusion with the Xiaobai family, a conflict finally appeared. In the end, Liu Baichuan's first surrender dealt a fatal blow to this group, forcing Liu Dongyang and the others In the end, it "fell short".

Liu Dongyang is the dark-faced man next to Xu Chao. He has traveled between Hami and Shazhou for several years, which made his skin darker, but his eyes are like eagles, and his momentum is still brave, but his words seem to have become less.

Seeing Liu Baichuan throw the words to himself, Liu Dongyang shook his head, not knowing what this shaking of the head meant.

Both Xu Chao and the yellow-bearded man Tu Wenxiu set their eyes on Liu Dongyang, and Liu Baichuan's mouth was even more determined, as if he had no doubts about his judgment on Liu Dongyang.

After Liu Dongyang was silent for a while, he seemed to feel that Tu Wenxiu and Xu Chao would not give up until he got his answer, so he let out a sigh of relief, nodded lightly and said: "Bai Chuan is right, we were too confident and too confident before." Optimistic, the Mughals are not as disorganized and chaotic as we imagined, and the Mongolian forces in the West Sea are not weak, and more importantly, if we want to survive in this land, we must have enough brothers. Due to the situation, we cannot support so many brothers here.”

After Liu Dongyang finished speaking, he turned his attention to Liu Baichuan: "Baichuan, do you want to draw this conclusion?"

Liu Baichuan didn't evade, and nodded: "Yes, I also think so. The second town of Ganning, not to mention raising more than [-] troops, will reduce it by half. If there is no support from the imperial court, it will be impossible to rely on the land under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi Province for supplies. In the end, we can only watch the brothers who follow us gradually lose and disperse.”

"Then what do you mean we can only live here and be a guerrilla general for the rest of our lives?" Tu Wenxiu said indignantly, "With Dong Yang's ability, isn't it even qualified to be a general officer?"

After recruiting security, even if Liu Dongyang captured Shazhou and Hami, he had made great contributions to the court's restoration of the country, but the rebellion came first, and the court only gave the post of deputy commander in chief of the Gansu town, and also asked Liu Baichuan to serve as the deputy commander of the guard. Stationed in Suzhou as a soldier, he placed Liu Dongyang, Tu Wenxiu, and Xu Chao outside Jiayuguan, and he did not shy away from distrust.

Liu Baichuan sighed. In fact, the imperial court also didn't trust him very much as the deputy commander who used to guard against Liu Dongyang and others outside Jiayuguan, otherwise they wouldn't have stationed troops in Hongshan Fort.

Feng Tang had won him the position of deputy chief of defense, otherwise, he would have died as a deputy chief of defense.

(End of this chapter)