The sudden rainstorm shrouded the entire Guzang City in a drowsy rain and mist. Heaven and earth are just the difference between the water falling and the water flowing horizontally.

Whether it was the miscellaneous officials who were covered with their heads and faces, or the refugees who had relied on the government's relief, everyone looked at the sudden heavy rain and complained in a low voice.

As soon as the night falls, the rain will condense into ice, and the homeless people, who are barely struggling to survive, will be even more unbearable. Fortunately, there has been a word in the Assassin's Mansion that tonight there will be an extra hot porridge for relief, and another firewood and grass will be added to keep the homeless people warm, and these homeless people in the province did not die in the hands of the Qiang thieves, but were killed in this rainstorm, which inevitably hurt someone's name.

Tonight is destined to be another sleepless night.

Although the Guzang City Mansion has been ruined by the Qiang army, it is not difficult to choose a quiet house for Huan Dian and his party as the next place to stay. Although Guzang City is now unable to transfer the servants in charge of the house, Wei Ye, who has copied a large number of surplus wealth of the rebels, is too lazy to pay attention to the trivial things such as entertaining Huandian. Among the displaced people, some of the maids and cooks of the wealthy families were also transferred to serve this very high-minded horse emperor in the name of service.

But in the eyes of Huan Dian, it became evidence that a lucky villain had a ghost in his heart and intended to bribe.

Under the service of Qu in the middle of the house, Huan Dian changed a set of dry and regular clothes, used a decoction to avoid the cold, and after hastily using the meal, he sent someone out in the rain, and invited Hu Zhen forcibly and half-forcedly.

The two sides sat down, and Huan Dian didn't go around the bend to play anything, and said directly: "Wencai, how many troops are Wei Ye stationed in Guzang City now?"

Hu Zhen didn't know what this horse Yushi wanted to ask, and after listening to the question, he just replied truthfully: "Wei Ji proposed to recover Guzang City, and led 1,300 troops, including 500 horse troops and more than 600 foot soldiers. Among them, most of the Ma army was organized into small groups to explore the horses and disperse to help prevent the resurgence of the remnants of the Qiang thieves in the counties. The remaining 600 foot soldiers were handed over to the last general to guard Guzang City...... As for the state army led by Dong Tingshi, since he heard that his hometown was in trouble, the army's heart has been unstable, and after the battle of Fanhe, he proposed to pay a generous salary for Wei, disbanded and returned to his hometown, and the last general had to use the old department, but there were only more than 300 people. ”

Listening to Hu Zhen's report on the military situation in Guzang, Huan Dian was scorching: "That is to say, half of the Guzang garrison is already in the hands of Wencai? However, if the Guzang garrison is encouraged by someone with a heart, it will be another chaos, Wencai is known as a prestige in the Xiliang army, so please lead the army to guard the city defense tomorrow, and do not let the soldiers collude with the noise, so that this handover will pass without wind and waves, then the merit is in the court, and the merit is in the community!"

As he spoke, Huan Dian stood up and walked in front of Hu Zhen, and it was actually a week.

Huan Dian made this gesture, Hu Zhen just wanted to resign, so he had to stand sideways, avoid this salute, and then half-knelt to hold the other party: "Didn't Huan Gong kill Hu Zhen?

back and forth, this is the bottom line of the two of them. As far as Huan Dian is concerned, what he is most afraid of is that Hu Zhen, the commander of the army, is really colluding with Wei Ye, in case his next actions cause Wei Ye to react violently and launch a mutiny, and then backhand the charge of "unclear rewards and punishments and provoking mutiny" on his head, and then report the cause of death of "a stray arrow in the body, and he died of serious injuries".

However, whether it is Huan Dian or all the discerning people in Luoyang, they can clearly see that under the results of the battle of Fanhe, the death of a governor of Liangzhou, and the martyrdom of all the Taishou of all the big counties of Liangzhou, Wei Ye, the counselor who defended the city, took Wu Jie, the captain of the agricultural capital, and even Liu Chuang was rewarded for transporting logistics. The high-ranking officials are almost dead, but let a group of goods less than a thousand stones eat soup, thinking about common sense, is this possible?

But once you think about it in detail, the more you think about it, the more frightening it becomes, and you can't help but feel like Huan Dian is like a great enemy. If he Huan Gongya is a character who has always been wise and self-protecting, and has never offended people in the officialdom, maybe he will follow the set of rhetoric that Wei Ye reported, and he will all pinch his nose and admit it. The next step is nothing more than verifying the merits, adding officials to the meritorious heroes, and rewarding the soldiers. However, if the famous Horse Imperial Historian was only such a vulgar and light person, how could some people in the center send him on such a mission?

But for a general like Hu Zhen, who was born as a martial artist in Liangzhou, the political struggle in Luoyang and the fighting method of the minister of the festival have nothing to do with the Liangzhou general. The consistent goal of the wealthy family in Liangzhou is only to keep their current one-third of an acre of land, and not to be picked by the Guannai family. Whether it is Wei Ye or Huan Dian, the marks of the Guannei family and Yingchuan Nanyang on the body are too dazzling, no matter who it is, it is not credible, just go with you, don't implicate us best!

But then again, the horse army under Wei Ye can be called elite, but most of the foot soldiers are recruited from the Xiliang children in the Bingzhou army. Although the First World War was a vision and earthquakes, it is still unclear what it is. But after all, it was Wei Ye, the counselor, who exterminated the Qiang army, and if they really wanted to target Wei Ye, even if he was nonsense, he might not be able to move.

What he can do now is to watch from the wall and watch the success or failure of Wei Ye and Huan Dian's fighting method.

The two parties drew the bottom line, Huan Dian had a slight gloom on his face, and then quickly disappeared, and smiled softly: "Wuwei Hu Wencai, sure enough, the countryman is also." This time, Wu Wei's duty must be in the pocket of literary talents. In the future, the Wuwei Hu clan will be like the Fufeng Ma clan, and it will be a family of poetry and rites!"

Hearing Huan Dian mention Wuwei Taishou, Hu Zhen just shook his head and smiled: "What will happen in the future, let's talk about it in the future." Although Wei Zhiyi acted a little more domineering, but he really made great contributions to quelling the chaos and calming the displaced people, and my Hu Zhen's wife and daughter relatives still relied on Wei Zhiyi to save a lot, so that I would not be a lonely ghost in the world. I also hope that when Duke Huan acts, don't be too careful, and always leave some dignity for the court and each other. At this point, the last general was responsible for the defense of the city, and he didn't dare to disturb Duke Huan, so he took his leave. ”

He said goodbye here, and Huan Dian didn't have a smile on his face, just watched Hu Zhen get up and leave with a straight face.

It was also thanks to his great generosity, until he estimated that Hu Zhen walked out of the gate, and then slapped his palm on a few cases: "The people of Xiliang really don't know what loyalty is!"

With his scolding, a crisp cat meow came from nowhere in the courtyard as an accompaniment, somehow, it always made people feel that the "meow" cry was completely mocking.

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As the night passed, the torrential rain gradually subsided, and then the snowflakes fell in patches, and the cold wind howled, and the snowflakes touched the dough as if they had been knifed.

Before the gray sky saw much light, Huan Dian's pale head had already climbed up, and first went to the kitchen to prepare hot water for clean noodles and prepare his lord's breakfast.

Although there is Zhang Luo, the cook who Wei Ye has sent to serve, the young people of these generations are still not at ease, and they must check everything before they feel appropriate.

At this time, Huan Dian had also woken up, and when he heard Cangtou knocking on the door, he asked someone to come in with hot water and wash up carefully.

The breakfast prepared by the chef is based on the habits of local households, the first dish is milk porridge, the second dish is mixed with honey hu cakes, and the side dishes are steamed dates and vinegared cranberries. Because he didn't know the taste of this Beijing official, the cook didn't dare to serve salt cheese, air-dried meat, and other foods that were quite popular.

Fortunately, Huan Dian is not particular about the food, just casually sipped a few mouthfuls of milk porridge, and used a few steamed dates to ask someone to withdraw the breakfast. The head of his own family led the maids and put on the whole set of crown clothes that had been washed and dried for him again.

While putting the Jinxian crown and black brocade ribbon one by one for Huan Dian to wear Peiqi, this cangtou still asked in a low voice: "Lord Lang, it rained first and then snowed outside, and the road was condensed into ice, but I am afraid that the road is not easy to walk." Do you want the villain to go to General Hu to ask for some manpower, clean up the road, and then go out again?"

"I am an envoy of the festival, so I naturally put the king's affairs first, and I can block my way with just rain and snow? Needless to say, today I must investigate Wei Ye's merits and crimes clearly!"

The so-called soldier is fast, and Huan Dian didn't want to leave any more time for Wei Ye to react, so he commanded to "prepare the car" to the cangtou, and glanced at the vermilion lacquer lanqi where he had placed the scepter.

only glanced at it, but Huan Dian instantly became cold.

The vermilion lacquer moire Lan Qi was empty, there was nothing, and the scepter representing the authority of the envoys holding the festival did not know where it went.

Cangtou, who hadn't had time to walk out of the door, glanced back, but saw that his lord was looking at him with wide eyes.

A master and a servant stared at each other, but Huan Dian opened his mouth first: "Scepter...... Runic ...... The Scepter is on?!"

Cangtou stared at his eyes at this time, he was already stupid, and when he heard Huan Dian asking, he knelt down on the ground suddenly: "Xiao has been guarding the door at night, and I haven't seen anyone come in!"

Huan Dian just leaned against the wall, slowly sat down on the ground, and then showed a ruthless face: "It must be the servant who stole the scepter! The official's line is tightly guarded, so he can't send it out even if he steals the scepter!