Valley Emperor

At the foot of Huangzhu Mountain, rows of brand-new wooden houses have been erected. Although these wooden houses are quite simple, people doubt whether they can shelter from the wind and rain, but finally hundreds of people who have moved in have settled down.

"General Fang has sent someone to reply, saying that they have got rid of the pursuit of officers and soldiers, and they will be able to return within three days. After General Fang and the others bring people back, our defense of Huangzhu Mountain can be greatly strengthened. At that time, Xia Mang and other staff will be available. It can also be more abundant!" When Liu Bagou spoke, he occasionally raised his head to look at Li Xuan, who was sitting on top.

At this moment, Li Xuan is wearing a yellow robe with a nondescript dragon pattern embroidered on the yellow robe. He is sitting on the 'dragon chair' at the top. Well, it is actually an ordinary piece of paper. Wooden Taishi chair.

Li Xuan dressed like this is not the first time Liu Bagou has seen him. In fact, since Li Xuan 'ascended the throne' many days ago, he has been wearing a yellow robe with a dragon pattern.

It's just that today Liu Bagou felt that Li Xuan was not the same as usual.

He did not listen casually as usual, but listened very carefully, as if he was thinking while listening.

Seeing Li Xuan's appearance, Liu Bagou showed a hint of relief. It seemed that his young master finally knew the importance of the Sheji and was willing to take the responsibility on his shoulders: to be a good emperor!

It's just that Liu Bagou didn't know that Li Xuan didn't actually listen carefully to what Liu Bagou said, but was thinking about how to strengthen the combat effectiveness of these bandits under his command to resist the attack of officers and soldiers who might arrive in the near future. .

After so many days of tossing and turning, Li Xuan is also a little resigned. Since Liu Bagou and the others are going crazy and want to play a rebellion, then Li Xuan also intends to accompany them in this drama when he has no other better choice. To continue to play.

Anyway, things have gotten to the extreme, and no matter how bad they are, they can't get there.

With this kind of mentality, Li Xuan began to think seriously: How should this road of rebellion be taken?

Is it to learn from Zhu Chongba to play with the accumulation of grain and delay the claim to the king, or to learn from Taizu's rural encirclement of cities, or to learn from Li Zicheng and other uprising troops in the late Ming Dynasty to encircle the people.

But what he knew very well, no matter what strategy he planned in the future, the most important thing at the moment was to improve the combat effectiveness of the bandits in Huangzhu Mountain, at least to be able to stop the officers and soldiers from advancing.

Otherwise, whether studying Zhu Chongba or Taizu, or studying Li ZiCD is a castle in the air, there is no way to tell.

So in the past few days, he has been thinking about how to improve the combat effectiveness of the bandits.

After realizing that Liu Bagou's words had stopped, Li Xuan came back to his senses and said, "Oh, General Fang is coming back soon, just come back!"

Having said that, Li Xuan continued: "The weather has been bad in the past two days, and I'm afraid it will rain heavily. Prime Minister, you should pay more attention to the following situation, so that the fields will not be flooded and the houses will leak!"

Liu Bagou said: "Your Majesty is so concerned about the comfort of the people, it is the wealth of the people in the world, please put it down, the ministers have already begun to arrange for people to dredge the streams and build flood control dams in the past two days. It will affect the growth of crops in the fields!"

Speaking of this time, he seemed to remember something, and then said: "It's just that even if the harvest is successful this summer, I'm afraid we won't have enough food!"

Li Xuan said: "Oh? Not enough food?"

Liu Bagou said: "Yes, we don't have enough food. When we left, we left in a hurry, and we only had time to bring a small amount of food. We couldn't bring out the food reserves in the cottage. This morning, I left. The people who were sent to check on the cottage came back and said that the food had been taken away by the officers and soldiers!"

"They don't have enough food on the Huangzhu Mountain side. Even if they harvest the food in summer, it will not be enough for all of us to eat the autumn harvest."

Li Xuan frowned when he heard this.

No matter what era it is, eating will always be the biggest problem. Although there is a batch of grain ready to be harvested here in Huangzhu Mountain, the planting area is not large, enough to feed more than 100 people in Huangzhu Mountain.

If there are more than 300 people, it is equivalent to a food for three people, it is obvious that the food is not enough.

"What can you do, Prime Minister?" Li Xuan asked.

Liu Bagou said, "The solution now is to buy it from outside!"

But after he finished speaking, Butcher Chen, who didn't speak for a long time, said: "How can we have so much money to buy grain, if you want me to say, let's just rob Shuilongzhai, then Wang Wenhua didn't say that. , Shuilongzhai not only has a lot of wealth accumulated in the past ten years, but also robbed a farm not long ago and obtained a lot of grain! If we can grab this batch of grain, it will be enough to support us until then The autumn harvest is here!"

Liu Bagou said: "This is not right. Although the strength of Shuilongzhai is less than that of our Tang Dynasty, Wang Wenhua also said that the cottage of Shuilongzhai is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is not easy for us to attack. The vitality is severely damaged, and it is the time when you need to work hard and save your strength, UU reading www.uukanshu.com rashly going to war at this time is too risky!"

Li Xuan also remembered that there is another Water Dragon Village. He did not clearly agree with or oppose the attack on the Water Dragon Village. He was more concerned about the fighting power of these bandits in Huangzhu Mountain. Fiasco.

For example, if the few elite soldiers represented by Butcher Chen were killed first during the war, there would only be one fate for all the bandits in Huangzhu Mountain, that is, the entire army would collapse and then run for their lives.

This kind of thing, the people of Shuilongzhai have already practiced for Li Xuan.

After seeing the battles between the bandits these days, Li Xuan really couldn't have much confidence in the combat effectiveness of these bandits.

Immediately, he said, "We will discuss this matter when General Fang returns!"

You must know that Fang Dongquan is the leader of the bandits, he is the leader of the bandits, and Li Xuan, Liu Bagou and others are just outsiders. Without Fang Dongquan's support, Li Xuan and Liu Bagou said No matter how much, it is actually useless.

Fang Dongquan came back a day later than everyone estimated. On the fourth day, Fang Dongquan returned to Huangzhu Mountain with a large group of bandits.

The return of Fang Dongquan leading the main bandits also reassured many old and weak women and children in Huangzhu Mountain. On the one hand, they don't have to worry about their father, husband, and son being killed or injured. Bandits, then the defense of Huangzhu Mountain has been greatly strengthened, and things like the attack on Shuilongzhai can be avoided.

After Fang Dongquan came back, Liu Bagou and Butcher Chen couldn't wait to find him to discuss whether to attack Shuilong Village.

And when these people were discussing military affairs, Li Xuan also began to try to change the era!