Chengdu City has been in chaos, when the Zeng family is still discussing whether to send troops to save the owner of the family behind closed doors, the news that the Ten Tigers of Zeng Men led the army to Chengdu to kill has spread all over the city, and the gossip of the Zeng family's recruitment of troops has already been known to everyone two years ago, but the ordinary people can't understand it, and they are not interested in it, and those who can understand and are interested in it dare not have any statement under Zeng Xiulin's obscenity.

On the contrary, ordinary people are very interested in the Ten Tigers of Zengmen, what the Ten Tigers of Zengmen have been the focus of discussion among the people of Chengdu, whose son was killed today, and whose daughter was robbed yesterday, and similar news will come out every three or five times, so that the murderous name of the Ten Tigers of Zengmen has already been engraved into the bones of the people of Chengdu.

Therefore, when the news of the Zengmen Ten Tigers leading the army to Chengdu to kill suddenly made the people of Chengdu fall into a panic, and it was rumored that the Zengmen Ten Tigers led 10,000 Zengjia troops to Chengdu, burning and looting all the way, and doing all kinds of evil.

The sky is not yet dark, Chengdu's major rice shops have appeared to grab rice, the price of rice in Chengdu rose from 30 Wen to 60 Wen of rice in an instant, not only the price of rice, but also the price of silver, the price of silver in the black market from the previous one or two silver to 5,000 Wen, suddenly rose to one or two silver for 8,000 Wen, many wealthy families began to flee from the city with their families.

The whole city of Chengdu is full of rumors and fears that a big war is coming.

Zeng Xiulin was locked up in a small room in the palace, two soldiers closely monitored him, Zeng Xiulin woke up and didn't speak, just lay on the bed and looked out the window silently, at this time his heart was full of the sadness that the winner is the king, the loser is the villain, full of regret for his negligence, if he can see through Li Yanqing's wolf as soon as possible, he will not let the 8,000 Xiang army go north, his heart is even more full of hatred for those who betrayed him, if he still has a chance, he will definitely break Xu Qinghui and Zhang Ji into pieces.

However, Zeng Xiulin still has such a glimmer of hope in his heart, this glimmer of hope is the emperor, he believes that the emperor must want to control Bashu, maybe the emperor will personally come to Bashu to inspect, as long as the emperor wants to use himself, what to bully the king, what to sit on the people's money, these are all nothing.

At this time, there was an angry shout outside, Zeng Xiulin remembered, it seemed that there was Hongsheng Rice Shop opposite the mansion, what happened?

He finally turned his head to look at the two soldiers watching him, "What's going on outside?" He asked coldly.

A soldier walked out quickly, and after a short time came back to him and said, "The price of the rice shop has risen again, and it has risen to Doumi Baiwen, and the people who bought the rice are very angry, so they all shout." ”

Zeng Xiulin was stunned, in just two days, the price of rice has skyrocketed to doumi Baiwen, more than three times! What's going on?

He couldn't help but ask again: "What happened, the price of rice rose so rapidly?" ”

At this time, Li Yanqing's voice came from outside the door, "It's because your Zeng family Ten Tigers led seven thousand troops to Chengdu to kill, which caused panic in the whole city." ”

Li Yanqing appeared at the door with a mocking smile on his face, "It seems that your Zeng family is very rich!" It can afford to raise an army of 7,000. ”

"You talk nonsense!"

Zeng Xiulin suddenly became excited and shouted: "You are spewing blood, when will the Zeng family have an army to kill?" ”

At this time, Yushi Zhang Shan walked out from behind Li Yanqing and explained: "Li Jingluo is not wrong, the Zeng family's army has been killed thirty miles north of Chengdu County, and the specific number of people is not known, and the whole city is panicking about it." ”

Zeng Xiulin was like stepping on the air and falling into the abyss, his heart was full of despair, if this was the case, even the emperor would not be able to protect himself.

He trembled and pointed at Li Yanqing and yelled, "You.... You could have stopped it, but you.... You're deliberately making a big deal out of it, and you're going to put my family to death, aren't you? ”

Li Yanqing shook his head, "I'm not as bad as you think, before I ordered all the Zhuang Ding of Heming Villa to be executed, just to warn the Zeng family not to mess around, but the Zeng family didn't take my warning to heart, this is the Zeng family seeking their own death, what does it have to do with me?" ”

"So what exactly do you want? You said, you make a bid, and I promise you. ”

Li Yanqing still shook his head, "It's not me looking for you now, but Zhang Yushi wants to interrogate you, if you have any dissatisfaction, you can defend yourself to Zhang Yushi, maybe the official family will spare your life in the end." ”

After speaking, Li Yanqing nodded to Zhang Shan, turned around and walked away.

Zhang Shan sat down opposite Zeng Xiulin and said calmly: "Governor Zeng, let's start with the matter of anti-Jin military spending!" The official family attaches great importance to this matter, and specially sent a book from a flying pigeon, telling me to find out the truth. ”

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Li Yanqing came out of the government and went directly to the north city wall, and the 10,000 people recruited had entered their respective positions, almost all of them were soldiers of the forbidden army, Li Yanqing opened the price of six copper coins per month, which is equivalent to 12 iron coins, which is quite tempting, and the registration was very enthusiastic, and 10,000 militia soldiers were recruited in just one hour.

The militia soldiers were required to bring their own equipment, so they were equipped with a variety of equipment, some wore Shunshui Mountain pattern armor, some wore leather armor, and some wore smear cloth armor, but there were also many people wearing cloth clothes, wearing only a helmet, and the weapons were also varied, including spears, spears, and broadswords and iron rods, some people wore swords, some people wore swords, some people wore crossbows, and more people held bows and arrows.

But these are not important, the important thing is that they are all willing to serve in the army for a long time and will become an army of the Jingzhao Army stationed in Chengdu Province.

Five hundred female soldiers also rushed back to Chengdu City with Yushi Zhang Shan, they handed over the war horse to Yan Qing's five hundred scouts, this is one of Li Yanqing's pioneers, Yan Qing's five hundred scouts pretended to be scattered in various identities to Bashu, and did not ride horses, but the five hundred female soldiers came on the war horses of the scouts, and returned the war horses to the scouts at the critical moment, and the scout army immediately transformed into a powerful cavalry.

The 500 female soldiers also had a task, they were divided into two routes, half of them were responsible for guarding the four city gates, and the other half of the soldiers were responsible for guarding Zeng Xiulin and his people to prevent anyone from fishing in troubled waters.

Although Li Yanqing did not take the Zeng family's armed Zhuang Ding in his eyes, he was still very cautious on the other hand, Chengdu County has a population of nearly 500,000, and the Zeng family has a large number of shops and industries in the city, employing thousands of men, it is difficult to ensure that some of them are loyal to the Zeng family and help the Zeng family fish in troubled waters in the chaos.

So Li Yanqing did two things, one was to detain Zeng Xiulin and his people in the government office, and at the same time strictly protect the safety of the government office, and the other was to disband the village soldiers and take the control of the four city gates into his own hands.

As for Yan Qing, he led 500 cavalry to hide outside the city, ready to give the Zeng family a head-on attack.

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Zeng's army was not late until two days later, because the Zengmen Ten Tigers thought that 700 people were too little, and recruited a lot of ruffians in nearby prefectures and counties, so that the strength of Zeng's army reached 2,000 people, wearing leather armor, wearing helmets, and holding spears and knives, so that the momentum of the army increased sharply, and at dusk, this army arrived in the north of Chengdu County.

The alarm bell sounded at the head of the city, and the militia soldiers who were resting under the city rushed to the north of the city, and the flags were waving on the city, and the swords and guns were like a forest, and the same murderous spirit was rising.

The Three Tigers Zeng Huaibiao looked at the soldiers on the city, and said to the eldest brother Zeng Huaiwu with some concern: "Big brother, there are a lot of troops in the city!" ”

Zeng Huaiwu snorted disdainfully, "It's the militia soldiers that Li Yanqing just recruited, many of them don't even have armor, just a group of rabble, don't worry." ”

The second child, Zeng Huaiqiang, stepped forward and said, "I don't know if Uncle Ning's side is ready." ”

Zeng Huaiwu smiled slightly: "I have received news from Uncle Ning, tonight the third watch will start, when we feint to attack the north gate, they will break through from the west gate, the third child, you take the eight tigers and the nine tigers to the west gate to answer, success or failure is in this move." ”

Zeng Huaibiao became excited, straightened his waist and said, "I understand, please rest assured, eldest brother, it will be foolproof." ”