Of course, the city gate is not a place to talk, and at the same time, Zhang Yuan also saw that everyone was looking left and right and trembling, so he said a few words of humor and modesty, and hurriedly led a large group of people into the city, and everything had to be said to the county office.

As everyone led the team into Ganquan City, the local garrison arranged for the villagers they brought to be stationed in the empty military camp in Ganquan. Then he politely refused the banquet of Ganquan County Zun and Qianhu, and hurried to the Ganquan County Town Tower with Qianhu to observe the enemy's situation.

On the head of the city, looking at the newly built fortress outside the city, where the thieves squatted proudly, only three miles away from the county seat, but tightly guarded the throat of the thieves' henchmen, just like the god in silver armor, is staring at the gate of Ganquan, in the dim March starlight, like a tiger staring at their own county, everyone's heart has a feeling of fish bones stuck in the throat.

"May I ask Lord Qianhu, since you know that the thieves are building forts, why don't you wave your army to drive them away, why do you just let the thieves build unscrupulously?" Zhang Yuan's son asked the Ganquan Qianhu dissatisfied.

is also a young man's ambition, with no eyes to spare, relying on Zhang Yuan's shadow to get a general identity, for a while he felt that he was the real official army who was worried about the country, and the others were all walking corpses with a vegetarian meal, so he unceremoniously accused Shangguan.

As soon as these words came out, not only did no one in Zhang Yuan's family feel wrong, but in everyone's eyes, they all showed undisguised contempt.

Also, a dignified Ganquan Qianhu has soldiers and generals under his hands, but he allows people to build a city and a fort under his nose, and he has a little bit of a nest, you are an official and a thief, the official army catches the thief, and the thief is afraid of the official army, this is a natural thing, why are you afraid of the thief to such a point, and you have to make people think that this sanctimonious Qianhu is a bullshit bureaucrat who eats a vegetarian meal.

Zhang Yuan only frowned at the arrogance of his children, and didn't say anything, what his children said was the truth, how could he let hundreds of thieves calmly and grandly build this fortress under his nose? This is too much of a slap in the face, now, if you don't go all out to pull out the nail blocking the door, it is wishful thinking to go deep into the thief's lair.

But then again, Zhang Yuan was worried in his heart, even if the Lord of Qianhu was a straw bag again, it was not what you should say, why didn't you even understand the minimum of officialdom humility? So when is it a season? This is inconsistent with his low-key personality, and at the same time, it is also inconsistent with the need to unite Shangguan to fight the enemy together, the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, after all, he is a guest army, and some things still depend on them, isn't this offending people to cut off the way back for himself? As a businessman, no, it is an official, such a thing must not be done, a person surnamed Guo said well, leave people on the front line, do you want to see it in the future, although you can scold others behind your back Eighteen generations of ancestors, even if it is a dead person, it will not be forgiven.

But that kid has already said it, and he can't take it back, in fact, this is exactly what he wants to say but doesn't dare to say, it's good to see what answers this thousand households have, so Zhang Yuan just scolded in a low voice: "Shangguan speaks, where is there a place for you to wait for the kid to speak?" Don't be untrustworthy, and don't apologize to the adults of a thousand households? ”

That Zhang Yuanzi was forced by his brother's face, and stepped forward casually and said: "The kid has no form, please take care of the thousands of households, the kid has made amends here." Without waiting for the thousand households to reply, he stood behind Zhang Yuan and looked at the sky.

In fact, this is also a problem that fell during the training in Yan'an, everyone and the official Li Yuanhao are incompatible, and often collide, but every time there is this brother Zhang Yuan, who is deeply relied on by the governor and caressed by the governor, it is not a loss, but from time to time to take advantage of the tongue, and now it has slowly become a habit.

The Qianhu turned his face to look at the young man's smug guy, just snorted in his nose, and said contemptuously: "Still a thief, is this an ordinary thief?" That's a thief, that's an alliance with a mouth to pout the poles all over northern Shaanxi, gather an army of 50,000, and capture Mizhijian City, that's to destroy the Zhang family with just a few hundred old and weak, that's to defeat Chen Jiayong with 300 spearmen, that's to take tens of thousands of old and weak thousands of miles south, that's for a little girl and seven in, seven out of 50,000 officers and soldiers The whole body retreated, broke through the 50,000 border army encirclement and broke the siege, and went away, that is the thieves who are rampaging in the three counties of Weinan, is that what I, the guards who lack clothes and few clothes, can resist? ”

When he said this, the thousands of households specially picked up the scars of Zhang Yuan and others and said that I was incompetent, so wouldn't you be even more incompetent? Look at you guys, in the face of the thieves, they are not all dead now, and finally ran to Yan'an like a local dog, wagging their tails behind a profiteer and begging for mercy, and now they look down on everyone with only 5,000 people and horses, plus a group of unstable signing masters?

At this time, this Qianhu definitely had the happy feeling that Zhang Song scolded Cao Cao at the beginning.

It's okay not to say it, this statement aroused the resentment of Zhang Yuan's subordinates at that time, and the achievements of the thieves are there, which can only show that the officials and soldiers are incompetent, as for the destruction of their own family, we are doing things for your officials and soldiers, we should have been protected by you, and now we have to go into battle in person in order to avenge our family, are you still embarrassed to say?

But what the thousands of households said is also right, it's really not something that they can refute, the Zhang family was broken first, it can be said that the thieves carried out a conspiracy, but the Chen family, the Zhao family, and so on, so what should I say?

"What's the big deal, it's just a crowd of outcasts, what's there to be afraid of." Although the children of the Zhang family had no confidence, they muttered in a low voice: "The guards are too unbearable, they are as timid as mice, and they lack clothes and little clothing, so my brother's tens of thousands of taels of silver have been fed to the dogs?" ”

That Qianhu's face changed greatly at that time, and he was about to attack.

Zhang Yuan listened, I'm afraid it's a big deal, people are afraid of revealing the skin, the guard is not well known, but you really want to expose the shortcomings in front of others, then you can't say that you will move the knife first for the sake of face, look at this Qianhu Although he is embarrassed to use the knife after eating and drinking, but he does not support dragging his feet behind him, he can definitely do it, and he is busy with his own children like all parents, and he scolded loudly with a black face: "Ignorant boy, how can you be unreasonable in front of the adults of Qianhu?" Why don't you apologize to Lord Qianhu soon? Then roll down and get twenty military sticks. ”

As soon as the thousand households heard Zhang Yuan say this, their minds were spinning, and it was not that they didn't know what was wrong, in any case, they intercepted him with three thousand silver, which everyone knew, especially when he was being used by the governor, if he really wanted to fall out, it would really be bad for him, and he laughed at the moment: "Lord Zhang can't blame this little brother like this, I know that this little brother has no knowledge, and he is young and vigorous, after all, he has not experienced strong winds and waves, and his knowledge is short." ”

Speaking here, he took his eyes to see that Zhang Yuan's subordinates who had bowed their heads in shame were full of disdain, but as an elder, he should also teach him a lesson again: "The thieves composed of homeless people are really uninformed, you wait to see the thieves composed of homeless people, all of them are not strong men, each of them is a double-layered rattan armor and rattan helmet, and the spear is bright and high-spirited." Is that what you people have just chosen from among the outcasts, and who have not yet recovered their strength? I took 10,000 handfuls of silver from your Lord Zhang Yuanzhang, and I didn't hide it from you, I left 2,000 taels myself, but do you say that my bottom line is much less than all the officials in the Ming Dynasty? When he said this, the thousand households turned out to be righteous and righteous.

Everyone was silent, don't really say it, just this unavoidable thousand households really said frankly, because according to the military department issued by the silver money is the usual drift of two percent, in the capital division to the thousands of households down to the hands of the soldier one or two silver coins and the remaining three coins is the luck of God, this thousand households in this unofficial and not greedy Ming is also an alternative.

"Also, you ask me these brothers who are subordinate to thousands of households and hundreds of households, and they can get one more point in addition to taking their share?" Qianhu stood at the head of the city, the more he talked, the more excited he became, looking at the brothers who were behind him, who were weak and in tattered clothes, his tone was dark, and he whispered: "I know that those grains and salaries are also not easy for Lord Zhang to donate for the country and the family feud. ”

Zhang Yuan was silent, but also moved by a confidant.

The thousand households suddenly raised their voices and asked loudly, "But have you thought about it?" The fields of my soldiers' former military households have been encroached upon and submerged by the officials and gentry, where is there still a foothold? The above has not been paid for several years, just counting on the county autumn grain down, to help urge some money and grain to get some extra money to live until now, this year all dragged the family with their mouths and eyes open, this is counting on the autumn grain down the official family can make up some money and grain to live, but I don't want to break into the thief to take the rice fat, and the border army sent out a war that cost countless people, due to the lack of collection, the governor did not ask about the indiscriminate first took my family's original county zun to prison, and did a substitute for the dead ghost, this food and salary has not been sent to the next penny, you look at the brothers around me. When he said this, his eyes were red, and he pointed to his brother behind him, and the soldiers beside him already had a soft sob.

The thousand households pulled over a soldier standing guard beside him, the soldier was dressed in single clothes in this winter, holding a spear in his hand and trembling at the waist, skinny as wood, full of beards, I was afraid that there were more than sixty of them, and he was pulled by the thousand households and almost fell.

"Look at it, my lords, he is only forty this year, and he is waiting for these military salaries to feed him, but where are those military salaries?" When he said this, the thousand households had already whimpered and couldn't speak, and smashed the battlements of the city wall with their fists, and there was blood oozing out slowly, looking at the people who were really hard-hearted, the new county lord seemed to have a conscience, and he also lowered his head with a red face and was silent.

At the beginning of his tenure, the first thing he did was to take back the capital of buying officials, so he calculated that as long as he arrived, he would make Ganquan three feet high, only in and out, but he was also unlucky, not counting the yellow calendar, and when he came to Ganquan, he encountered thieves raging, there was no harvest in the south, except for the strong gentry in the north, the income was also limited, and now, it was far from the upper line of their own copy, not to mention profitable, and the supply of thousands of households could only be put away. But look at it now, that's only or not.

The thousand households calmed down and said: "You didn't see the appearance of these soldiers when they lit the mao, the upper peak came to inspect, although they were standing one by one, they were already lifeless, like walking corpses, and they would fall to the ground if they stood for a long time, so they had to do their duty for our Ming guard castle." He took a deep breath and said, "I want to thank Master Zhang." After saying a sincere and deep salute, Zhang Yuan hurriedly returned the courtesy, not knowing what these thousand households were going to do.