choke element

Chapter 640 Calm

On the day when Yicai Chucai had a rare leisure time, many soldiers were called out by their superiors early in the morning, boarded chariots and horses, and went to Guangli Bridge in the west of the city.Because the first batch of family members of military households who moved from Shandong to Zhongdu Road will arrive today.

The land and villages where these families were housed were selected from the abandoned farms around Zhongdu after the war. The captives had already prepared them and opened the canals.These soldiers came forward to follow up, make do with the autumn harvest, and manage their own well, so that they will take root in the middle of the year next year.

However, it is normal for the homeland to be difficult to leave. Although Guo Ning can enforce it, it is not necessary at present.Therefore, the Marshal's Mansion offered preferential conditions such as donating farm cattle and distributing iron farm tools.

Even so, the first batch of responding military households were not many, and most of them were families of soldiers who had made contributions in the Zhongdu War.These meritorious soldiers were generally rewarded and promoted after the war.In this era when human life is as cheap as grass, the benefits given by Ding Haijun are enough to make them forget the danger of fighting and the tragic death of their companions in large numbers.

Relatively speaking, they don't pay much attention to their own fields, or even where to settle down. On the contrary, they have a faint desire to continue fighting and making meritorious deeds in the future.

At the end of the afternoon and the beginning of the afternoon, these soldiers had already arrived at the head of Guangli Bridge.Because they were not in the barracks, everyone was rarely lazy, waiting on the bridge sparsely, looking up and down.

After sitting for a while, there was a fleet of ships meandering under the bridge.Seeing this group of fierce men sitting or standing, the leader of the boat shrank his head subconsciously, and tightened his grip on the long pole in his hand.

The military discipline of the Ding Navy is very strict, and the soldiers do not bully the people.But they were victors after all, they were the ones who followed the commander to defeat the powerful enemy and ruled the city, so it was inevitable that they were a little arrogant.Seeing this embarrassment, many soldiers immediately burst into laughter, and some even poked their heads into the bridge hole with a playful smile and shouted: "Old man, do you need a penny to buy a sheep?"

Zhang Peng didn't mess around with his companions. He counted the sheep loaded on a boat as fast as he could, and then counted the number of boats tied in a long line with thick ropes, and then sighed in frustration.

After this battle, Ding Haijun continued to applaud his achievements and promoted many soldiers.

Zhang Peng was tenacious and dared to fight, and he was credited with beheading the officers of the Mongolian army. However, his qualifications in the army were relatively low, so he was temporarily transferred to Guo Ning's headquarters.In addition to his daily military life, he has to attend a course at the military academy attached to the battalion every three days, and only after passing the assessment can he become a general.

Guo Ning set up a military academy at the Feijunhe camp back then, and the content of the lectures was quite complete, which made Du Shisheng convinced at the first sight.But the premise that this kind of knowledge can spread on a large scale is that besides Guo Ning, there are a large number of teachers with the same cognitive level.

To this day, the Dinghai Navy cannot recruit these people, so the scale of the military academy continues to expand, but the depth of the content taught will inevitably decline. These are just stories from the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Zhang Peng was young and his brain was still active. He learned multiplication in the military academy, so when he saw the fleet, he planned to show off his skills.It's a pity that there are more than ten sheep on each boat, and the number of boats is also more than ten. The formulas he memorized can't cope with this, so he can only give up now.

His boss, Lao Liu, smiled and said, "What's so good about it? The day before yesterday, Zhao Jieshuai sent people to Zhongdu to capture more than 300 horses, more than 2 donkeys and mules, the most sheep, and [-] More than [-] head. This fleet holds at most [-] head."

Since Genghis Khan returned to the north, Juyongguan returned to the control of the Kingdom of Jin, and Jinshan and Huairou in the north also recovered successively.The land in this area is suitable for farming and grazing, and there are several small Wanggu tribes active. When Zhao Jue led the troops, these small tribes either fled north or surrendered immediately.

Zhao Jue collected the seized items and transported them back to the central capital one after another.

Under the guise of the Koreans, the Marshal's Mansion was able to restart trade with the Southern Dynasties this month.Therefore, these livestock were sent directly to Zhigu Village, and then transferred to the south by sea.

Among the materials traded between the Marshal's Mansion and the Southern Dynasties, horses belonged to the bulk of making money, while cattle had to be imported in reverse.Now it is not without a small benefit to be able to sell some extra sheep.

A few days ago, the news of the Koryo fleet's success spread to Zhongdu. It would be more than a month before the fleet arrived. The price of food in Zhongdu had already dropped, and even pigs and sheep were cheaper.Now the price of a big sheep is about four guan, but in the Southern Song Dynasty, a catty of mutton can be sold for [-] yuan.

Therefore, the profit from selling sheep just offset the shortage of money caused by the purchase of grain, no wonder the Marshal hurriedly dispatched it.

Thinking of this, Lao Liu looked at the flock of sheep on the boat with soft eyes and drooled.

He patted Zhang Peng on the shoulder: "I heard that the marshal has also detained hundreds of sheep, and he will give extra meals to the soldiers stationed in Zhongdu tonight! There are fifty brothers here, including family members, there are 300 people. ...There can always be two or three sheep, right? A big sheep produces twenty catties of meat, and the head and brain of the sheep, and the lungs are also delicious. The bones are used to make soup.

Zhang Peng immediately replied: "The goat's hooves must be roasted to be delicious. First remove the dirt and boil it; then use a small knife to pierce the openings densely, and spread onions, leeks and sauces; wait until the taste is delicious. After roasting it on the fire, the sheep fat sizzled out! By the way, there is also the tail of the sheep, which is also delicious after roasting..."

Lao Liu is greedy, and Zhang Peng likes to cook. These two can be regarded as good natural partners.But both of them were born in poverty in Shandong, and they occasionally ate some meat in this life, which was stewed or boiled.Now that Zhang Peng was talking about roasting sheep's hooves, Lao Liu had never seen him do it seriously, so he was inevitably a little worried.

"Can it really be baked deliciously? It won't get mushy?"

Zhang Peng shouted: "My mother taught me this method! When she was young, she was a cook for a Jurchen official. She is very skilled and can't go wrong!"

After yelling, he was suddenly worried: "Why hasn't my mother arrived yet? Didn't you say that we can meet at noon?"

"Look up and see, where is the sun? What's the rush! My wife and baby are here too! And our mistress is also here with the convoy. Marshal Guo will go to meet him early in the morning. A hundred, a thousand hearts!"

Before he finished speaking, Qingqi with a small flag on his back appeared on the west side of the main road.More than ten riders were not walking fast, and sometimes the war horses would chew a few mouthfuls of tender grass on the side of the road, but they would not stop them, obviously in a relaxed mood.In the queue, there were also knights dressed as the marshal's attendants as companions, chatting happily while riding the horses.

The soldiers on the bridge couldn't care less about talking, they all stood up all of a sudden, some trembling in their hands and feet.They seem to have suddenly recalled the hardships and hardships of fighting in the army, thinking that many of their companions who went north together half a year ago were lost on the battlefield, and thinking of the warmth and blessings of their families before they left.

When the knights waved to them, Zhang Peng found himself walking forward involuntarily.He walked faster and faster, faster and faster, and at some point, he changed from walking to trotting, and from running to running wildly.Hearing his violent panting, he felt a little ashamed, and hurriedly looked left and right, only to find that his companions were all running.

These people ran up suddenly, startling the sentry cavalry and attendants.

A familiar attendant laughed and cursed a few words, urging others to rein in their horses and make way for them.Watching them swarming past, towards the approaching convoy.

With Li Ting's drastic actions in Hebei, the road from Shandong to Zhongdu has been completely opened up, but there are inevitably some unstable areas along the way.Therefore, the size of the convoy is very large, accompanied by many guards, and the vehicle itself is not an ordinary cargo vehicle, but a double-shafted cart with a square roof or a dome that can shelter the dust.

Several vehicles were still drawn by two horses, and there were people on foot or on mules and horses on both sides of the vehicle to take care of them.

When the soldiers approached the convoy, half of the children couldn't hold back their temper, jumped off the roof of the car and ran towards their father or elder brother; an old man walked out of the car tremblingly, watching his son kowtow and put his forehead Hit hard in the dirt.

When the motorcade was full of joy, in the largest carriage, Lu Han turned sideways, curled up beside Guo Ning like a cat.She and Guo Ning's childhood sweethearts have become closer after marriage, and they like to lean in Guo Ning's arms like this, looking up at her husband's hard chest and chin.

Guo Ning stretched out his hand carefully, wrapping around Lu Han's obviously swollen belly, watching his wife's face with a strand of hair, which was blown up and down by her thin breath.Listening to the shouts of joy from the soldiers outside, he felt extraordinarily peaceful in his heart.

The two stayed warm for a while, Guo Ning asked softly: "Do you want to go out to meet the soldiers? It will be fine in a while."

After all, Lu Han is pregnant, and his energy is low, so he gets sleepy easily.But since Guo Ning said it, she nodded.

Guo Ning bent over and carefully helped her walk out of the carriage of the cart.

Lu Han couldn't help laughing: "How can it be so expensive?"

At this time, many soldiers surrounded the convoy, and they were all divided into small groups, chatting happily with their families.When Guo Ning and his wife stood outside the cart together, everyone turned their heads to look at them.

Guo Ning held his head high and laughed loudly, while Lu Han's cheeks were flushed, and he held his stomach with one hand.There are many soldiers in front of her, she has seen them before, and she can still call their names, because of this, the situation at this moment makes her feel particularly shy.

In the next instant, hundreds of soldiers cheered.

(End of this chapter)