"My lord, Sister Xu wants me to come to you." Wang Cheng rushed over and shouted at Yang Ming and his party, who had just come out of the county treasury.

"What's the matter?" Yang Ming asked.

"There were a lot of people on the other side of the wall...... They're going to rush in......"

"Let's go, let's see!"

Yang Ming quickened his pace, and Fan Tongzhou and the others hurriedly followed.

The city gate is being built on the north side of the school field, and the gap opened yesterday has been repaired neatly, and the arch connection above the gap has been closed, and there are some door openings in the beginning. The construction site, where hundreds of people had been working, was now suspended, and the men who had been recruited from among the captives outside the city threw down their tools and shouted with the captives outside to enter the city. The gap in the city wall was blocked by a wooden fence, and hundreds of soldiers and Ding Zhuang were nervously guarding with various weapons to prevent the noisy crowd outside from breaking into the city.

"Tomorrow is the New Year, it's freezing this day, how can you bear to throw us outside the city?"

"There are people who freeze to death and starve to death every day - last night in the north wind, dozens of people froze to death early this morning, and if this continues, I am afraid that there will be unexpected changes......"

The two scholars at the head spoke to the sergeants, and the ragged civilians behind them made a noise.

Seeing Yang Ming and his party coming, the sergeant and Ding Zhuang hurriedly made way for a passage.

"Who are you two?" Yang Ming asked through the wooden fence.

The two students stared at Yang Ming's strange outfit and thought for a moment, then turned around and waved their hands, and the noise of the crowd behind them slowly subsided. There is no way, the common people are just the people who serve the readers.

"Meng Ruli, a student in Xialiang Township."

"In Xiagu'an, Wang Anpei."

On December 1, Huang Taiji led his troops to attack Liangxiang and Tu Gu'an, and it has been more than 20 days now, and it seems that these two scholars have been suffering in the captives for a long time.

"Why didn't the two gentlemen, since they were scholars, not enter the city?" Yang Ming knew that some of the captives were taken in the city by the Later Jin army, mainly scholars, craftsmen, doctors, beautiful women, etc.

"We are in the ranks of the captives, and the Tartars don't know who we are."

"Read the books of the sages, know loyalty, filial piety and shame, how can we covet happiness and be used by the Tartars!"

The two students said angrily.

It seems that he is a virtuous reader, and Yang Ming has always respected these virtuous people in history.

"I wonder if the two gentlemen know the number of prisoners outside the city?"

"We have heard from those who are in charge of the Tartars that there are about thirteen thousand prisoners outside the city."

"Thirteen,000 people is not a small number, and I am afraid it will be difficult to enter the city to come to this food, grass and accommodation."

"Besides, there are many people, and it is inevitable that there will be spies mixed in, such as what Mr. said just now, the person who is in charge of the Tartars ......"

Yang Ming hesitated for a moment.

"The person who takes charge of the Tartars is not necessarily a spy, and if there is no one to take care of the affairs, I am afraid that the captives will die long ago. As for food, the captives had to eat outside the city as well......"

They may not be unreasonable in saying this, the captives of the Later Jin Army were transported to Jianzhou to be used as labor and fertility tools, and naturally they did not want these people to freeze to death and starve to death, and would throw dozens of bags of grain every day to keep the captives alive. However, if there is no person in charge to arrange the distribution, most people will not have access to food, and they will only starve to death.

"More than 10,000 people have entered the city, what if there is a noise and robbery?"

"The captives only want to live, if the adults can let them in, they are too late to be grateful to the adults, how can they do the act of traitors?"

"Besides, the prisoners are all gathered in each township and region, each with its own protection, and no one dares to do wrong......"

"Then, the two gentlemen, please go back and make proper arrangements, and I will go and tell the magistrate to let everyone enter the city." Yang Ming also didn't want these captives to be cold and hungry outside, let alone dead.

"Dare to ask your lordship?" The two students asked Yang Mingchang for a long time.

"Under Yang Ming." Yang Ming cupped his fists and saluted back.

"But the Heavenly General who broke the Tartars with the Five Thunder Righteous Law yesterday?" The two students looked at Yang Ming with bright eyes and said excitedly.

"Exactly." Yang Ming smiled and nodded.

"Please make proper arrangements for the two gentlemen to enter the city in an orderly manner, and there must be no noise, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable."

On the city wall, Zhao Zhixian stood with a middle-aged man about thirty years old, looking at the crowd under the city wall, not far from them, there were more than a dozen bags of grain stacked in a mess, and the two officials carried the two corners of the sack, hey, swinged the sack, put it on the battlement of the city wall, and then pushed it out, and the sack fell down heavily.

The crowd under the city hurled and took a few steps back, forming a semi-circular circle of people, the sack fell in the middle of the circle, making a dull sound, one corner of the bag broke, the golden wheat grains flowed out, the black pressed crowd rushed up, surrounded the sack, tore hard, dug out the wheat into his arms, sleeves, and some people directly grabbed a handful of wheat and stuffed it into their mouths, the crowd crowded each other, pulled, cries, scolding and scolding.

Zhao Zhixian frowned, and said to the middle-aged man on the side: "Mr. Liu, it's not a way to go on like this, Mr. still has to sort it out." ”

The middle-aged man, wearing a long crimson robe with a collar and wide sleeves, a fox fur hat on his head, a white complexion, and bright eyes, sighed and said, "In the past, there were Tartars, and no one dared to make a noise even if the captives were cold and starving outside the city. Now that the Tartars are gone, they are still allowed to eat and sleep in the open, but I'm afraid they can't be controlled, so I think the adults should let them in. ”

Zhao Zhixian snorted coldly and said, "Now the Tartar is gone, but there is another master in this city, whether you let it in or not, I'm afraid this master still has the final say......

The middle-aged man looked into the distance and said leisurely: "Strange, what is the origin of this Yang someone?" ”

Zhao Zhixian said: "The official asked Fan Tongzhou, this person was killed halfway, and he killed dozens of Tartars as soon as he made a move, which is very terrifying. As for the origin, I'm afraid no one knows. ”

The middle-aged man asked again: "Yesterday in the next battle in the city, it is said that this person struck a thunder law, and thousands of Tartar soldiers were instantly gone. Your Excellency was in the city......"

"How many times have I said it, what the official saw with his own eyes at the time, can there be a fake?" Zhao Zhixian was a little angry, "It's not enough that there are no bones, and the hundreds of heads are still nitrated with lime." ”

The middle-aged man sighed: "It's a pity, it's a pity! Such a scene, rare in a hundred years, unfortunately not able to see it in person, a pity, a pity! ”

"Didn't you see the thunder outside the city, didn't you see the thunder in the city?"

"More than 20 houses were destroyed, not to mention the Tartars killed by the explosion, and the people of this city were also killed and wounded seventy or eighty people."

Speaking of this, Zhao Zhixian showed a look of apprehension.

"Alas, it looks like this day is about to change." The middle-aged man let out a long sigh.

This middle-aged man is Liu Bixian, a native of Zhucheng, Shandong, who was raised in the fourth year of the Apocalypse. The Liu family was poor in the early years, and when Liu Bixian's grandfather Liu Sizhi began to study, he became a student. Liu Bixian's father Liu Tong is also a tribute student, he is "suave and ambitious", Wanli forty-three years of famine, he found some silver money on the road, waited in the same place for three days, no one came to find, helpless to use this money to buy rice to cook porridge, relief of the hungry. He once saw a poor man sell a woman, buy it, pay for it, and then tear up the paperwork in front of her, so that the woman can go home and be reunited.

Liu Bixian has been smart since childhood, diligent in reading, and does not like to travel. At the age of nineteen, he was the first in the annual examination. At the age of twenty-five, he was lifted in the township examination, and the teenager was enrolled. Historically, he was a scholar in the nine years of Shunzhi, was an upright official, dared to safeguard the interests of the common people, and offended the nobles of the banner people, and then resigned and died at the age of ninety-three. His grandson is Liu Tongxun, the famous prime minister of the Qing Dynasty.

This time Liu Bixian came to Beijing to study, but he didn't expect to encounter martial law in Beijing just after arriving in Beijing, and the capital could not enter, so he turned back to Tongzhou, and wanted to take a boat from Zhangjiawan back to Shandong.

When the Later Jin Army broke through the border in the early days, even if it was a prisoner, it was very important, and Liu Bixian's status as a person was even more prominent, so Haoge took him with him and wanted to use it for himself, Liu Bixian saw that it was useless to resist, so he simply asked for an errand to manage the prisoners, hoping to let the prisoners have something to eat and not die of cold and starvation.

The soldiers on the city wall still followed the old rules of the Houjin army, throwing fifteen bags of grain at each city gate, and those prisoners who did not grab the food were still begging under the city wall. The grain thrown to the captives came from the granary of the Houjin army, not from the county warehouse, Liu Bixian just wanted to throw more grain, and now he had to ask Yang Ming.

Liu Bixian had always wanted to visit Yang Ming in the General's Mansion, but he resisted the impulse, he had to wait.

Yang Ming was led by Fan Tongzhou, climbed the city wall along the gallop road, and came to Zhao Zhixian.

"Lord Zhao." This time it was Yang Ming who came to beg for help, and as soon as he saw him, he bowed and clasped his fists and saluted, as for kneeling, forget it, after all, the other party is a criminal official who surrendered, and even the city was recovered in his own hands.

"General Yang came just in time." Zhao Zhixian stroked a few strands of beard under his forehead, "These hungry people outside the city are clamoring, they can't bear to abandon it, and it's difficult to collect it." ”

"Lord Zhao, I want to let refugees from outside the city come in......," Yang Ming said straight to the point.

"Put it in? How is it placed? Zhao Zhixian didn't expect Yang Ming to take the initiative to make this request.

"Set up a tent on the school grounds, and the dozens of ruins on the edge of the school grounds were quickly cleared, and some space could also be freed up. In other parts of the city, if there is a vacant place, it can also be relocated as appropriate. ”

"The general is benevolent, but this matter is important and must be properly arranged." Zhao Zhixian looked at Liu Bixian on the side and said, "The general can discuss with Mr. Liu, and if it is feasible, the official will open the city gate and let the refugees in." ”

Yang Ming looked at Liu Bixian next to Zhao Zhixian, but found that the middle-aged man was looking at him with electric eyes.

"I've seen Mr. Liu." Yang Ming stepped forward and saluted with his fists.

"This is General Yang? Fortunately, fortunately. The students wanted to go to see the general yesterday, but now they have to deal with the affairs of these refugees, and they really dare not leave, so please forgive the general. Liu Bixian returned the salute and said politely.

After the two met, Liu Bixian quickly arranged things properly. Who came first, who was responsible, how to enter the city, where they were placed, how to pass through the city, and the food, grass, materials and utensils needed everywhere, everything was in order. Yang Ming saw it in his eyes, and he couldn't help but secretly admire it in his heart, if he arranged it by himself, he would definitely not be able to do it so perfectly.

"I would like to ask Sir to take charge of the overall situation." Yang Ming simply opened the skylight and said brightly, since Liu Bixian can be used by Haoge, I believe that he can also use it for himself.

"Liu is a shallow learner, and I am afraid it will be difficult to take on this big responsibility." Liu Bixian was polite as usual.

"Sir doesn't have to shirk, if there is any change in the future, I will bear all the responsibility, and I will never implicate Mr. in the slightest." Yang Ming dispelled Liu Bixian's last possible concerns.

"Thanks to the general's love, the students can barely try it, but I hope it will live up to the general's expectations." The effect that Liu Bixian was waiting for finally appeared, and he naturally would not let go of this opportunity.

"I have 120,000 taels of silver, 200,000 stones of grain and grass, and 70,000 horses of cloth and silk in the city......"

"Here's the list Haugbel came up with." Yang Ming handed a stack of documents to Liu Bixian, "Mr. needs to allocate any materials, just write the documents and hand them to the county warehouse for processing." ”

Liu Bixian looked at the documents in his hand, quite a little surprised, Yang Ming's trust in him exceeded his expectations, looking at the items on the list, Liu Bixian couldn't help but sigh in his heart, although Haoge treated him preferentially, but these core secrets he couldn't touch at all, now Yang Ming handed it all over to himself, and he had such trust when they met for the first time, which made Liu Bixian feel that the burden on his shoulders was heavy.

"The students must devote themselves to serving the generals." Liu Zhixian can be regarded as a statement.

Under Liu Bixian's overall arrangement, the prisoners entered the city in an orderly manner. The construction of the city wall has also been accelerated, and Liu Bixian has promised to give money in addition to taking care of the rice, so that the people have hope and the work efficiency has been significantly improved. The ruins of the houses next to the school yard have basically been cleared, and according to the plan discussed by Yang Ming and Liu Bixian, a row of houses are planned to be built here, including a large dining hall that can accommodate hundreds of people to eat together.

Eating is a big problem now, and at night, the school field is full of blazing firewood, accompanied by billowing smoke, and the entrance of the general's mansion where Yang Ming lives can smell the choking smell of smoke.

Xu Xiaoniang has prepared a table of dishes, but the only people who eat are her, Yang Ming, Wang Cheng, Ding Yousan and they went to eat by themselves, maybe they feel uncomfortable eating with Yang Ming, and now there is a large amount of horse meat - the next battle in Shunyi City, the Houjin army killed and injured countless horses, and Ding Yousan and other sergeants ate meat and drank wine.

Yang Ming sat at the table alone, as usual, Xu Xiaoniang and Wang Cheng were not allowed to eat at the table, this kind of rule made Yang Ming very uncomfortable.

"You two sit down and eat together." Yang Ming greeted them.

"We'll eat when the general finishes eating first." Little Lady Xu stood next to her and put dishes and chopsticks for Yang Ming.

"Well, I said, why are you like this? Now there's no outsider—"

As soon as the words came out, Yang Ming felt that it didn't seem appropriate.

Sure enough, Xu Xiaoniang blushed, but Wang Cheng was young and didn't hear anything, and looked up at Yang Ming and the little lady with her eyes shining.

"General, I took some money today and asked the servants in the palace to go to the street to buy dishes and groceries." Xu Xiaoniangzi said.

"But...... The money, food, and equipment that are stored here are used everywhere. Mr. Fan and Ding General are not enough, and those Ding Zhuang, as well as those who repair the city wall and the whole school field, all come to get things. The slave family and Wang Xiaogongzi are guarding here, and it is not to give, nor is it to give. ”

Yang Ming also seized a lot along the way, in addition to the baggage materials carried by Wulai's team, the weapons, armor, and silver taels that were cut outside the city gate yesterday and cleaned up the battlefield were also a large amount, and they were all stored in the general's mansion after entering the city, and they didn't think about how to dispose of them.

"It doesn't matter, it'll be fine in a few days, just take care of the iron car and the iron cannon." Yang Ming has decided to send these materials to the county government warehouse tomorrow, and Liu Bixian will use them in a unified manner.

"The general can rest assured that the lintel is very strong, and the car is parked inside, and no one can approach." Xu Xiaoniang said in a firm tone.

"That's good, you've worked hard for the past two days." Yang Ming took out the Tian Huangshi seal from his pocket and handed it to the little lady.

"Tian Huang?" Xu Xiaoniang asked puzzled.

"It's a seal. In the future, Mr. Liu's official document will come to you to stamp the letter. ”

The little lady was taken aback and was about to excuse herself, but when she saw the seal on the printed surface, she was immediately stunned.