"What kind of person is Mayor Mare?"

Ruan Tang had a curious look on his face.

"The mayor of the town is the lord of Qingcheng, cut off the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and let us live a good life now······"

Aunt Zhao thought that when she came this morning, the person who asked her every day said that she didn't need to hide Ruan Tang's news about the outside world and the mayor in the future, so she wanted to vent all the guilt in her heart, and she almost knew everything and said everything.

Ruan Tang could see that Aunt Zhao's reverence for Ren Pingsheng was from the heart, which showed that he might indeed be a good official.

However, Aunt Zhao was too far away from the mayor of the town, and she didn't know what Ren Pingsheng really looked like, so she couldn't make Ruan Tang draw a conclusion about a guest officer.

She placed the C4 explosives in the barrel, which is very stable and safe at room temperature, and will not explode spontaneously, and can even be kneaded at will like chewing gum, but once detonated, it will explode with extremely powerful power, which can destroy buildings and vehicles, which is a hole card she prepared for herself.

If Ren Pingsheng knew that Ruan Tang had made C4 explosives, he would definitely be very happy. This thing is a high-explosive charge, which is much more powerful than smokeless gunpowder, which is a low-explosive charge, and it is safe and easier to transport.

However, at this time, he had already arrived in Qingshui County.

In fact, before he arrived at the county seat, a battalion led by Qin Sheng had already taken down Qingshui County, which had no resistance at all.

When Ren Pingsheng arrived here, the soldiers on the city gate and city wall had all been replaced by his own people.

Therefore, Ren Pingphysiology deserves the highest courtesy.

County Lieutenant Wu, as well as Li County Cheng, and many people with heads and faces in the county government came here to welcome Ren Pingsheng's arrival.

Huang Xian Ling is an outsider, he can hang up the seal and escape, but Wu County Lieutenant and other locals, their family property and clan are here, so they can't just leave.

However, to Ren Pingsheng's surprise, Master Lu, who was most trusted by Huang County Ling, did not follow him, but stayed behind and was also in the team to greet him.

"County Lieutenant Wu, when did the Huang County Order run?"

When they came to the gate of the county office, everyone got off the horse, and Ren Pingsheng walked into the county office with the familiar Wu county lieutenant and asked curiously.

This morning, Huang Youcai said that the villages outside the city were seriously abandoned, and it was difficult to collect all the grain this autumn.

It wasn't until after he left that we learned that Yinshan County had fallen, and when we came to the county Yahou Mansion again, we found that there were already four walls here, and there was no one left!

Even the pots and pans in the kitchen were taken away, leaving nothing of value behind. ”

When County Lieutenant Wu said this, his words were quite embarrassed.

The county order was sealed and fled, which was something that had rarely been heard before, and it happened right in front of me at this time.

Take a peek and know the whole leopard, and know the autumn of the world when a leaf falls, Jing Chao is really not good!

"Alas!"

Ren Pingsheng sighed and said in a straight voice: "The north of Dajing has been in chaos, ten rooms and nine empty, and now the rebellion of Northern Anhui has swept to Yuntai, if you go south in Yuntai, it will instantly sweep the land of the Jiangnan River Valley, when the grain road will be blocked, and the rice and grain of the imperial court will be cut off, it is really the autumn of critical survival, and the last breath of Dajing Chao will be swallowed!" ”

"The army under the command of Lord Ren is neat and disciplined. If Lord Ren comes, he will be able to keep order in Qingshui County. The gentry and people in the county are in high spirits!

Tonight, upstairs in the osmanthus building, the county gentry begged me for help and invited the adults to come with a face. ”

After all, the county lieutenant Wu was the representative of the gentry in Qingshui County, and at this time he issued an invitation to Ren Pingsheng.

"Nope."

Ren Pingsheng shook his head: "Now there is chaos outside, and under the escape of countless routs, I don't know how much chaos will be made."

Moreover, the rebels could be overwhelmed at any time.

Now is the time to eat, drink, and have fun. I have received the gentry's wishes, so that they can rest assured. ”

The crowd entered the county office.

Although Ren Pingsheng also has a few properties in Chengguan Town, but now that the army has entered the city, he has also brought a lot of people over, and those properties are not suitable for living.

He naturally settled in Qingshui County, which also shows that Qingshui County has changed hands, and now the person who actually controls Qingshui County is Ren Pingsheng.

As for Liu Qiang and them, naturally there will be no shortage of places to stay, and the gentry of Qingshui have already made these arrangements.

The lobby of the county government is similar to the layout of Qingcheng Town, and it is not even as wide as the county government of Qingcheng Town.

Enter the gate, step through the square passage, pass through the instrument gate, and come to the lobby.

"Master Lu."

After Ren Pingsheng sat down, he sent off Wu County Lieutenant and the others, and beckoned Master Lu to stay alone.

"Lord Ren."

Master Lu stood up and arched his hand and said.

Ren Pingsheng asked: "Huang County ordered to leave, why didn't Master Lu go together?" ”

With Huang County's trust in him, it is impossible not to talk to him if he wants to go.

Master Lu did not answer Ren Pingsheng's words, but said: "Lord Ren, Zheng Gong once wrote at the beginning of the month, if Lord Ren has the ambition to help the community, he is willing to donate money and food to help the adults. ”

"Oh? Master Lu turned out to be Zheng Gong's person. ”

Ren Pingsheng understood the reason why Master Lu didn't leave.

Master Lu nodded: "Yes, in addition, Han Shaojun, the head of the county government, is also a person from Zheng Gong." ”

"You're being honest."

Ren Pingsheng said with a smile.

Master Lu bowed his hand and slammed it to the ground: "The wisdom of Lord Ren is like the bright moon in the sky, how can we compare with the stars?"

It's better to make the words clear, so that everyone can get along better in the future. ”

"Okay."

Ren Pingsheng nodded, he knew that at this time, he had to give a clear attitude, thought about it and said: "Say hello to Zheng Gong for me, if you have a successful career, there will be a seat for Zheng Gong in this world." ”

"Thank you, Lord Ren, I will convey it to Zheng Gong."

Master Lu said respectfully.

"You stay and help me."

Ren Pingsheng looked at Master Lu and said.

He has a certain understanding of the people around Huang Youcai, and this Master Lu gave advice to Huang Youcai, so he had the scenery of Huang Youcai in Qingshui County.

But Ren Pingsheng is not interested in his strategy, but in his internal affairs ability.

"······"

Master Lu really wanted to stay. When he was in Qingcheng and saw the group training into the city for the first time, he already realized that the Lord Ren in front of him was not a thing in the pool, and now of course he wanted to vote for the master and earn a bright future.

But after all, he is a person of Zheng Shaoguan, one person and two masters, and he is despised by others.

"It's okay, don't use suspicious people, don't suspect people."

When Ren Pingsheng saw him hesitating, he knew what he was thinking, and waved his hand and said absently.

"Lu Guangming greets the lord!"

Hearing this, Lu Yingying was moved and bowed to the shrine.

After this ceremony, he was no longer Zheng Shaoguan's person, but Ren Pingsheng's subordinate.

He is a scholar, and Zheng Shaoguan, no matter how big his business is, is just a maritime businessman. Zheng Shaoguan is his owner, but not his master.

Learning literary and martial arts and selling them to the emperor's family is the goal of most scholars. Many things, such as ideals and aspirations, are not something that a businessman can give him.

These things, he will explain clearly to Zheng Shaoguan in the letter.

"Haha, okay, I have another general!"

Ren Pingsheng laughed heartily, stretched out his hand and bent down to help Lu Yingying, who was paying a big salute, up.

Just when Ren Pingsheng was in the county government and Lu Yingying learned about the situation in the county seat, a large number of routs from the front line had already appeared on the official roads outside the city.

The defeated soldiers, these soldiers who had just experienced defeat, were still full of fear of the battlefield. Having lost their organization and discipline, they are even more terrible than robbers and bandits, rape, plunder, and wanton murder, for them, are a way to digest their inner fears!

In the face of the rebels, they only promised, and in the face of the people, they attacked hard. When these routs passed through Nanmen Town, Yunlong County, they had already tasted the sweetness, the feeling of wanton destruction, wanton robbery, and rape of people's daughters had made them eat the marrow, and after coming to Qingshui County, they were also repeating their old tricks, robbing wealth, raping people's daughters, destroying farmland, and wantonly enjoying themselves.

"These brutes!"

Zhang Heizi looked at the prospect and his eyes were torn.

He was born in Renjiazhuang and is now a platoon commander in a militia battalion.

He was five short in stature, dark-skinned, and not good-looking, but he was quick-witted, and after joining the militia battalion, he was quickly promoted to platoon commander because of his proficiency in flintlock pistols.

At this time, he was patrolling around Qingshui County with nine militiamen under his command.

When the patrol arrived at Luofu Village, located in the north of Qingshui County, I was stunned by the scene in front of me!

The village was stained red with blood, and none of the dozens of people survived!

Walking into the village, the village was quiet except for the howling of the wind, which sent a stream of blood into their noses.

Corpses lay on the ground, blood staining the soil red!

When they walked to the threshing floor, several women were stripped naked, their bodies were full of filth, their stomachs were cut open alive, and their blood and intestines flowed all over the ground!

What was in front of them, had they seen before?

It made their hands tremble.

"Make up for it, don't let the corpse mutiny happen here again!"

Zhang Heizi first told the militia in the team, and then walked into the village and shouted: "We are from the militia battalion of the Qingcheng regiment, and I am the platoon commander of the militia battalion, called Zhang Heizi, and I am from Renjiazhuang."

If there is any living in the village, tell me where the brutes have gone, and I will avenge the big guy! ”

The village was quiet.

Just when he thought that there were no living people in the village, there was a sound of "dangchang", and a voice came from a courtyard.

Zhang Heizi chased over and looked, a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy came out of the stove, his face was covered with black ash, the whole person was so black that he couldn't see it, only two tear stains washed out two traces on his face.

"Platoon Commander Zhang, I want to go with you, I want to join you, I want to kill those beasts and avenge my father and sister!"

The boy cried.

Zhang Heizi glanced at the courtyard, three corpses.

The corpse of a young woman, stripped of above, with her tongue sticking out, looked like she had been strangled to death!

Those newly defeated soldiers are no longer human, just a group of brutes who wantonly vent their inner fears!

Zhang Heizi touched the boy's head: "Go and join the army, now there are recruitment points in Chengguan Town and Qingcheng Town, go there to join the army, at least you can eat enough." ”

"I only avenge my father and sister!"

The boy choked.

"Hmm."

Zhang Heizi nodded.

This world has been chaotic, and this village is proof of this.

But their duty is to ensure that the order of Qingshui County cannot be chaotic in this troubled world!

"Tell me, which direction did those people go?"

The boy shook his head: "I don't know if I'm hiding in the stove, but they should have been gone for less than half an hour." However, our village is remote, and if they walk, they must have gone in the direction of Houjiabao, and only that big road leads to the outside. ”

"Okay."

Zhang Heizi didn't plan to take the boy away.

They went out in pursuit of the rout, and taking the boy with them could only slow down the march of the team and bring danger to the boy.

He drew a knife and cut off the heads of the boy's parents and sister, and came to the entrance of the village to join his comrades.

But the boy followed.

Zhang Heizi took out two steamed buns and put them in the boy's hand: "We are on a mission, we can't take you with us, you wait in the village, someone will come to the village later, when the time comes, you go with them, go to Chengguan Town to join the army, and someone there will receive you." ”

With that, they left the village at a brisk pace.

As for the corpses in the village, after they report it, there will naturally be auxiliary soldiers to deal with it.

Soon, Houjiabao appeared in front of them.

This is a soil fort, which is considered a big village in Qingshui County.

There are also villagers standing guard on the earthen fort, and since this morning, they have been rumoring about it, and they are all soldiers. Seeing Zhang Heizi and the others who came with guns, they immediately beat the big drum, and many people poured onto the earthen wall.

"We are from the militia battalion of the Qingcheng Regiment, have you ever seen the rout coming?"

Zhang Heizi came to the earth fort not far from the shouting and asked.

Zhang Heizi's words relieved the people on the earth fort.

Qingcheng they still know, in August, Qixinshe came to their village to sing, at that time it was lively, seven or eight small villages around came to join in the fun, even the New Year was not so lively.

There are also many people who have eaten corn on the cob, which is very sweet and silky.

It is said that the production capacity per mu is 800 catties, which is simply terrifying!

"There is a group of about 100 officers and soldiers who have just passed, when they came, they still wanted us to open the door, how could we open the door for them, they asked us for food, we didn't give it, those officers and soldiers saw that we didn't open the door for them, so they left!"

A middle-aged man on the earthen wall recognized Zhang Heizi.

"The Silver Mountain Front has been defeated, these routs have burned and plundered all the way, Luofu Village has been slaughtered by them, and no more rout soldiers pass by, don't open the door to them!"

Zhang Heizi shouted, and then asked his subordinates to throw off their legs and continue to track forward.

Soon, when they chased to an open area, they saw the rout soldiers resting.

Zhang Heizi took out a palm-sized monocular from the cloth pocket on his body.

These telescopes were ordered by the Fabrication Bureau at the Ruan Tang Glass Workshop, and then went back to assemble them themselves, and they have now been assembled in the militia battalion and company-level units, because Zhang Heizi's search area is located in the border area of Qingshui County, and the company commander specially lent the telescopes to him.

He stretched out his binoculars and adjusted his position to look at the group of soldiers who had lost their armor and were lying there on their backs, looking very embarrassed.

As Hou Jiabao said, these routs were about 100 people, and they were cooking on the side of the road at this time.

"Brothers, get on the bullet and follow me!"

After carefully observing for a while, Zhang Heizi made his own judgment.

The other side.

"Brothers, arise, and someone is coming!"

In the terrain of a flat river, someone saw a figure walking in the distance.

"Chasers?"

Someone sat up suddenly and asked in shock.

"It's not like a chasing soldier, there are only about a dozen people, it's a local people, right?"

"Minzhuang? Damn it, Minzhuang also dares to provoke us, and he really pinched us as soft persimmons! Brothers, copy the guys, give them some color! ”

"That's right, cut off their heads, pile up a Jingguan, and see if they dare to disturb Lao Tzu's rest!"

"Grass, these bitches raised it, delaying Lao Tzu's dreaming, just fell asleep······ Tsk, that village girl just now was really energetic, and she caught me······ It's a bit of a pity to cut her head with a knife. ”

"Fight quickly, pack up this group of people and eat again, when we are full, let's go to the next village to rob, and when we have enough of it, we will go to the south to enjoy the blessings!"

"I want to go back to my hometown, my hometown is in the river valley, and I just grabbed enough goods, go back to buy dozens of acres of land, and become a landlord."

One by one, the group of routs drew their broadswords and rushed towards the group of people.

Against the rebels, they are submissive and terrified.

But in the face of the people, they have the courage, and they are very bold.

Today's chapter is two-in-one (づ ̄ 3 ̄)づ

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