Yanpu, the general of the left wing, laughed after listening to Mulan's words: "Hahaha······ Lack of food and grass? Is this flat city a place where there is a lack of food and grass? Even if Taicang is burned clean, Pingcheng has food! Your Majesty, the minister asked for the order to collect grain and grass, and the minister promised to collect 100,000 people to eat half a year's grain within two days! ”

"Wait!" Mulan immediately shouted and asked, "How do you collect grain?" Where to collect? ”

"Do you need to ask? Naturally, food is collected from the homes of the inhabitants of the city, otherwise where else to collect it? ”

Hua Mulan's eyes widened, and she immediately shouted: "You're not collecting grain and grass, you're robbing!" ”

Yanpu pursed his lips, "What's all the fuss?" Hasn't this always been the case? ”

Hua Mulan immediately bowed to Tuoba Jian with a fist: "Your Majesty, the minister opposes letting the soldiers rob the residents inside and outside the city, the soldiers are the army of the imperial court, not bandits and bandits!" Now that the puppet emperor has fled eastward, if Your Majesty wants to fight for the world with the puppet emperor, you must first fight for the hearts of the people, and let the army rob the people to raise grain and grass, this is the self-destruction of the Great Wall, please think twice! ”

King Gaoliang Tuobana stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks what General Hua said is very true, and the minister seconded it!" ”

But Hedora cried out, "If the soldiers are not allowed to raise their own food and grass, what will they eat and drink?" If you don't eat or drink, the morale of the army will soon be lost, and how can anyone in the court go to war at that time? ”

Tuoba Jian thought for a while, and gave a will: "Give the cattle and sheep to the soldiers, leave some of the property transported back from Mobei for emergencies, and the rest will also be rewarded to the soldiers, first stabilize the morale of the army, and then think of a way for the rest!" ”

Seeing that the emperor's decree did not make Pingcheng more chaotic, but also temporarily solved the problem of the army's heart, the ministers all stood up and shouted: "Your Majesty Shengming! ”

Tuoba Jian instructed Hedoro: "You immediately lead the troops to chase Tuoba Pi, and you must catch him up and capture him for me, as well as those accompanying ministers, military generals and their families, all for me to capture!" ”

"Obey the order!" He Doro, the general of the bare-pole feather forest army, finally had soldiers and horses to command at this time, and he quickly turned around and left after excitedly agreeing.

"Okay, if there is nothing else, Zhu Qing will disperse separately!"

"Your Majesty, the minister has a way to solve the problem of grain and grass!" Cui Hao stood up and said.

Tuoba Jian hurriedly raised his hand: "What is Cui Qing's good strategy?" Come on! ”

"Your Majesty, there is definitely not much food for the ordinary people inside and outside the city, if Your Majesty sends troops to collect grain from them, not only will they not receive much food, but they will leave a bad reputation! But there is still a lot of grain in Pingcheng, first of all, the major grain merchants, and now that the autumn harvest has passed, there must be a lot of grain in their warehouses; Secondly, the princes of the various clans, the major families and the ministers of the court have a lot of land and pasture, more than 100,000 acres, less than a few thousand acres, the court can collect a part of the grain and grass and cattle and sheep, and then buy a batch from them, if the court has no money, you can borrow first, and then return it when the treasury is full in the next year, the minister's family has more than 3,000 acres of thin fields, you can donate 1,000 stones of grain and grass to the court, and you can also lend 1,000 stones to the court! ”

Tuoba Jian was overjoyed when he heard this, and praised loudly: "Qing is really a loyal minister! ”

When the other ministers and generals heard this, they all scolded Cui Hao in their hearts, Nima, you use our grain and grass to please the emperor, I have seen shameless people, I have never seen you so shameless!

Cui Hao took out all his family's food, what else can other ministers and generals say? Didn't you hear the emperor praise him for being a loyal servant? If they didn't bring out the grain, what would the emperor think of them?

Tuoba Jian, the king of Le'an, stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the minister will donate 3,000 stones, and borrow 2,000 stones!" ”

"Okay, good, the four emperor brothers are good, they are worthy of being brothers who fight tigers, and they are father and son soldiers, hahaha······" Taka Ken laughed.

The muscles on Tuoba Fan's face twitched, and he forced a smile.

Other ministers and generals had to come forward to donate food and lend some of it to the imperial court.

In the end, only Mulan was left and did not come forward.

The servant Yi Jue asked: "General Hua, all the colleagues and generals have donated food and lent food to the imperial court, what about you?" ”

Hua Mulan snorted coldly: "Hmph, Ben will not be as rich as your family, I don't know where the 300 acres of fertile land that Your Majesty rewarded Ben Jiang are, what will Ben donate?" Why don't I borrow 1,000 stone from General Ben, and General Ben will donate it again? ”

Yi Jue was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then smiled, "General Hua said that he was laughing, and there is no surplus food in the official's house!" ”

"What are you yelling about when you don't have any food left? I think you are deliberately trying to find fault with General Ben, looking for a fight, right? Mulan clenched her fists as she spoke.

Yi Jue's face turned white with fright, Hedoro was beaten like a pig's head, he didn't want to be beaten all over the ground looking for teeth, and hurriedly hid behind Tuoba Fitness, shouting while running: "Your Majesty, help, Weichen's bones can't withstand the beating of this evil woman!" ”

As soon as Mulan heard Yi Jue scolding her for being a wicked mother-in-law, she immediately exploded, "What did you say?" Look Ben won't tear your mouth apart! ”

"Your Majesty, the minister impeached Hua Mulan for losing his honor in front of the palace, and he has no dignity at all!" Le'an Wang Tuoba Fan stood up and hugged his fists and said.

Yi Jue also immediately said: "The minister also impeached Hua Mulan and beat the ministers of the court!" ”

Dazai Tsuneei echoed: "Your Majesty, the minister seconded the proposal!" ”

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

Immediately, a large number of ministers and generals stood up to impeach Mulan, saying that Mulan was not restrained, and she didn't put the emperor in her eyes at all, and she would beat people when she was unhappy.

Tuoba Jian felt a headache, Mulan has a talent and strong martial arts, and now he needs such a military general at this time, but most of the ministers and generals have impeached her, which makes it difficult for him to do it.

After thinking about it, Tuoba Jian still decided to let her go back, otherwise the court would not be peaceful, so he said to Hua Mu: "Hua Aiqing, you have fought merit these few times, I originally wanted to give you an increase in rank, but you have only been added to the rank and knighthood for a short time, and it is not a good thing to be promoted too fast, you are still young, and there will be a chance in the future, this time I will not give you a promotion to a knight, and I will reward you with 300 acres of fertile land, 200 gold, 100,000 money, and 300 cattle and sheep!" Wuchuan Town is still building a city, you can prepare, set off and return to Wuchuan Town within three days, defend Wuchuan for me, and can't let the Rouran people enter the fortress again! ”

Although there is a sense of dislike and distribution, but this is exactly what Mulan wants, she doesn't want to stay in Pingcheng at all, and now that the emperor is driving her back, she can't ask for it, so she immediately bows down: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

Coming out of the palace, Hua Mulan took a few eunuchs and Li Bao Jingxin and others to receive the emperor's reward, she did not stay for a moment, and asked Oiran, Li Bao and Jingxin and others to load all the gold and copper coins rewarded by the emperor into boxes, and sold all the cattle and sheep rewarded by the emperor, and set off for the west on the same day.

That night, a fire broke out in the barracks outside the city, and all the equipment used for the siege was burned to ashes in this fire, and even the craftsmen escaped cleanly.

When Emperor Tuoba Jian learned the news, he was furious and beheaded the officials and soldiers guarding the siege equipment, and there was no way to investigate the cause of the fire, so he could only solve it.

Two days later, a messenger ran into the palace hall out of breath and reported to Tuoba Jianyu, who was convening the ministers, that Hedoro led an army to pursue the puppet emperor Tuoba Pi and his party, but was ambushed at Flying Fox, thousands of men and horses were lost, and Hedoro fled back with only more than 300 men.

Flying Fox is the junction of Taihang Mountain and Yanshan Mountain Range, where the terrain is dangerous, the mountain road is long and narrow, the army can not pass quickly, if the army that sets up an ambush and rushes is not aware in advance, it is very easy to be blocked in the middle and cannot advance or retreat.

He Doro made the mistake of lightly advancing the enemy, did not observe the terrain during the pursuit, and forgot the danger of the flying fox, and the army was attacked by a rain of arrows and stones on the narrow mountain road, and the result was naturally doomed.

Cui Hao suggested to Tuoba Jian that the time to pursue Tuoba Pi had passed, and the most important thing at this time was to send envoys to all parts of the state to win the support of the assassins, Taishou and town generals in various places, and control as much territory as possible at the fastest speed, and the more territory and population they controlled, the stronger the strength would naturally be.

Tuoba Jian took Cui Hao's suggestion and successively ran out of the four messengers to meet with the Assassins, Taishou and Zhenshou generals in various places.

Mulan and her party returned to Wuchuan eight days later.

When I walked near Wuchuan, I saw a tall city in front of me, and all the fields around the city were reclaimed for a few miles, and these fields were neatly spread on the ground like a small square lattice, and each ridge of the field was the same width, and the ridges and ditches were crisscrossed in straight lines.

Jing Xin exclaimed: "It's so spectacular, it will be even more beautiful when the wheat grows in spring next year!" ”

At this time, many men and captives were scattering cow, horse, and sheep dung evenly in the fields.

The overseer's team saw Mulan's procession passing by, and immediately rode over to salute.

"Meet the General, we're fertilizing the fields!"

Mulan nodded and asked, "Why are you people the only ones who are fertilizing?" Reclamation completed? ”

The general replied: "The task of cultivating 50,000 acres of land has been completed, and the town will reduce two-thirds of the people and slaves to help build the city, and only one-third of the people and slaves will continue to open up the land and fertilize and water!" If you look at the city wall in the distance, the other three walls have been completed, and only the south wall is still being built, which is estimated to be completed in three days at most, and then the rest is to build the arrow tower and the city tower! ”

Zhao Junsheng was standing outside the south city gate and directing the masons to build the city gate tower, when a personal soldier next to him shouted: "General, General Hua, they are back!" ”

When Zhao Junsheng heard this, he turned his head to look, and saw a group of people riding horses and driving the car in the distance.

He immediately caught up with Mulan's horse and asked, "Why did you come back so soon?" ”

Hua Mulan's face was depressed: "Don't mention it, I was driven back by the emperor!" ”

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