Xu Lequn went to Yangzhou in the first month to rescue his subordinates. When he saw Su Jueming in Yangzhou, he found out that Han Xiufeng was preparing for a retreat. It was a complete coincidence. He heard that Xu Ying, the chief inspector of the Qing army in Yangzhou Prefecture, was going to move to Taizhou, so he went to Taizhou to borrow Xu Ying's hands to attack Han Xiufeng and Zhang Guangcheng, and all of them were temporarily intent.

He didn't think so far at all. Even if he thought about it, he wouldn't have time to let his family and relatives far away in Fu'anchang take precautions early. As a result, because of this negligence, Han Xiufeng actually gave him the same kindness as the other person.

Thinking of the fact that the old man Xu was more cunning than Han Xiufeng and Zhang Guangcheng, Xu Lequn was shocked and sweated. He had already walked to the front of the state yamen but did not dare to ask the door to report. Instead, he turned his head and ran out of the city. He ran to the dock outside the west gate. He looked back and saw that the yamen runners did not follow him, so he jumped on an inconspicuous black-sailed boat, and asked a boatman who stood up to greet him to leave quickly.

A strong man sleeping in the cabin suddenly sat up and looked at him in confusion, asking, "Mr. Xu, have you been an official? Why did you make this happen?"

"It's hard to describe it!" Xu Lequn didn't dare to stay in Taizhou for a long time. He turned around and raised the curtain and shouted, "Xiao Liu, hurry up and go to Fu'an. You are familiar with the waterways in this area. Take a shortcut. You must be quick, but don't walk from Xiahe (Taizhou to Hai'an section of Yunyan River)."

The boatman was stumped and said with a bitter face: "If you don't walk down the river, you have to take a detour. There is no shortcut!"

"If you take a detour, you have to be quick anyway."

"Okay, hold on as fast as you can."

"What the hell is wrong?" The man in the cabin became more and more confused as he heard it.

Xu Lequn became more and more regretful the more he thought about it. He even gave him a big slap: "Blame me, blame me for everything! The big thing was decided, but he was so proud that he backfired!"

The man asked, "How can you make a mistake?"

Xu Lequn didn't care whether he was embarrassed or not. He briefly told the whole story of the matter, and then said hatefully: "That more than 1,900 taels of silver was spent. In the eyes of their dog officials, let alone donating a fifth-rank top-notch, even if you donate a third-rank, it is not considered an official. Just find an excuse to kill you and me. Wanting to fight with them on the table is tantamount to having a tiger."

"I have long said that I can't beat them on the official side. You don't believe it. Now, I'm going to kill your whole family and kill your whole family!"

"You have a way, why don't you help your brother avenge?" Xu Lequn glared at the man, clenched his fists and said, "If I have a better way, can I come up with this worst and bet on my life?"

The man became angry and glared at him and said, "If the Third Master had not believed your nonsense, if the Third Master had stopped me, I would have summoned my brother to Hai'an to avenge my brother! You are smart enough to not only lose salt, but not only make my elder brother lose his life, but now you have waste all the hard-earned money you have collected from your brothers. You are also embarrassed to show me here!"

"Call the people to Hai'an? Jiang Yougui, do you think the surname Han is really that easy to deal with?"

"It's better than you tossing and turbulently like this!"

"I can't explain it to you, so I have to turn around and say to the third master."

"Here we are here again, hahaha, it's the third master again! My surname is Xu, Jiang Yougui left the words here. If Li Zhaoshou really brings people to the door, don't blame me for handing you over to him for his disposal. I don't care whether the third master is happy or not!"

"Give him an explanation and hand me over to those people on the canal boat?" Xu Lequn asked with a sneer.

"You caused trouble. If you don't hand over you, will your brothers fight for you and Li Zhaoshou?" Jiang Yougui asked back.

"I was indeed the one who caused the disaster. But if I really gave me to the Cao Gang, where is the salt gang face? Where do you put the third master's face?" Xu Lequn had no choice but to use Han Xiufeng and Zhang Guangcheng for a while, but there were some ways to deal with Jiang Yougui. He simply dragged the quilt as a pillow and lay down on the quilt and said meaningfully: "Jiang Yougui, don't forget how much money I have earned for the third master over the years, and don't forget that if it weren't for me Xu Lequn, you would still be carrying salt in Taiba now!"

...

Just when Xu Lequn taught Jiang Yougui, the little leader of Yizhen's private owl, Li Changjing made an appointment with six gentry in Shilipu, east of the city to discuss the matter of training the village heroes.

"Don't look at the bandits who have captured the cities and land from Guangdong and Guangxi. They seem to be unstoppable, but they are actually just a bandit! Although they have captured many places and even many big cities, the official army has quickly abandoned the city and fled as soon as they arrive. The reason why they have fled more and more is actually to coerce the people all the way. Although they are said to be hundreds of thousands, the real difficulty is to deal with the 10,000 to 20,000 old thieves in Guangxi!"

Li Changjing knew that they were unwilling to donate money and grain, and did not dare to fight against the bandits. He simply asked the soldiers of the shop to get paper and pen, spread it on the Eight Immortals table to draw a map of Liangjiang, pointing to the map and said: "Please see, Jiangning is here, Zhenjiang is here, this is Suzhou, this is Yangzhou, this is Qingjiangpu, this is Hangzhou, this is our Taizhou.

If the bandits don’t want to flee everywhere, they will definitely manage Jiangning. If they want to manage Jiangning, they have to take over Zhenjiang, Wuhu, Yangzhou and other places, otherwise they will only be trapped in the lonely city. Aren’t they claimed to be hundreds of thousands? In addition, if the people in the city are surrounded by Lord Xiang and Lord Qishan, there is no need to attack the city. Just surrounded them and starve them to death."

Seeing an old scholar nodding slightly, Li Changjing struck while the hot, saying: "In short, if the bandits want to manage Jiangning, they will be divided into soldiers. The most difficult old thieves in Guangxi will naturally stay in Jiangning, Zhenjiang, Yangzhou and other big cities. Don't necessarily come to attack our Taizhou. Even if they attack, there will not be many soldiers, and they will not be those difficult old thieves."

"Master Li, even if the bandits cannot distribute too many soldiers to attack Taizhou, even the hundreds of green camp soldiers in the city cannot defend them!"

"Who said there are only a few hundred green camp soldiers? This is not far from Taizhou. You can't know what Mr. Xu has done in the past two days when he moved to Zhoucheng. With Mr. Xu in charge, Taizhou's city defense is stronger than Yangzhou!" Li Chang paused, pointed to the map he drew and said, "Let's talk about the thieves and bandits. If they continue to flee, they will definitely flee to a wealthy place, such as Suzhou and Hangzhou. Taizhou is not favored and unlikely to attack Taizhou."

A group of gentry made an appointment with the village that was farthest usually, only to Jiangning. I didn’t know other places in Liangjiang. No one noticed that there was something wrong with the distance between the several big cities on this map of Li Changzhi. Jiangning looked very close to Zhenjiang, Suzhou and Hangzhou, not far from Yangzhou, but it was particularly far from Taizhou.

At least from the map drawn by Li Changjing, it is unlikely that the Taiping bandits will come to attack Taizhou from a distance.

Li Changjing knocked on the table and looked up and said, "Everyone, the reason why Mr. Xu asked me to train the local heroes together with Mr. Han and Mr. Zhang, is to strengthen the city defense in Taizhou, and to be prepared for any trouble. Secondly, it is to suppress the place!"

"Press up the place?" a gentleman asked subconsciously.

Li Changjing looked at him like an idiot: "Brother Wu, you have read so many books of sages and are familiar with classics, history, and collections. You should know that the most worrying thing in this situation is not the bandits, but the unlucky people in the local area! If they know that the bandits in Taiping have captured Jiangning, they may attack Yangzhou immediately. It is hard to say whether they will take advantage of the situation to commit rebellion. At that time, the first one who is unlucky will not be the city of Zhou, but you gentry!"

"Yes, yes, what Mr. Li said is that no matter what chaos is outside, there should be no chaos in the place!"

"So we must quickly train the local heroes." Li Changjing paused and then said, "Then the bandits not only need to be guarded against, but they are really hateful. As far as I know, they believe in foreign religions, do not respect the ways of Confucius and Mencius, do not talk about the superiority and inferiority, do not worship ancestors, and do not care about ethics. Whenever they go, they not only smash the statues of saints, but also destroy temples and ancestral halls, and even dig up people's ancestral tombs. Regardless of men, women, young and old, they are all called brothers and sisters. Let me tell you, that's all!"

"Do they believe in foreign religion?" an old scholar asked in horror.

"You only know that they claim to worship God's religion, and the things they believe in are the same as those things they do!" Li Changjing became more and more excited as he spoke, and even slapped the table and said, "Everyone knows that I have been peaceful for a long time in the Qing Dynasty, and the flag soldiers and green camps are abandoned, and the soldiers have no courage to kill, so they were caught off guard by the bandits. But no matter in Guangdong, Guangxi or Huguang, not only did the bandits not follow the bandits, but there were so many officials who died in their families. Why is that?"

"Why?" asked a village appointment who had never read any books.
Chapter completed!