When Wei Xiang continued to march eastward and arrived at Yushu, the local "people" who were stubbornly resisting were still happy, hoping that the Western Han Dynasty would protect them who had defected to Liu Bosheng from being searched by the fifth reunion.

And it was also here that Wei Xiang met several great scholars of Confucianism from Chang'an City.

"Duke."

Wei Xiang was familiar with the classics and often hang out with Liu Xin in the Imperial Academy. He was very familiar with these people. He quickly helped up the old scholar in the head. This person was called Guoyou: "Duke was a counselor in his filial piety and was also a doctor of the Book of Changes. Xiao had heard you give lectures many times, and he gained a lot..."

The qualifications later became more prominent, but Wei Xiang stopped talking. The country was very popular in the Xinmang court. Wang Mang set up one person to offer the crown prince's six classics of wine, and he was one of them. He was the Shangqing, who was the sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial

But when Prince Wang Mang was deposed, Guoyou was in disgrace and returned to the Imperial Academy to continue his doctorate.

"How is the Taixue?" Wei Xiang's news about the Taixue was that Wang Mang led the Taixue students to cry and rob the world on the eve of his defeat, but he seemed not to move God, and he could not stop the fifth reunion.

The country has lost its grace and elegance, and its white hair is a little messy by the winter wind. It is tightly wrapped in the greasy and dirty fur that has been worn for too long. He lowered his head and said, "Thousands of Taishi students have surrendered and scattered one after another since they entered Beijing after the fifth time. When Liu Bosheng entered Chang'an, he burned the Nine Temples of Wangmang, and Mars spread to the Taishi School and burned several houses. The Taishi students who still lived there dared not stay, either to go to Weibei to throw the fifth reunion, or to go to Youfufeng to serve the general."

But the country is in Chang'an, and he is reluctant to leave, so he would rather die than leave - after all, he had ridiculed his neighbor Zhang Shu, and now he has no shame to join the fifth relationship.

As I spoke, I suddenly heard thunder, but Guoyou's stomach was gushing, which was quite embarrassing.

Wei Xiang hurriedly asked someone to arrange hot food. This group of great scholars who were not good at eating in the past was so hungry that they had eaten. It seemed that they had been hungry for a long time. The war was in chaos, and even with escorts from the servants, it would not be easy to run to the sacrificial house two hundred miles west of Chang'an.

After the food, Guoyou bowed to Wei Xiang: "I hope the general can save the people of Chang'an!"

He talked about the situation in Chang'an for more than two months since Liu Bosheng's defeat.

"In October, the Green Forest soldiers were out of control of Liu Bosheng. When they retreated, they robbed women in Chang'an, and confiscated the remaining grain from Gelilu's home."

"In November, the weather was cold and the food in the city was gone. People in Chang'an could not stand it anymore. Many people began to run out or go to Weibei to visit relatives and friends, and the fifth relationship was not prohibited."

"At this point, there are less than 200,000 people left in Chang'an City. Since the twelfth lunar month, the rain and snow have not stopped, and the rice is 7,000 yuan. A pound of copper ware stolen from the palace cannot be exchanged for a kilogram of rice. My family still has some surplus grain, and I have raised a small mill to grind beans and wheat. Without firewood, I split the door panel to burn the fire. I ate porridge every day and didn't hold it on. Look at the old man's hand is so thin."

"And many neighbors have empty rice jars and no fire to keep warm at night. It's a good thing. In the past, there are three or four people who die every day when they are frozen and hungry."

"The robbery and killing people frequently, some people even burn people to dry feces and boil dead bodies to eat."

"It was too cold at night. Everyone rushed into the palace to cut beams and pillars. The reeds in Taiye Pond were pulled out, and the fruit forests in Jianzhang Palace were all turned into chopping wood."

From Wang Mang demolishing Ganquan and other palaces and building nine temples, to the fifth reunion, and allowing Chang'an people to plunder the palace rooms, Liu Bosheng took out the forests on the palace gardens, and the Han family's majesty was destroyed again and again, and now he has trampled into the mud.

Even Wei Xiang, the Grand General of the Western Han Dynasty, had no intention of restoring it.

As Guoyou said, the old scholars who came with him wiped their tears. Wang Mang, who were once arrogant, suffered no crimes in changing the dynasty. This time he tasted the pain of hunger and cold.

It turns out that this is a chaotic world!

After they finished talking with tears and tears, Wei Xiang looked at Wang Zun, the eldest surnamed Baling, slapped the table:

"It's all because of the fifth relationship!"

"The grain is all in Weibei, and in the hands of the Fifth Reunion, he forbids the grain ships and blocks merchants, causing Chang'an to cause tragedy. This is a great evil!"

However, Guoyou and others looked at each other. After being robbed by the Green Forest and starved for two months, the mentality of Chang'an people changed wonderfully. Although there were people who cursed the fifth reunion, more people began to miss the month when the King of Wei entered Chang'an.

The military discipline is better than the Green Forest. What is even more vivid is that the fifth reunion can open the treasury to release grain and send it for free! Before evacuation, people from Chang'an entered the palace and snatched it crazy. If they had no surplus grain given by the fifth reunion, they would starve to death in October.

I didn't cherish it several months ago, and I regret it only after missing it.

When people in Chang'an were desperate, they were the first choice to go to the fifth reunion. Now those who can move will either go to Weibei to seek life. The young and strong man also gave up their status as students, merchants, and citizens. They hoped that the Wei army who came to provide relief would take in everything they wanted.

Even Guoyou and others were recommended by the city people to come here, not to seek refuge with Wei Xiang.

Guoyu bowed: "I wonder how much food the general brought?"

The old scholar who never cared about Wugu in the past asked what he did? Wei Xiang was very alert and did not say it clearly, but said "many".

Relying on Chen Cang's harvest and the part that the powerful people from all over the country were scared to gather was enough for the food of the Wei family's troops south of the Wei River.

"Is it enough for 200,000 people in Chang'an to eat?"

Of course not enough! Even if you sell the entire Longyou, you can't get the food to support the capital. What's more, Wei Xiang didn't plan to enter Chang'an, the Gao Temple was burned, and the palace was empty. The capital that everyone wanted to compete for in the past has now become a mess that no one wants to take over.

So Wei Xiang said casually: "Enough, enough, more grain trucks are still behind."

But Guoyu saw the perfunctory words in Wei Xiang and said, "The old man has a reluctant request."

"Chang'an is about to eat Yizi, and it will become a starving city. Now the only one who can save Chang'an is the general!"

"But if the general does not have enough food, it is better to retreat and save Chang'an from war."

"Since the end of last month, the Wei army opened a porridge shop at the three gates north of Chang'an City every day, and threatened that the fifth reunion would bring food, fodder, firewood and firewood to Chang'an in the twelfth lunar month."

Unlike the deserted and gloating when the fifth reunion left, people in Chang'an are now waiting for the stars and moon to wait for the arrival of the twelfth lunar month, allowing the King of Wei to arrive at his loyal Chang'an.

"But recently, it has been said that because the Longyou troops are coming, Chang'an may become a battlefield, and the Wei army must defend outside and cannot enter the city for the time being."

Wei Xiang understood: "The Duke of the Kingdom is actually a lobbyist of the fifth relationship?"

"We have only been entrusted by the people of Chang'an and have come to beg us. We hope that the general will take a step back for the sake of the more than 100,000 people in Chang'an!"

Guoyou and others started crying again, which made Wei Xiang very embarrassed.

Logically speaking, it is reasonable that they entered the city to rescue the people who were about to starve to death under the banner of the orthodox emperor of the Han family.

But he also knew that with Longyou's strength, he could not control Chang'an at all.

The Wei family went east this time just to attract the powerful and cooperate with the Green Han to restrain the King of Wei, so as not to concentrate on facing west after unifying the fifth reunion of Weinan and Weibei.

But now, the situation is a bit awkward.

The Green Forest’s effect on the Wei army was not as great as imagined.

The regime of the fifth reunification did not, as Haoyou said, people were in panic and on the verge of collapse.

The Chang'an people did not become a burden for him. They hung them in a porridge shed to deal with the Chang'an people as refugees, but they recruited their young and strong men into the army as militia. According to Guoyou, how many people are there in Wan Xiu now?

Wang Zun came over and said to Wei Xiang, "General, why not just agree, our army will stop at Zhuan. What should we do if the fifth relationship?"

"If the fifth reunion is unwilling to send troops to transport grain and firewood to Chang'an, then he will be despised by the people of Chang'an and lose his heart."

"If the fifth reunion is as promised, a large number of people will be restrained by the hungry people in Chang'an. Our army will be like an additional army. We will advance eastward and send six county cavalry to attack the fifth reunion grain team. After this repeated, the trap dug by the fifth reunion in Chang'an will trap him himself!"

Although Wei Xiang felt that this matter was not very authentic, the soldiers were intrigued and could not cover everything. He only helped Guoyou up and promised: "Our military ration team is still far away in Chencang. The far water cannot relieve the thirst in Chang'an. In order to avoid any more cold and hunger, it would rather let the fifth thief occupy the capital for several days, rather than die of cold and hunger."

He burst into tears: "After all, Wei came here under the order of His Majesty Yuan Tong to understand the people and help the 'people' to hunger and cold!"

...

When Zhu brother arrived in the southern suburbs of Chang'an with the Fifth Reunion's edict, he found that this place had become a large conscription ground.

In fact, Wan Xiu, the commander-in-chief of the Wei family, was very calm when he advanced from the fifth reunion to Weinan. He could see that the Longyou forces were so harsh and weak, and they were not strong enough. Anyway, it was not easy to rely on cavalry to attack for a long distance in this snowy day. He learned the lesson that someone had almost penetrated Weibei last time. The scouts and ambush were placed west of Kunming Lake, so they would not be deaf and blind.

After Wan Xiu learned that Wei Xiang was in power, he became even more courageous and moved directly from Duling County east of Chang'an to the north of the city, using the former Northern Army camp to station the three armies.

The porridge shop also opened to the north three gates: Luocheng Gate, Kitchen Gate, and Hengmen, but it is no longer free. When Zhu Di came to this familiar place, he saw two big signs hanging on the porridge shed.

One is to "eat food when you are a soldier."

The other is "work-for-relief".

Considering that most people are illiterate, and there are soldiers carrying a gong to maintain order in the hungry people, while explaining: "The king will enter Chang'an soon. In order to maintain order in the city, he recruited young and strong soldiers to join the army and did not go to war far away. He only took charge of urban defense and other matters. He only collected 10,000 people per month. Those who arrived first had no one to come later!"

Three stones of grain are enough for a family of five to survive. After changing the past, Chang'an people were cold-eyed to watch such recruitment, but now they are cold and hungry for two months, so they can't care about the decentness of the people in the capital. The "soldiers eat food" card is very crowded.

They were taken to the Northern Military Camp by military officers, distributed simple weapons and robes, and conducted simple training at the same time.

Citizens are the most despised source of troops, because they have a lot of mind and are unwilling to work hard, and the order is poor. But anyway, it is not just a combat force, maintaining city defense and achieving the fifth expectation of "Chang'an people governing Chang'an people". Just practice is enough.

As for work-for-relief, some people also explained: "The King of Wei wanted to use grain from Weibei to provide relief to Chang'an, but the people were not in enough hands. Since Chang'an people eat grain, they should use Chang'an people to transport themselves. Those who are not physically strong enough can also serve as soldiers. Follow me to Zhongwei Bridge to transport grain, and provide half a bucket of food every day. If there is any extra, they can take it home and share it with the elderly, weak, women and children."

Of course, some people complained: "Didn't you give food for free a few months ago?"

But they only dared to murmur in a low voice, and their croaking stomachs drove them to put down their "dignity and dignity" and take steps forward.

There was even a special call for scholars, and another gong rang in the long queue of hungry people in Chang'an: "Those who can write and count are eliminated as military officials, and their salary is one bucket of food a day!"

This is as many as joining the army, and they all caught up with the "fighting officials" that were used to be! And they lived a relaxed and decent life. The students who had not had time to escape, or the scholars in the city, suddenly became arrogant and left the army one after another. The team of civilians rushed to the newly established shed.

Here is a simple test: pick up a wooden stick and write a few words in the snow to prove that they are indeed literate. After entering the military camp, there will be civil servants who try to figure it out again to avoid filling in the numbers.

At this time, Zhu Di saw the real version of "Snake Extraordinary".

Among the Confucian scholars who were squatting on the ground, holding sticks, some of them wrote quickly, and a few words were written in one go. He felt that it was not enough, so he began to add dramas and write long stories.

This was so angry that the people who were waiting behind were filled with righteous indignation: "You guy, please write a few words. Why are you writing a whole article in a scattered manner? Let's go quickly, how many people are waiting behind you!"

The ragged Confucian scholar dissatisfied and looked back and said stubbornly: "I said and wrote a few words, but I didn't say that I wouldn't let me write too much!"

Then he looked up and smiled, "Sir, what I wrote is the manifesto of the King of Wei, and I have memorized it!"

Brother Zhu went over and saw it, and he was really funny. After entering the camp to pay homage to Wan Xiu, he said, "A few months ago, if the king had done this, he would have been scolded by Chang'an people." He traveled to Chang'an many times, and still remembered his arrogance in this city.

Wan Xiu nodded: "But now, it has become a 'leverage of people', and it is full of praise."

In the later period, Wang Mang recruited troops and recruited men. There were many defeats in the frontier, which completely ruined the reputation of the army and became a deep pool for everyone to fear. Scholars were naturally disdainful of joining the army. Citizens had their own family business and livelihood. Although merchants were humble, they did not want to die and endure the hardships.

But all these considerations were left behind in the cold and hunger. The one who could give a bite was the Holy King!

There is no need for too many citizens, merchants, and fifth relations in troubled times. Anyway, they have hands and feet, so it is better to make full use of them.

The fifth reunification attitude was: they beat theirs, I beat mine, and they had to defend Longyou, but the major affairs of taking over Chang'an could not be left behind. He then sent Wan Xiu, Shaofu Song Hong and Ren Guang to take charge of the matter. Within a few days, there were endless people who joined the army, and tens of thousands of soldiers were almost full. There were also tens of thousands of willing people to go to Weiqiao to transport food for the people.

Chang'an people who once disdained the fifth relationship now perfectly interpret what "true fragrance" means!

After reading the Fifth Reunion’s edict and understanding the plan of the King of Wei, Wan Xiu couldn’t help but smile: “A few days ago, the General of the Green Forest captured at the Yiguan Pass said that Emperor Gengshi Liu Xuan thought that the King of Wei had an army of 200,000, so he did not dare to take the initiative to attack. Instead, he called Cen Junran and Shangyan Hou calmly seized the pass.”

He looked at Chang'an Qingshang, who kept coming out of the city, hoping to join the army or work for relief, and said, "A prophecy came true. Soon, the soldiers and the civilians, and the Wei army held a spear and hoe the pride, which was more than 200,000!"

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ps: Chapter 2 in old time.
Chapter completed!