Outside the city, the surrounding area has become a series of ruins and rubble, and the closer you get to the county seat, the more erosive it becomes.

War devours all the good, and only half a month of fierce fighting has reduced all the goodness to scorched earth and ruins.

The fertile land of the past was even more fertile, full of blood and severed limbs, men were killed or enslaved, and the elderly, women and children became the targets of the bandits' slaughter and anger, and the green battalion soldiers passed like combs; In the past, the villages and towns that were prosperous because of the silk trade and the luxurious houses and mansions in the manors were all charred and desolate, the stone walls were torn down, the wooden houses were burned, and the silkworm houses were demolished, and it was difficult to see a complete building along the way.

The surviving peasants who had ceased to fight began to return to their homes, kneeling in front of their flattened houses and weeping, before dragging their fragile bodies and rebuilding their homes......

Because the county town was not breached, it was still relatively complete and orderly, Wu Yunlin led everyone to the outside of the city, looked at the corpses that appeared in the farmland on both sides of the road from time to time, and ordered: Organize people to dig pits and bury these corpses by hand, and sprinkle lime to prevent the plague.

"Yes, my lord," Dumb replied, turning around and going to organize the people

Looking at the dilapidated scene, Wu Yunlin silently sighed that no matter who won or lost the outcome of the war, it was these peasants who lost in the end.

Passing through some villages, you will still see some tenacious people rebuilding their homes.

"These must be survivors who ran out before the bandits came!" A member surnamed Wang said that of course, for them, the landlords and squires, of course, they would not sympathize with these lowly inferior people in the slightest.

They don't think that the death of some untouchables will damage the national strength, but they are just thinking about how to take advantage of this turmoil to take more uninhabited land and increase their own family resources.

When Wu Yunlin and the others paced past an old farmer on the side of the road, the old farmer looked up at the people passing by, and his eyes were full of evasive awe.

"Maybe if I'm stronger, they won't have to be separated from their wives and displaced......" Wu Yunlin thought to himself, glancing at the old farmer, and then turned his head sharply and kicked the horse to move on.

After walking for a while, the group arrived at a huge manor house with only broken walls and ruins. The familiar people around him sighed: This outside, all his net worth and life are on this manor, look at the 10,000 acres of mulberry forest in the back mountain, point to a place in the distance that is still emitting a faint smoke and say: If I am not mistaken, where is the former cicada house, it's a pity.

In the gossip of everyone, Wu Yunlin figured out the situation of this huge manor: the surname Wang is not a member, and the family has a lot of money, because he is reluctant to let this business be attacked by bandits, and now he has become like this.

Walking further, I saw a zero-hour sentry guard guarded by a government official and five Zunyi militia villagers to prevent bandits from disturbing the people.

Wu Yunlin glanced at the temporary outpost that controlled the road, that is, several broken wooden houses spliced with wooden planks, and said, "Thank you for your hard work, I have to take a look at it later, and you will be on duty well." ”

The little officer was so excited that his face turned red and nodded repeatedly, "Then adults, please go slowly, remind you that the future is not very stable, the further you go, the more bandits, you must be very careful." ”

Wu Yunlin glanced at the little officer and said;

"Thanks for the reminder, we'll take notice."

As he spoke, he took out a few taels of silver from his bosom and threw them to the junior officer, "Guard the road, and take it for a glass of wine after changing guards." Pick up the reins and continue on your journey.

"Thank you for the reward......"

Along the way, you can see the displaced people returning to their hometowns one after another, and some people wearing official clothes are registering the displaced people who have returned to their hometowns on the roadside, so that they can return to their original villages and forts as soon as possible to continue cultivating the fields.

When they returned to the outside of Zunyi, there were countless refugees gathered under the dilapidated walls of Dongcheng to receive the clear soup porridge distributed by Wu Yunlin's organization.

Wu Yunlin didn't care about the refugees who had returned home, and now his eyes were full of cracked walls and devastation.

Zunyi City was beaten to a thousand holes, not to mention other places, only in front of the east city wall in front of there are three collapsed gaps, through the gap can also glimpse the inner side of the city wall was smashed to pieces, burned black houses and buildings.

The free market town that had been built on the city walls had long since been flattened, and the burned and smashed siege equipment was scattered everywhere, and many civilians were removing the wooden planks of the abandoned and broken siege equipment to build shelters or as firewood for heating on cold nights.

If the civilians who dismantled the planks paid a closer look, they would have found that the timber used to make the siege equipment was probably the beams or slab walls of his house's house outside the city......

During the special period, there were not many people who moved freely in the city, because in order to prevent people from wanting to make ill-gotten gains, so the movement was restricted, and the men were forcibly requisitioned by Dumb to dig pits and carry their corpses, and the dead and ruins inside and outside the city were transported outside the city to be discarded and buried, and in return they could receive a thin porridge from Dumb, so many people rushed to serve.

Wu Yunlin saw a steady stream of carriages and rickshaws, most of which were stripped naked and beaten corpses, and he couldn't tell whether they were bandits or his own, anyway, if no one claimed them, they would be dealt with uniformly.

The streets of the city are patrolled by soldiers in armor and armed with spears and axes to maintain order.

Returning to the county office, Wu Yunlin first affirmed the arrangements made by Xiong Ge and Wei Qi, and then everyone knew that the main event was coming.

After all, where is such a big cake, Wu Yunlin can't eat it alone, according to the example, Wu Yunlin takes the lion's head, and the others distribute it according to their contributions.

Outside the city, because of the mutilation of bandits and other reasons, a large number of ownerless fertile land, manors, and mulberry gardens have been created, which is the greatest temptation of this era.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Wu Yunlin cleared his throat and said:

According to the size of your contribution in this rebellion, mainly the money and food contributed and the killing of the family's children, family members, and nursing homes, I have compiled a list of meritorious contributions and a list of the distribution of the borderless land outside the city.

At the same time, I hope that everyone will donate part of the food stored at home to prevent people from gathering to make trouble because they have no food, and when the autumn comes, the official will reduce or exempt taxes according to the price of grain.

The general people looked at Wu Yunlin's conscience and had no problem with the distribution plan, after all, the first time they saw a supervisor only leave fifty percent when sharing the benefits, and they also agreed to Wu Yunlin's donation of grain, and for them, the squires who have been decades or even hundreds of years, the most important thing in the family is food and silver.

I have even heard that some people who love money were crushed to death by the collapse of their own family's money warehouse.