Chapter 344: Erecting a Monument
"I know." Gu Qing nodded, knowing in his heart that this time the eldest grandson Wuji had completely excluded Li Er from his rights.
The army was repaired here, the weather was very hot, and the soldiers of Shanhaiguan took off their coats and did not want to move in the hot air, and every place that could hide from the sun was crowded, for fear of stinging.
Gu Qing walked out of the pass with the scorching sun covering his headache, and Yang Sheng handed a roster to Gu Qing, "You said it, you have to do it." ”
Taking the roster, Gu Qing looked at it, and then looked at Shanhaiguan, "I know." ”
"Tell me what you want." Yang Sheng said, "They are all Guanzhong children who died in the war, I can survive the war again and again, I know how humble human life is on the battlefield, I want to do something for them." ”
There were only hundreds of names written on the vulture's file, and Gu Qing also knew that there were many, many names that had not been written on it, "I want to erect a huge stone tablet, a stone tablet like a wall." ”
"Good!" Yang Sheng nodded and got up to do it.
Gu Qing walked over to Su Dingfang, who was packing up his baggage, "Can you give me some manpower?" ”
"What are you going to do?" Su Dingfang was puzzled.
"I'm going to give a monument to Guan Zhongli who died in battle."
Su Dingfang stopped what he was doing, "How many people do you want?" ”
"Thousands." Gu Qing spoke.
After Su Dongfang walked into the army and explained to several army commanders and generals, he pulled out 10,000 people, "These people will be handed over to you." ”
"Thank you!" Gu Qing arched his hand and said.
"We're welcome!" Su Dongfang suddenly smiled, "If there is anything else you need to tell me, you don't need to be polite, I can still call some people now." ”
Shanhaiguan began to get busy, building a wall on the coast, Gu Qing was leading people to engrave one name after another on it, some of these names were a little bookish, and some were very simple, Cen Wenwen looked at this scene from a distance and nodded secretly.
Day after day, seven days later......
Names are carved into the huge stone walls, shadows are cast under the sun and the sea breeze blows, and sometimes a large wave crashes against the stone walls.
"It's a good journey." Gu Qing looked at these names, "You died in the war, you shouldn't be anonymous. ”
"That's it!" Yang Sheng looked at the huge stone wall, "We should go back too." ”
Su Dingfang also looked at this big stone monument, more precisely a wall, in the future, there will be many, many people passing by Shanhaiguan can see these names, and there will be many people who remember the cruelty of the war, the world is not easy to guard, the people do not expect much, only the world is peaceful, how many years have passed in the Central Plains again and again, the people have no way to live for themselves in the war, but for the ambition of those kings, their work was robbed, and they picked up the knife on the battlefield.
Su Dingfang may endure a war, but it is also a foreign war, the war between the Guanzhong people and the Guanzhong people does not want to happen again, there will be many, many tears when their own people fight their own people's wars, war is the business of the soldiers, and the disaster to the people is to put the cart before the horse.
"What's wrong?" Gu Qing looked at Su Dingfang, who was motionless.
"Gu Qing, why do you say we are fighting?" Su Dingfang said.
"For the peace of the Central Plains, for the people of the Central Plains." Gu Qing said, "I don't know much, I just know that guarding the frontier can make the people live a good life." ”
"Yes!" Su Dingfang's eyes were a little clear, "Our guarding the frontier is the best explanation to the people of the Central Plains." ”
"It's hot." Li Tai sat under the tree, "What did I say, you two said?" Come and cool off under the trees. ”
Li Taire was sweating profusely, the weather was indeed so hot that people were speechless, and the three of them sat in the shade of a tree drinking cold water.
"I really want to go to Chang'an now, sit in a cool home eating ice, and then listen to you tease Chu Mo." Li Tai put all the weight of his body on the big tree wound behind him, "It's hot." ”
"yes." Gu Qing looked at Li Tai, "It's all three ripe." ”
"you!" Li Tai pushed Gu Qing, "You're just familiar." ”
"Gu Qing, I heard that you can make ice?" Su Dingfang remembered something.
"That's right!" Li Tai also came to the spirit, "Am I still afraid of the heat with you here?" Hurry up and make ice for this king. ”
"No, no." Gu Qing lay in the shade of a tree.
"Why?!" Li Tai was already in a hurry.
"Because I'm lazy." Gu Qing sniffed, and then looked at Li Tai's sad face, "Okay, okay!" ”
Gu Qing sat up helplessly, you ask your people to find saltpeter, and I will teach them how to make ice. ”
"Yes!" Li Tai nodded vigorously.
On a hot day, even the distant scenery was distorted by the sun, and in order to take care of the soldiers, Li Tao decided to march to Chang'an at night until the early morning hour.
In fact, the way to make saltpeter ice is very simple, after Gu Qing told a few soldiers, "You can teach this method to others, find it cool yourself, and remember that the ice made of saltpeter is not edible." ”
"Yes!" Several soldiers received the message and immediately left and began to make ice.
As a result, the method of saltpeter ice making was quickly popularized in the army, and with this method, the problem of heat and dryness of the soldiers was solved, and the march began at night, and the army slowly went to Chang'an, disturbing a lot of fireflies along the way.
The march continued until the early hours of the morning, and then stopped the pace of the marching troops and stationed them in the same place.
When the local people saw the army coming, they gave some of their food to the army.
"Generals, this is the egg laid by the old hen in the house." Gu Qing looked at more than a dozen eggs and asked, "How many old hens do you have at home?" ”
"There's one." The woman said with a smile.
Gu Qing looked at the eggs and didn't accept them, "You've been saving these eggs for a long time." ”
"Take it, General." The woman said.
There have been more than ten eggs of the old hen, and Li Tai can also see that these eggs have been saved for a long time, looking at the woman's rough hands and saying, "Our military rations are enough, we can't ask for these eggs and food, you go back." ”
"The general should take it." The woman thought she had offended the three generals.
"Not really." Li Tai continued to shirk and said with a smile, "We have our own food and grass for the march, you can leave these eggs for your children to eat, and besides, we are already very disturbed when we come to the edge of your village." ”
Even if the upright Cheng Chumo thought about it a little, he understood that the war had caused a lot of bad impressions on the people, and in order to prevent the army from harming their lives, they would take the initiative to send food, and even then they would suffer in the war.