Mage Veja

Chapter 412 "Borrowing" Grain
Gray Crow City, meeting hall.

Veigar held a daily regular meeting here, and each officer was reporting to him the latest situation in the army.

"Report to the general."

The first to report was several division commanders: "Everything in the army is normal. Although the weather has been cold recently, the training has not fallen, and we can launch an attack on the enemy at any time."

"Report to the general."

A staff officer in the second report: "The fortifications have basically been maintained, and everything in the nearby cities is normal."

"..."

One by one, the officers reported one by one, and finally the Minister of Logistics stood up slowly.

Seeing that the person standing up was the head of logistics, Vega first raised his hand to stop him from speaking, then rubbed his forehead in pain, and finally picked up the tea on his right hand and took a few sips, then signaled the head of logistics to report Condition.

"Report to the general."

The Minister of Logistics said hesitantly: "The supply in the army is only enough for 10 days. If we haven't received new supplies after ten days, I'm afraid we..."

The second half of the sentence is self-evident.

As a result, a shadow was shrouded in the meeting room, and every officer knew what would happen to the lack of food.

Veigar coughed, and then said: "As usual, this news is blocked from the entire army. I don't want to let this news out from your mouths, otherwise you will know what will happen."

"Yes, General."

The whole army made a guarantee to Veigar. Of course, they knew that once this news was leaked, it would not only make the enemy feel at ease, but also cause the whole army to collapse in advance.

"General, with all due respect."

A division commander couldn't bear it anymore and said: "Delaying this matter is not a solution after all? May I ask the general if there is any good strategy? If not, the officer has a strategy to solve the current predicament."

A gleam flashed in Vega's eyes.

He made a gesture of invitation: "I would like to hear more about it."

The teacher was not hypocritical, he gritted his teeth and said: "According to the official's open and unannounced visits, I learned that every household in the nine cities under our control has enough surplus food..."

Having said that, the teacher stopped talking.

Vega did not continue to ask, but waved his hand and said: "Let me think about this matter, today's meeting is here, let's end the meeting."

Everyone walked out of the meeting room one by one.

In fact, Vega hadn't thought about this matter.

After all, it is after the harvest season, and every household must have sufficient food surplus. As long as these nine small cities are searched around, the problem of food shortage can be easily solved.

But this is indeed a matter of drinking poison to quench thirst.

Once this thing is done, it means losing the support of the people, and when a war really breaks out, I am afraid that these civilians will become the last straw that crushes him.

Moreover, the army that has lost the support of the people cannot go far at all.

This is also the difference between robbers and the regular army in history. No matter how powerful the robbers are, they will eventually be difficult to achieve.

Therefore, it is not a last resort. In the war, Veigar does not intend to attack the civilians. Instead, he must establish a good relationship with the civilians and truly conform to the hearts of the people.

Learn from history.

At the beginning, the Eighth Route Army won the hearts of the people with the iron law of "no crime in autumn", and it has grown all the way.

Therefore, searching for people's fat and people's ointment is completely a way of killing chickens and taking eggs. This is why Vega once considered it, but rejected this idea at the first time.

But today is different.

He has reached the end of his rope.

In the endless desert before Vega, the spring water in his hand has been used up, leaving only a bottle of slow poison. He either chooses to die of thirst here, or he chooses to drink the bottle of poison and delay his death for a few days.

How to choose?

With a wave of Vega's pen, he wrote four large characters on a piece of white paper——

"Borrowing food" program.

In the end, Vega decided to "borrow" food from the people of Jiucheng to solve the urgent need.

Please trust Veigar, this time he is really "borrowing" food.

Just now, he had a flash of inspiration and figured out how to use this "borrowing food" to turn around and make Theon take the initiative to show his flaws.

That's right.

Since the enemy does not reveal its flaws, why not lure the enemy to reveal its flaws?

Veigar, who was thinking about it, wanted to slap himself, even a sage would fall into hell because of some kind of temptation.

At best, Theon is just a person with strong self-control ability. As long as he is human, he will make mistakes.Although it is said that opportunities are given by God, it is true that some means can be used to artificially create opportunities, and finally win the battle.

So how to do it?
After spending the night making plans, at dawn, Veigar issued a cruel order to the ministries——

"Borrow" food from the people of Jiucheng.

Therefore, on that day, including Yaco City, Vega's 20 troops took away about half of the food from each household by means of extortion.

"No! Don't take our food."

"Please, we have four children in our family, and the remaining food cannot survive the winter at all."

"Bandits, you gangsters, get out of the east bank."

"Kill you! I'm going to kill you! I won't let you go."

"..."

The civilians complained a lot. After a year of hard work, half of the tax was paid to the government, and now half of it was taken away by Veigar. Most of them were close to collapse, and their original impression of the army on the east coast plummeted.

"Please don't get me wrong, we are borrowing food."

Although the officers used high-sounding excuses and did not kill civilians without authorization, as long as they are not fools, they can see that this is simply a shortage of food in the army, so it is impossible to return their food if they are used.

"Hold it, here is your IOU."

These military officers don't care whether the civilians accept it or not. They follow Vega's order and take as much food as they want. They will give the family an IOU of the denomination as a voucher. Therefore, the goalkeeper slapped the voucher on the table and left with the food.

This is completely like a bitch and still erecting a memorial archway.

Some angry civilians tore up the IOU on the spot and cursed at Veigar's army.

within a day.

The army under Veigar's account has become notorious and has been accused of robbers.

Now the civilians in the nine cities no longer hope that Vega's army can unify the dynasty, but hope that the Great Prince's forces can defeat Vega as soon as possible, and behead Vega, a villain.

Some of them even think so.

Even at the cost of his life, he could assist the army on the west bank and make Veigar completely defeated.

But Veigar selectively ignored these situations, did not control public opinion, and did not order the army to deal with these rhythmic troublemakers.

After searching for food.

Veigar just ordered the cities to transport the grain to the city of Nera, the granary, and did nothing else.

But these big moves obviously couldn't hide from Theon's reconnaissance troops.

(End of this chapter)