The carriage and horse did not return to the Sima Mansion of the city government, and directly sent Xiao Er to the department store. In the past year or so, Xiao Er has managed the department store well, and after the main industries of the deserted village moved south to Yongxing River, all the goods were sent from Yongxing River to Guangxin, although it was intermittent, but it did not worry about the problem of sales.

Qin Han's confiscated storefronts and the property that could not be taken away were nominally filled into the treasury, but in fact, the final disposal power was still in the hands of Bailiyan, especially the shops and houses, which were not worth a few dollars at the moment.

The confiscated property will be sent to the department store for inventory, except for grain, grass, liquor, oil, medicinal herbs, white cloth and other military supplies, and the brothel Le Fang, the rest will be sold and exchanged for money and rice.

Leaving the department store, Bai Liyan (both Wei Xian) rushed to Simen to inspect non-stop, the conscription work was quite chaotic, in addition to the conscription in the name of the city government Sima Mansion, the Guangxin Mansion was also conscripting, even without Bai Liyan's official recognition, Jiang Qian was also determined to expand the army.

In fact, Bai Liyan opposed it but did not stop it, and did not acquiesce in the implementation of Jiang Qian and Chen Yunfeng's army expansion.

King Xian's intention to cut the seal has been very clear, especially this Gongsun Yue rebellion, the situation of one mountain and two tigers is particularly eye-catching under the skillful backdrop of the black turban rebels, and it is probably only a matter of time before Guangxin is cleaned up.

Jiang Qian's expansion of the army at this time must have been instructed by Jiang Min, and Luo Songting planned that the expansion of the army was not only to take advantage of the chaotic situation, but also to take the opportunity to expand the territory to create a fait accompli.

At the same time, in the event of a long-term confrontation between the rebels, Jiang Min will continue to make a large territory and become a base area, and it is not impossible to completely divide the territory, but this will take time, especially if King Xian's reputation is further corrupted, and the people's grievances are boiling, and the courtiers do not hide it, it is not impossible to replace it.

In this way, Baili Yan's position will be very delicate, and Luo Songting played this move in advance to prevent King Xian from cutting the seal and the throne from changing hands.

The situation of the Guangxin city wall is much better than that of Yin Yang and Duyang, the city wall is not to say that the bricks are wrapped, Jiang Min repairs every two years, and the thunder can not be repaired in five years, and the city wall is not false than the Lingling.

The only thing that worries people is the salt spray, Bailiyan has been to the coast in the previous life, most of the ancient city wall defense facilities along the coast are made of stones, and they are cemented with three-way soil, so they are resistant to corrosion and do not rush for hundreds of years.

Guangxin is a harbor city, perennial wind and rain are salt spray, look at those seaview houses, which is not more than ten or twenty years is the inner bone has been weathered and corroded, Guangxin city wall packaging is not fake, but the salt spray penetrated the city wall into the rammed earth, this is invisible to the naked eye, and in the past hundred or ten years, Guangxin has not had a war, it is difficult to say that the situation inside the city wall is as bright as the surface.

Bailiyan yesterday deliberately instructed Jiang Qian to build wolf tooth slaps, iron hoof nails, grass mud bags and other city defense armor overnight.

Iron hoof nails, wolf tooth plate for the year to stick to Yin Yang City, Baili Yan borrowed from the previous Song Dynasty city defense to build, Yongxing City after the construction of a city, successively equipped a batch, all armies and battalions have sent people to Yongxing City to study, Liang Army, Jin Army is no exception.

Jiang Qian brought back a group of soldiers and generals who visited and studied the experience of Yongxing City's city defense, and was reminded by Baili Yanyi that soldiers equipped with wolf's tooth rackets could be seen at the head of the city today, and they were organizing and practicing how to use the swing function of the wolf's tooth racket to kill and injure enemy soldiers and recycle operations.

Come to the east gate of the city, outside the city is reinforcing the copper rivet, the huge suspension bridge is lying on the ground, the soldiers on both sides are using the reels and ropes, the copper chains on the left and right sides of the suspension bridge are hung on the copper ring on the city wall, just above the city gate, the temporary wooden platform proposed by Bailiyan yesterday is being built, and it is a kind of dump, one zhang long, about half a zhang wide, three feet deep, with copper hoops on the wooden structure, in order to enhance the strength of the dump, it is estimated that it can hold more than three cubic meters of sand.

Seeing this, Bailiyan couldn't help but sigh secretly:

"It seems that Jiang Qian still has something to do, and he has only worked hard overnight to create such a huge suspension bridge plate, and there must be a lot of craftsmen in Guangxin."

Bailiyan still doesn't know how many craftsmen Jiang Min has hidden in Guangxin, and he can gather the materials and man-hours needed to build a suspension bridge overnight, in addition to the need for ready-made wood and copper, there are not enough skilled craftsmen, and it is obviously impossible to do it, and it is also eight suspension bridges inside and outside the four city gates.

At noon, a scout rode a fast horse into the city from the south gate, and detected the main advance of the rebels, which had reached the boundary of thirty miles away from the southwest territory of Guangxin, which meant that the rapid march only took two hours to reach the outer territory of Guangxin.

Bailiyan paced in place, calculating the time carefully.

It is already noon now, and after two or three hours, the rebels will still camp and repair, bury pots and prepare equipment, and wait for the arrival of the Chinese army and the rear army. Looking at the vigorous weeds growing outside the city, Baili Yan had a plan

"Someone."

"The subordinates are here." The guards stepped forward.

"Summons General Lu Gao, come to see me immediately."

"No."

After a short while, Lu Gao hurriedly rode to the south of the city:

"What does the general command."

"The vanguard of the rebels has reached 30 miles outside the southwest territory of Guangxin, and they will deliberately meet the attack and dampen their spirit."

"How's that going to strike?"

Bailiyan pointed to the large weeds outside the south of the city and said:

"General Lu took a thousand men and horses, and immediately went out of the city with the scouts to the southwest to set fire."

"Set fire?"

"Exactly, the northeast wind is blowing right now, and when the fire starts, the wind will be stronger and spread more rapidly. The rebels, coming from the southwest, were bound to be cut off by fire. In addition......" Bai Liyan paused, thought for a moment and then said: "In addition, the blue poisonous water extinct paddy fields are all dried up, and the land is burned with fire, which can alleviate the poison of blue poisonous water. ”

"Then it will be done immediately."

"Remember, bring more pine oil and liquor, avoid the woods and mountains to set fires, and if there are people who have not yet evacuated the villages along the way, they should be warned to leave immediately, and they must start setting fires from the outermost periphery."

"No!"

In June, when the sea breeze is strong and the weather is hot, the land in Beihai County has no harvest after the crop, the paddy fields are dried up, and only the well-tolerated weeds are still growing wildly, and a large area of farmland is like a grassland, which is no less than a grassland fire.

After more than two months of rain erosion and natural reaction, the shallow residual amount of basic copper carbonate decreases, and then barbecued over a large fire, which can accelerate the non-toxic degradation of basic copper carbonate, making it into water, carbon dioxide and copper oxide, and can also delay the actions of the rebels.

Soon after Lu Gao led his army out of the city, Bailiyan immediately sent a messenger to Dingyang from the east of the city to inform Ye Xin of the news, and seize the time to set fire to the fields in advance and plunge the summer ploughing in advance to plant grain.

Before and after the Shen Shi, the results of Qin Han's property raid came one after another, confiscating more than 8,000 stones of rations, thousands of cloths, more than 300 horses, two pharmacies, four yarn mills, three cloth mills, three brothels, one music workshop, two restaurants, one brewery, in addition to more than 20 leather, woodwork, jewelry workshops and other workshops, more than 70 other shops, and the confiscated cash copper coins were only more than 70,000 yuan, not counting rations, cloth, horses, medicinal materials, brothels and other bulk commodities, the rest of the goods can still be converted into more than 100,000 copper coins.

It is worth mentioning that during the process of purging, no silk, silk, brocade silk, a piece of jade and gem were found, according to the informed shopkeeper, as early as more than 40 days ago, Qin Han emptied all valuables and copper pieces, and those that could be exchanged for gold, silver and jade silk were exchanged for high value-added and easily realizable valuables.

The only thing to be thankful for was the seizure of thousands of pieces of cloth, as well as hundreds of buffalo skins purchased from the Eldest Sun Kingdom.

Cowhide is an important raw material for the manufacture of leather armor, the Xianguo ploughing cattle are scarce, and the leather armor with the highest quality has been silenced and replaced by low-quality light leather armor, and even leather armor can only be equipped with elite troops and generals.

As for the cotton cloth, since the consumption objects are ordinary people, the currency of the transaction is mainly copper money, and Qin Han is the largest wealthy merchant in Guangxin, except for the Guangxin Mansion, no one can eat thousands of pieces of cloth in one go, but obviously Qin Han did not have time to deal with these goods.

All the cash is in the name of the Taishou government, go door to door to find the rich people in Guangxin to buy grain from them, in addition to the strategic materials, the goods are converted into money and barter to trade rations, but unexpectedly the rich people are fleeing from Guangxin.

Although martial law was implemented in the whole city, the streets could still be walked around during the day, and there was no prohibition on leaving the city, and a large number of refugees from outside the city poured in, and the order of the four gates was extremely chaotic.

The turmoil of the political situation and the bad influence of Qin Han, the rich businessmen of Guangxin are evacuating from Guangxin at an unprecedented speed, even if the people leave, they take away a large number of precious metals and coins when they leave, and the property they leave behind and the property that they can't take away can not be confiscated, and forcibly confiscated can only be to drink to quench thirst and accelerate the departure of people's hearts.

"These bastards, just leave with the money, and give their conscience to the dogs."

"Brother Wei, these goods are worth a lot of money, and if they are pressed in the treasury for the time being, they can be sold for a lot of money in the future."

"It's useless, no matter how good the goods are, what's the use of the wrong way. Guangxin is now short of grain, and the big households have grain in their hands, but they are sealed and left without selling, what is the use. ”

"Isn't it possible to levy grain, the merchant is gone, can't it be forcibly requisitioned, Xiao Er remembers that the hourly grain official has to come to the door every month to ask for food, so can't the government forcibly levy their grain?"

"Levy is a levy, so the impact will be very bad."

In the final analysis, businessmen are the common people and the masses, and their essence has not changed because of wealth, but the impact of forcibly expropriating ordinary people and forcibly expropriating businessmen is different.

The mobility of ordinary people is poor, and their ancestors have lived in one place for generations, and if they can't get by, they are rarely willing to migrate to other places to earn a living, and life in other places is not necessarily better than that of the local area.

Secondly, the amount of capital and materials in the hands of the common people is scarce, and the main capital situation is the means of production and the land created by the labor force of individuals.

It is precisely because the wealth of the common people is small that the scale of economic mobility that can be generated is relatively constant, directly linked to the population base, and the activity is very poor.

Therefore, the amount of population at present directly determines the strength of the country, because the population is the necessary means of production for basic economic activities.

And the merchant is the main source of the increase in the activity of economic production, and even at the moment the only source. The more wealth a businessman creates, the amount of taxes he pays is several times or even tens of thousands of times that of ordinary people, and the more businessmen there are, the more developed commerce is, and the greater the activity of the country's economy and the increase in taxes.

For example, the Liang State has a very small territory, but it is not less than the Xian State, and the reason for this is that its commercial development and traditional political heritage make the total amount of Liang State's finance and taxation three or four times that of the Xian State.

Therefore, the various aspects to be taken into account in dealing with merchants and the people are completely different, and the political, public opinion, and economic impacts caused are also very different.