After Yuan Xi left, Li Mao's life in Juyongguan was definitely not good.

First of all, there are so many refugees in Juyongguan. Even if Li Mao tried his best to let them go south to take refuge, these people just wouldn't leave.

People have homeland complexes, these refugees see a wave of reinforcements gathering in Juyong Pass, always feel that the imperial court will soon be able to take Fan Yang, and then return to Youzhou, Juyong Pass is a pass, three sides are prominent, one side is water, easy to defend and difficult to attack, these refugees feel that Juyong Pass is very good, and when Fan Yang takes it back, they will go back to the north.

As a result, the number of people in Yongguan has become more and more, to the point that it is unacceptable.

Juyongguan is not a city, but for the convenience of the border army's life, it has gradually formed the current scale like a town. But it's not really a town, and it doesn't have so much infrastructure for refugees.

It didn't take long for Juyong Pass to be full of feces and urine, and now it was summer, mosquitoes and flies were flying around, Li Mao was afraid of giving birth to an epidemic, so he urgently deployed a wave of soldiers to clean up these filths everywhere, and forced them to live in the specified area, and drown in the specified place, otherwise they would be whipped thirty.

It didn't take long for Li Mao's original good reputation to be wiped out, and the refugees called him "the prince of the whip", and they would frown when they talked about him.

Juyong Pass is so big, what if you let them live there?

On such a hot day, you're going to die of heat when you go south, right?

Li Mao never thought that the people were like this.

In his impression, the people should be weak, kind, and reasonable. Just like the people in the west of the capital who have suffered hailstorms, and the people who lit Kong Ming lanterns to pray for the victims on the Shangyuan Festival.

It is precisely because he regards the people as the weak side that he has put the people first for a long time in the past, and sometimes even inhibits the strength of some places to obtain a certain sense of "fairness".

But now these refugees who have been displaced by the war have quickly made him see another side of the "people".

As soon as they reached a safe place, they stopped moving, punched and kicked the elderly and children for a little ration, defecated at will, kept causing trouble, disobeyed orders, and lay on the ground all day long scolding the anti-thieves and the incompetence of the border army......

Not to mention those who are idle and bored, fighting, robbing and stealing in order to survive.

Li Mao inspected Juyong Pass several times, and a mouthful of old blood almost didn't spurt out.

No matter how incompetent the border army is, it is also for you to shed blood and sweat and give your life! What did you do?

Desperately fleeing when the inner treacherous opens the city gates? When the border army desperately defended the city, he took the opportunity to leave with his family wealth?

What is there about the border army to be sorry for them!

Juyongguan's general led the army and Zhenbei general Yuan Xi to rescue Zhuo County, and now Li Mao is the first leader of the military and government, in the face of the poor "Diao Min", and no matter how the territory is divided, there will be people running around, Li Mao came to a conclusion.

They're too idle!

There are still partial generals in Juyong Pass, Li Mao discussed with several partial generals, and decided that these people could not be allowed to be idle like this.

Don't they feel that the border army is incompetent? Then let them go to the battlefield as well and see if they are more heroic than the border army, or if they are scared to pee their pants!

That night, Li Mao personally drafted the text, and Zhang Bang lived everywhere in Yongguan.

All the displaced people in Juyongguan need to come to the General's Mansion in Juyongguan to register their household registration for record. All men who have reached the age of eighteen but are not more than forty years old have to go to General Li Bian, who is in Juyong Pass, to report to them, receive weapons, learn how to kill the enemy, and be ready to help recapture Fanyang at any time.

For those who don't want to become temporary recruits, Juyongguan can give them five days' rations, and then give them to go south to other towns to earn a living.

Among the refugees who came to Juyongguan, women needed to help sew military uniforms and trousers and make shoes, and the elderly and children could make arrows, which could be used in exchange for rations and some remuneration if the arrows were qualified.

If they did not want to work or serve, the soldiers of Juyongguan had no choice but to "invite" them to go south.

As soon as this list came out, it was even more scolding, originally Juyongguan provided some porridge water and herbs for the refugees who entered the customs, although the porridge was not full, but now it is summer, it is convenient to drink porridge, and there is no need to cover and quilt in hot weather, and the clothes are poured under which roof, just overnight.

But once Li Mao gave the order, it was no joke.

He took 30,000 Chinese troops with him, and even the refugees in the whole city were not afraid. Not to mention that the influx of these refugees has seriously interfered with the local military and civilians in Juyongguan, these people have nothing to do and are idle, originally Juyongguan is a place that does not close the door at night, and now every family latches the door at night, and those who have daughters at home have to hold the door against it, and they can't wait to let them go quickly.

From the third day of Zhang Bang, Li Mao personally led the Chinese army and officials from Juyongguan to "clean up" the refugees. Most of them chose to continue south, to other parts of Yanzhou, or to the more prosperous Tongzhou, and a small number of strong men chose to enlist in the army in exchange for rations.

Most of these young adults are family members who died at the hands of thieves and have no way to take revenge, and some are a little ambitious, thinking that their families have been ruined, so it is better to join the army to gain a future.

For this kind of person, Juyongguan is naturally very welcome.

Li Mao himself was the secretary of the Ministry of War, and he also took several subordinate officers of the Ministry of War to the north together, registered, registered, entered the military register, and then sent a letter back to Beijing to file it in the Ministry of War, which was a very easy task.

Surprisingly, most of the women, children, and the elderly were willing to stay in Juyongguan and serve the soldiers in Juyongguan in exchange for payment.

The front line needs a large number of arrows and armor, these are too far from Beijing, Yanzhou itself produces wood, it is very convenient to make arrows and spears, there are a large number of iron shops in Juyongguan, as long as there is iron ore, you can smelt spear heads and arrowheads. It's great to have local materials and plenty of people.

"Mr. Chen, why are strong men reluctant to stay as soldiers or contribute, while women, children, or the elderly are willing to stay?" Li Mao stood on the city wall and watched as the refugees formed in long formations, one by one stretching to the other side of the horizon.

It's just that this time Li Mao is standing at the head of the city in the south, and these refugees are not coming to Juyong Pass, but to Juyong Pass.

When they came, they brought the old and the young with them, and formed a family, but when they left, most of them were alone, leaving behind the old people and children.

"Without their homeland, without land, these people have no way out. Young people may still find a chance to survive, but the elderly, women and children have no way to survive on their own. It's not that these young people don't want to go south to survive, but they take these old people and children to make a living together, and the chances of surviving are too small. ”

Chen Yi is also a person who came from the war-torn era, and couldn't help sighing: "You see them going south alone one by one, that's because the old people and children in the family let go and let these relatives who still have a hard time live alone." If a family starves to death, it is better to leave a little hope. Anyway, there is still a way for the elderly, children and women to live in Juyong Pass, if they can mix well in the south, they can come back to pick up the old people and children, if they become soldiers and die on the battlefield, the whole family will really have no hope at all. ”

"At this time, those who became soldiers were already bitter people without bonds."

"For the sake of the future of your loved ones, do you want to let them go?" Li Mao looked at the young people who were far away under the city tower, and they walked forward quietly as if they had been strangled by their necks.

Some people would turn around and walk back with slow steps as they walked, but only for a moment, and then gritted their teeth and continued to turn and walk south.

Li Mao, who was standing on the city tower, could only see their backs, but he could probably guess their expressions.

It should be the same as last year when his mother was stabbed and couldn't wake up, but he had to go to the palace to listen to politics.

The common people, the people, the filial sons, the thugs......

They are the people, and they are not just the people. They can be any kind of person.

Li Mao looked into the distance.

They can be brilliant craftsmen, the most valiant soldiers, or they can be robbers who kill people without blinking, and they can be scum of abduction. Some of them may chatter for a little petty profit, but they may also not hesitate to let Da Chu tear down their home in order to resist the invasion of the thieves, just to get a few wooden pillars that can be used to defend the city.

They are the foundation, the masonry, everything.

The people are not singular. They were the children of the elderly, the husbands of women, the fathers of children, and at the same time soldiers, craftsmen, peasants, and scholars. Although they will die and be forgotten, they are the most insignificant of the group, but they maintain their plural side through death and insignificance, and maintain their true immortality.

No dynasty or king can be eternal, but these people have done it. The Son of Heaven and the ministers thought that it was he who ruled the people and projected his shadow onto them, but in fact, it was these people who projected themselves onto the ruler.

All the emperors and ministers were actually working hard to meet their needs, and when their needs were met, they were able to get what they wanted from the people.

Are they really the masters of these people, the "parents" of these people?

Li Rui seemed to vaguely feel the truth that countless sages had been trying to expound.

But then, he shook his head with a self-deprecating laugh.

For such a complicated matter, let's leave it to those scholars to think about.

He is a "practical" Xinguo Gong, and he really doesn't have time to leisurely consider this profound truth.

Ah, the thorns are gone, and you can finally wash the streets!

And fill in the mud puddles and holes that have been created by livestock and ox carts!

Don't worry about being stopped and shouted on the road anymore!

He is the secretary of the Ministry of War, not an official of Dali Temple, so he really can't care if the refugees stole the chickens of the east family, and whether the daughter of the west family was abducted by the prodigal!

You're going crazy, okay!

The troops of Yuan Xi, the general of Zhenbei, and Lin Dahu, the general of Juyong Guan, drove away the rebels outside Zhuoxian, firmly held the key point from Youzhou to Yanzhou, and were repairing in the two counties.

Li Mao's request for grain, grass and weapons entered Beijing, and he returned with the imperial court's reply to him, as well as the emperor's marriage documents to his nephew and son, as well as the letters brought to him by the nobles and nobles full of complaints and smug tones.

Li Mao just looked at the letters written to him by the henchmen of the Xungui faction, and roughly deduced what it was like in the imperial court.

For a while, Li Mao was still a little sympathetic to Jin Guogong.

He has not been in the DPRK for a long time, but he has already seen clearly what the so-called dispute between the two factions is all about. At first, it was still a political disagreement, but later it became a purely conflict of will, opposition for the sake of opposition.

This is really ridiculous to say, but the most ridiculous thing is that this group of civil and military ministers are obviously adults, but what they do is only done by children. Even the sober-minded centrists were disturbed by these red-eyed ministers.

If you want him to see, it's all purely idle.

The world is peaceful, there are no wars, there are even fewer disasters, and they are too idle.

The idle can only fight among themselves.

Li Rui's marriage had already been decided, and the Duke of Jin took the opportunity to show his intention to form an alliance at this time in exchange for the emperor's trust, which was a common means used by the clan, and Li Rui was not surprised at all.

It's Sun Ying's daughter......

Well, although he also felt that his son deserved to find a girl with a better background, he also admitted that he did not dare to do so. Anyway, Sun Yanni likes his mother, Zhang Suyi and his mother also appreciate it very much, and as soon as the war is over on his side, he will return to Beijing and quickly settle the marriage of his sons and nephews in the family, so that his mother can hold her grandson as soon as possible.

Another half a month passed, and when Li Mao was still counting on his fingers how much silver he had to use for his employment in addition to the gold and silver hidden in the old lady's tomb, the materials sent by Jingzhong arrived.

Along with the supplies, there were also letters brought to him by Wu Yuzhou.

Li Mao has always felt that he is a person with a very generous personality, or in other words, a person who does not care about many things. But even so, when he saw this letter, he was angry and sad, and even had an urge to "hang up the crown and leave".

He knew that the battle situation on the front line was tense, and he also knew that he was guarding the rear, and all the baggage materials and troops on the front line had to be deployed by him.

But in the emperor's heart, he is such a person who doesn't know the importance of it, and will sacrifice Da Chu Anning for his family!

Even if he is such a person, is it that such a person does not have the right to know about his mother's illness?

For a moment, he thought of the old people who had sent their children away at the pass and left them at Juyong Pass, where they might fall into war at any time.

No one dared to say whether it was right for them to escape the war and choose to go south to fight alone. But Li Maozhi said that if he was in this situation, he would never go south alone.

Even if the whole family starved to death in the south, he would not leave anyone behind.

He is not singular. He is Li Rui's uncle, Li Ming's father, Fang Wan's husband, and the son of Qiu Bing and Li Shuo. If any one of them is missing, he is not him.

When the plural parts of him are peeled off little by little, even if he is alive, what is the point?

"Mr. Chen, I want to go back to Beijing secretly. During this time, I will go to 'inspect Zhuo County', and ask my husband to help me! ”

The author has something to say: the ice basin is actually my own personal experience. Before my grandmother died, she also suffered for a while, and all our family members watched over her every day, for fear that she would suddenly leave that day. Because of my grandmother's illness, the doctor advised that it was best not to turn on the air conditioner to avoid complications caused by a cold, so each of us was like being fished out of the water.

Finally one day, my grandmother, who had not eaten a grain of rice for 20 days because of esophageal cancer, had never screamed in pain, and the hungry grandmother suddenly began to scream something.

My uncle leaned into her ear and listened, and what my grandmother said was "Leave me alone, turn on the air conditioner".

When I wrote that Gu Qing was dying, I didn't know what was going on with Lu Dao, so I thought of this paragraph. At that time, I was pregnant, and my grandmother really wanted to see her great-grandson, but she couldn't get through it. Maybe it's because of some kind of regret of my own,"