After dinner, the family sat in the front hall of the inn and drank tea, and drove the shopkeeper away, there were only a few maids and soldiers around, Zhao Ziliang said to a few women: "I will go out in three days, and I don't know when this battle will be over, so you can only take care of yourself here, and send someone to determine the midwife tomorrow, so as not to really give birth and want to find it too late, it doesn't matter if you spend more money, the main thing is to let adults and children be safe!" ”

Princess Xinping said: "Husband, don't worry, there is a third sister to take care of, it should be fine!" ”

Mrs. Meng said: "These two are about to have a child, the slave family originally wanted to say that when the two of them give birth to a child, your father and son will go on the expedition again, but the military affairs cannot be delayed because the woman wants to have a child, there is a slave family at home, the husband can rest assured, tomorrow the slave family will send someone to find the midwife, find a few more, and complete all the things that should be purchased, so as not to wait until the birth of the child and use it."

Zhao Ziliang said with a smile: "Okay, all the women in our family are heroines, and they don't lose to men!" ”

At this time, a personal soldier in front of him walked in and reported: "Marshal Qiyu, a team of Jincheng officers and soldiers came from outside the inn, saying that Zhang Boji, the county guard of Jincheng County, asked to see him!" ”

"Jincheng County Shou Zhang Boji? How did he find here? Zhao Ziliang wondered. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Zhao Ting asked: "Father, when our army arrived yesterday, this Zhang Boji went to the military camp outside the city to ask for a meeting, and my father was inspecting the military camps at that time, Zhang Boji returned first, but I didn't expect him to come here again!" ”

Zhao Ziliang shook his head and said: "When my army arrived, he didn't go out of the city to greet him, and he didn't go to see him until my army was encamped, no wonder this person has been an official in Longyou for so many years and is just a Jincheng county guard!" ”

The county lord of Yining asked curiously, "Father, who is this Zhang Boji?" Why did my father say that? ”

Zhao Ziliang took a sip of tea and said: "Zhang Boji has been an official in Longyou for at least 20 years, when I was only a military envoy of Hexi Dadou, at that time the envoy of Longyou Jiedu was General Huangfu Weiming, Zhang Boji was the judge of Longyou Jiedu at that time, the judge was not an official official, just an auxiliary official, but if the chief official recommended to the court and the emperor, this auxiliary official can be completely turned into a chief official, Feng Changqing was just a guard back then, and then he was gradually promoted to be a judge of Anxi Jiedu, and was recommended by Gao Xianzhi to become an envoy of Anxi Jiedu! However, Zhang Boji has become more and more miserable for so many years, and I am afraid that it has nothing to do with Huangfu Weiming, and we can't just treat him because he didn't bring people out of the city to greet him, let's bring him in! ”

The pro-soldier promised: "No! ”

The atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty was open, far less than the strict defense of men and women in the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. Now that there are guests visiting, Zhao Ziliang does not let the two ladies and daughters-in-law avoid it, and they themselves have no intention of avoiding it.

Zhang Boji was quickly led in by his own soldiers, and bowed to Zhao Ziliang: "Your Majesty Zhang Boji has met the county king, princess, county lord, and wife, and has seen the second son!" ”

Zhao Ziliang raised his hand and said, "Mrs. Zhang is exempt!" Come on, give Zhang Taishou a seat! ”

"Lord Xie Jun!"

After the maid brought the tea, Zhao Ziliang signaled to invite him to drink tea, after some politeness, Zhang Boji put down the teacup and said: "The king of the county, when the army arrived in Jincheng yesterday, the lower official was raising ordnance and grain and grass for the army, so it was delayed, and when the lower official rushed to the military camp to see, the marshal was inspecting the military camp again, and the lower official had to return first. It came suddenly, I took the liberty to disturb it, and I ask the county king to forgive me! ”

Zhao Ziliang hurriedly asked, "Wait, what did you just say?" You said yesterday you were raising ordnance, baggage, and food for the army? ”

Zhang Boji arched his hand and said: "Yes, the king of the county!" Xiaguan has received news a month ago that the imperial court has issued an order for the county king to lead 200,000 troops to Longyou to meet the Tubo army, Xiaguan thought, the holy decree is urgent, the county prince is bound to set off in a hurry, ordnance, baggage and grain must be undercarried, and the Tubo army is in Longyou all over the country, the county king must be put into battle in the shortest possible time after the arrival of the army, I am afraid that there is not enough time to wait for the court to follow up the grain and grass, so the lower official has been raising these things for more than a month! ”

Zhao Ziliang touched his chin and looked at Zhang Boji, he had only seen Zhang Boji twice, and he was not impressed, only then did he find that this person was skinny and weak, because he had been in Xiliang for a long time, the skin on his face was blown by the wind and sand like old bark, and a pair of eyes revealed stubbornness.

"Lord Zhang, how much ordnance, grain, and grass have you raised?"

"Back to the king of the county, the lower officials raised a total of 2 million arrows, 50,000 stones of grain, 1.2 million bundles of forage, 50,000 fur coats, 20,000 tents, 5,000 cattle and sheep・・・・・・

Several women didn't know what Zhang Boji's numbers meant, but Zhao Ziliang and Zhao Ting, father and son, were dumbfounded.

Zhao Ziliang came back to his senses and asked, "Zhang Taishou, can you take me to see the materials you raised?" ”

Zhang Boji was stunned for a moment and asked, "Now?" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said, "Yes, it's now!" ”

"Okay, the king of the county, please!" Zhang Boji stood up and arched his hand.

Several women stayed in the inn, Zhao Ting also stayed to accompany his wife Yining County Lord, Zhao Ziliang followed Zhang Boji with a few personal soldiers to a huge open space in the city, surrounded by Jincheng officers and soldiers standing guard.

When a guerrilla general saw Zhang Boji coming, he hurriedly stepped forward with a few soldiers to greet him, hugged his fists and said, "My lord, why are you here so late?" ”

"Come and see, there's nothing going on here, right?"

"Back to my lord, everything is normal!"

"Good!" Zhang Boji nodded, and introduced to the guerrilla general in charge of the guard: "This officer is the king of Jiangling County, the current lieutenant, and the king of Zhao County, who is also the secretary of the military department, and the prince of the county wants to come to see the materials we have prepared, you take us around!" ”

The guerrilla general was very excited when he heard this, and immediately hugged his fists and said: "The last general has eyes and does not know Mount Tai, please forgive the county king!" The king of the county and your lordship, please follow the end of the world! ”

In this wide clearing, sacks of grain were neatly piled high, like bunches of hay.

While everyone was walking, Zhang Boji introduced: "King of the county, each bag of grain is one stone, a total of 50,000 bags!" There are also these forages, a total of 1.2 million bunches, in order to raise these forages, the lower officials ordered to collect all the forages stored by all the herdsmen in Jincheng County, and also ordered the people of the whole county to harvest the forage and send it to Jincheng, so as to exempt this year's forced labor! ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said: "Zhang Taishou's method is good, it is a good way to raise forage in the shortest possible time!" ”

Everyone walked to an area again, only to see bundles of arrows stacked up into a mountain, Zhang Boji said: "King of the county, please see, here are all arrows, a small bundle is fifty, a large bundle is a thousand, here a total of two thousand bundles, two million arrows, such a short time to make so many arrows is still in accordance with the method used by the king of the county in Hexi, we buy raw materials for the people to make arrow shafts and feathers, the weapons supervisor uses molds to make arrows in large quantities, and then complete the assembly, The people heard that these arrows were used to fight the Tubo people for the army of the county king, so they had a lot of enthusiasm for making arrow shafts and feathers! In fact, the people hope to help the king as much as possible, and hope that the king of the county will take the king to fight away the Tubo people! ”

After Zhao Ziliang visited the hoarding place of grain and grass materials, he said to Zhang Boji: "Hard work Lord Zhang, I was still dissatisfied with Lord Zhang yesterday, so my 200,000 troops came to Jincheng to meet the Tubo army, but Lord Zhang did not come to greet him as the county guard of Jincheng, it was really rude, I didn't expect Lord Zhang to be busy raising grain and grass for the army, I blamed Lord Zhang!" After speaking, he hugged his fist and saluted Zhang Boji.

Zhang Boji hurriedly flashed to the side and said: "The county king is serious, the lower officials don't know how to be officials, and they know that the county king is coming with a large army, but they don't greet him, it's really rude!" ”

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "No, you did the right thing, if everyone in the Datang officialdom is as pragmatic as you, why did Datang fall into this field today?" With these grain and grass materials raised by Zhang Taishou, our army can rest assured that it will fight with the Tubo army! This is the first merit of facing the Tubo army, I count you Zhang Taishou! ”

Zhang Boji hurriedly bowed his hand and said humbly: "The county king has won the award, this is not the credit of the lower officials alone, this is the credit of the officials of the Jincheng Taishou Mansion and the people in the jurisdiction of the whole Jincheng!" ”

Zhao Ziliang thought to himself, a person like Zhang Boji should not be limited to a small golden city, with this person's talent and temperament, if he is above the temple, the role he can play is huge.

After thinking for a moment, Zhao Ziliang said to Zhang Boji: "Zhang Taishou, this time with the Tubo army, I don't know when this battle will be fought, but the war is together, the army's demand for grain and grass is bound to be huge, you are a local parent, so I want to ask you to assist in the transportation of grain, grass and ordnance, what do you think?" ”

Zhang Boji arched his hand and said: "As the so-called army goes first before the grain and grass are moved, since the county king trusts the lower officials, the lower officials will definitely do their best to assist in the transportation of grain and grass!" ”

"Good!" Zhao Ziliang was very happy, remembered something, and asked: "Zhang Taishou, you also saw it at the inn just now, my fourth wife, Princess Xinping, and daughter-in-law, Lord Yining, are about to give birth, as a local parent, do you know if there is an experienced midwife in the local area?" ”

Zhang Boji said: "Xia Guan is usually busy with official business, and he didn't pay attention to this matter at that time, but since the county prince asked, after Xia Guan went back, he would find someone to ask, and he must find a few experienced midwives for the county king!" ”

Zhao Ziliang saw that Zhang Boji agreed to help, and he also let go of a matter in his heart, "In this way, the matter of finding a few midwives will trouble Zhang Taishou!" ”

"The king of the county is polite! This is what the lower officials should do! (To be continued.) )