stubborn thief

Chapter 189
The wounded soldiers in Shiziwan surrounded Huang Shengxiao, watching him drink the wine in his teacup in one gulp.

"How about Huang Yong, is it delicious? What's it like?"

Huang Shengxiao had a weird expression. It was the first time he drank this precious thing, and it tasted fishy and weird, but he didn't want to show it, so he nodded and said, "It's okay, the blood is alive."

In fact, the effect of wine is relatively large, by the way, add some calcium.

But it is really effective for people in this era, because the diet of ordinary soldiers and civilians determines that they generally lack various vitamins and trace elements.

To put it simply, people who drink some water from the river in a few hundred years may develop stones.

But in this catastrophe year, it may cause the effect of calcium supplementation.

Their bodies lack everything.

The head of the baggage post is an old stingy carrier, although Ren Quan'er sent a large amount of things, but it was according to the amount used by Liu Erye alone.

If those things were distributed to all the wounded soldiers or even the entire lion camp, there were not many things.

Carrier still wants to keep it for emergencies, not to mention such a precious and rare thing.

So he didn't let the medical craftsmen distribute all the things, and selected a few people from the wounded barracks, who were eligible to try it out according to their merits.

Others are not so lucky.

Chengyun also told Liu Shizi about this. Liu Chengzong felt that his brother's perspective was very unique, so he turned these things into symbolic honor benefits.

Liu Chengzong felt that these looted things would be useful in the future.

It's a pity that there is no place to live for a long time, otherwise a warehouse can be built to store things that are rewarded to heroes.

But... a hero?
Liu Chengzong always felt that it was a bit wrong to mention this word now.

Song Shouzhen's level of writing is hard to describe, anyway, it can be seen that he is indeed a happy household.

But this is nothing more than a literacy manuscript, Liu Chengzong doesn't need to follow it, he just needs to explain things clearly to the wounded soldiers.

On the day he was in class at the injury camp, there was a lot of crying in the camp.

Even though they became rebels of the imperial court, these former frontier soldiers were still full of grievances. Someone cried and asked him: "Why did the imperial court embezzle our military salary?"

In fact, everyone knows the answer, and Liu Chengzong's answer is only a little deeper than the corruption of things.

Thanks to Mr. Liu's work as a tax official, he spent nearly half an hour explaining to the soldiers the purpose of the summer tax and autumn grain collected by the imperial court in Shaanxi.

However, he only said it selectively. After all, the starting point is to export hatred, directing the hostility directly at the officials and clan at the hands of the imperial court, and even the ultimate enemy Donglu.

In fact, the current deficit of the imperial court is no longer what the clan's money can make up.

Even if Chongzhen kills the clan now and takes back all the land in Wangzhuang, and there is no corruption in the process, it still won't be settled.

But such an explanation is enough for the wounded soldiers of the Lion Camp.

They didn't care how much money the Chongzhen Emperor's court needed to spend. What the emperor lacked was a few million taels of money.

The court does not have the money, but the court is still there.

I just want to know why the emperor allowed the court to embezzle their small money of five yuan a month.

They don't have this little money, and their families are ruined.

Liu Chengzong told them: "Because we are useless, give me one tael and I can defend the border for the court, give me five dollars and I can still defend the border."

"Finally, they didn't give me any money. I can still send the imperial court to guard the border for that ration. Then why did the imperial court give me money?"

Liu Shizi raised his finger and pointed to his head: "Later, I figured it out. Even if the imperial court didn't have that much money, they must put all the money in Liao Town. Why? Who knows why?"

All the wounded soldiers were silent, and a bold Ningxia soldier said: "Liaozhen is close to Beijing!"

Liu Chengzong had an impression of this Ningxia soldier. He was from Baoding. He used to be He Huchen's soldier. He raised his hand and said in admiration: "That's right, Liaozhen is close to Beijing, but it's not comprehensive. Otherwise, why would the court dare to owe Ji?" What about the town rate?"

"I'll tell you."

Liu Chengzong's smile was full of cruelty: "Because your Emperor Zhu family dared to owe the Liao Army three months' salary, and in the fourth month they dared to pay homage to the Khan of the Eastern Army."

The wounded soldiers were laughing, but was interrupted by Liu Chengzong: "This is not funny! Liao people, how are they different from the people in Yulin Xuanda? After fighting for more than 20 years, the front line retreated again and again, and the hometown fell to the adversary."

"The group of people who are still fighting for the court on the front line, the veterans in their thirties, how many of them were born in Shenyang, what about their family? Their family members were captured and raised by the enemy, and they fought on the front line by themselves, so they didn't surrender. "

"They are all Han Chinese, but if there is a way to survive, who would like to worship the Great Khan?"

Talking about Houjin to the soldiers on the three sides of Shaanxi, they didn't have much emotion, but when talking about sweating, all they thought about was the northern captives, and all of a sudden the hatred of the country and the family came to their minds.

Liu Chengzong was also influenced by emotions.

He originally wanted to analyze it with the wounded soldiers very rationally, but as he talked, he became more and more angry.

Because even if he understands and understands how the large-scale arrears of payment occurred, the ins and outs are very clear.

In fact, it was a gradual process. Since the three costly battles in the Wanli year, the military salary was a bit behind, but it was not a big problem.

Later, the finances didn't get better, but got worse and worse. In the year of Tianqi, the three main halls were built. Anyway, Jiubian Laoge didn't make a fuss, so he just took a little more.

When things get complicated and you want to build a castle, you can move over there.

Bit by bit, the frontier soldiers were like frogs in a pot. At first they thought it was all right and didn’t want to jump out, but when they wanted to jump out, they found that the fucking pot lid was welded dead.

Liu Chengzong knew very well how these things happened, but he was still confused.

He asked himself and answered: "Who gave the imperial court such courage to refuse to pay the army? We, the frontier soldiers who live and die every day, have a share, and we soldiers themselves give it!"

"There will be no such thing in the future, because with me and you, you can put your life on the battlefield of the bloody battle with the northern captives. Can you use your life to let them know what will happen if they default on their salary?"

"can!"

The wounded soldiers clapped and shouted angrily, and raised their crutches and fists to the sky. People's anger echoed in the valley bottom of the river bend.

The roar scared Master Liu and Mr. Yang to rush back from the mountain. They thought that the wounded soldiers from the Lion Camp were going to fight.

The brothers of the Han family were furious, and Fan Sanlang danced the most joyously while clutching the reward card with tears in his eyes. She was complaining for the dead Fan Sanlang.

Song Shouzhen was emotionally infected, and he also shouted. After shouting a few words, he found that Ren Quan'er next to him was indifferent to this, sitting in the corner of the camp, which was a great sobriety in the world.

He asked: "General Ren, you are also a soldier, why didn't you respond?"

Ren Quan'er didn't know either, and he scratched his face in confusion.

Simply don't think about it, just say: "There should be a painter, draw this down, and call it General, General and Army."

After Liu Chengzong walked out of the wounded and sick camp, Ren Quan'er followed, followed for a long time before coyly saying: "Sir, you, oops, how do you say...you pay me a salary?"

Liu Chengzong didn't think much about it, thinking that Ren Quan'er had no money to spend, so he smiled and said, "What's wrong, the salary of a thousand households is not enough for you? How much do you want?"

"No, I have money, that is, alas."

Ren Quan'er paused, thought for a while to organize his words, and then said: "Even if everyone else is like that, I also want to know what it's like to lead the army."

Liu Chengzong was stunned, and understood after a while.

Ren Quan'er is different from the frontier army. The frontier army is owed salary, but Ren Quan'er has never received military salary at all.

He never had a military salary, and the life of military households was good and bad. Those with a large family, those who made meritorious service in battle, and hereditary officers all lived well.

But people like Ren Quan'er have no one at home, and rely on the military for food and clothing, so they don't know what it feels like to be owed wages.

Compared with his background experience, even being owed wages is a kind of happiness.

"By the way, sir, General Yang sent someone back. If he didn't find you, he found me and returned to report."

After Ren Quan'er finished speaking, Liu Chengzong asked, "Commander Yang?"

"Correct."

Liu Chengzong asked with a smile: "How is he doing in Beijing? I read the residence newspaper last month, saying that he had received 20 taels of silver from the emperor for his meritorious service."

"It's true that he has made meritorious service, but he doesn't know where he went. He wanted to go back to Shaanxi, but General Wu suggested that Shanhaiguan should keep him."

Ren Quan'er said solemnly: "The imperial court asked him to recruit civilian husbands. Others recruited 500 people, but Wang Ziyong recruited 2 people for him."

2 people?
Liu Chengzong is full of emotion.

This is the benefit of working for the imperial court, but it's a pity that he has an unlucky imperial court who can't do anything.

As long as the imperial court is functioning normally, people's hearts are normal, and people who do things seriously can get promoted, how comfortable is it?

What is happiness?

Recruiting 2 people is called happiness without considering military rations!

Liu Chengzong thought to himself, if I have enough food to feed 2 people for a year, I don't have to do anything. Today, today, I will raise troops and go to Yulin.

"He is so capable, why should he go back to Shaanxi? Where can Shaanxi put him?"

"Sir, this is not really meritorious service." Ren Quan'er's expression was complicated: "I asked, and he recruited 2 people for the imperial court, and set up eight battalions. Yes, and there are those taught by Wen Xiang."

Liu Chengzong stared when he heard it, what's all this?

Luo Sect and White Lotus Sect are not authentic Buddhism, but they are the most influential sects in the world.

Luojiao is relatively moderate, and many Buddhists also regard Luojiao as a Buddhist sect. Today, the biggest influence is on the children of waterworkers. They belong to non-governmental mutual aid associations, and one of them later formed the Green Gang.

Because the White Lotus Sect is a cult officially established by the Ming Dynasty, it has many branches. Huang Tiandao and Wenxiang Sect are all branches of it.

This Huang Tiandao has nothing to do with the Yellow Turban Uprising during the Three Kingdoms period. Liu Chengzong is quite clear about this, because Huang Tiandao was founded by the frontier soldiers of Wanquandusi during the Jiajing period.

The name of the soldier over there is Li Bin, who was stationed at Yehuling after joining the army. He was shot blind in one eye during the war. tactic.

Later, Li Bin founded Huang Tiandao, who was named Huyan Zen Master because of his eye injury.

Because Jiajing has a Daoist emperor, there are many sects in the local area. Huang Tiandao founded by Zen Master Huyan is also an external Buddhist and an internal Tao, and it is also compatible with some things of Confucianism.

As for the Wenxiang Sect, the denomination is not important, nor is the belief. They use the guidance technique to avoid the court's investigation of the cult, and they generally don't preach at gatherings. Gatherings are professional flag-raising rebellions.

So if Yang Yanchang dared to recruit such a person for him, he could directly ask Ren Quaner to put Yang Yanchang under house arrest until he died.

Ren Quan'er said: "Wu Zimian saw that something was wrong with him, and he didn't want him to return to Shaanxi, but he sent someone to send a very important news. It seems that the imperial court intends to transfer the Ning army into the pass to suppress the rebellion."

None of the other news mattered to them, but this one had a big impact.

"Guan Ning's army entered the pass to suppress the rebellion?"

This is different from what Liu Chengzong thought. He always thought that what he had to deal with would be a joint crusade by the two provinces. He did not expect that the imperial court would prepare to transfer in the Guanning Army stationed outside the pass.

Liu Chengzong raised his hand and moved the hair scarf: "Guan Ning... this news is very important, I have to find the Guan Ning army under me."

Guan Ning veteran of Lion Camp.

In fact, if Liu Shizi hadn't been born late and joined the army late, he would have been able to make waves at the Guanning defense line.

As early as in the Tianqi period, Sun Chengzong mobilized skilled troops from the nine sides and all over the belly to enrich the defense line of Guanning.

These include the two towns of Xuanda in Shanxi, and the three towns of Yansui, Guyuan, and Ningxia in Shaanxi.

The five towns of the Western Army sent more than [-] troops to fill in the Guanning line of defense.

In addition to them, there are also the Tusi Army, Zhejiang Army and Beijing Camp of Huguang, Sichuan Army.

The officer corps, which is equivalent to tens of thousands of people, recruited new soldiers east of the capital to form an army.

Li Bei was Guan Ning who would go there.

Therefore, the Lion Camp is by no means an absolute stranger to the Guan Ning Army.

Because he was no stranger, Liu Chengzong was more cautious. The troops transferred into the pass must have fought well against Donglu before they were transferred back.

If it is an army that has repeatedly fought and failed in the east, then there is no need to toss to the west.

Thinking of this, Liu Chengzong suddenly became happy.

Ren Quan'er asked seriously: "Why are you laughing, sir?"

"I was thinking, this king is for his own use, what will happen if he is transferred back to Shaanxi with Guan Ningjun?"

Can the combat effectiveness of the Guan Ning Army with the addition of the White Lotus Sect be improved?

Joking aside, Liu Chengzong was still very apprehensive in his heart, and said to Ren Quan'er, "Let's go find Chengyun."

Liu Chengzong was not afraid of the official army in Shanxi and Shanxi, but only worried about being surrounded, flanked, encircled, and being beaten by the army.

But the Guan Ning army is a more powerful enemy.

There is no difference in weapons, armor and military tactics, but those people are paid one, two or four dollars a month, which is very difficult to deal with.

Chengyun was checking the supplies in the supply camp, and when he saw Liu Chengzong coming straight towards him, he put down his work and asked, "Brother, what's the matter?"

"Commander Yang sent someone to send a letter, saying that the imperial court intends to transfer the Guan Ning Army to suppress the rebellion. I estimate that they will advance to Shanxi and then to Shaanxi."

"Transfer the troops from the east to the west to suppress the rebellion, and you don't have to worry about the local feelings." Chengyun didn't know much about the Guanning Army, so he found the crux of the problem directly, and said, "Brother, tell me, what should I do?"

"Send people to carry out activities in Yan'an Mansion. From Yanchuan to the south, people who have surplus food and are willing to move them will all be dragged to Shiziwan to cultivate them. If they are unwilling to move, let them know the impact of the guest army's suppression of the rebellion, and strive for... "

Liu Chengzong raised a hand: "If you try to let the officers and soldiers enter the Yan'an Mansion, you won't be able to find a handful of noodles, and you will be able to fortify the walls and clear the country."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)