A hint of fish belly white had just appeared on the horizon, and Zhang Ren and the others were already on their way again. Zhou Hong stood at the gate, holding hands with each other. He waved his whip at Zhou Hong, and Zhang Ren clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and the sound of hoofbeats was heard.

Yes, it’s gone far away.

Yesterday evening, all the officers and soldiers had a good time with wine and food, and they felt more relaxed than ever before.

When leaving today, several spare war horses were hung with several bags, which were all dried small potatoes, potato chips and other rare foods that Zhou Hong had collected that were not available outside today.

In Zhou Hong's words, this was his condolences to the hard-working sergeants on the front line.

After a few bags of small potatoes are soaked in water, it is enough to feed thousands of people.

"Commander, Zheng is really enthusiastic and generous this week!" Yu Hou Lu Wu said with a smile: "The food at home is really delicious, but the jar of fish sauce he brought to the table at the end was so chewy.

It’s so uncomfortable to scratch your mouth with a knife. At first, I looked at Zhou Lizheng’s expression and thought it was something good!”

Zhang Ren glanced at Lu Wuyi lightly: "You are a country bumpkin and you still don't admit it. Do you know what the last jar is made of? It's chili pepper. This thing is very rare now, except in the palace.

There is no one outside the Shouxing Mansion, but you can’t see it at all from the outside. I heard that Sinong Temple is cultivating seeds, and it is estimated that it will take some time before planting can be started."

"The commander is joking. If it's true that there are only people in the palace and the chief minister's office, this week Hong Xiaoxiaoli is..."

"Lu Wuyi, do you know how Zhou Hong made his fortune? Back then, he fled all the way to Qiao County. It was there that he met the chief assistant who was on an inspection trip, and a jar of fish sauce from his family also made the chief assistant

Full of praise.”

Lu Wuyi nodded in confusion.

Zhang Ren looked at him with a confused look, smiled and shook his head and said: "Since the first assistant said it was delicious, will the Zhou family continue to supply it in the future? Is this relationship already established? Zhou Hong

Of course, I can’t please the chief minister, but will the housekeeper of the chief minister’s family know how to deal with Zhou Hong? Otherwise, how could this thing get into the house? "

"So that's it!" Lu Wuyi suddenly realized.

"The first assistant must have wanted to try the fish sauce made with these peppers, so Zhou Hong's family has something that can't be seen outside." Zhang Rendao: "This is what the Zhou family relies on! Otherwise, the Zhou family

Why is our fish sauce so many times more expensive than other brands, and why is the supply still in short supply?”

"It turned out to be Zhou Fuzheng's favorite food. I did something wrong. I should have eaten a few big bites yesterday!" Lu Wuyi looked annoyed.

Zhang Ren burst out laughing: "It's just such a small can. If it wasn't for my sake, how could Zhou Hong take it out? A dozen of us would only have one spoonful each. How many big bites do you want to take?"

Lu Wuyi laughed sarcastically: "Isn't this what the first assistant likes to eat? It must be something good!"

"Good food must be good food, but I can't eat it either!

"But I see that the conductor is full of praise from you!"

"I have to get used to it. Maybe I can have a meal at Shoufu's house in the future? Familiarize yourself with Shoufu's taste in advance. Maybe there will be another topic to talk about!" Zhang Ren said.

Lu Wuyi gave a thumbs up: "The commander is very thoughtful, but even if you have such an opportunity, we may not be able to wait for it in our lives!"

"Wrong!" Zhang Ren said with a smile: "The era of great struggle has come, and it is a great opportunity for our generation of warriors to show their prowess. Lu Wuyi, let me tell you, this battle with the Liao Kingdom,

It cannot be over in a short time. When a warrior is promoted fastest, it is naturally the war years. The war is always fighting, and as long as we continue to win, the road ahead for us will always be smooth."

Lu Wu nodded: "But I really don't have the confidence to fight against a guy like Liao Guo!"

Zhang Ren sneered: "If you don't have two shoulders to carry one head, how can you be better than us? Lu Wuyi, just wait and see. One day, we can reach Zhongjing, no, even go to Beijing."

It’s time to clean it up for them.”

"Is there really such a day?"

"Why do you think we lost so miserably back then? Even Tokyo was attacked?" Zhang Ren asked rhetorically.

"Of course it's because the emperor is fatuous and his traitorous ministers are in power." Lu Wuyi said without thinking.

"This is a very important point!" Zhang Rendao: "We won't talk about him in the past, but we will talk about him now. What do you think?"

"Does this need to be said? The official is a wise man. My family has planted all the rice seeds we cultivated, and we can harvest one or two hundred catties more per acre of land!" Lu Wu said: "The first assistant is in power, and everyone's life is getting better day by day."

"anything else?"

"Is there anything else? I, I can't tell you!" Lu Wu scratched his head, "Commander, you are a scholar, tell us!"

"Commander, tell us!" a group of generals shouted.

"Okay, let's talk about it so that everyone won't be bored on the road. In fact, there are many reasons here, and I can't explain them all. I'll just tell you from myself. I was selected as a scholar very early, but I look down on soldiers."

Zhang Rendao.

Everyone laughed.

"No wonder people look down on us." Lu Wu lifted up his hair, revealing the brand on his forehead, and said: "When we went to serve as soldiers, we all had to have our faces branded. For me, my family spent money on it.

, was branded on this. You guys, good luck!"

"Marquis Lu Yu, we are not lucky. We have been in the army for nearly ten years, but we have always been regarded as soldiers under the command of the chief minister. From the moment the chief minister entered Qiannan, he directly abolished the attitude of the soldiers.

The rules of tattooing.”

They, the veterans, were talking, while the new recruits following them listened with astonishment on their faces. They were actually not clear about these things now.

"In the Song Dynasty, this strategy of using literature to control military force cannot be wrong." Zhang Rendao said: "Even now, the chief minister still pursues the use of literature to control military force. It's just that the previous rulers went astray and went to extremes. They really thought that scholars

I am omnipotent, thinking that I can master the military by reading a few military books. In fact, I was also like this back then. It wasn’t until I joined the army and was refuted by some big-headed soldiers who I looked down on and couldn’t even read a single Chinese character that I was refuted with facts and felt ashamed.

I turned out to be nothing."

"The imperial court decides whether to fight, and where to fight? The generals decide how to fight!" Lu Wuyi said excitedly: "I heard the general talk about this. I didn't understand the key here at first, and I kept wondering why it was so big.

The generals are so excited!"

"Because after the imperial court made a decision, it only provided sufficient logistical support for the front line and did not care about how the generals fought." Zhang Rendao: "Of course, if the generals lose the battle under such circumstances, there is nothing to shirk.

responsible."

"It is indeed much better now than in the past!" Lu Wu said: "When I first joined the army, a battalion general was killed by a seventh-grade civil servant. The reason was that the civil servant ordered our battalion to reach fifty miles away in one day.

a concentration point.”

"Walking fifty miles in a day is not considered high-intensity, right?" A group of young soldiers shouted. Their current high-intensity march is a hundred miles, and if they are lightly armed, they can also complete it.

Lu Wu shook his head and said: "That's fifty miles on the map. In fact, the real distance is more than a hundred miles, and there are high mountains and rivers along the way."

The young soldiers' eyes widened: "You don't know this?"

"Do you think the past was like it is now? Did someone specialize in drawing the map clearly? Even a small ditch was marked for you. It was clear how high the mountain was and how wide the road was! At that time,

Map, bah!" Lu Wu sighed: "It's a pity that we rushed all the way without our lives, but how could we get there? That civil servant killed our camp general without any distinction."

"and after?"

"What can happen next?" Lu Wuyi sneered: "We were defeated by a group of rebels. That seventh-grade official was chopped into pieces by the rebels."

Everyone was silent once again. It was hard to say how much of this defeat was man-made.

"There is a world of difference between the past and the present!" Zhang Ren continued: "The chief assistant has been working hard to improve our status as soldiers. Everyone has read the Jiangning Weekly, right? Even those who are illiterate have heard it read, right?

? Over the years, we have been doing this kind of thing silently. This is called moisturizing things silently. When soldiers have made meritorious deeds, the court will give them great praises, great news, awards, and plaques. They are all delivered to the door with drums and gongs. If we say

If these are all spiritual rewards, then those soldiers who have made meritorious services and have been exempted from corvee are real things. In addition to receiving pensions from their families, they can also enjoy martyred treatment if they are disabled, the government arranges a job, and they die in battle.

, after so many years of accumulation, my status as a soldier has improved little by little."

"Yes, if it wasn't like this, I would have stopped working long ago!" Lu Wu nodded.

"If it weren't for the Chief Minister's New Deal, you wouldn't want to do it, right? Back then, only those over forty could leave the Forbidden Army!" Another officer chuckled.

"The combat effectiveness of the army has increased, and it is different from the past!" Zhang Rendao: "If we randomly select an army now, its combat effectiveness is no worse than that of the Hebei frontier army back then. In terms of equipment, we are better than the Hebei frontier army back then."

It’s much stronger. Without him, we have money, and the court is willing to invest money in the army. Lu Wuyi, have you ever thought that adding the divine arm bow is not the best thing in the army now?”

"I really didn't expect that!" Lu Wu sighed: "In those days, every battalion and every team was beaten to death in order to earn a few more divine arm bows! Who would have thought that you would want to use the divine arm bow now?

You need as much as you want? But everyone wants something better!"

"There will definitely be more good things slowly." Zhang Rendao: "Just like the divine arm bow, it was a good thing back then, but now it is very common. Let's not talk about weapons, let's talk about people's hearts. This

Along the way, how do you think the people treat us?"

"It's really good!" said an officer.

"To put it bluntly, it's because these people hope that we can fight hard to protect their homes!" Zhang Rendao: "Most of the places we pass through these days are refugees who were resettled in the past. They fled all the way from the north and had nothing.

With the help of the government, each of them now has a family and business, and some like Zhou Hong are living a prosperous life. These people, because they have all lost in the past, have lived a precarious life.

They are desperate days, so they especially hope that the stable days in front of them can continue to be stable."

"But the Liao people don't want them to be safe!" someone said.

"Yes, so these people also understand that if they don't defeat the Liao people, they will never have a good life. They also know how the people in the north are living. They really can't even compare to one of their feet.

, if we lose, not only will their family property be taken away, but they will also have to live the life those people are living now. Who would be willing? So, everyone is very generous! They will never be stingy about anything we want.

"

"But the court doesn't allow it! It doesn't even allow donations. It's said that the court collects everyone's taxes, so it should protect everyone!"

"So you are saying, who wouldn't support such a court?" Zhang Ren said with a smile. "We who are soldiers are willing to shed our lives and blood for the court, and those of us who are ordinary people are willing to give everything we have to help the court. Tell me,

Is there any reason why we can’t win this war?”

"Even those who are officials want to work hard to win, so that they can be promoted. The county magistrate becomes a state magistrate, the state magistrate becomes a governor, and the governor becomes a governor. If the Liao Kingdom is really destroyed, the territory will be expanded several times.
To be continued...