The performance of Duke Xiang of Song surprised Zhou Shixiang and looked at him with admiration. He really did not show his appearance, but he did not show his appearance.

It turned out that after Zhou Shixiang rode his horse to the West Gate, Duke Xiang of Song actually persuaded the people who wanted to leave the city not to leave the city, and also organized the young and strong among them to participate in the firefighting. In addition, the elders in the city came forward to maintain order, and designated the area around the East Gate for the homeless to settle temporarily. At the same time, he continued to promote the Ming Dynasty's army to enter the city, and would never disturb the people, and would not harm the people. Therefore, he calmed the hearts of the people in the East Gate area in a short period of time. If it weren't for the few people available under his command, he would be afraid that even the rascal scoundrels who took advantage of the situation would be able to deal with it.

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Although Zhao Sihai's narrative was a bit confusing and some parts were not clear, Zhou Shixiang had already roughly understood what Duke Xiang of Song had done. In the words of later generations, Duke Xiang of Song was working hard to carry out self-rescue after the disaster, and he was doing very well.

No wonder Boss Hu always said that Duke Xiang of Song had great talents. At first, he only thought that Boss Hu, a rough man who could not read a big word, flattered him out of respect for scholars. Unexpectedly, Duke Xiang of Song did have great talents. It seems that his Qing magistrate in those years did not do anything. At critical moments, such people who had done actual government affairs and had corresponding means to deal with emergencies were better than ten thousand soldiers with swords!

People should not behave like a person or underestimate them. "Slaves of the Three Surnames" have great talents!

Zhou Shixiang had already put away his contempt for Duke Xiang of Song in his heart and admired him very much. He asked Boss Hu for his life and took the two of them to help Duke Xiang of Song.

On the way, I kept seeing some young people with cloth strips tied with arms yelling:

"The Ming Dynasty King's Army enters the city and does not harm the people!"

"Don't be afraid of the people, everyone will save themselves!"

"The army entered the city without any offense!"

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The shouts of the young people had a great effect. As Zhou Shixiang saw along the way, most of the people who were panicked and fleeing were settled down. They were helping each other to put out the fire. If they really couldn't get rid of it, they tried their best to help the owner grab some valuable things and food.

After rushing to the east gate, he saw Duke Xiang of Song being surrounded by a group of people. Every time he said something, someone would leave. After a while, the people surrounding him had already scattered.

On the open space in front of the east gate, hundreds of elderly, weak women and children were sitting cross-legged on the ground. The children ran around the crowd, not scared by the night's shock at all. On the contrary, they cheered and cheered as if they were happy during the Chinese New Year.

There were more than a dozen iron pots on the other side of the cave in the city gate. A fat old man who seemed like a shopkeeper was directing a dozen men to unload bags of rice and noodles from several mule carts. More than a dozen women who had been waiting there quickly took it over, and then they were orderly cooking porridge or mixing noodles, so busy that they were too busy.

A piece of open space near the city wall was divided separately, and twenty or thirty young men were setting up tents there, and quilts and mats were piled up on the ground. Some of them could clearly see traces of fire, and it seemed that they were snatched out of the fire.

Dozens of wounded people were carried to the south of the elderly, weak, women and children, and relatives followed them to take care of them. Two doctors looked like medicine boxes and were simply treating them. Most of the wounded people were burned by fires, and their injuries were so serious that they could no longer be treated. All the two doctors could do was apply some healing ointment such as rat oil to those with mild burns.

Just in front of Zhou Shixiang, a man with severe burns blew, and his wife and children lay on him and cried loudly, causing the already stable crowd to stir up again.

Zhou Shixiang couldn't bear to look at him anymore. As the culprit, he was naturally uneasy and walked through the crowd to find Duke Xiang of Song. Along the way, there were more than a dozen young men with cloth strips tied with arms, holding wooden sticks, kitchen knives, or carrying poles, and their eyes were full of vigilance to scan back and forth on him. If it weren't for the fact that Zhou Shixiang and the other three had swords, and someone had seen Zhou Shixiang and knew that he was a Ming army, they would have come up to stop him.

Although the whole scene looked chaotic, it was in order. Except that the fear on the people's faces had not yet faded, it looked exactly like the disaster relief scene in later generations.

When he walked to a place that was only ten feet away from Duke Xiang of Song, Zhou Shixiang was about to call someone when he saw the fat old man who looked like a shopkeeper jogging over with a smile on his face, then bowed to Duke Xiang of Song, and said respectfully: "Mr. Song, Xiaomin has transported all the food in his home as you ordered. Now the guys have already put it in, but I don't know what sir?"

"With the shopkeeper Lao Lin, the shopkeeper is kind-hearted and I will definitely report to the court that the army will not make things difficult for the shopkeeper after entering the city. However, I have no other things to trouble the shopkeeper. I also ask the shopkeeper to take your friend to help put out the fire. This will make you more virtue to save the family." Duke Xiang of Song did not notice Zhou Shixiang's appearance, and he looked like a parent in a state, and his words were full of official voices.

Manager Lin said tactfully: "The common people dare not look forward to the rewards of the court, but you can ask the adults to save the lives of the common people's family. The adults are busy with their affairs, so the common people don't want to disturb them anymore, so they will take people to put out the fire. If the adults have something to ask the common people, they will send someone to say it directly."

"well."

Duke Xiang of Song gently slapped his beard and watched Manager Lin leave. After waiting for someone to leave, he found that Zhou Shixiang had arrived. He couldn't help but smile at him and said, "My fake magistrate called Brother Zhou laughing, but if this is not the case, these people will not be able to control them. Since ancient times, the people have been afraid of officials and respected officials. As long as they were the orders of officials, they would definitely obey. Therefore, I urgently obeyed the power, so I proclaimed myself to the governor of Luoding, so that I could properly resettle the victims first."

Zhou Shixiang bowed and said, "Mr. Song's actions are great, and the court will definitely give real teachers to the parents of the adults in the future."

"Maybe."

Duke Xiang of Song smiled. If the Yongli court could grant Hu Quan the General of Luo Ding, he would naturally be appointed as Luo Ding's governor. However, this will happen in the future, and it is hard to say whether Luo Ding can be preserved.

"Oh, by the way, you came just right. I heard from the brothers in the Four Seas that you killed the Tartars Qian Zong, and the rest of the Tartars surrendered because of this, but I don't know where this will lock them up?"

"Locked in the magistrate's yamen, Brother Hu personally took people to watch it. When the situation in the city settles, we will discuss how to deal with them."

"Okay, it's a big deal to put out the fire and resettle the people, so there's no hurry to get the prisoners." Speaking of this, Duke Xiang of Song looked at the city and said with a worried look: "I don't know how many people will die when this fire comes."

Zhou Shixiang didn't know how to comfort him, so he could only say: "It's already like this, I can only try my best to remedy it."

"Yes, try your best to remedy it."
Chapter completed!