After Daniel Zhang's army left, Yang Xin hurriedly recruited the surrendered prefect.

"What's going on in the city now? How did they get out of the city? ”

Yang Xin naturally rushed to figure out the situation.

Ou Keli probably said the situation, and he thought that the riot of the displaced people in the city was planned by the rebel army outside the city, and he should cooperate with the outside world, but he did not know that the riot in the city was a conspiracy of Daxing.

Huang Fuxing asked on the side: "King Xing, what should we do?" Can the army enter the city now? ”

Yang Xin hesitated a little, at this time, at night, the city was considered a mob, and his two thousand people rushed into the city, it was not good to give full play to the advantages of the army's collective combat when it was dark, and it was easy to fall into straggler combat, and it was all street fighting at that time, although it would not lose, but the casualties would inevitably be heavy.

However, if you don't go in, the people will suffer heavy casualties, and you can't help but be in a dilemma.

"King Xing, don't enter the city at this time, it's too dangerous, you just need to guard the city gate, and enter the city at dawn tomorrow."

Ou Keli hurriedly suggested.

He is also a soldier, and he surrendered at this time, so he naturally wanted to show a little sincerity in front of Yang Xin.

Yang Xin thought about it again and again, gritted his teeth and decided not to enter the city, it is not easy to train these soldiers by himself, if the damage is too great, even if he takes Laizhou, it will not be cost-effective, because he will soon face the Qing army and the Ming army.

"The army guards the city gate, and will enter again tomorrow morning, and inform Daniel Zhang in front that if the thief army escapes into the city, it must not be pursued, and it will withdraw to join the king."

Daniel Zhang chased the enemy's ass for a while, and killed four or five hundred enemies, and the thief army did not dare to fight hard in the night, and they all rushed into the city from the north gate and defended according to the city gate.

Daniel Zhang had to retreat as ordered.

It was night, the city killed the shouts, the wailing sounded all night, the fire soared to the sky, and the west and north of the city were suffering, the Daxing army was eager to fight but it was dark and inconvenient to move, the same sad is the exile army in the north of the city, they are eager to rob, but they are afraid that the Daxing army will kill when they rob, then a plate of sand can not organize resistance at all, only the mob in the city knows nothing, still frantically smashing and looting.

Hai Dongqing, Sha Li Ni, and Skinned Sheep The three thieves gathered together to discuss.

The skinned sheep couldn't hold his breath the most, and said: "Two brothers, we can't wait any longer, let's rush in and grab it, otherwise we won't come here for nothing?" ”

Hai Dongqing was depressed, but he didn't dare to act rashly, and he was silent at this time.

Sha Li Ni was the most timid, and said: "The two masters, this Daxing army is famous and powerful, the entire Dengzhou rebel army is about to be defeated by them, and now they are coming to Laizhou, and there are thousands of people, I don't think we are opponents!" ”

Hai Dongqing didn't know this truth, that is, he was really unwilling, the name of the Daxing Army has been thunderous in Denglai, and in the past two months, I don't know how many displaced people who escaped from Dengzhou, and they have already said that the Daxing Army is a heavenly soldier and a general.

After thinking about it again, Hai Dongqing decided to give up, "Two brothers, Sha Li Ni is right, the Daxing army is too strong, not something we can shake, but it's a pity to give up, we are now organizing a group of old brothers, each family out of five hundred, go in and grab an hour, no matter how much you grab, run when the time comes, I think the Daxing army should not want to attack at night and damage the people, they will definitely kill as soon as the morning dawns!" ”

I didn't expect this thief to be quite smart, but he actually expected Yang Xin's intentions to take a shot from the fire!

The other two felt that what Hai Dongqing said was reasonable, and acted according to the plan, and ran away in less than half the night, only the homeless people in the city were still ignorant.

"King Xing, the thief army has run away, can you chase it?"

Daniel Zhang walked to Yang Xin's handsome camp, and Yang Xin did not sleep at this time, looking at the direction of the city in a daze.

Yang Xin waved his hand and said: "No need, they have no way to be thieves, since they have run away, they are afraid of us, there is no need to kill them all, you go down, and you will enter the city at dawn tomorrow!" ”

Yang Xin felt that he had eaten too many poison pills recently, and there were already signs of poisoning, and this time the poison pills used such a poisonous trick to take the city, and it was a little out of control, so he needed a little poison pill rivals to join him, neutralize the poison, and fight poison with poison.

Poison Pill's sworn enemy, that's naturally the thief army!

The next day the army entered the city, and cleared the streets of the city, and all those who resisted were killed, and the city was full of corpses, and the wells were full of women who could not bear the humiliation, and a large number of houses were burned down, and the dead and wounded in the city were as high as four floors, and there was a river of blood.

The army was also almost unharmed, and the mob in the city was a first-time offender, and did not have the courage to resist such a large regular army, and most of them chose to surrender.

More than 10,000 people were captured, and Yang Xin identified more than 200 of them, and in front of the people and captives in the city, they came to cut off their heads collectively, and all the heads were hung at the city gate to show the public.

"Fellow villagers, King Xing knows that you are all forced to be helpless, there is no way to live, so he has to rebel, King Xing is benevolent, now give you a way to live, everyone follows Daxing to open up the wasteland, their own fields, their own planting, the fields belong to Daxing, Daxing only collects five layers of taxes, and promises to only reduce and not increase, Daxing knows that you have nothing now, all the materials needed for the wasteland you borrow from Daxing Qianzhuang, including grain, no interest, and wait for you to have a harvest and pay it back slowly!"

Bai Youcai led people to shout on the stage, all the captured homeless people were happy, there was a way to live, and no one wanted to rebel.

The most desperate thing about this policy is that it will not harm the interests of the landlords, because their fields are all cultivated and not looted by local tyrants, so the landlords will not oppose it.

Moreover, the five-layer tax after the land reclamation is additional, and the tax is shared by the people of Daxing, and these poison pills invested in Daxing are equivalent to an increase in income, and they will not only not oppose it, but will also fully support it.

Five layers is not a small number, half of the national division is also two and a half layers, these landlord poison pills used to be landlords themselves and could not earn so much, because too much was handed in.

And although the people are exploited by the five layers of taxes, they can always survive, much better than the original seven or eight layers of life, although they are still poor.

On the whole, this is a compromise plan, equivalent to the landlord and the farmer each give a step, the Ming Dynasty has actually fallen into an endless knot, the landlord exploits too much, the people can barely get by, the surface is very safe, but the balance of natural disasters is broken, the people can not survive in the face of natural disasters, so they rebel, the spokesman of the landlord court in order to quell the chaos of military spending, and increase taxes, and then more people can not live to rebel, which has actually fallen into a dead cycle.

It's like fighting, you punch me, I punch harder, and then you punch back......

Without external interference, both of them will die in the end.

Because both sides are forced to have no way out, the peasants have no way to rebel, the landlords have no way to raise taxes, if the peasants honestly wait for a group of people to starve to death, it is okay to bear the natural disaster, if the landlord is a little merciful, willing to take out his own private food to save these disaster victims, let them live is fine, the key is that in the end no one will give in, because human nature is selfish.