Chapter 43: The smog of Lingzhou rises again

The wind and rain finally stopped, and Chen Ying was so tired that he couldn't breathe. Now he felt that he didn't even have the strength to raise his hand. Li Daozhen and Chen Ying fell on the bed together.

Chen Ying didn't know how to face Li Daozhen, but now he took advantage, but even that promise could not be said. Chen Ying knew that silence was never a solution to the problem. The words he considered, murmured: "What are your plans in the future?"

While wearing clothes, Li Daozhen combed his messy hair with his hands and said softly: "In the troubled times, people's lives are like grass. I have to meet Chen Lang. This is why Daozhen has the honor of three lives..."

Chen Ying struggled to get up: "I mean... don't interrupt in the future!"

"Let's talk about the future...then we will talk about the future!" Li Daozhen looked slightly, turned her head to look at Chen Ying's handsome face. She reached out and stroked Chen Ying's face boldly, and said lightly: "I know what Chen Lang is concerned about. I will not stop you from being a prince consort..."

"You know, that's not what I mean!" Chen Yingjie shouted in a stern manner: "I, Chen Ying, are not a coward, are not a bastard who keeps her pants and refuses to admit her conspiracy!"

"Why, you men are so annoying. After taking advantage of each other, you think I should always be yours? A joke!" Li Daozhen said loudly: "I am not your good match, a good wife and mother, and the life of taking care of your husband and children is not suitable for me."

Chen Ying smiled bitterly and said, "What kind of life do you... want?"

"I want to be a queen!" Li Daozhen's dress was already put on. She jumped out of bed, her feet became soft, and she struggled to support the bed to maintain her balance: "I want to be a queen!"

Chen Ying smiled bitterly and said, "It is not a good time to be a queen."

What Chen Ying wanted to say is that if Li Daozhen was born during the reign of Li Zhi or during the reign of Wu Zetian, she might have been able to become the queen. However, in the era of Li Yuan and Li Shimin, this possibility was never possible.

Li Daozhen glanced at Chen Ying, her eyes full of firmness: "I must be the queen." Li Daozhen stroked his flat belly and said: "He must be the little prince!"

Chen Ying didn't know how to persuade Li Daozhen, but Li Daozhen left the bedroom without hesitation.

Chen Ying turned around and saw the mottled plum blossom on the bed sheet. Thinking back to the romance of last night, Chen Ying felt extremely ridiculous.

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Chen Ying returned to Chen's mansion with a huge dark circle. He saw that the Chen's mansion, which was still clamoring yesterday, became deserted at this time.

As long as Gao Wenjin was busy in the mansion, Chen Ying said: "Please invite Mr. Xu Jingzong and Xu..."

Gao Wenjin said: "Mr. Xu went to Qinglin early in the morning!"

Because of the money house, Chen Ying has not been to Qinglin for more than half a month. Chen Ying thought to himself that with Xu Jingzong coming to stare at him, the progress of Chenjiawu Fort will definitely not be slow.

Chen Ying said again: "Please invite Mr. Ma Zhou and Ma..." Chen Ying stood up and said: "Forget it, I'll go and invite it!"

Gao Wenjin said: "Mr. Mr. Ma has gone out of Chang'an City to find a shop that builds a money shop!"

Chen Ying sat dejectedly on the soft couch. The madness of last night had exhausted Chen Ying's physical strength. As the saying goes, there were only exhausted cows and no broken fields. Chen Ying's green cow was already in a state of depression. Chen Ying lay softly on the soft couch and fell asleep unconsciously.

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There are eighteen towns in Lingwu, and these eighteen towns are all Han slaves snatched back by Chen Ying from the Turks. Most of them are middle-aged women. If these women rely solely on farming, they will naturally not be as good as men. However, these women have experienced life-and-death lives and crawled out of the pile of dead people, and their minds are much stronger than ordinary men.

Using the loan Chen Ying lent to them in the name of the Tang Dynasty government, they bought seeds and ploughed tools, and finally survived the most difficult period of the first year. These women had been slaves to the Turks, and naturally experienced the kind of life they were like cattle and horses. For them, death was much easier than living.

But they all survived now, so naturally no one was willing to go back to the past.

Any of the surviving women is the strongest among women. They used Chen Ying's policies to obtain a large number of inferior knives, guns and some crossbows. During the busy farming period, except for a small number of women who used cashmere woven thread to weave cashmere cloth, most of them began to repair their fortresses, strengthen their whistle towers, and at the same time strengthened military training.

Especially when Li Daozong led the four Zhechong Prefectures of Dingyuan Army to leave Lingzhou, the heads and mayors of Lingwu Eighteen Town Forts suddenly felt the tense atmosphere in the air.

Song Wusao was the general of the 17th town of Lingwu and the only female general. Of course, in this era, it was very rare for women to be an official, but the position of a general does not belong to the official system of the Tang Dynasty court, but belongs to Chen Ying's private appointment, and the court will not recognize it.

The Eighteen Towns of Lingwu are divided into eighteen towns. The gap in the number of people between towns is not small, and the strength is not enough.

Song Wusao was from Qingzhou and was robbed to the Turks as a slave 17 years ago. Song Wusao survived the Turks by relying on her extraordinary leather tanning technique. It was a pity that her children all died at the hands of the Turks.

Since she was rescued by Chen Ying, she has not remarried, but is determined to take revenge. Although there are only 3,700 people in Lingwu Town, including more than 3,000 women, Song Wusao, as the mayor, organized a guardian of nearly 500 female soldiers, who usually relies on farming to make a living and train in slack farming.

If it weren't for the critical situation in Hedong, Chen Ying would have destroyed Liang Shidu. However, because he was concerned about Li Xiuning's safety, Chen Ying would have let Liang Shidu be at the end of his power.

After learning that Li Daozong had taken Dingyuan's army away, he was distracted. He was worried about being afraid. She was actually not worried about the Turkic attack. The Turkic people were already afraid of Chen Ying. They dared not to take the initiative to attack Lingzhou, but Liang Shiwu dared.

As the saying goes, you will come whatever you are afraid of.

On October 5, the seventh day after Li Daozong was transferred, Song Wusao received a complaint from Ding Mu Xiuling, the seventeenth Fort.

As Mu Xiuling cried, Song Wushao slowly understood what was going on.

Mu Xiuling is a fierce woman. Pingyang is also very harsh on her husband. If he disagrees, he will fight. But he never thought that Mu Xiuling's husband suddenly ran away from home last night and still has no trace yet.

At the beginning, Song Wushao wanted to persuade Mu Xiuling to be kind to her husband, but when Mu Xiuling said that her father-in-law was actually a native of Dangxiang, Xifeng Dayu.

The Dangxiang people were also defeated by Chen Ying and had hatred for extermination with the Tang people. If Xifeng Dayu did not run away, it means that he had given up his hatred. But at this time he had already run away, and he must have known that Li Daozong had already left Lingzhou with the four Zhechong Mansions of Dingyuan Army. Now Xifeng Dayu either ran to the Turks or defected to Liang Shidu.

Song Wushao hurriedly led the female cavalry to chase north, chasing for nearly a hundred miles, but no trace of Xifeng Dayu was found. Since Xifeng Dayu did not run towards the Turks, it was most likely to run to the capital of Liangshi in Yanzhou. Once Liangshi knew that Lingzhou was empty, Liangshi would never give up this good opportunity to take revenge.
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