Please like this book readers and friends can collect this book, thank you With the silver, Zhou Shixiang temporarily settled down, not afraid that Ge Wu and them would clamor to wash the city again, and he was worried about recruiting young people to join the army, so he pulled Song Xianggong, a fake Zhizhou, to listen to the statistics in the city reported by the officials.
The person in charge of the inventory is the former Dong'an County scholar Lu Changyuan, who is a talent in Chongzhen's fourteenth year, and his qualifications are quite old among the small officials in the secretary's office.
After Xu Anguo, the general soldier of the Southern Ming Dynasty stationed in Luoding in the fifth year of Shunzhi, surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, because the officials of the Southern Ming Dynasty in Dong'an and Xining counties were unwilling to surrender with him, Xu Anguo slaughtered the city, causing the two counties to suffer from it.
Among the inhabitants, those who were hanging beams, those who threw themselves into wells, those who threw themselves into rivers, those with bloody faces, those who had severed their limbs, those who had been cut down and whose hands and feet were still moving, their flesh and bones were in ruins, and their houses were ten rooms and nine empty, and they were all in ruins.
Lu Chang visited friends in the state city, so he had been spared, witnessing the tragic situation of his hometown, he was shocked, frightened by the butcher's knife, and there was no longer Huayi's argument in his heart, and he took the lead in responding to the rejection, and was cited as a cronie by Luo Dingzhizhou of the Qing Dynasty at the time.
The main person is the second official of the county, and he is in charge of the county's money, grain, and household registration.
Luoding Zhizhou Yamen was built in Luoding City, there is no attached county in the city, and for many years, the Yamen has changed hands repeatedly, the official system is not complete, and now there is no chief official, so Lu Changchang has become the head of a small official with his qualification of Chongzhen 14 years of Xiucai, and is still in charge of the population, money and food of the state city, and everyone is the only one who looks to him.
Regardless of whether the Ming army came or the Qing army came, the affairs of all sizes were mainly handled by Lu Changchang in consultation and negotiation, and the state officials appointed by the Ming and Qing dynasties also trusted him.
In the morning, after leading a group of clerks to ask the new Lord Zhizhou for his life, Lu Changchang obediently took people to Zhang Luo's new government to do the matters needed by the new government, and he was familiar with these matters, and he had done it three or four times in the past few years, so it was not raw at all, and there was nothing wrong with it.
When leading people to investigate, Lu Changchang and the officials found that there did not seem to be any Ming army in the city, only a group of men with knives and guns Some officials privately discussed, if it was really for the bandits to seize the city, should they quickly send someone to ask for help from the Deqing Qing army.
Some said that it was better to unite with the big families and send people out of each family to get these bandits out, and some said that they would simply go to Gaozhou and ask the real Ming army to receive them, so as not to let Luo Ding make these bandits harmful.
Lu Changchang is disdainful of these people's thoughts, whether it is bandits or soldiers, this city is now in the hands of others, just because you guys also want to resist, you really don't worry about your own weight, those guys can be the opponent of these men with knives If these people are easy to fight, then Kong Qian will not die It doesn't matter who it is, they say it's the Ming Army, let's treat them as the Ming Army, let's try to cooperate with whatever we want, reach out and don't hit the smiling people, we're all interested to this point, it's hard for these people to be embarrassed to shout and kill.
As for the matter of going to Deqing to move the rescue troops, don't mention it, that Deqing is a hundred and ten miles away, and it will not be a few days to wait for Deqing's soldiers to arrive, and these bandits have already run away, who will be arrested The Ming army, let alone provoke, this is really going to provoke the Ming army, if the Qing army can not fight this, it must really fight over, and it will have to slaughter the city in order to show off its force, and then it will not be his relatives and friends who will die, and he can't even keep his own head, can he do this stupid thing of moving stones and hitting his own feet If you want to live, just be honest and obedient, don't think about this troubled world with any ideas, it's not something that can be done with an active brain Lu Chang set the tone, and there were few people below who really wanted to get along with the knife, so they dispersed in a hurry and went their own way.
After everyone left, Lu Changyuan called the guy from his pharmacy over and whispered a few words to him, and the guy was stunned and left quietly.
Hearing that Lord Song of Zhizhou was calling, Lu Changchang hurriedly put down the matter at hand and rushed to the state government with several main responsible persons.
"I've seen Lord Song" Lu Changyuan led a few people to bow to Song Xianggong, but did not kneel.
Song Xianggong didn't care either, these people are all famous, there is no need to kneel to the official, he is a fake Zhizhou, what do you care about.
"Excuse me, everyone."
After signaling that everyone did not need to be polite, Song Xianggong glanced at Zhou Shixiang, and then asked Lu Changyuan: "How much is the current population in the city, but it can be counted."
"Back to my lordship, the population of the city has been counted, please take a look."
Lu Changchang said and walked in front of Song Xianggong with two yellow books, "The following is last year's yellow book, please also take a look at it." ” The Yellow Book is the household registration of the Ming Dynasty, which is based on the household, and contains in detail the township, name, age, dingkou, field house, and assets, and delineates the household registration according to the occupation.
The Manchu rule in Luoding was not stable, so the Ming Dynasty Yellow Book was still used to count the population in these years.
Song Xianggong took the two yellow books, looked at the top one by himself, but handed the bottom one to Zhou Shixiang.
After reading the number of people counted in the yellow book, Song Xianggong was very surprised, and lost his voice: "There are only more than 3,000 people left in the city" "More than 3,000 people" Zhou Shixiang was also taken aback when he heard this number, and hurriedly looked at the yellow book in his hand again, and asked Lu Changchang with a surprised face: "It also says that there were more than 8,000 people in the city last year, why are there more than 3,000 people left now?"
The Yellow Book was the system of the Ming Dynasty, but Dingkou was the system of the Qing Dynasty.
The so-called Ding refers to a man between the ages of 16 and 60, and the mouth is a woman, and the rest does not count Ding Kou.
According to the more than 8,000 Dingkou contained in the yellow book last year, there should be a total population of no less than 10,000 in Luoding City, but now there are only more than 3,000 people left, a difference of more than three times, or only one year apart, which cannot but surprise Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong.
Lu Changchang sighed and said: "Back to the words of the two adults, Luoding has been in war for many years, and many people have died in the war, and the fields in the territory are deserted and uncultivated, but the army is recruited according to the convention, so the people flee to other places in order to survive, and there are only so many people left in the city." ” A small official next to him said: "If you talk about Dingkou, I'm afraid there are less than two thousand." ” There are less than 2,000 of them Zhou Shixiang's heart was cold when he heard this, if this is the case, then Luo Ding's available manpower is too small, I am afraid that even five hundred young people will not be able to recruit all the men, and he will not be able to recruit all the men in the city, so the old and weak women and children will not be able to live.
"Where's the grain?"
"The state government has not had a chief official for several months, and there is no grain in the treasury at all.
When the Qing army was in the Qing army, all the apportionments were forced to do it, but the people were suffering, and there was no surplus food at home, and we were reluctant to deal with it. ”oshow7 t1706231537: