The city of Suizhou has not changed much compared to before it was occupied by the invaders. All businesses are blocked and the streets are peaceful. Except for the first two days after entering the city, the invaders implemented strict military control and curfew in the city and prohibited people from leaving the city without authorization. Suizhou soon

The peace of the past was restored, and the business of teahouses and restaurants was still booming.

Originally, in teahouses and restaurants in Suizhou, there were always some officers and soldiers who were accustomed to credit, eating and drinking for free. Now these bugs were wiped out by Li Laiheng. Most of those Zaoli who often extorted merchants for no reason were arrested or killed.

Therefore, it is not surprising that not only has the city not become depressed, but it has become more lively than before.

Bai Wang was walking on the roadside and saw the flags of the rebels hanging on the city walls and the soldiers of the rebels buying things with money in the teahouses and shops. He couldn't help but feel a sense of alienation from this world.

Although the Chuang Army also occupied Luoyang for a period of time, Li Zicheng was in a hurry at that time and had no intention of running the city of Luoyang. But now Li Laiheng seems to be taking root in Suizhou, opening a government and building a festival, and deeply cultivating and managing Suizhou.

The valley of the Hanbei Mountains formed a fundamental place for the Chuang army to establish a foothold in the future.

When Gao Yigong saw Bai Wang looking around, he smiled and explained: "In the past, the Chuang army was fighting in the east and west, so the soldiers were only given rations and occasionally a small living allowance. But now that we have entered the city,

We can't prohibit soldiers from interacting with people from the state, right? We adjusted the ratio of rations and living allowances so that the policy of equal purchase and equal sale can be implemented."

"look."

Gao Yigong stretched out his hand and pointed. A flag banner with an arch mark was hung on a shop in the distance, and the three characters "Kende Ji" were written on the plaque at the door.

"This Kendeji is now in charge of Xiao Weisong, one of Mr. Liu's disciples. He is a herbal medicine merchant from Linjiang Prefecture. He is very good at doing business and selling goods. In addition to establishing several Kendejis in Hankou and Jiujiang, the Chuang Army

In addition to using Deji shops to sell stolen goods, we have also confiscated the properties of some die-hard wealthy businessmen in the areas under our control and built several shops operated by ourselves, which can not only be used to distribute department stores and restore commerce, but also

Profits subsidize military supplies.”

"Is this Chieshuai's idea or Mr. Leshan's?"

"Hey, why didn't you guess it was me?" Gao Yigong chuckled and said, "It was all formulated by Laiheng. How many Taoist ideas does he have in his belly? I really don't know where he learned it! Leshan

A very knowledgeable scholar often cannot keep up with Laiheng's ideas."

The soldiers and horses of the Protagonist Army and the thousands of people from the old battalion who had moved to Suizhou were crowded in the streets, but the surrounding citizens just looked at the excitement with curiosity. They neither ran away or hid in fear, nor were they afraid.

They were lying on their knees on the ground, and even some brave and familiar people from the city started chatting with the soldiers of the invading army on the roadside.

Li Laiheng rode his horse slowly until he walked to the gate of the former state government office and the current Huguang Festival Commander's Mansion, and then got off his horse. Because You Ci... Oh, yes, and his uncle Qing, Li Changqing, were all left behind.

Henan, so Li Laiheng was not particularly satisfied with Laoying's arrival.

But at this time, when he saw Bai Jiuhe leading people to deliver boxes after boxes of silver, antiques, and treasures into the treasury of the Shuai Mansion, he felt much happier again.

"These things... well, I still need to let Jiahe take care of them. He is Mr. Liu's disciple. He has many connections in the counties and counties along the river. He must have a way to get all these goods out."

Jiahe is Xiao Weisong's cousin, and he is now considered the head of the commercial and trade department under Li Laiheng. However, because the system of the commander's office has not yet been perfected, Li Laiheng has not yet decided what specific official position to arrange for Xiao Weisong.

"Old Bai, you are new here, so you can go to the school grounds to watch a play. There are three plays being performed there at the same time today."

Li Laiheng pointed in the direction of the school field at the other end of Suizhou City and mentioned that a public trial would be held today to sort out the affairs of the Suizhou gentry.

Bai Wang then understood why the school grounds seemed crowded just from a distance. It turned out that Li Laiheng was scheduled to deal with the gentry today. The first thing the army did after occupying Suizhou was to kill all the civil and military officials and gentry giants in the city. The rooms were all under guard.

At first, they detained this group of people in their own homes and sent soldiers to guard them. However, due to the situation where many gentry colluded with the soldiers and servants tried to escape, Li Laiheng had no choice but to break up and gather them all into the prison cell of the commander's mansion. Hao Yaoqi sent a group of soldiers who were good at torture and took good care of them with sticks.

Li Laiheng initially only detained the gentry in their home. In fact, he also considered that he might be based in Huguang for a long time in the future, and did not intend to make too much of a fuss with the gentry group. It was just that these people got an advantage and behaved well, escaping torture. After the robbery, he actually hid in his own home to engage in conspiracy, colluded with the rebels, and plotted against evil.

Li Laiheng had no choice. He had to admit that at this stage, even if Chuangjun intended to outsell the gentry, it would be impossible to get the slightest recognition and support from the gentry class.

"Since you are so shameless, then I think the only way for people like this to keep their tail between their legs is to keep their tail between their legs."

"Old Bai, let's go and have a look together. The person presiding over the public trial today is Ai Zhuo. Although he is not from Northern Shaanxi, he is also a good man who hates evil and has dealt with many stubborn people."

Under the leadership of Li Laiheng, everyone went to the school grounds to visit the public trial. At this time, the area near the school grounds was crowded with people who had a blood feud with the squire. There were three floors inside and three floors outside. , the ground was littered with hairnets and hatbands that had been pushed and squeezed.

Behind the school grounds are the three operas that Li Laiheng mentioned. There are Huangmei singers and Bangzi opera singers. Not only the people of Suizhou gathered here to watch the opera, but there were even many soldiers from the rebel army sitting under the stage, which was very interesting. Listen to the play with interest.

In the center of the school ground, Chuang Jun built a wooden platform. There were about seventeen or eight people standing on the platform. All of them had their buns removed and their hair was disheveled. There was a wooden sign hanging around the neck of these people. There are all kinds of crimes written on it, some of which are corruption of officials and how much wealth the family has, and some of which are being unkind and seizing land during times of famine for the sake of wealth.

Most of the charges were justified. Those corrupt officials, after being taught a lesson by Hao Yaoqi, coughed up so much money and so rich that it is not an exaggeration to accuse him of being corrupt and perverting the law.

As for the remaining charges against the wealthy gentry, most of them were written on their own initiative by local people before the public trial or at the scene of the public trial.

Li Laiheng frowned slightly when he saw six or seven corpses lying under the high platform. He originally wanted to send Zhang Pili to call Ai Zhuo, but he remembered that Zhang Pili had been sent by him to occupy Yingshan County with Guo Junzhen.

, I had no choice but to go and find Azhuo myself.

"What's going on? Didn't I tell you before that the purpose of our public trial meeting is to try not to kill as many people as possible and not to arrest most of them? As long as there is no blood feud with the people of this state and there is no irrefutable evidence for the crime, didn't I say before?

Do you want to let it go as much as possible? Why did you kill six or seven more people today?"

The purpose of the public trial is to use the hands of the people to find out the real die-hard elements. But if it is not necessary, Li Laiheng has no plans to kill in Suizhou. After all, his foothold in Huguang is not yet stable, and he has made too many enemies.

Not necessary.

What's more, as Fang Yiren said, although the Chuang Army is running literacy classes, it is impossible for the Chuang Army alone to train a sufficient number of grassroots officials in a short period of time. It is very necessary to win over a group of literati who are down or want to get ahead.

The gentry came to cooperate.

Therefore, Li Laiheng has repeatedly emphasized that the purpose of the public trial meeting is to "try not to kill and arrest most of them." The focus is to capture the hardcore elements, rather than blindly expanding the scope of the attack and making enemies for the intruders. Let alone overstimulating the Huguang gentry.

Let them all be in danger, and all rush together to organize regiment training and armed forces with their own dry food to fight against the invaders.

Ai Zhuo was a newcomer who joined the army after Li Laiheng broke through Pingfeng Village. He was not very experienced, but he had served as a soldier in the army for many years and was very good at fighting with guns and sticks. He was promoted by Li Laiheng to be the leader of the red team.

However, he was not careful enough in his role as the red team leader, and his bravery outweighed his resourcefulness. Li Laiheng later simply transferred him to be a cavalry officer, and let Aizhuo's original subordinate take over the red team leader's post with a severe salary.
Chapter completed!