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Chapter 304
April fourteenth.

A stake was nailed into the ground, signifying that a new city would be built here.

Li Xia gave Gao Changshou a blueprint.

This drawing was drawn by a craftsman when I was in Qingfu County.Sichuan and Shu have built many mountain cities over the years, and many of them are craftsmen who are good at building cities.

And Li Xia didn't intend to build a city in Weining on a temporary basis, he had made plans and preparations before he set off.

According to the blueprint, Gao Changshou commanded the soldiers to take more than a thousand captives as labor, and began to dig ditches to lay the foundation.

In addition to these more than a thousand captives, they also began to recruit nearby mountain people. This part of the labor needs to be hired with the materials captured in Dali as food and money.

In addition, Le Yu also took thousands of young and strong men from the Uzza tribe to cut wood and quarry stones, and sold them to them.Li Xia promised to bring in supplies from Qingfu again.

Everywhere is in full swing.

In this scene, Le Yu seemed the most energetic.

Le Yu was 42 years old at the time, with a beard on his face. As the young ruler of Uzzah, he was strong enough and wise enough.

Of course, his wisdom is compared to most tribesmen...

Le Yu could actually tell that the Qingfu army had a high combat power and excellent armor, and 800 men were no match for the 2000 men of the Uzzah tribe.

Therefore, he has a respectful attitude towards Li Xia.

But he knew that Li Xia couldn't stay here for a long time, and there was always a faint arrogance of a "local snake" in his attitude.

Regarding Gao Changshou, he respected Gao Changshou superficially, but deep down he despised him.

No one can't feel this attitude. After chatting with Le Yu for a few words, Gao Changshou couldn't help but said to Li Xia: "I really can't stand his face."

"It can be seen that he is showing respect for you." Li Xia said lightly: "Ale should have taught him. He is far worse than Ale."

"Ah."

"Then we have two things to do. One is that you must send someone to contact Gao Qiong, and ask him to let Gao's former troops and survivors who love Dali join you as soon as possible. Otherwise, you will not have enough power. After I take away the Qingfu Army, You can't handle it."

"Okay, I'll send someone right away."

"Secondly, there are still some tribes that belong to the Mongols in the southwest. I led the troops to suppress them, grab some supplies, and bring back the prisoners to deal with the urgent task."

Gao Changshou said: "I can do this after I train a thousand soldiers and horses."

"Well, as soon as possible, I can't stay here for too long, maybe a month or two."

Although Li Xia is still young, he often has a sense of urgency that "time does not wait for me" when doing things.

He turned his head and looked at the land where the city was built for dozens of miles around the seaside of Caohai. After thinking for a while, he said, "I'm not familiar with the process of the engagement ceremony between Mingyue and me. Please remember to help out."

Gao Changshou smiled when he heard the words, and said, "I need you to mention this little thing."

In the next ten days, Li Xia led the Qingfu Army to sweep several small tribes to the southwest, which not only eased the demand for materials and manpower, but also deterred the Uzza tribe.

……

April 26.

Li Xia led the troops back to Weining from Xiaozhuqing by the Niulan River, and he swept around again, seized a lot of supplies, captured a lot of labor, and attracted the people of the Wuza tribe to be afraid and lucky.

Gao Changshou had already built a camp in Weining.

When Li Xia arrived at the camp, he saw the hundred celebration talismans lined up in the dust, and a hundred general was talking with Gao Changshou.

"I have seen the county lieutenant."

"Xu Kui? Why are you here?"

"Little man..."

"Let's talk in the tent."

Xu Kui was stupid, and he didn't know the ins and outs when he entered the tent, so he hurriedly took out several letters from his arms and handed them to Li Xia.

"County lieutenant, please take a look."

Li Xia was not in a hurry to read the letter, but first took a look at Xu Kui.

I saw that this thin man was covered in dust, he was obviously very tired from the journey, but from his look, nothing bad happened.

Only then did he look at the letters in his hand, and first opened the one written by Han Chengxu. The letter said many things about Qingfu County, so that the county lieutenant needn't worry.

Li Xia looked at Han Qiaoer's letter again, and only said a few trivial things, which were interesting, so he smiled slightly.

After opening Li Yong's letter, I saw an official document inside the envelope, saying that Zhu Yusun, the appeasement envoy of Tongchuan Road who also knew Luzhou, asked Yong Keqi, a township in Qingfu County, to arrive in Luzhou.

Li Xia looked at the time requested by Zhu Yusun again, the end of May.

The contents of Lee Yong's letter are very rich.

At the beginning of March, Marshal "Adahu" of the Mongolian Army in Chengdu ordered "Niu Lin" to lead [-] people to go down the Baishui River from Lizhou. The purpose should be to attack Chongqing.

Zhu Hu and Sun ordered the states and counties on Tongchuanfu Road to prepare for the incident.

At the end of March, Zhu Yusun transferred the Qingfu army to Luzhou again. According to Li Yong's analysis, it is very likely that Chuanshuai Pu chose that Niu Lin would not be able to attack Chongqing, and instead of defending the counterattack, he planned to surprise Jianmen Pass in order to recover Chengdu.

In this way, Luzhou's troops were transferred to the north, so Zhu Yusun changed the order to Qingfu's army from "preparing for defense" to "going to Luzhou".

Li Yong was blunt, saying that he had worked under Wu Yuan's tent, so he speculated on this, and told Li Xia that the battle in Chengdu was imminent, and he should lead his troops back as soon as possible.

……

After reading the letter, Li Xia turned to Xu Kui and asked, "When did you leave?"

"March 27th, I arrived in Weining two days ago, Mr. Gao Lang asked me to wait for the county captain here."

"Can Liu Jinsuo take care of the defense of the county?"

Xu Kui said: "Don't worry, the county captain. It was Mr. Han, Mr. Li, and General Liu Bai who discussed together before letting the villain come to the county captain."

"It's been hard work, let's go rest first."

After Xu Kui left, Li Xia turned to look at Gao Changshou and Gao Mingyue, and pondered: "I can't stay in Weining any longer, I have to leave the day after tomorrow."

Gao Changshou nodded, and said: "Alright, I think my cousin will send the old department to contact me soon, don't worry, I can control the Wuza department."

When he reached this point, he shook his head, and said again: "It's been a year and a year, only to leave Wulianghetai, and to come to Niulin again, and don't let people live in peace for a while."

"Yes."

Li Xia took out the map, spread it on the table, and began to think.

After a long time, he said: "Mu Ru let me have a private conversation with Mingyue?"

"it is good."

Gao Changshou turned around and left the tent, turned around subconsciously, and saw Ashahim following silently behind him, he couldn't help being startled, and quickly walked away...

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In the tent, Gao Mingyue was still holding the clothes that Li Xia needed to change after returning to the camp, putting them aside, with a downcast look.

"I had already prepared for years of war, but I didn't expect the situation to be more tense than I thought." Li Xia said.

Gao Mingyue turned her head to look at him with gentle eyes, but she didn't seem to know how to answer.

The two hold hands.

Li Xia said again: "I thought it would be safer to take you back to Qingfu County this time. But the war in Sichuan and Sichuan has started again, and it may not be safer for you to follow me than to stay in Weining..."

"I'll go with you." Gao Mingyue whispered.

"It's going to be dangerous, and it's going to be hard work."

"I'm not afraid." Gao Mingyue was still calm, but said again: "If there is danger, I am willing to die with you."

Li Xia is not a coddling person, after hearing what she wanted, she said, "Okay, let's get engaged tomorrow, and then we will go together, okay?"

When it came to matters of life and death, Gao Mingyue remained calm. When it came to engagement, she lowered her head shyly.

After a while, she seemed worried that Li Xia thought she was unwilling, so she nodded slightly.

While lowering her eyes, Li Xia felt that she was quite attractive.

……

Speaking of which, before Li Xia felt that Zhang Wenjing had a more lively temperament and could chatter when getting along, he felt bored in the Song Dynasty, but in fact he preferred to be with Zhang Wenjing like this.

But Zhang Wenjing's family background is obviously not suitable, and Li Xia doesn't want to delay her... No matter what it looks like to outsiders, after realizing some of her feelings, he really tried his best to restrain himself from teasing her.

In this way, Gao Mingyue is the most suitable object for marriage among the few three or two women he likes in his life.

When he considered this matter, he was indeed rational, and he seemed not so devoted.

With his experience, it is very difficult to fall in love with any little girl vigorously.

And this world's atmosphere is not as tolerant of single people as he was in his previous life. What Li Xia wants to do is destined to marry him.

Anyway, in this era, too many people get married first and then get acquainted.

Of course, he was tempted by her, and he became more and more tempted...

It was in this situation that the two got engaged.

In Li Xia's mind, it was nothing more than an engagement wine, but Gao Changshou seriously organized several steps about engagement in the "Three Letters and Six Rituals" for them.

After accepting Zheng, the marriage between Li Xia and Gao Mingyue was officially settled, and it was no longer just a verbal agreement between the two.

If Li Xia meets another family who wants to marry a daughter in the future, he can take out the marriage certificate and claim to be engaged.

He didn't see Gao Mingyue when he got engaged, and felt that this matter was far from being as interesting as he had imagined, but it looked like he was dealing with official documents.

During the process, Gao Changshou remembered and asked, "Did you ask your father about this marriage?"

Li Xia then replied, "There's no need to ask."

Gao Changshou felt rather regretful, feeling that his sister's marriage was far from grand enough.

(End of this chapter)