Tang's dining table

"This thing called a steamed bun is really delicious -" After Zhao Xiaozu ate something called a steamed bun, he immediately admired it.

Another girl's voice came from the other side of the wall: "I made a meat bun for you, why don't you try it."

"Which roujiamo is it?"

"It's that round pancake with meat inside."

"Oh, it's Hu Pancake with meat. Why do you call it Roujiamo? Well, it's delicious, delicious..."

Doctor Qin had been watching with cold eyes. Seeing that Zhao Xiaozu seemed to have forgotten all about eating, he said coldly: "It's time to go to the main campus to order troops."

Zhao Xiaozu held the food in his mouth and said hesitantly: "This is what a certain family deserves. How can we deserve it if we don't finish it? The folks in Jinchangfang are so grateful."

"You should know what kind of temper Li Sikong is."

Zhao Xiaozu said: "I am already a cripple. I should have been disarmed and returned to the fields. Even if I am an injured old dog, Li Sikong will have some compassion and let me have a full meal."

Qin Langzhong said angrily: "What the Tang Dynasty lacks the most is you and other arrogant and powerful generals. There are many barbarians who are tougher and more unafraid of death than you. As long as the court gives them a bite of food, whoever they want to kill will be killed." Just kill whoever you want."

Zhao Xiaozu chuckled and said: "What if they come to bite us one day? Wolves are not fed well. When you run out of meat, he will be the first to eat you.

I'm surprised. The imperial court originally raised us soldiers to guard against barbarians, but now it uses barbarians to guard against us. It's really strange. "

Zhao Xiaozu finished the cake and meat in two mouthfuls, and he did not forget to shout to the other side of the high wall: "It's delicious, but there's only one."

"I have another one here. I'll ask my brother to throw it to you." The girl's clear voice sounded again, and Zhao Xiaozu raised his head and stared at the high wall.

Sure enough, another lotus leaf bag was thrown over. Zhao Xiaozu caught it steadily with one hand. He opened the lotus leaf bag and found that it was indeed another warm cake with meat.

Zhao Xiaozu did not eat the pancake. Instead, he wrapped it in lotus leaves and put it in his arms. He said to Qin Langzhong, "When I meet Li Sikong, I want to treat him to a bite of this pancake filled with meat. How delicious it is."

Although there was a lot of food on the long table, it could not withstand the food of more than a thousand hungry soldiers.

After a while, all the rich food on the long table was eaten by these people, and not a drop of wine or soup was left.

Zhao Xiaozu took out a beautiful bronze mask with big eyes from his horse bag and placed it on the long table as a thank you gift.

Then he said in a loud voice: "Zhao Xiaozu will never forget the warm hospitality today. I will bid farewell to my neighbor and let me wait for the report later."

Yun Chu's voice came from behind the high wall: "The Yun family has strong liquor that is more suitable for a martyr like the general to drink. Yun Chu is sweeping the bed to wait for it."

"It's definitely going to bother you, so let's just say goodbye."

After having a meal and listening to three lines of the song, Zhao Xiaozu found that all the resentment in his heart had disappeared.

All the soldiers no longer complained as before, and they all talked in low voices about the meals they had just eaten. Many of them were unprecedented, and they tasted really good.

"Don't blame the Ministry of War. In recent years, His Majesty has been preparing to use troops against Goguryeo, which has consumed too much of the Ministry of War's food and supplies, and has indeed treated the soldiers in the southwest and south badly."

Doctor Qin hesitated for a moment, then expressed his apology tactfully.

Zhao Xiaozu laughed and said, "I accept my fate!"

After hearing that the army had left Jinchangfang, Liu Yi secretly opened the door. Under the cover of the bad commander Zhang Jia, a group of people quickly took back the plates and tables outside. Some women also borrowed lanterns. The light emitted quickly cleaned up the messy ground.

After the gate of the square was closed again, the lanterns carried on long bamboo poles on the high wall were also retracted one after another.

As a result, the long street once again fell into darkness. In this moonless night, people's hearts were at least warm.

"Is this how you help Datang?"

The old monkey watched Yun Chu's tricks all night and felt that it was meaningless.

"Now I only insist on doing the right things and try not to do the wrong things. If I do more right things, I think it should bring about some changes in Chang'an."

"Your changes are of no use. Let me tell you, Chang'an is now the capital, but it is not as important as before. Nowadays, calls for moving the capital to Luoyang have almost become commonplace.

Once the capital is moved to Luoyang, Chang'an will soon decline, and your efforts will have no effect. "

Yun Chu sneered and said: "Do you think that the Tang Dynasty is a tribe in the Western Regions, and they will move their capital if they want to?

Even if the emperor likes to live in Luoyang, it is because he is timid and always feels that Chang'an is not stable enough. Only by living in the east capital of Luoyang does he feel that there will be no danger. "

"You know what the heck, Chang'an's population has increased dramatically in recent years. Although it is still less than one million, it is not much different. Just the amount of grain that needs to be transported to Chang'an every year exceeds 8.6 million tons.

You see the ships on the canal connected end to end for dozens of miles, but you don’t know how many grain ships there are.

Your Tang Dynasty is now mobilizing the whole country to support Chang'an. "

Yunchu looked at the dark walls and whispered: "This city would be truly perfect if there was no emperor.

What really consumes this city is the royal family and the nobles, not the people living here.

Shipantuo, I like this city and the people in this city. I think I can change this city, remove all the haze covering this city, and let the sun shine on the city wall forever, just like It's like a layer of real gold foil.

I want this city to shine brightly! "

The old monkey's pale yellow eyes rolled around, he raised his head and patted his furry face and said, "The Zhuyuan Jingshe that Xuanzang mentioned was originally Chang'an?"

Yun Chu smiled and said: If Master Xuanzang thinks so, then you can say so. Chang'an is my Zhuyuan Jingshe. "

"I gave Elder Lonely 540 million gold coins. What do you have?"

"Don't listen to Tianzhu people bragging, you are also used to using gold coins, don't you know how many 540 million gold coins are?

Besides, if he really had 540 million gold coins, then the gold coins would be worth less than iron.

Also, you told me last time that there are ten trillion Buddhas around me anytime and anywhere, silently watching me. It caused me to have insomnia for several nights. Even when I was taking a shower, I felt like someone was peeping on me.

From now on, when you talk to me about money, use Wen. If it’s gold, use Liang. If it’s more than one million gold coins, don’t talk to me. Talk to Buddha directly. That’s a number that matches the Buddha’s identity.

The human world cannot use such big numbers. "

The old monkey was suppressed by Yunchu's momentum and could not speak loudly, so he muttered: "A few days ago, I lived like a ghost, and now I live like a peerless hero..."

Yunchu ignored the old monkey's complaints and did a very good thing today, which made him feel very good.

Once the goal is determined, people will relax quickly. All that is left is to move towards the goal. No matter how far the journey is, as long as you are willing to walk, you will definitely arrive.

The next day, Yunchu was waiting for Zhao Xiaozu's return visit.

As a result, he didn't come.

It wasn't that he refused to come, it was because he was beaten up by Li Ji, Minister of the Ministry of War. The crime was that he did not arrive at the training camp on time to attend the meeting.

It is said that this is called a killing stick.

Li Ji was very strict in managing the army. Not to mention an officer like Zhao Xiaozu. As long as he went out on an expedition, he would often choose the people closest to him to find a fault and kill him to establish his authority. Therefore, as long as he sent troops out, basically no one wanted to get too close to Li Ji, for fear of being raped. He was treated like a baby and killed.

The same thing happened this time. Zhao Xiaozuan was initially accused of being a slow army, which was one of the seventeen laws and fifty-four cuts in the army.

Later, when Zhao Xiaozu fought bravely, he lost an arm, so he was beaten with thirty army sticks.

The soldiers who followed Zhao Xiaozu, after receiving meager rewards that night, sat in the military camp all night, and were sent back to their homes at dawn.

The soldiers of the government had no pay for fighting, so they fought hard and expected to be rewarded after returning from victory... Now, their hope was in vain.

Zhao Xiaozu couldn't come, so Yunchu went to the Imperial Medical Office to see Zhao Xiaozu being healed there. To be honest, he was really interested in the soldiers under Zhao Xiaozu who had just fought a vicious battle.

The soldiers sent to the north are generally elite soldiers, while the soldiers sent to the south and southwest are mostly Zhechong soldiers who are not strong in combat ability.

The powerful Zhechong soldiers were closely watched by everyone in the court. As long as anyone dared to organize more than a hundred soldiers without orders, they would be immediately charged with beheading, and there wouldn't be any time. on the delay.

As for those who are not strong in combat, it can be seen from the way the court treats Zhao Xiaozu and the others that the court does not care about them, but more about the Zhechong Mansion under the command of Ding Dayou.

When Yunchu saw Zhao Xiaozu, he was lying on a hard bed, his buttocks and back covered with a thin layer of wet linen, smelling of alcohol.

Yun Chu pulled off the wet linen soaked in alcohol from his body and asked with a frown, gritting his teeth and frowning at Zhao Xiaozu.

"Who did it for you?"

Zhao Xiaozu saw that Yun Chu was very young and did not look like a doctor, so he asked, "Who are you?"

Yun Chu cupped his fists and said, "Yun Chu, the chief physician of the Imperial Medical Office, is also the head of Jinchangfang. I was the one who talked to the general across the wall last night."

Zhao Xiaozu wanted to get up, but struggled for a while, and the stick hurt him so much that he fell down again.

Yun Chu said: "After the alcohol has been disinfected, the wound must be dried in the sun to allow it to evaporate as quickly as possible to keep the wound dry. Only in this way will it be conducive to wound healing."

Zhao Xiaozu said: "So I was cheated?"

Yun Chu shrugged his shoulders and said, "That should be the case."

As the alcohol evaporated quickly, Zhao Xiaozu's wound finally no longer hurt. He reluctantly raised his head and said, "What do you want to do? I have already removed my armor and returned to the field. I am of no use anymore."

Yun Chu skillfully used the sterilized cotton he brought to wipe the blood stains on his back and said: "I don't do anything, just to welcome a group of soldiers who have returned victoriously. This group of soldiers can be you or someone else.

As long as I am a soldier returning from killing the enemy, I will do this. "

"Will you do it again in the future?"

"Yes, if it is daytime, we will line the streets to welcome them and give them water. If it is night, we will hold up lanterns to welcome them, sing and dance for them."

"That's good. If this is really the case, I can help you with whatever you want to do!"