Along the way, Zhao Dahai introduced to Lu Shi in detail the behavior of Guo Tianxing and the process of inadvertently saving him.

The drought in Shanxi and Shaanxi, slightly with also affected Outer Mongolia, Mongolia was affected, the solution is to rob the interior, not to say that the Ming is weak now, that is, when the Ming Dynasty was strong, Outer Mongolia and Inner Mongolia were attached to the Ming Dynasty, but it is also a habit to rob the interior.

Last winter, the Mongolian tribes north of Gansu attacked the Heishui River, and the Ming deputy general Chen Hongfan, Gong Weixian, etc., the Mongolian tribes in the Hetao area repeatedly attacked Yansui Town in the south, and the entire Hetao area was in chaos.

At that stage, this area was full of soldiers coming and going, and Zhao Dahai, who was the head of the post station, had just received the Ming court army that went to fight the Mongols one day. The border soldiers have not been paid for several months, and the soldiers have starved and closed down, and the military discipline is strict in peacetime, and they are not allowed to go out of the camp for half a step without mobilization, even if they want to fight the autumn breeze, they can only starve in the barracks.

Almost all the local grain has reached the granary of the big households, the gentry and landlords' families are absolutely immovable, those are hundreds of years old clans, and the forces are intertwined, do you know which family is the relatives of the elders? Which one has several prefects?

The small people are even more out of oil and water, not to mention that there is not much harvest in this drought, and even if there is, it was first collected and scraped by the powerful households, and then looted by the government officials, and the rest is no overnight grain and rice.

Besides, the current Ming army, when it was not corrupted to the point of being unscrupulous and completely dependent on looting, indulged the soldiers in looting, and if they were denounced by the officials, the imperial court could immediately cut off the heads of their generals to calm the people's anger.

The Ming Dynasty emphasizes literature and light martial arts, and the civil officials of the same grade look at the military generals, that is the pig and dog, it is common to kill and fight, and it is often the case to kill the subordinates, and report to the emperor, as long as there is a legitimate or slightly far-fetched excuse, it will not be under the protection of a group of literati, and sometimes the Wenchen group also connived at the suppression of the warriors, in their inexplicable theory, only the civilians are loyal to the monarch and serve the country, and the warriors are all brains and bones, and the hidden dangers of the world, But I don't know that most of the demise of Chinese dynasties began with the decline and chaos caused by Wenchen.

After some consideration, he set his sights on those poles, exterminating the poles is a righteous act, and at the same time, you can also cut some heads to get some credit, the most important thing, those poles through the means of kidnapping, looting, etc., more or less have some accumulation, which can remedy the burden of the army, and this is the thing that should be done.

The county order of Namizhi even agreed, after all, this can appease the place and make some political achievements, so the county zun also took out a part of the grain and grass for the first time to support.

During the Ming Dynasty, there was also a set of mature methods for the supply of the army, after the status of military attachés in the middle of the Ming Dynasty greatly declined. The civilian clique felt that it was necessary to strengthen its control over the movement of troops, and the system of guards led to the limited logistical capacity of each military general. Not to mention the average military town. Therefore, the civil officials believed that as long as the food supply along the route could be controlled, then the control over the military generals could be further strengthened.

The local government of the Ming Dynasty generally refused to directly hand over the food to the military generals who led the troops, but let them make the food, and then send local soldiers to serve according to the population. The civilian officials claimed that if they did this, the military generals would have little chance of corruption, but in this way, the civilian officials would be more likely to be corrupt.

This Mizhi county order was supplied to the army in accordance with the regulations, and now I heard that the army was willing to destroy the local poles for the locality, so I gave more grain and grass.

This matter was decided, and the pole of Woniu Mountain became the first choice. And it is precisely this Guo Tianxing who is a friend of Zhao Dahai, and the two are like-minded and move around constantly. When he heard this, he immediately took a loophole and sent the honest San'er to the mountain to report the news, and after getting the news, he left with his belongings on the night of the stars and avoided this catastrophe. So Guo Tianxing thanked Zhao Dahai and called him a benefactor.

Guo Tianxing, a local person in Mizhi, has been brave and fierce since he was a child, and he has some land at home, but he has this damn thief God, and the big family in the village colluded with the government to urge harsh taxes, coveted his family's acres, and gave his family a charge of colluding with bandits, and the whole family was killed.

When Guo Tianxing, who went out to visit friends, came back, his family was already ruined, and in a fit of anger, he angrily took the neighbors in the village who had no way to live, killed the black-hearted big family, came to this Woniu Mountain and fell into the grass, gave himself a nickname, and did some things to kill the rich and help the poor.

However, this Guo Tianxing is indeed not a leader's material, he doesn't know anything about managing the cottage, and he doesn't have a long-term idea, so this cottage is a miserable and miserable meal of hunger, and he can't bear this torture several times, thinking about going away alone, and continuing to live the carefree life of a ranger.

To say that a pole head is mixed up to this point is also bleak.

On this day, Guotianxing was calculating the surplus grain inventory in the Juyi Hall with a sad face, thinking about which village to take advantage of the autumn harvest to loot some food and materials for the old and young who followed him for the winter, but he didn't want the government to be faster than his own hands, so he had already scraped the ten miles and eight townships clean, and the money, grain and materials were not obtained, but the outside of the cottage was crowded with homeless people who had no way to escape by the official Cui Ke.

But Woniu Mountain was difficult to protect itself, and originally wanted to be ruthless, so he refused to feed these mouthfuls outside the cottage, but looking at the townships where there were constantly falling, looking at the people who were still trembling in the autumn wind, he really couldn't bear it, so he moved his chivalrous heart and opened the door of the village to let the people in.

This move was out of control from the beginning, and hundreds of homeless people entered the village one after another, which is good, the original small cottage has suddenly increased several times in strength, and now in terms of heads, it is already more than 4,000 people.

But the growth of strength made Guo Tianxing not happy, the number of people is more than 4,000, but most of them are old and weak, women and children, and the young and strong who can fight are pitiful less than 1,500.

The remaining more than 2,000 are all food for nothing, and the cottage has no output, so they can only rely on looting to survive, where is there so much food for them? It's just two bowls of gruel every day, and after more than ten days, the original cottage grain will be exhausted, if you don't take down the granary, you will wait to starve to death by hugging each other.

was frowning in the hall with the second master, but a minion hurriedly came to report, saying that two people were visiting at the foot of the mountain, saying that they wanted the big boss to pick it up in person.

That Guo Tianxing frowned, and said irritably: "It's all at this time, who still wants to play music here with me?" Go and beat me out with a few sticks. ”

The minion was just about to receive the order to do it, but the second master was a careful and calm person, who was busy calling the minions who were leaving, and said to the big boss with a smile: "Brother, don't bother, since people dare to come here to make a noise and shout, they must have the capital to shout, and it doesn't hurt for my brother to see it, if my brother doesn't want to, then the younger brother will go and see it on behalf of my brother." ”

Guo Tianxing asked the minion impatiently: "Can the person who came report the name?" What else did you say? ”

"Ah, I forgot if the big boss didn't ask." The minion replied with a smile: "What is that person's name Zhao Dahai, he is a big gift to the cottage." ”

As soon as Guo Tianxing heard that it was Zhao Dahai, he jumped up at that time, went up and kicked the minion, and scolded in his mouth: "You useless thing, you almost delayed the big thing, let me treat my benefactor slowly, what are you doing when you die?" Before gathering people, open the gate to welcome my brother Zhao Dahai. ”

The aggrieved minions got up and ran out to beckon for help.

Guo Tianxing said to the second master standing beside him: "Come on, our brothers hurry outside to greet the benefactor of the Zhao family." ”

"That's exactly what happened." The second master said with a smile. "Or is my brother reckless? Almost slowed down his benefactor. ”

Guo Tianxing's old face flushed and said: "It's not that the current things are troublesome, but don't say it when you go out, or you won't let your benefactor pick it out." ”

As he spoke, he hurried out, and when he went out, he nodded and called an aunt to come; "You go to the back kitchen and tell the cook to stew the yellow sheep I hunted the day before yesterday, and find something to entertain the guests."

The woman was instructed and hurried away.

Zhao Dahai and Lu Shi came to Tianxing's cottage, and Lu Shi couldn't help frowning secretly when he looked over.

Is this a copycat? It may also be that I have watched too many cottages in the movie, compared with those, it is simply heaven and earth, where is this cottage, is it a kennel refugee camp at all.

The cottage of the stars is built between the two mountains of Woniu Mountain, the cottage is not big, the base of the wall is made of stones, the top is to use the big wood cut down to form a huge fence, there is a gap between the wood and the wood that can be penetrated by spears and arrows, and the gate of the wall is also braided in the same way, and it is now tightly closed. There was a big flag on the wall that was almost indistinguishable, and there seemed to be a word written on it, which was swaying listlessly in the morning breeze.

There was no one standing guard in front of the door, let alone a patrol spy on the road when they came, and the two of them came in a hurry, and they were stopped by the minions behind the wall when they arrived at the gate of the wall. After the two of them reported their identities, one of the minions reluctantly rushed to the hall to report, while the others were still pointing at the visitors just now, and now they are also lacking interest, and they all start to do their own things, ignoring the two of them anymore, just a few children are curious to see Lu Shi, Zhao Dahai and the others.

The whole cottage exudes looseness and decadence from the inside out.

It seems that it will take some effort to transform it if they want to help make it happen. Lu Shi thought.