Song Wenbai has a roster written by Huang Fujian in his hand, which officials can be used, which officials must be taken, and they cannot be allowed to abscond, the roster is recorded, this Zhen Bao is among the available officials, and the comment is: Born in the Zhen family, he is a capable official, available.

Wuji's name of the Zhen family is still very loud, and the Zhen family is descended from Emperor Shun.

It is recorded in "The Biography of Chen Liu's Customs": "Shun Tao Zhen Riverside, followed by the clan, out of Zhongshan and Henan Erwang."

"Guangzhou Governor Zhen Gong Monument" said: "In the past, Hu Gong Shao Shun was dying of a big state. Chuzi County Chen, is a paradise. In the world of King Lie, there was Chen Tong Ben Zhou, and the king thought that he was a loyal general, a beautiful family, and Yan Shun lived in the position of Tao Zhen, and was ordered to be Zhen's family, and he was given the surname because of his life."

In "Chicken Ribs, Zhen's Old Spectrum, Zhen Fu", it is said: "After Shunzi Shangjun, Zhou was sealed in Chen, and was destroyed by King Chu Hui. When the king of the martyrs, there was Chen Tong who ran to Zhou, and the king thought that Zhou would be a general, and he would live in Zhen Tao with Shun, and his life would be Zhen, and he would live in Zhongshan after all passes, and he would be close to Handan."

The first theory is: Emperor Shun helped the Dongyi tribesmen to make pottery on the banks of the Langzi River, and his descendants took "Zhen" as their surname because of their occupation and officials; Most of these descendants of the Zhen family are from the prominent families of Zhongshan and Henan counties.

The second and third theories are: after the Zhou Dynasty overthrew and destroyed the Shang Dynasty, Zhou Tianzi was the descendant of Shunzi Shangjun and the descendants of the Emperor Shunzi Shang Jun were full of concubines in the Chen State, and after the Chu State destroyed Chen, Chen Tong, a descendant of Hu Gongfeiman, was given the surname Zhen because of his loyalty to Zhou Tianzi, and was awarded the official of Tao Zheng in Luoyang, and his descendants lived in Zhongshan County near Handan.

During the Qin Dynasty, the ancestors of the Zhen family had settled in Wuji County, Zhongshan County, and there were high-ranking families in the land annexation.

In the process of the establishment of the Ji State, the royal family of the Ji State did not rely on the power of the Zhen family, and married the Wuji Zhen family, was rewarded and sealed, and the family was rich and noble.

When Emperor Ji Ming, he posthumously honored his mother Zhen as Empress Wenzhao, posthumously presented his maternal grandfather as the Marquis of Anxiang, and rewarded the Zhen family with a huge amount of money. His maternal grandmother died, and An Xijun was given to him, and Emperor Ji Ming wore filial piety clothes, came to mourn in person, and accompanied by hundreds of officials.

Later, more than a dozen people of the Wuji Zhen clan were named dukes, marquis and pilgrimage officials, and they were sometimes called "Zhen Half Dynasty". The Wuji Zhen family entered its heyday.

Decades ago, it was a period of great turmoil in the Hebei dynasty. At this time, the Wuji Zhen clan was still a cloud of officials in the court, maintaining its status as the prince of Shiqing.

The children of the clan intermarried with the royal family and the big family of the Ji country, and produced a lot of talents, some of them together with mathematics, and wrote "Five Cao Arithmetic", "Five Classics of Arithmetic", "Mathematics Notes" in the "Ten Books of Arithmetic", and proficient in the astronomical calendar, compiled the "Tianhe Calendar"; Some of them are officials to the Ministry of Shangshu, in office quite a lot of achievements, after the death, by the Emperor of Ji posthumously presented the title of the United States, and personally to the memorial, to help the funeral.

Later, the political situation of the Ji State was stable, and reforms were also carried out, although the Wuji Zhen family was not as prominent as before, there were still many people in high positions. However, in recent years, the Zhen family's talents have withered, and they have repeatedly lost in the battle for the prince, which has made the family even more declining.

Song Wenbai politely returned the salute, nodded and said, "Zhen County Order is exempt, may I ask if there are enemy troops in the city?"

Zhen Bao shook his head and said, "There is not a single soldier, in fact, the war in the east of the Ji country is critical, and there is no garrison in Wuji County!"

Song Wenbai listened, nodded, walked towards the city, and said as he walked, "Let's take a look at the city first!"

Immediately, Song Wenbai led thousands of troops of the Second Brigade into Wuji County under the leadership of Zhen Bao.

Wuji County is located in the central plain of Jizhou, with four distinct climates, sufficient light and heat resources, abundant rainfall, and long frost-free period, and is one of the important grain producing areas in Jizhou.

Wuji County is close to Zishui, and it is also a very prosperous county in the territory of Ji State, it is the largest transit station for transporting materials to the northern border army of Hebei State, and countless warehouse groups have been built, and the materials from Xindu will be stored here through Hutuo Water.

But now Wuji County is also in decay like other counties in Changshan County, it is not entirely due to the war and the exploitation of the ruling class of the Ji State, a very important reason is due to the suspension of shipping. Ji is located in the land of the four wars, and has spent a lot of military expenditure year after year, resulting in a very insufficient financial resource for repairing the river, which makes most of the river in Ji land silted up, and water is one of them. And because of the tension on the Eastern Front

, Ji Guo transported all the materials to Hejian County Zhilecheng County, making hundreds of warehouses in Wuji County empty.

There are few pedestrians on the streets of Wuji County, and the shops are basically closed, Song Wenbai asked puzzledly, "Is it because of the war?"

Zhen Bao shook his head with a wry smile and explained: "The Ji *** team has scavenged all the meat, whether it is fresh game, cured meat, or bacon, it is gone, and the restaurant can't just sell vegetables when it opens! By the way, the wine was also swept away. This made people panic, and all the shops did not dare to do business."

Song Wenbai asked seriously, "How much food and materials are there in the county?"

Zhen Bao said like a few treasures: "Only the county warehouse has a few hundred stones of grain, those large warehouses are empty, many of these warehouses are built by merchants, years after years of war, many merchants are dilapidated, some of the abandoned warehouses have not been loaded for more than ten years, and they are all dilapidated and collapsed."

Song Wenbai said with a smile, "No! Last year, there was abundant rain and a good harvest, and you harvested a lot of rice and wheat in your official fields, so why are there only a few hundred stone of grain?"

Zhen Bao hurriedly explained: "The official fields and military fields of the counties of Zhongshan County, all the grain is directly transported to the Xindu military warehouse, and it does not enter the county warehouses at all.

Song Wenbai inspected the city again, and felt that the city wall was still relatively tall and strong, and there were many open spaces in the city, so he ordered the first brigade to also enter the city and station.

At that time, since he came to this Wuji city, he had been busy with military affairs, and when the dust had settled and he sat down to eat, the sun had already set, and night had fallen.

At this time, Wuji County ordered Zhen Bao to bring a businessman to find Song Wenbai, and the two bowed to Song Wenbai, Zhen Bao said, "General Song, there is something I may want to report to you."

Song Wenbai was having dinner, and hurriedly put down his rice bowl and asked, "What's the matter?"

Zhen Bao pointed to the merchant behind him and introduced: "General Song, this is the head of the caravan under my Wuji Zhen clan, he has just returned from Bohai County, he said that the battle situation on the eastern front has been eroded, and the Ji army cannot stop the attack of the Japanese slaves at all, and has retreated to the line from Shuzhou to Chengping in Hejian County, and the people of Hejian County and Bohai County are fleeing for their lives to the western counties. Moreover, the Ji army in Zhilunu County, Zhongshan County, has retreated to the east."

"What?!"

Song Wenbai was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "When did this happen?"

The merchant trembled and said, "I left Dongpingshu with the caravan the night before yesterday, it was yesterday at noon, I was worried that the Ji army would forcibly requisition my chariots and horses, but there were no soldiers on the sentry post, I heard that hundreds of carts full of supplies left Lunu and went east the night before yesterday."

Song Wenbai calculated the time, basically the other party walked on the front foot, and he arrived at Wuji County on the back foot. And the Ji *** team is not an ordinary army, they are well-trained professional soldiers, but they can't beat the Japanese slave dwarf who floated over from across the sea, this is very unreasonable, the change in the military situation is a big deal, the Ji army in Lunu County has all retreated, what about Hejian County and Anping County?

Song Wenbai loudly ordered the soldiers outside the tent and said, "Immediately send someone to find the division Sima, the brigade commanders of the first and second brigades, and the brigade Sima!"

"Whoa!"

At this time, Zhen Bao secretly glanced at Song Wenbai's dinner, a small pot of cooked white siad tofu soup, a bowl of boiled beans, a pickled fish, a few dried cakes, and a pot of water, it should be water, and there was no smell of wine in the big tent.

Zhen Bao secretly smacked his tongue, this Song general ate exactly the same meal as the soldiers he saw on the road! It is no wonder that the state army was able to defeat the Yong army, the Ji army and the You army, which can be seen from this small detail. The hierarchy of the Central Plains teams is strict, what kind of food is eaten, the generals can ensure that there is meat for a meal, and the soldiers will not starve to death.

In fact, the food of the state army is not bad, and the biggest expenditure of the state is of course the military spending, and one-third of the military budget is used on the food of the state army. In order to ensure that the soldiers can eat meat every day, Wang Rong has worked hard to ensure that in the Bingzhou army, you can punch the spearmen and kick the halberders, but you must not offend the firehead soldiers, because

They were in charge of the meat of the entire state army, raising more than 100,000 sheep and even more pigs.

The people of this era thought that pigs were cheap and pork was cheap meat, and their lack of pork practices made pork extremely fishy and difficult to swallow.

Wang Rong gave a move to the Huotou army, except for the breeding pigs left for breeding, the other boars were all pulled to the knife and turned into boars. As a result, the pigs have become fat and strong, and the meat they make has no fishy smell.

Nowadays, pork is the main meat in the Bingzhou army, so that the soldiers of the Bingzhou army can eat meat every day. Today, because they came to Wuji County, there were a lot of fish in the water, so the Huotou soldiers gave full play to their subjective initiative and caught a lot of fish, plus the pickled fish they carried, and the meat for dinner was fish.

Wang Rong is very strict with the management of the generals, whether it is in peacetime training or during war, the food of the soldiers must be the same, this is a military order.

Before the generals came over, Song Wenbai asked Zhen Bao and the businessman some questions, and until there were no more questions, he asked the two to leave.

When Shi Sima and a group of generals arrived, Song Wenbai said directly to Shi Sima, "Old Pei, we are in trouble this time."