Seeing the scene in front of him, Wang Yan reacted and knew that he was tricked, and the reason why Shuangshuang asked him to take the exam was because he ran out of money.

Wang Yan didn't expect things to be like this, and he was a little unacceptable, but he was relieved when he thought about it calmly. After all, this is other people's profession, that is, to survive by selling feelings, only to blame himself for not being deeply involved in the world and having no experience, and in the end, people also gave him wine and candies, let him sleep in vain all night, and confiscated the money, which is already very benevolent.

If you don't break this scene, this may be a good dream for Wang Yan, but if you bump into it, you understand, and that's it.

This matter was very embarrassing, so Wang Yan didn't plan to mention it to anyone, so he walked to the shore and suddenly turned around, making Ah Chen confused.

Along the way, Wang Yan didn't speak, found a pawnshop, pawned a box of his sage books, exchanged some money, and embarked on the road to the north.

Different from going down the river to the east and enjoying the beautiful scenery on both sides of the Yangtze River all the way, crossing the river from Nanjing and going north after passing through Yangzhou is miserable.

Although Wang Yan boarded a merchant ship to Beijing, after the ship arrived in Huai'an, he heard that the north was not peaceful, and the shipowner directly sold the goods in Huai'an, so he turned around and returned to Yangzhou. Wang Yan could only take the land route and trek all the way to the north.

Along the way, the ground cracked and the village was deserted, which surprised Wang Yan.

He lived in the relatively wealthy Huguang area, and the people's lives were relatively good, so he thought that in other parts of the world, the people's lives were not much worse.

Although he heard about the erosion situation in the north from the Di Bao and other channels, these literal things made him think that there were some exaggerated elements, but he didn't want to see it with his own eyes, only to know that the situation was far more serious than what was described in the Di Bao.

In late November, when Wang Yan and Ah Chen entered the Beizhi territory, a large number of fleeing crowds and carriages began to appear on the official road, and the cries of women and children were heard from time to time.

At this time, Wang Yan was sitting on the side of the road, and Ah Chen ran over and said in a panic: "Son, I have inquired clearly." The fleeing people said that the Tartars were about to come over, so what should we do, and should we continue to walk. ”

After Wang Yan passed the Linqing Mansion, Yu Ah Chen was sitting on the ground resting, but a crowd suddenly appeared on the road, and he desperately fled south in the bitter cold, so Wang Yan asked Ah Chen to inquire.

Hearing that it was the Tartars who entered the Kou, Wang Yan couldn't help but tremble in his heart, he looked up again, and saw that the fleeing people were helping the old and the young, running forward in fear, and the things that could not be taken away were all thrown on the ground, and from time to time some people were tired and died on the road, and the whole person's face was also a little panicked.

The Tatars entered the Kou Pass, not once or twice, this time it was the sixth time, and each time it brought profound disasters to the Ming Dynasty, almost every time they had to plunder hundreds of thousands of people, and slaughter countless people.

Hearing that the Tartars had once again entered the Guannei, a kind of emotion that he had never had or was not so strong when he was in the south, suddenly welled up from the bottom of his heart, and Wang Yan's mood began to become heavy.

He was silent for a while, stood up, gritted his teeth and said, "Let's retreat to Linqing first, see the situation, and then decide what to do." ”

Since the Tartars have entered the customs, the Jingshi will inevitably be under martial law, and the roads will all be cut off, so Wang Yan can only choose to temporarily return to Linqing and then make plans.

At this time, it was rumored that the state capitals and county towns in Shandong were going to fight Shandong, which made people panic everywhere, but the Shandong government seemed to have been prepared for this, and the people in the counties fled empty, and people helped the old and the young, and rushed to the south to escape, or went to the nearest capital city to take refuge.

When Wang Yan retreated to Linqing, the city was already under martial law, and an officer army who didn't know where it came from was passing through the city gate, and after a while, several green-robed officials on horseback, each with hundreds of young people, also quickly passed through the city gate.

Wang Yan looked at their official uniforms, and estimated that they were the magistrates of each county, and brought the people in the county to guard the city.

At this time, several officers and soldiers in front of the city gate put up a large flag, and then set up a square table, and a scribe sat behind the table and began to erect a flag to recruit soldiers.

They recruited young men who had come to Fucheng to hide from the Tartars to join the army, and when many men saw this, they left the ranks of the refugees and went to enlist in the army.

At this time, a scarlet-robed official at the head of the city suddenly walked down the city in a hurry, led more than a dozen officials, came to the city gate, went straight to a carriage, and bowed in unison.

Wang Yan couldn't help but be a little puzzled when he saw it, in a mansion city in Linqing, the appearance of a scarlet robe was already a little surprising, and this scarlet robe officer also saluted the people in a very ordinary carriage, which made him a little curious, who came to Linqing?

"Gaofutai, it's Gaofutai who guards Bianzhou." The officers and soldiers at the city gate suddenly cheered excitedly.

When Wang Yan heard the sound, he saw a middle-aged man walking down from the carriage, and he was soon surrounded by a scarlet-robed officer and led many officials into the city.

The officers and soldiers at the gate of the city have already revealed the identity of the person who came, it was the three guards of Kaifeng, which made Li Zicheng lose his temper, and finally broke the river to irrigate the city, and Kaifeng fell before the former governor of Henan Gao Mingheng.

When Wang Yan heard that it was this person, he couldn't help but feel a little relieved, so he lined up to enter Linqing City.

The second brother's pair of small wings and a fan have gradually affected this era after all.

More than half a year ago, he asked Gao Yiyi to send a letter to the government, and after Yang Wenyue got the news, although he did not report the news of the Tartars' entry into the court to the imperial court, he wrote letters to several colleagues in Shandong and Beizhi. It was these letters that prepared some state capitals in Shandong and Beizhi.

At the beginning of the Qing army's breakthrough, after connecting sixteen cities, the state capitals in Shandong and the south of Beizhi gradually reacted.

However, although the government was prepared and strengthened the defense of the city wall, the Ming army had no power in field warfare, and once the city was besieged, it was isolated and helpless, and many cities were uprooted one by one by the Qing army's concentrated superior forces.

In November alone, Zhao Hui, the secretary of the Ming Dynasty, died in Bazhou, and Zhao Ting, the prefect Yan Yunshao, and the prefect Chen Sanzhan died in Hejian.

Linqing City, located in the northeast and west of Shandong, at the intersection of Zhangwei River and the Grand Canal, and the north across the river, is an important gateway for the east and west of Shandong, and the east of Shanxi and Hebei.

After the Ming Dynasty fixed the capital of Beijing, Linqing quickly prospered and rose by virtue of the advantages of the Grand Canal, and became one of the most important cities of the Ming Dynasty at that time, known as "Suzhou and Hangzhou in the south, and Linzhang in the north".

The original story of the Ming Dynasty is very likely to have happened in Linqing.

Soon after Wang Yan entered the city, the Qing army came to the city, surrounded the Linqing and began to attack this rich city.

Historically, Linqing City was broken by the Qing army, but now there are some variables, Gao Mingheng, who should have returned to his hometown, came to Linqing, and the Shandong government also had a certain amount of preparation, and gathered some money and food in advance to recruit people and horses to defend the city~