The news of Lin Fan's imprisonment soon spread throughout Yongyang City, and the people who learned the inside story spontaneously gathered at the county office and knelt on the ground to intercede for Lin Fan.

Historically, the people have always been the most sincere, who is hypocritical, who is sincerely good to them, they all see it in their eyes and remember it in their hearts.

It's just that most of the time, no one cares what they think, and no one wants to listen to them, so their ideas are often ignored and not valued by those in power.

At this time, the people who were still getting the news kept coming, and the people were soon kneeling in front of the county yamen. Among them were young men, old men, women and children.

An old man at the head of the crowd held a long letter of affection in his hand, which was full of Lin Fan's various exploits in suppressing bandits and helping the people since he took office.

Pile by pile, piece by piece, all written clearly. Even if Lin Fan saw this letter himself, he might not be able to remember all the contents on it.

Lin Fan has never taken the initiative to preach this, but the people remember everything that is not bad. I used to keep them in my heart, but now I write them down in my letters.

At the end of the letter, hundreds of fingerprints were pressed, if it wasn't for the size of the paper, I believe there could be more.

On weekdays, the people are not very afraid of Lin Fan, this young adult has no official pretensions, and he can talk to anyone. Regardless of whether he is rich or poor, he is always willing to help anyone who is in trouble.

After a long time, everyone was a little less in awe of Lin Fanguan's identity and a little more cordial. There were even some bold women who would often make flirtatious remarks when they met this handsome young man, and the young man would often be so blushing and running away from the desert that the crowd laughed.

People's hearts know the warmth and coldness best, and it is these little people who are not noticed that stand up for Lin Fan at the first time to intercede. All this was not directed or organized, but by the people. It can be seen that the things that Lin Fan usually did finally paid off today.

Of course, the reason why this news spread so quickly is well known, and it has a lot to do with Bai Yuqing's Deyue Tower secretly fueling the troubles.

The people asked for their lives, and Yang Yuanwang was naturally happy to push the boat along the water. He put down the affairs in his hand, personally went to the camp of the Chinese army, and handed over the letter to Ma Qingze, asking him to present it to the governor Shi Qiuming, who in turn forwarded it to the imperial court.

Soon, the letter was sent to Jingshi along with the good news of the war and Shi Qiuming's account of the matter.

Lin Fan, who was detained in the county jail, did not suffer much, not to mention that those jailers who were vicious to the prisoners on weekdays would not and did not dare to embarrass him. Even those prisoners who were detained together, after knowing Lin Fan's identity and deeds, had some respect for him.

Afraid that other prisoners would disturb Lin Fan's recuperation, the cell boss specially arranged for Lin Fan to live alone in a cell so that he could be separated from the rest of the prisoners.

Although Lin Fan doesn't like to engage in some so-called privileges, he will not refuse the kindness of the cell boss, and there is nothing wrong with living comfortably in this dark prison.

For the actions of the cell leader, An Ning, who followed him in, reciprocated, and secretly gave the cell boss a silver ticket when no one else was paying attention.

The cell had obviously been cleaned and cleaned, much cleaner than the others, and the cell boss had chosen a sunny and ventilated room for him.

Although the cell was still dark and damp, with the bedding they had prepared for him, Lin Fan didn't have to sleep on those rotten and moldy straws like the other prisoners, and he didn't know how much better his life was compared to other prisoners.

Nominally, it was a prison sentence, but it was a rare time for Lin Fan.

He didn't have to worry about official business, nor did he have to go into battle, he just had to stay quietly in prison, and he could read books in his spare time, or think about things that he didn't have time to think about before.

When the sun is at its best every day, he can go to the door of the prison to let off the wind and look at the scenery, and no one is worried that he will escape anyway.

It can be said that except for the restriction of personal freedom and the fact that he cannot leave the cell, Lin Fan's treatment is not like a prisoner at all. He didn't have to bring those shackles and leg irons, and no one would torture him, not even the most basic interrogation of a prisoner, as if the court had forgotten him as a person.

And the jailer guarding the door did not prevent everyone from coming to visit Lin Fan, after all, Lin

All injuries on the body should be changed every two days. With this reason, everyone can come to see him justifiably, and during the period when Lin Fan lived in, An Ning and the others came to see him several times.

So although Lin Fan was in prison, his news was not closed, and he also learned a lot of news through An Ning and others.

For example, when the people spontaneously interceded for him, he knew about it at the first time.

Of course, Lin Fan was very moved by the actions of the people, but he was in prison and couldn't do anything, so he could only put the friendship of the people in his heart and wait for the report to come and answer.

In addition, many important things gradually became clear and reached Lin Fan's ears.

First of all, shortly after the fall of Anzhou, not only in order to calm the morale of the army, but also to deter officials in various places, Shi Qiuming asked for the royal flag to correct several officials of all sizes, such as the governor of Anzhou and Tongzhi, who abandoned the city. It's just that Yongyang was already besieged at that time, and the news couldn't come in, otherwise Tian Wuqian might not have the courage to escape.

Secondly, due to the timely arrival of reinforcements from the officers and soldiers, this thief soldier was defeated and defeated, and the army was defeated. Zhang Feng'er and other thieves gathered the remnants of the army on the way to escape, but in the end, they only gathered more than 1,000 people, and most of the rest fled.

However, Zhang Feng'er finally failed to escape from the net laid by the official army, and was blocked by more than 10,000 people of the official army Li Tianye dozens of miles north of Yongyang.

In the final battle, a disheartened Zhang Fenger died in the chaos, and most of the rest of the thieves were also killed. This battle officer and army beheaded countless people, and the Huainan Dao banditry rebellion, which was quite powerful, was quelled.

Now Zhang Feng'er and others have been beheaded by the officials and soldiers, and their heads are preserved with lime to make them not rotten, and people have been sent to escort them to Beijing.

There is also the situation of the defenders of the southwest gate in the battle of Yongyang to defend the city.

At the beginning, Lin Fan always thought that the defenders in those two places were all killed. It wasn't until Chen Fangshu came to see him later that he brought him the latest news that he knew that this was not entirely the case.

In the garrison of those two banners, Zhang Yanji was indeed martyred in battle, and all the soldiers under his command were also killed.

Another flag officer, Yang Peng, did not hold out until the last moment, and he was desperate in the face of the mortal situation at that time. In order to save the lives of the few remaining people under his command, in desperation, he chose to surrender to the thief.

But not long after he surrendered, reinforcements arrived. But for Yang Peng, who surrendered to the thief, this life-saving straw that he had been waiting for for more than ten days came too late, he had been drowned in the tide of thieves and could no longer go ashore.

However, Yang Peng did not flee with the thieves, and he felt shameless to see Jiangdong's father again, so he asked his subordinates to meet the official army, while he killed himself at the head of the city to atone for his sins.

When he heard this, Lin Fan sighed with emotion: "The grain is exhausted, the city is about to be broken, and the reinforcements have not arrived." Yang Qiguan's move is excusable, but it's a pity that the imperial court reinforcements came too late, otherwise such a tragedy would not have happened! ”

"Yes! If reinforcements did not arrive in time, Yongyang eventually fell. After the official army recovers Yongyang in the future, the government and the opposition can also be more tolerant of Yang Qiguan, and he will not die if he has no choice but to surrender to the thief until the end. But the reinforcements arrived at the last moment, and he surrendered without anyone else surrendering, so the nature is different, and Yang Qiguan must die! He died, but he was able to save the court from prosecution and save the lives of his family and subordinates. Chen Fangshu said.

Lin Fan also agreed with Chen Fangshu's idea, if Yang Peng was given another chance, he would definitely persist until the end! It's a pity that things in the world have never had a chance to happen again, and they can only sigh in vain.

"How's the situation in the Inspection Division now?" Since Lin Fan was removed from his post and detained, he is no longer an inspector, and he has no reason to ask about official business. So since he was taken into custody, he has always been reluctant to talk about official business, and always avoids these things intentionally or unintentionally, and this is the first time he has taken the initiative to ask about the official duties of the inspection department.

"Lord Hui, after we entered the city, the station of the Inspection Division was occupied by the thieves, and when it was recovered later, it was almost destroyed by the thieves. However, it has now begun to be repaired, and it is believed that it will be restored soon. ”

"The pensions of the brothers who died in the war and the wounded are still waiting for the pension of the imperial court, but the families of those brothers cannot wait, otherwise they will starve. We can only do what the adults said, let the white shopkeeper of Deyue Lou pay in advance, and wait for the money from the court to be allocated before repaying. ”

"There are also those who are dead and wounded, and the young and strong, their number is too many, and together they are not a small number. The white shopkeeper couldn't take out so many silver taels for a while, and said

I'm trying to figure it out. When it came to money, Chen Fangshu was a little worried.

Lin Fan knew what Bai Yuqing said to think of, with the financial resources of Yuelou, he couldn't get so much money to kill him.

It's just that Bai Yuqing knows Lin Fan's identity, and Lin Fan also gave her the right to mobilize part of the Lin family's industry in Jiangzhou.

What she has to do is nothing more than to withdraw money from the Lin family's property in Anzhou, so Lin Fan is not too worried about this aspect, and believes that Bai Yuqing will soon be able to raise enough silver taels.

"In this war, the inspection department is almost wiped out, how is the reconstruction of the inspection department doing?" This is what Lin Fan really cares about.

"The recruitment of new recruits went relatively smoothly, we just put out the names of adults, and those who wanted to join the army almost stepped through the threshold of the inspection department. In less than two days, the inspection department has made up for the manpower, and they are all carefully selected, the foundation is very good, and it has begun to train according to the original method, I believe that in the near future, the inspection department will be able to recover its previous combat strength, and even surpass it. Chen Fangshu laughed a few words.

"It's just that everyone is complaining about the adults, and they keep surrounding us and asking when the adults will come back. Including some of the old brothers who survived, everyone is looking forward to it! Speaking of this, his expression was a little depressed.

"Haha, I don't think it will be too long. It's just that it takes time for the news to enter Beijing, and it will take a little more than a month to wait until the results are reported to the imperial court. Lin Fan looked very open, and comforted Chen Fangshu in turn.

The main reason why Lin Fan was so calm was that he knew that he would be fine.

In fact, the most dangerous thing for Lin Fan is on the side of Huainan Dao officialdom. After all, he committed a taboo in officialdom, if Shi Qiuming, who had already killed Anzhou Zhizhou and others, wanted to appease the Huainan Dao officialdom where everyone was in danger after the war ended, and killed him, a person who had offended the entire officialdom, without asking, then he didn't have any reason.

However, Shi Qiuming did not do this, but stood on his side to a certain extent. With Shi Qiuming's status and status, since he said that he would say good things for himself in the compromises, he would not break his promise.

If Shi Qiuming, as the governor of Huainan Province, needs to ask for the royal order banner if he wants to kill an official like the governor of Anzhou, then he only needs one sentence to kill a small Jiupin official like himself.

Now it is wartime, Lin Fan is a military officer, Shi Qiuming killed him with a military order, no one will find a governor for the life or death of a nine-rank petty official, so Shi Qiuming has no need to play so many tricks.

He didn't even need to do it himself, as long as he revealed a little bit of this meaning, Lin Fan would have died in prison a long time ago, and countless people rushed to do it for him.

And as long as Shi Qiuming doesn't move him and lets the news enter Beijing, it is actually the safest for Lin Fan.

His Majesty the Emperor and the group of Beijing officials in the palace were not threatened by the thieves, and they would not understand why Tian Wujian abandoned the city and fled.

After reading the great truth of sacrificing their lives for righteousness all their lives, they will only despise Tian Wuji's greed for life and fear of death for no reason, and then applaud Lin Fan.

Many of them may also feel a little regretful, thinking that it is too cheap to kill with a knife. People like him should be cut with a thousand cuts.

It's just that I don't know if they would have changed their minds if they had been put in the kind of situation that Tian Wuqian was in at that time.

And although not many people know about the relationship between Lin Ruxian and Lin Fan, there is still an archive in the Ministry of Officials, not to mention the ubiquitous Tsing Yi Wei.

This matter was transmitted to the Beijing Division, and Tsing Yiwei, as the eyes and ears of the Son of Heaven, would definitely find out what Lin Fan had done since he took office.

With Tsing Yiwei's intelligence network, except for a very few hidden things such as Lin Fan's true purpose of creating Deyue Tower and secretly plotting to rob and kill Gao Wensheng, there are not many things that can be hidden from Tsing Yiwei's eyes.

If Tsing Yi Wei wants to investigate, these things may not be able to be hidden, but Tsing Yi Wei monitors the world and may not care about what happens in such a small place.

In short, with Lin Fan's identity and the foundation of his contributions, it is impossible for Lin Fan to be fine.

At most, it will be squeezed out in the officialdom in the future, after all, no one wants to follow and work with people who may stab themselves to death with a knife. And for these, Lin Fan has long been mentally prepared.