People in Dasong: starting from the sign-in

Chapter 61

Chapter 61

Xiao Qi led more than [-] men and entered Chuzhou City without bloodshed.

Because he had long warned his soldiers not to harass any people of the Song Dynasty, there was only some movement when the army was stationed in several military camps in the city. When the battalions were stationed and the city guard sergeants climbed up the city wall, the city quickly became quiet. down.

Xiao Qi, who was familiar with the importance of publicity, knew that only by pacifying the people could Chuzhou regain its vitality as soon as possible. He sent each battalion under his command to designate their own patrol areas.

And constantly loudly publicized to the people hiding at home: Da Song has recovered Chuzhou City, and everyone can go out and carry out normal daily activities.

Although the effect was not very good, except for a small number of courageous people who came out to look around and then hurried back home, most people were still worried that soldiers would break into their homes and dared not open the door.

Xiao Qi knew that these common people were very afraid of the soldiers, whether it was the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom or the Song Dynasty, they did not harass these common people less.

Therefore, he did not force these people to live as if nothing was wrong immediately. Instead, he asked the generals below to restrain their subordinates and not allow anyone to harass the people of Chuzhou, otherwise they would be severely punished by military law.

Soon the people in Chuzhou City discovered that this Song army seemed to be different from other Song armies, and gradually began to have the courage to come out to check, and then some bold traders opened their doors to do business.

In this era of lack of supplies, few ordinary people can stay behind closed doors for a long time. After finding out that those who were brave enough to go out for a circle came back intact, those residents began to gradually come out to work on their own livelihoods.

Although these people were still very scared when they saw the soldiers patrolling the streets, but after a day, those shopkeepers and shopkeepers who walked the streets were no longer worried.

After all, these people are a relatively well-informed part of the common people, and they soon discovered that as long as you do your business normally, those soldiers will ignore you at all.

Moreover, there are soldiers who come to the store to buy things, and they don't buy or sell by force. Of course, those shopkeepers don't dare to cheat others.

From the second day on, Chuzhou City became lively, and people who had disputes even dragged each other to find the soldiers patrolling the streets for comment.

Seeing that the people in Chuzhou City had resumed their normal lives, Xiao Qi felt relieved. When these people in Chuzhou City were occupied by the Jin army, they would not go out unless they had to.

Nowadays, there is a shortage of everything in the people's homes. Many wealthy businessmen have fled, and those who have not escaped have been almost robbed.

What is better than Chuzhou is that the Jin army here did not kill people to vent their anger when they captured Chuzhou City.

Apart from the poor life of the current Chuzhou people, many people who have floating wealth in their families have been robbed, but there are not many other problems.

As long as the order in the city is restored and various livelihood industries start to operate, the people in this city should not be hungry.

However, Xiao Qi still checked the granary, and found that when the gold soldiers ran away, they only worried about the gold, silver and silk, and there was a lot of food left.

Xiao Qi asked people to re-register the residents of Chuzhou City, and the residents who came to register must be neighbors in one area and one area, so that people could verify each other whether they were residents of the city.

People from each family who came to register were given a few catties of rations according to their head, so that they would not go hungry before they found a livelihood.

The people in the city were really grateful for Xiao Qi's decision. The general who fought the war had never cared about whether they had food.

Those people would only ask them to hand over money and goods as military supplies. This was the first time the general who gave them rations met.

Xiao Qi's actions quickly won the favor of the people, and everything in the city recovered almost overnight.

Taking this opportunity, Xiao Qi also began to recruit blacksmiths and carpenters in Chuzhou City. After all, his cavalry army now has more than 3000 people, and those swords are still far behind.

He paid a high price and recruited more than a dozen blacksmiths who were willing to follow him. Forget about carpenters, even a carpenter can make those knives, but it is different to make knives. You must first teach some methods in casting.

It's not that Xiao Qi doesn't want to spread his technology to the outside world, but that such a person can't be left outside, and if his opponent acquires him, he can forge a weapon as sharp as his own. Wouldn't that make him feel uncomfortable?

So Xiao Qi could only promise great profits, so that these blacksmiths would be willing to drag their families to follow him.

The craftsmen hoped that their eating skills would be as exquisite as possible, so they brought these dozen or so blacksmiths to the newly established blacksmithing workshop in the barracks, and showed them the knives made by those old blacksmiths.

Finally, tell them that as long as they can sign a contract to follow themselves for a lifetime, these technologies will be taught to them, and they said that when they are old, these technologies can be passed on to their offspring.

These blacksmiths saw those swords, and immediately agreed to sign the contract. They were experts. To them, such a good knife was simply a magic weapon, and they dreamed of making one in their lifetime.

Now that they have the opportunity to learn such a skill, fools give up, after all, they rely on this skill for a living.

After signing the contract, Xiao Qi gave them a settlement allowance, and like the previous blacksmiths, sent someone to send their families to live in his farm.

At the farm, Zhang Xiu had already sent a housekeeper to bring two servants back to buy a lot of land, and now Zhang Xiu is a proper landlord wife.

Although Xiao Qi didn't know exactly how much land he bought, he also knew that his land was more than two or three times larger than before.

Among the promises to these blacksmiths are: to give each of them a house, five acres of fertile land, and 20 taels of silver for settlement.

Moreover, these blacksmiths are paid every month. Originally, their family relied on their own craftsmanship for food, but now they have a guarantee of a few acres of land.

These blacksmiths are also very satisfied, and those whose families have houses in Chuzhou City will exchange them with their neighbors or sell them to others.

Those who don’t have a house just have no worries. After sending their families away, these people began to work with the old blacksmith to learn new blacksmithing skills.

Less than a month passed like this, when the newly built blacksmith workshop began to produce a steady stream of knives.

Several Chuzhou soldiers who were covered in wounds came to Xiao Qi with the help of others.

After asking what was going on, Xiao Qi was suddenly shocked and angry.

It turned out that the Jin army took advantage of the opportunity that he led troops to attack Chuzhou, and the Chuzhou city was empty, and secretly sent [-] troops to cross the Huaihe River from the north bank to prepare to attack Chuzhou.

At this time, [-] Song troops came from Yangzhou, saying they were supporting Chuzhou. Zhang Xiu discussed with the two army leaders and felt that although the timing of these Song troops coming was a bit strange, everyone should be prepared. I'm not afraid of the [-] Yangzhou soldiers.

So the south gate was opened to let the [-] Yangzhou soldiers enter Chuzhou. Who knew that Shi Qingrao, the trainer of the Yangzhou regiment who led the army, changed his face after their soldiers and horses entered the city, and took out the first rank of the dynasty. Shao Qingcai's military order said he was here to take over Chuzhou City.

Because Zhang Xiu and the two army leaders had prepared in advance, Zhang Xiu suddenly beheaded Shi Qingrao, and the 3000 generals who had ambushed in advance killed more than [-] Song soldiers who wanted to rob Chuzhou City. Those who lowered immediately fell on their knees.

At this time, those golden troops suddenly began to encircle Chuzhou City, and shouted for Shi Qingrao to hand over Chuzhou City.

Zhang Xiu felt something was wrong. How did those golden men know about Shi Qingrao?

Quickly dispatched a dozen sergeants from the Zhaodao Battalion before the Jin army surrounded the south gate, and gave them one man and two horses to come to Chuzhou City for help.

After leaving the city, these ten people met the Jin soldiers who came to surround the south gate. After a hard fight, only four of them rushed out, and the six people were surrounded and died in battle.

After Xiao Qi heard this, the anger in his heart almost ignited him!

This is definitely the left minister Shao Qingcai colluding with the Jinren, planning to sell Chuzhou City together!

Since the matter was so obvious, there was no intention to let the [-] soldiers in Chuzhou survive. At least Zhang Xiu and those generals would definitely be silenced.

Then they can say that Chuzhou was attacked by the Jin army, and 1 people went to Yangzhou to rescue them, but they were outnumbered and Chuzhou was lost!

At this time, Xiao Qi understood that if he wanted to fulfill his long-cherished mission, he would not be able to rely entirely on the support of the imperial court.

This ruined the court. When Zhao Shen was still a motivated monarch, someone dared to play such a big black trick.

If I acted like the loyal ministers described in those ancient books, I would be so sure that there would be no scum left!

Damn it, anyway, now I have soldiers, generals and territory, whoever messes with me will kill him, this Shao Qingcai will sacrifice the flag to me!

Immediately, someone was sent to bandage the wounds of the four scouts from the Zhaodao Battalion, and sent them down to rest.

The furious Xiao Qi sent an order: All the infantry over 40 years old stayed behind to guard Chuzhou City, and the rest of the cavalry and the remaining young and strong soldiers under 40 years old immediately followed him to help Chuzhou City!

(End of this chapter)