"People from the Taiping Army? Aren't they still on the southern side of Sunan? When did you come to our Shaoxing Yuyao? Lin Zhe was a little shocked in his heart, but his face was still calm: "What are you panicking, hurry up and send someone to the county government to report to the county lord!" ”

Then he instructed a small servant waiting outside: "Let the head of the Wang sect gather the strong men of the nursing home!" ”

With the order, Lin Zhe began to walk back and forth in the study, and then he went out of the room to the backyard to see Mrs. Lin, when he heard Lin Zhe say that he was attacking his Zhuangzi outside the window under the banner of the Taiping Army, Mrs. Lin, who had always been steady, couldn't help but change her face: "These thieves killed by God!" ”

"Mother, don't worry, I've already called the head of the Wang sect to come over, and I'll lead the strong man of the nursing home to the rescue later!" Lin Zhe said.

However, after hearing this, Mrs. Lin said: "If the gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, how can you go over in person, just let the leader of the Wang Sect lead people over!" ”

Lin Zhe said: "The thieves are coming, they must be to alarm the county government and the government government, and I am afraid that the county lord will come in person, and then there is no one in charge of our Lin family, I am afraid that it is inappropriate, and a large number of goods have been hoarded in the Zhuangzi in the east of the city, worth no less than 100,000 taels, if I don't watch this mess in person, I am afraid that there will be chaos at that time!" ”

Mrs. Lin's face wrinkled even more after hearing this: "That's right, those officers and soldiers are no different from thieves, if there is a stir, no one is afraid that there will be chaos, you can take someone to go, but you still have to put your own safety first, and you will give up those goods when you can't do anything." ”

Saying that, she said with a straight face: "Our Lin family can still hold on to a mere 100,000 taels, but our Lin family is such a lone seedling as you, if there is any failure, my old wife will have no face to see your father, to see the ancestors of our Lin family." ”

Lin Zhe should claim that it was, and then retreated quickly, there must be a danger of going, but it is not possible to go by himself, although the Zhuangzi of the Lin family in the east of the city is a grange, but it is mainly used as a warehouse for goods, which stores a large number of raw silk, tea, porcelain, a large amount of grain and a dry foreign goods and other materials, these goods cause the peep of thieves is natural, and I am afraid that the officials and soldiers will also want to take advantage of the chaos and loot, at this time I can't help but take care of it personally.

Although the Lin family has a big business, they take out tens of thousands of taels of silver on weekdays without blinking, but in recent years, the Lin family has suffered a heavy loss because of the war, and the warehouse firms in southern Anhui, Hubei, and Jinling have long been closed, and now the storehouse firms in Zhenjiang and Wuxi have been forced to close one after another, which has caused heavy losses to the Lin family, and the direct loss of property is as high as more than 200,000 taels of silver, not to mention the subsequent impact of the business obstruction on the Lin family because of the closure of these storehouse firms.

In the past few years, the war between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Qing army in the Yangtze River valley has caused direct and indirect losses to the Lin family of at least 500,000 taels of silver.

Now Zhenjiang has just lost as much as 40,000 taels of silver, if the goods warehouse in the east of the city is also emptied, although Mrs. Lin said that the Lin family can still hold on, but Lin Zhe, who knows the accounts of the Lin family, knows that a little loss of this batch of goods up to 100,000 taels of silver, I am afraid it will cause great trouble to the Lin family's capital chain this year, once the capital chain is broken, and the gap is still hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, which will cause a chain blow to the Lin family's various industries.

Since Lin Zhe has leaned over to this era and become the only son of the Lin family, the heir of the Lin family's property in the future, he naturally can't watch the family business corrupt, is it possible that after these family businesses are corrupted, he will have to be a big soldier or survive by selling gadgets like those extremely hard predecessors?

Soon, he came to the front yard, and in the open space in the front yard, Wang Jiaotou, who was more than one meter nine tall and full of muscles, was already leading more than 70 people to wait in the courtyard and Zhuang Ding.

And everyone was armed with knives and guns, and more than 20 of them were also holding muskets, which were not commonly used in the Qing army, but smoothbore rifles purchased by the Lin family from familiar foreign firms.

In this era, it is very common for local families to raise a large number of nurses, and the Lin family, as a local hero, has dozens of nurses in the house, plus ordinary villagers, it is not difficult to make a team of hundreds of people at any time.

Lin Zhe walked up, and when those people saw Lin Zhe, the young owner, come out, they stopped one after another, bowed their heads and answered their ears, and the head of the Wang Jiao led by him came up with this ring-headed knife: "Young master, all the people who can be called now have arrived, are you going to leave now?" ”

Obviously, in the short time before this, Wang Jiaotou and the others had already learned about the siege of Zhuangzi in the east of the city, Lin Zhe nodded slightly, and then looked around again and then said loudly: "Now that the Zhuangzi in the east of the city is surrounded by thieves, we will go and rescue the brothers in the Zhuangzi later, no matter what the situation is today, we will all reward a month's monthly silver!" ”

Due to the urgency of the situation, Lin Zhe didn't talk much nonsense, and immediately turned over a group of horses led by Wang Jiaotou, raised his hand and shouted: "Go!" ”

Immediately, Wang Jiaotou and several others also turned over on their horses one after another to keep up with Lin Zhe, and most of them also rushed out in chaos.

Such a large group of people came out in clusters, and the swagger through the market also attracted the attention of others, but Lin Zhe didn't care about any impact, he just took people out of the city, but as soon as he arrived at the city gate, he saw a group of people coming in a hurry behind him.

The person headed by him was wearing an official uniform, and he didn't need to look closely to know that it should be Huang Peizhi of Yuyao Zhixian County, this person only arrived last year, and last month Lin Zhegang drank flower wine with this Huangxian County Order, and personally gave him a thousand taels of silver for filial piety.

After Huang Peizhi shook his fat body and approached, Lin Zhe also turned over and dismounted and took the initiative to step forward: "Boss, why did you come here in person!" ”

Huang Peizhi's face was straight: "This official guards the side of the Son of Heaven on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and now that such a big thing has happened, how can this official not come!" ”

Without waiting for Lin Zhe to continue, he just turned around and got on the horse, and then ordered left and right: "What are you waiting for, hurry up!" ”

I can't help but Huang Peizhi is not in a hurry, as an official, he is quite clear about the current situation, knowing that the Taiping army was defeated by the Qing army in southern Jiangsu, and the official army even lost Zhenjiang and Yangzhou one after another, which is not a good thing.

Of course, Sunan's side has nothing to do with him Huang Peizhi, but now there is a Taiping thief army in his jurisdiction that comes out of nowhere, how can this make him feel at ease, don't you see that since the bandits in Guangdong, I don't know how many officials were either killed by the bandit army or were beheaded by the imperial court because they lost their cities and lost their land?

Huang Peizhi hurriedly took it away, Lin Zhe naturally took his own courtyard and Zhuang Ding out of the city, he not only had to guard against those thieves who made trouble, but also against Huang Peizhi and his party, don't look at this Huang Peizhi is not good-looking, but he is a veritable corrupt official, less than half a year after taking office, he has made no less than 10,000 taels of silver, and it is difficult to guarantee that this Huang Peizhi will not see the intention of making money when he arrives at the manor.

Immediately, the Lin family's more than 70 nursing homes, Zhuang Ding, and nearly 100 officials of the county government headed towards the east of the city.

The Lin family's Zhuangzi in the east of the city is about seven or eight kilometers away from the county seat, and there are no mountains and rivers blocking the way along the way, plus everyone is in a hurry, about two hours later, everyone has already seen a large area of Zhuangzi's houses in the distance, and there are more than 100 people wearing all kinds of messy clothes outside, and a large banner is erected on the crowd: the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and another banner is written: Chen.

When those bandits saw the officials and soldiers and the Lin family's courtyard that appeared in the distance, there was a small commotion immediately, and those who were trying to climb over the wall to enter the Zhuangzi also hurriedly retreated.

Lin Zhe squinted his eyes and carefully looked at the group of people not far away, no matter how he looked at it, it didn't look like a well-trained, well-known Taiping army, you must know that the Taiping army in this year is still very violent, all the way to many provinces, but the official army of the imperial court was defeated, and most of the historical materials have such an adjective for the Taiping army in the early stage: well-trained!

However, the group of people in front of him did not look like they were well-trained, and the chaotic formation looked like a group of bandits or homeless people who were robbing homes and houses at most.

But this group of chaotic bandits soon gave Lin Zhe a big surprise, only to see that there were more than fifty people holding knives and guns, and then they rushed directly towards the official army and Lin Zhe's side.

Seeing this scene, Huang County, who was more than ten meters away with a brave officer, immediately shouted: "Stop them!" And he himself had shrunk back.

At the same time, the head of the Wang sect on the Lin family's side did not need Lin Zhe's orders, he was already riding his horse and walking in front of the battle, and at the same time shouted: "All cheer up, the brothers with muskets are out of the ranks, and they are not allowed to shoot without my slogan!" ”

And several other knights who rode horses to accompany Lin Zhe had already drawn their swords one after another, and one of them approached Lin Zhe and whispered: "Before coming, the old lady ordered, ask the younger ones to protect the safety of the young master, and ask the young master to follow us when the fight starts, in case the front is defeated, we will leave immediately!" ”

Lin Zhe naturally would not be stunned and refuse directly, and then rode directly to the front of the battle like a fool to play some kind of pre-battle fighting scene, he nodded, signaling that he would not embarrass his subordinates.

At this time, the officers and soldiers and the Lin family's guards had already begun to line up in a chaotic manner to prepare for the battle, but Lin Zhe, who was behind, seemed to be in a situation where the situation of the people on his side was not much better than that of the bandits opposite.

It's okay for the guardians and Zhuang Ding on their side to let them fight in groups, but it is too reluctant to fight in line, and in the face of those bandits who rushed over, many people are already trembling, especially those Zhuang Ding who temporarily pulled them up are even more chaotic.

The situation of the officers and soldiers next to them was even worse than that of the Lin family, those officials and catchers didn't even have a complete formation, they were all huddled together in a chaotic manner, and only a few people with bows and arrows had already started to release arrows before the bandits on the opposite side approached.

The bow and arrow didn't float far before they landed on the ground.

As the distance between the two sides got closer and closer, suddenly the bandits on the opposite side broke out into a burst of shouts, and then ran together and rushed towards the official army and the Lin family.