Chapter 130: The "righteous men" who come and go in a hurry On the other side, the old scholar who was on his second mission to the bandit camp was really frightened to death by the reckless impulsiveness of the young scholar Gao Xuan.
On the way back to Hangzhou City, he could not stop complaining: "Those thieves are rude, rude and bad-tempered at first glance.
Why bother to provoke these damned roughnecks?
If the thieves are angered and angered, wouldn't it be like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth and risking our lives in vain?
" "Haha, as the saying goes, wealth can be found in danger.
In this world, there is no fame that falls from the sky.
Now that I have received the honor recommended by the prefect, I naturally know that I will repay my kindness and work bravely for you.
What's more, senior, can't you see that?
The thief Kun and his men are obviously not of the same mind and cannot restrain their men.
It can be seen that this thief was indeed ostracized in the Kun Song Dynasty.
The ancients who were sent out to serve in the army sincerely do not deceive me."
The scholar-gong Gao Xuan smiled disapprovingly and said, "Who knows, the fame recommended by the prefect, if it were placed in the peaceful years, he would have to fight for it.
But now, the Ming Dynasty's fame is almost like a talisman.
Once the city of Hangzhou Damn, having fame may be more troublesome.
"Hmph, then why can't you impress such ambitious people even if you offer the reward of becoming a king?"
The old scholar snorted coldly.
"It's not that I'm afraid that I can't control the thieves like this.
As long as the prefect is willing to promise huge profits, there's no need to worry about making him switch sides."
Gao Xuan, who felt very good about himself, sneered, stopped talking to the old scholar, and went to the brothel to report to the prefect.
It's just that Magistrate Liu's self-feeling is not as good as Gao Xuan's.
Although his intelligence channels are also not very well-informed, he has finally found out that the leader of the group of thieves outside the city is named Sun, not Li.
So when he heard Gao Xuan's In return, Magistrate Liu understood: This idiot didn't find the right master at all, but randomly found a gangster leader, talked nonsense with him, and then happily came to him to report his merits.
Got it As for the calligraphy he had just written and had the official seal on, it was probably wiped by some thief.
Looking at Gao Xuan, who was still elated and unaware of it, Magistrate Liu's expression changed for a moment, but in the end he rolled his eyes.
Instead of scolding him, he comforted Gao Xuan with gentle words during this critical situation. , Loyal and brave people are really rare, it is better not to dampen his enthusiasm.
It was not until after Gao Xuan was sent out that Magistrate Liu told the truth to the righteous people present with a depressed expression.
In response to this, not only did the righteous men feel very discouraged, but even the singing prostitutes who accompanied the wine were worried and their faces turned pale.
However, at this moment, Gou Xunli, a Qiongzhou native who claimed to have an sworn hatred against the bandits, stood up and said loudly: "Don't be discouraged.
This traitor has always been cruel and immoral, greedy and lustful.
Wherever he went, not even one of the gentry families survived.
However, our Ming Dynasty has been supporting scholars for more than 200 years, and all the scholars in the world have the imperial court in their hearts.
How can this be so?
Merely The Kun thief can be easily suppressed by his temporary power.
As long as the prefect can select one or two brave and loyal people who are familiar with the Kun thief's behavior, sneak out of the city, contact the volunteers from all over the world, and join forces to fight against the enemy, it will be miraculous."
After listening to Gou Xunli's impassioned words, Magistrate Liu seemed to have a glimmer of hope in his heart: "In this case, there should be quite a few volunteers available in the countryside outside the city.
I wonder if you are willing to go outside the city to serve as my official."
Anyone who contacts the righteous people from all over the world will be recommended by this government."
Before anyone else had time to react, Gou Xunli bowed to the magistrate again and calmly replied: "The thieves invaded and the whole world was in ruins.
My husband is responsible for the incompetence of his students.
I am willing to share your worries."
Gou Xunli's words were so powerful that they moved the prefect to tears, "A good man should drink from this cup."
The other righteous men's favorability towards Gou Xunli also increased greatly, and they all toasted to him and flattered him.
After drinking several cups of Huadiao wine with each other, Magistrate Liu took the opportunity to discuss leaving the city with Gou Xunli, "I wonder when Gou Xunli will leave the city and what he will need."
"Preparing to leave the city tomorrow, because the students are not local aborigines, they need to explore the geography and scenery of Hangzhou first.
In addition, the students need to gain the trust of others when they go, so they boldly asked the magistrate to lend them a set of tokens, so that they can prepare to leave the city at any time and visit the countryside.
Free novels bring you joy and joy ---> storyskyline.net
Jin Gentleman proves his identity" Magistrate Liu fully agreed to this: "Easy to say, everyone, tonight we are here to give Gou Yishi a great performance and wish Gou Yiyi a good journey."
So, in a warm atmosphere, the meal lasted until three o'clock in the moonlight.
Everyone was so drunk that they staggered around and then went away.
The next day, while Mr.
Zhang Dai, who had drunk too much last night, was lying in the Zhang family courtyard in Hangzhou, rubbing his head that was stinging due to hangover, Gou Xunli, the Qiongzhou righteous man, did not leave the city.
After contacting Jin Shen, he hurried to Zhang's mansion and persuaded Zhang Dai to escape quickly.
"Why did I wait until yesterday to venture into the city?
The suitcase cage hasn't even been opened yet.
Today you ask me to pack up my belongings and run away."
Zhang Dai stared at Gou Xunli in disbelief, "Didn't you say at the banquet yesterday that the thieves were cruel and immoral, greedy and lustful, and unpopular with the people.
They would definitely be attacked by rebels from all directions.
Even if they gained power for a while, they would not be able to do anything.
If it lasts for a long time, will you just run away in panic in the end?
Moreover, yesterday it seemed that you stood up and went to the outside of Hangzhou to contact the volunteers, and cooperated inside and outside to help Hangzhou relieve the siege.
Why did you change your mind in just one day?"
"Oh, Mr.
Zhang, those are just words of comfort to persuade Magistrate Liu to make him feel at ease.
How can you take it seriously?"
Gou Xunli smiled bitterly and waved his hands, "The Kun thieves have sharp soldiers, brave soldiers, and powerful firearms.
The Zheng family and Liu Xiang who roamed the Fujian Sea in the past were also destroyed in one battle in front of the Kun thieves.
Those in Jiangnan can only suppress the tenants to resist.
The landlords who rented the land are no match for the Kun thieves.
The villain has a token given by the magistrate, and he can open the city gate at any time, so I ask you to make a quick decision.
If the Kun thieves are surrounded on all sides, you will not be able to leave. " According to Gou Xunli, who has rich "anti-kun experience", first of all, Jiangnan has been at peace for a long time, and the rural villages and towns have not been in war for many years.
Unlike the northwest and southwest provinces, where there are many forts and towering towers, the so-called militia leaders , is just an ordinary big landowner who can mobilize hundreds of farmers to fight on his neighbor's land during the slack season.
As for the real bad war, it has not been fought for generations.
What's more, the land south of the Yangtze River has always been a peaceful world, and it is also a first-class wealthy, prosperous, and culturally popular place.
Therefore, the Jin gentry basically spent their money on squandering enjoyment or making friends with officials.
No one thought of raising a group of capable people.
The village protection team.
Therefore, when facing the Kun thief's attack, they are almost always defeated at the first touch.
According to the information he found in Hangzhou City, no Jin gentry can withstand the Kun thief's attack.
Even if more than ten times the number of strong men were gathered, they were still defeated by a small group of thieves with only a few dozen people, and could not even defend their own village.
It can be seen that even if there are so-called "righteous people" in the countryside outside the city, they themselves are in danger, and there is no spare capacity to support Hangzhou.
Secondly, even if he really brought in rebels from the surrounding countryside, the city of Hangzhou would definitely not be able to hold on.
Before he finished yesterday's dinner of flower wine, Gou Xunli left the meeting with the prefect's token and official documents to inquire about Hangzhou. city defense situation, and then discovered There is not even a single Hongyi cannon in the whole city of Hangzhou.
There are only some tiger crouching cannons with a very short range.
Each tiger crouching cannon weighs thirty-six kilograms, which is 18 kilograms.
You can imagine the size and size of this thing.
The power is just a makeshift wooden cannon.
Facing the Kun thieves' bombardment, they basically had no choice but to hold their heads while being beaten.
But the Kun thieves gathered huge ships on the Qiantang River, equipped with hundreds or even thousands of heavy artillery.
Before, it was just a small test of their skills at Houchaomen.
They didn't even send anyone to land, and they easily blew down the city tower from the ship and blasted the city wall full of holes.
Nowadays, the number of thieves setting off rockets outside Wulin Gate is only one or two thousand at most.
Free novels bring you joy and joy ---> storyskyline.net
But the defenders didn’t say anything about the city’s counterattack.
No one even dared to go up to the city wall to defend themselves against the enemy, because those who dared to go up the city wall were killed by the thieves’ guns.
What's even more terrible is that even though the offensive and defensive battle has been going on for several days, there are still very few defenders organized by the prefect's Yamen.
Even including the temporarily recruited Minzhuang, the entire city's defenders are only more than 4,000 people.
Half of them were newly recruited men who didn't even have weapons and could only huddle on the city wall and throw stones; the remaining half were military households like beggars and government officials who only bullied good-hearted tax collectors.
Not even a hair of the recruited troops with real combat effectiveness was seen.
It is said that they were all taken to Wenzhou by the governor of Zhejiang to guard the provincial border.
It is not known whether they have been killed or are on their way back.
Although Magistrate Liu collected a large amount of "donations for thieves", he rarely used the money to recruit soldiers.
He probably stuffed it into his own pocket.
Therefore, even if he can recruit men from all over the country with his sharp tongue, where will the military pay and weapons come from?
Do the righteous soldiers who risk their lives to fight against the thieves have to pay for it out of their own pockets?
Experience shows that even if a rebel army that has to take care of itself can be formed reluctantly, everyone will be full of resentment and may even defect to the enemy as soon as they go into battle.
It is much easier to rob the big merchants in Hangzhou than to rob the thieves.
Hearing this, Zhang Dai's mood immediately cooled down, but thinking about his clan relatives who were still in his hometown in Shaoxing, he couldn't help but hesitate.
Gou Xunli then gave him another dose of strong medicine.
According to the information he had gathered, the thieves coming from the Qiantang River to ravage the provincial capital of Hangzhou were just a few thousand people.
On the other hand, the Kun thieves' other group of tens of thousands of elite soldiers and horses, led by the rebel general Huang Shi, landed from Ningbo and swept all the way westward.
Their edge could be described as overwhelming.
Faced with such a massive two-sided attack, Shaoxing, Shangyu and other places on the south bank of Hangzhou Bay were originally wen Tianwu Xi, weak soldiers and few generals, but now it is even harder for gods to save them.
In addition, although the bandits outside Hangzhou City had limited strength, they were unable to completely cut off the traffic between Hangzhou City and the outside world.
But it completely blocked shipping on the Qiantang River, and all fishing boats and ferries would be destroyed.
Even if Zhang Dai insisted on staying in Hangzhou, he would not be able to find a way to continue going south.
Of course, if you don't mind the trouble, you can also go west to Chun'an and other mountainous areas in western Zhejiang and make a large circle.
However, this mountain road was originally difficult to walk, and now it is snowing and the mountain is closed.
Due to the invasion of Kun bandits, bandits in the countryside Bandits are also rampant, and it is really unknown whether they can reach Shaoxing alive.
Even if we really make it to Shaoxing, I'm afraid it will be more than a month later, and even the day lilies may be cold by then.
At this point, Zhang Dai's mind was finally completely shaken by General Huangshi's reputation for sweeping across Liaodong in the past.
He had naturally heard of it, and he also knew exactly how the defense of Shaoxing City was weakened.
Some of the fortresses and village warriors that fought against Japanese pirates in the past have completely collapsed and cannot be restored in a hurry.
If Huangshi really brings tens of thousands of people, or even sends thousands of people to attack, Shaoxing will definitely not be able to defend it.
If the bandits were not coming so fast and he could have a few months of buffer time to plan and respond, he might still be able to sneak back to his hometown and rely on his family's connections and power, as well as the money and food he had accumulated, to pull a group of people together.
Detachment trained to defend Sangzi But now half of Zhejiang is about to fall, leaving little time to deal with it calmly.
Even if he successfully crosses the Qiantang River and rushes back to his hometown, it will be of little use, let alone recruitment and training.
It’s too late to improvise weapons.
If the worst happens, maybe the city of Shaoxing has been captured by thieves at this time.
Faced with this situation, what should Zhang Dai do?
Should he destroy his reputation and join the thieves to protect his family, or should he die by scolding the thieves generously?
He doesn't want to be embarrassed at all, let alone die.
Then, although he had lived in the provincial capital Hangzhou for many years because he liked the prosperity, Zhang Dai is still a Shaoxing native, and his feelings for the city of Hangzhou are relatively limited.
Since his hometown in Shaoxing, where his ancestral home and clan are located in the south, is now There is absolutely no way to save it.
Zhang Zongzi was not an official of the imperial court and had no responsibility to protect the land.
Why did he die in Hangzhou with Magistrate Liu?
Therefore, under Gou Xunli's repeated persuasion, Zhang Dai finally accepted his statement that "there is nothing you can do, you have to save your useful life for the future" and ordered the housekeeper to pack his luggage and look for carriages, horses and ships.
When Gou Xunli saw this, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Free novels bring you joy and joy ---> storyskyline.net
After finding out the details of the officers and soldiers and the bandits in Hangzhou, he was already so frightened that he wanted to run away.
But if Zhang Dai, a noble man, is trapped in Hangzhou and he escapes, then even if Gou Xunli can successfully escape back to Nanjing, he will not be able to spare him from Donglin to Fushe.
Now that he can escort Zhang Dai back alive, at least he doesn't have to worry.
My own way of survival is now But on the other hand, I don’t know how long it will take for my sad wish to avenge the Kun thief for destroying my family and destroying my family.
Looking at the servants and maids running back and forth in front of him, busy picking up the fragile things, and the beautiful concubine who was sobbing softly, listening to the sharp whistling of the thieves' rockets in the air, Gou Xunli, who had fled all over southern China these years, finally endured He couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
Alas, who told the world to be so difficult?
I really can’t care about this much for the time being.
Let’s keep ourselves alive first. oshow7: