Tang Sidei did not guess wrong, he did not misjudge the situation.
Although Zhang Jun did cause a big situation, had a lot of power, and did a lot of things, he eventually fell.
And it also caused disastrous consequences.
He was killed.
The news of Zhang Jun's murder was basically sent to his home along with the news that the new emperor Zhao Jun appointed him as the governor of Yanzhou.
When he learned that he had been appointed governor of Yanzhou, he was very happy, but when he learned that Zhang Jun had been killed, he was stunned.
One of the rules of the political game in the Song Dynasty was not to kill scholar-bureaucrats. No matter what mistakes they made, they would be demoted to barbaric areas and never recalled, but they would never be killed. This was everyone's final bottom line, and no one was allowed to break through it.
But now Zhang Jun, a scholar-bureaucrat with a Jinshi background, is dead.
The rules of the game are broken, which is not good for everyone.
Tang Situi went to Yanzhou with a heavy heart and actively observed the situation in the DPRK. When he learned that Ye Yiwen and Zhou Linzhi were the prime ministers, he guessed that they were not the best candidates for the emperor. Shi Hao is on duty at the Privy Council.
The banditry on Jiangnan West Road is getting bigger and bigger. If Shi Hao can quell it, then Shi Hao can secure his position as prime minister for at least three years. However, if the banditry on Jiangnan West Road cannot be quelled, Shi Hao's end will be worrying.
And by that time, I will probably return to the court again.
But when that time comes, even if he returns to the court, he will probably face huge military pressure, and the military direction is really not what he is good at. Logistics is okay, but military... is difficult.
Because of the changes in the situation, Tang Situi even wanted to resign and go home first, rather than serve as the governor of Yanzhou, to avoid being dragged into taking the blame if the situation worsened.
However, Shen Gai wrote a letter to persuade him not to resign easily. For the time being, he believed that Shi Hao was a capable person and could definitely put down the banditry on Jiangnan West Road.
Now that the radical militant faction has collapsed, although Shi Hao is a member of the new emperor's team, he is also a conservative. Once Shi Hao gains power, both of them will benefit.
This is a critical moment, but don't back down for the sake of petty gains.
Tang Sihui read Shen Gai's letter and finally decided to stay in Yanzhou's office and wait for the situation to change.
But Tang Situi never thought that he was just eating and watching the show, but suddenly, he, a melon-eater, was also involved in the front line of the battlefield.
In the afternoon of November 24th, Tang Situi finished his morning's work and was taking a nap. He was in a daze when he was suddenly woken up by a staff member who rushed into his room and hurriedly pulled him out. run.
After a while, Tang Situi, who was in a daze, figured out that the reason why his staff hurriedly took him to escape was because a group of powerful thieves suddenly appeared outside the city, captured the city gate, and were now quickly occupying the building. De county seat.
The armed forces in the county were vulnerable and collapsed at the first touch. They were no match for them. They either died or fled, unable to defend the city.
The staff made a decisive decision and immediately rushed into the county government office, took Tang Sihui with them, and ran out of the city. They fled for a while and then got on the donkey cart.
"Run!!!!"
The staff member shouted at the top of his lungs.
The driver was also frightened. He did not want to stay in the city and wait for death. Everyone who got on the donkey cart was a community of destiny. Now he could only place his life on these three donkeys.
"Yo!!"
The driver whipped it, and the strong donkey screamed, kicked up its hooves and began to run wildly. The donkey cart kept accelerating, accelerating, and accelerating along the passage in the city.
When cornering, the driver did not control the speed very much. He only used his whip and reins to constantly adjust the direction of the donkey's progress.
Under the superb technical control of the driver, Tang Situi and others rode the donkey cart for three consecutive drifts, made three big turns, and rushed out of the city at the fastest speed, heading towards the deep mountains and old forests outside the city.
After all, the group of "thieves" failed to catch Tang Si Tui, forcing Tang Si Tui to escape.
But Jiande County was gone. As a local civil servant, Tang Sihui had no choice but to return to Jiande County. Therefore, after rushing into the deep mountains and old forests, after calming down from the initial shock, Tang Sihui decided to return to Jiande County no matter what.
If he cannot return to Jiande County, it is equivalent to the general losing the battle and losing his troops, and he will be held accountable.
The aide held Tang Sidei tightly and told Tang Sidei not to think too hard. Wouldn't it be courting death to go back at this time?
The thieves will not reason with us, they will kill!
At least, Tang Sidui finally calmed down, but faced with the miserable situation, he couldn't help but burst into tears.
He just wanted to be an official honestly, so who did he offend?
Only after he finished crying did he realize that this was something unusual.
"We know how many bandits there are in Yanzhou. When did such a large group of bandits come? How dare they attack the county? Aren't they afraid of death?"
The staff was helpless.
There are so many people in the world who are not afraid of death, and there are so many people who lick blood from their knives and make a living. Not everyone can live such a good life like you, a scholar-official.
But when Tang Siti asked, the staff really remembered something.
"When someone came to report the news, I heard them say that the bandits came from the south and should not be locals."
"They are not locals? Then why do they come to the local area to cause trouble? To the south is Wuzhou. Could it be that something happened in Wuzhou? Is there a place in Wuzhou that is occupied by bandits?"
Tang Situi seemed to have found a way to reduce his guilt and decided to find out.
However, what he didn't know was that after Xu Tong replenished grain and fodder in Jiande County and destroyed the treasury and government offices, he immediately set off to the north by boat and followed the Zhejiang River.
Xu Tong traveled day and night, and within a few days he arrived at the gate of Fuyang City. It was at the beginning of the day, Xu Tong gave an order, and the soldiers quickly captured the gate of Fuyang City. They repeated their old tricks to capture Fuyang City and annihilated Fuyang. The better-than-nothing armed forces in the city captured the Fuyang County magistrate who tried to escape.
"Want to run? Yes, I will let you run. You run to Lin'an and tell Zhao Guan's family that I came to Zhao Guan's family from Nanchang."
The Fuyang County magistrate was shocked and his eyes widened.
"You...are the bandits from Jiangnan West Road?"
A guard next to Xu Tong immediately became angry and kicked the Fuyang County magistrate to the ground, screaming in pain.
"Fuck your mother's bandit army! Do you understand the peasant army? You are the bandit! Your whole family is a bandit! Even worse than a bandit! Bah!"
"Don't be so rude, we are cultured people."
Xu Tong pretended to scold the guards, then squatted in front of the county magistrate and slowly untied him.
"Yes, we are the bandit army on Jiangnan West Road. By the way, let me tell you that the general Qi Fang who led the army to attack us is finished. Your army is also finished. We fought over. Didn't you expect it?"
The Fuyang County Magistrate was so shaken that he even forgot about the pain for a while.
He almost died of fright when he looked at the group of ferocious soldiers who captured him.
This is Fuyang, only eighty miles away from Lin'an City. These soldiers can reach Lin'an in two days if they hurry up.
That was the capital of the Song Dynasty!
It’s okay to be surrounded by the Ming army before. The Ming army is indeed very strong.
But what are these people?
The thieves on Jiangnan West Road!
How could they come to the capital of the Song Dynasty?
Or did you call all the way from Nanchang?
Just call over a thousand miles away?
Was the army responsible for hunting down thieves really defeated?
The Fuyang County Magistrate could not utter a word. He was as dumb as a stone statue.
"Silly?"
Xu Tong looked at his bodyguard, who stepped forward, took a look, shook his head, and said he didn't know.
So Xu Tong pushed the Fuyang County Magistrate.
"What are you waiting for? Run, if you don't run, I will call you to Lin'an. If you run back now, you can still send a message."
The Fuyang County Magistrate looked at Xu Tong stupidly for a while, then rolled forward and crawled for a while, running faster than a rabbit, and disappeared in a flash.
Xu Tong didn't care whether this guy could bring the news to Zhao Hao. After the supplies were ready in Fuyang County, he continued to move forward and attacked quickly, aiming directly at Lin'an City.
However, at this moment, Lin'an City did not know that there was an army that was only two days away from them.
I can't blame them. Who dares to believe that a [bandit army] general with four thousand people dared to gallop across the land of the Song Dynasty, and even achieved results that were like entering uninhabited territory?
