Don't jump to conclusions so early, after all, today is just the first time you don't know, and if you draw conclusions too early, you will have preconceived ideas and preconceptions. Drunken Dew Academy"

Pei Ying brought Zhang Huan a cup of tea and said with a smile: "Moreover, people also specially sent you tea, although it is the old tea last year, it is always the people's mind, you are good, there is no one Xie Zi, but the first person is condemned to death." ”

Zhang Huan took the tea, took a sip and said with a smile: "I'm just guessing, there is no evidence, she is half of your master, if she wants to leave Hexi, how much money to give her is up to you." ”

There was a gentle knock on the door, and a soldier reported from outside the door, "Governor! Li Xiancheng asked to see. ”

Zhang Huan then remembered that he had said during the day that he would let him report at night, food was indeed a big problem, although it would not be in trouble at the moment, but when the crisis broke out, it would be too late.

"Go to bed early! I'll be back later. ”

Although Pei Ying was reluctant to let him go, she also knew that it was not necessarily a good thing to let a man indulge in ** too much, since she was his wife, she should help him succeed, instead of dragging him back, she took Zhang Huan's hand and kissed him with a stab, and then drove him away.

Zhang Huan went out, hurriedly walked through the rockery, walked to the opposite side of the pool, and couldn't help but look back at his new house, only to see Pei Ying's figure reflected in the orange window paper, and the shadow was waving to him! Zhang Huan smiled, what a smart woman.

As soon as he turned around, he suddenly found a woman tiptoeing out next to his room, he flashed behind the rockery, staring at her carefully, wasn't it that Yang Feiyu? What are you doing sneakily behind your house?

Zhang Huan watched her go back to his room, then he sneered, turned around and came to the county hall, he saw Li Xiancheng walking around the hall with his hands behind his back, it seemed that something was wrong. When I looked closer, I found that half of his face was bruised, while the other half was high and swollen.

When Li Xiancheng saw Zhang Huan coming, he lowered his head and stepped forward and said, "My subordinates are not doing things well, please supervise and punish them." ”

"I see. They really won't take out the food, so forget it. ”

Li Xiancheng sighed and said helplessly: "The people here are fierce, and many people think that they are gathering military rations, and they will cut them when they pick up a knife." I don't have any subordinates, so I've suffered a lot. For the sake of me, I have no merit and hard work. Can.

Zhang Huan knew that he was obsessed with the position of the county order, so he smiled and interrupted him: "Let me ask you another thing, how did the Wang county order be captured by the Tubo people, and how many other people were arrested with him?" ”

Li Xiancheng thought for a while, and then said: "Wang County's order was probably this time last year. I remember that the weather was surprisingly warm at that time, and there was an outbreak of locusts in our place, and the whole place was full of locusts. At the request of the people, Wang Xianling took more than 100 people to exterminate the locusts, but encountered the Tubo patrol and captured 20 or 30 of them. ”

Zhang Huan couldn't hear the flaw, and couldn't help but secretly wonder: "This is strange, isn't she a ghost in the middle?" ”

He pondered for a moment and asked, "When Mrs. Wang saw me today, why didn't she ask me to save Wang County, as if she didn't care, what is the reason for this?" ”

Li Xiancheng smiled, he saw that there was no one left and right, so he approached Zhang Huan and whispered: "That woman married Wang Xianling just to wash her innocence and go back to remarry, Wang Xianling is already sixty years old, and she can't be humane, she can't wait to die." ”

Zhang Huan was puzzled, "What kind of innocence is washed?" ”

Li Xiancheng smiled slightly: "This Mrs. Wang heard that she used to be a famous lady in Beijing, like a piano master, so she eloped with him, wandering around, came to us in May this year, saw that the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, so I want to live a small life for a long time, but soon the piano master is tired, to sell her to the Qinglou, as a result, she cried, the people of the Qinglou were afraid of something and sued the official, Wang Xianling asked her identity, and immediately beat the qin master to death, and accepted her as a concubine, less than a month, Wang County ordered the wife of the dregs of the chaff to die, She naturally became Mrs. Wang, and now that the county order is gone, at least she can go back to her parents' house to remarry with dignity and wash away the scandal of her elopement. ”

Zhang Huan nodded, it seems that she didn't lie to Pei Ying, she thought too much, but how could she know about her kidnapping Cui Ning? This is still a place that puzzled him, he couldn't think of a reason, he had to put this matter down, smiled and said: "I'll give you another chance, tomorrow I will let a team of brothers go to the forest to try their luck, you go to find some experienced hunters to lead the way, in addition, I also have to recruit craftsmen, any craft, any craft, all craftsmen, take care of a meal, the salary is preferential, tomorrow to the barracks to sign up, do these two things well, I still talk about it." ”

Li Xiancheng was silent, these two things can be done without waste, he finally understood that Zhang Huan actually wanted to promote himself, but he just wanted to stimulate his enthusiasm to test, he didn't say a word, and bowed deeply to Zhang Huan and went.

Early the next morning, the barracks were lively, thousands of men who heard the news blocked the gate of the barracks, there was nothing to do in winter, you can eat a coarse wheat rice, and there are a lot of copper coins to earn, why not, and this general seems to be a little stupid, all crafts, Zhang San will make clay pots, Li Si will raise horses, Wang Wu has also learned carpentry for a few months, these are all crafts, all men who do not want to eat will be so half-stard, so countless Mr. Dongguo are mixed in it, simple and honest smile waiting for the meal to get money. Drunken Dew Academy

Unexpectedly, this money does not seem to be so easy to earn, the first three days are to collectively go to the logging, everyone is divided into countless teams, a team of ten people, each team has a soldier as the leader, and the price is clear, a tree from the cut down to the transport back to the barracks a total of 20 yuan, everyone worked together, many people earned 100 yuan that day, everyone was in high spirits, went home and was praised by his wife, and it is needless to say that the night is warm.

On the fourth day, some carpenters, blacksmiths, and horse breeders were called away, while the remaining thousands of people still went to the north slope to shovel snow and level the land according to the team, and on the fifth day, each person was given a knife and began to train in a formation on the leveled grass.

Although many people understand a little, but after taking the money for a few days, if they suddenly have it, but others do, how to explain it when they go home. What did his mother-in-law take out to show off, and everyone cut wood together, and they had some feelings, so it was a bit unrighteous to pat their butts and leave. Ordinary people are herd-minded

If one person doesn't leave, the other two can't leave, so most of them practice martial arts. And a few people who ran away were driven back by their wives or parents.

"Kill!" The roar on the field of the school shook the sky. A knife glittered. Although he had only practiced for less than half a day, he was already in good shape, and in the distance, Zhang Huan was riding on a horse, accompanied by more than a dozen generals, and was reviewing this reserve force.

"Governor. There were three thousand two hundred and fifteen in all, and after deducting some injuries and old age, two thousand seven or eight hundred were not a problem. ”

Chen Ping handed Zhang Huan a thick roster. He is the chief executor of this recruitment plan, and he will also be the soldier and horse envoy of this reserve force in the future.

"Well done!"

Zhang Huan smiled and nodded, although he was not very kind to deceive them in this way, but these people were indeed of great use to him, and he advised: "Pay attention to selecting some land with good physical conditions, a thousand people are enough, and form a Tianbao camp, and the rest will be organized into a militia group." ”

Need to say more here, the Tianqi battalion is the forbidden army formation, after Zhang Huan left Chang'an, this establishment will automatically disappear, a few days ago everyone had a meeting, and the Tianqi battalion was officially renamed the Xiliang Army, with six battalions below, all of which start with the word Tian, among which the most elite tooth soldiers are still called the Tianqi Battalion, which is Zhang Huan's direct personal soldiers, if you add today's Tianbao Battalion, his Xiliang Army has 7,000 people, enough to compete with the Hexi Army.

"But the Governor!" He Lou Wuji's eyes were a little melancholy, "Our food is only enough to support ten days, and the supplies from the county can't come." ”

Zhang Huan patted him on the shoulder, smiled and comforted him: "Don't worry, Lu Sigong is more anxious than us, it should be these two days, there will be news." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard someone shouting from afar, "Dudu! I have something important to do. ”

"It seems to be the order of Li County." He Lou Wuji took a closer look at the curtain and recognized the person at a glance, it was Li Xiancheng, who had just been promoted to the county order.

He came galloping on an old horse, looking rather anxious.

Zhang Huan's heart moved, "Could it be?" Li County Order, what's the urgency? ”

Li Xian Ling turned over and dismounted, he panted and said: "Governor, a group of grain merchants from the county came to collect mountain goods in exchange for rice, and they exchanged them on the spot. ”

Zhang Huan smiled, they really came, and he immediately asked, "Where did they come from?" How many people are there? How many meters to bring? ”

"Back to the governor, they claimed to have come from Jincheng County, there were more than 20 people, and they brought 200 stone meters."

Zhang Huan thought about it, first ordered Chen Ping to let everyone stop training and continue to go to logging, and then called the generals over and said, "Everyone go back to the barracks immediately and deploy according to my words.

About half an hour later, Li Shuangyu led more than 50 soldiers to find this group of grain merchants in the small square in front of the county ya, they were already surrounded by a group of women, who were carrying furs, medicinal herbs, and some of them were holding the copper money that their men had just earned, and they were bargaining with this group of grain merchants.

Li Shuangyu led the soldiers to push the woman away, stepped forward and said in a vicious voice: "Go away, all the rice troops here want it." ”

When the women saw that these soldiers were vicious, very different from what they usually saw, they were afraid, so they scolded and went away, and the man who sold rice was just about to pack up his things, but Li Shuangyu stepped on the grain bag with one foot and shouted, "Didn't you hear clearly? These grain veterans want it, call your shopkeeper to come, make a price and pay the money and get out! ”

At this time, a chubby middle-aged man came next to him, who seemed to be their shopkeeper, he stepped forward and bowed down with a smile and said: "The military master is good to say, the villain's surname is Du, he is the shopkeeper, and these grains are five hundred wen a bucket, and the cash is delivered." ”

"Fart!" Li Shuangyu grabbed him by the collar and said with a tiger face: "You want to blackmail Lao Tzu, right?" The price of grain in Jincheng County is only 100 Wen, so you want to increase it five times here? ”

Shopkeeper Du was not afraid at all, he still smiled and said: "We have come all the way, of course we have to sell it more expensive, if the military master wants a large amount of land, the price can be negotiated." ”

Li Shuangyu was overjoyed, and he asked anxiously, "Then how much grain do you have?" ”

Shopkeeper Du saw his expression in his eyes, and he smiled quietly and slightly: "I am a businessman, I pay attention to harmony and make money, and the military master is holding me like this, how can I talk about business?" ”

"Yes! Be! Be! "Stay."

After hesitating, he still couldn't restrain the anxiety in his eyes, and said in a low voice: "Shopkeeper, how much food can you get?" ”

Shopkeeper Du slowly stretched out a slap, "Within ten days, I can take out five hundred stones, if the price you give is good, within a month, three thousand stones will be no problem!" ”

"Three thousand stones!" Li Shuangyu's voice trembled in surprise: "Then what price do you want?" ”

Shopkeeper Du glanced at him, and said with a somewhat arrogant smile: "This military master, what price do I offer, are you qualified to call the shots?" ”

"You dare to humiliate Lao Tzu!"

Li Shuangyu was furious, and he was about to fight with a big fist, but the soldiers next to him were desperate to stop him, but the shopkeeper Du looked at him with a smile behind his back and did not have the slightest fear.

Li Shuangyu glared at him fiercely, whispered a few words to a soldier, the soldier agreed, and rushed away, Li Shuangyu waited anxiously, while stretching out his hand into the rice, holding the rice up, looking at them greedily, and saying to himself: "This is white rice!" He couldn't help but pick up a handful of rice and put it in his mouth to chew, and shouted vaguely: "Lao Tzu is tired of eating coarse wheat rice." ”

Next to the shopkeeper Du saw all his performance in his eyes, smiled without saying a word, soon, a large group of soldiers came from the street, led by a very young general, Li Shuangyu saw him, immediately made a military salute, he waved his hand, walked quickly to the front of the Du shopkeeper, and gave a long salute, "Under is the Eagle Yang Lang General He Lou Wuji, may I ask Your Excellency is the shopkeeper who sells rice?" ”

Shopkeeper Du nodded, "It's down there!" ”

He Lou Wuji made a gesture of invitation, and said respectfully: "My family has invited the shopkeeper Du to the barracks!" ”