stubborn thief

Chapter 188
In the injury camp in Lion Bay, Liu Chengzong heaved a sigh of relief.

Huang Shengxiao was finally able to get out of bed.

This Yusho Yusho, who was very brave in the battle, was very comfortable when he won the battle and cheered because he fought barebacked, and he couldn't get sick after the battle.

Even when they arrived at Lion Bay, they were carried over by someone on the back of a mule.

The soldiers of the Sixth Sentinel divided up to look for food, Zhang Tianlin also returned to Xichuan River, and the Lion Bay became quiet, only the heavy sentry, the wounded soldiers, and the people brought by his father and brother remained.

Liu Chengzong didn't stay at the battalion at all, and lived in the wounded soldier camp every day. Anyway, he was also a wounded soldier.

Some soldiers in the wounded battalion were not as seriously injured as he was, but others were wounded in the abdomen and legs, which made them unable to move and could not participate in military operations.

As for him, the injury at best only affected him to eat with chopsticks.

However, Liu Shizi was not idle either. As soon as he was free, he called Song Shouzhen to the battalion.

"The general is looking for me?"

"Brother Song, please sit down."

Liu Chengzong looked at the bookish Song Shouzhen, shook his head and smiled.

Thinking back to last year, they were also enemies, but since they robbed Wangzhuang, they have become the same kind of people.

As his power grew, Song Shouzhen naturally stayed in the Lion Camp, and even got a job that he wanted to do.

Song Shou is really a happy family, but there are ministers in his ancestors, and he has always wanted to take up the work of some literati.

Now is the chance.

Liu Chengzong smiled and said: "You came just in time, I can't write with my hand, you and I will write a few articles together to enlighten the wounded barracks."

Song Shouzhen was puzzled by these words, and he asked, "Second master, the Kaimeng textbooks are available in Zuantian Academy, can you just ask the master if you want to come?"

He hadn't followed Lion Camp very much, so he called Liu Chengzong in the way of Master Liu.

Liu Chengzong didn't care about this either, he waved his hand and said, "I know that there are textbooks in Zhuantian Academy, and Kaimeng over there uses the regulations on military books that I co-edited with my father and brother in the early years."

"The students of Zhuantian Academy were the peasant army under Jiusi's command. It was useful for them to learn from that, but now most of the Lion Camp are frontier troops."

"They know everything about it, so I have to teach them something they don't know."

In fact, enlightenment is very easy. They are all grown-ups, illiterate but able to listen and speak.

Father and Mr. Yang have the background of Zhuantian Academy, and he also has in his mind a few hundred years later, an army will march and teach while marching, and write military discipline regulations on a small drawing board.

But his soldiers are neither farmers nor recruits, and the military discipline regulations are very clear.

"What's more, the time is tight. The opportunity to take a break like this may only be once a year. It is better to write a few new things that will be useful in the future."

After Liu Chengzong finished speaking, Song Shouzhen nodded in agreement.

Anyway, he was idle.

Song Shouzhen is really busy now, Mr. Liu, Mr. Yang, and Liu Chengzu are busy exploring the terrain from Jiulongquan via Nanniwan and Shiziwan all the way east.

This was what Liu Chengzong meant. He talked with his father and brother again without Li Bei, and finally decided on a plan that was similar to his idea, so he prepared with both hands.

On the one hand, it is still necessary to collect all places that can avoid drought in northern Shaanxi, not to be able to fully supply the army, at least like Xingzihe, to be self-sufficient and still have surplus.

On the other hand, we must also be mentally prepared to face the encirclement and suppression by the government and the army.

Although Daming is like a pool of rotten meat in northern Shaanxi and Shanxi, the muscles and bones are still there, and a convulsion can scare people to death.

In fact, in the final analysis, it was just like what Yang Yao said when he defected to him just now, attack decisively when it is time to fight, and don't hesitate when it is time to run.

They are going to build canals and prepare the land in Lion Bay. After all, this is a big project, and it is not something that Lion Camp can finish this year.

Open up as much land as you can, and keep the ones that can't be opened, and make a big plan, even if you leave it to the leaders who are familiar with them as a secret camp in the future, it is not a bad thing.

If this river valley is reclaimed, it can support many more people than the Xingzi River.

But Liu Erye's father and elder brother didn't plan to take Song Shouzhen with him. Although he was serious, he had no systematic education.

Even if you take him to explore the terrain, it won't be a one, two, three.

Hearing that Liu Chengzong asked him to write an article, he was really ordered to his heart, and said excitedly: "General, tell me, what article do you want Xiaosheng to do?"

Liu Chengzong pondered, I just asked you to write with a pen, why did you plan to do it yourself?
But he couldn't discourage Song Shouzhen's enthusiasm, so he said, "The current plan is to write four thousand-character essays."

"Don't worry, general, what do you want to write, four or six sentences in parallel prose, two or two relatively flat rhetoric?"

"No need, the writing is easy to understand and meaningful, you listen to the topic."

Liu Chengzong laughed, raised his hand to make four characters, and said: "Four articles, the topic is why the hungry people, why the hungry army, how to calm the people, and how to raise soldiers, can we do it?"

Song Shou was really stupid.

He thought that Liu Chengzong wanted to write prose, and the co-author was to write policy theory!

Song Shouzhen felt that Mr. Yang might be more reliable in this matter.

Liu Chengzong saw that he was in a dilemma, raised his hand and said: "No hurry, I will tell you how to write, these things don't need to be written deeply... huh?"

While the two were talking, Fan Sanlang walked into the yard and said, "Marshal, Ren Qianhu is here."

Ren Quaner?
Liu Chengzong was taken aback for a moment, then frowned.

Ren Quan'er just came here the afternoon before yesterday, saying that he had changed places and wanted to come to identify the door, but because of the long distance, he hurried back after staying for half an hour.

This side is one hundred and thirty to forty miles away from Ansaisuo, even if you are riding on the road, you have to change horses.

Why did you just come the day before yesterday, and come again today.

Shouldn't something happen?
Liu Chengzong asked Song Shouzhen to wait a moment, walked out of the compound, just reached the door, and looked to the west.

Good guy, Ren Quan'er didn't come alone, he brought four horses, eight horses and two mules.

The mule was full and filled with two baskets.

Liu Chengzong was so scared that he hurried to meet him, and when he got closer, he asked, "What's the matter with you, what happened?"

"what?"

Ren Quan'er was taken aback by the question, then smiled stupidly, turned over and saluted, and then said: "I came here the day before yesterday to see that the chief was injured, so I sent someone back to the office to bring some things over."

After finishing speaking, Ren Quan'er leaned forward and asked, "Sir, am I late?"

"not late."

It was the first time Liu Chengzong experienced this kind of treatment, and he was a little embarrassed, but he adjusted his mentality in the blink of an eye, waved his hand and smiled: "The wound hasn't healed yet."

"If you don't heal, you don't heal..."

Ren Quan'er agreed with a smile, his face froze, he paused and smiled again: "The humble job should come a few days later, and it will be healed a few days later, which is also a good thing."

"Hahaha!"

He made Liu Chengzong laugh, so he took him to the battalion headquarters with his arms in his arms, and said as he walked, "You came just in time. I plan to write a few articles for the wounded soldiers. When you come, will you listen to them together?"

"Ah!" Ren Quan'er nodded hastily: "I'm humbled to listen to the commander's teachings!"

Really, the young Ren Quan'er is the most conspicuous one Liu Chengzong has ever seen.

He has been in the guard since he was a child, and all kinds of stereotyped honorifics seem to be instinctive, and he doesn't need to think about it.

When they reached the battalion headquarters, the two mules unloaded the things from their backs, and Fan Sanlang helped to move them down, staring at them while moving.

Ren Quan'er asked Officer Liu to have a look at the things contained in boxes of various sizes one by one.

The fact that Ansai Qianhu treated Liu Chengzong like this is enough to open Fan Sanlang's eyes. It turns out that the Yonghe Gatekeeper's box of gold is not the only one.

Opening the big and small boxes made Fan Sanlang look stupid. The boxes contained things she had never seen before, especially a huge tiger skull. Opening the box immediately shocked her.

"Two tiger tibia bones, a jar of wine-burned tiger bone medicine, [-] catties of tiger bone powder, [-] catties of Jesus-roasted tiger bones, a pair of tiger skulls, and a piece of tiger skin."

Ren Quan'er was the most proud when talking about these things, and said happily: "I heard from Orion that this beast came in from outside the mouth, disturbing the peace of several villages in Ansai, and let the humble officials eliminate the harm for the people."

This is the first time Liu Chengzong has seen a tiger. The color of this tiger skin is different from the tiger in another memory. The background color is light yellow with very light markings, and there are many white hairs.

Liu Chengzong wondered: "I didn't see it, you still have the ability to fight tigers?"

"Where does the humble official have the ability to hunt around the mountains and bring eight stone-beating bowl guns to keep the tiger skin, but it's a pity that two tibias were broken."

Liu Chengzong knows about tiger bone powder. Mr. Yang said before that people can take a little bit of bone powder when their bones hurt.

That's great for Ren Quan'er, kuang kuang brought me [-] catties.

Liu Chengzong felt that the good brother was counting, and it happened to take four years of uninterrupted daily intake.

I am not afraid of any bone pain in this life.

But Ren Quan'er's performance was not over yet, and then opened the large and small boxes one by one: "Bird's nest from Nanyang, Amomum from Guangdong and Guangxi, antler from Haitar, ginseng from Liaodong, camel's hoof from outside the mouth."

Liu Chengzong was stupid.

After a slow pause, he asked, "You, how did you get these things?"

"This one was copied from a smuggling businessman, this one and this one were pretended to be bandits and ate Ansai rich gentry, and this one... this camel hoof was given by a subordinate official, but no one in a humble office can do it."

Liu Chengzong paused for a while before saying: "The people in Ansai Institute can't do it, why do you think the cooks in the Lion Camp can do it?"

The fire soldiers of the Lion Camp have only two things they are best at, one is stewed horse meat soup, and the other is donkey meat on fire.

If it weren't for He Huchen's soldiers who came here with the Ningxia soldiers, Liu Chengzong always thought they were eating authentic Baoding donkey meat.

After eating the ones made by He Huchen and his soldiers, Liu Chengzong realized that what they had been eating all along was Henan donkey meat, a famous dish in northern Shaanxi.

Of course, Liu Chengzong cared more that they were from Baoding than that these gangs brought authentic Baoding fires. If they had the opportunity to meet Emperor Chongzhen in the future, they would not get lost when they entered Beizhi.

"Let's do it for fun, sir, try it."

The kid sent a lot of supplements, Liu Chengzong felt that these things came to make his nose bleed.

How should I put it, he was actually quite complicated.

Everyone has an id, ego, and superego. In the face of this situation, his superego feels guilty and ashamed on the moral level, while the id feels complacent about having power.

And his ego, his ego is analyzing how many broken and wounded soldiers in the Lion Camp can be helped by these tiger bones and supplements.

These things were completed almost instantly. Liu Chengzong patted Ren Quan'er on the shoulder, praised him, and then said to the guards at the gate of the battalion headquarters: "Leave the tiger skin for me, and move the rest to the supply sentry wounded and sick camp." , let the medical craftsman take it as appropriate."

After that, he turned his face to Ren Quan'er and said: "This reminds me, you came here the day before yesterday and forgot to tell you, and I will ask someone to bring me some red dye later."

Ren Quan'er agreed.

It rained heavily in those few days, and the color of Hongqi's mane faded, so I took the time to dye it again.

After these things were finished, several stunned country bumpkins sat with Ren Qianhu in the courtyard of the battalion department, listening to Liu Chengzong's request to Song Shouzhen.

"Why are the people hungry, why are the army hungry, how are the people safe, and how are the soldiers raised? These four questions are intertwined, so the order of writing should also be the same."

As he said, Song Shouzhen remembered that Ren Quan'er, Fan Sanlang, Han brothers, and Zhong Bao were all sitting in a row beside him, their faces covered.

"Why did the hungry people arise? Born in the court without money, the money was spent on the vassals and the officials were greedy for money. For this reason, they were extorted and extorted. There was neither tax exemption nor disaster relief. Therefore, the people were unable to fight the drought, and a large number of hungry people appeared."

"Why did the hungry army come about? The people's livelihood was poor and they were unable to pay for food, and the imperial court misappropriated military expenditures due to lack of financial resources, so that the soldiers were not paid and were short of military rations. In the long run, the army's strength retreated greatly."

After Liu Chengzong finished speaking, he looked at Song Shouzhen and said, "Let the soldiers and civilians know who harmed them. The emperor is ruthless, the court is immoral, the vassal king is incompetent, and the gentry is wrong."

Song Shouzhen had never written anything like this in his life, and he wrote down all the main points that Liu Chengzong said with a very serious expression.

It was difficult for him because he was trying to keep his thoughts from wandering.

He felt the power of the Tao, and at the same time felt relieved.

The appearance of people like them is logical and natural...not that they are born rebellious.

At least for Song Shouzhen, although his article has not yet been written, he has let go of his inner guilt towards the world.

For Fan Sanlang and the Han brothers, they are the first-hand witnesses to this military and civilian disaster, and they feel the same for all of this, but the context of the development of the matter has never been so clear.

Ren Quan'er is completely immune to these things.

Drought, corruption, and princes have nothing to do with him.

Chief Liu was the first person to treat him as a human being, knowing that he needs to rest when he is tired, hurts when he has a wound, and needs to be treated when he is sick.

After living for more than ten years, he realized for the first time that he is also a human being. Looking around the world, there is only one person in the world who regards him as a human being.

Does it matter whether this person is an official or a thief, whether he talks, sings, or curses?

unimportant.

Ren Quan'er stood up and said, "Officer Liu is right!"

Liu Chengzong thought that he felt the same way, so he patted his shoulder seriously and nodded heavily.

He said, "Look, this is power! Empathy!"

Song Shouzhen was deeply convinced.

After he finished recording, Liu Chengzong continued: "I haven't thought about the issue of raising soldiers, but the general idea is to go along this line, but what is safe for the people is very important. This is an explanation, an explanation for soldiers."

"It's not how to reassure the people. Everyone knows how to reassure the people. What we want to talk about is why we should reassure the people. It is not only to keep more people alive, but also to fight against our enemies."

"Let everyone understand that the imperial court is unable to solve the problem, there will be more and more refugees, more and more retired officers and soldiers, and the dignitaries and imperial court eagles and dogs who are dying are bound to be killed."

"As this battle continues for a long time, one will ebb and flow, and our generation will be invincible!"

　good afternoon!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)