There was silence in the hall again, the Fengzhou officials came from a humble background, but they understood that the problem was in the imperial court, and they didn't know how to deal with it, Jin Sheng and Song Tongyin glanced at each other, and both of them nodded to each other.

"This official went to find Gonggong Liu, but he didn't come out to see me, but his housekeeper told me four words 'the matter is in Xuanfu', I think it should be related to Shen Di's private money to build slaves," Jin Sheng's voice was very low, and he sighed and continued, "That's it, this official is either party, but he didn't do anything for the people of Fengzhou, anyway, this official doesn't want to be a good official, so he went out to the court to expose the ugly things that Shen Di did." ”

"Shen Di dares to build a slave with private funds, there must be someone behind him, who else is there besides Zhou Yanru? The old man also had to write a letter to his friends in the DPRK and China to inform him of the incident, and Wen Tiren would never let him go if he knew it. Song Tongyin also said.

"We also have a Xuanfu Fuyi general soldier Wang Guozhong in our hands, this person was ordered to go to the Jinjun camp in the field of Huling on the border of Xuanfu to make peace, and he came out to testify is ironclad evidence." Li Huai suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.

The lobby was active, and everyone discussed how to fight back against Zhou Yanru, at this moment, Wu Xian came to say a few words in Li Yu's ear, Li Yu smiled bitterly and said to everyone, "Another person is fleeing." After a while, two guys dressed in cloth entered the lobby in a panic, and they almost collided with each other in a hurry, and the dejected appearance caused everyone to laugh - the chief of Taifu Temple, the elder Wang, and the general soldier of Datong Fuyi, the herdsman arrived.

"Great commander, the imperial court has removed the vacancies of the Fuyi generals in Xuanfu and Datong towns, and the government has also confiscated the five thousand catties of private salt I hid, fortunately I ran fast, otherwise I would never see you again." Wang Mumin cried when he saw Li Yu, and was glad that he had found a job first, so he was not driven to the street to ask for food.

"I'm scared to death, the court is really moving this time, if someone hadn't reported the news, maybe I would have been in prison, my eldest nephew, my uncle has become a key criminal wanted by the court, so I have to flee to you for refuge." The old king was angry and talked about the situation of the Beijing division, the court suddenly became nervous, and investigated the officials involved in the smuggling to Fengzhou and Liaodong, the old king was full of bad deeds, and could not withstand the investigation at all, and immediately took a family to flee when he saw that the situation was not good, and met Wang herdsmen who had just lost his errand in Datong, both of them thought that the current wind was too tight, and the customs could not hide, relying on the help of their former accomplices, and together they took their families out of the customs and went to Fengzhou.

Someone was as unlucky as him, Fan Yongdou gloated, and said with a smile: "Wang Zhishi, Wang Zongbing, I have already warned you that the officials of the Ming Kingdom are not good, and you don't want to listen, now it's okay, do business with peace of mind." ”

"Fan Yongdou, it's all your fault, some of the corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty are, Shoufu himself is a big corrupt official, why doesn't he arrest others and just find trouble with me? It's not because you robbed other people's business in Shenyang, everyone found Zhou Yanru's door, and they wanted to clean up your group of Fengzhou businessmen, and I was also involved," the eldest king scolded Fan Yongdou angrily, and then turned his face to Li Yu and said, "Big nephew, I know everything in the court, **** sent someone to tell me quietly, Zhou Yanru is deliberately messing up the situation of Xuanda, so as to keep his comrades, and Lao Fan is playing your signboard in Shenyang, colluding with Jiannu nobles to bully other traders, they and Zhou Yanru want to join forces to trap you, Get your business out of Liaodong. ”

"Old Fan, do you have any contacts with Shuotuo and Zhaisang Gu in Shenyang?" Li Yu asked coldly, before Fan Yongdou went to Shenyang, he asked him to introduce some old relations in Jinguo, among which these two people were the ones who liked to make trouble, it is estimated that Meng Ke also introduced some gangsters, Fan Yongdou nodded with a red face, Li Yu shouted angrily, "You caused your own trouble, go and settle it yourself!" ”

"I don't want to make more money for Fengzhou, the merchants of Lu, Zhejiang and Nanzhili have goods by sea, and the land route is also related to the help of the Ning army, we have thousands of miles to transport the freight over, don't you fight for others with a little black hand?" Fan Yongdou was very unconvinced and shouted.

"Actually, you can't blame Lao Fan entirely, the imperial court intends to naturalize and open the town, who would dare to come if you don't drive Yuzi away?" The eldest king suddenly said good things for Fan Yongdou.

"Okay, don't make any noise, no matter what the cause is, we must fight back," Li Huai waved his hand, pondered for a while and said, "However, the impact of using the army is too great, and the consequences are unpredictable, and this time we may have to go out of the army." ”

Fan Yongdou's face turned white all of a sudden, and Du Wenhuan glanced at him with dissatisfaction: "What are you afraid of, don't you still have a merchant army in your hand, and another thousand elite Shanxi soldiers will be requisitioned to you, and it will be enough to deal with the bear soldiers in Datong Town." ”

"The Titang Division and the Mission Department also fully cooperate with you, this time they are sending troops to the government to discuss the law, and they are not really going to war." Li Huai cheered on the side, and the eldest king immediately volunteered to enter the customs.

What are these things, profiteers, fugitives, and now there are two more corrupt officials, Fengzhou is really hiding filth and dirt, Lou Zijing is actually not wrong at all-Song Tongyin shook his head in his heart, and said sarcastically: "What is the reason for sending troops?" Is it to sell smuggled goods and compete for business? ”

"Fengzhou believes in freedom, equality, benevolence, never for their own selfishness, goods and intercommunication should be free, the saint was deceived by the traitorous party to have today, so the army is to clear the monarch's side, eliminate the traitorous party, and protect free trade." Li Fugui, who had been silent, spoke, and the faces of the eldest boss Wang and Fan Yongdou bloomed with joy.

"Remember, you are asking the government for an explanation, and you are only against the traitorous party and corrupt officials, not against the emperor and the court." Ortai also spoke.

The sky was bright, and a large group of people with knives and spears suddenly came outside the victory mouth, shouting to cross the pass, urging the Ming army guarding the fort to open the door and let them go. The Ming army on the side wall was startled, could it be that the Fengzhou people outside the border are going to rush the pass? I squeezed to the wall to take a look, and many of the people below still knew each other, which was good! They are all old acquaintances, and they won't have to worry about their lives when they start to do it.

"Boss Liu, are you really rebelling? That can't let you pass, Shangguan has an order to strictly guard the border wall, beware of you making trouble, I see you go elsewhere to pass the customs, everyone is your own people, don't make it difficult for our brothers? The defender of the fort poked the head of the chief probe and shouted down.

"Nonsense, who rebelled, get our big flag," the small leader of the merchant army waved his hand, and a flag was carried forward, with three lines of words from top to bottom, with "anti-corruption and traitor" written on the left, "Jing Loyal to the Country" written on the right, and five big characters in the middle "Loyal and Righteous Salvation Army", what is more interesting is that there is a person under the flag who respectfully holds the tablet of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and the small leader said triumphantly, "Erhei, see it clearly, we are the loyal and righteous national salvation army that fights corruption and eliminates traitors and serves the country loyally, and is the most loyal to the emperor." ”

"Then you are still talking about knives and guns, and you are bent on entertaining us, and the garrison is also scared away by you." The guy named Erhei always muttered dissatisfied.

"Do you think we have nothing to do, we are going to the governor to ask for an explanation, the people of Fengzhou have worked hard to guard the border for the Ming Dynasty, the government not only does not give us food, but also does not let us do business, and scolds us for being traitors, and we are determined not to let us live, do you know how Grandpa Yue died? It was ...... who was killed by a traitor," the little boss felt that he had too many words, and turned his face to Erhei, who was listening attentively, and shouted, "You can't open the door?" I'm going to do it, I'm too familiar with this place, and you helped me tear down the side wall on the west side at the beginning of the year. ”

"Lao Liu, don't worry, let me put the guns for a while," Erhei waved his hand, and the Ming army in the city beat the gong while playing the guns, and the Liu boss and several people also climbed up the side wall along the rope, and a group of people smoked cigarettes - this kind of scene is also staged in the mouth of the tiger, the long-term smuggling business has long connected the Ming army and the people of Fengzhou, the border wall pass is not only the lifeline of the people of Fengzhou, but also the support of the Ming army to support their families, the business of Fengzhou is gone, and everyone has to starve together.

After smoking a bag of cigarettes, the Ming army went down the side wall with a smile, opened the fort gate, and then pretended to be a prisoner, and Erhei said casually: "Boss Liu, are you entering the customs to kill people?" There are many traitors and corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty, but it is not good if there are fewer people. ”

"Who said that we should kill people, killing people is the business of the imperial court, we just have to arrest people and raid homes."

"Why didn't you say it earlier, no, we have to join the gang too," Erhei grabbed Boss Liu and shouted to his brothers, "Brothers, we have done it with the Loyal Salvation Army, raided the homes of those turtle grandsons, and got back the military salaries owed to us." ”

At dawn, the Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army entered the Victory Fort, Fan Yongdou, Da Lao Wang and a group rushed in arrogantly, but they couldn't find a place to make money - the officials of the border fort had already been pulled into the water by them, and the large and small officials headed by the General's Mansion all played the Black Eagle Flag, and a group of Ming troops also held the banner of "Loyal and Righteous Salvation Army" that had just been drawn and wanted to join the gang. After the only bit of state-owned assets in the fort of victory were gone, everyone felt that there was no more oil and water, and they rushed to Datong in a chaotic manner, and Man Zhu and Hou Shijie immediately led their troops into the fort to defend the retreat for these robbers.

With the protection of Buck's 400 cavalry, and the support of Liu Qian and Wang Dongqiang's 1,000 elite Shanxi soldiers, the Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army had almost a smooth journey, Lou Zijing assigned the squire to lead the people to set up many roadblocks along the way, and the people turned around and ran away when they saw the officials and soldiers, and some rural scholars were bold and stood up and scolded the traitors for betraying the country. Fang Zhikun was scolded, Lao Tzu killed the Dongyu and became traitors, you read a few broken books and played tricks to become loyal and good, and immediately ordered each of these people to be issued a wooden stick and sent to the side wall to stand guard, and also threatened them that if something went wrong, they would be dealt with by military law. The loyal men of the Ming Dynasty were escorted away crying and crying, and Fang Zhikun was still very proud - the Great Commander's Mansion strictly ordered that they should not enter the customs and disturb the people, but it is not wrong to find some work for the guys who are full of food and have nothing to do, anyway, they want to be loyal, this is also to fulfill them.

When Datong Town heard the news, he quickly sent troops to intercept it, but after the officers and soldiers figured out what was going on, not only did they not use their hands to suppress it, but they joined forces - they are loyal and righteous to save the country, and they are holding the tablet of Emperor Taizu, and they are not rebels at first glance, fighting corruption and eliminating traitors for the emperor, and by the way, they also get back most of the military salaries for half a year, which is a good thing! Those who are soldiers want to fight corruption and eliminate traitors, and serve the country loyally, and those who are officials can't manage it, so they simply slap their butts and leave, and let the soldiers toss. The Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army gathered more and more like a snowball, and the other way of people who killed the tiger and entered the customs also rushed to meet, and tens of thousands of people rushed to the foot of Datong City, holding the tablet of Emperor Taizu to find the governor to discuss the law.

Where did Zhang Tinggong dare to show his face, he ordered to close the city gate and hold on, and ran to the surveillance eunuch Liu Wenzhong to discuss how to deal with it, but Liu Wenzhong kicked the ball to him again, the soldiers in Datong Town are all under your control, our family can't intervene, or you can settle it yourself. Then the soldiers of the city also made a commotion, demanding that their arrears be paid, otherwise they would not go up to the wall. Zhang Tinggong hid in the governor's yamen and was angry and hateful, and found the chief soldier Wang Guoqing to scold him, and ordered him to go out of the city to pacify the rebellious soldiers, Wang Guoqing was also ruthless, stretched out his hand to ask the governor for military salary, and resolutely did not leave the city without giving money. The two had a big quarrel, and in the end they both hated Lou Zijing, this guy wouldn't have made trouble if he didn't make trouble today, and he should go out of the city to raise the army.

Lou Zijing didn't shirk it, and went out of the city with righteousness, and it didn't take long for his family to run back, saying that his master had arrived at the other party's Chinese army tent, and before he could speak, people said that someone accused him of embezzlement of public money, accepting bribes, indiscriminately killing innocents, framing officials, and was detained for review.

Zhang Tinggong and Wang Guoqing's faces turned pale all of a sudden, and the people of Jinyiwei also appeared, and the situation was even more difficult to clean up, and the two of them suddenly felt paralyzed and powerless.

At night, in the front camp of the Chinese army in Datong Town, Xu Jinxian, the capital secretary, was pacing back and forth in the official room with his hands behind his back, and there was a middle-aged man dressed as a scholar sitting next to the table, staring at him intently, and after a while, the scholar became impatient, got up and walked behind Xu Jinxian.

"Brother Xu, Zhang Chuanjie is a brother who joined the army with you, and now he is a general, even Liu Qian and Wang Dongqiang have also been promoted to guerrillas, they are big heroes who defend the border and kill the enemy, and you, you have no money and no family background, and it will be the end of giving you a capital division, why are you still suffering from this bird's anger? The guerrilla adults have already hidden, and now the whole battalion of brothers is watching you, if you don't take the opportunity to make a decision, once there is a mutiny, you are ready to go to prison and eat the lawsuit! ”

"Secretary Zhang, there is no turning back when I take this step, Shangguan will definitely not spare me, my family has been a Ming military household for generations, and he is loyal to the imperial court, let me go out of the customs to be with Tatars and thieves, how can I go out to meet people in the future!"

"You still think you are a Ming military household, where is your family's land? has long been swallowed up by corrupt officials, you are just a big soldier who earns military salaries to support his family, and the court doesn't take people like you seriously at all, otherwise you wouldn't have been paid no military salaries for more than half a year, and you would be willing to starve and freeze your family! You said that you don't want to be with the Tatars and thieves, but the people are enthusiastic to defend the territory, beat the Jiannu to a big defeat and flee, and protect millions of people in Shanxi from being ravaged, this is a good man who protects the family and the country, and you look at this court, the officials are clever and robbing, greedy for ink, the people are miserable, there is no way to make a living, there is no food and no salary in the army, and the soldiers are also thieves, there is no hope for the Ming Dynasty, the court is a thief, and it is a shame to be with these people, but it is a pity that you are a good martial artist, not taking advantage of your youth to make achievements, but you are living in a nest, I'm anxious for you! ”

Xu Jinxian sat down silently, covered his head and thought, and stood up after a while: "I did it, I will do it tonight." ”

The middle-aged scholar smiled - Zhang Guoji, a native of Yingzhou, Datong, was born in Xiucai, was taught by Wang Sen, the leader of the Wenxiang Sect, participated in Xu Hongru's uprising in Shandong, fled back to his hometown after the defeat, and successfully infiltrated the Datong General Military Office as a secretary. Wang Fang stood in Fengzhou, did not forget his old comrade-in-arms, found him in a hurry, asked him to Fengzhou for a while, Zhang Guoji quickly gave up the White Lotus Sect in Fengzhou, turned to be loyal to Fengzhou, and accepted the appointment of the assistant of Datong Titang, in fact, became the second person in Fengzhou in Datong, after the number one person Wang Mumin absconded, Zhang Guoji jumped out impatiently, and rebelled against his fellow villager Xu Jinxian in Yingzhou, and now he finally succeeded.

The rapid sound of the horn broke the silence of the long night, the soldiers of the Ming army ran out of the barracks, and quickly gathered at the military field of the school, Xu Jinxian and Zhang Guoji were already waiting with their whole bodies clothed, looking at the 1,200 fully armed soldiers, Xu Jinxian slowly spoke.

"Brothers in the front battalion, I know that you have not slept, you must be wearing armor and holding weapons and waiting at this time, everyone has suffered all these years, as a soldier can not get military salary, and the family is starving and cold, what kind of world is this, should a good person who abides by the rules be poor? I figured it out, we are not as good as a dog of a dignitary, the dog still has a bone to gnaw, we bleed and worked hard but we can't even eat, the loyal and righteous national salvation army is outside the city, who they are, you all know in your hearts, but if you don't get back a few dollars in the mutiny, the government will have to lose the lives of some brothers after the autumn, so I want to take you on a new road - go out of the customs and join the Fengzhou army. Brothers, you can't live in a nest anymore, good men should be determined in all directions, fight for themselves and future generations, stand up if you are willing to go with me, and go back to the barracks if you are unwilling. ”

"Xu Dusi, we can trust you and do it with you!" A few veterans stood up firmly, followed by dozens, hundreds, and finally all the soldiers moved forward together.

"Target, North Gate, Let's Go!" Xu Jinxian waved his hand and ordered loudly.

"Raise the banner, stride with your chest up, and let everyone in Datong know that we are the Fengzhou Army." Zhang Guoji shouted and handed out a few black eagle flags to everyone.

At three o'clock, the black eagle flag was raised in the north gatehouse, and all the troops in Datong Town were in the front camp anyway.

Fan Yongdou and Fang Zhikun and their gang were taken aback, God can testify, they just wanted to scare the governor of Datong, and they definitely didn't think about attacking Datong City. Fan Yongdou and Fang Zhikun restrained their accomplices from trespassing, and at the same time sent people back to Manhan Mountain to report - the Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army saw that the city gate was open to them, but they did not dare to enter the city.