Chapter 347: Sacking Yidu
When the Qi army entered Yidu, the good order that was originally outside Yidu City suddenly disappeared! At this moment, the Qi army directly changed from soldiers to robbers, and everyone began to rob the nobles and rich people in Yidu City in an organized manner.
Before, Kuang Zhang's promise to the elites in Yidu City outside the city to maintain the order of Yidu was immediately thrown out of the clouds by the soldiers of the Qi army!
In fact, with the composition of the Qi army, and even its specific organizational form, it is really not a strange thing that there will be such a thing! The Qi army is mainly skilled fighters, and everyone joins the army and takes the risk to come to the bitter cold land of Yan Kingdom, if it is just to serve the King of Qi, it really makes people laugh off their big teeth. And the real reason is that everyone is here to get rich!
Before the city wall was breached, they were honest soldiers, but was it really just the military discipline that bound them? No, what really restricts them is the dream of making a fortune together!
Now that the Yi capital has been broken, whoever dares to stop them from making a fortune is their enemy! At this time, let alone Kuang Zhang, even if the prince of Qi comes, I'm afraid they won't be able to stop them!
I have to say that the Qi army not only has a unique advantage in personal martial arts, but also has its own experience in looting cities! In order to make a fortune, they did not go alone, but took hundreds of people as a unit, broke through the courtyard walls of the rich families one by one, and then entered them and looted all the valuable things!
And among them, the most valued by the Qi army is the Yidu Center, the magnificent Yan King leaving the palace! This palace, which was built by the previous kings of the Yan Kingdom with a huge amount of money, was looted by the Qi army in a short period of time!
Faced with the chaos of the Qi army, Kuang Zhang did not restrain it at this time, but let the Qi army loot for three days, and then enter the city after everyone stopped!
Three days is enough time for the soldiers of the Qi army to break through the mansion of any rich man in the city and torture everything of value! It is enough for them to turn all the valuable wealth in the entire Yidu City into their private property! In just three days, it was enough for them to sweep away the wealth that Yan Kingdom had accumulated for hundreds of years in Yidu City!
When Kuang Zhang led the guards and even the generals of the coalition army into the capital of the Yan Kingdom three days later, what he saw was a devastated city, and there was no longer its prosperity as the capital of the Yan Kingdom!
And after conquering this city, he couldn't even find a suitable place to live! In the entire Yidu City, not to mention King Yan's palace, even the slightly more magnificent mansions were destroyed by the Qi soldiers!
As a last resort, Kuang Zhang could only set up a military tent in the dilapidated palace of King Yan to use it as a residence to temporarily control this place! Subsequently, he received the nobles and wealthy people in Yidu City one by one.
After hearing the blood and tears of the nobles' complaints, Kuang Zhang pretended to arrest a few Qi soldiers who still did not stop in Yidu City, and beheaded them to show the public, even if he gave Yan Ren an explanation. And most of the soldiers were not punished, and Kuang Zhang did not mention the property they looted!
Kuang Zhang's actions made the nobles of the Yan Kingdom in the city feel cold! Before, they were already a little dissatisfied with Zizhi, and they still welcomed Qi Guo sending troops over to help Yan State restore order. However, now the practice of the Qi people has directly dispelled the thoughts of submission in their hearts! It's just that they know that their strength is not enough to fight against the Qi army now, and the only thing they can do now is forbearance.
Along with the Qi army, there were also the Zhongshan Army and the allied forces of the Sishang Kingdoms. In contrast, the Song army only provided long-range firepower outside the city, and did not actually attack the city, so they did not enter the city with the coalition forces, and they did not have the opportunity to participate in the looting!
And when the Song army entered the city of Yidu, they were extremely disappointed when they saw this ruined city! Today's Song Kingdom, after Dai Yan's governance, has become more and more a big country and a rich country. Although the army was in the Song Kingdom, and most of their usual training was outside the city, the place where they stayed was also very comfortable!
Originally, when he came to Yan Country and camped in the wild, he already made the soldiers a little dissatisfied. When they entered the big cities of this Yan country, they originally thought that they could improve their living environment a little, but they didn't expect to face this kind of dilapidated city!
Fortunately, the Song army is an elite soldier who has been trained for many years, although they have no opportunity to improve their living environment, they are dissatisfied in their hearts, but they do not show it, and they still honestly carry out the tasks assigned to them by Xiao Xiang!
won Yidu, which made Kuang Zhang extremely excited! In his mind, Yan Guo can be called a big city, and there are only Jicheng and Yicheng, if he takes advantage of the situation to take down Yan Guojicheng, then this time the battle of sending troops to attack Yan will end perfectly!
Thinking of this, he immediately began to order his subordinates to gather the army and prepare to go to capture Jicheng together!
After killing several soldiers who had no time to stop before, and after the military discipline was serious, the assembly speed of the Qi army was also much faster. However, in an hour, most of the soldiers scattered all over Yidu received the news and began to complete the assembly.
When Kuang Zhang ordered the army to go to Jicheng with him and attack Zi, the generals who had no opinion before immediately began to persuade Kuang Zhang. They can't attack Jicheng at such a time!
These subordinates may have their own personal reasons for opposing Kuang Zhang's general order, but more importantly, they are still thinking about the Qi army and the future of the main general Kuang Zhang!
In their opinion, now that the Qi army has captured Yicheng, basically every soldier has obtained a rich fortune. Let them continue to attack the city at this time, even if it is to attack Jicheng, they will not have much motivation!
After all, now that they have money, they are no longer the dicks who had nothing in the country before, and now their biggest motivation is to preserve their wealth! If the wealth you have obtained cannot be kept, why continue to go to Jicheng to plunder?
As a famous general of Qi State, Kuang Zhang's biggest feature is that he knows how to make the mercenary army of Qi give full play to its greatest combat effectiveness! In the army, he has always been very open-minded and willing to listen to the opinions of his subordinates! Since the subordinates now think that it is impossible to attack Jicheng easily, it can be seen that the soldiers at the bottom should also think so!
For an army like Qi Jun, which has the thinking of mercenaries, it is the best way to lead troops by taking advantage of the situation, luring them to give full play to their subjective initiative! Before he could solve the problem of the soldiers slacking off the battle, he had no choice but to let the soldiers stay in Yicheng.
What Kuang Zhang didn't expect was that this kind of problem, which he thought was difficult to solve, would soon not be a problem after a group of people got involved!
This group of people is the Taoqiu merchants who helped the coalition army provide logistical materials!
In addition to transporting grain to the front line of the Yan Kingdom, the Taoqiu merchants also transported a lot of other supplies, such as wine and meat, to the front line. These things, because of the high cost of transportation, were not in large quantities, and they were originally supplied to the generals in the army.
However, after the Yi capital was broken, some soldiers who had made a fortune did not want to treat themselves badly! Therefore, the liquor that was brought to Yan Kingdom, especially the distilled liquor from the Song Kingdom, was drunk in a bitter cold place like Yan Kingdom, which was called a sour and refreshing!
Suddenly, the wine that can be circulated was fried at a sky-high price!
As the most powerful merchant in the world, Taoqiu merchants are deeply taught by Dai Yan and have a Taoist master like Yang Zhu for philosophical inspiration, and now they have a relatively long-term vision. Naturally, they will not stop at just speculating on such a low thing as the price of alcohol, they are looking forward to doing better and long-term business!
And what is the best business on the battlefield today? Tian Bu, one of the great merchants of Taoqiu, gave the answer: help the soldiers preserve the wealth they have obtained!
Soon, in Yicheng, the soldiers of the Qi State who followed them here suddenly discovered that the Taoqiu merchants who sold wine to them suddenly proposed an excellent business to handle property storage and consignment business for them!
This business is very simple, that is, with the guarantee of Linzi Qianzhuang, which has a cooperative relationship with Taoqiu Qianzhuang, to initiate a savings business in Yicheng. All the soldiers can store their newly acquired wealth in the Linzi Money Village. Linzi Qianzhuang will issue them with vouchers, and as long as they return to Qi in the future, with this voucher, they can withdraw their wealth stored in the Qianzhuang!
This business, as soon as it was launched, was immediately supported by the soldiers of the Qi army, the Zhongshan army and the Sishang coalition army who sacked the city of Yidu!
There is no other reason why they will support it so much, but now that they have made a fortune by sacking Yicheng, they can't bring so much wealth back to China! And Linzi Money Village, such a money village that has been operating in Linzi City for several years, they naturally believe that the other party will not repay the debt!
They also knew that now the commander Kuang Zhang also needed to attack Jicheng and win the war against Yan. And in order to obtain more wealth, they actually have the motivation to continue to march, but now that they have looted Yicheng, the wealth left on them has become an obstacle to them from continuing to march into Jicheng!
Now, if you hand over the looted wealth to the Taoqiu merchants, they will be able to obtain a paper certificate that is fluttering! Wouldn't that be much better than the heavy load of silver and gold they carried to influence their actions?
Although such a preservation and exchange, Linzi Money Village has to charge 20% of the deposited wealth as a handling fee, which is really too dark not to want! But almost all the soldiers and officers exchanged the wealth they had looted from Yicheng for paper vouchers issued by Linzi Qianzhuang! And such a policy was even directly supported by the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, Kuang Zhang!
The Qi army ransacked the entire city, and the people below will naturally honor Kuang Zhang! Kuang Zhang didn't say a word, and exchanged all the wealth he got into the vouchers issued by Linzi Qianzhuang! Driven by Kuang Zhang, the officers under him also exchanged all their wealth for vouchers!
Tian Bu, a great merchant of Taoqiu, who was personally responsible for providing support for the logistics of the coalition army, saw the actions of the coalition officers, although he knew that they wanted to get the Qi army out of Yicheng as soon as possible so that they could attack Jicheng. However, their actual behavior has given Linzi Qianzhuang a different kind of trust!
For this trust, Tian Bu, as a big businessman, will also give them a reward: he directly exempts the 20% handling fee that the officers in the coalition army and above need to pay for depositing their wealth!
The vouchers issued to officers and soldiers were not given a whole "passbook" as most people imagined, but were directly broken down into bills of exchange of different equal denominations!
The smallest of these money orders is only 100 gold, and the largest is as high as 10 gold! These money orders are issued by Linzi Money Bank, and use a unique password that any money bank staff can identify the authenticity! And these bills of exchange can not only be exchanged for money directly on a one-to-one basis in Linzi Money Village, and even the Lingshou Money Village opened by Taoqiu merchants in Zhongshan Kingdom, as well as Qufu Money Village in Lu State, but also can directly buy various items from Taoqiu merchants in this Yan country!
In other words, these bills of exchange are another kind of banknotes of the same amount in Yicheng, where order has collapsed and been rebuilt!