Chapter 299
In the end, Yun Pengcheng went to Zhuo Mansion. No one knows how the two communicated, even the servants of Zhuo Mansion, but since Yun Pengcheng left Zhuo Mansion, Zhuo Ao's eight grain stores and markets quickly unblocked.

However, the hearts of the people are already in chaos, and it is not so easy to restore order again.

After all, the feeling of getting something for nothing is still very good. Don't expect a group of people who usually don't even have enough to eat to have a long-term vision.

On the day when the grain store was reopened, several groups of people wanted to rob grain by force, just like robbing those unscrupulous grain merchants. They were already robbing the red eyes, and at this moment they didn't care whether they were unscrupulous merchants.

For these people, Zhuo Ao was not polite, around each grain store, there were more than a dozen vicious Miao guards at the same time, regardless of the reason, they beat up these people, and then threw them out of the city. These people made records and were never allowed to enter Hangzhou City.

In one day, thousands of people were expelled from the city, and the common people were immediately told to be honest. What they used to deal with the government could not be used to deal with Zhuo Ao. Some people wanted to take revenge secretly, and a few Qingpis tied up a Miao guard. I want to find a corner and kill him secretly just like I did with the yamen servants.

Without the order from the Zhuo Mansion, these people were reported by some common people. Naturally, the fate will not be good. The Zhuo Mansion did not take action this time, and the Yamen sent out to catch these green skins in one go, and did not expel them. Autumn asked to cut.

Zhuo Ao is not Yun Pengcheng, he has kindness to Hangzhou, although many people want to beat Zhuofu's brains driven by interests, but more people support Zhuofu.

The government oppresses the people, they kill the yamen, and the people relieve their anger, so they turn a blind eye and close one eye, and even help to cover, the government will naturally find nothing to investigate.

But Zhuo Ao has a good reputation in Hangzhou, and the same method can't work in Zhuo Mansion. A group of troublemakers were neatly dealt with, and then some underground forces that just took advantage of the situation in Hangzhou City were quickly suppressed. Went out.

However, the market reopened, and although the stores reopened and the previous losses were recompensated, the number of people recruited in the past is less than half.

But Zhuo Ao doesn't care, the overall situation has been decided. In this era, no matter what is lacking, there will be no shortage of people. In addition to quality inspection, Zhuo Ao also established a new one in the market, called the security team, to select young people Strong people join, the number is not many, only a hundred people, responsible for maintaining the daily law and order of the market, protecting the interests of customers and merchants, and this money does not need to be paid by the major merchants, it will be paid by Zhuofu.

There is no need to pay money, and a better business environment can be obtained. A group of merchants are naturally happy and more supportive.

The matter has come to this point, and it can be regarded as a relatively satisfactory ending. Although everyone has guessed what kind of compromise Yun Pengcheng made in the Zhuo Mansion that day, it is all groundless and not accurate, but it can be inferred from hindsight. , the government office has almost given the green light to the Zhuo Mansion all the way, even the third class of government officials must be respectful to the people in the Shangzhuo Mansion, just like what Zhuo Ao said that day, there may be no magistrate in Hangzhou City, but Zhuo Ao cannot be without him.

As for what Yun Pengcheng thought, no one knew, and no one cared about it. After that day, Yun Pengcheng rarely appeared in the eyes of the public again, and stayed in his own mansion all day long. Don't step forward, and become a traditional otaku.

Hangzhou City restored the order in the past, but after this disturbance, the majesty of the magistrate was swept away, and Zhuo Mansion deservedly became the local emperor of Hangzhou City. In the spring of the second year, Zhuo Ao began to plan many things in Hangzhou City, including various Building for the people and repairing the city walls. Although the Zhuo Mansion still has the five courtyards and the 5000 Miao guards directly under it, in the city of Hangzhou, only the security personnel responsible for maintaining order in various places built by the Zhuo Mansion. There are no less than 5000 people, and they are scattered around to maintain order on weekdays, but as long as Zhuo Ao gives an order, [-] people can be converted into soldiers at any time.

A mere 5000 people, if you don't use the magic tricks, no matter how elite the training is, it won't be worth millions of soldiers. Although the Song Dynasty said that the lion is very watery, at least when it comes to foreigners, the Song Dynasty's troops usually act as sheep. However, if it is to suppress a domestic rebellion, this group of sheep can immediately turn into wolves.

At the beginning of summer, he fought a battle with the Liao people at the border. Naturally, the result was a disastrous defeat, but then the Jin Kingdom won a big victory and slapped the Song Dynasty hard on the face. The 70-year-old Wanyan Aguda led [-] soldiers, and almost wiped out the [-] troops of the Liao Kingdom at the Pagoda Hill, and almost brought the Liao Kingdom to a standstill.

If Song and Liao were to start the war, the result would probably be reversed. Although there were many other factors in this war, there was a noble rebellion in the rear of the Liao Kingdom, which caused Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Kingdom to make a wrong judgment and retreated from the battlefield. Yan Aguda had the opportunity to turn defeat into victory and fought this fabulous battle, but in any case, in terms of success or failure, Wanyan Aguda is the top military star in this era and even in China's 5000-year civilization.

Compared with the glorious victory of the Jin Kingdom, the disastrous defeat of the Song Dynasty made the Song Dynasty army even more incompetent. Unfortunately, the court not only did not have a sense of crisis, but the whole country was jubilant, because now the Song and Jin alliances, the victory of the Jin Kingdom, and a group of brilliant talents Under the brilliant strokes, it was successfully transformed into the victory of the Song Dynasty in the end, because they are allies, and the allies are strong, doesn't it mean that they are equally powerful.

Although Zhuo Ao has always looked at these things with a detached attitude, but at this time, he still felt a sense of sadness. The weakness of the Song Dynasty was not without the support of famous generals. The weakness of the Song Dynasty was due to the incompetence of the superiors. Those in positions of power are very smart, with a wonderful pen, and they always attribute the credit of others to themselves, but they forget that Wanyan Aguda was not a general of the Song Dynasty. Such a result, besides making the Jin people look down upon him, can only be regarded as an important one. To get a little self-consolation, they can persecute the famous generals of the Song Dynasty, but they don't have the ability and courage to deal with Wanyan Aguda.

Allies are established on the basis of equal strengths of the two sides, and there is a disparity in strength between the two sides. Such an ally is the most important thing to guard against. Unfortunately, looking at the Song Dynasty, no one has thought of this. Maybe they have thought of it, but they are unwilling to face it. Yes, I would rather whitewash the peace in my own world than look at the world and face reality.

In mid-June, the water level of the Yangtze River rose, and victims of disasters gradually gathered from the west. Although there were not many, experienced people knew that this was just the beginning.

Sure enough, in July, it was reported that the four upstream states were flooded, a large number of homeless people were homeless, and the displaced people gathered into a wave of refugees and rushed downstream.

Hangzhou was originally a disaster area in previous years, but this year because Zhuo Ao built a large number of water conservancy facilities and successfully resolved who should have come, not only did Hangzhou not suffer from disasters, but because of sufficient water, the harvest was higher than in previous years. , and a large number of refugees came together.

In the south of the Yangtze River, all the state capitals have closed the city gates to prevent the victims from entering the city. It sounds a little inhumane, but in fact, in ancient times, there was no way to do this.

The city is such a big place, if victims from all directions rush in at once, there must not be enough space in the city, and when there are too many people, the victims will have nothing to do, it is easy to cause trouble, disrupt the city's law and order, and cause many other problems.

Naturally, Hangzhou City is no exception, but this year seems to be a little different. Early in the morning, the Zhuo Mansion has sent servants to post notices outside the city to recruit workers, and they are cutting trees and building houses around Hangzhou to gather refugees.

You don't need to pay wages, you just need to take care of the food. In this season, as a disaster victim, it is enough to be able to get enough food and clothing. The most important thing is that Zhuo Ao recruits young and strong young people who have something to do. , Naturally, he would not think about making troubles, which made Hangzhou a lot more stable.

At the same time, Zhuo Ao also began to spread his hand to the surrounding state capitals, recruiting civilians to build private houses, which can relieve the pressure on public security. The state capitals don't know the conflict between Zhuo Ao and the emperor, so naturally they welcome it very much. In this way, in just three short days In a few months, Zhuo Ao quickly expanded his influence to the north and south of the Yangtze River on the basis of a large amount of property. It seemed that he was losing money to make money, but in fact, in the process, Zhuo Ao secretly used this method to attract An army of tens of thousands of people.

Of course, these people are still just laborers doing some work, but the flood will eventually pass. After the floods pass, these people will be recruited as laborers and become Zhuo Ao's men. Among the various industries established over a period of time.

Invisibly, let Zhuo Ao take advantage of this disaster to secretly control the economic lifeline of the entire Yangtze River north and south, expand his strength, and let his reputation resound across the river north and south. As long as Zhuo Ao gives an order, he can immediately He summoned an army of [-], and quickly occupied the entire Jiangnan area, and ruled the river with Song Ting.

However, ruling the river is not Zhuo Ao's goal. What he wants to do this time is to overthrow Song Ting in one fell swoop and completely change the dynasty. Right now, Zhuo Ao still lacks an opportunity, an opportunity to be justified. Zhao Ji's help came.

Right now, the court is preparing for the war against Liao and taking back the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun. It is the best time to raise troops, but according to history, it will take at least a few decades, this is definitely not the result Zhuo Ao wants, so what he has to do now is to show his edge and make the court fear him, Coupled with the previous events, Zhao Ji was attracted to attack.

(End of this chapter)

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