Chapter Seventy-Eight: Retreat to the South (I)
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The carriage bumped for a while, Chen Yuanyuan's eyebrows frowned slightly, and he only felt a burst of pain all over his body, as if he was falling apart. He barely opened his eyes, and he was still in the carriage, but his body was stained with blood and his robe was scratched.
"W-where is this?"
"Tianjin!"
Xia Shouli's annoying voice came, the car curtain was raised, and Xia Shouli smiled: "Miss Chen, you are wild enough, jump directly under the car, this is going to kill you." â
"It is better to die than to live to suffer!" Chen Yuanyuan frowned and said, she originally had the will to die, but who knew that she jumped out of the car and did not die, it was simply providential.
"Miss Chen, I won't talk nonsense with you Lao Xia, I'll wait for Uncle Zhong Yong to deal with it."
Xia Shouli said, and asked his subordinates to drive the carriage into the city. But inside and outside the city gate, there are all people who are constantly coming in and out, densely packed, as if it is the New Year.
"I haven't seen you for a few days, why did it become so lively?"
Xia Shouli stopped a middle-aged man in his thirties with a smile and asked, "This old man, what's going on, why is this Tianjin City so lively?" â
"You don't know, the excitement has not been interrupted in the past two days, first An ** recruited troops, and then killed traitors, and cut dozens of big profiteers on the edge of the Haihe River. A tael of silver and a piece of meat are still being sold! â
When Xia Shouli heard this, he nodded slightly, this must be a trick made by Gu Zhenhua.
Chen Yuanyuan in the carriage also heard this, and suddenly felt a chill all over her body, and the word traitor stabbed her heart extraordinarily, will the former Ruyi Langjun really become a traitor, will he also end up with ten thousand cuts? Chen Yuanyuan's heart felt like it had been cut by a knife, and it hurt to the extreme.
At that moment, another official came running and posted a new notice at the gate of the city.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the loyal and brave uncle has opened the grace of heaven, and he wants to release grain to help the people, and all the people in Tianjin, including those in ten miles and eight townships, can receive two loads of grain per family. I can tell everyone, it's not a mixture of grain bran or something, it's all japonica rice and white noodles, and two loads of grain are enough for a family to eat for a year! â
"Official, are you telling the truth?"
"It's true, Lord Gu has killed so many traitors, and of course the food taken out of the traitorous merchants will be distributed to everyone!"
As soon as the people at the city gate heard the news, they all crowded under the notice, regardless of whether they knew how to read or not, they all stared at it deadly, for fear that the good thing of pie in the sky would disappear!
"If you want to say that this Lord Gu is really a good official, not only doesn't want our things, but also gives us food, such a good official is hard to find in the world!" The common people sighed one after another.
The official also smiled and said: "Old and young masters, remember, starting tomorrow morning, the four city gates will line up to receive food!" â
"Got it."
Everyone agreed in unison, and some of them were anxious to run directly home, pushing small carts, putting on horse-drawn carts and ox carts, all of which rushed to Tianjin, and simply waited for a night, for two loads of grain, everything was worth it!
In the city of Tianjin, not only these small people are lively, but many scholars are also gathered together in twos and threes, and there are many discussions.
Fang Jianming, Liu Wenxiong and others were drinking tea in the teahouse while talking loudly.
Liu Wenxiong pouted and said: "Brother Fang, a few days ago, you said that you wanted to take refuge in An ** and put pen to paper, but if you look at what they have done in the past two days, they are not even as good as Liukou." Blockading the wharf, seizing ships, arresting merchants, and Ling Chi one by one, how can this be a bit of morality and love for the people. All of them seem to have come down from Liangshan, they are a group of live bandits, I want to write an article to expose their ugly deeds, let the people of the world condemn together, and let this kind of thing that harm the country and the people be indulged, the court will be finished sooner or later! â
"Yes, what Brother Liu said is right." Several other scholars also made a noise: "We scholars should ask for the people's lives, we can't watch Tianjin become a purgatory on earth, everyone jointly wrote an excerpt, we must let the bandits know that there is still righteousness in the world, let them see the iron-clad readers!" â
Fang Jianming took a sip of tea and smiled contemptuously: "Everyone, who are you going to hand over to when you write an excerpt?" According to me, if you want to ask for the people's life, you should go to the yamen, block the yamen, and scold Gu Zhenhua, if you don't have that rooster feather, don't pretend to be an old harrier eagle! â
"Brother Fang, what do you mean?" Liu Wenxiong furrowed his brows and stared at Fang Jianming viciously.
Fang Jianming sneered: "Brother Liu, we have known each other for a few years, you have always been impassioned, and you are really admirable." But now those profiteers colluded with the Manchu Qing Dynasty and committed a lot of evil deeds, and it is natural for you to ask for the traitor's life, do you want to be in the same stream? â
"Nonsense!" Liu Wenxiong stood up suddenly, pointed at Fang Jianming and asked loudly: "The surname Fang, you dare to slander my character, you will get out of the Fushe for me now, you are not worthy of being a real scholar!" â
"Fang Mou is indeed unwilling to be in the company of a group of flies and dogs, do you remember Zhou Zhong, he is the leader of Chongzhen's sixteenth year and the leader of the Restoration Society, but I heard that he has been a consultant to Li Zicheng, and he also gave Li Zicheng advice to capture Jiangnan. Is this your ethos? Is this the so-called righteous gentleman? In my opinion, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty fought, most of those guys who boasted of loyalty and goodness would also bend their knees to surrender to the enemy! â
Being questioned by Fang Jianming repeatedly, Liu Wenxiong trembled with anger, he suddenly stood up and said to a few students around him: "Everyone, let's fight this little traitor together!" â
Fang Jianming also clenched his fists, and at this moment, there was a rush of footsteps outside the teahouse, and more than a dozen soldiers rushed in and directly surrounded Liu Wenxiong and them.
"What are you going to do, we are scholars, we must not be rude!"
"That's right, you can't wronged good people."
"Good guys? I think it's picked out from the pile of good people, the profiteer Wu Shizhen has already confessed, there are many scholars in Tianjin who have correspondence with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, follow me! â
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"Happy, kill hard!" Li Jibo said with a smile: "It's a great pleasure to cut down these profiteers, and those Liaodong soldiers who died under Jiuquan can also be blinded." â
It's no wonder that Old Man Li is angry, how many soldiers have died in Liaodong over the years, if there is no help from the Jin Shang Group, I am afraid that the Manchu Qing Dynasty will be finished in the morning, and it will not become such a scourge at all!
On the edge of the Haihe River, more than 60 Jin merchants who became Fan Dacheng were all sentenced to death. As Fan Yongdou's brother, Fan Dacheng was even more taken care of, and after counting his crimes, he was allowed to enjoy the treatment of Wan Ling Chi on the spot.
Thin fishing nets are used to entangle people, and the knife keeps cutting the squeezed out of the meat, piece after piece. The people in the audience also enjoyed it, and many people even threw silver on the stage, just to buy a piece of meat.
After grabbing the meat, some people cried and some laughed.
The Tartars poisoned the Central Plains, entered the customs several times, and Tianjin was also a hard-hit area, and many families were separated and died. Now I have a piece of meat for the culprit, just in time to pay tribute to my dead relatives.
Some people simply take a sip of soju and a mouthful of human flesh, and eat their mouths full of blood, and they are sobbing!
"Mr. Li, these businessmen in Tianjin are just miscellaneous fish, the real culprits are still at large, relying on the protection of the Manchus, they will continue to fight for the tiger, I think the top priority is to expose the ugly faces of these people, so that the whole world shouts and kills Fan Yongdou and others. Let them lose their reputation and make no business, only in this way can they really hit them! â
"Don't worry, the old man has already asked people to write the crimes of Jin Shang, and it will be spread all over the world immediately, so that everyone knows that even if they don't die, let them shed their skin!"
Gu Zhenhua was also overjoyed, and said with a smile: "Crippling the Jinshang Group is equivalent to cutting off one of the arms of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which is really gratifying." â
Li Jibo also smiled: "That's right, but in the final analysis, if you want to defeat the Manchu Qing, you have to rely on a strong army to succeed, and there is still nothing you can do at present!" â
Gu Zhenhua nodded: "Mr. Li, the Dashun army can't stop the Manchu Qing, and we won't have a few days to stay in Tianjin." I thought about it, I still have to retreat south, I plan to retreat along the canal to the southeast of Shandong. It is still the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and we hold the prince in our hands, as long as we use it well, we can stand on our feet. â
"Well, that's the only way, but we got so much money, food, and people in Tianjin, and it is not easy to retreat south!"
"Mr. Li, I am going to retreat in batches, take the sea route for food, and go south now, and then the new army camp will go south with gold and silver treasures, and finally the main force will retreat south. As I was leaving, I was going to burn Tongzhou and Tianjin, blow up the canals, and clear the wilderness, leaving only a desolation for the Manchus! â
Li Jibo smiled bitterly: "This is indeed the right thing to do, but I'm afraid it will cause people to make irresponsible remarks." â
"If the spitting star can drown people, there will be no zĂ i in the early morning." Gu Zhenhua sneered: "In the face of beasts, you have to be more ruthless than them!" â
"That's right, Zhenhua, don't worry, the old man will arrange it, and the custody will be foolproof."
Li Jibo was about to leave, Xia Shouli hurried over, and when he saw Gu Zhenhua, he smiled and said, "Sir, the villain has lived up to his mission and brought you more than 700 craftsmen from Beijing." â
"Great!" Gu Zhenhua slapped the table excitedly, the teapot and bowl collided, and he couldn't help but walk around the ground twice: "With craftsmen, money, food, and people, there is a lack of land, and An ** can soar into the sky!" â
Xia Shouli smiled with a smile on his face: "Sir, the villain not only brought out the craftsman, but also brought a woman, do you want to meet it?" â
Gu Zhenhua looked at the weird smile on Xia Shouli's face, and couldn't help but smile: "What kind of amazing woman can she be, it's worth making a fuss about." â
"Sir, don't hide it, it's Wu Sangui's concubine Chen Yuanyuan, don't you want to see it?"
Chen Yuanyuan?
The best calamity?
Gu Zhenhua almost dropped his jaw in shock, and stayed for half a minute before he said: "See, why don't you see, I was about to see her demeanor!" â