Chapter 322 The third update
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"Hey, you've heard that! We don't have enough food in our city! One citizen was whispering to another.
"Not enough food? No way! Where did you hear this news, His Royal Highness the Holy King should not be short of grain and grass, otherwise he would not have given us good land, and it is still such a low tax! Another citizen said in surprise. You must know that Liu Mangjun's taxes in Shouchun are very small, only three layers, so that he can't receive much grain and grass, and Liu Mangjun should not lack grain and grass to make such a tax, otherwise, how can he raise an army!
"You don't need to ask, just see for yourself, how much ration did you get yesterday?!" The man who spoke said disdainfully.
"Two buckets!" The man replied without knowing why.
"You also know that it is two buckets, at first we were one person with four buckets, and children with one bucket, but now, from four buckets to three buckets, now directly into two buckets, children have become half buckets, so who can eat enough! That doesn't mean anything! ”
It is true that from the beginning when the people entered Shouchun, the rations given by Liu Mangjun were indeed four buckets, and everyone was full, and they could even leave a little, but now there are only two buckets, what are the two buckets enough? It's not that there are so many dishes in modern times, so there are fewer meals, here are troubled times, everyone is mainly eating, dishes or something, rich families can't afford to eat, so the consumption of food is large.
"The two buckets are already good, so I won't starve to death, and I'll survive it!" An old man is very kind and says good things for Liu Mangjun, he is an old man who has survived from the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and naturally knows what it was like for everyone to not be able to eat at that time, it was completely cannibalism. There are corpses everywhere, and now there are only two fights in Shouchun City, but they won't starve to death, right?
"It's over? Lao Suo, you don't know, I tell you, I heard that there will be no two fights in a few days. In order to block Liu Beijun outside the city, it is said that the grain and grass will only be eaten by those who participate in the defense of the city! If we want to cut off our rations, ordinary people can only go into battle if they want to eat food! The unpretentious-looking farmer continued.
"Only those who go up the city wall can eat?!" The old man's brows furrowed, if so, the young man would be fine, if it was an old man and a child like him. And the women and children, should they also go up to the wall? Not to mention fighting, climbing the city wall is almost the same. Looking at the old man's frown, the man continued to say bad things about Liu Mangjun, why do you want to give the bad food to the people.
"You have to eat and pick and choose, do you want to wait for Liu Beijun to be slaughtered after breaking the city?!" The other citizen couldn't look at it and refuted.
"Who sues you. The Xuande Guild outside slaughtered the city? I sue you, it's all fake, it's all a joke, who is Xuande Gong? He is the left general of our Han Dynasty and the emperor's uncle, he is extremely benevolent and righteous, I don't believe you to ask the Xuzhou villagers. When General Zuo left Xuzhou, how many people were willing to follow him! This man began to boast about Liu Bei outside the city again.
"Yes, yes, I am from Xuzhou, Xuande Gong is a living Bodhisattva, it is he who saved our Xuzhou from being slaughtered by Cao thieves!" In the crowd, there are not only Pang Tong's spies who say this kind of thing, but also the real people of Xuzhou, and the people of Xuzhou are now grateful to Liu Bei.
Hearing everyone say this, many people began to waver.
The man hit the railway while it was hot, "General Zuo also set up a banquet outside the city, if you don't believe it, go and see, he said that he is not guilty of the people in the city." He was just ordered by the Son of Heaven to crusade against the unsubordinate, and it has nothing to do with us ordinary people! ”
"Crusade against you? Shouchun is His Royal Highness the Holy King, where did he come from! ”
"You don't understand this, His Royal Highness the Holy King has been deceived, such as that military advisor Xu Shu. And that envoy Yang Hong, you don't know him, Yuan Shu's strategist back then, he was a traitor under Yuan Shu! "Yang Hong's reputation is really not good among the people, because in order to let Yuan Shu ascend the throne and become the emperor, he can have enough food and grass for the military, which is a lot of people, and the people hate Yang Hong to death, but who knows that Yang Hong is just a person who accepts orders!
"You mean?!" Some people think about it a lot, where is this place now, it is Yangzhou, this is Shouchun, how long has Yuan Shu called the emperor, Yuan Shu called the emperor and let the entire Yangzhou be abolished, Shouchun was originally a place with half of the national capital, and the last ten did not exist, such a miserable ending is because Yuan Shu called the emperor, and now Yang Hong, who instigated Yuan Shu to call the emperor, is also there, and if you can't keep it, you will really be the emperor in Shouchun and then become Shouchun like that, it will be over, these people still remember the misery of Yangzhou at the beginning.
"What about taxes? What about the good fields?! "What the people really care about is their own small profits, because these are the foundation of their lives.
"Duke Xuande said in the city, as long as he takes Shouchun just to crusade against the rebels, for the sake of the Qing monarch, as long as he kills these traitorous ministers, he will abide by what His Royal Highness said to our people!" The man continued. In his words, it is Pang Tong's trick, thirty percent of the tax? It's okay not to laugh! Liu Bei didn't dare to receive the third layer even if he was virtuous, if it was the third layer, what would he use to raise the army, and what would he use to release the army and recruit soldiers? You must know that Guandu is coming to an end, if you want to dominate the Central Plains, you must have a strong army, so now there is only the expansion of the army, the reason why he said this is to appease these people first, and then wait for him to take Shouchun This qiē is another explanation, they take Shouchun will naturally make the tax become the original appearance again, after the rebellion of the people, all put the infamy on Liu Mang's body, this is the tax set by the Holy King Liu Mang, you go to find the Holy King's Palace! In this way, not only Liu Bei can get the original tax, but also Liu Mang's reputation will really be ruined, and only by winning the trust of the people can he get the support of the people.
Now that this man said this, there was a lot of discussion in the city, and many people had an extra heart, they were all ordinary people, so naturally they would not be die-hard or anything like that. What they think about is their own small family, and now they can't think of Shouchun, everyone thinks in their hearts that if what Liu Beijun outside the city said is true, as long as they don't slaughter the city, it's easy to say. The big deal is to change the parent!
For these people, it really doesn't matter who is the official who is too guarded! Not only in the city, but even the temporary garrison in the city, which had just been reorganized, began to be agitated, because Liu Beijun under the city said that as long as they did not resist and dropped their weapons, they would not be responsible for the past.
"Haha, the military advisor is really a god. If this continues, this Shouchun will be broken! Seeing that everyone was discussing the simplicity of this man who was still a dealer just now, he immediately turned into a cunning look, and he changed his outfit and went to several other urban areas to continue spreading rumors.
"Captain want to take him down?!" The man left, but he didn't know that he had been targeted for a long time.
"No, at least not now!" This captain is the intelligence officer that Yang Hong left in Shouchun. Pang Tong's spies were mixed into Shouchun, they already knew about it, but they couldn't find it, because there were millions of people in Shouchun, how could so many people identify them one by one, they could only find a needle in a haystack, but now Pang Tong's strategy exposed them all, but now is not the time to catch them all. Because the main bosses are still missing! Only when they all come out, then solve it together.
Seeing that a qiē was about to riot, one by one the white horse righteous cavalry began to ride war horses in the city, shouting loudly: "All the people, listen, Shouchun City, the entrance of the east vegetable market is about to execute the corrupt officials, corrupt officials, and grain release officials Xie Wen!" You can go and watch, and the Master will administer justice to you! ”
"Execution of corrupt officials? What's so nice about this! Don't go, don't go, why did you go to such an unlucky place at the entrance of the vegetable market! Some of the people didn't want to go, but then he wanted to go again, because someone on the side shouted, "Grain officer? What kind of official is this! ”
"Stupid, I don't know. The grain release officer is the official who gives us food! "There are people on the side who are belittling their peers to improve themselves.
"The official who gave me food was corrupt? Is it because of the grain and grass?! ”
"Everyone, go and see, the military advisor said that he will uphold justice for us, and he may give me grain and grass!" Not only Pang Tong has intelligence personnel who can build momentum, but also Liu Mangjun's spies are also building momentum, releasing food! With such a shout, the people who were unwilling to go were willing to go. Those who are willing to watch the excitement follow the past.
In a small courtyard in Shouchun City. A woman was frowning, "Is there only two buckets of grain?" "Even if you add his father-in-law, it's only four buckets, if it was okay before, the big deal is to eat less, but now that she is pregnant, how can these four buckets be enough, if it doesn't work, then she can only take away a few ornaments that Brother Wen gave her, so that she can come back with a little food.
There was a commotion outside, but this woman didn't pay attention at all, she was a woman, she shouldn't have gone out, not to mention that she was still worried about food now! But the woman didn't want to go out, but there was a reason why she had to go, because two other women rushed in.
"Sister-in-law of the Xie family, go quickly, go to the entrance of the Chengdong Vegetable Market!" A woman shouted panting.
"Go to Chengdong Caishikou?!" This woman called the sister-in-law of the Xie family was stunned, what is there to go to the vegetable market, isn't it just to kill the head! What's so good-looking, not only is it unlucky but there are many people, but what she needs when she is pregnant with a child is to raise a baby at home and go to the vegetable market, "Sister-in-law of the Liu family, why are you in such a hurry, come and drink saliva slowly!" Saying that, the sister-in-law of the Xie family handed a bowl of water to the woman who reported the news.
After drinking her stomach with a sip of water, this sister-in-law of the Liu family was really comfortable and relieved, "Come on, sister-in-law of the Xie family, I sue you, go to the vegetable market, your Xie Wen, Xie Wen!" ”
"What's wrong with Xie Wen?!" Hearing someone mention her husband, Xie Wu was a little anxious.
"I'm going to be beheaded, you go, go quickly!"
"What!" When Xie Wu heard the news, he was stunned on the spot, "Impossible, impossible, how is it possible!" "Could it be that Liu Beijun came in, otherwise how could it be, you must know that although his family Xie Wen broke an arm, he was the old man of Lu Bujun, and he lost his arm for Lu Bujun, how could he be beheaded?
"Is your Xie Wen a grain officer?!" The sister-in-law of the Liu family on the side continued, and Xie Wu nodded, "That's right!" There are soldiers on horseback shouting that Xie Wen, the grain release officer, will be executed at the entrance of the vegetable market, saying that they will be the master of our people! ”
"Take me, take me!" Xie Wu. panicked on the spot, because what this sister-in-law of the Liu family said was not their family's Xie Wen!
The sister-in-law of the Liu family was afraid that there would be something wrong with Xie Wu's pregnancy on the way there, so she let the men of her family and her younger brother take Xie Wu's to the city together, and the four of them have not yet reached the east of the city. saw that the long sea of people was about to block the east of the city, and with the help of the two men, Xie Wu and the sister-in-law of the Liu family were able to squeeze to the front end of the vegetable market.
"Let's let, let's let!" Just when everyone was looking forward to it, the cavalry took the lead, followed by a prisoner cart. Isn't the armless man in the prisoner cart the grain officer Xie Wen!
"Xie Wen, Xie Wen!" Xie Wu wanted to shout, but he couldn't shout, because there were too many people in the audience, how could she, a weak woman, be pregnant! Her voice was quickly silenced by the cacophony.
After a while, the prisoner car arrived at the entrance of the vegetable market in the east of the city, and Xie Wen was escorted down from the prisoner car and knelt down on the entrance of the vegetable market. Sitting on the execution table at the back was Xu Shu of Shouchun City. Standing next to Xu Shu was a personal guard, Zhao Yun had returned to the Shouchun City Wall, and Zhao Yun needed to guard Shouchun City and not be raided by Liu Beijun.
"Everyone, quietly, quietly!" A man who looked like a scribe walked to the front desk and pressed his hand towards everyone, trying to make these people stop talking and listen to Xu Shu on the stage, but what is the use of a scribe. Just when the scribes didn't know what to do.
Xu Shu stood up by himself, he walked to the entrance of the vegetable market, and Xie Wen knelt down in front of him. I saw Xu Shu suddenly take a breath and open his mouth, just like a tiger roaring, "Quiet!" These two words have directly changed many people, Xu Shu is also a martial artist, his roar is still a bit powerful, so that the people in the front row only feel uncomfortable in their ears and no longer speak, and the people in the back also quieted down because the people in front stopped talking.
Seeing that everyone was quiet, Xu Shu exhaled at this time, his injury was not as good as the wound just now, and after a while, Xu Shu spoke, "Fathers and fellow villagers." Ladies and gentlemen, the contemptible Xu Shu Xu Yuanzhi, under the command of His Royal Highness the Holy King of the Han Dynasty, thanks to His Royal Highness's affordability, he gave Xu Shu the position of military advisor, Xu Shu has always been conscientious for fear of any mistakes. His Royal Highness the Holy King is also based on the people, for the sake of the common people in the world, this is a great kindness, so that everyone present can only teach three layers of taxes, you can get a few acres of fertile land, be able to live and work in peace and contentment, for my Han, for the welfare of the people in the world, "Xu Shu opened his mouth to count Liu Mang's kindness, people are grateful, but it's more of a forgotten heart, no matter how good you are to a person, once it takes a long time, he will naturally forget it, and Xu Shu just wants to find out this grateful heart again!
"Yes, yes, His Royal Highness the Holy King is a good person, thirty percent of the taxes, several acres of fertile land have been given to us in vain, and even after giving birth to a child, there will be another reward for good land, it is really a living Bodhisattva, a saint!" Ancient China is a history of war, he is also a history of agricultural civilization, the small peasant economy has always occupied the main position, for the people of the land is the capital of life, with acres of good land will no longer be worried about not having to eat, and thirty percent of the tax, but also let them no longer eat enough, this is a real benefit, they will not be able to see
Xu Shu is very satisfied with the gratitude and morality of the people below, they have given you so many benefits, you don't want to think about kindness, it is really a beast, "But some people don't think so, a few days ago, Liu Bei's thief coveted the richness of my Yangzhou, and wanted to occupy it, and even he wanted to confiscate the good land of everyone present, and the tax should be added to the same fifty percent as their Yuzhou, do you say that such a person is very hateful?!" Xu Shu continued to move the offensive of his speech.
"Yes, yes!" The people below responded to the call, what did they come to Shouchun for? Isn't it just for the sake of good land? If their fertile land is harvested, how will they live? There are also fifty percent of taxes, to be honest, there are really not many in this troubled world, but you have to look at what it is like, it is like making you eat rice all the time, and suddenly let you eat grass roots and bark one day, will you be able to stand it? The contrast will definitely make you angry.
What Xu Shu wants is to make the anger of these people jump and add it all to Liu Beijun outside. Didn't Liu Bei want to beautify himself! Xu Shu went to deteriorate his image, and wanted to say that he was a heinous person, a demon who came to rob everyone's land and prevent everyone from eating.
"You're a liar!" Seeing Xu Shu's words stirring up the hatred of the people, the spies of Liu Beijun who were hidden in the crowd couldn't do it, if Shouchun City became a heart. If the hatred for Liu Bei reaches a certain level, then it will really be over, not to mention whether Shouchun City can be attacked, even if it is taken, it will make Liu Bei helpless to treat the people. stood up and directly pointed at Xu Shu and reprimanded angrily, "General Zuo Xuande is here to crusade against the rebels, how can it be possible to take away everyone's good land and let everyone raise taxes?!" It's all your side of the story, and it's bloody! ”
Everyone's eyes were attracted by this person, and Xu Shu also saw this person, with no expression on his face, but he was sneering in his heart, and what he wanted was you jumping clowns, "I don't know who Your Excellency is!" ”
"I'm not Your Excellency. I am just a person from Yuzhou, in our Yuzhou, the people are worshipping Xuande Gong, thank Xuande Gong for his kindness, not only us, but also those people in Xuzhou. Xuande Gong was driven out of Xuzhou because of Cao thief, but the people of Xuzhou still did not abandon and went to Yuzhou with Xuande Gong! How could such a saint take away our fertile land and raise our taxes! Xuande Gong also said under the city, as long as we surrender, he will not blame the past, you humiliate Xuande Gong so much, don't you just want us to help you defend the city, and you want us to die for you! The man who stood up said confidently.
A man's words. Let the people below boil again, especially the people of Xuzhou, they are really grateful and moral to Liu Bei, the people don't care if you have changed the lord, changed the Taishou state pastor or something, what they want is a stable life, if Liu Bei outside the city is also such a condition, then it is better to surrender Liu Bei! For a while, Liu Bei's praise was raining, which made the man very proud.
"Who is this?!" When the man stood up, Liu Mangjun's intelligence officers, who had been closely monitoring the city, were also watching him. This man really didn't know about anyone, and there was no one in the crowd they monitored, and this person should be a leader-level figure among the Pang Tong detectives.
"Hehe, brother, I'll call you that! You said you were from Yuzhou! Xu Shu looked at this person very indifferently.
"Yes. I'm from Yuzhou! The man repeated.
"Good! Someone, take him down for me! Xu Shu pointed directly at this man and shouted, the two guards took the order to take down this person.
Seeing the arrival of the guard, this person was not in a hurry, "What? Don't you tell the truth, do you want to kill people and kill people! Or is it your pain? If so, come for it! Kill me, and you won't be able to stop you! This man's eyes were full of provocation, he was betting that Xu Shu would not dare to kill him, if Xu Shu cut him, then it would be confirmed that Xu Shu had framed Liu Bei.
"Kill you? Hehe, I'm still afraid of dirty my hands, and I, Xu Shu, a gallless rat, have always disdained to kill! Xu Shu expressed disdain for this person, which made this man very ashamed.
"You said you are from Yuzhou, you said Liu Bei, Liu Xuande, are rare saints? Then let me ask, since Liu Bei is so good, why did you come to my Yangzhou and come to my Holy King's rule? Xu Shu directly asked a few rhetorical questions, didn't you say that Liu Bei was good! Okay, since Liu Bei is so good, why did you want to run to Shouchun and Yangzhou, this is not an indirect indication that Yuzhou is not as good as Yangzhou!
"Me, me!" The man was speechless for a while
"Why don't you have anything to say?!" Xu Shu asked very indifferently, the people below were competing to speak, yes, yes, this person came to Yangzhou from Yuzhou, which means that he is not doing well in Yuzhou, otherwise why would he come to Yangzhou! The people began to lean towards Xu Shu again.
"Humph! I came to Yangzhou just to study and want to see the style of the Holy King! Let's see if our Xuande Gong is the same as a saint" This man is really not stupid, one sentence to refute Xu Shu's question, people are here to study, naturally they are not here to survive here, but they didn't have to go out because of the war.
"Okay, what a study tour!" Xu Shu didn't expect this man to be able to say this, but would Xu Shu let him go? The answer is no, "Well, since you are a student, you naturally know some geometry, so I will ask the last question, how much is your tax in Yuzhou!" ”
"Yuzhou's taxes, this, this!" This man really has nothing to say, and the tax in Yuzhou is six layers, which is a fact.
"You don't want to say, I'm here to sue you! The tax in Yuzhou is six layers, which is double that of our Yangzhou, Liu Bei Liu Xuande is a despicable villain, the reason why he attacked our Yangzhou is because he doesn't want us to maintain three layers of taxes, and he doesn't want the people to have their own good land, because our tax guide is that the people of Yuzhou are competing to come to our Yangzhou and come to the Holy King, Liu Bei can't see that these people are doing well, and he can't see the loss of his own people, so he was jealous and sent troops, he used the guise of Qingjun's side, He is under the banner of crusading against rebels, in fact, in order to annex the land of my Yangzhou, take a fancy to the richness of my Shouchun, and want the people to return to sixty percent of the taxes, everyone says, such a person is not a hypocrite, is not a treacherous villain! ”
"Yes, yes, yes!" The eyes of the people are red now, it turns out that this Liu Bei and Liu Xuande want to rob them of their land, and they want them to return to the sixth layer of taxes, this is not good, land is the lifeblood of the people, how can this be taught to you!
Pang Tong wants to separate the people of Shouchun, and Xu Shu wants to use interests to tie these people and Shouchun together.
"For the good of the people? For the good of the people, why can you only have two buckets of food for the people, so that the people can't eat? There is no grain and grass in your army, in order to keep Shouchun, you can only let the people starve to death, today is two buckets, tomorrow may be one bucket, and even the day after tomorrow you will snatch food from the people! All the villagers and elders present, even if they really give you good land, even if they are really three-tier taxes, can you hold on until the time of the autumn harvest? And Shouchun has no more food! You'll all starve to death in a few days! It's better to die than to live, open the city gate to welcome Xuande Gong's troops, they will let you survive and not starve to death in Shouchun! The man continued.
At this moment, the people below were silent, there was no grain and grass in Shouchun City, it was an objective fact, and they really changed from four buckets to three buckets to two buckets, if it was really like that, although the good land was good! The third layer of taxation is also very good, but it will have to be next year, if you don't have food for a few more days, you will starve to death! No matter how good the land is, no matter how good the tax is, it is just a flash in the pan! In the final analysis, it is still a small life, it is better to die than to live, this is a real portrayal of the ancient people, if there is no way to live, no food to eat, how can it be possible to rise up and rebel! Look at the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, look at the rebellion, let alone the officials, I'm afraid the people will be able to drown you.