Pacifying the head of the city, seeing the defeat of more than 1,000 reinforcements, local officials such as Yan Yuzhang, Shi Chengliang of Qianhu and Zhizhou Zhixian of Jining were relieved.

In the city, many gentry and merchants and the people of the city rushed to tell each other after hearing that the rogues had been beaten away, some of them breathed a long sigh of relief, and some of them were so excited that they cried.

The city of Pingding, which survived the catastrophe, was not peaceful at all.

When the outside of the city calmed down, several officers and soldiers rode their horses close to the west gate, saying that Qin Chuan, a guerrilla general in Shanxi, was ordered by Lord Futai to rush to the aid of Pingding Prefecture, and now that the grain and grass were exhausted, he was ordered to ask for grain and grass from the local state city.

The smile on Yan Zhang's face froze.

Qin Chuan, this name is like thunder, and everyone in the officials of Jinxuan knows it, and no one knows it.

300 head trees, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers in Xuanda, Jingle Lan County and the gentry clan were almost slaughtered, Xinzhou City Gate attacked and killed Xu Yijie's baby son, and burned Jiexiu Fan's family and Zhou's family......

To Shanxi officials, the name is no different from that of the plague god.

No one wants to have anything to do with this man, let alone let this master step into his own territory.

But it was the city of Pingding that the plague god came to save......

In any case, food should be given.

After discussing a few words with Shi Chengliang, Yan Yuzhang made another difficulty.

There are only more than 200 stone of military food left in the city, and the salary and silver for pacifying and guarding the thousands of households have not arrived for a long time, and they have been owed for several months, so they can't move the food to Qin Chuan at all.

Before the Liukou attacked the city, the gentry and the common people had already taken back the autumn grain outside the city, and the official warehouse also collected a lot of taxes.

But Yan Zhang is just a soldier and a soldier, only in charge of military affairs, not government affairs, let alone meddling in taxation and official warehouses, and arranging the salary and military rations for defense affairs, or grinding his mouth with the state and county yamo.

In desperation, Yan Yuzhang had to continue to go to Zhizhou Shao Anxian to grind his lips.

As soon as he heard that Yan Yuzhang was going to adjust the salary again, Shao Anxian immediately twisted his face into a bitter gourd and began to pour bitter water.

In the past two years, the rogue has been rampant, and Anding Prefecture has borne the brunt, and it has not been able to collect much tax at all, and it already owes the imperial court more than 10,000 taels of taxes.

The tax money collected some time ago cannot be paid in full for this year's tax, and the tax money owed is like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger.

Now in the official warehouse of Pingding City, there is no food at all.

Yan Yuzhang is in trouble again.

He knows the situation of taxation, some time ago, Lord Xu of Futai asked the imperial court to reduce or exempt Shanxi taxes for three years, but the imperial court did not allow it.

Shi Chengliang on the side proposed, should you let the gentry donate a little?

Each family donated thirty or fifty stones, and they could also get together a few hundred stones of grain to give to Qin Chuan.

Shao Anxian immediately vomited his bitterness again, saying that some time ago, when he was relieving the people who were looted in Leping County, he had mobilized the gentry in the city to donate, but in the end he only got 100 stone of grain, and most of them were old grain.

The squires and old men also complained bitterly, saying that they had no food in their own homes, and that they would starve to death if they donated this and that all day long.

Hearing this, Yan Yuzhang was silent, and he didn't know what to say.

Being able to get old grain means that those gentry families have a lot of grain, otherwise the old grain would have been eaten long ago.

As far as he knew, less than 50 stone of the 100 stone of old grain was finally transported to Leping County, and the rest all fell into the hands of the state and county officials.

In any case, you have to scrape together some food for Qin Chuan.

People came all the way to rescue Pingding City, and if they didn't even give a grain of food, they couldn't talk about it.

Yan Yuzhang grinded his lips for a long time, and finally persuaded Shao Anxian.

He took fifty stones from the military rations of the Thousand Households in Pingding, and Shao Anxian transferred fifty stones from the official warehouse, and first made up eighty stones, and then saw what Qin Chuan's reaction was.

After the people under the city ran back to report to Qin Chuan, Yan Yuzhang, Shao Anxian and others waited anxiously.

The one surnamed Qin, just don't do anything rebellious.

After waiting for a long time, the messenger came back, rode a horse to dozens of steps away from the city, and shouted: "Your Excellency in the city, my Lord Qin said that he wants 2,000 stone of grain, 2,000 stone of beans, and 200 carts of forage, and after two hours, if you don't see enough grain and bean feed......

"Lord Qin will personally go into the city to fetch it."

"My Lord Qin speaks, and he speaks with all his words."

When he had said this, the man turned his horse's head and turned away.

Yan Yuzhang was stunned.

Shao Anxian, Shi Chengliang and others on the side were also stunned.

"Traitor! Rebel ......"

Shao Anxian was the first to come back to his senses, trembling, pointing to the word "Qin" in the distance and scolding.

Shi Chengliang swallowed his dry throat and said in a low voice: "Bingxian, let's get some more grain and grass for him, he should stop if he has five hundred stones." ”

Yan Yuzhang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and nodded: "Yes, yes, let's give him more." ”

"Lord Yan, what are you doing? The official warehouse is empty, where can I get 500 stone of grain for him? Shao Anxian on the side frowned and said.

Yan Yuzhang lowered his head and thought for a while: "Otherwise, let the squires in the city donate, it is enough for a family to donate thirty or fifty stones." ”

"Donate? Which is so easy? The last time I gave relief to Leping County, I was worn out of my mouth, and I was able to make up so much food, so I can't force the squires to donate it. ”

Speaking of this, Shao Anxian glanced outside the city, and snorted angrily: "This official doesn't believe it, the surname Qin dares to do such a big rebellious thing?" Hum! Even if he has the guts, I just need to continue to seal the doorway, will he be able to get in? ”

"Tens of thousands of thieves can't enter Pingding City, and the strength of the surname Qin is only a little over a thousand, and he also wants to attack the city? Hehe, in my opinion, he is either arrogant and ignorant, or he deliberately scares us and others, trying to use it to extort food. ”

"We only need to strengthen the defense of the city, it is better for him to retreat in the face of difficulties, if he dares to attack the city, he will be taught to suffer a hardship."

Yan Yuzhang thought for a moment and said: "Lord Shao, it's better to be careful, not only to strengthen the city defense, but also to ask the squires in the city to donate, both hands must be prepared, it is best to avoid friendly cannibalism, if not, we will naturally stick to the city and keep him away." ”

"How can it be as easy as it says the squire can donate?"

"Yan personally went to the Qian family, and then sent someone to lobby other families, as long as the Qian family took the lead in donating, other families would naturally donate."

Shao Anxian was a little displeased, and replied indifferently: "Then there is Old Yan." ”

Yan Zhang didn't care, only explained a few words to Shi Chengliang about the important tasks of city defense, and then hurried away with his entourage.

The news that the lion surnamed Qin opened his mouth and threatened to attack and grab food soon spread throughout the city.

The gentry in the city were in an uproar, and they all scolded outside the city, scolding the traitorous ministers and thieves surnamed Qin, who were bold and bold, and led the court to act as thieves.

Some squires who had connections in the court wrote letters one after another, asking the relationship between the court and the central government to impeach the surname Qin, and Xuezheng, Juren, Xiucai and other scholars even wrote down their songs, and listened to the heavens, accusing the surnamed Qin of being tyrannical and robbing the township, which is no different from a thief.

The people sent out by Yan Yuzhang soon stepped into the door of the various gentry clans, relaying Yan Yuzhang's plea, wanting to make the various gentry clans donate.

Some people learned about the attitude of Shao Anxian of Zhizhou, and after learning that the army surnamed Qin was only in the early 1,000s, they chose to pretend to be deaf and dumb, and few people were willing to donate food.

Yan Yuzhang also quickly stepped into the door of the Qian family and persuaded Qian Dezheng, the head of the Qian family, to take the lead in donating grain.

Qian Dezheng was not in a hurry to reply, and after finding out the meaning of the other families in the city, he donated 20 stone of grain and 20 stone of bean material.

Other large households also donated ten stones and five stones, some only donated forage, and many people did not donate a single child.

In the end, Yan Yuzhang only raised 170 stone of grain, 130 stone of bean material, and 30 carts of forage.

This amount is definitely not enough, Yan Yuzhang took some of the military rations from the Pingding Thousand Households, and then grinded hard with Shao Anxian, and bought dozens of stones from the official warehouse.

Coupled with the eighty stones he had collected earlier, Yan Yuzhang finally raised 300 stones of grain, 200 stones of beans and 40 carts of forage.

Of course, this number is far lower than Qin Chuan's lion mouth, but it is enough for his soldiers and horses in their early 1,000s to eat for twenty or thirty days, so he should be willing to give up.

Yan Yuzhang asked the head of the city to put a person down with a hanging basket, and sent him to pass the word to Qin Chuan, saying that there was no grain in the city, so he only got these, and after the grain and grass were transported, they would be transported out of the city together to him.

Seeing that the messenger was nervously walking towards the camp surnamed Qin, Yan Yuzhang and Shi Chengliang and others at the head of the city were also worried.

I hope that the surname Qin will give up.

However, Shao Anxian on the side snorted secretly and coldly, and glanced at Yan Yuzhang and Shi Chengliang with some disdain.