At present, celebrities are gathered, and everyone up their ears, which is the environment He Chunhua needs. He didn't push back, sat down and talked. He didn't say a word about Zhu Xiu'er's role in Xianling Lake, only said that some villagers secretly reported it and reminded Ceyingjun.

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When others saw that he was well-worded and generous, they all nodded secretly.

He Lingchuan paid attention to Ke Jihai.

When he talked to He Chunhua, he really only had He Chunhua in his eyes, and he talked and laughed as if no one was around. The other nobles couldn't help but applaud when they heard the important point, and Ke Jihai was very impatient and turned his head to scold.

The protagonists of today's Yanxi are obviously the Zhu family and Zhu Xiuer, both saying that the guest is as he pleases, but he is anti-guest and unconscious. General Ke seems to have a straightforward temper and doesn't care about offending people.

Zhu Xiyan smiled and didn't care, but the young men of the Zhu family were pouting and frowning, dissatisfied.

Ke Jihai asked carefully about the combat strategy and battle process, especially the past when the Ce Yingjun led the old and weak of the whole village to flee westward, he asked questions as soon as he heard it: "Lord He is benevolent, but the women and children are slow to move, and they can throw the thief army farther and farther, and they must have left the broken team." How much is the loss of this part? ”

"There are a total of thirty-five people in the broken army, seventeen horses, and fourteen village Han people who stayed behind to help." After that thrilling night, He Chunhua was already familiar with these numbers, "They dragged the thief army for nearly three hours. ”

"Thirty-five, three hours of delay!" Ke Jihai was moved, "Okay, there must be brave people among them, Lord He must reuse them." ”

He Chunhua smiled slightly, and then beckoned He Lingchuan to come to him: "At that time, after the child asked for a break, I was very reluctant. I don't know that this kid commanded properly and successfully completed the task. ”

He let out a long sigh: "When he retreated, he was shot by Lu Yao and fell off the cliff, it is said that the arrow can hit three times in one shot, we all thought he was unlucky, and my wife cried and fainted on the spot." Who knows, heh, not only did he not die, but he also saved Wu Shaoyi, who only had half a life left, otherwise that guy would not have surrendered. God forbid. ”

"Only those who save themselves can be saved by God. Lu Yao's set of bows and arrows has a origin, and it is one of the several heavy treasures of the thief leader Hong Qianqian, called the 'Ghost Eye Bow', which misses one hit, and will automatically double click later. The officers and soldiers have learned its power on the battlefield, and two generals under my command have died under the bow of the devil's eye. Let Lu Yao shoot you with this bow, and you can't shoot to death, it's not easy to kid. ”

Ke Jihai turned to He Lingchuan: "You are young, resourceful and brave, rare!" If you don't go to the battlefield, you are not a hero, you will go to the north this time, and you will definitely concentrate on sharpening and adding another tiger general to my big kite! ”

Wang Ting's intention of sending Chunhua to Xiazhou, he, an old oilman on the battlefield, understood at a glance that it was to increase the military strength against Xunzhou Munian Praise and the Northern Demon Kingdom. The sons of the He family followed their fathers, and battles were indispensable.

He Lingchuan nodded, sonorous and powerful: "Inherit the teachings of the general, definitely!" ”

Ke Jihai admired him for being a neat and non-nonsense guy, so he immediately took off the saber from his waist and handed it to He Lingchuan: "The sword is given to Haojie." ”

"How does this work!" Before the eldest son could speak, He Chunhua immediately excused himself.

Ke Jihai ignored him and stuffed the knife directly into He Lingchuan's hand: "This knife is called 'Baipi', and it has been with me for twenty-two years, I hope you can use it well." ”

He Lingchuan was overjoyed, took it with both hands, and said solemnly: "Accept it carefully, and you will live up to the general's expectations." ”

Ke Jihai is so important to a sixteen or seventeen-year-old country boy, praising heroes and giving knives, but he doesn't take others seriously, and the other nobles here are not very useful. Especially in his early twenties, listening to him say that "if you don't go to the battlefield, you are not a hero", it is even more harsh.

He Su, who had talked to the He family brothers before, said: "I heard that Wu He, the eldest son of General Wu Di, went to the battlefield at the age of thirteen, led his troops to capture the enemy generals at the age of sixteen, and now he is also in the northwest with his father to conquer Dong Haoming. He happens to be two years older than Brother He, isn't it that my Kite Country is going to produce a pair of indistinguishable tiger generals? ”

A few teenagers around him responded one after another, but the other nobles only smiled and did not squeak. Ke Jihai glanced at He Su: "Who are you?" ”

"My surname is He, and my father, Yushitai He Changqi." In order to avoid suspicion, his father did not come to the Zhu family's night banquet.

The Zhu family added on the side: "This is He Su, the third son of the imperial doctor. ”

"Is there a meritorious service?"

He Su's face turned red and he could only shake his head.

"Have you ever offered advice?"

It is not easy for other seventeen or eighteen-year-old boys to give their words to the royal court, but the son of the imperial doctor is close to the water.

He Su's face turned even redder, and he said, "I have mentioned a few articles to the Holy Lord." ”

But the word "read" was typed back.

Ke Jihai smiled: "I have no merit, and I have never been admonished, I am a spectator, so I have to watch from the wall." ”

That's what he had to do to shut up, in front of so many people! He Su's face swelled from red to purple, and he swallowed a breath of evil breath, but secretly clenched his fists in his sleeves.

Ke Jihai was so unkind, the pin drop could be heard at the banquet for a while, and everyone was speechless.

It was He Chunhua who broke the silence: "I heard that the front line in Huzhou is stalemate, why did General Ke return to the capital at this time?" ”

He also figured out Ke Jihai's temper, and simply asked directly.

"Well, it's not for the sake of getting food." The smile on Ke Jihai's face gradually became heavy, "I heard that the tax officials sent by the royal court to the four southern states returned with a full load and collected millions of taels of tax silver. ”

"Dong Haoming is in the clear field of Huzhou, and he doesn't leave us a grain of grain. This year's autumn grain harvest has already been properly arranged by them, and there is no surplus grain in the fields. In order to ask for money, General Wu and I have sent twelve urgent summons to the royal court, but in the past three or four months, we have only received grain and grass twice. Fortunately, after breaking through Baiding City, you can continue to eat and drink. ”

"If it weren't for the urgency of the situation, why would I have the cheekiness to go back to China and beg for money and food?" He sighed faintly, "The front line has been in arrears for more than three months, and one day's rations now have to last for three days. If it is not distributed, the soldiers will have no strength to fight. ”

Some officials present said: "It's not that the royal court doesn't want to send it, it's too difficult this year." Woling Pass was first attacked by anti-thieves, and then flooded, and there was almost no harvest in spring, summer and autumn. That large area has always been one of the abundant grain areas, accounting for 30% of the country's grain harvest, and this year not only will there be no grain tribute, but the state will also need to go back to the past for disaster relief. ”

The rebels and the official army went back and forth in Woling Pass for several months, and the tug-of-war was fought to the ground, and then they ran headlong into the flood, and the grain-producing area became a disaster area, and the royal court scratched his head for this.

Zhu Xiyan also sighed: "The price of grain in Shihuan City has risen by forty percent. As soon as the grain rises, everything else will follow. The servant said that even candles were expensive. ”

"Coincidentally, what I heard in the royal court was also a bunch of grievances." Ke Jihai shook his head, "We are responsible for fighting on the front line, and logistics and salary are the responsibility of officials. If I don't ask for money from the royal court, who else can I reach out? Officers and soldiers can fight hungry, but what about horses? If you don't eat wheat bran bean cake, you can't run fast and load lightly just by nibbling on the grass. ”

The official's face was heavy: "Actually, Shi Huan's family is also frugal to support the front line. Master Cao, who is in charge of the transfer of materials on the front line, I heard that he hasn't closed his eyes for a few days. ”

He Lingchuan subconsciously looked at the delicacies on the table.

He Yue couldn't help but say: "Dong Hao has prepared early tomorrow, he himself has strong soldiers and horses, and the city is strong and the food is sufficient, so he plans to fight a protracted war with the official army." As soon as the officers and troops were exhausted and began to retreat, he had to defend and attack. ”

"That's right." Ke Jihai nodded, "Dong Haoming has been on the battlefield for decades, and he understands all this." Once the attack and defense changed shape, the official army failed to hold the Jixin Gang in the north, and Dong Haoming could board the ship there and go straight to Hongchuan, and Shihuan City and the national capital were in danger. ”

The crowd changed color. The last time the rebels took Woling Pass, they scared the residents of Shihuan City a lot. Once the rebels take a boat from Fenglingdu and go downstream along Hongchuan, they will be able to reach Shihuan in a few days and start killing, without covering or stopping in the middle.

Some of the nobles present fled with their families when they heard the news, and they did not return to Shihuan until they heard that Wu Di and Ke Jihai had defeated the rebels.

That kind of heartbeat, no one wants to experience it again.

Someone asked Ke Jihai: "The general returned to the capital, what was the result?" ”

"It's just a drop in the bucket." Ke Jihai sighed heavily and shook his head, "The Donghao Ming Department is different from a rabble like Hong Xiangqian, its elite is better than the official army, and it can be exterminated overnight. Running out of food is the most demoralizing, and in the middle of winter, the army's clothes and quilts are insufficient, and people freeze to death and frostbite every day. I'm not afraid to tell the truth, if it goes on like this, I will have to withdraw from Jixingang at the latest in the spring of next year. ”

That's less than three months.

"Jixingang has been building defenses, digging deep ditches and building high walls. But as far as I know, there are no more than 100,000 troops there. ”

Zhu Xiyan looked at everyone's faces, and knew that the time was almost up, so he coughed: "The front-line soldiers are fighting, and my family will also be a little thin." In this way, my Zhu family is willing to raise 50,000 stone of military food and 5,000 stone of horse material, and send them to the royal court for military quarters, and they will urgently send them to the front line! ”

He Yue secretly pinched his fingers, and his mind was calculating quickly. The price of grain at that time is 800 wen and one stone, so the Zhu family will probably spend 40,000 taels of silver to buy grain and donate it to the front line, not including the forage money.

There was a lot of talk all around.

The host Zhu Xiyan expressed his position, and the others caressed their little hearts and calculated the accounts, and found that it was better to spend a little money on the front-line soldiers and let them withstand Dong Haoming's iron hooves than to break the family in the back.

As a result, several highly respected royal relatives also donated money.

Their identities are more respected than Zhu Xiyan, and they can't be more humble than him. The largest family pledged to donate 120,000 stones, and the rest ranged from 60,000 to 90,000 stones, as well as horse materials, clothes and shoes, and bedding.

With them taking the lead, the families and officials present had no choice but to follow up, secretly saying bad luck in their hearts. Xichenyan, who attended the Zhu family tonight, had already given a gift, but he didn't expect General Ke Jihai Ke to be here, and he would take care of them to collect a second money.

So many families have to buy grain, and the price of grain near Shihuan must not rise to the sky?