"Ping Guo Gong, we have been waiting for you here for almost five days."
A young man said and pointed to the camp over there: "We have been eating and lodging here for the past five days just to wait for you. I was afraid that you wouldn't come again. I finished eating the things given to the border troops. Hehe !”
Tang Ping's face was slightly moved. He had also seen the camp over there when he came just now. He originally thought that some caravan had temporarily set up camp here.
Unexpectedly, it was these common people who had been waiting for me for such a long time.
"Old man, why is this happening?" Tang Ping was a little confused.
"I'm not afraid of Duke Ping's jokes. It turns out that I am also a veteran."
"What's so funny about the old man being a veteran?"
"But I'm from Sui Dynasty!"
"Uh..." Tang Ping was stunned for a moment, then smiled awkwardly.
"Actually, although I was paid as a soldier in the Sui Dynasty back then, I think the hard work was the same." The old man seemed to like to reminisce about the past. Tang Ping was resting here anyway, and there was nothing going on, so he didn't interrupt him. He continued.
"Later, the Sui Dynasty paid tribute to us, and the Tang government did not make it difficult for us. Those who were in good health and willing to stay in the Tang army stayed, and those who were in poor health and older returned home."
"I originally thought that the days in the Tang Dynasty were the same as those in the Sui Dynasty, and the people were all miserable. But I didn't expect that the government would allocate land to us, lend us money to raise chickens and ducks, repair waterwheels, and borrow cattle for farming. Hey, These days are getting better day by day.”
Although the old man was older, he was still sharp-tongued. Seeing that Tang Ping was willing to listen to him, he felt happy and started talking.
"So the villagers in our village all say that the good life we have now is because we are from the Tang Dynasty. Some relatives in Miao Man and Dongyue live in a day compared to us. Not as good as one day.”
"So everyone is thinking about the goodness of Datang! Isn't this an article published in Datang Weekly a few days ago? A literate child in the village read it to me. Let me think about it, what is it called?"
"The cutest person in the Tang Dynasty!" the half-grown boy interjected.
"Yes, yes, yes!" The old man squinted his eyes and nodded: "That's it, The Cutest Man in the Tang Dynasty. It writes about the life of the frontier soldiers. It reminds me of the situation of being a soldier in the past. What is said above is correct. What's...what's good?"
"There are no quiet years, but there are people carrying the burden forward for us."
"Yes, yes, yes!" The old man patted the young man on the head: "That's it. The little boy has read a book, right? You remember it well. Please study hard in the future."
"There is another saying that they are the frontier troops of the Tang Dynasty, but whose children are they and whose husbands are they?" The old man did not forget this sentence. When he said it, there was a trace of tears in the corners of his eyes. .
"I only have two daughters in my family and no son, so I thought, why can we comfortably farm at home and work in workshops to make money or do some small business? Isn't it because those border army kids put other things into practice? Miao Man, what Dongyue is blocking out?"
"No one in our family went to the border army, but now that everyone is doing well, it will be no problem to treat the children of the border army to a meal of hometown food!"
The old man raised the jar of pickles and sausages in his hand: "I told the village leader about this matter. The people in the village thought it was right, so I selected some people to deliver the things and wait here. It’s Duke Pingguo.”
Then he pointed at the people gathered around: "Some of them are from our village, some of them decided to stay and help after seeing us chatting here, and some of them came here after getting news from other places."
"It's too far for us to go to the border army, and it will cause trouble to the government on the way, so I want to ask Duke Ping to bring our thoughts to the border army, so that the children of the border army can eat better and wear better clothes. Please, Duke Ping!"
"Please, Lord Ping!" The other people raised their belongings high and shouted in unison.
Tang Ping felt excited, these are the people of Tang Dynasty, or in other words, they are the people of China.
As long as they have food to eat, clothing to wear, and a house to live in, if you treat them kindly, they will pay you three points in return.
In fact, except for the people in Chang'an and Luoyang, many places have just escaped poverty and can eat three meals a day and two taels of meat a month.
These things here are definitely worthless in Tang Ping's eyes, but for these people, it takes several months of frugality to save them.
But now, they did not hesitate to bring the best things at home and ask him to bring them to the border army, just to let the soldiers guarding the border have a taste of their hometown, eat more, and wear more clothes.
Tang Ping actually doesn't have to accept them. He only needs to spend a little money to receive these things easily from various chambers of commerce in Chang'an.
But he must accept it now, because this is the sincerity of these people. If he doesn't accept it, it will be too hurtful.
"Xiang Long!"
"My subordinate is here!" Xiang Long is also a soldier, and his waist has never been so straight as at this moment.
Although he was not a frontier soldier, he felt honored as a soldier of the Tang Dynasty.
"Take someone to collect everything and register it!"
"promise!"
Xiang Long stood at attention and punched the iron armor on his chest with his fist to show respect to the people.
And the 1,500 black-armored cavalry also hammered their chests with their fists, making two loud noises that shook the sky and the earth.
The Xuanjia Cavalry divided a hundred people and asked these people to line up. While receiving the materials from their labor, they wanted to record their names and where they came from.
As a result, the half-grown boy was the first one and shouted loudly: "Brother, just write about the people of the Tang Dynasty and you will win. We are all people of the Tang Dynasty!"
"Yes, yes, we are both from the Tang Dynasty!"
If you asked them their names again, they would remain silent. They would put down their things and step aside, waiting for the people behind them to come up.
Although these black armor cavalry warriors are young, they are all selected from the elites of each army who have experienced hundreds of battles. At this time, the corners of their eyes can't help but shine.
I can only accept the things solemnly, and then give a fist-cup salute in return to express my gratitude.
"The hearts of the people of the Tang Dynasty are like this, so why worry about being unhappy!" Wang Qingluan came out at some point and stood beside Tang Ping and said.
She was once King Zheng of East Vietnam and the heir to the throne, but she knew that even when her father was on the throne, the people of East Vietnam never had such a strong sense of identification with East Vietnam.
And Li Bai was holding a camera nearby and recorded everything.
