Jiang Wang didn't know about other places, but at least in the Jiacheng city area, Deacon Qian's escape only spread in a small area after all, and the "work" of the Four Seas Merchant Alliance here is still continuing.
Mainly relying on the warehouses established in various places when we first settled in.
Outside Qingyang Town, the so-called "job" is nothing more than the person in charge of warehouses in various places. How to sell these materials at high prices without starving too many people to death. Even if the situation is weak, Yangguo officials are still
The bottom line is that the people must not starve to death.
All the money that could be taken away was taken away by Deacon Qian, leaving only a large amount of materials hoarded in various warehouses.
Ironically, the new city lord of Jiacheng was still hesitant to deal with the charter and did not immediately take over the supplies. After all, the other party was the Four Seas Merchant Alliance of Qi State. Like many officials of Yang State, he still had illusions about Qi State.
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After all, after being a dog for so many years, many times, he seems to have regarded himself as his master.
The new city lord of Jiacheng is named Shi Mingjing. He is over fifty years old and has been wasting his time for many years. The reason why he was able to get the position of city lord of Jiacheng is purely because of another connection.
He is actually the adopted son of the fourth concubine of the Rizhao County Sheriff!
I don’t know how I got there.
In short, he became the adopted son of Rizhao County Sheriff. With such a "relative" relationship, he was able to take up the post.
In today's chaotic Yang Kingdom senior management, no one cares about such a thing.
At least in Jiacheng, there is actually no shortage of supplies. At the beginning of the disaster relief, the Sihai Merchant Alliance used its strong mobilization capabilities to mobilize a large amount of supplies and store them in various places.
Didn’t you see that in Qingyang Town, the bald guard Chen Yong and his friends left, but the warehouse they left behind still supports the expenses of tens of thousands of townspeople.
On July 27, under the operation of Deacon Qian, resources were gradually mobilized to Qingyang Town.
On July 28th, the new Lord of Jiacheng City, as if he had just woken up from a dream, banned the circulation of materials from all parts of the city, and took over all materials in the name of the City Lord's Mansion for dispatch.
As for the people of the Four Seas Merchant Alliance, except for those who ran away, he captured most of them, tortured them severely, and asked for their property.
But it doesn't matter to Jiang Wang anymore. The material warehouse in Qingyang Town is already full. At least it's enough for the people of Qingyang Town to need it in March.
No matter what the commander-in-chief of the Qi army thinks, there is no way the war will be postponed until November.
By July 29, the news that Qi's army was trapped in the country's borders had spread widely.
In the official letter of credence, the intention expressed by Qi State is still to help Yang State block the mutated plague and maintain the security of the Eastern Region.
In addition to not allowing people to enter or exit, they seemed to have no battle plan at all. Of course, they also gave Yang Guo enough time to organize the army. The confidence reflected in this was particularly disappointing.
In fact, the people of Yang State knew very well that they no longer had a strong army with real combat effectiveness. Not to mention the last strong army that the previous king had destroyed.
In just these years, following the Qi army in sending troops, they continued to lose numbers and blood in successive wars. What they got back in the end was not soldiers who had been tempered for thousands of years, but only a large amount of financial rewards from the Qi State.
The Yang Kingdom seems to be getting richer and richer, its treasury is getting fuller and fuller, but its military strength is declining again and again.
This is a kind of weakening like boiling a frog in warm water. Unfortunately, it is only now that the army is locked down that many people have discovered this.
Yang Jiande knew it very well, but because he could see through it, he could not refuse. The only result of refusing would be to accelerate the process of the country's destruction.
So later he gradually handed over his power and devoted himself to practice. On the one hand, he had no hope in national affairs and put his hope in the extraordinary strength of individuals. On the other hand, it was not an escape.
Because the Yang Kingdom was so weak, after Yang Jiande killed the prince, he did not immediately summon the army to fight the Qi army. Instead, he begged for surrender and risked the face of the king in an attempt to deceive Chongxuan Chu Liang.
Arrive at Zhaoheng City, surround and kill them.
If Xiutu can be killed, it will undoubtedly greatly boost the morale of the entire Yang Kingdom. Yang Jiande himself can also buy a certain amount of time to move around. He may seek support, win over allies, or support the Qi people.
Creating conflicts internally... is the only way to break the situation under the current circumstances.
But Chu Liang, Chongxuan, ignored him at all and sat firmly in his command, unmoving. It seemed that he was no longer brave as before, but it made people feel even more desperate.
Let’s not talk about the big situation, let’s just talk about Rizhao County.
When people all over the Yang Kingdom were panicking, Song Guang, the aging governor of Rizhao County, made another "wonderful move".
He even forcibly requisitioned supplies from each city under his rule and required that the rations retained by each place should not exceed seven days' needs. All were handed over to the county government for unified deployment, and he strictly controlled the rations to stabilize the people in the county.
A huge amount of money was also collected in fixed amounts, said to be to support the army and protect the country. However, because it had not been through Yang Ting's relationship, there was no official name. It was only called "national salvation tax" in private.
This series of actions is no longer dazzling, it is simply blinding and deafening.
As far as the unified dispatch of rations is concerned, the difficulty of dispatching each city in the name of the city lord's palace is no longer at the same level as dispatching the entire county in the name of the county government. It is a complete waste of personnel and resources.
Song Guang is not stupid.
How could Song Guang be such a fool despite being the governor of a local county?
Although many of the decisions he made seemed silly during the period when the country of Yang was in turmoil.
But this kind of "foolishness" was relative to Yang Guo, but to him, it was a very wise decision.
If the Yang Kingdom can recover, he will be able to stabilize the situation.
If there is no tomorrow in Yangguo, he has even more control over the resources. To put it bluntly, he can sell it at a good price.
However, where Jiang Wang was, he felt less comfortable.
Because the collection document from Jiacheng City Lord's Palace has been sent to Qingyang Town.
Of course Jiang Wang ignored it and tore it into pieces on the spot.
He himself is not rich, and it is difficult to satisfy the desires of the old man, the governor of Rizhao County. As for the supplies hoarded in Qingyang Town, they are the lives of more than 30,000 people in the town, and it is impossible for him to let go.
But what he didn't expect even more was...
Just one day later, Shi Jing, the new city lord of Jiacheng, mobilized the city guards and sent troops to Qingyang Town!!
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Outside Qingyang Town, the army formed a formation.
The general has not yet drawn his sword, but his murderous intent has already filled the sky.
Jiacheng City Guards has reached its full strength of 10,000 people. The Xi family has completely withdrawn from Yang Kingdom. Some middle and high-level generals have left, but the army cannot take them away. Some talents have been lost, but the general structure remains.
No matter how much Shi Jing relied on nepotism to gain his position, he still knew the importance of military power, so the first thing he did when he took office was to take control of the army, and he actually achieved results.
After his adoptive father Song Guang gave the order, he was the most active among the city lords in each city.
However, the entire Jiacheng city area, as the area hardest hit by the plague, has experienced the evacuation of the Xi family and the harvest of the Four Seas Merchant Alliance. It is no longer rich, and there is no trace of oil left on the ground.
He led his troops to Qingyang Town. Firstly, he wanted to kill the monkeys to scare the chickens and establish the authority of the new city lord. Secondly, he got the exact news that the Qian Deacon of the Four Seas Merchant Alliance had made a lot of money and was hiding in Qingyang Town.
Of course he didn't know about Jiang Wang's murder of Xi Munan.
To be on the safe side, he brought a total of 5,000 city guards this time. All of them were elite.
Except for the garrisons necessary to maintain order in various parts of the city, almost all the troops were mobilized. Not to mention, he also invited two peak dragon level experts from the county government through personal connections to join the army.
All preparations are made just for one battle, nothing goes wrong!