Datong South Gate, Arrow Tower.

Wang Pu, who had been staying up for two nights, was napping in a daze, when a pleasant voice suddenly sounded in his ears: "The little maid was ordered by his wife to come to the army to wait for the general." ”

Wang Pu turned around when he heard the sound, and saw that the young lady was already standing in front of him.

This little girl has been practicing martial arts since she was a child, so her body developed relatively early, although she has just turned fifteen years old, her figure has grown very tall, and the white uniform she wears on her body is like a tailor-made for her, showing her sassy and heroic posture, but the two bulging balls on her chest are gone, and it seems that this little girl is wrapped up with a cloth belt.

Seeing Wang Pu looking at his chest vigorously, the young lady Bai Shengsheng's pretty face couldn't help but blush with shame, and she whispered: "General." ”

"Ugh." Wang Pu came back to his senses, quickly avoided his eyes, and said without words, "That young girl, you look good in this military uniform, who made it for you?" ”

"The little maid made it herself, is it really good-looking?" Hearing Wang Pu's exaggeration, the young lady immediately showed a hint of joy on her little face, twisted her waist and turned around lightly in front of Wang Pu, and then turned to stand behind Wang Pu, straightened up her delicate body and said diligently, "General, does the little maid look like one of your personal guards now?" ”

"Well, it's like." Wang Pu nodded and said, "But you are now a man, you can no longer call yourself a little maid, and the name of the young lady must be changed." ”

The young lady spit out her cute little tongue and said in a coquettish voice: "Then the general will give the little one a name, right?" ”

Wang Pu thought for a while and said: "Nenniang, your light skills are good, your body is as light as a swallow, just like being able to fly, it is better to call it Feiyan." ”

The young lady frowned lightly and said, "But the name Feiyan still sounds like a girl?" ”

Wang Pu smiled and said, "Then turn it upside down and call Yan Fei, how about it?" ”

"Yan Fei?" When the young lady heard this, she said happily, "Hehe, this name is good, and the little maid will be called Yan Fei in the future." ”

"General, it's not good." The young girl's voice fell, Lu Liu suddenly walked in, and when he saw the young lady who was dressed in a garnish, he was obviously stunned for a moment, and instinctively reached out to draw the knife at his waist, but he quickly recognized the young lady and exclaimed, "The young lady is you?" What are you doing here, little girl? ”

Nenniang wrinkled her cute little nose, and said in a coquettish voice: "Sixth brother, from today onwards, the younger brother will be the general's personal guard, and he will no longer be called Nenniang, the younger brother is now called Yan Fei, and it is the name that the general just gave." ”

"Yan Fei?" Lu Liu shook his head, turned his head to Wang Pu and said, "General, something happened." ”

Wang Pu asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Lu Liu said: "Just now Ximen came to report, and this morning tens of thousands of refugees suddenly appeared outside the city, all kneeling outside crying and shouting to flee into the city. ”

Wang Pu's heart immediately tightened, and he asked, "Where did tens of thousands of refugees come from?" ”

"I don't know." Lu Liu shook his head and said, "However, most of these people fled from the northwest direction, so the villain is estimated to be caused by the defenders of the guards, offices, and forts over there!" Because the thieves had just arrived in Datong, they had no time to go to the northwestern counties to plague the people. ”

The defense system of Datong Town was set up for the Mongols in the northwest, and all the guards, stations, and forts were also distributed in the narrow area along the Great Wall in the northwest, so it was already clear that it was only the border army there who robbed the people, not the thieves.

"These brutes!" Wang Pu took the case and said angrily, "General Ben can't spare them!" ”

At this time, Zhao Xin, Scarface, and Bearded also rushed to hear the news.

Before the scarface man entered the door, he shouted loudly: "General, do you want to save these tens of thousands of people or not?" ”

"Of course I saved." The bearded man next to him said, "How can there be a reason in this world that you can't be saved when you see death?" ”

Zhao Xin was the last to come in and said in a deep voice: "But who can guarantee that there are no thieves among these people?" If the thieves were allowed to sneak into the city, wouldn't that make more people suffer? General, if you think that you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, and you can't open the city gate at this time. ”

Zhao Xin's words are not unreasonable, if the thieves really get into the city and take advantage of the chaos to open the city gate, then the matter will be troublesome, even if the official army can defeat the thieves in the end, it is bound to suffer heavy losses, after all, there are more than 100,000 thieves outside the city, even if you fight one out of ten, it is enough to fight all the officials and troops in the city.

Wang Pu pondered for a moment and asked, "What about Wei Daben?" ”

Lu Liudao: "Lord Wei has already rushed to the West Gate. ”

"Let's go." Wang Pu turned back to Zhao Xin and the others, "Let's also go to Ximen." ”

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Datong West Gate.

Wei Daben was standing on the tower of the city, shouting loudly to the people outside the city: "Fathers and fellow villagers, go back, go back quickly, the thieves are about to be killed, and you will die......"

However, the mourning people outside the city could not hear his shouts at all, and still knelt on the ground and prostrated their heads, begging the defenders on the tower to open the city gate and let them in.

"Your Excellency." One of the fellow intellectuals dejected, "They can't hear you at all. ”

"Ugh." Wei Daben lamented, "How is this good? How's that good? ”

"Look, sir!" Another general judge suddenly exclaimed, "It seems to be a thief, the thief has been killed!" ”

"Ahh The thieves have been killed? ”

Wei Daben was taken aback when he heard this, and when he looked up hurriedly, he saw that a large group of people and horses had rushed over from the south, and the people crowded outside the west gate immediately became confused and fled in all directions, but soon, the people's confusion subsided, because the team of people and horses did not show their weapons to chase and kill them.

What people didn't expect was that the team actually set up dozens of marching cauldrons outside the west gate, put rice and water in the pot, and then raised the fire and began to cook the porridge, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the fragrance of the porridge began to spread, and the people who were scattered around were attracted back by the fragrance of the porridge.

On the tower of the city, the fellow knew and said, "Big ...... My lord, this ...... What's going on? ”

Another judge also said incredulously: "My lord, the thief seems to be giving porridge, this ...... Xia Guan didn't look dazzled, right? ”

Wei Daben's eyes widened in surprise, his face was full of disbelief, the thieves had always been like a beast in the eyes of these Ming officials, didn't they just burn and loot for a living? But now, they are actually outside the city to give porridge to the fleeing people?

There are strange things every year, not as many as this year, and it seems that giving porridge to the fleeing people should be the job of the government, why did the thieves also do this? This official army is not like an official army, and a thief is not like a thief, so isn't it all messed up?

At this time, Wang Pu also arrived with a bearded man.

Wei Daben hurriedly led the officials of Datong Mansion to rush forward to greet him, Wang Pu stopped everyone from saluting, and said loudly: "Lord Wei, well done, well done!" I didn't expect you to be so neat in your work, so quickly you sent people to set up a porridge shack outside the city and start giving porridge to the fleeing people, haha. ”

"Master Pony." Wei Daben couldn't help but have a trace of embarrassment on his face, and said sneeringly, "This porridge shack outside the city was not set up by the lower officials. ”

"Huh?" Wang Pu was stunned and said, "Didn't you send someone to set it up, Lord Wei?" Whose porridge shack was that? ”

Wei Daben lowered his head and said weakly: "It seems to be ...... It looks like a porridge shed set up by thieves. ”

"What! A porridge shed set up by a thief? Wang Pu was taken aback at first when he heard this, and then a trace of understanding flashed across his face, and he whispered to himself, "Li Yan, worthy of Li Yan!" ”

"Master Pony." Wei Daben whispered, "What should we do now?" ”

Wang Pu thought for a while and said: "Since the thieves have set up a porridge shed outside the city, then we don't have to join in the fun, but after all, these people outside the city are the people of Datong Mansion and the people of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Wei Daben said: "The meaning of the horse master is ......"

Wang Pu said: "Lord Wei, you immediately take the servants to the treasury to pick up a hundred stones of rice, and throw it down from the city tower, if this porridge shed outside the city is not withdrawn for a day, Lord Wei will throw a hundred stones of grain down every day, in short, this porridge shed can be set up by thieves, and this porridge can also be given by them, but this rice ...... It has to be up to our Daming Mansion! ”

"Xiaguan understands!" Wei Daben's face couldn't help but flush, and he couldn't help but give a thumbs up and praised, "High, really high!" No, the ghost is the master of the horse, the lower officials admire, admire! ”

Several fellow intellectuals and judges behind Wei Da himself were in a fog, and they couldn't understand why Wang Pu was so clever in doing this? He also threw a hundred stones of grain down every day, but the grain was from the government, but the hearts of the people were bought by the thieves, and the transaction was a big loss.

"What are you doing?" Wei Daben turned around and shouted, "Don't go with this official yet." ”

"Yes."

A group of officials of Datong Mansion responded and followed Wei Daben.

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Outside Datong City, Li Yan is in the tent.

As soon as Jing Maocheng entered the account, Li Hu and Li Xuan greeted him, and couldn't wait to ask, "Old Jing, how are things?" ”

Jing Maocheng took a breath and said to Li Yan: "Dashuai, the porridge shed has been erected, and all the fifty stone rice has been boiled into porridge and distributed, and things are going well." ”

Li Hu said in disbelief: "The officials and soldiers in the city didn't take the opportunity to kill them?" ”

"Nope." Jing Maocheng shook his head and said, "The officials and soldiers in the city not only did not take the opportunity to kill them, but also threw a hundred stones of rice from the city, and the last general also let the brothers cook porridge and give it to the fleeing people outside the city, but those people were very hateful, so they thanked the officials in the city, and did not thank us at all. ”

"What?" Li Hu said angrily, "These things that don't know what to do, eating our porridge actually thanks to the favor of the official mansion?" I'm so angry, I'm going to take people to tear down the porridge shed, and let them drink the northwest wind one by one, hum! ”

"Don't come nonsense." Li Yan drank Li Hu and said indifferently, "The main purpose of our porridge shed is to save people, and to buy people's hearts is secondary, although now the government has a good reputation, but anyway, the tens of thousands of people outside the city finally have something to eat, and they don't have to starve anymore, so Ben Shuai feels better." ”

The red lady's apricot eyes widened, and she gritted her teeth and said angrily: "This must be Wang Puxiang's trick again, this dog official is really insidious, we did the work, but the good man let him do it!" ”

"No, you're wrong, lady." Li Yan shook his head and said indifferently, "Wang Pu may be very cunning, but he can't get a good deal out of this matter, through this incident, I think I already know him a little, he is different from other Ming officials, he is the second Ming official I have met who has the people in his heart." ”

"Xianggong." The red lady was stunned and said, "You seem to appreciate him?" ”

"Yes." Li Yan nodded and said, "I appreciate him a little now, because if I change to another Ming official, I will never do what he does!" ”

"Why?" Li Hu was puzzled, "Didn't Wang Pu have a good reputation by doing this?" ”

"What good reputation?" Li Yan said disapprerovingly, "The good reputation belongs to Datong Mansion, the imperial court, and the dog emperor, but it is not his Wang Pu's, and what falls on his Wang Pu's head can only be the reputation of killing his head!" Tens of thousands of people outside the city may be grateful to him, but the imperial historian in the court will never let him go, because the rice he produces is distributed through the porridge shed of our righteous army, which means that he and our righteous army are complicit in the matter of soup kitchen! ”

"Huh?" The red lady lost her voice and said, "This is a felony of the Nine Clans." ”

"That's why ......," Li Yan put his hands behind his back and said leisurely, "I just said that Wang Pu is different from other Ming officials, he really has the people in his heart." ”

"Then ......" the red lady blinked her beautiful eyes, and suddenly asked, "Who is the other good official in the mouth of the prime minister?" ”

"Another good official is the governor of Shaanxi three years ago, he is ......" Li Yan said this, his eyes suddenly turned to the outside of the tent, looking at the vast sky in the east, and said leisurely, "Sun Chuanting!" ”

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(To be continued)