Early in the morning, the sky is not yet bright, in the city shrouded in the cold, the merchants and errands who get up early have shown their traces on the street, many people's lights have been turned on, at the fourth watch, Zhang Huan's house has also moved, the kitchen book began to make breakfast, the rough people began to clean the night things, the housewife Pei Ying also got up early, busy arranging a new day, today is the second day of Zhang Huan's return to Longyou, he needs to listen to the report of his important ministers, but also to understand the current strength of the support for his future development, five watches, Just when Pei Ying sent a maid to ask Zhang Huan to get up, an accident happened, Zhang Huan went out early in the morning, and even Cui Ning didn't know where he went?

Zhang Huan quietly left the mansion through the back door in less than four watches, and he went to the west of Jincheng County under the escort of more than a dozen personal soldiers, which is the settlement of ordinary people in Jincheng County, and there are large slums living at the bottom in the southwest of the city.

"Governor, here's one." A pro-soldier found the first household on the book, there are seven military households living in Wudong Lane, among which there are three families whose scholars were killed in the battle of Zhang Sancheng at the same time, Zhang Huan looked at this family, three old tile houses, low mud walls, the courtyard gate that looks white by the wind and rain, a withered old apricot tree, every household here has no house number, the characteristics of each family are their respective signboards, the characteristics of this family are this old apricot tree, which is a unique one in Wudong Lane.

But Zhang Huan felt a faint uneasiness in his heart. This is the home of the fallen soldier Zhang Xiaoping, and it stands to reason that the news of Zhang Xiaoping's death should have come a long time ago. But there is no painful film book here, everything is as calm as before, don't they know that Zhang Xiaoping has been killed? Zhang Huan saw that there was already green smoke rising from the side room next to him, and knew that the master had gotten up, so he gave his own soldiers a look.

A soldier stepped forward and knocked on the door vigorously, and in a moment, there was a trembling footstep in the courtyard book, and the door creaked! A crack opened. An old face appeared, this is an old man in his sixties, his back is already hunched, and he is on a cane, he saw more than a dozen officers and soldiers standing at the door, he couldn't help but be stunned, and then his eyes showed a deep sadness. ::First-Released UC eBook::

"Who are you looking for?" His voice was hoarse and old.

Li Dingfang stepped forward and hugged his fists and said, "Uncle, we are all Zhang Xiaoping's brothers, we just came back from Anxi, and we came to see his family." ”

"Oh! Come in, you guys. The old man hurriedly pulled the door open. Let everyone in, and at the moment the door opened, Zhang Huan saw a bunch of white flags hanging under the eaves at a glance, and he put down the center of the earth slightly, if the old man didn't know that his children's book had been killed, he didn't know how to open this mouth.

Everyone entered the courtyard book, which was a very simple courtyard, and a few beans and a pumpkin were planted in the corner of the courtyard book, and there was a stone mill, and there was nothing else. Zhang Huan saw that it was dark in the room, so he smiled at his father-in-law: "We just ask about the situation and leave, and we won't enter the house." ”

"That's a snub to you." The old man took out two stools from the house with difficulty, and a personal soldier hurriedly stepped forward to take them. sat down for the governor, and the old man also sat down, his old eyes were dizzy, and he realized that Zhang Huan was not wearing a military uniform, and he was also the head of these soldiers.

"You are relying on your rich life experience, and the old man faintly feels that the male book in the green robe in front of him is probably not an ordinary person.

Zhang Huan owed a debt and said: "I am the marching Sima in the army, and I have come to learn about the pension of the fallen soldiers, and I have found a few at random." You're the first. ”

Hear the word bereavement. The old man's lips began to shake violently, and two cloudy old tears rolled out of the corners of his eyes. He couldn't restrain the sadness in his heart, and suddenly covered his face and sobbed silently, Zhang Huan silently looked at the back of the old man's withered palm, and his heart was also full of sadness.

After a long time, when the old man's mood calmed down a little, he asked, "How many children's books does my husband have?" ”

The old man wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes and said slowly: "I gave birth to a total of five children's books, three died young, only Erlang and Goro are left, Xiaoping is Wulang, the army from the year before last, I didn't expect to die in Anxi, alas, it's fate!" ”

Speaking of this, the old man sighed, pointed to the house again, and said: "After receiving the news of Goro's death, his mother was overly sad and fell ill, and all the pensions were used to catch medicine, and there was no improvement. ^^eBook ^^"

Zhang Huan's face was extremely serious, he nodded and said solemnly: "Uncle, please rest assured, we will cure Zhang Xiaoping's illness, he died for the country, and we will support his parents for him." ”

After a pause, he asked again: "I heard my husband say that he has received a pension just now, I want to know how much he actually received?" ”

"It's a bit hard to say, we got 30 times, some people got 40 times, and some people got 50 times."

Zhang Huan's face immediately sank, "Why is this?" Doesn't it mean that a soldier's first pension is fifty cents? ”

"It's fifty times, but there are still some options." The old man hurriedly explained: "A coffin and a piece of cemetery are equivalent to ten guan, and the compensation of five acres of land is equivalent to twenty guan, I asked for five more acres of land, so I only took thirty guan, no, Erlang went to Longxi to see the land." ”

Thinking that he finally had fifteen acres of land, he could finally marry Erlang, and that he would have the government to feed him with grain and rice for the rest of his life, Zhang Laohan's face showed a slight smile, and he waved his hand again and again: "Enough!" That's enough! I'm satisfied. ”

But Zhang Huan's face was extremely gloomy, and as soon as he turned around, he asked Li Dingfang in a cold voice: "What's going on, the coffin also has to be counted as money, and besides, isn't the land an additional pension?" Why do you have to take up twenty pieces? Do you know this? ”

"My subordinates don't know!" Li Dingfang replied tremblingly.

Zhang Huan held back his anger and asked the old man again: "Can Zhang Xiaoping's bones be buried?" ”

Zhang Laohan was stunned for a moment, and said hesitantly: "Aren't Wulang's bones still in Anxi?" If you don't send it back, how to bury it. ”

"What!" Zhang Huan finally became furious. He stood up on the ground, and Hu Yong wrote a book on the earth, except that the ashes of the fallen soldiers in the Battle of Shule were brought back by himself. The ashes of the rest of the soldiers had already been sent back, Hu Yong hadn't sent them home yet, Zhang Huan restrained the strong anger in his heart, and asked in a deep voice: "Except for Zhang Xiaoping, have the bones of the other fallen soldiers been sent back?" ”

Zhang Laohan shook his head, "I don't know about others, but the neighbors of Wudong Lane are the same as me, and they haven't gotten the bones yet." ”

The wind was cold. The biting north wind drilled straight into the neckline and sleeves, the sky was already clear, Tang Xianyao, the assassin of Jincheng County, was organizing the people to clean the snow on the road, Zhang Huan rode on the horse, and slowly walked away to the Jiedu envoy with a gloomy face, he was extremely angry in his heart, he had repeatedly told Hu Yong to take care of the fallen soldiers of the Anxi Campaign, but the result of today's secret visit to the place made him very disappointed, even if the ashes of the fallen soldiers were not sent home for a long time, but he could not tolerate changing tricks in the pension. If he just wants to save money, then he can change it, but if it involves corruption, he will kill people.

It's no wonder that the army is the foundation of his Zhang Huan's business, if there is no strong army as the backing, who will put him in front of him, and even he has long been wiped out, especially now, when civil strife is about to occur in the Tang Dynasty, the army in his hand is important. He originally planned to use the opportunity of the Anxi Campaign to stimulate a new round of enthusiasm among the people to join the army, solve the problem of garrisoning the border for him, and solve the problem of insufficient troops during the struggle for the Central Plains.

The war horse turned a corner and walked onto Wuquan Avenue. Not far ahead is the section of the degree of the line, the section of the degree of the line is actually the Longyou government council, Longyou, Shuofang, Hexi, Shuzhong, Hanzhong, Shannan and other places should be Canggu civil affairs and other miscellaneous affairs, are concentrated in this place, the section of the degree of the line is a few years ago newly repaired, covers a large area, distributed more than a dozen majestic buildings, a total of more than 200 officials in the official business. Security is also very tight. Three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, ordinary people are not allowed to enter. You can only enter with a waist card or a sign from an official of the seventh rank or above.

At this moment, a few carriages were sparsely parked in the open space outside the gate, and some officials had already come to work early, and horses were not allowed to travel inside, Zhang Huan turned over and dismounted, and threw the reins to the soldiers, he walked into the office quickly, and the soldiers on duty immediately straightened their waists and saluted the governor, although this is actually Changshi Hu Yong presiding over the situation, but Zhang Huandi's room is still the first room on the right side of the main building, and someone comes to clean it every day to make it spotless.

Since Zhang Huan returned to Longyou yesterday, an errand came early in the morning to ventilate the room, lit a brazier, burned a furnace of incense, and the room was very warm.

Zhang Huan came to his room, took off his robe and sat down, it was still early, he flipped through a few books on the table, but he was still thinking about Zhang Laohan's words.

"How can you not die in a war, the key is to make people willing to die, please tell Zhang Dudu for me, if you win the hearts of the people, you will win the hearts of the army, and if you win the hearts of the army, you will not be afraid of the emperor and queen mother, as long as you give the people a piece of land and give everyone a bite to eat, everyone will carry their heads to work for Zhang Dudu."

Zhang Huan let out a sullen breath, since ancient times, the rise and fall of the dynasty, the root book is out of the land, the land involves the interests of countless strata, which is so easy to solve, at present, we can only use the official field to solve the problem of the military system.

He thought in his heart, but his eyes were looking at the fold in his hand, unconsciously, he was gradually attracted by the content of the fold, the fold is the history of Shu County Thorn Chen Shaoyou played to the imperial court, this book in his hand is a copy of Chen Shaoyou's copy, just sent yesterday, the fold said that Shuzhong because of the Zhu rebellion has greatly reduced the population, especially the rich and the number of exterminators, so that there are a large number of borderless lands in Shu, there are hundreds of thousands of hectares, Chen Shaoyou suggested that these lands should be taken into official ownership, and in the future can be used as a reward for the officials of the court and the royal family.

"Bold!" Zhang Huan slapped the table book hard, bang! There was a loud bang on the ground, and the teacup jumped up in shock, he stood up and said to his soldiers with a tiger face: "You go and find Hu Yong, Du Mei, He Lou Wuji, and Luo Guangzheng for me immediately, and you can't delay for a moment." ”

(Add more to ask for a monthly pass!) Today, Lao Gao secretly wrote a little under the boss's eyelids, risking being invited to tea again, but the gap between the monthly pass and the front is getting bigger and bigger, no more, a little more, and embarrassed to speak, there is a change at night