12-28 Returning to his hometown

Jinan City, South Gate, when the sky is dark, the four officers and soldiers guarding the gate are slowly pushing the heavy city gate, Jinan is not more prosperous than the south of the Yangtze River, and at night the door will be closed and locked to prohibit entry and exit, the army responsible for the city defense of Jinan is no longer the Xuzhou Army of the year, but a new army composed of Shandong locals.

The army composed of Shandong children naturally has a deep affection for Zhenguogong, especially in Jinan, Liu Ziguang's ancestral hall is more than the land temple, which of these young men who eat food and serve as soldiers does not know that Liu Ziguang is the great savior of the people of Jinan, if there is no his 3,000 lone army to turn the tide, Jinan City will be washed in the blood of Dolgon's 100,000 defeated soldiers, and Liu Ziguang has a lot of industries in Jinan, employing a large number of locals, and the treatment is very good, it can be said that fifty percent of Jinan people make a living by relying on the industry of Zhenguogong.

But after Liu Ziguang's accident, these industries were taken over by the eunuchs who flew in, these eunuchs were in charge of production, one by one only knew how to stuff money into their pockets, and within a few days, the good industries were messed up, and the people of Jinan complained, but fortunately, the time was not long, so the contradictions had not accumulated to the critical point of explosion for the time being.

The city gate creaked and walked, suddenly a rapid sound of horses' hooves came, a horse galloped in the distance, the hundred households guarding the door hurriedly let their subordinates stop temporarily, these days the official documents of the capital came very diligently, sometimes there were seven or eight copies a day, this ride was so tight, I am afraid that it is six hundred miles of urgent fast horses.

"Xu is the capital is talking nonsense about the crime of the grandfather who went abroad." A soldier whispered that in the past two days, five or six notices have been posted near the city gate alone, all of which are Liu Ziguang's crimes of causing disaster to the country and the people, one by one, none of which can convince the people, and every night there are notices that are secretly torn up, and the government can't find it.

A moment later, the horse had already galloped within a hundred paces, and when the officers and soldiers saw that he was not dressed in a hurry of six hundred miles, they closed the door and shouted, "Let's enter the city again tomorrow, it is locked." ”

The knight stopped and shouted to the officers on the city wall, "Open the door, I want to see Master Shi." ”

The gatekeeper asked, "Who are you?" What's your business? ”

The visitor said loudly: "I am Liu Ziguang!" ”

There was an uproar on the city tower, wasn't Zhen Guogong dead? How did there come out again a living Liu Ziguang, at this time it was already the time of the lamp, the city wall was brightly lit, but the city was dark, no one could see the appearance of the comer, the officers and soldiers were discussing, no one dared to be sure that the person below was the real Zhenguo Gong, but no one dared to say that it was not the real Zhenguo Gong, Liu Dashuai was full of martial arts, and it was Erlang Zhenjun who went down to earth, and it was unknown if he had been blessed by God to escape the assassination of the traitorous ministers, and the Zhenguo Gong was now a rebellious criminal, and there was no good fruit to eat by pretending to be him, Although everyone believed two or three points, they didn't dare to make the decision, so they had to inform Zhang Daniu, a thousand households in the city defense.

This big bull was originally a small guard of the Liguo Iron Works, and later followed Liu Ziguang to attack Jinan, and participated in the tragic defense of Jinan, lost one of his arms, quit the Red Shirt Army because of his disability, married a wife and had children in Jinan and settled down, and later the official army recruited people, although he only had one arm was still specially recruited into the army, and also sealed the official position of a thousand households, not for anything else, because he was once a member of the Red Shirt Army, Liu Ziguang's subordinates.

Zhang Daniu has seen Liu Ziguang, and only he can distinguish the real and false Zhenguo Gong, but this Zhang Qianhu has already gone home for dinner, so the officers and soldiers shouted to the city: "This master, we don't dare to open the door without authorization, we have to wait for the old subordinate Zhang Qianhu of the grandfather to give an order, this will already send someone to invite Master Zhang, please wait for a while." ”

This was said politely, and it implied a threat, since it was said that it was an old subordinate of Zhenguo Gong, it must know him, if it was an impostor, there would naturally be no good fruit to eat, of course the knight heard the taste, and said with a smile: "It's okay, let Zhang Daniu come to see me." ”

Seeing him say Zhang Daniu's name as soon as he spoke, the officers and men believed it for another four or five points, and whispered together, their faces full of excitement.

Jinan is no longer the Ming and Qing Dynasty battlefields on the cusp of the year, and now it is an inner 6 city without the threat of war, Zhang Daniu as a city defense thousand households, under the hands of thousands of people who eat food, how can it be regarded as a county regiment-level cadre, every day in addition to basking in the sun on the city wall, is to go home to tease the children, the old superior Liu Ziguang died, this incident touched him a lot, those few big nonsense slander Zhen Guogong proclamation was torn off by him with the remnant of the left arm, but vent anger to vent anger, he can't do the rebellion, after all, the person is dead, the living still have to live, and the child is still so young, Zhang Daniu is no longer the hot-blooded man he was back then.

It was dark early today, Zhang Qianhu returned to the house on Chaoshan Street near the south gate early, picked up the child and kissed it well, the maid servant brought the meal, the old wine was hot, and waited for the master and the boy to finish the meal.

Suddenly, there was a hurried knock on the door, and a small officer in a uniform rushed in, recklessly broke into the adult's study, and whispered a few words in Zhang Daniu's ear.

"What!" Zhang Daniu's face changed color, he threw the child on the couch, he even bought boots to wear, and walked outside barefoot, and he didn't care if the child was thrown and cried.

Zhang Daniu ran out of the gate barefoot, flew on his horse, and shouted: "Drive!" Then they ran in the direction of the city gate, and after a short time came to the city gate, the officers and soldiers saw that the thousand households were coming, and hurriedly opened the heavy latch, and pushed the city gate, and as soon as the door was opened, Zhang Da Niu rushed out of the door.

The soldiers on the city wall only saw their Zhang Qianhu running to the front of the centaur, only glanced at it, then turned over and dismounted, crying in front of the horse, the cry of the middle-aged man who had gone through the vicissitudes of life was so infectious, so that every soldier on the city wall cried for it, because they knew that the person who came was the out-and-out, the Zhenguo Gong Liu Dashuai who escaped from the tiger's mouth!

Zhang Daniu cried a few times, wiped his tears with one arm, and yelled at the city wall: "Fuck! Hurry up and open the door, the turtle grandchildren don't understand the rules at all, come down and line up to welcome the handsome! Then he took the reins of Liu Ziguang's horse with one arm and strode barefoot into the city.

There were not many soldiers on duty on the city wall, that is, thirty or forty people, and at this moment they rushed down, opened the city gate widely, lined up on both sides, and when the horses of the town prince came, the leading hundred households drew their swords and put them in front of their noses, and shouted in a long voice: "Salute!" More than 30 soldiers raised the red tassel gun to their chests together, although the movements were not neat and concise enough, but the enthusiasm and moving revealed by a pair of eyes were really hot, and the first thing that came to mind after Zhenguo Gong was in trouble was to come to Jinan, to find them Shandong fathers, which made everyone present feel excited! Pride!

Zhang Daniu pulled the horse forward, and asked Liu Ziguang: "Dashuai, your mansion in Baotu Spring has been occupied by a dead eunuch, and your subordinates will send troops to drive him out, you stay there for the time being, let's gather the old brothers overnight, what do you want to do, as long as you say a word." ”

Liu Ziguang said: "Don't panic, Da Niu, you go and put on your shoes first, take me to meet Governor Shi, and talk about other things slowly." ”

Zhang Daniu realized that he was barefoot, and quickly found an officer to take off the boots on his feet and put them on himself, and said to everyone fiercely: "No one is allowed to reveal the matter of Grandpa Guo's coming to Jinan, you have tightened the city gate, and no one is allowed to go out tonight, especially those eunuchs from the south." ”

The hundred households on duty understood, and said together: "Don't worry, my lord, we are here at the city gate, and a fly can't fly out, that person, go and take out all the firecrackers in the warehouse, lock the gate, and your lordship, you can rest assured that you can do things in the city." ”

These soldiers were Zhang Daniu's henchmen, he nodded reassuringly, and then led the horse to lead Liu Ziguang to the governor's yamen.

Shi Kefa was still sorting out official documents in the study, and put aside a simple dinner, but he didn't move a single chopstick, not because of busy affairs, but because of the sinister situation in the world, Qingdao Mansion has openly raised the white flag for Liu Ziguang to bring filial piety, other prefectures and counties are also unstable, even the city defense army of Jinan Mansion also faintly has the meaning of mutiny, plus those eunuchs from the capital are bold and unscrupulous, killing seven or eight people in just a few days, and occupying more than 100,000 taels of land and shops, I really don't know what these people in the court think, After dealing with Liu Ziguang, we should adopt a policy of softness and calm the grievances of the people, they are good, but they take the initiative to provoke trouble, do they want to force the people to rebel?

Shi Kefa frowned, one finger knocked gently and rhythmically on the table, the water in the tea cup next to him was already cold, he didn't care, he took it and drank it all, as if he could use this herbal tea to extinguish the fire of depression in his heart, suddenly there was a knock on the door of the study, and Shi Jun, a hundred households in the patrol pacesetter, came in and said: "There is a person outside the yamen who asks to see." ”

The governor is in charge of the military, government and civil affairs of the province, and there are many people who come to worship on weekdays, but Shi Kefa never meets people he doesn't know outside office hours, in order to prevent people from giving bribes and gifts. Shi Kefa was a little amused by his thoughts, and asked casually, "Who is it?" ”

Shi Jundao: "I don't know, but the person who knew him to lead the horse and pedal was Zhang Daniu and Zhang Qianhu of the Jinan City Defense Battalion." ”

Shi Kefa stood up immediately: "Could it be him?" ”