Chapter 6 Anqing City Breaks
In the governor's office, since the news that the chief soldier Wang Pengfei abandoned the city gate came, all the officials and officials exploded, and the saliva foam was enough to drown Wang Pengfei. But smart people have already figured out a way to get out, and Fu Jixun, the prefect of Anqing, is one of them. The supreme commander was unconscious, and all the pressure was undoubtedly on the political envoy Li Benren, who paced back and forth in front of Jiang Wenqing's bed, and looked at Jiang Wenqing lying on the bed from time to time, he was angry and afraid of this person. Angry that Jiang Wenqing fell into a coma and threw all the burden on his shoulders, he was afraid that Jiang Wenqing would die of illness and become the supreme governor of Anhui, although he had longed for this position for a long time, but he didn't want to take on the responsibility of defending the land at this moment.
"Ahem! How's it going out there? Jiang Wenqing finally woke up.
"Dad, it's okay outside, the Taiping Army is still outside the city." Jiang Wan had been waiting in front of the bed, she didn't want her father to worry too much.
"Lord Governor, you're finally awake! Wang Pengfei was disloyal and unjust, abandoned the city and fled. Li Benren couldn't wait to exclaim.
"What? How dare he escape? cough cough" Jiang Wenqing fell heavily on the bed, only to hear the muttering: "It's over, it's over."
"My lord, don't faint again, the most important thing now is to escort the money out."
"Yes, these 300,000 taels of silver must not fall into the hands of thieves."
"My lord, Fu Jixun's guy also escaped when you were unconscious, claiming to escort the money out of the city, but I went to the domain treasury to see it, and 300,000 taels is a lot."
"Is there such a thing? Fu Jixun boy, this official must join him. ”
"My lord, the money is a big deal, so I still have to find a reliable person to escort you." Li Benren is quite insightful.
"Who do you think is going?"
When Li Benren heard this, he knelt on the ground suddenly, as if he was waiting for this sentence, and said: "The lower officials are not talented, and they are willing to break out of the encirclement and be escorted to the army of Lord Zhou in Luzhou." ”
"You?" Jiang Wenqing squinted and smiled, as if saying to himself: "People always cherish themselves." ”
"The situation is urgent, please make a quick decision!" Li Benren slammed on the ground.
"That's it! I'll let you be, but you'll have to promise me one condition, take my daughter with you!" ”
"Dad doesn't leave, daughter doesn't go."
"Obedient, let's go with your Uncle Li! Benren, your eldest son is not small, so take my daughter over at the end of the year. Jiang Wenqing smiled and asked.
"Master Xie! What the adults entrusted, the next official will do it when he goes back! Li Benren said with great certainty.
"Come on, escort the young lady out of the city with Master Li!"
The two maidservants came, Jiang Wan was unwilling to leave, crying and making trouble, and was taken away by the maidservants for a long time.
Li Benren kowtowed to Jiang Wenqing before leaving, but Jiang Wenqing turned around and turned his back to him.
The warships of the Taiping Army were lined up one after another, and a huge long dragon ship was particularly conspicuous, with cannons on both sides of the ships standing side by side, and flags were tossing. There is a yellow silk flag on the bow of the ship, with red characters and blue edges, and the book "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Left Army Chief General Yiwang Shi" is imposing.
At this time, the generals on the deck gathered, each standing in two shifts, in the middle of a yellow lacquer Taishi chair sat a young commander, although the age seems to be a weak crown, but his feet are wearing square gold boots, wearing six dragons and yellow robes, the waist is tied with a gold and jade belt, and the head is wearing a dragon and phoenix hood, two gold leaf embroidered words in the middle, and its name is "Wing King". The winged king Shi Dakai came out of the mountain sixteen times, twenty kings, and commanded hundreds of thousands of waterway troops at the moment, with fierce generals like clouds, countless warships, and more than ten days of troops, invincible and high-spirited.
"How's the war going?" The young commander, who had been supervising the battle for half a day, asked.
"Tell His Royal Highness the Wing King that he is 5,000 years old, Xiao Beizhi has besieged for several hours in accordance with the order, and the Qing army has retreated, especially the West Gate Dachang!" Lai Hanying, who was in charge of the siege of the city, hurriedly replied.
"Haha, Qing Demon is going to sing an empty city plan, how is Uncle Guo going to attack the city?" Lai Hanying's sister is the first match of the Heavenly King, the dignified uncle of the country, and Shi Dakai does not dare to underestimate it.
"Humble position, I am preparing to send Zeng Chunfa as the vanguard to find out the truth and truth."
"Okay, Zeng Chunfa can take on this responsibility."
Zeng Chunfa, a native of Guixian County, Guangxi, was born in the Hakka family, and was originally an honest farmer, but the cruel exploitation of the landlords and the discrimination and persecution of the locals overwhelmed him, and it was the gospel of the Hong sect leader that made him reborn and participated in the Jintian Uprising. Since then, he has followed the famous Shi Xianggong in his hometown, fought bravely along the way, and was promoted to the position of supervising the army. The Taiping Army implements the military division responsibility system, and among the five kings under the Heavenly King, the one-winged king is not a military division but a chief general, and the early winged kings are all subordinate to fight. After the king of the south and the king of the west were killed in battle, the king of wings had to take charge of himself, attacked the east and west in Xiangxi, skillfully broke the Qing army, and then rushed into Wuchang, the first provincial capital, and the world was shocked. Zeng Chunfa was first an elder in the township, and then a brave general of his subordinates, who witnessed the growth of this legendary commander and admired and was loyal to him.
At that moment, Zeng Chunfa received the order, and selected 50 men who dared to fight in the army, left the ship and took the boat, and landed one after another. However, before leaving, Uncle Lai Guo had an order, beware of fraud, and he didn't dare to rush away, so he had to approach quietly. However, they were still discovered early by Xie Zhenke on the city tower, and Xie Zhenke hurriedly reported Wang Jingyuan. As soon as Jing Yuan heard the great joy and gave a brief explanation, he greeted him with a banner hanging a snow-white white cloth on it, regardless of whether the Taiping Army understood it or not, and had the right to use it as a white flag. Yuan Hongmo and the others wanted to go together, but Jing Yuan didn't allow it, only saying that the person who came was his brother in the army, and one person was enough to contact.
However, Zeng Chunfa did not regard him as a brother, he carefully looked at this person who claimed to have surrendered in Kaesong, medium stature, young but strong, dressed in tattered clothes, but without braids on his head, what was even more strange was that this person's eyes were like torches, and he saw that he had no fear. Jing Yuan took a closer look at this group of legendary Taiping soldiers, with red turbans and yellow coats, there was really nothing to see except for the bright swords.
"You're a monk?" Zeng Chunfa asked in Hakka.
"Nani?" Jing Yuan asked rhetorically in Japanese, he did not deny the cultural diversity of the motherland, but this Cantonese really needs to be made up.
Zeng Chunfa realized that the Han people in the Central Plains could not understand it, so he had to find a Hunan man as a translator among his subordinates. It's really hard for Jing Yuan to imagine that a large group of people from Liangguang shouted long live in Cantonese on the Jinluan Palace, and the realistic version of the Hong Kong drama Taiping Heavenly Kingdom really appeared.
After listening to the Hunan people's translation, Jing Yuan hurriedly replied: "I'm not a monk!" "Does he know that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom believes in the Hong version of Christianity, and in the eyes of the Hong sect leader, other religions are heresies, and they will be criticized. He also explained: "I am an authentic Han Chinese, I once followed my father to do business in Nanyang, and the foreigners coerced me so I had to shave my head!" ”
"Haha, I see, as long as it's not a clear demon!"
After Jing Yuan roughly finished talking about his experience, Zeng Chunfa asked him to take the lead in entering the city. Jing Yuan led the Taiping army into the West Gate, and immediately gathered his men, and when his people saw that Jing Yuan really led the Taiping army into the city, they completely believed that he was a pathfinder sent by the Taiping army. Zeng Chunfa simply announced that everyone would be a Taiping army from now on, and then let Wang Jingyuan still lead his headquarters as the lead and attack the governor's yamen.
At this time, the south of the city had already become a mess of porridge, and the political envoy Li Benren hurriedly came to the yamen of the feudal division and ordered the treasurer to open the treasury, and boxes of silver were piled up there, as much as 300,000 taels, all of which were raised by the two rivers. Li Benren has long been eyeing this wealth, which is equivalent to half of his family property, and now he can take the opportunity of escorting the silver to be greedy, you must know that in this era of war and chaos, the silver is easy to lose! "Turn in half? No! Turn in 100,000 taels, no! After Li Benren finally decided to escape from Anqing, he handed over 10,000 taels of silver to the imperial court, and the others said that they were robbed by the Taiping army, and if the imperial court wanted to pursue it, let them find the Taiping army. Just as he was immersed in the joy of increasing his wealth, a pawn came in a panic to report that the Taiping army had entered the city, which frightened Li Benren into a daze, and hurriedly called everyone to the treasury, including Jiang Wenqing's daughter Jiang Wan.
Jiang Wan was extremely reluctant to be brought here by Li Benren, she just wanted to accompany her father. No wonder she is so filial, Jiang Wenqing's wife died early, leaving a pair of children, Jiang Wenqing was afraid that his children would be embarrassed by his stepmother, so he never renewed the strings, and wherever he went to be an official, he had to take his children with him, especially for this daughter.
"It's all the imperial court's silver, and now that the Taiping army is about to attack the city, each of you will escape with your official with two hundred taels of silver!" Li Benren said loudly.
"Master, two hundred taels is too heavy!"
"Then two hundred for men and one hundred for women, after leaving the city, this master will be rewarded! Load more, get more! ”
As soon as they heard that there was a reward, the subordinates hurriedly loaded the silver, Jiang Wan didn't want to bring it, not only because more than six catties of silver was too heavy, but also because she was still worried about her father.
"Why don't you pretend to be silver, these are the blood and sweat of the common people, how can they fall into the hands of long hair!" Li Benren reprimanded with a straight face.
That is, the blood and sweat of the people, the wealth of the country, how can they be rewarded privately! It's clear that you want to engulf! Jiang Wan has always been disgusted with Li Benren's flattery in front of her father.
"Presumptuous! You dare to talk to the old man like this, how can you enter the gate of my Li family in the future! Li Benren was very annoyed by the future daughter-in-law's disrespectful remarks.
"Whoever wants to enter the door of your Li family, there must be a father and a son, and your son is not a good thing!"
"It's the other way around! It's the other way around! If it weren't for the face of your dying father, this official might not have taken you out of the city! ”
At the mention of her father, Jiang Wan became more and more uncomfortable, Anhui was lost, and the responsibility was all blamed on her father, what kind of system is this! She shouted wildly: "Escape from the battle, steal the treasury silver, Li Benren, you are a hypocrite!" ”
"Get out! Get out of here! Li Benren was so angry that he blew his beard and glared.
Jiang Wan ran out of the feudal mansion without looking back, she wanted to return to her isolated father the most. At this time, Jiang Wenqing knew that he was in danger, and he was already writing a suicide note to his friend Zhou Tianjue, before he died, he always wanted to say something, and he couldn't remember how to start for a while. After thinking about it for a long time, he wrote about the memories of the young Zhongbang, and reproduced the scene when he met Zhou Tianjue for the first time in a very delicate way, and praised Dong Zhou as "a friend, a teacher and a father". Jiang Wenqing hurriedly ended hastily, called a personal guard, and ordered him to send this letter to Zhou Shilang in Luzhou as soon as possible.
The suicide note was sent, the wish had been fulfilled, Jiang Wenqing felt that his life seemed to have come to an end, took out a piece of gold from the drawer, touched the smooth gold nugget, he said: "There is Yan Ruyu in the book, and there is a golden house in the book!" "It's not that he doesn't want to be greedy, it's just that he is bound by the famous religion and wants to be a famous minister who preaches the holy way and is admired by future generations. I saw him laugh a few times, and suddenly put the gold nugget into his mouth, and was about to calmly take justice, but he didn't expect the gold nugget to be too big to fit into his throat, and he didn't send it in for a long time. I didn't expect it to be so difficult to die, Jiang Wenqing found out the good thing sent by Mr. Zhou again, a bottle of rat poison. Jiang Wenqing didn't expect that he would end up like this, so he raised the bottle and drank it all.
At that moment, a shout of "Don't!" was heard. Jiang Wan rushed in and snatched the medicine bottle, but unfortunately the medicine had already been drunk by Lao Jiang. Jiang Wan cried in an instant, Lao Jiang comforted her, and suddenly remembered something, and shouted: "Why are you back again!" Jiang Wan only cried silently, and Lao Jiang was helpless, and said, "That's it, that's it, you can accompany your father to finish this last journey!" The words were very sad, and he was also in tears after speaking.
However, Lao Jiang waited for a long time, the poison had not yet attacked, and Lao Jiang suddenly felt deceived, how could Mr. Zhou send a bottle of fake medicine to himself?
"Sir, Miss, the long hair has hit the door! Run! A few subordinates didn't care about their dignity and humility, and ran directly into the back hall.
"Dad, let's go!" After speaking, regardless of whether Jiang Wenqing agreed or not, he ordered people to carry him and leave.
Anqing City has long been an empty city, only a very small number of old and young, sick and disabled, orphans and widows remain here. Wang Jingyuan led Zeng Chunfa all the way to the governor's yamen, but he didn't encounter any resistance at all, and directly attacked the gate of the yamen, and several people in the palace were frightened by the soldiers and fled. Zeng Chunfa didn't care about the cries of the maids in the house, and hit the back hall, and as soon as he entered the backyard, he met a group of people carrying Jiang Wenqing to run, which was worth it. After a burst of shouting, all the subordinates left Jiang Wenqing and ran away.
"Who are you? Why didn't the thief kneel when he saw the official? Jiang Wenqing said sharply.
This made Zeng Chunfa confused, and Jing Yuan hurriedly muttered in his ear: "He is Jiang Wenqing, the governor of Anhui!" Next to it was ......" Jing Yuan didn't expect Jiang Wenqing's daughter to be there, and she still had that pitiful expression.
When Zeng Chunfa heard that the main owner was looking for him, he immediately shouted: "Cut off his head and go to see the Wing King!" ”
Jing Yuan would definitely not do such a life-threatening thing, and a Taiping saber and axe had already rushed forward with a machete, and Jing Yuan was about to send advice to Zeng Chun, Jiang Wenqing had been cut down. At this time, Jiang Wan on the side cried and cried desperately, Zeng Chunfa didn't care about that matter, and ordered: "Come on, take this demon girl down, take care of it, and prepare to welcome the Wing King into the city!" ”