As soon as the yamen officer left, Li Guangyi grabbed the envelope and started to tear it up.
Just as he tore a hole, the movement of his hand suddenly stopped. He looked at the envelope in his hand, sighed, and put the letter on the table at hand.
Not long after, Hu Mingyi walked in quickly from outside.
"Dong Weng, are you in such a hurry to find the students? Could something have happened?"
He was about to go to the wealthy gentry in the city to collect donations. However, before he even left the gate of the governor's office, he was called back by a servant from the governor's office.
"Stay back!" Li Guangyi waved his hand towards the government servant who came back with Hu Mingyi, signaling him to stand down.
Hu Mingyi, standing below, felt something unusual.
After the yamen servant left the yamen, Li Guangyi tapped the letter on the table with his hand and said, "Look at this letter!"
Only then did Hu Mingyi notice an extra letter on the table.
He walked over, picked up the letter, pulled out the letter paper inside, put it in front of his eyes and read it.
"This, this is..." Hu Mingyi looked at Li Guangyi in surprise after reading the letter.
Li Guangyi said: "Not long after you left, the Yamen servant took this letter and the arrow that shot it in."
Hu Mingyi put the letter back on the table and reached out to pick up the feather arrow.
After looking at it carefully, he said: "This arrow looks like an arrow from Fubiao Camp. The bandits used this arrow to shoot the letter. Could it be that someone in Fubiao Camp has collaborated with the bandits?"
"Hmph, I'm not surprised at all that arrows flowed out of Fubiao Camp." Li Guangyi snorted coldly.
Fubiao Camp in Datong is not as good as the frontier army under the general town administration. Even the border troops resell ordnance from time to time. It is even more unheard of for Fubiao Camp to lose some feathered arrows.
Hu Mingyi first looked at the letter on the table, then looked at Li Guangyi and said: "If the bandits can deliver this letter, there must be many bandits hiding in the city. Dong Weng, what do you plan to do with this letter?"
"As a minister of the Ming Dynasty, how could I join the bandits just because of a letter?" Li Guangyi glanced at the letter on the table bitterly.
The content of the letter was to persuade him to open the city gate and surrender.
Hu Mingyi cupped his hands and said: "What Dong Weng said is that the bandits had no choice but to get along with us in Datong City and persuade them to surrender. Unfortunately, they don't know that you, Dong Weng, are loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty and it is impossible to surrender the bandits."
He said this just to sound good, but in fact, he knew clearly in his heart that the reason why Li Guangyi was unwilling to surrender in Kaicheng was entirely because the bandits were too small and were not favored.
If the bandits were like the slave thieves in Liaodong, he felt that Li Guangyi might not make another choice.
"Do you think that if the bandits outside the city refuse to surrender when they see me, will they spread the news about them and the Li family to the outside world?" Li Guangyi said worriedly.
Before the rebellion, Tiger Character Banner was a trading name of Datong.
In Datong, many officials had close contacts with the Tiger Flag. Although he, the governor, was sent to Datong by the imperial court to deal with the Tiger Flag, he secretly accepted the benefits of the Tiger Flag because of his nephew Li Kaiyang.
Hu Mingyi hesitated for a moment and said, "The bandits probably wouldn't do this. The young master is still serving as the deputy commander in chief in Yulin Town. The bandits offended Dong Weng and the Li family, and they won't get any benefits at all. It's completely outweighing the gains."
"Well, what you said makes sense." Li Guangyi nodded.
Hu Mingyi added: "Since you don't want to open the city and surrender to the bandits, Dong Weng, you should consider how to hold Datong City until reinforcements from the imperial court arrive."
"You are right, defending Datong City is the top priority. Okay, you can go and do your business." Li Guangyi motioned to Hu Mingyi to go to the wealthy gentry in the city to raise donations.
Hu Mingyi bowed and cupped his hands, saying: "Student, please leave."
Li Guangyi nodded.
Before Hu Mingyi was called back by the Yamen servants, he had gathered a team of servants and was about to leave the Yamen.
As soon as he came out of the back office, he went straight to the team of officers waiting outside the main hall of the office, asked them to carry the wooden box, and walked out of the office.
No one can be seen on the street.
When the fighting broke out outside the city, the pedestrians and people on the street, as well as the small merchants and hawkers, all ran back home to hide.
"Well, when bandits attack the city, the people in the city suffer the most." Hu Mingyi looked at the shops with door panels on both sides of the street and sighed.
Sipailou was originally the most prosperous place in Datong City, but now it is in a state of decline and desolation, with no one in the entire street.
"Other shops are closed. I didn't expect that this restaurant is still open. How can there be any business at this time?" When riding past a restaurant, Hu Mingyi noticed that the restaurant was still open.
A guard who was following him tilted his neck and glanced inside the restaurant, then said, "Sir, the business of this restaurant is very good. There are many customers inside."
"How is it possible? There is still a war outside. No one in the city is in the mood to come to the restaurant to eat and drink." Hu Mingyi only comforted himself by being a servant.
Seeing that Hu Mingyi didn't believe it, the officer said with assurance: "Sir, if you don't believe it, you can go and see it for yourself. I am definitely not lying. There are really many people inside."
"You didn't lie to me?" Hu Mingyi looked at the officer in front of him suspiciously.
The guard shook his head vigorously and said, "I definitely didn't lie to you, sir. There are really many people inside. If you don't believe me, you can ask other people."
"Sir, Huang Sanzhen did not lie." There were other officers who testified for this person.
Hu Mingyi hesitated for a moment and then said: "Those who can open a restaurant must be rich in the city, so it's just right to start with this one."
After saying that, he jumped off the horse.
Originally, the target of his donation was not this restaurant.
Because he knew that the person behind this restaurant was Yang Guozhu of the General Town Office, and he should not take action against this restaurant without looking at the monk or the Buddha.
But now no other shops are doing business. Only this restaurant opened its doors with great fanfare, and the business is still so good. In addition, the news that Yang Guozhu fell into the hands of gangsters has already spread to Datong City, and the backstage of this restaurant is not so good. Hard.
It is not certain whether Yang Guozhu can come back alive in the future. Even if he comes back alive, he may not have the chance to stay in Datong as a general soldier. It is very likely that he will be imprisoned and questioned.
"Leave one person to watch the horse, and the others will follow me in." Hu Mingyi stepped up the stone steps in front of the restaurant.
Several officers carried the wooden box and followed him into the restaurant.
As soon as he entered, Hu Mingyi discovered that there were indeed many people in the restaurant as his servant said.
However, judging from the dress of these people, except for the leader who was better dressed, the others were all dressed like servants and did not look like people who could dine in this restaurant at all.
"It turns out to be Mr. Qian. I salute Mr. Qian." Inside the restaurant, a well-dressed middle-aged man bowed his hands to Hu Mingyi who entered the restaurant.
Hu Mingyi frowned slightly.
I just felt that the person in front of me looked familiar, and I couldn't remember where I had seen him before.
