In fact, it was not only the people of Lubo County who were outraged, but also large-scale civil unrest in other areas where the plague broke out.

It's just strange that a leader like "Mr. White" will appear in almost every region.

Under the instigation of these "Mr. Bai", the people, who were already resentful because they were besieged by the government and waiting for death, united to storm the city gates, and even killed or wounded many officers and soldiers in the conflict.

Although the officers and soldiers had weapons, the number of civilians was too large, and the officers and soldiers were afraid of being contaminated with the plague and did not dare to get too close to these rebels, as a result, the gates of the various county towns were quickly smashed open by the rebels.

Once the gates are slammed open, the rioters will scatter and flee, unable to catch them even if they want to.

Not only that, but rumors that the capital was giving porridge to the victims of the disaster spread more and more among the rioters, so most of the rioters went to the capital in unison, just to have something to eat.

When they heard the news that a large number of rebellious people from the epidemic area were gathering on the side of Xinjing, both the court officials and the common people were all frightened.

None of these people who came out of the epidemic area knew whether they had been infected or not.

What if these rioters were really allowed to flee to Xinjing?

For a moment, everyone was very nervous.

Not only Xinjing, but also the prefectures and counties have tightened their vigilance, and the city gates are closed to prevent any outsiders from entering.

Everyone has to eat, and the people who have escaped from the epidemic area are not the same.

In order to survive, they had to obey the command of the "Mr. Bai" who had incited them to rebel against the government, and began to plunder all the villages and small county towns they encountered along the way, especially the caravans of the imperial merchants who transported their supplies to various places for sale.

Under the instigation of well-intentioned people, these originally peaceful and disciplined ordinary people have completely become chaotic people in order to survive.

Many towns and caravans were plundered, and many people were killed or wounded.

For these chaotic people who came out of the epidemic area and were likely to be infected with the plague, the local government was reluctant to send troops to arrest them, so as not to let their own soldiers also be infected with the plague.

Therefore, as long as these rioters do not really come in, the local government will adopt a laissez-faire attitude of turning a blind eye and plundering everywhere with them.

As the government in various localities deliberately released the water underwater, the rioters gathered more and more, forming a number of forces that seriously affected the security of the local periphery.

Not only were the surrounding villages and small county towns looted, but even the caravans of the imperial merchants were robbed several times.

So that these imperial merchants no longer dare to easily send caravans to various places to do business, unless there are soldiers and horses to protect them, and they must be a large group of soldiers and horses.

Because of the large number of rioters, tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of people, if there are not enough soldiers in charge of escorting, these hungry and crazy mobs will still desperately grab it.

Under the instigation and guidance of well-intentioned people, nearly 200,000 displaced people who ran out of the epidemic area gathered in the direction of the capital, and soon surrounded the roads leading to the capital.

This is Mr. Qiu's backhand planted in advance.

He had long expected that in order to stop the spread of the plague, local officials would most likely adopt the previous practice of isolating the entire village or county town where the disease occurred.

Although this practice was effective in preventing the spread of the plague, it could easily cause riots.

Because the people who are locked up inside will definitely have a grudge against the government after knowing that the government does not care about their life or death, and they are afraid that they and their families will get sick.

All Mr. Qiu had to do was make a hole in the boiling steamer.

All he had to do was let the spies who stayed there stir up these desperate people, and it would be enough for them to become a mob that dared to rebel against the government.

The local government was afraid of being contaminated with the plague, and it certainly did not dare to send troops to suppress it easily.

In this way, these mobs that have been incited will be able to cause chaos in the whole of Jiangnan.

And the news that Xinjing was giving soup to the victims was naturally spread by him, with the aim of leading all the displaced people to the capital.

Things have developed to this point, and everything is as Mr. Qiu expected.

However, this is not the end result that Mr. Qiu wants, what he really wants is something more substantial.

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Just when the victims in various places were in turmoil in Jiangnan, an eight-hundred-mile urgent report reached the capital, which shocked everyone in the imperial court.

This urgent report was written by Du Chunlin, the commander of the Jiangkou Prefecture, and the content inside was shocking.

A month ago, Jiangkou Mansion was being attacked by more than 200,000 Hu troops, and the battle situation was urgent, Du Chunlin implored the imperial court to send reinforcements immediately, otherwise Jiangkou would be in danger!

The reason why this urgent report was delayed for more than a month before it was delivered to the capital was not because Du Chunlin, who was the commander of Jiangkou Prefecture, deliberately neglected it, there was really no way.

It turned out that when Hu Daren sent troops to besiege Jiangkou Mansion, Du Chunlin immediately sent heralds to the capital on fast horses to report the news while strengthening the defense.

But days passed, but there was no news, and I didn't know what had happened. He had to send more spies to investigate.

Only after this investigation did I learn that the passages around the capital had long been occupied by a large number of displaced people, not to mention the war horses, and even people couldn't get through.

The herald might have been killed on the way, no wonder there was no news.

This time and again, it has been delayed for almost half a month, but the Hu people's offensive is getting more and more fierce.

What's even worse is that Jiangkou Mansion, which was originally guarded by 200,000 troops, now only has 170,000 soldiers available, and the remaining 30,000 soldiers are all infected with sores and are locked up.

In addition to the more than 30,000 soldiers who were infected with the disease, more than 20,000 people and craftsmen were also infected with the plague, who were also locked up and quarantined.

And at this juncture, the Hu people suddenly led a large army to attack the city.

In this extremely urgent situation, Du Chunlin was so anxious that he was so anxious that he even had multiple blisters at the corners of his mouth.

In desperation, Du Chunlin could only order a number of spies to disguise themselves as rebels and blend in, hoping to send the letter to the capital as soon as possible.

After several twists and turns, a spy finally managed to sneak in, and finally sent the letter to the capital.

This is the reason why this urgent report was delayed for more than a month before it was delivered to the capital.

And all of this is in Mr. Qiu's plan.

The purpose of sending spies to incite the displaced people to gather in Xinjing was to prevent the heralds of Jiangkou Province from delivering messages to Xinjing, so as to buy as much time as possible for the Hu people to attack Jiangkou Province.

This urgent report not only shocked everyone, but also allowed the sick An Guogong to return to the military headquarters despite his illness, and then quickly ordered the second son Xie Yuheng to be the commander, and ordered him to lead 200,000 troops to Jiangkou as quickly as possible to reinforce.

Just in case, An Guogong even gave the more than 2,000 precious fire guns at the bottom of the box to his second son Xie Yuheng.

Due to the urgency of the situation, An Guogong no longer cares about the process of asking Emperor An to give an order first, and then sending troops as before, so he simply crossed Emperor He and sent troops directly.

The reason why he had to send troops so urgently was because An Guogong knew very well that Jiangkou Mansion was a choke point to guard the entrance to Jiangnan, and once Jiangkou was lost, the Hu army could invade Jiangnan in a big way through there.

The Xie family has lost the southwest and south, and the north will fall into the hands of the Ning family sooner or later, and Jiangnan is their last territory and place to turn over.

If Jiangnan is lost, then where else can their Xie family go?

The Xie family, there is no way back.

This is a life-and-death battle for the Xie clan, no matter what, we must defend Jiangkou and Jiangnan!