The road to Huguang is extremely difficult to walk, the flood has changed the road, the original fertile land has become a pond, the original village has become a quagmire, the convoy of disaster relief has encountered many refugees along the way, the victims saw the convoy with the Son of Heaven Talisman immediately gathered around and begged the adults to reward some food, seeing these hungry people, Liu Ziguang immediately ordered to stop and release grain.

The disaster relief convoy has dozens of wagons full of rice, in fact, the rice is just a disguise, and the gunpowder and cannonballs hidden under the rice bag are hidden.

Hou Sui's reason is very good, the reason for releasing grain now is because of a small loss, for the sake of hundreds of refugees, ruining the whole operation, it is really not worth it, he asked the leader of the pro-soldiers to convey the order to Liu Ziguang, but Liu Ziguang ignored it, and still stood on the cart and commanded the soldiers, so as to give the refugees food.

Hou Sui rushed over angrily and asked, "General Liu, you have finished all the food, are we going to enter Huguang with weapons like this?" I'm afraid that even Ezhou won't be able to get through, and this official is the envoy of Qincha, and this official now orders you to stop this senseless action immediately. ”

"Lord Hou, why did you say this, aren't we just here for disaster relief, you see that these refugees are not affected by the flood, and if you don't give them food, will you still leave it to Zuo Liangyu?" Liu Ziguang said indifferently.

"There is only small kindness in my heart, but there is no great righteousness, this is called the benevolence of a woman, you can save these hundreds of refugees, but you have delayed the task of helping hundreds of thousands of victims, which is more important, General Liu has no score in his heart?" Hou Sui said angrily.

"These hundreds of disaster victims, I want to rescue hundreds of thousands of displaced people in the disaster relief area, I will also save every disaster victim I meet from now on, as for the heavy responsibility of this trip, I don't need Lord Hou to remind me, I am very sure that I will not make a mistake." Liu Ziguang didn't listen to Hou Sui's advice at all, and he was so angry that he walked away.

The vast majority of the Qincha team were Liu Ziguang's people, and Hou Sui only brought a dozen or so personal entourage, so he naturally couldn't compete with him, so he simply left him alone, so he put food all the way until the actual control line of Zuo Liangyu's army and the imperial army was nearby, and here was Songzi County, which was below the Anqing Mansion in Nanzhili, and the refugees had gathered tens of thousands, and the entire dilapidated county town was full of dust. The county magistrate who dragged his children and daughters heard that the imperial court was passing by, and hurriedly brought the officials of the three classes and six rooms to serve Liu Ziguang, and dozens of carts of grain were almost there, and he wanted to replenish it in Songzi, but after asking the county order, he learned that Songzi's grain storage had been empty, and it was all used to open porridge sheds to help the victims.

Hou Sui was furious when he heard this, and the grain was ruined by Liu Ziguang, and he originally hoped that Songzi could make up for the gap, but this county order actually put the grain in the warehouse privately before the order of the imperial court to open a warehouse and release grain arrived, which is simply a kingless law!

"The good things your county has done, you wait to pick the black yarn." Hou Sui reprimanded coldly. The commander of Songzi County raised his hands and took off the black gauze hat, and said solemnly: "Xiaguan Zhu Tao is guilty, but tens of thousands of hungry people are pouring into the city, and if they don't open a warehouse, their conscience will be difficult to settle down, not to mention this black yarn hat from the day they opened, even the head on Xiaguan's neck is also temporarily placed on his neck, ready to be taken away by the court at any time." ”

"This official won't kill you, but your county order can't be done anymore, hand over the seal letter to the master bookkeeper, go home and wait for the court to deal with it." Hou Sui also held the position of the imperial history of Zuodu, and was also a disaster relief officer, so he could naturally act cheaply and deal with local officials below the fifth grade.

But Liu Ziguang stood aside and was unhappy, and said in his heart, "Didn't you come at me, can't you deal with me, I will be angry with the local petty officials, what's wrong with people opening warehouses and releasing grain, is it impossible to watch the people starve to death just to wait for an official document?

"The hungry people in the city need officials to maintain the guidance, how can the main book manage things, I think this county order is doing a good job, the court did not say that it is not allowed to open the warehouse to release grain, it will take less than two days to release grain, and the will of disaster relief will be sent to Zhu, the county order is just to implement the emperor's will in advance, what is the crime? If you want me to say that not only can't be punished, but also promoted. Liu Ziguang said.

Zhu Xian Ling looked at the man in the middle officer's uniform behind him in surprise, and he almost wondered if he had heard it wrong, Liu Ziguang took Zhu Tao's black gauze hat and put it back on his head, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Do a good job, I'm optimistic about you." Before he could react, Liu Ziguang had already pulled Hou Sui away: "Lord Hou, we haven't done anything serious, let these little things be handled by the Governor of Nanzhili, Yamen." "Hou Sui is very good, Liu Ziguang can't put aside his imperial family and marquis status, even this trip to Huguang, he also has a holy decree in his hand, and Hou Sui is on an equal footing, no one can order anyone, but Liu Ziguang relies on a lot of people and is thick-skinned, always interrupting like this, here is a place where the emperor is far away, and he can't go to the court to reason, so Hou Sui still endures.

The convoy did not replenish the food in Songzi, but drank a bowl of rice porridge that could be inserted with chopsticks with the victims, and the imperial court issued a regulation on the opening of an official porridge shed in the early years, saying that a pair of chopsticks were inserted in the rice porridge and did not fall down to be qualified, but there were very few officials who could abide by it over the years, and most of them filled their own pockets with the rice grain for disaster relief, and secretly exchanged it for silver, and the imperial court law was abolished, and these officials could not be taken out, I didn't expect that there were such serious local officials in the marginal areas under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and even the old man like Hou Sui was a little moved: " This son is a clean official, if he is not so radical, he can take on a big responsibility. "Your one light click warms my code word life on 617k literature network to support the genuine "Iron Age".

The convoy left Songzi and headed in the direction of Ezhou, the grain on the vehicle was finished, the weight was reduced many degrees, and it was also accelerated a lot, Ezhou is located on the riverside, is an important town in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Wuchang in the west, Huangshi in the east, Zuo Liangyu has a lot of soldiers and horses here, if you want to reach Wuchang smoothly, you must pass through the ferry port of Ezhou, the Yangtze River is in the flood season, the water flow is turbulent, and it is very difficult to cross, not to mention that there are so many horses and vehicles, if the left army does not cooperate, it can not be done at all.

Zuo Liangyu's general stationed in Ezhou is named Xu Yong, he is very embarrassed at this time, because Zuo Liangyu is not really independent, nominally they are still the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, through the clairfront mirror, you can see the convoy on the other side, under the banner of the Son of Heaven Fu Festival and the order of disaster relief, Xu Yong finally decided to release the boat to pick them up, because first, the number of the other party is not large, less than a thousand people are not enough to pose a threat, and secondly, they are on behalf of the imperial court to provide disaster relief, so the car must carry silver and food, both of which are urgently needed in Ezhou City.

The Ezhou garrison sent a machine ship to meet the Qincha convoy with muddy rivers and The waves were surging, the five machine ships drove at full speed, and it took six times to transport the carriages and horses, and the convoy for disaster relief stopped at the wharf, and a large group of soldiers of the Zuo Army surrounded the side, obviously very interested in the people from the capital, Zuo Liangyu's troops were mainly composed of ruffians and thieves, and the eyes of lawlessness naturally did not have the dignity of imperial power, they tried to approach the carriage with a hippie smile, and were immediately blocked back by the soldiers of the Red Shirt Regiment with weapons, and the two sides of the two sides had friction and almost fought, fortunately, Xu Yong arrived in time to stop the violence.

Xu Yong wore a gauze hat and mending clothes, and dressed like a civil official, but his face was full of horizontal flesh and the big knife on his waist betrayed him deeply, and his mouth was even more vulgar: "Lord Qincha, did you bring so many carriages over to give me something good." Hou Sui said: "This general, this official was ordered to relieve the disaster, and the materials and silver brought by Huguang were both to be sent to Wuchang to present to the general of Zuo Shuai, if you need anything, please ask Zuo Shuai for the things on the list, but Zuo Shuai wants to take you and ask." Xu Yong stroked his beard like a steel needle and laughed: "Lord Qincha will scare people, Zuo Shuai is my eldest brother, how can he blame me, now that more than 100,000 disaster victims have gathered under the city of Ezhou, there is a shortage of food and silver." I don't care about those, I just need my share, you leave thirty percent, and take the rest away, and Zuo Shuai will mention my name Xu Yong. "As long as it is not Zuo Shuai who has named his own things, the rest can be robbed, this is the motto of the left army, and it is also a way for Zuo Liangyu to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army, Zuo Liangyu has a famous saying: A soldier who does not like robbery is not a good soldier, only a soldier who is full of wildness and loves plundering can have strong combat effectiveness, so Xu Yong has the courage to pluck the goose.

Hou Xianke panicked, the carriage was loaded with ordnance and silver, and it would be finished if it was exposed, but the left army was so rude that it couldn't be reasoned at all.

It was really a leak in the house, and it rained overnight, and I was afraid of something, and the silver box on a carriage was scattered because of the lack of acquaintance, and the wooden box fell to the stone floor, and the silver ingots inside were broken and rolled to the ground, and the soldiers of the left army saw the silver, and they were immediately like flies, seeing big dung, sharks, and blood, and swarming around them.

Liu Ziguang stood behind Hou Sui and couldn't hold it anymore, so he immediately pulled out his knife and stepped forward to put it on Xu Yong's neck and ordered him to stop the soldiers.

Xu Yong is also a fierce general, but he didn't expect to be restrained within one move, he is a veteran who has been fighting for many years, he is not afraid of Liu Ziguang's threat at all, he thought that no one dared to move him easily in his own territory, so he just looked Liu Ziguang up and down, and said contemptuously: "Hou Shengzi, hold the knife steady, don't cut yourself." At this time, Liu Ziguang and his subordinates had already confronted the left army, the left army had an obvious advantage in numbers, densely crowded the docks, surrounded by five hundred red shirts, one by one, wearing helmets and hats, carrying knives and guns, looking at the car's silver eyes, it seemed that they were on fire.

When encountering such a role, Liu Ziguang didn't have a rut, and he was not afraid of the knife on his neck, Liu Ziguang bit his heart and asked you to cross Lao Tzu more than you, and the white rainbow knife sent a good head forward, and he suddenly fell, and he grabbed it and raised it high: "Xu Yong, you don't surrender yet!" Of course, the soldiers of the left army would not surrender, Liu Ziguang blatantly killed their main general, but aroused their fighting spirit, shouted for General Xu's revenge, rushed over, Liu Ziguang was already prepared, Hou Sui, who was frightened and weak-legged, pushed the blade behind him: "Open fire to Lao Tzu!" "The tarpaulins on the carriage fell steel-cast cannons and pneumatic machine guns, revealing their hideous faces.