In the afternoon of the next day, in the threshing floor outside Beilei Village in the southwest of Fotang Town, Yiwu County, some of the more prestigious sons of the Beilei Chen family in the hometown had all arrived, waiting for the results of the discussion.

Not only that, after a day of contact, the Yang family who came with them, as well as the Tianxin Wang family, the Dongzhu Ding family, and the Chi'an Feng family around this Fotang Town, also sent the people in charge of the clan, even the Longpi Zhang family is no exception, here is in the ancestral hall in the village, ready to get together to participate in the grand event, but the difference is that the Qingcun Jin family, who was very interested in it before, has not yet arrived.

It stands to reason that Qingcun is between Beilei and Chi'an and Dongzhu, and there is no reason why the Jin family did not send anyone at the same time that the Ding family and the Feng family arrived. But if you think about it further, there were rumors in the countryside that a child of the Jin family was working behind the scenes of Shang Kexi's traitor. If this is the case, the position of the Jin family may seem a little ambiguous.

No matter what, Ma Jinbao's dog thing has been persecuted too much over the years, especially the family behind them, the members of the Qi family's army, who have been intensified to find trouble, and they have long hated it. Since this time it is a rebuilt Qi family army, or a Ming army that has some prestige in several neighboring prefectures and counties, then everyone must have the intention of coming out to do a big job like following Qi Shaobao back then.

This time, if the Jin family still cares about the affection of the villagers, even if they are so mad that they report to the Tartars, it is useless. With their own difficult county towns and prefectures, as long as they have the support of this Ming army, they will never be afraid of the beast surnamed Ma!

The representatives of each family were still discussing in the village, and the children of the accompanying families gathered in the threshing floor to talk freely, especially the children of the Chen family and the Yang family who were closer to the people who came back to report the news, and there were layers of young people around them, hoping to learn some details from them about the Ming army that had just captured the county seat of Dongyang.

At this moment, in the direction of the village, a man strode over, waiting for everyone to take a look, but it was Chen Lan who was guarding the door of the ancestral hall.

"Brother Chen, can the elders of each family discuss it properly?" Seeing Chen Lan coming, everyone surrounded him to inquire about the results.

But at this moment, I saw that Chen Lan shook his head, and then asked, "No, haven't the people from the Jin family come yet?" ”

Seeing that most of the people shook their heads, and some of them brought out some resentful words, Chen Lan had no choice but to sigh. His beneficee is the daughter of the Jin family, and the relationship between his father and his father-in-law was extremely good when he was young, and he and his beloved wife are also childhood sweethearts.

"Seventh brother, do you want to send someone to keep an eye on it, if the Jin family goes to report to the Tartars, it will not be a good thing for everyone after all."

"Brother Jiu is right, and it should be so."

"Brother Chen has a point, he always knows that he knows what he is."

“……”

Seeing that everyone expressed their opinions, Chen Lan was a little anxious in his heart, not only because of the relationship between the two families, but also because the children of each family were young people who couldn't talk or do things.

But before he could refute or explain, an old but angry voice came from the other side of the threshing floor.

"You're worried, the little old man is getting older and walking slowly, and I hope you guys will take care of me when I'm late."

Hearing this, everyone turned their heads, but what they saw was the old patriarch of the Jin family, the famous old man near the left of Fotang Town, who was also the old grandfather of Jin Fu, and a group of indignant children of the Jin family.

Seeing that the elder who was several times older than them arrived, these men were ashamed and embarrassed, but the old patriarch of the Jin family was definitely not trying to embarrass these juniors, he had something important to do here, and he was about to explain everything he had planned before the elders of those families finished their discussions.

"Xiao Qi, the elders of each family are still in the village, right?"

Hearing the question of the old patriarch of the Jin family, Chen Lan immediately bowed. "The elders of each family are waiting for you to grow old."

"Lead the way."

Seeing that the old patriarch of the Jin family followed Chen Lan, who led the way from the side, into the village with the support of the two Jin family children, the children of each family were silent for a moment, and soon remembered to continue to investigate the Ming army.

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After Li Zhifang announced the martial law order in the name of the government office, almost all the gates of Jinhua Mansion were closed, leaving only a hawker in the west to pick and sell vegetables to enter the city, and others could not enter or leave the city without Li Zhifang's handwritten warrant.

It's just that just a few hours ago, the Zhou family, who originally lived in the city, had quietly left the city before the martial law order was issued, leaving only a few clansmen who continued to support the scene in the city, while some elders, men, women, children and some servants of the family returned to the old house in the countryside by car.

There is a way to go into the city in a small chaos and go to the countryside in a big chaos. The scale of the turmoil is small, the city is protected by a city wall, and the small chaos will not reach the city, so entering the city is the best choice; But if it is a time of chaos, the city is the best target for the development of turmoil, and the countryside is much safer because of the mocking faces of the prefecture and the county seat.

The choice of the Zhou family is the inevitable reaction of many people living in troubled times, but the speed of the Ming army's defeat of the Qing army this time was too fast, and the time between the news and Li Zhifang's declaration of martial law was also very short, so most of the large families with houses in the countryside were locked up in the city before they could get out of the city.

But under such circumstances, the Zhou family began to lobby within the family as early as the news of the defeat of the defenders in Dongyang County, and it was not until they got the news that the Qing army was defeated and retreated to the county seat before they decided to leave the city, and finally completed the transfer before the martial law order was issued.

It was the third day of the ninth lunar month, and the Zhou family and a group of people from their in-laws had arrived at the Zhou family's house in the countryside, and the accompanying servants and the old family members who stayed here were rushing to carry the belongings, while the little sister of the Zhou family and his sister-in-law were chatting in the room while being a female celebrity.

"Thanks to the little sister, if you listen to those uncles, I'm afraid you will already be trapped in the city at this moment."

Hearing this, the youngest daughter of the Zhou family just smiled faintly. She knew very well that the new sister-in-law was not so much thanking her for her previous advice, but rather that this early action of leaving the city allowed her to win a lot of face in front of her fellow mother's family.

"It's still fortunate that the elder brother managed to convince the uncle, otherwise how could those brothers listen to the ignorant words of the concubines and the female stream."

The elder brother in the mouth of the little sister of the Zhou family is the eldest brother of her in-laws, and he is also the husband of this new sister-in-law. just heard the praise of the little sister of the Zhou family for her husband, but the little woman who had just become a wife and was pregnant for only half a year couldn't help but feel a little sad.

The Zhou family was not a native of Jinhua Mansion, but a family who moved from Shaoxing during the Jiajing period to escape the Japanese rebellion. Although this family has been moving for nearly a hundred years, it has never been prosperous, especially in these two rooms of the family, there are only a few children, far less prosperous than many large families in this era.

This time, in order to persuade her uncle, who had always sacrificed his life and money, the eldest brother of the little sister of the Zhou family volunteered to stay with the old housekeeper of the family to guard the family business.

It's just the news that just came, and Li Tuiguan, who had a good official reputation in Jinhua Mansion, claimed in a proclamation that the Ming army wantonly slaughtered and tortured the gentry and ordinary people in Dongyang County in the name of being different from the Ming army, just like the resurrection of Huangchao and Li Chuang. Hearing this, the little woman almost fainted with fright. The husband is the wife, she herself wants to stay in the city with her husband, if she wasn't pregnant with Liujia and was sent out by her husband, how could she leave her husband in the city and escape alone.

"Little sister." Even though there were only the two of them in the room, the little woman couldn't help but come close to the little sister of the Zhou family and whispered the hidden worries in her heart. "Do you say that Li Tuiguan and their little men can defend this city?"

"Sister-in-law, whether you can defend it or not, my brother is famous, and the Ming army will not embarrass him when it enters the city." Speaking of this, seeing that her sister-in-law had faded away from a trace of worry, the little sister of the Zhou family looked back in the direction of Fucheng, but her heart was full of things that she had always worried about when she proposed to her father and brother to take refuge in the city.

"Whether it is Li Zhifang or Ma Jinbao, it is impossible to be an opponent in the face of such a powerful force, what I am worried about is whether this Ming army can repel the counterattack of the Zhejiang Qing army that came with Ma Jinbao, or even the counterattack of the Eight Banners garrisoned in Hangzhou......"

"If it is victorious, it is all right; But if this Ming Army's Chen Dashuai can't win the battle, he has suffered such a big loss this time, and Ma Jinbao will definitely intensify his efforts to knock on the bones and suck the marrow and poison the people. At that time, the family may have to pay more than just land and goods. ”

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On the seventh day of the ninth month of the fifth year of Yongli, in the Ruquan Pavilion in front of the left side of the Dongyang County Ya, representatives of all major ethnic groups and ordinary people in Dongyang County gathered together and were reporting to Chen Wen, the general who was in charge of supporting military affairs, and Sun Yu, the prefect of Jinhua who was in charge of government affairs, about the situation in various parts of Dongyang County that they had spodied.

In fact, there is no need for them to report at all, and in the past few days, a large amount of materials have been donated to the county government, including grain, forage, cloth, silver, and even wood and stone have been sent to the warehouse.

At the same time, during the period when the Nantang battalion was stationed in the county seat, it also always maintained its traditions since it became an army, and the people did not commit any offenses in autumn. It's just that even so, Chen Wen still sent the pacification soldiers to patrol around to prevent possible problems from appearing in corners that he couldn't notice.

And such strict military discipline really opened the eyes of the people of Dongyang County. So that in these days, there will always be people in Dongyang County who rush to the barracks to work in the army, and a large number of people will come to join the army, asking to join this Ming army with strict military discipline and fight under Chen Wen, so as to contribute to the recovery of Jinhua Mansion by Wang Shi.

For such enthusiasm for joining the army, Chen Wen is naturally very happy. After thoroughly selecting according to the standards in the "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness", there were soon more than 2,000 recruits in the barracks, and after the first round of brainwashing of these recruits in the camp ceremony, Lou Jiye was responsible for leading the team to train, while Chen Wen was busy continuing to collude with those influential families to obtain more first-hand information.

I just got the news that the green battalion soldiers of the Qing army, who were responsible for encircling the rebel army of Luochengyan and Zhou Qingui, had withdrawn from the two towns of Dapan and Fangqian, and got rid of the surveillance of the Qing army, and the regimental training troops from the surrounding towns began to obey the orders of the Ming army under the guidance of the squire.

Chen Wen knew very well that the Qing army in Jinhua Prefecture had gone through one after another heavy defeats, and although many Qing troops still fled back, these scattered Qing troops were actually far from their previous combat effectiveness.

The Qing army gave up the siege of Luochengyan, ostensibly at the expense of releasing Zhou Qingui's rebel army that once cramped Jinhua Mansion and forcibly reduced its forces; But in fact, with the mentality of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, Chen Wen of the Ming army was used to contain the Ming army of the Lu Jianguo system with this righteous army that was not in the Ming army system.

According to Chen Wen's acquaintance with Sun Yu, Wu Dengke, Yin Yue, etc., who had worked with Zhou Qingui, with Zhou Qingui's character, he was afraid that it would be difficult to force him to give up the command of the rebel army with only a few hundred people left at the moment and start as a subordinate general of Chen Wen, but if a place was divided to settle them, Chen Wen was not at ease.

In this case, this rebel army must not be released at the moment, because once it is released, Dongyang County will be in chaos, and once something happens in the rear, it will be difficult to continue the military operation that is ready to continue. But if you can't occupy a larger territory and recruit more soldiers before Ma Jinbao returns to the division, then it will be completely difficult in the situation of internal and external difficulties.

Such a chain reaction is something that Chen Wen can't afford at all!

Seeing this, while secretly scolding the poor skills of the donkey, Chen Wen had no choice but to send officers to lead the team to Fangqian Town to supervise the training of those regiments to continue to encircle Luo Chengyan, and at the same time sent people to send some gifts to Zhou Qingui, just with the idea of how long it could be delayed, ready to accelerate the attack plan for other counties.

At this moment, Zhang Jun, who had returned to Chen Wen's side as a personal soldier, walked in and leaned into Chen Wen's ear and said two words. After hearing this, Chen Wen hurriedly confessed, left the Ruquan Pavilion with Zhang Jun, and entered an ear room at the side door of the county government.

Holding the delivered secret letter in his hand, he looked up at the appearance of the person, and the corners of Chen Wen's mouth couldn't help but hook up a smile.

"When the time comes, heaven and earth are all working together, and the ancients will not deceive me!"

PS: Maybe you have already seen it in the bookshelf, this book has already entered V. This matter was notified to the author by the editor on the afternoon of the 18th, asking the author to start updating the VIP chapter on the 19th. But I forgot to mention it when I was in a hurry to sleep after the update yesterday.,So today's chapter is still free.,There's a testimonial on the shelves tomorrow.,And then start on the shelves.,It's also a beginning and an end.。

PS: From the next chapter, content that is not related to the story will not appear in the chapter, and this is the last time.