Outside the city of Panhe County, hundreds of people, men, women and children gathered into several streams of people to move to the county seat continuously, people with their families, pushing carts, wheelbarrows, or carrying baskets, loaded with children and grain, driving cattle, sheep and horses from the four gates of the county respectively poured in.

The shouting and scolding of adults, the angry scolding of women, the crying of children, and the cries of cattle, sheep and horses make the entire Panhe County have never been so lively.

A large number of people and livestock walked by, leaving a place of feces and urine, stinky for a while, Zhao Ziliang, who was standing on the south gate tower, held the knife at his waist and watched the people pour into the city, frowned and thought about it, and said to the county commander Du Shanming: "Du County Order, now the people of the county are concentrated in the county, there are too many people, and there are too many livestock, if you don't make proper arrangements, it must be stinky, the general wants to do it separately from the people, and prepare some simple toilets in the people's gathering area, so that the people can go out of Gong, It is forbidden for anyone to defecate anywhere, and there is the problem of drinking water, anyone who drinks water must boil the water before drinking, in addition, the livestock of each family is also concentrated together to manage and feed, and do a good job of registration, easy to find and identify, if not centralized arrangement and processing, it is easy to breed epidemics for a long time! ”

Du Shanming was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "What the general said is very true, if it wasn't for the general's reminder, the lower official would have almost forgotten about this matter, if it causes a big disaster, the consequences will be unimaginable, and the lower official will send someone to arrange it!" ”

Under his arrangement, a servant soon rushed to Simen to instruct the people to rush the livestock to the designated place for registration, and the government sent a special person to take care of and feed them, and the people rushed to the designated place with their families to settle down after the livestock were settled.

Zhao Ziliang and the county commander Du Shanming and some generals inspected the city wall, inspected the deployment and repair of various sections of the city wall, after a day of repair, many parts of the damaged city wall have been repaired, according to the estimation of Zhao Ziliang and others, it should be possible to complete the repair before the arrival of the Tubo army.

Zhao Ziliang and his entourage were inspecting the section of the western city wall. A government official rushed over and saluted Du Shanming, the county commander: "My lord, general, something happened, many people carrying grain are unwilling to hand over the grain for centralized distribution, and there is a conflict with our county government officials and the fast catchers, the situation is very critical, and if one is not good, there will be a fight!" ”

The county commander Du Shanming was furious when he heard this: "These Diao people are really hateful, let them hand over the grain for centralized distribution This is to save everyone's lives, why don't they understand?" Hmph, don't teach them harshly, they don't know to be afraid! ”

Speaking of this, Du Shanming said to Zhao Ziliang: "General." The lower officials can't accompany you on patrol, so let's deal with those people to avoid making a big mess! ”

"Wait!" Zhao Ziliang stopped Du Shanming, thought for a while and said: "Du County Order, it is normal for the people to refuse to hand over the grain, after all, the grain is planted by their hard work, and now the food is related to the life of the family, it is understandable that the people are unwilling to hand it over, and you were asked to hand over all the grain yesterday." Didn't you want to at first, people have selfish intentions, this is normal, you can't say that they are Diaomin. Well, then, General Ben will come with you and see if you can convince the people to voluntarily hand over their food."

Du Shanming saw that Zhao Ziliang wanted to deal with this matter, and he also wanted to see Zhao Ziliang's ability. So he promised: "Since the general said so, then I will deal with this matter together, the general, please!" ”

The group came to the people's settlement. Sure enough, hundreds of people were arguing with the government officials and the catchers, and the two sides were pushing and shoving, and there was a tendency to fight, but both sides were already very restrained.

Zhao Ziliang walked over and pulled away the crowd and walked to the middle of the conflict between the two sides and asked, "What's the matter, why is there a fuss?" ”

When a servant saw Zhao Ziliang and Du Shanming, he immediately saluted and said: "General, county commander, these Diao people are against the government, unwilling to hand over the grain for unified distribution, and are against the government!" ”

Zhao Ziliang frowned and said, "Diao Min? Who is Diaomin? These are the people of Datang, they are all the people of Panhe County, what you eat and drink is all dug out of the ground by the people of Panhe County, without these so-called 'Diao people' in your mouth, you will have to starve to death, do you understand? ”

The official was speechless: "This ・・・・・・."

Zhao Ziliang's words are equivalent to helping the people speak, these people who refuse to hand over the grain listen to Zhao Zi's words, and have a good impression of him, no one has ever thought that they are so important to these mud legs, and people look at him with kindness in their eyes, and they all feel that this general should be a good official.

Zhao Ziliang beckoned to a few servants, and the servants brought a table, Zhao Ziliang jumped on the table and arched his hand below: "Fathers, old folks, old and young masters, there is no way for the government to let you move to the city, according to the news we have received, the 40,000 people of the Tubo army are only less than two days away from here, the enemy has cavalry, and the fathers and villagers have their families and mouths, and there are livestock and grain to carry, so they can't go fast at all, If you want to flee in the direction of Wuwei or to the north, you will be caught up by the Tubo cavalry at any time, the Tubo people are extremely ferocious, even the old, weak, sick and disabled do not let go, and being caught up is death, so now the only way is to concentrate the people of the county in the county seat, relying on the city wall to defend the Tubo people, you fathers and elders, the enemy is not good at attacking the city, and it is not so easy to break through the city wall and the city gate, even if they break through the city gate and the city wall, if they want to enter the city, they must also cross the corpse of my Zhao Ziliang and the corpse of all the soldiers of our Great Dou Army!

Fathers and elders, the enemy has an army of 40,000, and our Dadou army now has only 3,000 soldiers who can fight, and there are 5,000 recruits, if our 3,000 elites can't stop it, even if we send 5,000 recruits to the city wall, we will never let the Tubo people step into the city, these are not enough, the enemy is cruel and cunning, and may think of many ways to deal with us, so we must organize all the strong men in the city, and use these two days to conduct simple drills, once our Dadou army has suffered heavy casualties, It is necessary to send the strong people to the city wall to resist the attack of the enemy, protect the old, weak, sick and disabled, protect our parents, wives and children, Zhao's wife is also in the city, she has been two months pregnant, so even if Zhao dies, she can't let her and the child in her belly be injured and hurt, Zhao believes that your fathers and elders also have the same idea as Zhao, you can't let your wives and children be brutalized by the Tubo people, so we must work together, a chopstick is easy to break, but a chopstick is not easy to break, what does this mean? Zhao hopes that you can take out all the food and distribute it uniformly by the government, so that everyone can have something to eat, so that you can give full play to everyone's strength, fathers and elders, please think about it, if the Tubo people break through the city, can your grain and livestock still be saved? If we can't keep it, instead of letting the Tibetans break through the city and kill us and steal all the grain and livestock, it is better to hand over all the grain and distribute it to everyone in the government, so that we can hold on for a longer time! Everyone can supervise, I, Zhao and other officials, generals and colonels eat the same as you, what do you eat, officials and generals and soldiers are the same, don't do special, open a small stove, if you find that someone eats more, and eats better than you, you can report to the general at any time, for those who engage in special and small stoves, the general will not be spared!

In addition, due to the attack on Tibet, which has caused great losses to the people, and the people have handed over all the grain, this year's life will definitely be difficult, and the government will definitely make some compensation! ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Ziliang said to the county commander Du Shanming: "Du County Order, last year and today the entire Hexi was violated by the Tubo people, and the people of our Panhe County also suffered heavy losses after experiencing this war. ”

can be a good person, of course Du Shanming doesn't want to be a wicked person in the eyes of the people, seeing that Zhao Ziliang gave him face to be a man, where did he not take it, and immediately said: "What General Zhao said is very true, last year and this year, the people have suffered, and this official must go to the court to reduce the people's taxes for a year!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said again: "This general is here as a guarantee, if the government does not fulfill its promise to reduce or exempt the taxes of your fathers and elders, you can find Zhao, and Zhao will administer justice for you!" ”

The people saw that Zhao Ziliang and the county commander Du Shanming had expressed their positions one after another, and soon someone said: "General Zhao is a good person, the villain believes in the general, and the villain is willing to hand over the grain!" ”

Another man shouted, "The villain is willing!" ”

After someone took the lead, the people who were still fighting against the government and the arrester just now expressed their willingness to hand over the grain, and Zhao Ziliang immediately organized people to maintain order and let the people line up for registration.

Seeing this situation, the county commander Du Shanming and others finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhao Ziliang remembered another incident, the city fortifications were being prepared and built, but the defense materials had not yet been raised, so he sent people to knock on the door of the city door to door, and collected all the fire oil, rolling wood, stones, and swords in the city and carried them to the city wall.

After two days, on the morning of the third day, the Tibetan people finally came, and the momentum was extremely huge, and the soldiers of the Great Dou Army standing on the city wall saw the smoke and dust covering the sky and the sun in the distance, even if they had experienced the great battle, they could not help but be a little flustered, and their faces turned pale.

The disparity in strength was too great, and the five thousand recruits had only been trained for a month, and many people were so frightened that they trembled and broke out in a cold sweat when they saw the formation of the Tubo people. (To be continued.) )