The death squad is the first ten platoons in the vanguard of the army.

Together, these people were the first to charge.

The two armies are facing each other, and they are all fully prepared, and whoever rushes over first will have the greatest probability of death.

Hou Yong chose this way, obviously wanting to pay the price for his mistakes.

Gu Sheng didn't want to satisfy him.

Hou Yong saw Gu Sheng leave without looking back, and was busy kowtowing.

Yuan Bao'er walked slowly, and when she saw that his forehead was broken, she couldn't help but feel compassion.

When she returned to the main account, she whispered, "Why don't you give him a chance?" ”

Gu Sheng sneered, "He is bent on family affection for me, and he cares about the lives of his brothers, he wants to forgive his sins, but I don't want to." ”

"I'm going to let him spend his whole life in remorse and guilt, so that his life is worse than death."

"Gu Sheng," Yuan Bao'er shouted disapprovingly.

"That's his sister, he can't just let it go, and he also has remorse, otherwise he wouldn't have been caught and came back."

"You also saw the people in the tent just now, they can be there, they must have a lot to do with Hou Yong, if they really deal with him severely, I am worried that they have ideas in their hearts, which is not conducive to the war."

Gu Sheng furrowed his brows and asked not very good-looking: "Are you suggesting as a prisoner?" ”

Yuan Bao'er immediately knew that he was unhappy.

She lowered her head in a very supple manner.

This is the special gesture of Yuan Baoer to make peace when the two quarrel.

Gu Sheng silently opened his eyes, and sat behind the desk to read the official documents.

Yuan Baoer went to the compartment to make tea soup.

Gu Sheng seemed to be fascinated by it, and he didn't even look at it.

Yuan Bao'er waited for a while, but obediently sent it over.

Gu Sheng took it very coldly and put it at hand, but he didn't drink it.

Yuan Bao'er was helpless, "I was wrong, and I will never interfere in your military affairs in the future." ”

Gu Sheng turned his head and said very seriously: "This matter is related to all the sons and daughters here, and it is by no means child's play." ”

"I know, do you think that although Hou made a big mistake, but there is a reason for it, and you know that you are wrong, you should be given a chance to make meritorious contributions."

"But it's not a trivial matter for him to make a mistake, the Min family has been oscillating between the court and the rebels, and he is still not in close contact with the right side."

"Once they have evil thoughts in their hearts, it is our sons and daughters who will be hurt."

"They also have parents and relatives, don't they miss it?"

"If I forgive Hou Yong like this, how will I face the brothers who were killed or injured because of the Min family or Hou Xiaomei in the future?"

"If everyone sees Hou Yong being forgiven and follows the example, how can I lead the army?"

Yuan Baoer was speechless when asked, she knew that he was right, but she was unreasonable.

She said with some emotion: "It is said that mercy is not in charge of the army, this is really a wise saying." ”

She is too soft-hearted, and she can't always be ruthless and do anything to her brother.

So she can't be in charge of the army properly.

It is also thanks to the fact that back then, the soldiers under her were capable, and each of them took over a stall and helped her take care of everything in the army clearly.

Gu Sheng couldn't help but smile when he saw her deep feelings.

"You weren't good at these things in the first place, if it weren't for the fact that Your Majesty was really short of people, he wouldn't want you to be on top."

Yuan Bao'er nodded.

Her specialty is in crops, which makes it much easier for her to study how to increase her yield per acre than to lead an army on a campaign.

"You don't care about these things, stay well, if you feel annoyed, go down and go around," Gu Sheng said with a smile.

Yuan Baoer was also a little interested.

The climate and humidity of the land in the south and the north are not compatible, and Yuan Baoer has always wanted the crops in the north to be like the south side, even if it can't reach two crops a year, at least one crop can be higher.

The land in the north is wider than that in the south, and as long as the yield increases, only one crop is enough to feed most of the people.

The next day, Yuan Baoer was ready to go to the non-war zone in high spirits.

Just as he was about to go out, he saw a small group of soldiers following him.

"My lord," the visitor arched his hand and stood in an orderly manner.

Yuan Bao'er knew at a glance that it was Gu Sheng's idea.

"I don't need anyone to follow, you stay," she said, waving her hand and heading straight outside.

"My lord," the soldier moved quickly, stopping her at once.

"Your Excellency, we have been ordered to protect you, and you must not leave us behind."

Yuan Bao'er is not used to playing official power, she has always been easy-going in the barracks, and the soldiers are familiar with her, and they are more or less casual in their actions.

Yuan Bao'er glared at the soldiers who were stopping her, "What are you doing?" Still trying to stop me? ”

The soldiers were too busy to stand with their hands tied, not daring to make a mistake.

Yuan Bao'er snorted and walked out of the camp.

He was followed by a long line of soldiers.

They didn't dare to follow too closely, nor did they dare to go too far, so they were half a foot away, but they didn't come up.

Yuan Bao'er goes, they go, Yuan Bao'er stops, they also stop.

After such a stalemate, Yuan Baoer compromised.

She called the crowd and said, "Leave one person behind, and everyone else will disperse." ”

Everyone wanted to say more, but Yuan Bao'er straightened her face, "Otherwise, don't follow any of them, even if you adults come, see what he says." ”

When it came to this, everyone looked at each other and didn't dare to insist.

The captain at the head stepped forward.

"I'll go with you," he cried out, "go back and get back to your lives." ”

Everyone was afraid of angering Yuan Baoer again, so they didn't dare to say more, and left one after another.

The captain stepped forward, "Your Excellency." ”

Yuan Bao'er nodded, turned her head and walked out.

The captain hurried after him.

"My lord, I know you all about where you are going," he said very carefully.

Yuan Bao'er just came out to walk around at random, and when she saw where it was, she was also interested when she heard the captain say, "Which side is richer around?" ”

"East," the captain pointed in one direction at once.

Yuan Bao'er looked at him with some surprise.

The captain smiled embarrassedly, "Before, the brothers had little food in their stomachs, and the adults ordered us to go over there and ask well-wishers to donate. ”

Yuan Bao'er nodded seriously, but he was hehe.

Just these people, please please, if you don't put a knife on someone's neck and ask for money and food, that's all polite.

"You don't have to go to the city, you can go to the surrounding villages."

Yuan Bao'er's purpose is crops, crops in the south are planted all year round, Yuan Bao'er wants to find local experienced farmers to ask for advice.

The captain thought for a while, and finally remembered that on the way back, he seemed to have passed a few Zhuangzi.

"There are also over there, there are quite a few, but the road is a little far, I'm going to set you a car?"

Yuan Bao'er nodded.

She had wanted to walk around the neighborhood, but since someone knew the way, even if it was far away, it was much better than her wandering around.

The captain trotted back to the barracks, and soon drove out.

I have to say that this person is very eye-catching, and when he saw Yuan Baoer dressed in coarse linen, he did a dilapidated flatbed.

Yuan Bao'er looked at a tablet with a hole in it, and sighed in her heart.

The captain saw Yuan Bao'er look at it so carefully, for fear that he would be wrong, after all, this car was too simple.

"The people here are very nervous because of the war, and this car is used to pulling grain here."

"I thought, rush this, they won't be wary."

Yuan Bao'er nodded, "You did the right thing." ”

She kicked the wheels and jumped onto the board, and the captain saw her sitting cross-legged neatly, as if he didn't mind at all, so he jumped on the wheel and drove the car up.

The place the captain said was indeed not close, even if he was in the car, he did it for nearly an hour.

After getting out of the car, Yuan Baoer's buttocks and legs were sore.

Yuan Bao'er stomped on the ground a few times, feeling better, and then slipped into the ditch and looked slowly.

There are many kinds of rice in the south, and the seedlings have just been drawn at this time, facing the morning sun, swaying lightly with the wind.

"My lord," the captain called out in a low voice, gesturing to the bow in the distance.

A man rises from the field.

The man wore a hat on his head, and his hands and neck were heavily black-brown, and he looked like a veteran of farming.

"Uncle," Yuan Bao'er slipped down the ditch and leaned over to him carefully.

The captain also wanted to follow, but was stopped by Yuan Baoer.

The captain knew that she was afraid that she would trample on the ground and anger others, so she stood on it honestly.

"Uncle, I'll ask you," Yuan Bao'er smiled over.

The old man raised his head, and saw that Yuan Bao'er looked white and clean, and his clothes were smooth, and he looked like a lady from a good family, so he lifted his hat, revealing a black-brown, wrinkled face.

"Where?"

"How to get to Dongzhuang?"

Yuan Bao'er's accent was obviously out of town, and the old man measured her for a while before pointing to the silhouette of the shadowy room in front of him, "That's over there." ”

The old man spoke with a thick accent, and Yuan Baoer could only guess from his gestures and his expression.

The old man saw that Yuan Bao'er was confused, so he wiped his hands and went out.

Yuan Bao'er subconsciously followed, and the old man said, "Where are you looking for whom?" ”

Yuan Bao'er casually said the place mentioned by the captain, where do you know who is there.

So she pretended she didn't understand anything.

On the contrary, the captain understood, and he stepped forward and looked at the two with dripping eyes.

The old man immediately looked at the captain, looking very vigilant.

"This is my brother," Yuan Bao'er said, "I'll come here to look for relatives." ”

The old man looked at the captain, and the captain smiled at the old man.

"Where are you looking?"

"Looking for the surname Zhou," the captain replied immediately.

Such a fast speed, obviously not temporary, the old man thought about it, there is indeed a family surnamed Zhou in the village.

"Zhou Yanzi's family," the old man said.

The captain smiled embarrassedly, "yes, that's our distant cousin." ”

The old man nodded, and then looked at the captain's clothes, all of them were upright and clean, not like escaping from the famine, and then went to the village.

Yuan Bao'er measured in all directions, asked in the east, and asked in the west.

The old man thought that she was curious about this place, thinking that they were all relatives in the same village, and the answers to her questions were quite detailed.

Yuan Bao'er kept his words in his heart one by one, as if he said casually: "Why don't you focus on wheat and millet?" ”

"That can't be planted," the old man said, "That thing can't be raised well here, and if it is planted, it won't be enough at home next year." ”

The crops of Great Xia all have to be paid for the fields, and Brother Yuan has also tried to reduce taxes in the past two years, but there are obstacles between the left and right, and the implementation is not smooth.

Excessive taxation has increased the burden on the people, even in the rich south, not to mention in the north, where the income has always been unable to catch up with the south.

However, this matter cannot be solved in the short term, Yuan Baoer bypassed this topic and talked about the varieties of seeds.

The rice here is unique to the area, and when ripe, the rice is pale green.

However, this kind of rice is very demanding, and many of them cannot reach the color desired by the nobles after maturity, and those that cannot be reached can only be sold as ordinary rice, or only kept.

Some of those who can be reached are kept for planting, and the rest is sold, and the money obtained is used to pay for the family's expenses.

"Then you can have some surplus at home in a year, right?"

Yuan Bao'er knew that the rice was called Bi Terrier, and the price was very expensive, and he could buy ten taels of silver and a half bucket in Kyoto.

You know, even in Kyoto, the price of rice is only 10 copper coins.

Such a price is already sky-high.

The old farmer shook his head with a wry smile when he heard this, "If you can collect ten buckets, you can also add some new clothes to the children in the family when you are young." ”

Yuan Bao'er's expression changed slightly.

The old farmer said that a qualified blue stalk may not be able to produce a bucket in an acre, so that a dozen acres of land may be able to make the family a little richer.

Thinking about the sky-high prices in Kyoto, her face was a little ugly.

"Who took that rice?"

"The big man in town," said the old peasant, who knew who those people were, and in his capacity he was just a servant.

Yuan Bao'er glanced at the captain, and then asked how the security and county orders were here.

The old man was suddenly alert.

"Who are you?"

Yuan Bao'er wanted to explain, but the captain took out the token, "Do things above, you will answer if you ask." ”

At this time, he had a straight face, cold and majestic, which frightened the old man to tremble fiercely.

"Sir," he said, tremblingly.

Yuan Bao'er didn't want to scare him, so she said softly: "Don't be afraid, uncle, let's just come down and ask." ”

Yuan Bao'er pointed to the vast fields around her, "Our family heard that the Shangguan rule here has a very good reputation, so let us come over to learn from it." ”

"This is a matter between them, you don't have to be afraid, I can't get involved with you."

That being said, the old man refused to speak again.

Seeing that they couldn't find anything, the two had to say goodbye to the old man.

It wasn't until she was far away from the old farmer that Yuan Bao'er's face sank.

"Go to town."

The captain immediately asked her to get into the car and took her straight into the distance.

The town is not far from Dongzhuang, and it will arrive before noon.

Because of the proximity to the meal, the surrounding area was full of the aroma of food, Yuan Baoer and the captain chose a lively dining hall nearby to sit down.

The captain wanted to go to the wing, but Yuan Bao'er wanted to hear about the town, so he sat in the corner of the lobby.

Everyone was discussing the current situation, and Yuan Baoer lowered her eyelids and listened to everyone's opinions.

When she finished eating, she summed up one thing, that is, everyone hoped that the fighting would subside, but they also hoped that the rebels would be safe, because they felt the same for what the rebels had suffered.

Out of the dining hall, Yuan Baoer was silent.

The captain glanced at her cautiously and said, "Those people are all gibberish, there is no need for adults to take it to heart." ”

Yuan Bao'er came back to her senses and smiled at him: "I know, go to the grocery store first." ”