The cold wind was sluggish, and it suddenly snowed in the sky, and Zhang Bin was pulling out the cold in his heart at the moment.

He regretted this in his heart, the so-called knowing people and knowing faces but not knowing their hearts, he easily believed in this Mao Wenlong, who had met less than three times, and stupidly climbed to the top of this mountain, still alone!

Is it better to strike first?

He quickly vetoed this idea, just kidding, he was born in martial arts, and he was still the sixth-ranked master in Liaodong, and he was a literati who could be similar to an ordinary soldier, and he had no combat skills at all, even if he had a knife, he didn't have a knife, and he couldn't do it himself, not to mention that now people have knives, and they didn't have knives.

He secretly looked around, and soon thought of a way that was not a solution, that is, to roll down the mountain by himself!

Mao Wenlong can't always roll with him, if he runs, he will definitely not roll fast, if he is lucky and not killed by a stone, maybe there is still hope of survival.

This is also the only way he can think of, he secretly looked at Mao Wenlong's hand pressing the handle of the knife, and secretly decided in his heart that once this guy made the action of drawing the knife, he would immediately roll down the mountain with his head in his hands!

Mao Wenlong didn't mean to draw his knife for the time being, he just looked at the snowflakes in the sky and asked leisurely, "Do you know how these people died?" ”

Zhang Bin settled his mind and cooperated: "How did they die?" ”

Mao Wenlong suddenly said excitedly: "Starving to death, do you know? They are all starving! And, their heads, I cut them off, you know? ”

"Hiss", Zhang Bin gasped and subconsciously took two steps back, this guy is too ruthless, even if he starves to death, he will cut off someone's head to take the lead in his military skills!

At this time, he just wants to give himself a few mouths, I'm so blind, I was deceived by this guy, this guy is loyal and reliable on the surface, and he looks bold, but I didn't expect to be such a vicious person!

Mao Wenlong still didn't draw his sword, but said bitterly: "Do you know, in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, I lost the battle of Tieshan, and I lost very badly. ”

Zhang Bin wanted to say: "I know, you were defeated in the hands of Qierharang, and you also cut off the heads of many refugees to fake your war exploits, saying that you won!" ”

But he didn't dare to say it, he was afraid of irritating this guy, so he slaughtered himself with a backhand.

Mao Wenlong didn't mean to draw his knife at this time, and he still said to himself in pain: "In order to transfer the refugees outside the city, my relatives didn't have time to rescue, more than 370 mouths, all of them were captured and killed by the brute Qierharang, more than 370 mouths!" ”

"People have punished your nine clans, and you can't be angry with refugees." Zhang Bin said in his heart, but he still didn't dare to say that this guy probably became so vicious because his relatives were killed and his brain was abnormal, and if he stimulated him again, he would probably do it immediately.

Unexpectedly, the story was reversed here, and Mao Wenlong continued to muttered to himself in pain: "At that time, tens of thousands of refugees fled back to this deserted island, and with my soldiers, a total of 100,000 people gathered here. However, the imperial court has been in arrears for several months, I don't have much food, you know, I don't have much food, and I don't even have enough food for my soldiers, where can I feed so many refugees? At that time, it was also the first month, and the weather was so cold, and many people died of hunger and cold, and I had no choice but to cut off their heads, take the lead and take the lead, exchange for silver, and buy food, so that the others could survive. Tens of thousands of heads have been chopped, and all I can say is that I won a big victory, you know what, that's how I got a big win! ”

Zhang Bin looked at Mao Wenlong with a shocked face, he didn't expect that things would be like this!

Mao Wenlong didn't look at him, but continued to say bitterly in front of the snowflakes in the sky: "Tieshan is lost, Yizhou is lost, the tuntian that was finally reclaimed is gone, and I still have nearly 100,000 people to feed, I can only lie that there are 100,000 troops here to defraud the imperial court's food and salary." But the imperial court repeatedly defaulted, so I could only take the risk of selling contraband to make money, let them steal ginseng to make money, and even forbid to open a horse market here to make money, and even fight with pirates, rob their things to make money, and even wrote to Huang Taiji to trick him into sending envoys, and then arrested him to go to the capital to cheat the reward! ”

He did it for a long time, all to feed these refugees!

Zhang Bin couldn't help but be in awe, he was alone overseas, he was forced by Jiannu to be cornered, and the court still owed him food, not only did he not launch a mutiny, but also found a way to make money everywhere, not easy, it was really not easy.

He thought for a moment and reminded: "You don't have to do this, just hand over all the refugees to me, Dongfan has land, enough to feed them." ”

Mao Wenlong shook his head and said, "I thought about it too, but they refused to go." ”

Zhang Bin was dumbfounded and said, "Ah, why? ”

Mao Wenlong explained leisurely: "Because almost all of my soldiers are selected from these refugees, they are not willing to leave their relatives, they want to stay and accompany their relatives to fight Jiannu." ”

It turns out that this is the case, it seems that Mao Wenlong did only take two hundred Ming troops deep behind enemy lines, and it turns out that everyone else was selected from these refugees!

Zhang Bin shook his head and sighed: "Zhennan, you can't do this, do you know, people will think that you are greedy for food and money, and people will want your life, do you know?" ”

Mao Wenlong said indifferently: "As long as he is willing to give money to feed these people, he wants my life, take it." ”

Zhang Bin patiently persuaded: "Zhennan, you don't know how important the existence of the Dongjiang Army is to the entire Liaodong war situation, and you don't know how important your existence is to the entire Dongjiang Army, if you are not there, the Dongjiang Army will be finished, do you know?" ”

Mao Wenlong was stunned when he heard this, and then said helplessly: "What can I do, they are unwilling to go, and they can't produce food here, Tieshan and Yizhou are too dangerous, and they may be raided by Jiannu at any time, and the king of Korea is also afraid that we will cause trouble to him, so he won't let us be stationed on the shore, I can't help it." ”

Zhang Bin thought for a while, and said wisely: "No, you have a way, you tell them directly, in order to feed them, you lied about the number of troops under you, and the court has begun to suspect that you are greedy for food and wages, and if this continues, it is estimated that someone will be sent to verify it soon, and when the time comes, as soon as it is found out, you will die, and they will not watch you die." ”

When Mao Wenlong heard this, he hesitated: "This is not good, in fact, if I make my business bigger and open more shops in North Korea, I will be able to support them in another year or two." ”

Zhang Bin shook his head resolutely and said: "You are a leading general, not a businessman, these things are handed over to others to be responsible, you should concentrate and think about how to keep this Phi Island, how to harass Jiannu, how to steal civilians out, you know?" By the way, how can there be fewer and fewer civilians sent to Dengzhouwei recently? ”

Mao Wenlong said embarrassedly: "Stealing hundreds of thousands of civilians, and killing thousands of them, Jiannu was furious, they set up an ambush in the coastal area, several teams of men and horses I sent out had accidents, and lost hundreds of elites before and after, and my remaining elites are less than two hundred, in the face of their ambush, it is almost impossible to retreat, so I am a little afraid to send someone to steal." ”

It turned out that this was the case, Zhang Bin thought about it, and then instructed: "You are fighting behind enemy lines, and you should focus on cultivating elites, nearly 30,000 talents and 300 elites, which is far from enough, do you know." In this way, the relocation of civilians will be stopped for a while, and you can put this place in order first, leaving a maximum of 30,000 people, and sending the rest to Dongfan. Then, you select 10,000 people, step up the training, and train them into elites. The rest of the people, you tell them to remodel this place, build a fortress on the hill next to the port, set up artillery, and build a city behind the fortress that can hold 30,000 people. It's a very important stronghold, and you can't lose it, you know. ”

When Mao Wenlong heard this, he said embarrassedly: "I can think of a way to train the elite, but it's not that I don't want to transform Phi Island, you have also seen it, except for stone and sand, wood and lime have to be bought here, and by the way, there are artillery, how can I have this money!" ”

Zhang Bin shook his head helplessly and said: "That's it, I'll send a boat to pick up people directly from you, and when I come over, I'll send you the materials by the way, and I'll send you a few experts in building the city to help guide you, and your subordinates just need to contribute." ”

Mao Wenlong said embarrassedly: "This, how can you break the bank." ”

Zhang Bin waved his hand and said: "This is all a trivial matter, wood, lime or something, Dongfan and Fujian have it, I just let people go to the felling, you don't care about this." Let's go, go back first, the snow is getting heavier and heavier, and you won't be able to see the road later. ”

When Mao Wenlong heard this, he obediently followed Zhang Bin down the mountain.

Along the way, seeing those stone houses and dilapidated tents, Zhang Bin couldn't help but complain: "You, look at it, where do you look like a pivotal stronghold behind enemy lines, just like a refugee camp, if Jiannu fights hard, can you withstand it?" ”

Mao Wenlong smiled awkwardly: "Isn't this no money, if you have money, I can build this place like the palace." ”

Zhang Bin rolled his eyes, and said angrily: "Also, you are the commander of one party, holding tens of thousands of lives and deaths, you must pay attention to the influence of what you say and do, don't speak openly, and you can't do things recklessly, if you are caught by someone with a heart, you will be in trouble, you know?" ”

Mao Wenlong is indeed wild, he has been alone abroad for more than ten years, struggling on the edge of life and death all the time, and he has to take hundreds of thousands of refugees to run for a living, he is almost regarded as a refugee leader, and he still remembers the intrigue and intrigue in the officialdom.

This is Zhang Bin who came to tell him this, because Zhang Bin took him to make money, helped him find a way to resettle refugees, and helped him to build a station, he was grateful to Zhang Bin, so he could still listen honestly and accept it humbly, and he didn't bother to take care of it if he was replaced by other court officials.

The two returned to the tent, and Zhang Bin continued to teach: "Also, I heard that you are very unkind to Inspector Yuan, this is not good, people have hundreds of thousands of troops in Jizhou, Liaodong, Shandong and you, the island of Phi Dao, you are in a high position, you give people a face, be careful that people clean you up." ”

Mao Wenlong said unconvinced: "He either wants to send someone to supervise me all day long, or to check the number of soldiers I have here, and he is annoyed to death, who cares about him." ”

Zhang Bin shook his head and smiled bitterly: "This is your fault, his duty is where he is, and he hasn't done anything wrong." ”

Mao Wenlong was still unconvinced: "What is the responsibility, I think he is deliberately finding fault." ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he said solemnly: "It's not right for you to think like this, you think about it from his point of view, he has two or three hundred thousand horses under his command, and the court can't provide enough food and salary, so one will be less than the other, you have more than 20,000 people, you insist on 100,000 people's food, what about the remaining 100,000 or 200,000 soldiers, are you hungry to fight?" ”

When Mao Wenlong heard this, he said hesitantly: "Isn't there no way for me, and I didn't deliberately be greedy for food and wages." ”

Zhang Bin said bitterly: "Civilians and the military can't be confused, do you know? You have 100,000 people of food, 30,000 people can't play their combat power, and you have to affect the combat power of other armies, as the commander, who will you clean up if he doesn't clean up? ”

Mao Wenlong hung his head and said: "I don't want to either, now I have offended him, what should I do?" ”

Zhang Bin thought for a while and pointed: "You are polite to him first, and then report the real number, and then go to trouble Jiannu from time to time, and he will not trouble you again." ”

When Mao Wenlong heard this, he thought about it carefully, and suddenly, he said with an ugly face: "I reported 100,000 yuan, and suddenly changed it to 30,000, doesn't this make it clear to tell others that I am greedy for 70,000 people's salary!" ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, his face became difficult to look at, this is indeed a very serious problem, 100,000 have been reported, not the actual number, Yuan Chonghuan found out, it is estimated that he is dead, and now he has changed his mouth to report the real number, that is also if he does not die, he has to shed his skin, what should I do?

Zhang Bin frowned and pondered for a long time, and then said seriously: "In this way, you immediately gave the emperor a seal, and said that more than 70,000 people in the 100,000 army were originally tunwei, because of the seventh year of the apocalypse, and Jiannu fought in Tieshan, with heavy casualties, you had to give up Tieshan, and all the people moved to Phi Island, so that these tunwei became pawns with no land to plant, and in order to feed them, you had to apply to the imperial court for 100,000 people's food." In order to reduce the burden of military expenses on the imperial court, this time, taking the opportunity of relocating civilians from Liaodong, you have already discussed with me that you will move these 70,000 guards to Dongfan, so that you only need 30,000 people of food and salary here. ”

Mao Wenlong was slightly puzzled: "Can this work?" ”

Zhang Bin said in his heart, if you want you to be stupid, it will definitely not work, it will be different if I ask Cao Huachun to help, when the time comes, let him find an opportunity, take advantage of Chongzhen's good mood to hand over the fold, and then beat the side drum on the side, there will be no big problem.

Of course, he wouldn't tell Mao Wenlong this, he thought about it, and pointed out again: "Write the battle of Tieshan more fiercely, you have more casualties here, as long as it is slightly less than the number of enemies you reported last time, in addition, write down the fact that more than 370 members of your family were slaughtered by Qierharang, do you know, write quickly, I will give you a little more than Dengzhou Wei later, and let people send 800 li to the capital urgently." ”

When Mao Wenlong heard this, he wrote a letter suspiciously according to Zhang Bin's statement, and the two discussed the details of the relocation of Phi Island refugees and the construction of Phi Island, and Zhang Bin hurried away with Mao Wenlong's recital.

That's all he can do, I hope Yuan Chonghuan won't kill himself anymore and come to kill Mao Wenlong, Chongzhen actually knows the importance of Mao Wenlong, and he killed Yuan Chonghuan alive later, a large part of the reason is also because Yuan Chonghuan made the decision without authorization and killed Mao Wenlong!