Inside the dilapidated barrier wall, the people who were resting and waiting under supervision once again made a low voice of discussion.
"Back, back..."
"It's been five times..."
Wei Zhuang looked at the dejected scholars who were escorted back, and then looked at the shoes that he had worn through and showed his toes. He couldn't help but lament in his heart that he was on the thief ship because he was guarded.
Who would have thought that this so-called business trip to Beijing would mean no return. They went south with the escort team, and came to Lantian County without stopping between rest and eating.
Then someone finally noticed something wrong and tried to turn back or negotiate with it, but it was too late. These thieves also secretly kept faces that could be regarded as polite and patient, and they sparred in intimidation and threats.
Although it will not evolve into the violent injuries of adults, it has also caused them to suffer in disguise and become honest again. Then someone saw that the negotiations were unsuccessful and unable to reason, and even thought of a way to create opportunities to escape overnight.
However, their fate is also obvious. These obviously premeditated thieves are equipped with adequate defense and vigilance, and are accompanied by corresponding chasing and fleeing horse teams. At least in the Guanzhong land of Shiyepingchuan, no one has been able to run their four legs with two legs lacking exercise.
Not to mention the fact that these scholars often lose their squareness or show signs as soon as they are threatened because their hearts are not very neat. Therefore, no one has succeeded in the great cause of escape so far.
Especially after passing through Lantian County and entering Lantianyu in the narrow range of the mountains, even Wei Zhuang, a local person who claims to be born in Guan, can't help but cut his hopes. Although some people fled sporadically, they were easily chased back after basically not being able to escape for long.
Although there is no cruel method to deal with, but the punishment of being hungry for two more meals is inevitable when he is dragged away with a rope and hung on the back of the horse. During this period, Wei Zhuang hated and regretted himself countless times, how could he not have the courage to turn his thoughts of escape into action.
Could it be that after eating a few meals provided by the thief army, he completely lost his righteousness and integrity; in contrast, he was much more open-minded when he met Du Xunhe with the same sex.
He basically eats what he needs to eat, sleeps what he sleeps, and walks as if he is in a common trip. He also persuaded Wei Zhuangdao that since these thieves had spent a lot of effort to get them out of the capital and provided food and drinks along the way, it was obvious that it would not be to pay their lives.
Until last night, he was in a temporary bunk paved with straw bales. After he got up, he never came back until dawn. Wei Zhuang realized that this old friend who seemed to be indifferent to the current situation actually had a hidden unruly mind.
Then, after Wei Zhuang tried to identify for a long time, among this group of people who were caught back like pigs and sheep, he saw friends with unkempt faces, bare feet and lame, clotting blood clots and scars on their faces.
"Yizhi, these thieves dare to insult you so much, I..."
He couldn't help but greeted him with grief and indignation, eagerly holding on to each other and greeting
"You are mistaken, those thieves have never treated me like that, but I was caught out of the rush and fell from the slope when I was thrown by the bushes in order to escape their urgency..."
Although Du Xunhe described it as utterly unbearable, he still used a kind of flat and uninhibited hoarse voice.
"But next, I have to bother to take care of yourself, and you will help me. I ate a lot of ashes after I ran this way. I am hungry now..."
Although he said this in his mouth, he collapsed on the ground with a lackluster butt; only then did Wei Zhuang notice that his bare feet were missing from his shoes, and his mouth was still covered with blood. The mud.
"Yizhi, why do you bother to come here..."
Wei Zhuang hurriedly tore off a piece of clothing, patted off a large piece of hardened soil, and then wrapped his forehead in such a mess. Then, I heard another noise from the south side of the wall.
However, there was a team with a clear-cut flag that came forward and followed it; it also suddenly attracted the attention of many people present. However, just looking at their uniform outfits and spirited looks, there is a sharp contrast with these mixed clothes that are responsible for escorting the thief army.
If you don't look at their weird blue flag embroidered with winged alien beasts, almost everyone will think that this is a serious officer and army. And the leader of the thief army who was responsible for escorting them with a thick beard, also stepped forward to negotiate like an amnesty, and complained loudly with no secret.
"You can be regarded as coming, and the people with these big turbans come all the way, I am afraid that it is not going to annoy us..."
"Good students provide for them to eat and drink, and they explain that they can't be cruel, let alone hurt their lives; they are only willing to move and walk when they are shouting and shouting desperately."
"Still on the road desperately talking strange things and changing ways to bury people; if you don't pay attention, you will slip away, and you have to catch them again like a sheep..."
"We have worked hard on this journey, and it was so easy to hand it over here all the way to the end... You hurry up and see if it is still complete..."
"It's really hard work, brothers... don't worry about these first..."
It was Zhang Guihou, a school lieutenant who sent the troops from Taiping to lead the team. Immediately after he made a gesture, there were half a cart of cans, compressed biscuits and other things, pushed forward.
"This is the intention of talking about the watch. It's not in vain for everyone to run this trip and effort..."
The general general could not help but glance at the bamboo tubes, clay pots and oil paper bags in them, with stickers with "substitute meat", "miscellaneous fruits" and "bad fish", and his expression suddenly stretched out and became brilliant.
"How can this really be done..."
Then Zhang Guihou personally handed a few bottles of shochu in a net bag, and the other party smiled even more happily.
"Since this is the case, brother, then I should also tell you the truth. Although I don't know what your family leaders want these big scarves; but in the several cities I came to, Wei Shi also saw a lot of hiding. Locally..."
"If you have the heart to make more contributions, I can say something about it and see if I can get some..."
"Then bother this brother, dare to ask the honorable name..."
Zhang Guihou was also the way to go after thinking about it, and he took out a paper slip from his arms.
"This is a voucher for going to Wuguan to the south to extract alcohol, water, sugar and salt. If you get more scholars in the future, they will be drawn to the brothers according to the head. If the number is large enough, there will be a corresponding increase..."
"There is no honorable name here. I am called Bo Tuo Zi Zhou Mengnan..."
In another place, Wei Zhuang was staring in shock and surprise. He was next to the official who came to count them and read the regulations; he couldn't help but blurt out and shouted:
"Brother Zhiguang, but brother Zhiguang is right now..."
Han Hao, who came with the army, suddenly turned to notice him with the same surprise when he heard the sound; then nodded at him calmly. Then he was found afterwards.
And Han Kai has already placed a table in a small tent, put a number of opened cans of meat and vegetables, and an earthen bottle of wine, poured it into three earthenware bowls; Wei Zhuang and Du Xunhe, who were feasting, slowly pondered while recounting the past:
"Duanji, it's great that you and I can meet again... At first I was worried that you were in Xijing due to chaos; so this time I was ordered to collect talents and scholars from Luoguan, so I recommended it to the top It’s a bit of an old name..."
"What... You know it hurt me this time..."
Wei Zhuang, who was trying his best to select meat dishes, couldn't help but was surprised that the chopsticks all fell off, and then he turned into a miserable and angry color.
"You have no choice but to take the thief, why bother to implicate the old and the neighbors of my generation; and there is no way in this world to use tricks to get people to come, and to drive people like pigs and sheep with knives and guns..."
At this moment, Du Xunhe, who was sitting next to him, kept moving as if he hadn't heard it. He pressed a large piece of sauerkraut with a piece of fat to give the eye sickness a quick condition.
—I am the dividing line —
In the city of Chang'an, Huang Chao, who had just been given the title of Chengtian Yingyun Qisheng Ruiwen Xuanwu Emperor, was just given to him by the Daqi Baiguan, and he was also in the Wuying Hall decently carrying out an internal court call. There are both good news and bad news.
"Did Qilang and Lao Pang fail again in the attack on Fengtian? Another reinforcement from the outer town has been killed, so they have to retreat temporarily but re-establish the grid instead?"
"Wang Jingchong, the envoy of Chengde Army's Jiedu, declared that he was willing to obey the banner of the King of Huang... and to conquer the old towns of Taining and Tianping for Daqi..."
"There is also Han Jian, the king of Changli County from Wei Bo; I would like to offer 120,000 quintals of rice and 1,000,000 catties of Changlu salt; just open the way to export to the eastern capital..."
"It's Li Keju from Fanyang Town, but his attitude is still unclear..."
"The Probation Army Jiedu Envoy Zhixiang suffered a mutiny and exile in Pengcheng, Lisuo. After staying with Yuhou Shipu, the capital of soldiers and horses, he has already sent envoys to lose money..."
"Isn't the Xuanwu Army's reasonings taken down? It has been more than a few months since the three-way siege has been sent out, and the Jiedu made Kang Shi fight to his death... Then after the city is broken, compare the story of the Zhongwu Army's Xuzhou. ..."
"Bianzhou is the northern hub of water transportation. If we haven't won it in one day, the strategy and management of Daqi in various parts of the Kanto area will not be considered safe for one day..."
Ever since he won Chang’an and became the emperor, Huang Chao has been in the same way as a confession and reward. He has successively assigned his relatives, nephews, and relatives to various places in the Kanto area and made conquests or sweeps*. * The remnants of the officers and the army, or guarding and operating a place, thought of crusades in the front of the battlefield of the old dynasty within the pass.
"The scholars in Chang'an City? What happened to these scholars..."
Then someone talked about another topic.
"Someone is searching for these scholars, and then transfer them out of the south of the city in batches..."
"This also has my meaning..."
Huang Chao disapprovingly laid his hands on
"Why is this..."
Zhongshu Youpu shot Li Junru in surprise.
"Most of this generation likes to exaggerate rather than talk about current affairs. It really doesn't live up to the name... Da Qi only needs to be in the middle to select talents and use them."
Someone rushed to explain, but it was Liu Tang who was the transfer agent in the customs.
"The rest of the general generation will not call. If they are blindly treated and caressed indiscriminately, it will only make them fearful but not virtuous. It is even more useless in this dynasty, and it is harmful to the new attachment."
Huang Chao nodded slightly.
For him, since the officials of the old dynasty headed by Wang Duo have already surrendered to Daqi one after another, and now they seem to be using them smoothly; the methods originally used to buy people’s hearts, especially to win over and comfort these scholars, those There is not much need to maintain the horse bones of Qianjin City.
It just so happened that the cheap son-in-law in the south made the corresponding request, and he was also happy to be a good-for-nothing favor. Anyway, he also vaguely heard that the other party likes to humiliate the shining people who are called transforming scholars, but actually tossing the humiliation of the scholars.
Handily these groups who are not willing to be easily surrendered to the Daqi, and cannot be used immediately, but continue to spend money and food to comfort and maintain, and will occasionally criticize and say some strange things; to get rid of all the places on the south side of the road. To fend for itself.
Although a long time ago, he was also one of these undisciplined scholars; but since his family has already complied with the destiny of heaven and achieved the kingly hegemony, he naturally has nothing to do with the ridiculous masses, and has no relationship. And a sense of identity. (End of this chapter)