When Yuan Xi saw the young corps commander standing between him and Yang Feng, he smiled and said, "I remember your name is Zhang Fang?"
The young corps commander cupped his hands and said, "Yes, I actually remembered my name."
Yuan Xi said: "Of course I remember. I also know that these military exploits were enough for all five of you to be promoted, but in the end you exchanged military exploits for rewards."
After hearing this, Zhang Fang smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty is so powerful that the brothers are unwilling to separate. Besides, the family has a lot of people to support, and the military salary alone is not enough, so I simply changed the land."
Yuan Xi smiled and said: "You guys are really smart. Doesn't it mean you get more money if you get promoted?"
Zhang Fang chuckled and said, "Having the fields in your hands makes you feel at ease."
"Besides, we don't think we have much ability. We have too many people to lead, and we can't control them on the battlefield. We'll hurt people, which is even worse."
Yuan Xi nodded slightly, but Zhang Fang had a clear mind. Although he could get a lot more food and salary if he was promoted, but if a person died in battle, it would only be a small pension.
And if it is replaced by dozens of acres of farmland, it can feed two more people. With these advantages, the family can be regarded as a medium-sized farmer. If the descendants join the army, they can be the kind of good soldiers who prepare their own horses and weapons as sons of a good family.
, it can be said that it is also a very good road.
He said: "Zhang Fei, Zhang Chun, Zhang Ju, are there any members of your family?"
Zhang Fang shook his head and said: "No, my family is not prosperous and there are not many people left."
Yuan Xi nodded, pointed at Yang Feng and said, "Are you afraid that she will be bad for me?"
Zhang Fang smiled bitterly and said: "I and my brothers have been following the envoy to see how powerful this person is. I didn't stop him twice. I really derelict in my duty and should be punished. I have no face to face the envoy."
Yuan Xi smiled, patted Zhang Fang on the shoulder, pointed at Lu Lingqi behind him and said, "It doesn't matter, my wife will protect you."
Zhang Fang saw that Lu Lingqi and Yuan Xi were not leaving, so he had to cup his hands and said: "I will take your orders."
He hesitated and said, "Sickle"
After hearing this, Yang Feng sneered, shook his hands and threw the sickle out. The sickle turned and flew towards them, and was stuck in the ground at the feet of the two of them.
Yang Feng strode into the wheat field, and the chains under her feet jingled. She bowed slightly, hugged a bundle of wheat with one hand, and scratched it with her fingernail, causing the layers of wheat to snap.
When Zhang Fang saw him, his face turned ugly. He was Yuan Xi's personal guard, and he had licked blood from the blade of his knife. Naturally, he knew that Yang Feng was a big threat. Now that the other party's nails were so sharp, he thought that if the other party got angry, he would be on his side if he were not careful.
Can you really protect your envoy?
When Yuan Xi saw it, he smiled slightly, ignored Yang Feng, and took Lu Lingqi down to the ground to cut the wheat.
Lu Lingqi thought it was fun at first, but after an hour, she felt her back hurt and couldn't help but straighten up to rest.
She rested for a while and then bent down again. The pain in her waist came back again, which made her extremely depressed. She said out loud: "Bending down to cut wheat is so uncomfortable!"
When Yuan Xi saw it, he also straightened up and said: "It does take a while to get used to it. Farmers work like this all day long. If the posture is wrong, over time, the waist will not be straight."
"You don't have to hold on so hard, just do what you can."
After speaking, he looked at Yang Feng who was silently scratching the wheat with his fingers in the distance, and said to the left and right: "Get her a wooden sickle."
The sergeant followed the instructions and threw the wooden sickle at Yang Feng's feet. After Yang Feng picked it up, he looked at Yuan Xi mockingly, as if he was mocking him for being too cowardly.
Lu Lingqi was a little angry and said to Yuan Xi: "What else can you do to deal with the harm caused by attacking and killing your husband several times?"
"I don't believe that my husband is attracted by her appearance."
Yuan Xi said: "Of course not."
"If I don't kill her, I will naturally consider it. Let's take it one step at a time."
Ever since he knew Yang Feng's identity, Yuan Xi had been thinking about how to use it, and if it was just an ordinary Yellow Turban general, it happened to be Zhang Jiao's daughter. If she died in his own hands, there would be endless troubles on Taiping Road in the future.
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Moreover, Yang Feng is so stubborn that it is unlikely that his opinion of him will improve, but it is also impossible to let him go, so locking him up in Youzhou can only be said to be a helpless move.
It was almost noon, and the sun was getting hot. People found some shady places under the trees, made stoves and started cooking on the spot.
Cao Xian and Sun Li came over with a lot of washed wild vegetables. Yuan Xi saw them and called everyone to stop working. He threw the wild vegetables and rice into the pot and poured in the clear stream water. The dead branches under the earth stove slowly
Light it slowly, and after a while, the aroma will mix and spread in the pot.
Yuan Xi said hello to Zhang Fang, who was escorting him, and he brought his men and Yang Feng over, and everyone sat together by the pot.
When Yang Feng saw Yuan Xi chatting and laughing happily with her bodyguards, she remembered that all the bodyguards following her had lost all their strength in Yuan Xi's hands, and her eyes became fierce and murderous aura spread out from her body.
Lu Lingqi subconsciously grabbed the sickle at hand, and Zhang Fang quickly stood up, ready to pounce on Yang Feng.
But Yuan Xi didn't take it seriously and said, "Sit down and let's talk after eating."
This sentence eliminated most of the tense atmosphere on the field. Yang Feng sneered and said: "Do you really think I can't kill you?"
Yuan Xi stabbed the firewood in the stove with a branch and said leisurely: "Even if you kill me, so what?"
"I only know that fighting and killing are indeed the right thing to do in troubled times, and some people really deserve to be killed."
"But what happens after the killing?"
Yang Feng gritted his teeth and said: "Kill the corrupt officials of the gentry, and the world will naturally be at peace!"
Yuan Xi sneered: "Does all food fall from the sky?"
"You, Montenegro's military control, do not care about killing or burying people. Have you given the people of Montenegro enough to eat in these years?"
Yang Feng was speechless for a moment and said angrily: "You are just pretending to win people's hearts!"
Yuan Xi said leisurely: "I just want to win people's hearts, but if I can pretend for the rest of my life, I will be a good person to the people of Youzhou."
"You think you have saved the world, but if people don't have enough to eat or even starve to death, you are evil in the eyes of others."
Yang Feng still wanted to speak, but Yuan Xi waved his hand and said: "Don't use Taipingdao stuff as an excuse. When it comes to those things, I am better than you, and everyone is just the same."
"I don't want to waste words. After all, it's very difficult to change a stubborn person like you."
Yang Feng sneered and said: "Don't think that I don't know what you are planning. Aren't you just afraid that if you kill me, the Yellow Turbans in the world will become your enemy?"
Yuan Xi smiled and said: "It is true, but although I am concerned about it, it is not to the point of changing my approach."
"After all, I really want to achieve my goal. No matter whether it is the Yellow Turban or the Taiping Road in front of him, I don't mind killing them one by one."
"Whoever stands in front of me should be prepared to lose his life."
"So what you should worry about is the remnants of Taiping Dao who are my enemies, not me."
Yang Feng wanted to speak, but Yuan Xi ignored her again, opened the lid of the pot and said to everyone: "Let's eat!"
Yang Feng felt aggrieved. When she was the Saint of Taiping Dao, who dared to talk to her like this!
Moreover, the other party made a lot of fallacies, but he was not allowed to finish his words!
All the rebuttals she had thought up were stuck in her throat. It was so uncomfortable!
But Yang Feng had to admit that judging from the results alone, Youzhou did much better than Heishan.
At least everyone can have food to eat. Although it cannot be said that they can eat well every day, it is still no problem to barely maintain food and clothing.
Thinking of the people dying of cold and starvation in Montenegro, Yang Feng fell into confusion. When her father started the army, wasn't it because he had no food and was about to starve to death, so he rose up to resist?
Nowadays, these nobles, who in their own eyes are plundering the people's wealth and support, have done better than the Yellow Turban Army who claims to save the people from danger. How should we say this?
Yang Feng fell into confusion.
Autumn harvest is here, which means autumn planting. Everything in Beixin City seems to be on track. Even the captured Black Mountain soldiers have changed a lot in the past two months. Things seem to be moving towards the good side.
However, at this time, Zhao Yun from Jicheng sent an urgent letter saying that there seemed to be an unstable situation in Youbeiping and Western Liaoning.
The main reason is that Wuhuan Chanyu Tadun.
Originally, when Gongsun Zan was still alive, he only controlled the general half of Youzhou. From Yuyang to the east, parts of Youbeiping and Yuyang in western Liaoning were occupied by Wuhuan Chanyu.
Of course, most of the big cities there were controlled by Gongsun Zan, and the officials were appointed by the Han court, so the Wuhuan tribe could only graze and settle in the grasslands near Beisai.
However, with the defeat of Gongsun Zan, Yuan Xi captured several large cities in Yuyang and Youbeiping counties by water at an extremely fast speed, far exceeding the expectations of all parties.
At that time, the Wuhuan Chan Yu Tatun still wanted to marry the Yuan family in Jizhou, and he did not dare to offend Yuan Xi too much. Therefore, when Yuan Xi captured the remaining forces of Gongsun Zan, although he did not help, he just stood by and watched, at least he did not do anything bad.
However, as Yuan Xi's power continued to expand and he developed agriculture and animal husbandry around various cities, conflicts with the Wuhuan nomads were inevitable. At first, the two parties tried to find ways to settle the dispute, but nothing major happened.
But now the situation has begun to deteriorate.
There is a reason why Shanyu Tatton married a daughter of the Yuan clan and secretly took refuge with Yuan Shang, but the root cause is that the climate has become colder.
As the climate declined, the pasture production in the northern part of the Great Wall dropped sharply, and the border residents outside the Great Wall were forced to migrate southward.
So Wuhuan, who was grazing herds in the north and south of the border fortress, met the Xianbei tribe going south, and many conflicts occurred between the two sides.
The relatively weak Wuhuan had to avoid living in the fortress, which undoubtedly squeezed the nomadic space in the fortress. Therefore, the Wuhuan people in the fortress went south again. As a result, the territories of Bian and Yuan Xi intersected, and the conflicts between the Hu and Han border residents
It became more frequent.
Although Zhao Yun tried his best to deal with these disputes, leaving aside the aliens outside the Pass, Wuhuan Chanyu inside the Pass now also made demands.
He said that although Yuan Xi occupied Youzhou, he occupied more territory with a smaller population, while hundreds of thousands of Wuhuan people had nowhere to go. He also hoped that Yuan Xi, as the lord of Youzhou, could come up with a proper solution.
Otherwise, chaos will break out in Youzhou sooner or later.
When Yuan Xi put the threatening letter in front of everyone, Guo Jia sneered: "I think these people will not give up until they see the Yellow River, and they will not call their mother until they are executed."
"I think the Youzhou Army has trained well and its strength has increased a lot. It's better to break into Wuhuan's lair and kill them all."
Everyone smiled bitterly. They all knew that Guo Jia had a tough attitude, but it didn't seem like the right time to use weapons at this time?
Guo Jia saw everyone's doubts and said: "If we indulge in concessions at this time, we will definitely feed the tiger into trouble. It is better to cut the knot with a quick knife and end it once and for all."
Jushu said: "Who will deal with Xianbei outside the Great Wall?"
Guo Jia said in a deep voice: "How do you know Wuhuan and Xianbei won't join forces to deal with us?"
"If the weather had been colder for a few more years, they would have gone south anyway!"
When everyone heard this, they all began to think deeply, because what Guo Jia said was indeed correct.
The weather is getting colder and colder, and if there is no forage harvest outside the pass, the aliens outside the pass will definitely enter the pass. At that time, in order to compete for the limited survival territory, the two sides will inevitably fight to the death.