When Shi Kefa heard the report, the shelling just now was just a false alarm, and the Manchurians hadn't come yet, but the champion army had flattened and burned the woods outside the city.

Shi Kefa was very annoyed, how could he disturb the rest of the sages in order to become famous, the sages have clouds, and the dead are respected, and it is too fearless to do so.

It didn't take long for Wang Lanping to send someone to report, saying that the coffin of the former Shoufu had been sent to the city gate, intact, Wang Lanping asked Shi Kefa to give Nanjing a fold, saying that the soul of the former Shoufu still remembers the grace of the Ming Dynasty, and gave him a dream last night, so that he could choose another auspicious place for burial in the cemetery today, so as to bless the Ming River for thousands of years.

Shi Kefa's face is really green, not to mention the pretext of cutting first and then playing, and using this strange force to confuse the gods, he doesn't care about digging people's graves, and throws all the things that wipe his ass into his own hands.

Shi Kefa, who was angry, had a gloomy face and ran to the barracks of the champion army, only to find that the king of people was not there, and when he inquired, he said that he was inspecting the periphery of Yangzhou to defend himself, Shi Kefa was so angry that he stomped his feet, what is this person called.

As soon as he returned to the city, before he had time to drink saliva, Shi Kefa was blocked in the superintendent's yamen by a group of people wearing linen and filial piety.

It's not someone else, the descendants of the former Zhang Shoufu live in Yangzhou City, and the fact that his ancestral tomb was dug by the officials and soldiers has spread throughout the city within an hour, which makes the descendants of the Zhang family if they can stand it, the whole family up and down a hundred and ten people, put on filial piety clothes, crying dad and shouting mother to the governor's mansion.

Shi Kefa has read sage books for half his life, and never dared to violate the ancestral etiquette law, and now when he encounters this Uncle Wang, he just can't face it, and now he doesn't dare to go out, and as soon as he shows up, he will be drowned by the people on the street with saliva.

Digging people's ancestral graves, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, it is a big crime of Ling Chi, Shi Kefa has accumulated a lifetime of scholarly reputation, and this time it is a burial.

The coffin dug out of the woods was placed at the gate of the Inspector's Gate, and the dark paper was scattered all over the ground, and the people of the Zhang family knelt down for half a street, and kept asking Shi Kefa to come out and give justice, otherwise they would go to Beijing to sue the emperor.

Shi Kefa shrank in the yamen and had to sigh, and walked back and forth in the hall with his hands behind his back no less than a thousand times.

"Didn't find Wang Lanping" Shi Kefa shouted again, furious.

"Back to the Overseer, I'm looking for it"

"Send more people, I don't believe that he can hide in the sky and do such evil things, if it ends, if he confesses to the people, find it quickly"

Someone outside the hall came to report again.

"Inspector, the people of the Zhang family are urging again, saying that if you don't come out to say a word, they will carry the coffin and break in."

Shi Kefa had beads of sweat on his face, waved his hand, "Stop them, I went out to say something, the coffin was dug up, what can I say, I don't know anything, what can I say"

As soon as Shi Kefa's words fell, another person hurriedly reported, "Inspector, it's not good, they are ready to carry the coffin in, what should I do?" Do you want to send troops to suppress it?"

Shi Kefa walked back and forth, "Don't, the soldiers don't oppress the people, the ancestral graves of the common people have been dug up, don't you let them say a few words?" Can't move"

The general on duty in the governor's mansion today is Xu Dingguo, that is, Wang Lanping used a counter-plot to get it out of Gao Jie's army, this will be the deputy general of the Yangzhou garrison battalion, he is a general who leads the troops to fight, although he does not approve of Wang Lanping digging people's ancestral graves in terms of etiquette, but there are priorities, and now the war is imminent, everything must be armed, and the woods where the ancestral tomb of the Zhang family is located do obstruct the vision of the city defense, and it should be cut down as soon as possible, but this matter should be discussed with his family before doing, and after his descendants agree, Where did this group of people become so angry that even the Governor's Mansion dared to surround it.

Xu Dingguo walked into the hall and said to Shi Kefa, "Elder Ge, why don't you come forward in person to appease it, see how the Zhang family will deal with it, apologize when you should apologize, and it is reasonable to pay the silver, you are hiding like this, it's not a thing, the current military situation is urgent, and the dignified superintendent's mansion is crying and crying, it's too unlucky, unlucky."

Shi Kefa's face sank, and he waved his sleeves and said, "This is all the sin done by Wang Lanping, I, Shi Kefa, have never done anything beyond the etiquette law in my life, and my reputation in this life will be ruined in his hands, ask me to wipe his buttocks, don't think, I don't carry this black cauldron"

Xu Dingguo persuaded again, "Ge Lao, the enemy is at present, and the overall situation is important, if you are not in harmony with Hou Ye and the war is unfavorable, Hou Ye is doing this to defend Yangzhou."

Shi Kefa became even more angry when he heard this, and shouted, "Xu Dingguo, do you think I don't know what you're thinking?" As soon as Wang Lanping came, you seemed to be a different person, you remember, you are a person from the Yangzhou garrison, a subordinate of my Shi Kefa, not a person from his champion army, why don't you go to Wang Lanping to face the people of the Zhang family and give an explanation to the people in the city"

"I don't dare to have this idea in the next, but I think that at this juncture, the two of you should not have a gap, and retire in the next"

Xu Dingguo was bored, arched his hand, retreated, and went to the door to maintain order.

The incident became bigger and bigger, and half of the street outside the governor's mansion was crowded with onlookers.

Shi Kefa saw that if he didn't come out again, the gate was going to be squeezed down, so he could only bite the bullet and walk out.

As the door opened, Shi Kefa appeared in front of the people, and immediately more than a dozen people from the Zhang family rushed up and asked loudly, "Old Shi, as the governor of Yangzhou, is this how you restrain your subordinates?" Do this kind of ugly thing, today you have to give my Zhang family an explanation"

"Yes, give me an explanation, the officials and soldiers are too bullying, I want to give an explanation", the crowd echoed one after another, and the law was difficult to blame the public, this will, the people are not afraid of the official master, who told them to take advantage.

Dozens of militiamen, armed with spears, drove the people out.

Shi Kefa faced everyone's accusations, his old face was slightly red, and he arched his hand, "Everyone, everyone, listen to me, listen to me, I don't know about this matter, and I will definitely give you a satisfactory answer after I find out what happened, no matter who it is, this official will severely punish you according to the law."

When Xu Dingguo heard this, his brows furrowed, how can he say that, now it is mainly to appease the people, this matter is done by the officials and soldiers, it is useless to explain it, who to investigate? It's all inseparable from you, Shi Kefa.

Xu Dingguo couldn't help but wanted to speak again, but when he thought that Shi Kefa was suspicious, he still forgot it.

When the people of the Zhang family heard this, they were annoyed, "Excuse, it's obvious that the official army did it, do you still need to investigate?" Many people have seen it with their own eyes

, you are the biggest official in Yangzhou, we will look for you, it was your people who did it"

Shi Kefa's face turned white for a while, and he pressed his hand and said, "I really don't know, but this matter is in the body of the Yangzhou Junding, and I, Shi, will not escape its responsibility, and bear the responsibility of negligence, everyone, so many of you are surrounding the yamen, this move violates the law of the Ming Dynasty, it is better to do this, the descendants of the Zhang family sent a few people to negotiate with me in the yamen, and see if this matter is handled, the rest of the people will be scattered."

What the people of the Zhang family want is the effect of public indignation, "Why, the officials are still afraid of the common people, no, if you want to say it, just say it here, in front of everyone, tell me how the government will solve it, my grandfather has been dead for more than 20 years, and he can't live in peace, and there is no royal law"

The people suddenly became turbulent, pressing forward step by step, shouting, and scolding the official in front of him.

The people squeezed tighter and tighter, squeezing the soldiers who were blocking the situation sideways, Shi Kefa retreated again and again, Xu Dingguo really couldn't stand it anymore, and the dignified and first-class officials were forced to be embarrassed by the people, and they really gave the officials a long face.

Xu Dingguo pulled out the knife and shook the knife and shouted, "What are you doing, do you want to impact the official office?" Stand back, stand back"

The common people were frightened for a while, and everyone stood in a daze when they saw that the old general's posture was not good.

Shi Kefa drank, "Xu Dingguo, what are you doing, put down the knife"

Dozens of female dependents of the Zhang family cried and made a fuss when they saw it, wearing filial piety clothes and dancing in front of the soldiers, crying and shouting, "The government is going to kill people, and the officials and soldiers dug up my ancestral grave and want to kill them all.

In the face of this group of women, Shi Kefa was even more anxious to dodge, and his body shrank into the door.

At this moment, there was a sound of horses trampling on the stone slabs on the street, and the people turned their heads to look, only to see a group of cavalry running on the street, led by the commander of the champion army they were familiar with, Dingnanhou.

In the middle of the caravan, there were also two wagons pulled, and the wagons were covered with something with a white cloth.

As soon as Shi Kefa saw him coming, he couldn't help but curse in his heart: You kid, you are finally willing to show up, I will see how you end.

Wang Lanping restrained his horse outside the crowd, waved his hand, and shouted, "The Inspector Yamen is the head of a place, and if there are those who dare to gather to make trouble, I will take it down and send it to the government to be punished."

After speaking, dozens of cavalrymen turned over and dismounted, drew their sabers and rushed into the crowd, don't look at these people just now, they were still bluffing, but as soon as they saw the real guy dangling in front of them, they all felt weak in their hearts, and those Zhang family daughters who wanted to die and live also immediately quieted down, and everyone took seven or eight steps back, and saw Wang Lanping and his soldiers in a daze.

Wang Lanping turned over and dismounted, took off his helmet, straightened his armor, walked to the coffin at the main entrance of the yamen, bowed respectfully, and said, "Old lady, offended"

Then he turned around and said to the Zhang family members who were wearing filial piety clothes, "Everyone, I am Wang Lanping, Mrs. Zhang was invited by me from below, and the forest was burned by me, and it has nothing to do with Yangzhou Inspector Shou, if you have anything to say, tell me directly."

As soon as these words came out, the whole audience fell silent, because there were knives in people's hands.

Shi Kefa was also shocked when he heard this, and admitted in front of so many people, you are not stupid, the people dare not scold you in person, and you will inevitably be poked in the back.

The people of the Zhang family looked forward to each other, looking at the knives in the hands of the soldiers beside Wang Lanping, and no one spoke.

Wang Lanping said again, "What, wasn't it quite lively just now?" Say, all of you, stand down."

Wang Lanping went to this station, which is enough to shock people's hearts, and the generals who have been on the battlefield have a kind of momentum on their bodies at any time, which makes people dare not approach the majesty.

The soldiers all put away their swords and returned to their waists, standing in several rows behind Wang Lanping.

After a long time, the oldest old man in the Zhang family took a step forward uneasily, and said, "Master Hou, our Zhang family has no grudges against you, why do you want to dig up the grave of your ancestors?"

"For the sake of the war in Yangzhou, for the sake of your Zhang family's property in Yangzhou not to be robbed by the Manchurians, for you to live, is this reason enough?"

"Protecting the territory and the people is a matter for the officials and the army, and this has nothing to do with our people, can we dig up the grave of our ancestors to keep Yangzhou?"

Wang Lanping didn't speak, just waved his hand behind him.

The two carriages that came with them were driven over, and everyone did not know what to mean, but they all stared at the things on the carriage that were covered by the white cloth, and guessed.

Wang Lanping stretched out his hand to remove the white cloth, and everyone was shocked, it turned out that there were more than ten men lying on the two carriages, and they were still dead people covered in blood.

"Do you know who they are?" Wang Lanping pointed to the corpse in the car and looked around at everyone, including Shi Kefa standing on the steps.

Shi Kefa hurriedly came over to watch, "This, what's going on?" ”

Wang Lanping smiled and casually ripped off the headscarf of a corpse in the car.

"Manchurian?" Shi Kefa's eyes widened, and there was a finger-thick pigtail behind the corpse's bare head, this kind of dress may not be known to the common people, but Shi Kefa knows it, this is obviously a Manchurian, how could a Manchurian appear here.

Hearing Shi Kefa's shout, the people were also curious, and the whole city was talking about the color change, what the Manchu people looked like, nine out of nine people had never seen it, and now when I looked at it, the feelings were also the same as the Han people, but this head shape was too ugly, the monks were not monks, and they pretended to be ghosts.

The Zhang family's humanity, "Master Hou, what does this have to do with my father's affairs?" ”

Wang Lanping said, "These people are scouts full of thieves, they pretend to be Han people, hide in that forest, observe the city defense day and night, sometimes they hide in the forest during the day, sneak into the city at night, and then report back to their heads, fortunately I found out in time, took them down in one fell swoop, eradicated the woods over there, the matter is urgent, there is no time to discuss with your family"

Shi Kefa's head is big, he is really full of thieves, they are hiding on the edge of the city, and the defenders in the city don't know at all.

There are reasons and empirical evidence, the Zhang family doesn't know how to argue, just now they kept saying that the government would give a fair onlooker and stop making trouble, if they had known that there were full people hiding, they should have dug up a long time ago, no matter how important the dead are as important as the living.

Wang Lanping said, "I just took a turn outside the city, and specially asked the best people in Yangzhou City to find an auspicious soil for the old lady twenty miles south of Yangzhou, I personally came out to see it, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, it is very suitable for the old man to move the funeral, where I have bought it, and gave it to the old lady to do a hundred years of place, in addition, this is two thousand taels of funeral expenses, please collect it, alarm the old lady, I am also a last resort"

The Zhang family was stunned, people are really thoughtful in doing things, they have thought of everything, what is the noise, the grave has been dug up, the woods have been burned, it is impossible to bury it back, now not only the cemetery is there, but also this large amount of funeral expenses, why bother arguing with the officials and soldiers, it is really urgent, and the knife is sharpened.

Taking this opportunity, Wang Lanping announced to the whole city, full of thieves and spies have mixed into the city, the battle of Yangzhou is unavoidable, when the war is over, the people suffer a lot, and now advise everyone to go out of the city as soon as possible to go south of the Yangtze River, and then return after the end of the war.

That night, Song Dali's military information came back again, and Kong Youde had joined forces with the Ao Bai soldiers and was marching towards Yangzhou, and it was expected that their cavalry would arrive in one day.

Another battle report came from the Huai'an Army, Zheng Sen came to urge reinforcements again, 30,000 Huai'an troops were beaten by the 20,000 banner soldiers of the Red Banner, and they could only rely on the mountains and rivers to block the attack, and the battle and retreat, the strength of the army was almost five or six thousand people.

For Zheng Sen, Wang Lanping only has one sentence: There are no reinforcements, there is one military order, dare to let Zhenghongqi enter the Yangzhou battlefield, and ask you Zheng Sen's head for the crime.

In addition, Wang Lanping has quickly informed Fujian of the situation of Zheng Sen's department, and reported to Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Sen's father, the current chief military officer of Fujian, that if your son is in trouble, I don't believe that your 200,000 land and water army will only shrink to the southeast to dominate.