The plague broke out in the city, and the people did not dare to leave their homes, and those who dared to go out, and when they met familiar relatives and friends, they also stopped and did not dare to go forward, and greeted them from afar, and each looked for an alley where no one was to avoid meeting people.

This is the origin of the term "plague god", and the people in the city now feel that everyone outside is like a plague god.

Although everyone was terrified, there was still a group of people who walked through the streets and alleys and knocked on doors from house to house.

When the door was knocked on the mountain, some of the people inside did not dare to open the door, and some scolded and scolded to open the door, but the people who knocked on the door outside would shout loudly:

"Don't open the door, just listen to me shouting inside the door, the county has an order, the White Lotus Sect in the city is causing trouble, spreading the plague, the county government has sent troops to prepare to exterminate, the people in the city are not allowed to go out if they have nothing to do, tomorrow your family will send a person to the nearest grain shop to receive grain......"

These people who walked through the streets and knocked on the door were all relatives and friends of the government officials in the city, Xu Hong was still quite concerned about the appointment of the government officials, and it was impossible for slippery and good deeds and street ruffians to come under his hands.

If they have good conduct and good character, they will be appointed by Xu Hong, and their relatives, friends, and brothers will be better than casually finding someone to arrange propaganda for the people.

Moreover, this part of the population is large, and it is easy to be held accountable if the matter is not done well, and there is food compensation afterwards, so they are simply not too willing to serve.

What they advertise is to go to the grain shop every day to get food, and the food distribution is not much, so they can only ensure that they will not starve to death when they go home to boil porridge and drink it, and there is no way to go to the county government and there is not much food, so they need to tighten their belts.

There is also the fact that the poisoning has nothing to do with the government, it is all the ghosts of the White Lotus Sect, and the previous grain arch offensive and the county order have always been very recognized by the people, and they gladly accepted the words of the government.

In the end, a bunch of how to prevent the epidemic, Fumin publicized that these people left in a hurry after speaking, and then knocked on the next one.

The people have been settled, and the Wang family has been surrounded inside and out.

The White Lotus Sect's porridge shed did not give porridge when the plague started.

When the White Lotus Sect contracted personnel to gather at the Wang family, Xu Hong and they did not start to surround it, but most of the people who withdrew to the Wang family had already entered, and when the sparse and sparse people went back, Xu Hongcai surrounded the Wang family, and then searched and arrested the whole city.

On the one hand, this small part of the outside has a large number of county officials, which can reduce casualties, first eliminate a small part of the enemy's strength, and can also torture to understand the internal situation of the Wang family.

The inn opposite the gate of the Wang family was requisitioned by the county government, and in the room on the second floor, Xu Hong looked at a layout map of the Wang family drawn by Lin Yuan with charcoal and praised it again and again:

"Your kid's brush is written throughout the dog planer, this charcoal pen is very good, this picture is also the only one in the old man's life, very exquisite!"

Lin Yuan just felt that military operations needed to have military maps, and drew an extremely detailed map based on the experience of military fans in his later generations.

Compared with the map of the Ming Dynasty, Lin Yuan drew more detailed and could express more things, but it was easier to understand than the current map, as long as he could read and write, he could see the deployment of the enemy's armed forces, the internal architecture of the Wang family, what position was easier to break through, and so on.

Xu Hong: "What is the intention of the circle you circled with a red pen in the Wang family?" ”

Lin Yuan picked up the map, found two nails and drove them to the wall, put them to watch, and then explained:

"We encircle and suppress the Wang family, and the profitable ones are in this circle."

Xu Hong stroked his beard and said, "This is the granary? ”

Lin Yuan: "Exactly. ”

Xu Hong: "When you say this, I also think it's the truth, Bailian taught me 500 stone of grain and didn't have a good heart, if these grains didn't enter the stomachs of the people, the people would definitely tear up all the officials who were greedy for food, and finally remembered that the Wang family was a good person." ”

Lin Yuan: "The county is reasonable, now there is food is the last word, as long as we have food, the people will stand outside." ”

Xu Hong: "You mean to ensure that we can get food first, and then try to exterminate the White Lotus Sect?" ”

Lin Yuan: "Yes. ”

Xu Hong: "Then what are your plans?" ”

Lin Yuan: "Uh~~ No. ”

Xu Hong was talking to Lin Yuan while brushing his beard, and he was still very satisfied with the action he arranged to soothe the people and the map in front of him.

However, when he heard Lin Yuan say that he had no follow-up plans, he was also caught off guard, and he accidentally tore off a few beards on his hands.

Looking at the few beards in his hands, Xu Hong was very heartbroken, the beautiful hair he was proud of was not so perfect.

Lin Yuan also saw Xu Hong's heartache, cleared his throat and comforted: "We can only wait now, and they will only shrink into the Wang family and will not come out." ”

When Xu Hong heard Lin Yuan say this, he smiled with relief:

"Also, the intention of the White Lotus Sect is to use the plague to create panic, by encircling the people against the government, they didn't expect that we would be able to pacify the people and control the plague, and when the people believe that the government is willing to help us, they will probably jump over the wall in a hurry."

Lin Yuan: "The people outside the city are also a problem, when will the garrison come?" ”

Xu Hong pondered for a moment, and then roughly calculated in his heart: "Two days at most." ”

"But I'm still worried about whether the garrison can only disperse the people and destroy the main evil as I said."

"If it weren't for my lack of manpower, I wouldn't have been able to find these Qiuba."

Lin Yuan also frowned, he had also read some articles about describing military disasters before.

The reason why Li Zicheng was able to gather so many people was not because these officers and soldiers were more terrifying than the bandits.

Wherever the barracks went, the people were not able to make a living, and those who had food at home would be robbed directly, and they would be temporarily requisitioned in name, and those who had strong men at home would be temporarily requisitioned, chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep would be temporarily requisitioned at home, and silver money would be temporarily requisitioned, and beautiful wives would be temporarily requisitioned.

During the Xuande period, due to the erosion of the military system, too many soldiers fled, and the military strength was greatly reduced, and the Ming court changed the military system to a recruitment system.

The famous one is the Qi family's army, recruiting brave people to serve the army, which can improve the military strength to a greater extent.

The recruitment system during the Chongzhen period raised a large number of warlords, the famous ones are Wu Sangui and Zuo Liangyu.

Because the imperial court deducts military salaries, even if the money is not deducted, it cannot be issued to the hands of ordinary soldiers, the officials of the court take half of it, and the army commanders take the rest of everything.

In the fish and meat township, it is common to rob the people's property, and the court did not give the silver to rob it itself.

The voice of the people can reach the Jingshi, but it cannot reach the ears of the hard-working emperor, and now the Donglin Party controls the government, these discordant voices are proof that they are vegetarian, and they will only tell the people under the emperor to live and work in peace and contentment, singing and dancing.

When some contradictions have intensified to the point that they cannot be concealed, they will huddle together and accuse the emperor that the emperor is the king of a country, and that the people suffer disasters, droughts, floods, etc., because His Majesty has not managed them well.

Chongzhen has issued six edicts in his life, and it is impossible to say that it is all Chongzhen's pot.

Then many people are curious about how these civil officials are so fearless about harming the country, what should they do if the country dies?

This is a lot of consideration, so to speak, the iron-beaten courtiers, the emperor of flowing water, the emperor should be changed to one person, where can so many civil and military officials go?

What these scholars didn't expect was that after the Manchu Qing conquered this land, the butcher's knife was as endless as an electric one.

Kill! Kill! Kill!

When the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, they had a population of only two million, while the Ming Dynasty had 150 million.

How can such a small number of people control such a large area of land? They are also very panicked, what should these people do if they rebel?

So burying it all in the ground is a must.

Yangzhou slaughtered the city on the 10th, killing 800,000 people; Jiading three massacres, 500,000 people killed. Basically, there are men, women, and children, and no one remains. Taking Sichuan as an example, there were more than 6 million people in Sichuan at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and only 780,000 remained at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Seventy percent of the people in the land occupied by the Qing army would be slaughtered.

It's basically a matter of drawing a circle on the map and killing them all without leaving them all.

In the eyes of the Qing army, officials are also as long as they are obedient, anyway, I have killed the people, what is the use of keeping so many officials.

In the Qing Dynasty, it was impossible for Ming officials to confront the emperor, and there were no bones in their knees.

"What do you want, boy?"

Xu Hong saw that Lin Yuan began to ponder and didn't bother at first, thinking that he was thinking of something.

But when he was almost finished drinking a pot of tea, the kid was still in a daze, which interrupted Lin's contemplation.

Lin Yuan: "No, no, I just thought about where the hammer is." ”

Lin Yuan secretly swore in his heart that he could not travel to this world in vain, as long as he could lose a few lives.

Xu Hong: "Then have you thought of it?" ”

Lin Yuan: "It should be outside the city, I still have to go outside the city to see after arranging things in the city." ”

Xu Hong: "Oh~ You kid should be careful, you must first consider your own safety when you go out of the city." ”

Lin Yuan: "Xie Xianzun cares. ”

The door was pushed open, and Xu Qiang, who looked tired, walked in, and there were dried blood stains on the corners of his clothes.

Xu Qiang found a bench and sat down, exhaled and said: "The city has cleaned up some White Lotus Sects, and under severe torture, there are a few tricks, saying that they are not the White Lotus Sect, they are a Pure Void Sect." ”

Xu Hong: "Pure Sky Sect? ”

Lin Yuan poured tea for Xu Qiang and said:

"They are branches of the White Lotus Sect, Jin Chan, Wu Wei, Longhua, Wukong, Huanyuan, Yuandun, Hongyang, Maitreya, Dacheng, Sanyang, Mixed Yuan, Wenxiang, Luo Dao, these are the same as the Pure Sky Sect."

Xu Qiang: "Oh~ So that's the case, I thought these miscellaneous mouths were so hard, and all the eighteen torture tools were used, and no one confessed." ”

Xu Qiang drained the tea in one gulp, felt that it was not enjoyable, and picked up the teapot and drank the pot of water.

"I also arranged for the city gate to be closed, it is impossible for them to go out of the city to ventilate and report the news, when will we enter the Wang family and serve him a pot."

After Xu Qiang finished drinking tea, he couldn't wait to say that he wanted to enter the Wang family.

Xu Hong: "The Wang family hasn't figured out how to do it yet, have you sent someone to inquire about the manor outside the city?" ”

Xu Qiang: "I sent a team of people to go on horseback, but before they arrived at the farm, they were stopped by a group of people, and when they stopped, they said that they would collect tolls, and I told them not to be entangled if they were blocked, and they would come back as soon as possible." ”

"But I also sent people to take a detour to investigate, and they came back to report that the farm built by the thieves was not a farm at all, they built it more like a fortress, and the geographical location was also extremely dangerous."