Chapter 36: Half-year delay in paying salaries in Saibei
After the soldiers defending the city finished the aftermath, they all looked pale, not because they were scared, but because they were hungry.
All the food in Tiange Pass was gone.
The remaining 200 people were really hungry.
However, due to Lu Xingshi's shocking fighting power, they could only bear it.
They were not starving to death for the time being.
However, Lu Xingshi found out, so he brought some food over.
"Eat something first." Lu Xingshi said, dragging a lot of food and juice. He knew that he might not be able to explain the source of the food by doing so.
But the question is, with his current strength, does he need to explain?
If anyone asks him this question, he only needs to say that eating can't shut your mouth, and the other party will shut up honestly instead of asking questions.
After having strength, many unreasonable places that should have been carefully maintained can actually be ignored.
Otherwise, he worked hard to cheat and modify it, is it just to continue to be scared? Then why did he cheat, couldn't he just go back to the management game and continue to be his local emperor?
The soldiers guarding the city looked at the food in a daze. The chicken, duck, fish and meat were cooked with methods they had never seen before, and there were white flour buns, rice, noodles and other refined grains, plus the wine in transparent glass. Not to mention them, even the commander-in-chief might not be able to enjoy it.
"Sir... these are all for us." The leading soldier swallowed his saliva.
"Well." Lu Xingshi didn't say anything nonsense, but reached out and took a roasted chicken and sat down to eat it, and then said: "Eat, what are you doing?"
Seeing this, the soldiers rushed over one after another.
"Queue up, there must be order, there is enough food for you." Lu Xingshi saw that the other party was so scattered and scolded.
The soldiers became honest all of a sudden, and lined up to get food.
Everyone was wolfing down. They had been hungry for several days, so they naturally didn't care about anything else when eating, especially these foods were extremely delicious to them.
Lu Xingshi didn't have much appetite, he just ate to be a leader.
After everyone had eaten, they had something to fill their stomachs, and their eating habits slowed down.
"By the way, don't you know Jinwu?" Lu Xingshi asked curiously. There are legends about bears, wolves, and wolves in this world.
"I don't know..." A soldier who was closer to Lu Xingshi shook his head.
"What about wolves?" Lu Xingshi asked again.
The other party still didn't know.
Then Lu Xingshi said a few more words such as Taotie and Suzaku, but no one knew them.
"Sir, you have to ask those scholars or those heroes about these things. We are just a group of soldiers, how can we know these things."
"A good man doesn't join the army, not to mention that he came to the border just to get a bite of food." A soldier said self-deprecatingly.
Hearing this, Lu Xingshi also understood that they didn't know because they had never been exposed to this knowledge. The same was true for the barbarians. They were still struggling to survive in the Gobi Desert. Eating was a problem, so how could they have the leisure to deal with this matter.
In Dasong's era, being a soldier was the lowest status.
The highest status was naturally to study and then pursue a career in politics. As the saying goes, the one who sang the top scholar outside Donghua Gate was a good man.
While using literature to control martial arts, literature was emphasized over martial arts. Reading was the best way to break the class.
However, some people saw these drawbacks, such as the King of Liao, who planned to bring Dasong back to the original era of abundant martial virtues.
So he was able to gain the support of the entire northern frontier.
As for whether it would succeed, Lu Xingshi didn't know. He had limited knowledge of the Dasong court, but he could be sure of one thing. The rules set by the civil officials were still hanging on the neck of the King of Liao. If the King of Liao couldn't break free, the end of death might be great.
"I heard that you were owed salary?" Lu Xingshi asked again.
"Half a year, no salary has been paid for half a year." The soldier sighed and said.
"Is it that none of them have it, or that only you have none?" Lu Xingshi continued to ask.
There are two possibilities for not having money to pay salaries. One is that Dasong has no money. This possibility is so small that it can be ignored. Dasong is extremely developed in culture and commerce, and it is really rich, so it is impossible for it to have no money. Lu Xingshi can also see it from walking from the Central Plains to Saibei.
So the second possibility is more likely, that is, it was intercepted by someone.
Lu Xingshi is not sure who did it, but the King of Liao is suspected. It is precisely because Saibei did not pay the soldiers that he was able to control it so quickly.
"Nothing, the entire Saibei seems to have been forgotten by the court." The soldier said.
"Well, I can't do anything about this." Lu Xingshi has food and drink, but he has no money.
The management game does have mineral products, but the value of mineral materials, whether raw materials or processed products, is higher than that of ordinary agricultural products, so Lu Xingshi keeps them for sale.
The value of food is relatively low, so it doesn't matter if you take some out.
He had to stockpile the minerals.
"Sir, are you sent by the court?" the soldier asked cautiously.
This attracted a lot of attention, as they were trying to find out about Lu Xingshi's identity.
"No, my master is Murong Xuan. He hasn't been home for three months and there's no news, so I came to see him." Lu Xingshi didn't hide it.
"So you're Murong's disciple." Some soldiers knew Murong Xuan, but that was all, and they didn't know more.
"Not high at all, not high at all." Lu Xingshi was very low-key, and then he looked at the mess on the ground.
The food had been eaten up, but these soldiers still had a good appetite, and there was nothing left.
"Pack up, leave some people to take turns on duty, and everyone else go to rest." Lu Xingshi said, and he also got up and left.
He had no way to interfere with the affairs of these border soldiers. They all had a list. Once they escaped and became deserters, they would be executed immediately if they were caught. Even if they were not executed immediately, the punishment would be extremely severe.
Everyone looked at Lu Xingshi's back as he left, and some of them wanted to say something but stopped.
They thought about joining Lu Xingshi. Not to mention other things, just eating and drinking well plus Lu Xingshi's strength, the future is still very promising.
However, Lu Xingshi didn't have this idea at all, and he didn't have the idea of forming a power.
For him, the whole world is a real game that cannot be rolled back. Every NPC is a living person. He, a modern man, seems a bit out of place.
If he really wants to have power, he must also take into account the development of power and even become a nanny.
It's different now. He can be kind and help them for a while without worrying about the follow-up problems.
He has been kind, so we can't ask him to be responsible. Kindness is about deeds, not heart. What does it have to do with doing good deeds and gaining reputation by doing good deeds?
Good people can't be pointed at with guns.