Chapter 68: Three Days (Part II)
"Wang Shi's whole army was annihilated, Wang Jingluo died and martyred, and Wang Vice Xian was sick in bed and could not be a director. The general decided to lead the people to surrender to the Qing Dynasty in order to save the lives of the people here, and when the Qing army retreated, it was to save the country anyway. Do you have anything to say? Ben will listen to you. ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone was in an uproar.
At this moment, the gate of the hall of the Chinese army has long been closed by Hu Er and Zhang Jun, and there are soldiers from the Nantang battalion standing on both sides of Chen Wen and on the inside of the gate. A group of civilian officials were in the lobby of the Chinese military hall in front of Chen Wen, who threatened to surrender to the Qing, but they were silent for a moment, and then immediately exploded.
Chen Wen sat on Wang Yi's usual seat, taking a sip of freshly brewed tea, scanning everyone's reactions through the rising mist. At a glance, there are those who denounce loudly, those who mumble quietly, those with complicated expressions, and those who peek at the gate from time to time.
After glancing, Chen Wen put the teacup on the table and tapped on the table, as if to signal silence.
"Can you think about it?"
At this moment, I saw Sun Yu shouting: "Chen Wen, thanks to Jingluo and Vice Xian trusting you so much, I didn't expect you to be such a wolf with ambition, and today this official will fight with you!" ”
As he spoke, Sun Yu was about to rush up, but he was immediately stopped by several civil officials around him, only to see those people looking at Chen Wen with resentment, but he was probably afraid of the soldiers in the room who were already in his hands, so he had to hold Sun Yu, who had already lost his mind, to prevent Chen Wen from being given a reason to kill.
Chen Wen knew that Sun Yu was not such an impulsive person, but almost all clean officials were extremely confident people, and they regarded honesty as an unshakable faith, so they could stick to this integrity in the dirty officialdom. During this time, Chen Wen threatened to descend to Qingqing, and the most stimulated one was Sun Yu, because Chen Wen was left behind by his best efforts, but the current situation made his self-confidence begin to waver, so he was so out of shape.
Hasn't anyone gotten up yet?
Suddenly, Chen Wenmeng realized a problem, the great magicians who released the forbidden spell in the Western fantasy novel seemed to have some body movements while reciting the spell.
Thinking of this, Chen Wen immediately stood up, walked around the table, and walked in front of Sun Yu, the few civil officials around Sun Yu who were still pulling him were already a little afraid, they were no longer just holding Sun Yu, but also began to retreat.
At this moment, I saw Chen Wen look at Sun Yu with contempt in his eyes, and then kicked him in the chest, directly kicking him to the ground, and even those civil officials were followed by a long choke, but only Sun Yu was still scolding.
"Pull Sun Yu and these few people who don't know the current affairs down and tie them up!"
Hearing this, a few soldiers guarding the door suddenly responded, and then came over and tried to drag out the few people whose names Chen Wen had named. In the face of the wolf-like soldiers, the civil officials looked at Chen Wen with a hint of hesitation or begging, but Sun Yu no longer scolded, stood up by himself, tidied up his official uniform and walked out with his head held high, but looking at Chen Wen's gaze was extremely resentful and disappointed.
"It is inevitable that a gentleman will die and be crowned! Gentlemen, Hugh wants to let this dog thief see the joke, even if my Sun Yu is dead, I will watch Chen Wen in the sky, how will your dog thief end?! ”
Hearing this, the civil officials were no longer ready to beg for mercy, and followed Sun Yu and strode out, but Chen Wen's soldiers seemed to have become followers.
After a few obviously opposed were pulled away, Chen Wen looked around, and there were still more than half of the remaining civil officials. Eighty percent of these people saw that even Sun Yu, who was usually good friends, was dragged out and beheaded by Chen Wen, and at this moment they could only cower and dodge Chen Wen's gaze.
Seeing that there were still too many people, Chen Wen coerced and lured him very much, but no one stood up to provoke the matter of lowering the Qing. Seeing this, he didn't intend to delay any longer, so he led these people out of the gate.
At this moment, the official hats of Sun Yu and the others had already been taken off, and even the people were tied up, and behind each of them was a soldier from the Nantang Battalion carrying a knife and an axe.
Everyone followed Chen Wen step by step, but they saw that their usual colleagues were obviously going to be used to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys at the moment, even the few civil officials who were not on good terms with Sun Yu on weekdays were quite sad.
How did this Dalan Mountain become like this?!
It's just that the situation is stronger than people, at this time Wang Yi is dead, Wang Jiang is obviously also imprisoned by this general, people have heavy troops, and the life and death of themselves and their families are all in the hands of people, how dare they be like Sun Yu and them.
After everyone stood still, Chen Wen once again took out the theory of saving the country with a curve, broke the crumpled explanation, and saw that no one agreed with it, so he immediately read out the order.
"In the first battle of Siming Lake, the Wang division was defeated and the whole army was annihilated. The scriptures are not disgraced, and they are martyred for their country; The vice-constitution was overly sad when he heard the news, and now he is sick in bed and cannot serve as a director; After leaving a will, I will have full authority to handle the military affairs of Dalanshan......"
Just when everyone was waiting for Chen Wen to say what was going on, Chen Wen turned to Sun Yu.
"Phew!"
A mouthful of spit spit on Chen Wen's face, but he just smiled and shook his head, wiped it with his hand, and untied the rope that bound Sun Yu in front of everyone, and then untied the rope that bound the others at once under the gaze of all the civil officials who were either stunned or happy.
"When the army was defeated, Jing Luo left a will, ordering Ben to cover the retreat of the people of Siming Mountain to prevent being slaughtered by the Tartars. It's just that at this time, the Tartar is powerful, and the people's hearts are unpredictable, so they will only have the heart of a villain to spend the belly of a gentleman. At this time, the vice constitution has fallen ill in bed, and I hope that the monarchs can help the general to lead the people to evacuate this place regardless of their past suspicions, so as to fulfill the last wish of Jinglu. With that, Chen Wen bowed to the end at this group of civil officials who behaved quite upright.
Perhaps things are changing too quickly, and most of the civil officials who have received Chen Wenyi's salute are just a return salute in response, obviously not yet reacting from this 360-degree turn.
"It is natural for everyone to seek advantage and avoid harm. Originally, he would have bewitched and deceived in the name of saving the country with a curve, but the monarchs were still unmoved, and they were obviously all people who did not want to surrender......"
During the Anti-Japanese War, Wang Jingwei and others betrayed the country to seek glory in the name of saving the country, and really recruited a group of undesirable people in the Kuomintang regime, cowards who were afraid of the Japanese army, or traitors who wanted to make a fortune by defecting to the enemy and betraying the country and being promoted. If you think about it carefully, this kind of argument is actually just a fig leaf for those people, just like when Wang's puppet high-ranking officials were popular in Japanese brothels**, didn't they also claim to be revenge for those Chinese women who were ravaged by the Japanese army?
At this time, Chen Wen came up with this argument, in order to pick out the undetermined people within Dalan Mountain. But even if he coerced and tempted him many times, even if the civil officials in Dalanshan were afraid of his usual style and the force under his control, they still refused to speak out, even corrupt officials like Chu Suxian were no exception, and the generosity of Sun Yu and others to death really made him excited.
"I also hope that you will not spoil the state affairs for personal grievances, and I will thank you here." After that, Chen Wen saluted the other group of civil officials who were not as fierce as Sun Yu and others, but they could barely be regarded as able to stick to the bottom line.
At this moment, even the civil officials on the spot understood Chen Wen's intentions no matter how slow they were to react. To say that it sounds good is to test people's hearts, and if it is not good, it is to prepare to kill people and establish authority. Almost everyone is glad about their choice, but many who come out later seem ashamed or regretful.
"The subordinate officials are greedy for life and afraid of death, so they should not be able to give the general this gift, and they must do their best to assist the general in completing his last wishes, in order to wash away the shame of today's hesitation."
A young civil official immediately knelt on the ground in shame and bowed a few times to Chen Wen, Sun Yu and others, and everyone behind him also hurriedly bowed down when they saw this, claiming guilt.
Chen Wen did not intend to embarrass them, the Qing army was imminent to encircle and suppress Dalan Mountain, but he only had less than 600 troops to drive, and he had to face the task of covering the evacuation of the people in the entire 800 miles of Siming Mountain area.
Even if he could only urge him to flee consciously in the form of a notice in other places, the military families and people in the vicinity of Dalanshan would definitely need him to personally cover the retreat, and such a difficult task would inevitably require the full cooperation of other officials of the Ming Army in Dalanshan, so he would act like this.
Although the plan to kill Liwei has not been completed, the remedial measures are quite appropriate, and those who were at odds with each other earlier will definitely fully cooperate with him to complete Wang Yi's last life, and others will also be more dedicated to helping him complete the task because of shame, and it is better to end up with a shameful and courageous evaluation.
As for whether these people would hate him, Chen Wen didn't care. Although he didn't know Wang Jiang's evaluation of his "working for the country and clumsy for his life", he could still do it if he asked himself that "he had no time to make a career for the country". Because unlike the concept that the Son of Heaven is the country in this era, Chen Wen's education in modern times told him that the identity of the nation and civilization is the country!
"Until the constitution is healed, the general will exercise the right to act as a guide. The officials of the five divisions of Dalanshan listened to the order, and from now on, all the copywriting, inventory, tools and other things that need to be carried will be loaded into the truck, and the rest that cannot be carried will also be listed in detail. ”
"Master Chu, you have to go to the residential area and strictly order the officials' families to set off. Tell them that Ben General said that those who do not set off within two hours will be punished for treason and beheaded! ”
"The subordinate obeys!"
"Director Sun, sort out the reserves of various departments of the Treasury Department, load them and set them up, and set up camp: the military camp in the south of Dalan Town."
"The subordinate obeys!"
“……”
"All departments must set off before lunch, and there must be no mistake in having lunch in the town below the mountain!"
"The subordinates and others must obey the general's orders!"
After receiving the order, these civil officials seemed to have found their backbone again after Wang Yi's death, and after saluting, they returned to their respective departments to pack up their belongings according to the order. Fortunately, in the past ten days, under Chen Wen's suggestion that "if you win, you will carry your belongings out of Siming Mountain, and if you lose, you will not leave any financial enemies", Wang Jiang strictly ordered the construction department to make a lot of oxen, horses, donkeys, mules and even wheelbarrows. This behavior, which was once regarded by officials, officials, craftsmen, and people of the five divisions of Dalanshan as a plain increase in the amount of labor, also confirms its foresight.
In addition, although it is only less than two hours to go down the mountain, many things have been loaded after Chen Wen found that Shaoxing Green Camp was missing the night before, and only the rest need to be loaded and counted in detail, even if the time is not enough, it should be enough.
"Master Sun, please stay."
Looking at the coldness on Sun Yu's face, Chen Wen had to sigh. "It's not that the younger brother can't trust Brother Sun's character, it's just that the situation is urgent, and secondly, Brother Sun is straightforward in his daily work, and he is not a person who is good at hypocrisy. I really had to even deceive Brother Sun together, and I hope to forgive me. ”
Xiao Xianrouer, you are still a Jinhua person, usually no one wants to play a passer-by in Hengdian, how dare I hand over the second male script of this big drama to you, and acting in your true colors is more suitable for you.
Obviously, Sun Yu still couldn't forgive Chen Wen for the time being, and the cold on the ice cube's face still didn't mean to dissipate. "Chen Guerrilla is a good student, just do his own thing, and there is no need to apologize for it." After that, the paralyzed Ming Dynasty little fresh meat turned around and left, unmoved by Chen Wen's apology.
Let's see people's hearts over time.
Chen Wen sighed and began to arrange military affairs. Gu Shouli and Qi Xiufeng's tasks, like those of other civilian officials, instructed the servants to carry military supplies and load trucks, inventory the materials and facilities that could not be taken away, and finally conducted a review of the materials that could not be carried after the completion of other departments. Excluding Sun Yu, after all, compared to the remaining civilian officials, Chen Wen still trusted the chief bookkeeper and quartermaster in his battalion more.
Then there was Yin Yue, who sent a part of the soldiers to escort the military families who had already lived in the old camp, whether it was the Nantang camp or the families of the officials of the old camp, all of them were escorted to the military camp in the south of Dalan Town, in addition to supervising the transportation of various departments and dividing troops to escort them.
In the end, Li Ruixin was the first to set off, and he had two tasks, the first was to send a powerful sentry horse to intercept and kill the Qing army's exploration horses, and the second was to reconfirm whether the road to Xinchang that Chen Wen had explored in the secret mission he had previously given him was safe.
In addition, Chen Wen also wrote to the Ming troops of all departments in Siming Mountain, asking them to lead the people to evacuate in the name of acting as the military affairs of Dalanshan. Of course, the advice of ordering Mao Mingshan and Wu Kuiming to command the evacuation of the Ming army on the southern front, as well as informing Feng Jingdi of Wang Sheng's rebellion and signaling him to change places to hide, would also be brought by those messengers who obeyed Chu Jiuru's orders.
After these orders, Chen Wen went down the mountain, and the town under the old camp mountain of Dalan Mountain and the village on the left were the biggest difficulty in this task.
Leaving the hall of the Chinese army, Chu Suxian was busy instructing the officials and servants to register all the things that need to be carried in the silver treasury according to Chen Wen's instructions, load them into trucks and ship them.
Of course, he is only easier than the officials of the arsenal, who asked Wang Yi to dig out the arsenal of Dalanshan for this war, there is not much left at the moment, and even the armor of the ordinary soldiers of Chen Wen's department has been taken away, which makes the arsenal even less to carry.
supervised the little official and the servant to carry the materials, but Chu Suxian was still in a cold sweat about what he had just done. Hearing the news of the defeat of the Ming army, Chu Suxian's shock was beyond measure, this time Wang Yi took away a lot of silver taels and cloth as a reward, according to him, there should be such a rich reward should not be defeated. But the news he got was like this, especially the defection of Wang Sheng, which was beyond his expectations. Previously, when he and Wang Sheng conspired against Chen Wen, Wang Sheng only said that he would not let Chen Wen make meritorious service to avenge that arrow, who would have thought that there would be many calculations behind this.
After that, Chen Wen threatened to surrender to the Qing, although he Chu Suxian didn't know that it was Chen Wen's trick, but he was still startled, Chen Wen's performance on weekdays was not mentioned, and the relationship between this person and Sun Yu has always been regarded by Chu Suxian as a good category of Longyang, Sun Yu was taken out and beheaded after being kicked to the ground, which made him quite believe in Chen Wen's performance.
After all, these are troubled times, people's hearts are unpredictable, who knows what is going on in someone's heart? Maybe he was righteous and awe-inspiring before, but he had a ghost behind his back, which is normal.
It's just that Chu Suxian knew very well the relationship between him and Chen Wen, so how dare he make a bird, so he had to shrink in the crowd and watch Chen Wen's hard performance with fear. And the subsequent plot reversal startled him again, but he was surprised, he was also very glad that he didn't make the first bird, just with his relationship with Chen Wen, the first person to be beheaded must be him, don't think about it as a second person.
The materials in the silver warehouse here have been packed, and they are only ready to be loaded into trucks. After Chu Suxian completed a stage of work, his heart was filled with fear again.
Not to mention the relationship between him and Chen Wen, since Wang Sheng can conceal the most critical part of the previous conspiracy with Wang Sheng, who knows if anyone else will know about this matter, so that at this moment, Chu Suxian looked at everyone around him and felt that it might be the person who was ordered to arrest him, and even if it wasn't, it might be the informant.
In addition, when he left Dalan Mountain and Wang Jiang was sick, Chen Wen was responsible for all the way, God knows if this person would casually frame a crime and execute him Chu Suxian. Such thoughts constantly tormented him, making him quite panicked.
It is impossible to live in fear all the time, either to shatter the source of fear, to flee, or to force oneself to believe that the person who caused it is for his own good, and that he cannot even live without these fears, which is Stockholm syndrome.
Chu Suxian's actions were not trapped in a situation where he could not leave, nor could he shatter the source of fear, so he naturally chose the remaining options.
At lunchtime, Chen Wen was mobilizing the residents of the town to evacuate with the organs and military families of the Ming Army in Dalanshan, when he suddenly received a message.
Chu Suxian and a few officials of the silver treasury and Kuding did not arrive at the military camp outside the town as planned, and along with them, there were several carts full of silver taels, and those silver taels exceeded three-quarters of the few silver coins left in the entire Dalanshan silver treasury!