While talking, I heard the news that Qingfeng Mountain Four Dragons Village had to hear that Zhang Xiaowu was a guest in Qingfeng Village, and came to visit Qingfeng Village, because the news was relatively late, only six cottages came today, and there were fifty or sixty cottages in these eight hundred and eighty-eight Qingfeng Mountains, but everyone did not contact each other much, and Song Chong only had a good relationship with several surrounding cottages. On the one hand, everyone came to meet this great hero, and on the other hand, they also wanted to have a good relationship with the ghost guard, and it was rare for the government to be willing to have such a face-to-face dialogue with them.

Of course, everyone is more willing to see Zhang Xiaowu himself, after all, the ghost will be too famous in the Central Plains, Zhang Xiaowu's image of the god of war moves the Central Plains with his real name, and those mountain kings who fight and kill all day long worship Zhang Xiaowu in their hearts. Zhang Xiaowu originally planned to rest for a while and leave, but when he saw that all the heroes were coming, he had to stop and talk to the heroes about the affairs in the green forest.

Qingfeng Village immediately prepared a dinner party, don't look at Qingfeng Village is poor, but they are not short of meat, birds and beasts have beaten a large number of birds, especially the hunters in the village have extremely high archery skills. In the past, there was a lack of refined salt, the people of Qingfeng Village lacked strength, and the food tasted bad, but now with the experience of Zhang Xiaowu's funding, everyone makes the food extremely delicious.

There was still liquor on the ghost guard car, so Zhang Xiaowu asked people to drink and chat with the heroes.

Zhang Xiaowu said: "Thanks to you to look down on the following, I heard that the Lord of Song Zhai is benevolent and righteous, presumably his friends also protect the people, everyone is helpless to fall into the grass, but there is one thing to remember, we must learn from the Lord of Song Zhai generally not to kill the people, otherwise after being spurned by the people, the government will not edict him in the future." ”

When everyone heard Zhao'an, they were immediately interested, after all, they could become countrymen and officials again, and not many people were really willing to be bandits. And Zhang Xiaowu talked about Zhao'an, but he just thought of the story in "Water Margin", he didn't know if the imperial court had a precedent for Zhao'an, in other words, for any imperial court, Zhao'an bandits were helpless. But for the Shenghan Empire, these bandits in Qingfeng Mountain are really not a climate, they are not a threat, and they cannot harm the stability of the country.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaowu made a suggestion and said: "If you want the imperial court to be peaceful, you must first make the imperial court aware of your role, and whether you can let the imperial court see it." If you are just grass mustard ants, the court naturally doesn't need to pay attention to you, but if you make the court hurt......"

Everyone only thought it was wonderful, and then they felt very strange in their hearts, this General Zhang sounded like he was digging into the corner of the empire?

After resting for the night, the next day Song Chong led the eighteen heroes and other village owners to escort the ghost guards through Qingfeng Mountain, and bandits and bandits appeared from time to time along the road, they did not come to rob the road, but to meet Zhang Xiaowu. Song Chong said with a smile that if General Zhang can't get along in the imperial court in the future and returns to Qingfeng Mountain, they are willing to publicly promote Zhang Xiaowu as the head of Qingfeng Mountain and lead the 36 villages of Qingfeng Mountain.

Zhang Xiaowu laughed and said: "I am a commoner's child, and I will definitely be attacked in the future. Everyone shouted that we must serve the general as the general of the village, this is a death contract, Zhang Xiaowu smiled and waved goodbye to everyone, left Qingfeng Mountain, and arrived at the boundary of Hunzhou.

The farther south they walked, the more they could see the more displaced and disaster victims, although Hunzhou was once rich, but now it is also in the midst of disasters, the people live a hard life, and even some people eat elm money leaves mixed with chaff.

"It's okay for the military master."

"Master Jun, give me something to stutter."

"Master Jun, we're going to starve to death."

"Master Jun, have mercy on us......"

"Master Jun, do you want a wife? Three loaves of bread will do, three loaves of bread, and my daughter will sell them to you. ”

"Master ......"

Zhang Xiaowu couldn't bear to look at the victims, but they didn't have much food, and what could they eat when they gave the victims, so they could only endure pity and order to disperse the victims.

In the middle of the night, when they were stationed, they suddenly heard a terrible scream in the camp, and everyone immediately ran over with knives, and saw a group of victims carrying a horse and ran away. When they chased after them, they saw that the horse had been dismembered, and several of the victims ate the raw horse meat, ignoring their anger, and lowered their heads to gnaw on it, as if even if they were killed to death, they would eat the meat in their mouths and be a full ghost.

"I killed them?" Xia Ming asked.

Zhang Xiaowu shook his head and turned to leave, Xia Ming looked at the victims, sighed and said, "Get out, the general can't bear to kill you, you have to be self-aware, next time, there will definitely be no such good luck." ”

Back in the camp, Zhang Xiaowu couldn't sleep, sat on a stone, looked up at the starry sky, the stars in the sky were particularly dazzling, shining brightly.

Ruan Qingwen walked over with Kang Tianen, and Zhang Xiaowu asked, "Mr. Ruan can't sleep either?" ”

Ruan Qingwen said: "It's strange to sleep, these victims are like hungry wolves. ”

Kang Tianen said: "General, I'm afraid that it won't be long before the people of Yangquan Mansion will become such hungry wolves." If a person is hungry, he cannot really be called a human being, he is a walking animal. ”

Ruan Qingwen smiled and said, "Hui Ye, you know them very well." ”

Kang Tianen shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Senior brother, do you know why there are so few disaster victims in Daizhou?" ”

"Why?"

"The victims of the Daizhou disaster have fled to the south a long time ago, and cannibalism has already happened." Kang Tianen said, "It is not uncommon to sell children and daughters. The disaster in Daizhou has passed, and the disaster in Hunzhou has just happened. ”

Zhang Xiaowu thought for a while, and suddenly said: "In other words, the people of Daizhou fled early because of the plague and drought, and the rest of the people can survive." ”

Kang Tianen said: "Therefore, when the dynasty changes, the lives are devastated, and after 50 to 100 years, it will be a prosperous world, because the land is large and the population is sparse, during this period, the people have a vast land, they are well fed and clothed, and the troubles of marrying wives and children are gone, how can they not be prosperous." ”

Zhang Xiaowu asked, "Does Mr. Kang think that war and disaster are not bad?" ”

Kang Tianen said: "There are two sides to the matter, the plague took away forty percent of the population of Daizhou, whether it was death or fleeing to the south, but it solved the troubles of many people and few places in Daizhou." Daizhou was originally barren and could not feed so many people, so once there were more people and fewer people starving, they had only one way, to rebel and kill people. This is the so-called great rule after the great chaos, and after the great chaos there will be great chaos. ”

After Zhang Xiaowu listened, he always felt that the other party was arguing, but he couldn't say anything to refute the other party, which was both reasonable and awkward, and his brain hurt. Kang Tianen was about to speak, when he suddenly heard the cry of a child in the middle of the team, it turned out that his child was hungry, and hurriedly said sorry to go back to take care of his young son.