After listening to it, Zhao Yuan was puzzled, but after thinking about it for a while, he understood that this barbarian was talking about the princes of His Majesty Great Xia, and through the rumored princes to seize the throne, the prince was romantic, Zhao Yuan had a strong worry about the fate of Lin Xiu and other brothers in his heart.

A moment later, Zhao Yuan led his troops back, and Lin Xiu asked, "How is the situation?" ”

"There seems to be infighting among the barbarians!"

"Oh?" Lin Xiu said suspiciously: "Infighting? Could it be that barbarians fight each other with knives? ”

"That's right!" Zhao Yuan handed the reins of the war horse to the soldiers, and Lin Xiu, who came by himself, took the water bag and poured it in front of him, and continued: "It's almost winter now, and the heavy snow may fall one day, some tribes have plundered a lot, and they want to withdraw to the grassland, but the green wolf and wild fox still want to continue to attack Lincheng for some reason, and the defeated barbarians found by the scouts under Lin Huaiping are the remnants of the defeated tribes in the internal strife!" ”

"Interesting!" Lin Xiu chuckled, secretly thinking about the current situation in the city, and got up: "Bian *** order, gather brothers!" ”

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Lin.

"Lord County Guard, the barbarians have retreated to Lindong thirty miles away, and there has been no sign of siege for three days, are these guys about to retreat!" Fu Cheng was suspicious of Hailong, and on the side next to him, Jiang Gan shook his head worriedly: "I'm afraid there is no such good thing!" Think about it, why did the barbarians attack the city? ”

"Naturally, it's for the food utensils in the city treasury!" Ma Zhong answered, he turned around and hugged his fist at Yao Qisheng: "My lord, the successive battles to defend the city have drastically reduced the soldiers and horses in the city, and at the moment we can only fight with four thousand, if the barbarians attack the city again, the defense situation is bound to be difficult!" ”

Yao Qisheng frowned, and sighed: "Didn't recruit the young and strong people, the officials and gentry, and the slaves of the big families to help defend the city, what are those people doing?" ”

Speaking of those conscription teams who cooperated to defend the city, Jiang Gan became anxious: "My lord doesn't know, this matter is really infuriating, the enemy is current, those officials and gentry are simply... Just... Simply..."

Three in a row didn't let Jiang Gan say it bluntly, Yao Qisheng instantly knew that something else was born, and his face was gloomy: "What happened?" Say! ”

"My lord, when those young and strong people were recruited to defend the city, the domestic slaves of the official gentry accounted for three, and the battle situation at the east city gate was in crisis, these people rushed to kill desperately, and blocked the attack of the barbarians with human life tactics, and there were many casualties, in order to chill the heart of the conscription team, I discussed with the Fu Cheng, and gave each young man who participated in the recruitment to assist in defending the city three taels of silver, which was regarded as compensation, so that the people would be exempted from the five-year tax system, and as a result, those officials and gentry knew about it, and they even jointly protested, saying that they were also out, but the compensation was unfair to them..."

"Presumptuous!" Before Jiang Gan finished speaking, Yao Qisheng slapped the table angrily, and with a 'bang', the tea cup on the table was shaken three times and almost fell.

"Your Excellency, the commander is right!" Yu Hailong got up and clenched his fists: "My lord, Qingzhuang, Fuding, and domestic slaves died in battle, and the Lincheng County Guard gave compensation for the next defense of the city, and we were not wrong in the general direction, but there is one thing we ignored, that is, the Fuding and domestic slaves are different from the young and strong people, they are all slaves of the official gentry, and some of them are from the government for life, these people have no property and land, so naturally they do not have to pay taxes, so our compensation method makes their master's interests suffer." ”

"These bastards!" Yao Qisheng's face was pale, his whole body trembled, and he burst out with anger: "Ma Zhong! ”

"The last general!"

"At the moment of the great enemy, these bastards only care about their own selfish interests, but they don't know the righteousness and justice, you immediately stay on patrol and guard, and arrest the protesting rebels for me, this county guard knows that there is nothing else in his eyes except interests!"

"The last general commands!" Ma Zhong had to order him to turn around and dispatch people, but Jiang Gan and Yu Hailong urgently asked for help at the same time: "My lord, don't do it!" ”

"Why, could it be that the two of you are also like those officials and gentry, and you want to ask the county guard for compensation for defending the city!"

"The last general will not dare!" Jiang Gan's face was as dry as tree bark, and he was anxious: "The last general is the commander of the soldiers and horses in the city, even if he dies in battle without regrets, the last general also knows that those officials and gentry behave rudely, do not know the general trend, and are really bastards and people, but the current situation is different, the adults will only provoke their resistance by doing this, if there is a conflict, the barbarians will attack the city again, what are the consequences, can the adults think about it?" In the conscription team, more than thirty percent of the young people are their people, please endure this breath for the sake of the hundreds of thousands of people in Lincheng, and you must not cure these people's sins now! ”

"Yes, my lord, Commander Jiang and I are also worried about this, otherwise the two of us would have led troops to arrest those bastards and put them in prison!"

Under the obstruction of Hailong and Jiang Gan, Yao Qisheng barely suppressed the anger in his heart, but before his butt was next to the stool, a county soldier hurriedly rushed in, and he hurriedly said: "My lord, it's not good, there is a conflict in the commercial fence in the north of the city, and now there are a hundred and ten people fighting, and dozens of people are injured!" ”

Cheng.

At this time, the streets of the commercial fence and the official gentry area were in chaos, scolding, roaring like a wave rose and fell one after another, in the corner of the commercial fence, Lin Mao's face was pale, panicked, and seemed to not believe the situation in front of him.

Half a quarter ago, a group of officials from the treasury came to the front of the street, and the officials shouted that they would give silver money to those young and strong people who participated in the defense of the city as compensation, but a group of people who looked like slaves of the family immediately quarreled, and threatened to ask the county guard to give an explanation, they had no land and property, and the benefits of the tax system could not be reaped, and they only exchanged three taels of silver after selling their lives, which was not possible at all.

However, the young and strong people have no objection, three taels of silver, when the barbarians retreat, return home to take care of the fields, exempt from taxation for five years, it is already very good, so under the conflict between the two, one side scolds, one party wants to receive the reward, pushing, both sides choke on fire, and these people have been suffering and hiding in Lincheng for more than a month, once the fire breaks out, maybe how powerful it is.

The officials of the treasury couldn't stop it and wanted to escape, but they were caught by the family members of the big official gentry, beaten violently, and lay in a pool of blood, so that the slaves of the Houjia Ding Mansion once again aimed at the township people who were left in the city, and in the blink of an eye, the small street was already densely filled with people.

Due to the infinite expansion of the contradiction between the gentry and the common people at this moment, from the beginning of the fight of dozens of people to the last two classes of fighting, so that Lin Mao and others who live here are also unlucky, in the chaos, their mother-in-law and the widow of the fourth family are also scattered by the flow of people, and there is no trace, which makes Lin Mao cry without tears.