Hanyang Castle, East Gate.

A group of soldiers of the 7th Infantry Division, who were guarding the city gate, stayed bored in the city gate hole.

Now it has been six days since the Tang Army conquered Hanyang Fucheng, and the troops of the First Army and the Fifth Army have left Hanyang one after another, and even the Son of Heaven has left Hanyang with a group of civil and military dignitaries and guards, and returned to Jinling down the river on the navy's imperial ship.

The war seems to have completely left this city!

But there was still more than an entire Seventh Infantry Division stationed in the city, and the crumbling buildings and crumbling walls of the city were a sign that it had recently experienced a terrible war.

Yes, although the Battle of Hanyang was a battle for the Tang Army, it was a battle under absolute superiority, and it was fought very smoothly.

But for the defenders and the inhabitants of the city, it is not very friendly.

The nearly 30,000 Dubiao Chinese troops stationed in the city, as well as about 5,000 young men who were temporarily conscripted, died about 5,000 on the spot, and about 2,000 people died in the next few days because of their injuries, so if you count them, the Ming army died about 7,000 people in battle.

And the remaining 20,000 people are basically prisoners of war!

And the deaths and injuries of the people in the city are actually not small!

Mainly when the Tang Army attacked the city, it carried out intensive artillery bombardment of the city, although the main target of the artillery bombardment was the city head, but not all shells could accurately fall on the city head, in fact, a considerable part flew over the city head and then fell in the city.

As a result, many buildings near the city walls were destroyed, and the ordinary people in these buildings naturally suffered unjustified disasters.

In addition, after the city was broken, the Tang Army entered the city to carry out a clean-up operation, many Ming troops were hiding in private houses to resist, the Tang Army will not be polite to this, all kinds of means will be used, with shotguns, with five-pound field guns to shoot at close range, throw grenades, and even arson attacks, etc., in this process, it is inevitable that there will be some casualties.

But that's all in the past, and now there are no more frightening gunshots in the city!

The newly arrived prefect of Hanyang Prefecture and other officials at all levels are organizing the residents of the city to clean up the ruins, bury the dead and wounded, and avoid the plague in the city!

The battle in the city has completely ended, and the city of Hanyang has not been under the strictest martial law as in the previous days, but has begun to allow the residents of the city to move around, and at the same time, the people outside the city are allowed to enter the city.

After all, the martial law was so strict at the beginning, just to arrest the defeated soldiers and Zhang Yue and other high-ranking generals and officials of the Ming army who fled, but in the first three or four days, they were basically arrested.

The Tang Army is also not interested in arresting every deserter, they are not so idle, as long as most of the rout is arrested to ensure that there will be no large-scale military resistance in the city, then they will not care much about some of the rout soldiers who take advantage of the chaos to escape.

After all, a small number of defeated troops are no longer able to affect the overall situation.

After several successive security notices were posted, the life of the residents of the city was officially normalized, so that the 7th Infantry Division stationed in the city seemed to have nothing to do.

They had to wait for the replenishment of troops and equipment, or they would have already gone to the front.

However, this kind of idleness is actually a very rare time for rest and relaxation for many soldiers!

As the main force of the Second Army, the Seventh Infantry Division has been fighting on the front line since the launch of the Southwest Campaign, and they are all well-deserved main forces in the Susong Campaign, the Huangzhou Campaign and even the Hanyang Campaign.

Its own casualties were not small, and after the Battle of Hanyang, some soldiers and equipment were transferred, so the current Seventh Infantry Division has only more than half of its full strength.

From more than 15,000 at its peak, it has now only more than 8,000.

The 3rd Infantry Division, the other main force of the Second Army, was no better, and now it has just over 10,000 men.

After all, this is almost a shortage of three armies, and they are all concentrated in these two infantry divisions, and it would be abnormal if the shortage was not serious.

Rest and replenishment, this is the main task of the 7th Infantry Division now, as for the garrison of Hanyang Fucheng, it is only incidental!

Unless it is the front line, otherwise, stationed in a certain city, it is not the task of Datang's existing fourteen main infantry divisions and ten mixed regiments, and these main forces are almost all arranged to fight on the front line.

And those stationed in the rear, all of them are reserve divisions!

According to the arrangement of the Privy Council, it is estimated that in three days, a reserve division will cross the river from Wuchang Province and then enter Hanyang.

But before that, the garrison of Hanyang Mansion City still had to be done by the Seventh Infantry Division, and the guarding of the city gate also had to be done by the elite main infantry.

But although it is a rest, it is really boring to guard the city gate, many people are bored watching the civilians coming in and out, and the patrolmen in black uniforms are searching the people entering and leaving the city and maintaining order.

"This is the first few to be beaten, the eighth, the quality of these people is too poor, the first few sons said not to line up, then it is understandable, but why doesn't this person line up for a reason?" A private of the first class was puzzled.

The corporal next to him said: "Didn't you see that person wearing a long shirt, that's a scholar, it's normal to be reluctant to line up with ordinary people, but after being warned by the patrol police, he still wants to cut in line, this is looking for a fight!" ”

"You look, wait for him to be honest after a few hits!" As he spoke, the corporal pointed to the middle-aged scholar in his forties, dressed in a long robe.

The man seemed to rely on his identity as a scholar, and then ignored the warnings of the patrol police, insisted on cutting into the front row, and said something like that.

The patrol officer who maintained order at the city gate only verbally persuaded at first, and saw that the man was reluctant to come out, and then directly pulled out the waist knife, of course, did not draw the knife, but the waist knife with the scabbard smashed directly into the middle-aged man who shouted Sven in his mouth and snapped the scholar.

The knife hit, and then he raised his foot with a big kick, which directly gasped out the middle-aged scholar!

Then he pulled out his waist knife slightly, and said sharply: "What a boldness, you dare to disturb the peace, someone is coming!" ”

This middle-aged scholar was scared silly, in his life, it is estimated that he has never met such a disrespectful servant for his talented man, he said to fight, no, they didn't prompt him to fight at all, just said that he couldn't cut in line, and he refuted two sentences that he was a showman, a scholar or something, and then he was beaten.

What's more, after he heard the word "coming", he was immediately so frightened that he forgot the pain, and then cried: "The military master spares his life, the military master spares his life!" ”

Unexpectedly, the patrolman didn't pay attention to him at all, but said to a young patrolman who followed behind: "Open a ticket!" ”

Then the young patrol officer directly took out a small notebook from his arms, and then tore off a page from it that was still on the middle-aged man's body, and at the same time said: "Disrupt the peace, dissuade and do not listen, the nature is bad, and you will be fined ten taels according to the law!" ”

After finishing speaking, he said again: "The fine will be paid in person, and there will be no credit!" ”

Ten taels? Why don't you go and grab the money!

If the two patrol officers heard the words of this middle-aged scholar, it is estimated that they would have the same look: We are just robbing money, if we don't rob money, hundreds of patrol officers of our Hanyang Mansion Patrol Police Station will go northwest?

Although the Tang Dynasty will leave land taxes for the local government, except for a few areas with better economies, the local finances of most places are poor, and the salaries of the patrol officers are all paid from the local finances.

Among the many laws and regulations in the Tang Dynasty, the patrol police's favorite is the regulations on various fines, and even in order to generate income, many minor crimes that are not painful, such as cutting the queue at the city gate, are directly fined.

But even if you are caught, you will be sent to work in the end, and work, in fact, to put it bluntly, is to do hard work for the official for free, in the final analysis, it actually has something to do with money.

Of course, there are also some cities that are more straightforward, such as the capital of the Tang Dynasty, Jinling City, when entering and exiting the city gate, there has always been a VIP fast track, one person at a time one or two silver, pay the money and you can go, so as to avoid the worry of queuing!

The first choice for the powerful, wealthy businessmen and scholars who want to save face!

If a wealthy businessman has to queue up with those ordinary people when he enters the city gate, and he can't even afford to go through the fast lane, others will definitely doubt your strength.

The really powerful merchants all take the fast track with groups of servants and maids, and it is dozens of taels of silver to walk once!

If you want to pretend to be forced, just take a large group of servants to the fast track, if you go back and forth dozens of times a day, the entire Jinling City will know that you have money and you are awesome, because this money is enough for you to stay in Miss Qinhuaihe's painting boat for a long time.

The scholar naturally can't pretend to be forced, and he doesn't even have a delicate maid when he goes out, so it can be seen that he can't mix it up, and these ten taels of silver are his old life!

The whole body is more than three taels of silver that escaped!

The money is not enough, it's okay, the patrol said that we are very reasonable, you can go to work in the labor camp, the salary is worth the fine, and you can also eat and live for free!

In the end, he asked a friend to help pay the fine, and finally avoided the fate of being arrested and sent to the labor camp!

And this scene was seen by many people, and they were all dumbfounded!

And among these people, a tall and thin old man wearing ordinary scribe clothes showed the expression of the old man who is not convinced by anyone, just obey you!

I, Zhang Yue, finally know why the pseudo-Tang has so much money today, this means of making money, I Zhang Yue sigh to myself!