Inside the dilapidated wall, the crowd of people who were resting and waiting under supervision once again let out a low burst of discussion.

"It's back, it's back."

"It's been five times."

Wei Zhuang looked at the soldiers who were escorted back in frustration, and then looked at the shoes that had been worn out and exposed toes, and couldn't help but lament in his heart that he couldn't help but get on the thief ship because he had been on guard.

Who would have thought that this so-called business trip to Beijing would be the point of no return. They followed the escort team all the way south, and they came to Lantian County without stopping between several rests and eating.

Then finally someone realizes that something is wrong and tries to turn back or negotiate with him, but it is too late. These thieves also privately made their faces polite and patient, and spared no effort to intimidate and threaten them.

Although it will not evolve into violent injuries in adults, it will also make them suffer a lot in disguise, and become honest again. Then some people saw that the negotiations were fruitless and could not reason, and even thought of a way to create an opportunity to escape back overnight.

However, their fate is also obvious, these thieves, who are obviously premeditated, are not only well prepared and vigilant, but also accompanied by a team of horses that will hunt down and flee. At least in the Guanzhong land of the Four Wild Plains, no one has been able to outrun their four legs with two legs that lack exercise.

Not to mention that because the hearts of these scholars are not very neat among themselves, they often lose their square inches or show their traces as soon as they are threatened, so none of them have succeeded in the great cause of escaping so far.

Especially after passing through Lantian County and entering the Lantian Valley between the narrow mountains, even a local person like Wei Zhuang, who claims to be born in Guannai, can't help but lose hope. Although there were still sporadic people who escaped, they basically didn't get out for long before they were easily chased back.

Although there was no cruel means to deal with it, the punishment of being dragged away with a rope and hanging behind the horse, and two more hungry meals was inevitable. And during this period, Wei Zhuang hated and repented of himself countless times, why didn't he have the courage to turn his escape thoughts into action.

Could it be that after eating a few meals provided by the thief army, they have completely lost their righteousness and integrity? In contrast, Du Xunhe, an old friend of the same sex as him, seems much more open-minded.

He basically eats what he should eat, sleeps when he should sleep, and walks when he should go, as if he is in a commonplace parade. In turn, he persuaded Wei Zhuangdao that since these thieves had made great efforts to get them out of the capital and provided them with food and drink along the way, it was obvious that it would not be to return their lives.

Until last night, he was on a makeshift bunk made of straw bales, and he never came back until dawn; Wei Zhuang knew that this old friend, who seemed to be full of care about the current situation, actually had a hidden and uninhibited mind.

Then, after trying to identify it for a long time, Wei Zhuang saw his unkempt, barefoot and lame friends in the crowd who had been captured like pigs and sheep, and there were clotted blood clots and scars on his face.

"Hikoyuki, how dare these thieves humiliate you like this, I..."

He couldn't help but greet him with grief and indignation, eagerly supporting the other party and greeting

"You're mistaken, those thieves didn't do anything to me, but I was caught by the bushes and rolled down the slope in order to escape from the urgency of their peers."

Although Du Xunhe described it as unbearable, he still said in a plain and uninhibited hoarse voice.

"But next, I have to bother you to help you one or two. I've eaten a lot of ash along the way, and I'm hungry now. ”

Although he said this, he sat down on the ground without any grace; Only then did Wei Zhuang notice that on his bare feet, where his shoes were missing, there were bloody wounds that had been scraped and covered with mud.

"Hikoyuki, why are you doing this?"

Wei Zhuang hurriedly tore off a piece of clothing, patted off the large piece of cemented soil, and then wrapped his forehead around him like this. Then, I heard another commotion from the south side of the wall.

But there was a clear-cut team that came with it; It also suddenly attracted the attention of many people present. However, just looking at their neat and uniform outfits and spirits, it formed a kind of stark contrast to the miscellaneous uniforms of these people who were responsible for escorting the thief army.

If you don't look at their strange green flag embroidered with winged beasts, it will almost make people think that this is the location of a serious official army. And the leader of the thief army who was responsible for escorting them with a thick beard also stepped forward to negotiate as if he had been amnestied, and complained loudly and unabashedly.

"You're here, you're here with these big turbans, I'm afraid you're not going to annoy us to death."

"The good life provided them with food and drink, and the superiors explained that they could not be ruthless, let alone hurt their lives; I screamed and shouted desperately before I could walk,"

"Still desperately saying strange things and burying people in different ways on the road; If you don't pay attention, you're going to slip away.,And you have to recapture it like a sheep.。。 ”

"We've worked hard all the way, and it's so easy to get here all the way and all the tails. You hurry up and take a look. Is it still complete? ”

"It's really hard work, brothers. Don't rush these things yet. ”

The person responsible for leading the team to contact was Zhang Guihou, the captain of the Taiping Special Army. Immediately, he made a gesture, and there was half a cart of canned food, compressed biscuits, and other things, and pushed them forward.

"This is some chatter, and it is worth the fatigue and strength of everyone to run this trip."

The general of the volunteer army couldn't help but glance at the bamboo tubes, clay pots, and oiled paper wrappers with stickers with "substitute meat", "miscellaneous fruits", and "bad fish", and his expression suddenly became extremely bright.

"What a way to do that."

Then Zhang Guihou personally handed over several bottles of soju in a net, and the other party smiled even more happily.

"Since that's the case, brother, then I'll tell you the truth. though I do not know what the leaders of thy house want these turbans to do; But in the few cities I came over, I also saw a lot of hiding in the place. ”

"If you have the heart to earn as much credit as possible, I can say a thing or two about it, and see if I can get some."

"Then bother this brother and dare to ask how the honorable name is."

Zhang Guihou also turned his mind and pushed the boat down the river, and took out a sheet of paper from his arms.

"This is a voucher for going to the southern Wuguan to extract the sugar and salt of wine; In the future, more scholars will be given to the brothers according to the head, and if the number is large enough, there will be a corresponding rise. ”

"There is no honorific name under it, and I am called Zhou Mengnan, who is called Bo Tuozi."

In another place, Wei Zhuang stared with some shock and surprise beside the scribe who had come to give them the points and read out the rules; couldn't help but blurt out and shouted:

"To Brother Guang, but to Brother Guang at the moment."

Han Hao, who came with the army, suddenly turned to notice him with the same surprise; Then he nodded to him quietly. And then I found him afterwards.

And Han Wei had already placed a table in a small tent, put a number of opened cans of meat and vegetables, and a pottery bottle of wine, and poured them into three stoneware bowls; Then he looked at Wei Zhuang and Du Xunhe, who were feasting, and slowly pondered while reminiscing:

"It's great that you and I can see each other again. At the beginning, I was worried that you would be in Xijing because of chaos; It was this time that I was ordered to come to collect the talents and scholars in the Guannei, and I recommended some of your old names to the above. ”

"What... Do you know it's hurting me this time? ”

Wei Zhuang, who was trying his best to pick meat and vegetables, couldn't help but pause, but the chopsticks fell off in surprise, and then turned into a sad and angry color.

"You have no choice but to be a thief, why bother to implicate my old and neighbors; And how can there be a way in this world to make people come by deception and kidnapping, and to drive people like pigs and sheep with swords and guns. ”

And Du Xunhe, who was sitting next to him at this moment, kept moving as if he had never heard it, and gave a large piece of fat meat sliced in the sauerkraut to the eyes and hands quickly.

- I'm the dividing line -

In Chang'an City, Huang Chao, who had just been persuaded by the hundred officials of the Great Qi to be honored as Emperor Xuanwu of Chengtian Yingyun Qi Shengrui Wen, was also summoned in the Wuying Hall in a decent manner. There is mixed good news and bad news.

"Qilang and Lao Pang failed again in their attack on Fengtian? , and reinforcements from other towns arrived, so they had to temporarily retreat and make an exception to re-erect the fence? ”

"Chengde Jun Festival envoy Wang Jingchong, said that he was willing to obey the banner of the Yellow King. And for the Great Qi crusade against the old dynasty Taining, Tianping towns. ”

"And Han Jian, the king of Changli County of Wei Bo; and is willing to serve 120,000 quintals of rice, and 1 million catties of reed salt; Just want to open the road can be exported to the eastern capital. ”

"It's Li Keju from Fanyang Town, but his attitude is still unclear."

"The probation army festival envoy Zhi Shen suffered a mutiny and exile in Pengcheng, and after the soldiers and horses were left behind by the Marquis of Yu, he has now sent an envoy to lose money."

"The Xuanwu army has not yet taken it down, and it has been sent to besiege it in three ways for more than a few months. Then after the city is broken, compare the story of Xuzhou of the loyal army. ”

"Bianzhou is the hub of Caoyun Beidi, if it has not been won for a day, my Daqi's strategy and operation in various parts of the Kanto region will not be stable for a day."

Since taking Chang'an, also known as the emperor, Huang Chao has also been like a feudal and reward, successively leading a group of people and horses to various parts of the Kanto region and doing the act of attacking the city, or sweeping the remnants of the official army, or guarding and managing a place, thinking that the Guannai crusade against the old dynasty battlefield is a big rear plan.

"Scholars in Chang'an City? What happened to these scholars... ”

Then, someone came up on another topic.

"Someone is collecting these scholars, and then they are being transported out of the south of the city in batches."

"That's what I mean, too."

Huang Chao pressed his hand unapprehantly

"And why is that?"

Li Junru, the right servant of the middle book, couldn't help but be surprised.

"Most of this generation likes to talk about current affairs rather than current affairs, which really doesn't live up to the name. Daqi only needs to be in the middle and be good at selecting and selecting talents. ”

Someone rushed to explain, but it was Liu Tang, the transfer envoy of the Guannei capital.

The rest of the general crowd did not. If they are treated with kindness and favor without distinction, they will only be afraid of power and not virtuous. It is even more useless in this dynasty, and it is even more damaging to the hearts of the new people."

Huang Chao nodded slightly.

For him, since the officials of the old dynasty led by Wang Duo have all surrendered to the Great Qi one after another, and it seems that they are being used quite smoothly now; The means that were originally used to buy people's hearts, especially the means of encircling and appeasing these scholars, there is no longer much need to maintain those means of gold and horses.

It just so happened that the cheap son-in-law in the south made a corresponding request, and he was happy to be a favor to push the boat. Anyway, he also vaguely heard that the other party likes to handsome those who are called reformers, but in fact, they toss the humiliating methods of the scholars.

Easily put these groups that are not willing to surrender to the Great Qi easily, nor can they come in handy immediately, but they have to continue to spend money and food to appease and maintain, and from time to time they will criticize and say some strange things; Give them all the places south of the road to fend for themselves.

Though long ago, he had been one of these undigs; But since his own family has complied with the mandate of heaven and achieved the king's hegemony, it is natural that there is no longer any relationship and sense of identity with the public who have accomplished nothing in these things.

I fully recommend the harem to save the country - Zichai hate, back to the starting point of the new book "Rebirth of the Torrent Age", there are all kinds of girls and harems, but there is no discipline and scale

(End of chapter)