stubborn thief

Chapter 70 Battle Cloud
At the end of May, Liu Chengzong and Cheng Yun and others sent rice grain to Fucheng to buy mules, and on the way they met Yang Yanchang, a trial household.

I learned that Liu Guoneng's recent situation is not good.

Killing the officials from the south didn't cause any trouble, and local officials still protected the local people in such matters.

However, during the inspection, officials found that several villages in Nanjiashan had a lot of grain.

In the year of the catastrophe, the Yan'an government also paid half the wages of the fast-moving yamen, and they were all hungry.

Some officials had evil thoughts and wanted to accuse An of being a thief, arrest a few people and go back and corrupt some food.

Unexpectedly, they are really thieves, and they are still thieves hiding things.

The psychological quality is not good, so I can't help being so frightened.

Seven cases were quickly arrested and all died in Nanjiashan.

The villagers of the whole village, with their families and their families, carried food overnight and ran into the mountains.

The government could not find anyone else, but they knew that there was a scholar Liu Guoneng.

This time, he didn't even need the name of Chuangtatian, and directly used his real name to put on the wanted notice.

Fortunately, the government has no time to take care of such a small role as him.

Summer is here, and it's time for the twice-a-year anti-tax time in northern Shaanxi.

Official clerk has become the number one high-risk occupation in Yan'an, and he can't care about anything.

Liu Chengzong was very relieved to know that Liu Guoneng was wanted and still alive.

It's not that he is wicked, one can never change another person, but reality can.

Brutal reality can shatter people's beautiful fantasies.

Eat a cut to grow one's wisdom.

Before getting to know Zhang Qianhu, who asked for food and did nothing, Liu Chengzong also had a beautiful fantasy about Shidaobao.

Knowing mistakes can be corrected, and doing good things is great.

But Yang Yanchang had more important things to tell him.

They walked all the way east from the livestock market outside the south gate, and they found a hillside shelter when no one was there.

Yang Yanchang said: "Did you see it, the Nancheng Camp has been training all day long, and there are rumors in the Wei Li that there is going to be a war."

Yan'an Prefecture City is bounded by the Yanhe River.

Liu Chengzong asked, "Yanchuan?"

"I'm afraid it's more than that. Five days ago, a thousand generals were transferred from Xi'an, and the self-defense station took out seven hundred banner troops for training and training, and from the north, they allocated two hundred elite cavalry to Li Bei.

There is also the governor's standard camp in the south, and this battle is not a matter of Yanchuan. "

Zhang Tianlin's prophecy came true, and the rebels from all walks of life gathered together, so that their scale was no longer limited to the extent that the imperial court could deceive itself.

This time the court is going to get serious.

Liu Chengzong asked, "How is the situation of the guards, the troops are about to be dispatched, and they have no food, will they... get food?"

"Did you think of it? I stopped you, just to talk about this. Be careful. The Weili flag troops are like crazy. Just as far as I know, two people have already hanged themselves in the past few days."

"Go, hang yourself?" Liu Chengzong couldn't believe it: "So afraid of fighting?"

Yang Yanchang didn't like to hear these words, and said with an ugly face: "No one is afraid of war, it's too late to be happy, even if you go to death hungry.

I'm afraid that they won't be sent to death, then the Qian who transferred from Xi'an is always a thief, training the banner army to death, and urinating blood at night, just a few fucking days, what are you doing with this Buddha's foot! "

When he said this, Liu Chengzong understood.

The army of the Weisuo had no salaries, and the rations were all harvested from the army's fields, and a small ration was used to support the remaining ones in addition to the normal ones.

Nowadays, in the famine years, the common people can't eat, let alone the flag troops of the Weisuo.

To call them into battle is to die, but if you are lucky enough to chop off a few heads, you can change your fate if you become a guard, and if you don't have enough, you can leave your family and become a deserter.

But don't let them die, practice hard, people can practice a fart without oil and water in their stomachs.

In these years, for the poor, living is suffering anyway, and it is really not that difficult to die at the end of the day.

Happy anyway.

Liu Chengzong asked, "Then what are your plans?"

"I?"

Even though he knew that there was no one else around, Yang Yanchang still looked around, and then whispered: "I came out today to get a batch of old weapons from the guardhouse and put them in the blacksmith's repair.

If these things are repaired, they will not be shipped back. My people will not survive this battle. I will take them away. "

"Where are you fleeing to?"

"Looking for Guo Neng, he has food, enough to last until the fall, and then think about the next thing when the officers and troops are gone."

Yang Yanchang was talking to Liu Chengzong, but also seemed to be emboldening himself: "I thought about it, this time the officials mainly fight those big thieves. We are hiding in the mountains, and we shouldn't be beaten by the officials if we don't cause trouble."

Seeing that Yang Yanchang had an idea, Liu Chengzong didn't say more, but just said a few words of comfort.

But he didn't expect Yang Yanchang to be quite optimistic, so he changed his mind and asked, "That is, do you marry a wife, or do you have followers, clansmen, or do you want a daughter or a son?"

Liu Chengzong couldn't catch up with these words, and he looked puzzled: "No, Brother Yang, why did you suddenly say that you are going to buy a mother-in-law?"

"Isn't it just those three families, there was a righteous one who dragged his mother-in-law and aunt to hang himself, and the remaining two families left the two mother-in-law, two males, three females and five babies unattended.

They are all from a farm family in Weisuo, and their mother-in-law is young, diligent and obedient. If you want to buy it, I will tell you. The price is cheap. You can buy one for [-] to [-] kilograms of millet. "

Liu Chengzong glared and said, "Why do you have to sell them? If your husband's family died, his son would have to sell them off?"

"Where is the in-law's family? The debt of death has not been paid, the food owed has to be repaid, and every family in the army is dying of starvation. Just waiting for food to save lives, there is no mercy.

You see, if you want to buy a horse with one stone grain, you have to add three more buckets. Our guard station directly gives you seven people with one stone grain. Why is it better than a horse? "

Liu Chengzong quickly waved his hand when he heard it: "Don't make this trouble for others, do you really think following me is better than being sold to Shanxi?"

"Okay, forget it if you don't mean it. I just don't think I'll be angry even if my head is chopped off with you. I don't want them to die and their family members to be insulted."

Yang Yanchang also thought about it, and told him instead: "But you have to be careful of Zhang Xiong. He has more than 300 soldiers in a thousand households. He was beaten by Mr. Fei Qian a few days ago. Yesterday, he got more than [-] soldiers from the outside. head."

"Zhang Xiong, you mean Zhang Qianhu?"

"Well, it's him."

Yang Yanchang nodded, leaned in and said, "Fei Qian always wants him to guard Yan'an. When the official army goes on an expedition, no one will be able to stop him. If he can't keep it, what will he do for money and food."

Liu Chengzong took a deep breath, raised his hand and pinched his forehead.

Damn, I bought land earlier and attracted hungry people.

If you buy a horse now, don't let this thousand households know about it.

According to the conduct of the thousands of households trading with the thieves, once he found out that Heilongshan used grain to buy horses, he would definitely go to the door.

How long will this bird's breath last?

Liu Chengzong didn't speak for a long time, then suddenly raised his head and asked, "Where is Zhang Qianhu's house, the guard station outside the city?"

This question startled Yang Yanchang: "What are you doing?"

"That person had brought troops to my house before, asking for food, but he didn't do anything when he got the food. He made a private agreement with the thief who slaughtered the village, and used the heads of the common people to make up for it."

Liu Chengzong's face was amiable: "I'll just ask."

"Don't be stupid, Tiger General. His house is next to the Drum Tower's only courtyard in the city. You won't be able to run away if there is a lot of noise."

Yang Yanchang pointed in the direction of the Fucheng and said, "Not to mention that the Fucheng is under martial law now, and you must register to enter and exit."

Martial law can be difficult to handle, so it can only be done outside.

"Hey, you have to run anyway, can you think of a way to get me a cannon, a small cannon that can be pulled by two donkeys to run."

Before Yang Yanchang refused, Liu Chengzong raised three fingers and added: "Sanshiliang, if you buy people yourself, I will shoot you."

(End of this chapter)