Zhang Dai's anger naturally has its reasons.

Whether it is the rejection of scholars by the top-level design, the middle-level wealthy no longer chase Confucianism, but are interested in the "science" of the craftsmen who can open factories and make money every day, while the low-level civilians are even more ignorant and discriminate against readers.

At this time, I saw this anti-bone boy in the south of the Yangtze River, and he was also a humble boat owner, a person who eats on the canal all the year round, wearing a monkey and a crown to serve in Yidi bought from the imperial capital, (leather clothes) talking eloquently about the ambition of his family after immigrating to the north, and he is also very interested in what overseas gold and silver mountains.

Zhang Dai is not used to attacking people head-on, in fact, with his identity, he doesn't need to attack anything, after all, every day is to please his subordinates, the guests of the autumn wind or something.

In the evening, Zhang Dai read the poems a few times, looked at the magazines of the oracle bones, but before going to bed, he felt bad, and then remembered that there was no toilet on the ship, let alone a flush toilet, only a wooden dirty toilet, in fact, in this era, people on the water are generally poured directly into the water, otherwise where did those infectious diseases come from?

After the imperial capital got used to these strange and obscene things, Zhang Dai originally scoffed at this, unable to do some vulgar things, where can it compare to poetry and songs? But as soon as you get out of the imperial capital, it is inconvenient.

Zhang Dai endured the fishy smell and ordered the servants to pour out those filthy things, but he imagined that it would be nice if there were flush toilets made of those ceramics, but he immediately thought that this was not the result of the elders of the imperial capital having no eyes and despising themselves!

There are such good things, and it is unacceptable not to quickly distribute them to erudite and talented scholars with high moral character, but to sell them to these peddlers and pawns!

The resentment became more and more full, and when Zhang Dai passed Shandong, he fell ill directly and had a fever.

The servants dared to wait slowly, and quickly found a way to get off the ship, no matter where it was, to find the doctor, who had also passed the medical skills, but it was an ordinary diarrhea, so the condition was alleviated by dividing it by two.

That Zhang Dai was naturally scared, because in the imperial capital, he didn't go to those museums or the façade of the street to preach hygiene knowledge in vain, but he knew the common sense that there are dirty things in what people eat.

The richer the man, the more afraid of death, and only then did he recall how dirty his living habits were in the past days, so he became hysterical.

In the end, it's the fault of the imperial capital! Who told you not to send the highest doctor to serve with you to protect my lord's survival and well-being!

In fact, Zhang Dai just stayed in the imperial capital for dozens of days, and he began to be inseparable from the disinfected tap water in the imperial capital, and the reaction was a little big, according to the essence, it was not really lying down, but he was old, and the fatigue of the boat and car itself consumed physical strength, and the mood fluctuations every day were too great, so he lay down all of a sudden.

When I got up again, I remembered that even if I drank water, there might be countless small insects, and they were even more tasteless and couldn't lift their energy, but they were just a little weaker.

From the canal to the Yangtze River, although the twists and turns, it was smooth, and Zhang Dai gradually adapted to the original life, but the imprint of the various convenient lives in the imperial capital was remembered, and the packs of toilet paper bought by the servants before departure had been used up, which made Zhang Dai unbearable.

Zhang Daisi thought about it, or planned to go to Nanjing, his trip to the imperial capital was too embarrassing, if the people in the imperial capital caught him, the tiger chair pepper water was served, he came out and could still hold his head high and claim that when we were in the imperial capital, how loyal and unyielding, how not afraid of those bearded thieves.

However, the final truth is that people completely ignore Zhang Dai, which is even more hurtful than finding him to beat and scold.

Of course, in the rhetoric prepared by Zhang Dai, he was magnificent in the imperial capital, and met an elder who was arrogant and lascivious and lascivious and hugged a woman for fun in the restaurant, so he accused the people of the imperial capital of being miserable, hungry and cold, and the elder immediately bowed his head and apologized, and invited Zhang Dai to be an official in the imperial capital, but Zhang Dai dropped a few words and bent his waist for five buckets of rice, so he resolutely returned to Jiangnan and gave birth to him to raise his homeland.

Of course, this kind of lie cannot be debunked, and it is impossible for the elders to target and eliminate everyone who claims to have spoken to them, or to debunk them, and naturally some of them start to spray indiscriminately after returning home, which makes the elders themselves helpless.

But when he returned to Nanjing, Zhang Dai himself felt that his demeanor was a little confused, and his connections in the imperial capital had not yet been activated, and he heard terrible news.

"Master, it's not good, that Ning Nanbo Zuo Liangyu died of a sudden illness, and his son Zuo Mengeng was going to enter the imperial capital with a large army, and the banners were all up, saying that there was a prince by his side, but the thieves in Sichuan were cooperating with them, and sent the thief general Li Dingguo to cooperate, and now the two sides have crossed Jiujiang and are besieging Anqing!"

"What!"

Zhang Dai was frightened, quickly stood up, and said, "Go find the carriage, I want to go back to Shaoxing, this is for Nanjing." ”

"It's night."

"Stupid, then go find the carriage, my lord I want to go home!"

Zhang Dai was so anxious, the army had all reached Anqing, why hadn't he heard about it all the way?

In fact, if Zhang Dai set off a day late, then he could see that in the newspaper on the second day after he left the imperial capital, it was reported that Zhang Xianzhong and Zuo Mengeng had united, and the two sides exchanged protons with each other, Li Dingguo claimed to have led an army of 200,000 to reinforce Zuo Mengeng in Wuchang, and Zuo Mengeng was not ambiguous, it seemed that he had prepared a large number of warships, and he did not do more entanglement in Hubei, leaving the troops behind his hands to stabilize the rear, and he went directly down the river to hit Nanjing!

The journey was really smooth, especially at this time, it was just past midsummer, the weather was still warm, and a large number of boats swam upstream, many of them were ships carrying grain upstream.

Sun Tzu said in the Art of War that a wise general should eat the enemy, eat the enemy for one hour, and be my twenty bells; Eat one stone of the enemy, when I have twenty stones, this is because of the difficulty of transporting grain, the cost is huge, these grain ships and other ships, caught off guard, were controlled by the ships of the Zuo army, and went down the river in one breath, and went towards Anqing in one breath!

In fact, the time difference lies in this, when Anqing received the news, it was actually fake news, one time it was the thieves from the north who came over, all of them were eight feet tall, and their waistlines were also eight feet, and they had to eat a monster of a living person every day, and they would be 30,000 would-be thieves who ran from Fusang Country, all of whom were extremely vicious villains.

And some people say that there is a prince in Nanjing who has ascended the throne, and there are also rumors that the prince ascended the throne in Wuchang, anyway, all kinds of chaotic news spread everywhere.

How important is the geographical location of Anqing? Anhui Province, is to Anqing (An) and Huizhou (Hui) as the word, you say how important, and can control the waterway, can be volleyed at any time, so although Zuo Mengeng suddenly shot and went straight to Nanjing, Anqing had to fight.

Fortunately, Zuo Mengeng didn't have many artillery at hand, and the ruffians and hooligans who had gathered it were enough to coward, but Anqing had been guarding against Mrs. Xing, after her troops completed the firearms, although the ammunition used for training was still controlled, but the aggressive posture made several cities in Jiangbei can only kneel and lick, and also gave a lot of "protection money", but the string of defense is not daring to relax, according to countless news, the cannon in Mrs. Xing's hand can deal with these city walls!

Therefore, Anqing's approach is to try to reduce the corruption of the people from the hands of the people, only half of the corruption, and then the other half is really open to the preparation of consolidating the north wall and strengthening the defense.

However, in the face of the sudden appearance of the enemy from the Yangtze River, Anqing was beaten to a climax, and it was difficult to recruit strong men to plug the gap.

What's more, the place where Li Dingguo shined for the first time was not in Sichuan, but suddenly appeared in Anqing, his troops first waited outside the city, and while Zuo Mengeng's troops were preparing siege equipment, they found a good direction and made full preparations.

When Zuo Mengeng's troops moved, the first thing that appeared was the thick smoke drifting from the northwest outside the city, once this smoke was contaminated, people coughed non-stop, and their eyes hurt and couldn't be opened.

It turned out that after Li Dingguo returned to Sichuan, he knew that the gap between the strength of himself and others and the imperial capital was too big, and he learned from the pain, but he found this poisonous weed in a certain minority area, and burned it with the direction of the wind, although it was difficult to be fatal, but it would basically lose its combat effectiveness in a short period of time!

Thanks to the fact that rookies pecked each other on both sides, Zuo Menggeng's father Zuo Liangyu was a weak chicken himself, and the son he brought out was naturally even weaker, but fortunately, Anqing was caught off guard, and the official himself was not a heroic figure, and the act of quietly sending his family away also led to a collapse in the confidence of the rich households in the city.

After Li Dingguo lit the poisonous smoke on the third day, he saw that although the people in the city barely covered their noses with cloths, the army's morale was in turmoil, he laughed and said, "Anqing, it's broken." ”

As long as the city wall is opened, then the ruffians recruited by Zuo Mengeng are simply like a group of tigers, not to mention, the biggest problem in Anqing is the homeless people outside the city, the homeless people in this era are basically the bottom of the mouth who have been oppressed, for the people in the city, they are not allowed to go out of the city, and the rich families are happy to see that some people are affected by the disaster, and take the opportunity to buy little girls cheaply to play with.

If it was discovered early, maybe someone would have found a way to let these homeless people enter the city to hide, but since Zuo Menggeng's troops were too sudden, then they couldn't resist it.

The displaced people outside the city have already been instigated, and Zuo Mengeng also has some brains, knowing that the unorganized displaced people going to the city are sent to death, so it is also a good idea to control them as laborers.

For the Confucians, it was beneficial for the Confucians to systematically create the poor and the homeless, otherwise where would they go to buy cheap maids, and all kinds of servants would also be needed.

In the past years, maybe the north has been hurt in turn, but the cities in the south of the Yangtze River have played beautifully.

Hearing that there are homeless people, the first to smile is the old bustards from all over the country, they bring a little copper money, broken silver, and even a little dry food, so they go to find a way to buy those young girls, followed by children who can still work, and those who take the opportunity to buy slaves, anyway, they are all eight immortals across the sea to show their powers, and these homeless people are often all kinds of victims and bullied people.

Now they were wide-eyed, with all sorts of messy things in their hands, some empty-handed, and they were promised that they could take whatever they wanted after they rushed into the city.

Zuo Mengeng said regretfully: "After taking Anqing, we must immediately go to fight Nanjing, and the women and money in the city can only be cheap for these poor ghosts." ”

Sun Zhengqi beside him, that is, Sun Kewang's son, was also sent to help in the war this time, he said: "What are you afraid of, let those poor ghosts enter the city first, they may not be able to defeat the defeated soldiers, and there are no guys, and they can't open the landlord's house, and when they are tired, I will lead the troops over again, kill and kill!" ”

Li Dingguo looked a little bad, but he also knew that if he wanted to survive, he had to have a good relationship with the Zuo Mengeng in front of him, and said: "The city is broken, then it's time to find a way to go to Nanjing, everything must be as soon as possible, at this time, I'm afraid Nanjing has received the news." ”

Zuo Mengeng smiled and said, "Okay, a few of you, go to the show girl camp to pick twenty beauties, and I will have fun with a few brothers of the Great Western Army." ”

Not to mention how the two praised the recently caught beauties like clouds, and how Zuo Mengeng boasted to Tubao Sun Zhengqi about how she was in Nanjing, the prostitutes of Qinhuai River really brought together the world's best colors, causing Sun Zhengqi to vow to take Nanjing as soon as possible.

"Major General, there is an enemy situation!"

From the periphery of the old camp where a few people were standing, a few people rushed in, it seemed that some people were wounded, and it was forbidden to ride horses in the old camp, but as the scouts sent by Li Dingguo had the permission to enter without notification.

"What's going on!" Li Dingguo knew that something was wrong and immediately walked out.

"In the north of the city, there was a large army, there were a thousand people, I don't know how many there are behind, but there are guns and cannons, which is not easy to deal with."

Li Dingguo's heart suddenly trembled, and said, "What kind of banner do you see!" ”

"It's a punishment word, but there is a flag next to it, it's weird, it's all red, and it's still square."

Quad Flag!

Mrs. Xing!

Li Dingguo immediately remembered what he had seen in the imperial capital, and the elders of the imperial capital liked the flag of the four directions, not the leopard tail flag that was customary in the Ming Dynasty, and it was not the kind of flag inlaid with various laces, but a flag full of red, which was very prominent on many important occasions.

He also asked secretly, and the answer he received was that it symbolized the blood of the people's heroes who died fighting tyranny since ancient times.

Li Dingguo felt ridiculous, but he didn't dare to say anything, but now, he really met an army equipped with such a banner on the battlefield!

"It's only a thousand people, ha, it's too few, how to lead the troops is still a girl."

Zuo Mengeng felt that it was useless, now the vanguard has basically occupied a section of the city wall of Anqing City, and the city is no longer able to countercharge, as long as it is defended and the city gate is opened, then the ten thousand angry homeless people will be driven in to kill people, and everything will be fine.

(End of chapter)