Chapter 9: Wei Ziliang paid out of his own pocket to reprimand the prince of Shangguan who understood the righteousness

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, Wei Yuan has been in the camp for more than two months.

To be precise, Hu Wei's team of 100 people is mainly responsible for the management of the army's cooking utensils. In this era, although the logistics units of the large armies were not the main conquest troops, on the whole, the logistics units were far more complicated than the combat units. The main task of the combat unit is to charge and kill the enemy on the battlefield to achieve victory, or to charge forward when the army turns to battle. The logistics unit is responsible for the placement of the whole army's camp, the supply of grain and grass, the storage and custody of various materials including medicines, cooking utensils, and sledgehammers, pickaxes and other materials needed for camping.

Later generations saw on TV that the Lord gave an order to set up camp here, and then saw that the soldiers of the whole army were busy working in one go, which was actually not seen in ancient times. Generally speaking, after the commander has given this order, the combat troops will divide the labor, the duty should be on duty, the rest should be rested, the busiest at this time is the logistics troops, the logistics troops have to set up tents, erect horses, dig trenches, and set up stoves, but also according to the number of 100 people in the whole army to weigh and distribute food, and even arrange military doctors to bandage and treat some wounded soldiers, and so on.

It is precisely because the logistics troops are so miscellaneous in management and have so many materials that many sergeants in the logistics army secretly steal the materials in the army and go out of the camp in exchange for money. In the logistics army, although people who steal military funds are beheaded every month, they are still repeatedly banned.

Wei Yuanyuan was carefully taught by Yuan Ming, so he naturally knew what was wrong with this. So as soon as he took office, he checked the items in detail in the area he was responsible for, and sure enough, there was a shortage of pots, long spoons, kitchen knives and other items, especially kitchen knives, which were in short supply at the same time, and most of the kitchen knives were rusty due to improper storage, and there were barely three or four kitchen knives for ten kitchen knives. In view of this situation, Wei Yuan did not make a noise, but only took out the silver taels and arranged for Niu Mang and Li Ming to buy all the things that were missing, but fortunately, Wei Yuan saved some silver money after selling the thieves and horses in the cypress pine forest, and he was able to make up for the shortfall.

Niu Mang complained about Wei Yuan paying out of his pocket to make up for the shortage of the warehouse, but he didn't say anything at Wei Yuan's insistence. In the past two months, Wei Yuan's personnel have finally been replenished one after another. So after sorting out the items in the jurisdiction every day, Wei Yuan conducted a routine drill for the personnel. In fact, according to the Han law, in the barracks, the war army conducts a drill every three days, and the three-day drill is returned to the chief and the general, and each brings his subordinates to conduct drills. On the 5th of January, the general led the subordinates to conduct a drill, and on the first day of January, this was a drill led by the chief general of the army and the whole army was assembled. However, due to the fact that when the army of the Han Dynasty reached the end of the period, it was not uncommon for higher-level officers to withhold military rations and military exploits, and the lower-level soldiers were simply hungry and had no strength to carry out drills, so basically the rules of one drill on three days and one show on five days basically became an ornament. It is also because of this that a famous slang phrase was formed in the later period: "three days of fishing, two days of drying nets".

After Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty went, Shu claimed to be the authentic Han family, so the army was formulated according to the rules of the Han army. However, since the death of Wuhou Zhuge Kongming, there has been no war in Shu for more than ten years, so some generals have gradually become slack. For example, Hu Wei, generally speaking, whether it is a three-day drill or a five-day performance, Hu Wei does not show up, even if he arrives, that is, he gathers his ten chiefs to arrange a sentence, and each of them can perform alone and then leaves. Shangguan is like this, and the subordinates will follow suit, basically everyone is also pretending, arranging in formation at will, and then sneaking back to the camp tent to sleep under the greeting of the chief. At this time, Wei Yuan carried out a four-hour drill with ten people, and Guo Yi, Li Ming and others, who only performed the exercise, complained bitterly, but they were afraid of Wei Yuan's force and had nothing to do.

This day was the time of the routine drill, Li Ming cursed Wei Yuan with hatred in his heart while swinging a wooden hammer and smashing the stake, because Wei Yuan stipulated that each army must set up five tents within the time of one stick of incense, and the amount of meals for the first team that had not completed the drill was halved and provided for the other team to eat. This couldn't help but make Li Ming extremely envious of Guo Yiyiwu, because Guo Yiyiwu had Niu Mang, a strong man, and the twenty-five wooden stakes had been laid almost in the blink of an eye, and the rest of the people were only responsible for pulling the rope to implicate the haystack used as a tent. At the beginning of the period, Li Ming's group was defeated repeatedly, and even later, Wei Yuan was not allowed to arrange for Guo Yi's group to use Niu Mang to drive piles, so that the difference in the winning rate of the two groups did not seem so one-sided.

At this moment, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves from far and near, Wei Yuan looked up, and saw two hundred-person teams coming, and several people in front of him were wearing armor and riding horses. While he was watching, he had already walked in front of Wei Yuan and the others.

The first one was a burly man, about forty years old, dressed in armor, riding on a horse, although he could not see his height, but he must be at least eight feet tall, with a long face, a wisp of goatee, and a very neat body. It appears that this person is a very strict and cautious person.

"What are you doing?" The man on the horse pointed at Wei Yuan with a horsewhip.

Seeing this, Wei Yuan immediately understood that the person who came was at least a partial general, so he hurriedly shouted to stop everyone, and then greeted him: "Returning to the general, we are waiting for a routine drill, and I also ask the general to show me." ”

I saw that the man sneered and said, "Okay, good, I traveled all over a huge logistics barracks, and there were only one or a few people who were practicing on the day of the routine drill." Then Wei Yuan didn't answer, just lift the reins, and the people behind him didn't say much, and followed one after another.

After walking a few steps, the man suddenly pointed to the cables wrapped around the ground and asked Wei Yuan, "Military drills, why is this?" ”

It turned out that in the Shu army, the cables for rolling tents were all stored in bundles, while the cables used by Wei Yuanyi were four ropes that were implicated together, and the other end was tied to a wooden stake in advance. A pile of wooden stakes hundreds, all of them.

Wei Yuan replied: "Returning to the general, it takes a lot of time to set up the camp tent in the army, so I ordered the soldiers to thread the cable in advance, so that the camp tent can be quickly set up. ”

When the general heard this, he immediately seemed interested, and asked, "How many hours can I save by acting like this?" ”

Wei Yuan replied, "Use this method." It took the same amount of time to set up five tents as the original four tents. ”

The general laughed, "It's so wonderful." Then he turned and shouted, "Clerk! ”

Immediately behind him a scribe made a promise, and the general commanded, "Write this down and deliver it to me." When he had finished giving his orders, he prepared to ride his horse.

"General, slow!" Wei Yuan suddenly shouted.

"What?" The general was stopped by Wei Yuan and asked impatiently.

"Returning to the general, in the barracks, except for the herald soldiers, it is forbidden to ride horses, and if you are brave, please dismount the general." Wei Yuan replied with his fists clenched.

"Oh? Does anyone still remember this rule? The general said, "What if I don't go down?" ”

"Then I had no choice but to hand over the general to the overseer army for processing." Wei Yuan replied neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"Hehe," the general laughed instead of anger, "do you know who I am?" ”

"The Han military column, Emperor Wen's entry into the camp (Note 1) should also be observed." Wei Yuan did not follow the general's words, but replied.

Hearing this, the general's face changed, and he said angrily: "You are a little soldier, report your name!" ”

"Wuyang Liao Yuan Liao Ziliang is!" As soon as Wei Yuan heard this, he knew that the general was trying to write down his name so that he could retaliate in the future, but he still didn't change his face and directly reported his name.

"Good, good. I can't imagine that there are such bloody men in the army! The general suddenly laughed, then turned around and shouted, "Dismount and walk!" Then he jumped off his horse first, and then the generals behind him dismounted one after another, and followed him straight to the Chinese military tent. The general smiled as he walked: "Liao Yuan, boy, inform the clerk of the method of setting up accounts for you, I will personally check it, if it is feasible, I will ask for credit for you!" ”

After the general was gone, the clerk smiled at Wei Yuan and said, "In this case, please tell me in detail about this method of setting up an account, and I will present it to the general after I make a record." ”

Wei Yuan said with a smile: "This matter is easy to hear", so he introduced the method of setting up a camp tent to the clerk in detail, and demonstrated it to the clerk in person. When the clerk saw that the speed of setting up the tent was much faster than before, he couldn't help but be interested, and after he built a ten-person tent with his own hands, he praised this method repeatedly.

After the two chatted for a while, the clerk Hu Ling said: "Ziliang, do you know who the person you scolded today for riding a horse is called?" ”

Wei Yuan smiled: "I really don't know, please let Brother Hu know." ”

Hu Ling Zhengse said: "It is Wang Ping, the Marquis of Anhan." ”

Wei Yuan Zhengse said: "Anhan General Wang Ping? General Wang is not guarding Hanzhong, why did he come to the rear army of Chengdu, could it be that there is no war in the north? ”

Hu Ling waved his hand and was about to speak, when suddenly a rapid drum sound resounded throughout the camp, Wei Yuan heard that he couldn't care about answering Hu Ling, and immediately ordered all the people to gather and go straight to Hu Wei's tent.

It turns out that this drum sound is the famous drum, also known as the drum of gathering soldiers. The three drums were beheaded immediately before they arrived at the school field, and the hundred-person team entering the school field was generally led by their respective Dubos.

With the sound of drums, Hu Wei immediately leaned out of the tent, just in time to see Wei Yuan Yishi gathered outside his military tent, and hurriedly shouted: "Ziliang came just in time, quickly enter the tent and put on armor with me!" ”

It turned out that due to the hot weather, Hu Wei had already taken off his armor in the tent, but now the drums were sounding, but the armor was not covered in eagerness. After Wei Yuan helped Hu Wei put on his armor, the second drum had already sounded.

At this time, Hu Wei and his entourage of 100 people had already gathered, Hu Wei didn't say much, waved his hand, and immediately all the personnel rushed to the school field. Before the third drum sounded, all the staff rushed to the school field and the general stage.

Wei Yuan looked at the stage, and saw that on the platform, there were a number of generals in a neat column, and the middle one was Wang Ping, who was the general of Anhan, and on his left and right were a partial general and a general.

Wei Yuantu felt that there was a young general in the corner who was a little familiar, and when he looked at it carefully, he thought about it, but it was Huang Feng who had been whipped by Niu Mang outside the gate of the capital that day.

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Note 1: Emperor Wen entered the camp, during the period of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, in order to observe the actual combat strength of the Han army, he personally rushed to various military stations to check the situation. Emperor Wen had no choice but to enter the camp in the early morning of the second day. Wei Yuan meant that even if the emperor came in person, he would also act in accordance with military regulations.