Chapter 52: A Headache

Su Qi sighed, he couldn't take the initiative to march and could only blindly defend, this would have to wait until what year and month he could sweep away the Tatars, whether it was a family feud or a national hatred, Su Qi couldn't wait to realize it. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Master Xiao, but if we continue to defend like this, we don't have enough resources, and sooner or later, the city will be broken. What's more, the food and salary we brought is only enough to last for two months. ”

Xiao Yan smiled slightly, "You don't have to worry about the salary, as far as Xiao Yan knows, the treasures in the homes of the high-ranking officials and rich gentry here in Ningxia are piled up, and we can let them pay some." ”

Who knew that Su Qi seemed to have heard a big joke, "Haha, Xiao Junshi, don't be funny." ”

Xiao Yan had a hint of doubt on his face, not knowing why Su Qi was smiling. "Commander Su? Why is that? Why do you say that? ”

"It's better to count on them than on themselves, even if they wait for the Tatars to come in and grab them, they won't give a point." Su Qi put away his smile and spread his hands and said,

"Oh?" Xiao Yan still didn't understand what Su Qi meant, wasn't Ningxia where they lived? Only by subsidizing money to defeat the Tatars can they live and work in peace and contentment, why do you say so about such a win-win good thing?

Su Qi is an ordinary person, and he knows that these rich people are in their hearts, and they don't have any concept in their hearts, who is the master of the house and not the master of the house? As long as it does not affect their interests, what about the Tatars coming in.

It was the Ming Dynasty that the Tatars wanted to destroy, not them. It's just that the change of family has no impact on them, no matter who they are still doing business to make money, and want to take out money to fund your war? That's a joke, they don't expect the Tatars to come in and end the battle soon, and they expect them to come up with money.

Su Qi couldn't know more about these high-ranking businessmen and officials who controlled the empire's economy and money, and their ugly faces of eating the people were imprinted in Su Qi's mind one by one.

After all, Xiao Yan is also from a famous family, and he is used to the life of fine clothes and food, and he does not know the relationship between the rich and the poor. No wonder it caused Su to laugh.

Having said that, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the city of Yanjing was about to be broken, and the imperial court did not even have military salaries to transfer troops to support, and the high-ranking officials and rich gentry who had read books and seen the world had a mountain of wealth in their families, but they still refused to take out a penny.

Zhu Shou knows these things, which is also the reason why the rich people are ruthless in the Wuzhong area of Suzhou, they eat so much, they have to spit out some of it. But the silver taels that Zhu Shou got away were just a drop in the bucket in their eyes.

Only when the imperial court is strong will it bring them deterrence, Zhu Shou's deterrent power is there, but he Xiao Yan does not. In their opinion, he is just a stinky scholar who wants to put on a score in front of them? It's pretty much the same dreaming.

"Master Xiao, I can say the same to them, they won't make loss-making deals."

"Is this a loss?" Although Xiao Yan almost understood it, it was still difficult to accept this fact, it was obviously a win-win situation! If the life and death of the country is regarded as a business, there is no reason why the country will not die.

"Loss! Okay, don't think about it, military advisor, let's find a way to deal with the matter of food and salary, and don't fight their ideas again. Su Qi waved his hand and walked away,

Xiao Yan stood there stupidly, and couldn't help but sigh, people are always selfish......

In the city, some soldiers could not help but boast about the fact that they had just repelled a Tatar attack, when an incident had just happened in an inn in the city.

A small leader of the Wei Suo Army took a few brothers to the inn to eat and drink, and there happened to be two merchants eating inside, and when he saw the little leader showing off his might and being very arrogant in front of Xiao Er, he couldn't help but whisper and reprimand.

"The city is still dead, and you are still so arrogant here, it's really a military not a militaristic country, not a country." How could the little leader hear very well, and he heard his words clearly, if he was replaced by the brother of Zhu Shou's henchman battalion, most of them would turn a blind eye and pass, but unfortunately he was talking about a soldier of the Weisuo Army.

is usually arrogant, how can he pretend not to hear it when he is blamed by this businessman? He immediately went up and beat the two merchants, because they lived a life of fine clothes and fine food, and they were used to pampering, and one of them was killed in a few blows.

This matter seems to be a small matter, but it caused an uproar in the city, and the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty did not kill the enemy to serve the country, but they killed the people in the inn. Some of the colors of justice immediately quit and went straight to the office.

When it reached Xiao Yan's ears, they were greeted by Xiao Yan's anger, Zhu Shou had asked Tang Bohu to warn him when he was leaving, but he didn't expect it to happen, although it was the businessman who teased him first, and he didn't beat it, these parties could be put aside, and it was easy to cause great fluctuations on the grounds that he didn't kill the enemy but killed the people.

Xiao Yan suppressed the anger in his heart, and immediately sent a few people from the Heavy Spirit Camp to put the little leader and those soldiers in prison.

As for how to deal with it, it depends on the meaning of the people, in short, Xiao Yan is powerless. Killing people is usually not a big deal, but now that it's a time of war, how does this end?

According to the last wishes of some people, of course, they were executed, and if Xiao Yan did this, the soldiers might not be able to obey, and when the time came, it would be impossible to cause a mutiny. If you don't deal with it, the people will not be satisfied, and there may be riots. Either case, it would be fatal, so Xiao Yan would detain those soldiers first.

As for how to deal with it, it is still necessary to go through some discussion before making a decision. After all, this is not a trivial matter, and if it is not done well, it will cause problems for the defenders.

God gave Xiao Yan a multiple-choice question, no matter which one he chose, it seemed that there was no way to live, so Xiao Yan wanted to make his own answer, and the answers he gave were all wrong.

"What do you think about this?" Xiao Yan wanted to see what the brothers meant, of course, the final decision was still up to him.

Zhou Xuan was the first to speak, his personality was more impatient, and he immediately said his thoughts as soon as he heard that he wanted to ask for their opinions.

"Strategist, in my opinion, those brothers should be released, and it's clearly not their fault."

Zhou Xuanzi said anything, he had already heard from people in the know about the process of the little boss leading people to kill a businessman, it was indeed the businessman who provoked them first, and they couldn't move their hands when they were angry, but they didn't expect that the businessman would be killed in one fell swoop without beating.

Xiao Yan nodded slightly, what Zhou Xuan said is true, but the problem is that killing people to repay debts and debts is an unchanging truth since ancient times, not to mention that it is still a soldier's murder, and according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the crime is added to the first class!