It was the morning when the Fuxing Army entered Qixia County. Therefore, most of the people in Qixia County heard the sound of the Fuxing Army's cannons, and they all saw the scene of the Fuxing Army blasting open the hastily closed city gate and rushing into the county seat in groups.

From the beginning of the siege to the entry into the county government, it took about an hour for the revival army. On the contrary, it took a battalion of the revival army to arrest the officials and officials of the county government and the wealthy gentry of the county government.

It took three days for the 17th Battalion of the Ludong Fuxing Army to completely clean up the entire Qixia County and begin to manage Qixia County.

In the rural areas, the Baath Party adopted a policy of fighting local tyrants and landlords. In the cities, the Baath Party has adopted a policy of cracking down on criminals of all kinds.

For the citizens of Qixia County, which is less than 30,000, the appearance of the revival army has caused them a lot of fright.

When the Fuxing Army entered Qixia County, Zhou Litao, a businessman in the county, did not know what was going on. It wasn't until the soldiers of the Fuxing Army began to arrest the big landlords and local gentry in Qixia County according to the intelligence that Zhou Litao figured out that there were "thieves" who had invaded the county.

Zhou Litao's family lives in the southern city of Qixia County, which belongs to the wealthy area of Qixia County. All the big landlords, gentry and merchants in the county, who were relatively wealthy, basically lived here.

Zhou Litao's reputation in the business community of Qixia County is not very good. Because he started his business in Qixia County by marrying the concubine who was divorced by the former county magistrate of this county, he relied on this woman's net worth to do business in Qixia County. Therefore, the businessmen in this county all think that Zhou Litao started by eating "back to the pot meat" and eating soft rice, so everyone is quite disdainful of Zhou Litao, who has a successful career.

The home of Zhou Litao, who is isolated in the business community of Qixia County, is in the outermost part of the southern city, and there are no people around, and it seems lonely. So, when he and his wife heard the cacophony of the doors of the surrounding large families being broken down, they both trembled with fear.

The intelligence of the Baath Army is very accurate and very efficient. All the large landowners and gentry whose families owned a lot of land in the county were basically arrested by the soldiers of the Baath Army on the first day. For those small and medium-sized businessmen who did not own land and lived entirely on trading and trading, the Baath Army did not intervene at all.

Therefore, when Zhou Litao conscientiously went to check his own shop on the main street more than ten days after the Baath Party entered the city, he found that all the big shops and storefronts on the entire street had basically closed. On the contrary, the shops of small and medium-sized businessmen like him are still the same. And although he, the owner, has not shown up for more than ten days, the family's shop is still operating.

"Does Shopkeeper Wang know what's going on these days?"

In the back hall of his shop, Zhou Litao cautiously asked his shopkeeper.

"I've already inquired about it. This group of kings who broke into the city came from Dengzhou Mansion. It is said that the entire Dengzhou Mansion and Laizhou Mansion have now been occupied by this group of kings called the Baath Party. ”

Wang Fusheng is the big shopkeeper invited by Zhou Litao, and he has been working in Zhou Litao's shop for almost ten years. Because Zhou Litao is good to him, he is also more loyal to Zhou Litao, the owner.

"Many masters over there in Nancheng have been arrested. What does this mean? Is this a kidnapping for the Baath Party? It doesn't look like it. If you kidnap the ticket, why is the whole family arrested? ”

Zhou Litao also secretly observed lying on the wall at home in the past two days. He saw that all those big men who had a lot of real estate in the countryside were taken away by the whole family, and he really had a lot of questions. In the past, it was not without bandits and bandits who fought in the county town. But it was the first time Zhou Litao had seen such a situation like the Baath Party raiding his house.

"The path of this Baath Party is not the same as that of ordinary kings. A few days ago, I went to the gate of the county government to investigate. Now the kings of the Baath Party are stationed in the courtyard of the county office. There is a notice at the entrance of the county office. The notice said that the Baath Party was going to carry out some kind of agrarian revolution in both places in Denglai. Anyone whose land exceeds fifteen acres per capita is considered a landlord. All landlords had to hand over their land to the Ba'ath Party. Those who do not hand over the land are counter-revolutionaries. The Baath Party arrested them to suppress the counter-revolution. ”

What is called an agrarian revolution, or even a revolution, and what is a counter-revolution. Neither Zhou Litao nor Wang Fusheng knows. Don't look at both of them as characters who can write and calculate. However, in "Zhou Yi", "Heaven and earth are revolutionized and become four times, and the Tang Wu Revolution follows the sky and responds to people." Even if they read this sentence back then, they didn't pay attention to it, and they didn't understand what it meant. So at this time, when they hear the word revolution, they are all scratching their heads.

"In this way, the Baath Party is a group of people who specialize in cleaning up the landed people. Didn't anyone from our Baath Party come to our shop? Didn't the Baath Party kings ask us for money and food? ”

"Don't worry, I've read all the Ba'ath Party notices. What kind of military management is the Baath Party is now exercising over our Qixia County? Except for the gang in the county yamen and the landed gentry and the like. Anyone who has no land at home, and whose land is less than 15 acres per capita, does not care about the people of the Baath Party. Moreover, the kings of the Ba'ath Party also exempted the county from the imperial grain and state tax. We don't have to pay business taxes and filial piety in the future. ”

"That being said, who knows what's going to happen next?"

Zhou Litao sighed and said to Wang Fusheng, who was overjoyed by the new policy of the Ba'ath Party.

"Now the county is occupied by the Ba'ath Party. Our purchase channel is broken. You have to ship slowly these days, otherwise I don't know when, the goods in the store will be sold out. ”

Zhou Litao was a medium-sized businessman, as a businessman specializing in the cloth business. He usually doesn't dare to buy too much at a time. The store doesn't have a lot of stock, so his store has to stock it often. Once the traffic was cut off, his shop was out of stock. According to Zhou Litao's understanding, rebels like the Baath Party generally have to ban traffic. So he naturally thought about the issue of goods.

"If the owner doesn't talk about it, I'm about to talk to the owner too." Hearing Zhou Litao's words, Wang Fusheng hurriedly said to him.

"This Baath Party is indeed not an ordinary mountain king. After the Baath Party raided the shops of several large families on the street, they did not close all of them, but used the shops of the Zhang family on East Street to open and buy and sell. I sent a guy to the shop to see it. The shop called the supply and marketing cooperatives sells everything. Grain, cloth, and clothing, as well as all kinds of miscellaneous daily uses, and even all kinds of iron pot kitchen knives or something, are also available in the supply and marketing cooperative. ”

"And I also specially sent the junior out of the city. Not only did the Baathistists not seal the city, but they also exempted them from taxes to enter and leave the city. The current Qixia County can't help but go in and out. ”