Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 263 Counting the Number of People
At dawn the next day, Zhao Wen asked people to gather all the people in the city.

Zhao Wen's main purpose of gathering the people in the city is to find out how many people are still in the city.

The man and woman rescued by Zhao Wen last night were treated by Zhao Wen's personal guards, and their injuries gradually stabilized.

But being stable does not mean that you will survive. After all, there are no antibiotics in this era.

When the sun was high, the people in the city had all been gathered in the open space in front of the yamen.

Zhao Wen looked at the people standing in the open space who were still confused about the situation, and shouted loudly: "Don't be afraid, the bandits have been defeated by us, and Daning City has been recovered by us, you can rest assured .

There is no need to worry that the thieves will fight back, the thieves have already run away. "

As Zhao Wen's words fell, the silent people began to discuss.

Zhao Wen pointed to the armor on his body and shouted: "You should know the armor on me, right? The armor on me is the standard armor of the army, but the color is different.

Today, the magistrate of the county seat has been killed by thieves, but this city of Daning cannot be leaderless, so from today onwards, I will take over this city of Daning.By the way, are there any of you who can write and count? "

A middle-aged scholar wearing a patched black T-shirt stood up, "Your Excellency, I am a scholar, and because of livelihood reasons, I used to be an accountant, so I can be said to be able to write and calculate. "

Zhao Wen looked at the middle-aged scholar, and said to the guard behind him: "Go and invite him up."

The personal guard cupped his hands at Zhao Wengong, and then walked towards the middle-aged scholar.

The middle-aged scholar was brought to Zhao Wen's side and bowed to Zhao Wen, "It's a great achievement for the general to recover Daning City, and I ask the general to accept my worship."

After the scholar finished speaking, he saluted Zhao Wen respectfully.

Zhao Wen accepted the ceremony calmly, Zhao Wen said: "What's the name of this gentleman?
"I don't dare to take your surname. My surname is Wang and Hanhai." The scholar replied.

Of course, among these people, not this one can write and count, but because of the natural fear of the government, these people did not stand up, only this one stood up.

As for why he dared to stand up, it was because he was an old bachelor, he could feed the whole family by himself, and he didn't have any worries.

The other one is that he thinks these soldiers are different from other guard soldiers. The military regulations are strict, and they seem to be a righteous army.

So it's not that scary.

Zhao Wen nodded, and then said: "Mr. Wang, I have something I want to ask you to do now."

"The general ordered that this matter should be done well."

"Okay, this matter is also very simple. Later, you will bring a few soldiers and register the people in the city. You must find out how many people are still in the city." Zhao Wen pointed to the people below and looked at Wang Hanhai.

Wang Hanhai looked at the people, then at Zhao Wen, "My lord, leave this matter to me."

Wang Hanhai cupped his hands at Zhao Wengong, and then stood behind Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen said a few more words to the people, handed them over to Wang Hanhai, and led some soldiers to the ruins of the county government.

After Zhao Wen came to the ruins with his soldiers and horses, he began to lead his troops to dig up the ruins.

The things Zhao Wen dug were not treasures, but Daning's fish scale books and yellow books.

These things have little effect on thieves, and besides, thieves don't know a few words, so there is a high probability that they won't touch these things.

But these things are very important to Zhao Wen.

The layout of the yamen in the Ming Dynasty was almost exactly the same, and Zhao Wen was also clear about the layout of the yamen.

So Zhao Wen directly led people to dig up the warehouse. Because the warehouse was relatively remote, Zhao Wen did not suffer much damage when he bombarded the Yamen. It only collapsed, and there was no fire or the like.

After digging for a short time, a personal guard dug out a booklet from the ruins.

Zhao Wen took the booklet handed over by his personal guard, casually flipped through a few pages, and threw it on the ground.

"It's not this. This is the account book of the county government's expenditure and tax collection. This is useless to us. Keep digging."

Just when Zhao Wen led his troops to dig, Zhao Daniu returned to Daning City with his troops.

"grown ups!"

Zhao Daniu looked at the bored Zhao Wen sitting on a beam, and hurried to Zhao Wen's side.

Zhao Wen raised his head and looked at Zhao Daniu, "How's it going? Have you caught up?"

Zhao Daniu sighed heavily, "Oh, my lord, don't mention it, I only caught some unremarkable young people, as for those backbones, none of them were caught."

"Why didn't even a backbone be caught? I remember that they were not far away at that time. According to my estimation, it would take a long time to catch up with them, so how could they not be caught. How did these backbones Run away?" Zhao Wen looked at Zhao Daniu suspiciously.

At that time, Zhao Wen and others were not very far away from Li Zicheng. Even if Li Zicheng could run, he would catch up sooner or later. After all, their horses and Zhao Wen's horses were not on the same level.

How come only a few young people have been caught so far?Could it be that Li Zicheng's ability to escape has reached the point of perfection?

"My lord, it's hard to describe in one sentence. Let me make a long story short. At that time, we were not very far away from them, so it was not difficult to catch up with them.

After you left, I don't know what this group of thieves thought, they stopped running after running, and stopped in a ruined temple, intending to resist.

When I saw this at the time, I became excited. You must know that what we are least afraid of is fighting us, so I rushed in with my troops.

But when I rushed to the vicinity of the ruined temple, the thieves surrounding the ruined temple did not launch a decent resistance at all.

We only fired three or five shots, and the bandit cavalry on the periphery dispersed, leaving the backbone and leaders of the bandits in the ruined temple.

When I saw this posture at the time, I thought that this group of people saw that the situation was over, and they ran for their lives. They didn't care so much, and directly arrested the backbone in the ruined temple.

As for those who escaped, I didn't care about any of them. "Zhao Daniu spit all over the place, explaining to Zhao Wen in detail.

Zhao Wen frowned and said, "Isn't there anything unusual here? Didn't you all arrest the backbone? How did you become a few unremarkable captives?"

Zhao Daniu patted his thigh and said depressedly: "This is where the problem arises, and we have never seen Li Zicheng and his generals, so they used this to deceive us.

The backbone in the ruined temple is not the backbone at all, but the backbone clothes worn by a group of young people.

After these minions and Li Zicheng and the others changed their clothes, we thought these people were Li Zicheng and the others.

In the end, we foolishly brought these people back.When we were about to arrive in Daning City, we questioned these people, but we didn't know anything about it, so we put these people to death.

After the execution, we realized that these people were not the backbone of the thieves at all, but a group of minions dressed up.

It was also my fault, if I had questioned them at the time, such a thing would not have happened.It's a pity that I was dazzled by the victory at the time. "

Zhao Daniu patted his thigh, sighing and booing.

Hearing this, Zhao Wen couldn't help but heaved a long sigh, and said slowly: "No wonder he is the one who can escape the most, the ability to escape is really not small.

That's enough, don't moan and sigh, forget it if you don't catch it, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future.Now you take the chasing men to rest for a while, I have something to give you to do later. "

"Yes." Zhao Daniu bowed his hands to Zhao Wengong with a depressed face, then turned and left.

"My lord, do you see this?"

At this moment, a personal guard rushed to Zhao Wen with a brochure full of loess.

Zhao Wen took the booklet from the guard and wiped the dust off it.

Zhao Wen looked at the handwriting on the booklet, and his face flashed with excitement, "This is Daning's yellow book, so hurry up and look for the fish scale book."

Zhao Wen cleaned the dust off the yellow book and looked through it.

After a while, Zhao Wen walked towards Wang Hanhai with the yellow book.

"Mr. Wang, this is the yellow book of Daning County. Take this yellow book and compare it with the number of people in the city to see how many people are missing." Zhao Wen handed the yellow book to Wang Hanhai.

Wang Hanhai took the yellow book with a smile on his face, "My lord, with the yellow book, the speed of counting the number of people will be much faster."

Zhao Wen waved his hand and said, "Okay, I won't bother you anymore, remember, after counting the people, show me the results.

This thing is very important to me.What's more, if there are refugees who were driven by thieves from other places among these people, you should also register them.

If there is not enough manpower, you can see among the common people whether there are some people who can write and count to help you. "

At the same time, more than 50 people in ragged clothes and tired faces were running non-stop on the ground.

The leader was Li Zicheng who fled. He looked at the sun in the sky, licked his dry lips, and stopped.

At this time, where does Li Zicheng still have the glory when he broke through Daning City?The whole person is like fleeing from a refugee, the clothes on his body are torn, the whole person is unkempt, and his head is full of sweat.

"Uncle, can we rest for a while, if we continue running like this, we will be exhausted." Li Guo stopped, looked at Li Zicheng with a tired face, and said out of breath.

"Yeah, we haven't stopped since we left Daning City. Our horses are exhausted. I think those officers and soldiers have been tricked by us, so we don't need to run away anymore." Liu Zongmin untied from his waist. The next water hyacinth filled with water was thrown to Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng caught the water hyacinth, unplugged it, and took a gulp.

Li Zicheng wiped his mouth, returned the water hyacinth to Liu Zongmin, and kept panting, "Then listen to you, let's rest for a while. At this time, we haven't seen any traces of the officers and soldiers. They must have been given by us." Get over it."

After the ruined temple used the trick of deceiving the sky and crossing the sea, they fled towards Gao Yingxiang without stopping. Because their horses were not of good quality, coupled with the long-distance running, they did not give the horses water and food, so these overwhelmed horses basically Were all exhausted.

They didn't even have time to deal with the horses. They were afraid of being chased by the horses led by Zhao Daniu, so they desperately ran for their lives with their legs.

Li Zicheng looked at the loess-covered land around him, and frowned, "Where are we now?"

Li Guo looked at the surrounding scenery with a dazed look on his face, he was so concerned about running for his life that he didn't care where he was going.

"I don't know where this is, why don't we look for it and see if there are any villages nearby." Liu Zongmin wiped the sweat from his brow, looked around, and kept panting, "This village in the wilderness , who knows where this is."

"Okay, don't worry about where it is, let's find a cooler place to rest for a while. By the way, did you bring dry food when you left?" Li Zicheng looked at everyone.

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, shaking their heads, Li Guo spread his hands, and said helplessly: "I'm just running for my life, how can I think of getting dry food?"

"That's not enough. There is no food. How can we go to my uncle? My uncle is attacking Yangcheng, and Yangcheng is not far from here. If there is not enough food, we may starve to death on the way." Li Zicheng His brows were tightly wrinkled together, and his face was full of irritability.

He really couldn't figure it out. After crossing the Yellow River from the east, everything went smoothly, and Daning City was also captured.

But just met such an official army, this official army is really too terrifying.

He didn't even touch the corners of their clothes, and he was completely defeated on his side.

Now, not only the money that was looted fell into Daning City, but also all the refugees he gathered were gone.

All these became wedding clothes, Li Zicheng gritted his teeth when he thought of that young face.

"Where are these officers and soldiers? I have lived for such a long time, and this is the first time I have seen them. Especially the weapons in their hands, they beat people to death from tens of feet away." Liu Zongmin sat on the ground and slapped his thigh , said with lingering fear.

The previous scene really scared Liu Zongmin a lot.

"Who knows, it's so good. We don't even have a letter when such an army suddenly appears." Li Guochang sighed.

"Don't talk, don't talk, what's the use of talking about it? Now, let's think about where to get food."

Li Zicheng took off the hat on his head and kept fanning it.

"Uncle, what do you think that is?"

Just when Li Zicheng was upset, Li Guo suddenly pointed in front of him in horror and yelled.

Li Zicheng hurriedly looked in the direction of Li Guo's finger.

I saw a cloud of smoke rising from the ground, slowly coming towards this side.

Because the distance was too far, Li Zicheng couldn't see the people and horses in the smoke.

"Could it be a chaser?"

In an instant, all these people became tense.

Liu Zongmin hurriedly lay down on the ground, pressing his ears tightly to the ground.

After a while, Liu Zongmin frowned and said, "Probably not, the ones chasing us are cavalry, but judging from the voice, it seems that there are not many cavalry."

"Then what are the troops in front? The reinforcements from the officers and soldiers?" Li Guo asked in panic.

"It's hard to say, don't worry about it for now, let's hide first." Li Zicheng pulled out the long knife from his waist, and then shouted behind him, "Everyone hide for me, don't be discovered."

(End of this chapter)