Yuan Xi heard the commotion outside and opened the curtains of his car. He saw a few civilians and sergeants making noises on the roadside outside. The crowd seemed to be gathering more and more.
Tian Yu saw it outside and simply ordered the soldiers to rest on the spot while reorganizing the team.
Yuan Xi asked the driver to stop the carriage by the roadside, jumped out of the carriage, and walked over with Sun Li.
He saw several sergeants gathered outside, found someone to pat his shoulder, and asked, "What's going on?"
The soldier said impatiently: "This unruly man is blackmailing others."
He turned around and said, "What are you doing?"
When he saw Yuan Xi's face clearly, he suddenly broke out in cold sweat and shouted: "Your Majesty."
At this sound, the soldiers who were watching all fell silent and moved aside. Only a few people who were arguing did not hear it and were still pulling each other.
Yuan Xi saw an old man lying down at the feet of several people, his eyes closed tightly, and he couldn't help but frown.
He walked over and asked, "What happened?"
When the soldiers saw that it was Yuan Xi, they all knelt down on one knee to salute. When the common people saw him, they also knelt down quickly.
The leading soldier said: "Your Majesty, this unruly man blocked our march on the road. Someone pushed him. Unexpectedly, this old man fell down and couldn't get up."
"This old man's family is arresting us to cause trouble and want to extort money."
Opposite was a young couple with a child. All three of them were dressed in tatters and looked disheveled.
The leading man's face was swarthy from exposure to wind and sun, his hands and feet were thick, and the tattered linen clothes on his body were full of holes, revealing a lot of stuffed hemp silk and hay inside.
The woman next to her looked like she was less than twenty years old, but her skin looked like she was in her forties. There were already many wrinkles and chapped wounds on her hands.
The child was skinny and skinny, his eye sockets were sunken, and the blood vessels under his skin were bulging out.
The man said angrily: "My father is deaf and didn't hear, so we all got out of the way!"
"But the military master directly pushed my father down. Isn't it too unreasonable?"
The leading soldier turned around and said: "Shut up!"
"If you make trouble in front of Yuan Shijun, the governor of Youzhou, you may not want to live!"
When the man heard this, he was so frightened that he trembled all over and quickly lowered his head.
But the seven or eight-year-old child beside him still said angrily: "What, can the official be unreasonable?"
"Grandpa passed out, I..."
Before he finished speaking, his mouth was blocked by the woman next to him, and he made a whimpering sound in his mouth.
Yuan Xi walked over, knelt down and checked the old man's breath, turned to Sun Li and said, "Invite Mr. Hua Tuo who is in the carriage behind."
He paused and then said: "Call Guorang here too."
Sun Li hesitated for a moment, then whispered: "I'm going this way, brother, be careful," then turned around and ran towards the road.
Yuan Xi stood up and looked around. He found that people in groups of three or three were watching from a distance. Even further away were dense forests and mountains. He thought that if there were enemies ambushing him, it would be really dangerous.
He involuntarily held down the hilt of the ring-headed sword at his waist, but this gave the surrounding soldiers a wrong signal, and they all wanted to draw their swords, which frightened several civilians and turned pale.
Yuan Xi drank: "What are you doing?"
Only then did the sergeants realize that they had made a mistake, and then they put down their hands.
Seeing the reactions of the sergeants, Yuan Xi sighed in his heart and said, "What did you guys do before?"
Several sergeants looked at me and I looked at you. Finally, the leader bravely said: "Your Majesty may not remember us. We all joined the army when your Majesty was in Beixin City and have been with you for four or five years."
Already."
Yuan Xi sneered: "You still remember!"
"I have a thousand elite men in total, how could I not recognize you!"
He stretched out his finger and said, "You had dinner with me at the foot of the city wall!"
"You married a wife and gave birth to a son two years ago, and I even brought you two kilograms of meat!"
"You were injured the year before last, and it took you a full year to recover from your injuries before you came back again!"
"You," he pointed to the sergeant who was leading the push, "last year, you won five kills and were promoted to corps commander!"
When the soldiers who were pointed out heard this, they beamed with joy and said with a smile: "The envoy actually remembered us!"
"Thanks to your great kindness, we dare to die in your service!"
The family next to them had earth-colored faces. It turned out that these people were the soldiers of the Youzhou governor. My family was doomed!
Yuan Xi sneered, "I can't bear it!"
"I still remember that before you followed me, you were refugees just like them!"
"Why, now that we are developed, we can't look down on others?"
The sergeant who had been in high spirits just now suddenly turned stiff and silent after hearing this. He stood there speechless.
Yuan Xi became more and more angry, "When Mr. Hui comes, if this old man has three shortcomings, whoever touches it will be killed by himself!"
"After you die, I will take care of your wife and children for you!"
Only then did everyone realize that Yuan Xi was really angry, and they quickly knelt down and kowtowed.
The couple and the refugees who were watching from a distance showed surprise on their faces. They could tell that the young governor didn't want to protect his sergeants?
Yuan Xi was still angry and walked up and down on the ground. Previously, he felt that if he wanted soldiers to sacrifice their lives in this world, he could only buy their hearts with wealth and military status.
Educating them to understand class oppression will take a long time. It requires first opening up the people's intelligence, and then slowly allowing them to find a sense of belonging. It is not feasible in a short period of time.
Moreover, he is a nobleman and needs to rely on the noblemen for the time being. He can't educate the soldiers and common people to fight against the noblemen, right?
Therefore, Yuan Xi temporarily shelved these matters amid this conflict.
But now it seems that it is not advisable to give up ideological work completely.
At least for these soldiers who were originally refugees, when they became rich, they would turn around and discriminate against the refugees, just like the landlords and merchants who despised the merchants when they became gentry. They were all swinging their swords at the weaker ones.
This is a common human problem that cannot be changed for thousands of years, but Yuan Xi felt very uncomfortable.
At least for him, although he thinks he is far inferior to Yue Fei, his military training is aimed at benchmarking the Yue Family Army. How can he not be angry when he sees that his soldiers have this kind of virtue?
Most of this anger came from his anger towards himself, because he realized that he was eager for quick success and neglected the efforts of the soldiers. He used the feudal society as an excuse before, which was just an escape.
Both are feudal societies, but Yue Jiajun and Qi Jiajun are doing different things well?
In the awkward silence of everyone, Hua Tuo hurried over carrying a medicine box.
Before he could speak to Yuan Xi, he knelt down next to the old man, first felt his breath, then took his pulse, then rolled his eyelids, then took out several silver needles from the medicine box and injected them on the old man's head one after another.
Everyone held their breath and concentrated. After a while, they saw the old man lift his eyelids and slowly opened his eyes.
The onlookers couldn't help but let out low cheers at the same time. They all looked happy. They felt the same. If they were in such a situation, they would naturally hope that someone would save them.
However, Hua Tuo's words made them worried again, "This man is old. He fell hard and may have difficulty moving later. Fortunately, there are no fractures."
"Now I have to rest for at least a few months, but no one can say how I will recover after that."
After hearing this, Yuan Xi asked someone to find a cart, carry the old man on it, and said to the couple: "Please follow me to Jicheng, I will find someone to settle you, and I will pay for food and clothing during the period."
Someone brings it."
The couple looked at each other and whispered, feeling even more surprised.
At this time, Tian Yu rushed over. He had already heard what happened, and saw Yuan Xi turning to him and saying, "Guorang, you are the supervisor. Can you tell me how to deal with this matter?"
Tian Yu hesitated for a moment and said, "If you injure people for no reason, give them twenty military sticks."
"Those who cause disability must support their daily living."
"Those who hurt people's lives will, in addition to compensation, be deprived of their military status and be reduced to a lowly status. In more serious cases, they will have to pay with their lives."
Yuan Xi turned to everyone, "Have you ever known these military laws before?"
Everyone murmured: "I know it."
Yuan Xi sneered: "So you think military law is just a decoration?"
All the soldiers kowtowed and begged for mercy.
Tian Yu also lowered his head and said: "Yu is not strict in governing the army, so please give me the same punishment."
Yuan Xi said: "It has nothing to do with Guorang, it's my problem."
He thought that in the past year, he had only been thinking about fighting, but he had ignored these problems.
What happened today, did I happen to see it, or did I not see it?
There were definitely signs before!
Judging from the fearless look of these soldiers just now, there must have been similar acts of disturbing the people in the army before.
If this trend is not stopped now, these soldiers will become bandit soldiers sooner or later!
At this time, the commander who took the lead in pushing people gritted his teeth and kowtowed: "This is all done by me alone and has nothing to do with anyone else. Please handle it under military law!"
The others understood and kowtowed: "Chief Shi just acted on our behalf, we are also guilty."
Yuan Xi saw it and sneered: "You can see clearly, but I won't expose it. Since you are rushing to take the blame, let's beat them all."
"Come here, the leader is twenty, and the other ten sticks!"
After hearing this, Tian Yu immediately ordered law enforcement soldiers to come, drag everyone down and beat them up.
The soldiers endured the pain and bowed their heads to Yuan Xi and confessed again. They finally saw that Yuan Xi was serious this time!
However, the next sentence shocked everyone, "I am not strict in running the army, so I will lead the army with ten sticks!"
Tian Yu quickly knelt down and said: "Master, this is Yu's crime, how can I let my salary be punished!"
"If you want to fight, just fight Yu!"
Yuan Xi shouted: "The purpose of supervising the army is to supervise illegal things in the army. If you take the blame for everything, how many lives can you take?"
He pointed at a few soldiers and said, "They act recklessly on the pretext that they are my own soldiers. This is the crime of my lax instructions."
"Therefore, it is natural to punish me with military law!"
The sound spread far away, and Zhen Mi and Mrs. Wu in the carriage changed their expressions when they heard it.
Madam Wu said to Zhen Mi: "Do you really want to punish yourself? What if you are injured? Madam, won't you try to persuade me?"
Zhen Mi bit her lip and said softly: "When my husband is in the army, I cannot break the rules, so I have to trust my husband."
Mrs. Wu listened thoughtfully, but when she thought about Yuan Xi being beaten, she felt a little distressed for some reason.
She knew that Zhen Mi must be suffering more than she was, but she could endure it. Although she looked weak on the outside, she was actually very strong on the inside.
When the soldiers on the road saw Yuan Xi like this, their faces became much more serious, completely different from their previous playful and nonchalant look.
Because before Yuan Xi arrived, they all thought that the refugees would be driven away, but they did not expect this result!
This enables Jun to kill even his own personal guards who are familiar with him. If he were among them, he would probably be beaten too, right?
Yan Rou stood in the marching team from a distance and saw the whole process in her eyes. She thought that this envoy acted differently from others.