Song Zhenhai and his entourage marched to the official road in Shaanxi and Gansu Mansion, and were shocked by the scene in front of them, the official road in front of them was covered with thick fallen leaves and dust, which was not much different from the land in the road protection forest, in the fallen leaves and dust, from time to time poked out a section of the bones of people or beasts, the bark of the road protection forest on both sides has been stripped naked, the trees have withered, it may be that the grass roots in the forest have also been pulled out, and several hundred-meter-high moving sand dunes are faintly seen not far away in the cold wind. Perhaps because there had been no rain for months, the wind swept the sand and dust, staining the front in a gray patch. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Song Taiping muttered in his heart, this is the Shaanxi and Gansu Mansion that his father praised for its picturesque landscapes? How does it look more like the legendary Huangquan Road in the underworld, full of dry bones, even a sparrow can't see a single one, the only living creatures around are their group, the sky is full of dust, and after a while, their clothes will be dyed yellow.

Song Zhenhai touched the scene, and said very sadly: "Shangguan girl, Kunxianghu brothers, Song Taiping, when I led the Jing'an army to Shaanxi and Gansu Mansions in Anxi Prefecture, it was just a big drought here, and there was a locust plague, the grass roots have been eaten up, those bones may be the remains of wives and children who cook each other, the officials forced the people to rebel, the people had to rebel, Shaanxi and Gansu Province to appear large-scale rebel army, this place is the only way to the border five provinces grain and grass supply, once out of control, the border five provinces are short of grain and grass, the consequences are unimaginable! ”

Song Taiping and Shangguan Yi's faces became a little pale, Song Taiping also understood for the first time the importance of agriculture as the lifeblood of the country, no wonder the mysterious commentator focused on Cao Cao's strategy of garrisoning, even if the soldiers of the five border provinces began to reclaim the farmland now, it will not be harvested until next summer, this long food consumption of more than five months is an astronomical amount, and it is really a headache, even if the military rebellion in Shaanxi and Gansu is stabilized, the problems behind it are still one after another, just this stall of logistics affairs, is enough for his father Song Zhenhai to be busy, In addition, the training of soldiers and horses, the construction of military fortresses, and the training of new weapons operation sergeants are simple to say, but in practice it is a very tedious and troublesome affair, no wonder Liu Chan is incompetent and tired Zhuge Wuhou Zhuge Liang, dealing with these affairs is necessary to be comprehensive, taking into account the details of interrelated influences, and avoiding chain reactions.

Song Zhenhai instructed everyone to slow down the speed of travel, on the one hand, the bones on the road may scratch the horses, on the other hand, be cautious and beware of the bandits who block the road and rob, they are not only robbing money, but also eating people, and there are likely to be traps hidden on the road.

Song Zhenhai took off the bright silver spear that was dismantled into three pieces from the saddle victory hook, pressed and rotated the buckle of the connecting part, butted it, and formed a three-meter-long bright silver spear, riding on a horse and poking the suspicious road surface with the bright silver spear, and really found three traps with sharp trunks at the bottom, seeing the black-brown blood stains on the sharpened trunks, you can guess that someone has been accidentally killed, Shangguan Yi took out the willow leaf flying knife with a chill, vigilant of the surrounding movements, ready to kill the cannibalistic robbers at any time.

Song Zhenhai saw from a distance that there was a row of horse-rejecting stakes blocking the official road in front of him, and about two meters behind the rejecting stakes, he could vaguely see a few unclothed guys sitting on the official road to warm up, and hurriedly shouted in a low voice: "Everyone be careful, there are robbers in front, and it seems that there are sergeants who escaped from the barracks involved." ”

Song Zhenhai and Shangguanyi slowed down the speed of the horses under their crotches, trying to reduce the vibration and sound of the horse's hooves on the ground, and the white tiger Kunxianghu carried Song Taiping to pull some distance and follow behind, in case Song Zhenhai and Shangguanyi were accidentally injured during the battle, when Song Zhenhai and Shangguanyi marched to a hundred steps away from the horse rejection pile, a man who was roasting the fire vigilantly leaned down on the ground and listened for a while, and then stood up and looked, and let out a sharp whistle, more than 60 clothes poured out of the dead wood forest on both sides of the official road, and the whole body was frostbite blown out by the cold wind, The cracks opened one after another, the skin frozen to blue and purple was shocking, and most of the hands were rakes and wooden sticks, and only the three people who were headed by them were holding Pu knives full of gaps.

One of the bandit leaders saw the three-meter bright silver spear in Song Zhenhai's hand and the willow leaf flying knife in Shangguan Yi's hand, and knew that it was not easy to deal with, it was a hard stubble, so he said with a soothing attitude: "Two good men, can you reward us with some food to eat, we haven't eaten for three days." If the hero refuses to reward, then go and don't embarrass our poor brothers. ”

Song Zhenhai looked coldly at the leader of the bandits who spoke, and asked Shangguan Yi to be on guard on the spot, Song Zhenhai urged him to step forward and hook the horse rejection pile in front of the bandit to pick up the open space area in front of the bandits, and the 100-pound horse rejection pile flew up more than one meter high, and accurately smashed on the open space between the horse rejection pile and the bandits, only to see the horse rejection pile and the fallen leaves fall together, revealing a trench less than one meter deep behind the horse rejection pile, the trench is covered with sharp wooden piles, the sharpened part of the head of the wooden pile is very new, there is no blood stain, it seems that it has not been sharpened for a long time.

Song Zhenhai said coldly: "The three of you are the scouts who escaped in which town in Shaanxi-Gansu Mansion?" Soldiers are defending the country, and what are you doing? If you are willing to become a bandit, can you be worthy of the master who taught you how to fight? A hundred years later, you gangsters may have entered the ancestral grave? ”

The three bandit leaders saw that Song Zhenhai was extraordinary, not something they could fight against, and there was still room for maneuver in their tone, so they hurriedly threw away the big knife in their hands, and shouted at the hungry people behind them to kneel to the ground, and the bandit leader in the middle begged: "Lord Huiyu, the small three are scouts in Lingshan Town, Shaanxi and Gansu Prefecture, the small hometown has no harvest this year, and the squire who rented our land is going to tie up the wives and children of the tenants in our township who can't pay the taxes, and sell them to pay off the debts, which caused the village fathers and elders to rise up and kill the bully squires who bully men and women, Zheng Zongbing wanted to kill the sergeants who came out of our village because of the rebellion in our village, and our master's life blocked the pursuers, so we were able to survive, and fled here with the villagers, planning to go to the nearest house to do some labor, begging for food, but the casual old and weak were already hungry and sick, so they had to make this decision, to kill or chop the three of us, and let our wives and children and villagers go. ”

Song Zhenhai dismounted and lit the ground with a bright silver gun, easily jumped over the trench, and came to the old and weak women and children hiding behind the dead trees, seeing their same miserable condition, his heart softened, and he leaned over to call the pulse of a sick villager lying on the cold ground, and found that it was basically caused by excessive hunger and frostbite infection on his body, so he flew back to untie a bag of fried noodles and a bag of millet tied to the saddle and handed it to the bandit leader in the middle.

Song Zhenhai said pitifully: "You all get up, you can eat this bag of fried noodles on the road, and the millet will be boiled into porridge and fed to the sick villagers, remember that those sick villagers should not overeat, they will die, I will show you a way to live, go to the nearest Sanjiang Mansion to join the army as a military household, and make a career with your military exploits, and show your true colors as a man!" If I see you as bandits, I won't spare you!" ”

These villagers knelt down again to thank Song Zhenhai for their lives, and the villagers laid wooden rafts on the trench, and asked the villagers to give way to the road, and watched Song Zhenhai and his party leave, remembering that they had not asked Song Zhenhai's honorable name, and after a short pause to eat, they carried the sick villagers and set off to Sanjiang Mansion.

On the way, Song Taiping asked puzzledly: "Father, didn't you say that you are a bandit for one day, and you will not change your thief nature for life, and all bandits will be killed?" Why did you let those bandits go? ”

Song Zhenhai sighed and said: "The corruption of the imperial court is rampant, and the layers of filial piety and exploitation make it very difficult for the peasants and tenants at the bottom to live. At present, there is a lack of a large number of military households in the five border provinces to cultivate and replenish soldiers, and if there is this group of hungry people to do propaganda, we can gather thousands of military households. When dealing with things, we should not only look at the small profits in front of us, but also take a long-term view. ”

On the way, Song Zhenhai taught Song Taiping the views and strengths of the penal school and the Wuwei school of governing the country, as well as the focus of disputes between them. Unconsciously, the sky was dark, and the red lanterns of the inn were faintly visible on the hill ahead, Song Zhenhai sent the food of himself and Song Taiping to the hungry people, Shangguanyi did not bring much food, Song Zhenhai saw that Song Taiping ate Shangguanyi's food was already very unhappy, embarrassed to eat Shangguanyi's little food again, he had been hungry for a day and had not eaten, Song Taiping and Shangguanyi only ate a little fried noodles that were only enough to wrap their stomachs, and they were already hungry, and when they entered Shaanxi and Gansu Mansion, there were no beasts along the way, The white tiger Kunxiang Tiger was almost fainting from hunger, and when he saw the inn at this time, Song Zhenhai and his party were extremely excited and accelerated their speed.

As soon as Song Zhenhai and his entourage arrived at the door of this hotel called Niu Yang, three big men of five big and three thick men greeted them, and asked angrily: "Three guest officers, do you want to stay in the hotel or dine?" ”

Song Zhenhai smelled blood on their bodies, and realized that this might be a black shop, so he glanced at Shangguan Yi, and Shangguan Yi nodded knowingly. Song Zhenhai said elegantly: "If you want to eat, you also need accommodation, prepare three upper rooms, and feed our mounts by the way." ”

A big man shouted happily: "Three guest officers, please inside, what do you want to eat?" We have the best beef, lamb and wild boar, as well as our own 10-year-old red wine, what do we want? ”

Song Zhenhai remembered that his son Song Taiping loved meat very much, and then looked at the flashing eyes of the three guys on Shangguan Yi, and he was sure that this must be a black shop, so just order it, anyway, you don't have to spend money, why not?

Song Zhenhai said with a smile: "That's very good, come to a jar of champion red, five plates of beef, mutton, and pork, and then three bowls of dry rice and a pot of tea." ”

The three big men looked at each other, fifteen plates of meat! Did they bring enough silver? It won't be to eat the overlord meal, Song Zhenhai saw the concerns of these three guys, and deliberately took out a gold ingot of five taels from the sleeve of his robe and wiped it with a handkerchief. ”

Song Zhenhai was happy when he heard it, this little two had a sweat pill, and he still reminded "Haihai's drug" so clearly? Could it be that the brain is falling? It's not fun to have such a low IQ black shop

Look at a little two after the two companions took away their own and Shangguan Yi's mounts, they didn't see clearly and groped for the white tiger Kun Xianghu's bloody mouth, Kun Xianghu resisted the urge to bite off his thief's claws, Kun Xianghu A tiger roar sounded, and the scared guy sat on the ground, staring at the white tiger with wide eyes, and suddenly he cried with a frightened cry, incontinence, and would not move, and was dragged into the side room of the store by the other two guys tremblingly. The thief in this black shop has seen wild tigers, but he has never seen a tiger riding, and it is still such a big white tiger.

Song Zhenhai opened the curtain by himself, and Shangguan Yi moved the salute on the horses in, and saw that there were only two tables in the lobby of this cattle and sheep inn, but they were extremely noble tables and stools made of golden silk nanmu, and the vague patterns on it seemed to be some old antiques, and the three people and one tiger sat around a table, Shangguan Yi became a human and would have an asymmetrical pattern on the edge, and suddenly covered his mouth and got up, and said in a low voice: "Song, this table and stool are transformed from coffins, and those patterns are carved with the words Tomb Beast and Fulu, It's disgusting. ”

Shangguan Yi's voice was not loud, but he was startled by the chubby shopkeeper who had been staring at her, and almost jumped up, far away from the counter, his counter was a word for longevity, and a tomb beast was carved on the inner edge, he muttered and cursed: I said why did these damn carpenters sell me the golden silk nanmu so cheaply, it turned out to be the coffin board of the ancient tomb, no wonder my guys and I always dream of dead people asking for their lives, these woodmen who lack virtue should go to hell and be devoured by ten thousand ghosts.

Song Zhenhai and Shangguan Yi glanced at each other a little dumbly, and they were also suspicious: The only thing that sells the precious wood for the coffin after the death of the prince is the mysterious Pinjintang thief, monopolizing this business that has no profit and is detrimental to yin morality.

Fifteen plates of cattle, pig and mutton were served, Song Zhenhai looked at the salt grains and white unknown objects sprinkled between the meat slices, and gently picked up a piece of meat with chopsticks and smelled it, the meat was very fragrant, but it was not definitely cattle, pig and mutton, I don't know what kind of meat, the white unknown matter was indeed unintentional sweat medicine, so he took out four paper bags from his arms, which were the antidote to the standing sweat medicine, and threw them to Shangguan Yi, Song Taiping, and Kun Xianghu like lightning, and the two people and one tiger were also quickly put away, and Song Zhenhai demonstrated that the meat of the holiday was dipped in the black fragrant plant fruit particles in the paper bag. I put it in my mouth and tasted the meat slices of this unknown animal, which were delicate and odorless.

The other three also started to eat according to the same move, Kun Xianghu was inconvenient to use chopsticks, poked an eye directly on the paper bag, sprinkled on the five plates of meat slices like a sprinkler, licked the big tongue, one bite at a time, and quickly ate their own share, keeping their saliva and watching Song Zhenhai, Shangguanyi and Song Taiping slowly enjoy the meat slices, flashing big eyes, pointing to the meat slices in the plate with their front paws, and writing the human characters on the top of the table with their claws, Suddenly, Song Zhenhai, Shangguanyi and Song Taiping put down their chopsticks and went to vomit outside the store, Kunxiang Tiger took the remaining ten plates of human flesh slices one by one and ate them in an instant.

The shopkeeper who was watching behind saw the sword in Song Zhenhai's salute and the bright silver spear that was dismantled into three sections, and he had already guessed that Song Zhenhai might be the military attache of the border house, and he could also raise such a fierce white tiger demon beast.

The shopkeeper of the Niuyang Hotel didn't care about the fifteen plates of human flesh and the sweat medicine worth more than ten taels that were eaten by the white tiger Kunxianghu in heartache, and took his men to the outside of the store to check on Song Zhenhai's situation, and saw that Song Zhenhai and Song Taiping were just retching, and only Shangguanyi vomited a little.

The shopkeeper looked at Shangguan Yi who lifted the veil obsessively, and asked pretending to be concerned: "This military master, but the meat in the small shop is not palatable?" Your wife is pregnant with Rokka, do you need hawthorn soup and bone broth? ”

Shangguan Yi's face was black, and the probe was about to take out the willow leaf flying knife As a result, the lives of the two black shop shopkeepers and guys who were staring at their faces and chests drooling were pressed by Song Zhenhai's wrists, coughed lightly, and said: "The shopkeeper misunderstood, this is my cousin, follow me to the border to visit relatives, the journey is tiring, there is no shortage of food supplies along the way, I just ate meat more violently, my stomach is a little uncomfortable, and the wine is free, so I have nine bowls of dry rice and small pickles, and a pot of tea, and we will rest early after eating." ”

The shopkeeper complained bitterly in his heart, his buddy was adding sweat medicine to the wine mixed with water in the kitchen, these three suddenly didn't want it, how could they put down these two people and a tiger? Song Taiping, who was a child of one or two years old, was ignored by the shopkeeper of the black shop, and did not think that such a little child could be the opponent of the guys in his shop, and subconsciously regarded Song Taiping as the raw material of the roast suckling pig.

The shopkeeper of the black shop drooled unconsciously, nodded and said, "Okay, Master Jun." Let the guy serve you dry rice, pickles, and tea. Erhezi, why don't you go to the kitchen to inform Master Fan Tong that you don't have to take the best champion red from the cellar, and serve the meal as soon as possible according to the guest officer's requirements, clean the room, so that the guest officer can rest for a while! ”

Seeing that Erhezi did not respond, the shopkeeper of the black shop turned his head strangely and saw Erhezi looking like a pig brother, slapping Erhezi in the face, which was regarded as calling back the soul of Erhezi, and repeated it again, Erhezi turned back step by step, looked at Shangguanyi reluctantly, and was not paying attention, hit his head on the door frame, covered the bulging horn on his head, and entered the store to notify Fan Tong in the back kitchen.