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With the money, Zhou Shixiang calmed down for the time being, not afraid that Ge Wu and the others would clamor for washing the city again, and were thinking about the recruitment of young and strong men to join the army, so he took Duke Xiang of Song, a fake magistrate, to listen to the minor officials to report the statistics in the city.

The person in charge of the population was Lu Changyuan, a former scholar from Dong'an County. He was a scholar in Chongzhen for 14 years and was quite old among the clerks and clerks.

After Xu Anguo, the general of the Southern Ming Dynasty stationed in Luoding in the fifth year of Shunzhi, surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, because Dong'an and Nanming officials in the two counties of Xining were unwilling to surrender with each other, Xu Anguo sent troops to massacre the city, causing the two counties to suffer the lives of life. Among the residents, those who hung beams, those who threw the wells, those who jumped into the river, those who broke their limbs, those who broke their limbs, and those who were chopped and moved their hands and feet were still in disarray, and nine out of ten houses were empty, all of which were ruined.

Lu Changyuan visited friends in the prefecture city, so he survived the disaster. He witnessed the tragic situation in his hometown. He was shocked and frightened by the butcher's knife. He no longer had the debate between Chinese and foreigners. He took the lead in responding to the situation and was named a close confidant by Luo Ding's governor of the Qing Dynasty. From then on, he ran into the prefecture. Although he had no name for the lord, he had the reality of the lord. The lord was the lord and the second official, and he was in charge of the money and grain of a county, and his household registration.

The Luoding Prefect's Office was built in Luoding City. There was no Fukuo County in the city. There were many turmoils. The yamen changed hands many times, and all the official systems were incomplete. Now there was no chief official. Therefore, Lu Changyuan became the leader of a clerk with his qualification as a scholar in Chongzhen for 14 years. He still controlled the population and money and grain of the city. Everyone followed the leader of other horses. Whether the Ming army or the Qing army came, all major affairs were mainly handled by Lu Changyuan. He served as the provincial officials appointed by the Ming and Qing dynasties.

After leading a group of clerks to ask the new magistrate in the morning, Lu Changyuan obediently took people to arrange the matters needed by the new government. He was familiar with these matters. He had done them for at least three or four times in recent years, so he did not make any mistakes after doing them, and there was nothing wrong with it.

When leading people to investigate, Lu Changyuan and the officials found that there seemed to be no Ming army in the city, only a group of men holding swords and guns. When those men spoke, they were clearly bandits. Where was the Ming Dynasty King's Army?

Some minor officials discussed in private that if the bandits really asked the city to seize the city, should they send people to the Qing army in Deqing immediately? Some said that it would be better to join forces with the big families and send people to drive these bandits out together, and some said that they might as well go to Gaozhou to invite the real Ming army to accept it, so as not to let Luo Ding ask these bandits to harm him.

Lu Changyuan disdained the idea of ​​these people. Whether it is bandits or soldiers, the whereabouts of this city have become a fact. You guys want to resist? You really don’t care about your own weight. Can those comrades be the opponents of these knives? If these people are easy to fight, then Mr. Kong Qian would not die!

No matter who they came, they said they were Mingjun, so we just thought they were Mingjun. We should try our best to cooperate with whatever we wanted. We should not hit the smiling people. We are so sensible that we are so conscious. Could these people be so embarrassed to shout and kill.

As for the matter of going to Deqing to bring reinforcements, don’t mention it. Deqing is a hundred miles away, and it takes a few days to succeed? When Deqing’s soldiers arrive, these bandits will have already run away. Who will be caught?

As for the Ming army, we can't provoke it. If we really want to provoke the Ming army, how can the Qing army not fight? If we really want to kill it, we will have to slaughter the city to show off our force. At that time, we will die without being a relative or a friend of our family. We may not even be able to save our own heads. Is it a foolish thing to shoot ourselves in the foot?

If you want to survive, just be honest and obedient and don’t think about any ideas! This chaotic world cannot be done with a little brain!

Lu Changyuan set aside, and there were not many people below who really wanted to get along with the ones holding the knife. He immediately dispersed and went all out.

After everyone was exposed, Lu Changyuan called the client from his pharmacy and whispered to him. The client was stunned and left quietly.

When he heard the magistrate Song calling, Lu Changyuan hurriedly put down what he was doing and rushed to the prefecture yamen with a few main responsible persons.

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"Have you met Lord Song!"

Lu Changyuan and several people bowed to Duke Xiang of Song, but did not kneel down. Duke Xiang of Song did not care. These people were all scholars and had no need to kneel down. He was also a fake governor, so he was worried about what he did.

"Don't give me a gift, everyone."

After signaling everyone not to be polite, Duke Xiang of Song looked at Zhou Shixiang and then asked Lu Changyuan: "How many people are in the city, can they be counted?"

"Report to the Lord, the population in the city has been counted. Please read it." Lu Changyuan said, holding two yellow books and walking to Duke Xiang of Song. "The following is the yellow books from last year, so please read it together."

Huangcai is the household registration of the Ming Dynasty. It is based on household registration, and it records the village, name, age, Dingkou, land and house, and assets in detail. The Qing Dynasty's rule in Luoding was not stable, so the population of the Ming Dynasty Huangcai was still used in recent years.

Duke Xiang of Song took two yellow books, and looked at the above one by himself, but handed the following one to Zhou Shixiang.

After reading the counted number of people in the yellow book, Duke Xiang of Song was very surprised and said in a lost voice: "There are only more than 3,000 people left in the city?"

"More than three thousand people?"

Zhou Shixiang was also surprised when he heard this number. He hurriedly looked at the yellow book in his hand and asked Lu Changyuan with surprise: "It also says that there were more than 8,000 Dingkou in the city last year, why are there only more than 3,000 people left now?"

The Huangcai was the system of the Ming Dynasty, but the Dingkou was the system of the Qing Dynasty. The so-called Ding refers to a man aged 16 to 60, and the mouth was a woman. The rest did not count Dingkou. The government sent Dingkou to be entrusted, and the corvee service was based on the Dingkou contained in the book.

According to the 8,000 ding entries contained in the Yellow Book last year, there should be a total population of no less than 10,000 in Naluoding City, but now there are only more than 3,000 people, with a difference of more than three times, and it is only one year later. This cannot help but surprise Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong.

Lu Changyuan sighed and said, "Reply to the two great masters, Luoding has been in war for years, and many people died in wars. The land in the territory is mostly abandoned and no one is farmed. However, the army recruits follow the rules, so the people fled to other places in order to survive, and there are only so many people left in the city."

A small official next to him said, "If you talk about Ding's mouth, you're afraid it's less than two thousand."

Ding's mouth is less than two thousand?

Zhou Shixiang felt cold when he heard this. If this were the case, Luo Ding would have too little manpower, and he would be afraid that even five hundred young and strong people would not be able to recruit all the men in the city. In that way, the elderly, weak, women and children would not be able to survive.

“Where is the food?”
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