Although the seizure of the capital had a huge ideological impact on society and the people of the world, it slowly calmed down after a few days. For ordinary people, life is not easy, and thinking about firewood, rice, oil and salt is the most important. And others have to think about how to survive.

On the night of the city's destruction, the Jin merchants in the city were terrified. Zhang Rushen, the old man of Jin merchants who had gone to Liu Fucheng to find a way, was particularly panicked. He was a veteran merchant in Liaodong who had been doing business in the north before Fushun was conquered by Jiannu. After Fushun was occupied, he was even personally released by Nurhachi, and the slave chieftain also entrusted him to inquire about the news in the Central Plains and traffic goods to Liaodong.

After Jiannu took Liaodong, the ferocity of the place was even more brutal than that of the 'revolutionary army'. The barbarians are completely knocking on the bones and sucking the marrow, drying up and fishing. Even though Liaoyang was transported by Zhou Qingfeng in advance, they still obtained more than 20 million taels of silver in the entire eastern and western Liaoning. This is the property of millions of Hermes-Epitek throughout Northland.

With this money, the Jurchens were able to attract merchants from all walks of life, and the Ming army provided them with supplies. Among them, the Jin merchants to which Zhang Rushen belonged were the most hardworking. They often bought goods from Datong and the capital, and crossed the Mongol territory through Zhangjiakou to reach Shenyang. From grain and tea to knives, guns and firearms, they sell everything without any scruples.

Zhang Rushen always felt that as long as he got the officialdom done, he could do whatever he wanted, but he soon found that there was an even more terrible guy eyeing him. From the very beginning, the newspapers of the 'Revolutionary Army' reported on the commercial actions of the Jin merchants, describing in detail the routes and effects of their trafficking of goods, and calling them traitors and traitors.

At first, all the Jin merchants didn't take it seriously. They all felt that the 'revolutionary army' was nothing more than a group of thieves trapped in the southern Liaoning Peninsula, and they actually issued newspapers accusing them of treason. Besides, they feel that 'Lao Tzu is going to be a traitor', what can you do to me? Come and bite me!

The 'revolutionary army' really bit this group of Jin businessmen.

With the expansion of the power of the 'revolutionary army', the influence of the propaganda department of the 'revolutionary army' has increased rapidly. When Zhou Qingfeng conquered Tianjin, the gentry and common people of the Ming Dynasty were only curious about the news from the 'revolutionary army', and soon found that reading newspapers was a necessity for life.

The 'revolutionary army' quickly conquered the minds of the broad masses of the people by disseminating information that transcended the times. As the 'revolutionary army' expanded again and again, people paid more and more attention to it. Naturally, the spread of its newspapers is getting farther and stronger. Newspaper opinions are also becoming more and more popular.

For traitors and traitors, even the official gentry of the Ming Dynasty are not pleasing to the eye and are very disgusted. And after the Jin merchants were labeled with this label, they who spoke Shanxi dialect were pointed at when they walked there. Even the people of Shanxi were criticized.

Over time, the business channels of Jin merchants gradually shrank under strong social public opinion. Even the people of Shanxi themselves hate these traitorous merchants. Only then did Zhang Rushen's group understand what it meant to be 'public opinion' and what was meant to be 'pressure from public opinion', and only then did they know how much damage the sharp scolding in the newspapers could do to them.

Although the Jin merchants continued to do business with Jiannu, they became more and more cautious and troublesome. In particular, after the establishment of the Special Operations Command of the 'Revolutionary Army', it joined hands with the Ministry of Security to carry out targeted targeted killings of Jin merchants and behead traitors. After each successful operation, the newspapers of the 'revolutionary army' would also publicly announce the results of the battle, indicating that the traitor had been ambushed.

After all, Chinese civilization has preached and praised heroes like Yue Fei since ancient times, and pinned traitors like Qin Hui to the pillar of shame for hundreds of years. When a colleague was constantly killed, Zhang Rushen knew that he was afraid - he felt that he had obviously not provoked the commander of the 'revolutionary army', but people wanted to kill him.

Zhang Rushen traveled all over the capital, and even sent people to Tianjin to beg for mercy and relent, but the 'revolutionary army' did not talk to him at all. Zhou Qingfeng hated these profiteers who made a fortune and made money from the flesh and blood of the Han people, and his hatred was even greater than that of the Ming gentry, and he vowed to kill them all.

On the night when the capital city was broken, Zhang Rushen knew that he was about to face great disaster. He escaped from the Jin Shang's guild hall with a small number of cronies, and it was not long before the security department of the 'revolutionary army' came with soldiers to arrest and interrogate the whereabouts of the guild personnel. This ruthless method frightened Zhang Rushen's soul out of possession - it turns out that there are really people in this world who don't want money, just life.

On the night of the city break, the 'revolutionary army' took out the list that had been prepared long ago and began to arrest people. In addition to the garrisons stationed in various places, more than 20,000 troops can also be dispatched to pursue the whole city. In two days, a large number of militia workers arrived, and the water of the blockade inside and outside the city would be even more impassable, and even a fly would not want to fly out.

Fortunately, Zhang Rushen was prepared for the worst-case scenario, he took his cronies to buy off the host of a small temple in the city, and all the people went to the temple to list as monks. It's just that after staying in the temple for a few days, he still thinks about escaping, so he naturally wants to come out to find out the news.

This inquiry found that the entire capital had changed.

The Ministry of the Interior of the 'Revolutionary Army' was reorganized into the State Council, and its office was located in the original six ministries. When Xu Bing officially assumed the post of 'prime minister', the first thing he did was to take stock of the population and land in the capital and surrounding towns. Out of complete distrust of the officials and materials of the Ming court's household and official departments, the 'revolutionary army' decided to rely on its own personnel to keep a census of the population and land.

The cadres cultivated from the blessed land of the cave can be regarded as coming in handy. Every day, 30 students with high school diplomas are quickly trained to become junior high school students in the blessed land. The State Council already has more than 1,000 junior high school students. Xu Bing will form a working group of every ten junior high school students, and they will be led by a high school student and accompanied by a hundred capable militiamen to conduct an inventory of the whole city.

Efficient and independent inventory work has cleared out the people and property that have been hidden in the past, and even exposed a large number of idle people in society. All kinds of ruffians, gangsters, thugs, and evil organizations are constantly being cracked down and cleaned up. Many forces that were thought to be provoked in the past and had deep backgrounds were uprooted and wiped out at once.

In half a month, thousands of people died in the entire capital. Every day there are people who want to escape from the city, every day people are arrested and interrogated, and every day people are tortured by the Ming Dynasty. Outside the noon gate, people went to see the excitement as soon as it was dawn, and at noon, one after another's heads were cut off. The land was full of blood, and it couldn't be washed clean.

The brutal methods of the 'revolutionary army' are terrifying, which is beyond the imagination of the people of the Ming Dynasty, who have been in peace for a long time. But after so many deaths, the market is immediately much refreshed.

The common people no longer have to worry about being pestered by scoundrels, and many of them don't even have to pay back the loan sharks, and they don't have to worry too much about going out in the middle of the night, because the streets are full of 'revolutionary' soldiers. As long as you don't commit adultery, everyone's life will be much easier.

Zhang Rushen found that all the friends on the road who could be contacted in the past were all finished, and no one could provide him with convenience anymore. The elites in the officialdom were either arrested and liquidated, or repented under house arrest, and then they were reconstituted in a centralized manner, and no one could get through the relationship with Zhang Rushen. At this moment, he felt that he could not move an inch, as if he was blind.

In the past, it was difficult for the Ming court to bring these people to justice, but now the 'revolutionary army' has swept them all in one go.

For this situation, Zhang Rushen complained bitterly, which made him even more frightened. Because the newspaper was publishing a list of executions recently, many of the names on it were familiar to him. Among them were Jin merchants who had been arrested and interrogated, and the crime was very simple - treason.

Due to the fact that there were too many dead people in the city, the 'revolutionary army' complied with the psychological needs of the people, and also found some monks and Taoists to spend their souls. Zhang Rushen pretended to be a monk and was also asked to go around reciting scriptures and doing things. He has been doing business outside Cyprus all the year round, and his face is full of wind and frost, and he looks like a monk in a shabby monk's robe.

The first place where Zhang Rushen was overtaken was an official eunuch. The head of the family was a household servant, who was placed under house arrest in the palace and committed suicide by hanging himself that night. When the corpse was returned, it was not even possible to enter the door, because the house had been seized, and the mortuary had to be parked outside the house, and a bunch of relatives who had been driven out were crying in the streets.

The whole family was crying very desolately, but the soldiers of the 'revolutionary army' guarded the door and did not allow them to go in and pack their clothes. The working group in charge of the population inventory was also very rude, and ordered all the slaves to go home on the spot, and went homeless to the shelter run by the government of the 'revolutionary army' to wait for resettlement.

This family is considered to be a broken family, a wife is separated, and in an instant, the whole family can only go their separate ways. Zhang Rushen recited the scriptures and surpassed the soul of the dead, and at the same time saw that he was related. However, he did not have long before the impatient team called for the corpse team to drag the body to be cremated, and at the same time to count the belongings in the house.

The household servant is in charge of money and food. This kind of official position is not black-hearted, and it is impossible to improve at all. Zhang Rushen saw that the working group sent people to bring out boxes of silver ingots from the courtyard, which were said to have been found in the cellar.

A chest of silver was extremely heavy, eight thousand, if not ten thousand. It takes four militiamen to be able to move. The counters had to take out the silver one by one and weigh it, and the snowflakes and silver on the scene were really white.

"Alas...... if you knew this was the case, what was the use of being greedy so much?" Zhang Rushen not only sighed at this squire, but also sighed at himself. Jin merchants also worked hard and risked the world's disapproval to make money. Now that the money is not earned, my life is going to be lost. "Why should there be such a monster as the 'Revolutionary Army' in this world? It's so disturbing that I can't wait. ”

Without waiting for the sigh to finish, Zhang Rushen was sent to the next place to overstay. This time it happened to be the Jin Chamber of Commerce Hall, and there was blood everywhere in the hall. It can be seen that on the day of the city break, there was a lot of fighting here. When he came back, he didn't see any acquaintances, but a few handymen who were sent to clean up muttered: "These Shanxi Yankees are not good at stubble, and there are even monks to help, but it's a pity that ......." ”

What a pity?

It's a pity that the 'revolutionary army' is stronger on its side.

What about the monk's magic? Throw a few grenades and you will be blown up in the past. The guards in charge of cleaning up the place didn't even call for help, and directly beat several Jin Shang monks like blood gourds with a single volley of guns. Zhang Rushen thought that his colleagues had a lot of skills, and they could escape a few of them, but now it seems that they are only afraid of life and death.

Zhang Rushen was uncomfortable staying in this place, and it was too much to recite a few verses noisily. Just waiting for him to leave, he found that a sweeping handyman suddenly approached him. He looked at it fixedly, and suddenly exclaimed: "Liu Fucheng, you guy didn't run away." ”

Although the approaching handyman was disguised, Zhang Rushen recognized the other party at a glance. The handyman quietly raised his fingers and booed, lowered his voice and asked, "Brother Zhang, don't come unharmed." Looks like you're doing well, brother, I want to take refuge in you. ”

"Don't come to you ghost!" Zhang Rushen looked left and right vigilantly, and he secretly thought: "Feng Shui takes turns, how did Lao Tzu beg you at the beginning?" How did you get rid of Lao Tzu? Now you're begging me ......? He shook his hand and shouted, "Don't follow Lao Tzu, you broom star." ”