It was a strange guard. A city with 50,000 or 60,000 inhabitants. Xizhou only sent company officers with eleven soldiers to guard the town, and there was no regular Tang army, and the highest commander was a high pastoral supervisor who was lower from the fifth rank.

The subordinates left behind by Master Gao once asked him that there are a total of three gates in Yanqi City, and if he still needs to send someone to guard it at night? The tall man said, "What about people?" Where are the people? Not only did I not send men to guard the gates, but I opened all the gates for me at night, and I did not close any of them.

These subordinates are accustomed to the maverick style of the tall man, although they can't figure it out, but they have never made a big mistake after listening to the tall man in the past, so they will do it one by one. At night, the three gates of Yanqi City were wide open, and there was not a single gate at the city gate. "All you have to do is keep an eye on my retreat, and the horses are well fed." ”

In the first few days, the residents of Yanqi City were still a little uneasy. Especially those who had people in the family who had followed Luo Zhao to rebel, for fear that Xizhou would give them a settlement after the autumn, and the neighbors had set up an offensive and defensive alliance.

On the first night, the occupants of the neighborhood near the three gates found the gates wide open, and those who had served as soldiers had run away. How could the tall man not know? He didn't even ask, but just served his two pairs of carrier pigeons in the palace, and fed them with some good food and water.

In broad daylight the next day, the shepherd team stationed on the north city wall came down to the palace to find Lord Gao and reported, "Lord Gao, except for the east gate, there are people running out of the city with bags on their backs at the south gate and the west gate during the day, should we stop it?" ”

Master Gao said, "I'll take a look." After saying that, he didn't go out, and his subordinates waited beside him, and saw that Master Gao hung the oolong knife on his body, added food and water to the cages where the two carrier pigeons were kept, and was about to go out one by one. The shepherd asked. "My lord, are you going to visit the bird market?"

Master Gao said, "What if you don't do this?" You let me alone take a knife and block it in two gates? The shepherd wanted to follow, and Master Gao said, "You think beautifully, it's been two days, and I have watched the people in a palace alone, and you finally don't replace me when you come." So saying, he left the shepherd, who had carried a crossbow, in the palace, and carried two pigeon cages into the street.

Now Yanqi Street is like a market, with large bags and small bags of luggage. Someone still has one in their hands - those newlyweds can't leave their daughter-in-law at home, how uneasy is that?

As soon as the tall man stood firm on the street, he saw a man running out of the alley, carrying a duffel roll and a small bag, which was probably dry food. I don't know if I was in a hurry, or when I got out of the alley, I suddenly saw this Tang official in a red robe, and I panicked, and the luggage rolls on my back were scattered on the ground all of a sudden. The man had the heart to leave his luggage behind. I was thinking about how to spend the night without luggage when I was away from home, and I was stunned there.

The tall man stepped forward, carefully placed the two pigeon baskets on the ground, and came over to help him tie the luggage rolls into a sturdy bundle. He put it on his back and said, "It's so careless to go out, doesn't anyone in your family tell you?" ”

The man was frightened, and trotted out of the south gate with his things on his back.

Mr. Gao saw it. The people who went out of the city were all young and middle-aged, and there were no old people. He returned with peace of mind to let the shepherd go back to the northern wall and told him. "Keep an eye on it during the day, and when there are many people coming back into the city, tell me immediately if you can't delay for a while." After the shepherd left, the tall man locked the gate of the palace inside, tied the key to his waist, and lay down to sleep with his clothes closed.

By the third day, there was barely any place to be seen from the outside of the city.

During the day, the tall man locked the gate of the palace from the outside, carried the pigeon coop and walked around the neighborhoods, and saw that almost all the people left in the family were elderly. The young adults in the family are gone, and the degree of difficulty in life can be imagined.

In addition, a few days ago, there was a fierce battle in the city, and there were many houses close to the palace that let the rocket burn, although it was saved by splashing water on the way, but the eyes were full of messes, and this day was simply not like being able to live.

Some people's yards have also burned the haystacks, and every day they have to go to the original pasture of Luozhao to pick up some leftover firewood and grass and bring it back to start a fire. The granary in the grain and pasture field also let Gao Daren open one, and if there was no rice at home, he went to the warehouse to carry it home with a bag to eat. Master Gao said to his subordinates in private, let those old men and old ladies carry as much as they want!

And when the tall man saw it on the street, he always carefully put down his two precious pigeon baskets and went up to help. Sometimes people often see a red-robed Tang Dynasty official carrying firewood and rice in front of him, followed by a gray-haired old man carrying two pigeon baskets for him.

Gao Jun also found that the existing family was fully populated, and the young people in the family were also there, so he went up to talk to them, and they said that they had not been soldiers, and Gao also believed it. Master Gao said to these people, "Can you go to my town guard and do something in the yamen?" ”

These people were a little hesitant at first, without exception, and Master Gao said, "Don't force you, if you want to do something, come to the palace to find me." In the unlikely event that the fallen ones come back, I will not ask you to fight for me. I have only one request for you, to take off this black dress and go home immediately - don't blame me for taking off slowly. With that, Master Gao took the pigeon cage and staggered back to the palace.

As soon as Master Gao arrived in the palace and sat down, the young man just now came over, "Lord Gao, I'll do it." ”

Master Gao said, "I want to feed the pigeons, I can't leave," he said, and took a key from his body and handed it to him, "Go to the original Yanqi Town, find suitable clothes to wear, and you will be responsible for guarding there until the second person goes." ”

After a few days of hard work, thirty-two people signed up one after another, and then there were no more. Then the tall man brought the pigeon cage out and assigned them work: leaving two people to guard the office, and the rest of the people in a team of ten, led by the captain to the contracted block, to clean the yard and repair the house for those who had no one at home...... All those who want to do it but can't do it, these people have to take care of it.

Lord Gao said, everyone's wages are recorded first, and the dignified Xizhou Mansion can still rely on your accounts? But there is enough food, not enough for me to open another warehouse.

So there was a hot atmosphere in Yanqi City, and the streets were also cleaned up by these people, and the grass ash and garbage in the grain and grassland fields were gradually cleaned up, and even the blood stains on the stone road were washed away with water.

"Go, go to the three gates, and paint the gates twice with red paint." ”

After the city gate was painted, someone asked, "Lord Gao, it's time to close the city gate at night, right?" Otherwise, what if we have worked so hard to clean up so well, and there will be a man-made disaster again at night? ”

Seeing that Master Gao shook his head vigorously, the man asked again, "Then the suspension bridge should be pulled up at night, right?" ”

Master Gao said, "If you don't say it, I'll forget, go, send some people who know how to carpenter, repair the suspension bridge well, make it stronger, why do I feel 'creaky and squeak' when I go up." ”

Soon, under the governance of the tall man, Yanqi City did not close its doors at night, the dogs barked at night, and the chickens also crowed in the morning.

The old king of Yanqi was looked at by Gao Jun in the palace, and the feeling of fear was something that ordinary people could not experience. These days, he can't sleep peacefully at night. He thought, although he was coerced by Luo Zhao in this rebellion, but Luo Zhao ran away, and all the accounts were not counted on his head? Who knew that the tall adults were also lenient to them, but the core members of the palace were not allowed to leave the gate of the palace, and they could walk around in a large palace, and the original maids and servants could still go out to buy vegetables and carry firewood.

Six or seven of the servants who had gone out to buy vegetables and grain had gone away that day, but some of them had faithfully returned as usual and told the king of Yanqi what had happened on the street. Then the prince said to his father, "Otherwise, we will run away." At this time, the problem of the Yanqi King's lack of assertiveness was revealed, and he said hesitantly, "Where are you going?" There is also a high hall warm bed here, who knows who we are outside? ”

The prince said, "Don't run, still wait for the Tang Dynasty Holy Decree to come and cut off our heads?" Who will spare us for the great crime of treason? Several concubines and queens also argued endlessly.

In this way, one would run, the other would not run, and the family would argue privately for six or seven days.

The prince said, "It is a matter of whether we can run or not, but I am determined to try to walk, and those who are out of the city in broad daylight, only we are as honest as rabbits." And he said, "It's just that it's not good to move in the daytime, and every night the gate is locked again, and we ...... like that."

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