Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

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Li Zicheng picked up a withered yellow dog's tail grass from the ground and put it in his mouth, holding the long knife tightly in his right hand.

He looked at the team getting closer and closer, and a look of surprise gradually appeared on his face.

"Why does this leader look more and more like Huang Huhuang Chuangzi?" Li Zicheng spat out the dog's tail grass in his mouth, with a puzzled expression on his face.

Liu Zongmin raised his head, looked at Li Zicheng, and said in surprise, "Impossible, isn't this Huang Chuangzi attacking Puzhou City again?

How did he come here?Even if Huang Chuangzi took Puzhou City down, according to his character, he should continue to attack eastward.

Maybe they dare to attack Pingyang Fucheng and come here, it doesn't make sense at all.

Even if they didn't attack, they shouldn't have come here. "

"That's right, there's no need for Huang Chuangzi to come here.

Could it be that the guy came here to show off to us on purpose?To show off that he captured Puzhou City?But it doesn't make sense, he doesn't need to do this at all. Li Guo also looked at Li Zicheng with a puzzled expression.

According to Li Zicheng and others' understanding of Zhang Xianzhong, this person is a single-minded person, the kind who is sure about one thing and keeps doing it.

Even if they did not attack Puzhou City, they would not come back with soldiers and horses, at least they would spare Puzhou City, or attack all around Puzhou City.

"Uncle, can you see clearly? The person here is really Huang Chuangzi?" Li Guo looked at Li Zicheng in disbelief.

"I'm just looking at his body shape, so I'm not sure it's Huang Chuangzi. I'll have to wait until I get closer to know."

Time passed slowly, and the people in front kept approaching here.

After a long while, Li Zicheng said with certainty: "The banner they are playing is Huang Chuangzi's banner. It can't be wrong. The person walking in the front of the team and riding on the horse is Huang Chuangzi. I'm sure.

Shall we go and meet?It seems that Huang Chuangzi's marching direction is Daning City. If we don't stop him, Huang Chuangzi will definitely go to Daning City.At that time, I am afraid that we will encounter the same fate as us.

No, something is wrong.Why does Huang Chuangzi seem to have few soldiers and horses?It looked like a lost battle.

Moreover, why are all the troops in his army all refugees?I remember that after crossing the Yellow River to the east, Huang Chuangzi's troops even surpassed ours. How did it become like this now? "

Li Guo said: "Uncle, whatever happened to him, we are hungry now, so we can just ask him for some food. Anyway, they are all rebels, and with your uncle's face, I don't believe that Huang Chuangzi won't Help us."

After speaking, Li Guo stood up, waved at Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers and horses, and shouted at the same time.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong was sitting on his horse, thinking about how to get along with Li Zicheng after arriving in Daning City, when he suddenly saw a figure jumping and jumping towards this side on the hillside in front of him.

Zhang Xianzhong became tense for a moment, and the scene of Zhao Wen's soldiers and horses defeating him came to mind again.

He hastily pulled out the long knife from his waist, and looked ahead nervously, "Send me an order, everyone stop moving forward."

As soon as Zhang Xianzhong finished shouting, the guards beside him rode towards the rear on their horses, passing Zhang Xianzhong's order down.

However, most of Zhang Xianzhong's troops today are civilians who he plundered along the way from Puzhou to here. It is almost impossible for these civilians to act like the army and command orders.

The people who were plundered by him looked at the guards who kept shuttling through the crowd and yelled to stop, their faces were full of bewilderment.

When Zhang Xianzhong's troops stopped, almost two quarters of an hour had passed.

When the team came to a complete stop, Zhang Xianzhong pointed to the figure still jumping on the hillside in front of him and shouted to the guards beside him: "Take a group of people to see what's going on ahead. Who is the person who is so sacred, and why are they here. I don’t feel at ease if I don’t understand all of this.”

The guards beside him nodded at him, then rode on their horses and led a few people towards the hillside ahead.

Looking at the figure on the hillside in front of him, Zhang Xianzhong kept beating drums in his heart.

As the saying goes, once bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of well ropes for ten years.Today's Zhang Xianzhong has long been a frightened bird, so when he saw the figure on the hillside again, he couldn't help but think of Zhao Wen's soldiers and horses.

"They sent people over." Li Guo watched as a group of people broke away from the team and came towards this side, he turned around hastily, and said to Li Zicheng who was lying on the ground.

Li Zicheng stood up from the ground, and said to the human lying on the ground behind him: "In this case, then we don't need to hide, let's go over."

As Li Zicheng's words fell, the people lying on the hillside stood up and walked towards the people who came to investigate.

Zhang Xianzhong saw dozens of people suddenly appearing on the hillside, and hastily put the long knife in his hand in front of him, looking at the hillside vigilantly.

"No, this group of people looks familiar, especially the leader." Zhang Xianzhong kept looking at Li Zicheng on the hillside, frowning tightly.

Zhang Xianzhong mobilized his horse and slowly moved forward a few steps.

When Zhang Xianzhong finally saw Li Zicheng's appearance clearly, disbelief appeared on his face, "Isn't this the general Li Zicheng? Why is he here? And why does he look more downcast than me? Isn't he attacking Daning City again?" What? What's going on?"

Zhang Xianzhong muttered a few words, and then steered the horse under his crotch towards Li Zicheng slowly.

After a while, Li Zicheng came in front of Zhang Xianzhong.

"Huang Chuangzi, aren't you attacking Puzhou? With your strength, is it easy to attack a small Puzhou city? Why is it like this now? Let me see why your soldiers and horses have become like this?" Li Zicheng stood in front of Zhang Xianzhong, pointed to the soldiers and horses behind Zhang Xianzhong, and asked.

Zhang Xianzhong jumped off the horse, put the long knife in his hand back into the scabbard at his waist, his face was full of depression, "Oh, it's hard to say, I have already captured Puzhou City.

But a group of soldiers and horses came from nowhere and attacked me directly.This group of soldiers and horses are weird and unusual, and the weapons they use are all wicked. I almost didn't escape, let alone resist. "

Zhang Xianzhong looked at Li Zicheng who was even more downcast than himself, but he didn't hide anything and told the truth of the matter.

Li Zicheng sensed something was wrong from Zhang Xianzhong's words, why did the soldiers and horses that Huang Chuangzi said were exactly the same as the soldiers and horses I met?Could it be that he was also attacked by this army?

So Li Zicheng hurriedly asked: "Are the soldiers and horses you met wearing black armor and flying red banners? The armor is in the shape of an officer or an army, and there is nothing on the banner?"

Zhang Xianzhong said with a look of surprise: "How do you know? The officers and soldiers I met are exactly the same as what you said."

Zhang Xianzhong looked at the downcast Li Zicheng and what Li Zicheng said, and suddenly an unbelievable thought arose in his heart.

"Could it be that you also met this officer army?" Zhang Xianzhong looked at Li Zicheng, who had only about fifty people left, and asked in disbelief.

Li Zicheng's entire face was gloomy and terrifying, with murderous intent flashing in his eyes, "Hmph, you're right, I also met this army, and they attacked me shortly after I captured Daning City This group of officers and soldiers uses an extremely strange firearm, which can kill a craftsman at a distance of several tens of feet. My people are no match at all.

After this group of people defeated us, they were still chasing after us. If I hadn't used a trick to deceive us, I might have been captured by this group of people. "

Li Zicheng became angry when he mentioned the officer army who defeated him.

Seeing that he had completely grasped Daning City in his hands, but before he could warm up Daning City, he met this weird army.

Not only did he take Daning City back, but he also scattered his troops, and now there are only about fifty people left by his side.

"You're right. The weapons in their hands are powerful, and I don't know where they came from. It seems to appear out of thin air.

Originally, I still wanted to go to your Daning City, but now it seems that I can't. Zhang Xianzhong shook his head, feeling extremely depressed.

"Okay, let's stop talking about this, do you have anything to eat? Get me some food first. I haven't eaten for almost two days." Li Zicheng looked at Zhang Xianzhong with green eyes.

Zhang Xianzhong nodded, "There is food, but now that Daning City has been breached, it's not safe here. I think we'll leave here first."

Although Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong secretly disapproved of each other, but now they both had the same experience and were defeated by the same army, and they began to cherish each other instead.

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When Zhao Wen got the fish scale book from his hands, he handed the fish scale book to Zhao Daniu.

"Daniu, take this fish scale book with you, and ask Wang Hanhai to find you a few people who can write and count from the common people, and verify the land on the fish scale book. You don't need to verify all of them, as long as the general There is no problem on the line.

It's getting late now, you can go tomorrow. Zhao Wen looked at Zhao Daniu standing beside him, and said slowly.

Zhao Daniu stuffed the fish scale book into his arms, cupped his fists at Zhao Wen, and said loudly: "My lord, don't worry, I will definitely handle this matter beautifully for you."

As Zhao Daniu said, he took a dozen soldiers to find Wang Hanhai.

Not long after Zhao Daniu left, a soldier who was collecting supplies in the city came towards Zhao Wen in a hurry.

"My lord, we have made a major discovery."

The soldier stopped in front of Zhao Wen and hurriedly said, "My lord, we found the food hoarded by the thieves in the city."

"Food?" Zhao Wen's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "Where is it? Why did you only find out now? How much food is there?"

"My lord, the places where the thieves are hoarding food are in a few houses, and these houses are relatively remote, so we only found it now. As for how much food there is, we are currently counting it."

"Take me there quickly." Zhao Wen said impatiently.

Now what Zhao Wen lacks the most is not money, but food.

It is a long way to transport food from Xuan Town to this side, and the cost on the road is very expensive and troublesome. Moreover, as the number of refugees increases, more and more food will be needed.However, it won't work if you don't ship it.

Now that a batch of food hoarded by thieves has been discovered, it will be of great help to Zhao Wen, and at least it can solve many of Zhao Wen's problems.

If the quantity of this batch of grain is objective, maybe all the refugees in Pingyang Prefecture can be brought to Xuan Town by virtue of this batch of grain.

Zhao Wen, led by this soldier, headed towards the place where the thieves in the city were hoarding food.

"My lord, it's right here."

After a while, the soldiers stopped at a place guarded by a dozen soldiers.

"Because the subordinates know that these grains are very important to the adults, so the subordinates let people guard this place." The soldier explained to Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen patted the soldier's shoulder and said with a smile, "Haha, you've done a good job, you're a talented person."

Zhao Wen laughed a few times, and then hurried into the dwelling.

"My lord, this residence has been vacated by the thieves. All the furniture and decorations inside have been cleaned up by the thieves. They have put all the food in the hall and each room."

The soldier followed behind Zhao Wen, explaining to Zhao Wen in detail.

"In addition to this dwelling, there are also several dwellings not far from here that store food for thieves."

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Chapter 265 Get rid of all the people

Zhao Wen nodded with a smile, and then walked into the hall of the residence accompanied by the soldier.

As soon as he walked into the hall, he saw a dozen soldiers counting the food in the hall.

Zhao Wen looked at the sacks full of grain in the hall, pulled out the knife from the waist of the soldier behind him, and stabbed it into a sack filled with grain.

Zhao Wen held the handle of the knife tightly, turned it vigorously, and then pulled out the knife.

"Crash!"

As soon as the knife was drawn out, the grain in the sack flowed down.

Zhao Wen returned the knife to the soldier, squatted on the ground, held his hands together, and followed the grain flowing out of the sack.

Because unhulled rice is stored for a long time, the grain in Zhao Wen's hands is all unhulled rice.

Zhao Wen looked at the rice in his hand, puffed out his cheeks and blew the dust on it.

"The rice looks pretty good." Zhao Wen looked at the rice in his hand, then put the rice in his hand on the ground, and stirred it a few times, but found no insects.

"And it's still relatively dry. It seems that these thieves are good at preserving food." Zhao Wen picked up a grain of rice and chewed it in his mouth, then spit it out.

Zhao Wen looked at the grain flowing out of the ground, and said to the soldiers behind him, "These grains are all good. After you have counted the grains, quickly get some large carts and load them all for me."

"Yes." The soldier following Zhao Wen said firmly to Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen looked at the food stuffed in the hall, and a smile appeared on his face: "With this food, our burden can be reduced a lot. With this food, we can rely on this food Transport the people to Xuan Town."

Zhao Wen clapped his hands, then wandered around the dwelling a few times, checked the food in the dwelling, and left the dwelling.

When Zhao Wen returned to the house near the county government office, it gradually got dark.

When Zhao Wen returned to the house near the county government office, Wang Hanhai walked up to Zhao Wen with the yellow booklet and another booklet.

Wang Hanhai handed the two booklets to Zhao Wen respectfully, looking melancholy.

Seeing this, Zhao Wen took the two booklets, put them on the table in front of him, and said with a smile on his face, "What's the matter? What happened? Why are you so sad?"

Wang Hanhai let out a long sigh, and said, "My lord, there are too many people in this city. Although I have found a few people among these people who can write and count, it is still not enough. At this speed, If we want to register all these people, I am afraid it will take a lot of time."

"Didn't you tell me before that with the yellow book, the speed will be much faster? Now why are you telling me that there is not enough time?" Zhao Wen looked at Wang Hanhai, his face full of doubts.

Wang Hanhai hastily explained: "My lord, I said this before, but I really didn't expect that a large part of the people in the city were refugees who were driven out by thieves.

These refugees are not on the Yellow Book, so they have to re-register.And the number of these refugees is very large, so the registration does not take seven or eight days, and I am afraid it will not be completed.

And not only that, the original inhabitants of Daning City were only about seven or eight thousand, but the refugees brought by the thieves alone were probably as many as twenty to thirty thousand.

Coupled with the raging thieves, all the villages near Daning City were destroyed, and the people inside were also taken to the county seat by the thieves.Therefore, the number of people in the county is probably close to [-]. "

"Fifty thousand? So many? But why didn't I see so many when I gathered the people before?"

When Zhao Wen gathered the people in the open space in front of the Yamen, it seemed that there were only more than 1 people, not so many at all.

"My lord, when you gathered the people, they didn't fully understand the situation, and most of them were hiding outside the city or in various corners of the city.

These people have been harmed by the thieves, and our army of the Ming Dynasty is a bit of a nest, most of the people are still very scared.So they hid and didn't come out.

However, it has been such a long time, and the army of the adults is a well-disciplined and well-disciplined team, which has never committed any crimes with the common people, so these common people have reappeared. "

Wang Hanhai frowned, explaining to Zhao Wen in detail.

Zhao Wen walked back and forth in the room, "How long will it take for all these people to be registered?"