stubborn thief

Chapter 133 Ask the Ancestor
The night wind is cold, and the dim moonlight shines on Wangzhuangbao Mountain.

A brazier not far away was ignited under the wall of the Shangbao Fortress, and men wearing lion battalion uniforms and border army cotton armor sat around the brazier, talking freely.

Liu Chengzong took Li Bei, who was gagged and bound, and walked past several soldiers piles, and when he heard a man with a very different accent talking, he immediately stopped to listen.

"My name is Chen Qindai. I'm the Commander of the Left Post Squadron. I used to be a thief and a soldier. I used to be under General Yulin Town's fierce tiger."

The voice is deep and thick, with a strange accent from other places. It sounds like a Mongolian, but the Chinese language is quite authentic, but it is not the language here.

Liu Chengzong looked at the back of the commander, he was not as tall as he imagined, he was not tall, and he was wearing cotton clothes and armor, but he looked quite strong.

He touched Li Bei with his arm, and whispered: "Your soldiers are as fierce as tigers, and I don't know where the fierce general has gone."

Someone asked Chen Qindai: "You are Li Bei's soldier, how did you become a left guard?"

The left post is all Feng Ru's soldiers, and it is said that there shouldn't be Li Bei's subordinates in the composition of the army, except for the first few frontier soldiers and Lao Hui's bandits, they should be the surrendered soldiers of Yanshui Pass.

Chen Qindai said: "It was originally a rear post, but Captain Feng gave me half a bowl of fried noodles on the battlefield, so I became a post with Captain Feng, and the general asked to introduce myself. Bone setting, whose bone is wrong, ask me to fix it.”

After saying this, Liu Chengzong understood that Feng Ru was a hungry man, even if he went to the battlefield, he would have to carry food on his body.

"My father left early, and I haven't seen him before. My mother is Dazi and I am also Dazi. The Chinese I taught is different from Shanxi and Shaanxi. Who knows where Shandong is?"

This question is a bit advanced.

Several commanders looked at each other in blank dismay, unable to tell a specific location.

Some say it's on the east side.

Some people corrected that the east is called Liaodong, and it was born in Donglu.

Some people say that Liaodong is Shandong. Others don't believe it and say he is talking nonsense.

Chen Qindai shook his head in disappointment: "Forget it, others say the whistle chief knows, I'll ask the whistle chief later."

Liu Chengzong said: "The chief minister of Shandong governs the Liaodong capital."

All the commanding officers saw him and hurriedly got up to say hello
"General."

"General."

Liu Chengzong pulled Li Bei into the crowd and sat down, and said to Chen Qindai: "Go on, you are from Tumochuan, why did you enter the Han land and become a thief?"

Tumochuan is the territory of I Dahan. During the Jiajing period, Zhao Quan, the leader of the White Lotus Sect and Yanbei, led his disciples into Tumochuan and recruited people from the border areas to cultivate it. There were tens of thousands of Han people in Tumochuan.

They reclaimed fields and built houses named Bansheng, and helped Alda build Qingcheng on the grassland, Mongolian voice library and Tun, which will be Hohhot for future generations.

"Uncle Hanzi and Uncle Dazi fought. My mother took me to hide in Han land. I was deceived by Datong and ran to Yulin to buy a few acres of wasteland. My mother fell ill due to the cold and borrowed money from a big family for soup and medicine. The disease was not cured. The money was not paid, the land was gone, and I was ten years old that year."

Chen Qindai's words made Liu Chengzong think of Shiliu. It is difficult for a child to live on his own. He asked, "Then you met the fierce general?"

"I have planted grass marks on the neck four times, but each time I couldn't get enough to eat, and finally had to leave, but the blacksmith refused to let me beat him with an iron rod, and the one who stole his horse took his knife and robbed him."

As Chen Qindai said, he pursed his lips, his expression became complicated, he was not shy but embarrassed: "After a few years, then, later, I robbed the fierce tiger general."

Several commanding officers cheered, and someone asked, "Have you fought?"

"I haven't fought him. I won't serve him as a soldier."

Liu Chengzong also clapped his hands and laughed, it turned out that Chen Qindai was beaten up like a tiger, so he became a soldier.

He waved his hand to the side and asked, "How about you, tell me, where you were a soldier and how you became a soldier. You don't need to stand, just sit and talk."

With Chen Qindai in front, the commanders around the bonfire were no longer embarrassed, and introduced them one by one after hearing the words.

Only this time, instead of introducing each other, they introduced themselves to Liu Chengzong.

"The villain Li Qianlong, served in the army in Yulin Town for two years, and Tianqi returned home for six years as a postman. The general robbed the posthouse, saying that he could feed his parents, and now he is in charge of the second team of Tangqi."

"Subordinate Qi Yunxiang, the second assassin of the Left Whistle Division of the Guyuan Camp, the court didn't pay me, and I didn't starve to death, but my mother was blind and hanged herself from starvation, and my mother-in-law was so hungry that she brought a baby and remarried. I know the court has no money. "

When Qi Yunxiang talked about these things, he looked at Li Bei with frightening eyes: "But there is no one in my family, so why should I be afraid... Now that the outpost and the rear team are in command, when will the general go to Guyuan, I will give it to you." Please come out with the bones of my old lady, make a coffin and put it down."

"It's my turn. I'm under Jinpu. The right sentry and the left team are in charge of Sanshi. It used to be Ding Xuanfeng, the family of the general Yulin Town Road. I sent the general's body back to his hometown. After sending it back for burial, I didn't know where to go. I stayed in Yulin. I don’t have enough to eat, and I really don’t want to serve as a soldier for the imperial court.”

Jin Pu loves to laugh, but this time he laughs very bitterly. He took a cautious look at Liu Chengzong and said, "General, it's not that we can't beat you. We eat half full all day and train to fight, but when we send troops, we have to grab the food of the people first. "

After Liu Chengzong nodded without showing an angry look, he dared to continue: "Later, I went south and met Mr. Yang Baizong from Gu Yuan, and then I joined the general again. I think this is my destiny. God won't let me be Shunmin."

Liu Chengzong smiled and said, "This is also fate."

They let you go, but you buried yourself, the general went around and came back.

The last commanding officer who spoke was a bit guilty in his words: "My name is Zheng Hu, I am General Li's soldier, an elite soldier, and two hundred cavalry commanders, Lao Hui Hui, drove him out of the mouth from Huanglong Mountain."

Liu Chengzong has been observing Li Bei. No matter Li Qianlong, Qi Yunxiang or Jin Pu, Li Bei had sympathy and sadness in his eyes. When Zheng Hu spoke, Li Bei was full of anger and struggled to stand up. Hold it down.

Zheng Hu was also very scared when he saw him like this, but in the end, he said: "General Li treats us well, he will eat whatever we eat, and he will eat as much as we eat. Sometimes there is little food, a chicken If there is not enough for the team, he will not eat, and distribute it to the best drilled or the thinnest soldier."

"But general, you can't get enough to eat. We would rather you eat more. If you are full, eat one bowl or two to make us full."

Zheng Hu sighed, and seemed to have thousands of words in his mind, but he couldn't say anything: "I went back to my old age, I had enough food for a few days, and I brought back so many dead horses, let the officials in Yulin snatch them away, and handed over all the spoils Yes, it is said that it will be paid; the first-level salary that was captured was also said to be distributed later, but there is no one, so some official positions are given, and the few official positions are not enough for the brothers to eat."

"I know the general is good. If the general ran away, I would run too, but the general didn't run out. He let the general run away by himself. What should we do? Die, easy, our brothers have no weapons and armor, and we are all ready to fight when the thief comes over with a knife." , fight."

When Zheng Hu said this, he couldn't go on anymore, changed his sitting position, and the tall and thick man buried his head in his knees, then raised his head and shouted to Li Bei with tears on his face and crying voice: "But they came with porridge !what!"

Li Bei's struggle stopped.

It was like Zheng Hu wailed and had his spine taken away.

At first, he didn't know who was aroused by his crying, but Liu Chengzong heard someone sobbing softly by the campfire on the other side.

Later, there were more and more cries, until one after another.

Hunger seems to have become a common painful memory of the frontier troops in Yulin and Guyuan.

"You, General Li, did nothing wrong. What he did was right. Don't blame him; he won't blame you either."

Liu Chengzong patted Li Bei, stepped over the brazier to appease Zheng Hu, and said to several people: "My name is Liu Chengzong, you all know it, but you don't know that I was a scholar in the first year of Tianqi, how old was I in that year? I am Yan'an Mansion The youngest talent, child prodigy."

"I did teaching in Confucianism, I did classic history in Mizhi, and later I worked as a tax official in Yan'an Mansion. I couldn't collect taxes and was imprisoned. The people are poor. Who is to blame? I can't take the Juren exam. My brother and I Going to take the martial arts exam, I was kicked out halfway, and went to Yulin Town to serve as a soldier."

"From being a soldier to returning home, I have never received military pay, and I was very hungry, but I never thought of rebelling. In the end, there was no food in the fort, and I was released. After I was released, I went home. I was not hungry at home. , our whole family has eaten Lumi from the imperial court, we can’t rebel against anyone, right?”

"The village in the north was attacked by thieves, and thousands of households in Yan'an Wei went to the mountains to steal food. They asked for [-] tons of dry food. Let him make it up. He took our food and ran to the north to let the thieves cut off the heads of the common people and take them back. In exchange for meritorious service."

"Hey, don't cry, have you ever fought a tiger general who robbed Wangzhuang?"

Hearing Liu Chengzong's question, Zheng Hu stopped crying, still out of breath with aggrieved, nodded: "Ganquan, we chased him for 170 miles."

"You killed the wrong person. I was the tiger general. The hungry people rushed into my mountain and destroyed our fields. The captives said that there was a rich Wangzhuang over there. At that time, I still didn't think about it. I just wanted to grab some food. Let the tribe live, but guess what?"

Liu Chengzong looked around, even Li Bei looked at him unconsciously, and when he saw him looking, he glanced away.

Both Zheng Hu and Li Bei are stupid, did they kill the wrong person?
Liu Chengzong laughed, and said to the left and right: "The villages along the way are extremely dilapidated. Now there are still people living in the villages in Yan'an Prefecture, and they are either near the creek or the river. Even so, they are just for food and clothing."

"That Wangzhuang is different. I haven't seen such a fertile field in the past few days. I always thought that the Xichuan River was cut off. Only then did I know that it was Wangzhuang who built a dam to stop the river and break Wangzhuang. You guys Do you know how much food there is?"

Liu Chengzong raised a finger to let people guess.

Chen Qindai guessed a hundred stones, but was ridiculed by Qi Yunxiang: "At least it takes a thousand stones!"

"Ten thousand stones!"

Liu Chengzong said: "The grain has turned into wine in the mountain cellar, and the whole village is full of the smell of rotten grain. It's not that there is no grain in northern Shaanxi. The grain is there. Just that one Wangzhuang is enough to feed a thousand frontier troops for a year. This is a natural disaster, so why not a man-made disaster?"

The commanding soldiers sitting around several braziers also noticed that Liu Chengzong was here, and they all sat down on the periphery to listen to what Liu Chengzong had to say.

"Is this the first drought in Shaanxi? In the year of Hongwu, the Yellow River was cut off, and you can walk from the river beach to the other side; in the fifth year of Chenghua, the land was a thousand miles away, and the imperial court exempted 45 shi from the summer tax; from Chenghua to Hongzhi, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Northeast Zhili It has been droughted for 17 consecutive years, severe drought in the year of Zhengde, severe drought in the year of Jiajing, severe drought in the year of Wanli."

"Only this time, the imperial court does not exempt taxes. The imperial court is increasing taxes. Does the imperial court not know what the people have become? The imperial court knows."

"General Li said that he recommended me to be Mr. Qian. Has everyone spread the word?"

Liu Chengzong looked around at the crowd, Chen Qindai, Qi Yunxiang and others nodded. In fact, people were still looking forward to it.

If he becomes the chief executive, the people below will also get official positions.

But immediately after, Liu Chengzong poured cold water on him: "I will be Chief Qian, or someone in the camp will kill me and give my head to the court to replace him with Chief Qian. The court is already like this, and the officials are full. You Can you eat enough?"

Zheng Hu took the lead and said: "If you don't have enough to eat, even General Li can't get enough!"

Qi Yunxiang also said: "Whoever wants to recruit security will recruit security. I will not recruit security. If the general does not recruit security, I will follow the general. If the general recruits security, I will go elsewhere. I will not have enough to eat with the court!"

Afterwards, more commanders agreed one after another, and finally waved their fists and shouted: "Don't recruit! Don't recruit!"

"It's right not to recruit!"

At this time, Liu Chengzong could no longer sit and talk to the crowd. Dozens of commanders gathered around him, and more commanders were gathering here.

He stood up and raised his hand to stop the crowd from shouting, and said: "You are commanders. In the army, there is one position for each team. You are one for each team. What you do is to picket the atmosphere, unite the friendship between the soldiers, and understand what is inside the army. The situation, who can read, raise your hand and let me see."

This is really interesting.

People looked at each other, but no one raised their hand.

Qi Yunxiang said: "General, how can you count as being able to read? I can read some words, but I can't write much, can I?"

There is echoing voice around, and people generally have this level of education.

In terms of literacy, I know a little bit, but I can't write a few words. After all, I used to be a big soldier, so I can't help it.

Liu Chengzong waved his hand and said: "It's okay, when the group of students from Zhuantianmao come back, you should learn first. From now on, you will come to see me once a month. In addition to training, you also need to observe Zhan Fubing, The thoughts of the boss and the captain."

"When you meet the auxiliary soldiers who are being bullied, and the boss does things unfairly, you have to speak for others. You are my mouth, eyes, and hands in the camp. You have to tell the auxiliary soldiers, why don't you recruit them?" , Zhaoan is good for a few people, but it is a betrayal for everyone."

All the commanders responded in unison, but Liu Chengzong felt very helpless about this scene.

The construction of the Lion Camp has a long way to go. There are no senior officers, and the grassroots officers are not educated. Whether it is recording orders or completing missions, it will be greatly reduced.

Rice can only be eaten one bite at a time.

At this moment, Li Bei struggled again. Liu Chengzong really didn't know what he had to struggle with, so he walked over and let go of his gag, and asked, "General Li, what do you want to say?"

But in fact Li Bei struggled and struggled, he didn't expect Liu Chengzong to let go, he paused and said: "You are all frontier soldiers of the imperial court, loyal and good for generations, rebellion will only make more people die!"

"Hey, General Li, you should tell Emperor Chongzhen about this."

Li Bei was stunned: "What are you talking about to the emperor? I'm talking about you."

Liu Chengzong looked directly into Li Bei's eyes: "You ask him to go to the Taizu Temple to ask his ancestors, and ask the Emperor Taizu why the people of the Yuan Dynasty rebelled!"

　Good evening, sorry for the long wait, everyone.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)