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Chapter 259 Xingchang Five Years
Because the Mongolian army was repelled and the county government was able to provide food for the people, Qingfu County is still celebrating this New Year's Eve.

But all the fireworks and firecrackers were taken away by Li Xia, and each household could only buy one string of firecrackers. The city was still a little less lively, and the people who were unwilling to be deserted during the New Year's Day had to beat gongs and drums all night long.

Some teenagers were quite dissatisfied with this, and lit their only firecrackers and threw them into the county government office at night, and threw stones to show their anger.

The yamen servants on duty chased them out, only to see a group of rogue youths scattered like birds and beasts, still swearing non-stop.

"Fucking county magistrate, take our firecrackers and curse you for a bad year!"

"Run away, blow up these dog officials..."

When this kind of thing gets bigger, it is like someone mentioning "the eaves and horses are jingling, the country is about to perish" on the palace gate, which is contempt for the court.

Fang Yankai was very angry. He was working in the public house at the time, and the firecrackers fell outside his window. He was so frightened that he thought it was another assassin, and ordered to investigate to the end.

Li Xia didn't bother to investigate, and was even a little happy to see that people at that time had such a fierce and rebellious spirit.Although this resistance is to express displeasure to him, he doesn't care.

"Feiyu is really not angry? A group of ignorant children, who don't know the severity! It's useless to defend the city for them!"

Li Xia waved his hand, and said in Jiang Chun's tone, "It's Chinese New Year, it doesn't matter, young people are energetic, they're just playing around."

"What a fart!"

Fang Yankai was so angry that he rarely cursed.

Desperately fighting the Mongolian army, but being treated like this made it hard for him to feel relieved.

This kind of emotion surged up, and for a moment he almost felt that being an upright official was very meaningless, and it would be better to be a treacherous official who only planned for the future...

Of course, this is just a momentary thought.He has been an official for eleven years, and he has suffered a lot of grievances. He may have thought about it many times, but in the end he still sticks to the character of an upright official.It's not that the firecrackers of some urchins broke the defense.

But qi is also true qi.

Li Xia was really not angry at all.

He has encountered more slanders.Desperately won the gold medal, some people called him a dog who practiced Western swords; some people called him a coward because he was injured and did not participate in the competition...

At the beginning, he didn't understand, there are always many events in the competition that are not Chinese martial arts, and he hopes to win glory for the country in these events, so how can he become a foreign dog?
This kind of abuse has been with him almost all his life, and it has cultivated his firm mind and alienated attitude towards others.

In comparison, today's few words "dog officials" and "treacherous party" are too mild.

"Okay, don't be angry, landlord, go to the back office to have a few drinks with the county magistrate."

Fang Yankai saw Li Xia's calm and clear appearance, smiled wryly, and said, "Speaking of which, those urchins are probably about the same age as Feiyu, but their temperaments are very different."

"It's just a lot of experience." Li Xia said: "Let's go, I'll go to the camp..."

~~
On New Year's Eve, Liu Jinsuo didn't know which muscle was wrong, and wanted to drink with Bao San.

So these two guys from Zhejiang were knocked down by Bao San, a guy from Sichuan, and got very drunk.

But Liu Jinsuo never forgot to say that even if he was drunk.

"Hahaha... Lin'an City is really lively during Chinese New Year!"

Li Xia could think of the situation of Lin'an City at this time, it has a strong flavor of the year that is not seen in later generations.

……

No matter how strong the flavor of the year is, it will eventually pass.

Many people regret the end of the New Year's Day, but Li Xia can finally continue what he has to do. He will not wait until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. In his eyes, war is the main theme of this era.

And the time has come to the fifth year of Song Xingchang...

~~
The fifth year of Xingchang in the Song Dynasty, the fifth day of the first lunar month.

In Chongqing Prefecture, Pu Zezhi, the envoy of the Sichuan appeasement system, has begun to outline a strategy for Sichuan and Sichuan to fight against Mongolia in the new year.

"In the fourth year of Xingchang, the Mongolian and Tatars attacked the south of Sichuan from Yunnan, and carried out a strategy of mediation. Since then, the Sichuan gate has been opened wide, and the north and south have joined together. The upper and lower sentries have been attacked by the enemy from the front and back, and the throat has been blocked."

When Pu Zezhi reached this point, he swept away all the people in the hall, and conveyed the military affairs one by one.

Finally, he looked at Yi Shiying and said, "Shi Fu, where is there a Fangshan in southern Shu that is similar to Diaoyu City and Yunding City?"

"Pu Shuai, I searched for days and found a Lingxiao Mountain in Meitong Town, which is located to the south of Bowang Mountain. Lingxiao Mountain has a wall of ten thousand ren, and the top of the mountain is a flat river. It can be cultivated and a city can be built.

It is surrounded by cliffs and there are only two mountain roads.One is 'Broken Neck Rock', a suspension bridge is built on the cliff between it and Xianfeng Mountain;Easy to defend but difficult to attack. "

After hearing this, Pu Zezhi thought for a while, and said, "I tell the Son of Heaven, you are ready to build a city. Within half a year, there needs to be a solid mountain city in the south of Sichuan, which will be a place for troops to store food and go out to attack and defend."

"Yes." Yi Shiying bowed his hands to accept the order, and said, "This city is called 'Lingxiao City'?"

"I hope that you and Lingxiao City can both be the pillars of Shunan."

……

After deciding on the deployment of southern Shu, Pu Zezhi's eyes fell on the west of Shu on the map.

He thought for a long time, and only looked up from the map when Zhang Shi came to visit him.

Pu Zezhi didn't say much about Zhang Shi's Mahujiang defeat, and pointed to Jianmen Pass on the map.

"What you said is true, keep every year and win every year, but when Sichuan and Shu finally dry up, I can't afford to lose..."

Zhang Shi looked along Pu Zezhi's finger, was slightly taken aback, and guessed Pu Zezhi's intention.

He raised his head again, his dissatisfaction with the Shu Shuai had completely receded between these words.

"What does Shuai Pu mean?"

"Let's recover Jianmen Pass first, and form a momentum of closing the door and beating dogs to the Mongolian army in the west of Sichuan." Pu Zezhi said, moving his finger from Jianmen Pass to Chengdu, and said: "Afterwards, we will recover Chengdu... "

As soon as the word "recovery" came to his ears, Zhang Shi felt inexplicably excited. He finally began to agree with Shi Jun's evaluation that "after the twilight, Sichuan and Shu have regained their fame".

But on the other hand, Zhang Shi had some inexplicable emotions in his heart. He couldn't explain clearly, but he vaguely realized that the situation Pu Zezhi was facing was much more serious than Yu Jie...

At that time, Yu Jie planned for many years, intending to regain Hanzhong. Although he failed in the end, he retreated and brought back a large number of Hanzhong soldiers who had surrendered.

Pian Yu Jie was killed unjustly, Yu Hui was defeated repeatedly in repeated battles, western Sichuan was lost, Chengdu was lost, and Dali Kingdom was destroyed.Now that Pu Zezhi came again, the only thing he wanted was to recover Chengdu.

As for Hanzhong, it seems to have become an unreachable place.

The missed opportunity has already been missed, and the situation is getting worse every year.

Pu Zezhi is a famous commander, but no matter how famous he is, in this situation, can he turn the tide more than Yu Jie?
……

The Great Song Dynasty is not a famous general, there are so many famous generals in the Great Song Dynasty, they are as bright as stars.But it seems to be covered up under one mistake after another.

~~
If what Pu Zezhi wanted to do during his five years in Xingchang was to "consolidate southern Shu and recover Chengdu", what Li Xia wanted to do was only to "make money to train troops and develop strength".

Li Xia started conscription on the fifth day of the first lunar month.

He intends to temporarily expand the army to 1000 people.

In ordinary county towns, there are few such large-scale, and few such elites.Although Li Xia has a strong backing, he also made some arrangements to deceive people's eyes.

He only said to the outside world that he had already reported to the imperial court, imitating Xin Qiji, and asked to create a new army, waiting for the imperial court's approval.But the current situation is critical, so we first raise money and food, and train a group of "slightly elite" village braves.

That being said, only Li Xia knows where this memorial has gone...

He intended to divide the 1000 men into eight centuries of infantry and two centuries of cavalry.

Among the eight hundred generals of the infantry, apart from Liu Jinsuo, Bao San, Luhu, and Xiong Shan, the other four are all new recruits, namely Wu Ang, Yu Tian, ​​Xu Kui, and Mao Yi'er.

Wu Angben was the leader of the archer team in the county, well-connected, wise and brave;
Yu Tian is an old soldier who was captured by the Mongolian army. He was the first to fight back against the Mongolian army. He was afraid of being punished by the court, so he joined Li Xia;

Xu Kui and Mao Yi'er are two of the more outstanding generals.

The hundred generals of the two cavalry centurions are Yu Bing and Song He.Both of them had been brought by Li Xia's side for a while, and they were quite capable.

Song He was originally just a general, and was transferred by Jiang Fan for a while, but after thinking about it, Li Xia transferred him back to the Qingfu Army and was promoted to a hundred generals.

Because of this, Jiang Fan was a little uneasy. He saw his comrades in the past being called "Hundred Generals" by the soldiers, wearing beautiful and mighty armor, and somewhat regretted his decision to leave the barracks before.

Li Xia could see his uneasiness, but he didn't say much about it, but arranged for him to take over as the head of Wu Ang's archer team.

Jiang Fan thought about it, but he didn't dare to complain, so he asked Li Xia in a low voice, "County Captain, but in this way, there is really no one under the villain's hands."

Li Xia said: "Yes, I don't have many people available under my command."

"That……"

"You go to Yan Yunyun for some money, and then recruit some people."

Jiang Fan was a little puzzled, so he agreed and stepped back.

He went all the way to the Qinxiang teahouse, and went up the stairs, and Yan Yunyun was indeed in the teahouse the whole time.

But just after pushing open the door, Jiang Fan was startled, and saw a woman in black with half burnt and half face looking like a ghost in front of her.

"you……"

"Scared you?" Yan Yunyun said with a smile: "Congratulations on becoming the leader of the archer squad. From now on, you can decide how to celebrate the three-acre land in Fufu."

"What's the point of congratulations." Jiang Fan said: "General Bai sounds much more prestigious than the leader of the squad. You haven't seen how arrogant they are in front of me."

"Leader Jiang thinks, why did Ah Lang ask you to switch positions with Wu Ang?"

"Of course the county lieutenant trusts me more."

"Years ago, Wu Angke was always in the city, but whether it was hunting for assassins or smuggling salt, did Alang give him any orders?"

"No." Jiang Fan shook his head, stretched his neck, and asked, "Then how do I do it?"

Yan Yunyun smiled and said, "How would I know? I'm a woman, so let's withdraw some money and give it to Bantou Jiang..."

As she spoke, she picked up the account book and handed it to Jiang Fan.

"Show me what this is for?" Jiang Fan was at a loss.

"I checked it clearly, expanding the shooter room, recruiting manpower, buying weapons... everything is not clear, and later my father scolded me for being greedy for money."

Jiang Fan was stunned for a long time, and finally, surprise appeared in his eyes, and Yan Yunyun's evil face instantly became beautiful in his eyes.

The next moment, Yan Yunyun said again: "Boss Jiang has to help me earn back the money paid today."

"Can you do it?"

"It's been a year, what are you waiting for?"

(End of this chapter)