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September twenty-two.

morning.

The rebels held a public trial in front of the county government for the evil masters and servants of the Zhou and Zheng families.

Anyone in the county who owns more than 500 acres of land is designated as a large household, and the heads of the households are invited to watch the public trial.

For the rest of the people, one head of every ten households was invited to watch the public trial.

After a public trial, the head of the Zheng family, Zheng Chengda, and several of his brothers, nephews, and nephews were all sentenced to be beheaded for their many evil deeds.

The remaining dozens of Zheng family members, as well as hundreds of servants who had collaborated in committing evil acts, were all sentenced to hard labor.

The head of the Zhou family, Zhou Baoliang, and several of his brothers, nephews and nephews who had committed evil acts were rebelled and hanged. The rest of the Zhou family and some of their servants were also sentenced to hard labor.

Although this public trial was conducted in a hurry and did not fully mobilize the masses, it still shocked the other big households.

Later, when these large families learned that the Wu family and the Li family had offered three thousand shi of food to the rebels, they also took the initiative to donate food.

Those who were short of food gave silver, and really gave as much as they could.

For those who don't know, just looking at the enthusiasm of these large households in donating money and food, they will probably think that they are all die-hard supporters of the rebels.

That afternoon, the county government warehouse was filled with grain, and it had to be piled elsewhere in the county government.

After the sun goes down, no more big households send food.

An Jun and Wang Dalu also took the county government secretary to calculate the amount of money and food, and then compiled a book and presented it to Liu Sheng for reading.

"I would like to report to the leader that this time the big families in the city took the initiative to donate money and grain, and received a total of 33,000 shi of grain and 51,100 taels of silver.

Counting the food obtained in the previous two times, our rebel army obtained a total of 78,000 dan of food in Queshan County this time! Got 167,000 taels of silver! "

"Okay! Hahaha..."

Liu Sheng couldn't help laughing happily after getting so much money and food at once.

This much food is enough to feed 30,000 people for half a year!

After putting down the account book, Liu Sheng said with a smile: "The big families in the city support our rebels so much. Do you think I should write them a letter of thanks and then ask them to write a reply?"

An Jun and Wang Dalu were stunned for a moment after hearing this.

Immediately I realized that this thank you letter and reply letter were similar to the duplicate IOUs I issued after "borrowing" food from a large family.

Let these large households feel that they have something to hold in the hands of the rebels.

In this way, when the rebels come to attack Queshan County next time, these big households will not dare to resist vigorously.

Maybe they would silently cooperate with the rebels to seize the city.

Thinking of this, the two of them smiled and said, "The leader is wise!"

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September twenty-four.

The rebels began to organize refugees outside the county to move to Tianmu Mountain.

In the past three or four days, the rebels had given them three meals of millet porridge every day. As long as the refugees were not starving, they had basically recovered their ability to move.

In addition, Liu Sheng also organized the refugees to take three hot baths in the past three days.

The refugees were also asked to boil their clothes in water.

They also organized several doctors to take their apprentices out of the city to treat the refugees and check whether anyone was infected with the plague.

Fortunately, although there were many sick people among the refugees, they were not infected with the plague.

During the migration, the patients were unable to move, so Liu Sheng asked several people to help one person.

Liu Sheng's strategy was to let refugees with families go first.

Ten households are in one group, five groups are in one team, and five teams are organized into one large team.

The young men and women of each household need to carry between twenty and forty kilograms of grain.

There are more than 23,000 refugees joining the rebel army this time. Because they were eliminated after famine, most of them are young men and women, a small number are children, and only a very small number are old people.

Even excluding those single men and women, there are more than 15,000 young men and women with families.

Even if each person carries an average of thirty kilograms, these people can only carry more than two thousand stones of grain.

Therefore, Liu Sheng forcibly bought many mules, horses, cattle and donkeys, two-wheeled carts, and wheelbarrows from the city and surrounding villages to transport food.

In the end, Liu Sheng tried his best, but the vehicles, mules, horses, etc. he collected could only transport 10,000 shi of grain at a time.

Faced with this situation, Liu Sheng thought over and over again and could only make plans to occupy Queshan County for more than half a month, or even for a long time...

On the morning of September 24th.

After Liu Sheng returned from outside the city, he invited Cai Wending, the county magistrate, and Qian Yunsheng, the chief bookkeeper, to the county government office.

This time it’s a real please.

Therefore, Cai Wending and Qian Yunsheng were both a little surprised and confused when they arrived.

I don’t know why Liu Sheng became polite to them.

Shouldn't they be tried publicly like the Zhou family and Zheng family?

Thinking of the public trial scene they saw yesterday morning, the two of them started to tremble.

When he saw Liu Sheng, he immediately bowed and said, "Chief Liu."

Liu Sheng smiled, stretched out his hand and said, "You two are welcome, please sit down."

The two of them didn't dare to disobey, but they only dared to sit halfway down.

Liu Sheng took the good tea collected from the backyard of the Yamen and personally made a cup of tea for the two of them.

Cai Wending felt distressed when he saw the thief - this was the finest tea that he had spent a lot of money to buy, and it was specially used to receive distinguished guests, but the thief leader had ruined it like this.

Liu Sheng's method of making tea is too rough.

After serving tea in person, Liu Sheng sat down and said: "Before the public trial yesterday, I also asked two people to be investigated.

Fortunately, apart from corruption, dereliction of duty, and ignorance and incompetence, neither of them has done anything serious. "

Hearing this, Cai Wending and Qian Yunsheng's hands holding the teacups trembled a little.

I was secretly afraid in my heart.

Fortunately, they have some bottom lines as human beings.

Otherwise, I am afraid that my head will be in a different place at this moment.

Then Liu Sheng changed his words and said: "However, one of you is the county magistrate and the other is the chief secretary, but you allow more than 20,000 hungry people to gather outside the city. This is the greatest evil, right?

It should be noted that whether these hungry people eventually starve to death or riots invade the county, both of them will kill countless people! "

At the end of the sentence, Liu Sheng's voice was fierce and he even showed murderous intent.

Cai Wending and Qian Yunsheng were both startled and almost dropped the tea cups in their hands.

"Chief Liu, we are wronged!" Qian Yunsheng responded the fastest, "It's not that we don't want to solve the problem of hungry people, we are really powerless!"

Cai Wending belatedly followed: "That's right, that's right, it's because we are powerless, not because we don't fulfill our responsibilities."

Perhaps because he had been in charge for a long time, he subconsciously added, "Chief Liu, please understand us. Being an official is really not easy."

"Ask me to understand you?" Liu Sheng slapped the table and stood up, "Then who will understand the tens of thousands of hungry people outside the city?!"

boom.

There was a muffled sound.

But Cai Wending was so frightened that he couldn't sit still and slipped to the ground.

Qian Yunsheng was also sweating non-stop, for fear that Liu Sheng would ask someone to pull them out and behead them in public.

Liu Sheng sat back again.

He looked at the two of them and said: "If you can't solve the problem of the hungry people, then let me solve it. At the same time, I will also give you a chance to make meritorious deeds.

Starting today, I will move the hungry people outside the city to the south in batches, and at the same time, I will leave a battalion of soldiers and horses to garrison the county.