Chapter 19 The scholar’s ??words cut off the military plane
Chen Chang followed Wang Huan and others to look down at the city with the arrows. He saw a fire dragon composed of hundreds of torches winding towards him, but turned east one mile south of the fort. The team turned slightly, and it was like a fire dragon hovering over the plain.
Wang Huan and others looked at each other, and Wei Chuan was cursing: "Damn, these thieves actually tried to surround the side, the eldest lady, and let the younger one go and investigate."
Zhou Yihai touched his chin with one hand and gently tapped the arrow pile with the other: "Is it because the cowhide drum was beaten, and the bandits guessed that we were ready?"
Wang Huan gently bit her cherry lips, frowned slightly, and her clear eyes were illuminated by the fire dragon folded toward the southeast. She couldn't think of why the thief suddenly changed direction.
She lacked this kind of experience in commanding the battle, and the sudden change in the enemy situation made her at a loss.
The thief's movements are unknown, and the situation becomes more tense and confusing.
The villagers in the fort seemed to feel this atmosphere. Many people looked at the direction of the gate and the gate tower on tiptoe. They were all waiting for the moment when the bandits attacked, and a scene that determined their destiny was about to unfold, but after waiting for a long time, there was no movement. They began to feel restless and talkatively arose for a moment.
Wei Chuanzheng saw that Wang Huan seemed to be out of sight and said, "Miss, is the proposal just now feasible?"
"Ah?" Although Wang Huan's thoughts were pulled back, there was no clear countermeasure in her mind.
At this moment, a voice sounded faintly behind him: "Don't hesitate anymore, those thieves must have left."
Wang Huan, Zhou Yihai and Wei Chuanzheng suddenly turned around. Under the bleak moonlight, a thin scholar was seen watching them with the help of a fat man.
Wei Chuanzheng had never seen Chen Chang before. At this time, he saw that his clothes were messy and worn, and he was sick, and frowned and shouted: "Who are you? This kind of thing can be discussed by you, a scholar. Go down quickly, go down..."
Zhou Yihai waved his hand to stop Wei Chuanzheng. Just now, Chen Chang and others organized the elderly, weak and weak women and children to support the guards and the young and strong villagers to remember. If he, like a rude man, would probably scratch his head.
But I don’t know what the scholar used, but the old, weak, women and children obeyed him and actually did the work of the army in an orderly manner.
Zhou Yihai whispered to Wang Huan: "Miss, I think this scholar has some skills, so why not just listen to what he said?"
Wang Huan hesitated for a moment and nodded in agreement.
The first impression this scholar gave her was a little different. For example, he seemed to have realized her extraordinary identity and used her identity to overwhelm the father and son of the Liu family, thus successfully saving the Yan family's grandchildren.
For example, when she was standing on the Wangstairs, the injured guy followed and made some suggestions, but now he actually chased him to the gatestairs again.
Chen Singed: "I just asked a few guards and said that even the imperial army did not have many war horses, but don't you find it strange that these bandits have so many war horses?"
Miss Wang looked at Zhou Yihai and Wei Chuanzheng. She naturally knew the situation of the Houliang Shaoma. She had to find out a lot of effort, including her and Zhou Yihai's war horses, but she didn't know the specific reason for this situation.
Zhou Yihai was born in a ranks, so he naturally knew something about this, and said: "The number of horses is often one of the important signs of measuring the strength and weakness of a court, and the number of horses mainly depends on the court's pastures. Cao Wei set up pastures in Hexi and the north to ensure that he provided him with relatively sufficient war horses, making Cao Wei the most powerful combat power during the Three Kingdoms period, and later, later..."
He wanted to explain this thoroughly, but the ink in his stomach was so limited that he could no longer talk after saying a few words.
At this time, an old cough came. Chen Chang and everyone turned their heads to see, but Yan Xiu walked over tremblingly.
Yan Qianshi hurriedly went up to help: "Aweng, you are..."
Chen Chang had no one to support him and almost fell down. Wei Chuan was quick-witted and held him in one hand.
Chen Changfang wanted to thank him, but listened to Yan Xiu: "What this general said just now is that during the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Liang focused on raising horses. In addition, the administration of the government was clear and clear, so that Zhongzhou avoided chaos, and the sun and moon were successively followed. There was a saying that "the world was in chaos, and the country was avoiding chaos, only Liang Turkey". There was also the saying in folk songs, "The blood was in Qinchuan, and only Liangzhou was leaning on the pillars." This was the Liangzhou horse, which was rampant in the world..."
When Chen Chang heard that he was about to go off topic, he interrupted him and said, "Aweng, do you think the bandits can have so many war horses?"
Yan Xiu rolled his eyes: "It's impossible!"
Chen Chang spread his hands to Miss Wang and others and said, "That's it, so I concluded that the marcher ahead was not a bandit."
Miss Wang nodded, and the explanation of the old and the young was understandable. But, if it weren't for the bandits, where did these people come from?
Chen Chang seemed to know her intentions, so he said, "Since it's not a thief and has never threatened us, we just need to continue to be on guard against the real thief, what do these people do?"
As soon as this statement came out, Miss Wang nodded frequently, and the scholar was somewhat insightful. Everyone quickly reached an agreement. The fourth update had passed, and as long as it was dawn, the reinforcements would probably come.
In about one stick of incense, the fire dragon in front completely disappeared from sight. Zhou Yihai sent a guard to ride a horse to investigate, and it was soon rewarded. The unidentified team did not detour, but went straight to the riverside.
Moreover, in addition to horse hoof prints and human footprints, there are also messy rut marks on the official road. This further confirms Chen Chang's inference, where did bandits pull a cart to rob?
News that the bandits had not yet arrived soon spread among the villagers. These people breathed a sigh of relief. Chen Chang saw many adult men find their parents, wives and children, and the whole family hugged their heads and cried bitterly.
An old man with a cane knelt in the courtyard regardless of the wet and mud, muttering, as if thanking God for his mercy and blessing.
Chen Chang sighed, thanking God now seems to be a bit too early, and the real master has not come yet!
He hurriedly went to find Miss Wang with Yan Qianshi, but Miss Wang stepped up to the tower again, and Chen Chang sighed at the tower high.
Fatty Yan was very afraid of Wang Huan, who was cold-faced. She was afraid that she would say something like crushing the building. She asked guiltily: "Are you going to go?"
"superior!"
Chen Sing climbed the city tower in sweat and told Miss Wang what he thought.
Wang Huan raised her eyebrows and said, "You must be the thief to come tonight?" Thinking of the news that he also knew the news of the thief attacking, the curiosity in his heart was hooked up and asked, "Where did you come from the news of the thief?"
Chen Chang went all the way to the wrong way on the way back and accidentally entered the wild tomb. He happened to hear the conversation between the tomb robbers and told the truth. Anyway, if the bandits came, everyone's life would be difficult to protect, so he would ignore the matter of face.
"You said that the tomb robber is called Confucius?"
What Chen Chang didn't expect was that Wang Huan was actually interested in a tomb robber, and then he understood the reason after thinking about it.
In the early days of the Three Kingdoms Contest, Cao Cao's sphere of influence was still very small. Sometimes, the cities he captured often had a new master before he had time to rest. The territory was no longer new.
No one knows how long they can occupy the occupied territory. As a result, the cities they captured are often looted. In this case, without money or food, it is difficult for the army to achieve the purpose of rest and recuperation.
The warlords' melee made Cao Cao's army unable to rest for a long time, and also caused displaced farmers to see the spring seeds but not wait for the autumn harvest. This is like a pot of rice that had just been prepared, but in a blink of an eye it turned into someone else's on-the-trade meal. Therefore, raising military pay in a short time became a prerequisite for the princes to kill and attack everywhere.
In order to solve his food and salary problem, Cao Cao focused on the ancient industry of tomb robbing.
As we all know, in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, after the peaceful and prosperous era of the Wenjing rule, the economic prosperity made the prosperous funeral at that time. This provided conditions for Cao Cao to steal graves and dig up gold, silver and treasures to serve military salaries.
Official positions such as "General of the Central Army of Faqiu" and "Chief of the Mojin" who specialize in tomb robbing came into being in Cao Cao's army. Cao Cao led his troops into Dang, and the tomb of King Xiao of Faliang, broke the coffin and collected tens of thousands of kilograms of gold treasures. The shackles were exposed when they passed by.
According to common sense, this is not a glorious business, but the so-called "big business ignores meticulousness and does not refuse to give in to the gifts."
Cao Mengde, who is in the world, does not care about being criticized as long as the army can have a meal and win battles.
It is said that Cao Cao used the treasures he stole from the tomb to support his subordinates for three years.
Even Sun Quan was not idle. Sun Quan destroyed Changsha and sent people to dig Wu Rui's tomb and used the coffin to build a temple for his father Sun Jian. At that time, the person in charge of digging the grave opened the coffin and saw that Wu Rui's clothes were as bright as new.
The gravedigger later met Wu Gang, a guard at the Southern Barbarians in Shouchun. What puzzled him was that Wu Gang looked exactly the same as Wu Rui who was lying in the coffin back then, but he was a little shorter. After asking, he found out that Wu Gang was actually Wu Rui's sixteenth generation descendant.
When I personally went to excavate, the naked corpse of a broken coffin and plundered the treasure, it became a way for some people to become rich.
Isn’t Miss Wang, who is jealous of evil, looking for a young man like Confucius who is aspiring to "If you want to be rich, go dig a tomb, and have a household of ten thousand yuan a night"?
It seems that Confucius is not an ordinary person even if he can catch the eye of Miss Wang.
Chen Chang couldn't help but sigh that he had accidentally become a good citizen who reported criminals.
As the two were talking, a guard next to him suddenly said in surprise: "Miss, look, look, come, they are here..."
Chapter completed!