Chapter 383
Once again, a heavy snow fell on the head of the Kyoshi, and the fluttering snowflakes flew all over the sky, turning the heavens and the earth into a white world.
Li Xiao wore a hat on his head and stood on the city wall with his hands in his sleeves. Under the city are more than 1,000 people, collecting those corpses of various shapes. Fortunately, it is winter, and the corpse will not decompose for a while. Otherwise, a plague will be formed, and with the population density of the capital, it will be a big trouble!
The bonfire that burned the corpses in Deshengmen, where the fighting was fierce, had been burning for three days. But there are still corpses being thrown in, and these bastards just don't have brains. In winter, the north wind blew "whoosh" and "whoosh", and the smell of burnt skin and flesh was blown all over the city by the north wind. Although it tastes like barbecue, one of the great functions of humans is association. As soon as he thought that the smell was from a dead man, Li Xiao regurgitated for a while.
I couldn't eat, so I could only stand on the tower and drink the wind. It's windy here, and the smell can disperse much faster.
There are a few foodies in the castle tower, and these guys are dealing with a whole sheep.
The freshly killed mutton was cut into slices and boiled in water, and I don't know who came up with the idea, but I actually got two black fish weighing ten catties. The black fish fillet is cut so thinly that it is cooked, and it is cooked by soaking it in the mutton soup with chopsticks. You don't need to dip any ingredients, and you can eat it in your mouth.
Seeing Li Xiao come in, everyone stood up. Wu Sangui also stood up and saluted a military salute! Since the reform of Li Xiao's military system, the Liao army has raised its right hand, its big arm is level with its shoulder, and its palm is stretched out in salute.
Li Xiao returned the salute and asked everyone to sit down and continue eating.
Wu Sangui brought dishes and chopsticks for Li Xiao very doggedly, Zu Chengxun and Zu Kuan smirked honestly, but they didn't move the chopsticks anymore. The hand seemed to be growing on the back of the head, and the scalp was about to be scratched, still scratching stupidly.
Li Xiao was not ambiguous, and took the dishes and chopsticks and found that there was sesame paste in them. I picked up a chopstick and dipped it in sesame sauce and ate it, and then the chopsticks were slammed into the pot.
"Give the old man some leek sauce!" Zhang Huangyan kicked Zu Kuan and sat down beside Li Xiao.
"Mr. Zhang, this way of eating is really good." The delicious fish and sheep made Li Xiao selectively forget the fact that people were being burned outside the city wall.
"Fish and sheep fresh, this fresh word is composed of these two words. Fish and lamb stewed together, of course, will be delicious. It's just that this is the first time the old man has eaten shabu-shabu meat in mutton soup. It tastes good! Zhang Huangyan stuck out his tongue and glared at Zu Kuan.
Maybe it's because Zhang Huangyan just kicked Zu Kuan, and when he was adjusting the sesame sauce, Zu Kuan put a spoonful of chili oil very intimately. Originally, these chili oils were nothing, and chili peppers are now a major seasoning in the Liao army.
But Zhang Huangyan, a southerner, has really never eaten chili peppers. Now it's as spicy as a husky, sticking out his tongue and chasing Zu Kuan all over the world. It wasn't until Li Xiao asked someone to pour Zhang Huangyan a glass of wine that this could be regarded as relieving the old man's spiciness.
"Little bastard, I'll clean you up later." Seeing Zu Dashou coming in, Zhang Huangyan had to stop chasing and killing Zu Kuan.
"How's the Rebels doing?" Li Xiao glanced at Zu Dashou, who was covered in snowflakes, and pointed to the seat next to him.
Zu Chengxun pouted, he finally managed to get good food, and now he can eat it, but he has become a miscellaneous worker.
was slapped by Zu Dashou, and immediately ran to get dishes and chopsticks for Zu Dashou.
"Uncle!" Wu Sangui handed over a small chair very doggedly, and piggybacked on a bowl of wine for Zu Dashou.
"Hmm!" Zu Dashou glanced at Wu Sangui appreciatively, or this nephew is filial. Unlike the two bastards in the ancestral family, the porcelain is stupid and stupid, and they don't know how to move if they don't pull it.
"Opened the storeroom, as you said. Ten taels of silver for each person, and there was a death in the house. The local government will pay for the family's ten acres of official land, and we will pay fifty taels of silver. Every year after that, he could receive five taels of silver in the government. The crippled ones are divided into five classes, and each class has a different reward. Anyway, they all follow the orders of the marshal, and the bereavement is preferential.
Many of those mud legs are the first time I've seen so much silver. Holding the silver and kowtowing on the ground, thank the handsome for the reward. Some still didn't want to leave, and asked if they could join the Liao army to fight the Tartars. He found that many of those who remained were literate. There are even twenty or thirty talents, which is a strange thing. ”
The Ming Dynasty ruled the military with literature, and the status of military generals in the court was lower than that of Wenchen. What the showmen want is to get fame in the examination, and then plunge into the officialdom to engage in political struggle. I haven't heard of anyone's talent, I don't want to have a great future, I have to mix with a group of rough guys. Of course, Sun Chengzong's kind of non-human existence is an exception.
"Yo he! We have to show talent in our team! Li Xiao was also shocked. In the past, when recruiting soldiers, it was all peasants from the countryside. came to Li Xiao to be a soldier here, and what he rushed was that he was well paid. Even if you die, the bereavement pension is very generous. In short, I'm here to sell my life.
This kind of army full of copper smell, the talents will not even look at it. So much so that Li Xiao had to use those storytellers to teach the soldiers to read. Only then can outstanding personnel be selected and trained among the soldiers to become officers at all levels.
""Killing Hu Order" has worked, and the fighters are brave, first angry and then brave! The scholar was bookish and participated in the defense of the capital this time. Let them give birth to the heart of throwing pen and saving the country's society. These people have to be put to good use, maybe there is Yue Fei and Wen Tianxiang in it! ”
"Mr. Zhang! knows Yue Fei's loyalty, and also knows Wen Tianxiang's backbone. But you can't compare the two of them, it's too unlucky! One died at the hands of the faint king, and the other was defeated and captured and killed. Since my debut, Li Xiao, I haven't lost any battles. The worst battle of the Great Black Mountain was also a draw. ”
"Knowing that you can fight, how can you compare it to Kong Ming......?" After speaking, Zhang Huangyan laughed. Adou, assisted by Zhuge Kongming, finally died of exhaustion in Wuzhang Plain.
"Don't talk about this, since it's Xiucai who wants to stay. Let......! Let Zu Kuan and Zu Chengxun train those rebels, and as long as they can survive three months of recruit training, they will be given military status. If you can't get through it, send money and send it home. ”
"You still meet Dashuai, those talents all ask to meet Dashuai. During the defense of the capital, these people were very brave. One of them, Xiucai, hacked to death eight rioters by himself, and he was only slightly injured. I feel that these are people who are of great use. Zu Dashou was a little surprised by Li Xiaoman's indifferent appearance, you must know that there are too few talents who can come to be soldiers in these years.
"See you then!" Li Xiao stood up, and Zu Dashou led the way to the city.
"Ahem, ahem!" There was a lot of coughing under the city walls, and from a distance, there were seven or eight hundred people gathered together, and they couldn't even stand out in a neat formation.
"Silence! Quiet! My family is handsome to visit you! Zu Dashou shouted, and immediately flashed aside, and Li Xiao made a brilliant appearance.
"Ahem! Cough! Cough! "There are so many people watching, but there are always dozens of people in these who are coughing and shivering. Li Xiao's brows furrowed!
"See the Governor!" The twenty or thirty men wearing Confucian crowns who took the lead in front immediately bowed down and saluted. is still a showman's style, and there is no need to be polite when you meet officials.
"See your ......!" The gang behind him knelt down in a hurry. They have no fame, they are all mud legs.
Li Xiao was about to ask something like how hard the comrades had worked, when suddenly a person on the edge of the line fell straight to the cold ground.
"Ahem! Silly pillar, what's going on? The people around him coughed and tried to pull the person up, but the person couldn't pull him up.
"What are you doing? Don't drag this man down and send him to the medical officer. Seeing the chaos of the crowd below, Zu Dashou was a little dissatisfied.
A few of them may be familiar with this person, and they began to lift people. But the man didn't lift up, and one of them also hit the ground with a club, and then collapsed like before.
"Wait!" Zu Dashou was about to order someone to step forward, but he was suddenly stopped by Li Xiao's voice.