Fengqi crabapple

Chapter 148
Cheng Hanbai calculated that the day of Haitang's birthday would be the day when he would take a rest, so he approached King Duan to discuss it. It was spring and the flowers were blooming, so they could go fishing in the Taohua River for shrimps.While they were discussing, Ling Feng sent a flying pigeon letter.

It turned out that it was an official ship departing from Hubei, and Ling Xue and Ling Chen had already succeeded! Of the 120 million taels of silver, 30 taels were transported back to Hubei and entered into the accounts of three commercial banks. The other 90 taels were transferred to Caobang's own ship by Dai Xiaogongzi and transported to the capital.

"Calculating the time, we will arrive in Beijing in exactly two days," Cheng Hanbai said with some disappointment, "Oh! We can't go to Taohua River."

Xie Ruitang smiled and said nothing. He had already decided where to take Haitang to celebrate her birthday.Just got rid of my brother-in-law.

Coincidentally, Shen Congxi's letter happened to arrive at Prince Duan's Mansion today.When he opened it, Shen Congxi's anger burned out from the letter, which immediately made Xie Ruitang and Cheng Hanbai who read the letter angry: They said that the Japanese pirates tortured the people and aided the tyrants, but it was the government offices of the Great Celestial Dynasty!
It turned out that only after Zhao Muzhe and others arrived in Fujian did they learn that the common people occupied the government offices to protest against the government's failure to fight against the Japanese pirates, but also took the initiative to send food and women to the Japanese pirates in exchange for a brief period of peaceful coexistence.People rebel only when officials force them to do so. This is the truth that the court does not know.

On the day Zhao Xiaohou arrived, after stationing outside the city, he did not summon local officials. Several people rode into the county seat wearing regular clothes.Unexpectedly, after taking only a few steps, I encountered a case of a government servant coming to the house and robbing a girl.

"Don't rely on your old man to sell your old man, obstruct the government's work, and you will die in vain. If you don't let go, I will be rude to you!" A thin-faced yamen servant scolded, while vigorously breaking the old man's finger that pulled his daughter.

"Master, please do a good job! I only have a daughter like this. If she is given to the Japanese pirates, our whole family will not be able to survive!" The old man shouted, even if his fingers were bruised and painful, he would not let go. He knew that his daughter If you go there, not only will you lose your innocence, but you will also lose your life on the Japanese pirate island.

The thin-faced officer sneered: "I don't care whether you survive or not! All I know is that we have to catch twenty girls today, and even for you, I'm still eight short! If I can't catch the girls, I won't survive." !”

Zhao Muchhe and Shen Congxi, who had just come out of the military camp to inspect the public situation, listened clearly.Seeing that the thin-faced government official was about to use force on his father-in-law, Zhao Dong went over and kicked the government official's arm, causing his arm to dislocate immediately.

The thin-faced yamen servant rolled his hands with his teeth grinning, and scolded: "Who dares to hinder the official's work? I think you are tired of your work!" As he spoke, he reluctantly took out a shark-tooth whistle hanging from his neck and whistled.

Zhao Nan was the closest to him, and with a flick of his sword, he broke the rope hanging from the whistle. Zhao Nan went over to pick up the shark-tooth whistle and said with a smile: "You are quite courageous, you dare to summon people in front of adults!"

"Strong man, you go quickly, the people from their yamen will come in a while, none of you can leave. We just want to hide for a day, you are all passing by, how many times can you save us?" the old man retorted. Come and persuade them.

"The yamen collects donations and taxes, has soldiers and weapons, but still requires the people to sacrifice their innocent daughters to be destroyed by Japanese pirates. We don't have such a yamen!" Shen Congxi said through gritted teeth.

"Oh, young brother, don't say such treasonous words!" The people next to them also advised them: "Go quickly, it will be serious if the official comes, don't hurt us."

Zhao Xiaohou could not help but comfort them: "What are official duties? We are the army sent by the imperial court to suppress the Japanese. If the Japanese pirates come tomorrow, they will never come back!"

"There is no end to the Japanese pirates. You suppressed them for two days, killed two of them, and then went back to collect the rewards. But when you leave, they will come back to us even harder. Suppressing Japanese pirates? Cut! In the past, the imperial court was not No one has been sent here." The onlookers talked a lot and sneered at their statement, not believing that they could deal with the Japanese pirates.

Lord Zhao Xiaohou no longer said anything, he wanted to use actions to speak to the people.

After several people got on their horses, Lord Zhao Xiaohou said to the government official lying on the ground: "If you want to get General Ben from your government office, come to the barracks outside the county town. General General is waiting for you!" After finishing speaking, he got on his horse and left.When the old man found out that the man who saved him was really a military commander, he knelt down and kowtowed.

The county magistrate had already received an explanation from the magistrate, and he had secretly met with Zhang Zhi just now, and he even had a plan in his mind.When the yamen servant came to report, he was already prepared and took the county magistrate and yamen servant all the way to the military camp outside the county town. "General Zhao, Governor Zhang, the county magistrate Lin Youlu has met the two adults! Today, I am here to invite you to let the officials stay in the county government office to clean up the dust for the two of you." Lin Youlu smiled humbly.

"Lin Youlu, let me ask you, the Japanese pirates will come ashore tomorrow to ask you for food and wealth, is there such a thing?" Zhao Xiaohou was about to question him, but he didn't want to accept him at all, so he just asked sharply.

Lin Youlu quickly replied: "Uh, there is such a thing. The Japanese pirates are so strong and armed with firearms. There are only a few yamen servants in the lower officials, and the weapons are only simple knives. I really can't resist it! General Zhao is very powerful, and I invite the general to come out." , to eliminate harm for the people!" What Lin Youlu said was true.

Zhao Xiaohou asked again: "On weekdays, how many boats, people, and firearms do the Japanese come to?"

"Most of them were two or 30 people in a boat. I saw them firing muskets, but I don't know how many they had on board." Lin Youlu answered quickly.He had already discussed with Zhang Zhi before, that is, to let Zhao Muche hit a wall.

"Two or thirty people? That's nothing but thieves on the run, worthy of your fear?" Zhang Zhi said with a smile, "Don't worry, when General Zhao goes out tomorrow, they will never come back."

Mr. Zhao Xiaohou sneered and said: "You can put back all the eleven people's girls captured this time. I will deal with those thieves tomorrow. From now on, you are not allowed to rob people's girls and help the evildoers!"

"General..." Lin Youlu wanted to say something more, but when he saw Zhang Zhi winking at him, he stopped, bowed, and said, "In that case, I will just do as I am told. Tomorrow I will be waiting for you at the beach, General!"

After Lin Youlu left, Zhao Xiaohou summoned the lieutenants Li Bin and Lu Ping in the tent, and the military supervisor Zhang Zhi, and said: "Tomorrow I will bring a thousand soldiers and horses to the seaside to fight. Li Bin, you come with me, and Lu Ping will be in charge of the military camp. Governor Zhang, you..."

"I am guarding the military camp." Zhang Zhi added with a smile: "There are still nine thousand soldiers in the camp. General, do you want to bring more people to boost the military's prestige?"

Mr. Zhao Xiaohou glanced at him and said, "No need!"

"General, do you want to bring artillery?" Li Bin asked.

"The Japanese only have 30 people. The general can lead a thousand people, and he can carry blunderbuss. How can we use artillery? If innocent people are injured, it will be difficult for us to explain to the people." Zhang Zhi said.

Zhao Xiaohou said: "Then according to what the supervisor said, if necessary, it will not be too late for you to pull away the artillery."

When Zhao Muzhe talked to Shen Congxi and Zhao Yu later, Shen Congxi always felt that something was wrong: "If it is so simple, why can't the Japanese pirates be wiped out all the time?"

Several people couldn't figure out the reason, so they just agreed to act according to the situation tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)