After Du did not forget to leave the yamen, he asked Feng Niang to explain to Duan Xian'er, and he went to the poorest alley in the city with the help of Zou Bin and White Lotus.

Du did not forget to signal the White Lotus Sect to knock on the door of the people first, and after knocking for a long time, finally an old woman dressed in rags came out and opened the door, and then asked in a panic:

"You ...... You guys...... Think...... What do you want to do? Are you those bandits out of the city?"

Du did not forget to signal Zou Bin to help him walk over, and said to the old woman:

"We're not bandits, bandits are still outside the city!"

The old woman said very cautiously:

"Then what do you want to do? Are you here to ask for taxes? My family can't even eat now, but I don't have the money to pay taxes anymore!"

Du Chu shook his head:

"No, we're just here to greet your old man!"

The old woman looked at Du Cheng and asked:

"Is there anyone so kind now?"

Du did not forget to say very sincerely:

"We are sincerely here to greet you and your family, if you have any difficulties, I will definitely be able to help you solve them!"

The old woman nodded:

"But you don't look like those bad guys!"

Then he invited the three of them into the house.

Du Yi glanced inside the house and found that the inside of the earthen house was simply surrounded by four walls, and there was nothing to be used at all.

And at this time there was a pot in the middle of the house, and in the pot there were some book covers and wild grass for cooking.

Moments later, out of the room came a thin, almost skinny young woman, holding an equally thin little boy in her hands.

The young woman looked at the few people who were not forgotten, and then said with some embarrassment:

"The family is so poor, so I can't entertain a few of them!"

Du did not forget to reply:

"It's fine!"

Then let Zou Bin help himself to sit on the grass pile on the side.

The white lotus looked at the child very distressed and liked it, so she went over to take him by the hand and wanted to take it out to buy food, the young woman naturally had some doubts, and waited for Du not to forget to say:

"We have no ill intentions, we are here on behalf of the government!"

The young woman was relieved and let the White Lotus Sect take her child out to buy food.

So Du did not forget to signal the young woman to sit down opposite him, and asked:

"Where have all your men gone?"

The woman replied:

"My father-in-law built a garden rockery for Master Tang in the city a year ago, moved stones, and was accidentally crushed to death by stones. ”

Du did not forget to hurriedly ask:

"Then didn't Master Tang help compensate you for anything?"

The woman replied:

"There is compensation, we were compensated for two loads of rice, and we ate these two loads of rice for more than half a year!"

As she spoke, the woman began to cry.

After listening to this, Du did not forget to be sad for a while, so he asked:

"Sister-in-law, I don't know what to call you yet?"

The woman replied:

"My name is Lou Hua, my father-in-law's surname is Chen, and its name is Chen Qiu!"

Don't forget to smile:

"Oh, it turned out to be Sister-in-law Chen, my name is Du Don't forget!"

After listening to this, Lou Hua touched her forehead:

"Don't forget, why does this name sound familiar to me?"

Zou Bin then spoke:

"It is Du Tanhua, and it is also the world-famous General Du and Du Daxia. ”

Lou Hua wiped away her tears and smiled, and excitedly pointed at Du Buyi and said:

"Original...... Originally...... You...... You're Du Tanhua?"

Du Chu did not forget to nod:

"Yes, I am Du Tanhua. ”

Lou Hua was very puzzled, and pointed to Du Yi's legs and hands:

"Isn't the Du Tanhua I've heard of both civil and military......? But what's the matter with your hands and feet?"

Du did not forget to smile bitterly:

"I had a catastrophe a while ago, so that's how it happened. ”

Lou Hua says:

"I see!"

Du did not forget and said:

"Why did I see that your pot was full of book covers and weeds, why did you have no food?

Lou Hua replied:

"Didn't we hear that some bandits were going to enter our Nanchang City? So let's eat some of these things for the time being, at least the bandits won't come to rob us when they see that our family is so poor. ”

Du Cheng Cheng said:

"Oh, that's it, don't you still have food at home?"

Lou Hua replied:

"Of course there is, but it's not much, I'm afraid it's only enough for our family of three to eat for a month. ”

Du did not forget to ask again:

"But why do I see that you are all so thin, and what do you usually do to make ends meet?"

Lou Hua looked outside:

"I work in a nearby cloth shop, and my mother-in-law picks up some wild vegetables every morning to sell them in the city, and I can barely make ends meet. ”

Du did not forget to sigh:

"Alas...... It's not easy, why don't you see your mother-in-law?"

Lou Hua replied:

"My mother-in-law is making tea for a few of you right now!"

Du did not forget to say immediately:

"You're so polite, we're so embarrassed!"

At this moment, the old woman came out with two bowls of boiling water in a broken bowl, Zou Bin hurriedly stepped forward to take the boiling water in the old woman's hand, put one bowl aside, and tried to hand the other bowl to Du Zhixin's hand:

"Du Gongzi, you see that your feet seem to have recovered a little, why don't you try your strength again!"

Seeing this, Zou Bin hurriedly reached out and held it up, after all, he was afraid that Du Bu would burn himself, and then he fed Du Bu Bu to his mouth and drank a few sips.

After drinking it, Du Yi felt that the tea seemed to taste a little peculiar, so he asked the old woman:

"Mother-in-law, what do you make this tea from?"

Lou Hua then said:

"My mother-in-law's best thing is to make tea, the tea it boils not only cures all diseases, but also makes people drink at least a day and a night without thirst!"

Du did not forget to ask:

"What kind of herbs are used to cook it, can you tell me?"

The old woman smiled at Du Yi:

"Actually, it's using my grandson's urine, plus all kinds of weeds, but the most important thing is a snake egg that I picked up, so it's very tonic for your body. ”

Du was stunned for a moment when he heard this:

"You say...... This...... This tea is made with your grandson's urine?"

Old woman said:

"Yes, Childe, don't you know that the boy's urine has always been the most replenishing?"

Du didn't forget that when he heard that there was urine in the drink he had just drunk, he couldn't help but feel nauseous, but he still had to endure it.

At this time, it happened that the White Lotus came back with the child, and the child was gobbling up the flatbread at this time, and then walked to Lou Hua and said:

"Mother, the cake my sister bought for me is so delicious!"

Lou Hua said to the White Lotus:

"Thank you, girl!"

The White Lotus replied:

"I wanted to buy more food for Xiao Qi, but almost all the shops in the city are closed now, and fortunately a cake shop is not closed, so I went to buy some. ”

Then he took a few pieces of bread from the package behind him and gave them to the old woman and Lou Hua, and then asked Du Buxing:

"Brother Du, will you eat?"

Du Chu shook his head:

"I won't eat it, you can give these cakes you bought to a Zou brother to eat, and give the rest to your mother-in-law!"

白lotus says:

"Okay!"

Zou Bin naturally didn't eat the cake because he drank a bowl of tea just now, so he asked White Lotus to give all the cakes to the mother-in-law's family.

Then a few people came out and continued to visit the other houses next door.

As a result, I visited five families, and almost all of them had no men in the family, and they were living in poverty, barely able to make ends meet, but because of the siege of Nanchang City this time, almost everyone was unemployed.

When Du did not forget to return to the yamen in the evening, it was almost the third watch.

Du Buyi called Li Bi, Chen Xi and Li Xing over again.

I just heard Du not forget to ask:

"What's going on now?"

Li Xing first reported:

"After I repeated the investigation, I found that there were still hidden weapons in the warehouses in the city, and now the weapons were enough for 10,000 people, and among the 8,000 officers and soldiers defending the city, 4,000 were elite, and the rest were old, weak, sick and disabled. ”

Du Chu did not forget to nod:

"Good!"

Then asked Chen Xi again:

"Chen Yushi, how is your investigation?"

陈奚 says:

"I have taken someone to investigate it in detail, and now the people in the city are not counting us, not counting the officers and soldiers, the actual number is 93,210 people, and all the food is enough for the people in the city to eat for two months!"

Du Bu Bu nodded with a smile:

"Good...... Okay, where did all those hidden accounts come from?"

陈奚 says:

"Those hidden hukou are basically hidden by big families in the city, and I didn't expect that there would be more than 10,000 people after a detailed investigation. ”

Du did not forget to sigh:

"This is also no way, the atmosphere is like this, I think when Emperor Taizu was in power, who would dare to do this?"

Then he asked Li Bi again:

"How's the recruiting going?"

Li Bi replied:

"There are already three thousand strong men and three thousand young women who are now willing to serve as soldiers to defend the city, but many of them are because they heard that Du Tanhua is in charge of defending the city this time, so they are all voluntary. ”

Du Cheng Cheng said:

"Okay, then why are there only three thousand strong men?"

Li Bi replied:

"However, I looked at the strong men and found that they were all from poor families, and so far I have not found any children of rich families or their families involved. ”

Du did not forget to sigh:

"Alas, in fact, I thought of it a long time ago, then the governor, you will accompany me to meet the four big families you invited for a while!"

After a while, Li Bi, Zou Bin and White Lotus helped Du Yiyi to come to the Yamen Public Hall.

At this time, the four old men, almost all of whom were nearly sixty years old, were sitting around the next table in the public court, whispering earnestly, and when they saw Li Bi and Du Bucheng enter, the four of them immediately got up and saluted.

With the help of a few people, after sitting down with Li Bi, Du did not forget to signal the four masters to sit down one after another.

I only heard Du Bucheng say to Master Tang first:

"I think Master Tang must have received the announcement we sent, right?"

Master Tang nodded:

"Roger!"

Du did not forget to smile lightly:

"I know that Master Tang, you must be very dissatisfied with our announcement, and naturally you are not willing to hand over the grain in the house, let alone let yourself the prince and the family guard the city, am I right?"

Master Tang hesitated a little at this time, and after looking at the other three masters around him, he didn't dare to speak.

Du did not forget to smile again:

"Actually, I asked you to hand over all the grain in the house, just to test your loyalty to the court, now ......!"

At this time, the four old men all said in unison:

"We pay, we pay, we are willing to pay, we have always been the most loyal to the court. ”

Du did not forget to wave his hand lightly:

"Okay, the imperial court already knows your loyalty, so now you don't need to hand over all the stored grain, as long as your families hand over half of the stored grain, I don't know if you still have any opinions?"

Master Tang immediately said:

"Okay, since the imperial court is so good to our Tang family, our Tang family is willing to send two hundred strong men to defend the city!"

Master Xu also spoke:

"Our Xu Mansion is also willing to give two hundred strong men!"

Master Wang and Master Wu also said:

"Since the court is so good to us, we are also willing to give a hundred strong men each. ”

Du Chu did not forget to nod:

"It seems that everyone is quite loyal to the imperial court, but I heard that the heirs of your four families seem to be thousands together, right?