Outside the South Main Gate, the sun had just risen in the early morning, and Xu Ping and Sang Yi came here to see what the city gate had become after bombarding all night last night.

Zhang Rong, who was guarding here, came over to greet him and said to Xu Ping: "Official, there was a night of bombardment last night, and there are already cracks in this door. It turns out that this door is wrapped in iron sheets, and there is an iron plate in the middle, sandwiched with good wood, no wonder it has been fought with a small cannon for so long, and it still doesn't rot! ”

Xu Ping nodded and asked, "How much gunpowder is there?" How long does it last? ”

"If you continue to use it up, you will run out by tonight, but it will be difficult to do."

Xu Ping said: "Since this is the case, then there is no need to be so intensive, only use two small cannons at a time, and the time is also extended, as long as the movement does not stop." ”

Zhang Rong knew that he had already gone back to get gunpowder, so he nodded and agreed.

Xu Ping looked at the head of the city and instructed Sang Yi: "You have to let the soldiers who are observing the head of the city watch over there, as long as there are soldiers from Jiaozhi who go to the head of the city, they will bombard them with small cannons!" Let these Jiaozhi people stay in the inner city honestly and listen carefully, and don't come out to watch if you have nothing to do! ”

Sang Yi agreed, and went to organize the siege manpower and arrangement. The new gunpowder will arrive tonight, Xu Ping has no patience to wait, as soon as the gunpowder arrives, it will be piled up in the doorway, and the entire city tower will be blown up with the urn city. Sang Yi wants to make arrangements in advance, and then take down the entire Shenglong Mansion in one fell swoop.

Leaving the south main gate of the inner city, Xu Ping took Tan Hu Shi Ran to the Yamen of Shenglong Mansion, which had been occupied.

The official hall of the yamen was already full of local figures, and when they saw Xu Ping coming in, they saluted one after another. Most of these people can speak Chinese, and only a few natives stumble and speak unpleasantly.

Xu Ping sat down on the main seat behind the case, looked at everyone, and said with a smile: "Since the army has entered the city. Today is the third day, and our army is full of miscellaneous affairs, and we have no time to ask about the affairs of the city. Today, I asked everyone to come to the yamen to ask, is there still peace in the city these days? Are there any soldiers who do not abide by the restraints and harass the shops and households? Scourge the neighborhood. If there is, everyone will tell me that they will be severely punished! ”

Everyone below, you look at me, I look at you, and there was silence for a while, before a rice market leader stood up and bowed his hand to Xu Ping: "Back to Shangguan's words, since the Song army entered the city, the military discipline was solemn, and the market was orderly. It's a blessing for us little people! It was business as usual for the past two days, and there were no disputes. ”

This line is also well-behaved, and Xu Ping likes to listen to it. In fact, 10,000 or 20,000 people came into the city, how could nothing happen? There are dozens of such things such as forcibly buying and selling things, sleeping with other people's wives and daughters in private houses at night, and even seeing a young woman's beauty on the street and robbing her whereabouts. But everyone is a person who has seen the world, and this is a small thing. There are a lot of such things near the Jiaozhi military camp in normal times, but if you talk to Xu Ping, it will seem that these Jiaozhi bigwigs are stingy.

Xu Ping nodded and said, "Listen to what you say." I'm relieved! Here in Thang Long Mansion, it is not a barbarian land, it has been a place of the imperial court for thousands of years. When officers and men enter the city, they naturally have to abide by their duties and must not disturb the people. ”

Xingtou saw Xu Ping talking while looking at himself with blank eyes. After thinking about it for a while, his heart was bright, and he hurriedly said: "The officers and soldiers have come from afar to work hard, and we merchants have scraped together some money to buy some pigs and sheep wine to reward the three armies." Please also ask for permission from Shangguan. ”

"Cash!" Xu Ping waved his hand, "Now that the inner city is not broken, the soldiers can't pull out, and it's not good to distract your minds, it's better to count all of them into silver money, and when the battle is over, go back and distribute it to the soldiers!" ”

Speaking of this, Xu Ping said to Tan Hu beside him: "Go to the army to find dozens of scholars, and follow this-" Speaking of this, Xu Ping remembered and turned around and asked the lineman: "Are you-"

The line arched his hand: "Little Hong Anping." ”

"Oh," Xu Ping nodded, "Let the bookkeeper follow this Hong Anping and put away all the money collected by the merchants, and remember to let them keep accounts." When we get back, we'll send it to the soldiers. ”

Hearing Xu Ping's words, everyone standing below had a bitter look on their faces, and they couldn't help complaining in their hearts that Hong Anping was talking too much, and he had nothing to mention about the army. Now Xu Ping climbed up the pole, and with a discount, it was not like getting some pig and sheep wine to make a fool of things.

Hong Anping's face was as usual, with Xu Ping's identity, this must have been thought about a long time ago, how could he be a scoundrel temporarily. But it's better to let everyone pay for it themselves than to let the GIs enter the door and grab it.

Think about it, 10,000 or 20,000 troops finally entered the city, how could they go back empty-handed? Xu Ping agreed, and neither did his soldiers.

The purpose of Xu Ping's visit today is to collect the first money from the hands of these wealthy shopkeepers, and to come forward in person, of course, politely, after finishing business, and inviting everyone to a wine feast.

This first money has been collected, and the amount will definitely not be satisfactory, and there will be a second one. At that time, someone was going to come out to pretend to be a villain, and Xu Ping would not come forward. He is a big member of the Song Dynasty, how can he do things that are out of style? If you want money, you have to be held by someone else and sent it over, begging you to accept it.

Xu Ping does not live in the yamen, where there are still middle and lower-level officials who have not had time to escape into the inner city of the former Jiaozhi Shenglong Mansion, and the soldiers are giving them color in the past few days, and there will be a place for them to be useful in the future.

Not far from the Yamen, leaning on the scenic spot of the West Lake, there is a quiet and elegant courtyard with flowers and trees. It was originally the house of a wealthy family, and when the Song army entered the city, the rich family dedicated the house to Xu Ping to live in and moved out by himself.

Of course, it is difficult to say whether this offering is true or false, anyway, Tan Hu took his own soldiers to talk to them, and Xu Ping didn't bother to worry about it. Hundreds of miles to Jiaozhi, he didn't have the consciousness of starving to death, not grabbing grain, freezing to death, not demolishing the house, before leaving, he still wanted to make up for this year's deficit for the sugar business, where did he have the heart to care about such a trivial matter. Even his own soldiers have secretly smoothed a lot of small objects in the house in the past few days.

Returning to his residence and having a cup of tea in the flower hall, Xu Ping pondered the current situation.

When the gunpowder arrives at night, the inner city will inevitably be breached by the Song army. This time, there was a lot of gunpowder, and if it couldn't be hit, it would be blown up all the way to Lifmar's palace to see who else could stop it.

Gunpowder is not omnipotent, Li Foma was unlucky to lose the ability to fight back, like a turtle with a turtle shell to resist, even the city wall gate was unable to defend, Xu Ping took the gunpowder and didn't want to blow it up.

When you take the inner city, you have to think about the evacuation and the aftermath.

The difficulty of withdrawing is how to squeeze the oil and water from Thang Long Mansion to the greatest extent, how to come and how to leave, the loss will be big, and Xu Ping is also dissatisfied with the emptying of Li Foma's palace, how can the wealth in this big city be squeezed again, and only when you go back can everyone feel that this battle is not in vain.

The aftermath is a headache, not only to get rid of the threat of Jiaozhi to the Great Song Dynasty, but also to retain the ability to deal with Zhancheng and Dali, and block the gun for the Great Song Dynasty. Especially important, you have to leave the back hand, and when Da Song is ready, he can easily swallow Jiaozhi in one bite, and the doorway in this must be well handled.

After drinking a cup of tea, when Xu Ping was closing his eyes and recuperating, Tan Hu came in to report: "Official, someone outside asks to see him, saying that there is something important to discuss with the official." ”

Xu Ping asked slowly, "What person?" Don't let the idlers in! ”

Tan Hu said with a smile: "This person claims to be named Li Mingxin, he is an internal servant in the Jiaozhi Palace, and he once went to Langzhou to be a prisoner, so he shouldn't be an idle person." (To be continued.) )