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Chapter 6 What a sin

The east gate of Dongwang City was opened, and Hu Wei took Hong, Zhu Daneng, Hou San and other generals, holding the grain and grass obtained from the Falling Stone Valley, and returned victoriously

There was no welcome from the people, and some were just acting army commander Qi Yuanjie and a group of generals of various divisions and regiments who were waiting for the distribution of food, Dongwang City was not big, and it was not a place for garrisons, Hu Wei left his troops outside the city, and only brought Hong, Zhu Daneng, Hou San, Jebe and Harrison, and the thirty people belonging to Kochishi into the city

Qi Yuanjie, Zhuang Jinxi and other big generals, when they saw Hu Wei coming back, their reactions were not the same, and their faces were smiling, but who knew what they were thinking

After a period of greetings, a group of more than 100 people walked into the only restaurant in Dongwang City-Zuixianlou, where a rich banquet has been prepared, and the bright face is to celebrate Hu Wei's victory and return, in fact, everyone has no oil and water in their stomachs, so they take the opportunity to eat

Qingzhou is already a relatively bitter place in the empire, but this Dongwangcheng is even more bitter than Qingzhou, and more than the officials want to scrape oil and water, they can't find a place, they are hungry and yellow-skinned, and they don't even have the interest to rob the people's daughters

It's not that these people in charge don't have to eat, they still have ordinary rice, but these years, the officials are used to wine and meat, and the light and tasteless rice is extremely precious to the people, but in their eyes, it is something that can be eaten

"Hu Youdu will return this time victorious, and give us the Blizzard Legion a glass of wine, not a tribute, on behalf of all the soldiers of the Blizzard Legion, I will toast you" Qi Yuanjie raised a large glass of wine and kicked off the prelude to this banquet

Another glass of wine, you look at what he took, it's obviously a big sea bowl, Dong Wangcheng is so poor, he doesn't eat much, there is not much wine, all the wine in this drunken immortal building is taken out, but more than a dozen cans, if you want to drink enough, you have to cross the sea with eight immortals, each find a way, otherwise don't say it's a drunken fairy, you can't do it a drunken cat

"Don't dare, don't dare, everyone drinks together, drink together" Hu Wei hugged the big bowl, hehe smiled and said that he drank a meal in Luoshi Valley yesterday, which is not so gluttonous for wine, but the atmosphere of the scene is like this, if you don't take the sea bowl, take a cup, people still laugh at you stupid The so-called go to the countryside and follow the township, you have to follow the customs, don't keep making yourself as if you are different, shoot the first bird, sometimes you should shrink and shrink

"Ah" Qi Yuanjie took a sip of wine, and let out a long breath of refreshing air, so beautiful that this old man is not lustful, so if he doesn't drink one less wine, he will feel uncomfortable

"General Hu Wei, I see that your long convoy just now came here to fight and gained a lot," Qi Yuanjie squinted and said

Hu worriedly said, 'Gotcha', just took a sip of wine, and asked Lao Tzu for something, you don't ask me how many bandits I have suppressed in this battle, how many people and horses I have lost, and I have to divide things when I come up, and I am too shameless, even if I am shameless, compared to you, Lao Tzu, it is still so much worse

What Hu Wei thought in his heart, he couldn't say it in his mouth, the one in front of him, anyway, was still the acting army commander, and it was no good to do him, so he smiled and said: "Thanks to the adult, this time I went out, and I gained a little."

Who wouldn't say good things, Hu Wei really wants to talk about it, and he can say it for three days and three nights without repeating

Qi Yuanjie's eyes lit up, and he twitched his beard and said, "How much?"

As soon as Qi Yuanjie's words came out, there were a lot of voices on the scene, and everyone stretched their necks, secretly paying attention to the interests of various divisions and troops, and they all had to listen clearly so that they could calculate their share

Hu Wei didn't bother to scold shamelessly in his heart, anyway, it was already like that, and it was useless to scold

Hu worried: "The specific amount will have to wait for the grain officer of the regiment to calculate, and I will know that the grain and grass that I got back from the Falling Stone Valley this time should be enough for the whole army of 50,000 soldiers to eat for three months, and there are also some gold, silver, jewelry and other things, which are also handed over to the Quartermaster Department."

After discussing with Zhu Daneng and others, Hu Wei decided to use the method of interception this time and leave a batch of things obtained from Luoshi Valley

The rockfall valley has been robbed very fiercely in recent years, and there are a lot of things left behind in the valley, only two things, one is rice, and the other is gold coins, which are the most practical, and the others are flower heads, which do not have much effect

"These robbers actually robbed so many people of fat and ointment, it's really too much" Qi Yuanjie scolded fiercely, his eyes were happy enough for 50,000 people to eat three months' food, how much did they get, this time it was a relief for the urgent need

Qi Yuanjie was patronizing and happy, but he didn't notice that the people's fat and people's ointment should not be used to describe the robbers' stolen goods

"That is, all those hateful robbers should be arrested and killed"

"If you don't kill, it's not enough for civilians to hate"

"On the top floor, agree"

Qi Yuanjie opened his mouth, and the generals below all started scolding, and they were all scolding in their mouths, and they were all calculating in their hearts, this single Falling Stone Valley has enough food and so many gold and silver things to eat for three months, and there are so many robbers and bandits around Wangcheng in this cave, if they are all exterminated, how many good things can they get, God, let the bandits come more fiercely

After a meal of drinking and scolding, all the generals unanimously agreed to strictly suppress the bandits around Dongwang City, and the scope of this blow was from a hundred miles around Dongwang City before, to five hundred miles, and they didn't care if it was five hundred miles away, whether it was the control range of Dongwang City or not, all they were thinking about was how to get more things from the bandits, if it weren't for the Qinling Mountains that couldn't be overturned, they wouldn't even want to help the bandits of the Chihe Empire to suppress them

Hu Wei looked coldly at these half-drunk, almost crazy generals, I really wanted to give a direct order, cut them like melons and vegetables, all of them were cut down by the soldiers of the Blizzard Legion, most of them were good, it was precisely because of such a commander that they ended up at this point now, the so-called soldiers are bearing, and the generals who will be in a nest of bears, there are few good things, and what good soldiers can be brought out

Hu Wei was thinking about it, and suddenly felt a gaze that stopped on him, and his heart sank, and his face instantly changed into an arrogant crazy smile, shouting and shouting, more excited than anyone else

After a long time, after not feeling that gaze, Hu Wei borrowed the wine to look in that direction, and now that gaze came from Zhuang Jinxi, the current number two person in the Blizzard Army

After Hu Wei watched Zhuang Jinxi, he reflexively looked at Qi Yuanjie, now this Lao Tzu was drunk on the surface, his eyes were half-squinted, but he was not drunk, he was hiding in the frenzy, secretly paying attention to the people around him

"All of them are old foxes" Hu Wei scolded secretly in his heart, and at the same time alerted himself, although it seems to be a ball of harmony on this wine table, there is indeed a sword and sword shadow on the back, and if you don't care, you will end up in a place of no return

The next day, Hu Wei let the troops rest and recuperate, and did not go out to suppress the bandits, don't look at the drunken fairy upstairs, those generals denounced the bandits and robbers one by one, but when they really wanted to do it, they all shrank their heads, no one went, they waited for Hu Wei to bring people up, and then they were delicious and ready-made Today, Hu Wei did not move, and the whole army calmed down

This cave is really not a place for people to stay, the weather is as hot as a stove, and there are no trees outside the city to shade it, Hu Wei is sitting in the military tent, his clothes are all stripped off, and it is still too hot to work, the more he reads, the more upset he becomes, and he simply throws the book aside

"What's wrong?" When Red came in, he happened to see Hu Wei throwing Hu Wei, who usually likes books the most, and usually doesn't do this

"It's hot, upset," Hu Wei said like a child

Hong picked up the book, came to Hu Wei's side, stretched out his hand to wipe the sweat from Hu Wei's head, and said with a smile: "You, you must have drunk yesterday and couldn't watch it, so how about I accompany you to the city to relax?"

Hu Wei remembered that Chu Zhu was going to build a school in Dongwang City, and he also wanted to go and see it, so he got up and said, "Okay, let's go find Huzi and Niu'er to play."

Said to go, Hu Wei waited in the red, changed into civilian clothes, this dress is red to Dongwang City, personally made for Hu Wei, using the yarn fabric of the skirt made by his daughter's family, wearing it on the body is not sticky, it is very cool to press the meaning of red, it is made for Hu Wei to wear in the tent, how to think of Hu Wei's **, usually in the military tent with no clothes, so this clothes have been placed

"Hu Wei, do you want to go out in this dress?" Hong looked at Hu Wei with some concern

Hu Wei tugged at the clothes on his body, didn't feel that there was anything wrong, and couldn't help but ask strangely: "Yes, this dress is quite cool, is there anything wrong?"

Hong shook his head and said: "The problem is no, but this fabric is a skirt made by my daughter's family, you wear it in the military tent, it's not a big problem, I'm afraid it's not good to wear it out."

Only then did Hu Wei understand that he was worried about what strange clothes he was wearing, a little fabric problem, he and Ben didn't care about taking Hong's hand with a smile and walking out of the tent together

After all, the city is a place where residents live, although it is a little dilapidated, but it is much better than the environment in the barracks outside the city

"Huh, if you don't say that you want to be a city person, this city is better than outside the city" Hu Wei let out a long breath, cooler, and his mood was better

Red and blown by the wind of the long said: "Actually, this cave Wang City is also very beautiful, but unfortunately the people are too poor I heard a fellow villager say, a few decades ago, this place was prosperous for a while, at that time, the population of this Dong Wang City once reached three or four hundred thousand."

Hu Wei became interested: "Oh? And this, have I ever heard of anything special about this place that can attract so many people?"

Hong smiled proudly: "I thought you knew everything, it turns out that you also don't know something."

Hu Wei scratched his head and said: "You think I am a god, you can know everything, tell me quickly, there is something special here, otherwise I will punish you."

The red face is red, and Hu Wei has a charming eye, Hu Wei's punishment is just a few tricks, and the red will only be cool, so he will not be afraid of him

Hu Wei didn't say anything about Hong, smiled evilly, leaned up, and with a colored hand, he reached Hong's waist and moved up according to the familiar route

"If you want to die, you will mess around on the street" Red slapped away his troubled hands, seeing that no one was paying attention, he dared to pull the dress tightly, but he dared to do anything, and Red didn't dare to provoke him

Hu Wei smiled proudly: "I'm afraid, see if you say it"

Hong glared at Hu Wei fiercely and said, "I'm afraid of you, and I don't know what I owe you in my last life, I'll ask you, do you know that the horses in Tianfeng Da 6 are the best?"

"That's naturally the Chihe Empire, the war horses of the Chihe Empire are famous for their great strength and good endurance" Hu Wei didn't want to think about this aspect, but he had done an investigation, he had been thinking about how to establish a cavalry unit of his own, and he naturally paid special attention to this aspect of things

Red nodded and said, "Even if you're right, do you know where the best horses are in our Mandala Empire?"

"This" Hu Wei just appeared, red didn't ask, he really didn't know, the best horses in this mandala Empire, the horses in Qingzhou are definitely not good, although the horses there are big, but the stamina is not good, the horses in the south are not good, they have stamina, but they are too tall, riding a dwarf, a tall person rides up, and his feet are almost dragged to the ground, not to mention that it is not good to fight, and it is not good to ride in ordinary times

"I don't know," Hong said with a smug smile, it is not easy to see Hu Wei suffocating, she used to let Hu Wei make 'nonsense', this time there is a chance, I have to laugh back

"Naughty again," Hu Wei moved his fingers and smiled evilly

Red pouted, scolded in a low voice, and hurriedly said: "Today, this girl will tell you, let you have a long knowledge, you listen, the best horses in the empire are produced in the northwest"

"Northwest?" Hu Wei frowned, this was the first time he had heard this statement

"Yes, due to the special weather in the northwest, the horses here are the best, both in terms of size and endurance"

Hu Wei pondered: "Special weather reasons, do you mean hot during the day and cold at night?"

Hong was very satisfied with Hu Wei's reaction, nodded and said: "Yes, when I was at home before, my father once told me about this, but I couldn't explain it at that time, and when I came here with you, I knew that there is really a place in this world where the temperature difference between day and night is really big."

Hu Wei thought for a while and said, "Do you want to sue me that the prosperity of this cave Wang City back then came from horses?"

Hong replied: "That's right, this Dongwang City is the northwesternmost city of the empire, if it wasn't for the prosperity of Yima back then, how could it become one of the seventy-two cities of the empire?"

Hong's question can be regarded as talking about Hu Wei's heart, he has always wondered before, the scale of this Dongwang City is not even as good as a town, how can it be the establishment of a city

"Then why is this place the way it is?" Hu Wei pointed to the empty road, where are there any horses, not even a, no one would have thought that this place was once prosperous with horses

Hong sighed and said: "This paragraph, is something that does not exist in the history of the empire, this cave Wang City, back then, was also called Horse City, because of the production of good horses, and was once one of the supply places for the military horses of the former Bauhinia Dynasty, the cavalry of the Bauhinia Dynasty, you should have heard of it."

Hu Wei nodded and said, "Well, I heard that they once swept half of the Ningnan Empire with 50,000 cavalry."

Hong Dao: "Yes, although this is a bit exaggerated, but the cavalry of the Bauhinia Dynasty back then was indeed very powerful, and the war horses of those cavalry came from this cave Wang City."

Emperor Taizu was defeated by the cavalry of the Bauhinia Dynasty several times, and he hated it, and after overthrowing the Bauhinia Dynasty, he sent people to burn the pasture here, and ordered that no horses should be raised for thirty years."

"Bang" Hu Wei punched a locust tree on the side of the road to vent his inner dissatisfaction with the history books of the empire, what a great figure Rijkaard was, and Hu Wei once thought he was great

However, as I learned more and more things, Hu worries appeared, and the ideal and reality are often very different from each other, which once again proves that history is written by the victors

Rijkaard, what a great figure in the almanac, how can he blame the reason for the defeat on the Dongwang City because of his own mistakes, just because you are unhappy, so that this big city of hundreds of thousands of people in the past has fallen to the people who are only 20,000 bitter haha

What is the difference between letting a city that raises horses for a living and not raising horses for 30 years and letting a fisherman not be allowed to fish for 30 years?

That's the skill they rely on to survive, if you don't let people do it, that's to smash people's jobs, no wonder the loess outside the city is flying all over the sky, it turns out that Rijkaard sent people to burn the grass on it, no wonder those lands are so barren, they can't grow any food, that's the land that grows pasture, used to grow food, can it grow

Rijkaard, for his own selfishness, not only destroyed a city, but also deprived the empire of a treasure land that produced good horses, which is the pain of the people and the misfortune of the empire

Hu Wei suddenly thought of a question, and dared to ask closely: "What about now, now that thirty years have passed, why don't the people here raise horses again, this is their old business?"

Hong shook his head and said: "The reason why the horses here are good is because the grass here is very special, and the grass here has never grown since it was burned down and there is no grass, why raise horses?"

Hu Wei closed his eyes speechlessly, and what came to his mind was the endless grassland, and the beautiful grassland that people destroyed with one hand in the fire and crying broke the grass's heart

What's wrong with those grasses, they use their bodies to nourish the horses, but they are ruthlessly ruined, why do they still grow?