A heavy snowfall once again fell on the capital's head, with fluttering snowflakes flying all over the sky, turning the world into a white world.

Li Xiao wore a bamboo hat on his head and stood on the city wall with his hands folded in his sleeves. Below the city were more than a thousand civilians, collecting corpses of various shapes. Fortunately, it was winter, and the corpses would not rot for a while. Otherwise,

If a plague develops, with the population density of the capital, we will be in big trouble!

At Deshengmen, where the fighting was the fiercest, the bonfire for burning corpses had been burning for three days. But corpses were still being thrown in. These bastards just had no brains. The north wind blew "swish" and "swish" in the winter, making them burnt.

The smell of skin and meat was blown all over the city by the north wind. Although the smell was similar to barbecue, one of the great functions of human beings is association. When he thought that the smell came from the dead, Li Xiao started to ruminate.

I couldn't eat anymore, so I had to stand on the tower and drink the wind. The wind is strong here, so the smell can dissipate much faster.

There are a few foodies in the gate tower, and these guys are dealing with a whole sheep.

The freshly killed mutton was cut into slices and boiled in water. I don’t know who had the idea, but actually got two black fish weighing ten kilograms. The black fish fillets were cut so thin, and I ate them in the mutton soup with chopsticks.

The inside is cooked after being rinsed. There is no need to dip any ingredients into it, and it tastes fresh in your mouth.

Seeing Li Xiao coming in, everyone stood up. Wu Sangui also stood at attention and saluted a military salute! Since Li Xiao's military reform, the Liao army has always raised its right hand, with the upper arm at shoulder level, and the palm straight out in salute.

Li Xiao returned the favor and asked everyone to sit down and continue eating.

Wu Sangui fetched bowls and chopsticks for Li Xiao in a cowardly manner. Zu Chengxun and Zu Kuan had honest silly smiles on their faces, but stopped moving their chopsticks. The hands seemed to grow on the back of their heads, and their scalps were almost scratched, but they were still acting silly.

scratch.

Li Xiao was also unambiguous. He took the bowl and chopsticks and found that there was sesame sauce inside. He picked up a chopstick and dipped it in the sesame sauce. He ate one chopstick and then fished it out in the pot.

"Bring me some chive sauce!" Zhang Huangyan kicked Zu Kuan and sat down next to Li Xiao.

"Mr. Zhang, this is really a good way to eat." The delicious fish and sheep made Li Xiao selectively forget the fact that people were being burned outside the city wall.

"Fish and sheep are fresh. The word "fresh" is made up of these two characters. Fish and mutton are stewed together, of course it will be very delicious. It's just that this is the first time for me to eat fish cooked in mutton soup. It tastes good!" Zhang Huangyan stretched out his hand.

Tongue, glaring at Zu Kuan.

Perhaps it was because Zhang Huangyan had just kicked Zu Kuan, and Zu Kuan very considerately added a spoonful of chili oil when making the sesame sauce. Originally, the chili oil was nothing, and chili is now a major seasoning in the Liao army.

But Zhang Huangyan, a southerner, has never eaten chili peppers. Now it is as spicy as a husky, and he is chasing Zu Kuan all over the world with his tongue sticking out. It was not until Li Xiao asked someone to pour Zhang Huangyan a glass of wine that the old man's spicy taste was relieved.

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"Little bastard, I'll take care of you later." Seeing Zu Dashou come in, Zhang Huangyan had to stop chasing Zu Kuan.

"How are the rebels being handled?" Li Xiao glanced at Zu Dashou, who was covered in snowflakes, and pointed to the seat next to him.

Zu Chengxun curled his lips, he finally prepared the food and now he could eat it, but he was reduced to a handyman.

After being slapped by Zu Dashou, he immediately ran to get Zu Dashou bowls and chopsticks.

"Uncle!" Wu Sangui handed over a small chair very clumsily, and also ordered a bowl of wine for Zu Dashou.

"Yeah!" Zu Dashou glanced at Wu Sangui appreciatively. This nephew was still filial. Unlike the two bastards from Zu's family, they were so stupid that they didn't know how to move without pulling.

"We opened the Treasury of the Ministry of Household Affairs. According to what you said, each person will receive ten taels of silver. If someone dies in the family, the local government will subsidize ten acres of government land for the family. We will pay fifty taels of silver. From now on, we can receive it from the government every year.

At the age of five taels of silver, those who were disabled were divided into five classes, and each class received different rewards. Anyway, they all followed the commander's instructions, and the pensions were preferential.

Many of those mud-legged men saw so much silver for the first time. They kowtowed to the ground with the silver in their hands, thanking the Marshal for the reward. Some of them didn't want to leave and asked if they could join the Liao army to fight the Tatars. I found that among those who stayed,

Many people are literate. There are even twenty or thirty scholars, which is a strange thing."

The Ming Dynasty relied on culture to rule the military, and the status of generals in the court was slightly lower than that of civil servants. What the scholars wanted was to gain fame in the exams, and then plunge into officialdom to engage in political struggles. I have not heard of any scholar who has great ambitions.

He had no future, he had to hang out with a bunch of rough guys Qiu Ba. Of course, there was an exception for non-human beings like Sun Chengzong.

"Hey! We are going to have a scholar in our team!" Li Xiao was also shocked. In the past, when recruiting soldiers, they were all farmers from the countryside. When you come to Li Xiao's army to serve as a soldier, you will be rewarded with good treatment. Even if you die,

The pension is also very generous. In short, you are here to work hard.

Scholars would not even look at this kind of army that was full of copper odor. So Li Xiao had to use those storytellers to teach the soldiers how to read. Then he could select and train outstanding talents from the soldiers to become officers at all levels.

"The "Kill Hu Order" has worked. The warriors are brave. They are angry first and then brave! The scholars and scholars are angry and participated in the defense of the capital this time. It gave them the heart to join the army and save the country. These people should be put to good use.

, maybe there is Yue Fei and Wen Tianxiang here!"

"Mr. Zhang! I know Yue Fei's loyalty, and I also know Wen Tianxiang's backbone. But you can't compare the two of them. It's too unlucky! One died in the hands of a foolish emperor, and the other was defeated, captured and killed. I, Li Xiao,

Since my debut, I have never lost a single battle. The worst battle at Daheishan was considered a draw."

"I know you can fight, how about comparing it to Kong Ming...?" After saying this, Zhang Huangyan even laughed. Adou, who was assisted by Zhuge Kongming, finally died of exhaustion at Wuzhangyuan.

"Let's not talk about this. Since the scholar wants to stay, let...! Let Zu Kuan and Zu Chengxun train the rebels. As long as they can survive three months of recruit training, they will be given military status. Yes.

Those who don’t make it will be given money to send them home.”

"You'd better meet me, Marshal. Those scholars all asked to see you, Marshal. During the battle to defend the capital, these people performed very bravely. One of the scholars hacked eight rioters to death by himself, and he only suffered a slight injury.

Hurt. I feel that these are people of great use." Zu Dashou was a little surprised by Li Xiao's nonchalant look. You must know that there are too few talents who can become soldiers these days.

"Then let's meet!" Li Xiao stood up and Zu Dashou led the way to the city.

"Cough, cough, cough!" The sound of coughing echoed all over the city wall. From a distance, there were seven or eight hundred people gathered together, and they couldn't even stand in a neat formation.

"Quiet! Silence! Our commander-in-chief is here to visit all the local heroes!" Zu Dashou shouted and immediately stepped aside, and Li Xiao appeared on stage.

"Cough! Cough! Cough!" Many people looked at him, but there were always dozens of people coughing. Li Xiao's brows wrinkled!

"See you, Lord Governor!" The twenty or thirty guys in front wearing Confucian crowns immediately bowed and saluted. It was still the style of a scholar. Those who have fame do not need to salute when they meet officials.

"See you, my lord...!" The group of people behind him knelt down in a chaotic manner. They had no reputation and were all weak-minded.

Li Xiao was about to ask, for example, how hard the comrades had worked, when suddenly a man beside the team fell straight to the cold ground.

"Ahem! What's wrong with Silly Zhu?" The people around him coughed and tried to pull him up, but he couldn't.

"What are you doing? Why don't you drag this man down and send him to the medical officer?" Seeing the chaos in the crowd below, Zu Dashou was a little dissatisfied.

A few of them, who might be familiar with this person, started to lift him up in a hurry. But before he could be lifted up, one of them also fell to the ground, and then collapsed like before.
Chapter completed!