At the banquet, Shi Kefa solemnly promised Ren Siqi that he would immediately report his exploits to the imperial court, believing that the reward would come down soon. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info As for the reward for the beheading of the Daishan Army, naturally there is no need to be so troublesome, Shi Ke**** ordered Yangzhou Mansion to open the treasury silver, and it will be sent down soon.

Shi Kefa also warned other generals that in difficult times for the imperial court, they must serve the country wholeheartedly and fight bravely to kill the enemy, and the imperial court will not forget every meritorious soldier.

Generals Liu Zhaoji and Stilwei congratulated Su Yubo one after another, and asked about the Daishan Army's training strategy, and Ren Siqi generously invited them to the Daishan Army camp as guests to discuss how to train and fight wars.

"Looks like that's going to have to slow down!" After the banquet, on the way back to the camp, Han Shangliang, the deputy general of the Bashu Army, said to the chief soldier Han Shangyou.

"It's a matter of slowing down, this Ren Siqi fought this battle, the situation in the city has changed, and it's hard to say what will happen after this battle." Han Shangyou nodded, he saw the fanaticism of Liu Zhaoji, Zhuang Zigu and other generals at the banquet, it seems that other generals are encouraged by Ren Siqi's victory, and the morale of the entire Yangzhou City will inevitably improve a lot, maybe Yangzhou can really hold it. Since this is the case, then the matter of surrendering the Qing troops must be postponed.

To say that among the civil and military forces, the one who is most excited about this victory is the superintendent Shi Kefa. Since he was ordered to supervise Jiangbei, Shi Kefa has been conscientious and hardworking, but the situation is still getting worse and worse. Since the Qing soldiers went south, one city after another fell into the hands of the enemy, a member of the military generals surrendered without a fight, and the warlords Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing, who relied on the pillar stones, did not listen to the dispatch and fled in a hurry. The Qing army of 100,000 soldiers came to the city of Yangzhou.

Fortunately, a Su Bo Ren Siqi descended from the sky, and his subordinates fought a big victory. This victory was like a rain, which cleared the haze in Shi Kefa's heart and made him see the hope of holding on.

After the banquet, Shi Kefa immediately summoned the staff of the civil ministers and asked them to immediately formulate a strategy to defend the city according to Ren Siqi's strategy. Send people to gather the wealthy merchants and wealthy families in Yangzhou and solicit money and grain from them.

The world's richest people are salt merchants, and Yangzhou is the gathering place of salt merchants. There are more than a dozen businessmen with a family fortune of more than one million in Yangzhou, and there are countless more than 100,000 merchants.

Therefore, in Shi Kefa's view, it is very easy to collect money and food, after all, guarding Yangzhou is to protect their family property. But what Shi Kefa didn't expect was that these giant businessmen shirked the recruitment of the government and were only willing to donate a little silver. Ren Minyu, the prefect of Yangzhou, personally pleaded with each family, but only to raise less than 10,000 silver. And the richest man in Yangzhou, Wang Lin, a big salt merchant, was worth millions, and only donated 1,000 taels......

Although Shi Kefa was furious, he was completely helpless against these giant businessmen. Because every giant businessman has the identity of a gentry and a strong background, he is intertwined with the government and opposition officials, and he can't easily move. Moreover, Shi Kefa himself is also a member of the gentry, and shooting at the giant merchants is equivalent to shooting at himself, not to mention others, let's just say that among these staff members under the scenes, which one of them does not take thousands of taels of silver from the salt merchant every year!

Since there is not much money to raise, there is no way to fully recruit strong men to defend the city. A staff member proposed to Shi Kefa that in the name of the government, the people should be forcibly transferred to defend the city and forcibly distributed according to the household book, but there was no money and food to distribute, so you can imagine how high the enthusiasm of those people could be.

Besides, Ren Siqi, after returning to the camp, immediately summoned the generals to arrange the defense line. Send someone to Yangzhou Mansion to get back the reward promised by Shi Kefa, and according to the head of the Daishan Army, this time you can get a reward of 150,000 taels of silver. Ren Siqi did not plan to distribute this batch of bounties for the time being, but decided to take them out to recruit new soldiers in Yangzhou.

If you want to hold Yangzhou, you can't just defend it, but you must combine offense and defense. However, with the strength of the Daishan army, it was still insufficient for more than 10,000 people to defend the city, let alone take the initiative to attack. Although the newly recruited soldiers were not strong enough in combat, defending the city was no better than fighting in the field, as long as they had the courage to stand on the city wall and throw bricks and stones down.

Just when the defense was arranged, Cao Changjiang, who was sent to Yangzhou Mansion to receive the reward, came back and asked Ren Siqi with a sad face.

"What's wrong, Brother Cao?" For this honest man who followed him as early as Luzon, Ren Siqi has always respected him.

"Uncle, they are only willing to give seventy percent of the reward, and I can't say anything!" Cao Changjiang said ashamedly.

It turned out that when Cao Changjiang went to receive the reward, the clerk in charge of distributing the reward in Yangzhou asked Cao Changjiang to sign the full receipt, but only gave seventy percent of the silver, Cao Changjiang was naturally dissatisfied and argued with him. The scribe said that this was a common practice, and he was not afraid to sue the overseer.

Routine, fucking convention! When has it been, these rats have not forgotten to embezzle! Lao Tzu led the troops to fight desperately, but he was protecting such a group of moths! At this moment, Ren Siqi only felt a wave of anger rushing to his head, and he couldn't wait to lead his troops to kill those people.

"Uncle, I'll lead the troops to snatch it back, I think who the fuck dares to embezzle the reward we have earned for our hard work!" Li Xingjiu shouted loudly.

If you want to come back, you must come back, but you can't openly send troops to rob it, but you want to come back justifiably.

Ren Siqi decided to go in person, if anyone dared to obstruct him again, he wouldn't mind killing people! The situation is so critical, we must use thunderbolt means to win the hearts and minds of the people in the shortest possible time!

As soon as he said and did, Ren Siqi immediately led a hundred guards to the Yangzhou Treasury.

The ambassador in charge of the treasury of the official's treasury was named Gu Xing, and when he saw Ren Siqi coming in person, he hurriedly ran over and bowed to Ren Siqi.

"The next official pays a visit to Uncle Su, uncle, why are you here in person." Gu Xing carefully accompanied the smiling face.

"When Ben Bo heard that someone dared to embezzle the silver that our army had worked so hard to win from killing the enemy, he himself came to see who had such great audacity to embezzle the money that the brothers had exchanged for their lives!" Ren Siqi said coldly.

"Uncle, you are laughing, no matter how bold the lower officials are, they don't dare to be greedy for your silver. It's just convention, convention. Not only your army, but also other armies come to receive the reward, and the practice is only seventy percent. But since you are here in person, uncle, the lower official naturally can't help but give you face, and the lower official will order to go down, and the reward of your army will be allocated according to eighty percent! ”

"Hahaha......" Ren Siqi laughed, and Gu Xing also laughed.

"So it seems that Benbo will still accept your love!" As soon as the smile stopped, Ren Siqi asked coldly: "Embezzling Lao Tzu's silver taels, but asking Lao Tzu to admit his feelings, what kind of truth is this?" (To be continued.) )