Cheng Hanbai calculated that on the day of Begonia's birthday, it happened to be his rest, so he discussed with Duanwang that at this time, it was spring and the flowers were blooming, and they could go to the Taohua River to fish for shrimp. While they were discussing, Ling Feng sent a flying pigeon biography.

It turned out that it was the official ship that departed from Hubei, and it had already allowed Ling Xue and Ling Chen to succeed! One million two hundred thousand taels of silver, 300,000 taels were transported back to Hubei, and they were sent to the three commercial houses, and the other 900,000 taels were exchanged by Dai Xiaogongzi for Cao's own ship and transported to the capital.

"Calculating the time, it happened to be two days before I arrived in Beijing," Cheng Hanbai said with some disappointment: "Alas! We can't go to the Peach Blossom River. ”

Xie Ruizhu smiled and said nothing, he had already figured out where to take Begonia for his birthday. Just got rid of my brother-in-law.

Coincidentally, Shen Congxi's letter happened to arrive at Duanwang's Mansion today. When I opened it, Shen Congxi's anger burned out of the letter, and at once Xie Ruizhu and Cheng Hanbai, who read the letter, were angry: they all said that the Japanese were poisoning the people and aiding the abuse, but it was the official yamen of the Great Heavenly Empire!

It turned out that Zhao Muzhe and the others only learned after they arrived in Fujian that the people forcibly occupied the government to protest that the government not only did not fight against the Japanese invaders, but also took the initiative to send food and women to the Japanese in exchange for a short period of peaceful coexistence. Only when officials are forced can the people rebel, this is the truth that the court does not know.

On the day of Zhao Xiaohou's arrival, after being stationed outside the city, he did not summon local officials, and several people rode into the county seat wearing regular clothes. Who knows, after only a few steps, he encountered a case of a servant coming to the door to rob a people's daughter.

"Don't rely on the old and sell the old, hinder the government to run errands, and kill you in vain, if you don't let go, I'll be rude to you!" A thin-faced servant scolded while scolding the old man and pulling his daughter's fingers.

"Official, you're doing well! I'm just such a daughter, if I give it to the Japanese Kou, our whole family won't be able to survive! The old man shouted, even if his fingers were broken so painfully, he refused to let go, he knew that his daughter would not only lose her innocence, but also lose her life on the island of the Japanese Kou.

The thin-faced official sneered: "I don't care if you live or not!" All I know is that we're going to catch twenty girls today, and I'm eight short of you! If I can't catch the girl, I won't be able to live! ”

Zhao Muzhe and Shen Congxi, who had just come out of the barracks to inspect the people's situation, listened clearly to the side. Seeing that the thin-faced official was about to use force on his father-in-law, Zhao Dong kicked the official in the arm, and the arm was suddenly dislocated.

The thin-faced official rolled around with his hands grinning and scolded: "Who dares to obstruct the official business? I think you're tired of life! As he spoke, he had to take out a shark tooth hanging from his neck and whistle it.

Zhao Nan was the closest to him, he picked up the tip of his sword and broke the rope that hung the whistle, Zhao Nan went over to pick up the shark tooth whistle and smiled: "You are not small, you dare to gather people in front of adults!" ”

"O strong man, go quickly, for after a while, the people in their yamen will come, and none of you will be able to leave. We just want to hide day by day, you are all passing, how many times can you save us? The old man persuaded them in turn.

"The yamen collects donations and taxes, has soldiers and weapons, but still wants the people to sacrifice their innocent daughters to let the Japanese ruin them, we don't have such a yamen!" Shen Congxi gritted his teeth and said.

"Oh, Brother Housheng, don't talk nonsense about such rebellious things!" The people next to them also persuaded them: "Let's go quickly, the official will be terrible, don't bother us......"

Zhao Xiaohou couldn't help but comfort them: "What is an official errand? We are the army sent by the imperial court to suppress the Japanese invaders, and tomorrow the Japanese invaders will come, and they will definitely not come back! ”

"I can't stop the Japanese bandits...... After two days of slaughter and two deaths, you will go back to receive your reward, but as soon as you leave, they will come to us even more to ask for it...... Suppressing the widows? Cut! It's not like the imperial court hasn't sent people here before......" The onlookers next to them talked a lot, scoffing at their statements, and didn't believe that they could deal with the Japanese at all.

Zhao Xiaohou Ye no longer said anything, he wanted to speak to the people with actions.

After a few people got on the horse, Zhao Xiaohou said to the official lying on the ground: "If your yamen wants to take this general, come to the military camp outside the county seat, and this general is waiting for you!" With that, he got on his horse and left. The old man learned that the person who saved him was really a military master, so he quickly knelt down and kowtowed.

The county magistrate had already been explained by the prefect, and he had quietly met with Zhang Zhi just now, and he had a plan in his heart. When the official came to report, he was already prepared, and took the county officer and the official all the way to the military camp outside the county seat.

"General Zhao, Zhang Dujun, and the county commander Lin Youlu have seen two adults! Today, I came to invite the lower officials to be in the county government to wash the dust for the two of them. Lin Youlu smiled humbly.

"Lin Youlu, let me ask you, tomorrow the Japanese will go ashore and ask you for food and wealth, but is there such a thing?" Zhao Xiaohou was about to ask him, but he didn't eat him at all, so he just asked sharply.

Lin Youlu hurriedly replied: "Uh...... This is indeed the case. The Japanese are strong and strong, and they have firearms, and there are only a few officials in the lower officials, and the weapons are just simple knives, which really can't be resisted! General Zhao is a martial artist, and he also asks the general to come out and eliminate harm for the people! What Lin Youlu said is also the truth.

Zhao Xiaohou asked again: "On weekdays, how many boats, how many people, and how many firearms do the Japanese people come?" ”

"Most of them were twenty or thirty people in a boat, and I saw that they had let off firecrackers, but I don't know how many of them were on board." Lin Youlu quickly replied. He had already discussed with Zhang Zhi before, that is, to let Zhao Muzhe run into a wall.

"Twenty or thirty? That's just a wandering thief, worthy of your fear? Zhang Zhi smiled and said: "Don't worry, as soon as General Zhao comes out tomorrow, they will definitely come and go." ”

Zhao Xiaohou Ye sneered: "You and put back the eleven folk girls who were arrested this time, and I will deal with those thieves tomorrow." In the future, it is not allowed to rob people's women and help them to abuse! ”

"General......" Lin Youlu still wanted to say something, but when he saw Zhang Zhi giving him a look, he stopped, made a gesture, and said: "In this case, the lower official will do it." Tomorrow the next official will be waiting for the general on the beach! ”

After Lin Youlu left, Zhao Xiaohou summoned the deputy generals Li Bin and Lu Ping, and the supervising army Zhang Zhi in the tent, and said: "Tomorrow I will take a thousand soldiers and horses to the beach to meet the battle, Li Bin, you go with me, Lu Ping is in the military camp." Zhang Dujun, you ......"

"I'm the town guard barracks." Zhang Zhi smiled and said: "There are still 9,000 soldiers in the battalion, do you want the general to bring more people to boost the army's prestige?" ”

Zhao Xiaohou glanced at him and said, "No need! ”

"General, do you want to bring artillery?" Li Bin asked.

"There are only 30 Japanese people, and the general has a thousand people, and there are more than enough firearms, where can I use artillery? If innocent people are harmed, it will be difficult for us to explain to the people. Zhang Zhidao.

Zhao Xiaohou said: "Then according to what the prison army said, if necessary, it is not too late for you to pull the artillery away." ”

When Zhao Muzhe talked to Shen Congxi and Zhao Yu, Shen Congxi always felt that something was wrong: "If it's so simple, why can't the Japanese invaders be suppressed repeatedly?" ”

A few people couldn't figure out the reason, and only agreed to act tomorrow.