Niuzhuang City has been under martial law for more than ten days, the sea is still calm, there is no sail, when Yang Fan changed the guard and walked down the head of Niuzhuang City to go home, it was full of beggars and homeless people lying on both sides of the street, one by one with withered faces and lifeless, groups of officials under the strict order of the county order, patrolling all over the place day and night, closely monitoring these refugees who had no food and clothing.

The situation had to be so tense, because just the day before yesterday, the emperor urgently came to order, judging the early warning that Lu Hanqiang's Fuliao army was about to attack Niuzhuang with all its might.

Niuzhuang is the only money bag in the Qing Dynasty, and there can be no mistakes, so the new emperor moved down the edict and ordered the garrison of Niuzhuang to resist Lu Hanqiang's sneak attack at all costs, and then wait for the emperor's pro-army to come to reinforcements.

Niuzhuang is also a special place in the Qing Dynasty, where the county respects everywhere are all Jurchens, and the county is a Han person, and the Han county's county is an errand character, and nothing else can be done.

But here because it is the origin of salt, these production and sales problems, is those who come out of the white mountains and black water out of the barbarians do not understand at all, when the Jurchen is just from the hands of the Ming Dynasty to seize the Niuzhuang, the Jurchen is now the Manchu people are the same as the original, the Manchus for, the Han people do not use, the result is less than half a year, the original annual to the Ming Liaodong governor to hand over millions of silver to the salt field, and finally almost collapsed, at this time, they have to believe that they from the mountains of the wild people can not operate, In the end, the Han people had to be used as the chief officials here to manage and make money for them, so the Han officials here were somewhat of a status, so that they would not be beaten or scolded by the Manchus as they were in other places, and regarded as a slave.

Another point is that the current emperor in order to stabilize the production of the salt industry, not to be disturbed by the surrounding area, so set up a garrison here, this time Niuzhuang has a police, this barbarian garrison night knows, in their military concept, only attack, attack and attack, for the defense of a city, it is simply blank to point out, and it is for this reason that this barbarian finally used the entire defense of Niuzhuang, almost all of them used the Han people, but the chief officials at all levels are still full, which also gives people like Yang Fan a way out, There is no urgency of oppression.

Yang Fan felt the increasingly tense atmosphere as he walked, and couldn't help but smile bitterly and shake his head, Dajin Daqing, the whole thing that was exchanged for it was dizzy, and what could be done after changing Daqing! The situation of the whole country has not changed, it can only become more and more miserable, for example, in the original time, he could still enjoy peace, but now you see, just last autumn, countless people who lacked food and clothing around the city began to pour into Niuzhuang City, occupying the entire streets and alleys, and every morning, there will be a big cart in the yamen, pulling out countless frozen corpses outside the city.

These people used to live in the surrounding countryside, but that hateful Lu Hanqiang had no humanity at all, and even made a sinister ****** plan, broke through the defense line between the two countries, entered the vacuum zone of the Qing Dynasty, and carried out inhumane burning, killing and looting of the unfortified countryside, so that the people had no food for the winter, no houses for the winter, no seeds for the next spring, and no seed farming cattle and farm tools for next spring, a man-made ****** was caused in this way, not only displacing the people, What's more important is to add endless pressure to various towns, but Yang Fan looked at these, and had to admire Lu Hanqiang's methods from a hostile point of view, and surrendered without a fight, this is the ultimate, with the already low production in Liaodong now, not too much, if you come again this spring, by the time of this autumn, whether you are Dajin or Daqing who has changed its name, it will completely collapse.

The life of the peasants is miserable, and the life of the people in the city is becoming more and more difficult, with the influx of displaced people, there are no grains of grain on the market, and the grain merchants have put up signboards one after another for the first time: "The grain and rice are sold out, and I thank you for not being sensitive." ”

Is it really sold out? Everyone knows the reason, isn't it a hoarder?

What's even worse now is that after this winter's consumption, it is difficult for you to buy food in the city even if you hold gold and silver, and a tender girl can only exchange for a large cake. If it weren't for his brother Niu'er's infatuation with that childhood sweetheart's sister, he would have to make a big cake out of his mouth and make him a family.

Now Yang Fan is secretly glad that his decision was so wise, at that time, at the first time, he used all his family's savings to buy the food he could buy, although this is a little sorry for the honest and honest pot helmet shop owner in the neighborhood, but he also told him the consequences at that time, and now it seems that in the entire neighborhood, only a few of them can still deal with it, and what can the rest say? Just now, I saw with my own eyes that at a corner of the alley, a white forest of bones, and there was still a piece of clothing left on the side of the bone. What can you do if you see it? There was only a long sigh of relief.

"The prosperity of the people and the suffering of the people of the death are really a wise saying." With Yang Fan, who had read poetry books with his father who had been taught by the Ming Dynasty, he couldn't help but have such a poem in his heart, poetry is a beautiful thing, but this sentence is even more cruel, I heard that Lu Hanqiang, who was aggressive and eyeing the Qing Dynasty, was also a poet, or the first poet of the Ming Dynasty, I don't know how he felt at this time.

In fact, as a Han person, I should have thought about the Ming Dynasty, but the original Ming Dynasty has completely disappointed all the Han people, and people have accepted the reality that they are subjects of the Qing Dynasty, but whether it is the Qing Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, the voice of the people is still that as long as I can live well, as long as I can live well, as long as I have a half-starved meal, a shirt that can protect against the wind and cold, and a nest that leaks wind and rain, we can be satisfied, I don't care if you are the Qing Dynasty or the Jin, or the Ming Dynasty, However, it seems that such a request is already a luxury and can no longer be met, so now, you can't give it to Daqing, and Daming can give it to me?

Shaking his head with a wry smile, he continued to walk home with a knife, looking at the Jurchens who began to be armed all over the street as he walked, Yang Fan had to sigh, it seems that the emperor is really in a hurry, and he can send reinforcements to the army at all costs, which shows the importance of Niuzhuang to the Qing Dynasty.

So, Niuzhuang garrison, Manchu leader Ida, ten days ago, regardless of the livelihood of the people inside and outside the city, burned down all the houses outside the city, urgently closed the four gates of Niuzhuang, did not allow anyone to enter and exit, and urgently mobilized all the people of the county government, and the emperor said that if he lost Niuzhuang before the reinforcements arrived, all the officials in the city would be beheaded, and his family would be enslaved in Ningguta.

(End of chapter)

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