It is indeed Tiance Mansion that is causing trouble.

But the Tiance Mansion is not the only one causing trouble.

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After a while, in the inn, there were all brothers in the same robe, and the total number of the new residents and the original residents was twenty.

Apart from these twenty people, there was not even a cook to cook. There was only one stove in the whole post, and there was a big pot for thirty people on the stove.

Because it was evening at this time, it was the time of day to eat dinner, so there was food in the big pot, but it was just a pot of porridge with clear soup and little water.

The color is green, and it looks like wild vegetable soup.

Bang!

The pot lid was hit hard on the stove.

Gu Tianya's face looked a little ugly. He suddenly turned around and looked at the ten soldiers and said, "Take out the dry food you carry with you and get the dried meat carried on the horses."

The ten soldiers did not dare to hesitate, turned around quickly and walked out of the post station.

After a short while, he carried a dozen bags through the door, ten of which were filled with pancakes, and the other two were filled with dried meat.

With a bang, ten bags of big cakes were still on the table.

As for the two bags of dried meat, they were carried by a post soldier with both hands. The soldier looked a little hesitant and said in a low voice: "These dried meats are specially prepared for you by the princess..."

Gu Tianya glared at him and said angrily: "We are all brothers in the army, why should I eat meat alone? Take it out and share it with them."

The soldier had no choice but to open one of his pockets. With a look of great reluctance on his face, he took out ten pieces of dried meat and said, "The ten of us can only eat pancakes, but the ten brothers in Wuyangyi can eat meat.

"

The ten postmen on the opposite side stood up quickly, shook their heads and said, "We don't eat meat either. This is the meat given to the commander by the princess."

Gu Tianya was so angry that he ran over and kicked one of them, cursing: "Whoever dares to chirp, I will punish him and get out of here. Sit down and give each person a piece of dried meat."

When all the soldiers saw that he was angry, they obeyed. One of them picked up a piece of dried meat and started to devour it.

A piece of meat, more than half a catty.

This is real air-dried meat, the meat specially prepared by Zhao Ning for Gu Tianya.

After chewing it and swallowing it, it is worth two or three kilograms of grain.

The ten soldiers of Wuyang Post had been hungry for too long, and their neck tendons bulged when they choked on eating meat. Gu Tianya was afraid that they would choke to death, so he quickly asked people to fill the pot with soup, and the ten soldiers of Wuyang Post served the food.

Tang Meng made it, and in the blink of an eye he ate another twenty or thirty flatbreads.

The ten postmen in Gujiacun were full after only eating four or five big cakes.

Only then did Gu Tianya calm down his anger and asked with a stern look: "Tell me, why are you so hungry? Where are the soldiers the Detachment of Women issued to you? Where are the grains distributed to you every half month?

"

But when the postmaster of Wuyang Post stood up, he wiped the corners of his eyes without saying anything, and then said sarcastically: "Commander, it's my fault. It's because I don't have the ability to let ten brothers suffer."

"What I'm asking is where did your food go?" Gu Tianya shouted loudly, seeming to be angry again.

He suddenly took two steps forward, kicked it down hard, and cursed: "As postmen of the Detachment of Women, you are so hungry that you are trembling all over. How can you guard the post? How can you protect one party? Raise your head and look at me.

The eyes speak back..."

It's a pity that Wuyang Postmaster bowed his head in shame.

On the contrary, a postman was feeling aggrieved and finally spoke loudly from the side, saying: "Commander, our postmaster is not wrong. He is the most hungry and he is under the most pressure. Are you asking where the food went? We

Give food to the people..."

The soldier's chest was very high.

His face was full of pride, and he said loudly: "Right now, there is no food supply, and there are hungry people everywhere. They know that the post station has food, so they kneel at the door and beg for help. Marshal, didn't you build the post station just to protect the people? We

We obeyed your command and gave all the food to the people. We did not embarrass the Detachment of Women."

After these words were spoken, the ten post soldiers in Gujiacun looked respectful, but Gu Tianya laughed angrily and suddenly kicked this soldier to the ground.

Everyone was puzzled, but no one dared to dissent. They just said with aggrieved faces: "Commander, we really didn't embarrass the Detachment of Women."

Gu Tianya gritted his teeth, nodded and said, "You certainly didn't embarrass the Detachment of Women, but both of you are idiots."

After he finished cursing, he suddenly sighed, bent down and pulled up the postman himself, and then pulled up the Wuyang Postmaster who had been kicked to the ground.

He looked at the ten soldiers of Wuyangyi and said instructingly: "Do you know the steps for famine relief in the imperial court? I don't know, right? Let me tell you. Officials first, then soldiers, first

Men, wives and children should give priority to the strong men before taking care of the old and the weak... If the officials and soldiers are not well fed, they will not be able to save the people even if they see them starving. This is not cruelty, but has been passed down for thousands of years.

Based on our experience, if we don’t do this, more people will die. It’s probably not starvation, but a worthless and unjust death.”

The soldiers present were stunned.

Gu Tianya snorted and said with a look of hatred on his face: "If the officials starve to death, who will organize the soldiers to provide disaster relief? If the soldiers can't eat enough, how can they have the strength to frighten a party? The worse the disaster, the easier it is.

Breeding gangsters, so let me ask you now, if someone is so hungry that he goes crazy and robs, do you care about it after seeing it? If someone is so hungry that he loses his humanity and wants to cook his children, do you care about it after you see him?"

Without even thinking about it, Wuyang Postmaster blurted out: "We must take care of it and never let this happen."

Gu Tianya stepped forward and kicked me again, yelling: "Do you have a tracheal tube? Can you still handle the knife? You were so hungry just now that you couldn't even stand on your own."

Wuyang Postmaster immediately stood on the spot.

He finally understood where he went wrong...

Until then, Gu Tianya seemed to have exhausted all his anger. He stretched out his hand to pull Wuyang Post Chief up again, and said with sincerity: "I am not cruel, but I don't want the people to starve to death. You are the handsome ones."

, you don’t even understand the priorities. If you give food to the people, you can indeed save some people alive, but if you are starving yourself, you will cause more people to die."

Wuyang Postmaster knelt down with a bang, suddenly hugged his thigh and cried loudly, wailing: "Commander, someone is really cooking the child. I saw it once, and the child's eyes couldn't be closed. He looked like

He's looking at me and asking me why I didn't save him!"

He was crying with tears, and his face was full of self-blame and regret, and he kept saying: "Commander, I deserve to die, I really deserve to die. I was really hungry and weak at that time, and I couldn't stop those people who were cooking children's offal."

, if I could save some food for myself, I would have the strength to save that child from being cooked, but damn it, I didn’t leave any food for myself..."

Gu Tianya gritted his teeth and tried hard not to hear this.

He put his hands behind his back, suddenly looked outside, and said in a deep voice: "There are less than a thousand households in Wuyang County. I have read the county register of Wuyang County before coming here, and I found that every year during the lean period, the court will

Allocating some grain to Hebei will not be able to help all the people, but it can ensure that five or six hundred households will not die of hunger. In addition, there is a wealthy family in the county who can feed more than a hundred households, and there is also a county government in charge, which can also provide some relief.

, Therefore, the number of refugees in Wuyang County every year is only a few dozen households at most."

He paused for a moment, his eyes flashed with a coldness, and then said: "But this year, it is obviously different. I can force you to be like this. Obviously, there are definitely more than a few dozen households of refugees in this area, so this matter is

It’s worth wondering, where do these extra refugees come from?”

Wuyang Postmaster wiped away his tears, gritted his teeth and said: "Southern side."

As he spoke, he looked up at Gu Tianya, with tears rolling down his face, and said, "Those refugees who were fleeing the famine were driven here from the south."

Gu Tianya's face flashed with murderous intent, and he said: "It is indeed the work of Tiance Mansion, but I don't know which Zhechong Mansion is so bold."

He walked slowly a few steps and stood at the door of the inn with his hands behind his back.

His gaze seemed to be leisurely as he looked at the south of Wuyangyi and said in a deep voice: "Our Tang Dynasty has a military system. Every place has a Zhechong Mansion. The soldiers farmed the land on weekdays, but were recruited as soldiers during the war.

They have 324 Zhechong Mansion, which is very different from the military strategy of our Detachment of Women..."

All the soldiers present were familiar with these military arrangements.

The Tang Dynasty had a government military system, so there were not many standing troops. Although Li Shimin's Tiance Mansion claimed to have an army of 200,000, in fact, there were only more than 30,000 real professional soldiers, and the rest were all government soldiers.

As for the soldiers of the government, they are usually under the jurisdiction of Zhechong Prefecture.

The army of the Detachment of Women is slightly different. There are very few Zhechong Prefectures established in Hebei. This is because Zhao Ning likes to raise soldiers. She does not want ordinary people to serve as government soldiers for free, so the Detachment of Women is poor and miserable. Just because there are more than 80,000 people in the army of 200,000.

Everyone is a professional soldier.

The remaining more than 100,000 people are not the kind of self-sufficient government soldiers. They will also have soldiers, so the Detachment of Women calls itself a line.

They were raised by Zhao Ning, so they were naturally loyal to Zhao Ning.

At this time, the director of Wuyang Post seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly spoke again: "There are still some refugees who seem to have come from the west. A Zhechong Mansion has just been built there, but these refugees were not driven here.

On the contrary, it seems to be to avoid disaster, not someone doing it deliberately."

Gu Tianya immediately sneered and asked, "How many refugees are there in the west?"

The head of Wuyang Post thought for a moment, stretched out three fingers and said: "There must be about three hundred households, all of whom are raising families."

"That means leaving one's homeland. The whole family leaves together. This is indeed not being forced by others, but because one wants to avoid disaster..."

"Yes, it's not like they were forced."

"So how many refugees are there from the south?"

"There are more people over there. There are 2,300 people, and they are all old, young, women and children. It's rare to see strong men."

"Hmph, the men are soldiers. I'm afraid they've all been recruited as government soldiers."

"Commander, is there any explanation here?"
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