Texas has been in turmoil lately.

It has been half a month since Li Jinglong led the troops back to Dezhou, and the imperial army besieging Beiping has also fled back one after another these days.

Of course, there are soldiers who are more courageous to flee back to Jiangnan directly, but there are not many, after all, they are paid to be soldiers, and when they become deserters, they will be beheaded, so almost all the soldiers who fled south are in Texas as their destination, and they lack food and clothing along the way, and they are angry, especially those soldiers who were abandoned by Li Jinglong under the city of Beiping, and they were chased by the Yan army while fleeing, and they naturally refused to spend money on food and accommodation along the way. Do you have to pay for your own meals?

It doesn't make sense.

Therefore, the Baoding Mansion between Beiping and Dezhou is considered to have fallen into blood mold, and the inns and restaurants along the way, and even the houses have suffered from the scourge of the imperial court soldiers, and even some generals with their soldiers began to rob openly, and some local government and county officials have fled south to small villages and towns, and there have been some tragedies of slaughtering villages and destroying villages, but... Who cares?

However, when the soldiers fled to Dezhou, they began to abide by the rules again, and somewhat put on the appearance of a counterinsurgency army, after all, the Chinese army tent of Cao Guogong Li Jinglong is now standing under the city of Dezhou, no matter how he fights, the imperial court has not removed him, and Li Jinglong has been training for many years, and the most important thing is these superficial skills, and Dezhou has always been the military town of the three provinces between the rivers, and the material reserves here are still very rich, and the food and clothing of the army are indispensable, so no one dares to violate military discipline, Even if they hate Li Jinglong so much, they are honest and ready to see him unlucky.

But the development of things exceeded everyone's expectations, the will of the imperial court was down, but instead of blaming Li Jinglong, he was given the title of prince and teacher, and even began to reward the three armies, not only did each soldier get a considerable reward, but also opened the gate of Texas to distribute wine and meat, and people who did not know the situation were afraid that they were holding a celebration banquet when they arrived here.

At this moment, everyone was stunned, and some generals also sighed that the background of Cao Guogong Li Jinglong in the court was strong, and he could go to the next level after defeating the battle, which was rare in ancient times, and Chen Hui, who died before, was really fucking wronged.

Eating people with short hands and soft mouths, the court is so generous, and the originally noisy army has also settled down, even if there are constantly trembling and nervous deserters entering the camp, the morale is barely maintained, but the remaining 300,000 or so people who were originally clear about the front, middle and rear army structure have collapsed, and they are suddenly gathered in a military camp, and the phenomenon of chaotic soldiers not being able to find generals and generals who cannot recognize soldiers is very serious.

After getting the will, Li Jinglong, who locked himself up in the camp for more than ten days, quickly figured out what Huang Zicheng meant, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief, he also made a move, for a few days, he straightened out military affairs with his whole body, and he didn't even return to his own military account. Even if Huang Zicheng exonerates him and retains the position of commander, the combat power of the army has fallen to the bottom, how should this battle be fought next?

And now all hope... It will probably fall on the next reinforcement and those generals.

And before the spring blossoms, peace came again and again in such a short time.

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Hundreds of thousands of imperial army naturally can't all pour into a small Dezhou City, not to mention that Dezhou City is just a military town, and the people are few, let's just say that it is an imperial capital like Beiping Jinling, and it is impossible to accommodate such a huge army in one breath without affecting the people's livelihood, so the military camp of the imperial army is still five miles outside the city, and it is not in contact with the people, and the perimeter fence is as high as the walls of some small cities.

But the war is temporarily extinguished, there are too many troops, and it is a big trouble to manage, Li Jinglong has been training soldiers in Yingtianfu for many years, and knows the truth that blocking is better than sparse, and every few days of training will give the soldiers appropriate vacations, so that many people smell business opportunities, and open all kinds of shops facing the Qiu Ba in Dezhou City, and for a time Dezhou City is still a little prosperous, but the Qiu Ba have spare money, and there are more wine shops and gambling shops in the city, and the public security is naturally easy to mess up. Everyone knows that Qiu Ba is prone to trouble when they drink and lose money, and this is really sad about the hair of many civil officials in Texas.

There is a restaurant in Dezhou City, at the beginning of the month, just changed the shopkeeper, called a person surnamed Gu down, the original restaurant shopkeeper did not know where to hear the news, said that King Yan was about to fight, the imperial army was afraid that it would still be defeated, so the restaurant was transferred at a very low price, and now there are more and more troops near Dezhou City, and the defeat seems to be no longer so doomed, but a large number of Qiu Ba took the silver to find a place to spend, and I don't know if the shopkeeper was so angry that he couldn't sleep in the middle of the night.

And this Gu shopkeeper with the pseudonym Gu Nian is naturally Gu Huai.

In fact, after rushing to Texas, Gu Huai also hesitated about where to start, the pharmacy Qinglou Gambling House seemed to be a good choice, but in the end, he still chose to open a restaurant.

Although the pharmacy deals with the wounded soldiers the most, it is easy to get information, but it requires too much professionalism, and a pharmacy shopkeeper who does not understand pharmacology is too suspicious. And although Qinglou is more popular with the big-headed soldiers, but in this kind of world, most of those prostitutes are forced to make a living and have to sell themselves to save themselves, Gu Huai is really unwilling to do the kind of thing that forces the good to be a prostitute and lose his conscience, and he always feels that the hurdle in his heart cannot be overcome.

And the gambling house... It is too necessary to deal with the relationship between black and white, as a spy, if he can not attract attention, he will not attract attention, it is too late for him to avoid those people, where will he get up to find trouble for himself.

So from the point of view of it, the restaurant is more suitable, after all, although the military camp is in charge of the food, the Qiu Ba obviously want to treat their stomachs after training.

This restaurant is not big, there are two floors in total, and the area is not good, after all, it is not too early, and the good location is gone, and Gu Huai still wants to save more funds, there is no need to spend money on this kind of thing, and Qiu Ba will not go to a very good restaurant.

Entered the restaurant, a big sign on the top, written "Taibaiju", Gu Huai was so lazy that he didn't even change his name, he made do with it, the seats in the hall on the first floor were very dense, it was naturally convenient for dozens of Qiu Ba who came to eat together to sit down, and the second floor was naturally a private room, and the rich patrons went up to order wine and food to drink themselves, and when the interest came, they could also look at the women who threw flattering eyes in the Qinglou opposite to drink.

It seems to be very good, such an inconspicuous restaurant, and the humble shopkeeper who stands behind the counter every day wearing merchant clothes, holding a big abacus and an amiable shopkeeper, has taken root in Texas City.

The restaurant has just opened, naturally there are no guests, occasionally a few Qiu Ba hooked their shoulders into the restaurant, and there is no need to take care of the shopkeeper to greet the guests, the burly figure is like an iron tower, and the tall guy who walks on the floor is shaking with a rag and walks over, so scared that the voice of Qiu Ba is a little smaller.

The smile on Gu Huai's face froze, hmm... The business of the restaurant is not very good these days, and it seems to have something to do with this product.

Compared with the bull-like Wei Laosan, is it more attractive to invite a delicate wine lady to attract the big-headed soldiers?

Speaking of wine girls... Gu Huai's eyes glanced to the side, the female accountant who was in a good figure, but had an extremely ugly face, and a mole with a pinch of hair on her face, raised her head: "What are you doing?" ”

"It's nothing..."Gu Huai looked away and rubbed his face, only to feel that the more he looked at Mangzhong's face, the more panicked he became.

I just asked her to put on makeup so as not to attract too much attention, why did she make such a face? Isn't it a little dissatisfied with this order, taking revenge on yourself?

This time, there are more than 100 spies from the secret spy department to the south, in addition to this restaurant, there are three strongholds in the city, in addition to Wei Laosan and Mangzhong, he also brought Gu Yu and Xiaoman, and now one is buying vegetables and the other is working in the back kitchen, and the entire inn is all the secret spy department itself except for the two masters.

Don't ask why you have to hire another cook... The spies of the secret spy department are used to killing people, but they can't do it at all.

Look at these guys... The guy who runs the hall is burly and vicious, the account room that settles accounts kills people like killing chickens, and it is extremely ugly if he doesn't take human life seriously, Gu Yu, who buys vegetables, was tortured before, and his eyes look at people like he is looking at the bones in the flesh, Xiao Manping's biggest hobby in the back kitchen is collecting fingers, and now it has been changed to collecting chicken feet... With such a group of people, it is strange that business can be good.

Gu Huai looked down at the account book, he had been losing money for five days, and losing money meant that no one came, and no one came meant that there was no intelligence... If it weren't for the fact that Qiu Ba didn't use perfume, it would be better to move the perfume shop here.

Wei Laosan's loud voice sounded again, obviously urging the back kitchen sounded like he was urging his life, Gu Huai waved his hand and called him over: "You are now running the hall, that is, the second child, isn't this what you want to do?" Can you be polite and gentle with your guests? ”

Wei Laosan glared at him: "What?" Be gentle? These bastards know how to pick thorns in one day, and they start urging after ordering food, and they want to drag them directly to the back pit and let them eat shit according to my previous temper. ”

Gu Huai took a deep breath: "After all, why do you want to be a running hall?" ”

"Sir, didn't you say that I could drink the leftover wine?"

"Who said..."As soon as the words came out, Gu Huai realized that he seemed to have said it, "Forget it." ”

Wei Laosan looked down at the account book: "My lord, why are you holding such a grudge... Still thinking about that kid? ”

"I'm helping him make a name for himself."

"Makes sense."

"Anyway, there aren't many guests, and after a while they finish eating, you go and close the door and hang up the sign."

"What are you going to do in broad daylight?"

Gu Huai sighed: "Closed... Rectify. ”