Chapter 815

Fang Youpeng and others returned to the Yamen and convened many officials to discuss.

Now these officials are also afraid and panic stricken. When many people hear the news, they immediately order their families to clean up and flee back to the countryside.

Officials can't leave because it's their duty to defend the land. If they leave, they should escape. If they are caught by the imperial court, they will also be dead. However, they can arrange their families to escape first. At that time, they are alone and need only a fast horse.

All the officials are very worried because they all know that since the Chinese army raided and captured Chongqing, it is inevitable that they will send troops to attack Chengdu. The other army will certainly be unable to stick to Chengdu.

First of all, they wrote down an urgent war report. They rushed eight hundred miles to ask for help from the capital and the surrounding areas. In addition, they ordered that the city gate be closed today, and they were not allowed to enter or leave.

They had no way to discuss it, because the urban defense in the city was really empty in space. The main soldiers, as long as they could fight, were transferred to support Huguang. The rest were old, weak, sick and disabled. They could not maintain peace at ordinary times, let alone deal with the wolf like Chinese army.

In the face of such a strong enemy, they have no confidence at all, but after discussion, they still come up with a preliminary strategy. The preliminary strategy is to first raise money from the rich households in the city. At present, they are asked to donate a handful of silver anyway.

Secondly, we will charge the people in the city an additional apportionment, which is called the city guarding fee. It is tentatively determined how much money we will charge, because when the nest is dumped, there will be no eggs, and everyone will be finished. Compared with the destruction of the family, what is a little money?

Then he called on the strong men and heroes in the city to stick to the wall and stand firm for help.

These people have to go, whether they go or not. If they don't go, they are anti thieves. First copy their homes.

However, their tossing did not improve the situation, but became more chaotic. Seeing that the situation was bad and chaos was coming, these officers robbed and robbed money openly. After making a lot of money, they changed and changed to the Chinese army or fled. In short, they were in a panic.

Fang Youpeng saw people openly robbing in the street. There were officials on the street to maintain it. Even so, there were many things that he couldn't bear to say. There were countless such things. He went to the Yamen to complain every day. He didn't know how long the queue was. The city was in a mess.

Of course, it is these ordinary people who are in great chaos and fear. They can't go if they want to go. They can't leave their hometown. People are cheap and have no money. When they go to a foreign land, they are almost like dogs.

This is not a problem for these rich people. They can consider and go to a peaceful place.

It was a joke to them that the city gate was closed and no one was allowed in and out.

After a few days of tossing and turning, Fang Youpeng found a lot of silver, at least 200000 liang of silver from the city.

However, the 200000 taels of silver caused countless people to die and their wives and children to be separated, because even Fang Youpeng knew that the officials had adopted some very violent means in the process of collecting taxes, so that people could donate the money.

Moreover, the silver was handed over here. It was intercepted and killed by the officials, and I don't know how much. It can be said that the city let them make this round of apportionment, which is more chaotic.

Looking at 200000 liang of silver, Fang Youpeng and others were overjoyed. They believed that with so much silver, they could do great things. When they were rich, they didn't have so much silver.

Fang Youpeng coughed. He said, "so much silver can't be distributed at once. I suggest that you put 100000 Liang in the warehouse in case of need."

This is the rule. Everyone knows it and no one opposes it. As a result, half of the 200000 taels of silver raised was immediately intercepted. Lord Fang has his own arrangements for how to make proper arrangements.

As for Fang Youpeng and others who called on everyone to get up and go to the city wall to defend the city, few responded. Moreover, at the critical moment of life and death crisis, countless people, countless officers and soldiers, threw their weapons and secretly went home, making their manpower even more insufficient.

This is very normal. Who doesn't know that the Chinese army is very powerful. They are the division of tigers and wolves. They are not opponents at all. If they fight against each other, there is only a dead end. Fools will lose their lives for a job.

In this case, it is normal for them to escape. Not only these officers and soldiers abandoned the city, but also many officials did so. Liu Kang imagined that Chengdu would be nervous in preparation for war these days. They were completely worried. They just spent in chaos.

Fang Youpeng did not expect that the result would be like this. They thought what they did was positive measures. Who knows, the result is negative.

After their tossing, the officers and soldiers guarding the city reacted less. There were more than 4000 people, but now there are more than 3000 people left, and they are old, weak, sick and disabled who can't go.

Chengdu is a big city. It is possible to station 100000 troops. Usually, there are at least 15000 soldiers to guard, so they can barely control the scene. The main thing is that Sichuan governor Zhang Youwei sent a large army to support Huguang, resulting in an extreme shortage of manpower.

Although the government has posted a list of talents to recruit gold and silver treasures and positions to recruit heroes in the city to help defend the city, everyone's heart is like a mirror. Everyone knows that even if you take the money of the Ming army, it won't take long, and the official's prestige won't shake for long. That's because there's nothing left when the Chinese army comes.

Everyone knows that the Chinese army is like a wolf. If they don't come, they can defeat the Ming army and occupy Chengdu. This is basically a fait accompli.

As for the local heroes and foreign reinforcements mentioned by the chief envoy, there are any reinforcements in the Ming Dynasty that can fight the Chinese army, so the chief envoy Fang Peng issued a call, but no one came here to apply for enlistment, and the number of troops was even smaller. Such a situation made Fang Youpeng very desperate. He was dead, so he simply stopped dealing with political affairs, But in their own backyard, drinking and having fun every day.

Even the chief envoy, not to mention the officials under him, because everyone has heard that the Hua Xia army is coming and will take the initiative to surrender, which will not do you any harm. If you dare to resist, you will certainly cut off your head when the city is broken.

Although some local gentry and Weidao masters shouted and shouted to call on the people of Sichuan to rule Sichuan and the local people to protect the local, no one responded at all. These people were also smart. When they saw no response, they didn't dare to sing this tune, but started to shrink their heads.

This is a strange scene, that is, knowing that the Chinese army has conquered Chongqing and is ready to attack Chengdu at any time, it is in danger, but these officials are unmoved and do nothing constructive, but wait here.

In their words, when the imperial court sent envoys to preside over the overall situation and the imperial court sent reinforcements to support them, they alone could not defend Chengdu and protect Sichuan. Liu Kang did not expect such a situation.

He knew that the officials of the Ming army were very rubbish, mediocre and vegetarian, but it was surprising that they could rubbish to such an extent.

When Liu Kang was busy preparing for a strike against Chengdu, these officials spent their time searching for people's money, so that the local people were terrified and the people were boiling with resentment. With money in hand, they could not recruit troops, which put the whole city in an extremely dangerous situation.

The king of Shu also saw the problem. He knew the situation in front of him. It was extremely dangerous. If he didn't come out and shout, he wouldn't have it.

So the king of Shu summoned Fang Youpeng and other officials and said to them, "it's not difficult for the king to take out money and food and recruit troops, but the king must take charge of the overall situation."

Upon hearing the request of the king of Shu, Fang Youpeng's first reaction was that the king of Shu dared to encroach on military power. Could it be that he had an evil heart and wanted to rebel?

Since the emergence of Zhu Di, a successful rebel in the Ming Dynasty, the prevention of the vassal king was very strict. It was already very strict. In the Zhengde period, Zhu Chenhao, king of Ning, rebelled, which made the imperial court even more dead in this regard.

It can be said that when a vassal can act recklessly, bully men and women, and indulge in women's sex, you can toss about as much as you want, but if you dare to interfere with military power and touch the army, you will be dead. This is the bottom line of the royal family and the bottom line of the imperial court. No matter what you are doing, even if you hire the army to live for the emperor Lao Tzu, they will not spare you.

So when Zhu Zhishu mentioned this today, officials immediately thought of it. They thought it was not advisable. What they feared most was that the front foot refused the tiger and the back foot welcomed the wolf.

If Zhu Zhishu's mercenaries respect themselves or rebel here, they will inevitably be killed. If they are serious, they may be beheaded.

Zhu Zhishu's heart cooled when he saw everyone's general attitude. He thought that after more than ten years, the imperial court should change, because today's imperial court is not as strong as that day's imperial court. Half of the country has been lost and the whole world is about to be lost. He should give some power to these vassal kings in times of crisis and implement the role expected by Taizu.

Emperor Taizu asked them to be vassal kings, but he wanted them to guard the place and stand up when the family was in trouble, but the imperial court was more strict against them than anti thieves and did nothing?

Moreover, Zhu Zhishu can also think of one thing, that is, even if he takes out a lot of money and food, gives money and people, and defeats the enemy, he will not get any reward. Maybe he will be held accountable by the imperial court. The imperial court will certainly not be satisfied with why he has so many servants, why he has so much money and food, and why he has so much appeal, It is estimated that he can't get away without spending a sum of money to carry out activities in the imperial court. Zhu Zhishu is discouraged when he thinks of this place.