Zhou Bian rubbed his eyes, he didn't believe what he saw, but when he opened his eyes, he could still clearly see that on the tower of the West Gate of Shiqiu, Wei Hou's head was held high, and even the smug smile seemed to be clear in his eyes. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although he had already seen the Wei army very well, he really didn't expect the Wei army to break through the city so quickly, Zhou Bian shook his head and cast his puzzled eyes on Baning on the chariot beside him, but Baning smiled and did not answer, obviously to leave this boastful glory to Wei Hou.

However, the further he went, the more puzzled Zhou Bian became, there was no trace of war today outside the west gate of Qiucheng City, and if he looked to the north, he could find it from a distance, and there was no either.

And when the chariot drove into Shiqiu City, I saw the neat and orderly streets, not to mention the corpses, not even bloodstains. Zhou Bian suddenly thought about it, the Wei army could never have captured Shiqiu City this morning, so there are only two possibilities, one is that the Wei army captured Shiqiu City in the middle of the night, and the second possibility is that the Wei army did not capture Shiqiu City at all, but the Han army took the initiative to retreat, and the Wei army occupied Shiqiu.

If you look closely, there is no trace of war on the street, the shops on both sides are closed, and there are only teams of Wei soldiers walking back and forth on the street. You must know that Shiqiu is the northern gateway of Xinzheng, the capital of South Korea, and the South Korean army resisted so fiercely yesterday.

After entering the city, Zhou Bian stopped at Baning's signal, and a hundred guards and a hundred imperial forest soldiers also stopped, as the Son of Heaven, with so many people at any time, it is not only a matter of security, but also a matter of face.

As soon as the team stopped, a person hurriedly ran down from the city tower, and it turned out to be Wei Hou's personal guard, the eldest son, who came to invite the king to go up to the city tower. Only sent a guard chief to invite, this Wei Hou shelf is so big, Ning Yue snorted, but saw that the king had already jumped out of the chariot and walked towards the city tower.

In fact, Zhou Bian knew better than anyone else, so he took three steps and made two steps, and soon climbed the city tower first, but the gate of this city mound was not too high.

As soon as he climbed the city tower, he saw the spring breeze of Wei Hou, Zhou Bian hurriedly walked up, and said loudly, "Wei Hou is really powerful, this king has not yet woken up, Wei Hou has already boarded the west gate of Shiqiu, said that it is three days, and it is really three days." ”

Wei Hou laughed proudly a few times, and then said,

"The king has won the prize, Ben Hou said that he wants to seek justice for the king, then he must do it, otherwise how to ask the king to entrust the Zhou room to me Wei. The king, please continue to watch, if not, the Japanese Hou will besiege Xinzheng and ask the Han Hou to apologize to the king in person! ”

Zhou Bian only pretended not to understand the meaning of Wei Hou's words, but instead said, "In this way, this king will thank Wei Hou a lot!" ”

At this time, a voice sounded from behind Zhou Bian, "Zhou Chenning has seen Wei Hou, I don't know how Wei Hou broke the city, I thought there would be a hard battle today, who would have thought that the city had been captured early in the morning, but it opened my eyes." ”

Wei Hou smiled proudly again, and only turned his head after half a ring, "Yesterday, my Liang defenders broke through Huayang City, and there was no barrier north of Xinzheng, the capital of Han, and the Han army also got the news in the middle of the night, so they retreated overnight and returned to defend Xinzheng, and the widow entered the city smoothly today." ”

I didn't expect the Wei army to be divided into two ways, one way from Anyi in the north, south through Luoyang, and the other road from the east of Daliang, straight to Xinzheng, thinking of this Zhou Bian suddenly felt a chill in his heart, originally two days ago I thought that the Wei army was just a strong soldier, I didn't think that I would use a strategy, I don't need to think about it, this is obviously to use the army to the south to attract the attention of South Korea, and then from the east suddenly surprised. Hey, it seems that the strength of the Wei army is not just the surface, and his opinion of the Wei army should also change, if the soldiers are strong, it is really nothing, but if you can use strategies, then it is really strong, it seems that in the future, you can know more about the Wei army.

As the son of the Zhou family, it is inevitable to have a conflict with the princes of the world, so Zhou Bian believes that it is very necessary to collect the intelligence of all the princes from now on, especially a strong country like Wei. Of course, before South Korea brazenly attacked Luoyang, Zhou Bian was also preparing to collect intelligence on the Korean army, but unfortunately Liu Million's uncle and nephew had just gained a foothold in Xinzheng, and it would be good to know when the Korean army would leave. It seems that more investment will be made in this area in the future.

In the blink of an eye, I thought so much in my heart, and Ning Yue's voice suddenly sounded in my ears, but it was Ning Yue who bowed and said, "Congratulations to Wei Hou, Ning has thanked Wei Hou for Zhou Room here!" The Marquis of Wei made such a big move for my royal family, but it has not been seen since Jin Wen, and the Marquis of Wei deserves to be an example of the princes of the world! ”

Listening to Ning Yue's praise, Wei Hou laughed a few more times, and he seemed to be in a particularly happy mood. "Doctor Ning, Ben Hou has ordered his subordinates to go to Wei Ying to pick up the king's attendants, and yesterday's camp will be collected today, and it will be camped south of Shiqiu tonight, well, the king will rest in Shiqiu City today, Ben Hou has ordered General Baning to find a mansion."

Ning Yue naturally bent down to thank him again, and then pulled Zhou Bian, who was a little dazed, down the city tower together.

Sure enough, Baning has already found a place, it turns out that this city mound is not big, and when the Korean army retreated in a hurry yesterday, many big families in the city also fled, so it is very fast to find a house.

Walking all the way, I saw that the shops and courtyards on both sides were closed and did not open, Wei Jun was smashing the doors one by one, and some of the houses were noisy, but there were Wei soldiers dragging things outside, no need to think that it must be some food, money and other things. Sure enough, there is no end to the city under the ruin, if the royal family is not prepared, then I am afraid that at this time, it will be Han soldiers in Luoyang City who are smashing the door door from house to house.

Walking further, I can occasionally hear the woman's call, shaking his head, Zhou Bian didn't care, he couldn't protect himself, how could he care so much? However, thinking about it, the opinion of the Wei army has become a little worse, and an army with strict discipline should not be in this situation. But on second thought, maybe it was the Wei generals who signaled to do this, because it was impossible for the Wei army to occupy the city in the hinterland of Korea for a long time, so it was possible to grab a little bit and strengthen one by one. In war, it is always the people who suffer.

Suddenly, Zhou Bian remembered the tragic situation of the Wei army's siege of the city yesterday, the corpses of more than 10,000 Han soldiers were used to fill the moat, and the Wei army also paid thousands of casualties. Thinking of this, Zhou Bian suddenly realized that the Wei army might not be so strong, otherwise, if the two armies cooperated well, Wei Hou knew that the Great Liang army would break through Huayang yesterday, so why did he let the Wei army fight to the death yesterday to defend the city?

Perhaps this is not a problem of the level of the Wei generals, but a communication problem, yesterday Wei Hou must not have known that the Great Liang Army would break through Huayang, or that the Great Liang Army would break through Huayang was unexpected by Wei Hou. But I don't know which one it is, so I just wait and see.

thought all the way, and it wasn't until he saw the gate of the mansion that Zhou Bian had time to sigh, he had arrived so soon.

The house is not big, but it is very clean, there is no one in the courtyard, and I don't know if I escaped last night, or if I was invited out by Wei Jun today. However, Zhou Bian didn't bother to ask, and soon, the people of the royal family settled down.

I wanted to walk around the city, but seeing that it was almost noon, I had to give up.

After lunch, I had a good night's sleep, and when I woke up, half of the afternoon had passed, and I was dressed and just wanted to go out for a walk, but I heard a noise outside the door of the house.

After a while, I heard Ning Yue come in and report, "King, someone is coming from Luoyang, it's Dr. Wang Sunman." ”

It turned out that Luoyang had come to the news, and it was time to calculate the day, Zhou Bian suddenly threw Shiqiu City behind, and waved his hand to tell Wang Sunman to come in and report immediately.

After a while, Wang Sunman walked in with a tall man, "The king, your subordinates are entrusted by the queen mother and the princess to report to the king on the post-war situation in Luoyang, and there are also letters from the queen mother and Bai Xiang, just outside the door, does the king listen to the minister's dictation first, or read the letter first?" "This white phase is Bai Gui, when Zhou Bian left Luoyang, he had already promoted Bai Gui as the deputy prime minister.

"Of course, Doctor Man said it first," Zhou Bian was a little impatient.

"No, Your Majesty obeys. Since the second day after the king left with the Wei army, the Taishi ordered to lift the closure of the nine gates of Luoyang, in addition to the gate where the king left, it took a morning to clear the nine obstacles, after the nine gates were opened, there were traveling merchants from all over the world in the afternoon, and then there were some big businessmen's convoys, according to Bai Xiang, they went to purchase grain and grass, and then some Luoyang villagers left, and at the same time, the young division organized the recruits and people in the city to clean up the corpses accumulated in the southern city, there were tens of thousands, and on the third day of the king's departure, the Taishi led the ministers to send out of the city, According to the king's will, they were collectively buried in Gucheng Mountain north of Luoyang, and it took a day for more than 100,000 people to send tens of thousands of people. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Bian nodded, "This time is worth it, Confucius said, be cautious and chase the distance, and the people's morality will be thick, probably this is what it means, but it's a pity that this king can't send the martyrs in person." ”

"Don't think too much about it, the king's benevolence and righteousness of the people of Luoyang know that more than 100,000 people in Gucheng Mountain shouted in unison the king's wisdom, and they can be heard in Luoyang City twenty miles away. On the same day, the young master also ordered Liu Zixi and Wang Yufei to lead 10,000 soldiers and 20,000 villagers of Gongyi to Gongyi, and when it was dark, they began to rebuild Gongyi, but Gongyi had been burned to ashes, and it would take some effort to completely rebuild it, and I am afraid it would take more than half a year. ”

"It can take half a year to build it, and it's enough, but is my royal family's food still enough? The reconstruction of Gongyi should be paid for by my royal family. Zhou Bian nodded.

"This is exactly what the subordinates want to report to the king, Bai Xiang and the chief supervisor of the armor cleaned up the royal treasury, not to mention the reconstruction of Gongyi, even the salary of the soldiers is not enough, counting the pension of the fallen soldiers, the reward of the meritorious, and the salary of all the soldiers and people, there is a shortage of 20 million money, and the repair of the Luoyang city wall needs 6 million money, and the reconstruction of Gongyi needs 5 million money, Bai Xiang means that since the king proposed the law of conscription, he will keep some people, and then take turns to repair and rebuild the needs, after registration, it can offset the future conscription."

"It's okay, it's just a record, and it requires a lot of manpower."

"The king can rest assured, there are many noble children in Luoyang City, and there are students in the Luoyang School Palace available, which is enough. As for the 20 million dollars such as soldiers' salaries, my royal family really can't take it out now, so I can only make up for it later. Bai Xiang came up with a way, calculated everyone's money, wrote it on a bamboo slip, and then drew some patterns on the other side of the bamboo slip, and then divided the bamboo slip into two, saying that he would come to receive the money with this bamboo slip in the future. This is also a last resort, fortunately, the soldiers and the people can understand, but there is no opinion, but the workload is large, and the subordinates have just started when they leave Luoyang. ”

"If the bamboo slips on both sides can be combined, it means that it is right, a good way to think about it. It's a big job, but you need to be careful, so don't make a mistake. Zhou Bian suddenly remembered the abacus that appeared not long after, this era is not yet, and Zhou Bian himself will not know, so he has to give up.

"Yes, my lord. Bai Xiang arranged a large number of people, how much each person's salary had to be recalculated by three people, and the number of money was written on the upper and lower halves of each bamboo slip, and in order to facilitate the future holder of the bamboo slip to redeem the money when quickly find the other half of the bamboo slip, Bai Xiang also ordered the number code invented by the king to be written on both sides of each bamboo slip, so that the money will be much faster in the future. ”

The number invented by the king is an Arabic numeral, and Zhou Bian didn't want to hide it, so he has long allowed people in the royal family to start using it, and I believe that it will soon be loved by Luoyang merchants, and then spread to the vassal states, which can be regarded as contributing to the progress of this era.

"It's okay to owe money first, but the injured should pay first, and in the future, my royal family has income, so I have to send it quickly."

"Don't worry about the king, Bai Xiang is below, for those who are injured, send food first, there is still some food in my royal treasury, as for the seriously injured and the orphans of the martyrs, according to the king's will, you can come to the royal family every three months to receive food in the future, as for a few orphans, Bai Xiang ordered to be included in the Luoyang School Palace, and in the future, he can study while doing chores, and he can also serve the king in the future."

Hearing this, he couldn't help but clap his hands, "Bai Xiang really has no last resort, and he is worthy of the king's reuse, these practices are all good, but, did Bai Xiang say how my royal family will develop in the future, and when will the missing tens of millions of dollars be made up?" As the king expected, the rewards of the courtiers of the royal family are only tens of millions of dollars. ”

"This is not the king's bother, it is the queen mother and the princess who came forward together, said that the ministers agreed, write it down first, and wait for the king to come back and issue it in person, and the ministers have no opinion. However, this did not use the method of bamboo slips, after all, all the ministers were noble, and they all trusted the royal family more. ”

After a pause, Wang Sunman continued, "As for how long it will take to make up for these tens of millions, Bai Xiang didn't say a certain amount of time, but Bai Xiang has already arranged for Shen Bufa to return to Chengzhou to preside over the iron smelting, after all, he took Guo Zong's money first, and the iron spear and iron sword have not yet been delivered." In addition, Cao Jiuzheng should also return to Chengzhou now, and start brewing again, although there is little food now, but Bai Xiang said that you can make wine first, after all, Anyi and Xinzheng have waited for nearly two months without drinking soju, and the autumn grain will be ripe soon, this time the Han army did not waste much, Luoyang and Gongyi should still be able to collect a lot. ”

Zhou Bian nodded with satisfaction, it seems that the post-war reconstruction work is still relatively smooth. It was only at this time that Zhou Bian put his mind at ease, and only then did he notice the tall man who followed Wang Sunman to approach, and thought about it carefully, isn't this Su Pheasant?

(Thank you very much, there are dozens more in the collection.) ）