Since Haifeng County was captured by the People's Army, more than ten days have passed, and in the first two days, the people in the city were panicked, whether it was a large family or a poor people, they all thought that it was a chaotic people or even a bandit to capture Haifeng County.

In their opinion, no matter whether the Ming Dynasty government is good or not, at least make Haifeng County relatively stable, and suddenly a force will capture Haifeng County, then their lives will not be much guaranteed.

After the People's Army captured Haifeng County, it immediately began to raid the big families that were evil, and one by one the big families who were evil were raided, and the big families around them who were not evil were scared to death.

It would be better to switch to the ordinary people, who have already sent a working group to pacify and unite the ordinary people.

After the most tense two days, the people in Haifeng County were relieved a lot, and some brave people came to the streets to continue doing business, and even ordinary people did business with the People's Army.

At this time, the People's Military Government sent staff to visit the large households in the city that had not been raided, on the one hand, to reassure these large families and say that the People's Army would not do anything to them, and on the other hand, to announce to these large families that most of the farmland they owned would be purchased by the People's Military Government (at a low price).

Although the farmland was temporarily "snatched" by the People's Army, these big families were relieved, at least knowing that they would not die.

Seven days after the People's Army captured the county seat of Haifeng, the Haifeng County People's Military Government lifted martial law on the county seat, allowing ordinary people to enter and leave the county freely, restricting only large households, and temporarily not allowing anyone from large households to leave the county seat.

After the lifting of martial law, Haifeng County has regained some vitality, the city gate, the city wall, and important positions in the city are guarded by People's Army soldiers, and there will be groups of People's Army soldiers patrolling the streets, but the people in the city are almost not afraid of the People's Army.

After being closed for many days, the large families dominated by the Xu family cautiously began to contact the outside world, first sending guards and maids to the outside to see or learn the news from the common people, and then the large families that were still alive were connected with each other.

So many large households in Haifeng County have been raided by the People's Army, and only one third of the large families are left, all of whom have similar identities, living in Haifeng County, which was captured by the People's Army, and they can only huddle together to keep warm.

The Xu family is the one with the most wealth and the highest prestige among the remaining large families, and Xu Xinzhi has basically become the leader of the remaining large families.

In the beginning, the topics that the heads of the families talked about were when the official army came, how the People's Army appeared, whether the People's Army would really buy farmland with the money, and that we should accept the money.

I don't know when the officers and troops will fight, and we don't know how the KPA will appear, but the fact that the KPA is taking money to buy farmland has already happened, and the price of farmland purchased by the KPA is relatively low, and the price of high-grade land is only equivalent to that of low-grade land, and the price of low-grade land is even lower.

The heads of the families could not refuse the purchase of the People's Army, they were more thinking about whether they should accept the silver, and they were worried that after they received the money, they would be found by these "thieves" to raid their homes.

"This group of thieves is not ordinary, they will not kill innocents indiscriminately, we people have not been raided, our reputation is better, we have not done any evil deeds to the people, even if we accept the money to buy farmland, it is very likely that nothing will happen.

Anyway, this farmland was only temporarily robbed by thieves, and when the officials and soldiers came, the farmland would return to us, and this silver should be given to us as compensation, and the officials and soldiers were not so easy to deal with, so we had to pay for the army. ”

Xu Xinzhi told several other family owners his opinion, and several other family heads all agreed, except for the big families who were so afraid that they didn't dare to ask for the people's army's silver, it was really difficult for big families to not accept money.

The work efficiency of the Haifeng County People's Military Government was very high, and when the people's armies from all walks of life did not gather outside Haifeng County, the matter of buying farmland from large households with money was almost solved.

Not all of them bought farmland with silver, and the People's Military Government used several forms of payment:

The first is to pay in gold and silver, but not in one lump sum, but in installments;

the second is to pay for antique calligraphy and paintings, gold and silver jewelry, etc., which can be paid in one lump sum;

The third is to pay part of it in gold and silver, and part of it to pay for antique calligraphy and painting gold and silver jewelry, the latter to pay in one lump sum, and the former still to pay in installments.

They do not think that the People's Army can overthrow the Ming Dynasty, but they think that the official army will soon encircle and suppress the People's Army.

Now several people's armies are gathered outside Haifeng County, and the heads of the families in the city are not very good-looking because the people's army outside the city has gathered in Xufu again, and they all know the news that the Jieshi Weiming Army was wiped out by the People's Army.

For the news that the Jieshi Wei Ming Army was wiped out, the People's Army did not hide, more than 5,000 Ming troops were gone, and the Ming Army already knew about such a big thing, and there was no need for the People's Army to hide it internally, and to tell the people about this matter, so that the people could know that the People's Army was strong and would not be easily defeated by the Ming Army, and it could enhance some people's hearts.

The elimination of the Jieshi Wei Ming Army by the People's Army is good news for the People's Army and the ordinary people under the rule of the People's Army, but it is bad news for these large families who still want to return to the rule of the Ming Dynasty, the stronger the People's Army, the more time it will take for the Ming Army to exterminate the People's Army.

There are about 100,000 Ming troops in Guangdong, and if most of the Ming troops are mobilized to encircle and suppress the People's Army, it will take at least half a month to mobilize the Ming troops from all departments.

If the Ming army in Guangdong is unable to exterminate the People's Army, then it will be necessary to mobilize the Ming army outside Guangdong, and it will take more time.

Of course, in the hearts of the heads of the family, it is only a matter of time before the People's Army, a group of rebellious people and thieves, is exterminated by the Ming Army, the Ming Dynasty has a million troops, and the People's Army is far from being an opponent.

"Shall we send our men out of the city with the information of the thieves and send it to the officers and soldiers?" In the room, a head of the house suggested.

"It's better not to, once the thieves know, I'm afraid that the whole family will suffer, and we will also be implicated, how can the thieves not know that we are gathered together." Xu Xinzhi directly rejected the proposal.