Li Xiaofei and Murong Ling took Murong Qing, more than a thousand ghost sheep riders, and 20,000 kilograms of coarse salt and grains to the mountain road to the east.

Their method of loading salt is very clever. They put the salt into bamboo tubes and seal them at both ends. Each person carries a few on their backs, even without a car. Some also hide the salt under their helmets. This team does not look like an army.

, but a group of desperadoes smuggling salt.

After Liu Jian and Chen Kuan returned to Xiangyang, they sent letters to officials of all sizes, including those from the County Secretary's Office whose names they had never heard of. This was not because Liu Jianguang was casting a net or Corporal Li Xian

, when the war has reached this point, there is really no other way. We can only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor, no matter whether he is a prison chief or a police officer, anyone with weapons in his hands will be killed.

It had little effect. Officials from all over the country were waiting and watching. To put it bluntly, they were waiting for Liu Jian's defeat so that they could defect to the new dynasty. After sending hundreds of sincere letters, only 13 teams loyal to the court came, totaling 3,000 people.

.Eight of the leaders were registered police officers in the yamen, and the remaining five leaders were county magistrates from several poor counties.

Liu Jian felt a little cold, but he still treated the thirteen teams politely and allocated them food and fodder barracks.

Chen Kuan also tried the combat prowess of these people, and sighed for a while. They did not understand formation drills at all, let alone formation tactics. A tall and thin policeman in his thirties could see that Chen Kuan was a little worried about them.

He took off the hat on his head and walked over: "Sir, we people have never been in a military camp. A frontal charge is definitely not as good as your soldiers and horses, but we have our own abilities in traveling around the world!"

Chen Kuan looked at this man and quickly comforted him: "Brothers, you are worrying too much. As long as you can come to serve the country, we will treat them equally. In time, you will all be elite teachers."

At this time, Liu Jian also brought several veterans of the Chen Family Army over to prepare to train these people. When he saw the two talking, he also came up to greet them: "Brothers, thank you for your hard work. I appreciate your enthusiasm for serving the country, but I just came here and noticed that you are not

The young people are armed with short swords and daggers. If they meet the enemy on the battlefield, they will suffer a loss."

The policeman bowed his hand and saluted Liu Jian: "Your Majesty, I am from Shizhou and my family name is Yi Beijiu. I am given a glass of wine by the Jianghu people. Today I have the courage to make a request to the prince for the Jianghu people!"

This Yi Beijiu had a red face, a pair of sword-shaped eyebrows stretched out, and a foot-long beard. Liu Jian took a quick look and stretched out his hand to signal: "Now that the country is facing a national crisis, if you have any requests, it doesn't matter!"

"Please, Your Majesty, order the abolition of the ban on martial arts and pardon the knights and knights who have been wanted by the court for twenty years!"

Liu Jian was a little surprised: "When did the imperial court issue a ban on martial arts? Aren't the people in the world the same as those from Zhongyi Hall?"

Yi Beijiu was a little confused. It seemed that the prince did not understand the story of Jianghu at all, so he immediately explained: "The prince does not know something. Twenty years ago, the knights of the Jianghu gathered together to drink and actually made a bet to go to the palace to steal the emperor's dragon robe. Xianzong

The emperor was furious and ordered a ban on martial arts among the people. At the same time, all the sects that gathered at the time were wanted. This Zhongyi Hall has always been run by people from aristocratic families, and they cannot be considered real people in the world!"

Liu Jian listened with rapt attention: "Did they steal the dragon robe? I said that they have been fighting and causing trouble in Jinling for so many years without meeting an opponent. It turns out that all the masters are hiding."

Yi Beijiu smiled awkwardly: "What kind of master? He's just a lot better at fighting and killing than ordinary people. The people who participated in stealing the dragon robe that time were all shot into hedgehogs by the imperial guards. No matter how high their martial arts skills are, they can't defeat the strong force of thousands of people."

Shoot with a stiff crossbow for half an hour!"

Chen Kuan sighed: "Actually, this matter is not Jiang's fault.

The people in the lake are reckless, and those masters are not fools or madmen. How could they break into the palace and steal a dragon robe for no reason. At that time, Xianzong was in the wrong position. Legend has it that he succeeded to the throne by killing his brother and uncle with the help of Jianghu forces. So these Jianghu people

Everyone was eradicated overnight, and those who were lucky enough to survive were wanted for many years!"

Liu Jian nodded: "I understand, the rabbit is dead and the dog is cooked, and the bird is hidden. The inside of this imperial city is far more dangerous than the rivers and lakes! Let's not talk about this. We should have done the request of Master Yi a long time ago. I, Liu Jian, now

We wrote a memorandum to order the four parties to abolish the ban on martial arts, and all the sins committed by all the people in the Jianghu were pardoned! By the way, we not only abolished the ban on martial arts, but also required all states, counties, and villages to practice martial arts, otherwise we will not be able to resist the enemy in the future.

military!"

The dozens of people behind Yi Beijiu all opened their bamboo hats and knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty is wise! I will thank you and say goodbye. If your Majesty is in danger, we will do our best to help you!"

After saying that, the dozens of people were about to leave, Liu Jian was a little unable to react: "Fellow knights, why don't you serve in the army and become a general and lieutenant to fight alongside me?"

Everyone put on their hats and said: "To help the prince to suppress the rebellion is for the sake of our family, country and the world. If we don't serve as officials, we will have a blood feud with the imperial court! Please forgive me, your prince!"

Liu Jian bowed down and bowed to everyone: "The imperial court owes you too much. I, Liu Jian, will definitely vindicate your relatives in the future!"

Everyone bowed in return, turned around and headed east.

The knights left, but the problem was still not solved. Liu Jian was still far from recruiting a hundred thousand troops, and even the resourceful and knowledgeable Chen Kuan was at his wits' end.

Liu Jian returned to her house and tried her best to hide her sorrow, but the wrinkles between her eyebrows could not be suppressed.

Xiao Qian came over with the young emperor and the prince: "My lord, how many troops have you recruited? If it doesn't work, let's go to Shu."

Hongrui, who was following behind, hugged Li Youran: "We must not retreat to Shu. Think about Zhuge Wuhou's miraculous plan hundreds of years ago. He had famous generals like Zhao Yun and Jiang Wei under his command, but he only ended up in the tragic situation of Wuzhangyuan in the autumn wind. We still have Jingzhou now.

The land of Yangzhou, Jiaozhou, Yizhou and the four states can be completely defended. If Jingzhou cannot be defended, even if it retreats to Shu, it will not be defended!"

Xiao Qian looked back at Hong Rui: "I don't think you have such knowledge. It would be better if you were a man!"

Liu Jian wiped his sword and said: "We can't retreat, but we have only recruited less than 5,000 troops in more than ten days, and they are all new soldiers. What can we do?"

At this time, the prince was shouting: "I want to eat milk, I want to eat milk"

The little emperor and Li Youran also shouted: "Eat milk, eat milk, I want to eat milk"

Xiao Qian hurriedly called the three wet nurses in: "Quickly take the emperor and the prince to the inner hall to nurse."

The three children immediately broke away from Xiao Qian and Hong Rui's hands and threw themselves into the nanny's arms. They rubbed their little faces on the nanny's chest and shouted: "Eat, eat, eat."

Liu Jian looked at the three children and patted their thighs: "Yes, yes!"

Xiao Qian and Hong Rui were both startled. Xiao Qian asked, "What's wrong? Which girl have you fallen in love with outside?"

Liu Jian laughed loudly: "If you have milk, you are a mother. If you don't have food, you can't gather troops. How could I have thought of such a simple truth? I'm really stupid."

Xiao Qian and Hong Rui both laughed. Xiao Qian walked over and sat on Liu Jian: "It seems that the emperor's crown prince and Youran are lucky stars from the sky. They are here to give you, this confused prince, some guidance!"

Liu Jian coughed: "Well, our army has this food. We must make good use of it."

You have to plan a lot for food.”

Hongrui turned around knowingly and quietly went out to see the child, leaving only Liu Jian and Xiao Qian to continue talking.

Three days later, a notice was posted outside Xiangyang City. The notice read: "All the people have heard that there are many brothers in the family, and those who are short of food. One who joins the army will give rations to two people, and two people who join the army will give rations to five people."

Those who come with three will receive rations for seven people! Those with incomplete limbs will not be given rations, those who are blind and deaf will not be given rations, and those with illnesses will not be given rations..."

In order to provide rations for an army of 100,000 people, Liu Jian asked Chen Kuan to find some dry food for the caravan and select a few items to try.

Liu Jian spit out everything he ate from his mouth one after another: "These things are too unpalatable!"

Chen Kuan smiled: "Dry food is what keeps people alive. If you add salt and sauce, the cost will naturally be high."

Liu Jian thought for a while: "I just hate that we don't have enough money, otherwise we must make meat available to everyone!"

Chen Kuan ate several things one after another, and they seemed to be delicacies in the world in his mouth: "The dumplings made of rice soup with elm leaves, grass roots and roots still taste the same, not bad!"

"Your Majesty, this is Xiangyang's unique kohlrabi. It has been soaked in salt. It tastes even more delicious when paired with these dumplings!"

"This is a cake made from steamed corn, ground into powder, and mixed with jujube and amaranth. It's a bit sour and sweet."

Liu Jian saw that Chen Kuan was eating with gusto, so he went over to try again, picked up a cake and put it down: "Forget it, these things are hard-earned, I think we will promote a few of the ones Mr. Chen selected."

Chen Kuan swallowed a dumpling and said, "Well, actually, these are all good things. My lord, do you know what ordinary people eat when they are out of business?"

Liu Jian looked at Chen Kuan in disbelief: "These are all good things, so what do they eat, grass roots? Tree bark?"

Chen Kuan shook his head: "Most of the bark of grass roots and trees are poisonous. They are eaten directly when they are starving to death. For this bark of grass roots and bark, you need to choose non-toxic ones, boil them repeatedly, grind them into powder, and then boil them and eat them. It's common.

The people rely on the mountains and the water to eat, dig voles, eat river mussels, eat bugs, eat mulberries, and eat water chestnuts. These are still foods that cannot be eaten when there are droughts and floods. Once there is a famine, they can only eat food.

!”

Liu Jian's face was solemn. As a prince, even though he was not popular in the house since he was a child, he still had fine clothes and fine food. He thought that the ordinary people's food was the same as the merchants and residents in Jinling City. Little did he know that there really was a Yizi in this world.

Regarding eating, at first I thought it was written in a book to warn people.

Chen Kuan patted Liu Jian on the shoulder: "Your Majesty, the most important thing in the world is eating. There have been so many saints and heroes in the past and present, but no one can make the world full of food. If there are real gods in this world,

He is the one who can make the whole world not go hungry! No more, Your Majesty, just wait and see, the dry food we estimate for the 100,000 troops is far from enough!"

"I have studied since I was a child and learned countless great principles, but they are no better than these few buckets of rice. I can make everything, but my stomach cannot be empty. In addition to collecting grain and grass, we also have to persuade farmers to build a dianongsi first. Here,

Open up wasteland for farming outside Xiangyang City!"

"Your Majesty, this is a very good move, but in the future we will have to cut off the land again and redistribute the people, fields, mountains and forests in the world. Many wealthy families have been killed by Zhu Yaoshi. They cannot continue to occupy the fields, mountains and forests in the world even after their death!"

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Chapter completed!