Late at night, Li Yang was in the camp, gathered all the prisoners, and said loudly: "Brothers, hello, I am Li Yang of the Huaxia Army, and I was an official of the imperial court like you some time ago, and then I was defeated in the battle with the Righteous Army and took refuge in the Righteous Army, and now I am in the position of a squad leader of the cavalry." ”

"Those who came first also know that the treatment of our army, after getting along in the past few days, you should also understand in your heart when you compare with the previous ones in the Ming Dynasty. That treatment is one in the sky and one underground, and it can't be compared. ”

"My boss and I, pack the ticket, tomorrow I will distribute your weapons, go to Heshui County with me, go to scare the corrupt official in Heshui County, let him release all your families, and then go to Qingyang County, you know our Qingyang policy! How would you like to go back to Qingyang County with us? ”

The officers and soldiers below said in unison: "Yes, willing." ”

In the early morning of the next day, the camp gate was opened, and Li Yang led the army to the city of Heshui County, and said loudly: "I am Li Yang, the company commander of the First Cavalry Regiment of the Huaxia Army, let Heshui County, the county order come out, I have something to say to him." ”

At this time, a head popped up at the head of the city, and Li Yang saw that this was not Xu Yi? I couldn't help but be happy, and the price in my heart immediately doubled.

And Xu Yi in the city is also a joy at first glance, isn't this the kid Li Yang, a hooligan? This kid has lost his home, what are he going to do sons?

Li Yang under the city said loudly: "The leader of my family, I feel that God has the virtue of a good life, and I have specially ordered me to come to the armistice to mediate, as long as you donate 200,000 loads of food and the people on the roster, our army will retreat." ”

Xu Yi on the wall secretly shouted in his heart when he heard it, the straight thief didn't expect this kid's heart to be so dark, but it's good, Lao Tzu has been unhappy for a long time when he looks at the county order with a bad stomach.

Send someone to the city immediately to inform the county order.

In the county office, the county commander scolded angrily when he heard Li Yang's offer: "Just a thief, where does he get his face, what is himself, since he is so good at blackmailing the court officials, he really doesn't want to live, are you really not afraid of the imperial court army crusade?" ”

Looking at the thunderous county order, the county man beside him said helplessly: "My lord, now is not the time to be angry, you should summon Xu Baihu and ask about the situation, after all, we are all handed over to Xu Baihu for the defense of the city." ”

When the county commander heard this, he also nodded and said, "Okay, quickly send someone to summon Xu Baihu to come over to discuss the matter." ”

Xu Yi walked in quickly and bowed to the county order, and said, "Hundred households Xu Yi meets the county order..."

The county commander directly interrupted Xu Yi's greetings and asked directly: "Xu Baihu, how is the defense?" How sure are you that you will hold the county seat? ”

Xu Yi said: "My lord, due to the thieves, the army is too fast, and it is impossible to collect the Rolling Stone Giant Wood from outside the city, and there are not enough Rolling Stone Giant Trees in the city, I am afraid that it will not be able to be used for a long time." ”

When the county magistrate heard this, he said, "Aren't there many houses in the west of the city?" If you send someone to demolish it, isn't there a giant tree? This is really a pig brain for me to teach. ”

When Xu Yi heard this, he was taken aback and asked, "My lord, if you tear down the beams of the people's houses, how will you shelter from the wind and rain in the future?" ”

The county magistrate listened to Xu Yi's words and said: "Women's benevolence, what about the war, who can do so much, and if you don't demolish theirs, who will demolish it?" Which of the gentry is easy to mess with? ”

Xu Yi listened to the words of the county order, and said in his heart, so the gentry are not easy to mess with, so they go to bully the helpless people, what a dog official.

The county magistrate continued: "You didn't suit me yesterday to promise, didn't the thieves attack the city? So what's the news just now? ”

Xu Yi listened and said: "My lord, the situation is that the thieves should not have the strength to attack the city, but the thieves don't know how to recruit the officers and soldiers, and now they are standing under the city and preparing to attack the city, and seventy or eighty horsemen are surrounding the city gate to prevent our army from reporting the news." ”

The county magistrate was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "You didn't say that yesterday, why did you change your tricks today?" ”

Xu Yi listened and said: "If you don't believe it, you can look at the city wall, and you will know that the thieves are full of morale." ”

After hearing this, the county order hurriedly dared to go to the city wall and bared his head to look at the army under the city.

And Li Yang, who was bored under the city, saw the county order showing his head, and immediately came to his senses, and shouted: "Heshui county order, listen, I am Li Yang, the cavalry company commander of the Huaxia Rebel Army in Qingyang County, if you don't hand over the food and people that our army needs, when our army invades, it is not a question of how much we want, and whether your head can be saved." After speaking, Li Yang raised the Yanling knife and shouted: "If you don't offer food, you will go in and open a warehouse to release grain, and kill corrupt officials and corrupt officials!" ”

The troops behind him also shouted: "Kill in, open a warehouse and release grain, and kill corrupt officials and corrupt officials!" ”

When the county commander heard the commotion under the city, he was so frightened that he fell to the ground, as a high-ranking lord, when had he ever seen this battle. He stood up tremblingly and said, "Uncles of the rebel army, you wait a moment for me to go and raise food." ”

When the county magistrate next to him heard this, he said, "Lord County Commander, how can we have so much food?" Half is not enough. ”

The county magistrate listened to it and said: "This is the matter of Heshui County, now we and the gentry in the city are people in the same boat, it is a relationship between the lips and the teeth, Heshui County has been breached, they are not much better, we are looking for them to ask for food, how much can be wanted, as for the rest, the people in the city will make up for it!" ”

After listening to the words of the county order, the county man opened his mouth and said: "My lord, the people are already miserable, and if we take away their rations this year, we will force them to death!" Don't do that."

When the county magistrate heard this, he said with a dark face: "It's not the food I want, it's those thieves, if it weren't for those thieves, you would think I would!" ”

The county said: "My lord, in your house..."

When the county magistrate heard the words of the county magistrate, he immediately interrupted and said coldly: "Don't think about it, you are my pension money, how can you help those people, if you think so, it is better to think more about how to ask for more food from those businessmen and gentry, or go to the thieves in the city and ask if you can pick up less food." ”

When the county man heard this, he smiled bitterly in his heart: "What's wrong with me, I have been working with the county magistrate for so long, and I don't know his temperament, so I should ask the gentry for help, I hope the people will be less damaged." ”

The county man poked his head out and said to Li Yang: "This lord, you have to agree with the government, but the amount is huge, can you give some time to make up for it?" ”

Li Yang nodded and said, "No problem, but you have to release the people on the roster I wrote to you first." The remaining materials must be gathered at night, otherwise they will attack the city, break through the county seat, and kill without mercy! ”

The county man clenched his fists and said to Li Yang: "I understand, thank you for this adult." ”

Li Yang waved his hand and ordered the withdrawal of troops.

After the county Cheng entered the county to visit the gentry one by one, in the face of the county Cheng's visit, the gentry were full of impatience, and finally the county Cheng finally collected 50,000 tons of grain, plus 100,000 tons of grain in the county, the county Cheng finally smiled on his face, and the calculator in his heart only needs to take out some more food himself, plus the county order and the history of each person to take out some food is enough, and the people can be exempted from this catastrophe.

The county official said with a smile on his face and said to the county order: "The lower official has already calculated that he collected 50,000 quintals of grain from the gentry and then extracted 100,000 quintals of grain from the county treasury, as long as the adults are willing to provide 30,000 or 20,000 quintals of grain, the rest are from the lower officials and the canonical history, and the grain and wine asked for by the thief are all together." ”

When the county order heard it, he said with an unhappy face: "What, why do you want the official to produce food again, you also know the county, the official has a grandfather to raise, and there are screaming children, and the official is an honest and honest person, how can he get 20,000 loads of grain, the official sees, or ask for it from the people." ”

After listening to the shameless words of the county order, the angry county Cheng pointed to the county order and kept saying: "Shameless, shameless, in vain as a scholar, the county commander, who in Heshui County does not know that you are a famous big landlord, you occupy the best fertile land in Heshui County 10,000 mu, and only 20,000 quintals of grain, for you, it is not to hurt his shins, why not come out, just destroy the livelihood of the people for this little food." ”

The county magistrate listened to the words of the county magistrate, his face darkened, and he patted the table and said: "Why, your eight-grade county magistrate actually taught me the seven-grade county order, why do you want to put it below, and you still know what the king law is." ”

When the county magistrate heard the words of the county order, his face turned red, and he said angrily: "You are a parent official in vain!" After saying that, he brushed his sleeves and left.

The county magistrate looked at the county man who was leaving with his sleeves and said disdainfully: "Hmph, a nerd, I don't know the way to be an official, how can a lowly person give up his money, wouldn't it be wonderful to use this money to open a way for himself to be promoted, no, now that civil unrest has begun to emerge in southern Shaanxi, it is no longer safe here, I have to pay an extra fee, and I will be transferred out of this place quickly." ”

The county man walked out of the county office with a dejected face, wandered aimlessly on the street, and unconsciously walked to the city wall, looking at the officers and soldiers who were still busy, sitting on the steps, and did not come back to his senses for a long time.

Xu Yi looked at the depressed county Cheng and felt very strange in his heart, for this county Cheng who was dedicated to the people, Xu Yi still admired it very much, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were too few good officials who were dedicated to the people.

Xu Yi stepped forward and bowed: "Yi saw the confusion on the boss's face, can you talk to Yi?" As the saying goes, one person counts short, and two people count long, maybe Yi has a way to be a great boss. ”

The county Cheng listened to Xu Yi's words and said: "It's no big deal, it's that Su is incompetent, and he can't get enough food, the county order has already spoken, if he can't make it up, the food will let the officers and soldiers forcibly collect food from the people's houses." ”

Xu Yi's brows furrowed when he heard this, and he said, "Lord Su, is there such a shortage of food in the county now?" But I saw that those gentry families were constantly spending money on food every day! ”