After binding the loving mother system, I was so bad

After Gu Nanxi passed through the second Weng City and entered Woye Town, he blinked in disbelief.

She never expected that the two Wengchengs, Woye Town, which was tightly protected by eight-meter-high bluestone walls, would look like this!

There are messy thatched huts on both sides of the street. Those with better conditions use wooden boards picked up from somewhere as the front door of the hut.

The streets were full of potholes, without a single paved stone, and were filled with mud.

Gu Nanxi sat on a big horse and looked into the distance. The scenery in the distance was no different from what was in front of him, even the thatched houses were more sparse.

"Welcome General!"

Ragged people were kneeling on both sides of the street.

They shouted in hoarse voices, and bowed solemnly every time they shouted.

Leading the group was a middle-aged man in official uniform. He was tall and thin, with an elegant demeanor.

I guess he is Wang Bushi, the county magistrate of Woye Town.

Behind him was an old man with completely white hair and wrinkles on his face.

The two men looked at Gu Nanxi with admiration, but also as if they were staring at a big piece of fat meat.

Gu Nanxi shuddered, feeling as if someone was watching her.

"Hmph!" When Boss Li saw the miserable state of Woye Town, he looked down on Wang Buxi, saying that his nose was not a nose and his eyes were not eyes.

Wang Buxi pretended not to notice Boss Li's hostility and greeted Gu Nanxi with a smile: "The general has made great contributions and is famous all over the world. The Khan of the Northern Territory has set up a tight net, but he didn't expect you to come to our Woye Town. It can be seen that the general has a deep connection with our Woye Town!"

Gu Nanxi dismounted from his horse, exchanged a few words with Wang Buxi, helped up the old man behind him, and persuaded the kneeling people.

"Gu Nanxi thanks the villagers for their kindness. Defending our country and expelling the Tartars are our duty as soldiers. Please stand up, don't frustrate me!"

What responded to Gu Nanxi was the people’s tearful pleas.

"The general is extremely brave and is truly the greatest warrior in the Great Zhou! With the general here, we feel at ease."

"General, you should stay in our Woye Town for a while. Fuming Town is protected by the Gu family army, so it is safe! But we don't have that in Woye Town!"

"General, we can only rely on you!"

Wang Buxi saw that Gu Nanxi did not give in, so he deliberately rebuked the people: "What unreasonable demands are you making? We have garrisons in Woye Town too! As a border garrison commander, the general will certainly not abandon our Woye Town!"

After that, Wang Buxi led the way: "General, you must be exhausted after all this rush. Let's go to the county government office and rest for a few days."

Along the way, the miserable appearance of Woye Town made everyone frown.

Boss Li couldn't help but ask, "I remember that Woye Town was once very prosperous. In addition to the main street, there were 12 branch streets running north and south, all paved with bluestone bricks. Why are all the bricks gone?"

Wang Buxi lifted his skirt, stepped over a small puddle, and said calmly, "They are all on the city wall."

Boss Li: "I still remember those wealthy families back then. Every family had a large courtyard. Although it was not as luxurious as Kyoto, it was not like a thatched hut!"

Wang Buxi accidentally stepped into a pit and almost sprained his ankle. He replied with a gasp.

"In the past few years, the northern Tartars didn't dare to go to Fuming Town to fight the Gu family army head-on, so they picked the weak ones and often went south from Woye Town. There were many unowned things in the town, so I took the initiative to demolish those houses and use the bricks to build the city wall."

This is really sad.

But Boss Li already had a problem with the children of aristocratic families, so he found fault: "It can't be that every family is like this."

Wang Buxi did not intend to hide it: "It's a voluntary donation. After all, maintaining the safety of Woye Town is everyone's responsibility."

Boss Li: "What if someone doesn't want to donate?"

Wang Buxi's eyebrows were cold and his eyes were indifferent: "I will force him to donate!"

Boss Li was obviously amused by Wang Buxi's light words. It seemed that this was another cruel county magistrate who didn't care about the lives of the people!

Fu Mingyuan understands the ways of the world better than Boss Li. A strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake. There is no need to start a dispute when you just arrive at someone else's territory.

So Fu Mingyuan changed the subject: "Lord Wang, where are the defenders of Woye Town? How many people are there? Were there heavy casualties in this battle?"

Wang Buxi was obviously familiar with the defense of the entire town, and blurted out: "Five hundred infantry, no cavalry."

What? !

"Why is it so few?" Gu Nanxi was also surprised. Any family with a higher title in Kyoto would have more than this number of private soldiers.

What can just 500 people do?

Wang Buxi raised his lips in a sarcastic tone, "The imperial court has already withheld military pay, and after further exploitation, the number of people who are not paying for military pay must be one-third, or even half!"

Boss Li: "That's not even close to that number!"

Wang Buxi said confidently: "But we still need to build a city wall! Doesn't it cost money to build such a large city wall?"

Boss Li jumped up and down: "What's the use of a city wall without a guard?!"

Wang Buxi suddenly stopped, turned around, stared at Boss Li, and said word by word: "But this time we faced the Wakhan tribe in the north, and we didn't hurt anyone and didn't give up an inch of land!"

Boss Li was obviously also shocked by such a record, and murmured: "Which defender is so brave? I have never heard of his name!"

Wang Buxi said with a cold face: "Those guards you saw are all skinny and bony, and they are always late in paying their wages."

"But why?"

"Woye Town is as solid as a rock. It is the only military town in the north that has two Wengchengs. It is very difficult to deal with, and there is no profit. Which tribe would be so desperate as to start with our Woye Town?"

This is the style of the Northern Tatars. They attack towns at lightning speed, rob them and then run away.

It was a time-consuming and laborious task to capture Woye Town. After finally taking it, the town was extremely poor. If they continued to move south, they would easily encounter reinforcements from the Great Zhou.

Therefore, the Tatars were not very fond of attacking Woye Town, and at most they would plunder outside the city walls.

Gu Nanxi thought to himself that the king did not like this move, which was similar to the empty city plan!

This Wang Buxi is really a talent!

Boss Li still felt that Wang Buxi was too harsh in plundering the people in order to build fortifications.

But Woye Town is actually a military town, and the court’s requirements for the military town are like a nail stuck there!

As for the border residents, they were just cannon fodder on the battlefield. The imperial court did not expect to collect much tax from the military towns, so naturally they would not treat these border residents well.

If all the border residents died, we could just migrate some more from other states and counties.

All the complaints that Boss Li had in mind completely disappeared when he saw the county government office.

The county government office was also a thatched house, but it was wider and tidier than other thatched houses.

Seeing this, Gu Nanxi asked, "Are the bricks and stones of the county government also on the city wall?"

Wang Buxi said: "Of course. If I don't set an example myself, how can I advise others?"