Chapter 129: Restoring Drug Prices and Pension Turmoil
In the Tiance Army station, Chu Mofeng was standing on a high platform in front of the big tent at the moment, and there were two hundred and eleven Tiance troops standing under the stage, only to hear Chu Mofeng say slowly: "I heard other generals say that every time a battle is over, a post-war summary meeting needs to be held, and this kind of thing is not in vogue in our Tiance. ”
Hearing Chu Mofeng say this, the hundred recruits in the last row laughed one after another, but the one hundred and ten veterans in the front row couldn't laugh at the moment, everyone knew that this time the Tiance Army was almost exhausted, and in the end only twelve people were left to come back, and the people who listened back talked about the tragedy of the battle, and everyone still didn't want to recall, at this time, it was suddenly mentioned by Chu Mofeng, and the expressions on everyone's faces seemed so sad and lonely.
Seeing that everyone was depressed, Chu Mofeng said in a deep voice: "I know what you are thinking at this time, yes, three hundred people went out in a neat manner, and twelve came back, and many of my colleagues asked me, what about the two hundred and eighty-eight people?"
I saw Chu Mofeng stretch out his hand and pointed in the direction of the Valhalla outside Daxing City, and said sharply: "I told them that my two hundred and eighty-eight brothers are sleeping in the Valhalla at this moment, why? Because they did not hesitate to sacrifice their lives to defeat Xue Rengao for the sake of the peace and contentment of the people, and this victory was won in exchange for the lives of the brothers." ”
Listening to Chu Mofeng's words, the eleven Tiance soldiers who came back from the battlefield looked even more lonely, and when they saw that everyone had no fighting spirit, Chu Mofeng pondered for a moment and said loudly: "Zhao Xin, this time with this official, is there anyone in the wolf tooth team who is afraid to move forward?"
The commander of the Wolf Tooth team, who was named by name, shouted: "Back to the general, the wolf tooth team and the last general have a total of fifty people, and none of them flinched. ”
Chu Mofeng nodded and said, "Qian Ming, the spear team is going out with this official this time, but there are people who are greedy for life and afraid of death?"
Qian Ming, the commander of the spear team, shouted loudly when he heard this: "Report to General Chu, the hundred people in the spear team are all people who sacrifice their lives and forget their deaths. ”
"Sun Xian, is there anyone in the crossbow team who has a grudge and died in vain for no reason this time?" Chu Mofeng nodded and began to ask Sun Xian, the leader of the crossbow team.
"None of the crossbow team took a step back until the last moment. Seeing that his chief officer questioned himself, Sun Xian said angrily.
Chu Mofeng nodded, and looked at Li Jian, the commander of the archery team, Li Jian didn't wait for Chu Mofeng to ask questions, and hurriedly said loudly: "General Qiqi Chu, the direction your sword is pointing in the direction where the arrows of the archery team are going." ”
At this moment, Chu Mofeng said loudly to everyone on the field: "In that case, then why are you so depressed? You must know that after this battle, your life is no longer yours, and you are still burdened with the expectations of those two hundred and eighty-eight brothers. ”
When everyone heard Chu Mofeng's words, their originally somewhat sloppy eyes gradually began to heat up a little, "I, Chu someone, am not the kind of person who does not believe in his words, all the families of the brothers who died in battle, in addition to the pension allocated by the imperial court, I will give them double, and in the future, their families will not take a penny for consultation in the Rende Medical Center in the city, and my wife will also build a school in Daxing City, and all the children of the brothers can stay and study for free, and the general's office will be responsible for all the expenses for food and lodging." ”
Everyone was overjoyed when they heard this, no general had ever been able to treat his soldiers like Chu Mofeng, they all knew that this person was originally a chivalrous man in the rivers and lakes, and he knew what a chivalrous demeanor was when he saw it today. Thinking of this, the crowd shouted in unison.
At this time, Li Shimin accompanied by the soldier of the Tiance Army to the camp, and when he saw the scene in front of him, Li Shimin seemed to be talking to the soldier of the Tiance Army, and said as if he was talking to himself: "Boy, I was right to hand over the black-armored cavalry to you at the beginning, and only you can treat these people sincerely." ”
The soldiers accompanying him asked inexplicably: "General Li, why do you say that?" ”
Li Shimin glanced at the soldiers beside him and said: "You General Chu would rather cover the retreat of his team alone than stay and die, so willing to sacrifice himself to fulfill others, he is indeed a person worth following, do a good job under him, I hope that in the near future, I can see a high-spirited Tiance army appear on the battlefield again." ”
Accidentally catching a glimpse of Li Shimin on the side, Chu Mofeng's face turned cold and said to the group of Tiance soldiers: "All the personnel will start training according to the established plan. After speaking, he turned around and came to Li Shimin, looked at him coldly and didn't say a word.
Seeing this, the Tiance soldiers on the side hurriedly turned around and ran to the training team with a military salute to Chu Mofeng, thinking that these two great gods were fighting, and it would be better for us little people to quickly stay away.
Seeing Chu Mofeng looking at him without saying a word, Li Shimin reluctantly squeezed out a smile and said, "I said Chu boy, what kind of attitude do you have, you hurriedly sent someone to call me but didn't speak, what's wrong?"
"Are you embarrassed to ask, I'll take you to see someone first, and then trouble your General Li to give an explanation to the lower officials?" After speaking, he turned around and walked forward, regardless of whether Li Shimin behind him followed. The two walked all the way to a camp tent, Chu Mofeng pointed to the camp tent and said, "Go in." ”
Seeing this, Li Shimin shook his head helplessly, stretched out his hand to lift the curtain of the tent and walked in, only to see a person lying on the ground in the big tent with bruises on his face and his hands and feet tied.
As soon as he heard that Li Shimin was coming, Li Da shouted loudly as if he had found the backbone: "Cousin, please give my little brother my decision, today this person came to the little brother's medicinal herb shop, and kept saying that he wanted to buy medicinal materials, and the little brother sincerely offered the price, this person felt that the price was expensive, so he sent someone to arrest the little brother back, and the pharmacy was also seized by this person." ”
Hearing this, Li Shimin raised his head and looked at Chu Mofeng coldly and said, "Is this matter as he said? If so, you must give me an explanation!"
Seeing that Li Da was still quibbling, Chu Mofeng sneered and said: "General Li, your distant relatives in the mansion have a great appetite, the price of medicinal materials in Daxing City has been raised more than three times during the time we went on the expedition, and in addition, this distant relative of your family wants to let Dr. Mo Ziyao of the Rende Medical Center accompany him for a night before he is willing to reduce the price of medicinal materials, who do you think should be given an explanation for this matter?"
"Mo Ziyao Mo ..... of Rende Medical Center" Li Shimin just pronounced these words, suddenly reacted, turned around and picked up the horse whip hanging in the camp tent, and beat Li Da on the ground to death, scolding while smoking his mouth: "You are really tired of being crooked, do you know who Dr. Mo of Rende Medical Center is? Damn, Mrs. Sanpin, you dare to worry about it? I think you are really impatient." ”
originally thought that Li Shimin could turn over and show off his might for a while, but before he could say a few words, he was jerked by Li Shimin, Li Da rolled and screamed while enduring the pain, and then realized that he really kicked the iron plate this time.
After smoking back and forth, Li Shimin seemed to be still angry, dropped the horsewhip and pulled out the sword on his waist and was about to stab it, Chu Mofeng shouted when he saw this: "Okay, you killed someone in the camp, and you will get into trouble again if you spread it." ”
Seeing that Chu Mofeng stopped him, Li Shimin felt that there seemed to be a turning point in this matter, and hurriedly put away his sword and said to Chu Mofeng: "This bastard should be damned, you say, what do you want me to dissipate?"
I only heard Chu Mofeng say coldly: "If you kill him, my anger will disappear, are you willing?"
Li Shimin originally thought that Chu Mofeng would let him break Li Da's two legs, but who knew that Chu Mofeng was about to kill Li Da when he opened his mouth, Li Shimin was suddenly choked for a long time and did not slow down, coughed a few times, pointed at Chu Mofeng and said, "You... Are you really here?"
"Do you think? If this were my previous character, maybe I would drag him to the street and cut him down on the spot, how would I leave it to you to deal with? I have done enough for your Li family, you can decide what to do. After Chu Mofeng finished speaking, he turned around and walked out of the big tent, standing outside the tent and waiting for Li Shimin to make a decision.
There were only Li Shimin and Li Da left in the big tent, and I only heard Li Shimin say slowly: "To be honest, if this had been a few days ago, I might have been able to save your life, but the illness of these people in the house has been free of charge for Dr. Mo's illness over the years, Dr. Mo's eldest sister is from the rivers and lakes, if you know that your sister is being bullied, do you think you can escape?"
As soon as he heard that the other party was from the rivers and lakes, Li Da hurriedly shook his head, only to see Li Shimin say again: "Her third sister is Feng'er, you also know Feng'er's girl's temper, I won't talk about it, as for her fourth sister who once saved her father's life, and when my father raised the army, he was besieged in the Bird Mouse Valley, it was that kid who took the other side of the flower team under his command to forcibly break into the large array of 10,000 people and rescued my father, a few days ago he took 300 people to Huangyuan to rescue me from the 200,000 army, our Li family owes them too much. ”
Speaking of this, Li Shimin once again pulled out the sword on his waist and said to Li Da: "You shouldn't have provoked him, there is no way to do it for the benefit of the family, I can only sacrifice you." After speaking, he stabbed the sword in his hand at Li Da's chest, and the sword pierced into it without the hilt.
Slowly pulling the sword back, Li Shimin took out a piece of cloth and wiped the blood stains on the sword, and shouted outside the tent: "Come in, it's done." ”
As soon as the words fell, Chu Mofeng opened the curtain and walked in, glanced at the corpse on the ground and said: "You kid is very fast, now there is another problem, the price of medicine in the city has risen and it is difficult to fall, and there is a shortage of goods in many medical halls, I heard that you are Ren Jing Zhaoyin, you can deal with this kind of thing." ”
Li Shimin nodded and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely handle this matter, and I won't let the medical hall in the city run out of stock." After speaking, he turned around and left the big tent, and said to Chu Mofeng before leaving: "Later, I will ask my family to take the body away, and I will explain this matter to my father." ”
Chu Mofeng nodded and said, "If it's not easy to explain, then I'll come forward to explain, don't embarrass yourself." Listening to Chu Mofeng's words, Li Shimin nodded and hurriedly left the big tent.
After returning to Jingzhao Yin's mansion, Li Shimin summoned his two Jingzhao young men and instructed them to go to various conspicuous places in the city to post announcements, explicitly prohibiting the increase in the price of medicinal materials, and jointly with the Criminal Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs to thoroughly investigate the price hike of medicinal materials, and ordered the matter to be resolved within three days.
After doing this, Li Shimin rode back to his home in Jinchengfang, Li Yuan saw Li Shimin coming back, and hurriedly stepped forward to inquire about today's affairs, only to hear Li Shimin say slowly: "Li Dan's kid was killed by me with my own hands, there is no way, this kid's basket is too big." ”
Li Yuan was about to get angry when he heard this, only to see Li Shimin say today's events, after listening to Li Shimin's narration, Li Yuan pondered for a moment and said: "Erlang, you did the right thing today, and you must not affect the family's plans and the relationship with Chu Xiaozi because of some inconsequential people or things." ”
Li Shimin nodded and said: "There is still one thing that needs to be clarified to my father, when will the imperial court be able to allocate the pension for this battle?"
"Yesterday, the pension list was played, and it is estimated that it will be allocated within one or two days. Hearing Li Shimin mention this matter, Li Yuan hurriedly told the latest development of the matter.
"It's okay, I hope the court can be true to its word, the child is afraid that if the court loses its trust, I'm afraid that Mo Feng's kid will do something. Li Shimin nodded and said with a worried face.
"Hey, this kid is too upright, just like his father, but he is still not as smooth as his father, if he doesn't change this character, he will suffer in the future. Li Yuan nodded and said, "But it is precisely because of this that I will marry Feng'er to her." ”
Li Shimin was speechless when he heard this, so he had to sigh.
Sure enough, as Li Yuan said, on the second day, the imperial court began to issue pensions in large quantities, and each household was distributed according to the amount of five hanging money, and various items were added for another month, which made all the people applaud.
After Chu Mofeng received the news of the pension allocation, he instructed Shi Hanshuang to take two hundred and eighty-eight pieces of money from the family's treasury and put it on a cart, and distribute the money according to the address on the list.
On this day, Chu Mofeng was making a training plan in the big tent, only to see Zhao Xin hurriedly walk in, give a military salute to Chu Mofeng and say, "General Chu, my subordinates have something important to report, please General Chu call the shots." After saying that, he knelt down straight.
Seeing this, Chu Mofeng hurriedly stood up and said, "What is the so-called matter?" ”
I saw Zhao Xin slowly stand up and say something that made Chu Mofeng indignant at first sight. It turned out that Zhao Xin's wolf tooth team had a man named Zhang Dameng, this time he died at the east gate of Wangyuan County with Chu Mofeng's expedition, and his wife received the imperial court's pension and Chu Mofeng's extra money, and every day was snatched away by Zhang Dameng's younger brother, and the orphan and widow had no choice but to find Zhang Dameng's old captain Zhao Xin, hoping that Zhao Xin could come forward to help ask for money.
After Zhao Xin received the news, he didn't dare to call the shots, because Chu Mofeng stipulated that the Tiance army was not allowed to use force against the people in Daxing City without permission, and in desperation, Zhao Xin had no choice but to come to Chu Mofeng, hoping that he could help.
After listening to Zhao Xin's narration, Chu Mofeng slowly walked out of the big tent and shouted to the Tiance army who was training on the field: "Zhao Xin, Qian Ming, Sun Xian, Li Jian, take those brothers who came back from the battlefield, go out with the officer, and the rest of the people will train normally, and there must be no mistakes." ”
Everyone heard the slightest hint of anger from Chu Mofeng's tone, and the named person hurriedly rode over on horseback, while the rest of the Tiance army did not dare to come out to continue the unfinished training.
After seeing that the personnel had arrived, Chu Mofeng whistled to summon the wind, turned over and led everyone to gallop towards Zhang Dameng's home.
At this moment, Zhang Dameng's home, his wife Wang was sitting in the house with a little boy in her arms, and a man and a woman were standing outside the house, arrogantly shouting at the house: "Hurry up and hand over the deed and the title deed, and roll away with this little mongrel." ”
Hearing this, Wang said coldly: "His second uncle, when he was the head of the family, he had already separated from you, and this house and the five acres of land had already been written in black and white and belonged to Da Meng.
Zhang Dameng's younger brother Zhang Daqiang heard his sister-in-law's words, and suddenly became angry, and said coldly: "Sister-in-law, I still call you sister-in-law with affection, this house and land were originally left to me by my father, who knows what method my eldest brother used to go, and now he is also dead, you hand over this thing intact, we are still relatives, otherwise you will also inquire in this Daxing City, and I Zhang Daqiang is also the number one person." ”
Before the words fell, I heard a cold voice behind me say, "What kind of thing are you? When did Daxing City have your part in talking?"
Zhang Daqiang and his family turned around to take a look when they heard this, only to see twelve murderous Tiance troops standing behind them, embracing a young man and walking in, Wang saw this and walked out with the child in his arms, knelt down in front of Zhao Xin and said: "Commander Zhao, the slave family implores you to read it for the sake of the big fierce robe Ze, and make the master for the slave family." ”
Hearing this, Zhao Xin hurriedly stepped forward and raised his arm and said, "Sister-in-law, please hurry up, I have invited General Chu over, and he will definitely make the decision for you at this time." ”
As soon as he heard that General Chu was coming, the Wang family hurriedly kowtowed to Chu Mofeng and said, "General Chu, the slave family begs you to be in charge." ”
"Eldest sister, get up quickly, the ground is cold, Da Meng died with me, his family's affairs are my business, you can rest assured that I will seek justice for you." Chu Mofeng nodded, turned to look at Zhang Daqiang and his wife, and said coldly: "Did you rob her of her things? ”
As soon as Zhang Daqiang saw that an official was coming, his eyes rolled and he stepped forward and said: "This general, the villain is very good with General Liu Hongji in your army, you don't need to alarm his old man in this matter, right?"
As soon as he heard Zhang Daqiang's words, Chu Mofeng sneered in his heart, thinking about how the hell did he meet a master who pulled the banner and pulled the tiger's skin, thinking of this, Chu Mofeng took out a token from his arms and threw it to Zhao Xin, and said coldly: "Within a quarter of an hour, let Liu Hongji rush to see me, and Qian Ming will go to Jingzhao Yin Mansion to call General Li, Sun Xian, go and inquire who is in charge on the ground of Daxing City, and say that the Yaksha of the flower on the other side has something important to discuss, let him also roll over to see me, just give you a quarter of an hour, and go to the Dharma field by yourself if you are late." ”
Hearing this, the three of them hurriedly turned around and rode away on horseback, Chu Mofeng turned his head to look at Zhang Daqiang and said, "Boy, there is always Lao Tzu in the money you robbed, let me spit it out as it is." ”
Zhang Daqiang was about to speak, only to hear his wife pinch her throat and say: "I said this military master, this is our family matter, don't meddle with it, it is difficult for Qing officials to cut off family affairs." ”
Chu Mofeng sneered and said, "Then today, I, the third-grade official, will cut off your housework and see if it can be cleared." ”
When the Tiance Army behind him heard this, he secretly slandered in his heart, you see, our adults are using the rank to suppress people again, and I have seen this matter today. When everyone was slandering, Liu Hongji, Li Shimin and a man named Ma San came to Zhang's house one after another.
I saw Liu Hongji make a gesture at Chu Mofeng and Li Shimin and said, "I don't know what the two adults are calling the officials to come to?"
Li Shimin shook his head and pointed at Chu Mofeng and said, "The official doesn't know, Lord Liu, you should ask Lord Chu." ”
Chu Mofeng turned his head and pointed at Zhang Daqiang and asked, "Lord Liu, do you recognize this person?"
Liu Hongji glanced at Zhang Daqiang over Chu Mofeng, shook his head and said, "Lord Chu, the lower officials don't know this person. ”
"That's easy to do, Master Li, there are people here who are snatching the pensions of the families of the fallen soldiers, what do you think should be done?" Chu Mofeng smiled coldly, turned to Li Shimin and said.
Li Shimin was about to speak, only to hear Zhang Daqiang say to Ma San: "Third Brother Ma, I'm Daqiang, aren't you familiar with the housekeeper in Lord Liu's mansion?
Ma San didn't answer when he heard this, but walked up to Chu Mofeng respectfully, and said with a smile: "I don't know if Lord Yaksha has arrived, the villain Ma San has seen Lord Yaksha." ”
"Ma San, when did you become in charge of affairs on the ground in Daxing? Looking at Ma San's nodding appearance, Chu Mofeng asked with a slight smile.
"Look at what you said, my master has already washed his hands in a golden basin, and I invite you to enjoy your face and eat a light meal when you have time. Shi Nuxia, are they okay?"
"Well, Cheng, anyway, now I'm not leaving in Daxing for the time being, I must go if I have the chance, and they are also coming to Daxing. Chu Mofeng nodded, opened his mouth and asked, "Ma San, what do you think of today's events?"
"You see that you are not asking this question to be trivial, this matter is small for you to deal with, you can rest assured, what you say is not a matter of words. Ma Sanyi heard that this was a good opportunity to show his determination, and hurriedly patted his chest and played the ticket.
At this time, Chu Mofeng looked at Zhang Daqiang and said coldly: "You are using Lord Liu to press me?" I don't know that we are a lifelong friendship, you want to find Ma San to make peace, I'm really embarrassed, the abacus is empty, I will give you a way now, hand over the money as it is, and then get out of Daxing City and don't come back for the rest of your life, if you let me know that you have returned to Daxing City, be careful of your dog's life." ”
Zhang Daqiang, who was on the side, was already frightened at this moment, and tremblingly took out two pieces of five hanging coins from his arms and stuffed them into Wang's hands, and ran away with his wife without looking back.
Seeing this, Chu Mofeng turned to Ma San and said: "I'll give you a list later, and the people above will take care of me, if any one is bullied, don't say that I don't give Lao He face." ”
Hearing this, Ma San hurriedly made a gesture and said, "Lord Yaksha, don't worry, if this little thing can't be done well, you don't need to come to the door, and the little one will come to see you by himself." ”
Chu Mofeng nodded and said to Liu Hongji and Li Shimin: "I'm tired of the two adults to run for a trip, and then I will have the opportunity to invite the two of you to drink." ”
The two of them saluted Chu Mofeng and turned around and left the Zhang family, and at this moment, the Wang family led the child forward and knelt down in front of Chu Mofeng and said: "The slave family thanks the general for his great kindness, and if it is useful in the future, I beg the general to send it." ”
Chu Mofeng shook his head and motioned for the Wang family to stand up, and said slowly: "Speaking of which, I really can't stand you, Da Meng followed me out, but I couldn't come back, if you need anything in the future, you can go directly to the Rende Medical Center in the city to find Dr. Mo, and when the new school in the city opens, send the children to study, all the fees are free, this is the only thing I can do for those brothers who died in battle." ”
Hearing this, the Wang family made a big salute to Chu Mofeng and said, "General, it is enough for you to have this heart, and it is his blessing that Da Meng can follow a good general." ”
Chu Mofeng found that if he continued to talk about it, the atmosphere would be heavy again, so he had to say to the Wang family: "That official is leaving for the time being, as long as you live well, it will be the greatest reward for me." After speaking, he left Zhang's house with his twelve horsemen and hurriedly returned to the camp.
This matter came out of the mouth of the Wang family, and gradually became known to all the families of the Tiance Army, and everyone praised Chu Mofeng's benevolent and righteous deeds, and encouraged the men in the family to join the army under Chu Mofeng......
There is a way to be a great man, for the country and the people, loyalty, filial piety, righteousness, benevolence, wisdom, propriety, and faith, and look at Chu Mofeng's reorganization of the Tiance Army, Li Shimin embarked on a new journey, I want to know what will happen next, and listen to the next decomposition......