Chapter 5: The Eye of the Storm

Across the river bend is a village.

After many wars, the houses in the village have not yet collapsed, but the population has been left unpopulated.

Several old men carried hoes and went numbly to the fields to hoe weeds, as if they had not even noticed the long queue that passed by them.

The line is long and the discipline is good. As they passed through the farmland, many people looked at the elderly with their eyes.

There are often a variety of reasons why people have not been evacuated from war-torn areas.

These old goods, probably the whole family is dead, and it doesn't make a difference whether they go or not. Living one day is one day, and if you can't live one day, then die.

They know this mentality too well, maybe they think the same way themselves.

After more than half of the army, the general rode his horse and left, surrounded by his own soldiers, and ran to a house at the head of the village.

The house is quite large, with a huge gatehouse in front, a patio courtyard behind the gatehouse, and three houses in the back.

The houses and gatehouses are surrounded by high walls, and the walls are very thick, and people can stand on them.

This type of system has become more and more popular in recent years.

When He Lun came to the outside of the house, he saw a hanging coupon hanging on it.

Read carefully, this house is sold for 100,000 yuan. There are also a few big characters written at the bottom: "The loss is estimated at 4,000 officials, and the buyer pays." ”

"Pei Daoqi is quite particular, and he doesn't forget the official family before leaving." He Lun smiled, and after sending someone to pass through, he went straight inside.

When I arrived at the patio, I happened to meet Pei Shao who came out of the east kitchen.

"Pei Changshi actually cooks in person?" He Lun was a little surprised.

"The servants and maidservants were all dismissed, but a few of them, who were old, blind and deaf, and had nowhere to go, left them to sweep in the house. Let's take it one day at a time. General He is here today, may he have something important? ”

"There were thieves who rode across the river from Yangping to harass, trampled on the seedlings, and burned down the houses. Liu Wang Qiao ordered me to lead my army westward to disperse the thief army. He Lun said: "Passing by the king's house, let's take a look." Pei Changshi hangs coupons to sell houses, where is this going? ”

"Xuzhou, are you going?" Pei Shao glanced at him and asked.

He Lun laughed and asked rhetorically, "Is it Xuzhou?" ”

Pei Shao also smiled: "Maybe." Where is General Ho going? ”

"I won't go to Xuzhou, I'm afraid I won't be able to compete with Wang Bing, let's take a look." He Lun said.

Pei Shao nodded and said, "Even if you go back to the East China Sea, I'm afraid you won't be able to compete with Wang Bing." ”

The Wang family is the most famous scholar family in Xuzhou, and the most powerful.

Wang Long is the governor of Xuzhou again, and Wang Bing still controls a part of the army, so the time and place are favorable, is it not for others to be slaughtered?

The old servant came out with a plate of steamed cakes and placed them on the stone table in the courtyard.

Pei Shao was wearing a loose robe, with black soot hidden on his forehead, and at this time he rolled up his sleeves and said, "Since General He is here, why don't you eat together?" ”

"There is a fire of hunger in the belly, and it must be quenched with this bread." He Lun sat down with a smile, grabbed a piece of steamed cake and nibbled on it.

Pei Shao's eating appearance was not very good, and he chewed heavily.

The two of them quickly ate a large plate of steamed cakes.

"I heard that the Xiongnu were hoarding money and grain in Hedong and wanted to enter the pass in a big way, but recently the Yangping and Dunqiu areas were not peaceful, and there were many thieves crossing the river to the south, what does General He think?" Pei Shao patted his belly comfortably and asked.

"Or maybe it's a ploy." He Lun thought for a while and said.

"Not necessarily, right?" Pei Shao frowned and said, "Shi Le, Shi Chao, and Zhao Gutun soldiers in Hebei did not follow to Hedong. ”

"After I heard about the establishment of the Huns, I put a ban on soldiers." He Lun said: "In this tackling, you don't necessarily need to use Shi Le and others, right? ”

Pei Shao thought about it and agreed with this statement.

Liu Han is no longer a grass platform team. No matter what the level of its officials is, at least it is fully equipped, and the entire imperial court can function.

Perhaps, they want to rely on their own strength to defeat Guanzhong, rather than driving the foreign department to surrender troops and generals.

"In this way, Henan is actually quite dangerous." Pei Shao said again: "It seems that there are a lot of soldiers, but in fact, they are scattered, and they must be prepared quickly." ”

When He Lun heard this, he felt that Pei Shao had something to say, so he immediately glanced at him seriously and asked, "To prepare soldiers and horses, you have to have a backbone." Today, Xiangyang Wang Fan, Liu Wangqiao and others are doing things, but their prestige is insufficient, and they can't command the shogunate officials and generals, so what can they do? ”

"Aren't Concubine Pei and the heir here?" Pei Shao no longer covered it up and said directly.

"But some people say that they manipulate ...... for Shao Xun," He Lun said in a low voice.

"Who said that?" Pei Shao's eyelids jumped and asked.

He Lun smiled and said, "Changshi knowingly asked, why bother to bully honest people?" ”

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After speaking, he asked again, "Where is Chen Hou?" ”

"Juancheng." Pei Shao said.

He Lun nodded, which was consistent with the news found in the army.

"How many more do you have?" Pei Shao asked again.

"And seven or eight thousand." He Lun said: "A few beggars ran away with people and didn't chase them. The rest are not very stable, and they are all ready to wait for Li Yuanjun to come. ”

When Li Shu came, the meaning was clear enough.

Li Shu is the person of the Son of Heaven, and taking refuge in Li Shu is taking refuge in the Son of Heaven. No, maybe the word "refuge" should not be used, the Son of Heaven is the co-master of the world, shouldn't he serve him?

"Wang Bing's side is okay, there are no less than 10,000 soldiers, and he wants to pull this team away. But there was also a mess underneath, and many of the soldiers of Yu Yan were reluctant to go to Xuzhou. If you really want to forcibly pull it away, take half of it away at most. ”

"There are more than 3,000 people in Liu Qia's department and more than 1,000 cavalry troops, and they are inclined to the princess and heir."

After He Lun finished speaking, he looked at Pei Shao quietly.

Pei Shao smiled and said, "At least half of the people have dispersed." King Xiangyang can't help it, no one listens to him. The remaining 20,000 or so people also have their own thoughts. I can't even imagine that once Shile attacks, who will be able to resist? ”

"Shile is busy farming, and he won't be able to come for a while." He Lun said: "Moreover, at the beginning of spring, even the Hu people also have a lot of things, and the horses are losing fat so badly that they can't be raised?" He can only send a small force of cavalry to attack and harass his subordinates now. ”

Pei Shao snorted, he really didn't know much about the things in the army. At the critical moment, you still have to use these soldiers.

"I heard that Changshi was a wingman in the Langya King Shogunate, I don't know how Jianye is doing?" He Lun asked.

"Oh? Do you want to cross south too? Pei Shao asked with a smile.

"Someone in the family has crossed south." He Lun said: "I won't go. ”

"Some people go, some people stay, it's normal. If it weren't for Situ's levy, I would still be building Ye. Pei Shao said: "King Langya is now an empty shelf. ”

"How?"

"No soldiers, no money, no food." Pei Shao pondered for a while and said, "Wang Maohong, the guide of the king of Zuo, travels all day long, visiting the heroes of the scholars in various places. Well, don't underestimate those Wu Di heroes, although some of them are very low, or even have no families at all, but there are a lot of people in the tribe, and they often send 10,000 or 20,000 troops. King Langya pays great attention to winning them over, but in fact, he just takes what he needs. ”

He Lun knows.

I heard that there are four families of Gu Lu, Zhu and Zhang in Wudi, which are very famous.

The king of Langya had dealings with the lower heroes of Wu Dimen, and it was obvious that he had the intention of using these heroes to fight against the old clan of Wu Di.

Of course, Gu Lu, Zhu and Zhang Sijia were not left out in the cold. The official did it, and the days passed, but he just wanted to share a little benefit to the newly emerging Wu clan such as the Zhou family.

This is a typical method of the Wang family, Wang Yan likes to use this trick the most, and Director Wang seems to be proficient in this way.

"Actually, King Langya is very welcoming to the northerners who cross to the south." Pei Shao said again: "If you go south now, there will be a lot of benefits. When there are more people going in the future, they may not have these benefits, and they may even be suppressed. Guy, whether it is the new upstart or the old clan of Wu Land, actually doesn't like to see too many northerners going south, this is to grab food with them. It's tolerable now, but it's hard to say in the future. ”

After He Lun listened, he felt that Jiangdong was also quite complicated.

All kinds of forces are intertwined, and if you hadn't been an official over there, you really couldn't figure it out.

Moreover, the military pillar of the Jianye shogunate was actually Jiangnan Haoqiang such as the Yixing Zhou clan, which was a big surprise.

"King Langya may have sent someone this time." Pei Shao lowered his voice and said.

"Where?" He Lun was surprised.

"I don't know." Pei Shao shook his head and said, "I also received letters from some old friends, and I knew that King Langya sent people to Langya Kingdom to move the old things in the mansion. I don't know what the letter says, but these people may have another mission, but it's just my guess. ”

"Mess! It's messy! He Lun sighed.

A small Fan county has now become the eye of the storm.

Everyone has a choice to make, whether they are forced to do so or not.

After sitting for a while, He Lun got up and said goodbye.

After returning to his troops, he looked at his troops and was slightly worried.

Most of these people were adapted from the beggar army.

After Situ left the town, he couldn't afford to buy them too much equipment, and they even needed to settle the fields themselves to solve some of the military rations.

The beggar army and them may not be of the same mind, and there are people shouting every day to break up.

Fortunately, after the news of the princess and the heir coming to Fan County arrived, people's hearts were much calmer.

Everyone was waiting, waiting for the next meeting.

These Situ remnants are facing the risk of being liquidated by the imperial court, and they are like lonely ghosts, and they urgently need a backbone to gather people's hearts.

Whoever it is, just take them alive.

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