Chapter 474 (1/2)

Soon, the shouts of killing stopped, and Zhang jaw ordered the soldiers to clean the city, guard the four city gates, and guard all important places.

However, the people in the city were still afraid to go out. It was only in the afternoon that a few brave people opened their doors and walked into the street. They could see a group of five soldiers in the street. Their faces were serious and they were walking and patrolling on the street. It seemed that they were a little scared. However, it was totally different from the lazy yuan Shujun in the city.

”My Lord, who is under your command?” He ventured to ask.

The sergeant who was asked stopped, with a kind face and some pride: ”brother, we are the king's division of the court, and the leader is Zhang Annan, under the command of the general.”

The man looks surprised: ”originally is Wang Shi, disrespectful.”

”Nothing.” The sergeant replied, ”go back and preach more. Please don't be afraid of the people in the city. We, the king's division of the imperial court, only come to recover the lost land and will not disturb the people in the city.”

”Yes.” The sergeant suddenly thought of it and said with a smile, ”at noon today, my general opened a warehouse to release grain. All the residents in the city can come to get five buckets of grain.”

”Five doodles?”

The man was overjoyed: ”I will go back and tell them that I will come at noon.”

One stone of grain and grass is ten Dou, which is the ration of an ordinary adult man for a month. Five buckets are enough for the whole family to eat for several days. How can we be unhappy.

”Did you hear that? It was the Royal division of the imperial court that captured Kunyang, under the command of General Liu. ”

”Yes, these Sergeants are hard to get in touch with, but they don't offend us.”

”The leader is Zhang Annan, who is under the command of General Liu. It is said that he will open a warehouse to release grain at noon. Everyone will go to get it.”

At noon, in front of the granary, Kunyang city people immediately lined up a long line, heard that it was free food, so almost all the people in the city came.

”Old man, this is your food and grass. Five buckets, you should keep it well.”

”Thank you very much. Thank you very much.”

”Little lady, five buckets of grain and grass, take it back.”

The people who got the food and grass in the city were all very happy. Usually, these military masters came to search for the people. Where did they see the soldiers giving food and grass to the people instead?

”Thanks to Yuan Shu's great wealth and wealth, we would not have been distressed if we distributed food and grass.” He said with a smile.

”Yes.” FA Zheng was quite moved: ”Yuan Shu used to scrape the land three feet every day. He didn't know the truth of storing and enriching the people. He stored grain and grass in the Treasury, but today it happened to be taken by our army to be a good man.”

When Cao Cao and Liu Bei cooked wine and talked about the heroes of the world, Liu Bei once mentioned Yuan Shu, saying that ”Huainan Yuan Shu, the essence of the army and sufficient food”. The essence of the army is not necessarily. At most, it can be regarded as a large number of soldiers, but the food supply is real. If there is no huge grain and grass savings, how can Yuan Shu use nearly 100000 troops at any time?

Unlike Liu Ye's ”15 taxes and 1 tax”, most of the people under Yuan Shu's rule had three taxes, one tax, and even five taxes. The common people could not bear hardships, but this time it was cheaper for Fazheng and Zhang jaw.

After Zhang's wide distribution of grain and forage, all the people in the city were grateful. At this time, fajie struck while the iron was hot and issued a recruitment order: as long as the civilian husband delivered grain and grass for the king's division, the rations were provided by Nanyang army, and two stones of grain and grass were distributed every month to support their families.

If Zhang jaw and FA Zheng had just captured Kunyang city and immediately recruited soldiers, it was estimated that most of the people in the city would not agree. If Zhang jaw forced a strong man, it would be the same as Yuan Shu.