In the inner mansion of the Shule Town Guard's Mansion, the tea pot was bubbling out with white steam, and the fragrance of sencha had already wafted out.

Li Twelve Niangzi was dressed in a fox fur, and the top of her head was full of hairpins, and her bun stacked like clouds made her show the dignified beauty of a married lady. Compared with the moire green shirt before marriage, only a bundle of hair is tied on the top of the head, and the hair is handsome and chic, and the gap between the front and back is really big.

A swordswoman and a noblewoman, two completely different identities, she has fully embraced the new way of life.

Pei Dudu's sister and wife were all guests in the house, and they also dressed up as Central Plains people, and sat opposite the Li family's aunt and sister-in-law, drinking tea and talking endlessly.

"I heard that there has been chaos in the city in the past two days, and my family Ah Lang comes back every day with a black face and looks terrible. I heard that the herdsmen's grass was burned, and the hungry sheep ran all over the ground, and a few days ago they killed a batch, but your family didn't let them be killed, saying that they were thinking of another way. These men are really, what's the big deal if there are more sheep, let them kill a few more in each household, give them to the neighbors to taste, and give the Tang army in the city two more meals of the whole sheep feast, isn't it solved? ”

The so-called famine was so easy in the mouths of the women, and although it was only a few courtyards away, the outside world was so far away from them, it was like talking about a war thousands of miles away in a mocking tone.

"Hey, have you heard your family Langjun say this?"

"No," Li Shiniang was slightly surprised, and then said with a smile: "I also just heard from your mouth that my Langjun is weak, no matter how big things happen outside, he doesn't tell us, and I can't see it from his face." ”

"Then I really admire your family, not like our Ah Lang, such a big thing is written on his face, as if the sky has fallen."

Twelve Niang just smiled faintly, as if to say that there was nothing to admire, he should be like this.

Li Siye walked in from the outside, smiled and greeted the women: "The house is really lively, stay at home at noon today to eat, let the twelve mothers treat you well." ”

He walked behind Twelve Niang, and his hands naturally rested on her shoulders, Twelve Niang reached out and grabbed Lang Jun's hand, grabbed it with both hands and rubbed it gently.

The two Pei family ladies looked embarrassed and nervous, not just because their husband and wife showed their affection in public.

Even if Li Siye seems to be very friendly, it makes people feel scared. Because it is rumored in the city, this Li Siye can be the town guard because he used a Mo knife to kill thousands of people alive. This kind of person is murderous, and he must also be angry, I really don't know how Twelve Niang, such a wise and quiet lady, fell in love with and married such a butcher.

At this time, someone outside the door reported that it was a new message from the Tuntian Army on the bank of the Chishui River. He bowed his head and said to the ladies "I'll go out for a while", smiled at them and said "unaccompanied", turned around and walked out of the room.

Li Siye came to the main hall of the outer courtyard, and the dusty messenger stood in front of the steps and waited, and after seeing Li Siye, he hurriedly knelt on the ground and said: "Duan Zhiguan sent me to deliver the message, he did not follow the previous military order, and ended digging the ditch and returning to Shule to rest, but led more than 1,000 people from the jumping battalion and cavalry army to cross the mountain pass of the southern vein of the Tianshan Mountains. ”

Li Siye was taken aback: "What is he doing over the Tianshan Pass!" ”

"Duan Zhiguan just said that there is a grassland to the north of the southern vein of the Tianshan Mountains, and the autumn grass has not completely withered, and there is no ice and snow cover, so he took people over to harvest it to supplement the lack of grain and grass for the herdsmen."

Li Siye listened, nodded and sighed: "He is making his own opinion, but well done, Duan Xiushi deserves to be my Duan Xiushi!" ”

……

The pasture grass from the other states to support Shule City has arrived one after another, and in the large courtyard of Cangcao, the governor's mansion, the forage is piled up higher than the Tianshan Mountains, and the herdsmen's hearts are becoming more and more stable, and these high grass mountains give them the confidence to wait.

But only the people in power in the Governor's Mansion know what the situation is now, at this moment in the main hall of the Governor's Mansion, Cangcao and Bai Zhubo squatted on the ground with a fine pen, and they had calculated over and over again, and finally raised their heads with sweat on their faces and said: "Dudu, an adult sheep has to eat three and a half catties of forage a day in the cold winter, and there are more than 24,000 sheep of the affected herdsmen at present, which means that they have to eat 84,000 ...... every day."

"That's it!" Pei Guoliang lost patience and shouted: "Don't tell me these numbers, I just want the results, you tell me the results!" ”

The two of them replied in unison, "Well, there is not enough grass." ”

"How much worse?"

"A lot."

"How much is a lot?"

"Return to the Governor. The spring grass will not grow until March next year, and it will be more than three months from now, and the consumption of this day is more than 80,000 catties......"

Pei Dudu was in a nameless fire again, but said patiently: "You just need to tell me, how much is still missing!" ”

"There are still 3.2 million catties left."

"Huh," Pei Guoliang gasped: "It's so bad?" ”

The two of them just lowered their heads and did not speak, but the thumbs of their forked hands were raised high. Pei Guoliang had no choice at all, and secretly thought in his heart that if he hadn't listened to Li Siye at the beginning and continued to let the Tang army slaughter him, it was estimated that he wouldn't have to worry about it now.

He glanced back at Li Siye, who was still sitting firmly at the top, and then looked at Zhao Chongxuan, and found that Zhao Chongxuan's eyes were also looking at each other, and it seemed that they all pinned their hopes on Li Siye.

"Envoy Li, the grain and grass raised by the states have been delivered, and there are still three million catties left, please show me a clear way, what should we do now?"

Li Siye set his eyes on joining the army and the main body, and asked in a calm tone: "How long can the existing forage last, and how many sheep can eat until the beginning of spring next year." ”

The two hurriedly crossed their hands and said, "If you go back to the envoy of Li Zhen, now this forage is only enough to eat until the end of January next year." To catch up with next year's grass, all the herders need to keep 15,000 sheep. ”

General Zhao Chongyu's reaction was very keen, and he immediately added the words: "It means that as long as the excess 8,000 to 9,000 sheep are slaughtered, won't the current trouble be solved!" Then I'll mobilize people. ”

Li Siye turned his head to look at him, and said helplessly: "Don't think about slaughtering at every turn, there is no way to do it." ”

He got up from the bed and said to Cangcao and the main officer: "Divide the existing pasture according to the proportion of sheep raised by each herdsman, and distribute half of it first, starting this afternoon. ”

Pei Guoliang said helplessly: "It's not enough, why do you have to send only half of it." ”

Li Siye glanced at him: "Don't worry, we'll talk about it then." ”

After waiting for six days, Pei Guoliang finally knew what Li Siye meant when the time came.

The 1,000 jumping battalions and cavalry corps who stayed on the side of the Chihe River to dig ditches returned to Shule City, and they drove ox carts with bales of pasture, and even the horses around them were piled up with heavy hay.

The herdsmen who did not know the root of the situation rejoiced, praised the wisdom of Li Zhen, praised the Tang Army, and praised the support rate of the foreign people for the first time in the more than 100 years that the Anxi Army was stationed in Shule City.

Duan Xiushi harvested and brought back 300,000 catties of grass, which did play a small role, but it was really limited. In the words of Zhao Chongxuan's deputy military envoy, it was originally necessary to slaughter more than 8,000 sheep to survive until the beginning of spring next year, but now only 7,000 sheep need to be killed.