February is the same no matter where it is. Even the plateau, which was once considered a barbaric land by the soldiers, feels refreshed at this time. Although they have been in the tent for almost a whole winter, it is certainly not counted to assist the surrendered servants to conquer those disobedient tribes.

Starting from the time when the ice and snow melted, nearly 120,000 strong men began to build the road again under the whip. However, this time Li Ang didn't have to worry about the supervisor. Among the 120,000 strong men, 50,000 were free people of Yelu, who were better at serving as supervisors than the soldiers of the Qin Dynasty. For them, there was no such thing as compatriots. Nang Rilun Praise the idiot and his Tubo, and from now on, they were the people of the Qin Dynasty. As for the 70,000 people who built the road with them, they were just slaves. They were very happy to take the whip from the soldiers of the Qin Dynasty and tell these slaves how they should work.

Almost every day, there are news of dead people in the road construction areas. Although Li Ang doesn't care about this, he still sent Li Cunzhi to warn those "free people" not to overdo it. If all the slaves die, they will fill their gaps. Under Li Ang's order, those "free people" had to restrain themselves, and the situation of deducting the rations for those slaves has also improved a lot. This made the 70,000 slaves grateful to Li Ang, which has to be said to be very ironic. At least Li Ang thought so after hearing Li Cunzhi's reply.

"Power is justice. If the conquerors give the conquered people the favors can make them forget everything in the past! Emperor Taizu's words always make sense." Li Ang murmured to himself and looked at Chen Qingzhi behind him. He wanted to know. In the hearts of Confucian scholars like Chen Qingzhi, how did they evaluate Emperor Taizu, who claimed to be a believer in the making of wealth.

"The Emperor Taizu's dialect is indeed reasonable, but it cannot be said that it is all right." After a winter of rest, Chen Qingzhi regained his fair and handsome face. The elegant smell that oozed out of his bones in every move did not change at all.

"Oh, are you saying that Emperor Taizu was wrong?" Li Ang looked at Chen Qingzhi with interest, waiting for his explanation. He wanted to know what Chen Qingzhi would say below, but to his disappointment, Chen Qingzhi just smiled and said nothing, making him very bored, and had to turn the topic to the Lengyan Jia Nisega who brought nearly 50,000 slaves back to Kushan, "Do you think the Kushan will have a civil war as I thought?"

"The ability of Lengyan Jia Nisega is undoubtedly, but he is always a concubine, and his matriarchal lineage has no power. The only thing he can rely on is the army in his hands, but there is no support from local forces and civil servants. Without food and supplies, no matter how strong his army is, it is useless. If he wants to take the position of Supreme Kushan, he will have to cooperate with us. There is no second way to go." Speaking of Lengyan Jia Nisega, the Kushan brother-in-law, Chen Qingzhi only thought for a moment and said this.

"Then what about those people from the Futu Cult? What if they support him?" Throughout the winter, Li Ang learned a lot of things in the Kushan tribute team that he detained and converted to private property. At least the Futu Cult, which became the Kushan national religion, made him very concerned. Due to the western expedition of the Qin Dynasty, the doctrines of many religious people have undergone great changes over the past 150 years, and these religions no longer just spread faith. In Chang'an, these religions are foreign spies in the court, and among the people, Han people who converted to these religions are naturally regarded as treason. Until now, in addition to worshiping ancestors, the people of the Qin Dynasty were at most worshipping the gods of Taoism. Foreign religions had no soil to take root in the Qin Dynasty.

"Futu Cult?" Chen Qingzhi laughed contemptuously. As a Confucian scholar, what he disliked the most was the evil demons who were strangely powerful and messy. "One of their three great venerables died, but Lengyan Jia Nisega went back intact. Does the marshal think that their pope would not be suspicious?"

"It seems that Ziyun doesn't treat your brother-in-law as his own." Looking at Chen Qingzhi with a calm face, Li Ang also laughed. It was his idea to use the Lengyan Jia Nisega to make Kushan fall into a civil war.

"Since Lianjia is going to marry me, then she will be a member of the Qin Dynasty in the future. Kushan will never have anything to do with her anymore. Although Luangyan Jia Nisejia is my brother-in-law, he is always a Kushan. From the standpoint of the country, he is nothing to plot against him!" Chen Qingzhi didn't care about the so-called kinship relationship between him and Luangyan Jia Nisejia, and what he should do.

"The public and private are clear." Li Ang looked at Chen Qingzhi with a calm face and nodded in praise. This is Chen Qingzhi's strongest place. Public is public and private is private, and it will never be confused. Although he is a Confucian scholar and usually believes in Confucius and Mencius, he goes to the battlefield.

Like a Legal believer, he has a clear distinction between the enemy and the enemy and will never be merciless when fighting. The mistake that should be killed can be considered a very terrible person.

"Ziyun, I know that you came from a wealthy family in Jiangnan. According to your family's rules, as a legitimate family, you cannot take women from foreign tribes, but I still let them..." Li Ang's words were interrupted at this point. Chen Qingzhi knew what he wanted to say. His marriage with Lianjia could be said to be caused by Li Ang, in order to recruit him. He knew this very early, but he was not disgusted. And more importantly, Li Ang confessed to him now. It can be said that this is what he admired most. He could do so even if he was not convinced.

"Master, Ziyun will be chatting about your house in the future." Chen Qingzhi folded his body at Li Ang. In fact, he did not like his family that followed the rules. In his opinion, his elders who strictly followed etiquette did not understand what true Confucianism and Taoism were, and he did not like his marriage to be decided. With the promise of his elders, he spent the rest of his life with a woman he had never met.

Li Ang supported Chen Qingzhi. He never thought about hiding Chen Qingzhi. For Chen Qingzhi's wisdom in the future, he guessed that his heart would be the best to treat him with sincerity. Moreover, people like Chen Qingzhi seem to be indifferent to everything, but in fact they also have his pursuit in their hearts. This can be seen from the fact that he made many foreign friends when he was in the south.

"I will talk to him where Yongzeng." Chen Qingzhi was helplessly and then smiled. Ran Min's family had no relatives, so he could be said to be free of worries. As long as he spoke, he would definitely join Li Ang's family with him. He never doubted their friendship.

"No, I'll go to Yongzeng for this matter myself." Li Ang looked at Chen Qingzhi and said in a deep voice. Ran Min can be said to be the person he deserves to respect the most. This man is definitely not just a brave general. "I want to respect his decision."

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"It's good, please come and go!" Chen Qingzhi looked at Li Ang's gaze and knew that he would never change his mind. After thinking about it, he nodded. He knew that among the generals in Ran Min's heart, there was only one who could convince him except the old generation of old generals.

Walking out of the tent, Li Ang went straight to Ran Min's camp. It can be said that among the three people he wanted to get most in the army that he went to fight this time, Ran Min was the strongest man. Although his military use was not as good as Murong and his military strategy was not as good as Chen Qingzhi, he was a natural god of war and was born for the battlefield. As long as he solved the logistics, he would be the overlord on the battlefield. I am afraid that he would only compete with him.

Seeing Li Ang coming, Ran Min, who was wiping his weapons, was stunned for a moment, but soon he grinned and laughed, "What wind has blown the marshal!" As he said that, he put down the weapons in his hand and stood up to greet him, but when he saw the dragon teeth in Li Ang's hand, the smile on his face became happier.

"I've been in bed for a winter and my hands are itchy, so I'm here to find you." Li Ang stood at the tent and didn't go in. He just smiled at Ran Min, "It's better to go out to relax your muscles and bones."

"Okay!" Ran Min's eyes lit up, and he took his weapons and left the tent excitedly. Throughout the winter, Lingyan Jia Nisejia had accompanied him to enjoy his work. However, compared with Li Ang, Lingyan Jia Nisejia was still much worse. If Li Ang was not the commander of the current camp, Ran Min would have come to him long ago.

Both of them were all Shenjun, but in a short while, they had already arrived on a high slope outside the camp. Ran Min didn't talk nonsense, and directly dismounted, took his hook and halberd and double-edged spear, and wanted to fight with Li Ang. As for the horse battle, he didn't want to accompany him. Although his Zhulong horse was a BMW, it was still not as good as Li Ang's Zi Li. If he fought, he would suffer too much.

Jumping off the horse, Li Ang raised his dragon teeth and fought with Ran Min, who could not wait. Since he stepped onto the plateau, he has led his troops to fight several times, and his attainments in gun art have also made great progress, which is a bit stronger than before. But I don’t know how powerful these points are.

Jin Tie's sensation kept ringing. Every time Li Ang and Ran Min confronted each other, both sides used all their strength, and they took a fierce approach. The moves were so terrifying that the two soldiers watching on the side were frightened, fearing that they would lose both sides if they were accidentally injured.

After a long battle, the two stopped fighting. Ran Min even laughed to the sky, "It's so satisfying!" Since his martial arts reached its peak, he has never exerted ten percent of his strength in the competition with others, but today he fought evenly with Li Ang, which was very refreshing.

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