The officials and wealthy businessmen gathered at Zhang Zhilu's house again, and their mood at this time was even more fearful than the Fire Lotus Sect's attack on the mansion last night.

10 million taels of silver, each of them has to share at least 1.2 million taels, it is better to let them die!

"Manager Zhang, what should we do now? He's a Mongol, and we won't win if he sues us to the Jinluan Palace! Is it really going to be 10 million? ”

"Impossible!" Zhang Zhilu said categorically, "Ten million taels of silver, why didn't he grab it?" I waited for my hard work to finally save these, how can I get this cheaper! ”

"So what are we going to do?"

Zhang Zhilu frowned, and slammed his fist on the table with a vicious fist, shattering a table leg at the good end.

"Even if he is a Mongol, he can't do whatever he wants! I heard that the prime minister of the dynasty, Yan Timur, was very kind, and our Zhang family also walked around the prime minister's mansion from time to time, I think this matter can be asked to him, even if it can't cure this, it is good that we can spare less money to escape this catastrophe! ”

When everyone heard this, they looked at each other, and there was no other way but to follow Zhang Zhilu's idea, which was much better than directly sending more than one million to Yiwangfu to recruit troops. So they each went home to prepare silver, and sent loyal subordinates in the house to quietly send to Zhang's mansion, some 50,000, 80,000, some 100,000, 200,000, and that night collected nearly two million taels of silver tickets.

Later, Zhang Zhilu wrote a letter overnight, sending his cronies to the mansion of the Zhang family in Dadu, asking Zhang Youde, the fourth uncle who stayed in Dadu, to call Yan Timur with a ceiling of 500,000 taels of silver, and let Yan Timur put pressure on Yiwang's mansion.

After handing over the letter to his cronies, Zhang Zhilu carefully recalled these events, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't remember it, so he had to reluctantly beat his head and get into the quilt.

At the same time, in the Yiwang Mansion, Gong Qianbai transferred the only 3,000 troops in the military camp, 2,000 to guard the city gate, 1,000 to guard the mansion, and all the servants and maids in the mansion who had relatives and relatives in the city were all sent home, and in the end, only a dozen maids and daughters-in-law including the vegetable mother and daughter remained, and then there were Kang Jian, Chen Yuyan and others.

Seeing the posture of Yiwang Mansion, all the families in Yidu City were relieved, thinking that there were finally enough defenders to guard Yidu City, and the Fire Lotus Sect had just ransacked Yidu City.

However, no one expected that during the third watch, in Yidu City, he actually remembered the sound of shouting and killing again, and he knew that it was still the Fire Lotus Sect when he looked at the messy clothes, and 9 out of 10 people in Yidu City were scared, and everyone was looking for a safe place for themselves, so that there was not even a shadow of a beggar outside.

However, the strange thing is that this time the Fire Lotus Sect did not directly attack the Yiwang Mansion, on the contrary, they took the 5 city gates first, and killed all the defenders of the 5 city gates, and then left 500 people to guard each city gate, and the others were in a group of 50 people, divided into 1000 groups, and ransacked the big households in Yidu City.

Of course, this time, the Yiwang Mansion was still regarded as a key object of care, and now there was no Azhu's poisonous net, and the Fire Lotus Sect and a thousand defenders were inseparable in the Yiwang Mansion. However, the Fire Lotus Sect seems to have a large number of people this time, and their combat effectiveness is even stronger than yesterday, and the thousand defenders only lasted less than half an hour before they were wiped out again, and this time the entire army was wiped out in battle.

The Fire Lotus Sect members did not find King Yi and the others and his dozen or so maids and daughters in King Yi's mansion, so they just took away the valuable things in the palace.

However, the other families in Yidu City are not much better, and my Lotus Sect members seem to know the location of the secret rooms of each family, and after a carpet search, and even digging three feet into the ground, they have found one or more secret rooms in each big family, and basically the valuable things in these big families have been placed in the secret rooms, and most of them have been lost this time. Even those property deeds and the like that couldn't be taken away were burned clean by them.

Fortunately, although the Fire Lotus Sect members were stronger this time, they were also less murderous, so all the big ones were looted this night, but there were almost no deaths.

However, what is frightening is that when these Fire Lotus Sect members left, they all shouted, "Save money well, grandfathers will come back in a month, if there are 108,000 taels of silver in the family, it will be fine, otherwise one or two less will cut off a person's head"! This frightened the rich families in Yidu City so much that they vowed to move as soon as they were bright.

Governor's Office.

Zhang Zhilu thought about it and still felt that something was wrong with this group of Fire Lotus Cultists, and the strangeness revealed everywhere made him feel more and more that they were not like bandits, but more like elite regular army.

Could it be a private soldier secretly saved by King Yi? Zhang Zhilu had doubted this more than once, but then he was overturned by himself.

Not for others, there are thousands of people besieging the city, and it is not easy to hide such a large number of people, and it is impossible not to be discovered by the imperial court.

He knew that there were no defenders on Yidu Road, and after tonight, Yidu City might not even have a sergeant guarding the door, so that is, there was no soldier in Yiwang's Mansion now, so naturally it could not be a ghost made by King Yi.

This does not rule out that he thinks this thing is weird, but Zhang Zhilu still has no clue what to do at this time.

Finally caught the light, Zhang Zhilu was about to go to Yiwangfu to listen to the news, when he heard Gao Lishi, the second housekeeper of Yiwangfu, riding a horse and beating a gong, shouting on the street:

"Lord Yi has an order, anyone who joins the army on Yidu Road, after passing the inspection, can rent 10 acres of land at a rented price, the lease period is ten times the number of years in the army, if you die in battle, you will be directly rewarded for 50 years, and there is no other tax!"

Having to have this military order is simply too powerful, and it firmly captures the hearts of the displaced people in Yidu City.

What do displaced people value most? Land! However, the current landlords collect less than 50% or 60% of the rent, and more receive 70% or 80%, even if they are planting, they can't support themselves.

Now, it's a rent, and there are no other taxes, which is something that I never dreamed of.

So when Gao Lishi shouted around Yidu City, hundreds of thousands of people flocked to the ruins of Yiwangfu, shouting that they wanted to sign up for the army.

However, the conditions for recruiting troops in Yiwangfu are very high, not only to lift 200 pounds of heavy objects, but also to be able to pull out the five-stone bow, resulting in more than half of the people being unable to meet and being lost.

However, the number of people who meet the conditions is still very large, and Yiwangfu exchanged the millions of acres of fertile land in his own mansion for 100,000 recruits. Especially the 14 generals selected from it, all of them are martial arts masters, such as that Li Cunxiao, who fought all over Yidu City as soon as he came, and became the first general directly under the jurisdiction of Yiwang Mansion.