Chapter 1217: sibling rivalry

Chapter 1217: sibling rivalry

  Chapter 1217 The battle between brothers

   "I have been suffering from a lot of headaches these days, and I want to rest in peace for a while. As soon as the military and state affairs are handled by the prince, don't bother me."

   After Li Shimin finished his confession, he kneaded his head and asked the prince and several prime ministers to step down.

   "My son, please give me a side room next to my father's palace, so that I can serve herbal meals."

   "I have received your filial piety, but I just want to be quiet. In a few days, I may have to leave Luo for a tour, so you can watch the country and regent with peace of mind." After speaking, the emperor waved his hand impatiently.

   "My son and minister stepped down."

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  Li Shimin was the only one left in the hall. He got up and went to the side of the hall, where there was a portrait of Empress Wende, which was made by the brothers of the Yan family, and the portrait was lifelike.

  Looking at the portrait of his dead wife, Li Shimin couldn't help crying.

   "I didn't expect Qingque to be like this, but Chengqian has grown up. Now I exile Qingque to the Southern Barbarian Land, I hope he can live a stable life there."

   "I have cleared the way for Chengqian, I hope he can be a good emperor in the future!"

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   Luzon.

  The black sand castle has begun to take shape. Under the rush of thousands of island captives, a castle was built at the mouth of the sea and estuary, with rammed earth as the wall.

  The exterior wall is made of glutinous rice, lime, egg white and soil, and the interior is made of yellow wood and fir.

  It is like a huge circle located at the mouth of the seaside, with a diameter of 25 feet and a corridor circumference of 73 feet. The whole building has three floors and a center, and the outer ring has four floors. The second circle has two floors, with forty rooms on each floor, and the third circle has a single floor, with thirty-two rooms.

  The center is the meeting hall, with a total of 400 rooms in the whole building, covering an area of ​​more than ten acres.

  The ground floor is the kitchen and dining room, the second floor is the warehouse, and the third and fourth floors are living rooms.

  There are also facilities such as wells, bathrooms, and mills in the building.

   There is also an observation deck on the highest floor.

  There is only one door in the tulou, which is made of miscellaneous wood several inches thick, with iron plates nailed on the outside, and a fireproof water tank is installed on the door.

  The outer walls of the first and second floors are not pierced, and the outer walls of the third and fourth floors are pierced, which can not only provide ventilation and lighting, but also facilitate the blocking of invading enemies.

  The entire earth building may not seem large, but it has extremely defensive functions. The area of ​​one or two large houses can accommodate thousands of people.

  This is more suitable for settlements in colonies than ordinary watchtowers. After all, ordinary watchtowers can only accommodate a few people, but such earthen buildings can accommodate more people.

   Around the earth building, some pig pens, cattle pens and firewood houses were built.

  Cun En and others stood in the newly completed earthen building and couldn't help sighing, "This is more suitable for this place than the dock wall in the north."

   "Well, it's a good thing. It can be fully promoted. Farms, mines, etc. can also promote this kind of earth building. It can accommodate a lot and live comfortably."

  A big storm that just passed uprooted many big trees, but it didn't shake the Tulou at all. Even in this sweltering weather, the tulou is actually quite shady.

   "Brother Yi can also build this earth building on his own territory." Qin Jun smiled.

   In the commendation order from San Francisco, Qin Lang expressed his appreciation for the results of their actions. Before that, he rewarded 200,000 mu of land and distributed it to the soldiers.

   Then this time, Qin Jun, Cun En Cunyi and many other officers were given special awards. For example, Qin Jun won a ten-mile territory, which is not an ordinary field, but a territory, a private territory with many privileges.

This territory is located on the corner extending from the southeast of Heisha County. This territory is about ten miles long and ten miles wide. The total area is equivalent to nearly 40,000 mu of land. There are many mountains in it. There are more than ten thousand mu.

  The two brothers, Cun En and Cun Yi, also each obtained a territory of several miles, including about 3,000 mu of arable land.

Below them, there are still many people who have acquired territories, ranging from three to five hundred acres to one or two thousand acres. Although the acquired territories are not located in the center of the Heisha Plain, but in some surrounding seasides or valleys at the foot of the mountains, etc., But it is territory after all.

  The territory is much stronger than the general Yongyetian.

To Qin Lang, this seemed a bit too generous a reward, but in fact it was for everyone to share the benefits. After all, Lu Song was so big that it was impossible for Qin Lang to monopolize it all, so he laid down a piece of land and appropriated some of it to share the rewards with others. Everyone, this is also very necessary.

  Qin Lang set up a county in Heisha, and set up five townships under it. The counties and townships will be managed by officials assigned by Qin Lang.

  The conferred territory serves as the fiefdom of the retainers, and the territory is self-governing, but it still has to accept the management of the county and township.

   "The castle has also been built, divide the captives, and let's each go to receive their own territory, Yongyetian." Qin Jun laughed.

In fact, everyone has been busy building castles in one county and five townships during this time, and they still have to prevent the natives from coming back. Fortunately, the natives from Heisha did not come back, because their plan to rally and attack San Francisco failed. Qin Lang Send people to copy the hometowns of various ministries, while defending the fortresses in San Francisco and the surrounding areas, luring the natives to go deeper step by step.

  When the natives thought that Qin Lang was afraid of them, it turned out that Qin Lang was waiting for the typhoon.

  After a typhoon, the rain soared, and the natives were cut off in several places by the river flood, and they were at a loss. Qin Lang took the opportunity to send troops to counterattack by boat.

  The Qin family's army has the advantage of ships, they come and go, they come and go, and they don't give the natives the kind of chance to fight head-on.

  The natives failed to reach the city of San Francisco, and Qin Lang had already collapsed.

  In the rainy season, there are many typhoons and rains, and they have assembled so many people, but they have never been able to have a command structure with authority. When encountering some issues, everyone needs to discuss them together, and sometimes they have to argue for several days for small matters.

  And when they gathered more and more people and began to move towards San Francisco, their latter problems were also exposed, such as logistical supply problems and so on.

  Facing the Qin family's combat mode of deliberately showing weakness to the enemy in the early stage, then luring the enemy deep, and then sending troops around to search the house, and sending troops and small groups of boats to harass them layer by layer, they were stunned and had no way to deal with it.

  The Barangay galleons or canoes of the natives were no match for the Qin family at all.

   Not to mention that the Qin family still has cavalry and strong bows and crossbows. When fighting, the native soldiers who lack armor and bows are often defeated in one blow. Although there are many people, they still use the village as a unit, and there is no cooperation at all.

Cun'en and the others easily raided the homes of the natives in the Heisha Plain and the surrounding areas, and captured tens of thousands of natives, and there was not only one such team, there were also seven troops who attacked Maye, Yancheng, Lancheng and other places. There are eight people, or five or six hundred, or one or two thousand people. But they are all invincible, and they are invincible all the way.

Cun En's road is already the strongest road. They dispatched a total of 3,800 soldiers and more than 2,000 auxiliary soldiers. After they went south, they were busy marching and capturing prisoners at first, and then they kept building The castle is gone.

   Except for the battle that Cun En fought in the Blood River, which could barely be called a battle, he basically encountered no resistance.

   "It is estimated that the students did not expect this time to send troops with great expectations, but in the end they ended up taking prisoners, building earthen buildings and harvesting rice."

  Qin Jun smiled and said, "Looking at this earthen building and the full grain in the building, isn't it satisfying? What's more, we have conquered such a large area and captured nearly 10,000 indigenous people."

Cunxian was a little dissatisfied, "I heard that the troops in the attacking wild goose city consisted of a total of 1,900 soldiers, with several hundred auxiliary soldiers. Dividing the troops, not only quickly took down the Yancheng River Valley, but also divided the troops to seize the territory on the left and right sides.

Among them, the farthest on the right ran to more than two hundred miles away from Yancheng, and the striker on the left also ran to another river mouth only ten miles away from our blood river mouth. If our cavalry did not stop them, they would have been able to They also occupied our Blood River Mouth. "

  Cun En said helplessly, "You also know that Cunzhong is leading the team in Yancheng, this guy is more fierce."

Cunzhong is the son of Mrs. Anong. He was trained in Habayashi Palace earlier than them. Before he came to Luzon, he had already been the captain of Guoyi in Zhechong Prefecture, and he had made a lot of real combat achievements in Nanzhongli .

He led a much more radical team than Cun En and the others. Cun En and the others led two Yuhou troops, including Xuebing, with a total of 3,800 soldiers, with a total of more than 6,000 troops, while Cun Zhong only brought 2,000 people. After landing at Yancheng Port and taking down Yancheng, they went north along the river valley and seized more than a hundred miles. They were almost at the gate of Lancheng, and they could see the back lake.

   This made Jia Wu, who was in charge of attacking Lancheng, very dissatisfied, thinking that Cunzhong was too much. Originally, Bailihegu should be half of the family, but he almost took it all, and almost robbed Lancheng.

After being protested by Jia Wu, Cunzhong left Lancheng to Jia Wu, but he monopolized 100 miles of the 120-mile valley, and then divided his troops to attack in two directions from east to west, directly attacking in teams, grabbing The ground grabbed and flew up. Along the coastal plain, enclosures everywhere.

  Anyway, now they occupy the entire Yancheng Peninsula, not to mention, they have even occupied several strongholds on the east coast.

   There is a long and narrow peninsula of 600 miles to the southeast, which was cut off by Cunzhong's troops.

"Don't worry about them, the anti-justice father has also ordered to divide the Yancheng Peninsula into two. The west is our Heisha County, and the east is their Yancheng County. The river between them is the boundary, so they crossed the boundary for more than thirty miles."

   "I heard that Cun Zhong has ordered the captives to build a pier and a castle on the Yanhu River."

   "Then let's build it in the past, and we agreed to use the river mouth as the boundary. If they are allowed to build piers and build cities at the river mouth, they will probably occupy the boundary again in the future."

   "But they're already building it."

   "Let's build our own, just across the river."

  Although everyone is a family, and Cunzhong, Cunxian, etc. are still righteous brothers, but there is still competition within the company.

After a brief discussion, Cun En and others agreed that there is no rush to divide the captives, and no rush to go back to take over their own territory to build earthen buildings and cultivate fields. Cunzhong quickly called back all those who crossed the line.

   "No matter how much he encloses the land in the east, we can't control it, but the west of Yanhu River is the boundary of our Heisha County. How can we let him occupy it?"

   They sent the largest number of troops this time, and if they couldn't even keep such a small amount of victory, there would be no place to put their face, and they had to get it back.

  (end of this chapter)