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Inside the ceremonial gate is the lobby, where the magistrate Shengtang tried cases.

On the east and west sides of the lobby are the Qianliang Depot and the Weaponry Depot.The money and grain depot is in charge of the county magistrate, which is equivalent to the financial office and archives; the weapons and grain depot is in charge of Dianshi, and there are torture instruments, weapons and their lists.

"The front is the gate of the house, and it is inconvenient to send it down." The official stopped walking.

Zhao Han cupped his hands and said, "Thank you."

The gate of the house is isolated from inside and outside, and there are guards at the gate. If you want to see the magistrate, you must notify the county. Generally, you will not be allowed to enter without money, commonly known as "walking the door".

Inside the house gate is Ertang, the real daily office of the magistrate. After passing through Ertang, you can reach the living house of the magistrate.

Zhao Han stopped and went all the way, keeping in mind the layout of the county government.

This thing is a standard, north-south traffic, remember one, remember all.

"Young Master, you're back," the maid smiled. "The medicine has just been delivered by the hospital, and I'm about to cook it."

Zhao Han hurriedly said, "I made my sister worry."

After a few conversations, the maid went to decoct the medicine.

Zhao Han came to the hospital bed and put his hand on the little sister's forehead. It was still a little hot, but the temperature had dropped.

I am afraid of repeating it again and again, ups and downs, which makes people worry.

Zhao Han got up and walked to the window, opened the window to see the scenery outside, but thought whether the night attack went well.

……

Under the heavy reward, there must be brave men, five hundred warriors will be recruited soon, and there will be dozens more.

Wang Yongshi temporarily organized these more than 500 strong men into twelve teams.

Another 24 people were selected to serve as Wuchang and Wudeputies respectively.They don't do flag command training either, they just march forward when they beat the drums, and retreat when they hear the gongs.

It doesn't matter if the battlefield goes wrong, their enemies are worse anyway.

After slaughtering pigs to make rice, filling their stomachs, and drinking a bowl of Zhuangxing wine, Wang Yongshi personally led the troops to set off.

As he went forward with a torch, Wang Yongshi said as he walked, "Brother Dazhao, are you still planning to continue the imperial examination?"

Fei Yinghuan held the hilt of the sword in one hand, held the torch high in the other, and sighed: "I won the exam when I was weak, and I have passed the examination for 20 years. It is impossible to give up halfway, right?"

"If you keep failing in the imperial examination, is it possible that you will have to take the exam for another 20 years?" Wang Yongshi persuaded, "Don't take the exam again, let the money go to the bureaucracy, and with the shade of your ancestor Fei, you can get it easily. to a county magistrate."

Fei Yinghuan muttered: "I am admitted to the Jinshi, not for myself, but for the entire Fei Clan."

Wang Yongshi stopped talking, feeling that Fei Yinghuan was pathetic.

The Fei Shi in the lead mountain reached its peak in the sixth, seventh and eighth generations, with an average of two jinshi per generation, and there were countless jubilees and scholars.

The uncle and nephew were ranked first in a row, and the father and son were also the five chiefs, and the brothers were the same as the cabinet.

What a sight!

But from the ninth generation onwards, the Fei clan in the lead mountain began to decline, and not even a jinshi came out.

The tenth generation was even worse. They were all talented people. Fei Yinghuan was the only one.

He is the hope of the whole clan. The Fei clan's chief clan, as well as the Henglin Fei clan, Hekou Fei clan, Lieqiao Fei clan, Ehu Fei clan... all count on him to honor the clan, how could Fei Yinghuan not continue the test go down?

Fei Yinghuan said: "Xiu mentions these things, killing thieves heartily today is also considered a meritorious service in the battlefield."

Wang Yongshi shook his head and sighed: "What kind of merit is this? It's just a group of starving people who are desperate. Brother Dazhao is fighting tonight, but my brother is fighting in the future. It is my battlefield to benefit one side. It takes a lot of effort to recover a little bit of anger."

Fei Yinghuan comforted: "You settle down with the people, I'll study, let's encourage you."

"Da da da da!"

In the dark, a horse came running.

Wei Jianxiong turned and dismounted: "Xianzun, son, put out the torch."

Wang Yongshi asked, "How is the enemy's situation?"

Wei Jianxiong sneered: "The thief's head is on the sky, and he can't fight at all. Not to mention sending out sentries, he didn't even set up the camp. The thieves were scattered in the houses in the town, and only a few people were thrown out of the town to watch the night."

Wang Yongshi was instantly relieved that the battle was bound to be won, and he immediately ordered: "All torches are extinguished, grab the belt of your partner before and after, and march in silence with chopsticks in your mouth!"

More than 500 warriors gradually approached Duliu Town.

Fei Yinghuan and Wei Jianxiong, master and servant, led more than 200 people in an ambush in the south of Zhennan to wait for orders.

Wang Yongshi personally led more than 200 people and went around to the east of Zhendong to prepare for a surprise attack.

To the west of the town is the canal.

Zhenbei was left to the rioters to flee.

Wang Yongshi quietly went around the east side of the town, took a break to prepare, and said to Chen Dianshi, who was carrying a big drum, "You come and play the drum!"

"Follow your orders!" Chen Dianshi was quite apprehensive, but also a little excited.

Wang Yongshi said again: "Go on and light the torch!"

"Dong dong dong dong!"

"Kill, pacify the bandits!"

In the silent night, the dull drums sounded, and torches were lit, accompanied by fierce shouts of killing.

Towards the south of the town, Fei Yinghuan immediately led the crowd to respond.

Hundreds of temporarily recruited warriors planted more than 3000 torches on the ground, waved them and shouted loudly, instantly creating the illusion of thousands of troops.

Chapter 011 [Thief Defeated]

Breakthrough doesn't spend the night in town!

It's not how alert this fellow is, but about three miles east of the town, there is a big house built by local tyrants.Not only is it luxurious and rich, but also the courtyard walls are towering, which can not only enjoy comfort but also protect your own safety.

The strongest 200-odd rebels were selected by Ta Po Tian as personal guards and lived with him in a mansion outside the town.

The sweet wife and concubine in the house was divided among several rebel leaders.

The maids and maids are distributed to those personal guard commanders.

Even the healthy women who were washed and swept, as well as the women captured in the town, were given [-] personal soldiers, and after they were full, they released their desires.

Tapotian was sleeping soundly at the moment, with a naked young woman lying beside him.

The young woman was obviously devastated, and when Ta Potian fell asleep, she quietly got up in the dark.She took out a pair of scissors from the cabinet, tears ran down her cheeks, and she walked towards Tapotian step by step.

"boom!"

In the dark, the young woman stumbled on a stool.

Ta Potian woke up suddenly and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"Bad thief, even if I'm a ghost, I won't let you go!" The young woman knew that she had no hope of revenge, so she held the scissors back and stabbed her in the chest fiercely.

Ta Potian hurriedly lit the fuel lamp, looked at the young woman bleeding from her chest, and said in despair: "You... don't you want to be a queen? I really want to marry you, I don't care if you are married. What is your death? You are dead. What is it? Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...

This thief actually cried in a low voice, just because the young woman was the sweetheart he had been secretly in love with for many years.

Tapotian's hometown is in Duliu Town.

He used to be a smuggler of salt, and of the lowest kind.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were several ways to sell private salt:

One is for officials and private individuals, officials and their families are entrained and transported; the other is for military and private parties, and the army participates in the sale of private salt; the third is for business and private use, and more than [-] kilograms of salt is sold for private use; Wei Xiaoyi, also known as Yan Xiao, gathers thugs to engage in large-scale private salt sales.

As for stepping on the sky, it can only be called a salt stick.

Gathering three or five young men and women to sell soil and salt across towns and towns, the nature is similar to a businessman who makes hard money.

Soil salt, which is divided into alkali salt and nitrate, is made by scraping the nitrite-alkali soil.The taste is bitter and poisonous, and only the poorest people will buy it.

Even in the sale of soil salt, this meager profit is also targeted by the inspection department.

Two of Tapotian's partners were arrested, and he took the remaining two brothers and fled to Tianjin South Pier to survive.They could have worked hard to survive, but then they encountered several months of drought, the canal was shallow and sailing was cut off, and the coolie work at the wharf was also lost.

Then rebel, go back to your hometown, and grab your sweetheart—the granddaughter-in-law of Hu Yuanwai in this town.

With tears streaming down her face, Ta Potian sat beside the young woman's body, suppressing her voice and crying.

"Dong dong dong dong!"

"Kill!"

The sound of drumming and shouting of killing suddenly came, and Ta Potian stood up in a panic, shouting while putting on his clothes, "But the official army is here?"

……

Wang Yongshi tied the hem of his clothes to his waist, rolled up his sleeves and charged with his sword: "My sons, protect Sangzi, just at this moment, kill with me!"

These warriors each received [-] taels of silver to settle down before they set off, and [-] taels of silver as rewards after the war.And Wang Yongshi promised that they would be exempted from corvée for the next three years, and the money would be directly wiped off in a whip tax.

Five taels of silver, three years of exemption from military service, enough for people to risk their lives.

The warriors are all strong and strong, not those with night blindness.

Too bad they won't be fighting.

During the charge, the line was completely chaotic, the corps chief could not find his subordinates, and even the corps chief could not figure out where the corps chief was.And I don't know how to save my stamina, so I ran at full speed from far away, and when I rushed to the town, I was exhausted and out of breath.

mob.

Again, the peasant army is worse!

The rioters scattered in the town were awakened by the sound of drums and shouts, and hurriedly dressed and went out to check.Seeing countless torches outside the town, he was so frightened that he immediately turned around and ran away, not forgetting to take the looted food with him.

No weapons, only money and food, completely forgetting that he is a rebel peasant army.

Many rioters also had night blindness.

"Kill it!"

The more than 500 warriors were originally afraid of death, but when they saw this situation, they suddenly lost their fear. They turned into peerless warriors one by one, often daring to chase and kill dozens of people.

Xiang Yong chased and lost the establishment, the rioters escaped and lost the establishment, and the night attack turned into a confused and chaotic battle.

Zhang Fen and Song Chunming, the directors of the two township police stations, no longer looked embarrassed in the daytime. At this time, they seemed to be possessed by Lu Bu, waving his waist knife and chasing all the way.Wherever they go, there is no one enemy, and they each embark on the highlight moment of life.

Fei Yinghuan chased after him for a while, but then he felt lost, stopped to return the sword to the sheath, and took out a folding fan to admire the moon and enjoy the shade.

Wei Jianxiong didn't bother to use the wrought iron rod, he just chased after him with a torch.He chased a rioter on horseback, captured him and asked, "Where is Tapotian? I told you to spare you not to die!"

The rioters replied in horror: "East, in the house outside Hu Yuan."

"Not in town?" Wei Jianxiong asked.

"Not here, not here." The rioters were about to faint from fright.

Wei Jianxiong threw the man away and galloped eastward on horseback, shouting all the way, "Follow me to chase down the thief's head!"

No one responded, they all went crazy and chased after them.

Wei Jianxiong had to ride alone. He didn't know where Hu Yuanwai's house was, so he guessed the direction and rode his horse to the east.

I don't know how far I ran, and finally I saw a few rioters running for their lives with big bags and small bags on their bodies.

Wei Jianxiong chased after the horse, knocked one to death with a stick, smashed several heads in a row, grabbed the survivors and asked, "Where is Tapotian?"

"I don't know, they all ran away!"

"Bastard!"

Wei Jianxiong was so angry that he slammed it down, and the man's brain burst.

Ta Potian was also furious at this moment, officers and soldiers attacked Duliu Town at night, he was safe outside the town.Hastily summoned more than 200 soldiers, and even had time to move the goods, intending to continue to flee with these troops.

Unexpectedly, after only escaping for one mile, more than half of the more than 200 soldiers dispersed.

Even the old brothers who sold soil and salt together quietly left the team with their belongings, and the ghost who was blind in the dark knew where he went.

It was difficult for the team to end, and Ta Potian was disheartened, and said to the remaining hundreds of soldiers: "They are all good brothers who fought together. Now that the disaster is coming, let's not embarrass everyone, let's take our belongings and disperse."

Everyone was overjoyed, and they took away the goods from the car.

But there were still more than a dozen people, who were surrounded by Tapotian and did not want to leave. They said, "General, surrendering officers and soldiers is death, and returning home to farm is also death. It's better to follow the general to fight for a future!"

These words made Ta Potian rekindle his fighting spirit, and moved to tears: "They are all good brothers, you will not betray me, and I will not betray you. From now on, we will share the blessings and share the difficulties. The excess wealth No, just bring food and weapons, bypass Jinghai and go to Yanshan County to start a rebellion!"

A disheveled rioter, who had shrunk to the back, suddenly stepped forward: "General, I'll lead you a horse. The general is Guan Er Ye, and I want to be Zhou Cang."