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Chapter 335 What?Need food?No!
The army left Xining City and marched for nearly seven days, and finally entered the boundary of Gaodong County in the early morning of the seventh day.

Unlike Liaobei County, which stretches as far as the eye can see, Gaodong County is a hilly area, and the roads are far less easy than Liaobei County.

At the same time, Gaodong County is connected to the main vein of the Yunling Mountains in the east, and is also intercepted by the branches of the Yunling Mountains in the north. A natural semi-surrounding structure forms a natural barrier, so that Gaodong County only needs to approach Liaobei and Nanyang in the west. Adding precautions to the south and north of Jiangsu can resist the invasion of external forces.

When the border between the Tatars and the Song Dynasty was still in the north of Liaobei, every time the Tatars broke through the Liaobei pass, they would either go straight to Nanyang or go straight to the middle of the pass.

On the contrary, in Gaodong County, the Tatars will not enter at will without the need.

Because that place is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is not very suitable for cavalry to attack. Whether it is going to Nanyang to Bianjing, or entering the Guanzhong to raid the hinterland of the Central Plains, the benefits that can be obtained are much greater than Gaodong County.

Furthermore, if the army enters Gaodong, the Song people only need to block Nanyang in the north of Liaobei, and the Tatars will be cut off. As for the north of Jiangsu, the land is in the south, and the waterways are crisscrossed, which is not suitable for cavalry at all. Charge, for the Tatars with all cavalry, going anywhere is tantamount to binding their hands and feet, let alone going anywhere.

Therefore, Gaodong has always been the safest county in the northeast of the Song Dynasty.

It is also one of the main grain producing areas.

But just because it is so safe here, the family power here has been passed down for a long time, and the family with the longest inheritance in the Song Dynasty is also located here. That world has been passed down in the Central Plains for nearly 2000 years. The kindness of rulers of all ages.

This is all because they are the descendants of the spiritual leaders of the scholars, and all the scholars in the Song Dynasty today are the descendants and disciples of their ancestors.

Every move of their family has deeply affected the entire Song Dynasty literary world!
The Confucian family in Fu County was the only family in 2000 at that time, the top family among all the families, detached, independent and first-class.

Sometimes even the emperor would not let go of their eyes.

In the entire Fu County, the Kong family is the emperor of the earth!
In addition to the Kong family, the entire Gaodong County hides countless families, large and small, which can be said to be the county with the most families in the Song Dynasty.

It's just that compared with the Kong family, these so-called aristocratic families have only been passed down for a few hundred years, and they can't be regarded as a family with a deep foundation.

All the families with real background have moved out of Gaodong County, because this is the territory of the Kong family. If you want the family to get closer, you must leave the sphere of influence of the Kong family.

The Kong family is so domineering, this is the confidence of the family in 2000!

It didn't take long to enter Gaodong County. After about three or two days of effort, the army finally arrived at the first city after entering the country after a long journey.

Lecheng, the first county seat to the east of Xining Prefecture, is also one of the gateways of Gaodong County in the direction of Liaobei County.

It is one of the largest cities in the entire East and West.

During the period of the Liaobei defense line, it was once the first barrier against the Tatar invasion of Gaodong.

The city is tall, easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Although it is only a county town, its scale is indeed modeled after the Liaoyun Pass, and it is not much better than Nanyang City.

Lecheng County Government.

Yu Hong, the magistrate of Lecheng County, is a middle-aged man with two mustaches and a goatee under his chin. He has a pair of small eyes that shine like mice.

Every time you turn around, there will always be some crooked ideas.

With the decline of the Liaobei defense line, the once important military city gradually became an ordinary county town.

Although the city wall is tall, it is no longer guarded by heavy soldiers. On the contrary, there are only two or three defenders, big cats and kittens, standing lazily at the top of the city every day.

When it was time to close the city gate, it was half an hour before the time, but they couldn't wait to start closing the gate.

It was a quarter of an hour shift, but Yu Hong, the county magistrate, didn't care about it.

Anyway, he didn't give full salaries to these soldiers, he would give one-tenth of them at most, and naturally he wouldn't ask for more.

In case their duty time is strictly stipulated, what should this group of big soldiers ask themselves for the lack of military pay?
Fortunately, it’s better to be like this, the sooner the gate is closed, the sooner it is, if it weren’t for keeping these few people to deal with the higher-ups and constantly urging them to allocate military salaries to embezzle them, I would have driven these idlers away long ago.

Some time ago, the imperial court suddenly sent a batch of military rations, which made him very happy. Isn't this a coincidence?
The money box just built at home happened to be more than half full.

According to the usual rules, I found the local Chen Ji Grain Shop, sold it without anyone noticing it, and distributed it a little bit up and down, and this batch of military rations became white money and fell into my cash box.

As for what the imperial court said was food and grass supplies for the Pingwa army, what does it matter to me?

What is the Pingwa Army?Have not heard!

what?
Is there a court order?
Do you have to dial?
sure?Let's delay for ten days and a half months, anyway, I'm not in a hurry!
Are you in a hurry?
Easier to handle!It's easy to start a fire with so much grain in the granary!

With this fire, it is normal that the food is gone, right?

This food is gone, you can't ask me for it again, right?
You have no food to eat?What does that matter to me?

It happened that the granary burned down, and I continued to write a letter asking the court to allocate money to repair the granary.

When the money comes down, the granary doesn't need to be repaired too well, just make it look good, anyway, it's not really useful, and it may be burned again at some point.

It just happened to be a matter of course to get another sum of money, so happy!
Just when Yu Hong was happily counting how many of his money boxes were full, the door of the clerk's room in the backyard of the yamen was suddenly opened, and a thin middle-aged man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks walked in slowly.

This startled Yu Hong, and when he looked up and saw that it was his master, he scolded angrily: "Zhou Yan! Don't you know to knock on the door first when you come in? You scared the county!"

I tell you there will be another time, believe it or not, I will deduct your salary for this year! "

The master named Zhou Yan smiled wryly when he heard the words: "My county lord, you have already withheld all the student's salary this year!"

Yu Hong was taken aback for a moment, and immediately changed his tune: "Then deduct next year's money!"

"Next year will also be deducted."

"Then the next year!"

"The back also..."

"Wait! How many years has it been deducted?"

"My lord, you have deducted all the students' ten-year salary!"

"Uh...then you will be deducted 11 years later?"

Zhou Yan: "???"

……

Closer to home, Zhou Yan shook his head with a wry smile. If it wasn't for him not relying on salary at all, who would be willing to be his teacher with the deduction method of his own county magistrate?
Fortunately, the benefits of this status are far more than the salary. If the salary is gone, it will be gone.

No longer obsessed with the question of which year and that year, Zhou Yan quickly explained his intentions: "My lord, there is news from the west gate of the city that the Pingwa army from Yunzhou County has arrived outside the city, and the leading general called People come to the yamen to ask for food. Look..."

As soon as Yu Hong heard that he wanted food, he became anxious immediately, and said directly: "What? Need food? Tell him, no! Not a single grain!

This county is a poor county, there is no food for him, not even a grain, let him go to those rich counties! "

Zhou Yan smiled wryly and shook his head.Then he reminded: "Master County, they have an imperial decree, which stipulates that they can ask for food from us, and didn't the imperial court transfer a batch of military rations a few days ago?"

"The county doesn't know what kind of military rations!

Also, it's great to have an imperial decree. If there is no food in this county, can it be conjured up for him? "

"Ugh……"

Zhou Yan sighed, and continued: "Master County, after all, it is an imperial decree. If you disobey the imperial decree, you will be beheaded!"

Yu Hong's face turned green and pale, and he said after a while, "Tell them that there is too much food, and the county is short of manpower, and it takes time to prepare. Let them wait a few more days."

Zhou Yan understood what his county magistrate wanted to do as soon as he heard it. After following him for so long, he knew what it was like to fart, but the leader gave an answer, so he couldn't say anything more, so he had to Replied: "Students understand."

Then he went out and went to the gate of the county government office to find the soldiers sent by Li Dingguo and told him the county magistrate's reply.

The soldier didn't talk nonsense after hearing the words, and ran back outside the city directly, and informed Li Dingguo of the county government's reply.

When Li Dingguo heard this answer, he immediately raised a smile and murmured: "I also thought that the officials in the customs had changed their temper, but I didn't expect that it was just that Madden and his brain.

Looks like it's time to work! "

After thinking about it, Li Dingguo called the deputy general and gave some instructions in a low voice, and waited until the deputy general left to make arrangements.

Li Dingguo immediately issued an order to the whole army: "Set up camp a hundred steps away from the city!"

"promise!"

The army responded in unison, and soon began to set up camp a hundred steps away from the city wall of Le City.

Before leaving the city wall, Li Dingguo turned his head and glanced at the eight-meter-high Le County city wall and the city guards on the city wall who were dying as if they could be blown down by a gust of wind, and the corners of his mouth slowly curled up.

right here?
Dare to do things, don't know how to live or die!

Take you to the knife!

For those behind, let's see if the general's knife is sharp enough!
……

(End of this chapter)