Datang Longya

Chapter 174

"Hou Junji is probably about to flip the table." Leng Feng looked at the smiling Feng Zilu and said to Feng An.

"Brother Sangou...My younger brother was beaten up today, and he has no face to seek out his godfather, so I ask you for help. I want to beat you back. When I get to Lingnan, I will pay for your food!"

Although San Gouzi really wanted to earn some extra money, he couldn't do it on his own.Rules of the Dragon Tooth Army: If you don't listen to the boss, you will be beaten.

So when Feng Zilu approached him, he secretly asked Leng Feng to do this under the pretext of finding a few brothers.

In the spirit of "adding fire", Leng Feng agreed to San Gouzi's action.

Going into the barracks quietly to kidnap, beat, and hang people is something only the dogs of the old Xun brigade can do. Although the members of the Xun brigade have learned from their captain, they are still not good enough. Only after experiencing the baptism of real war can we grow up.

To be honest, sending Feng An back to Lingnan and helping Feng An deal with Tan Dian this time is a bit redundant. The Feng family has a deep foundation in Lingnan, and it is only a matter of time before Tan Dian is killed.

But between Leng Feng going and not going, tens of thousands of lives are separated. Wars are rarely one-sided. The places where the two armies fight are like meat grinders.

"Verdun Meat Grinder" is a familiar name. The battle was so tragic that even history textbooks have to mention it. Large-scale battles such as the Battle of Luoyang in the Great Tang Dynasty can actually be named "Meat Grinder".

The one-armed uncle named "Wang Laoqi" in front of him is a survivor of the Battle of Luoyang.

"Oh, impulsive! When I was young, I was fooled by the conscripts. I felt that I could be a high-ranking official and honor my ancestors, so I joined Wang Shichong's army.

But who would have thought that the high official was not elected, and he almost put his life on the city wall of Luoyang City. Now it is better. Before, whenever I saw Luoyang City, my arm would hurt..."

Wang Laoqi was unfortunate, he joined the wrong team, but he was also lucky, because of his broken arm, he was not sent to the border as a soldier.

There are three ways to deal with surrendered troops.

One is to cut it down, which is what Bai Qi and others do, saving time and effort, but they will be accused of being "cold-blooded" by the world.

The second is to disarm and dismiss them from farming, so that they will no longer have the opportunity to join the army within three generations.

The third is to break up the establishment and transfer it to our own army, but most of them are sent to the border to suffer for a period of time before being transferred back.

Wang Laoqi belongs to the second category. Although he has a broken arm, he can barely persist in doing farm work, at least to make ends meet.

Huang Zerui is very smart. His hometown is Linhe, and every family can dry fish, so it is impossible for every family to buy it. So he called the village head and arranged priority for those who have no food and clothing. Wang Laoqi is one of them.

Fortunately, Wang Laoqi talked about the past with Leng Feng in the house, and the "poisonous chicken soup" was not fed to the soldiers of the Dragon Tooth Army.

"Soldiers should be loyal to the Lord. Since he followed Wang Shichong back then, he should be prepared to sacrifice his life. Being able to survive is already good."

After Wang Laoqi left, Feng An came to such a conclusion based on Wang Laoqi's past.

Leng Feng disagreed: "Old Feng, what you said is a bit wrong. The greatest duty of a soldier is to guard the territory, so what is the purpose of guarding the territory? For the emperor's arrogance and lust? Of course not, but for the people of Li. Affected by war, they live and work in peace and contentment.

So, the soldiers are the soldiers of the country, the soldiers of the common people, not the soldiers of the emperor. "

Feng An thought for a while and then smiled and said: "This is true, but if the Confucian master heard it, you are disrespectful to the emperor!"

Leng Feng could only smile wryly, there was no other way, the current social situation is like this, what he said is common sense in later generations, but it would be "disrespectful" in the Tang Dynasty.

The emperor is the "Son of Heaven", who represents the heaven to rule the state organs and rule the common people. "Sovereign power granted by heaven" cannot be changed by manpower, and those who try to meddle in imperial power will definitely be abandoned by heaven...

The king ordered the minister to die, and the minister had to die...

This is the current orthodoxy, and even a countryman can say a few words.

Although this kind of thinking is feudal, it cannot be broken, because once the centralized court collapses, the scene of the troubled times of the Sui Dynasty will appear immediately. The troubled times have just ended, and who can guarantee whether there are still heroes hidden in the countryside.

So, frogs, it's better to boil them in warm water!

Seeing that almost everyone had brought ten dried fish, Leng Feng waved at Huang Zerui: "That's enough, we still have dry food, and we can get some wild game on the way, so we don't need to get too much."

Huang Zerui responded, and called the villagers to take back the leftover dried salted fish, and then distributed copper coins by household.

Huang Zerui didn't even count the amount of copper coins, each household had one copper coin per household, more would be more, less would be less, no one cared.

The village is adjacent to the river, so there is no shortage of fish. The purpose of making dried fish is to save the need to break the ice for fishing in winter, and to exchange for good things like copper coins. The villagers feel that they have made a lot of money.

At the end of the post, Huang Zerui found out that there were more than 5 salted fish, and he actually bought them for only a few tens of pennies.

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Closing the memorial to the governor of Luoyang, Li Shimin rubbed his forehead, Hou Junji, who is usually arrogant, is so good now that he offended Feng An and Leng Feng together. Set to the civil servant's side, lest he have nothing to do when his power is gone, now it seems that at least Leng Feng will keep tricking him.

"In this world, there is no one more deceitful than Duke Xi!" This sentence is now the consensus of the Dukes.

At the beginning, each of them got a glazed wat board, and they both regarded it as a treasure, and hid it in the treasure house at home, hoping to pass it on as a family heirloom.

But who knew that half a month later, when the Duke's children returned home from vacation, they would dismiss the glass wat board.

Chang Sun Chong: "Daddy, isn't this glass! The windows of our Academy of Arts use plate-shaped things to transmit light and keep out the cold..."

Cheng Chusi: "Father, this broken thing is worthless. It was stuck on the window of our liberal arts college. I broke a piece of it while playing around in class. The master only punished me for copying the Analects ten times..."

Changsun Wuji and Cheng Yaojin didn't believe it at first, so they went to watch it together while their children were in school, and they saw the seven-story building of the Academy of Arts shining brightly in the morning sun!
Li Shimin was still envious of the glazed wat boards of the princes, but after Yan Liben entered the palace, he stopped being so envious.

Although the news of "something burnt out of sand" almost made him laugh outright.

The courtiers thought that Gong Guogong was bleeding profusely, but in fact Leng Feng just had "sand" profusely.

(End of this chapter)