A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 126
When he came to the west, he led the hospital army with thousands of people, and when he returned to the east, he brought a salt team.Although they were not long apart, Wu Huaiyu's mentality was very different from everyone else's. At that time, he was driven out of the market and was full of anxiety, but now he has achieved success.

Although the road was full of post-war bleakness, it didn't affect their excitement and complacency.

Qinzhou Fuqiang, the original headquarters of the Longyou camp, is now much deserted. Chai Shao led 5000 troops back east, and the remaining several thousand troops were also stationed in various places.

Even the field hospital has gone to the east, and the thousands of sick children who used to be here are basically either recovered and discharged from the hospital, or returned to the local area for recuperation.

Huaiyu and Cheng Chumo revisited their hometown, which is also very embarrassing.

Going back to the small courtyard where he lived for a while, there was still a group of seriously wounded soldiers here. Lu Huairang arranged for a few civilian husbands to take care of them, and even his small vegetable garden was well maintained.

Some peppers have already opened small white flower buds, and potatoes, saffron, corn, and peanut seedlings are also growing lush.

Seeing that these babies are still safe, Huaiyu is very excited.

He found wooden boards and nailed many wooden boxes, filled them with soil and specially mixed some manure and stove ash, and transplanted these vegetables from the vegetable garden together with the soil into the wooden boxes, and he planned to transport them all back to Chang'an by horse-drawn cart go.

"It's just a few vegetables. Are they so expensive to use? Just go back to Chang'an and plant them again." Cheng Chumo was a little curious about Huaiyu's actions.

Huaiyu did it herself, carefully transplanting, "These are treasures, treasures that are priceless."

"What Ganoderma Lucidum and Immortal Grass, is it worth a thousand dollars?"

"Now I tell you that you don't quite understand. These things are not just vegetables. They can also become staple food, and they don't pick up the land. Now the most drought-tolerant millet and millet are planted in the fields or on hillsides. In dry land, the harvest per mu is not enough for stones, but potatoes and corn can yield several times or even ten times the yield. The corn in the cracks of the rocks can produce four or five stones, and the potatoes can produce two to three thousand catties..."

Cheng Chu opened his mouth in silence.

"You said these can be eaten as staple food?"

"Well, corn can be eaten fresh, but it can also be ground after drying. After potatoes are ripe, they eat underground stems. Like taro and yam, they can be steamed and eaten directly. They can also be dried or ground to make potato vermicelli. OK·····"

"Impossible, there is no such thing in the world. Rice in the south, wheat in the north, and millet, millet, buckwheat and oats. Even if the best irrigated land is fertile and carefully cultivated, I have never heard that the yield per mu has exceeded More than three stones, five stones and ten stones?"

"That's why I say it's a treasure, and it's worth a thousand dollars."

Cheng Chumo looked at Huaiyu's serious expression, and was also half-believing. He had been with Wu Huaiyu for a long time, and he had seen too many miraculous things about him. Looking at those tender seedlings now, he couldn't help being in awe.

He licked his lips, "If these potatoes and corn can really be used as staple food, and if they are as drought-resistant and adaptable as you said, they can be grown in both the north and the south, and the yield is so high, then it's really... really..." He is no longer I know what to say.

"This is really auspicious."

"It didn't come from the sky. My master traveled all over the world and searched everywhere. He got it from the sea merchants and after many years of cultivation,"

"Yes, yes, your master is really a god..."

The consequence of this conversation is that Cheng Chumo really regards these as treasures now. He personally took the Cheng family's trilogy, and began to guard the 'green babies' in these wooden boxes and soil basins, not letting anyone approach them, let alone touch them. Touch it.

"These are auspicious signs, and they are dedicated to the prince."

He even asked the carpenter to add a canopy to the carriage, for fear that the wind would damage it and the sun would wilt.Huaiyu has been growing food and vegetables in Zhongnan Mountain for five years, but he doesn't know that these things are actually very tenacious, so there is no need to worry too much.

But still went silent along the way.

When leaving Fuqiang, Huaiyu also took some disabled soldiers and Yizheng children from the city with him. They asked to return to Guanzhong with Huaiyu's team, and there was also a support on the way.

Huaiyu also brought some slaves with him, a total of twelve. Li Shimin rewarded him with military merits in Longyou twice, and Lu Huairang asked him to choose among Fuqiang's official slaves.

Before that, Huaiyu also bought some slaves in Yanjing Village, and also took in a few victims who abandoned their registration and fled, but they all stayed there.

This time he also picked some younger and stronger slaves, but he only picked two Turkic prisoners of war, two Turkic youths, about fifteen or sixteen years old, and took them back to herd sheep and horses, and the rest were cooked Qiangs. , Shu Liao, who can also speak Chinese and even plow the land, bring them back to Guanzhong to farm.

Compared with the sixty miles a day when marching, they can walk eighty or ninety miles a day when they return east. The main reason is that they don’t need to set up camp in the afternoon.

Usually, they go to the town to spend the night, or stay at the posthouse on the official road.It is about [-] miles from Zhang County to Long County, and all the way to Qinzhou is along the Weihe River Valley, but when passing through Qinzhou to Longshan, it turns to the north via Longguan and crosses Longshan.

In Longguan, Huaiyu and the others saw more and more soldiers and horses.

The Longyou Xingying Field Hospital was established in Longguan at this time, and Chai Zhewei is now in charge of the field hospital. When this guy saw Huaiyu, he still had that aloof attitude. I am very proud to have been awarded the fifth-rank Chaosan doctor.

"Congratulations to Wu Erlang for being a county man." Chai Zhewei said condescendingly.

"Congratulations to Chai Dalang for his promotion."

Chai Zhewei asked him bluntly, "Is there any news about Sanniang recently?"

"I've been in Longyou, I really don't know."

After hearing this, Chai Zhewei left disappointed.

"This guy, relying entirely on his father's shadow, actually has a rank of nine ranks and five ranks. He retreated desperately during the battle, but he appeared again when he was awarding merits." Cheng Chumo looked at his back. Spit in disdain.

Chai Zhewei has a good father and mother, but having said that, no one wants to enshrine his wife and son, just like Chai Shao, who has already reached the top of the Zhu Kingdom. He is the eldest son, so it is only natural to give it to him.

"Let him shrink back and be a second-generation dude, let's rush forward and make contributions and become the generation of meritorious service!"

"That's a good talk, I like it." Cheng Chumo laughed.

After passing through Longguan and crossing Longshan Mountain, they entered the Longzhou River Valley, and they became more cautious. Although there were soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty everywhere, the army of Tujieli Tuli transferred from Jingzhou to the north of Longzhou. The Huating Pavilion, from where it protrudes into the plain.

Now Longzhou City is still there, but the [-] Turkic army has already rushed into the Guanzhong Great Plain, and it cannot be stopped at all.

In Longzhou City, Huaiyu met Xue Wanche, who is now the governor of Longzhou, and because of his meritorious deeds of beheading generals and capturing the flag, he was promoted from the Duke of Wu'an County to the Duke of Wu'an County.

Facing Huaiyu Chumo and the others, Xue Wanche was quite enthusiastic, "The chief executive has already led his troops to Qizhou, and that wolf cub Jieli ran very fast, leading 10 people to martial arts."

Martial arts, that is already in the territory of Yongzhou, out of Qizhou.

Chai Shao and the others were still one step too late. Although Fan Xing had entered Binzhou, Keli led his army back to Longzhou at Huating, and entered the Guanzhong Great Plain along the Si River.

Chai Shao led the elite from Longyou to arrive, but it was useless. On this endless plain, he could only defend the counties of Longzhou and Qizhou, but he couldn't stop the Turkic army at all.

One hundred thousand Turkic troops howled on the plain, they did not attack fortified cities, they only plundered the countryside, they plundered all the way eastward, and now they have gathered in the Wugong area.

To the east of it is the Qin Qiong warrior Xun Fengli Xie Shufang and the generals stationed in Xianyang, and to the northeast is Yuchi Gong's eldest grandson Wuji Li Junxian and their troops stationed in Jingyang.

Chai Shao was very cautious and did not fight on the Guanzhong Great Plains, but followed the Turkic army cautiously, using the cities of Longqi to leap forward to monitor the Turkic army, looking for fighters.

"The [-] Turkic army is doing martial arts, so we won't be able to go back to Chang'an?" said Wang Da, who also returned to Chang'an.

"We don't bring a caravan, and Qingqi detours, and it should be no problem to go to the south bank of the Weihe River. Can some Turkic rangers who are looting us be able to do anything to us?"

Facing the [-] troops that had entered the Guanzhong Plain, no matter whether it was Wu Huaiyi, Cheng Chumo, or even a scholar like Ma Zhou, none of them was afraid.

They even wanted to go deep into the tiger's den and go to Jingxi Wugong, where Jieli's current Golden Wolf Banner is located.

Huaiyu is very convinced by these bold guys, but he never approves.

Now the relatively narrow area from Longguan, Longzhou to Siyang, which is the valley of the Sihe River, is temporarily controlled by Xue Wanche's troops, and the Turkic cavalry did not stay in this narrow area.

Now they have gone to the Guanzhong Great Plains, Jieli Khan is stationed in Wugong, Tuli Khan is stationed in the Liquan area, and the other troops of Lijin and Teqin are plundering the plain in the west of Beijing.

The Turks are not good at attacking cities, and now the Tang army is not easy to fight with them on the plains. Both sides are very cautious, and the war is imminent.

How could Jieli be unprepared at this time, it is estimated that Wugong Dahan's golden tent will not be close for twenty miles.

"Let's hurry back to Chang'an, don't make troubles." Huaiyu now misses Lao Wu from Sanyuan's family.

Xue Wanche was quite envious of them, "The chief executive has ordered me to guard Longzhou now and not leave. I am anxious to death."

Chai Shao's arrangement was more cautious. After the Turks rushed into Longzhou from Huating, and then rushed to the Guanzhong Plain, although Chai Shao was a step late, he did not immediately go after the Turkic army, but concentrated on killing the Turkic soldiers in Longzhou. Drive away, then regain Huating, and send troops to reinforce the two entrances of Huating and Longguan.

First block the Turkic retreat, and then follow up step by step.

Don't look at the Turkic people running wild on the Guanzhong Great Plain now, but in fact the way they came was blocked.

Of course, with the tyrannical force of [-] Turkic cavalry, as long as they can't defeat them head-on, if they really want to leave, there are plenty of return routes, and maybe they can go directly to the northeast of Hebei.

It's the end of July now, and it's still five hundred miles away from Chang'an.

"Rest here for one night, and return to Chang'an on a light horse tomorrow morning." Huaiyu persuaded them to go to martial arts to explore the tiger's den, so they rested in Longzhou that night, and left the slaves and others early the next morning. With only a few rides, they went straight to Chang'an with three horses.

Along the Si River to Guo County of Qizhou, they crossed the Wei River and galloped far away from the Wei River. They encountered many wandering Turkic soldiers along the way, but they didn't get entangled.

After traveling quickly for two days and two nights, they finally arrived in Chang'an City in the early morning of the first day of August.

(End of this chapter)