A large group of elderly, weak, women and children walked out of the back formation, holding a large trumpet made of iron.

Gao Yigong and others looked at each other, not understanding what Li Xin was going to do.

At the top of the city, Han Wenjing and Yang Xianming also stared at the group of women and children. Yang Xianming guessed: "Is that Li Xin trying to drive away women and children, so that we can throw us into a rat and not dare to shoot arrows and fire? Haha, if he is so naive, he would be stupid!"

Han Wenjing's face was calm and she had a bad premonition. After all, there was no need for Li Xin to do such a thing as destroying his reputation.

The crowd was getting closer and closer, and the city was clearly visible. The elderly, weak, women and children did not have the anxiety and fear that they should have when they were driven away from the gun, but were all full of confidence.

"Then...that's my mother!"

"My father is here too!"

"Why did my wife run over?"

Among the salt dice at the top of the city, there were sharp-eyed people who recognized their relatives.

"Fire the gun, fire the gun!"

The Korean mirror changed and understood what Li Xin was going to do.

"No fire allowed!"

"That's my mother. If anyone dares to light the fire, I will fight him!"

The salt dicks were naturally unhappy and stood up one after another, holding on to the sword and gun, surrounding the official army.

"You...re you going to rebel?"

Han Wenjing shouted urgently.

At this time, a noise came from the city.

"San'er, San'er, this is yours. Do you see it? If you see it, you will surrender. Our family will be reunited and be sheltered by the commander. Isn't it better to work hard for that dog official?"

"Xiao Wu, the commander is kind-hearted, abolishes salt intake and treats salt households well. Think about what life we ​​have lived in the past few decades. If the Zhu family is not kind, why do you have to work hard for the Zhu family again?"

"The commander set up Lianghuai Salt Industry Corporation, and we have all become company employees. We pay a monthly salary bonus, about one to two taels of silver, and there is also a year-end bonus at the end of the year. Unfortunately, your father has been a stove owner for his whole life, so he has never touched the money several times!"

For a moment, there were voices calling children and daughters under the city. Many elderly people and women waved their hands and greeted each other frequently, and some children burst into tears, and there was a mess under Yangzhou city.

There was chaos in the city, and even Yan Ding began to shout loudly: "Mom, mom, Dahu listens to mom, and is willing to follow the commander..."

"Shameless, if anyone dares to scream, kill!"

Han Wenjing was anxious and afraid, so he hurriedly ordered to the left and right. Li Xin used this trick and accurately hit his life gate. You know, there were only a few thousand Yangzhou troops, but there were tens of thousands of salted men guarding the city. If they allowed them to develop, the entire army would definitely surrender without fighting.

But what made him stunned was that none of the government troops in the city dared to take action. After all, the government troops were not stupid. They had no intention of fighting against the Revolutionary Army. Even news from Huai'an came, which made them envious. No one dared to take the blame to kill Yanding, and even dared to shoot an arrow at the city or shoot a shot!

Seeing that the city was not afraid to open fire, the city screamed even more fiercely. Three women were equivalent to one hundred ducks, and thousands of women and children cried and cried. Han Wenjing and Yang Xianming showed fear, and their hands on the city were trembling.

He Hu seized the opportunity and rushed forward and shouted: "What are you hesitating about? Why don't you open the city gate quickly? The commander-in-chief has an order to catch Han Wenjing and Yang Xianming and reward 100 taels of silver!"

Although the hundred taels of silver were not much, countless pairs of unfriendly eyes looked over.

"You... let our family go, our family will give you ten thousand taels!"

Yang Xianming helped the battlements back, his nervous eyes almost glared out.

On the contrary, Han Wenjing knew that she would die, so she just sighed and closed her eyes.

"superior!"

A group of people rushed over.

...

"Kalala~~"

The Yangzhou city gate slowly opened, and the most prosperous city in the Jianghuai River opened its arms to the revolutionary army. The soldiers of the army were extremely excited, but generally maintained discipline. Some stayed outside the city, and some entered the city in batches and orderly manner. Obviously, they had already made sufficient preparations to enter the city.

Huimei couldn't help but praise: "It actually broke Yangzhou with one shot and one bullet. Although I don't have any good feelings for Commander Li, I still admire him very much. I used the relatives of the guardian army to shout under the city. I think this move can be mentioned to the King of Chuang."

Zhang Nai said nervously: "Huimei, public is public, private is private!"

Huimei said angrily: "Where do you want to go? I won't be a small person for others."

"oh?"

Huiying glanced at Li Xin with a wonderful look and said with great interest: "Didn't that mean that if Mr. Li is willing to marry you, you will marry him?"

Zhang Nai immediately felt a little impressed.

Huimei said dissatisfiedly: "What are you talking about? Mr. Li has already been engaged to Hong Niangzi. This is well known to everyone in the world. Even if he has any ideas, there is no room for regret."

The more Zhang Nai listened to this, the more uncomfortable he felt. On the other hand, if Li Xin had not engaged to Hong Niangzi, would Huimei leave with just one hook?

He felt that if you should pay close attention to Huimei, you must not let Huimei have the opportunity to get along with Li Xin alone, otherwise he would end up like Shuangxi. Li Xin was too capable of having sex with her, and his fiancée had to pay close attention.

Shuangxi was jealous when she heard Huiying mention Li Xin again and snorted: "These scholars are flirting with women and harming women, and none of them are good!"

Huiying's eyebrows flickered slightly. She felt that Shuangxi was obsessed with it, but she couldn't imagine it. She couldn't say that Shuangxi, I'll marry you, let's live a good life, right?

"Okay, okay, let's go to the city first, and you can say less for Shuangxi. Huiying may not be like you said, Huiying is?"

Gao Yigong waved his hand and glanced at Huiying.

Huiying knew that Gao Yigong was putting a trap on her, so she was very unhappy and simply lowered her head.

Suddenly, my heart was filled with joy!

The building density of Yangzhou City is far greater than outside the city. When you enter the city gate, curved alleys are crisscrossed and densely packed, giving people an instinctive and cramped feeling, which is very depressing. Li Xincun had the idea of ​​re-planning and building Yangzhou, but on the other hand, he had the intention of abolishing the canal transportation. If the canal transportation was abolished, would Yangzhou still be so prosperous?

In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, the first time we took sea transportation, transporting grain from Jiangnan to Tianjin along the coastline and then to the capital. With the shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty, there were no technical problems in transporting grain from sea, which not only saved the high cost of dredging canals, but also avoided hundreds of thousands of canal tails. From the perspective of efficiency, the efficiency of taking sea routes is far higher than that of canal transportation.

However, due to corruption and cutting corners on shipbuilding, the quality of sea ships became worse and worse. In the late Yongle period, three or four out of ten ships fell into the sea, which was even more outrageous. At the highest, it reached five or six. The grain had to be changed to the canal, which made Yangzhou and Huaian prosperous.

It is obvious that this prosperity is based on the high costs of managing canals, the high costs of transporting grain, and the huge management costs of the grain. Simply put, it is a policy-based and blood-sucking prosperity, not a natural prosperity of independent economic development. The consequence is that the blood-sucking effect on the surrounding areas is very serious.

The Qing Dynasty realized the problem and had imagined that the grain was abandoned and the sea more than once, but hundreds of thousands of grain workers formed a huge interest group, and no one dared to move. It was not until the Opium War that the British army blocked the canal that the Qing Dynasty felt a pain. Later, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War broke out and Yangzhou was destroyed. The grain was finally put on the agenda. By the Guangxu period, the grain transportation was abolished and the grain from Jiangnan was transported to Beijing by steamers.

Therefore, for Li Xin, taking advantage of the dynasty and generation, it is the most appropriate time to abolish the grain storage tank. Otherwise, if he hesitates, a huge grain transport interest group will be formed again, and even he has to consider the seriousness of the grain storage tank.

‘Well, let Yangzhou be abandoned in your own hands!’
Chapter completed!