On the table, there is a large pot of noodles.

Freshly fried lard residue, green onion and garlic, fried as toppings. Oily and salivating, fragrant.

"It would be nice if there were chili peppers, especially millet spicy!"

Zhu Wu sighed in his heart, filled a full bowl with a large bowl, and mixed it with toppings.

The white noodles are covered with fat, mixed with green onions, crystal garlic, and the index finger is moving.

"Lao Liao, do it yourself!"

finally sent away the brother who wanted a wife, Liao Yongan came over from the water army, just a meal, and stayed to eat.

Liao Yongan is also a happy person, picked a bowl for himself, and said with a smile, "I also love noodles, I can't eat enough!" ”

Call!

Zhu Wu took a big sip, sighed, felt that it was not tasteful enough, picked up a head of garlic from the table, shook it and asked, "Come on?" ”

"If you don't eat garlic if you eat noodles, why don't you eat this noodles!" Liao Yongan said with a smile.

Zhu Wu picked up his head first and put it directly in front of Liao Yongan, "Old Liao, this time the Dingyuan Army, thanks to you, if it weren't for your navy burning the boat and blowing up his military supplies, the Dingyuan Army would have confessed!" ”

"I also hit by mistake, and I felt that if I didn't give him a ruthless old boy, I couldn't get over it!" Liao Yongan's mouth snapped, "Town...... Sir, the old boy's boat is really full of good things, and the brothers haven't finished fishing yet. ”

Zhu Wu's name has changed, Zhenfu has become the chief manager, and the people below have changed their words, but it is still a mess, the old brother is called brother, Li Shanchang and those literati are called lords, and the generals feel that the chief is majestic.

However, compared with the name, Zhu Wu prefers the affordable ones, because they are down the river, and the belongings of the 150,000 troops are all on the boat, and they all fall into the river after the shipwreck.

The filial piety of the places along the way, the gold and silver collected after the massacre of Xuzhou, and countless ordnance, grain and grass. It's been a few days, and it's not done yet.

Zhu Wu smiled, and saw that Liao Yongan had a bowl of noodles in a few bites, so he took the initiative to take his bowl and picked another bowl.

"How does this work?" Liao Yongan waved his hand again and again, "How can you let the manager pick a face for me?" ”

"What's this?" Zhu Wu said with a smile, "You can be regarded as saving my life and saving our Dingyuan Army." I don't have a high-ranking official to allow you now, let's come to Japan for a long time, and give you some interest first! ”

"The head of Jiren has his own natural appearance, I really don't dare to take credit!" After speaking, Liao Yongan held the bowl again and ate it very sweetly.

Zhu Wu nodded secretly, Liao Yongan was much older than him, and he was old and stable in the Dingyuan army. This person has a strong taste of the old era of soldiers, pays attention to loyalty, and is a safe and reliable person.

In fact, what he didn't expect in his heart was that Liao Yongan was also a hundred convinced of him in his heart.

The army of more than 100,000 people who escaped from it was surrounded to death, and ordinary people would have surrendered a long time ago, but Zhu Wu not only did not surrender, but also dared to kill a way out.

There is also the Dingyuan Army, if it were replaced by other armies, it would have collapsed a long time ago, and it would not have listened to the commander at all.

Such a soldier, such a leader, such a world. Liao Yongan is old, but not stupid.

I heard Zhu Wu continue, "Meritorious is meritorious, I plan to make you the commander of the Dingyuan naval army, and give you the expansion of the army." There are too few sailors under your command, at least you have to gather tens of thousands! ”

Liao Yongan chopsticks, how can a man not have a utilitarian heart. The commander of the naval army, with a team of tens of thousands of people, means that he can be regarded as a general of the Dingyuan army.

He swallowed the noodles in his mouth, "Thank you for the love of the chief, but the navy is not as good as the foot soldiers, and the water, the flag, and the training of the warship have to work hard." There are also warships, at the moment, we and the state, even if there are so many soldiers, there are no ships! ”

Zhu Wu said with a smile, "What if I give you a ready-made boat, a ready-made person?" ”

Seeing that Liao Yongan was stunned, Zhu Wu said again, "Have you heard of Li Patou of Chaohu, he sent someone to send a letter, saying that he wants to belong to me, more than 1,000 boats, more than 10,000 sailors who can fight on the boat!" ”

"I know this man." Liao Yongan pondered and said, "This person has a bad reputation, how can I say it?" Three knives on both sides! He wrote a letter to attach, is there something strange in this? ”

"Chaohu Water Village is powerful, but he is not the only one who said it, and he also gave the creditor Zhao Pusheng, who was nicknamed Zhao Shuangdao. There are also leaders such as the Yu family father and son, Zhang Desheng, and Sang Shizhuo. ”

"These people are all disciples of Monk Peng of the Ming Sect, and the owner of the village was elected by them, but he was not beaten down by Li Pasheng."

Zhu Wu understood that Chaohu Water Village is a partnership shareholder system, not a private exclusive property.

Since he is a disciple of Monk Peng, he is in the southern red scarf lineage, and he respects Xu Shouhui. Unlike Haozhou Red Scarf, it is Liu Futong who is respected.

Liao Yongan continued, "Although Li Patou is a two-faced person, one fart and three lies. But Shuangdao Zhao, and the father and son of the Yu family are all loyal and righteous men, especially the Yu family, who eat water and rice, they have to give a thumbs up! ”

Zhu Wu smiled, "Old Liao, how do you know so clearly?" ”

Liao Yongan's face turned red, "They have won over my brothers, and the father and son of the Yu family have had a relationship." ”

Zhu Wu's fingers tapped lightly on the tabletop, "Then why does he want to belong to me?" I have to send someone to ask clearly, whether his surname is Li who wants to be attached, or Chaohu Water Village wants to be attached. ”

said, smiled, "No matter what, promise him first, and then say, I want him to be a stockade, even people and boats." ”

……

Outside the city of Hezhou, there are more and more displaced people, some of them have fled from the surrounding state capitals, and some are simply villagers outside the city.

Why do displaced people love to come here and the state, and have food to eat. Other places don't care about these people, and even cause some harm.

Only Zhu Wu, who boiled a few mouthfuls of miscellaneous grains and pasty cauldrons outside the city every day, couldn't eat enough, but he could make these people barely hang their lives.

"It's lined up! The old man and the child are in front, and if they dare to break the rules and rob it, they will cut it directly! ”

Li Sai, the deputy commander of Zhu Wu's personal guard, was taking the soldiers to give porridge at the door.

The homeless people all know this black-faced god, and all those who are dishonest and unruly in the past few days have been cut off, and the head is hung on the wall, and it is bloody.

Where is there warmth in troubled times, even if it is a good deed, it has to be a thunderbolt.

When, when, when!

The lid of the iron pot was lifted, gurgling and steaming, and the homeless people reluctantly lined up under the swords and guns of the soldiers.

Li Sai hit the iron pot with his waist knife and shouted, "Hurry up for a ball, it's all there!" Go back and burn high incense, who cares about you bitterness in this world haha. We and the general manager of Zhu Da are kind-hearted, they are all villagers, and I can't bear to see you starve to death......"

At this time, a thin little girl in the team, six or seven years old, was squeezed by the adults and fell to the ground.

The bowl in her hand shattered, and the little girl cried, "I have only one bowl at home........."

The little black hand tried in vain to put the bowl together, and the tears fell and fell, and suddenly the little hand stopped.

The fierce and vicious, porridge-serving man squatted in front of him with a bowl full of sticky paste.

The little girl hid half of the bowl in her arms, and lowered her head and didn't dare to look at it.

"What's your name?"

"I ...... Huaihua ...... "The girl's voice is not as loud as a mosquito."

"What about your family?"

"Daddy is dead...... Mother is sick......"

"Hey!"

Li Sai sighed, Rao made this world grind his heart like a rock, and he couldn't help but feel sour in his heart.

Looking at this girl again, I couldn't help but remember that when I was in Haozhou, Xiu'er ran to him every morning, kowtowing and begging to enter the city.

His heart was a little softer, and he took out a cake with oil flowers from his arms, "Eat!" ”

Like a little wolf cub, Huaihua snatched it up and chewed it in her mouth, "Thank you, uncle!" ”

plum

"It turns out that Xiu'er is like this!"

The manager is here! Li Sai turned around, and Zhu Wu took Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong behind him.

"Steward!"

Zhu Wu nodded, looking at the little girl who was gobbling up the boring, "Hey, this dog world!" As he spoke, he looked at Li Sai, "Lao Li, you are lonely, it is better to recognize this girl as a girl, so you have an incense." ”

The reason why I said this was because Zhu Wu remembered that when he entered Haozhou for dinner, Li Sai looked at Xiu'er's eyes. This veteran in his forties, perhaps because he has no home, really loves children.

Li Sai squatted down again, laughing and teasing the girl, "Call Dad!" After calling my father, I will have bread to eat every day,"

The girl's action of nibbling on the cake stopped, tilting her head, "Do you want my mother?" If you want my mother, I'll call it! ”

"This ......," Li Sai scratched his head.

Zhu Wu laughed, "Look, the ready-made daughter-in-law has come to the door, Lao Li, you can make up your own mind!" ”

After saying that, he turned around and went to another city gate.

Li Sai frowned and thought for a moment, stomped his feet, and held the girl in his arms, "Let's go, look at your mother, she's better be pretty, otherwise Lao Tzu will ......"

At the other city gate, Lan Yu was recruiting, several large pockets of yellow and clear millet, and the young and strong men among the displaced people were crowded there.

Lan Yu is like picking an animal, the teeth have to be seen, and the pick is directly pulled down to the shed next to it to eat buns, and the old, weak, sick and disabled are directly beaten out.

scolded and scolded in his mouth, "Your mother, run away with me, we are all in exchange for our lives." ”

Zhu Wu watched from the side and said to Li Shanchang, "This won't work!" There are more and more displaced people, and relying on recruitment and handouts alone will not solve the problem! ”

Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong glanced at each other, and said in his heart, you didn't find it yourself, if you don't give porridge, there will be more and more homeless people.

"How many ownerless fields are there in Hezhou now?" Zhu Wu said again, "The resettlement that can be resettled is also barren, let's just forget if we don't look at it, if we can give a way to live, we will give a way to live." ”

"There is a lot of ownerless wasteland, but to settle the displaced people, in addition to the land, you have to give food, farm tools, and grain seeds." Li Shanchang said, "In this way, it is another big expense. ”

"But it's not a loss, in the future, we will have more places to hire people with the state, and young and strong laborers will be useful. The city walls, the dredging of the rivers, and the newly built shipyards are all short of people, and we will not give them in vain, let them make efforts to change. ”

"Good, good!" Zhu Wu nodded again and again, "You can watch and handle this matter, don't wait for me to say these civil affairs in the future, since I let you take care of this matter, you have to pick it up." ”

Li Shanchang was just about to thank him, when there was a commotion behind him.

"I won't come to be a soldier........."

"If you're not a soldier, what are you doing with running shoes......

"I'm looking for someone ......"

"Looking for your grandmother......" Lan Yu scolded again, listening to the movement, this is another kick.

"I ...... Ouch! ”

"I'm looking for Manager Zhu, I'm his brother-in-law........."

"What?"

Zhu Wu suddenly turned around, "Lao Tzu has a brother-in-law?" ”

I saw Lan Yu's feet stretched out and stopped in mid-air, "You are the brother-in-law of my family?" ”

The two offspring hid behind an old farmer, who held his head high, "Ah! I am Mr. Zhu's brother-in-law...... Pro-......"