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Chapter 126: Doing Business

 Ren Quan'er also joined the war.

Leading the 100 generals of Liu Chengzu's tribe with the 100 households of Yan'an Guard.

During the battle, he charged forward and led the Yan'an Guards to engage the official army.

Ren Quan'er was beaten black and blue by Guduo. When he heard that Chief Liu summoned him, he immediately ran over to report.

In Yan'an Guard, Ren Baihu often taught his banner troops not to listen to Yang Qianhu but to listen to Commander Liu Chengzong.

Whenever this happens, he will use himself as an example to explain to those bannermen who don't know Liu Chengzong.

Before meeting Liu Chengzong, he was a small flag soldier and had been ordered around by his superiors since he was five years old.

What kind of days were those? I was so tired that I didn’t even have time to cut my toenails. They were really outgrown, so I borrowed scissors and squatted on the bunk in the middle of the night to cut my nails under the moonlight from the window.

I accidentally poked my toe, and the wound was injured without treatment. I never had a holiday in my life, and I had to run around in the fields.

Is he not loyal enough to live such a bad life?

Commander Yang asked him to deliver artillery to the rebels. Isn’t this loyal enough?

But this loyalty is useless.

It was different when it was Chief Liu. He saw that he was injured and personally treated his injuries, changed his dressing, let him rest, and gave him food to eat. What is this? Is this a chief?

These are reborn parents!

According to Liu Chengzong, let him take care of Li Bei.

Ren Baihu didn't say anything. He walked out of the military tent with his helmet in his arms, put on a solemn look on his face, and said to Wei Qian'er: "Where is Li Bei? Please take me there... What kind of general has caused our Yan'an Guard to lose hundreds of dollars?"

Yu is a good hand, what a sin!"

Liu Chengzong felt relieved when he handed Li Bei over to Ren Quan'er.

Even Li Bei couldn't give Ren Quan'er a higher official position than Baihu.

There were many things going on after the war, and they would not be able to evacuate for a while. They were just waiting for the transport team to arrive, so they simply camped on the spot and rested for a day.

Early the next morning, not long after Liu Chengzong woke up, Gao Yingxiang walked into the tent and said with a smile: "General Liu, you are surrounded."

Seeing how relaxed he was, Liu Chengzong just thought he was joking, thinking that this way of waking people up was quite scary.

Unexpectedly, when they walked out of the camp, they discovered that they were really surrounded.

Bodies were lying everywhere in the fields, and the strong smell of blood penetrated directly into the nose.

Liu Chengzong looked up between the two mountains.

On the mountain to the west, hundreds of hungry people gathered in groups.

On the mountain to the east, hundreds of strong men from the village are gathering.

Liu Chengzong stood in the river valley, millet grains being trampled into the soil under his feet, and frowned: "What are they going to do?"

Wei Qian'er stepped forward and said: "The villagers have always been in the mountains. The village over there is their home. A few days ago, King Gao Chuang's soldiers withdrew here, and they hid in the mountains."

After that, he looked at the hungry people on the Western Mountain and said, "Those people came from nowhere. They were standing there last night, as if they were waiting for the troops to withdraw."

"Hey!" Luo Rucai said with a smile: "I'll ask them what they are here for."

Luo Rucai was the happiest. The hundred military armors that Liu Chengzong promised him had arrived. As soon as he woke up, he couldn't wait to put on the armor and come out. Wherever he went, he would walk around for people to see.

He led several horses to the west mountain, but someone from the east mountain came down first.

Several young men supported an old gentleman and came over, bowing down and calling him the king.

Liu Chengzong was so frightened that he quickly helped the old man up and asked: "Old sir, I don't dare to take this seriously. What are you doing?"

The old man bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, I am a native of the local Guaizichuan River. We live on the fields along the river. A few days ago, when the soldiers came, we all fled into the mountains. Now that the battle is over, thousands of people in the village are pointing their fingers."

We can live on this food. I just ask the king to show your kindness... and leave some food for us."

Liu Chengzong looked up and saw that the field they used as a battlefield had been ruined a lot.

As the military formation passed by, patches of rice fields were trampled down. In fact, the fields on the main battlefield were pretty good. Li Bei's military discipline was not bad, and he only harvested more than a dozen acres of land.

In the back, near the camps of Li Wanqing, Gao Yingxiang, and Wang Ziyong, the fields have almost been harvested.

When we fight in autumn, we still set up camp next to the fields. Isn’t that what we think about?

When the fire soldier saw that it was almost time to eat, he put on his sickle and pushed the cart out. He could even carry a bucket, fetch some water from the river, cut some grain from the field, and when he came back he could steam rice with a big pot.
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They destroyed other people's fields and didn't think about it during the war. When he saw it now, Liu Chengzong knew that it was time for them to leave.

If we station troops for another two days, the village's long-growing field of millet seeds will be gone.

Liu Chengzong helped his father up, looked at the young man beside him, and then at the people on the hills in the distance. These people's clothes were not shabby, but they did look like they were suffering people.

If you weren't a suffering person, you probably wouldn't dare to break into the military formation just for a little bit of land.

Especially a formation of thieves who defeated the official army.

"We're leaving today. Please rest assured, I won't destroy the crops again. Well..." He felt a little guilty and pondered for a moment before saying, "Let me harvest the land for you."

"We can't do it, we can't do it. It's enough if the king can leave us the land, but we don't dare to bother the king."

The old man was shocked and turned pale. He immediately lowered himself to prostrate himself and said, "Your Majesty, just let me kowtow to you and let us go!"

But he was supported by Liu Chengzong's arms and could not bow to him no matter what.

Liu Chengzong was heard saying to the frightened young men of Guaizichuan: "Go back and call everyone who owns fields. I will send people to help you collect grain. Go quickly."

Where did the young men dare to go? They almost burst into tears with the old man outside the camp.

This king doesn’t want to leave any food for us! It sounds like he wants to kill all the villagers!

Not only did they think so, even Gao Yingxiang stepped forward and said: "Chengzong, that's about it. Let them go."

Liu Chengzong had a question mark on his face, what do you mean it’s almost enough?

Cao Yao stepped forward and said to Gao Yingxiang: "King Chuang, this is how General Liu does things."

"What do you mean by doing things like this?" Gao Yingxiang also had a question mark on his face and said angrily: "What do you mean by bullying the people?"

Cao Yao knew that he had misunderstood and said: "He dug canals for the people in Yanchuan with a group of thieves."

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Not only was Gao Yingxiang confused, but the old man and other leaders who came to plead were also confused, and even Liu Chengzu was confused.

The Liu family led the people to resist taxes in Fushi County because they wanted to go against the government and prevent them from collecting taxes.

But what does it mean to let soldiers take over land for the common people?

There is nothing we can do about destroying the fields during the war.

As for those fields that were cut off, Liu Chengzu couldn't control others. His troops didn't cut off the people's fields, so he had a clear conscience.

Liu Chengzu thought about it and realized it.

But this realization may not be the same as what Liu Chengzong had in mind.

What he thinks about is obedience and discipline. What is obedience? Letting a soldier do what he wants to do will gain support, but letting a soldier happily do what he doesn't want to do is called moderation.

This is also a kind of military training.

The old man also heard what Cao Yao said, looked at Liu Chengzong and asked in disbelief: "Does the king really want to help us cut the fields? We have people to cut the fields, so there is no need for the king to send troops."

"Old man, you don't have to be like this. The guns on the battlefield have no eyesight, and our leaders are also insufficient in carrying food and grass. It is really not my intention to destroy the fields. I know that you are not short of manpower, so you should give me a chance to make up for my mistakes."

After that, he said to several of his disciples: "Go and call all the owners of the fields. Go quickly."

This time, the old man nodded, and several young people ran away and went up the mountain to deliver the good news.

Liu Chengzong turned around and waved to Wei Qian'er, saying: "Go and send orders to assemble. We will collect millet from the people in a while. If anyone dares to bully the people, don't blame me, Liu Chengzong, for falling out."

Wei Qian'er was quite familiar with this kind of order, so he smiled and took the order and went down to deliver the order.

Fortunately for Gao Xian and Feng Rui, both of them had a share in building the canal. On the contrary, it was Yang Yao and Wang Wenxiu, the two newly-joined generals of the frontier army, who were confused by Liu Chengzong's order.

What does this mean? Tell these border troops to reclaim land for the people?

But I am still confused because Liu Chengzong has not missed any decisions until now. Just do whatever you are told.

As their orders were passed on, the soldiers basically had the same idea in their minds. Except for the wounded soldiers who were not in the team, they all gathered together.

After a while, the people from the mountain came down in batches. The men from the border army took off their armor, wore military uniforms, picked up hoes, and followed the farmers one by one to identify the fields.

Liu Chengzu's team also joined in. Under Liu Chengzong's instruction, several literate tribesmen were specially assigned to register whose fields were destroyed and how many acres of land were destroyed.

When they were doing this, Luo Ru just came back. He saw the movement in the fields on the mountain, and he was not as confused as other leaders.

Luo Rucai had top understanding skills. He ran to Liu Chengzong and said: "General Liu, those are the hungry people who heard the noise and came over. When they saw there was food, they wanted to grab it from us. I have already told them that they are here with us."

You can’t catch anything here.”

With that posture, Liu Chengzong is still waiting to praise him.

Liu Chengzong looked up the mountain and saw that the hungry people were still on the mountain, so he asked: "Then why don't they leave? Are they planning to rob the people here?"

Luo Ru just saw the old man from Guaizichuan here, stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, smiled with big yellow teeth and said: "It's okay, old man, don't be afraid, they won't be so hungry if they dare to kill, and they can't beat the young people in your village.

, we’ll leave in a while, just don’t pick up the bodies here.”

After saying that, he turned to Liu Chengzong and others: "I know that everyone is decent, so I asked them to come down later to avoid being an eyesore to you... But they are indeed starving to death. Why don't we let them come down to recruit people and move the bodies?"

Go?"

Liu Chengzong didn't react at first. He frowned and paused for a moment before he realized the taste and stared directly.

But for just a moment, he shook his head and said to Liu Chengzu: "What kind of world is this... Brother, is there still some food in Li Bei's camp?"

There are also seven stones of food in the camp.

Luo Rucai tried her best to dissuade Liu Chengzong from taking out the food. He stopped him in front of him and said: "No, give them this food. If they eat less, it will be two days of food. If they eat more, it will be two meals. We will leave after two meals."

Well, they still have to dig out the corpses, eat two more meals, and fight with the village. Those who are alive will be alive, and those who are dead will be dead."

"It's of no use!" He opened his hand and wiped it in front of him: "I don't want to see this either, what can I do? Who among those thousands of people can feed them for a whole winter!"

Luo Ru only counts the food for this army. Even if they die, they will eat dozens of acres of land in one day.

Even last night, he was still thinking that when he dealt with the soldiers coming from Qingyang, he would have to find a way to persuade Liu Chengzong and push Gao Yingxiang's people into the faces of the officers and soldiers.

Even if he doesn't push, Gao Yingxiang must be told to stay away from Fushi County immediately after the fight.

Now there are many people in Gao Yingxiang's team. If Lai stays in Fushi County and doesn't leave, we will have to compete with them for food this winter.

Luo Rucai is also making his own calculations in his heart. He does not love robbing big players, but he has long seen a truth - the big players will one day finish their robbing.

If others grab one more, he will grab one less. It is better to grab early than to grab late.

Liu Chengzong also hesitated.

It is easiest when the pros and cons of something can be analyzed, but it is more difficult when the pros and cons analysis turns into a moral choice, and when the moral choice becomes a dead end, it is meaningless.

His hesitation comes from his disappointment in the world.

In the end, he decided to leave the choice to those people to make their own decisions.

"Go and ask them again if they dare to kill people. If they dare, come and eat food. If they don't... dare, forget it."

After that, he asked the king's own men to dig pits and bury the corpses on the battlefield.

Comparing his feelings with his own, Liu Chengzong felt that if he died, and whoever was about to starve to death, as long as he had a meal to survive, he would have a way to survive.

He doesn't mind if someone bites him.

Even if one bite can save a hundred people, then he will feel that the bite is worth it.

But if someone bites him and he can't survive, forget it. Not only does he want to be bitten, he even wants to get up and kill these people.

He said to Liu Chengzu: "For a moment, I thought to myself, they don't dare to kill, so I will go and kill them all."

Liu Chengzong suddenly remembered that Cao Yao once said that it doesn't matter, the good and evil of little people no longer matter.

At that time, he only thought that Cao Yao was too pessimistic, but today he realized that Cao Yao was absolutely right.

This is disappointment and despair.

Disappointed in myself and despairing of the world.

Out of the corner of his eye, he happened to see Liu En standing behind Liu Chengzu, and Liu Chengzong said: "Go, let Ren Quan'er ask Li Bei what should I do if this happens."

Liu En didn't come back for a long time.

After a long time, he ran over and gasped: "General Li said he didn't know at first, but Ren Baihu kept asking, and General Li was tired of asking questions. He asked you to distribute the food to the hungry people, dispersed the troops and captured them, and then...

…”

"What happened next?"

Liu En wanted to laugh, but he calmed down and said: "Later, Ren Baihu beat up General Li and asked me to give him a message. The original message was that if Chief Liu has something to do, don't ask this bullshit general anymore, he has no balls.

Got it!"

Liu Chengzong was also happy. Ren Quan'er was outrageous. He didn't even know what it meant to ask him to ask Li Bei.

He asked: "Are you not injured?"

"No, it's just that General Li was very angry and asked Ren Baihu to untie him. He said that three Ren Baihu could not defeat him, but Ren Baihu ignored him."

In fact, Ren Quan'er's original words were, you think I'm stupid, I beat you just because I tied you up.

Luo Rucai came back, with more than 400 people behind him. Running was slower than walking. Many people fell down as they ran, rushing towards the food in Li Bei's camp.


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