Chapter 78 Check ID Cards and Catch Spies
At noon, I came to the small market more than 30 miles away from the county seat, and today I am rushing to the market, although it is now busy with farming, there are still a lot of people on the field, so it can be seen that Sichuan has a large population and economic prosperity at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Yang Xuan thought about it while making tea and drinking, Sichuan life is very comfortable, although natural disasters and man-made disasters for many years, but everyone lives a rich life, in the restaurant next door, there are actually four or five tables to ask for tamales, the adjacent table is mostly drinking tea on one side, eating wine on the other, everyone lives very comfortably. (Feng Yuxiang's memoirs describe that Sichuan was also a natural and man-made disaster at that time, but everyone's life was also quite rich).
At this moment, there was a commotion in front of me, and I saw several men in official uniforms pointing at two people in long coats, insisting that the other party take out their identification.
Following the practice of the previous life, all families set up a household register and registered the family members and main assets.
All adult males are issued with identity cards listing their names, places of origin, dates of birth, physiognomic characteristics, and household seals.
In order to enforce the ID card, Yang Xuan looked around with the local tyrants, the Dashun army, and the Daxi army, worried that their spies would infiltrate, and asked all markets and passes to forcibly check the ID card.
If it is found that he is not wearing an identity card, if someone can prove his identity, he will be fined 1 yuan of silver, all of which will go to the official officer.
If you need to make an ID card again, you need to pay an additional 1 silver production fee.
For those who find bandits, rogues and other lawbreakers, they will be rewarded with 1 tael of silver.
Its reward is not small, the purchasing power of silver in the Ming Dynasty far exceeds that of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, 1 tael of silver can be sold for 1 load of 5 buckets of polished rice (more than 200 catties), and the Republic of China 4 silver dollars to buy a load of milled rice (1 silver dollar is equivalent to 7 money 5 cents, 4 silver dollars are equivalent to 3 taels of silver, so in just 300 years, inflation 5 times)
It has been implemented for more than half a year, and only four or five cases have been brought to the county government, and most of the others are forgotten by the people themselves.
Some people bluntly say that this is the biggest malpractice since the New Deal, but many people choose to ignore the convenience it brings.
Some people ridiculed that when they were rushing to the market, while the township chief and the official were collecting business endowments, they often looked at whether there were strangers and whether they had ID cards.
Now I see those annoying officials checking their ID cards again, although some people are smiling on the surface, many people are not impressed.
Everyone chatted with each other, and the noise in front of them became louder and louder, and when they saw two or three officials coming around, the two men ran away as soon as they saw the officials.
Run? If you just forgot to bring it, it was 2 taels of silver, and if it was a bandit or a rogue, it was 2 taels of silver.
5 cents of silver can be eaten in the restaurant, how can the officials let go of such a lot of silver, everyone swarmed around and rounded up these two men.
The man showed his murder weapon, and the officials were quite timid, and everyone involuntarily retreated.
However, there was a last battlefield in the middle of the bureaucracy, and because he was seriously injured and transferred to the local government service (the policy is so), when he saw the other party show his weapon, this official with inflexible legs shouted, pulled out his broadsword and rushed over.
But the other party is obviously a practitioner, although there are a few lieutenant chiefs and a captain who are outside to help, but they are still not opponents.
The guard Niu Dayong had long wanted to move his muscles and bones, and when he saw that everyone was defeated and joined the battle group, he subdued the man and escorted him to Yang Xuan.
Seeing that Yang Xuan and the others were wearing strong clothes, a servant had no face, and muttered to show his ID card.
Everyone was stunned, Zhu Cripple knew Yang Xuan, and scolded loudly, he was really blind, he didn't even know the master, it was true.
Yang Xuan smiled slightly, took out the card and handed it over, and when he saw that it was Lord Zhizhou, the official knelt down in fright, and handed the waist card back in a trembling manner.
Seeing the appearance of the official who checked Wei Zuofu's ID card in the past, the surrounding crowd let out a burst of laughter.
Yang Xuan frowned, helped him up, and then said to everyone: "Liu Manghan is very good, all of us officials should be like this, and we must conscientiously perform our duties."
Checking ID cards is to prevent bad guys from getting in, to prevent fugitives from getting in, to prevent crime, and to protect the safety of people's lives and property.
Maybe the folks didn't get used to it at first, but slowly it got better. Whoever it is, including the officer, should lead by example and be examined. ”
Everyone was stunned, they didn't expect Yang Xuan to take the initiative to accept the ID card check, everyone did not suffer from widowhood but unevenness, and their psychology was much calmer.
The interrogation began immediately, it turned out that the rear military governor of the Great Western Army **** Li occupied Guang'an Prefecture ten days ago, and recently prepared to send his division north to attack Shunqing Fuzhi, but he was worried that Yang Xuan would send troops to copy his back road, so he specially sent multiple scouts to interrogate.
The two spies did not know to check their ID cards and sneak into the bazaar to avoid the pipe card and thus be discovered.
Yang Xuan was taken aback when he heard this news, now that the Great Western Army is gaining momentum, if the Great Western Army successfully captures Shunqing Mansion, it borders the Great Western Army like this, and the situation will inevitably be even more difficult.
According to folk rumors, Zhang Xianzhong will unify the whole Sichuan sooner or later, whether he needs to cooperate with the Dashun army in order to consolidate his strength.
Everyone felt that it was quite tricky, whether it was Yao Huang in Dazhou, Bazhou, or the Dashun Army in Baoning Mansion and Shunqing Prefecture, or the Great Western Army in Chengdu Prefecture, Guang'an Prefecture, the strength of the army far exceeded that of the official army, and the slightest carelessness was afraid that the whole army would be wiped out.
In order to deal with possible crises, Yang Xuan concentrated his forces to deal with possible changes on the one hand, and sent scouts to Guang'an Prefecture, Shunqing Fucheng, Baoning Fucheng, and Bazhou Dazhou on the other hand to inquire about the news and quickly respond to possible crises.
In late September, as initially analyzed, in order to fight for control of Sichuan Province, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong had already made a big fight.
After occupying Chengdu Mansion, Zhang Xianzhong ordered the governor **** Li and Liu Jinzhong to lead his troops to the north along Hechuan to attack Tongchuan Prefecture and Shunqing Mansion, and on the other hand, he ordered Zhang Nengqi, the general of Yizi Dingbei, to lead his troops to go north along the Jinniu Road to occupy the dangerous passes such as Jiange and Baizhang Pass to control the whole Sichuan.
In early September, Zhang Nengqi and Ma Ke met in the middle of a fierce battle, Ma Ke suddenly led 4,000 Mongolian cavalry to kill, Zhang Nengqi was defeated, and had to lead the army to flee back to Guanghan County along the Golden Bull Road.
Although Ma Ke, the general soldier of the Sichuan army of the Great Shun Army, first defeated Zhang Nengqi, the general of Dingbei of the Great Western Army, Zhang Xianzhong left his son Zhang Kewang to lead his troops to defend Chengdu, and personally led the army along the Golden Bull Road.
As the saying goes, fight tiger brothers, go into battle father and son soldiers, Zhang Dingguo, Zhang Wenxiu, Zhang Nengqi are all good at fighting, and were accepted by Zhang Xianzhong as a righteous son.
Is it hard to beat one person? What's more, Zhang Dingguo, Zhang Wenxiu and others led tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and everyone fought bravely.
First of all, Yan Xi, a Jinshi of Mianzhou who had just returned to Shun, led the local surrender army to surrender, and under his leadership, those Sichuan surrendering troops who had just joined the Dashun army surrendered one after another.
The defeat was like a mountain, and although Marco was defended by Mongol cavalry, it was still difficult to avoid.
In the Guangyuan area, Zhang Xianzhong caught up with Ma Ke and annihilated, except for the escape alone, his 4,000 Mongolian cavalry, except for more than 1,500 people who returned to Shun, the others were all killed by Zhang Xianzhong
In the defeat of Ma Ke, Zhang Xianzhong's interest is very high, when passing by Zitong Qiqu Mountain, Zhang Xianzhong heard that Wenchang Xingjun's surname is Zhang, and he is even more high-spirited, not only went to meet Zitong's Wenchang Xingjun Temple, and said to the left and right that this is my Zhang Xianzhong's ancestor, which makes people respect the number, and makes people build a temple here, and cast a bronze statue.
At that time, the secret agent came to report that the guard in Hanzhong was Ma Yin, a general under Li Zicheng.
When he defected to Li Zicheng in the past, Zhang Xianzhong had contact with this Ma Yan, and when he heard that the guards in Hanzhong were such a general, Zhang Xianzhong was overjoyed and said to the left and right: Since ancient times, Sichuan has said that there is a saying that if you want to control Sichuan, you must control Shangchuan.
Now Li Blind sent a pig and dog inferior Ma Yan to guard Hanzhong, it seems that God is good to my old Zhang, and God also has the intention of destroying the Li family.