At the beginning of December of the eighth year of Chongzhen, the light snow of the Liuling Mountain Guard

Li Xian, who was appointed by Pang Gang as the person in charge of the resettlement of the displaced people, is commanding thousands of military households of the former guard station to brave the wind and snow to build temporary shelters in the open space outside the castle of the Lingshan Guard, since Pang Gang began to relieve the displaced people in Qingzhou City, there have been displaced people who have flocked to the guard, although there has been a large amount of food to solve the problem of eating, but then another important matter is placed on the heads of the officials of the hundreds of households in the Lingshan Guard, that is, the residence is not enough.

Now it is used from Qingzhou every day to so many displaced people, ranging from thousands to nearly 10,000. All of a sudden, the little Lingshanwei was crowded, and what followed was the lack of accommodation, although Pang Gang had already expected this situation, and asked Lingshanwei's people to build a temporary house nearby in advance, but they still couldn't catch up. Now it's a cold winter, and if you don't have a shelter at night, you will freeze to death, and so many dead bodies in Qingzhou City and on the roadside are the best proof.

In the end, Li Xian simply brought in the early refugees to help, and thousands of refugees built houses together in the wilderness It has become a big landscape, and after three days of hard work, they finally built rows of temporary houses with straw and wood in a radius of dozens of miles from Lingshanwei, although the appearance is very simple, but at least it also gives the homeless people a place to shelter from the wind and rain. In this way, the news reached the ears of the displaced people in Qingzhou City, and many of the displaced people who were still wavering and uncertain finally made up their minds and began to march towards Lingshanwei.

Looking at the gradually decreasing number of displaced people in Qingzhou City, Wei Tongnianhe, the prefect of Qingzhou, who originally raised his heart to his throat, finally relieved Song Xinghe, but the same thing is very unhappy in the eyes of some people, and that person is a high merit who wants to start an incident in Qingzhou.

Hearing the report of his spies, Gao Yigong, who had entered the countdown to the uprising, couldn't help but scold angrily, their original specialty of these rogues was to encourage those who couldn't survive to survive and the homeless people to rebel, and they had always relied on numbers to win. But now most of the displaced people in Qingzhou City have left, although there are still some people who are still hesitating, but these people are not something they can easily agitate now. After all, from ancient times to the present, no matter which dynasty or generation, as long as there is food to eat, who will be willing to risk killing their heads to rebel. Now it has spread all over Qingzhou City, as long as you go to Lingshanwei, you will have millet porridge to drink every day, and the military masters of Lingshanwei also said that as long as you enter the military registration of Lingshanwei, the guard will also give each household 20 acres of fields and seeds, farm tools and other things, and put a good peace, but they will only rebel after they have eaten.

Three Willow Lane at dusk

"Master Gao, you have also seen the situation these days, now that the government has lured those homeless people to Lingshanwei, there is no point in us staying here, I think we should leave Qingzhou as soon as possible."

Now the person who dares to talk to Gao Yigong is still Li Guo, and the two of them are both in charge of this operation, although he and Gao Yigong had an awkward quarrel last time, but this does not affect him to persuade Gao Yigong to open the land of right and wrong in Qingzhou every day, and Li Guo also faintly feels that with the departure of the displaced people, the government's inspection of the streets and alleys of Qingzhou has gradually begun to become stricter, and since yesterday there have been some officials wandering around in the alleys. This is a very dangerous sign, which proves that the government has begun to notice this area, and there is no guarantee that one day a group of officials and sergeants like wolves will break into the door, and they will not be able to leave if they want to.

Gao Yigong's face was blue and red, the development of things these days was indeed beyond his expectations, after the vigorous propaganda of the Qingzhou government in the past few days, most of the displaced people have flowed to the direction of Lingshanwei, and the remaining less than 20,000 displaced people are also hesitating, but at this time and the previous few days The tragic situation of lack of food is already much stronger, at this time it is meaningless to incite the refugees to rebel, at this time Gao Yigong also has the idea of evacuating, but because he was too full of words in the previous days, he is embarrassed to open his mouth if he wants to evacuate now.

Li Guo on the side saw Gao Yigong's concerns, and gave him a step in time, "Master Gao, didn't the scholar say that heroes are not judged by success or failure, we have always been able to fight if we can't run away under the leadership of King Chuang, presumably King Chuang will not blame us when he returns to Henan, even if he is blamed, I Li Guo will bear it alone." ”

As soon as Li Guo said this, Gao Yigong's face immediately improved, since Li Guo gave him the steps, he was naturally happy to go downstairs along the steps, and he immediately feigned anger and said: "Brother Li, what did you say, this coming to Qingzhou was originally my idea of Gao Yigong, if King Chuang blames it, it will naturally be up to me, although I don't dare to claim to be a hero, but I can still do things by one person." ”

Li Guo was also very happy to see that Gao Yigong finally agreed to evacuate Qingzhou, and hurriedly instructed his brothers to hurry up and do a good job of evacuation, and prepare to withdraw from Qingzhou by blending into the tide of displaced people at dusk.

Just when Li Guo commanded his subordinates to pack up their belongings and prepare to evacuate, suddenly spies distributed outside came to report that dozens of officers and soldiers outside were coming to Sanliu Lane under the leadership of the local Lizheng.

As soon as he heard the spies' report, Li Guo immediately asked Gao Yigong and more than 100 brothers from the old battalion to lie in ambush around and prepare to kill them when the situation was not right, and he went to the front to deal with those officers and soldiers.

Gao Yigong was very short-tempered, and said in a rough voice: "What are you hiding, let's kill it together, do you need to be afraid of these lackeys of the court." ”

Li Guo said anxiously: "My good master, when is it now?" These officers and soldiers are not difficult to deal with, but as long as they miss a person, it won't be long before their brigade comes, and we will be dragged to death by them no matter how much we can fight, and now is not the time for us to be heroes. ”

Gao Yigong snorted depressedly and stopped talking, and honestly hid in the house with his subordinates.

After a while, there was a quick knock on the door, Li Guo took a short blade and stuffed it into his waist, and then opened the door with two thieves, and immediately saw dozens of officers and soldiers with chain mail standing in front of the door, led by a young general banner who was not very old and of medium stature, with a black and thin face and a spear in his hand, who was about to hang a waist knife, was staring at him.

This general banner is Li Yuan, who was originally transferred by Pang Gang to guard the mine, because of the transaction with Wei Tongtong and Song Xinghe, Pang Gang no longer has the initial sense of urgency for the safety of the mine, and now Qingzhou City needs a large number of people, Pang Gang transferred this Li Yuan, who was idle in the mine, and one hundred and twenty elite soldiers under him to Qingzhou to help.

No, when he first arrived in Qingzhou, he heard that Qingzhou City was mixed with the Liukou and immediately took dozens of soldiers to actively patrol the streets, since Pang Gang was promoted to Lingshan Wei Qianhu, he has been peeping at the position of Wanghai Fort for a long time, this time he naturally wanted to behave well in front of Pang Gang, and volunteered to patrol the streets. Seeing Li Yuan's thoughts, Pang Gang was not good at attacking his positive surname, so he allocated him sixty soldiers to patrol the streets, to say that Li Yuan was also a clever master, he thought about it and thought that the general rogues and merchants and gentry were mortal enemies, and they could only hide in those slums and remote places, so Li Yuan took the soldiers to Sanliu Lane.

As soon as the door opened, Li Yuan looked at Li Guo and the two men behind him, and after frowning slightly, he asked, "Who are you?" Where do you come from? What are you doing here? How many people are here? ”

This was blurted out and asked very skillfully, obviously Li Yuan didn't know how many times he had said this sentence along the way.

"The adults and us all fled from Jinan, and now there is no place to live in the field, so we have to live here temporarily." At this time, Li Guo changed his usual shrewdness and looked honest.

"What? Fleeing from Jinan? How many people do you have? ”

Li Yuan, who is now suspicious of everyone for meritorious service, glanced at them coldly, well, the clothes on his body were tattered, and his hairstyle was no different from that of the homeless, but Li Yuan found that the man who was the leader and the two companions next to him saw a bulging mass around their waists.

The young and vigorous Li Yuan immediately asked, "What are you all carrying with your waists, take them out immediately and show them to this official!" ”

As soon as he heard this, Li Guo immediately knew that his whereabouts had been seen through, and after sighing lightly, he immediately pulled out the short blade on his waist and pounced on Li Yuan with a shout, and at the same time, the thieves who were originally ambushed around the courtyard also outflanked him.

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