An autumn rain crackled and fell, and it was three days at a time. The creek and place on the mountain are all fierce torrents, which wash away the fog and the smell of blood in Lianyunzhai.

But the sky is no longer the blue sky and white clouds of the past, but an unhealthy color of jaundice.

"There is really a lot of rain in the south, I didn't expect it to be September and there will be such a torrential rain." Sitting in the hall where there was leaking water everywhere, Wang Shen sat in a cold dark place, holding a handful of jade ruyi in his hand, knocking on a sip of celadon washing, and throwing it together. Continue to pick up a coral bead and look at it under the light: "Yan Xuanzan, tell the soldiers not to work in the rain, be careful not to freeze, slow down." Autumn and winter are the seasons of high incidence of diseases, and as soon as the war is over, once the plague breaks out in the army, we don't want to go home. You go and ask the Lang Zhong to make some soup and give it to the soldiers to drink. ”

"Yes, envoy." Yan said that Meng answered, and was about to stand up and put on his clothes.

Wang Shen thought about it, but said with a smile: "That's it, wait for a certain person to go by himself." Xuanzan is not that I don't worry about you, but I have been in the house for a few days, and I feel cold and stiff. ”

Yan Yuemeng smiled, sat back in front of the desk and continued to be busy with the affairs at hand.

Like him, several other scribe-like men sat in the great hall and were busy with their work. The autumn and winter in the south are wet and cold, and they are the most difficult, even if they have a bamboo fire cage with smoldering charcoal in it, they still subconsciously stomp their feet gently.

The rain outside is still falling, and there are signs of getting bigger. I could only hear the rumbling sound of the roof, and the courtyard was already white.

"Wang Xianggong, in fact, it was impossible for Dingzhou to rain so heavily in September in previous years, which is really weird. The subordinates remembered the words of the pseudo-prince Zhong Ziang a while ago, so they stayed overnight. Looking at the sky at night, I saw the crape myrtle in the southeast and the emperor star. The yin qi is full of clouds, which is a great omen. It can be seen that the imperial court will change greatly in the near future. However, there is a purple gas above our heads, and the vitality is flourishing, and the Lord is rich and noble, I am afraid that it will be on the head of the prime minister. A voice sounded cautiously.

The person who spoke was Huang Zuo, and he was one of the main generals under Yang Mi. After Lianyunzhai was broken, he was captured by the Sizhou army, and after being recommended by Yang Qin, he entered the staff of Wang Shen's curtain.

The reason why Wang Shen readily recruited this person and entrusted him with an important task is that this person is really too famous, and the prototype of Wang Zuo in the later "The Complete Biography of Yue" is him.

In the scene, after two days of investigation, Wang Shen found that this person was outstanding, and he was quite brave in Yang Mi back then, and he was a rare civil affairs talent in Manichaeism.

This person was born as a scholar, and he has been a local lord for a few years, and he is a gentleman full of poetry, I really don't know how such a person has lived in Mingjiao for so long and has not been killed as a heretic?

Huang Zuo is a Confucian disciple, but he likes astrology, divination, and can speak well and fool people on weekdays.

Hearing his words, several scribes who were busy stopped their affairs at the same time and turned their heads to look.

Yes, when that person killed Zhong Ziang, although the words of the pseudo-Prince Chu were ridiculous, they made some sense when you think about it carefully. Yes, since the years of Xuanhe, what the Zhao family has done is really chilling. Now, the troubled times have come, the military leaders in various places have cut off the dominance, and the order of the imperial court will not work, and this day is only afraid that it will change in the next few years.

Moreover, listening to Huang Zuo's words, there was a faint saying that the Great Song Dynasty had lost the country and persuaded Wang to be cautious and self-reliant.

Wang Shen put down the coral bead and said with a smile: "Huang Zuo, you are a Confucian student, how can you still know how to observe the sky at night?" I heard that Manichaeism regarded Confucianism, monks, and medicine as evil spirits, how did you still survive until now? Besides, how can you see the stars in the sky after a lot of rain these days? ”

Hearing Wang Shen say this, everyone couldn't help but laugh quietly.

"On the battlefield, can you win just by eating fasting and reciting sutras? Zhong Xiang and Yang Qi can have such a big situation as later, and they are not stupid. The so-called vegetable eater demon also fools ordinary people and uses it to gather people's hearts, in fact, they themselves know it very well. Governing the localities, conscripting troops and food, and calming the people's hearts and minds still depend on us scholars. All of them were killed, and the Demon Sect couldn't last a day. Huang Zuo Zhengse said: "As for stargazing and asking hexagrams, who said that you must see the stars." The key is to use your heart and mind to sense the operation of the qi veins between heaven and earth. ”

Wang Shen didn't believe in this, and he didn't bother to deal with him. He picked up a few ivory chopsticks, handed them to Yan Yuemeng, and said, "Xuanzan, this, as well as those gold cups and the gilded copper basin are wrapped separately and sent back to An Niang." An Niang doesn't care about gold and silver jewelry at all, but she likes this kind of daily stuff, and she has suffered in the past two years. ”

This time, Wang Shen made a fortune by laying down Lianyun Village. Just kidding, Zhong Yuan's early thief army swept through half of Hunan, and the wealth of half of the province was concentrated here, and it could be less.

It's just that in this kind of troubled times, gold and silver are not eaten or drunk, and they are of little use, so they can only be used to reward soldiers. If he could assume, he would prefer the cottage to be full of cows, sheep and corn.

Two more military affairs were disposed of, and the rain outside was still so heavy, and the staff in the house were busy with their affairs and retreated, and the hall suddenly seemed empty.

Remembering what he had said earlier, Wang Shen stood up, put on his hat, put on his robe, and walked towards the camp where the military doctor lived.

Lianyunzhai is very large, and the captured Manichaeans have been sent home. Of course, all the young men had their thumbs cut off on both feet.

According to the sergeant who carried out the execution, the severed thumb of the previous day was simply a small mountain. At first, the soldiers took matters into their own hands, but when they got impatient, they threw an axe and let the captives get it themselves.

The severed toes and the corpses of the Ming priests who had died in battle were thrown down the mountain, causing vultures and crows to hover in the sky, causing people to be annoyed. It wasn't until the rain came down that it stopped.

It's inhumane, but it's better than killing them one by one. Without a thumb of his feet, the captives could not run and march long distances, and naturally they could no longer go into battle, but it did not affect the work in the fields, which was also the only feasible method that Wang Shen came up with.

In fact, in this year, everyone had no extra food to feed the captives, and they were usually killed with a single sword. Wang Shen's move was a great mercy, and it also made the captives grateful.

He was about to leave Lianyuan Village and lead the army back to Anlu. Unknowingly, Wang Shen's expedition to Hunan has been going on for two months, and it is a lie to say that he doesn't want to go home.

Before leaving, he gave an order for his subordinates to demolish all the Lianyun Village. At this moment, the mountain was full of soldiers tearing down the walls, fortresses and deer barricades in the rain. Wang Shen didn't see a group of soldiers would stop and ask them if they were cold, but if they couldn't go back to the tent to rest first, wait for the rain to stop.

Then he took off the hat on his head and buckled it on the soldier's head, untied the coat and handed it over.

All the soldiers were greatly moved, and they all said: "Fighting on the battlefield, not even afraid of death, but also afraid of rain?" The military envoy can rest assured, it will be fine immediately, if it can't be cold, it's a big deal to wait for the next time to go back to the camp to drink a bowl of hot ginger soup. ”

After patrolling for a long time, the rain finally stopped. The jaundice sky also broke a hole, and there was a ray of golden sunlight casting down, which was a bit of a crisp autumn smell.

Unconsciously walked to the military doctor's station and explained that they could boil a decoction to prevent wind and cold and improve human immunity, Wang Shen suddenly remembered something, so he asked the military doctor at the head: "Daochang Li, has Yang Mi's sister come back to life?" ”

"If you go back to Xianggong, you will come back to life." Li Daochang is the head of a group of military doctors, he was originally the palace master of Wanshou Palace in Taoyuan County, usually eats the offerings of believers, lives a nourishing life, and is also a leading figure in the local area, and is called an old immortal. But Zhong Xiang had an incident, and this Li Daochang was unlucky. Not only was Wanshou Palace burned to a pile of rubble, but even more than 100 disciples and disciples in the palace were slaughtered.

This old man was shrewd, and at the critical moment, he crawled out of the sewer and escaped with his life.

In the past, in his name, it would be okay to mix three meals at a time. It's a pity that there are Mingjiao disciples everywhere, if he goes to show people feng shui and seek medical advice, he won't die too quickly.

There was no choice but to beg for a living, and several times I almost became a road down.

After Wang Shen's army took Zhong Xiang's Lianyun Village, this old Taoist priest felt that his opportunity had come, so he came up the mountain, hoping that Wang Shen could return the property that Zhong Xiang had robbed before, and blew it in front of Wang Shen, saying that he had entered the palace to serve the Emperor Daojun before, and he had an official position of the fourth grade.

Seeing that Wang Shen was not interested in giving money, Li Daochang's eyes rolled, and he took out two pills, saying that this is an elixir that can live forever, and if you take it for a long time, you can not only get longevity, but also control the ten women at night.

For this kind of alchemist, Wang Shen naturally scoffed. Just kidding, are there still fewer people who have eaten the so-called elixir to die in history? Far away is Tang Taizong Li Shiming, the Ming Dynasty's Longqing Emperor, and the Qing Dynasty's Yongzheng Emperor. As a modern person, how can you swallow this heavy metal such as lead and mercury? However, there is an interest in this so-called elixir. So he ordered a sheep to be brought and fed to eat.

As a result, in less than half an hour, the sheep was foaming at the mouth and was about to kick his legs.

When Daochang Li saw that something was wrong, he hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, saying that people and sheep have different physiques, and this is the current situation. He can prescribe a prescription for the sheep to take, keep it and rescue it.

"You can open a pharmacy and know how to heal" Wang Shen's eyes lit up, and he no longer asked him about the crime of offering the elixir, and immediately asked him to go to see the sick soldiers under him.

The feedback is good, this Li Daochang's medical skills are indeed good, especially in the treatment of gold sores. As soon as he made a move, he was shocked by the so-called "famous doctors" that Wang Shen had recruited before.

In this way, Daoist Li was left in the army by Wang Shen and became the head of a group of military doctors.

"The military envoy is talking about Yang Ximei, don't worry, you can't die. If the true doctor dies, the ox will be the first to chop the poor road alive. "Daoist Li, who is already sixty years old, still has black and shiny hair, and looks like a fairy wind and bones. Unlike people in this era, when they are over forty, their faces are wrinkled and their hair is gray.

"Haha, the Taoist chief has good medical skills, but he is a trustworthy person, and no one dares to touch you." Wang Shen laughed, pointed at him and said, "You are more valuable than a warrior!" By the way, what is the situation of the little sister now. ”