There was a light rain last night, which moistened the dry land, and even the air became moist. The fragrance of green grass mixed with earth hit our faces, which was refreshing.

Not far away, there are a few old farmers scattered here and there. They are working in the fields in the early morning. Instead of standing upright and beating their backs, the morning is still cool, but their foreheads are still covered with cloth.

Full of sweat beads.

The results of their hard work did not seem to be very good. The wheat in the fields was supposed to be filling season, but due to lack of rain, the leaves were seriously curled and even a little dry. The wheat stalks were weak and the seeds were shriveled. It can be seen from the worried face of the old farmer.

It can be seen that this year is another year of disaster.

Just in this quiet and peaceful morning, it was broken by a fierce sound of horse hooves. Dozens of cavalrymen were galloping on the official road on their horses, seemingly chasing someone.

"He ran over there, chase him quickly."

"Don't let him get away."

At the same time, there was also a fast horse galloping in front of these people.

On the horse's back, the knight's whip struck the horse's butt wildly. The horse screamed in pain from the whipping. Its four hooves were almost off the ground due to running too fast, and foam was coming out of the horse's mouth.

However, its owner still thought it was too slow, and whipped it more intensively with the whip in his hand, without sparing any horsepower. If it ran like this, the horse would be considered useless. The knight's frightened face looked behind him from time to time, only to hate

No wings sprouted from its back, so it flew flat on the ground.

These people who fled were the Tongpan of Nanyang Mansion and his personal followers. Tongpan was the official in charge of grain transportation and farmland water conservancy.

This year, that is, on February 26, the sixth year of Chongzhen, the participating generals Wang Zhifu, Zu Kuan and others captured Shuicheng in Dengzhou. At that time, Kong Youde and others were in the siege of the city and had no food, but they could escape from Shuicheng, so they did not surrender. Wang Zhifu and others captured

The wall outside the water city gate was protected, and Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming fled.

Before the army attacked Shuicheng, they adopted Liu Liangzuo's guerrilla strategy and used gunpowder to blow up the city. The city collapsed and soldiers poured in. The deputy general Wang came to recruit him first, but he was wounded and died. The city was destroyed, and more than a thousand people were captured. Some of them committed suicide or were thrown into the sea.

Unfortunately, the Kong Youde Rebellion that lasted for three years was finally put down. What was left to the Ming Dynasty was a devastated Shandong in urgent need of money, food and pensions.

Also this year, each province accumulated a deficit of more than 3.2 million taels of salt tax money. Chongzhen couldn't bear it. On April 20, he issued an edict that the yamen must pay the salt tax silver owed this year, as well as Liao and Lian wages.

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The document was sent to Nanyang, and the magistrate sent it to the general magistrate Jian Qinwen as it was, and ordered him to handle it quickly. Then he ignored it, as if the matter had nothing to do with him.

Youdao is a high-ranking official, and Jian Qinwen has a humble official position, so he can't push it out. What's more, in a sense, this is also Jian Qinwen's responsibility. Jian Qinwen has no choice but to worry.

He was scratching his head and trying to think of ways to make money.

There is a way of plundering the people when the people are squandering excessively, and plundering the merchants when the people are in trouble.

Nowadays, civil uprisings are happening all over the place, and plundering the people will undoubtedly force the people of Nanyang Prefecture to rebel. Even if Jian Qinwen is given more courage, he will not dare to pour oil on the volcano of Nanyang Prefecture, so he only remains

The last way to go, so Jian Qinwen turned his attention to businessmen.

Nanyang Fushang Road extends in all directions and has unique geographical advantages, especially Sanya Road leading to Luoyang, and the seven inches of Sanya Road are in Shiqiao Town.

After clarifying the goal, what else is there to say? We directly summoned our personal followers, put on official robes and got on the sedan chair, played and played along the way, and arrived at Shiqiao Town with great fanfare.

Unfortunately, Shiqiao Town had already been occupied by the Pei Jiajun at this time. The Pei Jiajun had troops stationed at every intersection in Shiqiao Town to strictly check all people entering and exiting. To be precise, they only let in and not out, for this reason.

Try to delay the news that the Pei family's army has entered the Nanyang Basin and spread it to the surrounding areas to create conditions for the Pei family's army to compete for Nanyang.

Therefore, Jian Qinwen ran into him without any knowledge. Speaking of which, you can't blame Jian Qinwen for being blind. In fact, the Pei family army has been expanding rapidly recently. In Luyang County alone, the Pei family army directly expanded by 30,000.

The rapid increase in the number of soldiers directly resulted in that one out of every two people in the military camp was a recruit. The excessive number of recruits not only brought about a weakening of combat effectiveness, but also a shortage of personnel, food, grass and supplies, as well as a serious shortage of weapons, armor, etc.

Therefore, in order to solve these problems, Pei Xiaoer could only order the soldiers to collect some weapons and armors that could be collected to equip the soldiers. It is precisely because of this that the clothes in the Pei family's army became all kinds of strange and various. Of course

The most equipment captured was the equipment of the officers and soldiers. Although the equipment of the officers and soldiers was not good, it was better than nothing.

Jian Qinwen just looked at this group of "officers and soldiers" wearing official uniforms, and then walked over without any scruples.

Arriving at the gate of the town, Jian Qinwen didn't notice anything was wrong at first, and with a rather arrogant expression ordered Ma Rujiao to come out to see him.

The Pei Jiajun who was guarding the gate remained calm. While holding Jian Qinwen steady, he ordered people to go back to the town to call for reinforcements. At the same time, he secretly signaled to his soldiers and gradually surrounded Jian Qinwen.

Although Jian Qinwen was reckless, he was not stupid. Looking at the postures of these people, he vaguely noticed that something was wrong. Immediately afterwards, a group of soldiers from the town walked out of the town and gradually approached the gate of the town. But looking at the soldiers, their actions were mutually exclusive.

The coordination and integration are very different from ordinary armies. Not only that, the soldiers look like they have been trained for a long time and are fighting as hard as they can. The disregard for life in their eyes cannot be hidden.

Jian Qinwen's heart gradually sank. He chatted calmly with the soldiers guarding the gate, and at the same time slowly approached a follower on the side. The follower came on horseback and had already jumped off the horse.

When he came to the entourage, Jian Qinwen snatched the riding whip from the attendant's hand, jumped directly onto the horse, and whipped the horse hard with the riding whip in his hand.

The horse was in pain, neighed, and fled away. The followers were unable to react and were stunned for a while.

The officers and soldiers of the Pei family army were not paying attention for a moment, and Jian Qinwen escaped. However, soon, the soldiers also reacted, yelling and swearing, and at the same time swarmed up and captured Jian Qinwen's followers one by one.

Immediately afterwards, under the command of the officers present, the soldiers mounted the horses of the other party's entourage and followed them all the way. Only then did the scene just unfold.

Although Jian Qinwen was a civil servant, he was good at riding. In contrast, the Pei family army was infantry after all, and their riding skills were not good, so they gradually could not keep up with Jian Qinwen in front.

At this time, the cavalry who received the news also surrounded him from all directions, but it was too late. Jian Qinwen had already entered Nanyang through Bowang Gate, the north gate of Nanyang.
Chapter completed!