"So, what do you want?" Jun Qingcang asked.
"Your Majesty, I think..." Yuan Tong was about to speak.
"Bang!"
Jun Qingcang raised his hand, and with a burst of energy in his palm, he sent Yuantong flying down to the stone wall next to him.
"Pfft, Your Majesty!" Yuan Tong fell to the ground and refused to close his eyes.
And just when Jun Qingcang raised his hand, Jun Qingcang glanced at Jun Yin, and he immediately raised his hand to cover his sister's eyes.
The people nearby were stunned at first, but when they came to their senses, they all screamed and backed away.
However, they looked at Yuan Tongtong with contempt.
"Your Majesty!" Someone came forward, knelt down, and kowtowed: "You are right to kill this person."
"Huh?" Jun Qingcang looked at the ragged middle-aged man kneeling in front of him and said, "Especially in the past two years, although there is very little food and grass coming from Kyoto, there is always some, but after entering After the military camp, they sold them all, and the price was extremely high. Even if we sell iron, we can only buy a little bit of millet mixed with sand. Even if we eat one meal a day, we won't be full!"
"Yes, Your Majesty, these years, we have to collect taxes every three to five months. They said they would provide supplies to the soldiers. However, when my son joined the army, he came out skinny and hungry, with wounds all over his body. In the end, It disappeared within a few days after returning home, and from then on, I hated them and the army."
People came forward one after another to express their difficulties. They were in tears. Some people were already suffering from cold and hunger. Now, missing their relatives who had fallen ill and died of starvation, several of them fainted.
"Prepare to release food. No matter who it is, if you want to do well, just follow my rules. Once discovered, you will be killed without mercy!" After Jun Qingcang finished speaking, he turned around, took the little girl from Jun Heng's arms, and said: "Go Barracks."
Before they reached the door of the barracks, someone ran out on crutches.
"Your Majesty, you are finally here!" General Yuan Hui, who fought with the emperor in the past, can be regarded as a person with outstanding military achievements.
At this time, he had a cloth band tied around his head, his hair was messy, and he looked very haggard.
"Have any soldiers come back to report? Yuan Tong was killed by me." Jun Qingcang patted the child and lowered his head and asked.
Behind, in the distance, some people craned their necks to look over.
"Your Majesty did a good job." Yuan Hui nodded and said, "This guy is getting more and more outrageous. My words are useless here."
"Oh? Do you really think so?" Jun Qingcang asked.
"Your Majesty, I really think so." Yuan Hui looked up at the emperor with sincere eyes: "Your Majesty, I have always been loyal to Your Majesty. However, that guy always does something stupid, just because he is my prince's cousin. Brother, I have nothing to do with him. I can only scold him and punish him, but he doesn’t listen. Some of the bones in my body are made angry by him.”
When Yuan Hui said this, he coughed several times.
Listening to the coughing sound, Ling Yue sighed quietly.
Jun Qingcang frowned slightly, and he pulled Xiao Yue'er's cloak closer to cover her cheeks.
"Go in first!" Jun Qingcang ordered coldly.
"Your Majesty, please!" Yuan Hui quickly turned around and bowed: "Your Majesty, I have asked you to clean up the barracks where you lived before."
"Okay, prepare a room next to me, and Yue'er and the nanny will live there." Jun Qingcang said.
"...Yes!" Yuan Hui looked at the child in Jun Qingcang's arms. He was really shocked.
He and the emperor were in the same military camp in the previous dynasty. Later, he also contributed to helping the emperor win the beam. Jun Qingcang promised him a high official and a generous salary, but Yuan Hui claimed that he still liked the life here and was unwilling to go. Court.
Even though he had not seen the emperor again for many years, Yuan Hui knew better than anyone what kind of temper he had.
Jun Qingcang was an orphan since he was a child. He was so poor that he almost starved to death in a beggar's den.
When he was ten years old, he joined the army. In the army, he started as the youngest stable boy and entered the combat camp in three years.
Later, along the way, he became famous. In the end, he took over a precarious court. In the past ten years, he also managed Daliang well.
However, Yuan Hui knew that Jun Qingcang had always been indifferent to emotions. Even when he was a general, he married the virtuous concubine Liu Xian'er, with whom he gave birth to a son, and he paid little attention to his wife and children.
He only cares about conquest and power, he is violent and cold.
However, after not seeing him for several years, now he keeps holding the child and is so attentive, which is really shocking.
Food was being placed at the gate of the city, and Yuan Hui followed the two princes there. The common people experienced the shock of Yuan Tong being killed in the street, and hundreds of people from the border army came out to maintain order in the city. Almost no one dared to cause chaos.
Carloads of military pay entered the barracks, and I heard that His Majesty the Emperor was personally patrolling. Therefore, the morale of the border soldiers was different.
The people in the city were rejoicing, and the soldiers in the barracks were full of food. They were all energetic and their eyes lit up.
Jun Qingcang stayed at the border for half a month. He personally rectified military discipline and rules. Some of the generals who were lazy and slippery were beaten with military sticks and thrown out. Military discipline became clear and military morale gradually began to stabilize.
The people in the city received three pounds of millet every day. After half a month, their faces became radiant and they became much more active.
Jun Qingcang sat on the carriage with his daughter, lifted the curtain and looked at the people lazily basking in the sun by the wall outside. He felt quite comforted in his heart.
"Yin'er, how do you think we can let the people spend this winter safely?" Jun Qingcang asked.
"Father, my son and I calculated the cost of this military salary with the military counselor yesterday, and found that if these military salaries are used, they can only last until April or May of next year at most. However, at that time, food crops have not yet been It has grown, but the harvest has not started, so it may not be replenished in time." Jun Yin looked outside, shook his head and said: "If we allocate some more food to the people, they may only be able to survive until March."
"Yes, we have to find a way to let the army and the people live well." Jun Qingcang nodded, patted his daughter gently and said.
I don't know when Jun Qingcang started to want to ask his youngest daughter's opinion.
It's as if this little girl is an omnipotent baby who can know all unsolvable things.
[Hey, my handsome father, his brows are furrowed again. 】 Ling Yue is very worried about her father. She has actually been thinking about this issue these days: "No matter who you are, the more easily they can get it, the more they will lose their fighting spirit. The same goes for the common people. Keep giving it away for free will only make them lose their morale." They are even lazier, and in the end, they develop bad thoughts! 】
