stubborn thief

Chapter 213

Outside Pingliang City, the flames shot up into the sky.

In the south of the west city, thousands of hungry people under Jin Chanzi's command attacked the city. They climbed up with long ladders and ropes. After being repelled by the guards in the city, they besieged and shouted.

Jin Chanzi was wearing an ill-fitting flying fish suit, yawning and standing on the gate tower of Dongcheng, listening to the sound of gunfire in the distance, watching the flames outside the city, rubbing his sleepy and drunken eyes.

He's a little confused about the situation.

He is a native of Pingliang Prefecture and was a blacksmith three days ago.

On that day, he met a new friend. The friend said his name was Ai Jixian, and he was a Mizhi man who served as a soldier in Guyuan.

Ai Ji first invited him to drink, drinking is a rare thing these days, the two of them ordered two jugs of shochu, and basically let him drink.

The chats during the meeting were all about denouncing the injustice of the court and the fact that the feudal kings took all the rich and fertile land of Pingliang. spirit.

It's nice to hold people up.

Later, it was discovered that the waiter and shopkeeper of the car shop were all tied up, and the entire car shop was populated by veterans. They said they wanted to do something great in Pingliang on their own terms.

But if he didn't drink, he wouldn't dare to agree to such a thing.

But he was five parts drunk, two parts angry, and three parts at a loss, so Ai Jixian confusedly put on a flying fish suit, saying that he needed a name for a big job, and from today on he was called Jin Chanzi.

Things went a little too well, and for some reason, he sneaked into the east city with his front foot, and the hungry people outside the city responded everywhere with his back foot.

There are more than [-] people from the imperial family above lieutenant in this Liancheng, and more than [-] craftsmen, servants, singers and actresses serve them, half of them directly serve the Han Palace.

During the calamity year, the delivery of Lumi to the palace was insufficient, and the whole city was like a pile of firewood splashed with boiling oil, only owed a spark.

This Mars is the leader.

Now they have a leader. .

In a blink of an eye, thousands of hungry Pingliang people ransacked the residences and villas of generals and lieutenants outside the city, and then poured into the east city, occupying the market and the city wall.

The oppressed craftsmen and servants joined the plunder in the chaos, and vented their anger on the generals and lieutenants in the East City.

On the most noisy night in Pingliang City, the golden cicada in the gate tower fell asleep.

If it wasn't for waking up in the gate tower of Pingliang City, Jin Chanzi would have thought he had a dream.

But this is not a dream. Outside the city gate, the neighbor Niu Laoer wears the armor he snatched from the killed guard, and reports to him loyally with a hammer.

King Jin Chanzi has more than [-] generals under his command, and there are three generals under his command, namely Zuo Fu Ai Woxiu, You Bi Ai Jixian, and Pioneer Officer Zhu Qianyu.

Now that he was sober, King Jin Chanzi found that he was not very familiar with the three generals under his command.

Especially Zuo Fu You Bi, one had just had a drink with him, and the other didn't know each other at all.

"Where's Zuo Fu?"

Niu Er Er shook his head, he didn't know.

"Where's You Bi?"

Niu Er still shook his head, still not knowing.

"What about the vanguard?"

This Niu Er knew it, and pointed to the west: "Master Zhu is attacking the city!"

Master Zhu!
Jin Chanzi knew that this Zhu Quanyu was Master Zhu from outside the city, a very famous patriarch who had been abolished, and the leader of the beggar gang in Pingliang City.

There are a few lieutenants and ordinary beggars under his command, who crowd at the gate of the city to beg from the clan or royal officials who go out of the city, and if they have surplus food, they help the orphans and widows of other clans and common people.

Niu Laoer said that when attacking Pingliang City, most of the soldiers were busy looting, and only this master Zhu led thousands of people to attack the city persistently.

They were the ones who hanged more than a dozen clan generals from the trees in the villas and pavilions on the north side of the city.

There are also the mansions of several generals, because they have a lot of relief and sympathy for these poor relatives without status on weekdays, they were carried around Pingliang City three times in sedan chairs by the clan and common people, announcing their virtues and protecting them.

Now he has been repulsed twice, master Zhu's fingers were broken by cannons, and he will organize a third attack on the city. He must enter the city and hang the nephews in the palace from the trees.

When the fetters that bloodlines give to people disintegrate, hatred will backlash with ten times the power of bloodlines.

Jin Chanzi thought and thought, and said to Niu Er: "Second brother, go to Master Zhu and ask him if he wants to be a Jin Chanzi, if he wants to be a Jin Chanzi, let him be a Jin Chanzi. Run now!"

Niu Er was stunned: "You, you didn't say that yesterday!"

"What did I say yesterday?"

"Let's think about it...across Guanshan Mountain, with Jingshui on the lapel, blocking Heshuo on the outside, Longkou on the inside, blocking the Sanqin, and protecting Jifu." Niu Er thought for a while, and popped out a cannonball He piled up words, and clapped his hands at the end: "Yesterday you were going to occupy Pingliang City and become the emperor."

Jin Chanzi raised his hand and slapped himself on the mouth: "I'm a fart. If I drink too much, the world belongs to me. It's not a chicken feather if you wake up drunk. You listen to me. Hurry up and give up the name Jin Chanzi. Let's get some money." Run out with ten taels of silver, stay here and die."

Jin Chanzi is a blacksmith from a poor family, but he is not stupid. Now that he is sober and thinking about it, he has a clear understanding of the thousands of people who raised troops in Pingliang City.

Everyone wanted to make a scene a long time ago, but they were just afraid of death.

Now that he is leading the charge, everyone will rise up, but when the officers and soldiers arrive, they will definitely run faster than anyone else, and then he will be left as a fool, and neither the palace nor the government will let him go.

The five cows are very beautiful, and they are even more beautiful when they are tied with ropes and pulling their necks and legs.

Not long after, Jin Chanzi of Pingliang Mansion was replaced by Master Zhu.

The blacksmith brought more than a hundred relatives, friends and family members, drove two grain trucks, loaded more than 30 catties of gold, silver and copper coins, quietly entered Nanshan along the path, and left the battlefield.

Yang Chengzu, whose pseudonym was Ai Jixian, returned to the city gate tower and found that the building was empty, and the mountain king Jin Chan he had carefully cultivated had shed its shell.

Hurry up to find Luo Rucai, whose pseudonym is Ai Woxiu, and the two of them together, the first generation of Jin Chanzi has already discovered this problem, and the second generation of Jin Chanzi is a stud who only knows how to siege, so he just relies on him to attract firepower.

The two men organized people to count the looted materials, released horsemen to cover the main road, and transported grain, grass and goods to the mountain road connecting Zhenyuan County in the northeast.

Luo Rucai thought about it, the defenders on the city and the starving people who attacked the city were exhausted, so he sent horsemen to send a message to the west, telling Liu Chengzong that he could set off to quell the chaos.

However, the matter was different from their earlier plan. It was originally a matter of fooling Han Wang, Yang He, and Zhou Riqiang, but it turned out that they knew about it first, and even invited Liu Chengzong to send troops to quell the chaos.

As a result, the Lion Camp departed much earlier than expected, and it was already very close to Pingliang Fucheng.

Soon the news spread back to Luo Rucai, and he and Yang Chengzu agreed to add another fire, otherwise the food and money looted could not be transported to the east.

Immediately send troops from the east wall to help the hungry people break through the west city.

There were bursts of gunfire at the top of the city, shouts of killing shook the sky, and there were crowds of people in the city. Many clans in Pingliang hadn't heard the sound of war for a long time, and when encountering a major event, they all ran away in embarrassment.

People brought concubines and concubines to the palace of King Han, whose walls were two feet high, and the handymen in the mansion also wanted to rush into the palace, but they were urged by the governor of the palace to guard the city.

Many clans and their families rushed into the royal city, bringing back news of the chaos in the west city of Pingliang, and even a small group of masked robbers among the Weisuo Banner Army living in the city.

King Han Zhu Quanyu was young and didn't want to be in the palace anymore, so he simply handed over all the affairs of the royal city to the guards of the palace, and ran to the turret of Guangzhi Gate alone.

Guangzhi Gate is the north gate of Wangcheng.

The south of the city is really chaotic, the looting outside Xiao's wall, the fighting on the city wall disturbs people's mind.

This royal city is full of yellow roofs and red walls, accompanied by blue and green colors, which symbolizes the surname Zhu Jiangshan and the supremacy of imperial power.

Inside the royal city, there are four gates, two halls and three palaces and gardens.

The four gates refer to the four gates located on the central axis of the palace from south to north, namely the Lingxing Gate of the main entrance, the Duanli Gate of the middle gate, the Shende Hall, the Chengyun Gate of Bingzhong Hall, and the Chengyun Gate of Bingzhong Hall. The Guangzhi Gate as a back door.

The two halls are the Chengyun Hall, the main hall behind the Chengyun Gate, and the Cunxin Hall of the bedroom. There are two other bedrooms on the left and right of the bedroom.

The Sangong Garden is the Liuhu Summer Resort and Nuanquan Imperial Garden on the west side of the palace, and the Dongfu Palace on the east side where the prince lives.

With this central axis, the royal city occupying half of Pingliangfu City is arranged. This royal city occupies an area larger than the Heshui county town guarded by Jiang Yingchang.

The head of the palace, Shi, searched all over the city, and all he saw was the county king, the general, and the county master, but he didn't know where King Han was.

Only then did Chang Shi leave Madden City, and hurriedly said: "My lord, there is chaos in the city at this time, why don't you sit in the king's city and come to the north city?"

Han Wang took it for granted: "The lotus is in season, if you don't look at it, it will be gone...Long history is worse than enjoying the lotus with this king."

After finishing speaking, King Han turned his head and said, "Why don't you and I go to Guanlan Pavilion together."

Guanlan Pavilion is in the middle of Liuhu Lake, built with hard mountain glazed tiles, carved beams and painted buildings, it is a good place to enjoy flowers and waves.

Chang Shi was dumbfounded by the rumors, and wondered what time it was, and he was still watching the flowers and watching the waves: "My lord, the bandits will break through the city in a while, and it will be useless to see anything. The guards are desperately resisting the bandits, and the lord is needed to boost morale." Time!"

"What kind of morale boost?" Han Wang turned his head and glanced at Chang Shi strangely: "Isn't Pingliang Prefecture their home?"

Chang Shi pondered, Pingliangfu City is really not the home of the Weijun, so he reminded: "My lord, the home of the Weijun is in Dongcheng, and Dongcheng has already fallen."

"Then why don't they drive the thieves away and take the house back?"

Chang Shi had a strange expression on his face, and it was difficult to communicate with King Han, so he said: "The guards recognized that the person who attacked the city outside the city was Zhu Qianyu, a deposed common man. He led the guards' family members to attack the city, and many guards were there. There are thieves in the city."

For the first time, King Han, who had always been very calm, showed fear on his face, but he breathed a sigh of relief for a moment, regained his demeanor, sat on the corner tower, and said: "Let them guard for a while, once the five soldiers and horses of Guyuan arrive, the bandits will return." Won't you obediently give the head?"

"My lord, the main barracks in Guyuan had just mutinied the year before last, and the ranger barracks went to Huamachi for defense in the early autumn of last month. There are also thieves in the west. There are no soldiers in Guyuan now!"

Now King Han was really scared: "There are no soldiers in Guyuan?"

When Chang Shi responded with a nod, King Han stood up in the Shu brocade robe with dark patterns, and finally got to the point: "What's your plan?"

This is what Chang Shi waited for, and he bowed and said: "The lower official is here to ask for payment for the defenders. I hope the prince will open the treasury to pay the defenders, so as to strengthen the courage of the warriors!"

"That's right, there must be a brave man under a heavy reward!"

King Han was very satisfied with this method, and looked at Chang Shi with admiration: "Don't delay me here to appreciate the flowers, just go now, I will pay them 500 taels of silver and teach them to defend the city well. "

Chang Shi was quite happy at first, but when he heard the amount, he said bitterly: "My lord, 500 taels, it's only two taels of silver in the hands of each guard."

"Two is still too little? The king paid 1000 taels, 1000 taels is a lot, right?"

King Han walked around in circles for a while, then returned to the battlements, shook his head and said, "Four or five yuan per person is enough to buy ten catties of incense sticks. With this much money, incense will definitely flourish on Mount Kongtong in the coming year."

"My lord, the guards don't buy tooth incense, they just want to buy grain." Chang Shi said: "The price of grain is high, and four or five dollars can only buy a bucket."

Han Wang suddenly realized, patted his head and said: "That's right, they don't know these things, then the money is really not much, but don't you know about my king's money? The loan made the year before last has not been recovered this year. I don’t want to pay more!”

As he said that, King Han twisted his neck and raised his finger to Chang Shi: "Hey, you are the long history of my king's Han family. It was a disaster year, and you didn't want to save money for the lord, so you turned your elbows outward. Your idea is very good. , it’s up to you to do it.”

"King Han's mansion pays 1000 taels of silver. Go find my uncles and brothers. They are all county kings and generals. They are hiding in the mansion of the king and ask them to pay the money, so they can collect [-] taels of silver to pay the soldiers."

King Han patted his thigh and said fiercely: "Anyone who doesn't pay will be kicked out, and all the soldiers will be taken to the king's city to guard them, regardless of them!"

Just as Chang Shi was about to take his orders, he was stopped by the king of Han and said, "Wait a minute, go and tell them that the king will give you 3000 taels of silver, let the king of the county give you 40 taels, and the generals of more than 80 towns will give you 200 taels of silver." , More than 5 auxiliary generals sent out two hundred, each of the more than 1 Fengguo generals had one hundred, this alone was more than [-], [-] were kept, and the remaining [-] were distributed to the sergeants."

Good guy, Chang Shi raised his hand and gave a thumbs up: "My lord is wise!"

When Chang Shi went to do some work, the clans were pushing each other, but seeing that the King of Han had already paid for them and set the rules for them, no one could do anything about it.

Many county kings, princesses and generals can only pay according to the rules.

It's just that before everyone sent the money to the royal city of King Han's Mansion, there were rout troops running past in the market, yelling and telling the whole city that the west city was broken!

All of a sudden, everything was in chaos, and even Han Wang ran down from the city trembling and being supported by guards.

Colliding with the clans who were chaotically running around in the palace, they dragged everyone and ran northward, crossed Liuhu Lake, and fled to the unbroken North City with a large group of people.

Then a large number of hungry people swarmed into the city, rushing to one mansion after another with red walls and bright yellow glazed tiles, shouting and crying, crazily venting their anger.

On the city gate tower far to the east, Luo Rucai supported the battlements and looked at Yang Chengzu who was beside him, both of them looked worried.

He said badly: "It seems to be playing too big."

　good afternoon!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)