Having clearly understood Guo Jia's thoughts, Xu Shu returned to Yong'an overnight.

In the early winter morning, the warm morning light is particularly pleasant, and outside Yong'an City, Guo Jia led the energetic soldiers to arrive neatly.

After leading the army into the city, Guo Jia went straight to the military camp in the city.

The military camp is in the east of the city, covers an extremely wide area, there are private houses nearby that are the living places of the soldiers, at this time the military camp is divided into two kinds outside the city and outside the city, obviously the military camp in the city is more comfortable than the facilities outside the city, and the life is convenient.

Because it was still early, there were few pedestrians on the road leading to the barracks, and when they saw Guo Jia's army coming, they all retreated to the side, and the city gate order had already gone to inform Sima Ju, but outside the barracks gate, there was not even a soldier standing guard!

Dressed in a snow-white coat and dismounted and walked into the barracks, Guo Jia found that there was a miasma of black smoke, chaos in the camp, weapons and armor were scattered all over the ground, fences and weapons racks were all over the place, and even wine jars could be found in the school yard where they were practicing.

"You, what are you doing? Any idea what this place is? The barracks are heavy, how can idle people come in casually? I don't want to live anymore! You, you ......"

A soldier came out of the tent rubbing his sleepy eyes, disheveled, and his scabbard empty! pointed at Guo Jia and made a big speech, and then probably saw the appearance of the many people behind Guo Jia, and after his brain cleared up, his tongue was knotted, and he couldn't go on.

"Pull it down, cut it!"

Guo Jia, who had a gloomy face, walked to the school platform, looked down at the entire chaotic military camp, suppressed his anger and closed his eyes, waiting for Sima Ju to arrive.

The soldier who was screaming for mercy was cut off by Xu Chu's guards, pulled the corpse, and carried his head down.

Many of the soldiers who heard the movement ran out of the camp tent, and when they saw Xu Chu and Dian Wei's men pouring into the school yard, the more than 8,000 soldiers who exuded a murderous aura were all stupid and fell into a panic.

"What a mess! What to run! Give me to come out and stand up, whoever runs again, I will cut you with a knife! ”

Xu Chu burst into a shout, and more than a thousand soldiers guarding the camp came to the school yard with their heads drooping, and they couldn't even stand in the most basic array, and gathered together scatteredly.

Since receiving Guo Jia's good news, Sima Ju didn't have much thought, he just felt that the lord's soldiers were strong and strong, and the territory was about to expand again, and the awe of Guo Jia in his heart was a little deeper, but he took this opportunity to set up a banquet and drink and have fun with some soldiers who were born and died, in the name of celebrating the lord's great victory, drinking happily and having fun with the soldiers.

Sima Ju, who was still asleep after a night of hangover, was woken up by the two wives and concubines in his arms, and in a daze learned that it was Guo Jia's army that entered the city, he turned around and was about to continue sleeping, but he woke up suddenly after hearing Guo Jia's army go straight to the barracks, hurriedly put on his clothes, didn't even bother to freshen up, and rode on his horse towards the barracks.

At this time, the Taiping troops in the city all learned that Guo Jia was coming, and they woke up from the houses in the city, hurriedly came to the barracks, and walked to the school yard under the slightly contemptuous eyes of more than 8,000 soldiers of Xu Chu and Dian Wei, and waited for the fate.

As soon as Sima Ju, who dismounted outside the barracks, looked up, he saw a headless corpse outside the barracks, seeing that the clothes were his soldiers, his face was a little ugly in an instant, and he sorted out his mood, Sima Ju stepped into the gate of the barracks, and saw the appearance of Xu Chudianwei's soldiers who were waiting for battle, and his heart chuckled, somehow, Sima Ju suddenly felt that his situation was very bad, but he couldn't figure it out, so he could only go inside.

Perhaps at this time, he also felt that the soldiers under his rule were not in a proper manner, Sima Ju hung his head slightly, and there was a sense of shamelessness in the face of Guo Jia.

Seeing Guo Jia standing on the Shuai platform in a snow-white coat, and the three generals Dian Wei, Xu Chu, and Zhou Tai standing behind him, Sima Ju walked up to the Shuai platform and bowed to Guo Jia, tilted his head and said: "The last general, Sima Ju, visited the lord and dared to ask why the lord suddenly visited the Yongan camp?" And why did he behead the soldiers of the last general for no reason? ”

Sima Ju, who has always valued affection and righteousness, even at this time, has to ask Guo Jia for an explanation, those soldiers under him were born and died with him, and the friendship is extraordinary, and he can't lose his life for no reason.

Guo Jia snorted coldly and asked Sima Ju sharply, "General Sima, is this how you govern the army?" When is alcohol allowed in the barracks? It's almost noon, when are your soldiers going to train? In and out of the barracks, the weapons of the soldiers are nowhere to be found, if there is an enemy attacking, how do you plan to resist the enemy? ”

Sima Ju didn't feel good in his heart, thinking that Guo Jia was playing prestige after winning the battle, and said angrily: "The last general is guilty, this is not to help the lord to defeat Yizhou, the soldiers are tired from the battle, and the last general will let them rest and rest more, so that they will be a little slack in their training recently." ”

This excuse is really convincing! Helping Guo Jia conquer Yizhou is to remind Guo Jia that they are heroes and relax the binding force on the soldiers, which is a reflection of Sima Ju's compassion for the soldiers.

I didn't find it before, but now Guo Jia thinks that Sima Ju is quite anxious, but why is he confused?

At this moment, there was a commotion outside the barracks, and Guo Jia frowned and shouted: "The barracks are important, what's the noise?" ”

Xu Shu, who ran in from outside the barracks, wiped his sweat and came to Guo Jia, and said to Guo Jia in a panic: "Lord, there is a group of ordinary people who insist on breaking into the barracks to meet the lord, but they can't stop it." ”

"Let them in and see what the hell is going on with them."

Guo Jia gave an order, the soldiers guarding the gate of the barracks got out of the way, and a group of ragged people poured in, both men and women, helping the old and the young, rushed to the handsome stage and knelt down to Guo Jia, kept kowtowing, and shouted in mournful voices.

"The general wants to call the shots for us."

"General, please spare us pariahs."

……

Guo Jia, who led himself as the general of the Taiping Army, was naturally a general in the mouths of the people.

Guo Jia frowned, inexplicable, waved his big hand, and shouted: "Silence! What do you see of me? ”

The people in the audience suddenly stopped talking, raised their heads and looked at Guo Jia uneasily, and after everyone looked at each other, in the end, an old man pulled a little girl to stand up, raised his head and said while wiping tears at Guo Jia.

"General, I only have one son, my granddaughter's mother died early, and the family relied on his son to cultivate the land to support our grandchildren, but you forced my son to serve with a conscription order, my son missed my grandparents and grandchildren, and fled home, but was captured by your soldiers, and he fled home for the second time, and your soldiers directly killed him in the field, and now, my nine-year-old granddaughter is going to work in the field with me, but why do you even want to snatch the field where our grandchildren lived? Give us back the land, I beg you to be kind, I am in my early sixties, and I will die if I die, but my nine-year-old granddaughter cannot starve to death with me. ”

Perhaps it was the old man's brave accusation that gave the other people confidence, and they all immediately volunteered to complain, pointing the finger at Guo Jia, the general of the Taiping Army in Yizhou Mansion!

Bullying men and women, ** captivity, forcibly occupying fertile land, seeking money and killing people, one by one, one by one, blood and tears and hatred piled up, Guo Jia was like a thousand arrows piercing his heart, making him clench his fists uncontrollably, his nails pierced into the flesh, and blood droplets slipped down his fingers.

He had never felt so guilty and guilty, even the countless soldiers who had been killed and injured in the attack on Yizhou and Jingzhou did not make him feel a sense of guilt that he could not breathe.

There are victories and defeats in the war, there are casualties among the soldiers, that is an inevitable thing, as a general, as a soldier, when the army goes to the battlefield, you should have the consciousness of the horse leather shroud, death, unavoidable, in the face of war casualties, Guo Jia can blame himself for improper command and decision-making mistakes, but throughout the ages, and even looking at future generations, no general has really done a war without leaving any last resort, and there are no negligence, and the war is lost, and what is learned is lessons and experience, and self-reflection is a process that cannot be ignored for generals after the war.

But these people in front of them who shouted grievances and injustices, and kept asking Guo Jia to let them go, were all innocent, and their tribulations and encounters could be avoided.

Improper use of people, resulting in the oppression and exploitation of the people in power, although this is also a thing that exists in ancient and modern times, but the selection of talents and the ability is something that a wise monarch must do, no matter how virtuous the monarch is, he can not let the people of the whole world live in peace and contentment, but as long as he can make eighty percent, ninety percent of the people live a stable life, it is already regarded as a holy monarch through the ages.

In order to test the talents of Sima Ju and the three of them, Guo Jia released Sima Ju, Xu He, and Zhang Baiqi, who were only considering military deployment at that time, but ignoring people's livelihood and government affairs.

The people are ignorant, oppressed, exploited, and expropriated by local authorities, and they can't tell who is bullying them, and Guo Jia has never issued a conscription order, but the people only think that it is an order from the new ruler of Yizhou, just like Zhang Jiao led Taiping Dao to hold high the banner of righteousness, and kept saying that he wanted to overthrow the emperor of the Han family, they couldn't see what happened to them at all, it was not something that could be solved by changing the emperor, and it was not that Zhang Jiao became the emperor or supported a good emperor they thought could improve the situation of the people in the world.

After Sima Ju arrived in Padang County, he built a new mansion, married more than a dozen wives and concubines, and enjoyed himself in the mansion every day. When others brought the complaint to him, he turned a blind eye and let it go.

Today, it was also the first time he saw and heard the people's tearful accusations, his face was sluggish, like a thunderbolt from the sky, and his mind was blank.

The people under the handsome stage cried loudly, extremely desolate, Guo Jia also shed tears of remorse, looked sideways at Sima Ju beside him, Guo Jia's handsome face showed a little pale, and asked in a cold voice: "General Sima, is this how you govern Badong County?" ”

Sima Ju, who was speechless, had weak legs, and knelt beside Guo Jia in despair, like a child who had done something wrong, and said to Guo Jia with a crying voice: "The lord, the last general, the last general, the last general don't know, this is the first time I have heard of such a horrific tragedy." ”