In the twenty-third year of the king, the first month.

In Kunyang County, Yingchuan County, the local people celebrate the New Year according to the usual practice, but because of the war, this celebration is really a little cold.

The people who want to come to Kunyang have not completely shaken off the grief of losing their loved ones, and they still hate the more than 10,000 rebel prisoners in the city.

On this day, the generals Jia Shu and Qin Yu once again got the news that their corporal was humiliated by the Kunyang people.

Upon learning of this, Qin Wei said angrily: "Those Kunyang people simply don't know how to measure!" Humiliated again and again, don't they know that we deliberately tolerate it? ”

"Alright." Jia Shu smiled and said with relief: "What kind of humiliation, isn't it just that someone smashed it with a snow ball again?" ”

"There's mud in the snow!" Qin Yu sneered.

"......" Jia Shu immediately frowned.

It is true that being smashed by snow is nothing, but if the snow is wrapped in mud, it is terrible to be smashed.

There's no way, they've been disarmed, and they can't afford to provoke the Kunyang pawns on the other side - how powerful the group of 'black scarves', 'green scarves', and 'yellow scarves' in Kunyang are, they have all been taught.

"Don't make trouble."

After a moment of silence, Jia Shu persuaded: "Compared with the captives in other places, we have already been quite favored, and we were smashed a few times by the Kunyang people...... Just smash it a few times. ”

“……”

Glancing at Jia Shu, Qin Yu was speechless.

In fact, as Jia Shu said, their group of captives should indeed be celebrated, after all, Kunyang's most 'violent' force, Kunyang pawns, did not retaliate against them under the constraints of Kunyang County Lieutenant Zhou Hu, otherwise, the consequences would be really unimaginable.

After sitting down, Qin Yu whispered to Jia Shu, "Have you ever thought about how Kunyang will deal with us?" ”

"Didn't that 'Leader Zhou' say it? For Kunyang's 'enslavement for five years'......" Jia Shu frowned and asked, "What wind did you hear?" ”

Qin Yu shook his head and said, "It's not that the wind is coming, I just think that the people of Kunyang should be quite nervous in terms of food......

Hearing this, Jia Shu was slightly startled, and asked in a low voice, "You went to the granary to see?" ”

The granaries of Kunyang, now concentrated in the northeastern urban area of the county seat, are heavily guarded by Kunyang soldiers, and like the armory that has also been moved to the north of the city, Kunyang strictly forbade anyone to approach, especially their group of captives, and if one of them is caught, they will be punished.

"Am I too long?" Qin Yu glanced at Jia Shu angrily, and immediately explained: "I heard from a few soldiers who shoveled snow, and they heard the people in the city talking about why the Kunyang County Ya had not lifted wartime control and resumed grain trading...... Isn't that a lack of food? If the Kunyang County Government is not short of food, how can it continue to provide daily rations to the civilians of the city for no reason? ”

"Insightful."

Jia Shu smiled and nodded, and then said: "But don't think about it, in recent days, I have also received some news, I heard that the Kunyang County Ya is negotiating with the civilians in the city, preparing to take over the fields in the hands of the local people, it seems to say that as long as you are willing to rent, you can get fifty percent of the grain when the harvest is harvested, and there is no need to pay taxes...... There were many orphans and widows in the city, and they were willing to rent them to the county government. …… I guess Kunyang County may have to adopt the method of military tun. ”

"Juntun?" Qin Yu was stunned, and then suddenly said: "It should be Zhou Hu's idea......

Both he and Jia Shu showed complicated expressions.

Zhou Hu, the leader of the Black Tiger Thieves and the commander of Yingchuan County, this person really made them respect and fear.

Respectfully, this man gave them the best treatment for the captured righteous soldiers;

What I am afraid of is that this Zhou Hu actually defeated his 80,000 Changsha righteous masters.

After exhaling slowly, Qin Yu Zhengse said: "If Kunyang takes the military camp, we people will not starve to death, Jia Shu, do you say that after five years, will Zhou Hu fulfill his promise?" ”

"I don't know."

Jia Shu shook his head and said: "But according to my inquiry, although the leader of Zhou is from a mountain bandit, he will do what he says, and he has not broken his trust so far...... It's too early to mention this. ”

"Yes."

Qin Yu nodded.

The two were chatting when someone banged on the door outside.

Originally, this kind of thing was to ask the guards around them to do it, but now, the two have lost that status.

"I'll go."

Qin Yu got up and opened the door of the house, only to see two 'black scarf pawns' standing outside the house.

Unlike those 'black scarf pawns' who had black scarves wrapped around their heads, these two black scarf pawns just tied black scarves around their arms, just like the county army in Kunyang.

Qin Yu immediately understood that the other party was a soldier of the second battalion of the brigade battalion, to put it bluntly, that is, Ju Sheng and Cao Wu's subordinates.

"What's the matter?" He asked without condescension.

The two black-scarfed soldiers said expressionlessly, "Marshal Ju Ying, please go and discuss important matters. ”

Saying that, the two of them didn't wait for Qin Yu to answer, and turned around and left directly.

“……”

Qin Yu looked at the departing backs of the two black-scarf guards expressionlessly, turned to Jia Shu and said, "If in the past, I would have to fan it with a few ear scrapers...... A villain's proud face. ”

He knew very well that the second battalion of the brigade camp under Ju Sheng was not a native of Kunyang, but the group of people who followed Ju Sheng to surrender to Kunyang, and to put it bluntly, they were also from their Changsha volunteers. Pen in Chinese

Later, he joined Cao Wu and his henchmen, who were also their Changsha volunteers.

But these people are now behaving as if they are from Kunyang, which makes Qin Wei feel disgusted.

"Don't say that."

Jia Shu stood up with a smile and said objectively: "Ju Sheng and Cao Wu are still good, like the kind of 'humiliation' you just said, the two of them have also reported to Kunyang many times...... More or less helped. ”

"Hmph."

Qin Yu sneered and was silent.

He couldn't deny that what Jia Shu said was indeed right, and Ju Sheng and Cao Wu did help them with these captives.

Not to mention anything else, let's just say that without the efforts of Ju Sheng and Cao Wu, he and Jia Shu would not be able to live in this room, and they could only squeeze into one room with more than ten or twenty people like other captives.

"The two of them have long been bought by that Zhou Hu, and they are no longer the soldiers of my righteous teacher."

Qin Wei added with a sneer.

“……”

Glancing at Qin Yu, Jia Shu did not refute.

He also knew that Ju Sheng and Cao Wu were no longer in the same category as them, and even so, he couldn't figure out why Ju Sheng and Cao Wu wanted to work for that Zhou Hu.

You must know that Ju Sheng is capable of resisting Zhou Hu at the moment, and there are one or two thousand people under him and Cao Wu, as long as the two of them take the lead in attacking and seizing the armory, his more than 10,000 captured righteous soldiers can regain their weapons and armor and occupy Kunyang in one fell swoop.

Although this move was not completely certain, Ju Sheng and Cao Wu did not even have the slightest idea of trying, which surprised Jia Shu very much.

These two people really want to play for that Zhou Hu?

Jia Shu really couldn't figure it out.

"Let's go, go and see what Ju Sheng wants to do, I guess it's Juntun's business."

"Hmm."

Closing the door of the house, Jia Shu and Qin Yu walked towards the house where Ju Sheng lived.

Along the way, the two could still see several frozen corpses from time to time, half-covered by snow.

On closer inspection, it was a corpse stripped of its armor.

If it is the corpse of Kunyang pawn, even if the firewood in Kunyang City is tight and cannot be disposed of immediately, these corpses will be stacked in the snow, and they will be burned and disposed of when there is enough firewood in the next year, so as not to cause diseases such as plague, and they will not be allowed to be here.

"It's unimaginable that the people of Kunyang relied on these streets and alleys to repel tens of thousands of Guan Shuai's army......"

Jia Shu said with emotion.

“……”

Qin Yu also showed a look of agreement.

Jia Shu was a general under Guan Shuo's general Tian Xu, and Qin Yu was a general under Zhai Shang, neither of whom had ever participated in the Battle of Kunyang, but had heard that the battle was so tragic that they couldn't imagine it.

After a while, the two of them arrived at Ju Sheng's residence.

At this time, the two saw that there were several people sitting in the house, and there were several acquaintances, such as Ma Gai, the county lieutenant of Kunyang County, Wu Zhi, the deputy lieutenant, and Xu Shen and Xu Ma, who were also generals like them.

In addition to that, there are a few others they don't know.

"Jia Shu, Qin Yu."

Ju Sheng and Cao Wu stood up and invited the two to take a seat.

After some greetings, Ju Sheng took the lead in pointing to a young man and introduced: "This is the right leader of Black Tiger Village, Chu Yan and Chu Commander. ”

When Jia Shu and Qin Yu clasped their fists and saluted, Chu Yan clasped his fists and said with a smile: "Chu is here to replace Wang Qing and Wang Zuo......"

Jia Shu and Qin Wei were confused, but they didn't mean to care, after all, it was someone else's business.

Immediately, Ju Sheng introduced Le Gui and Liu Tu.

After recognizing each other, Ju Sheng raised his hand and made a gesture of please to Ma Gai, who was sitting on the main seat.

Ma Gai was not polite, nodded and said to Jia Shu, Qin Yu, Xu Shen, and Xu Ma: "I invite the four of you to come today, but to discuss with the four of you about this year's spring ploughing, maybe the four of you have more or less heard about it, from last year to this year, the county government has successively leased a lot of fertile land from the people for unified reclamation, in a way similar to that of the military tun......"

The reason why he said 'similar to Juntun' was because 'Juntun' needed to be approved by the imperial court, and it was not something that his small county town could advocate for without permission.

“…… In accordance with the order of the commander of the Zhou department, the prisoners of your army were organized into the 'Liken Army', with several serving as deputy commanders, and the brigade battalion and the county army serving as the main positions, and a total of five military ...... in Kunyang Joint reclamation. I hope that a few restraint subordinates will help each other. ”

"Yes!"

Jia Shu, Qin Yu, Xu Shen, and Xu Ma didn't talk nonsense, and immediately agreed.

In this way, led by the Black Tiger Village Brigade Camp and the Kunyang County Army, more than 10,000 rebel prisoners were reorganized into the 'Liken Army' and immediately put into preparations before spring ploughing.