While Li Ye was tearing the dried meat with his hands and making tea, two kittens had sneaked in.

Covering Li Ye's eyes from behind, Yueying said softly: "Guess who I am?"

Li Ye was very happy and pretended to guess hard for a long time before replying: "I guess you are Mu Mu."

Mu Mu, who was sitting opposite, complained loudly, looked at him with disgust and said, "You clearly know that I have stopped playing this kind of game with you for a long time. You did it on purpose."

Li Ye smiled and ignored her, but pulled Yueying to sit down next to him.

He took her little hand and said, "Brother likes your changes very much. Since the day you followed Mu Mu and me, my biggest wish is to make you a confident and happy girl. This is also true when I teach you to practice."

Hearing Li Ye say such words, Mu Mu nodded thoughtfully.

He smiled thoughtfully: "Brother is right, sister, don't worry, in a few years, Mu Mu will think of a way to get you a princess or something."

Li Ye made a "puff" sound and couldn't help but spit out the sip of hot tea he just drank on the ground.

He smiled and said, "Mu Mu, please don't mislead her. Do you think this princess is just a cabbage? It would be good if you teach her to practice well. When she reaches the golden elixir realm like you, all her confidence will naturally come back."

Mu Mu glared at him and yelled: "I'm talking about something serious and you interrupt me. Believe it or not, I won't have class tomorrow and will go to open up wasteland with you?"

Yueying sat next to Li Ye, covering her mouth and giggling.

After returning to Nanyun City from the wasteland for more than a month, with the efforts of Li Ye and Mu Mu, she finally became a happy girl who had been depressed due to the loss of her father.

Touching her black hair, Li Ye sighed and said: "I have been digging for a long time and missed lunch. I am really hungry. I will let your mother cook some delicious food later. I want to comfort you."

Give yourself a break."

Yueying nodded and was about to run to the kitchen when Li Ye grabbed her and asked: "Where is the ring I gave you yesterday? Did my sister teach you to use it?"

Yueying nodded, stretched out her little hand, and pulled out a red rope from her neck, with a space ring tied to it.

Li Ye nodded and said softly: "This ring is indeed not suitable for you. It will be more convenient for me to find a bracelet similar to Mu Mu's when I return to the Imperial City."

Yueying nodded and ran out the door on tiptoes.

Before Li Ye and Mu Mu could drink two cups of hot tea, Nalan Yu walked in.

Without waiting for Li Ye to pour him tea, he took a teacup from the table, poured it in and took a sip.

"Some soldiers reported that this frozen land is too hard and the efficiency of excavation is too low. I want you to think of a way!"

After drinking half a cup of hot tea and sitting down against the table, Nalanyu started talking.

Li Ye lowered his head and recalled the scene in the wasteland in the morning, thinking that the frozen land was indeed very hard during excavation.

Even if there are many people, they can't dig much, which is a troublesome thing.

Weapons can be improved, but land reclamation is out of his control. After spring, he still hopes to plant seeds immediately, and then concentrate on dealing with the attacks of the grassland tribes.

Just when he was thinking that everything was ready, he suddenly encountered such a big and small trouble, which made him have a headache.

Mu Mu, who was sitting nearby eating melon seeds, raised his head and thought about it.

Looking at the two people, he said: "I heard from Sister Yueying that some people in their grassland also plant highland barley. Before planting, the tribesmen will set a fire on the land to be planted to burn up the weeds on it to make fertilizer. Is it possible that in this wilderness?

Isn’t it possible to cultivate land?”

Li Ye and Nalan Yu were startled. Li Ye turned to look at Nalan Yu and asked, "Where are the miscellaneous trees that were cut down today?"

"They're all piled up on the wasteland. It's so big that there's no room for them to be piled up!" Nalan Yu blurted out.

Li Ye nodded, thought for a long time, looked at Nalan Yu and said, "Revise the plan. Starting from tomorrow, we will set fire to clear the land in the morning and start digging in the afternoon. One day to clear the land and one day to train. If there is not enough firewood, we will send people to far away places."

Cut back a little bit."

When Nalanyu heard this, he thought about it and exclaimed: "This is a good method. It can melt the frozen soil and fertilize the land. This will save a lot of fertilizer for sowing after spring."

"Just arrange it like this, let the army clear the land for one day and train for the other day. This will also facilitate the scheduling of training."

Li Ye looked at Nalan Yu and smiled: "I'll ask my brother to arrange this when I get back tonight."

For Li Ye, the formations in "Sun Tzu's Art of War" given by his husband were already familiar and could be picked up at any time.

But the terrain outside Nanyun City limited his imagination. The hundreds of miles from the Third Town of Xiaguan to Nanyun City, there was not much terrain for him to arrange his troops.

Especially outside Nanyun City, it was extremely narrow, so he had no choice but to make calculations and calculations on this three-thirds of an acre of land.

He believed that with the current ten-foot-wide moat, the secret plots in the ten-mile wilderness, and the improvement of weapons, he could keep the cavalry of the grassland tribes away from Nanyun City.

What is left is to fight a killing war, and both sides waste not only their combat power, but also the huge consumption of food and grass.

He is confident that if the wasteland outside Nanyun City is reclaimed, the food and grass alone can solve the problem of Nanyun City's 100,000 troops.

Mu Mu looked at the silent Li Ye and couldn't help but wave her hand in front of his eyes and asked: "Brother, is he hungry? Haven't you already eaten some dried meat?"

Nalan Yu also looked at him nervously.

Li Ye chewed the dried meat and looked at the two men before replying vaguely: "When you two are free, think more about how you can help me win this battle."

Nalanyu was stunned, looked at him and said with a smile: "We are only responsible for executing what you want, how can I have any good ideas?"

Mumu nodded and said: "Brother is right, we only know how to fight and have no ideas. Brother, don't give us problems."

When Li Ye heard this, he couldn't help but reached out and patted Nalan Yu.

"Don't bother me with useless things all day long. In a few days, it will be the New Year. After the New Year, Mumu, you will be fourteen years old."

I glanced at Mu Mu and thought about how that cute girl had grown up and turned into a little witch.

Shaking his head, he sighed secretly and thought of the young lady from the Royal Academy again.

The girl who had dared to fight with him in the snow out of desperation had only been separated for ten years, and she had become infected with the worldly atmosphere that he hated most, and became more and more strange to her.

I don't even have the mood to have a meal and stay overnight at the Royal Academy to confide in my ten years of lovesickness.

After thinking about it, I thought of the old monk of the Great Buddha Temple. All changes in the world are caused by thoughts in the heart.

When one thought arises, there are thousands of rivers and mountains; when one thought dies, there is a sea of ​​change.

Maybe it's because I have experienced too much since I went to Tianshan, and I experienced too many separations at an age when we shouldn't be separated.

So much so that in the blink of an eye, the previous mood no longer exists, things have changed and people have changed, and the mood has already changed subtly.

Mu Mu and Nalan Yu didn't know that he was thinking about these things. They each grabbed the melon seeds that Mu Mu took out from the table and started eating them.

...

Starting from the second day, Li Ye and Nalan Yu led a group of soldiers to set fire in the wilderness in the morning, and piled the cut branches on the snowy field to burn.

When I came back to look after lunch at noon, the frozen land had melted, and tens of thousands of soldiers were lined up in the wilderness, waving in unison.

The two of them worked hard all afternoon with a group of soldiers, and indeed they drove twice as much as they did yesterday.

Yang Kaiyi, who came after hearing the news, looked at the neatly reclaimed land in the wasteland and said with a smile: "If we dig deeper now, even a few insects will freeze to death. There will be a good harvest next year."

"I hope it will last until we win this war!" Li Ye looked at the newly dug up black earth and couldn't help but smile.

"National Master, you are doing it yourself. The soldiers are greatly encouraged, and the pace of reclamation will not stop."

Yang Kaiyi asked someone to bring the horses over for the two of them and replied with a smile.

"Tomorrow, ask the kitchen to cook more ginger soup in the morning and send it to the soldiers to relieve the cold. Don't get sick because of opening up wasteland. Either way, you will lose something without tasting it."

In Li Ye's heart, maintaining combat effectiveness is also a very important link.

Nalanyu took the war horse brought by the guard and said to Li Ye, "I'll say hello to them when I get back in the evening."

Yang Kaiyi looked at Li Ye and asked, "Will the Imperial Master continue tomorrow?"

Li Ye nodded and said with a smile: "Work harder and work for a few more days. I'll give everyone a holiday during the Chinese New Year and recuperate well for the spring plowing and fighting."

"If the Khan King of this grassland knew that you didn't forget to fight with them when you were opening up wasteland, he would definitely be furious."

Yang Kaiyi laughed and walked back with Li Ye.

...

On the second day...the third day...the ninth day, 90,000 troops were busy outside the city for more than ten days, and finally reclaimed nearly 3,000 acres of land.

Even the eldest prince couldn't help being shocked when he saw it: "If these thousands of acres are cultivated in spring and spring, at least more than half of the food and grass for the army will be provided. Even if we survive with the armies of the grassland tribes until next spring, we will not be afraid."

Li Ye looked at the neat rows of land and couldn't help but admire: "It's easy to do things with so many people. If we just rely on the people in Nanyun City, it's something we can't do."

"This method is good. It seems that even if there is no war in the future, the garrison in each region can follow suit. Each region government will provide military supplies and grass, and the army will solve half of it by itself."

The eldest prince smiled and said that Li Ye was just a golden doll in his heart.

"If the generals in each government knew that it was my idea, it would be strange to scold me behind my back."

Li Ye thought to himself, you really dare to think about this.

"It's okay. When the time comes, it will be issued according to the imperial decree. Let's see who talks too much."

The eldest prince thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "Opening up wasteland and cultivating land should not just be the responsibility of the people in the five regions. As the Imperial Master said, farming is also a kind of practice."

"I hope so. By then, it will no longer be my responsibility." Li Ye grabbed a handful of dirt and said lightly.

After fighting this war, he decided to return to Prajna Temple to practice.

Besides, Taoist Master Qingxu of Xuantian Temple is still waiting for him. The road of cultivation is still long, and he cannot spend all his mind on the battles in the world.

"In two days, it will be New Year's Eve. Do you want the Imperial Master to celebrate it with everyone?"
To be continued...