"Dongjiang soldiers? Why aren't there?" Li Mingli smiled and said, "I came here once a month ago. I raided a Guanzhuang and killed more than ten people, including five people from Zhen Manchu, and one of them was white armored. I heard that I was old and almost fifty years old, and I was covered with injuries and was cared for in the village. I was considered to be guarding here. There was a white armored person who thought there was nothing wrong, but he was killed."

Cao Zhenyan said deliberately: "This seems to be very different from Dongjiang's style."

"It's different." Li Mingli thought, "To be honest, it's more like the Hutchison Merchants Army on the Thirteen Mountains... I heard that it was a heavy armored infantry. They raided across the river by boat. They cooperated well. With a thunder attack, they rushed into the village with heavy infantry. The white armor and armor were not reacted, and the opponent had no losses. They beheaded and stripped. Because of this, Jia Laezhen was furious. Several Niu Luezhen were severely scolded. The Han army was also ordered to be on the river for a long time, which was called a panic."

"Can you defend yourself?"

"It's hard." Li Mingli said calmly: "We're here to a wall fort, Qinghe Fort behind us. After crossing the river, Gushan Fort is Gushan Fort. Further ahead are all controlled by the Dadien and Kuandian Forts. Our army can only enter the clearance by chance. When our army enters, they sneak into the dense forest. When our army comes out, they come out to harass. Now from Niumao Village to this side, few people dare to hunt or pick fruits and dig ginseng within hundreds of miles. Further south, there are all majestic and steep mountains. We only control Tianshuijing Station and Lianshan Pass, and Phoenix City further south. The rest are controlled by the Dongjiang River. As far as the sea is the territory of others, we can only sigh at the sea."

"Marriage Army." Cao Zhenyan deliberately showed an angry look on his face and said, "Sooner or later, we will settle the account of Shisanshan with them."

"No need to do this." Li Mingli hesitated for a moment and advised: "Each person is his own leader, the soldiers are in danger. Brother, you don't have to think about showing off in this matter. It is important to keep our own safety."

Cao Zhenyan tried several times but was unable to get the point and could only drink with peace of mind. He was originally a good drinker and loved to drink. Li Mingli had a lot of alcohol. The two of them drank with all their strength. After a while, they drank too much. Li Mingli helped Cao Zhenyan to sleep in the wing room, and before he went out, he heard loud snoring.

"Brother Cao is so generous." When Li Mingli returned to the stove, Da Ya happily pointed to a bunch of things in the corner of the wall and said, "Two dou of rice, two pieces of cloth, a sheep's head, ten kilograms of pork, and four frozen chickens, it's enough for us to eat for a while."

"This rice is used for the inspection of the year," Li Mingli said: "The four dots in our family and the two dots now are sealed. Five dots cannot be eaten. There is still more than one dot to eat before and after the New Year..."

"ah?"

Both Da Ya and his daughter were shocked. A dou of more than 20 kilograms of grain was less than 20 kilograms. Now there are two months left before the New Year, which means that 20 kilograms of grain had to be eaten for two months.

"This is definitely not enough." Li Mingli said calmly: "Save the sheep's head for Da Ya during confinement. Chicken and pork can be exchanged for half a stone of grain. I will exchange it tomorrow... I still have fish to eat, so my mother-in-law and I usually eat more frugal, so Da Ya will always be fine."

The family of three knew that this was a forced solution. Li Mingli was a living person and food must be guaranteed. However, meat is not a necessary thing. The advantage of eating meat is that people can live healthier, and eating miscellaneous grains can also work, just burning their own vitality.

Ordinary people don’t understand this truth, but hard work and hard work are obvious, and everyone knows that this is a necessary solution...

"Can you ask Brother Cao to help more?" Da Ya said hesitantly.

"Don't be fooled." Li Mingli would not blame his wife. As a person who built a family, he made his wife worried, and he felt ashamed. He was just very firm at the moment: "The Cao family is indeed a big family and a heavy burden. After surrendering, he has no size of land, and the rewards are limited. After all, they are generals of the Han army. They are always behind the back of the formation, and they are not in charge of grabbing things. They have always lived on their previous family background. There are many relatives and friends who need help, and their lives are not as easy as they think..."

Da Ya didn't say anything. She knew that her husband was talking about the facts, but the dilemma was right in front of her, just like a black hole, the family was covered with food in the hoard, the smoked fish hung under the eaves, the stove had enough firewood, the ground planting, and the strong men supported the door of this small family. However, all luck would come to an abrupt end at this time, just because of the small thought of the upper nobles turning at will?

Da Ya looked at Li Mingli with tears in her eyes and choked, "What else can I do?"

"See walking." Li Mingli said: "Brother Cao asked me to welcome more Niu Luezhen from Guanzhuang. It seems that this is the only way. First, set up a household with grain, and then try to settle down. If it really doesn't work..."

Li Mingli looked at his mother-in-law and his wife, gritted his teeth and said, "Da Ya is going to give birth, so we should focus on stability in everything."

At night, Li Mingli and Cao Zhenyan fell asleep. He was not at ease and woke up several times by nightmare.

Li Mingli wanted to wake up Cao Zhenyan and tell him his thoughts... The Later Jin Dynasty was cruel and unkind. Dongjiang Town heard that it was very difficult. Li Mingli had never taken Da Ya's family to escape. The main reason was that he could still live a stable life in the Later Jin Dynasty. He was brave and good at fighting like a flag-raising man, and there were always some available points. The Han army would also work hard for the Jurchens, so the superiors should consider leaving a part of the strong and brave Han army to enrich the camp. Li Mingli had no idea about his past, and survived and made his family live a better life. This is the only thing he should do and should do now.

As a result, the tree wanted to be quiet but the wind did not stop. The national policy of the Later Jin Dynasty seemed to be to drive away the Han people who could not create benefits, leave a few Han soldiers and Han people to serve as slaves for the Jurchens, and use the most rigorous methods to exploit the Han army... From then on, the Han army will no longer exist, swords, guns, bows and arrows are useless, only hoes and plowing oxen. In this way, the future situation will definitely be even more cruel and difficult.

Li Mingli was confused. He was calm in front of Ding and Da Ya, but in fact he was extremely distressed. He didn't know what the future would be, and what would he do?

He really didn't have this idea when he went to Dongjiang.

Although Dongjiang is not going to eat with children, hunger and cold are inevitable. In the past, Dongjiang soldiers came to spread rumors or were caught with poisoning. They were all dressed in rags, pale and thin skin. They didn’t want to talk about the matter in Dongjiang. Through a lot of news, they had a miserable life in the fleeing Liao people in Dongjiang. Hundreds of thousands of people lived in Yizhou, Tieshan to Pi Island. There were quite a few people who died of cold and hunger. It was also very hard to barely settle down. Train farming and raising soldiers is not as simple as saying, but it means blood and sweat, and other people’s blood and sweat. What if it were their own family?

If Li Mingli had only himself, he would have run away long ago. With his skills, he could have survived, and even became an officer...

Sometimes Li Mingli felt that he was trapped in a vicious circle, and whirlpools after whirlpools were pulled by him, asking him to keep struggling in the whirlpools. The more he tried hard, the more he could not break free. He didn't know that this was the tide of the times. Sometimes his personal efforts were so pale and ridiculous under the tide of the times... He injured his leg and did not run away, and everything changed drastically...

When he was in a daze in the middle of the night, Li Mingli thought of the old team officer Yang Yi, Zhou Daniu and Cheng Fang. He didn't know how they were now, but he thought he would be easier than he did...

Cao Zhenyan got up when the rooster crowed in the morning. He and Li Mingli said goodbye. As the 14th Prince's coat, Cao Zhenyan's life is not so free, and he often can't help it.

Due to disappointment with Li Mingli's reaction, Cao Zhenyan did not mention calling Li Mingli a spy. He was afraid that this elder brother would refuse, so he would not be able to turn things around in the future.

It is impossible that I am not worried that Li Mingli will betray him.

Before leaving, Cao Zhenyan left ten taels of silver for Li Mingli, but in fact he could keep more... Hutchison had a secret intelligence point on the Houjin side. Its function was not to send out intelligence or collect intelligence, which was quite difficult. This point had only one function, and it was only used to provide funds to the spies within the Houjin. As for collecting and sending out intelligence, it was the affairs of the spies. They could only collect the money at a fixed time and place. They would cut off the single-line connections. Spies like Cao Zhenyan did not contact anyone. They did not have their own online or horizontal colleagues. They could only develop downlines according to their own abilities, whether they developed personnel, whether they sent out intelligence, and how much effective intelligence they finally sent out. This is the standard for measuring whether the spy was successful.

Cao Zhenyan is an ambitious young man. He is determined to do this well. Li Mingli is the best offline candidate he likes, but he still needs to observe whether it can really develop into it.

"Take care, brother!"

"Brother, stay!"

The two brothers held their fists at the entrance of the village and said goodbye. The inside and outside the entrance of the village were snow-white. This time, heavy snow almost covered the entire northern China. People did not know that from the fifth to the sixth year of the Tianqi period, another extremely large-scale famine was about to hit. From the Wanli period and continued until the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, the Little Ice Age, which lasted for more than 40 years, made the Northern China have the same extremely cold weather every year, with severe cold winters and drought in spring and summer.

It snowed all night long, and when Cao Zhenyan led his mount out of the village, the snow had already disappeared.

It was far from the entrance of the village. Cao Zhenyan saw that the entrance of the village where Li Mingli was located was deserted. He adjusted his horse's head and began to speed in another direction.
Chapter completed!