After visiting Baishui City, Xue Hongqi's thoughts were greatly impacted. She could not understand or agree with Zhu Yuanzhang's actions, but most of the methods opened her eyes and gained a lot. Especially in the bustling city and streets, the spirited pedestrians were a grand scene that she had never seen for a long time.

As the drought has lasted for many years, although the year and this year are still a good year, the drought in the previous few years has consumed all the savings of the people. In addition, the government's urging and exploitation, many people cannot pay taxes. Therefore, almost everyone she saw in the places she had lived before was frowning and helpless.

But it is different here. People do not have the expression of bitter hatred on their faces. Everyone is full of hope for life. It is obvious that they all think tomorrow will be better.

In fact, the people really don’t ask for much. They just want to survive. During the year of severe drought, Zhu Yuanzhang’s words “This year’s tax exemption” can give them great courage, making them full of yearning for a happy future life.

Of course, such tax exemption also caused the economy of Zhu Yuanzhang's army to be very difficult, so we had to send Xu Renjie and Leng Feng to Luochuan and Pucheng, two unstolen counties, to collect "protection fees" from the gentry, and use the taxes of all the wealthy people in the surrounding counties to support the poor in Baishui and Chengcheng, as well as Zhu Yuanzhang's army. This is not a long-term solution, but can only be regarded as a plan of rights and interests, ensuring that the poor can survive the disaster year. When the disaster year is over, Zhu Yuanzhang must collect taxes.

In short, Xue Hongqi didn't understand these details. She only understood that the people in this place were enough to live happily, which made her admire Zhu Yuanzhang so much that she was full of admiration.

"I am really worthy of being Brother Zhu Ba in Baishui, and I am indeed the example of our Shaanxi rebel army." Xue Hongqi was not saying polite words: "When I capture Dali, I will come to Brother Zhu Ba in order to learn more."

"You are welcome to visit at any time." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled. He placed Xue Hongqi in Dali not only to let her guard the South Gate, but also to strengthen contact and prepare for the future annexation of her. In short, this trip brought her into Baishui City for a visit. There was also the smell of deliberately showing her strength to show her. To absorb a team of horse thieves who admired ziyou and did not want to be restrained, they had to be slowly soaked in one nail and one eye.

After sending Xue Hongqi out of Baishui, he headed east and arrived at Chengcheng. Although this place is not as prosperous as Baishui, it also has a new atmosphere, which made Xue Hongqi amazed. Of course, the old bachelor, Tsingsanlang, was suddenly shocked when he saw Xue Hongqi, and then joined the group of bachelors, Miao Mei and others, to be jealous.

He traveled south until he sent Xue Hongqi and his men to the junction between Dali and Chengcheng that Zhu Yuanzhang and others stopped.

"Miss Xue Hongqi, there is Dali's territory ahead. You just need to move straight south and you can walk to Dali City." Zhu Yuanzhang asked deliberately: "If I need my troops to help you, you just need to say something. My brothers here will help you attack the city."

He obviously stopped and told Xue Hongqi how to leave. He asked if he wanted to help. The meaning of this sentence was that he didn't want to help. Although Xue Hongqi was not smart, he still understood this kind of person-friendly accident. Zhu Yuanzhang asked her to join forces. She refused, and the others did not directly take action to annex her. Instead, introducing the place to be her neighbor is already a first-class loyalty. If she dared to hope that Huanglong Mountain Village would send troops to help her capture the territory, she would be too unlucky.

Xue Hongqi hugged and said, "If you fight the territory you want by yourself, you won't have to worry Brother Zhu Ba."

"Well," Zhu Yuanzhang nodded immediately and agreed, without saying anything like "must ask me to help you". He just hugged and said, "If you encounter difficulties in attacking Dali, you must come back to ask me for help. I don't want you to leave after failing to attack the city. That would be of no benefit to each other."

"Little sister can't help." Xue Hongqi pulled the reins of the horse, raised a whip, and the war horse rushed out of the ground. Two hundred horse riding thieves followed closely behind. When the red clothes were blown by the wind, they immediately flew up. The hero suddenly appeared, and her crisp voice came from the wind: "The green mountains do not change, the whip flows for a long time, we will have a date in the future."

"Sister, don't go so fast, wait for us." A city and Yi Duoyun quickly followed with the infantry team, and a large group of mobs were all over the mountains and fields towards Dali City in the south.

When Xue Hongqi's troops walked away, Zhu Yuanzhang turned around, waved his hand, summoned Xu Renjie and desperate Sanlang to his face, and asked in a low voice: "Report to me again, how is the situation of the officers and soldiers in Dali?"

Xu Renjie and Pinming Sanlang looked at each other, exchanged their eyes slightly, and Pinming Sanlang took the initiative to retreat and let Xu Renjie speak. He said to Zhu Yuanzhang proudly: "Brother Zhu, Dali is close to Tongguan, known as the Three Auxiliary Town, and the officers and soldiers attach great importance to this county. Since we made trouble in Huanglong Mountain, the officers and soldiers have been strengthening the defense of Dali, reorganizing several garrisons in the county, and filling up the missing soldiers... Xue Hongqi's headquarters is so full of mountains and fields, and will definitely immediately arouse the vigilance of the officers and soldiers. She cannot touch the city without knowing it without being discovered."

"Well...that is to say, when she walked to Dali City, all the guards had already shrunk into the city, waiting for her to attack." Zhu Yuanzhang chuckled: "How many are there?

Young soldiers”

Xu Renjie said seriously: "A hundred of the five hundred guards should be of the strong level of family soldiers. In addition, the gentry would gather about 1,000 soldiers of the village brave soldiers. The total strength of the soldiers may be about 1,500. Such troops rely on the city wall to defend the 4,000 mobs."

"Yeah," Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "It's very good, let Xue Hongqi taste the taste of defeat first. I will take Wang Er and Miao Mei and other brothers back to Baishui first. Grand Marshal, stay in Chengcheng, and after Xue Hongqi comes back, you will come forward to help her."

Xu Renjie knew that this was the meaning of Zhu Yuanzhang's full authority to appoint him to fight the Dali battle, and he was immediately overjoyed: "Brother Zhu, how many troops do you give me?"

"No one is given"

"Ah" Xu Renjie was shocked: "If I don't give me any, how can I fight Dali?"

Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice: "Why do you mobilize our soldiers to waste military rations and lose your brothers in vain? We don't do such a loss, so...you help Xue Hongqi alone."

"Wow, Brother Zhu, I'm not a monster like Wang Er," Xu Renjie said: "I can't win even if I fight against the enemy alone. You only send me to attack the city... This..."

"Who said you are alone?" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "Aren't Xue Hongqi's soldiers soldiers? You just scoop her soldiers to fight this battle. Use my brain more... You handled Luochuan's affairs this time very stupidly, and almost turned into a three-party war... It was caused by the fact that my brain was too long and not flexible enough. The attack on Dali was regarded as your test. If you were not doing beautifully this time, I will let Brother Leng Feng take over all the work you have in your hands in the future..."

"Ah..." Xu Renjie was stunned for a moment. It turned out that Luo Chuan was not doing well enough, which made Brother Zhu angry. It was no wonder that I should be able to see through such a stupid lie of 108,000 taels. Brother Zhu was a little disappointed with me, so this time he scooped Dali to test me. I must not let Luo Chuan's stupid things happen again, otherwise my military power would be snatched away by Leng Feng.

Xu Renjie was a complete military fan. If he didn't let him fight in the future, it would be better to call him to die. He became nervous and quickly turned his mind to consider how he would use a group of black-lived people to attack Dali City after Xue Hongqi retreated. This thought made him fascinated... Until Zhu Yuanzhang, Wang Er and others disappeared on the horizon in the northwest direction, he was still thinking hard.

Saburo walked over, patted his shoulder, and smiled and said, "Let's go, you have to stay with me in Chengcheng for a while."

Xu Renjie woke up and smiled embarrassedly, "It turns out it's Brother Sanlang. Oh, every time I let you see me embarrassing."

The desperate samurai laughed: "What stupid things are you saying? I was seen by you when I made a fool of myself."

The two of them were talking about the battle of Du Wenhuan attacking Huanglong Mountain. They were responsible for defending the No. 3 branch. As a result, both of them were bombarded by the Shenji Camp and fled. Fortunately, they were not criticized by Brother Zhu in that defeat, but instead were entrusted with important tasks. It was precisely because of this battle that the two had formed a relatively deep friendship.

"Let's go, stay in my mansion in Chengcheng for two days, I'll invite you to drink." The desperate Saburo pulled Xu Renjie away.

"I don't have time to drink now. I have to think about it carefully and use what methods to break the city." Xu Renjie clenched his head.

"This kind of thing will come to mind when you get drunk."

"Stop coaxing me. If you get drunk, you will only sleep soundly. Where can you think about your plan?"

"Oh, haven't you seen a lot of soldiers? Thirty-six strategies, Sun Tzu's Art of War, etc., scooped them out and used them all. It's not a trivial matter in just Dali City."

"I said Brother Sanlang, those soldiers are fooling people... They are all ancient examples, and they have never used any suitable one until now." Xu Renjie tried his best to snatch his head: "The strategy must be based on his own actual situation and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy and us... Oh, in short, I'm so troublesome."

"I will help you analyze the enemy and me." Sanlang laughed desperately and said, "The enemy is an officer and soldier, with a city with 1,500 soldiers. As for us, there are four thousand gangs and a master of Mi Shang, hahaha..."

"Shh... I'm Mi Shang's business," Xu Renjie quickly covered the desperately Saburo's mouth.

The two of them were fighting and slamming back to the city. The poor Xu Renjie was full of thoughts...

This weekend, the grammar is not enough, so there is only one update in the past two days. Next Monday, please understand...
Chapter completed!