The county seat of Xin'an County, like the county seat of Yiyang County, has chosen to close the city gate in the near future.

However, the focus of their defense will definitely be on the north side of the county seat, and they will be more cautious, and the east and west sides of the county town may also send some temporary strong men to patrol the night.

However, only the southern city wall, Xin'an County would definitely ignore its back, and they could not imagine that someone would sneak attack from behind anyway.

Sure enough, in the middle of the night, these officers led the Xiang army to the city of Xin'an County, and captured the county seat of Xin'an in one fell swoop at dawn.

In order to exterminate the mouth, they first attacked the barracks of the Xiang army in Xin'an County, and the hostage of these Xiang soldiers and the officers who had surrendered to them continued to attack the yamen and their mansions of the large and small officials in the city, as well as the small and medium-sized rich families in the city. Even, when they killed those civilian officials, it was not their hands, but those county troops who were held hostage.

As for the officials in the various yamen, they were killed without leaving a single one, and even if these people were coerced, they might turn back afterwards.

This is the Xin'an tragedy that shocked the entire Song Dynasty in the eighth year of Yuanfeng.

The reason why this case was exposed was because of the magistrate of Yiyang County. When he learned that those who wanted to enter the city were actually the Xiang army in Luoyang City, he immediately secretly sent people to keep an eye on the movements of this team.

This man who was watching in the shadows was both stupid and bold, but he was also a chivalrous man, but by the time he saw the team's intentions, he had already lost his skills.

Because he had an old relationship with the county lieutenant of Xin'an County, in the end, he only snatched out a pair of children of the county lieutenant from the middle, quietly left Xin'an County, and went back to report the whole incident to the magistrate of Yiyang County.

Dead friends do not die poor, which is the truest portrayal of the ending of the two magistrates of Yiyang County and Xin'an County.

If it weren't for the strict precautions of the magistrate of Yiyang County, it would definitely be Yiyang County that is suffering now, but at that time, not all the civil officials in the entire county died, just him, the magistrate. It was precisely because he was so well guarded that the army in Luoyang City broke the kettle and did the monstrous case in the last years of Yuanfeng - the Xin'an tragedy.

This case will not be completely turned over until Yuan Younian.

The magistrate of Yiyang County knew that if he exposed this case at this time, it was very likely that he would not only not be able to take revenge on this colleague who had suffered, but also that he would be able to take revenge himself.

How could Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongshu let such a ridiculous thing happen under their rule, not to mention, the initiator of this incident is actually the newly arrived prefect of Luoyang Prefecture, if the responsibility is to be strictly investigated, this prefect's unreasonable persecution is also directly responsible for the final outbreak of the tragedy in Xin'an County.

However, in the world of the Great Song civil officials, military generals have no human rights at all, which is also a very important reason why those generals of the Luoyang Province have killed the Chinese official group in Xin'an County. Because, they felt that if they wanted to do it seamlessly, they would kill all the civil officials, and leave the lives of the military generals in Xin'an County to join them.

In doing so, it can not only ensure that this secret of losing their heads will not be leaked to the greatest extent, but also make up for their current disadvantage of insufficient troops.

It's just that these murderous generals didn't expect that the magistrate of Yiyang County had never relaxed his vigilance against them.

In fact, all the people involved in this matter did not know that the unreasonable demands of the new prefect of Luoyang were indeed the triggers, and it was the seven-color collar organization established by Cai Dao that played a leading role in it.

The little colonel in the Luoyang Mansion Xiang Army is not an ordinary person, he is the golden collar in Luoyang Mansion. In the seven-color collar organization, his official position in name is not the highest in Luoyang City, but he can be the supreme leader of Xijing, which is naturally extraordinary.

His surname is Jiao, his name is Jiao Zhu, and he is Jiao Ting's younger brother. After Jiao Ting was killed, Song Shenzong remembered that he died for Cai Dao, so he inherited his brother's official position.

Later, after the death of Song Shenzong, after getting Cai Dao's approval, Jiao Ting got in touch with his family, and because of his family affairs and what happened to his ancestors, the big leader of the Seven Color Collar Organization absorbed this general who hated civil officials into the organization.

This is also an important reason why Jiao Zhu has been sparing no effort to instigate the Xiang army to attack Xin'an County, and the magistrate of Xin'an County is not a good official, bullying the good, preying the people, corrupt and subjected to Hui, everything a corrupt official can do, this guy has basically done it.

As mentioned before, the 'Shuo Rat Project' that Cai Dao let the Seven Color Collar Organization lead to has not yet designed the Gyeonggi area, but this guy is colluding with the Han family in Xiangzhou, and using the house that Cai Daojin stole from the Han family to brew spirits to the royal family, together with the grain depot and Changping in the county seat of Xin'an County, the grain in the Changping warehouse is almost empty.

Jiao Zhu originally had a bitter enmity with the Han family in Xiangzhou, so he took this opportunity to destroy the Zhixian family with his own hands.

Therefore, all the van soldiers who have seen the current situation of the warehouse in Xin'an County and Chang Ping are all gasping.

Just when those generals wanted to blame Jiao Zhu, Jiao Zhu asked the big guy to calm down, facing the empty granary, he naturally knew about it a long time ago. Later, from the imprint marked by the seven-color collar, Jiao Zhu found several large grain merchants in the city who specialized in reselling grain with the magistrate, and directly copied sufficient military rations from the homes of these unscrupulous merchants.

However, the only thing that worries everyone is that the van army in Xin'an County itself has a lot of vacancies, and there are even fewer weapons that can be used. The Xiang army in Xin'an County can't do a weapon for each person, let alone the Xiang army in Luoyang Mansion who have lost their weapons?

As for the arsenal of Xin'an County, it has long been emptied by the magistrate.

Up to now, the generals who were still worried about killing those civil officials are now all resentful, and the reason why the Great Song Kingdom is so weak and deceitful now is that these greedy and incompetent civil officials have corrupted the country.

At this time, Jiao Zhu persuaded everyone again, and the plan they had made before was not for those hungry people to fight, but to go to Fenglingdu to fight against the other party's forces. So, what does it matter if you have enough weapons or not? If you really feel intimidated, the big guy can cut down more trees and make wooden guns.

When it comes to the match, you only need to place these wagons armed with wooden guns at the back of the team.

In doing so, it will not only give yourself courage, but also greatly deter those who are hungry.

The situation after that is indeed as Jiao Zhu predicted,

After a siege battle, these defeated troops made up some courage, and only then escorted the grain to Fenglingdu the next day.

There were still ten miles of land left in Fenglingdu, and these generals decided to find a place near the mountains and rivers to set up camp, which not only let the prefect of Luoyang Prefecture know that they had contributed, but also have a certain deterrent effect on the hungry people on Hedong Road.

Of course, if the cavalry they encountered before really attacked them, no matter how strong this camp was, with their little people, the rudimentary and scarce weapons would simply be a mantis arm as a chariot. At this time, the mountain behind them can play a very big role. Therefore, Jiao Zhu suggested that the generals should work harder, build some simple dwellings on the mountain, and put most of the food on the mountain.

As soon as those cavalry attacked, they simply gave up resistance and the big guys fled to the mountains. At that time, everyone will not have to be afraid.

At this time, Zheng Xia naturally got the news, but he didn't care about the movements of these hungry people, even if he still had the ability to stop these hungry people from continuing to flow to Hezhong Mansion, he wouldn't do it.

Because, Zheng Xia is very sober at the moment, these soldiers under his control are, in the final analysis, also from the people of Hedong Road, and blocking these hungry people outside Taiyuan City has already made him lose his official heart, public opinion and military morale in Hedong. Just to prevent the hungry people from entering the city, everyone may understand him, after all, the grain storage in Taiyuan Mansion is not enough, if too many hungry people are put in, not only will they not be able to save everyone, but they will also implicate the people in the city.

However, if Zheng Xia really ordered to completely block all the ways of life of these hungry people, the tragedy and rebellion of Hebei Zhulu would definitely appear again, at that time, not to mention whether there would be a rebellion in the Baojia of Hedong Road, even Zheng Xia himself could not be sure whether these soldiers under his command would mutiny.

What's more, the decree given to him by Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongshu at the beginning was only mentioned in it, asking him to send troops to block the passage of Hedong Road to the Yellow River and Hebei, but did not mention Hezhong Mansion. Therefore, Zheng Xia is also happy to pretend to be stupid in this matter.

Such a big problem, let's hand it over to Sima Guang's good friend Fan Zuyu to have a headache! Zheng Xia is now difficult to protect himself, where can he take care of others!

At this time, Fan Zuyu, who had just taken office, had not yet sorted out the affairs of Hezhong Mansion, but he already had a headache.