Since yesterday morning, the Li family's army has entered the city in a mighty way, and the "pop ......" military boots have struck on the big bluestone slab, scattering the sound of shocking footsteps, and it has not completely stopped until the third watch in the morning today.

At five o'clock in the morning, small merchants and vendors who get up early to do food and trade have the courage to open the door to do business, or go out to set up stalls with food burdens.

Yesterday, after the army entered the city, the ruling king had already issued a decree that the streets should not be closed and there should be no curfew, and business should be carried out.

In layman's terms, that is, the horses run, dance, buy and sell, and the nephew lights the lantern for the uncle, and everything is as usual.

The small traders and vendors are all nervous, but the problem is that the ladies and children in the family are counting on them to support their families. No matter how scared they are, as the pillars of the family, they must be tough and go out to do business.

The world is big, and the food is the biggest!

Whether the Chai family court is in power, or the ruling king is in power, aren't the ordinary people all the same in paying taxes?

The demands of the common people are actually very simple, and they do not expect the ruling king to help them reduce taxes and taxes, but only to reward them with food, so that their families will not be scattered, and their wives and daughters will be sold.

It's not easy to live in Kaifeng!

Kaifeng, as the capital of the empire, has a steady stream of resources from all directions, creating the first capital of Asia.

In the history of the Celestial Empire, it has always been the political foundation that determines the economic system, which is also the root cause of the economic logic of the Celestial Empire that Western economists can never understand.

Among them, the political system is the foundation, and the economic system is the skin, which must not be confused.

The Son of Heaven caresses the four people, and Shinong is an industrialist!

In addition to studying and becoming an official, everything is inferior, especially cheap businessmen, who are widely looked down upon.

Under the unified imperial power, the official-based tradition of taking officials as teachers has continued for thousands of years and has never been interrupted.

The social reforms recorded in history are all reforms led by the bureaucratic and scholarly classes, such as the reform of the Shang monarch, the reform of Wang Anshi, and the Westernization movement.

Under the official-based system, if the official power is loosened and the official enterprises are less, the exploitation will be reduced by five points, and the life of the common people will be better than one point.

On the contrary, the bureaucratic elite uses the privileges in their hands to exploit the interests of the people with impunity.

The middle class of the imperial era, a large number of yeoman farmers, must have been the first to go bankrupt and were forced to sell their land, houses, wives and daughters to pay off their debts.

When the yeoman farmers were finished, the financial revenue of the imperial court also plummeted, and it was forced to levy more taxes, which opened the cycle of chaos and death, and finally the empire collapsed.

Before modern times, Europe was a real feudal society, and there were many divided and divided lords. Wars between lords for profit, because of the small territory, small population, and low money, forced the lords to borrow money from the merchants.

As the saying goes, the mouth of eating people is soft, and the hands of people are short. The lords continued to borrow money to fight, which led to the high status of Western merchants.

Therefore, the economic logic of the West is: the economic base determines the superstructure, and the Celestial Empire is very different!

Since Li Zhongyi led his army westward, the cooking cake business of hawker Zhang Dalang has also plummeted.

The money for renting a house in Kaifeng City alone accounted for more than half of Zhang Dalang's cooking profits. Moreover, since the day the only son was born, he was particularly prone to illness, and it cost a lot of money to see Lang Zhong take medicine.

People are under the eaves and have to bow their heads!

How can a lady from a poor family be like everyone else, and she can't go out of the door?

Zhang Dalang's wife is quite good at needlework, and she can always receive a lot of sewing and mending odd jobs on weekdays, and she can also earn some money to supplement the family.

However, the great turmoil of the current situation has made Zhang Dalang's wife not take on the sewing work for several days.

As the saying goes, antiques in prosperous times, cash in troubled times.

The battle for hegemony in the Central Plains is in full swing, and everyone does not dare to spend money, and the business of small traders and hawkers is bound to be very sluggish.

Even if the business is sluggish, Zhang Dalang, who has no surplus food at home, must go out with a burden and set up a stall to sell cooking cakes, otherwise, who will support the mother and son?

"......Squeak" Zhang Dalang, who has always been timid and afraid, opened a small crack in the door panel and peeked out of the door.

Unexpectedly, on both sides of the street in front of the door, there were two rows of soldiers covered with hemp quilts, one by one, sleeping soundly, and they couldn't see their heads at a glance.

Zhang Dalang's face turned pale with fright, and he hurriedly closed the door, but he didn't think about it, he used too much force, and the door hit the door panel heavily, "Bang!" There was a frightening, loud noise.

"Wow!" The soldiers of Team D, who were originally asleep, did not even fully open their eyes after hearing the warning signal, so they subconsciously lifted the hemp quilt on their bodies, took out the sheathed waist knife pillowed under their heads with their left hand, and grabbed the spear at their side with their right hand.

In a few breaths, dozens of soldiers of the entire D team had already formed themselves according to their respective battle formations, and they were fully armed and set up in defensive formations.

Four sword and shield bearers raised their shields in front, four pikemen pressed behind, and two crossbowmen had finished winding, squinting and observing the movements around them, ready to snipe the incoming enemy.

The devil is always in the details!

Sweating more in peacetime and bleeding less in wartime is definitely not an empty slogan!

In view of the tragic street fighting in Bozhou, while waiting for Han Tong's army, Li Zhongyi personally wrote down an instruction, demanding that all units of the army must strictly follow the requirements of the regulations and conduct street fighting formations and drills.

When the army was encamped in the field and encountered the police, the requirements of the order were to form a group as soon as possible and gather into a large force to more effectively counterattack the enemy's sneak attack at night.

In the streets and alleys of the city, the sneak attack of a small group of enemy troops is mainly based on the attack of bows and crossbows. If we continue to emphasize collective formation, we will cause unnecessary casualties because the target is too large.

Therefore, after training, the veterans, grabbed their weapons and got up from the ground, and they were very clever and scattered in small battle formations, hiding behind their shields.

In street fighting, only by protecting yourself first can you kill and injure the enemy more effectively.

Team Zheng Li Qiang hid behind the giant shield, carefully observed the surrounding situation, the streets were empty, how could there be a trace of half of the enemy?

"Watch out! No defense is to be disarmed without my orders. After Li Qiang observed again and again, he finally confirmed that it was not the enemy who came to attack, but he still cautiously gave the order to protect himself defensively.

"How could it be?" Li Qiang crouched behind the shield and asked his subordinates loudly.

"Team Li, it's the situation inside the door behind me." Shi Chang, who was the first to hear the knock of the door, also squatted behind the shield and loudly reported the cause of the incident.

"Oh, you go to the head of the workshop to take a look." Li Qiang wanted to check it out for himself, but the regulations didn't allow him to do so.

In the Li Jiajun, unless it is a particularly urgent counter-charge, the reckless behavior of grass-roots officers leading the charge is prohibited.

You know, it's not easy to train a qualified team leader or leader.

Li Zhongyi governed the army, emphasizing the power of collective cooperation and despising the courage of nonsensical horsemen.

Just imagine, the team is pulling out its sword first and rushing forward, as long as there is a mistake, the combat effectiveness of the whole team will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, the regulations clearly deny the brutality of the grassroots officers regardless of the occasion.

In layman's terms, when it is time to fight hard when meeting on a narrow road, the grassroots officers shout "rush with me", which is a must.

In addition, the main responsibility of the junior officer is to organize his subordinates and participate in offensive or defensive battles in a coordinated manner.

Zhang Dalang didn't expect it in his dreams, he just accidentally knocked on the door panel, and there was a big storm on the street outside.

"It's over, it's over, if you offend the soldier, you're going to be unlucky......"

In Zhang Dalang's past memories, whether it was the forbidden army of the imperial court, or the local box army, or the errand in the yamen, there was no good thing, all of them were grandfathers who rode on the head of the grass people to make a fortune!

In the past, when the officers and troops crossed the border, they always burned, killed, looted, and did all kinds of evil, which was ten times worse than the bandits in the mountains!

These grandsons have to look for ballast and snatch money from Zhang Dalang's pocket, not to mention that Zhang Dalang himself accidentally caused trouble?

Zhang Dalang leaned his back against the door panel, trembling with fright, his legs and feet, which could walk dozens of miles without resting on his burden, were inexplicably weak, and he couldn't move half a step.

"Alas......" Zhang Dalang has been selling cooking cakes on the street, and he has seen some of the world, since he has caused a big disaster, he can only spend money to eliminate the disaster.

However, Zhang Dalang's trembling hands touched his whole body, and there were only fifty copper coins.

With such a small amount of money, it is impossible to send away the fierce and vicious "grandfathers", what should I do? What to do?

The more Zhang Dalang thought about it, the more desperate he became, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that his family was ruined and people were killed, and I am afraid it was inevitable.

Unexpectedly, after about a quarter of an hour, Zhang Dalang was leaning against the door panel and panting, when he heard someone gently knock on the door, "Is Zhang Dalang there?" I am Wang Lizheng...... "The fear of the unknown is the most terrifying, Zhang Dalang heard the voice of his old acquaintance Wang Lizheng, but he was not so afraid.

Zhang Dalang held the door panel with his hand, looked through the crack in the door, and took a closer look, and sure enough, Wang Li was standing outside the door with a smile.

Zhang Dalang, who was in turmoil, reluctantly stood up straight, trembling and moving away two steps away, Wang Lizheng heard the movement inside, so he smiled and said: "Zhang Dalang, don't be afraid, the soldiers and horses of the ruling king are all righteous soldiers, they have rules, and they can't trespass on people's houses......"

It was not until this moment that Zhang Dalang suddenly realized that the dense soldiers and horses on the street, if he wanted to break into the door and arrest him, it would be as easy as a snap, so why bother to find Wang Lizhenglai?

In fact, when Wang Li was saying this, his heart beat a drum. These nice words were all taught by Li Qiang's team, how did he know that Li Jiajun was benevolent and righteous?

Wang Lizheng is a local snake after all, and not long after he entered the door, he learned the truth from Zhang Dalang's mouth.

When Wang Li came out of the door and explained to Li Qiang with a smiling face, he actually had two hundred copper coins in his arms that the Zhang family lady found by rummaging through the cabinets.

In these years, the grass people begged the officials and their families to do things, and it was the inherent norm for geese to pluck their feathers. Wang Lizheng only accepted 200 copper coins from the Zhang family, which can be regarded as a great deal of mercy, and compassion is overflowing!

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