Zhang Erxi heard the shouts outside, and also heard the footsteps outside gradually disappearing. He put his eyes in the crack in the door and looked out. There was no one on the street outside, and it seemed that his burden was placed next to the door, but the crack in the door was too small, and the view was very limited, and the closer to the door panel, the more difficult it was to see.

Zhang Erxi didn't dare to open the door easily, although he knew that if those "rogues" really wanted to come in, the wooden door in his house would be useless. But he still didn't dare open the door to get the load of cooking cakes. So he turned to the window again, made a hole in the window paper with his fingers, and looked out from the inside - there was no one outside.

At this time, his Hun family also came out from behind, lowered his voice and asked him, "How's the boss?" ”

Zhang Erxi looked towards the Hun family, but saw that her face had been painted black, and she almost beat the Baolong picture in the play.

"The thieves didn't come in." Zhang Erxi lowered his voice and said, "It seems to be gone." Just now a thief called the door, but I didn't dare to open it, and the thief said that they had picked up all the cooking cakes I had left outside and put them at our door. Let's take it in ourselves. ”

"Ah......" Zhang Erxihun's family was taken aback, "It's not that the thief ......"

"Who knows." Zhang Erxi said, "God knows what they're doing?" The cookcake is still outside, what should I do? ”

"Well, what more do you want...... No one outside? His Hun asked.

"Well, I'll open the door a little bit, bring the cooker in, you take the top door stake, and as soon as I come in, you put the door on top." Zhang Erxi said.

The common people of this era are basically living on the hunger line. A load of cooking cakes, but Zhang Erxi can't afford to lose easily. If he really loses this burden of cooking cakes, Zhang Erxi's capital chain is in danger of breaking. The rupture of the capital chain will make Zhang Erxi's family, who buy cooking cakes for a living, fall into hunger and cold. Therefore, this pancake is really worth Zhang Erxi's risk for it.

"The ...... of the house" he wanted to say something, but kept his mouth shut, because she also knew that the pancake was very important, and it was worth the risk if there was no one outside.

Zhang Erxi asked the Hun family to come to the window to help Wangfeng, and he lightly removed the top door post. He took the top gate stake and held it in his hand. Zhang Erxi gently removed the door bolt, opened the door, and stretched his head out first, like a little mouse that had just come out of the hole, looked left and right, and when he saw that there was no one, he flashed out all of a sudden, picked up the load of cooking cakes and ran home.

As soon as he entered the door, his Hun family slammed the door shut, and Zhang Erxi immediately threw away his burden, regardless of the fact that the cooking cakes fell to the ground, so he turned around and held down the door, bolted the door up, and then put the top door stake on with the Hun family. That's when he let out a long sigh. I just felt that all the strength in my body was exhausted all at once.

After I don't know how long, there was a sudden noise outside, as if a large group of people were coming this way by banging on the gong.

"Shouldn't it be, shouldn't the thieves just rob it just now, and then grab it here?" Zhang Erxi's heart suddenly popped up with such an idea.

"The ...... of the house They won't ......" his Hun family's voice trembled.

"Probably not, we are so poor, who robbed us?" Zhang Erxi's words were completely to give himself courage, but in fact, he didn't necessarily believe it.

At this time, the noise outside was getting closer and closer, and a gong sounded, and then a voice was heard shouting: "Folks, we are the Chinese Revolutionary Army, not rogues!" We're here to save you. Think about it, why has the world been in turmoil all these years? Why is everyone's life getting more and more difficult......"

Those who claimed to be the "Chinese Revolutionary Army" did not break into the door, but just loudly preached all kinds of rebellious words on the streets, such as "the reason why everyone has no food is because the court is corrupt and embezzles everyone's things", what "the son of Jokhang violated the ancestral teachings of Emperor Taizu, it is really unfilial, and the Manchu officials are corrupt and disloyal"; What "all the officials in the Yamen of the Jokhang Dynasty may be wronged, and if half of them are killed, there will definitely be those who have slipped through the net." Although they are all big rebellious words, I don't know why, Zhang Erxi thought about the things he was often blackmailed by the officials, and he felt that what they said was so reasonable.

After scolding the court, the gang of rebels began to talk about their rules again. Zhang Erxi knows that ordinary robbers will also boast that they have rules, such as those good men in "Water Margin", who are obviously robbers who rob homes and houses, don't they also boast that they are "doing the right thing for heaven" and "robbing the rich to help the poor"? However, they did rob the rich, but even if they "helped the poor", they basically became their own "eating meat in large pieces, drinking wine in large bowls, and dividing money in large scales".

However, the rules of this gang of thieves, compared with the rules of the good man on Liangshan, are much more detailed, what "three disciplines and eight attentions", what "military police" patrols directly under the "Ministry of Military Justice", anyway, there are a lot of tricks, but they sound very good.

Then there is the rule of these rebels to "do the right thing for heaven". This gang of traitors is particularly interesting at this point, as soon as they open their mouths, almost every sentence has to bring out a "grandfather of the Jokhang Taizu", what "according to the method of the grandfather of the grandfather, arrest all the corrupt officials and peel the skin", what "according to what the grandfather said, so that the people can catch the corrupt officials and try the corrupt officials by themselves", what "according to what the grandfather said, let the people have their own fields", what "according to the instructions of the grandfather of the grandfather, you can't collect so much taxes"...... In short, it sounds like that's what happened.

Then there is a call for everyone to join the army, of course, this is not expected to have any effect, at least not for now, unless the method of coercion is adopted, which is just shouting first, and it is also training.

And then there's the stuff that has actual content. The gang of thieves announced that they had found a lot of grain in the county warehouse, which was all the people's fat and people's ointment that the imperial court had scavenged in violation of the ancestral teachings of Grandpa Taizu, and now the revolutionary army decided to return these people's fat and people's ointment to the people of the city.

At the sound of shouting, a number of thieves with a red cloth on their arms came out and placed their pockets at the door of each family......

In the end, they also announced that because a lot of gold and silver were found from the residence of the county official behind the county office, it can be seen that the county commander Wang Qinian is a corrupt official, otherwise, how could he have so much silver in the money set by Grandpa Taizu? Originally, according to the regulations of Grandpa Taizu, Wang Qinian should have been skinned and grassed, but it was only benevolent in the revolutionary army, so it was changed to beheading. At three o'clock in the afternoon today, at the gate of the county government, the corrupt official was beheaded and displayed to the public, and the residents of the county were welcome to come and testify.

The revolutionary army did search for about hundreds of taels of silver from Wang Qinian's house, a figure that was indeed impossible to have by relying on the imperial court's fortune alone. But in this era, it is actually normal for a county official to have such a small amount of money. But who made Wang Qinian unlucky?

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The news of the capture of Song County had not spread far at this time, so the attention of the imperial court was still focused on the direction of Huguang. Although Zhang Bingzhong's rebel army won a victory in Fang County, after the imperial court used Yang Fei to supervise the division, the performance of the official army was indeed getting better and better. At least they are a lot more active in their actions, and they have cooperated with each other, and there are fewer "friendly forces that are difficult to move like mountains" and the like. In addition, because it was rumored that Huang Zide also went south, some of the troops that were originally intended to be used to deal with Huang Zide were also transferred to the south for operations against Zhang Bingzhong, Luo Mengde and others. As a result, Zhang Bingzhong suffered some losses in a row and lost a lot of troops. Although the losses were basically the common people they coerced, the losses of Zhang Bingzhong's most core troops were not large, but they could be regarded as allowing a group of people, including Zuo Liangyu, to get a lot of head work.

This change in the situation not only pleased Emperor Chongde, but also gave him a headache. That's because with the development of combat operations, almost every few days, Yang Fei will give the emperor a letter, in addition to reporting a good situation of suppressing bandits, there is also one thing missing, that is: ask for money!

"Ask for money, ask for money!" Emperor Chongde sighed weakly and threw the chapter aside, only hating that Li Guorui, and he still refused to hand over the money. And he also hid the money tightly, and the brocade guard came to search for it, but he didn't find anything.

Emperor Chongde knew that what one person hid was difficult to find for ten thousand people. But on the other hand, he also doubted that the factory guard also took Li Guorui, or other people's money, and deliberately couldn't find it. Emperor Chongde's suspicions were not completely unreasonable, otherwise, how could the news of Li Guorui's illness reach Concubine Tian? None of his own courtiers, concubines, and slaves were credible, and Emperor Chongde only felt extremely lonely.

Emperor Chongde is very anxious now, but the group of relatives of the emperor he gritted his teeth and hated are also very anxious. Because the emperor is too stubborn and unreasonable. In their opinion, it is true that the imperial court is short of money, but the imperial court is short of money, so it is natural to use normal ways to get money, for example, let those mud-legged people pay more, how can they rob the money of the noble imperial relatives? Isn't that a reversal of morality? Even, even the most favored Concubine Tian was thrown into the cold palace just because of one sentence, which ......

Among these anxious people, the most anxious is Tian Hongyu, Concubine Tian's father. He knew that the wealth of the Tian family was completely based on Concubine Tian's favor. If this foundation does not exist, it will not be easy to live in the future. Now he regrets very much why he jumped out and became a leader because of a few words of teasing, and he also implicated his daughter.

"Now, Zhou Kui's mouth is afraid that he will smile crookedly, right?" Tian Hongyu thought angrily, but now that the matter has come to this, there is nothing he can do in a hurry. Now that Concubine Tian's incident happened, those who had been close to him in the past even took the initiative to avoid him. It's simply ......

Tian Hongyu lit a stick of incense, inserted it in front of the shrine, and then bowed sincerely: "Bodhisattva bless, bless Concubine Tian Niangniang to survive the catastrophe and regain the emperor's favor......"