Pei Zhounan has always been out of place with Anxi.

He actually didn't like Anxi. He hated the desert scenery of Kucha City. He hated the thick layer of yellow sand that accumulates inside and outside the door when he woke up early. He hated food with the smell of sheep. He hated the extreme temperatures day and night. He hated the soldiers of Anxi who often cursed vulgar villages with bare shirtlessness.

He just controlled his likes and dislikes, hid all kinds of disgust and contempt, and showed an approachable look. For him, coming to Anxi was the emperor's dispatch, and he had to come. Since he came, he had to do his job steadily. From monitoring Gu Qing to taking over as the governor, he thought that everything he did was correct and was subject to the emperor's order.

But the final result still failed.

The Anxi military camp roared, and the soldiers regarded him as enemies. The emperor was furious and asked him to go back to Chang'an to be punished.

Pei Zhounan still doesn’t understand why he did something right, so why did he get such a result? What was wrong?

He had no selfishness, and after he came to Anxi, he had never embezzled a penny.

He is not bad either. When he walks on the streets of Kucha, he will give him a few entries when he meets beggars, and when he meets a caravan carrying goods, he will come forward to help. Even in front of lowly merchants and peddlers, he can smile and show good education, and will never hurt people's self-esteem.

He was serious and diligent in his work. He had personally inspected every weapon in the Anxi Army Arsenal, classified the damaged weapons and classified the categories. He had entered every barracks of the soldiers. There were no less than thousands of soldiers in the entire army who had talked to him about their family. If time permitted, he could know all the Anxi Army soldiers within a year or two and call out their names casually.

Can such an official say he is bad?

And also the governor of Anxi, Pei Zhounan once carefully observed Gu Qing.

Gu Qing was not kind to his generals. He spoke like he had eaten arsenic when he spoke, and his mouth was very poisonous. He had seen Gu Qing make a mistake more than once, kicking him and grinning.

He wants the best food to eat, and he lives in a handsome house full of gold and jade, filled with all kinds of luxurious decorations.

In the market in Kucha City, he walked like a rampant crab. When he encountered an object of interest in the stall, he took it and left, never gave money. Those merchants who obviously suffered losses seemed to have taken a huge advantage. They clearly took his things, but showed great honor, as if the Marquis took his things for free, which was a blessing for smoking from the ancestral grave.

...He didn't even pay for dinner in the inn. The female shopkeeper was never angry, but instead treated him like his ancestors with a smile.

What kind of person like a bully can do to make the soldiers of Anxi Army and the merchants of the whole city love him so much?

Why is he?

Pei Zhounan not only couldn't figure it out, but also felt very unbalanced.

Those who work diligently are regarded as enemies by everyone, but instead praise a bully as a treasure. Why?

Pei Zhounan was about to leave Anxi. After Gu Qing greeted the soldiers who welcomed him, he ordered the soldiers to continue to go back and practice. He invited Pei Zhounan into his commander's tent and asked his personal guards to bring wine and food, which was a farewell to him.

Looking at the decorations in the handsome tent, Gu Qing nodded slowly. Fortunately, this guy didn't ruin his handsome tent. It looked similar to when he left, but some luxurious items were put away by Pei Zhounan and placed in a box. Obviously, Pei Zhounan's temperament is much lower-key than him.

"Why? I regard the soldiers of the Anxi army as my own children, and you, Jingshi Pei, are just guests in Anxi."

Sitting in the handsome tent, Gu Qing said to Pei Zhounan without hesitation.

Pei Zhounan lowered his head and said nothing, his expression still a little resentful.

Gu Qing stared at his face and sneered: "Is 'Love soldiers like a son' the slogan you shout? How did you do it after I left Anxi? What did you regard tens of thousands of Anxi soldiers as?"

"You are a scholar and a family. In the books of sages you have read since childhood, what you teach you is loyal to the emperor and serve the country, and the principles of sages of the king and the ministers. So you think everyone in the world should be the same as you, and only loyal to the king and serve the country. Haha, Jingshi Pei, are you still so innocent and innocent when you live to this age?"

"How many people have read tens of thousands of soldiers in the Anxi Army? How many people understand the principles of sages? Before they joined the army, they only knew that farming could bring harvests. They only knew that the harvest was good if the harvest was good. The harvest was good. This year, the whole family and the young could survive safely. The sages taught you the principles of the king, the ministers, and the ministers. Has anyone taught you how to survive?"

"I hope the soldiers are like you, fighting to serve the kingdom. Haha, are you really stupid or fake? You don't even understand the most basic needs of the soldiers. What qualifications are there to command the Anxi Army?"

Pei Zhounan said with difficulty: "What do they... need?"

Gu Qing gradually strengthened his tone: "They want money, eat meat, and the word "justice". It's that simple, do you understand?"

"Why do you think they joined the recruitment? Do you want to serve the Tang Dynasty? No, they just want to have a full meal and earn some military merit for their family, and live a few acres of thin fields. They fight for the enemy's enemy's heads. If they are lucky, they can make a living, fire chiefs, brigade commanders, and exchange their enemy's heads for the names on the military merit books. By returning to their hometowns and allocating them to the land, their wives, children, and children can survive the disaster even if they are in the year of disaster."

Gu Qing took a deep breath and said, "You should have seen me beat and scolded my generals when I was the governor. I was so bad to them. Why did they obey me so much? Because I gave all the three things they wanted."

"I give you rewards every day. Who is as generous as me in the army of the Tang Dynasty? Give them a meal of meat every now and then? Who among all the generals of the Tang Dynasty can do it? There are no ones who take credit for me, no one who is superior or inferior, and no one who uses his power to seek personal gain. In the last battle to annihilate Tubo, the number one sergeant in the title book was just an ordinary archer, just because he shot more than a dozen enemy generals to death. The first one is him. Even the generals cannot rob him. This is the 'justice' I gave."

"But you, Jingshi Pei, after I left, the first thing I did was to stop the rewards and meat that I practiced daily. Haha, if I were your general, I would also take the lead in mutiny. People like you led the troops and were not shot by the soldiers behind their backs to be considered kind and kind."

Pei Zhounan was sweating coldly when he heard this, and his expression changed again and again.

At this moment, he probably understood why he failed so much.

Gu Qing stared at his eyes and said slowly: "Xiao Xiao, the more than 2,000 soldiers under my command did not die on the battlefield, but were killed by the same camp robes. Pei Zhounan, this account should be counted on your head. According to my previous temper, at this time, your head should be hung on the flagpole of the camp to roam in the wind, but I cannot kill you, because you are your Majesty's special envoy, and Your Majesty wants you to return to Chang'an alive."

"Pei Zhounan, you should be glad that you saved your life. Let's set off quickly and don't wait for me to change my mind."

Pei Zhounan pursed his lips, stood up, and saluted Gu Qing silently.

"A gift to you, a teacher for life. Pei has received teachings, I hope you and I will never see you again."

After Pei Zhounan finished speaking, he turned around and walked out of the handsome tent.

Gu Qing sat alone in the handsome tent and sighed heavily.

More than two thousand soldiers died because of a stupid civil servant. It was a pity and heartbreaking to think about it.

Everyone in the Anxi Army is a tiger and wolf army. More than two thousand elite soldiers trained every day can defend a small city, but death is so worthless.

Pei Zhounan walked out of the coach's tent, and a cavalry coach was waiting for him silently. The other party who walked back to Chang'an with Pei Zhounan was also the thousand-person cavalry team, which was the condition that Gu Qing had to come in front of Li Longji.

Walking in the camp, countless soldiers watching around them stared at him with cold eyes. No one greeted him, and no one greeted him.

Pei Zhounan's heart was trembling. He felt more and more that he had done something wrong. As Gu Qing said, the two thousand soldiers who died in Yingxiao should indeed be counted on him.

When they were about to reach the gate, Pei Zhounan turned around, suddenly knelt down to the camp, bowed three times silently, stood up and said loudly with tears in his eyes, "I, Pei Zhounan, are wrong, I'm sorry to the soldiers of the Anxi Army!"

The voice echoed in the camp, but received no answer.

The moment he led a team of thousands of people to step out of the gate of the camp, the camp suddenly burst into a shocking cheer.

Pei Zhounan did not look back, and every sound came into his ears. It was an invisible sword, which hurt his heart.

It was so unpopular that this time it was really a complete failure.

Pei Zhounan seemed to have collapsed, rode a horse in dishearteningly and led a team of thousands of people to leave Anxi silently. Behind him, cheers continued. The excitement like sending away the plague god, even the deaf could feel the joy and joy of the soldiers.

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Gu Qing did not enter Kucha City, and there was something more important now.

The long-lost drum sounded in the camp, and Chang Zhong, Li Siye, Shen Tian and other generals soon came to the commander's tent.

The atmosphere was very harmonious. After Gu Qing came back, Chang Zhong and others felt that even the air had become fresher. Everyone gathered in the handsome tent to greet and chat, and from time to time they were mixed with rude laughter and scolding.

Pei Zhounan had never seen such a scene before when he was the governor of the military. At that time, the generals felt extremely depressed every time they walked into the tent. After Gu Qing came back, everything was completely different.

The generals exchanged greetings, but Gu Qing was busy dealing with a roasted lamb leg, and his mouth was full of oil until most of the meal was over. Gu Qing patted his stomach contentedly and sighed with a comfortable breath.

Duan Wuji next to him handed a white handkerchief, Gu Qing wiped his mouth and hands, then knocked on the table, and said, "It's all quiet, it's a meeting, don't treat me as a cadre, right?"

There was a silence in the tent. Each general sat upright and looked at Gu Qing with a straight look.

Gu Qing still sat down and burped, saying, "According to the will of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, 40,000 soldiers of the Anxi army and 10,000 united soldiers, rectified their military morale, and then drove out, entered Yumen Pass, and safely rebelled by the bandits of Lushan."
Chapter completed!