Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

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In addition, he was tall, so when he showed up, he left a good impression on many people.

"You may have heard from people in the government that every time I capture a city, I will slaughter the city. I can tell you clearly now that I, Zhao Wen, will not slaughter the city.

Not before, not now, and not in the future.

Now that Kaifeng Mansion has been taken by me, I am now announcing something that is closely related to you.

From today onwards, all people in Kaifeng Fucheng will be exempted from all taxes for two years and halved for two years.After four years, pay taxes normally.

Although I haven't caught King Zhou yet, I have already burned the title deed of King Zhou's land.

Maybe you are very confused, why did I burn King Zhou's title deed?

Let me tell you, I burned King Zhou's title deeds and all the title deeds of King Zhou's lineage.I, Zhao Wen, don't want a single mu of these lands, all of which are given to the landless people in Kaifeng Prefecture.

As the saying goes, food is the most important thing for the people. Without land, how can the people have enough to eat?So, in order to feed you, I plan to distribute all the land in the King Zhou's lineage to the people who don't have land.

After the land is distributed to you, the land deeds will be re-established. You don't need to pay a penny for the grain for the first two years of cultivation of these lands, and all the grain grown is yours.After two years, you will have to pay taxes.

At the same time, I will distribute grain seeds and provide cattle for farming. "

Zhao Wen stood on the high platform and shouted loudly.

The soldier standing next to him conveyed his voice verbatim.

When the last sentence fell, the people below the high platform became silent for an instant.

The entire square was silent, and even the sound of breathing could be heard.

This period lasted almost twenty breaths, when the twenty breaths passed.

The crowd was like a frying pan filled with water, and it became noisy in an instant.

Looking at Zhao Wen on the high platform, these people let out incredible exclamations.

They didn't expect that Zhao Wen would give them land, even though the land belonged to King Zhou.

Like most places in Henan, the land around Kaifeng Mansion is basically owned by the king of Zhou and the gentry in the city.

The local people can only serve as tenants for the King of Zhou and the gentry. If the year is good, after paying the rent every year, the family can still have a lot of food left over to survive the winter.

But if the times are not good, sometimes they can't even pay the rent, so they can only borrow money.

But the interest on the borrowed money was so high that it was impossible to repay it.

Under the vicious circle, the people are getting poorer and poorer.

If you want to say where people in this world are the most fanatical about the land, I am afraid that there is no one other than the people in this piece of China.

"My lord, do you really want to allocate land to those of us who have no land?"

An old man who was over half a century old, dressed in rags, and leaning on a cane stood at the front of the crowd, looking excitedly at Zhao Wen on the high platform.

Although he shouted at the top of his voice, his voice was so low that Zhao Wen couldn't hear it at all.

Although Zhao Wen didn't hear it, but looking at these noisy people, Zhao Wen could understand these things.

"Everyone, I, Zhao Wen, mean what I say. When the follow-up officials from Xuanzhen arrive here, I will start to deal with this matter.

Now at half past one we will not be able to distribute land to you, but we will be able to distribute food.In order to defend Kaifeng Fucheng, Sun Chuanting hoarded a large amount of food in Kaifeng Fucheng.

Our army captured Kaifeng Mansion very quickly, so there is still a lot of food left, and basically there is no damage.

Now, I have decided to distribute these grains to you. "

Zhao Wen's words were like throwing an ice cube into a boiling oil pan, and the noisy crowd became even more noisy.

They really didn't expect that the rebels who the government said they were doing all kinds of evil would give them land and food.

A middle-aged man in a T-shirt stood among the crowd. He looked at Zhao Wen on the high platform, sighed, and said in a low voice, "Zhao thief is really good at using things that are not him to buy him in an instant. Killed the people of the entire Kaifeng prefecture. It’s a good method, a good method.”

This middle-aged man was the magistrate of Kaifeng Mansion. After Zhao Wencheng was destroyed, he was afraid of death, so he did not commit suicide and died for his country. Instead, he immediately changed his appearance and hid in the city.

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Chapter 634 Damn Sun Chuanting

The magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture originally wanted to run away immediately, but who would have thought that before he ran out of the city, Zhao Wen had people seal off all the city walls of Kaifeng Prefecture, and even ordered people to start repairing the city walls.

In this way, the magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture had no way to escape from the city, but could only hide in Kaifeng Prefecture in an attempt to muddle through.

This morning, he originally wanted to go out to inquire about the news, but he heard the news of the gathering of the people.

He didn't want to go at first, but out of curiosity, he really wanted to see what Zhao Wen was going to do with gathering the people in the city.

Under this mentality, he came to the square in front of the magistrate's yamen, hiding in the crowd and watching Zhao Wen quietly.

"Hehe, Bandit Zhao really lived up to his reputation. He used something that didn't belong to him to buy off all the people in the city in an instant. It's a good trick." The magistrate looked at Zhao Wen on the high platform and kept sneering.

The magistrate hid in the crowd, trying his best to block his body from the people in front of him.

Zhao Wen turned his head and looked at Lu Xiangsheng, "I will give you 1000 troops, and you take these troops to lead these people to the treasury of Kaifeng Mansion and distribute all the remaining food to these people, remember, it is all.

Although there is a lot of food in Kaifeng Mansion, the military food in our hands is also enough. "

Lu Xiangsheng cupped his hands at Zhao Wengong, and replied, "Obey!"

Zhao Wen nodded and looked at Li Xiaosan, "Little San, go and make arrangements to take the [-]th household of the Qinwei Camp with you to go with Mr. Lu."

"As ordered!"

……

At the same time, the few defeated soldiers who escaped from Kaifeng Fucheng continued to flee for their lives to Guide Mansion.

At dusk, they finally arrived outside the city of Guide Mansion.

At this time, the city gate of Guide Mansion was closed tightly, and the suspension bridge above the moat was also hoisted up, and some soldiers and horses and young men in the city were stationed on the top of the city.

The soldiers and horses on the top of the city are basically soldiers and horses that Sun Chuanting doesn't like. There were some good soldiers and horses in the city, but unfortunately these soldiers and horses were drawn away by Sun Chuanting a long time ago.

Among the defenders on the top of the city, most of them were young and strong recruited by the prefect of Guide Prefecture.

Before Zhao Wen arrived at Kaifeng Mansion, Sun Chuanting had someone pass the news to Guide Mansion, so people in Guide Mansion also knew the news of Zhao Wen's arrival at Kaifeng Mansion.

At this time, people in Guide Mansion were panicked, they were afraid of Zhao Wen's arrival.

As soon as these rout soldiers appeared on the edge of the moat, they were discovered by the defenders on the top of the city.

They thought these people were Zhao Wen's soldiers, and for a moment, the defenders on the top of the city panicked.

"It's not good, thief Zhao is calling, thief Zhao is calling." A soldier on the top of the city shouted loudly.

This news was spread to the prefect's yamen of Guide Prefecture as quickly as possible by the defenders on the city wall.

"What? Bandit Zhao is here? How could they be so fast? How could it be so fast? How long did it take for them to reach Kaifeng Prefecture? How could they take Kaifeng Prefecture in such a short time?"

In the study room of the magistrate's yamen, the prefect of Guide Prefecture patted the desk in front of him and stood up abruptly.

He looked at the soldiers who came to report the news with horror on his face.

He really couldn't understand why Zhao Wen's soldiers and horses came to the city of Guide Mansion in such a short period of time.

"Your Excellency, I don't know. There are three or five soldiers on horses outside the city wall. They are probably the soldiers and horses of Bandit Zhao." The soldier who reported the letter said hastily.

"Very likely? What is very likely? Yes, yes, no, no, what is very likely?" asked the prefect of Guide Prefecture?

The soldier who reported the letter was stopped by the magistrate for a while, not knowing what to say.

"It is rumored that Bandit Zhao has 20 soldiers and horses. If Bandit Zhao really has 20 soldiers and horses, if he comes to attack Guide Mansion, it is impossible to have such a small number of people even if he does not take them in the first night." Guide Mansion The prefect kept thinking.

He caught a loophole in what the soldier said and kept guessing.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible, they absolutely cannot be soldiers of Zhao thief. If they are soldiers of Zhao thief, then their number must not be so small."

The magistrate murmured to himself in a panic, and after a while, he looked at the soldier who reported the letter, "Take me to the city wall, I want to see if the soldiers and horses outside the city are the soldiers and horses of Zhao thief. "

This magistrate still has a bit of courage. If other prefects encounter this situation, they will definitely be terrified. How dare they go to the city wall?

Not long after, the magistrate brought the servants in the yamen to the city wall.

The magistrate stood on the city wall, squinting his eyes and looking out of the city.

With just one glance, the magistrate recognized the clothes on these rout soldiers.

"The clothes these people are wearing seem to be the uniforms of Lord Sun's army." The magistrate frowned and murmured.

At this moment, a hundred households on the top of the city came to the magistrate.

"My lord, when you didn't come, these soldiers outside the city said that they escaped from the city of Kaifeng." Baihu looked at the magistrate and said.

The magistrate said: "Looking at their appearance, they should have come from Kaifeng Fucheng.

Earlier, Lord Sun had asked me to mobilize women in the city to sew military uniforms for his troops.

At this time, the military uniforms worn by these people outside the city were so familiar to me that I couldn't be more familiar with them.

I heard that thief Zhao is very powerful, Ye Bushuo's dispatches are at least calculated in hundreds, it is impossible to only have these three or five.

Besides, there is no need for thief Zhao to deceive the city in this way.Moreover, there was no ambush from Thief Zhao in the distance, so I feel that these routs are probably the routs who escaped from Kaifeng City.

If this is the case, it means that the city of Kaifeng has been breached by the Zhao thief.

I remember that Mr. Sun sent me a message five days ago, saying that Bandit Zhao was not far from Kaifeng City.

In just five days, thief Zhao had breached the city of Kaifeng, and the speed was really too fast. "

The magistrate's face was so gloomy that water dripped out. He really didn't expect that Kaifeng City, which was heavily guarded and the city was high and deep, would be breached by Zhao Wen in such a short period of time.

"My lord, what should we do now?" Bai Hu looked at the prefect.

"Check their identities first, and if they are all correct, use a hanging basket to lift them up." The magistrate replied.

Baihu cupped his hands at the magistrate, then walked to the side.

Half an hour later, the rout soldiers whose identities were found out were hoisted up by the defenders on the top of the city.

The magistrate came to them as soon as they were hoisted up.

"Has Kaifeng Mansion fallen?" The magistrate looked at these defeated soldiers.

These rout soldiers sat slumped on the ground, gasping for breath, their faces full of joy for the rest of their lives.

When they saw the prefect approaching, they hurriedly saluted.

"My lord, the Kaifeng mansion has fallen, and the Kaifeng mansion is gone. It took less than an hour from the time the Zhao bandits attacked the city to the city's destruction.

When defending the city, Lord Sun was also on the wall.Moreover, the part of the city wall where Mr. Sun is located is the key target of the thief Zhao. At that time, I was far away from the part of the city wall where Mr. Sun was, so I couldn't see the specific situation clearly.You can only see the constant explosions on that section of the city wall, and the continuous burning of flames.I'm afraid, I'm afraid Master Sun is gone. "

A broken soldier yelled at the magistrate with a sad face.

"What?" The magistrate screamed when he heard this, his body kept shaking, and he stepped back involuntarily, as if he was about to fall.

Bai Hu standing behind him hurriedly supported him.

The magistrate took a few deep breaths, his eyes widened, "What did you say? The city of Kaifeng was breached in less than an hour? And Mr. Sun is gone?"

The prefect really couldn't believe this fact.

"Less than an hour? Could it be that Zhao thief's soldiers and horses are all heavenly soldiers and generals?"

"My lord, that's the truth. If a villain deceives your lord, there will be a thunderbolt from the sky." The broken soldier who spoke swore to the sky.

The magistrate fell into silence, even though he was already mentally prepared for Kaifeng's prefecture to be breached, but he still couldn't believe that Kaifeng's prefecture would be breached in such a short period of time.

The city of Kaifeng, which was breached within an hour, was heavily guarded, and the city was high and deep. This kind of thing is simply unheard of, unheard of.

"Okay, you guys go down first." The prefect waved his hands weakly at these defeated soldiers.

After they left, Baihu looked at the magistrate, and said in a panic: "Sir, what should we do now? The city of Kaifeng was breached in less than an hour, so we may not be able to hold on for half an hour. "

"Ugh!"

The magistrate sighed, his face was full of loneliness, "Report this matter to the capital first, for the current plan, we can only make preparations to live and die with the city."

……

Several fast horses galloped on the land of Zhili. They were soldiers and horses sent by the prefect of Guide Prefecture to report to the capital.

They have been out for about a day and a half, Guide Mansion is not far from the capital, so they will enter the capital in a short time.

In the early morning of the next day, the time converted into future generations was just over four o'clock.

At this time, the palace was silent, and Chongzhen had not been lying in the palace for a long time after finishing his day's work.