As soon as the sickle fell, a heavy corn pole was added in his hand. As Li Ze raised the ears in his hand high, a sound of cheering sounded from the vast field. Countless people, whether ordinary people or nobles, happily waved the sickles in their hands and harvested them.

Yun Zhao looked at all this with satisfaction, and the harvest season is always happy.

In Wuyi, fewer and fewer people eat corn. Because wheat has been vigorously promoted, wheat with higher yields per mu and better taste is gradually replacing the status of corn in the northern staple food. However, outside the core areas under Li Ze, corn is still the staple food. Because it is cheaper than wheat noodles.

Li Ze has been frugal since he was a child, and of course he has never done anything in farm work. Today, he came here just to show his intention of having fun with the people. After cutting a knife and showing off, he naturally threw away the sickle and stood by and watched. However, his three-year-old son Li Dan excitedly ran around the field with two short legs, and occasionally picked up some ears that fell on the ground, saved a handful, and then ran to Li Ze happily and raised it like a treasure.

"Not bad." Li Ze squatted down, took the corn from Li Dan and placed it at his feet. "If you can pick up some, then my father would have someone make the one you picked up into a bowl of corn rice. What if you eat it alone?"

"Father, I want you to do it yourself." Li Dan said with a silence.

Li Ze laughed: "Of course. But you have to recite a poem first. Do you still remember the poem "Praise the Farmer I taught you a few days ago?"

"Of course I remember!" Li Dan raised his head, "It's noon to hoe the wheat, and sweat drips into the soil. Who knows that every grain of food on the plate is hard!"

"Have a good caring, go pick up the ears, son, go and experience it carefully, what it means is that every grain is hard-working!" Li Ze pointed to the field ahead.

Li Dan ran into the field happily with two short legs.

"After collecting this chicken corn, I'm about to rush to sow winter wheat. In the past two months, I've been busy." Gongsun Changming only wore a short jacket, and his two dry firewood-like arms became even more conspicuous. He walked to Li Ze with a sickle in one hand and a handful of millet in the other.

He is different from Chapter 1, he is a guy who doesn't like to work.

At this moment, Zhang Hui was taking the students of Wuwei Academy to sweat heavily in the fields.

"I hope God will give you face and give everyone a good weather." Li Ze looked at the sky and said with a smile.

"In Pinglu, God is very disrespectful!" Gongsun Changming smiled and said, "The plan to recover Pinglu formulated by Qin Zhao was dragged down for more than a month because of this heavy rain."

Li Ze shook his head, "Man's calculations are not as good as God's calculations. How can everything be as satisfactory? It's just that it's a bit longer and it won't have much impact on the ending."

"There is still a lot of trouble. At least in the supply of grain and grass, Dizhou, Cangzhou and other places were busy. All inventory was released, mobilizing tens of thousands of civilians to transport grain to the front line for emergency transportation, and this inevitably affected the current autumn harvest and the sowing of winter wheat on horseback." Gongsun Changming shook his head and said, "Turn it all!"

The two walked up to the ridge of the field and simply sat directly on the ridge of the field. "It was a bargain for Zhu Youzhen, because of this heavy rain that he really gained more benefits." Gongsun Changming flattered his mouth: "He withdrew nearly 20,000 households from Pinglu, nearly 100,000 people, and most of these people were young and strong. After he left, he snatched Pinglu and left a mess for us. The original plan was that he could move Qingzhou at most, but now he has made a lot of money."

"It is not necessarily a bad thing to make him stronger. If he is too humble, how can he survive in the south?" Li Ze said uneasy. "We are still counting on him to go to the south, where will we make the smoke angry!"

"There is one thing I haven't figured out, that is, where did Jingxiang come from?" Gongsun Changming said in confusion: "If I hadn't known that Jingxiang was really a person who planned and moved, I really felt that he was so disappointed. No matter how I look at it now, it's all the boss of the Zhu family who has a greater chance. Moreover, Zhu Wen is in good health too!"

"For things we cannot grasp, then wait and see," Li Ze said: "No matter what, if there is a dispute between the Zhu brothers, it will be an excellent thing for us."

Gongsun Changming nodded, suddenly remembered something and said, "Prince, there is one thing that I have to remind you that there is something strange here."

"What's the matter?" Li Ze said.

"The Left Guard of Qin Zhao." Gongsun Changming said.

Li Ze raised his eyebrows: "What's wrong with Zuo Xiaowei? Could it be that he can still rebel?"

"That's not, and this time the casualties of Zuo Xiaowei were a bit beyond my expectations." Gongsun Changming shook his head and said, "If there were major casualties on the breakthrough of the Yellow River defense line, I could understand that there were many casualties, but when attacking Linzi and other places, why were there such a large number of casualties?"

"Is there such a thing?"

"More importantly, the one with the most casualties was Jin Shiyuan's subordinates." Gongsun Changming said: "After breaking the Yellow River defense line, Li Hao's troops and Cheng Xu's troops were all adjusted to second-line troops by Qin Zhao. The direct troops of Jin Shiyuan and Qin Zhao were mainly attacking Linzi. As of yesterday, the casualties of their troops had exceeded 5,000, and Linzi had not yet been defeated. What's even more strange is that Linzi is not commanding now. There is conclusive news that Liu Xinda has left Linzi. The person in charge is Liu Santong. Do you think Liu Santong has such ability? Do you think Linzi has such combat power now?"

"Do you think Qin Zhao was doing it intentionally?" Li Ze frowned: "There is a lot of water among these casualties? So where did these people who were falsely reported by them go?"

Gongsun Changming looked at Li Ze but said nothing.

With the sound of horse hooves, Li Gan ran from a distance, got closer, turned over and dismounted, strode over, and bowed, "Prince, Gao Xiangsheng accompanied the Lingnan Jiedushi Yuhou Xiangzhen, and has already disembarked from the Moon Bay Wharf and is heading towards the inner city."

Li Ze smiled and stood up and said, "It's interesting. Can you come up with this trick? I'll send an order to Pan Motang to strengthen patrol and interrogate the sea in the near future. I want to see if these people can put wings and fly into the sky?"

Gongsun Changming said: "I think this should be the case."

"It's really a whim!" Li Ze sneered, "Li Gan, go and invite Mr. Zhang back. Since it's the Lingnan Xiang Jieduan, we'll go and meet together."

Xiang Zhen, the capital of the Lingnan Jiedushi Yuhou, is also the eldest son of the Jieshuai Xiang Xun, and is also the biological father of the queen who was planned by Xue Ping and Han Qi, who was chosen by the young emperor Li Ke. In any aspect, he is an absolute big shot.

The Lingnan Jiedu is undoubtedly the richest Jiedu Mansion in the Tang Dynasty. Firstly, because the Lingnan Jiedu is located in the southeast and is rarely affected by war. Secondly, large external ports such as Guangzhou are constantly creating wealth for the Xiang family. Compared with other Jiedu, the Lingnan Jiedu is indeed rich and powerful, with strong troops. Its influence is not limited to the Lingnan Jiedu, but has a huge influence on the southeast.

Such a powerful Jiedu Mansion, under the current situation, naturally ambitions grew. However, unlike Zhu Wen's ambition to replace him, Xiang Xun did not have this idea. On the contrary, Zhu Wen was extremely angry when he abolished Tang and established himself.

The reason for anger is simple.

What I dare not do, Zhu Wen, is it that you, dare to do.

Then, pulling Zhu Wen off the horse and stepping on it hard became Xiang Xun's thoughts.

Of course, on this basis, it would be even better if you can dominate the world.

But the dilemma is that although Xiang's wealth and strong soldiers and horses were strong, the geographical conditions in a remote corner greatly restricted his ideas. He wanted to start an army from the south and fight the northern expedition, and other military governors who were blocking his way did not think so.

Seeing Li Ze taking the emperor to command the princes in the north, he was in a prosperous state and his power grew stronger and stronger, Xiang Xun's heart jumped up even more lively, but he was always in trouble and couldn't enter.

At this time, Gao Xiangsheng's visit opened another door for him.

Gao Xiangsheng became the little emperor and asked his granddaughter to be the queen.

If this matter could be accomplished, even if Xiang jumped into the emperor and noble relative of the Tang Dynasty and raised an army to defend the king, it would be a matter of justice. The emperor issued an order to ask him to launch an army to fight the northern expedition, and he would send troops again, which would be justified. Along the way, those vain men had to think about the consequences to stop them.

Of course, there is one of the biggest obstacles to this matter, which is Li Ze.

Obviously, Gao Xiangsheng's secret visit to bring up this matter, rather than Li Ze sending someone, it means that this matter was not instructed by Li Ze.

This incident was of great benefit to Xiang Xun. After a secret discussion with Gao Xiangsheng, Xiang Xun sent his son Xiang Zhen to Wuyi, and Xiang himself proposed marriage to the emperor.

Of course, what Xiang Zhen brought was the political alliance of the Xiang family to surrender to the Zhenzhou court and drive the imperial court forward.

The north and south attacked Zhu Wen together.

I believe Li Ze has no way to refuse, nor can he refuse.

From a political perspective, this is a win-win situation. Lingnan Xiangshuang can legitimately integrate the power in the southeast direction, form a joint force, and threaten Zhu Wen. For Li Ze, he found a strong ally in the south.

Of course, there is another profitable force, which is the little emperor Li Ke, who has gone from a virtual head emperor with nothing, suddenly has a strong external force that can respond to him.
Chapter completed!