At the same time, Fang Ling also noticed that everyone who entered the city had to pay a certain amount of silver taels, the ordinary people only used a few copper coins, and those who were richly dressed asked for a small piece of broken silver, and the merchants who had goods to carry goods had to pay a few pieces of broken silver when entering the city.

Lu Bei frowned and wondered: "What's going on, why do you have to pay money to enter the city?"

Fang Ling thought for a moment and said with a smile: "It seems that Gu Shaofeng wants to collect some entrance fees to subsidize the military salary, although this money seems to be painless, but it can be collected for a few hundred taels a day." ”

Lu Bei snorted coldly and said: "It seems that Gu Shaofeng is not a good stubble, wouldn't it be to oppress the people when he came up with this kind of trick?"

Fang Ling said with far-reaching eyes: "He even oppressed the people, and those rich people in the city are only afraid of being squeezed more, but in order to save their lives, those people are afraid that they will rush to give gifts without the other party's words." But this time, there is no need to worry about entering the city. ”

After that, he untied Kun Chongdao and Cun Ding and said, "You are waiting for me outside the city, and it is not easy for the other party to be suspicious when I go in alone." ”

Lu Bei put away the two things, continued to lurk in the jungle outside the city, Fang Ling walked straight towards the city gate, came to the city gate, without saying a word, directly stuffed a silver ingot to the leader, panicked that this is his hometown, because he heard the news of the war and rushed back from the field, so the household registration road guide did not bring anything, please bear with the other party.

The little leader saw that he was young, had a good temperament, looked like a scholar, and that the amount of silver was sufficient, so he waved his hand and let him enter the city.

As soon as he entered the city, he took the initiative to ask a middle-aged merchant who came in at the same time: "Uncle, I just came back from other places, there is nothing wrong in this city, right?"

The middle-aged merchant was in his thirties and looked peaceful, he obviously heard Fang Ling talking to the little leader just now, and said kindly: "Little brother, don't worry, the city is still the same as before, and there is not even a battle." ”

"You haven't even fought, so you have surrendered?" Fang Ling said in surprise.

The middle-aged businessman looked left and right, and then lowered his voice and said: "Saying that surrender is not all surrender, originally Lieutenant Zhang led the county soldiers to prepare to defend to the death, but it turned out that Tan County Commander was a guy who was greedy for life and afraid of death. ”

"There is such a thing?" Fang Ling frowned.

The middle-aged businessman sighed: "Who is right and who is wrong in this war, we ordinary people can't say, but Zhang County Lieutenant is really a good person, he has served in the city for ten years, and this Jingui County has been peaceful for ten years, and now he is thrown into prison, I don't know if he can come out alive." ”

Fang Ling then asked, "What about this Tan County Order?"

The middle-aged merchant sneered and said, "Of course, he is the county commander of his steady, and I also heard that this guy has dedicated all the looted people's fat and ointment to General Gu, and this position has been preserved." ”

Fang Ling's heart moved when he heard this, it seems that although this Gu Shaofeng has military talent, but this appetite is not small, if he conquers a place, he will receive a large amount of gold and silver treasures, but he is afraid that he will have a treasure trove around him.

He pretended to ask casually, "Then this General Gu is in the county seat?"