A bright red flag and a yellow flag embroidered with the words "Ming" and "Drive out the Tartars and restore China" and "Equalize the land and create peace" were hoisted together on the two large flagpoles in front of the Jiangsu Governor's Yamen. The southeast wind, fluttering in the air, seems to be telling the people throughout Suzhou City - I, the Ming Dynasty, are back!
While the flag was being raised, the shelling and bluff shouting at the governor's office continued, and the crackling gunshots continued. Some rebels took out the torches they had prepared earlier and rushed into the gate of the governor's office. A "department room" was set on fire, and the books, manuscripts, and furniture inside were all set on fire. Thick smoke quickly rose from the burning house. At first glance, it looks like a fierce battle is going on.
The Jiangsu Governor's Yamen covers an area of dozens of acres and has hundreds of houses, large and small. The number of officials, clerks, and servants working there, as well as the Fubiao soldiers stationed there, total more than a thousand. It would be very difficult to capture the entire Yamen with a hundred or so rebel troops, so Chen Yonghua's plan was to create panic and drive away those corrupt officials.
In fact, the purpose of Wang Zhongxiao asking him to carry out this "Pingjiang Riot" in Suzhou was not to capture the city of Suzhou. That is simply unrealistic. How could it be possible for only a hundred people to occupy the entire city of Suzhou? If you can create a big chaos, just use the golden signs of Tiandihui, Prince Zhu and Obai of the Ming Dynasty. If we can also publicize the Tiandihui's propositions of "driving out the Tartars and restoring China" and "equalizing the land and creating peace," then it will definitely be an overfulfillment of the task.
However, the "Pingjiang Riot" "overfulfilled" this time was really a bit much!
It may be because Jiangsu Governor Ma Hu has always been a bit sloppy in military and political management, and has not seriously rectified his own pacesetters. In addition, he himself is not in the governor's office. Even Mu Tianyan, who is the nursing governor, has just come from Fujian to take up the post. , He was not familiar with the people in the governor's office and the model generals of the Jiangsu governor, so he couldn't control the situation at all.
As a result, Mu Tianyan only retreated temporarily to avoid the shells, and was regarded by the pacesetters below as a "nursing governor and ran away"! You, the nursing governor, have run away, so why are they still fighting? Run too!
And these soldiers were bad enough. In order to make their escape look more reasonable, they paid homage to Prince Zhu and Ming Ao while running.
"Oh no, Prince Zhu and Obai are calling!"
"It's bad, Obai is so powerful, I can't beat him!"
"If you lose, if you lose, run for your life!"
"There are rebels everywhere, run away!"
Well, there were a hundred or so rebels, and they were blown up everywhere.
When they yelled like this, the other leaders in the yamen, including scribes, masters, messengers, servants, and Ma Hu's family members, etc., all started to panic.
No one is afraid of the Third Prince Zhu, but Obina is the number one Batulu in Manchuria! And now he has joined Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, who is the number one in Manchuria. Batulu is the most ruthless person in the Qing Dynasty, and Wu Sangui is probably the second ruthless person in the Qing Dynasty. Now the two ruthless people have merged and even fought in Suzhou. Now, there's no way we can fight here, so we'd better run away!
Everyone in the governor's office ran away, and "the official was defeated like a mountain"!
Mu Tianyan, who was forced to run away by the two Geshiha, was confused. If he was just a chief envoy, that would be enough, but now he is the governor of Jiangsu Province! The governor is a minister who protects the land, and he has the responsibility to protect the land. What if he abandons his office and runs away? When the emperor came back to investigate, no matter how much he "admired Tianyan", he still had to go to Caishikou on a red mission that would never come back.
But there was nothing he could do now. No matter how much he roared, he couldn't stop his defeat. Moreover, he just opened his throat, but no sound came out, because he did not have the courage to face the first warrior of Manchuria, Obai. Moreover, this Obai used a cannon without any martial ethics!
So now Mu Tianyan knew how helpless those local officials in the Ming Dynasty were when their city was breached by the Qing soldiers. They could only cry and be carried out of the governor's office through the back door by his subordinates, and ran towards the Suzhou Prefecture in the south.
"Mr. Qian, Mr. Qian. Don't run away, don't run away!"
Mu Tianyan lost the governor's yamen inexplicably and fled to Suzhou to study. At the same time, Wu Yuanyi, who lost Wu Sangui's son-in-law Wang Yongkang, was grabbed by his servants.
At this time, he had already escaped to the stone arch bridge on a river west of Jiangsu Governor's Yamen - he ran very fast! He is indeed the second generation of Guan Ning, and his ancestral skills have not been lost.
"Don't run? How can you not run? If you don't run, Prince Zhu and Ao Bai will kill him!" Wu Yuanyi turned around and glared at the servant who was holding him, "You little fan, do you want to kill me? "
The Ding's surname was Fan, with the character Yang in his name, and he was also a second-generation Guan Ning. However, his father was not a top soldier for Wu Sangui, but a scribe in the General Army Yamen, so he was also literate. Also rather slippery. Hearing Wu Yuanyi's words, he laughed: "Mr. Qian, have you forgotten where we are from?"
"We." Wu Yuanyi was stunned, "We seem to be in the same group as Obai and Prince Zhu!"
This guy finally remembered where he was from!
But then he thought again and realized something was wrong, "Then why did Obai shoot my brother-in-law with a gun?"
"Obai doesn't know my uncle," a servant named Fan Yang explained. "My uncle is wearing the official uniform of a third-grade military attaché. He may have thought that he is the military commander of the Jiangsu Governor's Fubiao Army!"
"Yes, the general is also a third-grade officer." Wu Yuanyi figured out the whole story and immediately became nervous again, "Who won? Who wins now?"
"Of course we won!" Fan Yang pointed in the direction of the Governor's Yamen and said loudly to Wu Yuanyi: "Mr. Qian, look at the thick smoke billowing over the Governor's Yamen, and the flags on the two big flagpoles have also been changed. I'm sure It’s been beaten down!”
Wu Yuanyi looked in the direction he pointed, and sure enough he saw a bright red flag fluttering in the wind over the governor's office. At the same time, he also saw the light of fire and rising black smoke. He pricked up his ears and listened carefully, but he didn't hear the roar of artillery or the crackling of gunfire. Even the shouts of killing stopped.
This shows that the battle in the direction of the governor's office has ended, and Prince Zhu and Ao Bai have won!
"Hahaha!" Wu Yuanyi laughed, "It turns out we won the battle." At this point, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, "If I had known better, I wouldn't have run away, Xiaofanzi, it's not bad that we escaped like this. Is it meritorious?"
"What kind of merit is there? Can someone who escapes be considered meritorious?" Fan rolled his eyes and already had an idea, "Mr. Qian, we can't tell the Third Prince and Oboi that we just escaped."
"What do you say?"
"Just say that we are here to help kill the Tatars and clear their troops!"
"Fighting the Qing soldiers?" Wu Yuanyi was stunned, "Where can we fight?"
Fan Yang stretched his neck and looked around, then pointed to the west side of the river, where the Suzhou Governor's Yamen was squinting across the river from the Jiangsu Governor's Yamen, "Mr. Qian, let's go and capture the Suzhou Magistrate's Yamen!"
Wu Yuanyi thought for a while and nodded heavily: "Okay, let's go and capture 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 drew out his sword with a clang, pointed at the Suzhou magistrate's office, and shouted: "Brothers, the prince's army will arrive soon. Now is the time for us to make great achievements. Follow me!"
"嗻" the people below shouted together.
"No," Wu Yuanyi roared again, "Yes! Now we are fighting against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty!"
"Yes! We are fighting against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty!"
"Everyone shouts with me: King Pingxi, Grand Master Ao, rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty to Suzhou, they have arrived in Suzhou!"
"King Pingxi and Grand Master Ao rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty and came to Suzhou."
The thirty or so servants following Wu Yuanyi also drew their swords and shouted loudly, rushing down the stone arch bridge together and rushing towards the Suzhou magistrate's office.
There were no pacesetters guarding the Suzhou magistrate's yamen. There were only masters, clerks, and three squads: Zao, Kuai, and Zhuang. Among them, the most capable Kuai squad, that is, the police officers, were taken to the governor's yamen by the Suzhou magistrate to help arrest people.
How can the remaining Zao Ban and Zhuang Ban beat the Pingxi Fan servants led by Wu Yuanyi? Moreover, they were also in chaos. They all saw the governor's office on fire and changed its banner, and they all heard the sound of cannons, gunshots, and shouts of killing!
Moreover, their prefect is not in the government either. Moreover, he was asked to play mahjong by Mu Fantai, who was caring for the governor. Now he has probably become a loyal man!
If the master is gone, what else can they fight for? So when they saw Wu Yuanyi leading these dozens of "Heavenly Soldiers" waving their swords and shouting something like "King Pingxi, Grand Master Ao, rebelling against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty to Suzhou", they all knelt down. They knelt down, not ran away!
They were errands and not masters. Those ministers who were masters were doing their jobs happily. How could we expect them to be loyal to Kangxi? Who is this on a errand for? So these guys who were eating public meals opened the yamen, welcomed Wu Yuanyi and Fan Yang in, and even presented them with the official seal of the Suzhou magistrate. The handover of local power was successfully completed!
After taking over the Suzhou magistrate's office, the resourceful Fan Yang suggested that Wu Yuanyi put up a flag to prove that he had rebelled, so as to avoid misunderstandings later.
However, it took time to make a big flag with the word "ming", so he suggested making a red flag, and volunteered to rush into the backyard of the prefect's Yamen with a few "anyway" slaves, detained the former prefect's wife, and forced Then they sewed a large flag with the red silk cloth from the back house.
Then, a red flag was hung on the big flagpole outside the magistrate's office - these two "temporary rebels" didn't know what the red flag meant? But the red flag is eye-catching! From a distance, you can tell who is with whom.
Their "temporary uprising" behavior quickly triggered a chain reaction in Suzhou.
"Join the army, join the army. The Suzhou magistrate's office seems to have been captured by our people!"
Inside the Jiangsu Governor's Yamen, Chen Yonghua was preparing to lead his people to retreat in the chaos, when he suddenly heard his subordinates report a piece of good news that surprised him.
"What? There are still some of us in Suzhou City?" Prince Zhu San next to him suddenly became energetic and immediately looked back at Chen Yonghua with a look of anticipation on his face - it seems that he has found a sense of rebellion! Perhaps the remaining trace of the rebellious blood passed down by Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di in the blood vessels has been awakened!
Chen Yonghua did not remember this arrangement. He quickly followed the messenger and rushed outside the gate of the governor's office. From a distance, he saw the red flag flying over the governor's office on the other side of the river.
But he quickly understood what happened?
It must be the heroes of Suzhou who raised troops to respond!
"I didn't expect that there are people with ideals to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty hidden in the city of Suzhou!" Chen Yonghua immediately felt greatly encouraged, "Then we won't withdraw for the time being!"
"Not withdrawing? But our "fake Obai" He Tianran has already taken off his clothes, even the cloth armor of Zhenghuang Banner, and is holding a Qing army cavalry jacket in his hand and is about to put it on - —When you retreat, you have to put on a disguise and change your identity.
And Wang Zhongxiao had already arranged for them the identity of the cavalry auxiliary general of the "Xiaozhan New Army". This was not a false identity, but a true identity! At that time, just say 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 capture a few more yamen!" Chen Yonghua said, "Let's take down the Fu Biao Shen general yamen first, and then go and attack the Changzhou County yamen, the inspector's yamen, the Suzhou weaving yamen, and the chief minister's yamen."
"Chen Canjun, after we capture Suzhou, are we going to rebuild the Ming Dynasty in Suzhou?" Prince Zhu San came up to him out of nowhere, with a look of excitement on his face! It seems that he can't wait to become Emperor Xian of Ming Dynasty. After more than twenty years of precarious life, Prince Zhu San understood the happiness of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty best.
When he was a child, he thought Cao Cao was a treacherous minister when he watched "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Later, after the Ming Dynasty disappeared, he realized that the happiness of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was as good as Cao Cao! And now he feels that Chen Yonghua has the potential to be Cao Cao
It is a pity that Chen Yonghua was not dazzled by the victory. He shook his head and said: "Our numbers are too small and we cannot hold Suzhou. So after we captured the Chief Envoy's Yamen, we changed our clothes inside the Chief's Envoy's Yamen, and then left from Changmen." Get out."
"Okay then." The Third Prince Zhu was a little disappointed, but as the "Alternate Emperor Xian of the Ming Dynasty", he still had to listen to Chen Yonghua, the "Cao Cao of the Ming Dynasty". And he was still young, only in his thirties, so he still had time.
Chen Yonghua nodded and ordered: "Don't change clothes yet, let's go to Fubiaoshenjiang's Yamen now!"
"yes!"
More than a hundred heroes around him shouted in response.
In the south of Suzhou City, Suzhou Fuxue.
This private school near Shemen has now become a refuge for Suzhou officialdom! Because Suzhou is the seat of the Jiangsu Governor's Yamen, there are many Yamen in Suzhou City. In addition to the Governor's Yamen, there are also the Governor's Yamen, the Inspector's Yamen, the Suzhou Prefecture Yamen, the Changzhou County Yamen, the General's Yamen, etc.
In addition, there are a large group of candidate officials from Jiangsu Province who also live in Suzhou City. They have to go to the Jiangsu Governor's Yamen every day to listen to them. There are many copying and writing jobs in the Governor's Yamen, which is just for these "officials to work in vain" Work, of course, it's still for nothing and no money. Because they are just helping the governor's Yamen during their waiting period. They are just helping. How can they have the nerve to ask for money? Besides, even if they wanted it, Governor Ma Hu wouldn’t give it to them!
And this term of Jiangsu's "official white labor" was really miserable. Not only did the officials not be replaced, but also the third prince Zhu and Ao Bai revolted in Suzhou, and even the governor's office was taken away. Although all of them had strong legs and feet, they were not hacked to death by the rebels led by Prince Zhu and Obai. They all followed Mu Fantai, who was nursing the governor, and fled to Suzhou to study.
But what about their officials?
Jiangsu Province is about to be in chaos! Do these alternates still have a chance to fill the vacancies? You must know that they have paid a high price for the current alternate officer! I won’t talk about studying hard in Hanchuang, but in order to be sent to Jiangsu to serve as an alternate official, you have to give a lot of money to the officials. Otherwise, the officials will ask you to go to Yunnan to serve as an alternate official. Wu Sangui, will you go? If I ask you to go to Gansu to eat sand, will you go? Among the candidates who can be placed in Jiangsu, except for those who are particularly respectable or whose families are particularly wealthy, who is not a loan shark?
Now that Jiangsu is in chaos, the money they spent before may have to be wasted, and the usurious loans they carried have to be repaid. This official deserves to lose his blood!
And this is not even worse. What is even worse is that Ming Dynasty Obai will soon bring the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty to catch them, the upright officials, and behead them in vain!
The bad news was constantly brought back to the Suzhou Prefecture Hall by the detectives sent out by the Suzhou Prefecture to find out the news. Each one was more terrifying than the last!
"Inform the magistrate that the Yamen has been breached by Ao Bai, and the red flag is flying in front of the Yamen!"
"Report to Fu Biao Shen General's Yamen with the sound of cannons and thick smoke billowing!"
"The red flag is fluttering in front of the inspector's office. It is suspected to be occupied by Obai!"
"Report that Changzhou County Government has fallen!"
"A red flag appears above Baochang Gate!"
"Report, the Chief Envoy's Yamen has been breached."
Mu Tianyan sat blankly in the lobby, listening to the announcements one after another, and he wanted to die!
Ao Bai is so powerful, he is so powerful! In less than half a day, all the government offices in Suzhou City were attacked one by one by Obai and his men. It seemed that it was only a matter of time before the whole city fell!
What to do then?
Thinking of this, Mu Tianyan almost cried!
However, the official Bai Lao who was guarding the lobby of the government school was even more sad than him. Before he could cry, the group of people were already crying together.
"What should we do? If Suzhou is lost, how can we still be officials?"
"Yes, after twenty years of hard study and eight years as a candidate, I haven't even become a county magistrate. Why did Obai rebel?"
"Uh-huh, if Obai rebels, Jiangsu province will be in chaos. How can I repay my debt to Beijing?"
"I can't pay it back. It's important to save our lives! When Obai comes, we will all die!"
Someone still knew the importance. Mu Tianyan followed the voice and saw that he was an alternate official from Hunan. His name was Chen Jian. He had sharp eyes and a serious expression. He was also a Jinshi, but his family was rich and a big landowner! So I don't care about the money of those few people buying offices, the most important thing now is to save my life.
"Chen Jianzhi, you have many ideas. What do you think I should do now?" Mu Tianyan was in a state of confusion.
It is impossible to defend Suzhou. Manchuria's number one Batulu has invaded, how can he possibly defend it? If he has this ability, why would he still use "admiration for Tianyan"?
"Fantai!" Chen Jian shouted loudly, "Although you lost the capital of Suzhou, you also fought hard and won Prince Zhu San!"
(End of chapter)
