Chapter 94: Taiyuan Rebellion

The wind and snow did not stop all night. At dawn, the city of Taiyuan, which was originally Fuller Kangning, was shocked by an earthquake and tsunami, and suddenly fell into a panic and chaos.

This moment has finally arrived......

The government officially issued a list and told the whole government. Inform all the military and civilian Jurchen envoys of the assassination of Tong Guan, and soon the envoys will invade the south and Song Jin has already started a war!

Zhang Xiaochun is worthy of being an old-fashioned follower, although it is an official document, it is enough to see his skills. He was very elaborate in his words, and completely blamed the Jurchen side, saying that they broke their trust and defeated the alliance and wanted to invade the Great Song Dynasty, and sent someone to assassinate the marshal Tong Guan in Hedong Town in advance.

This move will be extremely conducive to guiding public opinion and winning more support for the government and army in Taiyuan. As a result, the nature of this Song-Jin war, which had not yet officially begun, was to be invaded by the Jurchens!

The 40,000 victorious troops brought by Wang Yu from outside the city were scattered throughout the city of Taiyuan to guard against riots and turmoil.

Rao is like this, and the entire Taiyuan City is also like a plague, and countless people began to flee with their families. However, strict checkpoints have been set up at the gates of the city, and no one is allowed to carry too much food out of the city.

At this critical juncture of life and death, all laws and morals have been left behind, so the sergeants who are strictly enforced by death orders often break out into conflict with the people who are eager to leave the city. In the half-day from morning to noon, more than 100 people were arrested and more than 30 were wounded.

Chu Tianya took his three hundred troops to patrol and walked in Taiyuan City in full clothes.

The prosperity and liveliness of the past have been completely replaced by chaos and panic. The shops and shops were all closed, and the gentry and people with carts and burdens could be seen running in a panic. Tangming Street, which used to be full of traffic, is now cold and withered; The sound and color places such as the tile bars that confuse people's eyes are also closed. Signboards and lanterns are scattered everywhere.

At the square city gate, countless people crowded and rushed there, and men and women cried and grabbed the sky. That situation was a hundred times more ferocious than the grand occasion of the Spring Festival in a certain dynasty, and bloody conflicts broke out from time to time.

People, after all, are afraid of death. Especially after a hundred years of peace, everyone is rich in the people, and how many people can really give up their wealth and tranquility and be willing to be a ghost of chaos?

Day and night, it is like a watershed between heaven and hell.

Chu Tianya led people to patrol the city, and arrested a few thieves and hooligans who took advantage of the chaos in the city to steal into stores and rob and humiliate women in private houses. Among them, there were two people who behaved very badly, Chu Tianya ordered them to be cut down on the street, and their bodies were hung high in the city, and they were publicized to set an example.

After inspecting one day, Chu Tianya found that in Taiyuan City, eight out of ten households were going south to flee. The remaining family either has no relatives to escape, or is poor and has no love to flee to wherever it goes, or they can't give up their homeland and ancestral business, so they take the risk to stay.

But there are really few people who are willing to believe that the government and the army can defeat the Jurchens and protect the city.

Chu Tianya secretly felt a chill in his heart, it seems that the official government and army of the Great Song Dynasty have such an impression in the minds of the people!

In addition, there are also sergeants of the Shengjie Army and the Xiang Army and government servants supported by Taiyuan Mansion who also want to flee. For these people, it is a different set of standards - as long as they dare to escape, they will be severely punished by the law and military law, and they will not be tolerated if they are killed!

The country and the army have paid for you for so long, and when something happens to use you, dare to escape? - No mercy!

At this point, Chu Tianya, Wang Yu, and Zhang Xiaochun have the same attitude!

At the end of the day, the Shengjie army guarding the city gate took countless grains from the fleeing refugees. Because the military orders are very strict now, they did not dare to take a gold and a silver indiscriminately. It is not too harsh to leave gold and silver plates to wrap around the refugees and let them buy food on their own way to escape.

Word of mouth spread about it, and soon everyone knew about it. As a result, those who wanted to flee did not dare to bring too much food, or took the initiative to hand it over to the army, and at most only took a day or two of dry food to flee.

As a result, the inventory work has become easier, there have been fewer conflicts, and the speed at which people fleeing from the city has been greatly accelerated.

All the grain collected was handed over to the government treasury for centralized management. The person in charge of the treasury is none other than Chu Tianya.

A steady stream of food is coming in from all over the world, and there is a shortage of manpower. Chu Tianya went to Wang Yu to ask for orders, and asked him to specially assign a thousand soldiers to be responsible for strictly guarding the treasury - in the future, this is the heart and stomach of all Taiyuan soldiers and civilians, where can there be a slight mistake?

Chu Tianya also temporarily formulated the treasury custody system and grain distribution methods, and told the military and civilians of the whole city.

There are two strict orders: from now on, anyone who dares to take a grain from the treasury without permission will be killed; From now on, regardless of the army or the people, anyone who dares to waste food will be punished with whipping, punishment of slaves and beheading, depending on the circumstances!

As for the method of grain distribution, Chu Tianya probably borrowed the method of "planned economy" to issue food stamps to the army and the people in the city, and distribute them according to the plan.

Often in such a period of national crisis, there will be unscrupulous businessmen hoarding, and Taiyuan at this time is no exception. Perhaps these merchants have not yet realized that it will not be long before gold and silver will become more and more worthless as stones, and they will still want to make a fortune in the country.

In just one day, Chu Tianya personally led people to kick through several such traitorous merchants, dragged these people out and threw them on the street, and then mercilessly confiscated the grain they had hoarded and put it into the treasury.

In just three days, Taiyuan Mansion, which originally shone like a pearl in Hedong, has changed from a peaceful world of living and working in peace and contentment to a chaotic situation where everyone is in danger.

Due to the iron-fisted law enforcement in the past few days, Chu Tianya is also famous. Now, the few people who remain in Taiyuan City know that the former "Dragon City Taibao" has turned into a demon who kills people without blinking an eye and does not show mercy to anyone. The corpses that were hung in several parts of the city were ordered by him to be done; Several wealthy families were left with nothing in an instant, and he led people to do it; Whoever wants to continue to live in this city must ask for food stamps from him; Whether it is a former high-ranking official or a beggar and a wanderer living on the street, he treats everyone equally! Whoever is willing to take the initiative to help build the city defenses or contribute to the army will be given priority to get food stamps! -- He has 1,000 sergeants and 300 military patrols under his command, and he has firmly grasped the stomach of the soldiers and civilians of the whole city!

Chu Tianya himself knows that he doesn't know how many people want to kill him now, and he doesn't know how many people are grateful to him. He left all of these behind him, too lazy to think about it.

Guan Shan once said that those who dare to be the first have always had a mixed reputation.

Chu Tianya thought so.