Zhang Zhaohua, Yang Shiqi, and Han Dong were pushed into the shed of the river construction site, it seems that these people are not fools, and they are still suspicious of their identity.

There were also a few river control officials who were imprisoned, but there were only five or six of them, and they were all pale with fright, saying that they treated the people more gently on weekdays, so these people did not kill them.

"The county government will definitely not be able to hold it," Huang Chu said, "There are thousands of them!"

"They still echo," Zhang Zhaohua said, "I heard that the three provinces launched it together!"

"Three provinces?" everyone was stunned: "Which three provinces?"

This is also a question that Zhang Zhaohua has been pondering all along: What other province besides Henan and Shandong can also cope with it? How did the black fire and artillery of the Ordnance Bureau come to Shandong? Could it be that among the officers and men of the guard station, there are even followers of the White Lotus Sect? That is really going to be the end of the matter, and what Shandong is burning is not a spark, but a prairie fire.

They looked at each other, digesting the news, but suddenly heard a wild shout outside: "The Buddha Mother is here!

At this time, the roof of the tent where they were suddenly trembled, and the dust fell in a plop, Han Dong exclaimed, and Zhang Zhaohua saw a woman dressed in white fluttering from the roof of the shed, as light as a leaf.

Zhang Zhaohua was dumbfounded, could it be that in this world, there is really such a martial art that has reached the realm?

The woman could not see the front, but all the believers were fanatically shouting for the Buddha Mother, and she soon jumped on another tent and unfurled a large white flag on a flagpole with the words "Shuntian Protect the People" written on it, and the sword in her hand was pointing in whatever direction, and these people went in that direction desperately.

There were also many officers and soldiers on the berm, but there were no officials to command them, and they were all like headless flies, and the ghosts were chasing and slashing down the wolves. On the fourth watch, when the sky was slightly bright, I heard that the county government had been breached, and the county order went out of the west gate and did not know in what direction to flee, and I also heard that there were local squires who gathered hundreds of people to go to the county government to rescue them, but they were killed in pieces, and then hid in the attic, and were lit by these White Lotus Sect people, and dozens of people were burned alive.

It can be said that in this Shura catastrophe, the only thing that the White Lotus believers let go was the Confucian Temple on the East Street of the county. The Zun Jing Pavilion, the Minglun Hall and even the surrounding buildings are all well preserved, and I heard that some people also wanted to go in and smash and rob, but they were stopped.

Yang Shiqi seemed to be a little relieved when he heard the news, he knocked on the side from the guard, and heard that it was ordered by Elder Dong, he knew that this was a point that could be used, the followers of the White Lotus Sect were generally ordinary people, and their education was not high, if they really wanted to do great things, they had to recruit scholars.

After the battle ended at dawn, Zhang Zhaohua and the others were escorted into a prisoner car and headed east. They also tried to inquire, but no one responded to them, especially Yang Shiqi, who did not speak, and received a whip from a small boss on his arm. Only Han Dong - one of the disciples seemed to be a little interested in her, and when he saw that she was shivering from the cold, he threw a piece of clothing into the car and came in.

Han Dong finally determined the direction from him, they were going to Qingzhou, which was the base camp of the White Lotus Sect.

Yang Shiqi digested this limited information, and said slowly: "They launched in several places at the same time, Feixian, Yizhou, Jiaozhou and Jimo in Laizhou Prefecture, and the canal in Cao County are very important, so the Buddha's mother came on her own, but they captured Cao County but did not occupy it, because of the lack of troops, they rushed to Qingzhou day and night, probably because Qingzhou has not been captured yet." ”

Sure enough, he expected, they were taken to the unloading stone gate village thirty miles away from Qingzhou City, which can be described as the general rudder of the White Lotus Sect, built by the mountain, the east, west and south three dangerous rock walls, surrounded by two internal and external stone walls, and there are two twisted head gates on the north side, this is the main village. The scarlet wall, the purple ribbon table surround, is solid, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

There is a stone well in the west of the village, which is obviously not used to draw water, because Zhang Zhaohua saw these believers take out weapons and armor from Beijing to distribute them. As soon as the main village enters, you can see the apricot yellow banner of "Shuntian to protect the people", as well as the huge military drill ground, the mountain gate, the watchtower, the second floor of the main platform is directly connected with the three stations, check the situation of the village, and report information to each village.

"Oh my God," Zhang Zhaohua exclaimed, "This is already beginning to take shape." ”

They did not spend a day in the stockade, because the believers had all moved out of the village, leaving behind an empty stockade, which seemed to lure the officers and soldiers into an ambush. Sure enough, on the morning of the next day, Gao Feng, the commander of Qingzhou Wei, led his troops to come to the conquest, carelessly underestimated the enemy, was ambushed by the rebel army, and the whole army was annihilated.

Gao Feng's defeat only shows one thing, that is, Qingzhou has fallen. Qingzhou City was originally deep and strong, if Gao Feng could not hold out, there was hope of victory, but it was obvious that Gao Feng felt that this group of White Lotus Sect disciples was nothing more than a rabble, and they actually went out of the city to take the initiative to attack, and they were in the trap.

After the capture of Qingzhou City, I heard that the situation in several other places was also very smooth, it seems that there really has a momentum of a hundred calls to uncover the rod, every day there are large and small leaders from all over the country, and finally one day, Zhang Zhaohua, Yang Shiqi and several other officials were taken out of the detention house, and brought to the hall in the village, where a group of people had already knelt in advance, and they were all wearing official uniforms, some were commanders of the guard, thousands of households, hundreds of households, some were county orders, and even state officials, and of course, the families of these officials.

Under the shouts of the leaders of the White Lotus Sect on both sides, the big and small officials all trembled, and they all bent their knees involuntarily, but Yang Shiqi was neither humble nor arrogant, and Zhang Zhaohua also performed a women's salute.

"This dog officer, the bones are hard!" Someone said: "Break his leg, see if he still kneels!"

"Wait," an old voice came from the high platform, "the old man looks at him, but he is different—what do you call it?"

Yang Shiqi said: "Student Hanlin Bachelor Yang Yu, I have seen the elders. ”

"It's a Hanlin!" the old man sitting on the lapback chair seemed to be shocked: "Okay, reader!"

On the high platform were three lap-backed chairs, one of which was covered with tiger skins, but no one sat on the top spot, but on each side there was one man, one an old man and the other a young man.

Zhang Zhaohua already knew from Wang Bin, the little leader who was interested in Handong, that the second leader was Dong Yangao, an elder in the sect, and the third was the incense lord Binhong. This Dong Yangao used to be a showman, tried and failed, barely made a living by telling people hexagrams and writing, and finally followed Lin San, but he has been depressed, regretting that he could not display his skills, and he is extremely respectful to scholars.

This person only knew that Hanlin was born as a Jinshi, but he didn't know that Yang Shiqi was a minister of Wenyuan Pavilion, and other White Lotus believers didn't know it, in their eyes, Hanlin was also an official of the imperial court, and all the officials in the world deserved to die.

"Since it's Hanlin," Dong Yangao said, "How could you leave Beijing and come to Shandong?"

Yang Shiqi said about his mourning, he said it with affection and reason, the White Lotus Sect sitting here are all filial sons, and he also eased his face a little after listening to it, but he still scolded him for being a dog official and helping the dog emperor to do things, and soon the hall was noisy, all of them were accusing the government of the heavy burden on the people of Shandong, starting from the Battle of Jingyan, and said that Zhu Di usurped the throne and became the emperor, and oppressed the people of Shandong.