[Quick Crossing + Red Mansions] I have a strong desire to survive

The people knew in their hearts that the people at the border would benefit the most from the completion of the trench.The soldiers were digging ditches in the cold weather, didn't they want the Beirong people to cross the sideline again and go south to harm their common people?Now people are not digging fast, because there are fewer people and tools are not enough. If there are more people and better tools, can they dig faster?

With such a simple idea, some common people tentatively took their own tools and followed the soldiers to dig.They are naturally better than the soldiers at work, and the speed of digging ditches has gradually increased.

Jia Daihua did not lose these common people, and ordered that when cooking, he should bring out the portion of these common people.This is amazing, whoever heard the news didn't bring tools to dig a few times?The weather is colder, and the work is a little more difficult, but I don’t care about my food, and I dare not let go of my belly to eat at home.Therefore, those who can crawl must come to help dig trenches.

Li Sen looked at the ants-like crowd, and reported to Jia Daihua with a wry smile: "General, there are too many people digging ditches in the past few days, and the food and grass can only last for three days."

"I remember that these grains were saved by us on weekdays. Three days ago, the grain and grass from Jiangnan were supposed to arrive at Daying, but they didn't arrive. Why didn't you report it in time?" Jia Daihua was very angry, and saved grain and grass for 5 people for six days It's not easy. If it wasn't for the Chinese New Year, the people sent some, and the three states also sent some. Wouldn't it be that the entire Northwest Army would be hungry three days ago?

5 people starve for three days, what if they catch up with Beirong people knocking at the side? !

Li Sen also looked ashamed: "The general thought that the road in winter would be difficult, so if the food is one day late, there will be no..."

The food was delivered once every ten days, and it was three days late. It's not that the road is difficult to travel, can you explain it? !Jia Daihua was very angry, not only because of the people who cared for him, but also because of himself.

Everything went well during this period, which made him careless, thinking that the emperor just made him feel controlled by others, forgetting that the emperor would not let him go on smoothly.Especially when he sent one of the emperor's confidants to the capital to fight the emperor, it was not surprising that the food and grass arrived late.

"Tell the people that you don't need to come to help tomorrow." This is Jia Daihua's first way to save food. Now there are nearly a thousand people who come to help dig ditches every day, and everyone is full, which is not small. consume.

Li Sen was a little embarrassed: "In this way, the news of the lack of food in the army will spread all at once, I'm afraid the morale of the army will not be stable."

I've seen stupid ones, but I've never seen such stupid ones.Jia Daihua sighed silently: "You just need to tell the people that we have received news that the Beirong people have made changes, and they may come to attack soon. The soldiers won't be digging trenches for the time being, why should they come?"

Li Sen looked at his general in admiration. He didn't even think of such a simple solution, and it was really wrong for him to ask the general to cover it up for him.Jia Daihua had already rushed to the barracks on horseback, and told Zhang Jia that everything was trivial and that the matter could be dealt with urgently. After a while, he left the barracks quickly with a hundred of his own soldiers.

The generals around asked Li Sen puzzled: "General Li, what did you tell the general that the general left the camp in such a hurry?"

Li Sen knew that Jia Daihua was going to find someone who provided food and grass for the Northwest camp to settle accounts, but he didn't dare to say it out loud, so he said, "It's about the general, what are you asking about?"

Others answered Jia Daihua in the same way.The grain and grass for the northwest camp were first transported from the inland to Yulin, and then transported from Yulin to Pingzhou, which is the closest to the northwest camp, where the magistrate supervised and sent them to the northwest camp.

Hearing the menacing Jia Daihua's questioning, Qiao Nan, the magistrate of Pingzhou, was full of airs: "Uncle Ning Yuan is worried about the grain, and the officials understand very well. It's just that the grain and grass in Yulin haven't arrived yet, and the officials have nowhere to give them." The general is raising food and grass."

When Jia Daihua asked him why the grain and grass in Yulin hadn't arrived, Qiao Nan said, "How will the lower officials know what's going on ahead. Uncle Ning Yuan should wait patiently for two days." He wanted to dismiss Jia Daihua.

This made Jia Daihua, who was already on fire, unable to suppress the fire in his heart: "The sage trusts Pingzhou, so he handed over the last stop of the Northwest Army's grain and grass supply to the prefect Qiao. I don't want the magistrate to be incapable of manpower, so I I have no choice but to go to the sage, and ask the sage to send competent personnel to supervise the food and grass of the Northwest Army."

Qiao Nan wasn't afraid of Jia Daihua's threats at all: "Ningyuan Bo Ming learned that it's because the lower officials are not dedicated. It's because the food and grass in Yulin haven't been delivered, and the lower officials can't do anything."

"Okay, you're fine." Jia Daihua's gloomy face suddenly relaxed, and he even put on a smile: "So I'll welcome the grain and grass "sent from Yulin"."

If you want to fool people, you have to pick someone easy to fool, right?Among the hundreds of soldiers who came out of the camp with Jia Daihua, ten people trained in Zhuangzi were also among them.They didn't enter Pingzhou City with Jia Daihua, but went directly along the road from Pingzhou to Yulin.

Just now Jia Daihua clearly sensed that one of the ten people came to the magistrate's yamen, with a bit of anger on his face, they must have found something embarrassing.Therefore, Jia Daihua no longer entangled with Qiao Nando, and did not wait for him to bring tea to see off the guests, he just stood up and left.

When he came here he was furious and left in a hurry, Qiao Nan scolded rough in his heart, he stepped up two steps, and wanted to send Jia Daihua out, so as not to let him find fault with the etiquette.Who knew that Jia Daihua had long legs and windy feet, how could a pampered person like Qiao Nan be able to catch up with him?When he arrived at the gate of the yamen with his master, Jia Daihua and others had already mounted their horses, turned their horses and headed out of the city.

"Dong Weng, Uncle Ning Yuan checked along the road, I'm afraid that the grain and grass had arrived in Pingzhou four days ago, so he couldn't cover it up." The master said to Qiao Nan worriedly.

Qiao Nanhun didn't care: "From Pingzhou to Yulin, it will take four days to go back and forth quickly. When he comes back from Yulin, I have already packed the grain here and shipped it to the northwest for camp. If this goes on slowly, it will take two or three months. Can……"

After hearing this, the master smiled flatteringly at Qiao Nan: "Master is wise, so when the spring famine comes, our mansion will have food to help the common people."

"Well, even though I am the parent of the people in this prefecture, I can't just watch them starve to death. I have to think of ways for them so that they can buy food." Qiao Nan said in a compassionate manner, completely ignoring the government office. At the corner, there was a faint shadow, listening to all the words between him and the master.

Therefore, he said to the master complacently: "General Feng is the natal family of the Yuan Empress, so he is closer to the saint. Maybe I still helped General Feng, and it was too late for him to thank me. Jia Daihua wanted to arrest me in Yulin The short thing is to waste your time."

Five miles outside the city, Jia Daihua and others fell off their horses and waited until the spy who was observing Qiao Nan's movements. After hearing his retelling, Jia Daihua smiled again: "What a bold dog officer."

Jiao Da angrily shouted: "Master, wait for Jiao Da to bring people into the city, find out where the dog official hides food, and take people directly to the camp."

"No need." Jia Daihua knew in his heart that the person behind Qiao Nan must be hurt once, otherwise would he bring people to ask for food every time?What's more, I want to use this incident to wake up the emperor. When it's time for the Beirong to commit crimes, how can we transport the food and grass in if we want?It is still the same as before, and the Northwest camp can only store food by itself.

Jiao was in a hurry: "Then should we go back to camp now or really go to Yulin?"

Jia Daihua beckoned to him, Jiao Da approached him and refused to agree, but was forced by Jia Daihua's majestic eyes, led a group of soldiers, mounted his horse and slowly headed towards Yulin.

Jia Daihua also got on his horse, but turned his horse's head around and circled Pingzhou City.Soon, with his released soul power, he discovered that there was a place in the west of the city where a large amount of grain was stored, and the big word "West" was written on the bag containing the grain.

No need to ask, this is the food that Qiao Nan suppressed and refused to deliver to the Northwest Operation.Looking for a tree to change his attire, Jia Daihua mixed in with the crowd entering the city, easily entered Pingzhou City, and soon came to the place where Qiao Nan stored grain.

This Qiao Nan is also very courageous, actually put the food in a private house, only two people who looked like gangsters were watching outside, and there were about ten people inside, but Jia Daihua didn't pay attention to it. up.

After sealing the five senses of the two gatekeepers, Jia Daihua entered this dilapidated house as if returning to his own home, and sealed the five senses of the ten or so people inside. He had already entered the grain storage warehouse.

The food and grass for the 50 army for ten days is not a small amount. There are more than [-] catties of grain, and the warehouses are full.Even if Jia Daihua stowed it in the space, it took nearly an hour.

Going out of the city to find his horse, Jia Daihua looked back at Pingzhou City, and chased in the direction where Jiao Da and the others left.In the middle of the night, they caught up with Jiao Da and the others when they were approaching Liangzhou. Jia Daihua was also exhausted.

Seeing that Jia Daihua was still alone, Jiao Da looked behind him curiously: "Master, why are you alone?"

Jia Daihua shook his head at him, but Jiao Dao didn't ask any more questions.The next day, he hurried on his way early, and arrived at the Yulin barracks before evening: "Where is Feng Tang?" Jia Daihua asked the gatekeeper Xiaoxiao in a bad tone.

The guard had seen Jia Daihua come galloping with more than a hundred soldiers, and he knew that he was a high-ranking general just by looking at his clothes. Why come, the younger ones can report to the general.”

"Tell him that Jia Daihua from the Northwest Army has come to beg for food from him!"

The little school was taken aback for a moment, realizing who this was, hurriedly greeted Jia Daihua again, turned around and ran into the camp.After a while, Feng Tang personally brought a few cronies to greet him at the gate of the camp. Before anyone arrived, hearty laughter came: "Brother Daihua, you are already a dignified Uncle Ning Yuan, you should give me a bite of food!" , how can you say something to beg for food from the younger brother, isn't it to kill the younger brother in embarrassment?"

"Hmph," Hou Jia Daihua approached him, as if he hadn't seen Feng Tang's friendly smiling face, and snorted coldly at people: "The food and grass for my northwest camp have to be eaten by General Feng. It's already ten years old. I haven't received food and grass for a few days, so I have to come and ask General Feng for food?"

Feng Tang looked shocked, and he didn't care about chatting with Jia Dai, and said to the person behind him: "Jiang Yi, when will the last batch of grain and grass be shipped out?"

The man called Jiang Yi stepped forward, called Jia Daihua for a few minutes, and then turned around to answer Feng Tang's question: "Return to the general, the last batch of grain and grass was shipped out three days ago, and it should not have reached the Liangzhou border by now."

Feng Tang heaved a sigh of relief, and continued to smile to Jia Daihua: "Brother is still in such a hurry, and the ten-day deadline has not yet come, so I came to urge the younger brother. Just in time, you and my brother haven't seen each other for a long time, please invite brother Come into the camp and talk."

Jia Daihua knew that Feng Tang was telling the truth, because on the way they came, they had already encountered a team transporting grain to Pingzhou.It's just that what we are looking for now is the grain and grass shipped out from the previous batch, so Jia Daihua has to explain it to Feng Tang.

Seeing Jia Daihua's puzzled face: "Feng Tang, we have been friends since we were young, and Jia and Feng's family also went to the battlefield and fought for their lives together. The sage entrusted you with the business of going to the northwest, and I I have always been at ease in my heart. How dare you suppress my army rations for ten days, and still say so confidently?"

Feng Tang's face also darkened: "What do you mean by brother's words? I have two people who send food to Pingzhou here. On a good day, they deliver once every ten days. How dare you press the food for ten days?" Don't say ten days. If there is no food, even if there is no food for five days, the soldiers dare to mutiny.This crime, even Feng Tang's natal family would not be able to afford it.

The doubts on Jia Daihua's face deepened: "You know, I should have received grain and grass on the fifth day of the lunar new year, but until the eighth day, the army still hadn't received a grain of grain. If it wasn't for the people sending some grain during the Chinese New Year, Pingliang The three prefectures also sent some grain, grass, cattle and sheep, and the Northwest Army has long since run out of food."

"So yesterday I went to Pingzhou to urge food, but Qiao Nan, the prefect of Pingzhou, said that there was no food in Yulin, so he couldn't produce food and grass for the northwest camp. Feng Tang, is it you or Qiao Nan who wants to starve me to death? The Northwest Army?!"

Feng Tang's face turned green, and he also realized the seriousness of the matter: Jia Daihua had already arrived in Yulin on the ninth day of the lunar new day, apparently rushing all night to get food.According to what he said, the camp in the northwest did not receive the military rations for the last ten days. Doesn't it mean that there is no cooking now?

No one can afford this responsibility.Feng Tang looked at Jiang Yi sharply: "Jiang Yi, what do you say?"

Jiang Yi's legs were trembling. The anger of the two chief generals was not something ordinary people could bear at the same time. He said with a trembling voice, "General, every time we shipped food to Pingzhou, there was a receipt signed by the prefect Qiao. The three generals transported the grain to Pingzhou, and the receipts for the third day of this month and the 23rd of last month are all in the military grain depot.”

"God's guts!" Feng Tang and Jia Daihua cursed in unison.Feng Tang got angry and bowed his hands to Jia Daihua: "Brother, I dare not say that I have nothing to do with this matter, but I really didn't expect Qiao Nan to be so courageous. Brother is tired all the way, please come into the camp and let brother take care of you." Brother washes the dust."

"I wronged you because of my brother." Jia Daihua bowed to the ground, Feng Tang hurriedly avoided: "Brother speaks seriously, and you are also for the sake of your brothers."

Speaking of letting Jia Daihua into the camp, Jiang Yi sent people to the grain depot and brought the receipt signed by Qiao Nan to Jia Dai for testing.

Looking at the types of grain, the weight of the catties, the date of delivery, and the receipt clearly written by the recipient, Jia Daihua kicked away the receipt in front of him. Feng Tang understood his mood very well, and asked the principal With a wink, someone came to clean up, and then he said to Jia Daihua: "Brother Daihua, don't worry, even brothers can't tolerate such a black-hearted dog officer. Today, brothers will play the sage, and ask the sage to punish this dog officer for delaying the military plane. crime."

Jia Daihua's tiger eyes were slightly red: "It's not just delaying the military plane, it's clearly an attempt to wipe out the Northwest Army."

Feng Tang was also the chief general of an army, knowing the danger of food shortage, he said bitterly, "Who gave him the courage."

Jia Daihua sprinkled it on the lower general, but he opened his mouth and said nothing.Feng Tang sat on the position of chief general at a young age, not entirely relying on his father's shadow and the empress Yuan, he waved his hands to the people below him: "Jiang Yi, go and prepare ten days' worth of food and grass, and in a short while they will be sent directly to the northwest camp overnight. .Others are busy with your work, I will have a private conversation with Brother Daihua."

After everyone left, Feng Tang looked at Jia Daihua with a puzzled face.If you don't fool around at this time, when will you wait?Jia Daihua directly asked: "Last year when I fought Bei Rong, you didn't help me, but what secret order did you receive?"

Feng Tang's old face turned red when he was asked, and apologized to Jia Daihua with some embarrassment: "It's not that my younger brother doesn't understand the principle of helping each other, it's really..."

Jia Daihua waved his hand: "Needless to say, I know that you have a different relationship with a saint than others." In the original book, the Feng family was not reused by the emperor, but the Feng family never fell apart. He has always been very arrogant to be his playboy.

"It's just that this matter is not trivial. I think Qiao Nan would not dare to use military rations even if he has a dark heart." Jia Daihua said it in a serious way, and did not tell Feng Tang the conversation between Qiao Nan and the master that Feng Tang had heard. .

Feng Tang immediately thought of something bad, and his face changed again and again: "No way. This country is his own, and the Northwest Army's heart is unstable. If Bei Rong knocks on the side at this time, then, then..." The whole Northwest is in danger.The northwest is in danger, and it takes the power of the whole country to calm the crisis.One trouble is not good, that is, the country is in turmoil.

What did the emperor think?Thinking of the so-called food supply of the Northwest Army once every ten days, Feng Tang felt that the emperor's head must have been caught by the door - when there was a war, the opposing sides had to burn each other's food and grass without incident. He couldn't imagine the Northwest Army without food. , Can fight against the Beirong people several times.

If not, he wouldn't have just asked Jiang Yi to prepare ten days' worth of food and grass, and transport them directly to the northwest for camp.

"Saint, you are too suspicious." Jia Daihua's voice was full of frustration and disappointment: "My father had a quarrel with your father, and he also felt that he was too careful. After he took office, it was difficult for these veterans who founded the country. It’s not completely unreasonable. Just look at the people he appointed after he ascended the throne. It’s hard to be a military general, and the titles are too many, but all the civil servants keep their promises. In the future, alas..."

Feng Tang's eyes widened, and Jia Daihua's words reminded him of the emperor's various actions after he ascended the throne.As Jia Daihua said, with the affection of the Empress Yuan, the emperor was still polite to the Feng family, but the Empress Yuan was gone after all, the crown prince was still young, and he was the only one left in the Feng family to hold the military power, but there was no one left. I can stay in Beijing, but in Yulin, which is thousands of miles away from Beijing.

He is a man who has never dared to underestimate the schemes of the women in the palace. The prince is so young and without his mother's protection, who would dare to believe that he can grow up safely?Someone in the Feng family can be intimidating in Beijing, but he is so far away from Beijing.Even if something happened to the crown prince, it would be too late when he rushed back to Beijing.

Why did the emperor let him stay away from the capital? Is he guarding against the Feng family from now on?Feng Tang didn't dare to think about it.But for the sake of the Feng family, he had to think again: "Brother Dai Hua, you and Brother Dai Shan?" Is it true that there is a division?

Jia Daihua smiled wryly: "I can't hide it from you. It's just that I don't recognize the words of your Chinese army account. Since I became a prince, how the emperor has treated the Ningguo Mansion, you know it in my heart, and I also know it in my heart. The Jia family is no better than your Feng family, and there is no empress Yuan's affection for the emperor to see." Don't you just want to win over Jia Daishan, the governor of the Beijing camp? Come on, I'll match you up.

Feng Tang began to meditate again, Jia Daihua didn't bother him, but began to write the notes for playing Qiao Nan with the pen and paper on Feng Tang's case.When Feng Tang came to his senses, his memorial had already been written, and he handed it to Feng Tang: "Let's have a look, if there is no problem, can the two of us make a joint name?"

The memorial did not add or subtract a single word about the failure of the grain and grass to be delivered to the Northwest camp in time, and it was very clear, and Feng Tang and Jiang Yi were listed as witnesses.Feng Tang didn't say a word to sign on it, but asked: "Brother Daihua, I have the right to write the secret paper directly, should I just write the secret paper directly?" The secret paper will be sent to the emperor faster than the normal paper. , because there is no need to go through the Ministry of War and the cabinet.

Jia Daihua shook his head, "That's not right. It's better to go to the Ministry of War. Otherwise, Qiao Nan would think that I came to Yulin to hit your wooden clock. He would not be convinced. Maybe he will use the Northwest Army in the future." If the emperor didn't push Qiao Nan to take the blame, Feng Tang's mind would only waver.

It's nice to say, don't you want more people to know about it?It's not that Feng Tang didn't know what Jia Daihua was thinking, but because of Jia Daihua's words just now, he was very worried about the prince's situation, and he didn't want to save face for the emperor, so he sent soldiers from Yulin that night to rush for [-] miles. Special person sent the letter back to Beijing.

On the second day, Jia Daihua got up early in the morning to rush back to the northwest camp, and promised Feng Tang that after he returned to the northwest camp, he would send someone to deliver a letter to Jia Daishan, asking him to protect the prince as much as possible.

Even though he knew that the cooperation between the two would not last too long, Jia Daihua didn't mind showing some kindness to him since his military rations were still in Feng Tang's hands.Feng Tang also kindly asked Jiang Yi and Jia Daihua to go to Pingzhou to ask Qiao Nan for the missing ten-day army rations.

The 50-day army rations prepared by Feng Tang in advance will be transported directly to the Northwest Camp along with fifty personal guards sent by Jia Daihua along the way, escorted by [-] Yulin defenders.

In this way, Jia Daihua took fifty soldiers with him, and he could go straight to the camp in the northwest with light clothes, so as to avoid any troubles in the camp due to the lack of food and grass.Fortunately, Zhang Jia was reliable. Before Jia Daihua left, he told him that he had done a good job collecting grain in various villages and towns. At any rate, before Jia Daihua came back, the northwest camp continued without interruption.

But it is not far from Duan Dun.In addition to the harvested food, it was only enough for the whole camp to eat for another day.According to Jia Daihua's calculations, it will take nearly three days for the first batch of military rations to arrive.