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Commander Huang's soldiers sent County Magistrate Chen outside the camp.
The master who was waiting here hurriedly came over and asked eagerly: "Dong Weng, how is the matter? Has the commander of Xuanwu Guard agreed?"
"Not yet." County Magistrate Chen said, "However, he doesn't have much choice anymore. I believe he will figure it out. Let's go back and wait for news."
The bearer opened the sedan curtain, and County Magistrate Chen bent down and sat in.
Two bearers lifted the sedan one after another and returned to the county government office.
The soldiers who sent Magistrate Chen away returned to the room where Commander Huang and Cheng Tongzhi were.
"Commander, you can't listen to County Magistrate Chen's trick and go and confiscate the Chen family. If you really do this, we will completely offend Magistrate Lin and the others." Cheng Tongzhi said to Commander Huang.
Commander Huang hesitated and said: "Why don't I know what you are talking about? But you also know that the food in the army will not last long. If you want to maintain the morale of the army, you must either rob the city of food as the other party said." Shang, either go and rob the food from the mud-legged family, but the mud-legged family only has so much food, it’s just a drop in the bucket.”
"Then we can't attack the grain merchants. The big families behind these grain merchants are all friendly with the prefect's yamen. If we attack the grain merchants, we will completely offend the civil servants in the city." Cheng Tongzhi said.
After hearing this, Commander Huang suddenly asked: "What do you think we should defect to Yang He?"
"The current Governor Yang is no longer as powerful as he was when he first came to Henan. Now General Chen may not obey Governor Yang in everything. It will be difficult for us to get food through Governor Yang, unless General Chen agrees and is willing to Give us some of the grain." Cheng Tongzhi analyzed it.
Commander Huang said: "What I mean is that we can learn from Chen Yongfu. As long as Yang He is willing to come forward, we can also follow him in raiding a grain merchant."
"Don't think about it, it's impossible." Cheng Tongzhi said, "County Magistrate Chen has been very close to Governor Yang recently. If Governor Yang really intends to raid a grain merchant, Chen Yongfu will be enough, and Magistrate Chen The fact that he came to us shows that Governor Yang is unwilling to take action against the grain merchants, or there is some conspiracy behind it."
"Then what do you think we should do?"
This won't work, and that won't work either. Commander Huang started to get a little impatient.
Cheng Tongzhi pondered for a moment and said: "I think we should go to Lin Futai to ask for food. It's not that there is still a batch of food in the official warehouse. Even if it is sold to the Chen family, as long as we can get some food, it should be enough for the army." to support it for a while.”
"No chance." Commander Huang said with a disapproving look, "I went to the magistrate's office several times, but in the end I came back empty-handed. It's obvious that Lin Kaiyang wanted to exchange all the official grain for money and put it in his own pocket. He didn't have any grain at all. We plan to give it to our Xuanwu Guard."
Cheng Tongzhi said: "Let's try again. If it doesn't work, go to Governor Yang's place. In short, we must not do what County Magistrate Chen did. Otherwise, even if the siege of Kaifeng City is solved, the imperial court will not let us go." .”
"Okay, I'll go to the prefect's Yamen again to see if I can get some food back." Commander Huang agreed with Cheng Tongzhi's statement, but Xuanwuwei's food shortage problem was still not solved, so he decided to go to the prefect's Yamen again.
Cheng Tongzhi said: "We can tell County Magistrate Chen's thoughts to Lin Futai and the others. Maybe Lin Futai can help us solve some of the food problems for the sake of this matter."
Magistrate Chen's side had to finish before dark. Commander Huang wasted no time and rushed to the magistrate's office with a few soldiers.
The prefect's Yamen is already very familiar to him, the commander of the Xuanwu Guards.
Most of the time when he came to the magistrate's office, it was for food and fodder for the army.
It was okay when the rebels first besieged the city. Every time, he was able to successfully get food from the prefect's Yamen. Even if the food was not given later, he was given enough money to buy food.
This situation continued until the rebels outside the city retreated. When there were only a few thousand rebels left outside the city, everything changed. Xuanwuwei wanted to get food from the prefect's yamen again, and it became difficult. Not only did the food and grass have to be It took several times to get the money, and the money I got was even less than before.
Not only that, in the face of food prices rising three times a day, the money was not even enough to buy food, and the army's food shortage became even more difficult.
"Go and report, and tell me that the general wants to see Lin Futai." Commander Huang knew that he was here to ask for help. Unlike the last time when he stood up and barged in, he asked someone to go in and report.
It didn't take long before the people who went to report came back from inside.
"Commander, please follow me." The officer led the way for Commander Huang.
Finally came to Houya.
In addition to Lin Kaiyang, Tong Yan Yu Anran was also in the Houyamen.
"General Huang is here, find a place to sit." Yu Anran warmly greeted Commander Huang to take a seat, as if everyone was one of his own.
Commander Huang walked to the empty seat beside him and sat down.
A servant brought hot tea.
"General, is this time about food and grass?" Yu Anran asked proactively.
Commander Huang bowed and said: "To be honest, Xuanwu Guard is really short of food. I heard that there is still some food in the government's granary, so I will see if I can allocate some to Xuanwu Guard."
"Nonsense, the granary is already empty enough for rats to run away. How can there be official rations? As long as there is still official rations, I will not spend money to give you Xuanwu Wei." Lin Kaiyang said with an unhappy look.
Yu Anran, who was next to him, also said: "Although I don't know who convinced General Huang to believe that there is official food here in the government office, it shows that this person has a terrible intention. General Huang must not be fooled."
The remaining official grain already had a buyer, and they were about to get the money. How could they distribute the grain to Xuanwuwei's soldiers and horses at this time.
The money is theirs, but if they give the grain to Xuanwuwei, they will get no benefit at all. How can they do such a thing that is not good for themselves?
"It's okay if you don't have food and money. As long as you have money, you can go to the grain merchants to buy food. But if the army can't get food anymore, there will be a risk of mutiny." Commander Huang said half-compromisingly, half-threatening.
"He dares!" Lin Kaiyang slammed the table and said with a stern face, "Whoever dares to mutiny, I will immediately summon an army to deal with him."
As he spoke, his eyes were fixed on Commander Huang's face.
At this time, Yu Anran suddenly spoke up and advised: "Calm down the futai. General Huang just said that there might be a mutiny, but we should believe that General Huang can control the situation in the army and prevent the mutiny from happening."
"I don't have much ability." Commander Huang said with an unhappy expression.
At this time, the two people in front of him were still unwilling to give part of their official rations to Xuanwuwei, and he was already very dissatisfied.
