Lu Peng ignored Xi Zhen and the soldiers' kneeling pleas, and still stood on the high watchtower, continuing to look at the situation around him.

Smoke had risen in the camp, and the men handed the meals to the soldiers, but Lu Peng saw that the soldiers did not eat these delicious meals, but silently brought them to the fence of the camp.

The people around the camp silently approached the camp, and then took the rice bowls stretched out by the soldiers, or held them with their hands, or carried them with their clothes, silently kowtowed to the soldiers, and walked back to their relatives silently again, the son served his mother to eat, and the mother fed his son porridge.

But Lu Peng found one thing, all the people who were close to the camp to receive alms from the soldiers were young people, or women and children, and those old people were lying far away in the dark wilderness, silently watching. Even when their children begged for food, they resolutely refused to eat a bite of it, and kept it for their children and grandchildren. Those old and weak old people, in the colder and colder autumn night, swallowed their last breath so slowly.

Then Lu Peng saw that his soldiers gave out the food in their hands, his expression was depressed and sad, and one by one he quietly buckled his belt again, and then blocked his ears and returned to his tent lonely and sad.

It is absolutely impossible to go on like this, because of the background of the soldiers in their own army, and because of their continuous education of the origin and purpose of their army, so that all the soldiers and soldiers will deeply integrate themselves into the ranks of the people's children and soldiers, and fight to save the people of the world.

At the same time, if the soldiers gave their food to the people all the way for the sake of conscience, then they would not say that they went south, and their troops would be completely starved in one day.

turned around and slowly walked down the watchtower, and waved his hand to Xi Zhen Yang Feng, who was still kneeling on the ground: "Get up, I will solve this matter." ”

After receiving such a promise from the lord, Xi Zhen and Yang Feng stood up, their eyes full of eagerness.

Full of eagerness, not only Xi Zhen and Yang Feng, but also the countless soldiers gathered around them, they silently watched their lord walk into the big tent, but did not disperse according to the rules, all silently holding knives and guns, waiting for the lord's decision.

Sitting behind his handsome case, Lu Peng sighed helplessly: "The discipline I set at the beginning of never giving free relief to the people must not be changed, and I am unswerving on this point. ”

As soon as these words came out, Xi Zhen Yang Feng and the centurion full of centurions standing under the tent all showed disappointed looks.

"But I can still pay for work." Lu Peng puffed up his chest and announced his decision to his soldiers.

The soldiers under his command are all at a loss, and in principle, they must be based on their own infrastructure, but in the march of the army, there are no such conditions and environment.

As everyone knows, the logistical supply of one's own army is now not sent from the rear to the front, but all depends on the purchase and sale of merchants, so that the method of cashing out work is almost impossible to implement.

Lu Peng said to Xi Zhen Yang Feng: "You can convey my order to your soldiers now, everyone can eat with peace of mind, I will solve everyone's conscience, only if everyone is full of food and drink, can we continue to fight for the people of the world, I also know that as long as we solve everyone's conscience problem, we can continue to fight with peace of mind." ”

After receiving such a promise, his soldiers questioned Lu Peng's decision.

Lu Peng decided on the spot: "Starting tomorrow, we will buy all the materials transported by the merchants, no matter how much, and at the same time start to hire the refugee people outside the camp, a strong laborer, I will give him 20 catties of food every day, part of it repairs the road behind us, part of it will let them build a camp for us, dig trenches, help build tents, I will pay according to this salary, and at the same time I will announce that I will hire all the women to wash the clothes for our soldiers, and hire all the old people to wash our war horses. Collecting firewood, the salary is ten catties of grain per person a day. ”

Such a decision made all the soldiers cheer, but Xi Zhen raised a key question: "But our army is constantly advancing, we need to fight Cao Cao for time and speed, if we follow this method and are dragged down by these refugees, our entire strategy cannot be implemented." ”

Lu Peng had to lean back on the back of the chair, and finally made a painful decision: "The road must be repaired, but to build a military camp for us, this is also a method of cash-for-work, then okay, I will take every 50 miles as a military station, station ten people, let these people build a camp enough to accommodate 10,000 people for our ten soldiers, and then demolish it, and operate like this for half a month, so that it can always be solved." ”

While thanking Lu Peng for helping the people in disguise, they also felt worried about his paranoid and resolute implementation of the decision not to let the people get for nothing.

"My original decision must not be changed, and every order I gave must not be changed, which is to safeguard my rights and dignity, and it is to stabilize my position." When the superfluous people left, and only Xi Zhen and Yang Feng were left in the big tent, Lu Peng said his true heart to his two most trusted subordinates with a resolute face.

At this point, Lu Peng can divide his own power by setting up a cabinet, but he also establishes the rights that he should have as a monarch in that system, and uses the system to consolidate his inviolable status.

"If the iron rules of orders I set at the beginning are changed by myself or by others, then all my orders in the future, after going through the process of communicating with the cabinet, will be despised, or simply arbitrarily modified, and I must not allow it to happen. I want to give the world a rule, that is, even if my child is a pig in the future, as long as he sits on the chair high above, the pig must ensure the dignity of the pig, otherwise he will be despised and killed directly, and I absolutely do not want to see such a result. Lu Peng told his absolute confidant Xi Zhen about his hardships and determination.

"At the same time, I still think that my absolutely unfair method of helping the people is not flawed or wrong. Although everyone looks at me with a cold heart, although I will be blamed and spurned by the people of the world, but my original intention, to remove the bad roots of human nature that are not earned for nothing, and to cultivate only by doing it with heart, there is no nature that cannot live, in the near future, there will definitely be a hard-working and tenacious, hard-working and resentful nation, this kind of national character is not innate, but slowly cultivated by the wise.

As long as our nation has eliminated the idea of getting something for nothing in the bloodline, and cultivated the concept of hard work and prosperity, then nothing in this world can destroy us, in this world, even if it is the bitter cold land in the north, even if it is the hot territory in the south, our nation will be tenacious and prosperous, this is the greatest precious wealth that our generation will give to future generations, I firmly believe this, and I hope you can also believe in this. ”

Then his eyes were slightly red, and he raised his face to look at the top of the tent: "Although I am not understood and scolded by thousands of people, I will persevere to the end." ”