Twilight Boundary

Chapter 582 The power of the food security army

 “Is this... leaving now?”

In front of Mingzhou Fucheng, as the turbulent wind blew up, the entire battle formation was filled with flying sand and rocks, ghosts and gods crying and howling, everyone was dazed and covered their faces with their sleeves.

When the wind stopped and I opened my eyes to look again, I saw that the two surnames Hu and Meng were gone, just like in a dream.

 Looking at the hungry ghost army in front, they had already died in large numbers, leaving only corpses with strange expressions, either repentant or calm, but no longer resentful.

Of course, not all of them died. There were still three to five hundred people alive, but they had all laid down their weapons and knelt down in front of the city. They no longer looked like the ferocious hungry ghosts they had been before.

"them…"

Yang Gongdu didn't react for a moment. He looked at where a strange heavy mace was standing, and there was a spiderweb-like pit on the ground.

 “General, it’s time to enter the city.”

While he was in a daze, Tiezuizi beside him also took a deep look at the nobleman's ceremony room. He calmed down and smiled at Yang Gong: "It's the general's blessing."

"The stranger took action and suppressed the hungry ghosts for the general. All ghosts and gods came to help. It can be seen that the general is the true destiny."

“Now that the grain-protecting army has won, the gates of Mingzhou City are opened, and it’s time for the general to enter the city!”

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 “Enter the city, enter the city…”

As more and more people reacted, some people in the food protection army began to shout loudly, and the voices merged into one, like a huge wave of water, surging.

"good…"

Yang Gong actually still has a lot of doubts and puzzles in his heart.

Earlier, as a disciple of the Red Lantern Empress, he was considered a member of the sect, but his level was not high and he had never experienced any high-level magic techniques.

Now that my eyes have been opened, I am naturally in awe of these various methods. I feel a little uneasy for a moment, but then I think of the identity of that noble man, and I feel relieved for a moment. He lowers his head and touches her gently. He quickly put the sword back into its sheath with a trace of blood on it, took a deep breath, and shouted: "My sons, enter the city!"

Now the Mingzhou city gate is wide open, and it looks like he has specially welcomed Yang Gong into the city.

The Tiezuizi military advisor also followed Yang Gong on horseback and said: "The hungry ghosts are burdened with sins and cannot be forgiven, but they voluntarily die to atone for their sins, so there is no need to embarrass them too much."

"The general will arrange for people to come, collect their corpses, and bury them somewhere. The remaining hungry ghosts don't have that strong ghost energy. They probably have never eaten people, or they have eaten people unwillingly, so there is no need to kill them anymore. Let them take some rice soup to keep themselves healthy, and they can work with the general to atone for their sins in the future. Now it depends on the nobles in the city. "

“We, the food security army, are standing in the battle formation in a dignified manner. After defeating the hungry ghost army, we should enter the city freely. Let’s see if they dare to stop us!”

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Not only did he think this way, but the worshipers and shopkeepers in the Red Lantern Society were also worried.

The Red Lantern Club had a great reputation in the early days and was known as the most harmful thing in Mingzhou. It seemed that it was unparalleled in popularity, but they knew that the Red Lantern Club was not the most skilled or capable one.

Both the government offices and the nobles in this city each have their own private soldiers and support some strangers, but they just sit back and do not cause trouble.

Although the food-protecting army has defeated the hungry ghosts, the hungry ghosts are from outside. Are they willing to let the food-protecting army enter the city?

If they don't allow it, I'm afraid there will be another fight!

 But when we entered the city and saw no one who dared to stop us, we finally came to our senses.

 Mingzhou City has many wealthy families and noble lords.

But in this small Mingzhou, the so-called noble masters are not as good as a toe of that Hu family nobleman.

When facing the Hungry Ghost Army, the nobleman of the Hu family first praised in public that General Bao Liang was better than the Hungry Ghost Army, and then borrowed General Bao Liang's sword to kill General Tian Ming.

 Is this knife easy to borrow?

 Only others would borrow swords from one of their own, so anyone with a discerning eye would understand that Zhencheng Mansion's borrowing of General Baoliang's sword was tantamount to clarifying its attitude.

 In this case, who else in Mingzhou City dares to block the way of the food-protecting general?

So Yang Gong followed suit and immediately led a thousand soldiers into Mingzhou City. However, the army followed the advice of Tiezuizi's military advisor and only set up camp outside the city in order not to disturb the people.

 After entering the city, he went to the government office, discussed his merits and rewarded him, met with the officials, sealed the granaries, and placed notices everywhere to reassure the people.

 The most representative scene is that a red lantern was held high in front of the gate of Mingzhou City, and General Baoliang personally led people to burn incense.

One of the affairs was naturally very busy. If it was just Yang Gong, it really couldn't be handled. But there were so many strange people around him, but they were handled one by one very properly. He entered the government office first, hung up the red lantern, and then They rewarded each other based on their merits and held a banquet in honor of the White Armored Army who came to help from Shima Town. The two sides promised to put loyalty first, exchange information, and advance and retreat together.

It was also when the banquet was held that Yang Gong looked again and found that many people who had exerted their strength and made great achievements when he faced off against the Hungry Ghost Army had quietly left.

He also knew that these strangers were not running for his own sake. The small food-protecting army could not keep them, so he could only thank them from a distance. In fact, it is not just these strangers, even these ten thousand food security troops cannot all stay with them in the end. There will be many more who will soon return to the villages.

It was two days after everything was settled. Only then did all the nobles in the city come to pay their respects with generous gifts.

As usual, the first thing anyone who enters Mingzhou City is to discuss with them. After all, they have high status and familiar faces. They are the first-class people in Mingzhou City. But, they This kind of face is not easy to use in front of the food security army. In the past, the food security army rewarded them based on their merits, and few of them were assigned to them, so they could only wait.

It was finally time to formally pay homage to the food-protecting general. As soon as the old and young came in, they already kowtowed and shouted: "Your Majesty, the food-protecting general, the people of Mingzhou are blessed."

 ‘They were convinced, and they were willing to call this food-protecting general the food-protecting king, thus giving him this title. ’

The disciples in Bushi Niu sighed in their hearts when they heard this movement. They felt that this great event had been accomplished, and Bu Shi Niu had brought out another grass-headed king.

It's just that this name doesn't sound too good. Bao Liang, Bao Liang may not be able to control people, but I have to think carefully about what kind of royal title I should give.

Unexpectedly, Yang Gong heard the names of the people below him. Facing these nobles, he did not show any pretense and shouted: "I am not a king, so don't call me random names."

"I am originally from the mountains, but I couldn't bear to see the people being deprived of their last grain of food and starving to death, so I brought people out of the mountains just to protect the livelihood of the people in Mingzhou. What should you do? Don't rush to give me anything. I wear this big hat, and now I see you all bringing jewelry, gold, silver, cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs to me, what’s the use of it?”

“If you give these jewels, gold and silver to people who are about to starve to death, can they see it?”

“These cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs can burst my stomach and I still can’t finish it, but what about the people who are still starving in the mountains?”

 “Let’s get real!”

“If you really want to satisfy me, you might as well bring out more grain and give porridge to provide disaster relief. Don’t let the neighbors fail to survive next year’s harvest. I will accept your favor!”

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Seeing his resolute attitude, the nobles only nodded in agreement. When the notice was issued, there was another burst of cheers everywhere.

“It seems different from the previous Caotou Kings?”

After watching it for a few days, coupled with the fact that Yang Gong was resolute and refused to use his name, he did not accept the kindness of those noble gentlemen, and he was not in a hurry to assign officials and titles. Even these disciples who did not eat cows felt that Xia also felt a little strange. They had done similar things in the past, but every time they could not avoid dealing with these noble masters, and they were even coerced.

 But this food security army seems to be holding on?

Even with their experience of twenty years of rebellion, they still cannot accurately explain this difference.

“The leader is worthy of being the leader…”

 In the past few days in the army, I was too lazy to fight and kill. Fairy Miaoshan, who had been taking care of the food and grass accounts, could only feel that the food protection army was suddenly becoming very powerful, shaking her head and admiring her head.

“The master is really powerful, Xiaodouguan wants to kowtow to him when he sees him...”

Douguan next to her was full of praise when he mentioned the master, and said: "But aunt, I don't think you understand what is so great about this master!"

Immortal Miaoshan was immediately displeased and glared at him: "I introduced the leaders into the sect and selected them. I don't understand. Do you understand?"

"Douguan was not smart. He was not elected until he was ten years old. He died without becoming an official after being elected. Of course he cannot compare with his aunt."

Douguan hurriedly went to Fairy Miaoshan and said, "But I see that Master is doing something very clever."

“We are also rebelling in Shima Town, and the other masters and uncles have also done a lot of work. What is the most troublesome thing?”

“That is, no matter how much preparation and effort you have made for this big event, once you are crowned king, you will find that you are surrounded by nobles.”

"Fight for the world, fight for the world, no matter how you fight, who wins and who loses, in the end you will share the world with the nobles, but Mingzhou is the only place that is different."

“Those people used the banner of nobles at first to coax the nobles into giving money and giving money, but it turned out to be a joke.”

“Now that the grain-guarantee army has entered the city on its own strength, those noble gentlemen have no glory in their faces now. It won’t be that easy to get in front of the grain-guarantee general again!”

“In this way, if something happens in the future, when the food-protecting general speaks, there won’t be so many people interrupting..."

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Miao Shanxiangu listened for a long time, but she didn’t understand. She just curled her lips and said: "You are as big as a mung bean, what do you know? Don’t talk nonsense in front of others, so as not to cause me to be looked down upon..."

Dou Guan hurriedly said: "It's very, very true. Next time I see Master, I will only kowtow and say nothing else!"

“It’s just that Dou Guan is curious, and he always feels that the master is making such a big move, and it’s not just for the food security army. I’m afraid there will be more ruthless means later..."

“But that probably won’t convince the living people, it will have to convince the ghosts and gods...”

 (End of this chapter)