If you knew this was the case, why bother in the first place!

In fact, there are so many early knews in this world.

If Chen Yan and his ilk are like this, this is not the case for Zhao Delin, the former Jingcheng magistrate in Jingcheng County, and the local gentry.

Although the torture of the capital did not spread here, the people in Jingcheng City still learned the news that the capital was being tortured, after all, every day there were people who escaped from the capital to bring the news there to everyone. In the mouths of the people, the capital has simply become a hell on earth, and the Shun army not only tortured the ministers and gentry in the capital, but also committed adultery and plunder.

These atrocities really frightened everyone.

While everyone was frightened, their minds came alive one by one.

"Brother Li, now Your Majesty is leading the troops to be stationed in Cangzhou, which is only a hundred miles away from our Jingcheng, and the imperial army will be killed at any time, so we must abandon the darkness and turn to the light as soon as possible!"

In the city of Jingcheng, Zhao Delin, dressed as a scholar, persuaded Li Sanquan in the Li Mansion in the city, the Li family was a well-known local gentry, when Li Zicheng got the solid pass, Zhao Delin, who was the magistrate of the county, invited the local squires of Jingcheng to discuss the matter of defending the city, that is, he advocated surrender.

What was the surrender for?

for the lives of the fathers and elders of the city.

And what about today?

It's also the life of the fathers and elders of the city!

Of course, this is all an excuse, in fact, it is just to save their own lives, and the rest of the ordinary people are just saving them by the way.

Seeing that Li Sanquan was silent, Zhao Delin said in an accentuated tone.

"Brother Li, the prison country is good at using soldiers, but it is not comparable to the first emperor, this Li thief seems to be powerful, but how can he be able to defeat His Majesty with the army of the whole country?"

"Yes, Brother Li, since the prison country started its army in Jinan, for several years, it first destroyed the eastern captives and then punished the thieves, and today it is a national army to crusade against the thieves, and the destruction of the thieves is only a matter of day, I waited for the thieves at that time to be forced to do so, and now they should return to the Ming Dynasty!"

"Brother Li, the thief seems to be powerful, how can he compare to the Dongyu, how powerful the Dongyu was back then was not His Majesty's opponent, where can the thief withstand the blows of the officials and soldiers, as long as the prison country waives his army to the north, even if Li Zicheng sits on the fortified city, what about it? In this world, it is still the world of Daming, the people's hearts are in Daming, and the number of qi is in Daming! ”

In the face of the silent Li Sanquan, everyone persuaded me word by word, and the reason why they persuaded him was because their plan needed Li Sanquan's cooperation.

There is not only one magistrate sent by Dashun in Jingcheng City, there are also hundreds of Shun troops, although they can gather thousands of families and tenants, but they are hundreds of experienced Shun troops, and they are a little numb when they think about it.

Therefore, they wanted Li Sanquan to come forward, invite the magistrate and the leader of the thief army, and then have a Hongmen banquet.

"But, it's a little girl......"

Li Sanquan hesitated.

His daughter was the wife of the general of Tumen Pass...... Of course, this is not what he wants, when General Wu was stationed in Tumen Pass, after learning that Li Sanquan's daughter was born extremely beautiful, he sent someone to propose marriage, Xiucai met Bing You can't explain clearly, although he knows that the other party is a thief, but he dares to refuse, and finally has to sacrifice his daughter to keep the family business. However, this also made Luo Zhixian and Shun Jun appointed by Dashun extremely polite to him, and often called him "Li Gong".

"The daughter who marries spills the water, marries the chicken with the chicken, and marries the dog with the dog. That's fate! Someone spoke,

"If Brother Li is obsessed, the imperial army will kill him in the future, and he will be investigated, and he will be killed if he colludes with the thieves."

Everyone coaxed and frightened, so that Li Sanquan finally made up his mind, and then said.

"Then, then it's all up to a few brothers......"

In the city of Zhendingfu, the soldiers wearing blue clothes and felt hats here slept peacefully in the barracks after nightfall, saying that they were barracks, but in fact they were just Confucian Temples. These Shun troops were left by Li Zicheng to guard Zhending when he went north, but there were only five or six hundred people, and after entering the city, they were directly stationed in the Confucian Temple.

Maybe it's because Dashun has taken over the world, from the officials to the soldiers, there is no vigilance, and even the sentries at the gate of the camp are sleeping with spears, as for the officials...... I'm afraid I don't know how to sleep on the belly of the girl in the Qinglou.

Just as the sentry was sleeping, more than a dozen people came from a distance, and because these people were wearing blue coats and felt hats, they did not arouse the sentry's suspicions. As they approached, the sentry was about to speak at them, when a cold light flashed in his eyes, and his head was cut off by the man on horseback. Before the sentry next to him could react, he was also stabbed several times in succession by covering his mouth.

"Do it!"

Xu Mingkun, who was riding on horseback, shouted in a deep voice, he was a Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty, and after learning that His Majesty had arrived in Cangzhou with the Northern Expeditionary Army, he discussed with his friends how to recapture Zhending City.

After thinking about it for a few days, I finally made a plan. As soon as they entered the Confucian Temple, they quietly piled up the firewood and grass on the carts by the door, and piled at least one cart of firewood and grass from the main hall to the side room.

"Lock the door!"

While the family members carefully locked the door, Xu Mingkun said silently to the main hall.

"The Holy Master atoned for his sins, and the students made this decision to kill the thieves today, and when the thieves were eliminated, they would rebuild the Temple of Literature......"

After pleading, he shouted in a deep voice.

"Ignition!"

Dozens of torches were thrown into the firewood and grass pile, and the firewood and grass pile poured with fire oil saw that the fire was burning, and the flames rose for a while, and the doors and windows were blocked in an instant.

It wasn't until the fire reached the roof that the Shunjun of the house realized that something was wrong.

"Let's go, quick, ......"

"It's on fire, get out of here...... How did the door lock ......"

……

In the flames, the house was full of cries and screams, and Xu Mingkun, who was standing in the courtyard, was holding a Japanese knife and staring at the flames with his servants, preventing someone from breaking out of the fire.

But the Shun army in the flames didn't have time to escape, and the fire soon engulfed the Confucian Temple, while the flames reflected half of the sky, in the nearby prefect's yamen, Lin Zhinan looked at the sword and stick in front of him, and he seemed to understand.

"You're going to take my life!"

Lin Zhinan is a scholar in Shaanxi, and he has tried and failed over the years, which is also the reason why he defected to Dashun, at least he can find a background, and when he was appointed as the prefect of Zhending, he even had a feeling of being in a dream, although there was no title on the gold list, but it was also a glorious lintel!

In the future, we must be a good official and a clean official who is the master of the people. In fact, except for a very small number of people, most of them reported for the same purpose when they first became officials. It's just that often they will be changed by the officialdom, and for him, before he has time to change, the dream has already woken up.

It's just Nanke's dream!

"Lord Lin, it's true that you are a good official, but you are a thief official and a false official. Since ancient times, officials and thieves have not been separated, although we are small officials, but we are also people in the government, and we are also innocent families for generations, how can we be thieves from ......"

The official holding the waist knife stammered and said, the thief official, that is also an official, kill the official...... They really didn't have the guts, and just then, only a few sword-wielding soldiers walked in.

Seeing them coming in, Lin Zhinan just smiled bitterly, looked at them and said:

"A few friends, who are also scholars, although they are thieves and officials, they are also considered incorruptible, after you kill me, I have a few taels of silver, please buy a thin coffin for me to bury, as for returning to my hometown, ......"

He glanced in the direction of Shaanxi, and then said,

"I'm afraid my family won't let me be buried in the ancestral grave, but it's a pity...... Hey, one wrong step, one wrong step...... Either way, no matter what! ”

In fact, most people will make various choices when living in such troubled times. For some, they're just going with the flow. In many cases, they don't have the right to make their own choices. They just adapt to the situation and make their own choices in the changing situation.

One wrong step, one wrong step. At the end of the day, how many people know they've made the wrong choice? Just like Lin Zhinan, a wrong choice made him not only lose his own life, but also make a stigma......