Chapter 135: Hypocritically Obeying

"Are you blind? You see the Marshal but you refuse to see him!"

Luo Yang slammed the table, and the others looked up as if they had just seen someone.

"Oh, my eyes are blurry and I didn't see you, Marshal. Please be magnanimous and don't bother with us."

After saying that, he lowered his head and busy himself with the work at hand, being extremely perfunctory.

"I think you are really old, and even your eyesight is not good. You might as well go home and farm."

Seeing that Bai Li didn't seem to be joking, they knelt down in fear and begged for mercy.

"Marshal, please forgive me. I won't dare to do it again next time."

"Who is the prefect?"

"Reply, reply to the Marshal, the prefect and General Li are out!"

"Where did you go?"

"No, I don't know!"

"Who is the chancellor?"

"I am, a little, a little man."

"Minister, pass on my order. Open the city gates. Welcome the people from nearby into the city and properly accommodate them."

"Marshal, without the prefect's order, I cannot act on your behalf."

"Then will the Emperor's gold medal do it?"

"I am afraid and dare not!"

Wei Fucheng is young and has little experience. He passed the imperial examination last year and only started working in Yuanzhou this year.

He studied hard for ten years and spent all his family's wealth to pass the imperial examination and bring honor to his family. He didn't want to be dismissed from his official position before he had been in office for half a year.

"Hurry up and go!"

"yes!"

"Everyone, get up."

Several people stood up, and Bai Li paced back and forth, looking at them and saying.

"Simon's army is about to arrive at the city. We should unite and protect the land and people of Da Zhou, instead of engaging in internal scheming and sitting back waiting to die!"

Several people lowered their heads in shame. They, the grown men, were not as broad-minded and compassionate to the people as a little girl.

"Marshal, defending our country is beyond the reach of us civilians, so we have to rely on you!"

"That's good to know. I don't expect you to be of any help, just don't hold me back.

Once Simon's army arrives, the nearby villages will be devastated. Yuanzhou City has a responsibility and obligation to protect the people. We cannot watch them die under Simon's cavalry!

Bai Li glanced at the other people one by one, and noticed a hint of pity on their faces, and he felt relieved.

It seems that these people have not lost their conscience and still cannot bear to see the common people suffer.

"The Marshal is right, we can't give up until the last moment.

Let the common people come into the city and join us in living and dying together with Yuanzhou City!"

"Minister Wei is right. Even if the prefect comes back to blame us, we will shoulder the responsibility together."

The judge and the judge nodded solemnly at the same time, their expressions were unprecedentedly solemn and dignified.

They looked down on this little girl marshal from the beginning, but they didn't expect that she was much more responsible than those grown men.

"Well, it's not your turn to be in the spotlight yet. When the prefect and General Li come back, let them come find me."

"yes."

Bai Li nodded in satisfaction and left. When he walked out of the government office, Luo Yang gave Bai Li a thumbs up in admiration.

"It was you who had to take action. Now they won't dare to look down on you anymore."

"General Li and Magistrate Wu neglected their chance to fight. We'll settle accounts with them later."

"Marshal, Marshal!"

"Here it is!"

Luo Yang waved his hand to greet her. Wu Lanzhi was walking with a heavy breath, and it was obvious that she had something urgent to do.

"Lanzhi, what's wrong?"

"Marshal, the people in the barracks are not cooperating. Not only are they lazy and slacking off on the fortifications you ordered them to build, they're also obstructing us at every turn."

"These people are really troublesome. They're hypocritical and we really can't do anything about them."

Luo Yang said angrily that he didn't expect that their cavalry team would encounter various difficulties when they arrived in Yuanzhou to provide support first.

"Let's go and take a look."

Bai Li said nothing more and followed Wu Lanzhi away.

Bai Li and his three companions arrived ten miles outside Yuanzhou City. There was a mountain wall on the right and a moat on the left. It was a good place in a narrow valley that was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

On the first day, Bai Li told Li Dazhuang to send troops to build fortifications here, and then send a battalion here as the first line of defense for Yuanzhou.

"General Li made a promise in front of you, but he only sent a few old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers the next day. I won't say more about that.

But these people said they had stomachaches and wanted to find a toilet, and then they said they were thirsty and wanted to go back to the city to drink water.

I got angry and wanted to punish them, but they started to make a scene, saying that the officers were bullying the soldiers. They were shouting so loudly that passersby came to watch. I was so angry that I just…"

Wu Lanzhi complained as she walked. She was also from an official family and had never seen an official as confused as Li Dazhuang.

It's already this late, and you're still putting on airs and refusing to cooperate. Now, even your people are hiding. Let's just see how you cry when Simon's army is at the gate of the city!

"These people are so short-sighted. If we weren't all on the same boat, we wouldn't have to be here and suffer."

"Luo Yang, be careful with your words."

Bai Li's soft shout instantly cleared Luo Yang's mind.

He was indeed wrong. From the first day he entered the barracks, he knew what a soldier's duties were.

But he just now complained and got angry like an ignorant woman or child, which was definitely not what a citizen of the Great Zhou or a soldier of the Great Zhou should do.

"I'm sorry, I made a mistake."

"There won't be a next time."

"yes."

A dozen soldiers were leaning against rocks and tree roots, picking their teeth and dozing off. They only opened their eyes when they heard footsteps.

Seeing Wu Lanzhi come back, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Hey, General Wu has found help? Let me see who it is."

"Isn't this Marshal Bai? What's going on? General Wu saw that we couldn't do anything, so he asked the Marshal to put pressure on us?"

"We just can't do it, no matter who we ask for help."

"If you can't do the work, find someone who can. Don't just sit there and do nothing!"

"Oh, Marshal Bai, are you kicking us out? If we leave, there will be no one to help you with the work!"

"Captain Wu, write down their names and pass on my order. Anyone who is slacking off will be punished with twenty sticks!"

"Marshal Bai, please spare us. We won't dare to do it again next time!"

When these ruffians heard that it was really coming, they became afraid and immediately knelt down and begged for mercy.

Because they knew that if they were hit by twenty military sticks, they would be half dead.

"Are you scared now? The Marshal has an imperial decree to execute first and report later. Even your General Li dares not disobey her. Come on if you are not afraid of death!"

Luo Yang felt that the Marshal should have done this a long time ago, otherwise these people would all look down on others.

It’s so satisfying to see them scared now.

"I dare not, I dare not, please forgive us, Marshal!"

"I have already issued the military order, and there is absolutely no reason to withdraw it.

but……"

"Master Marshal, please be magnanimous and show me a way forward!"

A smart soldier immediately changed his words.

"You're smart, what's your name?"

"My name is He Qiushui. It happened to be an autumn rain when my mother gave birth to me, so I was named Qiushui."

A few people snickered. He Qiu Shui was a strong man, but he had such a name. It was really hilarious.