Dajing Sun and Moon

Chapter 158 Iron Cavalry Torrent!

Shuozhou, one of the important towns on the border of Dajing.

There are more than [-] frontier troops stationed here all year round, resisting the northern enemies from going south.

In the early spring of March, a large group of war horses gnawed at the grass roots on the grassland, just like the gravediggers of the earth, harvesting the last life of this world.

Hu Xue was buzzing, the horses snorted a few times, their tails turned up, and a pair of warm horse dung was freshly released.

The white air suddenly drifted away and was frozen into ice mist.

The war horse's huge eyeballs rolled around, as if a little guilty, kicked its hind legs, planed the crushed ice and scattered snow, and buried it.

Immediately after a few clicks, she went to tease the new mare arrogantly.

Like a king, inspecting his three thousand harem 'beauties'.

On the high slope not far from the group of horses, there are more than a dozen figures standing.

Everyone is covered with armor and equipped with bows, swords, guns, swords and halberds, colliding with the frozen hard armor, making clangs.

The bitter north wind whizzed past, washing the dry lips and chapped and rough faces of the generals and lieutenants over and over again. They squinted slightly, looking at their wishes.

All were silent.

After a long time, the leading old man turned around and went down the high slope.

His hair on the temples is white, and his rickety body of more than six feet is as tall and straight as a pine tree, standing like an Optimus Prime on the snowy desert.

The old man walks steadily, his white hair is messy due to the wind and snow, and the biting cold wind blows the vicissitudes of life to his cloudy eyeballs, causing him to squint subconsciously.

He turned his head and asked, "When will this year's military salary be in place?"

Since the old man arrived in Shuozhou, the obese middle-aged man with a goatee in charge of logistics has become thinner and thinner. He has lost twenty catties. After hearing this, his face subconsciously shuddered, and he said in embarrassment:

"Old Huige, the military salaries of large armies have always been reported to the central government by the local government, first reported to the Ministry of War for blending, and then handed over by the Ministry of War to the Duzhi Division of the Ministry of Households for approval, and also to be reviewed and reviewed by the central government of the cabinet, and then distributed by the central court. It takes a long time, not to mention that the mountain is high and the road is blocked by wind and snow, and it is estimated that it will not be completed within ten months."

The middle-aged man with a goatee named Min Dao, a native of Minnan Fuzhou, Southeast Road, originally a householder in Fuzhou, because of embezzlement and perverting the law, he gave away ten thousand taels of food for disaster relief and was demoted to this position after being reported by his colleagues. He is a typical example of greed and fear of death. .

However, in this frontier where people eat people but don't spit out their bones, the reason why they can still sit on the Hucao position is naturally two brushes.

When he first arrived, he earned 5000 taels by exchanging Wanshi high-grade military rations for [-] shi of rice bran and coarse wheat. According to the law, he was supposed to be beheaded to show the public, but last year a heavy snow blocked the mountains, flooded the entire northern border, and crushed him to death. Half of the grassland also plunged Shuozhou into a famine.

In this way, Min Dao's [-] shi became the life-saving straw for this border gate. Coupled with the surplus food in storage, their border gate with tens of thousands of people stationed there could survive the winter war.

It can be regarded as a solution to their urgent need, and it also relieved the generals who were troubled by the mutiny of the soldiers.

After killing more than a dozen mutiny soldiers suspected of being Yunxiao spies in the town, the barracks returned to calm.

Of course, Min Dao's life was barely saved, and he was still acting as Hu Cao temporarily, hoping to make up for his mistakes in the future.

The old man paused, turned around, stared at him with cloudy eyes, and said slowly: "That is to say, you want the soldiers to kill the enemy and serve the country, and then come to sell their lives for money?"

Min Dao smiled wryly, "There's nothing I can do about it. After all, no one expected that this war would come so quickly. According to my subordinates, I can only be wronged for the time being."

"No!!" The old man interrupted him, his eyes sparkling, and he said word by word: "I don't care what method you use, whether you borrow or beg, steal or rob, within three days, the army's food and wages must be paid. The preparations are in place, otherwise, if there is a mutiny in the army and the camp, I will take you to sacrifice the flag first!!"

Min Dao wants to cry but has no tears. Why is his life so hard? Isn’t it just a little more money? Sending him from the gentle town of Fuzhou to this old place is nothing more than that, and he wants to beheaded one after another. The officer really did it.

If you stretch out your hand, you will be beheaded, if you have no food, you will be beheaded, and now you have no money, you will be beheaded. He is not a nine-tailed fox, so why are there so many heads?

He was full of anger in his heart, he really made me anxious, be careful not to let me down.

So he gritted his teeth, stomped his feet, and went all out.

He just heard a plop, and he knelt down directly, "Ge Lao, now our Shuozhou City is blocked by heavy snow outside the customs, it is difficult to contact Yanmen, Daizhou and other places, and even if we do, they can't afford to borrow money." For me, as for the Central Court, I can't even count on it now."

The old man waved his hands impatiently and said, "Stop talking nonsense, just speak up."

Min Dao bit the bullet and said: "Don't dare to lie to the old man, the tax paid last year is still sealed in the city treasury, the lower officials think that instead of handing over the tax to the central, it is better for me to distribute it to the soldiers first. In this way, the morale of the army is stable, and only then can we fight the enemy!"

After a long silence, the old man slowly replied: "Privately withholding taxes from the court is a serious crime against the nine clans, don't you know?"

Meeting the old man's deep gaze, his scalp was numb, and he said in a shy voice: "Ge Lao is joking, matters involving family and life, how dare the subordinate officials be careless, but as long as the northern barbarians can be kept out of the pass, the humble officials will be cut off." I would give my head ten thousand times."

As long as he can stop Yun Xiao from going south, not only will he not die, but he may even have a chance to reach a higher level.

This can be regarded as a chestnut from the fire.

He paused, and said in a lowered voice: "However, this matter is important, and the lower official position is humble and light, and I am afraid it will be difficult to bear it."

There has never been a precedent for Dajing to pay in advance, let alone embezzling the imperial court's taxes. If the central government blames this, all of them will lose their heads.

How could the old man not understand what Min Dao meant, that he wanted to use himself as a shield to resist the storm from the center.

He slowly looked away, and said expressionlessly: "As long as you can keep the northern barbarians out of my Shuozhou city, you will be a meritorious minister."

After speaking, he turned around, shook the snow that had accumulated on his shoulders, and left silently.

Min Dao was overjoyed immediately, "Thank you, Mr. Ge, for your success!"

The generals looked at him with admiration, and finally there was something different in their eyes.

They could see that this dead goat was not only greedy for money and lust, but also extremely bold.

It was just a small fight before, but now they dare to raise taxes.

He really complied with that sentence, supporting the bold to death and starving the timid to death.

After they glanced at each other, a smile was forcibly pulled out of Feixue's frozen face, and they clasped their fists at him.

Min Dao was overwhelmed and immediately clasped his fists in salute, with a posture of bowing down and being small.

With an apologetic smile.

After the old man returned to the city, the beacon smoke rose suddenly.

Immediately, there was a lot of noise all over the city, and the hustle and bustle was endless.

Urgent military orders were quickly issued to each battalion and team, and the silent border gate slowly opened its eyes like a dozing tiger.

The fangs are just showing, ready to go.

At the same time, three hundred miles to the north of Shuozhou City, the snow and fog roiled and the earth trembled.

Swish swish!
The vigorous scouts spread out and swept south in ten directions.

After the scouts, nearly [-] cavalry Yu Yu marched forward with a blood wolf flag as the center.

Almost filled the entire snowfield north of Shuozhou City.

A dense mass of darkness, rolling in like a tide.

The sky is everywhere, boundless.

On this day, [-] cavalry from Yunxiao headed south.

Knock off Shuozhou City.

(End of this chapter)