Tang's dining table

Yun Chu has arrived at the top of the Qinling Mountains.

The mountains here are high, so the sky seems very low.

Even the birds flew lower than on the plains. Watching a group of wild geese flying south against the top of the mountain, Yun Chu was shocked to realize that it was already autumn.

The forests in the north of the Qinling Mountains are full of colors, full of autumn scenes.

The south of Qinling Mountains is still lush and green.

A mountain range completely divided the land into the north and south.

After crossing the Qinling Mountains, this is the south.

The south is very good, but it rains a lot. Fortunately, the rain is not heavy and does not affect the advance of the army.

Seeing the army winding through the Qinling Mountains like a giant snake, Marching Commander Shi Li Yuance wiped the rain from his face and said: "Commander, are we walking an extra 400 miles just to show the commander the scenery of the Qinling Mountains? "

Yun Chu opened his rainproof hood, looked at Li Yuance and said, "Have you endured it for so many days? Are you finally done?"

Li Yuance's eyes were slightly red, and he pointed at the troops marching arduously below and said, "Why are the three armies suffering such insignificant hardships?"

Yun Chu sneered and said, "You don't need to understand, just execute."

Li Yuance said in a trembling voice: "The commander-in-chief looks down on me?"

Yun Chu said: "If your father, Prince Zhao, were in your current position, he would definitely understand. You still don't understand, which only means that you are not as good as your father."

Li Yuance said angrily: "I want to come to you."

Yun Chu stopped, looked at Li Yuance and said: "One!"

After that, he left the mountain surrounded by guards and joined the advancing army.

Just when Li Yuance was still thinking about what Yunchu meant by one, Lieutenant General Zhang Donghai came over and said to Li Yuance: "Let's go quickly. Don't question the commander again next time. This is not what you should do."

Li Yuance said: "If you do something wrong, can't you intervene?"

Zhang Donghai said: "In the army, you only need one head to think about things, and the rest are just limbs and bones."

Li Yuance said: "You can't ask if you are wrong?"

Zhang Donghai stopped and looked at Dongfang and said faintly: "That's wrong, we will die together. When the king is leading the army, he hates others chirping the most.

In fact, many generals are also very annoying when they are leading armies. Their subordinates are chirping. Generally, those who like chirping the most are often the first to die in the army. "

"General Zhang, what did the commander-in-chief just say to me mean?"

Zhang Donghai shook his head and said: "I don't know, but the last time the commander-in-chief said something, he killed more than 3,000 people from a large clan in the Ximo Brown tribe, and no one was left."

Looking at Zhang Donghai's back walking down the mountain, Li Yuance couldn't help but shudder.

The original thought of reuniting the prestige of Zhaojun Palace in this southwest battle turned out to be indifferent.

After hearing the news of the defeat of the Three Southwest Army, Li Yuance was one of the few generals who asked to lead troops in revenge. It was not that he had not thought about the possibility of him serving as the general manager.

Unfortunately, the emperor finally chose Yunchu, and at his repeated request, he served as the army's marching commander Shi.

Unable to compete with Yunchu, Li Yuance didn't feel much humiliation, just regret.

In his opinion, the war in the southwest is still going on. The soldiers at the front of the Tang Dynasty are struggling to support themselves and are looking forward to the arrival of reinforcements every day. However, Yun Chu would rather waste his precious time on the long march for no reason. On the other hand, they are not willing to move troops quickly.

After catching up with Yun Chu, Zhang Donghai said softly: "I've warned him."

Yun Chu said: "Why is King Fuling waiting for us in Xixiang? How can he, a vassal king, have the authority to leave Fuling?"

Zhang Donghai said: "The excuse is labor!"

Yunchu asked again: "Does your Majesty have a good attitude towards the vassal king?"

Zhang Donghai said: "Under the circumstances of two ups and downs, perhaps the King of Shu is still confused and thinks that His Majesty is a timid King of Jin who is afraid of getting into trouble."

Yun Chu asked in confusion: "Why does he think so? His compatriot Wu Wangke was beheaded. Where did he get this confidence?"

Zhang Donghai said with a smile: "That's unknown. Maybe he thinks that he is the sixth son of the emperor, and His Majesty is the ninth son of the emperor. Everyone in front of him is finished, so he thinks that he should be the emperor."

Yun Chu glanced at Zhang Donghai and said, "It's very instigating."

Zhang Donghai said with an apologetic smile: "Changsun Wuji has been executed, and Wu Wangke's case has been cleared up. Your Majesty can't touch this person again at this time. Besides, this guy likes to hunt, beat officials, and ruin the people." , and there is no crime worthy of being beheaded.

However, the general thought it was good for the commander to use him to establish authority in Shu. "

Yunchu sighed and said, "What did your Majesty say?"

Zhang Donghai said: "His Majesty has repeatedly ordered him to be quiet."

Yun Chu nodded, took off his hood and continued walking in the rain.

After crossing the Qinling Mountains, if you don't change to the west, you will continue to Fuling, which is also Yuzhou. However, the importance of Yuzhou at this time is far less than that of Fengjie Governor's Mansion and Fuling County.

Today, the weather in Yuzhou is warm and lychees are abundant. The road from Xixiang to Fuling is now unknown. In eighty or ninety years, this road will be called Lychee Road, the road dedicated to delivering lychees to Yang Yuhuan.

That's right, the lychees Yang Yuhuan likes to eat are produced in Sichuan, not Lingnan.

Yun Chu had already made up his mind. As long as the King of Fuling didn't come to trouble him, he would naturally not run hundreds of miles to Fuling to trouble him.

Although the army took the Ziwu Road, the caravans that Sounchu and the others set out for three days did take the Baoxie Road. Calculating according to time, the Chang'an caravan should have arrived in Hanzhong by now.

To be precise, Yunchu's entry into the southwest this time was an experimental and large-scale ethnic integration. The real deciding factor in making the barbarians in the southwest surrender was the belly, not the head.

Barbarians don't have very bright minds, that's for sure, but their hungry bellies can make many decisions for their brains. What Yun Chu really conquered in the southwest this time was their bellies, not their heads.

Therefore, countless goods are the real magic weapons.

After crossing the Qinling Mountains, it was all downhill. This was good news for the tired army, so the marching speed gradually accelerated.

The former army had already seen sparse residential buildings, but when the army came over, no one could be seen in the residential buildings. However, some thieves could be seen on the mountains in the distance.

The houses were all simple bamboo buildings, and the pigs under the bamboo buildings were nowhere to be seen. The scouts searched many villages and finally found a few old guys who were only breathing their last breath. When asked, they said they didn't know anything.

The scouts from Chang'an were afraid that the old fellows would be frightened to death, so they left the dry food in their arms with the old fellows in case they couldn't explain clearly.

"Obviously he has no teeth, but he gnawed the pot and helmet like a wolf."

Because there was no weight to carry, Li Chengxiu went to act as a scout for a while, and said with emotion when he came back.

Yun Jin frowned and said, "Are they poor?"

Li Chengxiu said: "Remove that word? They are just very poor. When I went to fight in the southwest, I thought the poorest people were the barbarians. I didn't expect that this place is separated from Chang'an by the Qinling Mountains. They are so damn poor." In this case, let me tell you, there are two old men who simply don’t have pants, and have a piece of torn animal skin tied around their waists, they look more like barbarians than barbarians."

Yun Jin said: "Okay, next time I go out to scout for military duties, I will go too."

Wen Huan, who was dozing with his eyes closed, reluctantly opened his eyes and said, "That place is not suitable for people like you to see."

Yun Jin said: "It's not that we haven't seen poor people when we went to Hebei Road. I didn't go to see the excitement, but I wanted to actually see what kind of poverty people can endure and still persist in living without any consequences. meaning."

Li Si said on the side: "Should people rebel when they are poor?"

Yun Jin said: "Aye said that if a person can still be extremely poor after working hard all his life, then there must be something wrong with the world. If you don't know how to become a bandit, a bandit robs your home, or rebels, then you deserve it. Starved to death."

Li Sidao: "This doesn't sound right to me."

Wen Huan said on the side: "First withdraw your identity from Princess Anding and return to your identity as a disciple of the Yun family. This sentence will be easy to understand."

Li Sidao: "Rebellion will kill people."

Di Guangsi said: "After a large number of people die, the remaining people will have enough to eat. This is what Master said when he taught the law of dynasty cycles. You won't forget it, right?"

Li Si scratched his forehead and said, "I don't like these lessons."

Yun Jin said: "We came to Southwest to take practical classes, so it is necessary to see and experience it on the spot and see what these people think. This is very important."

Li Sidao: "I don't like it anyway. You must take the six brothers of the Cheng family with you. Let them get in when they are in danger, and let them cut off their backs when they escape. I think it will work."

The military discipline of Yunchu's army is notoriously strict, and the Chang'an soldiers have heard about it. Therefore, although the army's behavior is not as good as Qiu Wuwu's, it is still kind to the people on both sides of the road.

Although it is difficult to save the ripe oranges on the trees, at least no one has snatched the chickens held in the arms of the common people.

Yun Jin and his party were scouts, so they did not take the main road, but spread out and went into the villages on both sides of the road to see if there would be an ambush here.

Surrounded by green water, lush green pines and cypresses, and dozens of bamboo buildings scattered randomly, the village looks really beautiful.

Just after seeing those dark people, all the beauty brought by the environment disappeared in an instant.

Wen Wen looked at a dirty little kid who was almost blind and said to Yun Jin: "Hebei Road is short of water. It's understandable that people there don't take baths. People here are not short of water, and they don't seem to be short of firewood. Why don't you know why? How about cleaning yourself?"

Yun Jin said: "I think there must be a reason. We are going to find out the reason today."

Di Guangsi glanced around and said, "There is a large bamboo building there. There are tiles on the bamboo building and the lintel is painted with paint."

Li Chengxiu took a look and said, "It's just a wealthy family."

Yun Jin looked at it for a while before she said, "No, this family is different from all the families around it."

Li Chengxiu asked: "What's the difference?"

Yun Jin said: "This family is more than a hundred times richer than the other families. It is far away from the surrounding cities. It can be called a mountain nest. There are no workshops around and no mineral deposits. Therefore, I really want to Do you know how this family became so wealthy?"