Chapter 363: The People's Livelihood Withers

In the city of Chang'an, there were no Mongols, a small number of Semu people, who also fled from the city before the war, and those who stayed in the city were Han Chinese, who did not show surprise at the arrival of the Song army, let alone show welcome, and the whole city looked lifeless, without the slightest anger. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

In the first three days of the capture of Chang'an City, almost no shops were open for business, and there were almost no pedestrians on the streets, but the sergeant of the Song Army, who was in charge of guarding, was patrolling to the letter.

In Sichuan, the Hezhou Imperial Army, the Xingyuan Imperial Army, the Jinzhou Imperial Army, and the Dingkun Army have extremely strict requirements in terms of military discipline and military regulations, and they are not allowed to plunder and harass the people, which is known to every sergeant, and no one dares to violate military discipline and military regulations, no matter how much military exploits you have made, and no matter what position and identity you have, once you violate military discipline and military regulations, you will definitely be severely punished.

The strict military discipline and military regulations of the Song army sergeants, after the occupation of Chang'an Mansion City, the performance was incisive, except for the sergeants who entered the city to patrol, most of the rest of the sergeants were stationed in the military camp outside the city, no one harassed the people and merchants, and the city seemed unusually calm, making people suspect that there had been a tragic battle here a few days ago.

Cai Siwei and Zhang Binghui and others personally screened the captured new annexed army sergeants, among which those who were strong and had good combat ability would soon be absorbed into the imperial army in Hezhou.

Most of the high-ranking officers of the new annex army could not escape the end of being beheaded.

Wu Shaogang, who entered the Chang'an Mansion City, decided to go to the streets and alleys to have a look, and his plan met with strong opposition from Cai Siwei and others, after all, the Mansion City was not particularly safe, but Wu Shaogang insisted on his own opinion.

Under the escort of nearly two hundred personal guards, Wu Shaogang walked around the city of Chang'an Mansion, and then he himself felt bored, it was impossible for him to enter the people's homes to see the situation, and it was impossible for him to go to a certain shop to see the business situation, because he was surrounded by personal guards.

However, watching from a distance, Wu Shaogang still felt that the city of Chang'an was slowly rejuvenating, at least many shops were open for business, and many people dared to go to the streets.

The chief officials of Chang'an Mansion and county, as well as the county officials are all in place, and the original prefect, county magistrate, etc., have long since fled, do not know where to go, and the number of officials left behind is not much, these people were panicked, and they don't know what kind of outcome they will encounter, what they didn't expect is that most of the officials have stayed in office and continued to do the original thing.

According to Wu Shaogang's instructions, the first thing the officials of the prefecture and county did was to clean up the prisoners in the prison, and on this basis, they made every effort to collect the household registration, population, and land yellow books that were left behind.

Cleaning up the prisoners is a measure that can capture the hearts and minds of the people in the shortest possible time.

Except for those who killed people and exfiltrated goods, most of the other prisoners imprisoned in the prison were wronged, they were either exploited by the government, could not get any money, were imprisoned in the prison, and were tortured, or they offended the local gentry and wealthy families, suffered ruthless calculations, and were imprisoned in the prison.

In just five days, many of the prisoners in the prison were released and sent home after screening the materials, and some of the people who had been severely tortured were also given subsidies in terms of money and food from the government.

The gentry and those who did all kinds of evil in the city also suffered a catastrophe in these days, especially those who depended on the government to bully the people, and many of them were imprisoned.

Gradually, the number of people who came to the government to complain began to increase, and the number of people on the street gradually increased.

At this time, Wu Shaogang was no longer in Fucheng, he left Fucheng and went to the villages and towns outside the city to see the situation.

Although it is said that the city of Chang'an Mansion has slowly regained its vitality, it is still abnormally withered outside the city, which also makes Wu Shaogang's mood a little heavy.

Cao Wengang, who followed Wu Shaogang out of the city together, also had a shocked and heavy face.

When they inquired about these people, they learned that only these people were left in this village, and all the young and strong people were arrested by the government, entered the army, and were sent to other places to garrison.

A large amount of arable land in the village is barren, and these arable land does not belong to the common people, but to the rich gentry, because there is no one in the family, and the tenants cannot cultivate these lands, but the rent still needs to be paid, and many people can only flee with their families in a helpless situation, but unfortunately most of the fugitives are finally caught, the family's money is looted, the boys are forced to become slaves of the rich gentry, and the girls are sold into the tiles after being insulted.

After hearing this, Wu Shao's face turned pale, and he finally knew what had happened to the Han people here under the rule of the Mongols, and the practice of those wealthy gentry and wealthy families had reached a heinous level.

The officials of the prefecture and county who came to inspect with Wu Shaogang were eager to immediately kill the captured gentry and wealthy families who were misbehaving, and these officials also understood why Wu Shaogang repeatedly emphasized the problem of people's livelihood, and it seemed that if he could not completely stabilize the local people, many things would not be able to be done at all.

Three days passed, Wu Shaogang visited more than ten villages and towns, and the situation he saw could only be described in four words, desolate and withered.

In many villages and towns, all that was left behind were the elderly, weak, women and children, and almost all of them were taken away.

It seems that it takes a lot of effort to restore local stability, and it is by no means as simple as lip service, and from the actual situation seen, the household registration register left by the prefecture and county yamen is not very accurate.

Returning to Fucheng again, Wu Shaogang summoned the officials of the Chang'an Mansion and the county government.

More than 30 people have been dispatched to the government and county offices, and they were all specially selected by Hao Jing.

"During this time, you have done a very good job of pacifying the wrongs, at least with the support of many people, I think the situation in Fucheng has stabilized, but the situation outside Fucheng shocked us, and it also made what we have to do next become very important."

"You may feel that you have no way to start, but in fact, the reason for the current withering situation is that the land is almost in the autumn harvest season, but we have seen a lot of barren arable land, which is the lifeblood of the people, and there is no one to cultivate it, so it is conceivable that the life of the people in the coming year will encounter great difficulties."

"Jiedu envoy Yamen will dispatch grain to Jingzhaofu Road, I hope you can use these hard-won grains to stabilize the place and the people."

"All the cultivated land, be sure to start clearing, within a month, after the clearing, you can ask the local elderly people, you will know the situation of these cultivated land, my opinion is that all the cultivated land belonging to those inferior gentry, the government will take back all the cultivated land, lease it to the people for cultivation, no tax will be charged within two years, the harvested grain belongs to the people themselves, this year's grain to help the people, can be recorded clearly, next year after the people get a bumper harvest, you can return part of the grain."

"I think, not only Jingzhaofu Road, Fengxiang Road, Lintao Road and Qingyuan Road, it is not much better, after we recover these places, there will be a lot of investment, in order to really stabilize the place, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, if there is no large amount of money and food, you can't stabilize these places."

"There is one aspect, I want to emphasize in particular, you must not think of attacking and looting all the gentry and rich households, those bad gentry, need to verify in detail, they have indeed done things that hurt the heavens and reason, and then they can confiscate his family property, if I hear that someone is taking advantage of the fire to rob, I will never be polite."

"You are all officials carefully selected by Lord Hao, staying in Chang'an, what you do is extremely important, Jingzhaofu Road is the most important place, as long as you can completely stabilize Chang'an Mansion within a year, other places will naturally be able to stabilize, if you can't do a good job, then other places are also difficult to stabilize."

"I believe you will be able to do a good job, next autumn harvest, I believe that this place has become prosperous and rich, you must understand that Chang'an Mansion City was once the most prosperous and lively place in the Tang Dynasty, and it is a place where countless people worship it."

When the yamen of Fuzhou County is doing things, Wu Shaogang will not interfere, how to do specific things, the officials who go deep into it are clear, sometimes blind command, can only do bad things, Wu Shaogang has already put forward the overall requirements, naturally Hao Jing and others to implement.

In mid-August, Wu Shaogang left the city of Chang'an and headed towards Fengxiang Road.

The army led by Zhang Binghui has occupied the entire Fengxiang Road, and has not experienced too many battles, many officials in Fuzhou and counties on Fengxiang Road, after learning that Jingzhaofu Road has been taken by the Song army, either fled with their families or gave up resistance, and the small number of new annexed troops stationed in the local area lost the courage to resist, and many new annexed troops chose to surrender before the Song army began to attack. (To be continued.) )