Quyang, Sifang Inn, the first time.

Huo Bao went downstairs with an empty teapot, and the girl and the friend were all downstairs, and was entertaining a guest who stayed in the lodge.

"Two hundred and fifty cents a room? Just this broken store, why don't you grab it?" Compared with Huo Bao and others who were polite, this person was like a villain.

The girl was not angry either and said with a good temper: "I don't have to pay a meal for one hundred dollars a room."

The man reluctantly took out a string of money and threw it on the counter: "Give it, I won't stay in the restaurant, this is a meal."

The girl reached out and picked it up, and smiled and said, "Chenghui is forty cents, but she is still ten cents away."

The customer rolled his eyes and snorted coldly: "What a big shop, do you care about these few cents?"

The guest's voice was loud, which caused passers-by to watch the fun, and many people stood at the door unknowingly.

The girl said happily: "Then give the guests ten cents of discount?"

"This is almost the same!" The guest then took his seat and urged him to eat.

The few people standing at the door looked weak and walked in and asked, "Sister, we only bought food but not?"

"Zhi, uncle, hurry up!" The girl responded happily.

It was also forty cents per person, and there were a few who didn’t have money to pay for credit. The girl didn’t bother with her and retreated to the back and let the guy deal with it.

"The store is small and profitable, so you don't have to pay any credit. If the customer is not well-off, go to the front of the Qianjie Yamen, and summon people to open the water ditches there, so that they can keep food and accommodation. Now the food is so precious, even if you have money, there is no place to buy it. Our boss is kind-hearted. Seeing that the inns and restaurants in the city are closed, everyone has no place to settle in the city, so they bite it..." The first sentence refers to the customer who wants to pay credit, but the second sentence is to the customer who has already taken the seat in the house.

The few who had no money left with their stomachs, and the girl and her friend went to the kitchen.

Huo Bao picked up the teapot and followed behind.

"Little brother!" The girl greeted her when she saw this.

Seeing that they should not be short of food for takeout food, Huo Bao said, "We have a lot of appetite. Can we discuss with you some more and add some food and pay for the food."

"We just have steamed buns and porridge, and there is no one around." said the girl.

"Just just steamed buns, and ten more steamed buns." Huo Bao took out two pieces of silver and handed them over.

The girl immediately answered: "This is one tael and two qian silver, and the discount is 1,200 yuan. Then, three meals a day, and ten steamed buns will be added to each meal?"

"Then the relationship is good, thank you." Huo Bao said.

The girl smiled and personally helped Huo Bao fill in tea.

Huo Bao went upstairs with tea. When he walked down the stairs, he was looking down at the table with a table of guests by the window.

One of the two was a "housekeeper" replaced by Hou Xiaoming, and the other was a fat man Zhu Er.

After Huo Bao went upstairs, the guy brought ten more steamed buns and a plate of dried radish.

After a while, there was another movement outside.

Someone opened the house opposite.

"Why do you open this room? The north room is very tide, and there is no one who is locked diagonally across the room?" Zhu Xiaoer's voice.

"That room was booked by the guest opposite. The three of them booked two adjacent rooms." The girl explained angrily.

"Then let it be." Zhu Xiaoer was reluctant at first, and then curiously said: "Who are you? Why are you here to greet someone? Why didn't you see Manager Deng?"

"My grandfather is out, I'll help me see the store." The girl said frankly.

As the sound of closing the door sounded, the footsteps became farther and the quiet outside the door returned to its original state.

After a while, someone tiptoed to push the door and it was Zhu Xiaoer.

"Quyang now has no county magistrate, nor a county magistrate, but only a county magistrate. But this county magistrate was not a county magistrate before, but the chief constable under the county magistrate. He was born as a son-in-law, and was named Deng Jian. When Baishan Army occupied Quyang last month, the county magistrate and the county magistrate ran away, and the county magistrate was killed. Deng Jian and his subordinates gathered the county troop and drove Baishan Army out again. From then on, he led the "county magistrate" and occupied Quyang."

"Not only do people who come to the city to collect taxes on entering the city, but they are allowed to enter and not leave; even the rules are strict for residents in the county. All adult males entered the barracks, and they asked people to copy the grain for each household, and they took the household registration booklet to receive rations every day."

"Many people in the county have no food, and they want to do so. They all say that Deng Jian is a living Bodhisattva."

"The rich family in the county hated Deng Jian to death. An old juren used to show off an airs and went to the yamen to scold Deng Jian for being 'illegal'. Deng Jian ignored him at the time and turned around and took the old juren's children and grandchildren to the barracks."

"The city gate tax started to be collected at the end of last month. The number of barracks cannot be found out, but the population in Quyang County was nearly 8,000 households."

Zhu Xiaoer said a lot in one breath.

Everyone was stunned when they heard it.

There are eight thousand households, at least 30,000 people. All adult males are included in the military list, which is ten thousand county soldiers.

"Isn't this a rebellion? What's the difference between the White-Shirted Army?" Huo Bao said in confusion.

"I didn't expect Qu Yang to be a tough guy. The third brother has only two thousand people..." Shui Jin was worried.

Huo Bao also wondered in his heart that this concentrated grain and rationing system had the prototype of "communism" in later generations.

That Deng Jian is a courageous person.

During the war, there are famines again. This strong expansion of troops and forced grain collection is indeed a way to protect the city.

If he hadn't done such a method, Quyang County would not have been stabilized.

But as the old juren accused, Deng Jian's "illegal" matter would not be recognized by the upper class and the gentry, which was a dead end.

"Go back and tell my third brother quickly, don't hit Quyang first, hit other places first, and then come back when people turn around." Shui Jin couldn't sit still and stood up and said.

"Don't be impatient, wait for news from the Great Sage." Huo Bao said.

This wait will be from the first update to the second half of the night.

Hou Xiaoming just touched the inn, his clothes were ragged, his face was black and dark, looking like a beggar.

"Twenty-three thousand people, all of them are young and strong... But they are in trouble. There are too many people and few foods, and the cooking will be cut off soon. The new camp only gives a bowl of porridge, not a few grains of rice!" Hou Xiao was obviously very hungry. After saying that, he picked up the steamed bun and swallowed it voraciously.

After eating three steamed buns in one breath, drinking most of the pot of tea "gudugudu" and then Hou Xiaoming recovered.

"When you are hungry, the newcomers complain and want to run out. The old man is not happy, and many people scold the county magistrate behind his back. There are many people, and there is a mess inside, and there is no serious exercise. Everyone stays inside because they are afraid of those guards with real swords and guns, and more for food in one bite. If the cooking is really broken, they will be blown up the camp!"

Hou Xiaoming just finished speaking here, and another scout came back.

"The county magistrate led his troops out of the city, hundreds of sergeants and more than twenty large chariots."

Huo Bao narrowed his eyes. Is he going to "seek food" outside the county?

The northern half of Quyang County was swept by the white-shirted army last month, and the village was almost empty; but the southern half of Quyang County was still not affected.

"Uncle Bao, this is an opportunity. Should we do something?" Huo Bao's eyes lit up and he whispered: "We have few people, and we can't make any trouble when entering the barracks. Otherwise, we will tie up his family first? When he comes back, he will threaten him to talk to us!"

Everyone looked at Huo Bao.

This method is not glorious, but it is easy to use.

Huo Bao did not answer immediately, but walked to the door, listened to the movement outside, and turned around.
Chapter completed!