The middle of winter in the north is extremely difficult, only Yizhou is much better because of its special terrain. The terrain of the two mountains and a basin makes it not as dripping into ice even in the middle of winter as other places. This is also the most in Yizhou in the north.

It was wealthy, and the reason why the Pan family was able to support nearly 100,000 troops in Yizhou at that time.

But other places are not so lucky. After the beginning of winter, most people in the northern region have already started to have winter. Those who still work hard outdoors are usually some government agencies and labor suffrage.

There will be heavy snow every now and then. In order to ensure the smooth flow of the road across the north, a large number of laborers worked hard along the road to eradicate the snow on the road, hammered off the ice on the road, and ensured that the north

The traffic artery will not fall into paralysis due to the middle of winter.

Of course, this year, it is no longer the people in all places who have done this work. In previous years, Zhengbei Prefecture had to pay a lot of money to hire local people. This year, because of the large number of private troops captured by Yun Zhao in Luzhou, the number of private troops was sought.

This job has free labor.

After Zhao Pu and Huang Xuanwu surrendered, there were still more than 20,000 remaining troops, and the troops were taken back to the north. Ye Kai and Han Zhong and the treasures were found. Anyway, in the middle of winter, Yun Zhao promised them to farm without any means.

Those who cash out are idle, and they have to spend food to support them, so of course they have to use waste. After they are broken up, they are placed on both sides of the road to ensure smooth roads.

The people of the north are already accustomed to winter, but for these private soldiers in the south who have just arrived in the north, the winter here is not the hell. As prisoners, they naturally do not have good treatment, and some dilapidated tents.

Even when they live in daily life, food can only be said to be a way to save lives, and the workload of keeping the road smooth every day is also great. Drops of water in the north turn into ice, and the snow falls soon, it will freeze hard and be extremely difficult to eradicate.

In order to maintain safety as much as possible, Zhengbei Prefecture has extremely simple deicing equipment. Even if a team of people can have an iron tool, it is good. Most of them are wooden hammers and shovels, which invisibly adds to them.

A lot of work intensity.

However, the task must be completed. If the workload in one day is not completed, the food supply will be reduced the next day. Every day, the corresponding management personnel from Zhengbei Prefecture will inspect along the way to confirm the extent to which the other party completes the task.

What made these private soldiers of the Southern Army even more frightened was that it was not the Yue people who managed them, but the Meng people.

Meng people who have lived in the desert for many years are very adaptable to the mid-winter in the north, because in the desert, they faced much better cold than here. They have excellent cold clothes at home to ensure that they are in the cold.

Actions are normal in the climate.

A 100-man team of cyclones managed the road for dozens of miles, rode on war horses, patrolling back and forth along the road. Their main responsibility was to prevent these prisoners from escaping or taking any other extreme actions. Once discovered, they could take action first and then take action.

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The person who is fully responsible for this matter is Yang Qing, who is now highly valued in the North. After entering Luzhou alone to persuade Yang Hongfa to surrender, Yang Qing's official title has been upgraded to another level, and he handed over this matter to Yang Qing.

It is the North that it values ​​his abilities. It involves the management of tens of thousands of prisoners and the smooth transportation of the North. It is not a trivial matter.

Yang Qing is now a little nervous because Yun Zhao's face looks very bad when he is on tour.

The heavy snow in the north has made Yun Zhao who has returned to the spirit of the spirit mixed with joy. What is good is that this heavy snow will prevent the north from suffering from drought in the coming year. Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest. It is foreseeable that the north will be a

In the year of harvest, but such heavy snow will inevitably bring great danger to the people in all places. In the north, except for Yizhou and Luzhou, it is relatively wealthy, and the problem of food and clothing has been solved. Other places are still very poor.

Such heavy snow may bring some abnormal casualties.

Because of this, Yun Zhao decided to go on a tour and headed north. He was preparing to set off from Xingling to the northernmost Lu City, and he could go back to Xingling during the New Year.

Because many of the prisoners captured by Luzhou were killed. Most of these people were frozen to death.

Yun Zhao, wearing heavy fur, rode on Pili's back and looked at several tattered tents not far away. At this time, in front of the tent, more than a hundred ragged prisoners were kneeling in black, almost all of them.

All of them were so cold that their faces were even more shocking. On one side, more than a dozen dead prisoners were piled up together in a row. The land was frozen too hard to dig a pit and bury it, and there was no need to cremate.

It is said that with these firewood, it is better to use them to keep warm. So these corpses can only be piled up here, but fortunately the weather is very cold and it will not be rotten.

Yang Qing was quite proud, tens of thousands of prisoners were in order under his management. Not only did there be no riots, but the northern arteries were also smooth. He thought he should be praised by Yun Zhao, but this

When he saw Yun Zhao's face, his heart couldn't help but jump. For a long time, Yang Qing thought it was normal to die a few people. After all, these people who died were enemies of the Northern Army, nothing

It is worth pity, so for the deaths in the daily newspaper, they only delete some names from the list and reduce some amounts.

"What's going on?" Yun Zhao asked with a look of discomfort, raising the horse whip and pointing at the corpses.

"Prince, the Northern Mansion really can't bring out more tents and firewood to provide them with heating. These people are now transporting a large amount of these supplies to Qinzhou and the front line, so they can only give it a try." Yang

Qing whispered.

"Jiangju?" Yun Zhao snorted, "The result of being Jiangju is dead? Yang Qing, I don't care what you think. In short, I don't want to see these people dying so much and worthlessly, and the soldiers fight desperately

I caught these people because I wanted to create wealth for our Northland, rather than letting them come to the Northland and be frozen to death.”

Yang Qing didn't dare to argue, so he could only bow his head and say, "I understand."

"Content with Lord Yao, the warmer the weather will be. The tents that supply the army should be able to be transferred. Even if dozens of people squeeze a large tent, at least they will not freeze to death. I,

Contact the local area and organize a transport team to transport the cargo and cut down firewood by themselves."

"yes!"

"Add 10% of their food. Eat a little more, and you will always be more resistant to cold!" Yun Zhao glanced at the nervous Yang Qing, "We are short of people in the north, and people are the most precious things in our north.

The generals on the front line racked their brains to reduce the number of people. You are in the rear, so you can't waste precious people so much. After the spring begins, you will find that it is not enough to double these prisoners. What are they?

They are our endless supply of food next year, and maybe they will be our tax payers in the future."

"Yes, Weichen is short-sighted, so I'll arrange someone to do it right now!"

"Snap the time. It's going to snow again in this weather. It's going to die later. By the way, where are Zhao Pu and Huang Xuanwu arranged?"

"When I go back to the prince, they are in Luojiazhuang dozens of miles ahead. It is a major road where transportation gathers. It requires a lot of manpower and a lot of work, so they are arranged there, and the conditions there are also

It's relatively better." Yang Qing said.

"Let's go, let's meet these two big men!" Yun Zhao laughed and whipped the horse away.

The former site of Luojiazhuang has been ruined. The long-term war has destroyed this village. Now there are only some broken walls left. After the war, some villagers who returned and the villagers who survived by luck in other villages were all in the country.

Together, a new village was formed, and Jiayuan was rebuilt at a place about the original site. Because it was the intersection of several state roads, the new village soon flourished, and many businesses also gathered here.

, a market town was gradually formed, but Lao Zhuangzi was abandoned. The cost required to start a stove here is much more than choosing a new site.

This ruin now has a new purpose, because it is the gathering point of road traffic in various states, and the power to maintain needs a lot more and more personnel. The relatives brought by Zhao Pu and Huang Xuanwu

The soldiers were all tall and round, and were much better than ordinary soldiers, so they were placed here, with hundreds of people.

Yang Qing was not afraid of Zhao Pu and Huang Xuanwu's unwillingness to have any unpleasant intentions, because there was a local town army with more than a thousand people outside Luojiazhuang, responsible for maintaining public order in this area, and at the same time,

The transportation convoy from south to north provided protection, but Zhao and Huang made any moves, and in an instant, they could turn them into ashes.

What's more, after they were placed here, the heavy labor and food that could only guarantee survival made these people completely lose their previous combat power in a very short time. The blood in their bones was in the whip of the control personnel and

Under the steel knife, it was also polished and disappeared. It is not an exaggeration for these people to say a walking corpse.

These people were placed on the former site of Luojiazhuang.

Zhao Pu and Huang Xuanwu no longer have the image of a general who was previously invincible. Here, like others, they must carry wooden hammers and shovels every day, or brooms to clean up the snow and remove ice.

The movement was a little slow, and the whip of the controller was hit like raindrops. At the beginning, the personal soldiers would help them share part of the work, but after a long time, everyone was too busy to take care of themselves, except for a few very close-fitting ones.

The personal soldiers were still loyal to the people, and the others no longer cared about them.

As they worked day by day, their prestige began to decline little by little. Until now, they no longer had the ability to respond to each other. On the contrary, the soldiers here became more and more hostile to the two.

These two people would not have worked so hard here, and they didn't even know whether they could save their lives and go home.

From the initial rumors to the gradual harsh words, to the fact that they are fists and feet now, if it weren't for the suppression of the two of them, Zhao Pu and Huang Xuanwu would have probably gone to King Yan now.

Reported.

This kind of life can be described as a life like the years.

The sky is getting darker and it is not snowing today, so the intensity of work is much smaller. When night falls, Zhao Pu and Huang Xuanwu dragged their tired bodies back to a thatched hut where they live. The two sides of this thatched hut are made use of

The broken wall is better than the ordinary thatched hut, at least it can shelter from the wind. When they returned to the extremely smelly room, the two of them immediately fell into a pile of rotten cotton wool, and their whole bodies seemed to be falling apart.

A noble family from the past now looks like a beggar, with some torn clothes wrapped around her body, her head is wrapped in a piece of dirty cloth that is so dirty that it is tangled with beard and hair on her face.

The face and hands were wounds that were so frozen that they had cracked.

In Xiangshui Town, the two who led the team to surrender originally thought they would receive treatment that was appropriate to their identities, but they never expected that after being taken to the north, they would be like ordinary soldiers without any interrogation.

, was assigned to this man and ghost place to work hard. In the eyes of the Northern Army, the two generals of the aristocratic families seemed to be soldiers with no value. No one thought of them, nor did anyone ask about them.

The two of them fell in the cracks, their eyes full of despair. Here, the people who were watching over their work were Meng people. The two were speechless. Several times, they could not bear the big men who proposed to meet the Northern Army.

The men treated them as dishonest people and tried to thrust hard until the two of them dared to make demands on these people again.

Will the two of them die silently here? Although they are unwilling to accept it, they cannot escape. They are windy and snowy outside. If they leave here, even if the Northern Army does not chase them, they will be the two of them.

They will also freeze to death in the snow.

A few loyal guards set fire in the broken house. Among these ruins, some houses used to make fires can always be found. A guard set up a broken pot, and somehow he was fiddling with it, but it actually floated up in the broken house.

The aroma of meat.

The two of them were excited and sat up.

"Two generals, I'm lucky today. When I went to find Chaihe, I actually caught a few rats!" A guard's face was full of smiles. In his footsteps, there were a few rat skins and a piece of broken porcelain stained with blood.

Obviously, they used this thing to tear the rat's belly. If it were in the past, Zhao and Huang might have vomited because of this pot of rat meat, but now, they are half-squatting in front of the pot and looking at it with a long eye.

The rat meat boiling in the water has not been covered with meat stars for many days.

Finally, the rat meat in the pot was cooked thoroughly. The two couldn't wait to pick up two branches, pick up rat meat from the pot, and then swallowed it. However, a few personal soldiers just scooped up some broth and sat in the corner of the house.

Drink slowly.

Zhao Pu chewed a few mouthfuls of rat meat, looked at Huang Xuanwu, who was as embarrassed as himself, and remembered the luxury of the two of them before, and couldn't help but feel sad. His nose felt sore and he actually shed tears.

Looking at Zhao Pu who was crying, Huang Xuanwu also empathized with it. The two looked at each other, and the sadness in their hearts could not be excreted. From crying silently to calling out loudly, the two could no longer control their feelings.
To be continued...