Chapter 85

"Shall we take the initiative?" Li Tan should be said to be a relatively young and handsome young man. He is the eldest son of the Li family. He has received a relatively good education, but he is quite arrogant because of this: "it is just an emerging tribe. Its prosperity is also vigorous and its death is also sudden. Why should my father pay too much attention to it."

The sun was shining on the moat and reflected on the rammed earth city wall. Two people, wearing wide sleeves loved by Jin people, stood on the earth city wall about two feet long. They were a middle-aged and a young man.

The breeze was blowing, and there were waves in the wheat field in the distance. The wind was everywhere, and the green wheat stalks bowed their heads in rows.

There are no redundant trees. There is a straight stream for irrigation, but I don't know how much manpower and time the Li family spent on this set of irrigation.

Li Mingzhi is 44 years old. He has experienced too many things from his childhood to this age. Because of the changeable situation in the Central Plains, he was a citizen of the state of Jin, experienced the wanton slaughter of Jin people by the state of Han (former Zhao), and passed the relatively mild period of the state of Zhao (later Zhao).

It was time for later Zhao to treat the Jin people gently. At that time, Zhang Bin was still alive. Although the Jie people were cruel, Shi Le listened to Zhang Bin's suggestions and gave relatively preferential treatment to the scholars among the Jin people, or collected taxes, or absorbed the best of the Jin people to work for the imperial court. At least he didn't kill the ordinary Jin people as wantonly as now.

"The years are different." Li Mingzhi's eyes are slightly turbid. Only those who have experienced vicissitudes will have such eyes: "the gentleness of Jie people to Jin people is over with the battle of Yangzhou..."

In fact, Shi Hu first became emperor. Under the established rules of "no two days, no two masters of the people", he was directly hostile to the Jin court. Later, under the persuasion of some literary ministers, Shi Hu was renamed the heavenly king, but the relationship between Zhao and Jin under the leadership of Shi Hu did not improve at all.

"When the king of heaven ascended the throne, he never regarded us Jin people as human beings. In this way, as a father, he became a country man from a county magistrate." Li Mingzhi has too many stories. They are stories that the young and energetic Li Tan feels impatient to hear. He knew that his son was arrogant, but now he couldn't tolerate the arrogance of Jin people: "the Han ministry is emerging. If it perished in the last expedition, it's OK. They survived, and the imperial court won't fight for the Han ministry. If the Han ministry sent someone to Xiangguo for activities, Liu Yan will become the new sheriff."

It's a process that can be guessed. Too many Hu people are such officials. They kill weak opponents, send people to Xiangguo to surrender, and then spend money and silk. No accident, they can definitely achieve their goal. This is also a means for the imperial court to control the local areas and encourage local Hu people and strong families to kill each other. The harder those people kill, the better the imperial court will rule the place. Another means is that once you want to use troops abroad, any local family needs to be recruited. Both methods are "the method of reducing Ding", which is heard to be the plot of Zhang Bin.

"Not counting the cities that have been killed without chickens and dogs, the Han ministry has occupied cabinet county and Jijin County, and will no longer fight against other counties." Li Mingzhi glanced back and forth at all the departments in the fortress: "the Han Dynasty has relieved the external threat, and our eyes must turn to the surrounding areas. We are too close to the habitat selected by the Han Dynasty, so we can only take the initiative to show kindness."

That's why Li Tan was unconvinced. They have well defended fortresses and thousands of farmers. They can assemble a strong armed force. In the past, they have been attacked by the Hu people more than once, and they have been able to rely on perfect fortifications many times. Never a group of Hu people can enter the fortress of the Li family. Li Tan believes that even if the Han people attack, they can't help the Li family.

"Father, Hu people... Unreliable." Li Tan's young face did not have a beard. He took a deep doubt: "we can only make friends with him if we don't make enemies with him. Why please? Even if the Han ministry attacks, are there few Hu people we can block?"

Li Mingzhi looked at his son's vibrant face and couldn't say he didn't feel it.

The Li family has a family school, and there are precious classics compared with other families. When Li Mingzhi was a county magistrate, he took advantage of his position to privately collect books. There are Mencius in the four books and spring and autumn in the five classics. Although they are not complete versions, who has a complete version except those millennial aristocratic families in the world?

What Li Ming regrets most is that it is the Hu people who rule the Central Plains. It should not be said that the Hu people who rule the Central Plains do not hesitate to be talented and love talented people. Otherwise, the Li Tan cultivated from the Li family should have a place in officialdom anyway. Unfortunately, the imperial court (Hou Zhao) will not be the stage for Jin people to show their talents.

"Just do what I say!" Li Mingzhi was still looking around the fortress: "go, don't hang your pride on your face."

The Li family's fortress is not small. There are ditches dug outside. The ditches are led with live water and equipped with thick rammed earth walls. The wall is not a straight line, but an irregular shape with edges and corners. This is the peripheral fortification. Obviously, they are instructed by experts and know that the walls with edges and corners can play the strongest defensive effect. At least the defensive side will have a better range on the bow and arrow.

As an internal defense, rows of rammed earth buildings are connected. Even if the periphery is broken, those connected buildings can serve as another layer of defense facilities.

Even if the fortifications on that floor of the building are broken down again, the attacking party still needs to face the real core of the Li family, which is a round earth building.

The earth building looks quite large. The thickness of the walls on the first and second floors has reached one foot. The whole earth building has only one entrance and exit. The height of the whole building has five floors. Pay attention to the observation, you can see that there are many round but narrow windows on the third floor.

The narrow holes on the third floor of the earth building are usually windows. When needed, they are arrow holes. It seems that there is one every three meters.

In the interior of the earth building, there is a large open-air patio in the middle. There is no housing on the first floor, which is a space for all kinds of work. There is also a cellar for storing materials underground, and a platform for drying wheat on the top floor. When the top platform comes to war, archers can be arranged and logs or stones can be stockpiled.

(I. the whole is actually an enhanced version of modern Hakka Earth Building)

The dock fort of the Li family covers a large area. There is arable land in it, but most of the fields are actually outside the wall.

It's summer now. The seeds planted in spring have grown into wheat straw. In autumn, the farmland outside lijiawu Fort should be wheat ears drooping, forming a golden yellow.

"In order to have a harvest in autumn..." Li Mingzhi took his eyes back and looked at Li Tan: "how can I take this trip!"

Yes, it's not good for the Li family to make friends with the emerging Han Dynasty. If they can hold the fort, what about the food outside?

Even if it's for nothing else, the Han Dynasty is selling weapons and salt. Li Ming has been interested in it for a long time, but it's hard to pay for it. The Li family should take action this time, whether for the actual security needs or to make friends with the Han Dynasty and obtain weapons and salt.

In order to show enough sincerity, Li Mingzhi chose to send his eldest son, Li Tan, to the current residence of the Han Dynasty. Li Tan will not go alone. He will bring enough warriors, and the necessary gifts also need to pull a few cars.

The fortress of the Li family is really a little close to Huangdao District. Li Tan started from the moment of sunrise and was stopped by the people of the Han Dynasty near noon.

"We are from Li family castle. We are here to present a gift to the head of your clan. Please inform the head of your department." Li Tan rode on a tall horse, matched with his fit and powerful clothes, and looked at him full of young heroism.

It was dou'a who stopped the Li family. He is now in charge of controlling an important road.

There were not many people with Li Tan, about twenty to ride, and then four carriages. The carriages were loaded with gifts. About thirty warriors, some on foot and some on the carriages.

Dou a glanced at Li tan. To tell the truth, he doesn't like the arrogance on Li Tan's face. That expression will remind him of some bad memories and appear rude in his attitude.

"Check it." Dou a waved his hand, raised his head slightly in disgust, and shouted to Li Tan, "all dismount!"

Chen Qun's practice of "nine grades in the right system" makes people divided into three, six, nine grades at birth. It's too difficult for people to change their destiny. What a tragedy when one's fate is fixed at birth? I didn't know much about it before, but Dou a now has a little understanding. Naturally, he doesn't have a good impression of the arrogant aristocratic family.

Li Tan's face flashed an angry look. When he thought of Li Mingzhi's instructions, he got off the horse with a cold hum. He just looked at Dou A's expression.

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