Li Siye was stunned for a moment, thinking that this old man was very sober in his heart, but he pretended to be surprised and asked, "Duwei, why do you talk about false words?"

He didn't go back to Li Siye, but beckoned to Shen Changshi: "Take the key, bring the account books and signatures of the Eighth Regiment from the cabinet."

As soon as Shen Changshi left, this Xu Duwei didn't pay attention to Li Siye anymore, and lowered his head and only cared about plowing the ground. Li Siye was embarrassed, so he had no choice but to ask, "What kind of vegetable is this growing?"

"Bracken, lettuce."

“……”

Fortunately, Shen Changshi quickly came with the account books and signatures, and Xu Duwei stopped his work and instructed Shen Changshi: "Show Captain Li the account books and signatures for the four months from February to May." Captain Zhao Lushui of the Eighth Regiment had already taken the money away, with his name on it, his handprint, and the seal of Zhichong Mansion. You are looking for me again, what shall I give you?"

Li Siye looked through the account books and found that there were indeed records and seals on it, but when he looked at the amount behind it, he was shocked, the monthly salary was more than 200,000 yuan, and there was nearly a million yuan in four months!

"Why are there so many?" He instinctively questioned: "The monthly salary of a soldier in the Green Ridge is only three or four hundred yuan, why is there so much in the Eighth Regiment?"

Captain Xu said in an aggravated tone: "Captain Li, soldiers and soldiers are different. The guards of the Green Ridge were the soldiers of the government, and my thirty-three folds of the Chongfu were all Long March athletes recruited from all over Jingzhao and Prefecture. The selection is strict, non-good children are not allowed to be called, businessmen and prisoners are not allowed to enlist in the army, and they need to be physically strong, able to shoot a three-stone bow, and run fifty miles with a weight to be selected. Of course, the monthly salary is also very generous, which can be compared to the long-term guard!"

Li Siye was quite helpless, and said with his crossed hands: "Now the Eighth Regiment is not full of morale and morale. Captain Xu, could you please advance my six-month salary, and I will take it back and pay it to the brothers first, so that they can support their families. ”

Xu Duwei sighed and said, "Captain Li, you are eating grain, besides, where did I get the spare money from Zhechong Mansion?" The money paid to us by the Metropolitan Protectorate was immediately distributed to the following five regiments that month. Anyway, I don't have any money here, you have to find Zhao Lushui yourself. ”

Li Si Yexin said that I am looking for Zhao Lushui, Zhao Xiaowei has already been imprisoned in Qiuzi's prison, if I can find him to get money, will I still use it to find you?

Without saying a word, he immediately grabbed the hoe that Xu Duwei threw on the ground, and hoeed the ground like him.

Xu Duwei stood aside and widened his eyes and asked, "Captain Li, what are you doing here?"

"Anyway, I don't have anything else to do except for money, so I just hoe the land and grow vegetables here with you. Xu Duwei, if you see that I am planting well, you will prepare an extra pair of dishes and chopsticks for me at night, and if there is no place to sleep, I will sleep in the main hall of the house. ”

"You!" Xu Duwei stretched out his two fingers and pointed at him in annoyance, but he sat on the ridge of the vegetable garden and laughed.

"Captain Li, I'll just say that you came to slander me, but you still don't admit it. Don't waste your efforts with me. Besides, is it really because of the lack of pay that your Eighth Regiment is discouraged? No, the secret of this is really unknown to outsiders. ”

"For example?" Li Siye sat opposite Xu Duwei, and said with a cherished fork of his hands: "Please give advice to Xu Duwei."

Xu Duwei glanced at Shen Changshi on the side, and the other party retreated obediently.

"Captain Li, the sixth, tenth, and eighth regiments under my command were all lost in the battle of the city three years ago, and it was really helpless to reorganize these three regiments into the eighth regiment after the war. It's just because the 6th and 10th regiments did not have any commendation from the imperial court after the war, let alone the bereavement and rewards for the war dead. ”

Li Siye was taken aback: "Why does the Eighth Regiment have it, but the Sixth Regiment and the Tenth Regiment do not?"

Xu Duwei pursed his lips, and suddenly changed the topic and said, "Gai Zhongcheng is now the envoy of the Moxi Festival."

Li Siye understood and nodded solemnly.

"The real situation of the battle of the city is that the Sulu Iron Cavalry began to attack the city of the city in October of the twenty-third year, three times in a row, and the longest siege lasted for twenty-one days, and the North City Gate and the Beacon Fort almost fell, until the twenty-fourth year of Yuanzheng, Gai Zhongcheng led the Han navy from the Beiting to ride out and repelled Sulu who was already at the end of the crossbow."

"But the battle situation of Anxi and Beiting to the imperial court is that the turks want to attack the city of Swap, but they are blocked by the Beacon Fort, and the Han navy led by Gaizhong Chengqin to guard the city of Swap, accumulating strength to defeat Sulu in one fell swoop and kill 10,000 enemies."

Xu Duwei sighed slightly, leaned forward and asked, "Captain Li, do you understand now?"

Li Siye asked in disbelief: "Didn't the Sixth Regiment and the Tenth Regiment get any compensation and reward?"

Xu Duwei's slightly old and tired face faintly showed a little sadness and indignation:

"Gai Zhongcheng and Wang Husi, the former envoy of Anxi Jiedu, only privately gave some monetary compensation to the two regiments, but what did the man join the army for? Isn't it just to build a career? In the past two months, I have 33 years of Chongfu athletes who have held on to the city, and have suffered heavy casualties. The women and children who had lost their husbands were left without a source of livelihood in Anxi, and they returned to their hometowns without a house to belong to. Those so-called compensations are just crumbs picked out between the teeth of the Beiting Army, how can they be convincing!"

After Li Siye listened, he said angrily and angrily: "Gai Jiayun deceived his subordinates and concealed them, pretended to receive meritorious deeds, and deceived the saints, how could he be the envoy of the Moxi Festival!" ”

Xu Duwei shook his head helplessly: "If it was just Gai Jiayun, it would not be so greedy for merit and perverting the law, and Wang Husi, the envoy of Anxi Jiedu in the past, also acquiesced in this matter, which shows that someone in the court operated from it, turning the two-month battle of defending the city into a great victory against the enemy outside the country." In the eyes of the meat eaters, we, the little frontier soldiers, are just pawns that can be discarded at any time. “

Xu Duwei rubbed his muddy hands, wiped them on his face, got up and walked to the backyard with his hoe.

After walking a few steps, he suddenly stopped and bowed his head and said: "Don't blame Zhao Lushui for the money, more than half of the brothers who died in their regiment left orphans and widows, and they spent all their compensation to make a living." Captain Zhao couldn't bear it, so he privately withheld four months' salary and gave them the capital to make a living. ”

Xu Duwei's lonely figure dragged a long shadow in the afterglow of the setting sun.

Li Siye returned from Zhichong Mansion and walked on the streets of the city, under the poplar tree on the side of the road, several children held hands and sang nursery rhymes around the old tree: "After the fifteenth year of the Long March, I returned to my hometown alone, and the old leaves were scattered, and there was no longer my family's field." After 15 years of the Long March, he was injured and sick, half of his life was disabled, he had no feudal qualifications, and he had no money. ”

His heart was empty, it turned out that those who were praised by others, Le Shi Yanran, there were many such and such small stories hidden behind them.

The sky was about to dark, Li Siye returned to the barracks, and faintly heard someone singing, his voice was high-pitched and twisted and hoarse, sounding like Xintianyou. He turned his head and asked the soldiers guarding the door, "Who is singing here?"

"Who else could there be, it was Yan Xiaosi who was locked up."

"It's been like this on day one?" Li Siye nodded lightly: "It seems that there is no need to lock him up for fifteen days, ten days can make him soft."

At the moment, he should be thinking about how to gather the hearts and minds of the Eighth Regiment who were defeated by Gai Jiayun. The most annoying thing about this thing is that this is not his pot, and he doesn't need to carry it, but this pot is used by him.