"Defend Dayangzhou!"

"Born as a Tang Dynasty person, die as a Tang Dynasty ghost!"

Such big red banners can be seen everywhere in Yangzhou. Yixing Society's operation in Yangzhou for several years is showing its energy little by little. These methods of propaganda and mobilization, which are commonplace in the Tang Territory of the North, are the first time in Yangzhou, and as soon as they are dispatched, they are overwhelming, covering all-round indiscriminate bombing.

In the teahouse, in the inn, in the dining hall, and even on some lively streets, you can see some storytellers at any time foaming at the mouth and complaining bitterly about the sins of the pseudo-Liang, in their mouths, the Zhu Wen family, who are all traitors who do all kinds of evil, are the most sinister scum in the hundreds of years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, in addition to scolding, they will also add a lot of facts, such as Zhu Wen's Xuanwu army in Luoyang, Chang'an and other places to burn, kill, loot, rape, rape and plunder, such as they plundered the wealth of the people in Guanzhong and drove the people into slavery. These things are not made up. As a trade city, the news of Yangzhou was originally very well-informed, when Zhu Wen captured Luoyang Chang'an at the beginning, these things were indeed countless, and these tragic events, along with the merchants who came and went, were originally known to the people of Yangzhou. Now it's just that these storytellers are represented in a more vivid way.

There are also storytellers who grasp Zhu Wen's private life to talk about things, and devalue the virtue of the Zhu family to nothing. These people added countless meat jokes to it, and described these things as if they were in the scene with their three-inch incorruptible tongues, which also made countless people applaud and applaud.

These things don't seem to be of much use, but in fact, they have created a Zhu pseudo-Liang in the hearts of Yangzhou people is not a good kind, if you defect to him, the end will only be miserable, Yangzhou wants to ensure that he lives a good life as now, then he must try his best to resist the attack of the pseudo-Liang.

And Gong Yunda, the former Huainan marshal, was disloyal, unfilial, unkind, and unjust, betrayed the Tang Dynasty, and defected to the pseudo-Liang, which is a role that everyone can be punished.

On the most lively street in Yangzhou City, the hottest place is now the place of conscription. A table, a few officers, a dozen soldiers, the front is crowded.

"Sir, as long as you are hired, will you be paid fifty yuan on the spot?" A big man asked loudly with his hands on the table.

"Of course, once you are hired, you will be paid a settling-in allowance of 50 yuan on the spot." An officer laughed, "But you also need to be eligible to be admitted." Do you know the rules of our conscription? ”

"What rules? What I have is strength! The big man waved his huge fist. I can't read, but I can't recognize it. ”

"The only son is not recorded!"

"The weak are not recorded!"

"There are already soldiers in the family, and they are not recorded!"

The officer stood up with a smile and read it out loud again.

"I'm in order!" Dahan said happily: "I came from Yong'an, although there is still a father at home, but there are two elder brothers, I have no marriage, and I have no children." As for the bones, I see that I am stronger than you. Fifty times, our family can't earn so much in a year! ”

"Brother, if you take these fifty times, you are a soldier, and you will have to sell your life." The officer smiled and said, "You have to know all this. ”

"In this world, where is not the hard work! Didn't the storyteller on the street tell the story? Let the soldiers and horses of the Zhu thief come over, and everyone still hasn't had a good time. Sir, if you become a soldier, you still have a salary, right? ”

"Of course, January is consistent!" The officer said: "If you make meritorious service and are promoted, then it will be even more." Good man, there is a stone lock there, and if you can lift it ten times, then it is qualified. ”

"Easy!" The big man walked over laughing, raised the stone lock with one arm, easily went up and down ten times, and walked back to the cheers of everyone.

"Well, I really have the strength to do it. Come, this agreement, you sign it and become my soldier! The officer smiled and shoved a piece of paper in front of the big man.

"Why do you need to sign these things?" Dahan was a little suspicious.

"This is the rule, it proves that what you say is true, and if you find out later that you have lied, you will be expelled." The officer smiled and said, "This is called the Book of Integrity." If you can't read, then press a fingerprint! ”

"Press it!" Dahan happily pressed his fingerprints. As soon as the officer waved his hand, a soldier immediately walked over with a set of clothes in his hand and handed it to the big man, and on the top of the clothes, there was a receipt for payment covered with Longsheng Money.

"With this voucher, you can exchange fifty copper coins at Shenglong Bank!" The officer said with a smile. "You wait first, and when you have a team of ten people, I will send you to the barracks."

Such recruitment, in fact, is being held all over Yangzhou. Li Hao planned to form an army of 20,000 people in Yangzhou with 5,000 Tang soldiers as the core, including 5,000 naval troops.

For the ambitious Li Hao, this time in Yangzhou, what he wants is not only to hold Yangzhou, but also to further expand on the basis of keeping Yangzhou.

This is the first time he has taken on a heavy burden alone, and Li Ze has given him great autonomy, the bottom line is to hold Yangzhou, and the rest will be left to him to play freely. With Li Ze's words, Li Hao has a lot of room for operation, and Li Hao is salivating in places like western Zhejiang and Xuanzhou.

If it were elsewhere, Li Hao's ambition would have no material basis, but in Yangzhou, it would be completely different.

"Don't worry about the money!" After Qin Xinming took off his armor, he transformed himself into a smiling shopkeeper with dough, "Yangzhou is the base camp of Shenglong, and half of the Jin Dong family's net worth is here, and when he left, he had already entrusted it to me." Moreover, Yangzhou is a trade city, not to mention the commercial income, that is, the daily commercial tax, which is sufficient. ”

"With the war, this part of the income will be greatly reduced!" Mei Jiu said.

"As long as our sailors can control the water traffic, although it will have an impact, it will not be far at all, I'm afraid that our sailors won't be able to stop the Huainan sailors now!" Su Bao was a little worried: "General Li, there are hundreds of boats in Huainan. ”

"Just leave the war to me, you don't have to worry!" Li Hao smiled proudly and said: "Although I only have ten boats now, our Datang warships are not comparable to those small fishing rowers in Huainan." ”

"I hope so!" Su Bao was still unreassured, but he was unwilling to refute Li Hao's face in person. "Don't worry about money, but food is a big problem. Ladies and gentlemen, our Yangzhou is a net importer of grain, since we cleaned Yangzhou, where Baoying has completely annihilated Gong Hao, Yangzhou's grain prices have changed three times a day, yesterday I went to buy grain at home, but compared with the previous period, it has risen three times. ”

"We will open a warehouse tomorrow to release grain to ensure that every grain store in Yangzhou City has enough grain to sell, and the price of grain will be suppressed." Li Hao said.

Mei Jiu was taken aback: "General Li, these grains are Yangzhou's war-ready grains, so it's not appropriate to let them out like this, right?" ”

"What's wrong!" Li Hao said coldly: "As long as the price of grain is calmed down, it's fine." When food prices are stable, people's hearts will be stable. ”

"In this case, it will cause a large amount of grain storage for the common people."

"What does it have to do with the people's grain storage?" Li Hao said with a smile: "As long as it's not a big Tunji Juqi, but if there is a Tunji Juqi, take the opportunity to raise the price, one will kill one." As for the common people, they just hide at home when they buy them home, there are only so many people at home, and they only have two meals a day, and they eat so much, Mei Zhizhou, what are you afraid of? ”

Mei Jiu smiled bitterly: "Li'er is this Li'er, but how many households are there in Yangzhou, if everyone has grain, then all our grain will be released, and if there is no grain storage, everyone will still panic!" ”

"Soon, a large amount of grain will enter Yangzhou." Qin Xinming said on the side.

"Where does the food come from? Was it shipped from Wuyi? Mei Jiu was overjoyed and asked.

"Of course not, it was shipped from Lingnan." Qin Xinming said: "Isn't Lingnan Xiangshuai's granddaughter canonized as the queen of our Tang Dynasty?" Our sailor fleet is about to return from the port of Guangzhou in the near future, accompanied by dozens of merchant ships, half of which are loaded with grain, and these grains will enter Yangzhou. Mei Zhizhou, do you say that when these grains enter Yangzhou, will Yangzhou people still panic? ”

"In this way, I am relieved!" Mei Jiu said with great joy.

"As long as the sea is under our control, Yangzhou will not run out of food at any time!" Li Hao said proudly. "Mei Zhizhou, let's fight a few more battles next, and let the Huainan Army appreciate our strength, the hearts of Yangzhou people will be completely settled. As for you, even if you organize the people and businessmen, you should do whatever you want. ”

Mei Jiu nodded yes.

"Su Beijia, the recruitment process is going well, the planned fifteen thousand soldiers will be completed on time, I will allocate a hundred officers to your command, and you will be responsible for leading them to conduct the most basic military training for these recruits. Let them have the most basic military skills in the shortest possible time, and they are not expected to be able to fight the enemy in the field right away, but at least they should be able to play a role in defending the city, patrolling, and maintaining law and order. Li Hao said: "In addition to these, the logistics supply guarantee of the entire army also requires you to work a lot." Especially where is the Yangjin shipyard, you really have to keep an eye on it. ”

"General Li, rest assured, these things are what I, the other driver, have been responsible for, and I will never make a mistake." Su Bao said.

"After the battle of Baoying, Huainan has been in silence, of course they will not stop there, the longer the silence, the more fierce the next battle will be, but as long as we defeat the Huainan army again, then it will enter a strategic stalemate stage, so, in the next battle, I hope all the monarchs will raise their spirits."

Li Hao stood up and stretched out his fist: "Gentlemen, encourage together!" ”

It was Mei Jiu, a literati, who also stretched out his fist at this time and touched everyone heavily.

"Encouragement!"