As soon as Wang Changshi walked out, it was naturally impossible for Zhang Yuanwai and others to stay in the room, so they all followed him out.
A group of people walked out of the palace and appeared in the open space outside the palace gate.
Zhang Yuanwai and several companions walked towards their carriage.
As an official, Wang Changshi had already had a sedan waiting here.
"These dog officials are all fucking gluttons. They only make money and don't do anything serious. Bah!" A squire cursed in anger and even spat in the direction of Wang Changshi's sedan.
"Okay, okay, as long as Jinan City can be defended, everyone can spend money to buy peace." Zhang Yuanwai comforted the others.
He also knew that the officials in Jinan City were more greedy than the others, and none of them were good. However, compared with Huziqi, these people were just a little greedy, but Huziqi was not at all like the local squires like them.
Falling into the hands of the Tiger Character Banner is equivalent to digging up the foundation of local gentry families like them, so even if these Ming officials are greedy, they can only cooperate with Ming officials.
The carriage had been prepared, and after Zhang Yuanwai and others separated, they walked towards their own carriages.
But at this moment, a person stumbled across the road and soon arrived outside the first palace wall of the palace.
"Quick, I have something important to tell Chang Shi!" The visitor shouted to the guard on the palace wall.
When Zhang Yuanwai and others who were about to leave saw this situation, they all stopped and retracted their legs.
The curtains on one side of the sedan were opened. Wang Changshi looked through the window at the man outside the palace wall. He felt that the other person was somewhat familiar, so he said, "I am the Changshi of the palace."
As the words fell, the people who were standing outside the palace wall turned to look at the sedan.
When he saw the people in the sedan, he immediately knelt down and said, "Something happened to the master. An army of tiger thieves has entered the city."
After hearing this, Wang Changshi paused for a moment, and then hurriedly scolded: "Don't talk nonsense, how could an army of tiger thieves enter the city? If you dare to talk nonsense again to confuse people, I will have you locked up immediately." Go to jail."
"Master, I was sent here by the housekeeper of my family, specifically to inform the master of this matter. The housekeeper told me that when I see the master, I will take you home as soon as possible." The man said a series of words.
After hearing this, Wang Changshi looked at the person in front of him carefully, and immediately realized that the person in front of him was a servant who cleaned the courtyard at home. No wonder he felt a little familiar.
Since it was a member of the family who came to spread the news, it means that the tiger-character banner army entering the city is most likely true. Thinking of this, he immediately said: "Quickly, take me back to the house."
The two bearers hurriedly lifted the sedan, turned around, and immediately walked in the direction from which the previous person came.
The servants also hurriedly followed.
All the conversations between them were heard by Zhang Yuanwai and others.
This made Zhang Yuanwai and others look at each other, and some of them didn't know whether to believe it or not.
He didn't even hear the sound of artillery outside the city, but suddenly heard the news that the army was entering the city outside the city, which was really surprising.
The most important thing is that they just sent tens of thousands of taels of silver to the prefect's Yamen.
If Jinan City was captured so quickly, wouldn't all the tens of thousands of taels of silver be wasted?
"Don't be stunned, everyone, go back and find out the news!" One of the squire said, and then walked quickly towards his carriage.
The others came to their senses one after another and trotted back to their carriages.
At this time, they could no longer care about anything else and kept urging the driver to go faster so that they could return home earlier.
At this moment, the Tiger Banner army entered the city from Wengcheng to the east of Jinan City.
The reason why there was no artillery bombardment of the city was entirely because the prefect and Xu Tongpan from the prefect's Yamen took the initiative to open the city gate and let the tiger-shaped flag army outside the city enter the city.
The vanguard of the Tiger Flag army who entered Jinan City took over the city gate as soon as they entered the city. Immediately afterwards, several groups of soldiers rushed to several important locations in the city.
The prefect's Yamen is naturally one of the places where the Tiger Banner army focuses its attention.
As the Tiger-Character Banner army continued to enter the city, the Jinan Prefecture Magistrate and Xu Tongpan could only guard the east city gate, waiting for the big shots from the Tiger-Character Banner to take the initiative to see them.
As for leaving the city gate, it was impossible to leave. There were tiger-character flag soldiers guarding them all around, making it impossible for these Ming officials to leave and could only stay here.
When the Tiger Banner army completely took control of Jinan City, Qin Rong and his party rode to the city gate.
Qin Rong reined in the reins.
"Which of you is the prefect of Jinan Prefecture?"
"Yes, the official, yes." The magistrate of Jinan Prefecture hurriedly stood up.
"Take me to your Yamen." Qin Rong said to him, then urged his horse to walk towards the city gate.
The prefect of Jinan City hurriedly followed, and even wanted to lead Qin Rong's horse, but was stopped by Qin Rong's guards, who did not allow the prefect to get close to Qin Rong at all.
The Jinan magistrate knew how to give up when he was ready. Instead of insisting on holding the horse for Qin Rong, he returned to his sedan chair and ordered the bearer to lead the way.
There were many sedan chairs parked near the east city gate, and they were all sedan chairs for Jinan City officials.
When these people saw the prefect getting into his sedan chair, they also got into their own sedan chairs, and then asked the sedan bearers to follow the procession.
The magistrate's Yamen is not too far from the East City Gate, and the group soon arrived at the door of the Magistrate's Yamen.
As soon as the magistrate got off the sedan chair, he immediately saw someone running out of the yamen and running towards him quickly.
However, before he could get down the steps at the Yamen's door, he was immediately stopped by the tiger-character flag soldiers who occupied the Yamen.
"One of our own, one of our own, this is a servant of the lower official's family." The prefect explained to Qin Rong with an apologetic smile.
However, Qin Rong didn't seem to hear it. He handed the horse's reins to a soldier and asked him to take it and take care of it, while he walked towards the Yamen.
Seeing this, the prefect immediately followed him.
Not only him, but other officials also followed suit.
Qin Rong, who was walking up the stone steps in front of the yamen, stopped, turned around and looked at the Ming officials who were following him, and said, "If anyone from the yamen returns to his own yamen, you don't have to follow them all."
After saying that, he stepped into the yamen.
A group of people followed and walked in.
Some Ming officials followed the prefect to the city gate to surrender and stayed outside the Yamen.
They were not from the prefect's yamen, so they didn't know whether they should follow them into the yamen.
Qin Rong has no intention of caring about these people's little thoughts.
He was deliberately led down by the prefect and came to the back office of the government office.
As soon as he entered the back office, Qin Rong took the initiative to go to the upper seat and sat down. Liao Junyi, who followed him, found an empty seat and sat down.
Chief of Staff Lin Wenye stayed in the camp outside the city.
(End of chapter)
