"What!" Doudou almost jumped up from the bed, but he didn't dare to shout loudly, so he had to stare at Fat Mai Sui'er with wide eyes. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Great Zhou Dynasty would never allow officials to raise troops privately, even if Da Bai Tangyuan was the nephew of His Majesty the Emperor?

Once it is known, it is a big thing to lose your head!

Fat Mai Sui'er held down Doudou, and still whispered: "The girl is in a hurry, this is just a blind guess by the slave." ”

Doudou thought about it, as soon as the big white rice balls were born, he was named the little prince by the first emperor, and his identity was already extremely noble.

He was surrounded by the eighteen secret guards rewarded by the first emperor, and there were hundreds of masters sent to him by King Fu and General Huo.

What is his need to keep private soldiers?

Unless he wants to rebel.

But the big white dumplings don't care much about power, let alone the dragon chair.

What's more, now that the Great Zhou Dynasty is strong, and His Majesty is rich in the Spring and Autumn Period, even if he wants to rebel, he will never choose this opportunity.

Therefore, Huo Xiao's raising of soldiers may be true, but it will never be raising private soldiers.

Doudou raised his eyebrows and said, "Tell me how you found out." ”

Fat Mai Sui'er pursed her lips and said: "After the girl left, the slave and maid were busy opening the restaurant all day long, not to mention the master's affairs, the slave and the maid didn't know much about it before.

It's just that since the two princes returned to Beijing last year, the master has become more and more busy, and sometimes he can't see him for a month or two.

At first, the slave maid thought that he was busy with the affairs of the White Tiger Camp, and the girl was not in Liangzhou, so it was normal for him to take a day off and not return to the house.

It wasn't until a few years ago that Cheng Xiaofei came back to the house and inadvertently mentioned to the slave that the master hadn't been to the White Tiger Camp for almost two months.

Although he did not go to the White Tiger Battalion, he sent someone to borrow a large amount of grain from the Quartermaster Department of the White Tiger Battalion.

Even General Huo and General Ma didn't know about this matter, it was the quartermaster who was looking for him privately.

In addition to food, the master also borrowed a batch of weapons from the Ordnance Department, which were handled by Cheng Xiaofei, so he was able to know.

Afterwards, Cheng Xiaofei was also warned by the boss of the Ordnance Department not to talk too much.

However, I heard him tell the slave and maid that the master borrowed it and repaid it soon after. ”

Doudou said: "So you suspect Huo Xiao of raising private soldiers?"

Fat Mai Sui'er hurriedly said: "Not only these, didn't it suffer from a flood last month, and a batch of grain and grass allocated by the general to the White Tiger Camp was washed away by the flood, and the White Tiger Battalion's stock of grain was insufficient."

The master went to the White Tiger Camp a month ago to allocate grain, and after discovering this situation, he did not take a grain of grain with him.

Recently, he has been getting busier and busier, and the slave maid has privately asked for a few words, and he seems to be looking for food everywhere. ”

Doudou put his hands behind his head, it seems that Huo Xiao raised soldiers is the intention of His Majesty the Emperor.

It's just that the matter of raising soldiers must have been carried out secretly by him, and even General Huo didn't know about it.

Since it was carried out in secret, the supply of grain and grass for this army must have been directly allocated to Huo Xiao by His Majesty's household department, rather than by General Huo Da like other military camps.

Last month, a batch of grain and grass allocated by the general to the White Tiger Battalion was washed away by the flood, and the grain and grass allocated to Huo Xiao by the household department may have also been flooded.

Because the matter of raising soldiers is secret, even if he has money, it is not easy for him to buy food directly from the grain store, and the people have been short of food recently, so he will not rush to buy it.

It seems that her small granary was really not built in vain.

Originally, I was just worried that Huo Xiao would be stumbling on the grain and grass by the Pei family, who was in charge of the household department, because he refused the Pei family's marriage, and built a small granary in case of emergency.

I didn't expect that because of this natural disaster, it could help him a lot.

Seeing that she didn't speak again, Fat Mai Sui'er took her arm and shook it: "Girl-"

Doudou said, "Can you get in touch with Huo Xiao now?"

Fat Mai Sui'er nodded: "Yes." ”

"Then you send him a message and ask him to come to Xiningwei as soon as possible. ”

"But...... The master is busy right now. ”

"It doesn't matter how busy he is, just say I want to see him. ”

"Then where are you going to meet your master?"

"Hmm...... Let's just say I'll wait for him in the wooden house in the easternmost part of Xiningwei. ”

Fat Mai Sui'er answered and was about to go out, but Doudou grabbed her sleeve: "I haven't asked you yet, I said that we would meet at the door of Liu Baihu's house on June 26, how did you find here?"

Fat Mai Sui'er said: "The slave maid arrived in Xiningwei in the afternoon before yesterday, and went directly to Liu Baihu's house, and the old man from Liu Baihu's family was very polite, so he asked me to go to their house for dinner and accommodation."

Yesterday I helped Grandpa Liu do a day's work, I slept after dinner, and woke up in the middle of the night when someone hit my face with a paper ball. ”

It turned out to be the handiwork of Brother Ben Lei.

Doudou let go of her sleeves, waved her hand, and said, "Go and come back quickly." ”

Fat Ears of Wheat soon disappeared.

※※※※

Huo Xiao has been really anxious about food recently.

There has never been a rich place near Liangzhou, and there is a shortage of food every year, but I have never met such a thing this year.

Doudou's analysis is not wrong at all, he is not a fool, of course he will not raise his own private soldiers, these 5,000 cavalry were privately given to him by Emperor Yongtai for training.

Of course, the purpose is not to let him show his might with 5,000 cavalry, but to cultivate a useful cavalry in case of emergency.

This cavalry was specially sent to the northwest to endure hardships, so the supplies were the same as those of ordinary military camps, and they could not be compared with the four major battalions at all, but the amount of training was much greater than that of the four major battalions.

The cavalrymen were all young men in their teens and twenties, and they had to go through devilish training, and the amount of food naturally increased day by day.

As their leader, it is indispensable for Huo Xiao to feed them.

In the past, even if the grain and grass allocated by the household department were a few days in the evening, Huo Xiao could use the privilege in his hand to get food from the nearby military camp.

But he never expected to encounter such a serious natural disaster.

Huo Xiao would never use the bullying set on ordinary people, and it was impossible for him to make ordinary people and other soldiers in the military camp hungry for the five thousand people under his command.

His only recourse was to steal it from the bandits for the time being.

However, a big flood caused even the bandits to run out of food.

Huo Xiao grabbed three cottages and barely scraped together enough food for half a month.

Seeing that the cooking was going to be cut off again after ten days, Huo Xiaowangye's long eyebrows were tightly screwed together all day.

In the night breeze, his slender and athletic figure actually showed a bit of gloom.

Shumo Shuyan saw his grandfather's situation like this, and his heart was also very uncomfortable.

Shuyan put a cloak on Huo Xiao and persuaded: "Master, why don't we go to the grain store to buy food." ”

Huo Xiao said: "Don't be busy for the time being, wait until July to see if the rain will be less." ”

Shumo Shuyan knew what his father meant, and if the rain was less, the grain allocated by the household would soon reach the northwest, and they would not have to be so difficult at that time.

But what now?

The two were entangled, and a secret guard came to report: "Master, break the ice...... Mai Ear sent a letter. (To be continued.) )