A knife in love

Thinking of this, Ye Fengchun sneaked a glance at Murong Danyan, and seeing her resentful expression, he was obviously not convinced.Ye Fengchun thought to himself that fortunately Li Baihu persuaded her, this stinky girl didn't dare to act recklessly and cause trouble for us.But looking at the appearance of the stinky girl, although she didn't refute it, she was not convinced.The evil fire in the stinky girl's heart did not dare to flare up against Li Baihu, and nine times out of ten she wanted to find Lao Tzu's bad luck.I have to be careful, so as not to offend the stinky girl and be scolded and humiliated by her.Thinking of this, Ye Fengchun didn't even dare to utter a sound, stood beside Li Qiufeng cautiously, stretched his neck and looked to the west, never daring to take a peek at Murong Danyan again.

After a while, I saw several camp tents in the distance suddenly collapsed, followed by many figures, who tidied up the tents and carried them away.Seeing this, Ye Fengchun turned his head and said to Li Qiufeng: "These bastards took the tents away and planned to stay in the mountains to keep out the cold, but Ikeda's house is too shabby, these tents are not only narrow, but also have a lot of damage. Among them, it is not much different from lying in the ice and snow. If the brazier is not lit in the camp to keep warm, I am afraid that those soldiers will be frozen to death."

As soon as Ye Fengchun finished speaking, Murong Danyan sneered and said, "That's hard to say! Don't forget that there are more than [-] sergeants crowded into each tent. Even if there is no brazier, these sergeants huddle together to keep warm. Frozen to death."

Ye Fengchun knew that Murong Danyan's words were intended to be sarcastic, not to help the Ikeda family, so he hurriedly said with a smile: "Miss Mu is right! These soldiers served as soldiers under Ikeda Kazaki, and they are really miserable for eight lifetimes." Ms. Mu and Uncle Li first arrived in Fusang country, so they didn’t know the situation of Fusang country. Fusang country is isolated overseas, but it’s just some big and small islands. These islands are full of high mountains, very few flat lands, and sea water Invasion, the land is extremely barren, and there are very few crops grown. If it is not for fishing, hunting, and picking wild fruits to eat, how many Fusang people would starve to death. However, the Fusang people are very good at fighting. Like uncivilized savages, there will be wars every few decades. The Ikeda family is one of the dozens of daimyos in the Fusang country, similar to our princes in the Middle Kingdom. Compared with the princes, they are like wealthy landowners. Although the big names in Fusang have soldiers in their hands, they can't support too many soldiers with their salaries and taxes collected in their own territories. In desperation, each The daimyo had no choice but to give up the plan to prepare more soldiers and horses, and dismissed all the other soldiers except for a small but extremely elite army. These soldiers usually live by farming the land like ordinary people. Once there is a war These civilians have to prepare their own armor and weapons and go to the place designated by the daimyo to gather to serve as sergeants under the daimyo. To be honest, these sergeants are actually ordinary civilians, and they are not very useful in fighting. The name is just for show. It is not surprising that these soldiers are so miserable."

When Ye Fengchun said this, he paused for a moment, and then continued: "Shun Ikeda still has a bit of heroism, he can be regarded as a good man, but his son Kazaki Ikeda is incompetent, cunning and greedy, sells military equipment and grain, and embezzles money. Sergeant rations and monthly money are Ikeda Kazaki’s forte. These sergeants live under Ikeda Kazaki, and there are only more than 20 people crowded in one tent, like beggars.”

Li Qiufeng listened to Ye Fengchun's words, and thought to himself that when I was on duty in Fusi, Jinyiwei South Township, the capital, I heard from my colleagues that the officials of the guards all over the country were relentless when they drank the blood of soldiers. What is even more outrageous is that these corrupt officials falsely report the number of troops and pretend to be paid.On weekdays, the head of the guard reported to the Ministry of War that the number of soldiers was 3000. In fact, there were 1000 people who were already considered high incense, and the military salary and rations of the other 2000 fell into the pocket of the head of the guard.Once a war breaks out, the Ministry of War will take out the name books sent by the guards from all over the country to gather soldiers and horses. In this way, a 3 army has been gathered in name, but in fact, it may not even be 3, and these 3000 are old and weak soldiers. , It is impossible to compete with the enemy at all.After I heard about this incident, I was very surprised. Later, when I returned to Shushan, I also talked about it with Master.The master was not surprised when he heard this, but just sighed, and said in his mouth that in the past, the Zhou family declined, rituals collapsed and music was destroyed, princes competed for hegemony, and fought endlessly with each other, and all countries attached great importance to the matter of raising and training soldiers.Those dirty officials took advantage of the opportunity to do everything they could to corrupt and accept bribes. This kind of evil has been going on for two to three thousand years. It is not surprising that such evil things have happened in every dynasty.After I heard what Master said that day, I was quite amazed in my heart, but I didn't expect such evil things to happen in such a small barbarian country like Fusang. It can be seen that although the countries are located in different places, many things are very similar. two.As the saying goes, all the crows in the world are as black, and the corrupt officials of Ming Dynasty are good, regardless of the name of Fusang Kingdom, everyone should be killed!

While Li Qiufeng was thinking, dozens of tents had already been dismantled and moved away by the soldiers.After these camps were moved away, Li Qiufeng, Murong Danyan, and Ye Fengchun could already see the situation in the distance.I saw that the entrance of the valley was crowded with sergeants, and they seemed to be walking eastward.Looking from a distance, the soldiers' swords and guns were dazzling, and the formation was very strict.Murong Danyan was disdainful in his heart, sneered, and said: "These beggars were shivering in the camp last night, and now they are pretending to be like this. If you don't see their distressed appearance, I'm afraid they will be killed by these beggars." Guy bluffed."

After Ye Fengchun heard Murong Danyan finished speaking, he was about to say something along with him, when he saw more than a dozen soldiers hurriedly approaching from the opposite side. , These guys came over aggressively, I'm afraid it will be bad for us, we have to be on guard early, so as not to be attacked by this group of thieves."

Li Qiufeng shook his head and said: "If King Shou wants to kill us, he will never send just a dozen sergeants. Moreover, these sergeants do not carry weapons, and they are definitely not trying to harm us."

Hearing what Li Qiufeng said, Ye Fengchun took a closer look at the appearance of the group of people, then smiled awkwardly, and said: "Uncle Li is right, these guys are not carrying weapons, it seems that they are not trying to embarrass us. I was so frightened that I messed up, I really deserve to die." (End of this chapter)