The others gathered around Hu Jia, and in the open space of the courtyard, there was a huge fire, dozens of Fenxi county officials gathered around the fire to drink and chat, almost everyone had a pale woman next to them, and a lot of silver was scattered on the ground.

Hu Jia was an official appointed by Wang Mu, and Wang Mu stepped forward and scolded: "Hu Jia, you are the parent official of Feixi County, why are you so absurd and still don't let me blow these people away?" ”

Hu Jia knew Wang Mu, but he didn't know Ling Jingyang, these women and silver were all taken by him to the nearby villages before the Chinese New Year, some people refused to let him take the women, and were brutally hacked to death, and many people were robbed back by Hu Jia for the winter.

There are women and silver in the cold winter wax moon, this day is chic, Wang Mu asked him to blow away the woman, isn't this his life?

He saw that there were only more than 20 people in Wang Mu and Yue Ling, and there were more than 20 officials in the entire Fenxi County, as well as more than 40 officials, and he was not afraid of Wang Mu at all, and smiled with Wang Mu without smiling: "Lord Wang, don't come to say hello to the lower officials, do you think this is not good?" ”

After speaking, he threw the woman on his body towards Wang Mu.

"Wang Dudu, it's freezing this day, send a woman to warm your bed."

"Hu Jia, you are bold, this official asked you to govern Fenxi County, is to let you appease the people and restore the farming, you are good, here the fish and meat people, these women, and silver, did you rob it?"

Hu Jia didn't respond to him, Wang Mu continued: "Hu Jia, this official still has Da Ming in your heart, this time I will let you go, and don't let these women go back?" ”

The people in Fenxi County did not move, as if Wang Mu was farting, Wang Mu's eyes widened, and Hu Jia sneered again: "The surname Wang, which green onion are you?" Why did Lao Tzu come to Fenxi and why did he return to Daming, don't you know? ”

"Oh, didn't you come back for the people of the world?"

Ling Jingyang silently looked at Wang Mu and Hu Jia, Hu Jia squinted and smiled, the killing intent in his eyes became stronger, Wang Mu would not have thought that Hu Jia would have murderous intentions, he still said bitterly to Hu Jia: "Hu Jia, you are also a scholar, you must have the world in mind." ”

"With the world in mind, don't be so naïve, okay?"

Hu Jia made up his mind to kill Wang Mu, and surrendered to the Qing army with the stolen silver and women.

Wang Mu's eyes widened, looking at this group of mongrels in disbelief, Ling Jingyang hadn't used the knife for some days, and today he could move his muscles and bones, and Yue Ling shook his head, Yue Ling shouted.

kill

Dozens of pro-soldiers climbed out of the wall and shot at the officials and officials of Fenxi County in the courtyard with bows and arrows, and the people of Fenxi County were shot and killed more than ten people without rushing up, and the rest of the people had not yet woken up from the shock.

Yue Ling led dozens of personal soldiers into the battle group, the personal soldiers were all warriors of a hundred battles, and in their eyes, the officials and officials were a group of splashes with big knives, and after a while, they killed most of the mongrels in Fenxi County.

Ling Jingyang watched the performance of his own soldiers, and the big knife in his hand was stunned without swinging it much, and the battle was over.

Yue Ling put a big knife on Hu Jia's neck, Hu Jia lay on the ground and prayed for his life, and a few officials and officials who were not killed threw away their weapons and surrendered, and were tied up with ropes by their own soldiers, waiting to be executed.

Hu Jia was put on his neck with a big knife, lost his arrogance just now, and begged Hu Jia for mercy: "Lord Wang, spare your life." ”

Wang Mu slapped him over, and Hu Jia's eyes were full of stars.

"Hu Jia, you are innocent of death."

After being beaten and spitting blood, Hu Jia's desire to survive was even stronger, and he still begged Wang Mu for mercy: "Yes, yes, I am innocent of death, as long as the adults spare my life, I will tell the adults a shocking secret." ”

Wang Mu looked at Ling Jingyang, Ling Jingyang was also a little curious, Wang Mu and Hu Jia said: "Open your dog's eyes, this adult is the governor of Lingdu, whether you die or not, what the governor of Lingdu says." ”

Ling Jingyang also felt that there was some coincidence, and stepped forward and said, "Hu Jia, the magistrate of Fenxi County?" ”

"Uh-huh, the villain is the magistrate of Fenxi County?"

Ling Jingyang asked, "These women still have silver, which they have snatched from all over the country?" ”

Hu Jia nodded, listening to Jingyang

Looking at the officials and officials who had not been killed, Hu Jia hurriedly replied to him that most of the officials were transferred from the Yicheng City Defense Army, and the officials were appointed by him.

I heard that the government is a city defense army, and isn't the city defense army a subordinate of Baidun?

Ling Jingyang became very angry, and asked the pro-soldiers to drag out the rest of the servants, the five servants thought they were going to be killed, crying and grabbing the ground, an older servant climbed to about three meters in front of Ling Jingyang, and was pressed to the ground by the pro-soldiers, he kowtowed and said: "The governor spares his life, wow, it's all Hu Jia's sin, we don't dare not listen." ”

Hu Jia was on the side, and he also shouted loudly, he had long been set aside by these people, they were all these officials and ordinary people, Ling Jingyang asked the soldiers to plug Hu Jia's mouth with rags, and let the officials tell them what Hu Jia had asked them to do?

After Hu Jia became the magistrate of Fenxi County, he did not want to forge ahead, and took a group of officials to the subordinate villages of Fenxi County to collect money, oppress the people, and rob the people's daughters.

Fenxi County finally gathered more than 1,000 people, and was killed by Hu Jia to go to Shaanxi and other prefectures and counties, not only that, Hu Jia also cultivated private forces in Fenxi County, most of the city defense troops transferred from Yicheng were bought by him, and the city defense troops who refused to surrender were killed by Hu Jia.

Ling Jingyang's heart was full of murderous intent, at this time he finally found himself in Yicheng, just like a blind and deaf person, if he hadn't passed by here today, the people's livelihood in various states and counties would have been even worse.

Hu Jia was so frightened that he screamed, Ling Jingyang asked Yue Ling to tear off the rags in his mouth, Hu Jia was held back and breathed heavily, and then said: "Ling Dudu, I have important information here, as long as the Du Du lets me live, my information will not disappoint the Du Du." ”

Ling Jingyang wanted to chop this bastard with a knife, but he still endured it and asked Hu Jia to tell him about this information, if the information was very important, he would be able to spare Hu Jia's life.

Hu Jia's life was in the hands of Ling Jingyang, he gritted his teeth, and told Ling Jingyang that on the day of the Lantern Festival, there would be rebellions in some prefectures and counties, leading the Qing army of Datong Mansion to attack Fenzhou, and annihilating the reserve army stationed in Fenzhou in one fell swoop.

This news made Ling Jingyang's scalp tingle for the first time, but in the next second, he reacted, north of Fenzhou is Taiyuan Mansion, and if the rebels want to lead the Qing army, they must cross the entire Taiyuan Mansion, with the strength of the states and counties of Pingyang Prefecture, even if it is a collective rebellion, there is no strength to lead the Qing army from Datong Mansion.

"Hu Jia, do you think we are all young children?"

Hu Jia saw that Ling Jingyang understood what he meant, and changed his words again: "Dudu, I don't lie to you, there is indeed a plot to cause trouble." ”

Ling Jingyang is not afraid of the rebellion of local forces, but if it really rebels. The people's livelihood that had been restored with great difficulty would be completely ruined again, and he decided to tempt Hu Jia: "If you name a state or county that is in trouble, I will give you 1,000 taels of silver, say two, 2,000 taels of silver, and two women." ”

Hu Jia's eyes lit up: "My lord, is this true?" ”

"I'm the governor of the five armies, and I'm going to joke about you?"

If you say it, you can live, Hu Jia turned around in his mind, coughed dryly with Ling Jingyang, and signaled the others to avoid, Ling Jingyang and Yue Ling blinked, Yue Ling understood, and withdrew from the courtyard with the captives and women, and Wang Mu also went out with Yue Ling and others.

After the crowd left, Ling Jingyang and Hu Jia were left in the entire courtyard, as well as dozens of corpses on the ground.

Only then did Hu Jia and Ling Jingyang speak: "Governor, in the entire northern part of Pingyang Prefecture, as well as the western prefectures and counties of Fenzhou, most of the local officials have the intention of surrendering to the Qing army and the Dashun army. ”

There are so many states and counties that want to avatar other forces?

This aroused Ling Jingyang's curiosity, and he and Hu Jia said: "I'm curious, why don't you become Ming officials, and you have to surrender Jiannu and the Dashun army?" ”

This made Hu Jia silent for a while, and finally said: "We follow Daming just to eat, if we can get silver and grain and grass, it would be better, listen to the governor, don't disbelieve the eyes of the world, a clear-eyed person knows the sunset of the Ming Dynasty." ”

Ling Jingyang smiled coldly: "It's a good sunset, is this why you return to the imperial court, squeeze the people's fat and ointment here, and then go to ask the new master for credit?" ”

Hu Jia said as he quietly unloaded the rope from his hand, and in order to attract Ling Jingyang's attention, he continued: "Otherwise, Ling Dudu, I admire your fearlessness and admiration for your efforts to turn the tide, but is this Daming worthy of you?" ”

His small actions successfully deceived Ling Jingyang, and Ling Jingyang was still reminiscing about his words, when suddenly Hu Jia rolled over, picked up a big knife on the ground, and slashed at Ling Jingyang.

This knife is very tricky, Ling Jingyang only feels that there is a white expanse in front of him, and it is too late to draw the knife.

But Hu Jia's big knife stopped in the air, his back was pierced by a spear, and the head of the spear dripping with blood passed through his chest, Hu Jia looked at the head of the gun in disbelief, and wanted to look back to see who was plotting against him, but the head of the gun was pulled out violently, and blood gushed out from the wound.

Ling Jingyang stepped forward and kicked Hu Jia's corpse, and Yue Ling behind Hu Jia's corpse nodded.

"Yue Ling, well done."

"It's all the governors of the army."

It turned out that when Ling Jingyang asked Yue Ling to take the prisoners and women out, he asked Yue Ling to keep an eye on it, and after Yue Ling took people out of the hospital, he quickly came in from another corner of the courtyard over the wall to prevent Hu Jia from sneaking up on Ling Jingyang, which is also the task that Ling Jingyang required the pro-soldier team to complete in his weekday training.

Yue Ling asked Ling Jingyang to dispose of the prisoners, Ling Jingyang and Yue Ling said: "Send all the officials to Yicheng, and the officials will take them on the road together, I want to see if this Hu Jia is lying?" ”

Yue Ling took the order and left, Ling Jingyang took his own soldiers around the city, and found dozens of unclothed people, these people did not go out of the city because Hu Jia needed them to help chop wood and do rough work, and gave two cold steamed buns every day.

Dozens of people who were shivering and shivering were gathered in the courtyard, and saw that the officials and officials who were usually high up on the ground were all kneeling on the ground, and many people's eyes radiated excitement.

He distributed these dry rations to the people, and the people were moved to tears, and these dry rations could be carried by them for three to five days without starving to death tomorrow.

A gray-haired old man suddenly shouted: "Lord Qingtian, thank you to all the masters. ”

After that, he took a group of people to kneel down for Ling Jingyang, at this time the sky was snowing heavily, goose feather-like snowflakes were falling down, and the people were still wearing cloth clothes, kneeling in the snow to make Wang Mu's heart ache, Ling Jingyang said to them: "Is this Hu Jia squeezing you?" ”

When it comes to Hu Jia, many people can't suppress their anger on their faces, and many people shout loudly, it is Hu Jia who is here to fish and eat the people, so that many people who come back are ruined, if it weren't for Hu Jia, Fenxi County would have been full of vitality.

Ling Jingyang asked Yue Ling to take out Hu Jia's head, throw it on the ground, and said: "Fathers and fellow villagers, I am Ling Jingyang, the governor of the five armies, and the thief will be punished, you don't have to be hungry and cold this winter." ”

The common people couldn't believe that looking at the human head on the ground, it was really Hu Jia's head, and the corpses of officials and officials were carried out by their own soldiers, and the people were even more emotional, they had been bullied by Hu Jia and other mediocre officials for a long time, and many people saw a small number of officials and officials who were tied up, and they picked up snowballs and threw them over.

Not long ago, Hu Jia led the yamen and this group of officials and officials to slaughter a village, and more than 100 people in the entire village were spared, and Hu Jia hid the stolen silver, grain and grass in the warehouse.

Ling Jingyang suddenly thought of the rescued woman, asked the woman to stand up, and asked them if there were any human lives in the hands of these mongrels, these hard-working women cried and cried and did not dare to make a sound, Ling Jingyang and Wang Mu said: "Wang Dudu, I will take people to the warehouse to see, you ask the people, if there are any human lives in the hands of these people, if there is, bring them back to Yicheng, convene officials from all over the country, and make judgments in front of officials from all over the country." ”

Wang Mu felt a little sorry for these officials and servants, and asked, "What about those who have no life?" ”

"Send it to Jin Dashou to work."

After speaking, Ling Jingyang asked the woman where the warehouse was?

The woman took Ling Jingyang and others to a corner of the mansion, which was a firewood room from the outside, Yue Ling pushed open the door, and there was a hole inside, and a warehouse of more than 100 square meters was presented in front of everyone, with a pile of grain and grass in it, and dozens of boxes.

Ling Jingyang opened the box, it was full of white flowers and silver, Yue Ling opened the grain and grass bag, which was full of brown rice and salt and other grains and grasses, all of which Hu Jia snatched from Fenxi County, no wonder Fenxi County was uninhabited, and they were all plagued by this mongrel.

"Yue Ling, bring the people in and give them winter food."