The streets and open spaces outside the Qincha Xingyuan were full of people, and the nearby streets and alleys were crowded shoulder to shoulder, head to head, and I was afraid that there would be no more than 70,000 or 80,000 people.

There were men and women, old and young, and the most striking thing was that more than half of the crowd wore blue battle jackets, yellow cloth vests, and gauge coats, and Zhejiang soldiers from the Luomu Battalion, and even many middle- and lower-ranking officers wearing official uniforms and gauze hats.

During the Jiajing period, Hu Zongxian, the marshal of the anti-Japanese war, appointed Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou and other famous generals to recruit and train Zhejiang soldiers, recruited elite soldiers from Wenzhou and other places, and trained them into an elite army, which made great achievements in the anti-Japanese war.

The soldiers' cyan jackets and yellow cloth jackets were patched, the flaming red hats had turned white from fading, and the silk patches on the officers' chests had lost their due silk luster, but the fierceness on everyone's faces and the tenacity in their eyes had not faded with time.

They are all very tenacious and hardworking soldiers, who have been stationed in the Luomu camp for the past twenty years, guarding the southeast of the Ming Dynasty.

Perhaps the shabby battle jackets and tarnished patches revealed part of the reason...... "The little ones want to see the ministers, and Wu Zhongcheng told the little ones to be very aggrieved, and they only ask Qin Shaobao to uphold justice!" A young soldier shouted.

The wife who was holding the baby next to him had a vegetable on her face, and pulled her husband a little worriedly, afraid that he would become a bird and cause a big disaster.

The young soldier turned his head and looked at the emaciated infant in swaddling clothes, gritted his teeth, turned back and stretched out his fist, and let out an even louder roar from his mouth.

On the other side, there was a black, thin and thin veteran, who suddenly tore open the placket on his chest, revealing the huge scar on his chest that twisted and twisted from his left shoulder to his ribs, and tears rolled down his wrinkled face: "Qin Qincha, I heard that you are the great master of Qingtian, who once defeated the Sea Shark Society in Hangzhou, and is the first-class Qing official in the world, why don't you ignore us?" We followed Hu Dashuai and Grandpa Qi to fight the widows and was born and died, this injury testifies, we didn't tell a lie! But why, why is it that now they are being deducted from their salaries and can't even afford to eat? ”

His wife cried to passers-by: "My man came out to serve as a soldier at the age of 20, fought more than 30 battles for the imperial court, and was wounded, and in the end he couldn't eat enough, and his son was sick and lying in bed with no money to treat...... The emperor is above, if the Japanese come again, which one is willing to contribute to the imperial court, and which one will protect the people in the south of the Yangtze River! ”

When passers-by heard this, they all sighed and cried, and they all helped the veterans.

But the Zhejiang soldiers of the nine battalions stationed in the Luomu Battalion, a full 45,000 officers and soldiers, including wives and children, and more than 100,000 people, relying on the help of kind-hearted passers-by is tantamount to a drop in the bucket, and if you can help this, you can't help that...... "Wu Shanyan, this bastard!" Passers-by shook their heads and scolded, and walked away helplessly.

The people of Hangzhou know very well what is going on.

The salary of the Zhejiang soldiers of the Luomu camp is quite meager, only nine dollars of silver per month, barely enough for the family to make ends meet, and the wife has to do some female red needle fingers and pulp washing and sewing work to supplement the family, but the Zhejiang soldiers are mostly mountain people and miners in the mountainous areas of western Zhejiang, and they have long been accustomed to bitter words, and they have always held a meager salary in the past 20 years, and they have been born and died, bleeding and sweating, and they have also come over like this.

It wasn't until the end of last year that Wu Shanyan, the governor of Zhejiang, began to pay with new money, and the life of the Zhejiang soldiers finally couldn't last.

It is said that it is silver, but ordinary people say that they usually use copper money for daily life, and whoever takes a silver ingot of ten taels goes out to buy meat and vegetables, and the vegetable and butcher will never be able to find it, so the salary and silver of the Zhejiang soldiers have always been converted into copper coins and issued.

In the past, the Jiajing Tongbao money was also sufficient, but at the end of last year, the newly minted Wanli Tongbao began to be issued, and the Wanli Tongbao in the market in the south of the Yangtze River was worth one of Jiajing Tongbao, but Wu Shanyan was issued according to the original number, so that the salary of the Zhejiang soldiers was equivalent to a discount!

From winter to spring, after a few months, the Zhejiang soldiers who are known for their perseverance finally couldn't stand it, they ate all of them, and they had to go out of the camp to petition the governor Yamen, but they were treated coldly, I don't know who proposed to Qin Shaobao, the minister of the Qin Mission, so they came to the Qin Mission, hoping to get Qin Qin's help, but they did not see the Qin Messenger open the door.

After not being received for a long time, the officers and soldiers became anxious, and a tall and burly man in a general uniform among the soldiers looked at the closed door and sighed: "It is actually difficult to live up to the fame, and it seems that this Qin Shaobao is nothing more than that." ”

"Officials protect each other, the world is as black as a crow!" The sentinel, who was beside him with a white face and bright eyes, and looked very shrewd, spat on the ground.

More soldiers were excited: "Brother Ma, Second Brother Liu, Qin Qin is almost missing us, what should we do now?" These officials, they don't treat our big soldiers as people! ”

The burly general is called Ma Wenying, and the white sentry officer is called Liu Tingyong, the two of them are warm-hearted, and they are willing to help each other when they have difficulties, so although the official position is not high, it is the backbone of the Zhejiang soldiers of the nine battalions.

Finally, a soldier ran out of patience and said angrily: "The minister of the Qin mission has not seen us, can't we go to see him?" Rush in and forget it! ”

At the gate of Qinchaxingyuan, there were only twenty or thirty people guarding the Jinyi official school, and so many Zhejiang soldiers rushed up and could rush in immediately.

But someone immediately retorted: "Qin Qincha is a good official, we can't make mistakes, maybe he is thinking of a way for us?" ”

Ma Wenying and Liu Tingyong looked at each other, and the two hesitated and said, "Brothers, wait and see, this minister of the Imperial Mission didn't look like a bad official last time he handled the case of the Sea Shark Society...... The kidnapping of Chin Cha is like a rebellion, and he wants to lose his head! ”

The soldiers couldn't hold back, and their shouts became more and more high-pitched, but Ma Wenying and Liu Ting restrained them, and many people believed in Qin Lin, so they didn't make radical moves after all.

In the distance at the window of an inn facing the street, in the darkness where the sun could not shine, the silver mask shone brightly, and the two sharp eyes were like burning flames.

"Qin Lin, this sect leader doesn't believe that you are hiding and not showing up!" The White Lotus Sect Master sneered.

Ai Kuchan, Zi Hanyan and other subordinates in the sect praised in unison: "The Holy Sect Master has no last resort, no matter how tricky the Qin Demon is, he can't escape the palm of the Holy Sect Master!" ”

Ever since the masters of the White Lotus Sect escaped from the snare of Jinyiwei in Yanzhou, Shandong, they had gone south to the south of the Yangtze River to wait for Qin Lin in an attempt to recapture the White Jade Lotus. Helplessly, the minister suddenly changed his surname, and lived in a simple place along the way, and he couldn't even see a shadow of a person, so that they had nothing to do, and they didn't have such a good opportunity until they were in Hangzhou City.

The sly color in Gao Tianlong's eyes flashed, and he arched his hand and said: "Thanks to Wu Shanyan, the dog official, who fainted by himself, we can take advantage of the situation and cause the current situation." It can be seen that the Holy Sect Leader Hongfu Qitian, with his own vacuum hometown and no old mother to help, will definitely be able to recapture the white jade lotus from the hands of the Qin Devil, revive the Holy Sect, and destroy the puppet dynasty! ”

It was about his own body, and Gao Tianlong's words were tightly linked, and Qin Lin "snatched" the white jade lotus flower from him, and after that, he glanced at Hu Yunpeng.

Hu Yunpeng immediately smiled and said: "Holy Sect Master, the Jingshi side has already opened up the joints, once the Liang family kid becomes a concubine, his family is the imperial merchant, my Holy Sect pinched their handle to cheat marriage, and you can borrow his brand to go to sea at any time, and then the sky will be high and the birds will fly, and the sea will be wide and the fish will leap, and you will no longer be affected by the bird spirit of the Wufeng Maritime Merchant!" ”

Because Liang Bangduan had just selected a concubine, Hu Yunpeng left Beijing and rushed to the south, so he didn't know what happened later.

The White Lotus Sect Leader nodded: "The firearms of the Western Red Fan are powerful, the Holy Sect has tried to obtain them many times, but they have all been intercepted by the Puppet Dynasty, if the blockade can be broken, then it can get twice the result with half the effort." Elder Hu, you've done a great job! However, the Beijing division is virtual, the Hangzhou side is real, and the nine battalions of Zhejiang soldiers are the elite of the official army. ”

"Then we have to thank Wu Zhongcheng for his help!" Ai Kuzen grinned and laughed.

Gao Tianlong looked outside, and secretly said why didn't these soldiers rush in? It's best for the chaotic army to directly kill Qin Lin and loot Xingyuan, and the sect leader can't find the whereabouts of the white jade lotus, so it's logical.

The White Lotus Sect Leader also frowned, and said, "I didn't expect that someone Qin was young, but he also had some prestige, and he didn't come out to answer for so long, and his military heart didn't change. Hmph, it depends on how long he can last? ”

In the middle of the Qin mission, Jin Yingji couldn't sit still, Zhang Zixuan still sat firmly on the Diaoyu Tai, throwing fish food and teasing a few golden carp in the lotus pond, with a calm expression.

Jin Yingji finally couldn't help it: "Hey, Hangzhou Governor Gong Mian, Zhejiang Governor Zhang Wenxi, and Zhejiang Governor Wu Shanyan have asked to see each other, and there is a lot of uproar outside, so aren't you in a hurry?" ”

"Hey, who's your name?" Zhang Zixuan raised her eyebrows and said jokingly: "This official is the minister of the Qin Mission, and the general Jin should be called a husband." ”

You! Jin Yingji hated the wrong teeth and wanted to bite Zhang Zixuan very much. Not far away, the four female soldiers who were kicking the shuttlecock, Qingdai, Asha and A, B, C, and D, all snickered when they saw this situation.

Finally, Zhang Zixuan chuckled: "Forget it, don't tease my good sister." Qin Lin loved the people, the Sea Shark case won the hearts of the people of Hangzhou, and the Zhejiang soldiers were known for their tenacity and discipline, the little sister expected that these officers and soldiers would not make trouble for a while, but Wu Shanyan and Zhang Wenxi were not good at staying up, how could they bow their heads to my empty shelf Qin Cha and give in? How can I help these Zhejiang soldiers? ”

You're the most cunning! Jin Yingji's eyes rolled and Zhang Zixuan looked, but she admired this prime minister's daughter who was well versed in officialdom.

(To be continued)