"This is what is claimed to be the accumulation of the whole city for ten years?"
Cui Ze, who was standing in front of the Taicang Office under the Sinong Temple, almost fainted: because the person in charge of the collection waited to open several warehouses in a row, he almost was not exposed to the stale smell of decay and mud. He fell on the spot, and then scrambled to hide his face and ran away.
We must know that Chang'an City, as the world's hub and main point, supplies millions of accounts all the year round, and gathers the essence of the world. Therefore, whether it was to provide the salaries for the civil and military officials, or to support the tens of thousands of generals and soldiers belonging to the Shence Army and its left and right battalions, the courts of the previous dynasties were based on the good or bad of the year, and they were pre-stored for several years and more than ten years. Cost.
Therefore, even if the Tang Dynasty’s financial budget was exhausted and the revenue sources were greatly reduced before, there are still millions of rice, wheat and rice beans left in the capital Taicang, Changping warehouse, and military supply warehouse. Now that is the case. How could he not be heartbroken by the appearance of mismanagement.
Later, the former Taicang Shuncheng who was retained by the thief army was also taken to Cui Ze, and he fell to his knees and cried loudly:
"The noble man's clear guide, the noble man's clear guide, small ones are also compelled..."
"Then do you know where the accumulation is going?"
Cui Zeqiang endured the anger in his heart and asked:
"It must be known to the nobles that since the thieves entered the city, the storage in the constant distribution warehouses has been sent to the Kanto, the north and the west for the cost of conquests!"
The Taicang Shucheng, who was five short in stature, hurriedly replied:
"Later, when Huang Ni, the leader of the thieves, recruited a large number of troops for military use, a large number of them were transferred and used for military use. During the period, there were also various departments and offices of the province and temples, generals of the guards, Jingzhaofu, and the states of Gyeonggi appointed by the thieves. Guarding, and even the name of the Ouchi Zhonggong, has successively allocated and used the stock in the warehouse... With so many outs and less ins, and accumulation of time, the warehouse is naturally getting poorer and vacant."
"Then do you know where all these grains go?"
Cui Ze frowned and asked:
"Back to the nobleman, the villain has also heard of it. It seems that it is sold and transported to the borders of the peaceful thieves in the south, in exchange for many extravagant items..."
The Taicang Department Cheng replied without hesitation: In fact, he was also one of the guards and theft.
"It's unreasonable, it's really a group of short-sighted thieves..."
Then, Cui Ze's face became darker.
"Please also give the villain a chance to take retribution and atonement. The villain knows where there is food in stock."
However, due to the desire to survive, Taicang Shucheng couldn't wait to shout out.
As a result, in the subsequent opening and closing points, among the hundreds of warehouses under the management of the North City Taicang Office, in addition to most of the warehouses that have been evacuated, they are in disrepair, collapse, and leaks that have caused inventory to deteriorate In the corner of the many broken warehouses, according to the instructions of the Taicang official, the old and edible old rice in several warehouses was discovered and cleared out.
In total, there are two or three hundred thousand stones of fineness, enough for these imperial soldiers in the city to eat for more than a year. But it was far from Cui Ze's initial expectations; what's more, if you want these officers and soldiers to fight and beg for thieves, is it as simple as eating your stomach
However, the so-called reason is that the East is not bright and the West is bright; then Cui Ze also received a new round of news and reports, and the results of digging and searching the Ouchi Palace library are still very few, those valuable and precious objects. Not a few things were found, only a few decorations on the beams and pillars and heavy and awkward large objects.
On the contrary, they have gained a lot in the process of checking the official residences of the false imperial thieves. All sorts of piles of gold, silver, silk, treasures and artifacts almost filled the interior of their house; some people even laid copper coins in the interlocking wall, but after being broken by the searched sergeant, almost half of the court room was flooded.
Then someone buried the whole altar, the whole urn with gold plates, silver cakes, and jewellery under the flowers and trees in the courtyard. Then, because of the difference between the old and new colors of the soil, the officers and soldiers used knives and guns to find them out. Some people use hundreds of brocades as walls and partitions and put them in the room, and then spread them to sleep under them.
Only then did Cui Ze react, and he was devoting himself to making ideas in the Gongku and Guancang. It was obvious that he had picked up sesame seeds and lost the watermelon. Nowadays, in the huge city of Chang'an, the most oily and rewarding place, isn't it in the first house of the thieves' chiefs who have not seen much market and seem extremely greedy.
Therefore, at the same time, General Jingo Zhang Zhifang occupies a vast mansion; in addition to holding swords, bows, guns and sticks with a solemn and awe-inspiring face, those family generals who are behind the gate and the wall are also impressive. There were many other people who came to seek refuge with the old and the young, all belonging to the old officials and eunuchs who had escaped from nearby towns.
As for those who did not get the news in time, or hesitate and are far away, naturally they don’t have to come again; naturally there will be officers and soldiers who will come to greet them cordially, and provide meticulous personal torture for the whole family. service.
As for the status, fame and power they once possessed, the family connections and prestige that they have gathered for generations to manage, here ultimately cannot change the result of being a mermaid under the heart of wealth.
Fortunately, the officers and soldiers on the street didn't have much time to call, but no one stopped and took the initiative to covet and spy. This place looked like an unusual mansion of Fuhua. This also allowed the hundreds of old officials and relatives who were temporarily evacuated to temporarily suppress their fears and begin to plead with them and begging for food.
And in the midst of the sound of children crying and women scolding. Zhang Zhifang, who couldn't hide his sadness, also sighed to his counselor:
"Am I really doing something wrong? I shouldn't have caused this..."
"This is the end of the matter, the proprietor shouldn't think about these things any more, is there still a possibility of slowing down on the thieves' army! What's more, there are so many people in the palace that you must guard against the walls and ears..."
The counselor said seriously:
"Didn’t the proprietor have done his best? The next thing is that the proprietor can no longer intervene and intervene; let alone the proprietor did his best to take over the mansion and come so many people?"
"When the court is completely restored in the future, it is not allowed that those people still need the proprietor to calm down and clean up the situation. At present, the proprietor and the kindness and origins formed by this are the time to come in great use..."
In another part of Chang'an City, in Anyifang where actors and advocates live together. Shao Yin of the Great Qi Jing Zhaofu and Meng Kai, the ambassador to the city of Zhumen, who were offered rewards by various officials and soldiers, were also in the burnt-out building behind a musical instrument store where they were hiding, anxiously awaiting news.
He really didn't expect that he would fall to this point; at least as a subordinate, it seemed that he belonged to the well-armed, strong and powerful patrol army, and he would behave so unbearably after the city was broken.
In other words, this sign of failure has already planted the root cause and hidden dangers from the beginning of the reorganization of the patrol army after entering the city; but there are still some flukes in his heart, and he always feels that since the great cause has been achieved, there is really no need to force too much And treat these bloody and sweaty old brothers harshly.
Even if they later bred some illegal and illegal activities, he still tried his best to save by reprimanding, fines, and demotion. He really couldn't stand it before he took "severe" punishments such as flogging and spine fighting, and he never gave up. Drive it out of the army.
After all, in his opinion, these old brothers were just blinded by the Huahua World in Chang'an, and accidentally went astray; even if they made big and small mistakes, the army still did not lack a place for them to live in and take care of their lives. local.
As a result, it was time for him to take his own fruit. When he got the news of the fall of Chengxi, Meng Kai wanted to call and gather people in Jingzhao's Mansion for the first time to fight the invading enemy, but found that besides the pro-military camp, he did not receive much response at all.
When he hurriedly led the team to the point of the nearest patrol army station, he found that it was already empty, and there were only a few bewildered servants, old and weak.
After hurriedly questioning, I learned that the lieutenant generals under the lieutenant and captain were unable to bear loneliness these days, and each slid back home in private to live a life, so even if the drum trumpets gathered, Their business couldn't catch up for a while.
However, it was even more unbearable in the next station Meng Kai rushed to. Although it was more lively and brightly lit than the previous camp, it was actually filled with women and vendors; and after seeing Meng Kai's banner, he screamed and fleeed all night as birds and beasts scrambled.
Therefore, in the end, Meng Kai’s rush down, he even grabbed and copied only three or four thousand usable soldiers; it was only when he took these hastily gathered men and horses in full clothes and rushed to the imperial city. Making an arrangement to meet, but ran into another team head-on.
I thought that this was also coming to support the friendly forces in Ouchi under the banner of the prison gate, and the united soldiers began to prepare to approach the enemy. But he did not prevent this "friendly army" from suddenly hacking and killing in the chaos. The army that had put Meng Kai's painstaking efforts to reorganize the army broke up.
And in this chaos that is difficult to distinguish between the enemy and ourselves, the performance of those "old brothers" is even more unbearable. Although Meng Kai tried his best to order everyone to move closer to his own banner, these old brothers turned a blind eye to each other, calling their friends and calling friends to escape from the battle one after another on the spot.
In the end, Meng Kai had to take the thousands of people he had gathered, and retreat back to the Jingzhao Mansion’s office to make plans; however, when he rushed to the door, he found that the office’s door had been closed tightly and was blocked by the internal rebels. died.
They went around a large circle in the backyard of Jingzhao Mansion. They found a back door for buying goods and broke into it. They regained control of the situation in Jingzhao Mansion’s office; it was just that the enemy troops had already followed. With the spreading flames, he slammed into the side street in front of Emperor Ouchi.
As a result, he had only time to set fire to Ji Zang in Jingzhao Mansion, and then rushed and fought violently all the way, and eventually was inevitably broken up by more and more enemy troops.
In the end, he was shot down on his mount. Relying on the water he raised on the edge of the river, he took off the burden of his armor and jumped into the big branch channel connecting the Yugou, and then he swam all the way and stopped for a while, using The blind corner of the sight of the officers on the side of the channel searched for, and fled to Anyifang.
And here, he could faintly hear the sound of seizures and fights in the south of the city, which continued day and night. This is his only way to survive now, but the biggest problem right now is how they cross the streets to set up cards and patrol teams.
While Meng Kai was thinking about it, he saw a few people dressed up as officers and soldiers coming towards the musical instrument shop that had already escaped. (End of this chapter)