In the dark sky, the rapid sound of drums and the whirring wind rattled.

"Hurry up and run into the door, and when the drums are over, the officers and soldiers will close the city gate!"

I don't know who shouted, and the footsteps became more and more urgent. More and more people poured into the city gate cave, and then the guards forcibly separated the young and the old, weak, women and children, no one dared to be sure whether there were any spies in these young people, and it was really inconvenient to manage them together.

The accent in the Nanzhi area is changeable, and it is sometimes difficult to communicate with the people in the neighboring villages, not to mention that the soldiers guarding the door are all speaking Hokkien or Jianghuai official dialect, and the chickens and ducks on both sides speak, and the soldiers want to drag people, but when they see their men being dragged away, where are the countrymen willing to do it? Without a man, his family is a tragic ending of a dead child and a woman remarrying. And the men were afraid that these provincial soldiers would attack the women of their own family. As a result, conflicts broke out in the crowd.

"Let you men go to check and check, and don't want your lives, why are you crying?"

"If you don't leave, are you afraid that your daughter-in-law will be defiled? Cut! Just you skinny and black stinky women with mud legs, who wants you? ”

The soldiers cursed and pushed people away with the backs of their knives or spears. finally coaxed and scolded the young man who might be a threat and singled out the young man who might be threatened, and rushed into a fenced open space for interrogation. The people who fled often knew each other, traveled together, or simply belonged to a big family, and people from various villages would also know each other, and the Qing court could not have an intelligence system hundreds of years later, so the spies who mixed in may not even be able to pass the accent, and they are more likely to be exposed when checking all kinds of personal information.

"From which village?"

"How many people are in the family? What is planted? ”

"Who do you know in the same village?"

After answering the questions in a daze, the vast majority of people were rushed to receive a hot porridge to eat. And a few who were too suspicious were dragged into a row of straw huts, where they were interrogated by more experienced people.

The poor students in Yangzhou City found an errand to supplement their stomachs, sat at a row of small tables, and filled out questionnaires with exactly the same content. Of course, they are not the only ones who do this work, but there are also some people of all kinds who know hundreds of words, etc., originally they disdained to work with these small people in the market who "don't understand the study of saints", but in front of Brother Kong Fang, they had to be wronged by their own long shirts.

Of course, these people can only be responsible for copying and writing. The specific analysis of these pieces of paper is the small officials of the Yangzhou Mansion and the Jiangdu County Government and the staff in the Hou Mansion, the two sets of eight poles can not fight and have some disagreements with each other together, although a little efficiency is sacrificed, but it also makes these people more careful ---Zheng Xi took the silver out as a bounty, and also encouraged them to report their colleagues, if anyone finds out that their colleagues are suspected of harboring, if it is verified, at least 50 taels of silver will be rewarded. Even in the city of Yangzhou, fifty taels of silver is an extra money, and when the two groups of people saw the white silver, they soon worked like two groups of dogs grabbing bones.

In the main hall of Zheng Xi's Marquis Palace, double-digit young women with small feet sat on two rows of chairs. The women are singing and screaming, so unhappy. No matter what the relationship was in the past, whether it was because the mother's family did not deal with each other and became hostile, or because of a small thing that was infinitely magnified and made musk moves to each other, in the most luxurious room in Yangzhou City, everyone showed the appearance of a standard plastic sister.

The essence of drama does not come from nature, but from interests. Since his mother's family sent him out for the sake of profit, and he was jealous and jealous on the kang of a man who was older than his father, and it was for the interests of his mother's family and himself to play palace fights, then now pretending to be a sister to please Zheng Xi is also out of interest.

It is not so much that women are careful, but that it is this naked patriarchal society that covers their eyes.

"Alas!"

Zheng Xi sat on the Taishi chair in the middle and sighed.

"Xiangling."

He turned his head to look at the woman beside him and let out a gloomy cry.

The woman on the first on the right nodded and stood up, "Master, what do you command?" ”

Xiangling smeared a lot of white lead powder today, covering the flaws on her face well, which is very in line with the aesthetics at this time. She smiled, looked at her man with wide eyes and long eyelashes, if she snuggled in Zheng Xi's arms again and called "godfather", it would be too exciting.

However, this "godfather" asked Xiangling for money.

"It's nothing, you're a woman, and you shouldn't be told this kind of thing."

Xiangling can be the most favored by the godfather among the girls in the age of middle school students, but she doesn't just rely on the flat-chested young teeth and the three-inch golden lotus, if she doesn't have the ability to observe words and colors, she would have been given a tonic by medicinal materials such as He Shou Wu to death.

"Although Xiangling is a woman, she shouldn't have taken care of the master's affairs, but seeing that the master is worried, her sisters and sisters are also worried."

Okay, since the godfather is going to act, then I, the goddaughter who is upside down, will let the godfather act cool!

Before Xiangling's words fell, several sisters and sisters who were good friends with Xiangling immediately came over to show their loyalty.

"It's nothing, it's just that there is a shortage of food in Yangzhou City, I think left and right, and I don't know how to raise food.

"Master, although my family is only a solid family, I am also willing to save money and do my best..."

"My family is also willing to offer 2,000 stone of grain to solve the master's urgent need..."

Some people started, and others had to follow suit, and they were afraid that they would not bid early enough. If the godfather thinks that he is watching the situation, then I am afraid that he will have to stay in the cold palace for the rest of his life. You say the influence of your mother's family? I'm really sorry, before Zheng Xi's classmate was kicked out of Yangzhou City, he was the only one who influenced others.

Soon, the blank check of tens of thousands of stone grain was issued by Zheng Xi's harem group, and the women went back to their rooms to find their personal maids and sent someone back to their parents' house to report the news. If Lord Shi Gebu knew that there was still a method to raise grain and grass, he would probably have to get up from the ground and point at Zheng Xi's nose and shout: Back then, Lao Tzu even wanted Gao Jie to let his son recognize me as his godfather, I thought he was a martial artist and didn't agree, you, a cheap marquis, actually played a political marriage with a group of businessmen? Da Ming's face has been lost by you!

At this time, our classmate Zheng Xi was crossing Erlang's legs, linking everyone's "checks" with their families to judge the status of the women sent by these families.

The largest merchant force in Yangzhou was the salt merchants from Huizhou Prefecture, followed by the salt merchants from Taihu Lake, Zhejiang and other places. In short, they all rely on monopoly industries to eat. The status of the women sent by these people can be said to directly show their confidence in Zheng Xi. Zheng Xi clearly remembered that when he really felt the sedan chair being carried by everyone, it was before and after the Zheng army conquered Xuzhou, because this meant that Zheng Jun's footprints radiated most of the salt merchants' trade routes, but now, the salt merchants' trade routes were compressed by the Qing army and became shorter and shorter. The network of business connections scattered all over the country makes their intelligence even surpass that of Zheng Xi in some aspects, and it is possible to make some "irrational" actions at some point.

You must know that these salt merchants are all raising their families. A single salt merchant's family member Zheng Zheng can be pinched to death with a little thumb--- in fact, even all the family members will be extinguished due to factors such as training and weapons and equipment, but if there is a stalemate in the war... Thousands of strong men suddenly ran out of the city, even if they threw torches everywhere, Zheng Xi had to go crazy.