sweeping the world

Chapter 85
"We want to take the initiative to go there?" Li Tan should be said to be a relatively young and handsome young man.He is the eldest son of the Li family, and he has received a relatively good education, but because of this, he is a bit arrogant: "It's just a new tribe, its prosperity is booming, and its death is sudden, so why should father pay too much attention to it. "

The sun was in full bloom, shining on the ditches of the moat, and reflected on the rammed earth wall. Two men, a middle-aged and a young man, were standing on the two-foot-long earthen wall, wearing the wide sleeves favored by Jin people.

The breeze is blowing, and there are waves in the wheat field in the distance. The wind is everywhere, and the young wheat stalks bow their heads in rows.

There are no redundant trees, just a straight stream for irrigation, but I don't know how much manpower and time the Li family spent for this set of irrigation needs.

Li Mingzhi is 44 years old. From childhood to this age, he has experienced too many things.Because of the fickleness of the situation in the Central Plains, he had been a citizen of the state of Jin, experienced the wanton slaughter of Jin people by the state of Han (former Zhao), and passed through a relatively mild period in the state of Zhao (later Zhao).

It is said that Hou Zhao treated the Jin people mildly. It was time in Shi Le. Zhang Bin was still alive at that time. Or absorb the best of the Jin people to serve the court, and at least not kill ordinary Jin people as wantonly as they are now.

"The years are different." Li Mingzhi's eyes were slightly cloudy, and only those who have experienced vicissitudes of life would have such eyes: "The gentleness of the Jie people towards the Jin people has ended with the battle of Yangzhou..."

In fact, Shi Hu proclaimed himself emperor first, and under the established rule of "there is no second day, the people have no second master", it is tantamount to directly becoming hostile to the Jin court.Later, under the persuasion of some civil servants, Shi Hu changed his name to Tianwang, but the relationship between Zhao State and Jin State under the leadership of Shi Hu did not improve at all.

"When today's king came to the throne, he never regarded Jin people like us as human beings. In this way, he became a village man from a majestic county magistrate as a father." Li Mingzhi has too many stories. The altar felt impatient to hear the story.He knew that his son was arrogant, but now he couldn't tolerate the arrogance of the Jin people: "The Han tribe is emerging, and it will be fine if it perishes in the last conquest. They survived, and the court will not He will go to war for the Han tribe. If the Han tribe sends people to Xiangguo for activities, Liu Yan will definitely become the new county governor."

It’s all a process that can be guessed. There are too many barbarians who are officials like this. They kill weak opponents, send people to Xiangguo to submit to them, and then spend a lot of money and money. Without accidents, they will definitely achieve their goals. .This is also a means for the imperial court to control the local area. It encourages the local Hu people to kill each other. The harder those people kill, the better the imperial court can rule the local area.Another method is that any family in the area needs to send people once it wants to use troops abroad.Both methods are "the method of reducing the number of men", and it is said that they are based on Zhang Bin's conspiracy.

"Not counting Buqicheng, which was killed to the ground, the Han tribe has already occupied Guixian County and Jijin County, and will not attack the rest of the counties." Li Mingzhi glanced back and forth at the various ministries in Wubao: " The Han tribe has eliminated the external threat, and their eyes must turn to the surrounding area. We are too close to the habitat chosen by the Han tribe, so we can only show our goodwill."

It is this that Li Tan is not convinced. They have a well-defended Wubao and thousands of households, and they can gather a not-weak army.In the past, they were attacked by the Hu people more than once, and they were able to rely on perfect fortifications to support them. There was never a group of Hu people who could enter Li's Wubao. There is no way but the Li family.

"Father, barbarians... are unreliable." Li Tan's young face had not yet grown a beard, and he had deep doubts: "We don't have to fight against them, why bother? Even if the Han tribe comes to attack, Are there not enough barbarians we have blocked?"

Li Mingzhi looked at his son's energetic face, and he couldn't say he didn't have feelings in his heart.

The Li family has family education and has classics that are precious compared to other families.Those were the books that Li Mingzhi privately collected by taking advantage of his position when he was the county magistrate. There are "Mencius" in the Four Books, and "Spring and Autumn" in the Five Classics. Does anyone have the full version?

What Li Mingzhi regrets the most is that the Hu people ruled the Central Plains, no... It should be said that the Hu people who ruled the Central Plains spared no expense and loved their talents. There is room for officialdom.It is a pity that the imperial court (Later Zhao) will not be a stage for Jin people to show their talents.

"Do as I say!" Li Mingzhi was still looking around Wubao: "Go, don't put that arrogance on your face."

The Wubao of the Li family is not small. There are trenches dug around the perimeter. The trenches have attracted running water and are equipped with thick rammed earth walls. The earth walls are not straight lines, but an irregular shape with edges and corners. This is the perimeter defense. fortifications.They had obviously been instructed by experts, knowing that only a city wall with edges and corners can exert the strongest defensive effect, at least the defensive side will have a better shooting range on the bow and arrow.

Counted as internal defenses, rows of rammed-earth houses are connected together, even if the outer perimeter is breached, those connected houses can serve as another layer of defense facilities.

Even if the fortifications on the first floor of the house are breached again, the attacking party still needs to face the real core of the Li family, which is a round earth building.

The earth building looks quite large. The walls of the first and second floors are as thick as ten feet. There is only one entrance and exit for the whole earth building. Round but narrow windows.

Those narrow holes on the third floor of the earth building are usually windows, and they are arrow holes when needed. It seems that there is one every three meters.

Inside the earth building, there is a large open-air well in the middle. There is no housing on the first floor, but a space for various labors. There is a cellar for storing materials underground, and a platform for drying wheat on the top floor.When wartime comes to the top platform, archers can be arranged, and wood or stones can be hoarded.

(A whole is actually an enhanced version of modern Hakka Tulou)
The Wubao of the Li family occupies a large area, and there is arable land inside, but most of the acres are actually outside the earthen walls.

It's summer now, and the seeds planted in spring have grown into wheat stalks. In autumn, the farmland outside Lijiawu Fort should be covered with wheat ears hanging down, forming a piece of golden yellow.

"In order to have a harvest in autumn..." Li Mingzhi looked back at Li Tan: "Why don't you take this trip!"

That's right, it's not good for the Li family to fight against the emerging Han tribe. What about the food outside if they can keep Wubao?
Even if it was for nothing else, Li Mingzhi had already been tempted by the fact that the Han Dynasty was selling weapons and salt, but it was too late to act.The Li family should take action this time, whether it is for actual security needs, or to be able to make friends with the Han to obtain weapons and salt.

In order to show enough sincerity, Li Mingzhi chose to send his eldest son Li Tan to the place where the Han tribe currently lives.Li Tan will not go alone, he will bring enough warriors, and he will also need to pull a few carts for the necessary gifts.

Li's Wubao is really close to Huangdao District. Li Tan started from the moment of sunrise, and when it was close to noon, he was stopped by people from the Han Dynasty.

"I'm from the Li Family Fort, and I'm here to present a gift to the head of your clan. Please inform the person in charge of your clan." Li Tan rode a tall horse, matched with his well-fitting suit, looking full of youthful heroism.

It was Dou A (é) who stopped the Li family group. He is now a senior, and he is responsible for controlling an important road.

Li Tan didn't bring many people, about twenty riders, and then four carriages, which were loaded with gifts, and about thirty warriors, some were on foot, and some were sitting on the carriages.

Dou'a glanced at Li Tan.To be honest, he didn't like the arrogance on Li Tan's face, that expression reminded him of some bad memories, and his attitude seemed rather rude.

"Check it out." Dou'a waved his hand, raised his head slightly in disgust, and shouted to Li Tan: "Everyone get off their horses!"

Chen Qun implemented the Nine Grades Zhongzheng System, so that people are divided into three, six, and nine grades at birth. It is too difficult for people to change their destiny.What kind of tragedy is it that a person's destiny is fixed at birth?I didn't quite understand it before, but Dou'a understands it a little bit now, so naturally he doesn't like the aristocratic son who always looks arrogant.

An angry look flashed across Li Tan's face, thinking about Li Mingzhi's instructions, he snorted coldly and got off the horse, but seeing Dou'a's expression was very unkind.

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