Since Yongle moved north more than 200 years ago, "the needs of the military state are all dependent on the southeast", in order to ensure that four or five million stone grains are transported north to Beijing every year, the imperial court has established a huge transportation system with the coordinated participation of all departments and yamen. In order to ensure the transportation of grain, the Ming generation appointed a large number of officers to be stationed in Huai to control the transportation. The Qinghe choke, salt, river, and post stations have become one of the most prosperous cities in the canal. After entering the Qing Dynasty, it did not change its status, and even because it was not slaughtered, it was even more prosperous than Yangzhou and other places.

Even at this time, when the Jiangnan Cao Yun was cut off because of the Jiangnan Ke Fu, the Qinghe City was even a little more lively than in the past, all because of this Cao Yun, thousands of Cao boats and tens of thousands of boatmen were stranded here, which only made the restaurants and brothels along the coast much more lively than in the past.

However, compared to the prosperity of this neighborhood, it seems a little deserted in the city, for hundreds of years, Qinghe has long formed a completely different layout from any other city, and the city is deserted mostly for the government office, and there are many prosperous shops and restaurants outside the city.

Located in the city of Caoyun Governor Yamen, the atmosphere has become increasingly tense these days, and even the Yahuan in this mansion is also cautious, for fear that one is not careful, and will be dragged out and killed by the old man, these days there is more than one Yahuan who has been killed, and in the eyes of the governor of Manchuria, the Yahuan in this mansion is no different from livestock.

"The gates must be closed!"

When he was excited again, he was a little nervous and said to the master beside him.

"If you don't close the city gate, what if the thief attacks?"

For Zhu Mingzhong, it can be said that he was even a little grateful, as the governor of Caoyun, when the Zheng thief attacked, he received the will of the imperial court, ordering him to lead the troops to rescue Jiangning, and lead the troops? What kind of soldiers? Just rely on those Cao Ding? How can he stop the wolf-like thief Zheng?

When he explained to the court that Cao Ding was useless, in the face of the court's severe reprimand and his will to rescue Nanjing, he even wanted to die.

In the face of the strict decree of the imperial court, after he ordered Qi Cao Ding, he looked at the lazy and useless appearance of those Cao Ding, and he even had only one thought left - death!

"Either die to a thief or die to the law!"

Faced with such a choice, what else can be done besides death?

Although Kang Deshi was born in Shanxi, and he was smart since he was a child, he was admitted to Xiucai at the age of 12. In the eighth year of Chongzhen, when Dolgon led the Qing troops into the customs, he plundered a large number of people and returned, and he was one of them. Then he was willing to be driven by the Manchus, from a servant to a scholar in the National History Academy. With his outstanding talents, he was appreciated by the emperor, and later became the governor of Henan, and then the official to the secretary of the military department and the right deputy imperial envoy of the Imperial Inspectorate, the governor of Caoyun, the governor of Fengyang and other places, and the military affairs of coastal defense and the management of food and salary.

As a Han person, he has such a heavy position, after all, even Hong Chengchou, who made a great favor for the Qing Dynasty, was only a secretary of the military department, but he could not concurrently serve as the governor of Caoyun. was first carried into the Han Army Banner, and then was carried into the Manchu Eight Banners, Mu Huang's grace is not unimportant, and it is precisely because of this that he has the idea of repaying the king's grace with death.

Just when he was becoming more and more desperate in his heart, and even determined to repay Jun's kindness with death, the news that Jiang Ning was conquered by the Zheng pirates came, although he was worried that Jiang Ning Jiancheng was so easily defeated, but for him, it was more of a blessing, glad that he didn't need to lead troops to reinforce Jiang Ning.

People are always greedy for wealth and cherish life, especially people like him, if they don't cherish their lives, how can they take refuge in the Manchus after being plundered, and be willing to be used by captives?

"Master, now thousands of boats are piled up at the Qinghe wharf, and tens of thousands of boatmen are gathered around the city, if you rush to close the city, I am afraid that there will be a disaster, and please think twice,"

As Kangde's personal entourage, Wu Pinya followed him as early as when he was in Beijing, and the situation of the two was similar, but Kangde was plundered by the Qing captives, and he was plundered by the thieves, if Li Chuang was undefeated back then, maybe the situation of the two would be different.

It's just that after Li broke out and fled from Beijing, Wu Pinya was captured by the Qing captives, and then he was rewarded to Kang Deshi, and then slowly gained his trust with Kang Deshi's mansion before becoming his personal minion. And the reason why Kang Deshi appreciated him was because when he went out of Henan and the governor of Heyun, Wu Pinya gave him a lot of advice, and because of this, his suggestions could often influence Kang Deshi's decisions.

"Boatman......

Pondering these two words, thinking of the tens of thousands of people inside and outside the city, his eyes suddenly turned cold, and he said sharply.

"Hmph, those boatmen used to be all guards under the Cao Mansion of the previous dynasty, and these Han dogs were all ill-intentioned people and made trouble! Instead of waiting for them to make trouble, it is better to cut through the mess quickly! Kill! ”

When he went out of Henan, he relied on an "iron fist" to pacify the place, cut off all the "thieves" who had not shaved their hair, and relied on an iron fist to forcibly recruit the people to build river workers and rebuild the embankment of the Yellow River. Because of this, he knows what kind of trick he should use.

"Kill all these people, save them from being the internal response of the Zhu thief!"

The murderous intent in his words only made Wu Pinya feel a burst of bloody breath coming to his face, and he who had followed him for many years didn't know that this master, although he was a Han Chinese, was even more vicious to the Han than the Manchus, and he was even more proud of it. If not, how can it be appreciated by the Qing captives? He became the most favored of the Han people, and of course, he did not recognize himself as a Han Chinese......

For him, even if he shouts the master, but he still has the blood of the Han people in his bones, and because of this, almost when he just said to kill someone, he was thinking of an excuse in his mind to prevent him from killing the boatman.

"Master, this, this Caofu soldier was also from Caofu at the beginning, and those boatmen were deeply involved, many of them are relatives, if you use Caoding to kill the boatmen, I am afraid that there will be an accident, and please think twice......"

frowned, how could I not know that Wu Pinya said the truth, when the Qing army went all the way south, in addition to the slaughter all the way, it also collected a lot of Ming troops, this Cao Fu led the Cao soldiers for its surrender, and later cut the expenditure, the Cao soldiers in the Cao soldiers were abolished, leaving only Cao Ding, whether it is the current boatman or Cao Ding, on its origin, it is from the previous dynasty Caofu, if Cao Ding kills the boatman, what will be the result, do not need to think about it, and know that when the time comes, maybe before the boatman is killed, let Cao Ding counterattack......

"These Han dogs are really not worry-free!"

When he said this, he completely forgot that he was also a Han Chinese, of course, he would never admit it now, his brows were tightly locked, and he said with a worried face.

"But with so many boatmen gathered in Qinghe, what if they contacted the pirates in the future, what would they ......do then?"