Qiming 1158

Chapter 914
Tang Situi did not guess wrong, he did not misjudge the situation.

Although Zhang Jun did make a lot of trouble, mastered a lot of power, and did a lot of things, he still fell in the end.

And it has catastrophic consequences.

He was killed.

The news of Zhang Jun's murder was basically delivered to his home along with the news that the new emperor Zhao Tan had appointed him as the prefect of Yanzhou.

He was very happy when he learned that he was appointed as the prefect of Yanzhou, and when he learned that Zhang Jun was killed, he was stunned.

One of the rules of the political game in the Song Dynasty was not to kill the scholar-officers. No matter what mistakes the scholar-officials made, they would at most be relegated to wild areas and never be recalled, but they would never kill them.

But now Zhang Jun, a scholar-bureaucrat who was born as a jinshi, has died.

The rules of the game are broken, and it's not good for everyone.

Tang Situi went to Yanzhou with a heavy heart and actively observed the situation in the DPRK. When he learned that Ye Yiwen and Zhou Linzhi were the prime ministers, he guessed that they were not the best candidates for the emperor, but the best candidates. Shi Hao is on duty in the Privy Council.

The bandits on Jiangnan West Road are getting more and more troubled. If Shi Hao can be pacified, then Shi Hao can sit for at least three years as prime minister.

And by that time, he will probably return to the imperial court.

But at that time, even if he returns to the imperial court, he will probably face huge military pressure, and the military direction is really not what he is good at.

Because of the change in the situation, Tang Situi even wanted to resign and go home first, not to serve as the prefect of Yanzhou, so as to avoid being pulled to take the blame if the situation worsened.

However, Shen Gai wrote a letter to persuade him not to resign lightly. For the time being, he believed that Shi Hao was a capable person and would surely be able to pacify the bandits on Jiangnan West Road.

Now that the radical main war faction has fallen, Shi Hao is also a conservative faction, although Shi Hao is a member of the new emperor's team. Once Shi Hao gains power, both of them will benefit.

Now is a critical moment, but don't back down for petty profits.

Tang Situi read Shen Gai's letter and finally decided to continue as Yan Zhou and wait for the current situation to change.

But Tang Situi never thought that he was just eating melons and watching a play, but suddenly, he, the melon-eating crowd, was also involved in the front line of the battlefield.

On the afternoon of November 24th, after finishing his morning work, Tang Situi was taking a nap, and fell into a drowsy sleep, when he was suddenly woken up by the staff who rushed into his room, and hurriedly dragged him out.

It took a while for the confused Tang Situi to figure out that the reason why his staff hurriedly took him to escape was because a group of powerful thieves suddenly appeared outside the city and seized the city gate, and now they are rapidly attacking the building. De County.

The armed forces in the county town were vulnerable to a single blow, and they collapsed at the touch of a button. They were not opponents at all. They either died or fled, and they could not defend the city.

The staff immediately rushed into the county seat with Tang Situi and ran out of the city. After running for a while, they got into the donkey cart.

"Run!!!!"

The staff roared loudly.

The coachman was also frightened, and he didn't want to stay in the city to die. Everyone who got on this donkey cart is a community of destiny, and now he can only pin his life on these three donkeys.

"Yo!!"

The driver whipped the whip, and the sturdy donkey screeched miserably, opened its hooves and began to run wildly.

When cornering, the driver didn't control the speed very much, just using the whip and the reins to constantly adjust the donkey's forward direction.

Under the superb technical control of the driver, Tang Situi and others rode the donkey cart to drift three times in a row, turned three big turns, rushed out of the city at the fastest speed, and galloped towards the deep mountains and old forests outside the city.

That group of "thieves" didn't catch Tang Situi after all, and Tang Situi was born.

But Jiande County was gone. As a civil servant, Tang Si resigned from his responsibilities, so after rushing into the deep mountains and forests, after the initial shock and calm down, Tang Si retreated to return to Jiande County no matter what.

If he cannot return to Jiande County, it means that the general has lost the battle and lost his troops, and he will be punished.

The staff stubbornly held Tang Situi and told Tang Situi not to think about it, wouldn't he be courting death if he went back at this time?

Thieves will not reason with us, they will kill!

Anyway, Tang Situi finally calmed down, but in the face of the miserable situation, he couldn't help the sorrow in his heart, and finally burst into tears.

He just wanted to be an official honestly, who would provoke whom?

It wasn't until he finished crying that he realized that this was unusual.

"We know how many bandits there are in Yanzhou. When did such a large number of bandits come? How dare they attack the county? Are they not afraid of death?"

Staff helpless.

There are many people in the world who are not afraid of death, and there are also more people who eat blood and eat. Not everyone can live as good a life as you, a scholar-officer.

But when Tang Situi asked, the staff really remembered something.

"When someone came to report, I heard them say that the thieves came from the south and should not be locals."

"Not a local? Then why did they flee to the local area to make trouble? The south is Wuzhou. Could it be that something happened to Wuzhou? Is there a place in Wuzhou that was occupied by bandits?"

Tang Si Tui seemed to have found a way to mitigate his guilt and decided to make it clear.

However, what he didn't know was that after Xu Tong replenished grain in Jiande County and destroyed the treasury and the government, he immediately set off by boat and headed north along the Zhejiang River.

Xu Tong traveled day and night, and within a few days, he arrived at Fuyang City. It was just when the sun was up, Xu Tong gave an order, and the soldiers took down Fuyang City Gate very quickly. The armed forces in the city better than nothing, captured the Fuyang county magistrate who was trying to escape.

"Want to run? Yes, I'll let you run. You run to Lin'an and tell Zhao Guan's family that I came from Nanchang to find Zhao Guan's house."

The magistrate of Fuyang was taken aback and widened his eyes.

"You...are the bandits from Jiangnan West Road?"

A personal guard beside Xu Tong was immediately angry, kicked over, and kicked the Fuyang county magistrate to the ground, screaming in pain.

"Fuck your mother's bandit army! Do you understand the peasant army? You are a bandit! Your whole family is a bandit! Not even a bandit! Bah!"

"Don't be so rude, we are cultivated people."

Xu Tong pretended to scolded his guard, then crouched in front of the county magistrate, and slowly loosened him.

"Yes, we are the bandit army of Jiangnan West Road. By the way, the general Qi Fang who led the attack on us is over, and your army is also over. We came over, didn't you expect it?"

The Fuyang county magistrate was so shocked that he forgot the pain for a while.

He looked at the ferocious group of soldiers who had captured him, and was almost scared to death.

This is Fuyang, only [-] miles away from Lin'an City. These soldiers hurry up and they can reach Lin'an in two days.

That is the capital of the Great Song Dynasty!

Even if it was surrounded by the Ming army before, the Ming army is indeed very strong.

But what are these groups?
The bandits of Jiangnan West Road!

How could they come to the capital of Song Dynasty?

Or call all the way from Nanchang?
More than 1000 miles away just like that?
Was the army in charge of chasing thieves really defeated?

The magistrate of Fuyang couldn't say a word, and the whole person was dumbfounded, like a stone statue.

"Silly?"

Xu Tong looked at the guard, the guard stepped forward to take a look, shook his head, and said he didn't know.

So Xu Tong pushed the Fuyang magistrate.

"What are you waiting for? Run, if you don't run, I will call Lin'an. If you run back now, you can still send a letter."

The county magistrate of Fuyang looked at Xu Tong for a while, and then rolled and crawled forward for a while, running faster than a rabbit, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Xu Tong didn't care whether this guy could bring the news to Zhao Tan, waited for the supplies in Fuyang County, and continued to move forward.

However, at this moment, Lin'an City did not know that there was an army only two days away from them.

They can't be blamed, who would have believed that a [bandit army] general with 4000 men dared to gallop across the land of the Song Dynasty, and even achieved a result like entering a land without people?
(End of this chapter)