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As soon as the words fell, Wang Gubo walked up with the key and opened the big lock hanging on the gate.
"Squeak!"
The gate of the treasury came slowly, and the light shone in at once.
"Move out all the silver in it for me. After you move it out, Mr. Wang, you lead these yamen servants to Li Tianhe and Zongbing Li, and ask him to distribute all the silver to the soldiers."
There are a total of 5 taels of silver in the treasury, and a total of 5000 taels of silver in arrears of military pay. These 5 taels of silver are completely sufficient.
But it is only enough to pay the arrears of military pay. If you add Anjiayin, life-saving silver, reward silver, and silver for young and strong, the 5 taels of silver is not enough.That's why Wu Zhen eagerly melted the silver he got from the gentry.
After Wu Zhen arranged everything, he walked towards the governor's office to deal with other matters.
It didn't take long for all the silver to be moved out.
Wang Gubo led dozens of yamen servants, took the silver and the steelyard used to weigh the silver, and headed towards where Li Tianhe was.
Li Tianhe took the silver to the place where official silver was melted and cast, and after leaving some guards behind him, he went up to the city wall of Taiyuan Mansion.
Taiyuan Mansion is an important town in Shanxi, and the height of the city walls is about the same as that of Shanxi towns and cities.
The [-] soldiers and [-] young men recruited have all been arranged on the city wall.
Preparations for rolling wood and stones for defending the city have also begun, but because the military salary has not been distributed, the morale of these soldiers defending the city is not high, and they are slow to work.
Although Li Tianhe was angry about this, there was nothing he could do.
Li Tianhe stood on the gate tower of the north city gate, looking at the demoralized and defenseless soldiers on the city wall, he was very worried.
When Li Tianhe was upset, Wang Gubo led a group of yamen servants and carried dozens of sealed wooden boxes up the city wall.
Wang Gubo took the yamen servant carrying the silver and stacked the boxes containing the silver on the city wall outside the city gate tower.
"Mr. Li, this is the military pay that the Governor has just transferred from the treasury to the soldiers. There are a total of 5 taels of silver. Now the Governor asks you to distribute all the money."
Wang Gubo came to Li Tianhe, pointed to the silver box behind him, and said to Li Tianhe.
Li Tianhe's eyes lit up, and he began to get excited, "The money is just in time. With this money, the morale of the soldiers defending the city can be improved a lot."
"I've already put the money here. I still have something to do, so I'll leave first." Wang Gubo clenched his fist at Li Tianhe and retreated.
Li Tianhe returned a salute and watched Wang Gubo leave.
When Wang Gubo disappeared completely, Li Tianhe shouted to the servants behind him: "Find me all the hundred households in the general and tell them that I want to pay the army now."
With the money, Li Tianhe's back also hardened.
"Order!"
The servants behind him clasped their fists at Li Tianhe and ran along the city wall.
In a few quarters of an hour, all the hundreds of households came in front of Li Tianhe.
When these hundreds of households heard that military pay would be paid, all eyes lit up, and they looked at the stacked boxes with wide smiles.
Li Tianhe didn't talk too much, he directly asked someone to remove the seal on the box, took out the roster, and began to distribute the military salary according to the roster.
"Wang Qing, there are 70 soldiers under his command, with a total military salary of 310 five taels!"
As soon as Li Tianhe's voice fell, a simple and honest man stood up with an excited face.
He made a bow to Li Tianhe, and said with a smile: "Thank you, Commander-in-Chief, thank you, Commander-in-Chief."
"Don't be in a hurry to thank me, go and get the military pay." Li Tianhe pointed to a servant next to the box who was weighing the silver with a steelyard, and said to Wang Qing.
Wang Qing nodded heavily, and stood beside the servant who was weighing the silver, waiting quietly.
After weighing the silver, Wang Qing took off his coat, wrapped the silver in his coat, and ran to the section of the city wall he was in charge of holding the silver.
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Chapter 394 Marching and Assaulting
After the military salary was paid, the defenders on the city wall suddenly became active.
Now they don't dawdle like before when they work, just like people who have been dry for a long time have drank ice water to quench their thirst, and they are full of energy from head to toe.
They kept running on the city wall, carrying the defense equipment up the city wall.
Among them are a large number of red cannons and Flang machine guns, as well as a huge number of firearms such as swarms of bees.
In terms of firepower configuration, the configuration of Taiyuan Mansion is not inferior to that of Shanxi Towns and Towns.
The sun gradually set to the west. After a whole day of hard work, the defensive equipment on the top of the city was finally arranged.
Li Tianhe led the servants under his command to patrol the city wall non-stop, checking the defense situation on the top of the city.
Looking at the setting sun setting on the western mountain, Li Tianhe felt much more at ease.
"The city walls also need to be strengthened. According to the news brought back by Chen Dehai, the commander-in-chief of Shanxi Town, the firearms used by the Zhao thieves are so powerful that we have to guard against them.
Send me an order, from now on, place sandbags on the city wall for me, and reinforce the back of the city wall, use all sandbags to thicken the city wall, the more sandbags the better.
And the gates of the city were all blocked with sandbags.Taiyuan Mansion is an important town in Shanxi, if Taiyuan Mansion is lost, the whole of Shanxi will fall. "
Li Tianhe stood on the city wall, shouting loudly at the guarding soldiers on the city wall.
The servant behind him also hurriedly passed on his order.
The night finally enveloped the world, but Taiyuan Mansion did not calm down.
The base of the city wall of Taiyuan Mansion was full of soldiers coming and going. According to Li Tianhe's order, these soldiers carried sandbags to the city gate, the city wall and the base of the city wall non-stop.
The governor, Wu Zhen, also released all the servants in the yamen, patrolling the city non-stop, so as not to be taken advantage of by some people with ulterior motives.
The entire Taiyuan City is like a huge factory, running non-stop.
At this time, Zhao Wen was sitting in the hall of the Yangqu County Government Office, looking at the officers in the hall, he said, "Tomorrow morning, march into Taiyuan Mansion.
After a day and two nights of recuperation in Yangqu County, it was time to take down Taiyuan Mansion.Now go down and make arrangements for tomorrow. "
"Obey!" Many generals in the hall clasped their fists at Zhao Wen, replied loudly, and walked outside.
Although Yangqu County is close to Taiyuan Mansion, the people there are not rich.
The land outside the city is basically the land of the Jin Wang family in Taiyuan Prefecture, and the rest is the land of the gentry in Yangqu County and Taiyuan Prefecture.
The people in Yangqu County are basically the tenants of King Jin and these gentry.
Throughout the year, I can't even eat enough.
If there is a famine year, after paying the rent, there is almost nothing left.
When Zhao Wen led troops into Yangqu County, there were refugees sitting slumped on both sides of the street everywhere in the city, with dull eyes and disheveled faces.
These refugees were all skinny, lying on both sides of the street waiting to die.
Even after Zhao Wen led the soldiers and horses into the county, they only gave Zhao Wen's army a faint look.
There was no reaction, as if Zhao Wen's entry into the city had nothing to do with them.
After seeing these refugees, Zhao Wen ordered to open the granary in the county town and release food to these refugees.
But at this time, Zhao Wen discovered that there was not a single grain in the granary.
After interrogating the small official who managed the granary, Zhao Wencai realized that there was no grain in the granary before.
The grain inside had already been emptied by the local county magistrate together with the gentry in the city, and now there is only an empty warehouse left.
At this time, Zhao Wen's heart instantly became angry, and he directly ordered the county magistrate who was hiding at home to be tied up.
But even if the county magistrate was killed, the food would not come back.
The refugees in the city seemed to be dying, and it would be impossible not to provide them with food in time.
Therefore, Zhao Wen allocated part of the military rations from the army and distributed them to these refugees.
At first, these refugees did not believe that Zhao Wen would distribute food to them.
They looked at the relief point set up by Zhao Wen, not only did they not go up to get the army food, but they also hid far away.
In their impression, as long as they are officials, there are almost no good things.
Civilian officials are hateful, and military officials are also hateful. The idiom used to describe these officials in this era is the idiom used to describe them.
Zhao Wen saw the deep-rooted fear in the eyes of these refugees, so he had no choice but to order his subordinates to distribute the military rations to the refugees one by one.
When the soldiers opened the heated cans and placed them in front of their eyes, no matter how frightened they were, they let go of their guard when faced with the temptation of delicious food.
For a whole day, half of Zhao Wenjun's rations were distributed.
Despite losing so much, Zhao Wen felt that everything was worth it.
When the people in the city saw Zhao Wen's soldiers and horses, they no longer dodged or were afraid.
When Zhao Wen was distributing the military rations, the evil gentry and bullies in the city also had their thoughts.
Looking at Zhao Wen's appearance, they thought Zhao Wen was easy to bully, so they dispatched their men, dressed up as refugees, and ran outside Zhao Wen's barracks to cry for food.
But Zhao Wen's soldiers are not fools. Which refugee has a red face and a strong physique?
These people were spotted by the soldiers in the barracks without even asking for a box of canned food, and they were driven out.
After the incident was revealed, they set their sights on the military rations distributed to the refugees.
All of a sudden, the city was full of bullies who robbed the refugees of military supplies and thugs sent by the evil gentry.
Seeing this, Zhao Wen directly threw out all the troops in his hands regardless of the impact.
As long as anyone dares to fight for the military rations in the hands of the refugees, once found, if anyone dares to resist, he will be executed immediately.
For a moment, the entire Yangqu County was filled with the wailing of bullies, evil gentry and thugs.
In just half a day, Zhao Wen wiped out all the bullies and thugs of the evil gentry in the city.
The evil gentry who survived closed the door of their house tightly, for fear of getting burned.
But Zhao Wen didn't intend to let them go. If it wasn't because he was going to attack Taiyuan Mansion now, Zhao Wen would definitely clean them up.
Although there is no time now, it does not mean that Zhao Wen has replayed them.
Zhao Wen was going to hand over the surviving evil gentry in the city to Liu Wu who was in the rear.
Zhao Wen's move caused a huge commotion among these refugees. For a while, they all recognized Zhao Wen as the savior who was sent by God to save them.
Zhao Wen's prestige among these refugees has reached an unattainable height. What court, what Ming Dynasty, were all abandoned by them at this moment.
……
Time passed slowly, the dawn broke through the sky, and a fish belly appeared in the eastern sky.
The sun is brewing under the horizon, and when it breaks out of the horizon, all the haze in the world will be dispelled.
Zhao Wen walked out of the Yamen, stepped on the horse Li Xiaosan handed over, and looked at Li Xiaosan, "Have the soldiers gathered?"
"Return to your lord, it was already assembled at the fifth watch."
The fifth watch is Yin time, which is from three o'clock to five o'clock.
Zhao Wen nodded, and controlled the horse to go slowly towards the barracks.
When the sun jumped out of the horizon, Zhao Wen led the army and began to march in the direction of Taiyuan Mansion.
At this moment, all the refugees in the city gathered on both sides of the road.
They looked at the army with only the sound of horseshoes and walking, but no voice, and their faces were full of gratitude.
If it wasn't for them, they would have starved to death long ago.
"Long live the General!"
I don't know who yelled first, and within a few breaths, the voices of the refugees shouting long live became louder and louder, rushing toward Zhao Wen like waves.
Zhao Wen rode on a horse and walked in the forefront, waving his hand at these common people.
At this time, the people don't care about taboos or taboos. In their opinion, whoever gives them food will live forever.
The gentry were soundly asleep when they were suddenly awakened by the shout.
They hid behind the gate of their house and looked outside.
Looking at the extremely excited crowd and the disciplined army, cold sweat kept pouring out of their bodies.
Before setting off, Zhao Wen left [-] soldiers in Yangqu County. These [-] soldiers were used to maintain local law and order and control Yangqu County.