Chapter 847 Distribution
Changle Palace finally had no choice but to surrender.
What's there to resist? Do you have soldiers or food? Or if there are reinforcements from outside, they can come!
Nothing? If someone gives you a chance to surrender, why don't you seize it?
In this way, the gate of Changle Palace was opened, and Empress Dowager Dong took a group of Han relics and formally surrendered to the Taishan Army.
After the ministers in the palace were taken away according to different lists, Changle Palace was taken over by the Taishan Army, and some important war criminals would be detained here for interrogation.
From then on, it took Taishan's army three days to finally completely control Chang'an.
The Taishan Army's method of treating prisoners of war was generally through labor reform, which made these ministers suffer.
Some of them had to wash clothes for the army, and some had to carry corpses out of the city for burial. They had to go back and forth dozens of times every day, which was killing these people.
Many of them have looked for Duan Xuan's connections. After all, Duan Xuan can be considered a member of their circle. Now that you, Duan Xuan, have joined the Taishan Army, why don't you help us?
But unfortunately, Duan Xuan really had no choice. He himself was frightened even in the Taishan Army, how could he cause such trouble for himself.
Therefore, Duan Xuan could only tell these people that they would be patient for the time being and that it would be fine once the transformation was over.
In the end, these old people knew that this old man was unreliable, so they borrowed some rice from him.
After this chaos, the family wealth of these ministers was basically taken away in one pot. They were either robbed by Liangzhou soldiers or Hedong soldiers. The limited number was sealed after the Taishan army entered the city.
Now the imperial court has also left, and the Taishan Army has not mentioned using them, so that they don't even have a salary now.
Livelihood is hard.
Now that I have come here, I must make more money from Lao Duan, otherwise the family will starve to death.
In fact, these people were overly worried. After the Taishan Army completely took control of Chang'an, the order in the city began to improve visibly.
When any city is destroyed, there will always be people who take advantage of it, especially for a big city like Chang'an, where all three religions and nine schools are present.
Among them, the group of rangers who were supported by the ministers and big bosses became the main group of people causing chaos after the ministers behind them died or fled.
These rangers originally did dirty work for the ministers, and they knew the situation in Chang'an very well. In addition, they also had grievances between each other, so when the chaos came, they naturally had revenge and complaints.
After the Taishan Army entered the city, it was this group of people that they focused on attacking.
What happened to you local snake? What happened to your understanding of the terrain? Our Taishan Army just goes along the streets and clears them one by one. You can just run home. Anyone who is still on the streets will be arrested.
For those who stayed at home, the Taishan Army also began to screen people from house to house. If there was any doubt about their identity, they were brought to Changle Palace for questioning. If there was no doubt, household registration certificates were issued. Each household could go to each city to receive rations with the certificate.
Such relief measures by the Taishan Army immediately stabilized the people of Chang'an.
As the western capital of the Han Dynasty, Chang'an can be divided into internal and external areas.
The inner part is actually the inner part of Chang'an City, where there are palace areas such as Weiyang, Changle, Guigong, Beigong and Mingguang Palace, as well as the Gongqing's residences located in the north palace of Weiyang Palace, also called "Bei Que Jiadi".
These palaces and mansions occupy two-thirds of Chang'an's area, and then add in the government offices at all levels, the public and eastern cities, the arsenal, and Taicang, and the city is almost full.
Therefore, there is no place for ordinary people to stay in the inner city. Even if they want to enter the city, they need corresponding talismans.
Ordinary people such as Qian Shou, Tu Li, merchants, and students could only live outside the city.
In fact, the earliest residential area was also in the city. At that time, it was still in the north of the city and was divided into 160 villages by criss-crossing streets.
However, during the period of Emperor Wu, the palace was expanded on a large scale, and these villages were basically moved outside the city.
The outside of Chang'an City is not desolate. In fact, as a city in the world, the role of the city wall is more to separate space than to have a purely military role.
Large-scale sacrificial temples are located outside the city, and ritual buildings such as Piyong, Lingtai, Taiyi and Jiu Temple are located in the south of the city. In addition, a large number of civilians, Guizhou leaders, and students live outside the city, making the outside of the city a very prosperous living area.
But no matter how prosperous it is, it is still a dream under the sword.
Even the officials who had walls and troops to protect themselves within the city were not immune to having their homes ruined. The ordinary people outside the city who only had thatched grass and tile houses were in even greater difficulty.
Shangdeli is a civilian village in the southwest outside Chang'an City. Because it is in the southwest, it just avoids the passage of Hedong soldiers and Liangzhou soldiers entering the city, so it is also an area with relatively little damage among the surrounding villages.
There was chaos that day and dark clouds were pressing down. The people in Guizhou Province outside the city just felt that that day was a bit depressing.
But no one knew that their lives would fall into darkness at this moment. Their lives depended on their breathing, and life and death were unpredictable.
The chaos started when the city fell. At first, the people outside the city only saw the direction of Weiyang Palace in the distance, and saw the flames soaring into the sky, burning the sky red.
The people outside Chang'an City did not have much experience in chaos, because for hundreds of years, even the most ferocious Qiang people could only reach the Fufeng area, and were still far away from the foot of Chang'an.
Therefore, after not hearing the sound of soldiers for many years, the nerves of the people in Chang'an have obviously slowed down a lot.
Many people also joined in the fun with their heads raised, teasing each other about whether another unlucky guy accidentally burned down the palace.
But soon, chaos and panic began to spread outside the city.
Because the Liangzhou soldiers who looted were not stupid. They had finished looting, so what were they still doing here? So they also rushed out of the city, preparing to flee back to their hometown.
As a result, riots began outside the city, and the rebels were looting randomly. Anyway, they were in the mood to kill, so they just killed.
But the impact of the rebellion is limited. After all, these residential areas are so big, and the poor are really poor. Who would bother to rob them?
But panic will spread. These Chang'an people are not stupid, they know that there must be chaos in the city, and Chang'an is very dangerous now.
So, some people wanted to take their whole family to escape. They could go from Lantian to Nanyang and then to Jingzhou.
Then there are also those who want to abandon their wives and children and run away alone, feeling that one more person is a burden.
But most of them are unable to run even if they want to.
Most of the people in Guizhou are very poor, and they don't have big cars to carry their belongings. If you ask them to abandon their family property and flee to the south, they really can't let go of their determination.
This is also the case in all dynasties. It is clear that there is chaos, but why do some people stay at home instead of running for their lives?
In fact, everyone has the mentality of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, especially when you see others running away, why don't you want to run away? But if you think about it carefully, you will know that escaping is not easy.
In a normal family, not all of them are laborers. There is a seventy-year-old mother at the top, a baby to be fed at the bottom, women, children, and the elderly at home. You take this group of people to escape, and you encounter a bandit on the way. That is The door is closed and in trouble.
Then there is another reality. Since ancient times, a poor family and a wealthy family fled with their whole family. Where did the food come from? If you go to a post house, where will the money come from? From an ordinary humble home, escaping means begging all the way.
In addition, another thing is that if you want to run, you should have a place to run.
These Guizhou leaders have no relatives or close friends, so where can they live when they flee to foreign lands?
The above are all uncertainties of fleeing. No matter which one you encounter, it will not be worse than staying at home now.
Moreover, no matter how poor the family is, it has been purchased by generations of ancestors. Once they run away, all these things will be abandoned. Even if I can come back by then, I don’t know who will take over this house.
How do you let these ordinary people make the determination to escape?
It is better to die together than to live on duckweeds.
So, in those chaotic days, these people could only stay at home shivering and resign themselves to their fate.
This is the realistic choice ordinary people have in times of turmoil.
In fact, they have no choice but to accept their fate.
But fortunately, these people's lives were good, because it was the Taishan Army that finally occupied Chang'an.
The Taishan Army has set a benchmark both in terms of reputation and specific actions. After stabilizing the situation in the city, it immediately began to provide food to the people of Chang'an.
Most of this grain was collected from Taicang and the mansions of officials in the city, and is now used to maintain local stability.
However, due to long-term political opposition and some complicated emotions, the people of Chang'an still harbor hostility and suspicion towards the Taishan Army.
In fact, Taishan Army himself knows very well, that is, do not think that all poor brothers are your brothers. No matter how miserable the people of Chang'an are, they still think that they are the masters under the emperor's feet.
They were naturally in awe of the ministers, but they didn't like the Taishan Army who showed their morality.
But if you don't like it, you won't like it, and there aren't many people who deliberately create trouble for the Taishan Army.
On the contrary, many Guizhou leaders went to the nearby Taixue House to find someone to write.
They dug out a little-used yellow cloth from home and asked the students to write on the cloth for them:
"This is a good home, don't disturb Taishan's army."
I don’t know where this method came from, but everyone has started doing it anyway.
In fact, the actions of these Guizhou leaders hurt the hearts of the grassroots officials of the Taishan Army.
At first, when they were putting grain out, they saw yellow flags planted all over the city. They thought that their Taishan Army was really what the people wanted, so they were very happy.
But when they took a closer look at the words on the yellow cloth, they were so angry that they died.
These people would think that the Taishan Army would break into these people's homes and harass them. Isn't this slanderous?
And to put it bluntly, you people kneel like a grandson in front of the rebels, asking your grandfather to sue your grandma if you want to survive.
What, now that our Taishan Army is here, are you starting to get hard? Co-authoring is just bullying us, Taishan Army is a good person!
Damn, should good people be slandered like this?
So at that time, several Taishan military officials were so angry that they tore off the yellow cloth and began to curse the Chang'an people here. But not long after, Fa Cao's people came and took these officials away.
After that, the Taishan military officials who were responsible for distributing grain showed a lot of restraint, but they also began to ignore the Chang'an people in this area.
But this matter soon reached Yu Jin's ears. He was not like those consolation envoys who always made lies. He only told the military supplies responsible for distributing grains that they should be distributed according to the minimum standards in that area, as long as they did not starve to death.
On the contrary, as long as it is normal or simply hung with yellow cloth, it will still be distributed according to the standard.
Just after such a change, the southwest area began to understand, and soon the people below pulled off the yellow cloth themselves.
Everyone also understands in their hearts that they miss the great man, but it is absolutely impossible to eat less of the Taishan Army's millet.
And what do these people’s behavior look like to the grassroots officials?
That is, these people are just cheap.
This matter was just a minor disturbance, and Yu Jin was extremely busy during this period.
On the one hand, he wanted to strengthen public security in the city, and on the other hand, he also wanted to clean up the morale of the army.
Fortunately, the Western Expeditionary Army he led himself came from Kyoto, and his eyelids were no longer so shallow. But the thousands of Liangzhou soldiers under Duan Xuan were not easy to control.
These people did not dare to loot openly, but they gained a lot when clearing the rioters and streets.
The Taishan Army was disciplined and would usually turn it in when encountering such a situation, but the Liangzhou Army did not realize this.
But Yu Jin also knew that he could not directly ask Liangzhou soldiers to hand over things, otherwise it would lead to mutiny, and then the situation that was finally stable would have to be repeated.
But if he doesn't hand it over, then how can he lead the Taishan Army under him?
Again, no one doesn’t love money. Even if you don't love me, you can't ask your brothers to love you too, otherwise something will happen sooner or later.
Just when Yu Jin was in a dilemma, Duan Yan's military advisor Xijiu took the initiative to come over and offered a strategy, which was to hand over the troops in a unified manner and distribute them according to their strength.
What that person meant was to first establish a reward department to collect all the spoils captured and collected by the various armies. Then began to distribute according to the proportion of the eighth Taishan Army and the second Liangzhou Army.
Then each army will be allocated one by one according to the size of the army, striving to ensure that everyone has something.
Yu Jin thought about it and felt that this was a solution.
He was not worried that this would violate the Taishan Army's system, because before the expedition, in order to encourage the officials of the Western Expedition, the king promised that the imperial court would not take any money from the Western Expedition and would give it all to the officials.
But Yu Jin thought of another army, that is, Yang Mao's 20,000-person army. Although they failed to reach Chang'an, they could not live alone.
This time he has achieved great success. Yang Mao is the Privy Councilor. It will always look bad if he gets nothing.
Therefore, Yu Jin thought about it in his mind and decided to distribute it according to the proportion of five of his own troops, four of Yang Mao's troops, and one of Liangzhou's vassal troops.
In this way, the Liangzhou soldiers who were supposed to account for two parts were reduced by half.
But what can they say? Here you go, just take it, if you dare to ask for it, you can, first see if your life is strong or not.
Finally, Yu Jin informed the Liangzhou Army, and Duan Xuan did not have any unnecessary words, but kept thanking the Taishan Army for the reward.
Regarding Duan Xuan, Yu Jin was still very satisfied with his attitude.
Oh, by the way, his strategist named Jia Xu seems to be a smart man, and he can be used.