On the sixth day of June in the sixth year of Chongzhen, the festival, the sixth day of June in the Jin and Shaanxi regions, please aunt", here will invite the daughter and son-in-law back to their parents' house, make a delicious meal, and have an aunt's day.

At five o'clock, before it was light, the morning bell of Chongshan Temple rang melodiously.

Each of the four gates of Taiyuan City gathered a lot of men and women with children or carrying burdens, or riding mules and horses.

These people were waiting for the gates to open, and then they went out of the city to their mothers' homes.

Several defenders of the west gate of Taiyuan City lazily walked out of the city tower, yawned and looked out of the city, and then shouted "open the city gate" below.

In the doorway, several defenders removed the log that topped the gate, removed three heavy deadbolts, and then creaked open the gate.

At this moment, there was a faint sound of horses' hooves outside the city.

The faces of the defenders at the head of the city changed, and they hurriedly shouted: "Quick, close the city gate quickly." ”

The defenders in the doorway scrambled to push the gate back up.

The sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, and soon a dozen black shadows galloping horses appeared in the darkness outside the city, heading straight for the city gate.

"Hurry up and open the door, I'm waiting for the Ninghua Wangfu Honor and Guard Division, and the palace token is here."

The first to rush shouted with a token in his hand.

The people at the head of the city didn't dare to be careless, put down a bamboo basket, hung the token up and carefully checked it, confirmed that it was the palace token, and saw that the other party was only a dozen horses, so he opened the city gate and let them in.

When they entered the city, the defenders found that the group was scarred and freshly wounded.

Seeing this, the defenders panicked and hurriedly closed the city gates, and the people who were about to return to their mother's house also panicked, and soon ran home one after another.

There is an army of thieves outside the city, and my mother's house cannot be returned.

The scarred guards entered the city and rushed straight to the Ninghua Palace.

Not long after, there were bursts of roars in the Ninghua Mansion, and there were female rao screams, and then a group of people went out in a mess and went straight to the Jin Palace.

The Jin Palace's mansion soon resounded with a chaotic sound, accompanied by bursts of angry scolding.

Immediately afterwards, a large group of people came out of the Jin Palace, and went straight to the Yamen of Shanxi to command the envoys.

Several horses galloped out of the city and went straight to Yangqu County.

……

Du Yingtang was still sleeping with his concubine in his arms in the bed, and when he suddenly heard a commotion and shouting, he thought that Liukou had entered the city, and rolled off the bed as soon as he turned over, and then picked up the waist knife at the head of the bed, and rushed out without wearing clothes.

As soon as he rushed out of the inner courtyard of the yamen, he saw a group of people coming menacingly, Du Yingtang subconsciously wanted to run, but soon saw the comer.

The leaders are the prince of Jin and the prince of Ninghua, as well as several clan relatives such as the general of Zhenguo and the general of the auxiliary state.

Du Yingtang breathed a long sigh of relief, and hurriedly threw the waist knife into the flowers next to him.

King Keninghua's next words surprised him again, the grain transport team of the royal palace was robbed in the territory of Loufu, the thieves were about seven or eight hundred, and the three hundred guards suffered heavy casualties, only more than ten horsemen escaped, and more than 2,000 stone grain and two hundred mule and horse carts were all in the hands of the thieves.

Moreover, there were 6,000 stone of grain in Jiaoqu Farm, where the wall was low, and only two hundred guards were stationed, and the rest were some hungry people who were temporarily recruited.

Jiaoqu Farm is estimated to be more auspicious.

Although the gang of thieves were dressed in tatters, the prince of Jin and the king of Ninghua still agreed that the thieves were pretended to be sent by Qin Chuan.

These two also asked Du Yingtang to immediately send troops to eliminate the traitors.

Hearing this, Du Yingtang's head was big for a while.

finally lived a stable life for a while, but it didn't take long for an accident to happen again.

He also knew that Qin Chuan did this, and that guy was no longer one or two with Liang Zi of Ninghua Palace, and not long ago, he attacked and killed three hundred palace guards who ran to rob his relatives, and killed a Zongyi.

This kind of person can't watch thousands of stones of grain be transported away from under his nose, so he has to hug him.

But Qin Chuan hugged it too much, it was eight thousand stone grain, and it was strange that the prince of Ninghua and the prince of Jin were willing to give up.

But these two masters don't know that firewood and rice are expensive, and there are only 1,500 defenders in Taiyuan City, so where can he get soldiers and horses to go to Lou Annoy?

Please, the god of war?

Isn't King Ninghua not very good at using his brain? Or are you used to enjoying glory and wealth, and you don't know the dangers of troubled times?

Sending three hundred guards to rob relatives was enough to be brainless, but now he only sent five hundred guards to Lou Fu to collect grain, didn't he know that Qin Chuan had already formed an inextricable bond with him? Don't you know that Qin Chuan's power is reckless? Don't you know that Qin Chuan's soldiers are strong and strong?

Wouldn't it be nice to enjoy your glory and wealth? What do you have to provoke that person for?

Isn't this self-inflicted?

They are still shouting at every turn to exterminate the traitors, don't they know that they can't be exterminated without 30,000 or 50,000 people?

These royal relatives are really raised as stupid as pigs.

Du Yingtang scolded in his heart, but he could only smile on his face, there were no soldiers and horses in Taiyuan, so he asked the prince and His Royal Highness to send someone to find Lord Zhang, the governor of Xuanda, and let the two of them investigate who did it first, and then it was not too late to decide.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Minji, the king of Ninghua, was furious, and asked Du Yingtang if he was in collusion with the Qin thief.

Du Yingtang hurriedly denied it, but the more he explained, the more fierce Zhu Minji scolded.

Soon, Zhu Minji began to smash things, and a bunch of clansmen from the Jin Dynasty who came with him also began to smash things.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Du Yingtang hurriedly ran back to the inner courtyard, got dressed, and then slipped away through the back door, not even caring about the concubine.

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Xu Dingchen was not in Yangqu County, but took Zhang Yingchang and others to Liaozhou and Lu'an Mansion to suppress bandits.

In the Ninghua Palace, he went to Yangqu County, and only saw a few officials from the Political Envoy Department and the Punishment and Prosecution Department, as well as the town guard general of Yangqu.

Whether it was the official of the political envoy or the inspection envoy, or the general of Yangqu, they did not dare to send troops without authorization, and after prevaricating for a while, they sent a fast horse to Liaozhou to report to the governor Xu Dingchen.

But as soon as the horse was out of the city, Lou's messenger came.

Qin Chuan sent someone to send a letter, the general content of which was: There was a group of thieves of unknown origin in the Yunzhong Mountain area, and yesterday evening attacked and killed a grain transport team of Ninghua Palace, and then attacked Jiaoqu Farm with lightning speed, and the two hundred palace guards stationed in the farm were all wiped out, none of them were spared, and a total of 8,000 stone of grain was robbed by thieves.

Because Jiaoqu Farm was twenty miles away from Lou Fu, by the time Qin Chuan received the news, the thieves had already driven the mule cart into Yunzhong Mountain.

Qin Chuan thought that the thieves had been prepared for a long time, and if they blindly chased into Yunzhong Mountain, they were afraid that they would encounter an ambush, and in the summer sowing season, Qin Chuan was afraid that the thieves would attack and kill innocent people and rob the grain, so he did not dare to pursue hastily, but transferred troops to garrison various key roads to protect the people.

After reading the letter, Yangqu's officials were silent for a while.

There is indeed a group of thieves in the Yunzhong Mountain area, the leader is called Zhao Sandao, that group of thieves was disabled by Qin Chuan as early as last year, even if a large number of deserters and hungry people are recruited, I am afraid they will not dare to run to Qin Chuan's territory to spread wild.

What's more, because of the big head plague, Qin Chuan's house has sealed all the key roads in the hinterland of Luliang Mountain, and Zhao Sandao will definitely not be able to hide any movement from Qin Chuan, and it is even more impossible for seven or eight hundred men and horses to quietly avoid Qin Chuan's sentry and enter the Lou Fu realm.

This matter is likely to have been done by Qin Chuan.

But they had no evidence and did not dare to make a conclusion, so they could only present Qin Chuan's letter to Jingshi intact and wait for the emperor to decide.

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Thanks to the winter snow of the previous year and the spring rain of the next few days, this year's winter wheat harvest is not too bad, 50,000 mu of winter wheat has been harvested a total of 47,000 stones, plus nearly 8,000 stone of grain from the king of Ninghua, a total of 55,000 stones have been harvested in these days.

The yield is close to one stone per acre, and each stone of wheat with bran is about 130 catties

After arranging a lot of work, Qin Chuan rode a high-headed horse to Montenegro.

Yan Sanqi and Chen Zhan followed his ideas and built a set of iron pot cold rolling equipment driven by manpower or accumulation.

He had to figure out the method and process of making an iron pot.