stubborn thief

Chapter 494 Luck
Bai Yiqing is not a serious person.

In the past when he served as the governor of Gansu, he found many problems, ranging from small generals falsely reporting rations and fodder for dead horses to large officials and landlords annexing fields. He chose to turn a blind eye and turn a blind eye to them.

Because it can't be done.

But this time he wanted to be serious with Liu Chengzong, so he had to go out to see what the soldiers of the Marshal Army were eating and how the Marshal Army's military discipline was.

Liu Chengzong was very happy with his serious performance. Hearing what he said, he simply asked: "Are you full?"

Bai Yiqing didn't understand the meaning of these words, so he responded blankly, and saw Liu Shizi picked up seven or eight slices of cold mutton with his chopsticks, swept the plate away, without dipping in the salt, and directly stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it, and served it He poured gluten broth into his mouth.

Three times, five divisions, two, and directly ate the food on the table cleanly, then took a breath, raised his hands and applauded: "Go! I will take you to see my soldiers."

Bai Yiqing was not intimidated by Liu Chengzong's eating appearance. He also led soldiers to fight. He fought against the peasant army when he was a soldier in Shaanxi, and won seven victories. He also knew many generals. faster.

Because the battlefield is an extreme environment, no one knows how many hours a battle can last. Between the day before the battle and the day after the battle, a person's weight can change by four, five, or even eight or nine catties.

There is no food to eat when the battle starts, and those who have the conditions before going to the battlefield will eat Hesai, and after the battlefield, they will fight quickly and overeat, because no one knows when the next battle will come.

They ate a lot and stretched their stomachs. As long as the soldiers had the conditions, they could eat and pretend.

The general's belly in ancient portraits is very realistic. This solid belly is the capital of a person's survival on the battlefield. After all, fighting is not a competition. It does not distinguish between weight levels and does not need to lose weight. Very strong people generally have a little belly.

People with very low body fat don’t need to fight on the battlefield. They march to the place, stand in the sun for a long time and then lie down. Of course, the belly is not too big. The big belly in the portrait is because they are all wearing armor. The belly will be lined and will also make the belly appear rounder.

In fact, when this group of big-bellied men came down from the battlefield, all of them had wasp waists... For no other reason, the extreme environment forced them, and when there was no food, the body would eat fat.

But Bai Yiqing had never seen someone eat so fast like Liu Chengzong.

Facing his surprise, Liu Chengzong was not surprised. He knew that Bai Yiqing had fought in battle and was also a soldier, so he smiled and said: "I have been on the battlefield for five years. I will eat with you slowly for half an hour. Hurry up!" I'm dead."

The two led the guards out of the Yamen to cross the street. The street is still under military control, and it is extremely depressed and eerie.

Every household is closed, guards are standing in the streets and alleys, and the streets are not very clean. Two severed hands.

Every few steps, you can see a group of three soldiers knocking on the door and searching every house, registering the household registration in the city.

There is also a horse team with helmets and armor on the streets, beating gongs and patrolling, reading the notice of safety for the people over and over again, advising the people to register their household registration at home behind closed doors. No mercy.

Even though the Marshal's soldiers were executing the execution at the street corner, every street was bloody, but Bai Yiqing nodded secretly, and even praised Liu Chengzong: "Since the Marshal entered the city, Gan Town has become much more stable."

Liu Chengzong also nodded and said: "The two battalions near the city previously surrendered too many troops, and the military discipline was lax. After the household registration is completed, the city can continue to enjoy its work as usual."

He knew that Bai Yiqing's words were not flattering. Order is better than no order. Before he entered the city, Ganzhou City had experienced a period of disorder. The army broke into the city, and it was much more chaotic then than it is now.

In fact, Liu Chengzong was observing Bai Yiqing, and Bai Yiqing was also observing Liu Chengzong.

Now he doesn't want to die, it's easy for him to want to die, his blood is full of life and death, his emotions are in place for a moment, and his life is gone; but when this moment passes, he has to make up his mind again.

As long as you want to die, there are always more ways than difficulties.

Even if his hands and feet were tied up, it was not a problem. On the day the coachman sent him to Zhang Tianlin's camp, he opened his mouth to spit on the soldier's face, and stabbed him with a wild goose feather knife. Slap him in the face and everything will stop.

If you didn't die at that time, it will be very difficult to think about dying later.

However, there are three questions before Bai Yiqing. The first is whether he should be martyred after being captured, whether he should surrender if he is not martyred, and whether he should contribute if he surrenders.

These three questions are progressive, the first one is determined by whether he is a hero; the second one is determined by Liu Chengzong's personal charm; the third one is determined by whether he is a shameless person.

At present, it seems that he can’t be a hero anymore. A scholar became a great official in the frontier, and suddenly he found that he fell into the altar. What he did was not worthy of the honor and pride he once had... Most people will feel this in their hearts. Kaner was tormented all his life.

Liu Chengzong led the guards all the way through the heavily guarded streets and boarded the southern city wall.

Before going up the city wall, Bai Yiqing heard the commotion and shouting in the urn city, and when they got up to the gate tower, it suddenly became clear that the urn city was filled with square tables of all sizes, two tables put together, six stools and ten chairs. The two of them, nearly a thousand soldiers in the Marshal's Mansion were packed to the brim, feasting in the Wengcheng.

Liu Chengzong supported the battlements on the city gate tower, pointed down the city and said to Bai Yiqing: "Look, what are they eating?"

Only at this time did Bai Yiqing understand what Liu Chengzong meant when the two of them first started eating, "This is enough for a dozen people". Every table in Wengcheng put together the four kinds of meat they ate. Dishes, but the portions are larger than what they both ate.

Some of the army men were still wearing armor, but more were not wearing armor. The standard padded jackets were open, and some even squatted on a bench shirtless when they were happy, revealing their tendons, and they were covered with a pair of ripped cotton trousers. The knife on his waist and the gun on the table.

"This... the whole army eats this?"

While Bai Yiqing was stunned, Liu Chengzong raised his finger and pointed around, saying: "Yan'en Gate, Guangde Gate, Yongkang Gate, Xianxi Gate, each gate of the four gates has 110 tables. Today my soldiers do nothing but eat. and play."

"The four gates inside and outside Ganzhou are under martial law, and the soldiers are not afraid of disturbing the people. All the teams eat under the city. When they are full, the president will take them to visit the eight scenic spots in Ganzhou. Have fun, and the whole army will go back to the camp to study."

Bai Yiqing wondered if this was different from the soldiers he had seen before?It's like a group of students and scholars who go to a restaurant to fry four meat dishes, eat and drink enough to go out to play, and go home to study after having enough fun. Where can soldiers get this kind of treatment?
And to be honest, when he saw those heavily guarded soldiers in the street market, he had a very high evaluation of the military appearance and military discipline of the Marshal's army; The son fell to the bottom.

He looked at the shirtless military man eating and drinking in the urn city, and then turned his head to look at Liu Chengzong, who was wearing a helmet and wearing armor on the city wall, holding his arms with a proud face, and asked after deliberation: "Marshal Liu's Shuwu method seems to be slightly understood by me. There is a difference, let the soldiers go out, can they come back?"

Liu Chengzong, as if he had heard a great joke, turned his head and asked Bai Yiqing in amazement: "If you let it out and you can't come back, what is it?"

Bai Yiqing shook his head, and looked worriedly at the soldiers in the urn: "They look... like the rogues I saw in Shaanxi."

The proud smile on Liu Chengzong's face suddenly turned cold: "Why do you call bankrupt peasants who are desperate and border soldiers who are angered by unpaid wages called rogues?"

Although his tone was still calm, it scared Bai Yiqing more than the snarling, but Bai Yiqing did not flinch, and still said: "They are rogues, and the county town is ruined. I see is believing. The Generalissimo is also from Shaanxi. Come out, do you still want to turn black and white on this matter?"

Liu Chengzong shook his head and said, "They killed people and robbed them. The leaders were cruel. Most of the people who died under the knife were innocent people, that's right."

"But how did they get on this road? Farmers have no land to stand on. The drought has been devastating for years and the fields have lost all grain. If you want to raise your head and fight a bloody battle with the northern captives, isn't this a massacre?"

"They couldn't survive at home in the army, so they ran outside to set up a stockade, and were beaten by the loyal ministers and good generals of the Ming Dynasty like chasing rabbits with their armored artifacts. You..."

Liu Chengzong raised his finger and pointed at Bai Yiqing and said, "The world has reached this point, can you high-ranking officials still promote the reform of the New Deal? If you can't reform, it's time to change the dynasty."

"Since Kong Jia succeeded to the throne, the people of the Xia Dynasty have had no means of living, and Shang Tang can revolutionize; when Shang Tang's dynasty reaches Emperor Xin's indulging in wine and sex, Zhou Wu Wang can revolutionize; A hundred years later, the people will still shout that the sky is dead."

"Which dynasty didn't plead for the people at the beginning of its establishment, and which dynasty didn't have the people's livelihood at the end of the dynasty, or the gang of moths lying on the ancestral merit book for several lifetimes, you people sharpen your heads and grab the rest. Learn from those moths."

"I studied hard in the cold window for ten years. I practiced in the summer and in the winter. I learned all the arts and martial arts. If I was not allowed to take the imperial examination, I would not take the exam. I would go to be a soldier selling martial arts. I would go home if I was not paid as a soldier. I really can’t be a martial artist sharpener when I go home, just eat enough and wear warm clothes, what should I do?”

"You call those who are unwilling to be robbed, unwilling to fill the trenches, and survived after being beaten all over the ground. Who wants to escape? Isn't it true that the flesh and blood of ordinary people can't stop the lead of the cannon, can stop the early His mother has trampled all over the sky, and I still hear you making noise!"

"Traitors!" Liu Chengzong turned his head and spat out in disdain, and asked Bai Yiqing, "What, our Taizu Emperor established Daming, really thought it would last forever? The second year after his death, he died!"

Bai Yiqing was left speechless by Liu Chengzong's words. On the one hand, anyone who has read books knows that no dynasty can last forever, but from his point of view, there are many big problems in Ming Dynasty, but the impact is not great.

On the other hand, he never considered from the perspective of rogues why he wanted to rogue.

He saw that Liu Chengzong's emotions were a little agitated, so he asked knowingly with a calming mind: "But Marshal Liu didn't act like they did, why is that?"

Soothing is very effective.

Liu Chengzong glanced at Bai Yiqing: "What can it be because I am brave and good at fighting, witty and intelligent, use soldiers like a god, be victorious in all battles, fight hard, be tolerant of benevolence and righteousness, and be cunning and cunning? It's because I was lucky. If I was not lucky, I would have been beaten to death."

Bai Yiqing's answer to this... felt quite twists and turns in his heart. Hearing Liu Chengzong boasting that he was brave, good at fighting, witty and intelligent, he felt that it was quite the case, but after hearing the series of boasting behind him, he felt that such a troubled army leader has been mixed up in this world now. level, but rely on shameless.

But at the end, it was very true, and Bai Yiqing could not help nodding his head slowly: "Everyone has luck, but whether they can ascend to heaven or not depends on their ability."

"I am their luck, they can live with me, and live well."

Liu Chengzong agreed with this sentence very much, raised his finger and said to the shirtless soldier below: "Look at the meat on their bodies, all the fat ones are from the new Ming army; the lean ones are all from me. Veterans, we were all fat and strong from the Qinggai camp, and when we walked to Jiayuguan, each of us lost ten to fifteen catties."

Liu Chengzong pointed his thumb at himself: "I've lost twelve catties...now they deserve this. Follow me, they suffer hardships, but they should have, and they can't miss anything."

At this moment, although Liu Chengzong had already ordered the soldiers on duty in the city not to tell the soldiers who were eating, someone in the urn city still saw Liu Chengzong on the top of the city, and said "the commander is here" and "the commander is on the wall". As they whispered among each other, a shirtless officer in Urn City suddenly ordered: "Stand up! Line up!"

In the momentary chaos of footsteps, there were two bang bang bangs, thousands of soldiers in the entire Wengcheng, no matter whether they were wearing armor or padded jackets, no matter if they were veterans, they all put down their chopsticks and quickly lined up in the gaps beside the tables and chairs. Neat, even shirtless, everyone holds a weapon.

The veterans even carried leather belts around their waists when they lined up... It just made the officers standing in the middle a little embarrassed, because all the soldiers were uniform, and every team was facing the direction outside the city with their weapons. It was left to Liu Chengzong on the gate tower in the city with a series of heads tied with hair scarves.

"turn back!"

The army turned around quickly, but this movement was not so neat. The veterans all turned back to the right, and the troops who descended were either left or right.

Liu Chengzong asked in the city: "Is today's military ration delicious?"

The sergeants shouted in the urn: "It's delicious! Thank you, Commander, for your kindness!"

"Remember the military law, go out to play and follow the officers, don't interfere with the people who violate the military law, otherwise you will never be lightly forgiven, do you know?"

"Don't worry, handsome!"

"Come back to study hard at night, take Liangzhou, we will eat better." Liu Chengzong stretched out his hand on the top of the city and pressed down: "Sit!"

"Yes!"

Junbing then sat down neatly, but this time it was not as natural as eating just now. They all sat upright, straightening their spines, and some shirtless slowly put on their clothes without turning their heads. padded jacket.

Liu Chengzong didn't say anything about it. There were two battalions stationed outside the city that had their turn to eat at night. It was no problem for the sergeants to relax properly while eating.

He turned his head and told Bai Yiqing to go down to the city with him, and left the soldiers to eat well in the urn city. He said as he walked, "Soldiers are human beings, they are not tools to kill the enemy, they are just bound by military laws. When you see those corpses in military uniforms at the street corners in the city, Those are soldiers who have surrendered to me, and the ugly words have already been said before, you rushed into the city to kill and rob indiscriminately, if you don’t obey the military law, you will end up like this.”

"But we came out of the Yellow River in northern Shaanxi, across thousands of mountains and rivers, captured the high mountain castle in Uzang, and marched towards God; we saw the grass swamp in Zoige, and people and horses stepped on it; we rushed over the chain bridge on the Jinsha River, My generals commanded night battles in the river; we watched the Yellow River, sacrificed to the Yellow Emperor, saw the sunset on the long river in the desert, fired guns amid the sound of spring waves at Hongqiao in Lanzhou, and chased cattle and horses with muskets in Qinghai Lake. They have seen a little bit of the world They are all less than you officials."

After all, walking down the city wall trail, Liu Chengzong asked Bai Yiqing at the gate of the city: "Now it's your choice. Gansu's long-term peace and stability, protecting the environment and people and rebuilding order, is it your luck?"

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)