marquis of jingan

Chapter 991 Game
The dark clouds were getting lower and lower, and with the sound of thunder, Xia Yu poured down and soon drenched the entire city of Xuzhou.

At this time, the four walls of the city were full of soldiers guarding the city, and more than 8 people outside the city were approaching Xuzhou City at almost the same time.

The stones from the catapult came roaring, and they all hit the city wall of Xuzhou. Occasionally, a few stones fell on the tower, injuring several Huai'an soldiers.

However, although the momentum is great, there are not many people who actually set up ladders to attack the city. Adding up the four walls, there are only two to 3000 people attacking the city, and most of them are recruits.

To put it bluntly, it is cannon fodder.

These cannon fodder, not to mention being able to climb to Xuzhou City first, even rushed to the foot of Xuzhou City, it was a bit difficult. After shouting for a whole morning and losing hundreds of lives, these Qi people began to retreat.

At this moment, it was raining heavily, and the large amount of rain washed away the blood stains under the city wall, making it look much cleaner.

And when these Qi people attacked the city, Master Shen was already sitting in Zhizhou Yamen and started working.

Shen Yi has replaced the Zhizhou yamen with a new signboard, which says Huai'an Army Office in large characters.

This sign was made by Shen Yi himself. Originally, the sign made by the people below was "Huai'an Military Commander's Mansion", but although Shen Yi was the actual commander, he was not given the title of commander in the imperial edict.

This is simple and easy to remember, and the functions can be clearly distinguished at a glance.

At this moment, in Master Shen's study, Zhao Er and Zhao Jizhou handed a document in front of Shen Yi, and said, "Ziheng, take a look, this is a regulation that I, several accountants in the army, and several accountants from the Zhizhou Yamen have come up with. In a few days, we plan to distribute food in the city according to this regulation."

"Taking one household as a unit, each household will distribute receipts according to the population of the family every month, and food will be distributed based on the receipts."

Speaking of this, he paused, and said: "The other thing is, during this time, according to Ziheng, we have been confiscating grain from grain merchants and wealthy households in the city. Now we have almost done it. There are several Han people who resisted fiercely and fought against the soldiers."

"Now, those people are temporarily detained."

Master Shen was flipping through the documents. Hearing this, he raised his head to look at Zhao Er, frowned and said, "Didn't I tell you that if it's grain from the Han people's family, buy it at the original price or at a higher price with the gold and silver property confiscated from Zhu Li's house."

"Since it is buying food, how can there be conflicts?"

Zhao Er moved a chair and sat down, and said with a wry smile: "That's what I said, but now the city of Xuzhou is in chaos, if it is not forced, who is willing to sell grain at this time?"

Shen Yi thought for a while, and said, "Well, the Han people who have less than [-] catties of grain at home don't need to buy grain from them."

"The ones that are more than two hundred catties, and those that are more than two hundred catties, will be sold to us."

Shen Yi rubbed his head.He said: "If there are those who do not cooperate, don't be polite to them."

Speaking of this, Shen Yi squinted his eyes, and said in a muffled voice: "There are also those Han people who did it, each beat thirty boards, fined and confiscated all their property, if there is any dissatisfaction, make trouble..."

"Just throw their family out of the city and let them fend for themselves."

Having said that, Master Shen snorted.

"It's not our big Chen Zimin, who dares to play tricks on us, and has no idea!"

With Shen Yi's words, Zhao Er heaved a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "With Ziheng's words, it will be much easier for us to start things again."

"In the past few days, many people have said that you, Ziheng, are too kind and might protect those Han people."

Master Shen shook his head slightly, and said: "I have some compassion for ordinary people, but now, it's not the time to be compassionate to others, and no one can stop our Huai'an Army from doing things."

Having said that, he paused for a moment, and said, "What's more, after issuing the receipts for buying grain, we must do a good job of anti-counterfeiting, so that no one will cheat."

"Moreover, instead of distributing food, it is selling food."

Master Shen looked at Zhao Er and said, "Just don't sell it at a price higher than the market price. It's better to sell it at a price lower than the market price."

Zhao Jizhou scratched his head, and said, "Ziheng, I'm afraid it's useless to ask for money now?"

"Sheng Mien, Dou Mi Chou."

Shen Yi said calmly: "At a slightly lower price, these people can still think of us well. If all food is free of money, there may be troubles, and it won't last long. If one day they suddenly start asking for money, they will become enemies."

Shen Yi said quietly: "This Xuzhou City, we are not going to leave for a period of time, but to completely regain it. In the future, the imperial court will reorganize the household registration of Qimin, and we have to think about it in the long run."

Zhao Jizhou was full of admiration, and praised: "Ziheng, you are really born to do great things. Not to mention everything, and you can see the long-term in every aspect, which makes people have to admire."

Master Shen couldn't help laughing: "When did senior brother learn how to flatter them?"

"Just tell the truth."

Zhao Er smiled, then looked at Shen Yi, and asked, "By the way, Ziheng, I heard people said that the Qi people came to attack the city today, and there is a war outside, why don't you go and take a look?"

"There's nothing to see, they can't get in, and it's even hard to go up the tower."

Shen Yi finished writing the last stroke, dried the ink, and said with a smile: "With the current strength of the Southern Conscript Army, let alone defend Xuzhou, even if I lead the troops out of the city now and fight them decisively, the outcome is still unknown."

In Shen Yi's study room, Zhao Er accompanied Shen Yi to have a conversation, and when the rain outside eased a little, he turned and left, and went to work.

Not long after Zhao Er left, Su Ding, who was wearing a coir raincoat, hung the coir raincoat outside the door, shook the rain from his hair, then knocked on the door outside, and said, "Mr. Shen, my subordinate Su Ding is asking to see you!"

Shen Yi didn't get up, but just said lightly: "Come in."

Only then did Su Ding come in, bowed his head and cupped his fists at Shen Yi and said, "Mr. Shen, the Qi people outside the city have all retreated. They attacked the city today, and more than 400 people died. Only more than 20 people in our army were injured. None of them are in danger of life."

Master Shen looked at the sky outside the window, and was a little surprised: "They withdrew just after noon? I thought Zhou Shizhong was going to attack all day long."

Su Ding cupped his fists and said with a smile: "It seems that Zhou Shizhong is just pretending to show the matter to the northern court. He is not going to use the troops from the Southern Army to fill the big hole in Xuzhou."

"Ah."

Shen Yi stood up, walked to the door of the study with his hands behind his back, looked at the heavy rain that was still falling outside, and frowned slightly: "But this is not in line with my intention."

After Shen Yi occupied Xuzhou, the reason why he didn't contact the imperial court immediately and asked the imperial court to cooperate to completely occupy Xuzhou Mansion, and even wrote a letter to Emperor Hongde, asked the emperor to temporarily suppress the imperial court's support.

Its purpose is to eliminate Northern Qi's vital forces to the greatest extent possible.

Logically speaking, even if Zhou Shizhong himself was not in a hurry at this moment, the Northern Qi court would force him to be in a hurry, but on the first day of the siege, it seemed that the Zhengnan Army was not in a hurry, but just put on a show.

After looking at the torrential rain outside, Master Shen fell into deep thought.

Su Ding stood behind him, lowered his head slightly, and said: "Mr. Shen, the combat power of these Qi people is no higher than ours. As soon as you give an order, the brothers will go out of the city to hide and kill for a while. Anyway, we can attack, retreat and defend..."

Shen Yi shook his head slightly.

"If I had been tough with them, I would not have been in a hurry to occupy Xuzhou at that time."

Master Shen touched his chin and said, "They are not in a hurry, nor are we."

"Unless the timing is particularly suitable, we are also in Xuzhou City and wait and see what happens."

Su Ding lowered his head and cupped his fists, and said yes.

Master Shen looked at the torrential rain that was still falling outside, thought for a while, and said: "Today, many brothers in the city are defending the city in the rain, and they asked people to boil some medicine to relieve the cold. They are making some ginger soup and distribute it to avoid catching the wind and cold."

If there are too many people who are sick, there may be a disease.

Su Ding nodded immediately and said, "This subordinate will do it now."

Master Shen waved his hand, motioning for him to go.

After Su Ding left, Shen Yi asked Jiang Sheng to find two people, Lin Sheng and Luo Yong. These two secretaries of the mansion's newspaper department are now trapped in Xuzhou City just like Shen Yi.

Shen Yi motioned for the two to sit down, and then asked: "I want to restore communication with the outside world, can it be done?"

Luo Yong and Lin Sheng looked at each other, and then looked at Shen Yi.

"Si Zheng, I'm afraid this will require the cooperation of the Huai'an army."

Shen Yi nodded.

"If you have any difficulties, you can go find Xue Wei."

Lin Sheng coughed and said, "There is no difficulty. Although Xuzhou City is surrounded on all sides, the surrounding circle is too large. It is not too difficult to sneak in, but if you want to go out..."

"I'm afraid the Huai'an Army will need to cooperate."

"What you mean is that the Huai'an army needs to go out of the city to fight under the cover of the Di Baosi."

Both stewards nodded in unison.

Master Shen frowned.

"Forget it, the sacrifice is too great."

"I'll go find the inner guards and see if they can do anything."

(End of this chapter)