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Chapter 863: IOU

  Next, Zhao Hanzhang and Shi Le staged a scene where you run away, I chase you, and you can't escape. She chased people from the suburbs of Chengshi County, Puyang State all the way to the suburbs of Wu'an County, Guangping County.

   During this process, they played against each other many times, and Zhao Hanzhang always won a small victory.

  Even though Shi Le is confident that he will not be defeated by Zhao Hanzhang, and he is constantly joining the reinforcements of the Shi army, the successive defeats still make him restless and doubtful of the destiny.

  He is still like this, let alone the soldiers under him.

   Zhao Hanzhang was popular in Yuzhou and Yanzhou, but she did not expect to enter Sizhou, where Liu Yuan and Shi Le had ruled for several years, and the local people also welcomed her very much.

  Often as soon as Shi Le's army left, someone went to Zhao Hanzhang's team and took the initiative to inform her about the whereabouts of the army. There were even people who were particularly good at arithmetic and estimated their number and food and grass and surrendered to Zhao Hanzhang.

   This also caused Shi Le to cast doubt several times, but he still couldn't get rid of Zhao Hanzhang.

  There is only one way in this situation, and that is to avoid the inhabited cities and go all the way back to Anping Country in the wild.

   But he is short of food and grass, he needs to replenish food and grass while running.

  How to add it?

   Naturally, it is impossible to collect slowly, so looting is the best way.

   This is almost a vicious circle. He robbed the property of the local people, and the people turned to Zhao Hanzhang. From the gentry and gentry to the slaves and common people, they all became Zhao Hanzhang's eyeliner.

   But he couldn't give up, otherwise his soldiers would abandon him immediately. In the case of looting food and grass, he had to keep killing prisoners to intimidate his men so that they would not leave the army without permission.

   This is a slow poison.

  Shi Le saw it, Zhao Hanzhang understood it faster than him, so even if the battle line was stretched, Zhao Hanzhang's logistics could not keep up, and they began to lack food, she still restrained her men and did not allow them to plunder the people.

She gathered the team leaders together and said: "The people are water, and we are boats. Sizhou is also the land of our Jin Kingdom. After this battle, we will recover and rule again. If we hurt the people at this time, there will be trouble in the future." Infinity. Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. Looking at Shile's current predicament, we can see how important people's hearts are."

  All the team leaders naturally understood, but, "My lord, there are priorities. We can't let the soldiers fight with us hungry."

  Zhao Hanzhang said solemnly: "I will find a way. Your task is to restrain the soldiers under your command and not allow them to offend the people. This is a death order. If there is any violation, it will be dealt with by military law, no matter how superior or inferior."

  Everyone was stunned and bowed their heads in response.

   Zhao Hanzhang's solution is to borrow food everywhere with his own seal.

   Borrow from the local county government, and borrow from the local gentry and wealthy families.

  At the beginning, many people were not happy. Although she only brought a girl and a personal guard to the door, they still felt threatened under Zhao Hanzhang's stern gaze.

  The most powerful official in the state of Jin borrows grain, who dares not to lend her a single grain of rice?

  Everyone gave out food aggrieved, and got a IOU with Zhao Hanzhang's private seal.

  Although she said that with this IOU, she could go to Zhao Jiajun, or the yamen in Xiping, Chen County, and Luoyang to collect debts, but few people really dared to go.

   But there are always people who are more serious.

  A scholar who was borrowed in Gong County took the IOU to Zhao Jiajun's camp very seriously.

   Zhao Ming got the IOU, gritted his teeth, and asked someone to pay him back with money from his not-so-rich military treasury.

   After receiving the money, the scholars took the guards home. This is really known to the world once the money is paid back. News is faster than people and logistics.

  Besides, Zhao Ming and Ji Yuan deliberately pushed.

  Therefore, the news flew to the north faster than Zhao Hanzhang, who fought a battle from time to time and took a rest, even crossed Shi Le, and arrived at the place he was going to pass one step ahead of time.

  Therefore, the people in the enemy-occupied areas such as Sizhou and Bingzhou wanted to return even more. Even the Huns and Jie people had some expectations when they heard that Zhao Hanzhang was going to fight.

Although the emperor who ruled them now is the Huns, only the nobles of the Huns benefit from it. It was good to rule them, but affected by the general environment, their life became more miserable.

  Especially this year also suffered from drought.

  The drought in the northern part of Sizhou and Bingzhou is much more serious than that in Yanzhou and Yuzhou. It is already August, and the rice in the field, as well as the wheat and beans sown in spring, can be harvested one after another.

   But the land in the field was so dry that cracks appeared, and the crops growing on it were scattered, and they all drooped their heads, as if they were going to die in the next moment.

   Some places near the water are barely harvesting, and the fields far away from the river are basically no harvests, and even humans and animals have to start grabbing water.

Under such circumstances, they miss their days in Jin more and more. They heard that Zhao Hanzhang loves the people. Under her rule, regardless of race, no matter how superior or inferior, good is good, and slaves are slaves. You will not become a slave because of your caste.

   To be honest, few of the people at the bottom really pay attention to who the emperor is.

  Shi Jun passed by, and the people in the town, whether they were Han, Jie, Xiongnu, or other Hu people, all panicked and hid. When they were broken into and robbed of food, most of them did not dare to resist.

   Those who resisted were all killed by Shi Jun.

  As soon as they left, people began to search in the direction Shi Jun came from, and it didn't take long before they found another army.

   After confirming that the flag raised high was "Zhao", they stepped forward to inform.

  As soon as Zhao Hanzhang entered the city, the county magistrate and local gentry came to see him. First, he explained his difficulties. This year was drought, the harvest was not good, and the Shi army had only looted again, so they could not get much food and grass.

   Then offer food and grass.

  Zhao Hanzhang asked Fu Tinghan to count the grain and grass, and she took out a pen to write them an IOU.

  Received the IOU stamped by Zhao Hanzhang, the county magistrate and the gentry all smiled.

After knowing that this IOU is not an empty promise, as long as they are not really poor enough to eat, they want to exchange for a piece of food and grass. Even if Zhao Hanzhang can’t pay the money and food in the future, with this IOU, they can get other things. promise?

   There are even those who are far-sighted and adventurous. Even if they are too poor to eat, they still try to scrape together a sum of food and grass for Zhao Hanzhang in exchange for an IOU.

  Zhao Hanzhang gathered a sum of food and grass faster than Shi Le, and then the army was divided into two parts, one part was responsible for escorting the food and grass, and the other took three days of food and grass each, and rushed to chase Shi Le.

  The reason why they are so anxious is because she has already made the deployment a few days ago, and Tiao Zuti detoured to Guangping County. They decided to attack Shi Le in the north and south of Wu'an County.

  For this reason, Zhao Hanzhang ordered Zhao Ju, Xie Shi, Ji Ping, Wei You and others to divide up their forces and approach Shi Le in a fan shape, forcing him to choose to go to Wu'an County.

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