A bright and dazzling red flag and a yellow flag embroidered with the words "Ming" and "Expelling the Tartars and Restoring China" and "Juntian Divide the Land to Open Taiping" were raised together on the two big flagpoles in front of the yamen of the governor of Jiangsu, facing the southeast wind, hunting and fluttering, as if to tell the people of the entire Suzhou City - my Ming Dynasty is back again!

At the same time as the flag was raised, the shelling and bravado shouts of the governor's yamen continued, and the crackling gunfire was also bursting for a while, and some of the rebels took out the torches they had prepared before, rushed into several "offices" inside the gate of the governor's yamen, and set fire to the books, papers, and furniture inside, and smoke soon rose from the burning houses. At first glance, it looks as if a fierce battle is going on.

The yamen of the governor of Jiangsu covers an area of dozens of acres, hundreds of large and small houses, and the officials, scribes, and errands who work in it, and the Fubiao soldiers stationed in it are all more than a thousand. It was very difficult to rely on a hundred and a few rebel troops to capture the entire Yamen, so Chen Yonghua's plan was to create panic and knock those corrupt officials away.

In fact, Wang Zhongxiao's purpose in letting him carry out this "Pingjiang Riot" in Suzhou was not to snatch Suzhou City. That's simply not realistic. With just a hundred people, how can it be possible to occupy the entire Suzhou City? To be able to create a big chaos, just start the gold-lettered signboards of the Heaven and Earth Society, the Third Prince of Zhu, and the Daming Aobai. If we can also publicize by the way the propositions that heaven and earth will "drive out the Tartars and restore China" and "divide the land and open up peace", then it will definitely be an overfulfilled task.

However, the "over-completion" of the "Pingjiang Riot" this time is really a bit too much!

may be because the governor of Jiangsu, Ma Huping, is a little sloppy in governing the army, and he has not seriously rectified his pacesetters at all, plus he himself is not in the governor's yamen, and even Mu Tianyan, who cares for the governor, has just taken office from Fujian, and he is not familiar with the people in the governor's yamen and the pacesetter generals of the governor of Jiangsu, so he can't control the situation at all.

As a result, Mu Tianyan only made a temporary retreat to avoid the shells, and was regarded as a "nursing governor and ran away" by the pacesetters below! You're all running away as a nursing governor, what are they still fighting? Run, too!

And these soldiers are bad enough, in order to make their run look more reasonable, they ran and opened their eyes for the third prince Zhu and Daming Ao.

"Oh no, the third prince Zhu and Ao Bai are calling!"

"Oh no, Ao Bai is amazing, I can't beat it!"

"Defeated, run for your life if you are defeated!"

"There are thieves everywhere, run away!"

Well, there are a total of more than 100 anti-thieves, and they will be blown everywhere at once.

As soon as they shouted like this, the other pacesetters in the yamen, as well as the scribes, masters, messengers, servants, and Ma Hu's family, etc., all panicked.

The third prince of Zhu is not afraid, but Ao Bai is the first Baturu in Manchuria! And now he has taken refuge in Pingxi King Wu Sangui, the first Baturu of Manchuria, and he is the first ruthless man in the Qing Dynasty, and Wu Sangui is about Mo is the second ruthless man in the Qing Dynasty.

The entire people in the governor's yamen all ran away, and there was a "defeat of the officials"!

Mu Tianyan, who was carried away by two Goshha, was blinded, if he was just a political envoy, but he is now the governor of Jiangsu! The governor is a minister who guards the land, and he has the responsibility of guarding the land, so what is the matter if he abandons the government and flees? Looking back at the emperor's investigation, no matter how much he "admires Tianyan", he has to go to the vegetable market to make a trip to the red chagrin that there is no return.

But he can't help it now, even if he screams through his throat, he can't stop the rout. And he just opened his throat, but he couldn't make a sound, because he didn't have the courage to face the first warrior of Manchuria. Besides, this Ao Bai also used cannons very undeceitfully!

Therefore, Mu Tianyan now knew that those magistrates in the Ming Dynasty were helpless when they were attacked by the Qing Heavenly Soldiers, so he could only cry and be erected out of the governor's yamen by his subordinates from the back door, and ran towards Suzhou Fuxue in the south.

"Thousand, thousand. Don't run, don't run! ”

Mu Tianyan inexplicably lost the governor's yamen, and while fleeing to Suzhou Fuxue, he lost Wu Yuanyi, who was Wu Sangui's son-in-law Wang Yongkang, but was dragged by his subordinates.

By this time, he had already fled to the stone arch bridge erected over a river to the west of the governor's yamen of Jiangsu—which was fast enough! It really deserves to be the second generation of Guan Ning, and the ancestral ability has not been lost.

"Don't run? How can you not run? If you don't run, let the third prince Zhu and Ao Bai kill them! Wu Yuanyi turned his head and glared at the guy who was pulling him, "Are you a little fan trying to kill Uncle Ben?" ”

That family Ding surnamed Fan, a single name with a yang character, is also a second generation of Guan Ning, but his father was not a big soldier for Wu Sangui, but a scribe in the general soldier's yamen, so he is also literate and hyphenated, and he is also relatively slippery. When he heard Wu Yuanyi's words, he laughed: "Mr. Qian. Have you forgotten where we are? ”

"We." Wu Yuanyi was stunned, "We seem to be in the same group as Ao Bai and Third Prince Zhu!" ”

This thing finally remembered that it was over there!

But after thinking about it, he realized that something was wrong again, "Then why did Ao Bai shoot my brother-in-law with a gun?" ”

"Ao Bai doesn't know my uncle," explained the family named Fan Yang, "and my uncle is wearing the official uniform of a third-grade military attaché. He may think that his uncle is the general of the Fubiao Chinese Army of the governor of Jiangsu! ”

"That's right, the general is also a positive third grade." Wu Yuanyi figured out what was going on, and immediately became nervous again, "Who won?" Who is winning now? ”

"Of course we won!" That Fan Yang pointed in the direction of the governor's yamen, and said loudly to Wu Yuanyi: "Mr. Qian, you see the smoke billowing out of the governor's yamen, and the flags on the two big flagpoles have also been changed, they must have been downed!" ”

Wu Yuanyi looked in the direction he was pointing, and sure enough, he saw a bright red flag fluttering in the wind over the governor's yamen, and at the same time, he also saw the firelight and the black smoke rising. He pricked up his ears again and listened carefully, but did not hear the roar of the artillery or the crackling of gunfire, and even the shouting of killing stopped.

This shows that the battle in the direction of the governor's yamen has ended, and the third prince of Zhu and Ao Bai have won the victory!

"Hahaha!" Wu Yuanyi laughed, "It turns out that we won." Speaking of this, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, "I would have known that I wouldn't have run away, Xiao Fanzi, is it still merit for us to escape victoriously like this?" ”

"What's the point? Can the one who escapes be considered meritorious? The surnamed Fan rolled his eyes, and he already had an idea, "Mr. Qian, can't we talk to the third prince and Ao Bai and say that we ran away just now." ”

"What do you say?"

"Let's just say that we're going to help kill the Tartars and fight the Qing soldiers!"

"Fight the Qing soldiers?" Wu Yuanyi was stunned, "Where to fight?" ”

Fan Yang stretched his neck and looked around, and then pointed to the west of the river and the Suzhou prefect's yamen looking diagonally across the river from the Jiangsu governor's yamen, "Mr. Qian, let's go and take down the Suzhou prefect's yamen!" ”

Wu Yuanyi pondered for a moment and nodded heavily: "Okay, let's go and take down the Suzhou Prefect's Yamen!" Now that the governor's yamen has been lost, the people in the prefect's yamen must be panicking! ”

As he spoke, he pulled out his waist knife with a "bang", pointed at the yamen of the Suzhou prefect, and shouted: "Brothers, the prince's army is coming soon, and now is the time for us to make contributions and follow me!" ”

"Huh," shouted the people below.

"It's not a whoo," Wu Yuanyi roared again, "Shout yes!" Now let's regain our sight! ”

"Yes! Anti-Qing and regain sight! ”

"Everyone shouts with me: King Pingxi, Ao Taishi, anti-Qing Dynasty restoration to Suzhou, to Suzhou!"

"King Pingxi, Ao Taishi, anti-Qing restoration to Suzhou."

More than 30 people who followed Wu Yuanyi also drew their waist knives, rushed down the stone arch bridge with a loud voice, and rushed to the yamen of the Suzhou prefect

There are no pacesetters guarding the yamen of the Suzhou prefect, there are only three classes of masters, scribes and soap, fast and strong, among which the most capable fast class, that is, the fast catch is also taken by the Suzhou prefect to the governor yamen to help arrest people.

Where can the rest of the soap class and Zhuang class beat the Pingxi clan led by Wu Yuanyi? And they were also in chaos, they all saw the governor's yamen on fire and changed banners, and they all heard the sound of cannons, gunfire, and shouts of killing!

And their prefect is not in the mansion either. And he was called to rub mahjong by Mu Fantai, who was the nursing governor, and now most of them have become loyal martyrs!

The old man is gone, what are they still fighting? So when I saw Wu Yuanyi with these dozens of "heavenly soldiers" wielding swords and shouting something "King Pingxi, Ao Taishi, anti-Qing Dynasty and Ming restoration to Suzhou" to kill them, they all knelt down, knelt down, not escaped!

They are errand and not masters, those second, third, fourth and fifth ministers who are masters are doing a good job, can they still be expected to be loyal to Kangxi? Who is this for? So these guys who ate public meals opened the yamen, welcomed Wu Yuanyi and Fan Yang in, and also held up the official seal of the Suzhou prefect, which can be regarded as a successful completion of the transfer of local power!

After taking the Suzhou Prefect's Yamen, the resourceful Fan Yang suggested that Wu Yuanyi put up a banner to prove that he had rebelled, so as not to have another misunderstanding later.

However, it takes time to make the "Ming" character flag, so he suggested making a red flag, and volunteered to rush into the backyard of the prefect's yamen with a few "anyway" soaps, detained the original prefect's wife, and forced them to sew a big flag with the red silk cloth in the back house.

Then, a red flag was hung on the big flagpole outside the prefect's yamen - these two "temporary thieves" didn't know what that red flag meant? But the red flag is eye-catching! From a distance, you can tell who's with whom.

And the behavior of the two of them in a "temporary uprising" soon set off a chain reaction in the city of Suzhou.

"Joining the army, joining the army, it seems that the yamen of the Suzhou prefect has also been captured by our people!"

Inside the yamen of the governor of Jiangsu, Chen Yonghua was about to lead people to retreat while the chaos was in place, when he suddenly heard his subordinates report a good news that surprised him.

"What? Are there any of our people in Suzhou? The third prince Zhu next to him suddenly came to his senses, and immediately looked back at Chen Yonghua with a look of anticipation - it seems that he has found a little sense of rebellion! Maybe the remnants of the rebellious bloodline passed down by Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di in the veins have been awakened!

Chen Yonghua didn't remember this arrangement, so he hurriedly rushed to the gate of the governor's yamen with the messenger, and saw the red flag fluttering over the prefect's yamen on the other side of the river.

Still, he quickly understood what was going on.

It must be the heroes of Suzhou who responded with troops!

"I didn't expect that there were also people in Suzhou who opposed the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty!" Chen Yonghua immediately felt greatly encouraged, "Then we won't withdraw for the time being!" ”

"Not withdrawing? But let's "fake Aobai" He Tianran has already unloaded, even the cloth armor of the Zhenghuang flag has been taken off, and he is about to put it on with a Qing cavalry gown in his hand - when he retreats, he has to put on a costume and change his identity.

And Wang Zhongxiao has already arranged for them to be the cavalry assistant general of the "Small Station New Army", which is not a fake identity, but a real identity! When the time comes, it will be said that Wang Fuchen sent them to protect Wang Zhongxiao, anyway, the private use of officers and soldiers is nothing new in today's Qing Dynasty.

"Let's go occupy a few more yamen!" Chen Yonghua said, "Let's first go and knock down the Fubiao General Yamen, and then go to the Changzhou County Yamen, the Guizhou Weaving Yamen, and the Political Envoy Yamen."

"Chen joins the army, after we conquer Suzhou, do we want Suzhou to rebuild the Ming Dynasty?" The third prince Zhu didn't know what to come up, and his face was excited! It looks like I can't wait to be Emperor Mingxian. After more than 20 years of precarious life, the third prince of Zhu is the one who understands the happiness of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty best.

When he watched "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" when he was a child, he thought that Cao Cao was a traitor, but later the Ming Dynasty was gone, and he knew the happiness of Emperor Han Xian and Cao Cao's goodness! And now he feels that Chen Yonghua looks very potential to be Cao Cao

It's a pity that Chen Yonghua was not carried away by the victory, shook his head and said: "Our number is too small to hold Suzhou. Therefore, after laying down the political envoy's yamen, he changed his clothes in the political envoy's yamen, and then withdrew from the gate. ”

"Okay" The third prince of Zhu was a little disappointed, but as the "alternate emperor of Ming Xian", he still had to listen to the words of Chen Yonghua, the "great Ming Cao Cao". And he's still young, only in his thirties, and there's still time.

Chen Yonghua nodded, and instructed left and right: "Don't change your clothes first, let's go to the Yamen now!" ”

"Yes!"

More than 100 heroes around shouted in response.

South of Suzhou City, Suzhou Fuxue.

This school, which is close to the Snake Gate, has now become a refuge for Suzhou officialdom! Because Suzhou is the residence of the governor of Jiangsu, there are many yamen in the city of Suzhou, in addition to the governor's yamen, there are also the political envoy yamen, the inspection envoy yamen, the Suzhou government yamen, the Changzhou County yamen, the general yamen and so on.

In addition, there is also a large group of alternate officials in Jiangsu Province who also live in Suzhou City, and they have to go to the governor's yamen of Jiangsu every day to listen to the use - there is a lot of copying and writing work in the governor's yamen, which is just for these "officials to work in vain" to do, of course, they still work in vain and have no money to get. Because they were only on the waiting list to help the governor's yamen. It's just help, can you be embarrassed to ask for money? Besides, even if they wanted to, Governor Mahu wouldn't give it!

And this year's Jiangsu "official white labor" is really miserable, the official did not make up for it, not to mention, but also encountered the third prince Zhu and Ao Bai rioted in Suzhou, and even the governor's yamen was taken away. Although the big guys were very sharp in their legs and feet, they didn't let the third prince Zhu and the thieves led by Ao Bai hack to death, and they all fled to Suzhou Fuxue with Mu Fantai, who was caring for the governor.

But what about their officials?

Seeing that Jiangsu Province is about to be in chaos! Do these alternates still have a chance to fill the vacancy? You must know that they have paid a great price for the current alternate! I won't say anything about the hard work of the cold window, but in order to be sent to Jiangsu to be an alternate official, you have to stuff a lot of silver into the old men of the Ministry of Officials, otherwise, the Ministry of Officials will let you go to Yunnan to serve Wu Sanguiling, will you go? Let you go to Gansu to eat sand, will you go? The alternate officer who can be put in Jiangsu, except for those who are particularly face-saving or have a particularly rich family, who is not a usury?

Now Jiangsu is in a mess, and the money they spent before will have to be wasted, and the loan sharks they are carrying will have to be repaid. This official deserves a blood loss!

And this is not worse, what is even worse is that Da Ming Aobai will soon bring the soldiers of Da Ming to arrest them, these Qing officials will work in vain to kill their heads!

The bad news was sent by the Suzhou prefect to listen to the news, and the arrest was constantly brought back to the lobby of Suzhou Fuxue, one more terrible than the other!

"The prefect's yamen has been broken by Aobai, and the red flag is fluttering in front of the yamen!"

"The cannon in front of the Yamen of the Counselor of the Newspaper Biao is rumbling, and the smoke is billowing out!"

"The red flag fluttering in front of the Yamen is suspected of being occupied by Aobai!"

"Report that the Changzhou County Ya has fallen!"

"A red flag appears above the newspaper gate!"

"Report, the political envoy's yamen has been breached"

Mu Tianyan sat in the lobby, listening to the announcements, and wanted to die!

Ao Bai is so powerful, it's just devastating! In less than half a day, the yamen in the city of Suzhou were broken by Ao Bai and his people one by one, and it seems that it is a matter of time before the whole city falls!

What to do then?

Thinking of this, Mu Tianyan was about to cry!

However, the officials who were guarding the hall of the school were even more sad than him, and before he could cry, the group was already crying.

"How's that for good? Suzhou is going to be lost, how can we still be officials? ”

"Yes, I have studied hard for twenty years, and I haven't even been a county governor for eight years, so why is Ao Bai the opposite?"

"Woo, Ao Bai is reversed, Su Province is in chaos, how can I repay my Beijing debt?"

"Not yet. It's important to save your life! When Ao Bai comes, we all have to die! ”

There are still people who know the severity, Mu Tianyan followed the voice and saw that it was an alternate officer from Hunan, named Chen Jian, with sharp eyes and a serious expression, he was also born in Jinshi, but his family was rich. Big landlords! So I don't care about the money of those few officials, the most important thing now is to save my life.

"Chen Zhizhi, you have a lot of ideas, what do you say is good for this official now?" Mu Tianyan is now in chaos.

It is impossible to hold Suzhou. Manchuria's No. 1 Baturu has come in, how can he hold it? If he wants to have this ability, he still uses "admiring Tianyan"?

"Domain!" Chen Jian said loudly, "Although you lost the Suzhou Mansion City, you also fought hard to win the third prince of Zhu!" ”

(End of chapter)