252: The hearts of the people

"What? Even to pay back the money? Yan Song's father looked at the officer standing in front of him with a look of surprise, and couldn't believe that this was true. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Yes, our army accidentally injured Yan Song during the siege of the city, and according to the regulations of our army's military regulations, people who were accidentally injured need to pay medical expenses and related expenses in the later stage. This is ten taels of silver, which will be used as treatment funds for the time being, and if it is not enough in the later stage, you can go to the government office with the list, and someone will give you a price there. Cheng Min handed over ten taels of silver to Yan Song's father, and specially told him the follow-up precautions.

"This ......" Yan Song's father looked at the ten taels of silver in his hand, still unable to believe that this was true. Then he looked at the corpses of several people piled up in the corners of the city wall and asked, "What about them?" ”

"Although they are civilians, they have been confirmed to be involved in this battle, so they will be treated as enemy troops. In dealing with enemy troops, our army will be able to do at most not hold their families accountable, and it is even more impossible to pay compensation, after all, there is no precedent for any army to provide pensions to enemy troops. The corners of Chengmin's mouth rose slightly, and he said with a smile.

"I can't imagine that your army has such a belly, admire! Admire! Yan Song's father woke up from the shock, although he was still a little confused, but Cheng Min had already said it clearly.

His son Yan Song was not treated as an enemy, and he didn't know whether the Han army did it on purpose or didn't find out about Yan Song, but no matter what the Han army did, it was a good thing for their family.

Yan Song's father had no reason not to give up.

"Old man, after you go back, you must do what the doctor instructs, although Yan Song's life is not in danger now, but once something goes wrong, the consequences are unimaginable. In addition, I would like to remind the old gentleman that if you encounter this situation in the future, you must take good care of your family and keep them away from the battlefield as much as possible, after all, guns have no eyes. Cheng Min told again.

"Hey!" Yan Song's father answered, and with the help of several soldiers, he immediately carried Yan Song back to the direction of home.

Until now, Yan Song's family has been terrified.

When they heard the gunshots outside the city, the family was terrified, and then the gunfire finally stopped, but they were even more worried.

It wasn't until a few soldiers found their home that the family thought their son must have been killed, or captured, and then the location of their home was recognized.

The Han army is here to arrest them.

Unexpectedly, the Han army did not arrest them, but told them that Yan Song was mistakenly injured by the Han army when he passed by the city gate, and he was currently seriously injured and needed them to take care of him.

So, Yan Song's father took Yan Song's wife and the two of them to the place where Yan Song was injured, and Yan Song's mother and two children were left at home.

As soon as the two saw Yan Song's appearance, tears could no longer stop falling.

Yan Song's wife cried from beginning to end, and she didn't even stop.

It wasn't until the officers from the Han army came and told them how to deal with it, that Yan Song's father and wife, as well as Yan Song himself, had not reacted.

They didn't even dare to imagine that the Han army did not hold them accountable, but instead gave them a sum of money, which was called compensation for accidental injuries.

It's nothing if you deceive those uninformed people, but who in Yan Song's family doesn't know that Yan Song came to the city wall to resist the Han army?

And those dead people were all treated as enemy soldiers, but Yan Song, on the other hand, was treated as accidental injuries.

There is a war going on outside, and what common people are walking on the streets with such a heart?

In fact, just as Yan Song's family thought, there was only one injured person Yan Song present, and the rest were the corpses of those people, and the rest of the people didn't even see a shadow.

Yan Song was carried into his home, and the whole of Jingzhou had been completely occupied by the Han army.

With the reduction of the number of Han soldiers at the city gate, some people also dared to go out quietly, and occasionally encountered some Han army patrols on the road.

However, when the patrols of the Han army saw the people who were hiding, they did not stop to ask, but walked directly over.

Only when you see some people who are obviously behaving abnormally, will you come forward to investigate.

The Han army did not intend to slaughter the city, which also reassured the people in Jingzhou City.

More and more people know about Yan Song. This was not deliberately propagated by the Han army, but the people who lived there at that time heard their conversations, not only the conversations of Chengmin, but also the conversations in the fields.

Tian Li had clearly told Yan Song in front that he knew that Yan Song was a member of the defenders. But the people in the back started a dumb riddle and directly defined Yan Song as a common person who was injured by mistake.

Even ordinary people who have never seen anything in the world can judge that it is definitely deliberate by the Han army.

The soldier in front already knew the truth, then there was no reason why he should not report it to his superiors.

But after all, the people are just ordinary people, no one cares so much about their thoughts, they only know that it was the field that called the medical soldier first, and then a soldier with a box on his back came to help Yan Song treat his injuries, and then someone else came to help him treat, and then, Yan Song got a sum of money.

The Han army did not kill ordinary people, and this alone was enough.

What bullshit rebels are not rebels, what bullshit courts are not rebels, wasn't the court back then also rebels? Besides, what the common people want is very simple, they just need to be able to eat, have clothes to wear, and have a house to live in, and they don't have the heart to participate in some things about the country, let alone the courage to participate.

The rules of China for thousands of years have long taken root in the hearts of the people, not to talk about state affairs, the earliest can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty.

And although the law of 'defamation' was abolished during the Han Dynasty, it was also conditional. Ordinary people who don't know a single word scold the emperor when they are plowing the land in the field, then no problem, no one will hold you responsible.

But can you change to someone who has read the book and try to scold? If I don't give you a full slash, then I'm lucky.

Although the rule of the Qing Dynasty was similar to that of all dynasties, and there were also things like literary prisons, on the whole, before recent years, the people still had no antipathy to the Qing Dynasty.

Even now, most people have a feeling of hating iron but not steel, and few people really hate the Qing Dynasty.

In any case, during the Qing Dynasty, the royal family did a very good job of surface engineering for the people.

For example, during the Qing Dynasty, a tax was abolished, and this tax has been levied for thousands of years in Chinese history.

It is the tax, which we are familiar with in the past, but it is actually two different taxes.

Fu is the people need to pay funds separately, this fund is not as much as various taxes, but this fu is mainly sent to the royal treasury, the emperor to build temples, the palace to repair, royal expenses, mainly from here.

Tax is easier to understand, and this does not need to be explained too much.

But in fact, the total tax revenue of the Qing Dynasty was not much less than that of the previous dynasty, although it was not collected, but it was added in other aspects, but the people didn't care about this, they only knew that they didn't have to pay taxes.

So where did the Qing royal family's expenses come from? The answer is Manchu.

The Manchu people had the right to go to various areas to open up wasteland, and part of the grain obtained was handed over to the military department, part to the internal affairs government, and the rest was their own, so they did not have to pay all kinds of taxes.

Nominally, the Manchu people assumed the responsibility of paying the national contributions.

At the beginning of the founding of the Qing Dynasty, it was precisely by using this trick that the domestic situation was quickly stabilized and the foundation was laid for the centuries-long rule of the Qing Dynasty.

Now that the Qing Dynasty is in decline, internal and external troubles are continuous, and land is ceded everywhere for compensation, but the internal tax revenue has not been reduced at all, and officials around the country have intensified their efforts to loot the people's fat and ointment, and the people are miserable.

At this time, I don't want you to be an official like Bao Qingtian, you are a huge corrupt official, a big corrupt official like He Shen, as long as he doesn't make things difficult for the people, then he is still a good official in the eyes of the people.

Jingzhou is a big city, and the size of the urban area far exceeds that of other regions, although it is not as good as the governance of those provinces, but it is definitely a second-tier city.

Therefore, the 39th Division also had to leave two battalions of troops stationed here.

Watching those troops pass through the city, one by one with their heads held high, compared with the previous Qing army, both their bodies and faces are much better, which also makes many people secretly give a thumbs up to the Han army.

Of course, the most important thing is that the Han army did not disturb the people. After clearing the remnants of the defenders in the city, the Han army left Jingzhou directly, and even if the troops passed through the city, there was no scene of the Qing army entering the city before.

What's more, Yan Song's matter has now spread all over the city, and at the beginning, the people felt that the Han army was just different from other Qing armies, but it was not clear what the difference was.

But after some people who had read the book came out to explain, the people here really knew how the Han army was different from the Qing army.

Obviously, the Han army is sending another signal to the people of the city, the Han army will not kill people indiscriminately, nor will it frame good people. But those who are disobedient and dare to resist, they will never show mercy. Of course, if you surrender, the Han army will not bother with you.

This is the difference between the Han army and other armies, it did not look for various reasons to slaughter the city, did not oppress the people here, and even in order not to affect the normal life of the people, there was a brigade of troops who simply did not enter the city, and went directly around the two sides of Jingzhou City.

"Hey, what a good troop." An old Xiucai looked at the Han army troops with strict military discipline and shook his head helplessly.

"Yes, if the army of the imperial court can be like this, how can we look at the faces of those foreigners now?" The other chimed in.

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