"There are at least tens of thousands of people, the brethren can't stand it, Beicheng .... The North City is about to fall! ”

Pan Yu shook him off and turned around and ran towards the city.

In fact, Pan Yu had already guessed that it was the Jin army, and Zhu Zhu's army had withdrawn westward, and it was impossible to launch a war against Qi again, and only when the Jin army came from Hebei would there be ships.

Pan Yu was anxious, urging the horse to rush to the Qi Palace, but at the gate of the Qi Palace, he saw Wang Chongxin standing on the steps, looking at the north city.

"Kingdom Minister!"

Pan Yu shouted, turned over and dismounted and ran, Wang Chongxin also saw Pan Yu, and hurriedly greeted him and asked, "General Pan, why did a fierce battle break out in the city?" ”

"Prime Minister, it's the Jin army that has entered the city!"

"Jin Jun!"

Wang Chongxin was taken aback, hurriedly took a few steps back, and muttered, "Impossible, how can it be the Jin army?" ”

"Prime Minister, it's the Jin army, coming by boat from Hebei, it's impossible for the high-density Zhu Jun army to have a ship, quickly inform the prince to retreat, it's too late."

Wang Chongxin suddenly woke up, and now he doesn't care which army it is for the time being, and then he can ensure safety, he said repeatedly: "Yes! Right! Notify the prince quickly! ”

The two hurriedly rushed into the palace, and happened to encounter several personal soldiers carrying Li Na out.

"What's wrong with the prince?" Wang Chongxin asked anxiously.

"Qi Yu Prime Minister, the prince is drunk, why can't he wake him up, we want to use a carriage!"

"Hurry up and arrange the carriage!"

Soon, a four-horse carriage stopped at the door, everyone carried Li Na into the carriage, Wang Chongxin also sat in, and hundreds of guards mounted their horses one after another.

The coachman waved a long whip, and the carriage started to go, at this time, the main force of the Jin army had already entered the city, and the Qi army that rushed out of the barracks had no intention of fighting, and fled in all directions, and the city was in chaos.

The eastern gate had been opened, and countless soldiers scrambled to flee for their lives, and in the chaos, Li Na's carriage rushed out of the gate and headed out of the city, guarded by hundreds of cavalry guards.

The Jin army did not intend to start street battles in the city, so they did not block the south and east gates, allowing the soldiers of the Qi army to flee, while the soldiers of the city fled home, and the soldiers from other places rushed to the south gate first.

When more than 10,000 Qi soldiers fled from the city, it meant that Licheng County was completely lost........

Li Bing rode into Licheng County, at this time, the soldiers of the Qi army could no longer be seen in the city, those who surrendered, those who fled, those who went home, the streets and alleys were all under martial law, and tens of thousands of troops firmly controlled Licheng County.

Li Bing came to the Qi Palace, the chief steward of the Qi Palace, with hundreds of maids and servants, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, Li Bing turned over and dismounted and asked, "Where is Li Na?" ”

The chief steward trembled and said: "The prince was drunk and was carried away by his personal guards, and he left a long time ago, and I heard that he fled in the direction of the east gate." ”

Li Bing nodded, he didn't care about Li Na's escape, he lost the capital, and Li Na was not far from extinction.

Li Na implemented a centralized system of money and grain, and concentrated the money and grain of the entire Qi country in Cangcheng, Licheng County, once he lost Licheng County, he would not be able to raise so many troops at all, and he would inevitably collapse without a fight.

"Can Li Na's wife and daughter be there?"

"They're all in the house."

Li Bing immediately ordered: "Give them half an hour, each pack up and leave the palace, and the rest of the palace is the same, after half an hour, the army will seal the palace." ”

The chief steward and the maids and maids hurriedly went to pack their money and belongings, and dozens of Li Na's wives and concubines also packed up their fine soft jewelry in a panic and left the palace with their personal maids.

Soon, the people in the palace were cleaned up, the soldiers began to raid the palace and the warehouse, and a great deal of wealth accumulated by Li Na and his son for two generations was removed from the warehouses and money cellars, and all kinds of cages were piled up, and there were as many as 300,000 horses of silk and satin cloth alone.

This is only the wealth of the Qi Palace, as well as the Qi State Cangcheng, just behind the palace, covering an area of hundreds of acres, composed of nearly 100 large warehouses, which are all Qi country's money and food materials, mainly grain, copper coins and copper ingots, and strategic materials such as armor and fire oil are almost exhausted in the city defense war.

The wealth other than copper money is gold, Qi is rich in gold, a large amount of gold flowed into the official warehouse, because the small money minted by Qi is not circulated outside, so Qi from Hebei, Jiangnan to buy all kinds of materials are paid with gold.

But the gold is not in the warehouse of the national capital, but in the secret room of the Qi Palace, and no one knows how much it has.

"General Li, the sixty warehouses here are all grain depots!"

A warehouse official pointed to three long rows of large warehouses and introduced Li Bing: "The warehouses are very large, and each warehouse can store at least 10,000 stone of grain, and now there are a total of 500,000 stone of grain. ”

Li Bing walked into a grain depot and saw bags of grain piled up inside, all packed in hemp bags, each bag was a stone, and it was neatly placed.

Li Bing patted one of the bags of grain, it was very strong, it should be wheat inside, and there were words on the bag 'Qingchuan, 12,442'.

"What's the point?" Li Bing asked, pointing to the grain on the sack.

The official hurriedly explained: "All the grain from the official warehouse of Qi State must be transported to the capital, which means that the grain is transported from Qingzhou, No. 12,442, and Qingzhou shipped 30,000 bags of grain last autumn, that is, there are 30,000. ”

Li Bing nodded, "I understand, in addition, I heard from officials in Dengzhou that there was originally a batch of shipbuilding trees in Dengzhou, which were transported to Licheng County, where is it?" ”

"There is indeed such a batch of timber, I remember that in the No. 10 to No. 104 warehouse, there are a total of 30,000 old ship timber dried in the shade, and there are a lot of high-quality keel aggregates, the prince has always said that he wants to build ships, but he has never put it into practice, this batch of timber has been transported for three years, and it has never been moved."

"How many ingots and pig iron are there?" Li Bing asked again.

The official sighed, "This time, in order to prepare for the battle against Zhu Zhu, a large number of weapons and armor have been created, two million catties of pig iron have been used up, and there are a lot of copper ingots, three million and two hundred thousand catties, and no money has been minted in the past two years, and it has been accumulated." ”

Li Bing flipped through the list again, and it could be seen that the Qi country was not rich, and the rest of the materials were cloth, medicinal materials, salt, ice cellar meat, and a lot of copper coins, and there were actually 300,000 yuan.

Li Bing suddenly thought of an important question and asked: "You said that you haven't minted money for two years, so don't the army and officials pay money?" ”

"Of course, it is necessary to pay a salary, the 100,000 army of Qi State, the soldiers' military salaries are a month's consistent money, the 100,000 troops are 100,000 a month, and the 1.2 million yuan a year is 1.2 million yuan, and the soldiers' salaries can basically be solved by relying on salt taxes and commercial taxes, but as far as I know, the military salaries have not been issued from the beginning of the year to the present, and Li Na promised to pay double the salaries in three months this year to reward the soldiers for defending the city.

"What do you mean that it shouldn't be able to be sent, don't other states have money?" Li Bing asked with a frown.

The official shook his head, "Money and grain must be transported to the capital, this is a rule set from the time of the old prince, and then the money and grain used by the states are allocated by the capital, which yamen dares to hide money and grain privately will be severely punished, Zhu Jun occupies so many states and counties, it is estimated that he can't get a penny or a single rice, so he said that he can't send it now." ”

Li Bing knew in his heart that Li Na's army would not last long, so he immediately ordered that except for some grain warehouses and ice cellars, all other warehouses should be sealed and dealt with when the military division took over.

The day gradually dawned, and after a night of cleanup, the Jin army had completely controlled Licheng County, and was no longer worried about the Qi army overturning, Li Bing immediately ordered the curfew to be lifted and normal order was restored.

But last night's battle situation was very clear to the people in the city, the fear of soldiers shrouded in the sky over the county, and the people in the county did not dare to go out, until the sky was bright, and some people began to walk out of the door in fear.

The city was plastered with Anmin notices, and from the Anmin notices, everyone knew that it was not Zhu Jun's army that occupied Licheng County, but the army of the imperial court, and then the soldiers and civilians of Licheng County breathed a long sigh of relief.

Everyone knows that the price of the imperial court is relatively low, especially the price of salt, which is only one hundred and forty wen per bucket, which is the price that the people of all states in Qi State are envious.

By noon, the people of Licheng County were going out one after another, and the shops were also opened, and the county was back to its former liveliness.

A team of soldiers patrolled the streets to maintain order in the city, and the military advisor Wang Yu also followed the logistics team into the city, Li Bing fought a great war, but he couldn't govern civil affairs, and he was particularly afraid of dealing with cumbersome things, so Guo Song asked Wang Yu to partner with him, Wang Yu was Tian Yue's Xiangguo, not only resourceful, but also particularly good at handling cumbersome government affairs, which was Li Bing's perfect partner.

Wang Yu came directly to the military office, the military office is the palace of the king of Qi, there are two rows of soldiers standing at the door, they saw the arrival of the military division, bowed down together, Wang nodded and asked with a smile: "General Li can be in the military office?" ”

The first lieutenant said: "General Li is here, please come in!" ”

Wang Yu walked into the military office, only to see that all kinds of property in the square were piled up, and the soldiers were busy counting and registering, and there were hundreds of large boxes of iron pieces, which should be gold boxes, and they had not yet had time to open and count.

Li Bing stood aside with his hands in his hands.

"The general has gained a lot!" Wang Yu stepped forward and said with a smile.

"The military advisor came just in time!"

Li Bing also smiled: "I'm thinking now, should all these riches be sent to Chang'an, and wait for the imperial court to reward the army later?" Or shall I take a portion of the reward for the army first? ”

Wang Yu thought for a while and said, "I remember that His Royal Highness the King of Jin once had a clear statement, except for paying double the amount of money to the soldiers, the rest of the seized wealth was sent to Chang'an. ”

Li Bing remembered this and nodded, "If the military advisor didn't say it, I almost forgot." ”

Wang Yu smiled and said, "General, how is the situation of the Qi army?" ”

"I'm also thinking about discussing with the military advisor, let's go to the counselor's room!"