Many soldiers lost their lives or were injured on New Year's Eve. The barbarians really deserved to die.
Moreover, the Hu people now have several tribes joining forces, which is indeed difficult to handle.
The conditions of the inns are poor. The inns in the border towns only have more than 20 tile-roofed houses, not even a two-story building.
Moreover, the tile-roofed house is old and looks very dilapidated from the outside.
After entering the house, although the kang was burning, there was air leakage from the windows and walls.
He even heard the movement of mice.
The bedding on the kang also had a faint musty smell.
If Tao Zhu found out about this condition, he would definitely feel distressed.
But he had lived in the last days and was not picky about these things. He asked Li Man to take his bedding off the carriage, and after Li Man spread the bedding, he also finished washing.
Lying on the warm kang, he closed his eyes and slept.
Let’s wait until tomorrow to discuss everything.
Today, Chang Wuchang only briefly mentioned the situation among the Hu people. Tomorrow he will go out of the city to conduct an on-the-spot investigation.
Hu people are hateful. He must do something for Da Sheng's soldiers during this trip.
However, Gao Zhiyuan is still in the border town. I wonder if Gao Zhiyuan knows that he has come to the border town.
Probably don't know.
Now every household can't go out, not to mention Gao Zhiyuan doesn't have any source of information.
The sixth prince went to Xishan Province after the Chinese New Year last year, but Gao Zhiyuan stayed at the border town. Gao Zhiyuan probably didn't know about it.
Gao Zhiyuan wanted to save the Sixth Prince so that he could make meritorious deeds, so he didn't even pay attention to the great locust plague last year. However, the fifteenth year of Shengping had passed, and now it was the sixteenth year of Shengping.
Gao Zhiyuan had been guarding the border town for more than a year and found nothing. He didn't know how he felt at this time.
Should he easily deal with Gao Zhiyuan during this trip...
No, Gao Zhiyuan stayed in the border town for so long and never returned to Shengjing. With Gao Zhiyuan's verbose and scolding temperament, he was always incompetent and angry. If Gao Zhiyuan remembered something, he would probably make a new booklet.
He should first search whether Gao Zhiyuan has written a new booklet...
But this difficulty is a bit high.
His water beads could only vaguely perceive the situation in one place, and his water beads were unable to do such a precise job as searching for pamphlets.
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Drowsily, Li Qiao fell asleep.
Because Tao Zhu was not around along the way, he often stayed alone in the carriage, so he crazily practiced his superpowers.
In the past four days, he had slept less than eight hours, and he was really sleepy at this time.
When Li Qiao woke up again, it was still dark.
The sound of uniform running came from the military camp not far away.
Many soldiers have suffered terribly during this period, so the only training left in the morning is running.
He listened quietly for a while and noticed that the officials in the room next to him were getting up. He also sat up and prepared to get up.
The breakfast at the inn was not rich, with fried scallion pancakes, white porridge, pickles, and not even an egg.
Obviously, the meat and eggs last night were specially made for them and their group.
As a third-grade official, he had such a simple meal. No wonder Qi Shuang and Chang Wuchang's eyes shone when they looked at the livestock yesterday.
Although Qi Shuang and Chang Wuchang are officials, especially Chang Wuchang, although they are third-rank officials like him, they live and eat in the military camp, and eat the same big pot of rice without much oil and water as ordinary soldiers.
The conditions in the border town are indeed difficult.
Just after breakfast, Chang Wuchang came.
The Hu people attacked the city the day before yesterday, and it was quite large, with about 10,000 people dispatched.
Yesterday, Wu Chang received news that a small group of Hu people eighty miles away tried to cross the Great Wall but were completely wiped out.
According to the custom of the Hu people, either attack the city today or attack the city tomorrow.
But a large-scale siege should not be so fast. Even if it is a two-day siege, it will definitely be a small-scale harassment.
This small-scale harassment is nothing to worry about.
However, every time the Hu people attacked the city, no matter how big or small they were, they were crazy, and soldiers from Dasheng would die every time.
Chang Wuchang came here today because he hoped that Li Qiao would read out the imperial edict today and then kill the livestock at noon so that the soldiers could have a good meal.
If they missed today, some soldiers would definitely not be able to taste these livestock.
There is no meat in the military camp all year round. Ever since the news came that the Holy Emperor was going to reward the entire army, everyone was very excited and looking forward to it.
But the day before yesterday and yesterday, some soldiers' expectations stopped forever.
They died fighting.
To prevent any soldiers from leaving with regret, the sooner they eat this meat, the better.
Chang Wuchang's words made Li Qiao feel depressed. He gave up his plan to go outside the city and accepted Chang Wuchang's proposal.
It is his responsibility to check the affairs of the border town first and then a little later. The most important thing for him to do is to let the many soldiers eat meat.
He and Chang Wuchang went to the military camp.
There are houses and tents in the military camp, which are divided into several areas according to different functions.
There are 120,000 people. With so many people, there is no such a large campus that can accommodate everyone at the same time, so Li Qiao does not need to summon all the soldiers when he reads the imperial edict.
Just summon the generals of all sizes in the military camp and some soldiers who have performed bravery and meritorious service to the school grounds.
Because the reward for this trip is not only a good meal for the soldiers, but also rewards based on merit.
There were so many wars a year ago that those who have made meritorious deeds should be rewarded in time, lest many soldiers become disappointed.
Chang Wuchang quickly called people over, and Li Qiao took out Sheng Hong's imperial edict.
There is no special content in the imperial edict. The main idea is that all the soldiers have worked hard to protect the great prosperity. Everyone should have a good meal during the Chinese New Year. The Holy Emperor is always thinking about every warrior.
The next step is to give rewards based on military merit.
This list of military merits was reported by Chang Wuchang. Most of them were rewarded with silver. A small number of low-level soldiers were promoted. As for those who originally had official positions, they were also simply transferred.
Li Qiao read while observing the faces of the people below. It wasn't that Sheng Hong didn't believe in Chang Wuchang, but it was too common to pretend to be a military leader, and he couldn't slap Chang Wuchang in the face openly. Sheng Hong asked him to check the matter. He is now It can only be confirmed from the side through subtle changes in expressions.
After the imperial edict was read out, he didn't notice anything strange on everyone's faces.
Everyone in the school field had smiles on their faces and was in a happy mood.
Those who receive a silver reward or are promoted feel happy.
For those who didn’t get it, they had meat to eat today and were in a good mood.
He put away the imperial edict, smiled and asked Chang Wuchang to find someone to start slaughtering the livestock.
Three thousand one hundred pigs, three thousand sheep, and twenty thousand chickens, which is enough meat for all the soldiers.
Of course, we have to take turns and eat in batches.
There are not that many cooks in the military camp.
After Chang Wuchang's order was given, the entire military camp became noisy.
All the soldiers were cheering, they could finally eat meat!
Those livestock were placed at the entrance of the military camp last night. After the soldiers got the news, as long as they were not on guard duty and were not on patrol, they couldn't help but run to the entrance of the military camp to watch.
Meat, so much meat!
Li Qiao couldn't help but smile as he listened to the various howls throughout the military camp: "Mr. Chang, let's go to the kitchen and have a look?"
"As long as Mr. Xiao Li doesn't mind being dirty and isn't afraid of blood, then let's go over there."
Chang Wuchang laughed and motioned to Li Qiao to go first.
"Of course it's not too dirty. I grew up in the countryside and I'm used to seeing livestock being slaughtered."
Li Qiao said with a smile.
"Master Xiao Li holds a high position but does not shy away from his background. This magnanimity is really admirable."
When Chang Wuchang heard this, he couldn't help but look at Li Qiao again.
As a military man, he actually doesn't like to deal with civil servants. He has many faults and is pretentious.
But the more he watched Mr. Xiao Li, the top scholar, the more he liked him. He didn't have any of the common faults of scholars, and he was full of advantages!
"What's the use of hiding something like my origin? Everyone in the world knows that I, Li Qiao, come from Sanliu Village. Mr. Chang, even if I am thick-skinned, I can't stand your compliments everywhere."
Li Qiao was really helpless.
"Tsk, I'm telling the truth, not making things up out of thin air."
Chang Wuchang said, pointing in the direction of the kitchen: "From the school grounds to the kitchen, you need to pass through the sick room. Let's go there to see the injured."
"You should definitely visit."
Li Qiao straightened his expression after hearing this.
There are more than twenty hospital rooms, each of which is large and very clean. Although there are many people living there, there is no strange smell inside.
Inside is a Datongpu, but fortunately there is a fire pit, so keeping the wounded warm is not a problem.
In each of these more than twenty rooms, there are at least three old doctors and more than a dozen very young doctors.
These little doctors all come from medical schools.
Almost all of the first batch of 200 apprentices from the medical museum were transferred here, and some outstanding students were also transferred from the branch library outside the city.
These apprentices work quickly, diligently, and have good attitudes. They are not afraid of these wounded people and will not shame them. They are highly praised by Chang Wuchang, who praised them again and again last night.
The reason why these apprentices performed so well was because Tao Zhu gave them psychological training and also gave each of them a lot of subsidies.
Each of them is young. If they are asked to come to the border town and enter the military camp, they will definitely be afraid in their hearts.
Tao Zhu used both psychological comfort and financial comfort to gain praise from Chang Wuchang and many of the wounded.
