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Wen Shiyi came to Ruyang to take office with his wife and two children, but now they are all serving as hard labor in the rebel army.

The wives and daughters weave together with other female slave laborers in the city.

Wen Shiyi and his seventeen-year-old eldest son Wen Xianyue were often transferred outside the city with male slave laborers to do various dirty and tiring jobs.

Wen Xianyue did not bully men and dominate women. He was just lazy and unmotivated. He had been studying for more than ten years and had never even passed the county examination.

Now he is forced to work as a hard laborer with the literary master Yi, and he complains every day.

"I'm exhausted!"

While the supervisory employee was looking away, Wen Xianyue quickly stopped the shovel and took a rest.

The other three fellow slaves glared at him.

Because the work of the hard laborers is arranged according to the team.

If the work of a certain team is not completed on time and with high quality, the rations may be reduced by half, or the prison term may be increased.

On the contrary, if you complete the task to a high quality, you will not only be rewarded with food, but your sentence may even be reduced.

When the sentence is over, you are free!

Therefore, the supervision by officials and civilian warriors is only to prevent some hard laborers from escaping foolishly and to correct certain mistakes in construction. Supervising the work is secondary.

In order to have better food or even reduce their sentence, the vast majority of hard laborers are very active in working and want to complete their work faster and better.

Only with this written contract, he would be lazy at every turn, dragging down his colleagues and even those in the same team.

When Wen Shiyi saw this, he immediately scolded him, "Lazy again! Work quickly!"

"I won't do it!" Wen Xianyue said in a rogue manner, "It's all my fault that my father refused to join the rebel army for the sake of reputation! Otherwise, how could my mother and sister and I have suffered like this?!"

"What rebels? They are rebels!" Wen Shiyi said and became even more angry. He picked up a hoe and hit Wen Xianyue, "I will beat you to death, you unfaithful and unfilial son!"

Wen Xianyue ran around and shouted: "Killing people! Wenzhi County is going to kill people!"

This caused chaos at the construction site.

This was what Zhang Jian saw when he came over, and he was immediately furious.

After he had Wen Xianyu arrested, he threatened: "If your team fails to complete the task today, I will report it and put you in a dungeon and starve for a whole day! You will be sentenced to three more months!"

Wen Xianyu immediately became as honest as a sheep.

Zhang Jian frowned again and said to Master Wen: "Wenzhi County, you are also a famous person here, why do you still make a fool of yourself after being a hard laborer?"

Wen Shiyi really felt embarrassed and said: "I am unfilial and unfilial, and I have brought trouble to you."

Zhang Jian said harshly: "Don't say such useless things! If you can't complete today's mission, your team's dinner will be halved!"

After speaking, Zhang Jian waved his sleeves and left.

After get off work, on his way back to the city, he saw that many civilian camps outside the city were relocating their camps, so he became concerned.

In the next two days, he observed and made insinuations, but only found out that some civilian warriors had been transferred to the standing army.

It wasn't until the tenth day of the lunar month that two rebel armies of thousands of people left with clear banners that he realized that the rebels were probably up to something big.

Zhang Jian knew that with the confidentiality awareness of the senior officials of the Ministry of Health and the rebel army, it would be difficult for him as a superior to find out more information.

So the next day, the news was spread through a businessman that "tens of thousands of rebels have left Ruyang and are suspected of attacking the southern county"...

When Zhang Jian's information was sent to Kaifeng City, Governor Li Xianfeng was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

Last winter, there was very little snowfall in western Henan.

Li Zicheng marched in the winter, first defeating the Lu family, and then conquering Yongning, Yiyang, and Xin'an. During the Chinese New Year period, he captured more than ten passes around Luoyang, forming a siege of Luoyang!

At the same time, the folk song "Open the city gate to welcome King Chuang, but King Chuang will not accept food when he comes" was spread throughout Henan Prefecture, even reaching Kaifeng Prefecture.

During this period, countless hungry people and bandits took refuge after hearing the news, day and night!

It is said that Li Zicheng now has more than 200,000 people under his command, known as an army of 500,000!

Governor's Yamen.

In the side hall, Li Xianfeng was pacing back and forth, getting angry and having blisters at the corners of his mouth.

Several of his important guests gathered here.

Li Zan, who was in charge of the military counselor, comforted: "There is no need to worry about Futai. Luoyang has tens of thousands of soldiers stationed in Luoyang, led by Wang Yinchang, deputy general of the army, and Wang Shaoyu, deputy general of the army. There are also tens of thousands of local soldiers and local braves to assist in the defense. Luoyang City is also It is tall and strong and cannot be conquered by Li Chuang."

Li Xianfeng said: "Li Chuang now claims to have an army of 500,000, at least more than 200,000!"

Li Zan said disdainfully: "Most of them are just hungry people. Li Chuang's headquarters is estimated to have no more than 30,000 people."

In this case, it is actually a mystery how many troops Li Zicheng has available to fight.

Most likely Li Zicheng didn't know how many people he had under his command.

As for sending spies to find out the details of Li Zichen's headquarters, not to mention how dangerous and difficult it is, even if someone goes there, it will be difficult to find out clearly within half a month.

It is this kind of unknown that makes people in Luoyang City panic, and Li Xianfeng, the governor of Kaifeng, is also anxious.

"Luoyang has sent messengers several times to break out of the encirclement, sending messages asking our hospital to lead troops to rescue.

It is said that Li Chuang has been besieging the city for many days. If he cannot relieve the siege in time, even if Li Chuang does not attack the city, Luoyang will not be able to hold on.

Last year, King Chong of Runing was captured by the Liu thief, and this court finally suppressed the matter for the time being.

If Luoyang is breached by Li Chuang again, this court will definitely not be able to hide it.

If someone was interested in bringing up the story of King Chong’s capture during the introduction, I am afraid that the head of this court will not be saved!

The situation is so critical, how can you ask this court not to be anxious? ! "

Li Zan said: "If Futai is worried that Luoyang cannot be defended, he will naturally lead troops to relieve the siege. There is no need to exterminate Li Chuang. He only needs to disperse some of the rogue bandits to relieve Luoyang's difficulties."

The clerk in charge of money and food nearby heard this and quickly reminded: "Last winter, Futai raised 100,000 shi of food to help Liu Thief protect King Chong's life. Now it is difficult to raise much more food and grass for military needs."

Li Zan ignored this person and continued: "Fubiao now has more than 5,000 officers and soldiers. Futai will ask Chen Yongfu to send two battalions to recruit troops and gather more than 10,000 officers and soldiers, which will be enough to defeat the bandits and relieve the siege of Luoyang."

Li Xianfeng frowned and said: "Chen Yongfu only has four battalions of soldiers under his command, and they are responsible for guarding Kaifeng. I'm afraid it will be difficult to separate two battalions of soldiers for our hospital to take away."

As an internal province, Henan did not have a general military officer, but only several deputy generals, who guarded several prefectures and each had their own responsibilities.

Li Zan said: "Then we will only mobilize one battalion to recruit soldiers, and then recruit two battalions of rural soldiers."

"How to solve the lack of money and food?" Li Xianfeng asked again with a sad face.

"We can only apportion it to the big households and wealthy businessmen in the city."

When the meeting was here, someone outside suddenly said: "Counsellor Ge, there is urgent news from Ruyang!"

Ge Wenyou stood up, bowed hastily, and went out.

He soon returned with a letter.

"Ruyang spies have urgently reported that the Liu bandits have sent tens of thousands of troops to the south, and they seem to intend to attack other prefectures and counties in Runing."

After saying that, he handed over Zhang Jian’s letter.

Li Xianfeng looked at it hurriedly and said impatiently: "At this time, how can this court care about other prefectures and counties in Runing?