Of course, Xie Shence didn't dare to bet on whether Sima Bi really wanted to rebel.

In fact, the reason why he did this was to test whether Sima Bi rebelled or not; At the same time, it is also a test of Sima Bi's bottom line, if he does not rebel, then his previous actions can be understood as a betrayal to a certain extent, not a complete betrayal, since this is the case, then it is necessary for Xie Shence to know where Sima Bi's bottom line is.

This is very important for the Xie family in the future.

However, the most important thing is to thank Shence to help the prince and win this battle.

It's something obvious.

It's not because the prince has asked Xie Shence or Xie Shence wants to stand in line completely, it's just that Xie Shence said in front of Emperor Jin before that he could win.

Since he said in front of Emperor Jin that he could win, then Xie Shence had already arrived in the north, so he must win.

Therefore, Xie Shence wanted Sima Bi to take the initiative to attack Yan Jun. As long as Sima Bi made a move and attracted Yan Jun's attention, Xie Shence could make a move. But it was impossible for him to directly say to Sima Bi, "General, go and fight the Yan people", so he could only use obscure means to make Sima Bi make a move.

As for how the later Tiqi Division passed on the worries of merchants and ordinary people to a group of people who could really influence Sima Bi, Xie Shence was not worried, and the Tiqi Division had a special person to complete it.

So on August 10, after Xie Shence arranged all the affairs, he took He Ruoque and dozens of others straight to Jinzhou.

There, it will be the first battlefield after Xie Shence arrives in the north.

The continuous heavy rain made the road extremely muddy and difficult for the horses to walk, Xie Shence and the others walked in the water almost every day, unless they found a place where there were people, otherwise they would be soaked in the water all day.

From Cangzhou to Jinzhou, Xie Shence and his party took a full ten days, which was three days longer than expected. Because it rained for ten days, when we arrived in Jinju, there were only 35 of the more than 50 people, excluding those who were sick and could not move forward.

In these ten days, the two prefectures and counties in the north of Hebei Province, Hexi County and Shandong County, have all become water towns and Zeguo. The heavy rain has made life difficult for the people on the front line of the Hutuo River, and Xie Shence has been delayed for several days because of the hungry people and refugees along the way.

Patches of floating corpses, hungry people in ragged clothes, not to mention Yizi and food, at least they are selling their daughters. Xie Shence previously thought that raising food prices would encounter obstacles from all sides, but now he feels that food prices are too high.

The big households in various places have already raised the price of grain to the point of 221 stones!

A child, a boy, must be healthy in exchange for eight buckets of rice!

It's not eight buckets of grain. It is the moldy rice which did not remove the husk mixed with wheat sand.

A healthy girl can only be exchanged for five buckets.

Although Xie Shence was numb to the "Yi Zi and Eat", "Two-legged Sheep" and "Human Flesh for Food" in the history books, his heart was also extremely clogged when he saw living people dying in batches in front of him.

When Xie Shence was about to arrive in Shenzhou before, he spent the night in a Zhuangzi. They were joined into the village by a woman with a little girl.

When he entered Zhuangzi, Xie Shence noticed that something was wrong.

Men go out in almost every household, carrying iron tools such as axes, shovels, and even military knives and guns. These people looked at them with a green light in their eyes.

Xie Shence estimated that if it weren't for the neat armor of his group of people, their strength and strength, and the high-grade war horses they rode on, or one person and two horses, these people would almost have done it to themselves. Xie Shence and the others exchanged a piece of gold for the best houses with the village chief to shelter from the rain, and buried the pot to cook by themselves, but they didn't dare to be disturbed at night because of the strict precautions.

But the next morning, Xie Shence and the others were awakened by a terrible cry.

The people in the Zhuangzi killed the mother and daughter who had fled here, and then chopped them up in the shack and put them into large vats to cook them over a blazing fire.

In order to get rid of the fishy smell, the strongest man in Zhuangzi put a whole scoop of salt in the vat. Before the flesh was fully cooked, someone couldn't help but grab a thin, red calf from the hot, bloody "broth" and gnaw it deadly. It doesn't matter how many blood blisters are burned on your hands and how much skin you have burned in your mouth.

This person who grabbed food was quickly killed by everyone. But his body was left behind.

Xie Shence stopped He Ruoque, who wanted to shoot and kill.

"If you kill people, you will only increase the rations of those people, and when they are full, they will rob, kill, and become bandits, and more people will die at their hands."

He Ruoque's eyes were split: "Do you want to ignore it!" It's not enough to kill him alone, I'll kill them all!" ”

"Killing won't solve the problem. When they entered the Zhuangzi, I should have thought of it...... I thought ......"

"Let's go."

Xie Shence turned the horse's head and walked out slowly in the heavy rain.

There was still white smoke in the shack, the people in the Zhuangzi. Men and women, old men and children, lined up with large bowls, and watched with amazement as the strongest men scooped up the thick red juice wrapped in minced meat in the vats with long-handled wooden spoons......

When Xie Shence left Zhuangzi, some people squatted at their door happily licking the red juice that was about to drip from the side of the bowl, and after seeing the eyes of Xie Shence and others, they held the bowl to their chests with vigilance and covered it with their hands.

Xie Shence resisted the urge to slaughter the village and forced himself to leave without looking back.

Just like He Ruoque said before, reading is beneficial. Some people haven't read a book, they don't know what ethics is, they don't know what morality is, and they don't know what right and wrong are, so once they are forced to be ruthless, they really do anything. And it is done justifiably, and it is done without hesitation.

Killing one person won't solve the problem, and even killing someone from a village won't change the facts.

Sima Yu once asked him if he would like to help the world learn the Tao, but Xie Shence did not respond, but now that he thinks about it, he is not disdainful, but he does not dare.

People still know more, only then can they know the vastness of the world, the profundity of the universe, the immensity of life, the insignificance of human beings, and the awe in their hearts.

He said a sentence from Kant that night, holding his colored clothes, and the more people think, the more they are in awe. The more you can face yourself, the more you can live your own life and live a worthwhile life.

And the people in this Zhuangzi, they ...... Is it wrong? Are they wrong? Are they right?

Minzhi ......

Such a situation has been encountered more than once on the road.

He Ruoque also failed to hold back his killing intent in the end. In a mountain, after receiving a warm reception, after Xie Shence and the others left the mountain village, He Ruoque returned alone and killed all 53 people in the village. Because he saw the naked and naked corpses piled up in the village ancestral hall, some of which had tooth marks on them.

Xie Shence waited until He Ruoque, who was covered in blood, and sighed.

When Xie Shence and the others arrived in Jinzhou City, Guo Fei had already prepared all kinds of rain gear and boat boats according to Xie Shence's previous instructions. The walls of Jinju Fortress have also been repaired.

Xie Shence met Guo Fei the next day. Guo Fei was very respectful to Xie Shence. I don't know if it's to fulfill the bet I made with Yuhuating before.

"General Guo, how are the five hundred craftsmen and three hundred people I asked you to recruit?"

Guo Fei clenched his fists and said: "It has already been arranged to stop, just waiting for the Admiral to call." ”

Xie Shence smiled and said, "Okay, go into the mountains and cut wood." ”

"Huh?"

"Well, let's prepare to flood Jinju City."

Guo Fei was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly laughed and said, "Lord Admiral wants to learn from Guan Yunchang and flood the Seventh Army, right?" ”

Xie Shence didn't care, "It's a little similar, but it's not the same, this heavy rain is estimated to be about to stop, or in a few days, Murong City should make a comeback, and when the time comes...... Beneath the city is where they are buried. However, Admiral Ben must first determine whether the walls of Jinju City can block the flood. ”

Guo Fei scratched his head and said, "This last general doesn't know." However, if you want to avoid possible accidents, the last general thinks that the people in the city can be moved to Taihang Mountain after the weather is clear. and tamp and heighten the northern ...... of Jinju Fortress"

"The people must move, but if the terrain is increased or something, even if the amount of work is too large, and even if it can be completed, it will not play a big role, and if it is obvious, it will reveal flaws. By the way, Yuhua Pavilion mentioned to me before that there are masters in Murong City's army? What's going on? ”

Guo Fei exhaled and said, "That's true, there should be a think tank in the opposing army." And unlike in the past, this time the think tank doesn't seem to interfere too much in Murong Cheng's military, because Murong Cheng's style hasn't changed much. It's this person who is very good at design, and he has stolen a lot of things from Dajin. For example, trebuchets, such as building pontoon bridges, and even the infantry combat methods in my Great Jin Army, the small three-talented formation, were also learned. ”

Xie Shence thought for a while and said: "This kind of thing is not a very technical thing, and it is not a secret that the Xiaosancai Formation is a small three-talent array, but it is ...... to build a pontoon bridge It's not something that ordinary people can do. How long did it take him? ”

"One night. To be precise, it was prepared for two days, and then set up at night. ”

Xie Shence suddenly smiled and said, "General Guo, did your Northern Army provoke someone who shouldn't be provoked?" ”

Guo Fei was a little confused by Xie Shence's sudden question.

"Offending someone? Weekend...... No, I haven't heard much about it, people who shouldn't be offended, Lord Admiral, to put it mildly, in addition to a few families, there are also the worst people in the Northern Army? ”

When Xie Shence heard Guo Fei's answer, he knew that the other party obviously did not understand the point of his words. The people Xie Shence said that he shouldn't offend are some people with small stomachs and chicken intestines, who have a strong sense of revenge and some real skills, and they must also be people in the army. The reason why I say this is because some of the things that Guo Fei and Yu Huating said about the "masters" taught to the Youzhou Army are unique to the Great Jin Army, and the most obvious point is not even a large long-range attack weapon like a catapult, but a pontoon bridge. This involves hydrogeography, as well as flow velocity measurements, and even water levels, which are particularly difficult to obtain. Don't say it's the work of the fish pond, if you say so, Ti Qi will be able to swing a map of the whole world.

At present, this technology is only in the hands of the military or the Ministry of Industry.

In these years, the construction of bridges and paving roads had to be approved by the government, and the construction was also handled by the government. Even if a large family builds roads, it is only for wages, labor, and technical things, all in the hands of the government. Because such skills are not used in ordinary places, in addition to the government, there are only special talents in the army.

Xie Shence was certain at this time that some craftsmen in the northern army had been taken captive, or had taken refuge in the Yan Kingdom.

It's just that it's still raining, and there's no way to investigate.

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