Some people say that the rise and fall are the suffering of the people.

But there is also an old saying that people in troubled times are not as good as peace dogs.

In fact, both sentences are correct, but the corresponding standards are different.

If it is relative to the time when Xu Shiyang came in his previous life, any era in Chinese history is the standard rise and fall of the people.

But if you compare the tragic times of foreign invasion in history, or directly compare the civilian life in Jiangbei ten years before this world, then it is really a troubled world that people are not as good as Taiping dogs.

Even in the vicinity of the dock fort of the Rizhao royal family, life is still miserable, and he must endure the threat of natural disasters and the oppression of the royal family.

But as long as you can have a piece of land to plant, you don't have to worry about the attacks and looting of bandits and robbers from all walks of life, and you can enjoy the rest of the output after a year of hard work and paying high taxes and grains, which is countless times better than being a homeless person and having no fixed place.

Xu Shiyang, a person who was born in a local powerful family, may not understand the thoughts of the people at the bottom, all he does is to calm his territory as much as possible.

However, ordinary people like Li Kui and Li Da, who are from the bottom, can indeed understand the mood of the homeless people who have to go down the mountain to live a slightly more stable life when they find an opportunity.

"Brother, since you are a soldier in the new army, you should do better."

Li Da said with emotion:

"It's not the same as before, being a soldier in our Qingzhou is not a thief with an army, if you can do better, our family's life will be better."

"In the past, it was very good to be able to eat half full, and now when the farm is busy, at least you can eat more bowls of dry rice, if there is no Qingzhou Army, our family will live the previous days, our mother, and the tiger head, but we may not be able to get through."

During the war, an old man and a child had the highest loss rate.

And the Li family is now in this most sensitive time - there are old mothers and children who have not grown up, once something happens, at least one will be lost, and it is not impossible to fold them all.

"I know." Li Kui replied seriously: "Whether it's a tartar or a bandit, if you want to come to our house again, you have to step on my corpse!" ”

Li Da's son, the boy with the nickname Tiger Head, didn't quite understand what his father and uncle were talking about, and the child's heart was simple, he just stared at the cauldron of boiling lard, drooling, and seemed to be looking for an opportunity to touch a piece of oil residue to satisfy his hunger.

Li Da didn't plan to fulfill the child's wishes anymore, he patted his son's head very unceremoniously and reprimanded: "Watch the fire well!" Don't steal it! Your mother still has to use it to cook! ”

The child pouted, looking disappointed.

"Tiger head!"

A group of little guys came out of nowhere, and shouted the nickname of Li Kui's nephew:

"Go and see, go and see!"

"What's wrong?"

"It's too much of a soldier, it's too much of a soldier!"

A bunch of little ones jumped and shouted:

"Our Qingzhou soldiers have gone to fight Laizhou! There are so many people, go and see it! ”

The tiger head immediately looked at his father with expectant eyes, and Li Da shook his head helplessly: "If you want to go and see, come back early for dinner." ”

"Thank you, Dad!" The tiger head bowed happily to Li Da, turned around and ran with his friends to the north side of the road north of Wubao where the Qingzhou army was passing.

Li Kui sighed with emotion: "The tiger head has grown up, and he is really polite. ”

Li Kui wanted to say this when he heard his nephew call him uncle - in the past, the children in the dock fort were all stupid, without any spirituality, and they didn't feel like children, but more like wood.

Now these children of the Dock Castle are much more lively.

"Mr. Fucheng sent down to teach, and now at night he will hand over children like Hutou to read and write."

Li Da took over his son's work of adding firewood to the bottom of the pot and watching the fire, and on the surface he seemed to be full of care, but his tone of voice was full of strong show-off:

"Tiger head can now write his own name, Li Hu, the big name given by Mr."

It's really not much different from the tiger head, but the countryman, having a big name given by a scholar is already very good, not to mention that he can write his own name now.

This is something that Li Da and Li Kui's generation could not have imagined before.

"You're not going to see the Qingzhou soldiers?"

Li Da asked:

"Do you know any of today's soldiers?"

"I'm a guard, and I'm not with the battalion, so I shouldn't know him."

Li Kui replied:

"It's okay to go over and take a look, there are comrades-in-arms on the left and right."

"Well, I'll boil some warm water here, and you can send it over by the way."

Li Da said with emotion:

"In the past, whether it was a Tartar or the imperial court, passing the army was the same as passing a disaster, and it was still our Qingzhou soldiers who were good, and they did not disturb the people."

"Okay."

Li Kui clapped his hands and went to the house to carry a bucket.

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To the north of Wangjiawu Fort in Rizhao, the Qingzhou Army troops responsible for attacking Laizhou are passing in front of the wall of Wubao in turn.

At the forefront of the troops was the Zhiyuan cavalry, followed by the Great Zhou Forbidden Army, which was equivalent to a mercenary, then half of the Laiyuan battalion, then the militia troops, and finally the other half of the Laiyuan battalion.

The purpose of putting on such a strange marching formation is to use the most disciplined new army to restrain the forbidden army and the militia and prevent them from having the opportunity to disturb the people.

This is also the lesson that Xu Shisong, the commander of the Laizhou Raiders Force, has just learned:

When he set out, he placed the forbidden army at the forefront of the ranks, because these forbidden soldiers were the most ornately equipped, with iron armor and golden melons, long knives and hard lances, as well as war bows and feathered arrows, and red tassels on their helmets.

Xu Shisong felt that with this equipment alone, it was estimated that the owners of Laizhou Dock Fort would be three points shorter.

It's a pity that before he got out of the boundary of Juzhou, Xu Shisong received complaints from dozens of docks and villages that passed by on the self-propelled military road.

None of the matter was a big deal, some said that a few chickens were missing, some said that the dogs were stolen, and the most was that the farmers' fields were trampled by the soldiers, and many crops were lost .......

It was only at this time that Xu Shisong understood that not to mention the political status of the soldiers of the forbidden army in Jiangnan, at least the treatment was super high - there was wine and meat in the food, and he could often get various rewards - at least when the troops were promoted, there was a promotion fee.

In Qingzhou, which is in ruins, of course, there will be no these, and these forbidden troops who participated in the war do not intend to stay in Jiangbei, so they do not take Qingzhou's military discipline seriously.

This made Xu Shisong angry, and finally even stopped for a day on the way, and sent the new army's pacification soldiers to wake up the forbidden army for a large-scale rectification.

On that day, Xu Shisong beat at least 50 people with military sticks, and another 20 were tied up and sent back to Juzhou.

Xu Shisong made it clear that if he committed it again, he would be beheaded directly!

Although the soldiers of the forbidden army were dissatisfied, they had to bow their heads when they were under the eaves.

Later, in order to avoid further problems, Xu Shisong put on this kind of sandwich biscuit-like funny marching formation.

Fortunately, the next march was much better, when the army passed through the Qingzhou control area, there were always Wubao people on both sides of the road consciously sent drinking water, although it was not worth anything, but at least this scene of the army and the people being united was still very gratifying.