294.Chapter 294
Yelu Hongliang gathered the people in their prime together and wanted them to join the army, but none of the people were willing to join the army, so Yelu Hongliang found Xiaoxiao to persuade the people. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Yelu Hongliang said to Xiaoxiao: "I told the people, you are still the queen, I just rule in your place, and the people also believe it, now you help me persuade those people to join the army, and I will give you freedom when the time comes." ”
"Since General Yelu Hongliang has said it, the little woman must be willing to serve." Xiaoxiao said.
Xiaoxiao came to the people, Yelu Hongliang put the queen's dragon robe on Xiaoxiao, Xiaoxiao stood in front of the people with a proud attitude, the people were all excited when they saw Xiaoxiao, and the previous resentment against Xiaoxiao was all gone, and the people still understood in their hearts that Xiaoxiao was much better than Yeluhong.
"Your Majesty...... The queen ......" the people knelt down and shouted to Xiaoxiao.
"Get up." Xiaoxiao said to the people.
"Your Excellency Queen, Yelu Hongliang wants us all to go to the army, can you let him do this, our family has children to take care of, if we are in the army, it will be tantamount to sending us to death, how can our family live!" One of the people took the lead and said.
Xiaoxiao looked at Yelu Hongliang and motioned for Yelu Hongliang to leave first, if Yelu Hongliang was here, I am afraid it would be difficult to convince these people, Yelu Hongliang also understood this, so he left silently.
"Don't worry, I won't let you join the army." Xiaoxiao said to the people.
When the people heard Xiaoxiao say this, they all laughed loudly: "Thank you for the grace of the Queen......
"But you all have to do your best to guard the capital, I have organized the people's self-defense force before, I hope you can reorganize the self-defense force as before, if the other invades, you must take up arms to resist, otherwise not to mention your family, the entire people in the capital will be slaughtered." Xiaoxiao changed her kind face from the past, and said to the people gloomily.
When the people heard that they had joined the escort, they all dispersed with confidence, and afterwards Yelu Hongliang blamed Xiaoxiao, but Xiaoxiao's answer made Yelu Hongliang very satisfied.
Xiaoxiao said to Yelu Hongliang: "You tell the people that the Self-Defense Forces are finished, and then you can use them as an army, and these people don't know that you treat them as an army in your heart, so you can call them at will." ”
Yelu Hongliang still admires Xiaoxiao's ability to solve, Yelu Hongliang didn't expect this matter in advance, and Yelu Hongliang, who suddenly realized, admired Xiaoxiao.
Although Yelu Hongliang admired Xiaoxiao's ability to deal with things, he was also very afraid of Xiaoxiao, Yelu Hongliang was afraid that if Xiaoxiao was allowed to do things, he might threaten himself again, so Yelu Hongliang imprisoned Xiaoxiao again.
Xiaoxiao didn't plan that Yelu Hongliang would be able to speak, Xiaoxiao just waited and saw what Yelu Hongliang could do.
Since the reign of Yelu Hongliang, the people have never cried in the palace again, and there is no chewing tongue in the streets and alleys to spread the word, although the people complain in their hearts, but they dare not speak out, although every household is not full of food and clothing, but they can only endure it.
Yelu Hongliang felt that the walls of Shangjing City were a little unstrong, and Yelu Hongliang wanted to build another wall within the city wall, so that he could build a tower within two walls, and if Shangjing City was surrounded by towers, it would be very advantageous to ambush archers.
Yelu Hongliang sent those people's self-defense forces to burn bricks in the city, and as long as the people of the self-defense forces were working in the city, they were very willing, so that they could get the wages of the imperial court, although it was a little less, but it was enough for the family to eat hot porridge and burn dry firewood.
After each batch of adobe bricks was burned, Yelu Hongliang asked the soldiers to build a little city wall, which was very difficult to work in this cold winter, although the soldiers did not want to do these hard work, but they were forced to bury their heads in the work.
Yelu Hongliang built the new city wall to within five meters of the old city wall, and dozens of families around the city wall were all demolished and moved away by Yelu Hongliang, and these people dared not speak out, but fortunately, Yelu Hongliang built them simple resettlement houses, and promised to build new houses for them after the beginning of spring next year.
Yelu Hongliang wanted to finish it before Chu Xiangjun came back, because what Yelu Hongliang feared most was that Chu Xiangjun would return to Shangjing, Yelu Hongliang was urging the Self-Defense Forces to burn bricks and soldiers to build walls every day, and within half a month, one-fifth of the project had been completed.
Yelu Hongliang was very satisfied with the progress of the project, but the soldiers worked tirelessly day and night, and their bodies could no longer bear it, especially in the cold winter when they had to work for six hours, and some middle-aged soldiers were already bedridden.
The food in Shangjing was very scarce, and Yelu Hongliang originally wanted to use food to supplement the soldiers, but the food was only enough to drink gruel every day to maintain the survival of the soldiers.
As the walls were built higher and the equipment was insufficient, some soldiers fell and died during the construction, and Yelu Hongliang ordered the other soldiers to build the fallen soldiers into the wall, and they could not publicize it to the outside world, and the frightened soldiers had to do the same.
Yelu Hongliang thought that now he was going to start preparing bows and arrows, so Yelu Hongliang gathered the people who knew how to strike iron throughout the whole process to build bows and arrows for himself, and the two projects of the city wall and the bow and arrow were carried out at the same time, but the soldiers had already died due to overwork and nearly one layer of troops.
Xiaoxiao is still very supportive of Yelu Hongliang's construction of the city wall, because if he misses the capital, it will be a great loss for Xiaoxiao, and Xiaoxiao will wait for Yelu Hongliang to take care of everything before sanctioning Yelu Hongliang.
Whenever Yelu Hongliang rode on horseback and walked on the street, there were people in their homes who spied on Yelu Hongliang angrily, and in the cold winter, Yelu Hongliang liked to ride a horse on the street while drinking hot tea, and the hungry and cold people watched Yelu Hongliang drink hot tea, and their hearts were very angry, because the people themselves were still hungry and cold.
Some of the people of the Self-Defense Forces had already obtained the bows and arrows they had made, and everyone was waiting for the opportunity to shoot Yelu Hongliang, and on this day, Yelu Hongliang rode out of the palace as scheduled, with the purpose of rushing to the city wall to supervise the work.
The temperature was very cold that Yelu Hongliang's hands did not dare to touch the reins of the horse, and even though Yelu Hongliang was wearing very thick fur gloves, he still felt that his fingers were frozen and did not obey the call.
Yelu Hongliang rode on horseback with hot tea, and the blacksmiths who made bows and arrows all set up bows and arrows to lay in ambush, and Yelu Hongliang did not have many retinues, because most of the people were building the city walls, and Yelu Hongliang put as few people as possible around.
When Yelu Hongliang walked through the blacksmith's ambush net, seven or eight blacksmiths took bows and arrows to shoot Yelu Hongliang, and Yelu Hongliang was immediately stabbed off his horse by bows and arrows.