Chapter 380: Not enough pasture, kill sheep to make up
In the inner chamber of the Shule garrison's residence, white steam came out of the tea cup, and the fragrance of sencha was already wafting out.
Lady Li Twelve is covered with a fox fur coat, and her head is covered with hairpins. Her buns stacked like clouds make her appear dignified and beautiful as a married lady. Compared with the cloud-patterned blue shirt she wore before her marriage, she has only one hairpin on her head.
With a bunch of hair tied and a hairpin inserted, the hair is hanging down handsomely and elegantly. The difference between the front and back is really big.
The female swordsman and the noble lady are two completely different identities. She has completely accepted the new lifestyle.
Governor Pei's sisters and his wife were all guests at the house. They also dressed up as people from the Central Plains and sat opposite Li's sister-in-law, drinking tea and talking endlessly.
"I heard that there has been trouble in the city in the past two days. My Alang has a dark face every day when he comes back and looks very bad. I heard that the herdsmen's grass has been burned and hungry sheep are running all over the ground. They even killed them a few days ago.
A batch of sheep were not allowed to be killed by your man, saying that he was thinking of other ways. These men really said, what’s the big deal if there are too many sheep? Let them kill a few more sheep in each household and give them to the neighbors to taste.
Wouldn't it be solved if the Tang troops in the city had two more whole-sheep feasts?"
The so-called famine is so easy for women to talk about. Although they are only separated by a few yards, the outside world is so far away from them, as if they are talking about a war thousands of miles away in a joking tone.
"Hey, have you heard what your husband said about this?"
"No," Li Twelve Niang was slightly surprised, and then said with a smile: "I just heard from you that my husband has a dull temper. No matter how big things happen outside, he won't tell us.
, I can’t tell it from his face.”
"Then I really admire this guy in your family. He's not like our Alang, who has it written all over his face when something big like this happens, as if the sky has fallen."
Twelve Niang just smiled faintly, as if to say that there was nothing to admire, he should be like this.
Li Siye walked in from the outside, smiled and greeted the women: "It's really lively at home. Let's stay at home for lunch today and let Twelve Mothers entertain you all."
He walked behind Twelve Niang and put his hands on her shoulders naturally. Twelve Niang reached out and grabbed Lang Jun's hand, held it with both hands and rubbed it gently.
The two ladies from the Pei family looked awkward and nervous, not just because they were showing off their affection in public.
Even though Li Siye seemed very friendly, it still made people feel scared. There was a rumor in the city that Li Siye was able to serve as a garrison because he used a Mo knife to kill thousands of Tuqi Shi cavalry alive.
This kind of person is murderous and violent. I really don’t know how Twelve Niang, a beautiful and quiet woman like her, fell in love with and married such a butcher.
At this time, someone outside the door announced that there was new news from the army stationed on the Chishui River. He lowered his head and said to his wife, "I'm going out for a while." He smiled at them and said, "Excuse me," and turned around and walked out of the room.
Li Siye came to the main hall of the outer courtyard, where a dusty messenger soldier stood in front of the steps waiting. When he saw Li Siye, he knelt on the ground and crossed his hands and said: "Officer Duan sent me to deliver the message. He did not follow the previous military order.
We dug a canal and returned to Shule to rest and recuperate. Instead, we led the Tiaodang camp and more than a thousand cavalry troops across the mountain pass of the southern range of the Tianshan Mountains."
Li Siye was shocked: "What did he do over the Tianshan Pass?"
"Guan Duan just said that there is a grassland to the north of the southern mountain range of the Tianshan Mountains. The autumn grass has not completely withered and is not covered with ice and snow. He took people there to harvest it to supplement the lack of food and grass for the herdsmen."
After hearing this, Li Siye nodded and said with emotion: "He made his own decision, but well done, Duan Xiushi is indeed my Duan Xiushi!"
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Forage from other states to support Shule City has arrived one after another. In the large yard of Cangcao, the governor's office, the forage is piled higher than the Tianshan Mountains. The herdsmen feel more and more at ease. These high grassy mountains give them the confidence to wait.
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But only the people in authority in the Governor's Mansion knew what was going on. At this moment, in the main hall of the Governor's Mansion, Cansao Canjun and Bai Zhubo were squatting on the ground with fine pens in hand. They had calculated over and over again, and finally their faces were covered with sweat.
The ground raised his head and said: "Captain, an adult sheep needs to eat three and a half kilograms of fodder a day in the cold winter. However, there are more than 24,000 sheep of the herdsmen affected by the disaster, which means that they eat 84,000 sheep every day.
..." "Okay!" Pei Guoliang lost his patience and shouted: "Don't tell me these numbers, I just want the results, you tell me the results!"
They both replied: "Well, there's not enough grass."
"How much difference?"
"a lot of."
"How much is a lot?"
"Report to the Governor. The spring grass will not grow until March next year. It is more than three months from now. The consumption in this day is more than 80,000 kilograms..."
Governor Pei became angry again, but he said patiently: "You just need to tell me how much is missing!"
"There is still a shortfall of 3.2 million catties."
"Bah," Pei Guoliang took a breath of cold air: "It's so different?"
The two of them just lowered their heads and said nothing, but raised their thumbs on their crossed hands. Pei Guoliang had no choice but to think to himself that if he had not listened to Li Siye and continued to let the Tang army slaughter them, he probably wouldn't have to worry now.
He looked back at Li Siye, who was still sitting firmly at the top, and then at Zhao Chongxun, and found that Zhao Chongxun was also looking at him. It seemed that they both placed their hopes on Li Siye.
"Envoy Li Zhen, the grain and grass raised by various states have been delivered, but there is still a shortfall of three million catties. Please give us some guidance. What should we do now?"
Li Siye turned his attention to joining the army and Zhu Bo, and asked in a calm tone: "How long can the existing fodder last, and how many sheep can feed it until next spring."
The two people hurriedly crossed their hands and said: "To report back to Ambassador Li, the fodder now is only enough to last until the end of January next year. If we want to catch up with next year's green grass, all herdsmen need to keep 15,000 sheep."
General Zhao Chongxun's reaction was very sharp, and he immediately added: "It means that as long as the excess 8,000 to 9,000 sheep are slaughtered, the current trouble will be solved! Then I will mobilize manpower."
Li Siye turned to look at him and said helplessly: "Don't just think about slaughtering. That's the last resort."
He stood up from the bed and said to Cang Cao's army and Zhu Bo: "Divide the existing forage according to the proportion of each herdsman raising sheep, and distribute half of it first, starting from this afternoon."
Pei Guoliang said helplessly: "It's not enough in the first place, why should we only issue half of it?"
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