"Good! The losses of the assault were too great, and the siege was changed. Then encourage those ordinary people to storm the city gate, and millions of people in Jinling City. I want to see if we can't feed these millions of mouths, what does he Li Xiao take to feed. We can still use the food we have saved. Ma Shiying laughed contemptuously when he heard the Liao soldiers retreating.

"Li Xiao is such a person, he can't stand the casualties of the soldiers. There was a fight against the Dutch in Macau, and it was supposed to be a big win. But because of the heavy casualties in the department, she cried like a girl. You didn't see it at the time! Ruan Dacheng was also gloating on the side.

"Let the people go, anyway, the current people are not easy to deceive. Those fools have all been consumed, and it is not so easy to try to deceive them like this. If you love to go, let's go! Don't stay in the city and waste food! ”

"Lord Bing, you can't let them go like this." Ruan Dacheng suddenly smiled very sinisterly.

"Don't let them go, and let them stay here and waste food? Is there any other way you can do it? Ma Shiying was a little puzzled, but as long as Ruan Dacheng showed this face, it must have a bad idea.

"Lord Bingbu, you said that we should collect some from these people who want to leave the city...... Belch...... Is it good to get out of town? Ruan Dacheng smiled sadly.

"Exit fees? It's a good idea, and if you want to get out of the city, you'll have to pay some money. Anyway, there is no money in this Jinling City now, and there is no food to buy now, so it is better to hand over the gold and silver than to starve to death here, and then roll up the cover and leave. Lord Ruan, you have a good idea. It is not only affordable, but also trouble-free. Okay, let's do it. Collect the money for leaving the city!

Ha ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ma Shiying couldn't breathe with laughter, thinking that he would definitely have to take this Ruan Dacheng with him in the future. This guy is too good at making money!

"What are you saying Wen Tiren are doing now?" Smiling and smiling, Ma Shiying suddenly remembered his old rival in the city.

He ...... Maybe I'm also thinking about how to deal with Li Xiao! ”

Wen Tiren was indeed thinking about dealing with Li Xiao, but he was not happy with Ma Shiying, and he was as anxious as a donkey pulling a mill.

"Li Xiao is so ruthless, so that the people in the city are gone. What else do we have to blackmail the Liao soldiers, and when the people are almost gone, Li Xiao will resume the offensive immediately. The overwhelming artillery fire will tear us to pieces. Li Xiao will care about human life, but he will definitely not care about property loss. If he can kill us, he will even dare to blow up the palace. Wen Tiren roared angrily.

"Uncle, I'm going to send someone to stop those people. But that big ball in the sky, sprinkling leaflets down all day long, demagoguery. I had people shoot them, but they couldn't reach them. ”

"I can't help it, you can't beat that thing yet. Now it's flyers that are thrown, and when the people are almost gone, it is estimated that they are throwing explosive bags. I don't know how Li Xiao's brain grows, there is that thing floating on the top of his head all day long, and our every move is watched by Li Xiao.

Damn it! Immediately stop those people who want to leave the city, they are our hostages, our soldiers, and our shields.

Just go! Wen Tiren gritted his teeth, but there was nothing he could do.

"No!" Wen Tao responded to a promise and hurried to stop the people who wanted to get out of the city.

"Look at it, this is written by Yang Xiucai from Dongjie to his family, saying that he is very good outside the city, and the Liao soldiers are still in charge of eating."

"Didn't you say kill the head? How do you still care? ”

"And this, written by the shopkeeper Feng on West Street. I recognized his handwriting, and it was definitely his right handwriting. ”

"No......! They all said that the Liao soldiers were all devils who killed people for fun, how could they still take care of food, I am afraid that they were not forced to write. ”

Various rumors began to circulate in the city, and as the siege lengthened. Rumors are becoming more and more unreliable, sometimes to the point of changing three times a day. In the morning, he also said that the Liao soldiers were kind to those who went out of the city, not only taking care of the food but also building thatched huts to live in. At noon, there was a rumor that everyone who left the city had been killed. A large pit was dug in the ground, and the corpses were stacked on their arms and legs. There were not only the corpses of adults, but also the corpses of children. The tragedy is unbearable!

In the evening, rumors came back. Let's talk about the good things of the Liao soldiers again!

The common people listen to this and that for a while. They also became confused, and many people didn't know what to do. A large group of people huddled together all day long, like thousands of sparrows gathered together. As soon as the official of the official family came, he immediately scattered the birds and beasts.

As time passed, the people's enthusiasm for listening to rumors gradually waned. Because, the food stock of the family began to gradually decrease.

Long before the Liao soldiers besieged the city, Ma Shiying and Wen Tiren had been fighting for more than a month. If there are relatives in the countryside at home, they have long run to the homes of relatives in the countryside to take refuge. During the war, they could not open their doors for work and business, and the residents of Jinling could only sit at home and eat and store grain.

When the Liao soldiers besieged the city, the rice jars in many houses were already half empty. Now that the Liao soldiers have besieged the city again for more than half a month, many people who are not well-off have bottomed out. It was only then that they realized that they could not sell food even with money. Half a month ago, the grain store was robbed by the soldiers in the city. Now, the rice shop owner doesn't have much food in his house.

After another half a month, some people began to want to get out of the city. But Xicheng, which is controlled by Wen Tiren, does not let people leave at all. There are soldiers with guns at every intersection to guard day and night, and the eastern city controlled by Ma Shiying is better, as long as you pay the money, you can go out of the city.

Anyway, I couldn't buy food with money, so I simply took some valuable things at home to bribe the soldiers and went out of the city. In any case, you can't starve to death in the city......! Legend has it that when they arrived outside the city, the Liao soldiers still took care of food.

Ten more days passed, and the number of people fleeing the famine began to increase in the city. This is also something that cannot be helped, people have to eat as long as they live. The city is not as good as the countryside, and if you are hungry in the countryside, you can dig some wild vegetables and make some small fish and shrimp to fill your stomach.

What's in the city? If you weren't in Jiangnan, almost every house would have a well. I'm afraid it's hard to get a draft!

The people in the east of the city are okay to say, as long as you take the money, it will be square. The place controlled by Wen Tiren in the west of the city was much worse, and the people first had to evade the patrols of the soldiers and sneak to the east of the city, and then buy the soldiers out of the city. In order to have a way to live, the people took out valuable things at home.

"You see, that's not Wang Xiucai's family. She also came out? ”

"Poor man! The man was a death squad and did not come back, and the child was also killed. Now she's the only one left, does she have any money in the family? What to give to those who are soldiers? ”

"Women don't need money, their bodies are money. Hey, hey, hey! ”

"Get out! Dogs can't spit ivory out of their mouths. ”

"You can spit ivory out of your mouth! I saw it with my own eyes, and I heard that she had half-closed her door in order to make a living. Many people have seen that some soldiers have drilled into her house. ”

"It's really fake, her man is a showman, and he died for the court. Is it not a little bit of a pension? ”

"Bereavement? Who gave you a pension! One hundred taels of silver, and only twenty taels were left in his hand. What can you buy with twenty taels of silver in these years? If she didn't do it half-doored, she wouldn't starve to death. ”

"Phew! I didn't expect it to be such a little prostitute. ”

"The men and children are dead, what can she do as a woman. Her stupid man, who was willing to die for the court, what did she get in the end? ”

"The official word has two mouths, in the final analysis, it is our common people who are unlucky. Ay......! ”

"Those people in the government deserve to die, and they trick the men into working for their lives. Now that the mother-in-law and children are out of the city, they still have to collect money, which is simply black-hearted. ”

"How can there be good people who are officials!"

While the people were talking, Wang Xiucai's daughter-in-law and an officer-like guy walked into a house next to the city gate.

"What are you going to do with these people?" Looking at the thatched huts all over the mountains, Zhang Huang couldn't help shaking his head.

"Those who have relatives and friends will be given travel expenses for them to join relatives and friends, and those who have no relatives and friends will be sent to Liaodong for ....... In that place in Liaodong, the mass base is the best. When these people arrived in Liaodong, they couldn't make any noise. Li Xiao looked at the dense thatched house, and his scalp was also a little numb.

If it weren't for the artifacts of potatoes and sweet potatoes and corn, they really wouldn't be able to feed these people all over the mountains. Yanziji is busy unloading every day, and a boatload is full of these grains. However, when he left, he was not empty, and he took away a lot of Jinling citizens.

Jiangnan is prosperous and densely populated, while Liaodong is extremely underpopulated. In later generations, there were less than 2 million people living in places where tens of millions of people lived, and this was the result of Li Xiao's continuous immigration to Liaodong.

The black soil in the Northeast is oily when pinched. What a wonderful place, but now the population is pitiful. Liaodong is okay, but a little further north, there are things where one person occupies dozens or hundreds of acres.

Get these people to Liaodong and distribute them to various production teams. In two years, Liaodong's grain output will increase.

In these years, there is food to have the world. If you want the people of the world to obey you, feed their stomachs first.

"In order to increase the population of Liaodong, it is also a lot of effort. Well, what to do with Jinling City. The population has been drained, and it seems that it will not be able to recover in ten years. ”

"That can't be helped, I don't want to lose too much. How many states and counties in Jiangnan have surrendered to us now? ”

"Man Ye led his soldiers south, and encountered almost no resistance along the way. Suzhou, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Wuhu, Huzhou, Jiangzhou, Tanzhou, these places have fallen. The day before yesterday, the military report of Man Ye also said that he had arrived in Changzhou and Wuxi, and the county officials there had already gone out of the city to greet him. Now Man Ye complained, saying that there was no battle to fight, and he wanted to come to Jinling to participate in the war. ”

"Jinling! Hehe! I don't need him! The people sent by Mr. Sun took over Yangzhou, and Cao Wenzhao also came to Jinling. Now there are three main divisions in this place, plus eight garrison divisions. Jinling City has been surrounded like Tietong, and there is no emptiness for the full master. Let's let Master Man go to the stake and occupy all these places in the south of the Yangtze River as soon as possible. If Jinling City does not surrender for a day, I will trap him for a day. If he doesn't surrender for two days, I'll trap him for two days.

When did the people in Jinling City get tired, hungry, thin, and tired. Lao Tzu will eat them in one bite! I'd like to see how long an island can last. ”

"They won't last long! In the past few days, I have observed and found that Ma Shiying and Wen Tiren's attitudes are very different. Zhang Huangyan looked at Li Xiao with a smile.

When Li Xiao saw Zhang Huangyan's smiling tiger appearance, he knew that this old bastard with bad water in his stomach was bubbling with bad water in his stomach.

"Tell me, what do you want to do?"

"Divide and conquer!

I heard people who came out of the city say that Ma Shiying was still collecting money from the people who went out of the city at this time. As long as you are willing to spend money, getting out of town is not a problem. Wen Tiren's side is different, his side is still stuck and does not let the people come out. Big difference! What a difference! Zhang Huangyan shook his head.

"What a difference!" Li Xiao knew that this old bastard was waiting for this.

"Wen Tiren is a master, and he can see the direction of the situation. These people are his shields, and with these people, he can continue to fight against us. And Ma Shiying was still thinking about making money at this time. can't get out, why is he making money? Where to spend?

There is only one answer, Ma Shiying still thinks about spending money in the future. And what Wen Tiren thinks is...... Desperate to make a last stubborn resistance, although he will also surrender, but that will force him to the point of desperation.

As for Ma Shiying, as long as he is given a suitable condition and is allowed to be rich and noble, it is not difficult to make him surrender at all. People like Ma Shiying only think about the word wealth.

Therefore, the cost of recruiting Ma Shiying is lower, and the conditions for recruiting cool people will be higher. ”

"It's all like this, and you're still thinking about surrendering?" Looking at the tattered Jinling city wall, Li Xiao felt that it was too late to use wisdom at this time.

"At this time, it can be effective to surrender. Of course, Wen Tiren's asking price is very high, so we don't bother to think about it. It is estimated that there will be results in the next few days, and the old man thinks that we will send artillery and let Ma Shiying send someone to destroy Wen Tiren. What do you think? Zhang Huangyan had a smug smile on his face, and he was always very happy after calculating people.

"Ma Shiying would be so obedient?" Li Xiao felt that Zhang Huangyan was a little whimsical, and he had achieved this virtue, so why not surrender as soon as possible. Before he attacked the city, he sent people to persuade him to surrender. As a result, he was almost killed, and his head was shaved and sent back.

"For the sake of richness, he will be obedient. In his eyes, other people's lives don't matter. Only his own wealth is the most important thing in this world, and he can even sacrifice his father and son for the sake of wealth. What's more, the lives of these soldiers. ”

"Good! I'm waiting for you, you really said that Ma Shiying was moved. I don't mind giving him artillery support, but Ma Shiying. Hey! I spared him, and the thousands of unjust souls of the Liao army couldn't spare him. ”

"That's natural, we don't mind doing such a thing as unloading the mill and killing the donkey. With people like them, there is no need to be emotional. ”

"Hope you succeed!"

"It's sure to succeed, I've already sent someone in, just wait!"