When Xue Shao led his army to the outskirts of Panyuan County under Jingzhou, the army stopped to rest and cook. After hearing that the Turks had raided Panyuan, a small county of Guanlong, which was peaceful and peaceful, with weak garrisons, Xue Shao decided to lead his guards into the city with Di Renjie to take a look at the situation.

The city was a mess, with ruins left by the fire everywhere, and many houses reduced to ashes and ruins. In some places, charred corpses can be seen uncollected, and many elderly people and children are on their knees begging and crying along the streets.

Xue Shao, Di Renjie and others, all of them were like knives, and they were furious!

Seeing a group of people like Xue Shao entering the city, many beggars rushed up, crying and begging for some food. The Turks, like robbers and locusts, not only killed most of the young men in the city, took away most of the women here, but also robbed almost everything that could be eaten in the city.

"Pass my order and issue military rations to help the people!" Xue Shao ordered.

Li Duozuo, the deputy general in charge of logistics grain and grass, was taken aback on the spot, and hurriedly invited Xue Shao to the side, and carefully persuaded: "General, we don't have much grain and grass!" The road was full of affected towns and refugees, so shouldn't we all have to go to relief? If this continues, we will not wait to reach Fengzhou, and the soldiers will be hungry! ”

"I can't care so much." Xue Shao frowned and said, "Since I saw it with my own eyes, let me abandon the victims, I can't do it!" ”

"How to solve the problem of military rations?" Li Duozuo asked.

"......" Xue Shao pondered for a moment and said, "Take one step at a time, and I'll figure out a way when I get to Xiazhou." Hurry up, tell the brothers to go and distribute food to the people, and by the way, arrange for some people to collect the corpses in the city and bury them. ”

"General, will this delay our trip?" Li Duozuo said, "Fengzhou is in danger and is waiting for rescue. It's not always the way to go. ”

Xue Shao pondered for a moment and nodded, "You go and do something, I'll figure it out." ”

"Yes!"

Li Duozuo immediately led people out of the city and carried military rations. Xue Shao was about to go to Di Renjie to discuss, and found that he was getting together with some disaster victims, and was taking out the few steamed cakes in his baggage and distributing them to a few hungry and crying children to eat.

"Di Gong is really a benevolent gentleman." Xue Shao stepped forward and touched the hair of one of the five or six-year-old girls, "Little girl, is it delicious?" ”

"Good, delicious...... Still! Hungry! The little girl choked on the dry wheat cake and slurred her words.

Xue Shao hurriedly asked the attendant to open the sheepskin kettle and poured a few sips of water for the little girl to drink. The little girl choked on tears, but she was laughing vigorously, smiling and revealing two cute little tiger teeth.

Seeing the little girl's innocent and bright smile, Xue Shao and Di Renjie both smiled.

"Di Gong, I have ordered the use of military rations to help the people." Xue Shao said, "But I'm in a hurry to march, I'm afraid I don't have much time to stay here to take care of it." Therefore, I would like to ask Di Gong to preside over the distribution of grain. How about Di Gongyi? ”

Di Renjie was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly cleaned up his clothes and appearance, and bowed to Xue Shao very formally, "General Gao Yi and Rende, please accept Di Mou's worship!" ”

"The army was supposed to protect the territory and the people, but now Xue is just a gesture, why should Di Gong be like this? Hurry up, please! Xue Shao hurriedly stepped forward to support him and said, "As expected, under the rule of Jing, Yuan, and Qing, which were also sacked by Turkic soldiers, the situation is mostly the same here. To tell the truth, Xue has little military food in his hand, and time is even more urgent, so he will definitely not be able to go to many states and counties one by one to provide disaster relief and peace of mind. However, if Xue turns a blind eye to these victims, Xue's conscience does not allow it. I don't know Di Gong, can there be a solution that has the best of both worlds? ”

Di Renjie twisted his eyebrows and pondered for a moment, and said, "General, Di Mou really wants to know what our assassin history and county orders are doing now?" These things should be their responsibility. If the general wants to provide disaster relief and reassure the people, he must also have the help of the local yamen to do it properly. ”

"It makes sense." Xue Shao thought for a while and said, "But the people's livelihood and government affairs in these three states are not under the jurisdiction of my jurisdiction, and if I exceed my authority, I will violate the prohibition of trespassing." It's better to write a copy of the above table and ask the imperial court to let the imperial court seal Di Gong as the pacification ambassador of the three states of Longyou Province, and be in charge of disaster relief and people. I don't know what Di Gong wants? ”

Di Renjie's eyes lit up, but his face was puzzled, "If this is really the case, Di Mou is duty-bound and will do his best to appease the affected people." It's just that...... General, I'm afraid it's not so easy to appoint and dismiss the ambassador, right? What's more, Di is not an official of the Imperial Historical Observatory. ”

"I can, give it a try." Xue Shao smiled and said, "Before the imperial court sends a commissioner to come to the disaster relief and relief of the people, Di Gong might as well call a batch of grain from me to help the people first, and solve the urgent needs of the people." If not, Xue really didn't know how many people would starve to death. Human life is as big as the sky, and nothing is more important than this. ”

"The general respectfully loves the people, and he is very worried." Seeing Xue Shao smiling so confidently, Di Renjie nodded, "Di, just do what the general instructs!" ”

Later, Li Duozuo took some sergeants and people to bring a batch of grain and grass into the city. Xue Shao ordered the immediate distribution of grain to the people. The people in the city cheered and wept with joy, and bowed to Xue Shao and these soldiers. When the military rations were received, the people all knelt down and thanked them before leaving, and they could not be persuaded to persuade them.

Xue Shao immediately wrote a handwritten letter, which was sent to Luoyang in the name of the former military intelligence report for 600 miles, requesting the imperial court to entitle Di Renjie as the pacification envoy of the three states. As expected, such a "military intelligence report" will be dismantled by the Empress Dowager Wu, who is temporarily in charge of the country, and Pei Yan, the minister of Gu Ming. Xue Shao believed that Wu Zetian should agree to his request, even if Pei Yan had no reason to refuse. After all, there is no slightness of personal intent.

After writing the recital and sending it out, Xue Shao left Zhong Shaojing in the marching office and asked him to serve as Di Renjie's deputy to assist him in disaster relief and relief for the people. He also let his relatives stay with Tang Zhen and Pan Yi with 500 armor soldiers, temporarily obeying Di Renjie's orders, and returning to the army to report after the disaster relief is over.

Then, Xue Shao didn't stay long and immediately took people away. After a short rest and a full meal, Xue Shao was going to continue to lead the army.

Di Renjie was very moved, he led many victims to send Xue Shao out of the city all the way, and stood aside to cry goodbye to the Shuo Fang army. Until night was about to fall, Xue Shao's army was all out of their sight, and they still didn't want to go back.

Three days later, the people of Panyuan County erected a stele at the place where Di Renjie and others stood to bid farewell to the Shuofang army, describing the deeds of Xue Shao's dispersal of military rations to help the people of Panyuan.

Xue Shao didn't know anything about this, at this moment, he had already led the army to the most important military town after his new official took office, Shuofang County.

Xue Shao's horses were not many, and within three days, the soldiers of the whole army drove more than 600 miles day and night, and they were very tired. When they arrived at Shuofang, everyone had no other thoughts in their hearts except for a full night's sleep.

After Wang Fangyi's westward expedition, he asked the deputy general Ashina Zhongjie to lead 3,000 soldiers to stay in Shuofang. Previously, Ashina Zhongjie had already received an order from the imperial court to know that Xue Shaohui would be the new governor of Xiazhou, so he took care of the barracks early, and now he is leading his soldiers to line up to greet him.

Xue Shao was so tired that he almost didn't want to say a word. But seeing that Ashina Zhongjie and the others were very enthusiastic, Xue Shao had no choice but to greet them for a while, and then led the army into the camp and ordered the whole army to rest for a day and a night.

After resting for a while and eating and drinking, Xue Shao finally regained a little energy, and immediately summoned Ashina Zhongjie and asked him about some military aircraft.

As early as the time of the conquest of Bai Tieyu, Xue Shao had a relationship with Ashina Zhongjie. He and Wang Xiaojie are the left and right arms of Wang Fangyi, and they rely on it for reuse. It is not difficult to judge from the surname that Ashina Zhongjie is a descendant of the Turkic khanate nobility. Under the premise of the current Turkic rebellion, his identity is somewhat sensitive.

Perhaps because of this, Ashina Zhongjie was always a little nervous in front of Xue Shao, the new boss.

Xue Shaoxian and Ashina Zhongjie said some nonsensical gossip, Ashina Zhongjie answered carefully and carefully, although he had to answer questions, he didn't dare to say a word of nonsense, lest he say too much and he would lose.

"When the Turks went deep into the Longyou Horse Prison alone, the soldiers and horses slipped away from under the general's nose." Xue Shao asked the question, "Why didn't the general send troops to stop it?" ”

Ashina Zhongjie trembled, this question is too terrible, is Xue Shao asking for guilt?

"What, the general has nothing to say?" Although Xue Shao's tone was light, it was full of lethality.

Ashina Zhongjie stood up on the spot, solemnly clasped his fists and bowed, and said: "General Mingjian, it's not that we don't stop it, but Shangfeng issued a strict order not to fight, and those who violate it will be beheaded!" ”

"Why?" Xue Shao frowned.

"This ...... I'm afraid that only Shangfeng will know the reason! Ashina Zhongjie didn't dare to say a word.

"Wang Dudu led the army to pacify the Western Regions, who is your peak now?" Xue Shao asked.

"It's the new governor of Xiazhou who only took office last year, Tang Huaibi." Ashina Zhongjie replied.

Tang Huaibi?

As soon as Xue Shao heard this name, his heart was on fire. I remember that the last time Pei Gong led the army to the Northern Expedition, this person was the deputy chief of the march, but in fact he was the imperial history of the supervising army sent by the imperial court. Later, he took Li Chongyi and Li Xiantong away together, and many demon moths appeared on the way. At that time, it seemed that this person might be a confidant of the first emperor Li Zhi, but he was more like a confidant of Wu Zetian, and the relationship between him and Li Xiantong was also extraordinary. Li Xiantong was able to get away with the crime, and Tang Huaibi was very suspicious and secretly provided assistance.

Having said that, no matter what kind of backstage Tang Huaibi has, Xue Shao feels that this person's character and virtue are very worthy of his disgust!

Thinking of this, Xue Shao frowned, "That Tang Huaibi's official frame is not small-go, call him to me for questioning!" ”

"Yes!" Ashina Zhongjie hurriedly agreed loudly.

Listening to Xue Shao's tone, it seems that he has turned his anger and intention to punish crimes to Tang Huaibi, Ashina Zhongjie is like being amnestied, and he is also full of energy to run errands. Immediately, he turned on his horse and ran to the Xiazhou Governor's Mansion with a whole team of cavalry full of military generals.

Guo Yuanzhen was a little amused when he saw this, and said to Xue Shao: "Look at this frame, Tang Huaibi should be tied up today!" ”

"That's his immediate boss, does he dare to tie up?" Xue Shao sneered.

Guo Yuanzhen smiled, "But aren't you the top boss of his top boss?" In order to show loyalty to the new governor, he will definitely make Tang Huaibi feel good today! ”

"I'm in a bad mood, so don't smile at me." Xue Shao's face was blank, "Go and prepare, I want to try Tang Huaibi in military law!" ”

Guo Yuanzhen couldn't help but be stunned, "Just came here like this, isn't it?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense, or I'll judge you together!" Xue Shao feigned anger.

Guo Yuanzhen's head shrank, and he hurriedly trotted away.