As soon as the hussars arrived at the front line of Tongguan, they accidentally broke the Qin army's grain robbery ambush, and made great contributions as soon as they were included in the forward system, which made them very popular with the officers and soldiers of the forward. In war, the more brave and good fighters the better.

But when it comes to eating, the less mouths the better.

Although Guo Xu brought 300 carts of grain, and it was a mountain when piled up, after counting the soldiers in front of him, the mountain was empty, and this bit of food was only enough to eat two or three full meals.

In fact, there is no such thing as a full meal. The army withheld a portion of the food, waiting for the final blow to give the three armies a full meal. At present, the two armies of Qin and Jin are only facing each other, so the rations of the Jin army are limited, and each person can only ensure that they are six or seven full. Cherish the blessings and be full of seventy percent of every meal, the old men who are not diligent can maintain their health in this way, but the soldiers who train and work in large quantities every day cannot.

As soon as Liu Yu's army arrived, food was no longer a problem, but it would take some days for his fleet to arrive, and after a period of continuous supply from Luoyang, it was now also green and yellow, and the grain transportation by water was dying.

Even if it is an iron-clad army, it can't stand up to starvation, the army collapses without food, and the double collapse of spirit and body is something that no genius general can stop.

You can't stop training, you can't stop patrolling, you can't stop challenging the Qin army, because once these are gone, the enemy with a keen sense of smell will naturally think of the lack of food for the Jin army.

When he came back from the exercise in the morning, Guo Xu led the horse to the blacksmith of the army, and wanted to make a pair of horseshoes to change the mount in. Just after a few strokes of the hammer, the herald came over and said that General Wang Zhen called you over.

Wang Zhen is evil, like thunder.

Guo Xu had heard of him when he was not in the army.

Wang Zhenxi's grandfather was Wang Meng, the former prime minister of Qin, who was famous for his name. With him, Fu Jian is thriving and dominates the north; Without him, Fu Jianjiang was in decline and finally defeated.

Wang Zhenwei was born on the fifth day of the fifth month of the first year of Ningkang. This day is unlucky, it is said that Ke Father. The father, Wang Xiu, wanted to send the child out so that he would not harm the family. But Wang Meng looked at this grandson and felt that he had a strange appearance, not only would he not hinder the family, but he would also be able to open the court. Besides, in history, Meng Weijun Tianwen was born on May 5, isn't it also well-known and rich in his life?

As soon as Wang Meng expressed his position, the child stayed. But stay and stay, and the taboo can't be ignored. Wang Meng gave his grandson a ruthless name - "Suppressing Evil" in order to deter monsters and avoid evil.

When Wang Zhenwei was 13 years old, Fu Qin was defeated, and he first sent food to Li Fang's house in Mianchi, and later followed his uncle Wang Yao to the Eastern Jin Dynasty. During Liu Yu's first Northern Expedition, someone recommended Wang Zhenwei to him. After a conversation, Liu Yu said to his subordinates that it seems that he is really a general, and Wang Jingluo's grandson is not an ordinary person.

This man is full of the art of war and is not good at fighting on horseback, but perhaps in order to reverse people's impression, after he joined the army, he must take the lead in every battle and fight hard. When Liu Yi's rebels were recruited, two lances were broken one after another, and everyone in the army was impressed. After that, he began to slowly show his strategy. Fighting with him, he was invincible, and he had fewer casualties and more military achievements. Over time, there was a slip of the tongue:

To eat meat, you have to eat roast fat goose,

To drink wine, drink the old pot,

If you marry a wife, you will marry a woman from Wu Xing,

In war, you must fight evil with the king.

The officers and men of the hussars had not fought with Wang Zhenwei, but they all knew the prestige of this man. After Guo Xu arrived at the front line, he only saw him twice, both of them were officers above the team leader to discuss the military situation, and he had the impression that this person did not talk much, but as soon as he said it, he hit the nail on the head. It was the first time that I had been summoned alone.

Wang Zhenwei did not wear armor, and wore a light coat. Seeing Guo Xu, he smiled and nodded:

"Team Leader Guo has been hungry these days."

Guo Xu touched his belly innocently, saying that it was just not full enough, and he was not hungry.

Wang Zhenwei said that he called you here today to ask you to carry grain with me.

Guo Xu was stunned.

No food has arrived for several days.

Wang Zhenwei didn't explain, saying that you choose some soldiers with a kind face, and we will set off.

Do you want to prepare a vehicle?

No!

Guo Xu set off with a stomach full of doubts and a hundred soldiers, and followed Wang Zhenxi.

More than 100 horsemen rode to the southeast, out of Yaoqin Jingzhao County, and entered the boundary of Hongnong County. There were no Yao Qin officials here, and the officials sent from Jiangdong had not yet arrived, but the gentry organized themselves spontaneously, and it was not chaotic.

The next morning, when they arrived at the border of Mianchi County, the group slowed down the horse's hooves, slowly passed through the market, and stopped in front of a tall and spacious restaurant. Previously, the brigade passed through Michi Shiqiu without committing any crimes, staying on the streets at night, and no one broke into people's houses, harassed women, or robbed people's property, and the local people were very satisfied. Now seeing the Jin army horse team passing through, people should do what they should do, and the market is still prosperous.

When the former Qin was defeated, Wang Zhenwei was only 13 years old, and in order to escape the pursuit of the Xianbei Murong clan and the Qiang Yao clan, he once lived in the Li Fang family in Michi for several years. Now that I am revisiting the old place, the situation of the country being broken and scattered has come to mind again. There was talk and laughter, but suddenly there was silence. After a while, I realized that Guo Xu was a little embarrassed, so I calmed down and mediated the atmosphere:

"Guo Xu, have you heard of this place?"

Guo Xu said he hadn't heard of it.

Have you heard the story of Lian Po Lin and his peace?

Guo Xu said that he had heard this from the older generation.

Wang Zhenwei said that after the two became friends of life and death, their cooperation has always been very tacit. Once again, the king of Qin and the king of Zhao met in Michi, the king of Qin deliberately insulted the king of Zhao and asked the king of Zhao to give him a drum, and the king of Zhao had no choice but to flick two fingers at will, and the historian of the Qin state wrote it down, saying that the king of Zhao gave the king of Qin a drum. Lin Xiangru naturally couldn't tolerate the humiliation of the monarch, so he picked up a crockpot and asked the king of Qin to hit him, but the king of Qin refused, Lin Xiangru said If you don't want to, I will hit you on the head with this crockpot, and your guards won't have time to save you. King Qin had no choice but to knock it, and Lin Xiangru asked the historian of Zhao to also make a note, saying that King Qin had beaten King Zhao. The people of Qin suffered a loss and were not reconciled, and the accompanying ministers said that they would ask King Zhao to take fifteen cities as gifts to King Qin, and Lin Xiangru immediately said that he would ask Qin to take Xianyang and give King Zhao as gifts. In short, in front of the gong and drum, and the tip of the needle against the wheat mang, the people of the Qin State did not take advantage of it. The Qin State originally wanted to kidnap the King of Zhao and coerce the Zhao State, but when he learned that Lian Po led a heavy army to wait for him, he finally gave up. Michi was originally a small place, but after this dispute between Qin and Zhao, it has left a name in history.

Guo Xu imagined this scene in history and admired Lin Xiangru's courage very much. Just as we were about to ask why we came here, Wang Zhenwei had already spoken:

"You went to the people's houses separately and asked where a man named Li Fang lives now? Guo Xu, you come upstairs with me. ”

The two of them sat down by the window on the third floor, ordered a few dishes, and asked for local pasta. The guy was about to turn around and go to Zhang Luo, but was stopped by Wang Zhenvic.

"I'm sorry for your master to come here."

A moment ago, a middle-aged man went upstairs with a smile on his face. The sky has just changed, the officials of the Qin State have run out, the officials of the Jin Dynasty have not yet come, there are no high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and the restaurant business is very disgraceful for a while. He thought that Wang Zhenevil was the new county order sent by the Jin Dynasty to perform his duties, and he wanted to curry favor with him, and the whole person completed a lobster:

"I don't think the dishes ordered by the adults are the best signature dishes in our restaurant, do you want the villain to arrange them for the adults? Adults saddle horses are tired, this meal does not need an adult copper plate, even if the villain represents the people of Michi to the adults to pick up the wind. ”

Guo Xu felt goosebumps all over his body. He has been in the army for a long time, and he has never seen such a fleshy man.

Wang Zhenwei smiled:

"The treat is free, I invited you here because I want you to help me invite all the gentry of this county to the restaurant. You don't need to do anything else, just prepare a cup of tea for no one. ”

The restaurant owner went down with obvious bewilderment.

After Wang and Guo finished eating, the man cleaned up the table and brought a pot of hot tea. At this time, the sound of footsteps was remembered on the stairs. The well-dressed men went upstairs in twos and threes, carefully greeted the two officers, and each found a place to sit. After the third floor was full, the owner of the restaurant came over and said that except for those who were sick and couldn't move and went out, the local people with heads and faces were all here.

Wang Zhenwei stood up and bowed to everyone:

"Folks, don't come unharmed!"

Everyone was in a bit of a daze.

Wang Zhenwei took refuge in Mianchi back then, and few people knew about it, not to mention a face that was not confused and had been polished by his career as a horseman, and it was far from the face of a thirteen-year-old boy back then.

"The contemptible king is evil, and he lived in Michi for a few years when he was a child. Later, he went to Jiangdong, and now he has returned to his hometown with Taiwei's Northern Expedition. ”

The gentry nodded politely. It's just the story of a stranger returning home.

"The reason why I was in Michi back then was because Fu Jian was defeated in Weishui and the country perished."

The middle-aged and older gentry experienced the rise and fall of Fu Qin, and they couldn't help but sigh so far.

"My family was originally in Chang'an, my grandfather was deeply loved by the government and the people, after this world changed, he was suddenly hunted down, the whole family fled in the chaos, I was left here alone, and it took several years to find my uncle and follow him to Jiangdong."

"My grandfather was deeply loved by the government and the people", this sentence aroused the curiosity of many people. In such a troubled era, the strong gather to attack, the weak turn to the ravine, the common people are like mustard, and the officials are as fierce as tigers and wolves.

And all the people pricked up their ears.

Wang Zhenwei sighed, was silent for a short while, and said word by word.

"Presumably everyone has heard of the ancestor, he is the former Great Qin Emperor Fu Jian's most relied on confidant and old minister - Wang Meng!"

It was as if a gust of wind was blowing across the calm water, and the whole building was repeating the name.

Wang Meng!

Prime Minister Wang!

He is the grandson of Prime Minister Wang?

Thank God, Prime Minister Wang Cheng still has descendants!

When Fu Jian was in power, he listened to Wang Mengjian many times, exempted the people's taxes, and made every effort to provide relief in case of natural disasters, so that the people of the Central Plains and Guanzhong, who had suffered from war, were able to breathe and recover. In the past, the kings of various countries liked to buy people's hearts by issuing amnesty decrees, but what benefited from it was the great treacherous and cunning, and the scourge was the ordinary people. Wang Meng rarely pats people on the back and says something nice, and he never promises lightly. In his lifetime, he never issued a pardon. Whoever violates the law, whether it is the powerful or the common people, will commit whatever crime should be committed, and will neither pervert the law and indulge in it, nor deliberately fabricate it. During his tenure, although the Qin State did not dare to say that the road was not left behind and the door was not closed at night, at least the common people were not afraid of being bullied by the powerful and strong, and they were not fished by the officials, and the banks of the Yellow River could be called Yanran. At that time, the Wang Xie clan of Jiangdong, although they despised Shaì Fujian, admired Wang Meng, and privately called Zhuge Liang alive.

Wang Meng's first-class character, once in five hundred years, he will leave his love in the people, and there are his ancestral temples everywhere in the north, and the people are worried. Especially after the disintegration of Fu Qin, the various ethnic groups in the north were in dispute, the soldiers were violent in war, and the officials were unscrupulous in peace, and people missed the peaceful scene when Wang Meng was in power.

At this moment, I heard that Wang Meng's grandson was standing in front of him, and the tears of the older gentry fell. People no longer sat there in a restrained manner, but flocked to Wang Zhenwei's side, took his hand, and carefully examined his face, as if they wanted to find the prime minister Wang Cheng, who had passed away for many years, from him.

Although Guo Xu didn't understand the affection of the locals, he was infected by the atmosphere in front of him, and his eyes were moist.

At this moment, a man with a crying voice shouted while going upstairs:

"Is it really the suppression of evil? Suppress evil! Suppress evil! ”

Wang Zhenwei turned around and saw an old man coming up on crutches, supported by two hussar soldiers on both sides.

Wang Zhen pounced and knelt under the old man's knees:

"Uncle, I'm Wang Zhenxi!"

The old man bent over and groped his evil face in a panic, but his face was turned to the side.

Only then did Wang Zhenwei realize that Li Fang, who had taken him in back then, was blind.

A few years ago, Li Fang offended the relatives of the magistrate of Michi, and was arrested on fabricated charges, and his family sold his family property to open up the joint in order to buy his life, and finally survived, but he still spent several years in prison. By the time he finally got out of prison, his wife had died of illness, and his two children, one in the army, died under the knife of Rouran, and the other did not know where to go. He suffered from an eye disease that he had no money to treat, and eventually lost his sight in both eyes. When the hussars found him, he was taking a nap in a ruined local temple.

Wang Zhen cried and carried Li Fang to the Hu bed and sat down, asked for two basins of water, personally washed Li Fang's face and feet, and fed him in person. The gentry gathered around, all of them weeping sadly.

The eldest stood up and bowed:

"Since the general is a descendant of Prime Minister Wang Cheng and has taken refuge in Michi, he is not an outsider. Now that the war is urgent, the general personally came to Mianchi in his busy schedule, presumably not just to find Mr. Li Fang. If there is anything we need to do, please say it bluntly. Although Michi is small, it is also willing to do its best for the Great Jin Dynasty to recover the lost land! ”

Wang Zhenwei stretched out his hand to wipe away his tears and bowed his hand to everyone:

"Although he is dull and not talented, he was fortunate to be taught by the ancestors in his early years, and he knows that as an official and a general, he must be people-oriented and not disturb the people. But today's situation is urgent, and I have to turn to my seniors and fellow villagers for help. Otherwise, the Northern Expedition may fall short, and our king may die without a place to bury. ”

The crowd shouted one after another:

"General, say it quickly, you're welcome!"

"Say, don't beat around the bush!"

Wang Zhen paused evilly:

"I want to borrow grain from Hongnong folks!"