At the head of the city, the five-zhang high flagpole flutters the big flag of the word "Ming", there are Ming troops stationed inside and outside the city, and there are various flags of different sizes fluttering in the old and new military tents. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoYingcheng is now completely a large barracks, and there are soldiers and horses training everywhere. The sound of horses' hooves never stopped, and at noon, dozens of generals from other places entered the city one after another, and there were still people rushing to Yingcheng on the road.

This time, Li Laiheng, Liu Tichun, Yuan Zongdi, and others, as well as Pan Yinglong, the eunuch of the loyal battalion and the eunuch of the army, and Hong Yuao, the ministry and the Yuan, jointly sent letters to various families, and it was not only the families that came from Kuidong, but also some generals of the 13 families of Shaohuang who were active in western Hubei and the Three Gorges. The convention was originally scheduled for May 10, but now it has been postponed by three days, in order to take care of the generals who are far away.

The last group arrived from Xunyang Xingshan to "seize the sky" Wang Youjin and "100,000 a day" Hu Jiusi, these two belong to the Thirteen Shake Huang families, and have been in contact with Kui Dong before. After the Kui Dong soldiers were rescued by the Taiping army and entered Hubei, in order to expand their strength, Li Laiheng and Liu Tichun successively sent envoys to contact the thirteen families of Shaohuang, and agreed to be allies of each other to call for help and jointly deal with the Qing army in Hubei. The Son of Heaven abandoned the country, and the Taiping army wanted to support the Tang Dynasty in Guangdong, which was a big thing, so Li Laiheng and others discussed with Pan Yinglong, the eunuch of the prison army, and decided to hold a meeting in Yingcheng to convene all families to discuss the state affairs of the Tang Dynasty. At the same time, he also wanted to unify the anti-Qing forces of all departments in Huguang, at least to form a nominal alliance, so that no matter whether or not he supported Zhou Shi to support Tang Wang Jianguo, Hubei always had the ability to deal with the Qing army alone.

The composition of the Thirteen Families of Shaking Huang is very complicated, there are the same peasant army rogues as Yuan Zongdi and the rest of the army, and there are also local large landlords, among which the leaders Yuan Tao and Wu Dading are landlords and tyrants. After He Renlong was killed by Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, Wu Dading led his subordinates back to his hometown to be a bandit. After the Qing army entered the customs, Wu Dading has been leading people to resist the Qing army in the area of Santai Mountain in Sichuan, and later formed the Thirteen Shaking Yellow Families led by him and Yuan Tao, and the Qing army They have a unified contemptuous name, that is, the local tyrant.

Thirteen families in Kuidong, thirteen families in Shake Huang, people from all walks of life like to call them thirteen, not twelve or fourteen, but it is because the name of this "thirteen" comes from the Xingyang Conference of the Peasant Army in the eighth year of Chongzhen. At that time, the leaders of the peasant army were in Xingyang, Henan Province, and the name of "Thirteen Families" was passed down since then. After that, no matter which way of people, but not the Ming army, they like to call themselves thirteen, so it sounds louder.

Wang Youjin and Hu Jiusi bumped into Dang Shousu who came from Yicheng in Xiangyang when they entered the city.

His parents died early, he dropped out of school at the age of 20, and made a living by driving donkeys to and from northern Shaanxi to sell salt during the slack season. Once, the donkey and salt were confiscated by the salt officials, and they were detained by the salt officials for several days, and they could not return to their hometowns. In the "Old Eighth Team", the party Shousu repeatedly made military exploits, and rose all the way to the "mighty general" of the Dashun Dynasty, and was named "Zai Hou" by Li Zicheng and ordered him to guard Lanzhou. Later, Li Zicheng was defeated and died, and Dang Shousu and Li Guo, Gao Yigong and others led their troops from the northwest to the south, and followed Mrs. Gao to the Ming Dynasty to resist the Qing Dynasty. Because he was the marquis of the Great Shun Dynasty and the father of the "Old Eighth Team" back then, Li Laiheng and Yuan Zongdi respected the party and guarded the party, and their words in the loyalty camp also had weight.

Hu Jiusi had fought a few battles with the Qing army with Dang Shousu in the fourth year of Yongli, which could be regarded as a fateful friendship, so when he saw Dang Shousu, he immediately shouted: "Old party, Emperor Zhu ran away, what do you say, still don't do it?" ”

Wang Youjin also pulled his horse's head and looked at Dang Shousu when he heard this, he knew that Dang Shousu was old in the loyalty camp, so his attitude was very important, and to a certain extent, he could even influence the final opinion of this conference.

Dang Shousu grinned, pointed his whip at the city, and said: "I don't know if I do it or not, it depends on what Little Tiger and Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun say." ”

After Hu Jiusi heard this, he smiled and said: "Your king has also been the emperor, and now that Emperor Zhu has run away, there will be no master in this country, we can't recognize that Tartar as the emperor, let's say, your loyalty camp has never thought of setting up another Emperor Li to come out?" ”

"you, do you think this emperor is so good?" Dang Shousu shook his head, ignoring Hu Jiusi's nonsense.

"Well, anyway, no matter what your loyalty camp says, we still do it, we have been working with the Tartars for so many years, and the blood feud has gone to the sea, if we don't do it, won't we give our heads to the Tartars to cut off. As for who becomes the emperor, we don't care, anyway, don't worry about us. ”

Hu Jiusi laughed, flicked his whip, and galloped towards the city. Wang Youjin hugged his fist at Dang Shousu on his horse, and rode into the city with Dang Shousu, but he no longer explored Dang Shousu's tone along the way.

When they entered the city, their own sergeants came up and brought them to the meeting. The venue is the original Yingcheng Zhixian Yamen, which is already crowded with people, and the bluestone street outside the yamen is also full of soldiers brought by various families, and there are familiar people who are greeting each other. For this conference, Li Laiheng and the others were also well prepared, the wine, meat and food were prepared early, and the relatives and soldiers of each family also had people to greet them, not afraid that they would not be happy.

When he arrived at the gate of the yamen, Hu Jiusi turned over and dismounted, threw the horsewhip to the guards, and asked them to wait outside. After waiting for a while, he waited for Dang Shousu and Wang Youjin to arrive before they entered together.

"Old party, I'm back, I'm waiting for you!"

"The sun is seizing, why are you so late, yesterday, the body was hollowed out by the mother-in-law, and you can't ride a horse?"

"Wang Youjin, didn't you call 100,000 a day, why did we arrive a long time ago, but you were the last?"

“......”

As soon as they came in, a familiar leader got up to greet them and joked. Dang Shousu greeted them with a smile one by one. The plaque hanging high in the county office had already been shattered, and the inconsequential things in the hall had been removed, otherwise it would be impossible for hundreds of people to sit there and discuss matters.

Li Laiheng, Liu Tichun, and Ta Tianbao saw that Dang Shousu was coming, and hurriedly motioned for him to come and sit. Although hundreds of people are chaotic, the place where they can sit is exquisite, the rest of the loyal battalion is sitting on the right, and the Shake Huang Thirteen and some other leaders are sitting on the right, the two sides are distinct, but they are chatting happily with each other, if there is no important matter to discuss immediately, I am afraid that most of the people will have to drink on the spot.

Yuan Zongdi glanced at Liu Tichun, and Liu Tichun got up and said: "Everyone in charge, be quiet, since everyone is here, then let's discuss business." (To be continued.) )