Li Yuan reported that because the snow was too heavy, the scout's war horses were frequently damaged, and more than 200 of the 800 horses were sick, so Li Yuan strongly recommended that the investigation be stopped for the time being. Although the war horse is a beast, it is also a living being, and the machine still needs to be maintained, not to mention the delicate war horse, Zhang Xiaowu immediately agreed, and asked to raise the war horse with all his might.

Zhang Xiaowu, Li Yuan and others went out of the city to inspect a distance, and found that the snow in some places was actually two people deep, even the shallowest was up to the knees. In this kind of weather, not to mention the Inuyi army, even the animals will not come out of the hole.

Without the threat of the north and south, the 10,000 defenders were a little bloated, and Zhang Xiaowu decided to reduce it to 8,000 men, and he eliminated the wounded, war-weary, rebellious, and distracting people in each battalion, and gave them all orders to return to their hometowns.

The 2,000 expulsions and the 2,000 wounded soldiers who had been previously dismissed, totaling more than 4,000 people, could leave Mucheng and return to the Central Plains at any time after receiving the return order. Although the heavy snow closed the door and it was impossible to return to the Central Plains for the time being, the old soldiers of Mucheng finally waited for the return order, and wept with joy one by one, according to the previous principle, each soldier who was dismissed received eighty catties of food.

As for money, not a word.

No money, no salary!

Zhang Xiaowu has no money to pay everyone military salaries, but he can only have enough food, and there is no way to get money. It has been more than two months since the establishment of the Mucheng garrison, and the imperial court has not allocated a single hair. Previously, because there was an alien army eyeing the tiger in front of him, and the white tiger army was uncertain in the future, the atmosphere in the city was tense, and the sergeants could not care about the payment of military salaries for the time being. But now it's different, the alien army can't go south, the White Tiger Army has returned to the Central Plains, and there are more people in the city, and even many prostitution houses have been reopened.

It is natural to be a soldier to fight a war and get money for selling your life, but if you don't have money, why should you work hard?

Zhang Xiaowu doesn't think there's anything wrong with being a soldier and taking money, when he was on Earth, he had contact with the fire brigade because of the library's revealing renovation work, and knew that they were the soldiers with the greatest casualties in peacetime, and he also knew that many firefighters had a lot of old injuries inside and outside, and people exchanged their lives for money, but the salary was not as good as half of some sitting in the office drinking tea and reading newspapers. Even worked as a firefighter for ten years, and the salary is not as good as that of some retired people. Some media say that firefighters love to give people hats, what love dedication, what the cutest people are clouds, and then it is just spiritual praise, and praise without bonuses is hooliganism!

Like the white-clothed nurses who save lives and help the wounded in special times, they deserve allowances, others are working hard, as their leaders, saying that they are touched, dedicated, and love you, it is all fucking fart. He feels that the most shameless are those media and leaders who publicize the greatness of others and force others to give up receiving allowances; others talk about money, they talk about dedication, others talk about dedication, they talk about responsibility, they talk about ideals, and when it is their turn, they only talk about money.

"Money, money, money!" Zhang Xiaowu had a headache again, and hurriedly called a few henchmen to tell everyone about Mucheng's dilemma of lack of money, and let everyone come up with ideas.

Hu Sanwan can only sell grain, but now Mucheng lacks silver, not grain. As for Xiao Kai, Zu Gongmao, Hu Li, Shen Lindong and others, they are all masters who can only kill people with knives, when it comes to money, when it comes to how to make money, all eyes have become mosquito coils, and their brains are more mushy than mush.

"My lord, this military salary has to be distributed by the imperial court, it's okay for a few of us to kill people with knives, but if it comes to making money, it's really not good." Hu Li just likes to tell the truth, although it doesn't sound good, but it is a fact, one of the people present is counted as one, and he can only work hard at the dock if he throws it to Longdu City.

Although Shen Lindong usually doesn't like Hu Li's unscrupulous speech, he has to admit that Hu Li's words are right, and a few of you here will make money - but they will all spend money.

Zu Gongmao stroked his beard and said, "Does the court recognize us or not?" We are so stupid to guard the wooden city, and we don't pay the army, what are we doing? ”

Hu Li said again: "Work hard for the emperor, but the emperor also has to give some meaning, the emperor still needs hungry soldiers?" By the way, I don't know if he's not there. ”

"Don't talk nonsense." Xiao Kai reminded.

Hu Liman didn't care about a smile.

Everyone complained constantly, and at this time they heard a rumor that Ruan Qingwen and Ruan Sima were back, and Zhang Xiaowu drove away this group of useless subordinates who could only stare at mosquito coils and went out to greet Ruan Sima.

I hadn't seen him for nearly a month, Ruan Sima seemed to be ten years old, his wrinkled clothes even had mud spots, and if he squatted in the corner with a broken bowl and a straw hat with a straw hat, he could have aroused pity and asked for some food.

"Lord Ruan, don't come...... Unharmed. Zhang Xiaowu looked up and down at Ruan Qingwen Ruan Sima who was dirty, and said embarrassedly.

Ruan Qingwen let out a long sigh, not that he didn't bother to answer, but that he didn't know how to answer.

It turned out that after he arrived at the White Tiger Army, he was inexplicably detained, and although he ate and drank every day, he couldn't move around or leave. Five days later, the White Tiger Army encountered a snowstorm and had to temporarily stop when it pulled out the camp, and this stop was another five days.

Five days later, the whole White Tiger Army rushed to the front line, Ruan Qingwen was very excited, but a day later, Du Shan Bo suddenly led the White Tiger Army into the Two Wolves Pass. Ruan Qingwen pleaded to meet Du Shanbo, but was blocked out and never had the opportunity to meet the old handsome.

Ruan Qingwen was very anxious, what did this White Tiger Army mean, why didn't he save the Blue Dragon Army, why did he enter the Two Wolves Pass? Just when he couldn't find an answer around, the White Tiger Army left from the Two Wolf Pass and galloped to the Central Plains.

Ruan Qingwen was determined to die, stopped in front of the White Tiger Army and scolded, thinking that he would be beheaded by Dushanbo, but unexpectedly, a young general invited him to the account and showed him the holy decree, saying that His Majesty was critically ill and ordered Dushanbo to return to Beijing immediately, and Dushanbo had already returned to Beijing with a battalion of cavalry, so Ruan Qingwen had nothing to say. He then asked where the prince was, but the young general did not hide it, and sent someone to send Ruan Sima to the prince, to Ruan Qingwen's shock, the prince was actually crazy.

The prince is crazy, the princelings are over, and Ruan Qingwen feels that his life is in vain. The emperor is critically ill, the prince is crazy, and the most likely successor in the capital is the fifth prince Xuanyuan Zixiao, and Xuanyuan Zixiao is the grandson of Zhang Kuan, the leader of the Zhang Party, and the sworn enemy of the princelings.

Ruan Qingwen didn't know when he left the temple, and he didn't know that he was in a daze for a few days, probably one day a few bear children threw stones at him, and finally Ruan Qingwen woke up. Ruan Qingwen found a place, found a tree, and saw that the height should be able to hang, so he untied his belt and prepared to hang himself. However, I heard that in the restaurant not far away, there was a storyteller who was talking about the self-compiled "The Legend of the Heroes of Saibei".

Hearing that it was the word Saibei, he walked over.

The storyteller patted the wood and said: "As a guest officer, our two wolves are surrounded by mountains and rivers, with the Saibei Wasteland in the north and the rich Central Plains in the south, which can be said to be the place where the aura of the world gathers." On the northern wasteland, a heroic ambition is being staged, and how many heroes show their true colors in this battle.

It can be seen that there is a big hero of our Han people in this Saibei, who is brave and good at fighting and has won repeatedly, and his loyalty to the country can be seen from the sun and the moon. He has a golden helmet on his head, wears gold armor, wears a white robe, a black dragon horse under his crotch, holds a heavenly thunder slashing sword, strangles the eagle of the East Tartar Tower with his bare hands, smashes the grassland three King Kong with three fists, leads three hundred iron horsemen to destroy the forty-eight sand bandit cottages in Saibei, and splits the Yizi of Wuhuan Khan, the first warrior of Wuhuan Yegu Chashi, this person is none other than the garrison of Namu City, and the ghost general Zhang Xiaowu ......"

Ruan Qingwen was taken aback, who said that he had nowhere to go, this wooden city was the place to go.

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