Chapter 30: The Newcomer

It is already in the territory of Lingbi, and the layer of mud and sand under your feet is thicker, and even some abandoned cultivated land does not have many weeds growing on it. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

It is a ruined village called Twin Bridges, which got its name from the fact that there are two stone bridges nearby.

The confluence of rivers here, in the past, it should be a place where ship masts stand in a forest, boat families rest, and commerce flourishes, but now the big Zhuangzi has become a ruined village, with broken walls and ruins, artemisia grass overgrown, and old trees dry and withered.

A dilapidated river temple, a tattered desk, Yang He sat on a crooked chair writing in pen and ink, the people outside were noisy, looking through the broken window purlin, the smoke curled in front of the temple, and the fragrance permeated from time to time.

Zhao Zhongju was busy with the women under his command, and there were many refugees around the cauldron next to him, watching with blank eyes.

After leaving Yong'anji yesterday, a lot of displaced people followed, and after observing all the way, Yang He left behind those old and weak women and children, as well as their families who were young and strong. Those who don't know each other, pure young and strong gangs, are all driven away unceremoniously.

"There are a lot more people, but those rice, noodles and meat have to be saved."

Yang He thought silently, picked up the fragrant tea next to him and took a sip.

There is a big fire pond burning not far away, the firewood in the middle is "crackling" and burning vigorously, adding warmth to the temple, there is a teapot with half a mouth missing on the desk, the teapot is steaming, and there are a few teacups next to it.

Yang He got a few catties of fine tea from Yong'an, of course, not just anyone can drink it, this teapot was also collected from a waste village a few days ago, and finally came in handy.

The footsteps sounded, but it was Yan Dezheng who came in, the heat in the temple lifted his spirits, he had changed into a thick cotton jacket, looking quite bloated, and saw that he was holding a roster in his hand, and said respectfully: "Xianggong, the Dingkou household post has been counted." ”

Yang He snorted, took the book, and pointed to the teacup: "Pour the tea yourself." ”

Yan Dezheng responded, he first added tea to Yang He, then poured himself a cup, the hot tea cup warmed his hands, and then sat down on the broken chair on the side, sipping the hot tea carefully, with a satisfied look on his face.

Yang He looked through the roster, and his team originally had 60 people, and 140 new people were added, making a total of 200 people, including 70 young and strong men, 68 young and strong women, 32 big children and children, and 30 old and weak.

He flipped through the roster, looked at the names one by one, compared them with the impressions in his mind, and after scanning them, he had all the information about the characters in his mind.

He put down the register, dipped his brush in ink on the inkstone next to him, and continued to write.

“…… Temporarily set up the praise hall and the council hall. There are seven or nine people in the Zanhua Hall, one general praiser, twenty-three or twenty-five counselors, and no staff members. There are temporarily a lecture hall, a medical hall, a military law hall, a sentinel team, and a baggage team ......"

"There shall be seven or nine members of the council, one president of the council, twenty-three or twenty-five members participating in politics, and the council shall have no fixed member. There is a civil affairs hall under the hall to train civil affairs officials and reserve cadres. There are also six halls of official affairs, household affairs, military affairs, public works affairs, ritual affairs, and criminal affairs......"

"The formation of the army is based on the structure of A, team, headquarters, department, battalion, army, and corps, imitating the 'invisible division' system, with two team deputies under each captain, two deputy commanders under the general commander, two deputy commanders under the thousand generals, and so on."

"Twelve people are one first, one is the chief of the inner armor, one is the deputy of the first, and two are the chief of the army. The top five are a team, one captain, two team deputies, two guards, and a team of sixty-five people. Including the captain, there were 23 officers in the first team. ”

"All officers are enrolled in the lecture hall to study, and literacy rate is an important promotion criterion......"

Yang He writes and compiles a system, although there are only a few people at the moment, and there is no fixed residence, it is too early to set up a system.

However, everything is prepared in advance, and it is always right to prepare in advance, and it is much younger, and the team can be formed first.

He writes calmly, the font is strong and powerful, quite like the momentum of picking the sky and the moon, and the lines of future epic structures bloom under his pen.

Yan Dezheng watched from the sidelines, admiring in his heart, although he didn't know what Yang He was writing.

At this time, Minister Yang's voice sounded outside: "Young Master, it's time to eat." ”

Then her younger sister Ying'er, who was dressed roundly, ran in, and she said happily, "Brother, it's time for lunch." ”

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Yang He walked out of the temple gate with his sister who clapped his hands from time to time, and was greeted by a cold wind wrapped in snowflakes, which made people tremble.

Tomorrow is October, and the solar calendar is two days away from entering November, and winter will soon begin, and it will be even colder by then.

Fortunately, calculate the distance, even if you take a walk and rest, you can walk to Suining in five days at most, and after arriving at the county seat, you can see what places you can stand nearby.

He carried his sister out of the river temple, which was built on a platform that had fallen into disrepair and was overgrown with weeds, and the plaque on the door was about to fall.

There is a large locust tree near the front of the temple, with dense branches and leaves, but the lower half of the body has been almost stripped of its skin.

At this time, there is a big pot under the big locust tree, a big fire is burning, exuding light and heat to the surroundings, and then a large pot of porridge is boiled in the big iron pot, and a large number of finely chopped horse meat is added, as well as many wild vegetables of various colors, etc., which are steaming and fragrant.

The warmth and food make people's hearts settle and look forward to it, and those new refugees are around, all of them are salivating.

Yang He saw that these refugees were all in rags, with yellow faces and thin muscles, and dark clothes on their bodies. Some people are wearing cotton jackets, and they are even more riddled with holes, and the cotton wool can't fly out. The women in it were just as unkempt and dirty.

If you don't look at their clothes, you can't tell that they are women.

And then there were the children, all of them withered, and their limbs as thin and weak as skeletons.

It was cold, and many of them were even barefoot, all with dishes on their faces, looking at the boiling cauldron and just swallowing their saliva.

Winter is approaching, the colder the weather, many people are still thinly dressed, their clothes are full of holes, and the wind blows, shivering.

Miserable, worse than Yan Dezheng and others at the beginning!

However, seeing that these people, regardless of gender, old and young, are all honest people, and they are also full of fear of him as a leader, Yang He couldn't help but nodded.

He walked over to the cauldron, and the smell wafting from him made his brow furrow slightly, but it was the smell of horse meat.

In fact, horse meat is not carefully processed and not delicious, especially when boiled or fried, there is foam, accompanied by a foul smell, so that many people do not like it, and the fiber is very coarse, difficult to digest, and long-term consumption may cause gastrointestinal diseases.

Of course, this is not a problem for refugees who fled with only wild vegetables, tree bark, grass roots, and rice noodles that are often eaten with bran, as long as the food smells of rice and meat, it is fragrant.

Just look at the way they all sniff and salivate.

Horse meat is coarse, chewy, and can be more aftertaste in the mouth.

However, Yang He didn't like it very much, after all, this was not a delicious horse meat that had been specially processed in later generations.

Yesterday he got 20 catties of mutton, 10 catties of pork, and 20 catties of soju from Yong'anji, and ate a little bit of tooth sacrifice last night, and he is going to eat some more tonight, especially the amount of pork is increased a little, and he feasts, you must know that pork is more expensive than mutton at this time.

Seeing his younger brother Yang Qian standing by the pot, as well as the scholar Minister Yang, the chief Qi Youxin and others, and everyone in the army, especially the young man wrapped in a black scarf, maintained order with Minister Yang and others, maybe they felt that they were old people and had this obligation.

Yang He found a pattern, every time a new person joins, the loyalty of the original old people will soar a lot.

And these old people, starting from Du Wei, after several battles, and these days of rice and meat recuperation, everyone, even women, have shown good spirit and spirit.

Seeing Yang He coming, they all greeted respectfully: "Xianggong, Xianggong is here." ”

Yang He nodded, he came to the pot, took the big spoon from Zhao Zhong's raised hand, and saw that the refugees were all looking at him eagerly, especially staring at the cauldron, knowing that they were in extreme hunger, everyone was waiting for food, and they didn't have the heart to listen to the tirade.

He only said simply: "You wait to join my army, as long as you are in peace and work diligently, Yang will definitely not treat you badly." ”

The newcomers and refugees were all submissive responses, and Yang He followed the old rules and asked the children to line up and let them come up first to receive the food, then the old man, then the women, and finally the men.

He scooped the porridge with his own hands, and everyone poured them a bowl full of porridge.

The eyes of these refugees were full of surprise and joy, it seemed that they had come to the right place, how could Yang Xianggong give up on himself if he took such good care of the old and weak women and children?

They were in a commotion, lining up one by one to receive porridge under the order of the old people, and Minister Yang, Qi Youxin, Yan Dezheng, Han Daxia and his son stood aside to maintain.

There is also Luo Xianjue, who feels that he is an old man, and he is very positive, he presses the knife on his waist, and he is eyeing him.

One by one, the newcomers and refugees received their own porridge, the porridge water was steaming, and there were oil flowers, minced horse meat and wild vegetables on it, all kinds of fragrances were permeated, and the fragrance was extremely attractive.

After they went down, they were all busy gulping porridge and munching on the minced meat inside.

Drinking such a sweet porridge, many people are like crying while drinking it as if in a dream.

Many of them couldn't even drink porridge before, let alone meat, and the moment they drank porridge, many tears flowed uncontrollably.

Drinking the porridge, everyone's face also resurfaced with vitality and vitality, and there was hope and hope for the future again.

Yan Dezheng took a few old and weak people to pick up ordnance, and he usually had the responsibility of educating the people, so he didn't need Sun Zhaodi to take the lead in shouting, they all knew what to do.

Especially a few old and weak people in the army, they wanted to show themselves in front of Yang He, and they all said: "Come up one by one to receive porridge, you have to line up, and you have to understand the rules." When you have drunk porridge today, remember who gave you the kindness of your life. ”

While the refugees were drinking porridge, they responded with a loud noise, a small noise of drinking porridge and chewing.

After these newcomers received the porridge, the old people also consciously lined up, and the little boy stood in the children's line, holding the hand of the little girl of the Qian family.

Both of them are orphans, and there are also a few orphans in the army, such as the little girl who was brought yesterday, the informant, whose name is the informant.

Yang He plans to set up an orphan camp in the future, but now he has no fixed residence, so he will be taken care of by Zhao Zhongju, Sun Zhaodi and others.

When he came to the cauldron, Guo'er was still holding the hand of the girl of the Qian family, and when he saw Yang He, he explained: "Guo'er is a man, and he has to take care of Chu'er for a lifetime." ”

Yang He poured him porridge and praised him: "Okay, ambitious, but remember to study hard." ”

The little boy nodded vigorously and looked serious.

When the adults in the rear heard it, they all laughed and discussed: "This kid knows how to find a daughter-in-law at such a young age." ”

Qi Youxin next to him groaned: "I also saved the bride price." ”

Zhao Zhong, the Hun family who heard him, glanced at him.

Guo'er also heard Qi Youxin's words, his eyes widened, and he didn't understand.

The little girl Qian Chu'er understood a little, but she didn't speak, just grabbed the little boy Zhou Xiaoguo's hand tightly.