At the beginning of July, the important generals of the Protector Army gathered in Yingtianfu to participate in the military meeting of the Protector Army. On the streets of Yingtianfu, there were suddenly more men with long and strong bodies. Because of the hot weather, most of the men are dressed in short clothes, revealing iron-like muscles and shocking scars, and they look like athletes who have survived a hundred battles. Some are so murderous that they can scare the dogs on the street to the ground.

If there were so many generals in other cities at once, the shops would have been closed and the hawkers would have avoided it. However, the vendors in Ying Tianfu not only opened their business normally, but if they saw a man who looked like a military general coming, they would also loudly solicit business.

"Master Jun, come and sit in the store for a while! Free mung bean tea water pipe is enough! The small shop is good and cheap, and the custodian likes it. The best Suzhou and Hangzhou silk! ”

"Master Jun, come and sit in the store, free wine and taste it! It doesn't matter if you don't buy anything. Come on, man, hurry up and wait for a good glass of wine for the military master! ”

Merchants can't afford to make no profits. The reason why the traders are so enthusiastic about the generals is not only that the Protectors never disturb the people, but more importantly, the Protectors are not like the soldiers of the Emperor and Song Dynasty, they are as poor as beggars. Now in Yingtianfu, the income of the sergeants is not low. Ordinary sergeants also have tens of taels of silver a year. Above the head of the capital is more earning. Coupled with the rewards of previous military exploits, today's Protector Army is a small rich man. What's more, these men walking on the street now are not ordinary soldiers, and only military generals above the head are eligible to participate in the second military conference that Yue Shuai is about to convene.

The reason why many businesses have played the gimmick of free drinks is also to calculate the psychology of the people and generals. Think about the generals who stand up to the sky, will they take advantage of us traders? After drinking our free drinks and not buying something, will the generals be embarrassed to walk out of the store?

Take 10,000 steps back and say, that is, the military masters only enjoy free services, and we don't lose at all. Without the bloody fight of the military master, we still want our wife to do business peacefully, and we have to ask the golden dog's saber if it agrees!

Nowadays, the prosperity of Yingtianfu is no less than Bianliang in the Renzong period. The generals who walked out from Ying Tianfu didn't feel anything, and those generals who came from Hebei West Road were almost dumbfounded as soon as they entered the city.

"My mother-in-law, where is this Ying Tianfu, this is clearly the Heavenly Palace!" Zhang Dayong, the general of the Hebei West Route Army, who followed Niu Gao into the city, shouted as soon as he entered the city gate. "Master Niu, last time I didn't come with me, but now that I'm here, I won't leave anything. Even if you ask for food in this city, you probably won't be able to starve to death. ”

The generals looked at the rows of shops on the street, the enthusiastic vendors, the people walking calmly, and the groups of children playing on the roadside, all of them with a look of fascination in their eyes. This is the life that the Chinese people should live.

Think about today's Hebei West Road, except for the Huazhou Mansion, which has never been defeated by the Jin soldiers, it can still be called a city, and other states and counties are completely in ruins. The figures that haunt the ruins are mostly dish-looking. The villages scattered throughout the countryside are also sparsely smoky and sparsely populated. Their third division fought on such inhospitable land. Although it was their homeland, if they could stay in Yingtianfu, who would be willing to be stationed on Hebei West Road?

It is precisely because of this psychology that many generals agreed with Zhang Dayong's plan to become a beggar in Yingtianfu.

Niu Gao looked at his subordinates' eyes as if they were hypnotized, and secretly said in his heart, this is not good, if they are not awakened, maybe someone will really quit the army and become beggars. So he scolded with a smile, "You are a useless Zhang Dayong, it seems that you only have the life of the head of the capital." Originally, I wanted to recommend you to be the head of the regiment in front of Yue Shuai! ”

Zhang Dayong was excited, and immediately walked out of the beggar's dream. He stared at Niu Gao with a pair of eyes, and said very excitedly, "Master Niu, don't forget to recommend me." You see that I, Zhang Dayong, am in my thirties, and I am still a single. If you can't be the head of the regiment anymore, it is estimated that your wife will not be able to marry. ”

At this time, the generals finally remembered that they had come to Yingtianfu, not to be a beggar, but to attend a military meeting. Niu Gao looked at the people on the street, and said a little intoxicated, "Ying Tianfu is really a good place." ”

Fu Xuan, the commander of the cavalry regiment, said loudly, "Although Ying Tianfu is good, if we don't nail it to the north bank of the Yellow River, once the golden dog crosses the river, Ying Tianfu will also become a dilapidated Xiangzhou!" ”

Niu Gao shouted, "Not bad. Captain Fu Xuan was right. How prosperous Bianliang used to be, and what has become of it now? Luoyang, Xiangzhou, Zhongshan, and Daimyo's mansions were all prosperous before, and what has become of them now? We are not literati rats who can get by, we are the protectors of the people. Our responsibility is to guard, protect the homeland, protect Yingtianfu, protect Hebei West Road, and protect the world of the entire Han people. If we don't completely wipe out the golden dog, our family will also suffer the bad luck of the citizens of Bianliang! ”

As soon as Niu Gao's words fell, he suddenly heard a burst of applause around him. The citizens passing by the city gate all applauded vigorously, and an old man with a white beard walked up to Niu Gao, made a solemn gesture, and said convincingly, "This general is really good. If our Emperor Song army and generals are all thinking like this, how can the Golden Dog Barbarians attack Bianliang! ”

Niu Gao saw that the old man was at least sixty years old, and hurriedly returned the salute with his fists. At this time, several shop owners near the city gate had already greeted them. "General, come and sit in my shop, there are enough free drinks."

As soon as Niu Gao heard the word wine, his throat couldn't help but bulge. The other generals are not much worse. Zhang Dayong even heard the word free, and directly wanted to follow a shopkeeper into the store. In the end, Niu Gao still endured the addiction to alcohol, and said to the bosses, "Thank you for your kindness." However, we are here to attend a military meeting, and it is still not appropriate to drink alcohol before we meet Yue Shuai. ”

Zhang Dayong muttered, "Commander Niu, the military meeting was not held until three days later. Yue Shuai said that before the meeting, it was free time. When you come to Yingtianfu, why do you have to buy something and go back to Erlong Mountain! If you leave the silver, it will rust. ”

When a few shopkeepers heard this, they had to do it, so they directly dragged a few generals into their stores. Niu Gao no longer endured his addiction to alcohol at this time, walked four stores in a row, poured four bowls of wine in a row, and finally carried a sack of messy things in a daze and went to the barracks to report for duty. The other generals are similar, drinking people's free drinks, listening to people's auspicious words, and not buying something is a little sorry for the boss's enthusiasm. So whether you can use it or not, you buy a little bit of it. Zhang Dayong is right, if you don't use the silver, it will rust.

As a result, when I arrived at the barracks, many generals were red drunk, and they were carrying small sacks. It seems that in the face of the enthusiastic Yingtian traders, these straight-hearted generals have spent a lot of money. But at this time, many people also came to their senses, laughing and scolding, "These vendors are too bad." I calculated that the things I bought in their store were enough for me to go to Bafang Tower to drink a bottle for three days and get drunk. What's more, I don't need any of these things. You see, there is also a bottle of rouge gouache for women, Lao Tzu is really dizzy. ”

However, there are also military generals who are super thick-skinned and only drink alcohol and do not buy things, such as Yelumuge, a big drunkard in the hard labor army, who is good at drinking and gambling, although he is now the head of the capital, and the military salary has long been lost. When I came to Yingtianfu this time, I saw that it was so prosperous, and it was like falling into a dream. As soon as the vendors shouted for free drinks, Yelumuge concluded that he was dreaming. If it's not in a dream, who would offer free drinks? Since it's in a dream, let's get drunk and rest.

Therefore, Yelu Muge and several other slave soldiers drank all the way from the gate of the city to the barracks, and as soon as they arrived at the gate of the barracks, they all lay on the ground. While burping, he was still talking drunk, "Shopkeeper, another big bowl of good wine." ”

The military meeting was held on the fifth day of the seventh month, and many officers arrived a few days in advance and walked around the streets of Yingtianfu. Nearly 1,000 officers can be regarded as contributing a lot of silver taels to Ying Tianfu's commerce. Only Yelumuge wears a drunken head every day, rubbing free wine everywhere. Xiao Shan didn't get together with Yelumu anymore because he couldn't afford to lose that person.

Jerumuko was very good at drinking, and when he was drunk, he fell asleep on the side of the street, and he did not go mad with alcohol. If a homeless child fanned him, he would also give them a few copper plates. By the way, he borrowed these copper plates from Luo Yanqing. for he was so poor that he did not even have a copper plate.

On the fourth day of the seventh month, Bi Jin, the guard of the town of Baoqizhai farthest away from Yingtianfu, also led more than a dozen heads to Yingtianfu. That night, a banquet was held in the barracks, and the generals were drunk and rested. They were all brothers who knew the roots, and the generals were only then free, some of them were drinking and dancing with swords, some were singing to the moon, and some were crying while drinking. The golden dog is raging, the Central Plains is broken, and among the generals of the Protector Army, how many of them are not sad?

Yue Fei knew the suffering of the brothers, so he gave him a few days off from drinking. However, on the morning of the fifth day of the seventh lunar month, the drums of the generals gathered in the barracks sounded, and whether it was the generals who were staggering in the school yard or the generals sleeping naked in the barracks, they all put on their clothes and armor as quickly as possible, and lined up in the school yard. Even Yelumuge, who many people think is stupid for drinking, has changed his drunken state and stood at the front of the queue with a bald head, extremely energetic.

Yue Fei sat on the platform of the Chinese army, glanced at the generals in the formation with a smile, and said in a long voice, "Brothers, the wine vacation is over, now it's time for us to talk about business." After all, the brothers were not called all the way to get them free drinks for a few days. Besides, the free drinks of the brethren were actually more expensive than the ones that cost them. Luckily, I only had three days off drinking, and if I had five days, your money would have been wiped out by the shopkeepers. ”

The generals all laughed. Yue Shuai was honest in what he said. If the alcohol vacation is longer, there will be no money to return to the army station.

Yue Fei's face suddenly sank, and he said extremely sternly, "Brothers, since the beginning of the Lunar New Year, our Protector Army has been fighting and fighting with the golden dog. Many of the brothers fell on the battlefield and never woke up. Some brothers were disabled by their injuries and returned home. Their exploits, we will not forget. We must not forget their sacrifices. Now in the hot summer, the golden dog is thousands of miles away. But in the fall, the golden dog will still make a comeback. The golden dog will come back again, only more ferocious. In order to resist the next attack of the Golden Dog, the Protectors must expand again. The burden on your brethren's shoulders will be heavier. I hope you don't let me down. Don't let the Central Plains Fathers down. In this year's Central Plains Defense Battle, the Golden Dog broke through into the Central Plains, causing great losses to the people. But this winter, I hope that we will keep the golden dogs out of the country and prevent them from breaking into the Central Plains with a single soldier! Can the brethren do it? ”

"Yes!" The generals said in unison.

"Good!" Yue Fei nodded and said to Master Zhihun next to him, "Next, I would like to ask Master Zhihun to say a few words." ”