Changsui was born in the Gushi Liu family.
Gushi is a county under Runing Prefecture and adjacent to Nanzhili.
Long before the slave thieves invaded the capital, Runing Mansion had already fallen into the hands of the Tiger Banner. As a local squire, the Gushi Liu family naturally had to do some things to bully their neighbors, so some members of the Liu family died there. At the public trial hosted by the Peasants' Association, two of Liu Yangcui's uncles and close relatives were publicly executed.
The clan fields and land of the Liu clan were distributed to local tenants and the poor Liu clan members.
Although Liu Yangcui was a Jinshi in the Tianqi Dynasty, and was a scholar and a scholar before that, basically everything accumulated in his family was divided.
This also led to Liu Yangcui's deep hatred for the Tiger Flag.
Cutting off people's money is like killing their parents. What the Tiger Character Banner did to the Liu family was equivalent to digging into Liu Yangcui's foundation, and the wealth accumulated over the years was destroyed in one fell swoop.
The most important thing is that the Liu family was disgraced by the Tiger Flag in the local area, which made him unable to return even if he had a home.
"If it's not back to Gushi, then where does the elder want the younger one to go?" Liu Qing, the eldest follower, looked puzzled.
He couldn't think of anywhere else to go without Yongnian.
"Go to the capital." Liu Yangcui spat out these words.
Liu Qing, the long follower who heard this, was stunned and said in confusion: "What are you going to do in the capital? Sir, you are no longer an official in the capital."
Liu Yangcui was born as a second-class Jinshi and had served as a censor in Beijing for several years.
"Although I am not an official in the capital, I am familiar with several colleagues in the Metropolitan Procuratorate. This time you go to the Capital Procuratorate to find them. I will write a handwritten letter for you to take with you. ." Liu Yangcui said.
Liu Qing, the chief follower, said with a puzzled look on his face: "Shouldn't we go to Shunde Mansion to ask Lu Jiandou to lead troops to Guangping Mansion at this time?"
Even if he is just a servant, he knows that the only people who can save Guangfu City are the Tianxiong Army who have arrived at Shunde Prefecture. Even if reinforcements are requested from the capital, Guangfu City will be lost before the reinforcements arrive at Guangping Prefecture.
"If Lu Jiandou was willing to send troops to relieve the difficulties in Guangping Mansion, he would have been here long ago. I asked you to take the letter to the capital in order to gain access to my connections in the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Several censors impeached him, Lu Jiandou, and forced him to Come to the aid of Guangping Mansion." Liu Yangcui told his long-term follower his plan.
After hearing this, Liu Qing, the long-time follower, suddenly realized.
I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, it was my eldest boss who was still very cunning.
The only candidates to go to the capital to establish connections are members of one's own family.
Liu Yangcui didn't have many family members around him in Guangping Mansion. Liu Qingyou, his long-time follower, was always with him, so he was a good candidate for this job.
In order to ensure that the long follower Liu Qing would not be blocked when he arrived in the capital, Liu Yangcui specially prepared the meeting tickets and asked the long follower to take them with him. They went to the capital's bank to exchange them for silver and gave them to his colleagues.
It is not easy to be an official in the capital.
Especially for the kind of noble officials, although the censors are better than the officials of the Hanlin Academy, their strength is limited, especially the censors who are not of high rank.
When he was a censor in the capital, he didn't have much external income, and he often had to deal with expenses in the officialdom. If the Liu family hadn't had a certain property in Gushi, I'm afraid he would have owed a lot of external debts in the capital in those years.
Many censors owe debts due to serving as officials in the capital. When they are released, it can take at most one year to pay off all the debts.
A thousand miles away from being an official just for money, most of today's officials in the Ming Dynasty are just for money.
Military generals love money, and civil servants love money even more.
Liu Yangcui's eldest follower Liu Qing took the warrant to leave the city, left the city that day, and rode a fast horse to the capital.
Stationed at the Tiger Flag Camp not far from the bank of the Fuyang River.
Several generals headed by Sun Chuang were sitting in the tent, looking at the sand table in front of them.
It took several days to make this sandbox.
"Deputy Commander, when are we going to attack Guangfu City? It's been three days." Xiao Wu, the commander of the Second Battle Barracks, asked Sun Chuang.
Xu Guang, the commander of the third battle barracks, also looked at Sun Chuang.
Both of them wanted to capture Guangfu City as soon as possible and then attack Shunde Prefecture.
Because Guangping Prefecture and Shunde Prefecture are both prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Northern Zhili, even if they are in the southernmost part of Northern Zhili, as long as they are prefectures and counties in Northern Zhili, Xiao Wu and Xu Guang will be very excited.
Of course, this is entirely due to the special characteristics of Beizhili.
From the perspective of station strategy, it is more cost-effective to capture Shandong than to capture Beizhili. However, for mid-level and high-level generals such as Xiao Wu, capturing Beizhili is equivalent to capturing the capital, which means different meanings.
They can also transform from being thieves to becoming the founding heroes of the Tiger Flag.
Sun Chuang looked at the two excited camp commanders in front of him and said, "Wait a moment. When we go to Shunde Mansion at this time, Lu Xiangsheng and his Tianxiong Army will only defend the city. If they can force the Tianxiong Army out of the city, What’s best for us.”
The news that Lu Xiangsheng has arrived at Shunde Mansion has been known to Tiger Character Banner for a long time.
He led troops to attack the state capital of Beizhili this time, just to completely eliminate the Tianxiong Army and Lu Xiangsheng, an official who was beneficial to the Ming Dynasty in one battle.
As a result, the Ming Dynasty no longer had any Ming army or officials who openly dared to confront the Tiger Flag.
The reason why he was not in a hurry to attack Shunde Prefecture was to reduce the casualties of the Tiger Banner army.
Although people will die in war, he thinks that some unnecessary casualties should be avoided if they can be avoided. And their army will have to fight all the way to Denglai. The loss of troops is too serious, which is not conducive to the strength of the Tiger Flag in terms of force. Comprehensive suppression of Shandong.
Moreover, it is very likely that their army will go to Liaodong to fight against the slave thieves.
Although it was just a guess, as a senior general in the military, he had to consider this aspect in advance.
Once the army took over all of Shandong, it would rely on less than 20,000 troops from the First Battle Division to suppress Shandong and Henan, which was obviously insufficient strength.
Henan and Shandong border with many provinces to the south, so the danger is far more serious than that of Xuanda.
Fortunately, the peasants and soldiers of the peasant association can maintain local stability, freeing up the First Military Division to concentrate on the Shandong issue.
Even so, there are not many troops left in Henan.
"Report!"
With a shout, the guards outside walked in.
"speak!"
Sun Chuan said something to the visitor.
"Reporting to the deputy division chief, a scout sent out news just now. It was discovered that the chief attendant of the prefect of Guangping Prefecture left Guangfu City and headed north."
The visitor finished the message he sent in one breath.
After hearing this, Sun Chuang waved his hand and said, "I understand, let's get down!"
"Yes." The person turned around and retreated.
Sun Chuang looked at the two camp commanders in front of him and said, "You said this Changsui suddenly left Guangfu City. What did he do?"
"Of course I went to ask for help." Xiao Wu replied.
Xu Guang, who was on the side, nodded in agreement: "The prefect of Guangping Prefecture did not escape and asked his subordinates to leave. Apart from asking for help, I really can't think of any other reason."
