On the second day after Wang Yongan confessed to Wei Wenkang, Chen Zhaotang suddenly came to Yangzhou, Wang Yongan thought that he was for Zhang Xun's daughter's marriage to himself, but he didn't expect Chen Zhaotang to come to himself this time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Wang Yongan was surprised, and asked Chen Zhaotang about the reason.

Chen Zhaotang did not hide anything, indicating that Zhang Renjun was afraid that he would go to Liangguang and be more auspicious, so he told Zhang Renjun to defect to the Wang brothers, at least the safest place in the world, except for the Beijing division is Yangzhou, this Wang brothers will run Yangzhou like an iron beating, not to mention the revolutionary party, even the nails of the imperial court have been uprooted, Chen Zhaotang assisted the Wang brothers, first, they can be reused, and secondly, there will be no danger.

The butterfly of history flapped its wings here, and Chen Zhaotang, who was supposed to be killed by the villagers of Guangdong Province in retaliation during the uprising at the end of the Qing Dynasty, avoided the fate of being hanged because he defected to Wang Yongan.

Wang Yongan knew that Chen Zhaotang was capable, and he lacked such a helper, so he asked Chen Zhaotang to serve as the second brother Wang Yongtai's Jiangbei patrol envoy inspector, replacing the second brother Wang Yongtai in Jiangbei counties to inspect officials such as corruption and corruption, local ruffians and bullies bullying and oppression of the people, and had the right to make temporary decisions except for killing.

This Wang Yongan and Wang Yongtai are one in charge of Jiangbei military power, and the other is in charge of Jiangbei power, but Wang Yongan has only done a simple inspection and has not really understood the people, and Chen Zhaotang is just such an energetic, experienced, and decisive candidate. Chen Zhaotang was originally doing some work under Zhang Renjun, but this time he was suddenly entrusted with the important task of monitoring local officials, and he was immediately overjoyed, and immediately took office and took some troops to inspect various places. The information he obtained from his investigation would be reported to Wang Yongtai, and Wang Yongtai selected some of them and reported them to the imperial court, thus completing the integration of the territory and coping with the annual examination of the imperial court.

At this time, Wei Wenkang saw that Chen Zhaotang was reused when he first arrived, and he was immediately anxious, he immediately found Gao Dazhuang and said to him: "Captain Gao, do you know what the Protector means?" ”

"I understand, I was originally born as a bandit in eastern Henan." Gao Dazhuang smiled slightly.

Wei Wenkang said: "Of course I don't mean that. ”

Gao Dazhuang was puzzled and asked, "What does the protector mean?" ”

"Cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, there is no doubt, I wonder if you can do it?" Wei Wenkang asked with blazing eyes.

Gao Dazhuang thought for a while and said, "It's difficult. ”

"If it's not difficult, why would the Protector Envoy leave you alone?" Wei Wenkang sneered, "If it were any other person, wouldn't it be impossible?" The key is that the protector makes the adults feel that only you can do it beautifully, and only you can do it without flaws. ”

Gao Dazhuang pondered for a moment and said: "I think, even if I do it without any flaws now, the Chu family has had a conflict with us before, and after a long time, others will definitely find out that we are playing tricks behind it." So I'm going to find some helpers to blame someone else. ”

Wei Wenkang asked, "What helper?" ”

"Isn't there thousands of bandits from the three provinces of Shandong, Henan, and Anhui imprisoned in the Tongcheng Reform Camp?"

"Yes."

"I organized a big prison escape, let these people escape to Su County, and then burn, kill, loot and do all kinds of evil, and take the opportunity to kill the Chu family." Tall and strong.

Wei Wenkang's eyes showed a fierce light, and he added: "Then in the name of eliminating the bandits, my army directly marched into Su County and took over Su County!" ”

Gao Dazhuang said: "Mr. Wei is really more despicable. ”

Wei Wenkang patted the tall and strong shoulder and said, "Your name is quite righteous and heroic, I didn't expect that I would still be a bandit and cunning habit, despicable, really despicable, but I like it very much." ”

Gao Dazhuang smiled and said, "We are almost the same--what do you scholars say?" ”

"Each other, each other."

"Yes, each other, each other." Gao Dazhuang said with a smile.

After the two of them calculated, Wei Wenkang reported to Wang Yongan, Wang Yongan pondered a little after hearing it, and suddenly smiled and said: "Quan'an, do you know what it means to hide the bow of a bird?" ”

"Of course you know."

"Then you should know what is self-respect for bandits, right?"

Wei Wenkang's eyes lit up, and he said, "What does the Lord Protector mean ......"

"yes, that's what I mean." Wang Yongan said with a smile, "Give you 50,000 taels of silver, and be responsible for completing this matter, this army of bandits will definitely be a big help for me in the future." ”

"My subordinates understood." Wei Wenkang was overjoyed.

It is comfortable to talk to smart people, Wei Wenkang took the money and Gao Dazhuang once again summed it up, and immediately went to Tongcheng in central Anhui, and recruited troops in the transformation camp, and soon got the support of the transformation bandits. The crowd took the money, pretended to riot in the middle of the night, and even attacked the weapons depot, causing the guards to retreat again and again.

Gao Dazhuang took the opportunity to become the leader of the riot jailers, they proclaimed themselves righteous marchers, looted the police station in Tongcheng County, turned into a strong army, and ran north with an army of 3,000 bandits.

Wherever this bandit army passed, it was unceremonious to the common people, but it was unceremonious to some powerful landlords and bully gentry, especially when they went north to Suxian, they ran to Huaiyuan Town first, and attacked the Huaiyuan patrol camp in the middle of the night.

In fact, this Huaiyuan patrol battalion has long been on guard against the bandits in Liuchuan and Anhui Province, and they have repeatedly sent messages to the Yangzhou Jiangbei Protector to ask for help, but they have been ordered to hold on and wait for help. After Chu Quanye held on all night, he suddenly found that the compulsion of the righteous march had increased significantly, so he felt that something was wrong, and he left the army overnight and fled with his family back to the county seat of Suxian.

After the righteous march defeated the Huaiyuan patrol battalion, they tidied up a little and continued to march to the county seat of Suxian, but at this time, because of Chu Quanye's advance notice, the gentry and wealthy families of Suxian County closely united and mobilized tenant farmers to go to the city wall to guard the county seat. The county seat of Suxian County is six meters high, if it is forcibly captured, it will inevitably make the righteous march suffer heavy losses, but Gao Dazhuang does not have this plan, he knows that the core of the Suxian garrison is the Chu family, so Gao Dazhuang announced: "The Chu family once caused his family to be ruined, today's righteous march is only aimed at the Chu family, not for others, if anyone dares to stop it, the righteous march will be slaughtered after the city is broken, if everyone sacrifices the Chu family, the righteous march only kills Chu Lao Si, Chu Lao Qi and Chu Lao Ba, and the rest are spared." ”

is the so-called cutting soldiers first to cut the heart, this ghost idea was Wei Wenkang at a glance, which made the people and gentry of Suxian County very embarrassed, whether they were guarding or not, not guarding it.

Gao Dazhuang saw that Su County hesitated, so he ordered to burn the mountain, burn the ancestral tomb of the Chu family, and dig up the Qilin vein of the Chu family. Dig up my Qilin vein, this is to cut off the Chu family, this is to make the Chu family never get up again, who in the Manchu Dynasty doesn't give the Chu family a face, why are these bandits so rampant? Old Man Chu was even so angry that he fainted, and the little concubines were angry for a long time, and Old Man Chu woke up leisurely and said, "Old man and eight, if you don't kill them, I won't recognize your two sons." ”