Datang World, Shouzhou City, Huainan Province. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The sky was dark and the clouds were low, and snowflakes the size of rice grains were sprinkled.

The second snow after the winter came at a very bad time, which made the Yangzhou army, which had just gained a foothold in Shouzhou, face many difficulties.

It has been two months since Tang Ao last left, and Xu Jingye has the heart to make good work, but it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.

As the New Year approached, the number of displaced and fugitives under the rule of Shouzhou City increased day by day, which caused great pressure on the grain and grass of the Yangzhou army.

Even Xu Jingye, the commander of the Yangzhou Army, made do with gruel and pickles twice a day.

Wei Siwen walked into the temporary British mansion, breathed with white air between his mouth and nose, patted the snow particles off his shoulders and gathered them in front of the charcoal brazier to roast his hands, and his frozen hands felt a little warm.

"Guogong, the grain storage is only enough for ten days, but today more than 2,000 displaced people have poured in from all over the world, and the situation is a little bad!"

Xu Jingye's face was pale, and he said angrily: "Wu Zetian planted flowers and plants outside Luoyang City, and requisitioned 300,000 people a month ago, not only made Zhengzhou ten rooms and nine empty, even other state capitals in Henan Province are also panicked, and the people are fleeing, this is only winter, the weather is very cold and not suitable for travel, and I am afraid that there will be more and more fugitives in the spring of next year." ”

Wei Siwen nodded: "Wu Zetian arranged the National Color Tianxiang Array to target Tang Shilang and others, but it made the people of Henan Province and Gyeonggi Province miserable, maybe this is also Wu Zetian's conspiracy, so that the Yangzhou army cannot enter Luoyang westward." ”

Xu Jingye knew the meaning of Wei Siwen's words, who let them play the banner of Kuang Fu Li Xian's throne!

In the name of such righteousness, we cannot ignore the displaced fugitives who have gathered.

Otherwise, there will inevitably be civil unrest, which will be a heavy blow to the banner of righteousness erected by the Yangzhou army.

When the two were worried, Tang Zhiqi ran in with a smile on his face.

While leaning in front of the charcoal brazier, he said with a smile: "Guogong, military division, there is good news from the front, General Xue Ne led the cavalry to defeat the Wu Zhou army on the bank of Yingshui, and has captured Yingzhou and seized 30,000 stones of grain and grass, which can be regarded as solving the urgent need of the Yangzhou army!" ”

Xu Jingye was overjoyed when he heard this, and praised him: "General Xue is worthy of being a famous general in a hundred battles, and he captured Yingzhou so quickly, is there any news from General Cheng Wuting?" Some time ago, General Cheng led more than 10,000 people from the displaced people to the left side of the vortex river to get food, and I don't know how the progress is. ”

Before the words fell, Wang Bo lifted the curtain that blocked the wind and presented a letter to Xu Jingye in his hand.

"Guogong, General Cheng Wuting was blocked outside Bozhou City, and he has retreated for thirty miles, losing more than 3,000 people."

As soon as Wang Bo finished speaking, people walked in one after another and reported many recent matters in turn.

Except for Xue Ne's capture of Yingzhou, Cheng Wuting retreated with the rabble.

The most important thing is the lack of food, firewood, and shelter for the displaced people.

The Yangzhou army moved from Runzhou to Bozhou, and the team of two or three thousand people now has 8,000 elite soldiers.

However, within a radius of 100 miles of Shouzhou, more than 200,000 homeless people are waiting to be fed and uncovered.

Various situations emerge one after another, making Xu Jingye and others feel very troubled.

Luo Bin Wang Changyu secretary, spread out the account book in his hand and said: "This official already knows that General Xue won a great victory in Yingzhou and got 30,000 stone of grain, however, although 30,000 stone of grain and grass is a lot, it is a drop in the bucket for the Yangzhou army, and the military and civilian food can only last for 278 days, which is still the amount of porridge for two meals a day, otherwise it can be used for 20 days. ”

The corners of Xu Jingye's mouth twitched slightly: "Lord Luo is now in charge of the Yangzhou Military Branch, is there a good way to solve the food shortage?" ”

Luo Bin Wang and Wang Bo glanced at each other.

On the same day, he talked with Tang Ao on the riverside about the people's will, and he had long expected that there would be today's predicament.

The Yangzhou army erected the banner of Kuang Fu Li Tang Jiangshan, although the righteousness is good, but as long as it is a person, it must eat, and if there is no food, what can we talk about the people's hearts?

Luo Bingwang took a deep breath: "Xiaguan does have a strategy to solve the food shortage, but I am afraid that Lord Guogong will not allow it." ”

"Let's hear it." Xu Jingye didn't expect that Luo Bingwang really had a solution to the food shortage, so he immediately sat up straight and listened to his ears.

Luo Bin Wang cleared his throat: "This official learned from General Xue Chang that the grain seized by Xue Ne's department is only the grain storage of Yingzhou Military Warehouse and Shencang, but in addition to these two large warehouses, Yingzhou also has Zhengcang, Yicang, Changping, and Transshipment Warehouse, and the total amount of grain stored in these places is no less than 30,000 stones, and there are also the grain cellars of the rich landlords in Yingzhou, which store more grain, and there are 50,000 stones if there are not 80,000 stones. ”

After Luo Bingwang finished talking about these figures, he stopped talking, all the people present were famous people for a while, and he didn't have to say too thoroughly, I believe he could figure out what his strategy for raising food was.

The solution has been figured out, but whether it can be implemented or not, whether it dares to be implemented or not, this requires the backbone to come up with an idea.

Xu Jingye gasped and looked at Luo Bingwang's eyes with a complicated look.

Although the Yangzhou army borrowed a group of prisoners and mine slaves, the support from other quarters was also immeasurable.

Without the support of the landlords of Huaiyang, how could the Yangzhou army keep the remaining elite, and how could it rest in Runzhou and get a good chance to recover?

Once King Luo Bin's grain raising strategy is implemented, it will definitely offend the scholars of Huainan Province and Henan Province.

Although it can win the support of many mud-legged homeless people, what about the support and gratitude of the homeless people?

Throughout history, which of the people who raised troops really succeeded with the support of displaced fugitives?

Up to Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's Daze Township, down to the Green Forest Army of Wang Kuang and Wang Feng in the late Han Dynasty, all show that although relying on the lowest class of people can gain power, they can't get the world.

Boiling and boiling to the end, the fruits of victory are all heroes.

Wang Bo saw that no one present spoke, and a sense of depression arose in his heart.

That day, he talked with Luo Bin Wang and Tang Ao about the hearts of the people in the world, and at first he and Tang Ao stood on opposite sides, and felt that it was most important to win the support of the scholars, scholars, and local Shu landlords.

However, since the Yangzhou Army moved to Shouzhou, Huainan Province, Wang Bo felt that Tang Ao's original words were not necessarily unreasonable.

Although it is important to win support, if you ignore the people at the bottom, it is tantamount to gathering sand and eventually collapse the foundation.

Wang Bo and Luo Bin Wang had long seen the plight of the Yangzhou army in their eyes and were anxious, and after discussing it, they came to the conclusion that it was to smash the pot.

Not only did they have to smash Wu Zetian's pot, but even the pot of the local Shu landlord was also smashed, and then the gongs and drums were reopened again.

With the military order of the Yangzhou Army, the local Shu landlords who are committed to the Yangzhou Army are forcibly cultivated, and this has a premise, who will be the person who smashes the pot that attracts the attention of the world?

Xu Jingye saw that everyone neither agreed with nor opposed Luo Binwang and Wang Bo's proposal, and knew that the stakes were really difficult to decide.

Following the advice of the two, they can change the predicament faced by the Yangzhou army in a short period of time, and even pull up a team of more than 100,000 horses.

However, the counterattack will be extremely violent, and the pressure will not only come from Wu Zetian, but also many scholars in Shandong, which can be described as easy and then difficult.

"It's a big deal, and you have to think about it in the long run."

Xu Jingye could only change the topic, he was the backbone of the Yangzhou Army, but he didn't dare to risk making such a decision.

Because no matter whether you succeed or fail, no matter how big the world is, there will be no place for him!

Luo Bingwang and Wang Bo's faces were full of disappointment, and the two glanced at each other, and they both saw a glimmer of hope in each other's eyes.

Both of them thought of Tang Ao, if Tang Ao was here, he might be able to persuade everyone to do that trick.

Although the two of them successively devoted themselves to the great cause of opposing Wu Zhou Kuang's restoration of Emperor Li Xian's throne, the weight of their words was obviously insufficient, and they lacked the prestige of Tang Ao's ascending to the heights and gathering echoes.

King Luo Bin's heart moved, and he thought of a compromise solution: "Guogong, Fairy Yan, who is recuperating, may have a solution to the current lack of food, if I wait to ask, Fairy Yan is not extraordinary and high, but for the sake of Tang Shilang's face, if there is a way, he will definitely not refuse." ”

If Xu Jingye is the backbone of the Yangzhou Army, and Tang Ao is the courage of the Yangzhou Army, then the cultivators who are good friends with Tang Ao are the biggest support of the Yangzhou Army.

It had been proved several times before that the cultivators' abilities were extraordinary, and without the support of these cultivators, the Yangzhou army would have been destroyed for a long time.

Xu Jingye groaned, he didn't want to have too much intersection with cultivators in his heart, because he was a little afraid of cultivators' power.

Having witnessed the kind of supernatural power that moved mountains and seas and soared into the sky, he deeply felt the fragility of ordinary people.

He even had an idea in his heart, if he successfully restored Li Xian's throne, the first thing he did was to advise Li Xian to destroy the cultivators, just because the threat of the cultivators was too great.

The group came to the courtyard where Yan Zixuan was recuperating from her injuries, and at this time, the snowflakes gradually intensified, but the grass and trees in the courtyard were lush and the wildflowers were fragrant.

How could Yan Zixuan, who had healed ninety percent of her injuries, not know the words of Xu Jingye and the others, and said without waiting for Xu Jingye to speak: "The concubine body is not a real immortal, she can't sprinkle beans into soldiers and turn stones into gold, and she can't conjure food for people out of thin air." ”

Xu Jingye suffers from gains and losses, and if Yan Zixuan can really solve the problem of the Yangzhou Army, it will only make him more jealous of cultivators.

But Yan Zixuan said this, how to solve the difficulties of the Yangzhou army?

Will hundreds of thousands of people inside and outside the city survive this unusually cold winter?

King Luo Bin arched his hand and said: "Fairy, we don't mean to be difficult for a strong man, and I hope that the fairy will not misunderstand, but I don't know if the fairy has news of Tang Shilang Tang?" Lord Tang and the fairy are both cultivators, can they contact Lord Tang? ”

Yan Zixuan was about to shake her head, when Zhen Shou suddenly raised her head and looked at the sky in the distance.

The Yuan Infant Stage cultivator's divine sense instantly enveloped thousands of miles, and then he lost his voice and said, "Tang Ao is back?" He actually advanced to the middle stage of the Yuan Infant, how did he cultivate? ”

A sword light pierced the sky, and Yan Zixuan swung his magic power like a cloud to roll the sword light into his hand.

The Yangzhou military people who saw this magic were extremely envious, but Xu Jingye's eyes flashed with an inexplicable look.