Zuo Shaoyang was surprised and thought, could this war that lasted for more than two months ended just because of the secret letter he found? He hurriedly bowed and said, "I dare not act..."

The general said, "Get a seat! Sit down and talk!" The guards outside the door hurriedly brought two round stools and placed them beside the door. Read the novel on your mobile phone, and update them simultaneously\!{Female 001-

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The general saw Zuo Shaoyang and the others confused," smiled and said, "Little Doctor, the letter you sent in the jacket last time was written to me by General Feng Li. It was a letter requesting surrender. It was written nearly two months ago, which was two days before the two armies fought outside the West City. General Feng and General Xue wanted to surrender at that time, but were worried about mutiny, so they sent their confidants to send this letter to me in plain clothes to discuss the surrender. Unexpectedly, the messenger did not return. On the third day, our army happened to organize a large-scale counterattack of the entire army, causing the two generals to mistakenly think that our army had no intention of recruiting, which led to this misunderstanding. Since then, no secret envoys were sent to contact me again, but only besieged my city. I expected that our army would make peace. The war lasted for more than two months. Now, from your eloquence, the messenger was taken away by the old demon monk and killed at the top of Guigu Peak..."

Zuo Shaoyang then realized that the short jacket he was wearing was plainclothes worn by the secret envoy sent by the rebel leader Feng Li. The secret envoy placed the secret letter in the mezzanine of the short jacket. "As a result, somehow, met the demon monk Le Chan, and killed him. Le Chan did not find the secret letter in the mezzanine, so he threw the short jacket in the box, and was just worn by Zuo Shaoyang.

He now knows why the rebels have been surrounding Hezhou and not attacking the city, why can they eliminate the government troops in large quantities but do not attack actively, why can they only kill and kill, why don’t the people in the city flee but allow the people to go out of the city to dig wild vegetables below the mountain, but the original purpose was to not want to annihilate the government troops in large quantities and anger the court. At the same time, they wanted to use the government troops to have no food to force the government troops to agree to recruitment and obtain greater benefits in the recruitment. Originally, this matter could be resolved soon, but the secret envoy was plundered, but the government troops accidentally organized a large counterattack, and prepared to annihilate the rebels. This made the rebels misunderstand that the court did not want to recruit the government troops, and used the siege of the city to trap the government troops.

But Feng Li and the others did not give up, but did not send secret envoys to discuss the matter of recruitment. They just kept surrounding the official army, but they did not attack forcefully, and the official army was unable to counterattack. The two sides had been stalemate for only two months.

After the general received the letter from Zuo Shaoyang, he heard about it again and then learned the truth. He sent secret envoys to contact Feng Li overnight. The two sides held recruitment talks. After some bargaining, he finally reached an agreement on the right. "The rebels accepted the recruitment and surrendered, and the court pardoned all the rebel officers and soldiers of the rebels for rebellion. The generals and officers of the entire army were not removed and their original positions were retained. The rebels were reorganized, and some concubines were led by the official army and transferred to the northern border to participate in the suppression of the Turkic army. The remaining rebels were dispersed to the garrisons of each frontier. Feng Li, Xue Wanche and other first-level senior generals returned to the capital to meet the saints, and the emperor re-called them.

After hearing the general's explanation, Zuo Shaoyang realized the whole story.

The general said: "After this war, the people of Hezhou were tortured." According to statistics from the Hezhou Government, a total of tens of thousands of hungry people were buried, and more than 1,000 government troops starved to death in our army. It was really a disaster!" Speaking of this, Feng Li and Xue Wanche were a little sad and bowed their heads without saying a word. Zuo Shaoyang couldn't help but sigh that fate was awkward. Unexpectedly, the delay of such a secret letter caused tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Hezhou to starve to death.

The general said: "In order to calm the war, the young doctor has made his first contribution and is another model of supporting the army. He sacrifices his lives when he treats the wounded. He gives alms to the victims and saves countless lives. I appreciate it very much. I will reward you this time!" The general waved his hand. The guard leader Fu, who was behind him, was taking out a red gift list from his arms. He walked to Zuo Shaoyang, handed it to him with both hands, and said with a smile: "This is what the general gave to you." After I was ready, I will send it to you. I didn't expect you to come here. Just take it..."

Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly took it, and after unfolding it, he watched it with his father Zuo Gui. The gift list read: "Fifty buckets of rice seeds, fifty buckets of rice and flour, fifty chickens, ducks and fish (tails), five pigs, and two oxen." The two of them were happy and widened their eyes. "These things may not be worth much in other places where food and clothing are free, but in the famine Hezhou, it is a huge fortune!

The general laughed happily and said, "This reward is a little light. Since it is necessary to provide disaster relief to the people, I can't give you more things.

"Do you have any other requirements?" Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly said with awkward smile: "No, the general has given so much reward, and the villain doesn't know how to thank him. What else is there to be dissatisfied?" "Well, if there is any difficulty, you can also tell me." This reminded Zuo Shaoyang. He glanced at the general and saw that he was smiling, and he suddenly became bolder and bowed and said: "Our Hezhou has many fields, few people, and there were not many people farming. This famine "Start tens of thousands of people to death, and no one has rented to farm. Seeing that the spring plowing season was about to pass, and the farming season was delayed, the harvest was not completed this year. The land tax was high now. If there was no harvest, I don't know how to pay ** me in the future..."

The general nodded: "Well..."..., this is indeed a very practical problem." Zuo Shaoyang received encouragement and his confidence increased greatly. He said hurriedly: "The government army will release porridge to help the people, which will probably not last for several months. The people of Hezhou have no food left at home." Once the porridge is stopped to provide disaster relief, the people can only be displaced and leave their hometowns to escape. Not only will the people suffer more, but a large number of refugees flow to other prefectures and counties will also increase the burden on the local people..."

"Well, what are you good ways?" Zuo Shaoyang bowed and said, "It would be great if the general can assign soldiers to help the people of Hezhou to plow the spring farming. It won't take long, two days will be enough. Just help turn the ground, break the soil, build the ridges of the field for future irrigation, and then sow the rice seeds. This is the heaviest farm work.

As long as crops grow in the field and appropriate disaster relief and food are released, people can keep them. They will return to the fields to continue farming." "Very good!" The general smiled and nodded, turned to look at Feng Li and Xue Wanche who had been silent next to him, "What do the two generals think..."

Feng Li bowed and said, "Report to the general, this famine was mainly caused by the siege of our soldiers in the city. "The people suffered from famine, and our army should help the people through difficulties. Zuo Gongzi's advice is very good. If the general agrees, the young general immediately organizes the entire army to cultivate all the fertile fields that have not yet been turned over and cultivated in Hezhou."

Xue Wanche pondered: "Send soldiers to help plough and sow seeds for two days. There is no problem, but..." The general frowned: "What is the difficulty for General Xue?" "What is the last thing that General is worried about, Hezhou is originally a place with few people, and most of the fields are abandoned. In the past two months of famine, several strong laborers have died, and the labor force is even less than enough. I am afraid that there will be more abandoned land. We will send soldiers to help the local spring plowing and sowing seeds. "This is easy to deal with. Although there are no suitable tools, tens of thousands of people in our army will join forces and only plough and sow seeds, which is not difficult. It should be done. However, what should we do if we weed, irrigate, and harvest later? There is no manpower to take care of the seeds. If there is no one to take care of them later, even rice seeds may not be able to be harvested..."

"Well..." The general nodded: "It makes sense..." He raised his face and looked at Zuo Shaoyang again, with a hint of sarcasm at the corner of his mouth, as if he was mocking Zuo Shaoyang for not caring about his head and tail.

Zuo Shaoyang had already thought about this festival and hurriedly bowed: "General, I wonder if there is still a rebellion in my Tang Dynasty now?" The general snorted and said: "General Feng and General Xue have abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, and there are no more thieves in the country. Right? Two generals." The reason why the general asked this was because his army was surrounded here for two months, and there was no news from the outside world, so he didn't know if there were any rebellions elsewhere.

Feng Li and Xue Wanche looked at each other and bowed together, "There is no other rebellion..."

During the past two months when they besieged the general's army, they "always pay attention to the national situation". Some military intelligence probes from all over the country also reported news that several rebels that had previously rebelled had either received recruitment or were annihilated. At present, only their rebels are still active in the country. Now they are also accepting recruitment, and the rebellions across the country have all been quelled.

This news made the general happy and couldn't help but feel happy.

Zuo Shaoyang asked again: "I don't know how the war with the Turks is going?" The general's face darkened: "This seems not what you should ask about, right?" Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly bowed and said: "I'm not going to spy on military information, I just thought, if the country has been peaceful, if we have achieved a major victory in the battle against the Turks and defeated the Turks army, then do I still need so many troops in the Tang Dynasty? Do you want these troops to be disarmed and returned to the fields?" Zuo Shaoyang's inference comes from some of his understanding of current military history, such as

After the armistice in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea and the domestic bandit suppression, our army reduced its total strength by half, because during peacetime, it did not need to maintain a huge army, otherwise the country would be overwhelmed. However, he did not understand the military system of the Tang Dynasty. In the early Tang Dynasty, the government system remained by the Sui Dynasty. The soldiers were also farmers, farming in daily life, training in farming, and taking weapons and food to fight in wartime. This military system does not have the problem of disarmament, but, in the case of the government system, the soldiers did not have to be disarmed after the war ended.
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