Ye Xin immediately pulled the horses to camp two miles west of the Lingling, and at the same time sent scouts to surround the whole city of the Lingling to investigate the situation.

By dusk, the movement in the city was getting louder and louder, soldiers and horses were frequently mobilized, and the families of the Manchu civil and military were forcibly taken out of their residences and detained as hostages under various names, or even without names.

At the same time, in the east of the city, except for the rebels who blocked the Prince's Mansion and the Liang State Minister's Palace, only a small number of rebels were still holding the key points in the whole city, and the rest of the places were occupied by armed civilians one after another, each with a white armbandar tied to their left arm to distinguish them.

All the people and horses who were transferred were concentrated in the outer part of the palace in the north of the city and the camp in the south of the city, and surrounded the two places.

Bai Liyan (also Wei Xian) hid in Zhou Caidong's house until dark, and the rebels and thieves were busy controlling the whole city, clearing out the Xian army that refused to accept control and surrender, and for a time did not care about the purge and plunder of the squires, the rich, the powerful, and the nobles in the city.

But after dark, the armed people scattered throughout the city, under the instigation of the thieves, began to plunder the merchants in the east of the city, only let every common people involved in the uprising, quickly become contaminated with evil, taste the sweetness brought by evil, they will die for the Black Turban Army, this is the Black Turban's consistent tricks and means.

Around six o'clock, there was a sudden murderous sound in the south of the city, and the fire was unusually large, and the murderous aura could be felt across a few miles of the boundary.

"They've done it after all!" Gao Xun sighed, his mood sinking to the bottom.

"Gongsun Yue only has two days, if you can't take the tomb within two days, you may become an enemy on your back, Gongsun Yue will inevitably do it tonight, and tomorrow you will clear the Xian army in the city, including the king." Bai Liyan said calmly, and called Jiang Jie to speak: "How is the movement of the Liang State Minister's Mansion and the Prince's Mansion?" ”

"Back to the general, after dark, the thieves withdrew some people, but a lot of civilian troops were transferred."

"It seems that there should be no less than five or six thousand county soldiers who are unwilling to surrender to the camp in the south of the city, and there should be more than 10,000 people in the inner palace of the salt lord forbidden army in the palace, otherwise Gongsun Yue would not have sent so many people to the camp in the south of the city to help in the war. Tell the brethren to get ready to do it. ”

"No!"

In the first battle of Jiangdong, King Xian transferred almost all the defenders of Chenling, as well as half of the forbidden army in the palace, and went to Jiangdong to fight as the main force, which led to the current defenders of the capital, most of them were re-recruited and transferred to supplement the county soldiers.

Last year, the Black Turban rebels attacked the Yongxing River, the Xian army hurriedly met the battle, the forced recruits were weak in combat effectiveness, and the defenders of Shanling had another major change, so most of the county soldiers in Shanling were not Luan Chong's own people, at best, only a quarter to a third, they were the diehards of Luan Chong and Sima Jiang Yan, and Gongsun Yue could control and instigate the new defenders.

As for the forbidden army, the forbidden army has less blood exchange, and the forbidden army compiled by the guard Lang and the guard Lang official is the core group with high loyalty to the Xian King, among which the inner palace and the middle palace are the old bottom of the Xian King, and they are all troops promoted and inherited from generation to generation of the Xian King.

Many of the officers and children among them are salt lords, and several generations or even more than ten generations have worked hard for King Xian, and Lu Gao is one of them, so he has fundamentally formed a systematic family personal dependence relationship, and he will not rebel easily.

The number of this part of the forbidden army loyal to King Xian was about 7,000 to 10,000. Most of the people who Gongsun Yue was able to instigate a mutiny were the outer palace and the forbidden army outside the palace, and the forbidden army in the inner palace and the middle palace should still be under the control of King Xian.

With the sound of killing in the south of the city, how could the prince's mansion and the Liang State Minister's Mansion also think that there was a mutiny in Chenling, how could Liang and Jin have their own ghosts and no political vision, and they all hoped that the pit of Xianguo would rot, and how could they easily express their attitude before the situation was clear.

In Liang Guo's view, the internal strife in Xian is rampant, and he will never dare to move Liang Guo, after all, in terms of legal procedures and nominal, it is still necessary for Liang State to recognize the new king of Xian, not to mention that there are 100,000 troops of Liang State stationed ten miles outside the city, and the rebellious army should be weighed up.

As for the Jin State, Xihuan hated not to let the crown prince ascend the throne and replace him immediately, and she would be able to become the queen with the title of queen and further control the real power of the Xian State.

It's a pity that Gongsun Yue was scheming, and in the name of the death of the queen mother, he tricked Xihuan and the prince into the palace in advance, leaving the two thousand Jin forbidden troops in the prince's mansion and the prince's guards leaderless.

It was precisely by figuring out the calculations of the Jin and Liang countries that Gongsun Yue dared to first stabilize the prince's mansion and the Liang minister's mansion, and then cut off the camp and the palace in the south of the city one by one.

It's just that as soon as it gets dark, the sound of killing in the south of the city is so together, the prince's mansion and the Liang State Minister's Mansion can't sit still no matter how calm they are. After all, it was a mutiny and usurpation of power, and it was still necessary to guard against it.

So soon after the fire broke out in the south of the city, the first to react was the Liang State Legation's Mansion, Antai Hou Ji sent 1,200 people to guard the four gates, 800 people to guard the backyard house, and ordered Dian Kun to lead 400 people to guard outside the main gate to observe the situation of the Xian army.

As for the Prince's Mansion, due to Xihuan's absence, the dragons have no leader, and they all stick to the mansion and wait for the changes.

Bailiyan fell out of the east side door of Zhou Cai's house, climbed onto the roof, and touched the alley again. Gao Xun, Chunfang, and Chunrou are all powerless people, and the safety factor of staying in Zhou Caidong's house is obviously much higher than following and killing outside.

The rebel army that surrounded the Prince's Mansion and the Liang State Minister's Mansion was as many as six or seven thousand at the earliest, and half of them were transferred after dark, but many armed civilian troops were transferred. Bailiyan led Jiang Jie and other teenagers to 100 people, and from Zhou Caidong's backyard, they continuously transported wooden barrels out of Zhou's house, and the barrels were filled with vegetable oil.

Zhou Caidong is in the business of selling edible oil in Chenling, and the profit is okay. Nowadays, the "Grain Field Order" is widely implemented, and the ruler class's cognition of oil and fat is still at the level of animal fat and natural collection, and the farmland is mainly used to grow rations.

In addition to the powerful, few farmers plant rapeseed and other oil-extracted crops on a large scale, because the labor required to grow rapeseed is almost the same as the labor required to plant rations, and the yield per mu is not high, and at the same time, the oil cannot fill the stomach and relieve hunger, and the people have no enthusiasm for planting.

Located in the tropics and subtropics, the Xianguo is extremely suitable for the growth of wild oil crops such as coconut, rapeseed and tung fruit, and the yield of natural harvesting is considerable.

In addition, the private land of the powerful and noble relatives also grows high value-added cash crops, rape is an important item, after all, the price of oil is several times higher than that of grain, and it is also a military and market necessity, with a relatively reliable state procurement guarantee and a broad consumption base.

More than half of Zhou Caidong's edible oil is planted and collected by renting the land of the powerful and squeezing oil, and more than half of it is the vegetable oil purchased by the private property of the powerful and nobles.

In addition, there is another planting method, artificial sowing in the wild, waiting until the harvest season to harvest, how much can be harvested, although the harvest of this way is difficult to guarantee, but the scale is large, and the final harvest is also very considerable.

Due to the fundamental restrictions of the Grain Field Order, non-food crops emerging from the field are basically not taxed as long as they are not registered fields. If it is planted on registered land, the cash crop is subject to a heavy tax.

In particular, when the ruling class encourages the cultivation of food rations, individuals without privilege who grow cash crops and compete with the powerful and noble relatives for profit are often subject to heavy taxes, which can avoid the loss of interests of the elite class, and second, the backwardness of agricultural productivity in the agricultural society will lead to grain and grass being the first material, and the imposition of heavy taxes on cash crops will directly hit the enthusiasm for the production of cash crops and force the common people to turn to the production of staple food crops.

In a sense, this is also a kind of macroeconomic control, but fundamentally speaking, the aristocracy of feudal society centralizes power to a large extent, and cannot fundamentally solve the balance of class interests, and the original intention of the system at the beginning has finally become a tool for the privileged class to make profits. At the same time, the constraints of technology, productivity, and historical limitations also restrict the planting scale of cash crops.

When the relations of production established by an institutional system cannot match the productive forces of development, the restrictions of the old system seriously hinder the development of society, and the result will inevitably break out into large-scale conflicts of interest, and finally turn into uprisings and rebellions.

As an oil merchant, Zhou Caidong's mansion is a warehouse, and all the goods are in his mansion except for the edible oil stored in the store. Bai Liyan made at least 200 poks of cooking oil from his home, and each barrel was the standard weight of half a stone.

If you want to say what Bailiyan wants so much cooking oil for, it is obviously more than enough to set fire, but the ignition point of vegetable oil is high, and it is easy to light it, so it needs low-temperature fire, so Jiang Jie and others carry a porcelain jar of alcohol, coal tar and pine oil, and put a fire is more than enough.

The street of the Prince's Mansion and the Liang State Minister's Mansion is east-west, the Prince's Mansion is east of the Liang State Minister's Mansion, with an interval of more than 300 steps, and the main road is only one like this, the fire burned the main road, and the rebels surrounding the Prince's Mansion can only detour to the Liang State Minister's Mansion from other sections, and cannot directly reinforce it.

This means either a detour from the alleys on both sides of the main road, but the alleys are narrow and narrow, and a large number of reinforcements cannot pass at one time, and they are easy to be blocked or even suffocated. If you detour to the west of the Liangguo Legation Mansion for reinforcements, you will have to walk at least three miles more, and you will not be able to draw time.

Sneaking into the alley, the lights and torches come and go frequently, and the civilian army with white scarves on their arms alternately patrols with the rebels, making it almost impossible to pass through the rebels' field of vision.

Bai Liyan observed for a moment, then returned to the alley and said to Jiang Jie:

"There are four teams patrolling and crossing between the thieves and the tea, and each of the two teams is in a group, walking against each other, so there is a gap between the half tea time.

When the group of thieves had gone from going against each other to going against each other, all the brothers gave Ben a barrel of oil and rolled him out into the street, and then immediately returned, and then stabbed another hundred into the street. Remember, when all the drums are rolled down the street, the barrels are facing up, and they are all open in a line of four. You get the idea! ”

"Understood!"

"Well, in the middle of all the oil barrels, everyone stands on the right side, goes out of the alley to the right side, returns from the left side, and then comes out from the right side, returns from the left side, and so on."