After arranging my camel, the white tiger came to ask me to get in the car, and after I got in the car, I thought about this bandit, after all, the price is too great, and then this is still a bandit, if you meet the heavily armed Jin army, the Xixia army, then how many soldiers' lives will have to pay. However, this military matter, after all, has a bearing on the overall situation, and it is not a matter that can be solved in a day or two, and this matter is a systemic problem, first of all, it is necessary to raise the awareness of the whole society to join the army, and the problem that exists at present is that the consciousness of good men not to serve in the army is very strong, and we must find ways to completely change this state.

If we want to change this, the first thing is to publicize, and when it comes to propaganda, I think of the Imperial Court's Jinjuanyuan, yes, when the time comes, give instructions to the Jinjuanyuan, and the imperial court's official newspaper should give more propaganda on the military and strengthen national defense education for the people of the whole country. There is also the improvement of the social treatment of soldiers, which has already begun to be implemented in terms of exemption from the Ding tax, and there are, oh, yes, it is to increase the sense of honor of soldiers, and the establishment of monuments is counted as one, and there is also the pension for the dead and wounded soldiers, yes, this has to formulate a detailed policy, and it must be strengthened.

Just as I was thinking hard about military affairs, the curtain of the car was suddenly lifted, and Qiu Xiang came over with a basin of hot water and said: "Shopkeeper, the slave is waiting for you to wash." I nodded, and then Akika slowly lowered the basin, wrung out the towel gently, and wiped my face.......

In my drowsiness, I heard someone shouting outside the car, so I gently pushed away the hand that was pressing on me and said outside. I only heard the car outside the road: The shopkeeper, Zheng Guocang, the governor of Xiangzhou, has arrived. I snorted, and at this time, Qiu Xiang was also awakened, so she hurriedly said shyly: Shopkeeper, come, I'll change your clothes......

As soon as I lifted the curtain, many torches lit up around me instantly, and I saw Zheng Guocang, the governor of Xiangzhou, taking the lead in kneeling and bowing: The lower officials greet the emperor, and they are on a mission. I said to everyone: Get up, this big night, it is really helpless to summon you so anxiously. Zheng Guocang got up and said: Where is it, this is the good luck of the lower officials, the long luck of the lower officials.

I came to Zheng Guocang, the governor of Xiangzhou, and saw that he didn't dare to raise his head, so I said: What is the current situation here? At this time, Steward Wang said: "Qi Huang shopkeeper, Master Zheng brought bedding, stretchers, meals, medical officers, bandaging items and many medicines. At present, there is no problem with the placement of the wounded.

In addition, Cao Dazhong, the commander of Xiangzhou's soldiers and horses, also brought 2,000 officers and soldiers at the same time, and asked Huang to show whether to escort the bandit back to the state capital overnight. I pondered for a moment and said: Escort the wounded and bandits back overnight tonight, so that the wounded can be better treated, after all, everyone has been busy for so long, and the Imperial City Division and the Imperial Forest Army must rest well at night.

Then he said to Cao Dazhong of Zheng Guocang, Zhizhou: You leave five hundred elite soldiers tonight, escort me to Cizhou tomorrow, and bring what you get to Cizhou by the way. We went to Cizhou to rest and recuperate, and by the way, Qinglong went with us, and left a medical officer to take care of his injuries. Cao Dazhong immediately replied with a salute.

After thinking about it, I still don't feel at ease and instructed Zhizhou Zheng Guocang: Lord Zheng will send someone into the mountain tomorrow to thoroughly check the bandits' nest to see if there are any fish that have slipped through the net, and when going down the mountain, the pass of the mountain road will be sealed with a boulder, so as not to prevent anyone from going up the mountain as bandits in the future. In addition, it is to choose a good feng shui in this place, bury the fallen soldiers, and erect a monument. As for these bandits, you can just watch it, and the bandits will be publicly sentenced and sentenced to death if they parade through the streets, and you will be able to screen the rest.

Zhizhou Zheng Guocang said: The lower officials should remember the instructions of the superiors. When he saw that everything was in order, he asked the people, "Do you have anything else?" Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads. Seeing this, I said, "Then let's arrange it like this." Go back early, too.

Zhizhou Zheng Guocang and Cao Dazhong, the commander of the soldiers and horses, hurriedly knelt down and said: The lower official has a reluctant request, and the lower official wants to escort the superior at night. Last time, I didn't entertain the errand well, and this time I hope that the errand will give the lower officials this opportunity. I don't think this is too much to ask, after all, as a courtier, I can understand it. I said, "Well, then you can arrange it."

Everyone saluted and left, and I was not sleepy at the moment, so I walked around with the guards, mainly to see where the two so-called mountain kings were. How can he be able to do evil here for so many years, killing so many innocent people and business travelers.

Under the leadership of the guards, all of us came to the two mountain kings after passing through the piles of bandit captives, and by the afterglow of the torches, we could vaguely see that the two of them had gray faces, it was estimated that they had just caused it on the mountain, and when they saw the arrival of our people, their eyes looked at us all viciously, with a little unconvincing stubbornness in their perseverance, although their hands and feet were tightly tied with hemp rope, but seeing so many people coming, they still tried to struggle with a reflex.

I stood one meter away from them, just looked at them quietly, and after a while, I saw the square face of the mountain king angrily and said: Shi can not be killed, if you want to kill, you will kill, Lao Tzu is still a good man after eighteen years. Seeing that they were still stubborn when they died, I said leisurely: I know that you are very unconvinced and unwilling now. But if I tell you that it was the Imperial Guards who killed you, I'm sure you'll be calmer at this point.

When the two of them heard that it was the Imperial Forest Army, the guard of the Imperial Palace, who killed them just now, they laughed at the same time and said: Don't be kidding, what about the Imperial Forest Army, why don't you say that the emperor is here. The was ripped off, and our brothers also admitted it. Come on, if you want to kill or chop my brother, if I frown, I won't be born by my parents.

I saw that they were still hard-mouthed, so I called Wang Dazhuang in the back, Wang Dazhuang didn't say a word, took off his coat and revealed the bright yellow splendid underwear inside, and said loudly to them: Open your dog's eyes and see what it is.

Just when the two of them were dumbfounded, I said: Killing you will only cheapen you, I want the world to see your ugly face, take it to the state capital to parade the streets first, and then make a public judgment, and then seal your head with mercury, and pass it on to Kyushu and the border pass, so that the people of the whole country can see, you two murderous demons, and inform your ancestral home and ancestral hall of your crimes, and erect a monument in your ancestral home, so that your notoriety will be immortalized and admired for all generations.

When the square-faced and round-faced two mountain kings heard this, they were immediately like deflated balls, and their mouths repeated what I had just said, and then they let out a wild boar-like cry: You, you, you. And then there was no then. In fact, for this kind of ruthless people, it makes no sense for you to fight with them, since they went up the mountain to become bandits, they also expected that sooner or later they would have such a day, the so-called dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water, but people always have weaknesses, and there are always gaps in stones, and such a punishment is a thousand times more uncomfortable for anyone than killing him, ten thousand times. After all, this is more vicious than the heart.

As the shrill screams slowly stopped, they also calmed down at this time, and completely recognized the facts, and then the round-faced mountain king said: "Official, how can you spare us and let us go happily."

I saw that they relented and said: It's very simple, just answer me a question, I can let you go happily, and I hope you will be a good person in the next life. After hearing this, the two of them immediately struggled forward and hurriedly said: "Official, please ask, official, please ask."

I asked, "Why did you go up the mountain and become a bandit?" The two of them heard that it was so simple, and they instantly sat down on the ground, and the square-faced mountain king sighed and said: Hey, what can be said about this, if there is a way to live under the mountain, who wants to pin their heads to the waist and go up the mountain to beg for a living, the government has raised taxes for many years, and the natural disaster dealer has no harvest, so he borrowed the landlord's usury, and finally the snowball is getting bigger and bigger, and he really can't survive, so he is ruthless and leads the villagers to the mountain as kings.

The round-faced mountain king raised his head and looked at the night sky and said: I was originally a blacksmith, and I had a small life, but suddenly one day, the government asked me to pay a large amount of deposit, I asked, I will do a dozen iron, what deposit to pay, the official government said that it is a guarantee not to build weapons and blades, my family has three generations of ancestors are blacksmiths, or the first time I have encountered this situation, how can there be iron in the world to pay a deposit, although we argue with reason, but the people of the government do not reason with us at all, and finally there is a conflict, At that time, I was also young and vigorous, and I wounded one of them, and later, I was afraid of the government's reprisals, so I went up the mountain.

After patiently listening to what happened to the two of them, I couldn't speak for a long time, what can I say at this time? The government raised taxes and the government levied excessively, and then I took a serious look at them, and saw that their lips were a little chapped, so I said to the left and right: Give them some food and water. With that, he turned and left.