Chapter 13

Out of the yamen, Wu Pinya, who was dressed in a green shirt, looked no different from the scholars in Qinghe City. Although this Qinghe is located in the north of the Yangtze River, it can rely on the prosperity of its market, but it is also a place where culture and education flourish, and it is a famous academy in the north of the river. So almost no one will notice a scholar like him.

Walking on this street, Wu Pinya will occasionally look at the prosperity of this market, hundreds of miles in this square garden, I am afraid that only here because the Qinghe River, which has not been fired, still retains the prosperity of the old dynasty.

"If it weren't for Li Chuang, how could Qingyu enter the customs? How can this be the case in this world? ”

He sighed slightly, with a hint of chagrin and regret in his expression, and then he continued to walk out of the city, but the steps were a little heavier than before.

Sometimes, he would look at the passers-by in front of him, only to see that on their seemingly shaved heads, there was only a black black black the size of a copper coin, and some black hair was braided into a foot-long braid, hanging down like a rat's tail, swaying from side to side with the footsteps of pedestrians.

When the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, I don't know how many people died for this "money rat tail", and the Manchu butcher's knife killed how many people I don't know? Billions of people died tragically under the knife.

Although he didn't want to look at it, the so-called "money rat tail" still kept intruding into his sight while swaying from side to side. So that he simply could not ignore, ignore all this.

And the passerby's "money rat tail" only made Wu Pinya feel the sadness and coolness on the top of his bare head, which was more of a sadness.

Wu Pinya just walked with his hands behind his back, thinking that he was walking in the alley between the alleys on the side of the road, and whenever he tried to stroke his beard with his hand as in the past, to see if anyone was following behind, he found that his chin was already very clean, and the beard on that face, except for the upper lip beard, which only left more than ten rat whiskers, had already been tweezers according to the hair system of this dynasty, and the smoothness between his fingers made his face change slightly, and his eyes couldn't help but feel a slight heat.

As a Manchurian clothed minion, she not only had to keep the so-called "money rat tail", but even her beard, she had to use tweezers to tweezer it off according to the old rules of the Manchurians, leaving only a dozen mouse-like beards.

"Insulting people to this, but how can anyone endure it?"

The sudden voice in her heart made Wu Pinya's whole person become more and more sad and angry.

But don't you still endure it?

When this thought came to her heart, Wu Pinya, who suddenly felt a sense of shame and indignation, quickly turned her head away, leaned her head slightly, and tried to hide the sourness and shame in her heart, but the shame on her face was indeed difficult to hide.

"For more than ten years, I have endured humiliation and burden, and there is a time to see the light of day! The day is not far off! ”

The hand holding the folding fan also clenched tighter, and even the bitter gaze revealed this perseverance. Even his steps have become much lighter.

Soon, he entered a house in the alley, and the strong man who was guarding outside the house just glanced at him, and did not stop him, but let him enter the house.

After entering the room, he saw two people sitting in the room, one of them was Pan Ziqin, the leader of the Cao Gang, and the other looked quite rich but had never seen it.

Who is he?

"Mr. Wu!"

When Wu Pinya was puzzled, Pan Ziqin had already clenched his fists and introduced the person next to him.

"I invite Mr. to come over today, there is something important to discuss with Mr., this is Zheng Xiaru from Yangzhou, Master Zheng, he was ordered by Zhu Junmen to come to Qinghe to contact the remnants of our dynasty to respond to the Northern Expedition of the Military Gate!"

"Zhu Junmen!"

As soon as he heard these three words, Wu Pinya's whole person became excited. Before Pan Ziqin finished speaking, he hurriedly asked.

"But the bloody battle of Tongjimen, the Zhu Junmen who won the southern capital!"

Not to mention Wu Pinya, it is the common people in Qinghe County, and there are a few people who don't know the famous Zhu Junmen, not to mention that Wu Pinya has heard of Zhu Mingzhong's name in Caoyun Yamen. For Zhu Junmen, who is regarded as the first fierce general of the Zheng Army, he has admired him for a long time, and in his opinion, when he is the Northern Expedition of the Zheng Army, this Zhu Junmen must be the vanguard of the Northern Expedition. Even a long time ago, he had already thought about how he would cooperate with them to seize the city once Zhu Junmen called.

"It's my family's military gate!"

Wu Pinya's excitement made Zheng Xiaru feel quite proud. If Pan Ziqin hadn't told him, he wouldn't have believed that the Governor of Caoyun's personal clothes would actually be a remnant of the previous dynasty.

According to his thoughts, people like this should be the most loyal to the Manchus, after all, they are all appreciated by their masters, and people like them are the most loyal, and this Wu Pinya according to the rules of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, may be able to release a county in a few years.

In this case, how could they be willing to do it anyway, but the person in front of him subverted his thoughts.

Thinking about him, thinking about himself, it seemed that everything made sense. Everyone has their own reasons.

"I don't know what Zhu Junmen has sent, please rest assured, but if the military gate is sent, as long as Wu can do it, he will do his best!"

For Wu Pinya, he has been looking forward to and looking forward to the day when the sun and moon will reappear in the world, and when the news of the restoration of the southern capital came, it made him who was already desperate reborn hope, and it was precisely because of this that he took the initiative to contact Pan Ziqin of the Cao Gang, many secrets in the governor's yamen, and because of this, Pan Ziqin knew that there were traitors in the Cao Gang.

Now, even if Zhu Mingzhong, who took the southern capital, has an order, he is naturally willing to obey his orders, how could he refuse.

"Mr. Wu is polite, Mr. Wu is in Cao Ying's heart in Han, my military gate knows it, this time the military gate sent Zheng to Qinghe to contact the remnants of the people, the picture, one is to seize Qinghe County, this Qinghe is the important place of the canal, if you want to go north, you have to seize this city, and the second is for the granary of Qinghe County, the army has not moved the grain and grass first, this Qinghe County granary has no less than hundreds of thousands of stones, if it can be won, the army will go on the Northern Expedition, and there will be no need to worry about the grain and grass!"

In the thirteenth year of Yongle, after moving north, the imperial court decided to build Changyingcang on the south bank of Qingjiangpu. Changying warehouse is mainly used to store grain from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and two lakes, which is a granary for storing and transporting grain. After the "Nancao" entered the Changying warehouse, the grain was transported by ships such as Huai'anwei and Dahewei to the granary set up under the Governor's Mansion of the Cangchang in Tongzhou, Beijing. Because of this, the stock of Changying storage is maintained at more than 30 to 1 million stone all year round; At the same time, 2 ordinary warehouses, 3 reserve grain depots, and 5 zhuang warehouses were also set up in Qinghe City to ensure that the grain could be transported to Beijing at any time. And these granaries are under the jurisdiction of the Yamen, the governor of Caoyun, and Wu Pinya is naturally very familiar with this, and can even be said to know very well.

"The grain in Changying's warehouse is not hundreds of thousands of stones!"

Shaking his head, Wu Pinya corrected Zheng Xiaru's words.

"At present, although the southern grain is cut off, the milled rice and grain in the Changying warehouse are still as many as one million stones, and the Qing Dynasty originally wanted to transport part of the grain to the Beijing division for the captives, but because the captives went south, Shunzhi Xiao'er ordered the grain to be left in the Qinghe River when it was Kang, so that the grain in the Beicao granaries such as Tongzhou was supplied, so the milled rice stored in the Changying warehouse was no less than one million stones, if it was added to the ordinary warehouses and Zhuang warehouses in Qinghe City, the grain under this was not less than 1.2 million stones!"

Rao is used to seeing the world, and when he heard Wu Pinya say this, he heard that there would be so much grain there. Zheng Xiaru was still gasping in shock, and even a thought appeared in his heart - developed!

"There's so much food!"

When Zheng Xiaru and Pan Ziqin were surprised, Zheng Xiaru even said.

"Therefore, the more this is the case, the more we can't let the Qing captives burn the grain, with this million stone of grain, he will naturally have no worries about the Northern Expedition, our army has said that if we can keep the grain of Changyingcang, my Han people can bear one less point one point one day, and the Han people in the world are suffering, and if they can bear one point less, it will be one point!"

Although Zhu Mingzhong did not say this, it did not prevent Zheng Xiaru from wearing a high hat for him, this kind of sycophant is often the most effective.

"The military gate is benevolent!"

Wu Pinya, who was born in the camp, hurriedly praised him, and at the same time admired Zhu Mingzhong even more. Then he thought for a moment, and then said.

"Actually, if you want to keep the grain in the ever-surplus warehouse, it's simple, but this matter has to be helped by the brothers......

As he spoke, he shared his thoughts one by one.

"There are only more than 1,000 guards in this Changying warehouse, and most of the guards are busy with the transfer of grain, if the Cao Gang brothers can take the opportunity to kill the soldiers and seize the warehouse when the grain is transferred into the Changying warehouse, this Changying warehouse must have no worries!"

Wu Pinya's suggestion only made Pan Ziqin and Zheng Xiaru's eyes light up, which was similar to their thoughts, but there was only one problem.

"The Cao Gang is naturally easy to handle here, but the key is that this Cao grain transfer must have the official certificate of the Governor's Yamen......

Wu Pinya looked at the two of them with a smile, gently unfolded the folding fan and fanned it a few times, and smiled at them.

"This official matter, naturally Wu Mou will do it, this granary is easy to take, but it can be ......"

Staring at the two, Wu Pinya asked rhetorically.

"How should this Qinghe County be taken? Otherwise, if you only go down to the granary, how can you last long? ”

Looking at the two people in front of him, Wu Pinya knew that since Zheng Xiaru in front of him had come here, he must have already had a case for seizing the city, and he needed to know something, so that he could help them seize this Qinghe County.

Of course, more importantly, he needs to know whether the other person trusts him through this, and although he decides to help the other person, he also needs to know that the other person trusts him.

What satisfied him was that Zheng Xiaru did not hide it in the slightest, and after the two discussed the siege of the city, Zheng Xiaru looked at the thoughtful Wu Pinya and said.

"Mr. Wu, I have a question for Mr. Why are you willing to leave behind your current glory and wealth? Help me with the army? ”

Faced with this question, Wu Pinya was silent for a moment, and then said.

"Because Wu is Han!"