Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2192 The first step in Yangshan County

When Peng Shouan was distributed to Yangshan, others thought it was a need, but he didn't care.Although there are many mountains and little land here, and there are Yao people making troubles, it is a remote place after all, and the thieves who travel all over the world will never go to Yangshan, a remote place, to find trouble for themselves.

His expectations were not high, and he could make a little money, so he resigned and returned to his hometown after three years of office.

This wishful thinking almost came to fruition.Just when he finished his term peacefully and was waiting to cross the border with the county magistrate who came to take over, news came that Guangzhou had fallen and the bandits had set up officials there to govern.

Now that Guangzhou has fallen, and the bandits are going to set up officials to govern, the next thing is self-evident—Peng Shouan has also read a few local newspapers and knows a thing or two about the geography of mountains and rivers. Since the Australians have plans to manage Guangzhou for a long time, then They will not live in one place.It is bound to go north to Wuling - this remote Yangshan County is not a paradise.

In this way, he waited eagerly for the arrival of Zhou Liangchen who succeeded him. After finally waiting for Zhou Liangchen to arrive, someone sent a document. Although this document was sent by a hundred households in Guangzhou Wei, it was signed by the Song Dynasty and Guangdong Province. Xuanfu envoy Wen Desi,

The content of the letter is nothing more than asking him to sacrifice the city and surrender, and Da Song will never "make things difficult" for him.It will also let you "go and stay at your own convenience".Peng Shouan originally wanted to throw this hot potato to Zhou Liangchen, but Zhou Liangchen had other plans when he read the letter. When employing people, he came to Guixian for the first time, and he didn't know the local people's conditions, so he needed a lot of assistance from him, the former county magistrate.Peng Shouan tried to escape several times, but was stopped by his servants. Later, the county magistrate put him under house arrest this week.

Naturally, Peng Shouan knew what this kid was planning. If the Kun thief really came, he could just leave and leave himself a former magistrate to take the place of the dead ghost;So Peng Shouan just spent time with Zhou Liangchen. After a few days, another news came that Qingyuan and Yingde counties were successively captured by the Kun bandits. breached.

Yingde is only a day away from Yangshan by water, and those Kun bandits will come to the city at any time. There are not many soldiers in Yangshan, and there are no suitable generals, and there is not enough food and grass. Everyone knows that Yangshan County does not have the capital to fight against Kun bandits.So there are only two options left before Peng Shouan, one is to fight, and then die in battle or commit suicide in the city. Peng Shouan doesn't want to die, and neither does Zhou Liangchen. Get together to discuss this issue.

According to Zhou Liangchen's calculations, he was planning to leave as soon as the Kun bandits really came, and lied that he "surrendered the enemy" without taking over Yangshan County.However, in the current situation, "going first" cannot be achieved, and the counties around Yangshan have successively surrendered to the Song Dynasty-this is the second, and the worst thing is that the scoundrels from all over the country have taken advantage of this chaos and become bandits. Not only did the "outsider people" in the mountains come out to plunder, but even the people who registered as Qimin in the valleys transformed themselves, intercepting business travelers on the road and killing and looting passers-by.The two county magistrates wanted to run away from the city, and they had to be "fat sheep" if they couldn't get out of Yangshan County.

Peng Shouan couldn't run away, neither could Zhou Liangchen, and all the officials in the county had no place to go—many of them still took their families with them. Without Daming's official authority, it would be difficult for them to move a single step outside Yangshan County.

The two of them discussed with other officials in the city, and everyone coyly talked about "difficult life", lamented "the crisis of the current situation", and lamented "how difficult the people's livelihood is", and then began to "share worries for the people". From the point of view, he decided to "return to the Song Dynasty and keep the people safe".

Immediately, he drew up a letter of surrender, saying that the Yangshan county government "all admire the great grace of Song Dynasty, hope that the senate is like a long drought and hope for rain", and is willing to "do the work of dogs and horses" for the senate.

In the end, from Zhou Liangchen down, all civil and military officials in Yangshan, big or small, were all deployed.When Peng Shouan wrote his name, his hands were trembling, which meant that he was "forced to follow the thief". After a group of people signed their names, Zhou Liangchen ordered three reliable servants to bring the letter of surrender, and rushed back with the envoy. In Guangzhou, send this letter of surrender to the senior officials of the Kun bandits.

The servant went out, and an old man in the government office who didn't know whether it was the teaching or the classics started crying, and then many people followed suit, and Peng Shouan also cried for a long time.

Cry to cry, surrender is like selling one's body in a show of joy.That's the way it is if it's sold.Without Daming, and with Song, at least they have a backbone—that is, this thought, so that they can unite under the siege and attack of the Yao people, and support until Huang Chao comes to rescue.

After recovering Yangshan, Huang Chao didn't feel too happy.As a result, Lianshan was severely damaged, and his plan to replenish food here was completely bankrupt-not only was it difficult for the troops to replenish food here, but food had to be transferred from other places to support the local population.The second is that there is no "mass base" here.Because this is a remote area, both transportation and commerce are extremely underdeveloped, the Foreign Intelligence Agency has no intelligence personnel stationed locally, and businessmen from five mountains and five elements rarely come here. The word "Australian" is not well-known locally.This means that they have no local trustworthy people and can only rely on the retained personnel in the county government.And the veterans have always had little trust in the retained personnel.

"Let's go and inspect the county town. This place is also an important support point for us." Huang Chao really couldn't understand that such a huge Yangshan City was actually occupied by hundreds of Yao people who didn't have decent weapons at hand.But when he walked to the southeast corner of Yangshan County and saw that manpower was concentrating on repairing the flooded city wall, he immediately understood.Peng Shouan, who accompanied him, said that after the city wall collapsed in the flood a few years ago, although money and food were quickly raised to repair it, it has not been repaired and the construction period has been slow.

"... the repair of this city wall, the lower officials also donated 30 taels, but the city wall collapsed more than a hundred feet, and a few hundred taels of silver is not enough..." Peng Shouan was full of complaints when he talked about this matter. He ran back and forth to repair the city wall After several months, it was hard to get more than 200 taels of silver from local gentry and merchants, but it took more than a year to complete the repair.After Zhou Liangchen came, he kept watching the situation and had no intention of building the city.The gap in the city wall remained open until the Yao people rushed in.

Huang Chao sighed and shook his head again and again: The efficiency of this ancient government is really low.

He ordered an immediate investigation of the material losses in Yangshan County. Although the Yao people did not set fire to the city after they invaded the city, they were exhausted. Not to mention soft property, even tables, chairs, benches, baskets and baskets were plundered. Light—you can imagine how poor their daily lives are.

"It seems that if the economic problem is not resolved, this Yao chaos will not be quelled."

Huang Chao called Tianchanggong from several captured Yao villages. The Yao people in Yonghua Township and the Han people in Yangshan County often deal with each other, so they can speak Chinese, and they can communicate with each other without translation.

"As far as I know, the Yao people in Yonghua Township have always kept themselves safe, why did they suddenly make trouble with Ba Pai Yao?"

"It was Ma Jian Pai who threatened us. If we don't agree, they will go down the mountain and rob our village." Pan Tianshun took the lead and said.

"Coercing you, you will cause chaos? You four villages are still afraid of a horse arrow row?"

"Our four villages have few people, children and old people are recruited, the men are only in their early 3000s, and the horse arrow platoon joins the other seven platoons. There are only two to [-] young and strong people in our four villages. Our four villages are no match. In addition..." Pan Tianshun said Here it stops.

"What else?" Huang Chao pressed.

"Sun Dabiao of Daxiuxu didn't let other people sell us salt. We can only buy his salt. Recently, he raised the price of salt. We bought salt and we didn't have enough money to buy grain. In recent years, the situation has been bad. Now we are When it’s time for him to fail, he’ll die if he doesn’t eat salt, and he’ll die if he doesn’t eat food. The county magistrate doesn’t dare to take care of him, so…” Pan Tianshun hesitated to speak.

"So what, say it!" Huang Chao was impatient.

"So we had no choice but to follow the others. First, Sun Dabiao, the salty dog, and his family were killed—just let him run away."

Huang Chao knew about Sun Dabiao. Through the Yangshan data compiled by the Intelligence Bureau, he knew that Sun Dabiao was apparently a salt merchant who opened a shop in Daxiuwei, but in fact he was a bandit leader with hundreds of followers. There are three or four hundred bandits under his orders, no wonder the Yao people in Yonghua Township hate and fear them.

The rebellion of the Yao people in Yonghua Township was justifiable, but Huang Chao was very dissatisfied with Pan Tianshun's pitiful words, and he asked again: "You don't talk about burning and looting Sun Dabiao's house—he deserved what he deserved. But in this county The people in Yangshan have no enmity with you, right? On weekdays, you still go to the county town to go to market fairs. Now you see how this county town has been spoiled by you! You have robbed many people in Yangshan County, right? The people you took away What? Things?"

The four Tianchang Lords looked at each other, and then the three Tianchang Lords rested their eyes on the Tianchang Lord in Baimanzhai.

Pan Tianshun immediately added insult to injury: "The people who looted in the city were all from Baimang Village. Many people in their village were bandits under Sun Dabiao's subordinates, and they were always in contact with Ba Pai Yao. They came to the city this time purely to come. Robbers."

The Tianchang Lord of Baimangzhai turned pale with fright, and he knelt down in a hurry to argue: "My lord, the people from Baimangzhai are not the only ones who rob things, and Baimangzhai is not the only one who has contacts with Ba Pai Yao! Everyone has share!"

Huang Chao didn't want to delve into the truth of what Lord Tianchang said in Baimang Village. The Yao people must have a scapegoat for looting Yangshan County, and it is unrealistic to slaughter the Yao people in Yonghua Township. This pot is gone.

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