In order to wait for the alchemist, Han Xiufeng waited until noon before asking everyone to call the township heroes to board the ship and set off.

The last little savings of Fang Shimei and the 4,000 taels of silver borrowed from the pawn shop were intercepted by Han Xiufeng. Fang Shimei was anxious and followed Han Xiufeng to the boat where Han Xiufeng was on, and said with a bitter face: "Brother Han, I understand the principle of the army and horses moving before they move, but you have your difficulties, and I also have my difficulties. If Xu Laogui asks, how can I explain it to him?"

Han Xiufeng sat down and said, "To be honest, what's wrong with explaining?"

"It's easy to tell the truth. I can persuade the gentry to donate 5,000 taels and 500 stones of rice. It was an errand assigned to me by Old Gui Xu. If you have the money and rice, you have to be there. You just snatch it away halfway. Isn't this my life?"

"Brother Fang, what are you talking about?"

"It's like that, you know the best person of Mr. Xu!"

Han Xiufeng patted Fang Shimei's arm and smiled and said, "Brother Fang, don't worry, just tell the truth, he will definitely not make things difficult for you."

Fang Shimei didn't dare to go to Taizhou to pay the job, and said angrily: "I want to go together!"

"I want to go with you, but can I leave?" Han Xiufeng scratched his head and smiled as if he had come up with such a clever idea: "Brother Fang, why not like this, I will send you a receipt. It is not easy for you to submit a receipt without evidence. Having a receipt means having evidence, and having evidence is easy to say."

"Is Old Gui Xu that easy to talk to? It's useless to have evidence!"

"Why is it useless? You go to Taizhou with confidence, just say that I, Han Xiufeng, robbed your money and food like a bandit. Even if Xu Laogui blames me, he will only blame me and will not blame you." Looking at Fang Shimei's frowning face, Han Xiufeng said again: "You have no power to tie a chicken, and there are not many people under you. I not only have the Three Regiment of Township Warriors, but also the more than 300 young and strong people in the Jiaoxichang. You can't stop you even if you want to!"

Fang Shimei asked laughed and crying: "Will Old Gui Xu believe me?"

Han Xiufeng didn't expect that he was so brave and was so afraid of Old Gui Xu. He simply grabbed his official uniform and tore it hard. With a "slam" sound, the official uniform was torn a hole that was nearly two feet long.

Fang Shimei was startled and was about to hide, when Han Xiufeng leaned out and shouted, "Bigou, Liang Jiu, take a few people to turn back to the white rice, and give the green and strong colors to the transport of money and grain at noon. Don't do it lightly or severely, just hit them with a bruised nose and swollen face."

"Young Master, why do you hit them?" Datou asked in confusion.

"If you want to beat you, you will be beaten," Han Xiufeng thought for a while, and shouted to the ship opposite: "Brother Wang, go with Datou, and be comforted after the beating. Give them some money alone, so you can't let them get beaten in vain."

Wang Jiansheng was stunned and then reacted: "Okay, let's turn around now. Mr. Han, don't go so fast, otherwise we won't be able to catch up."

"I'm not in a hurry, but you have to hurry up."

"know."

The day before yesterday, Topan Er sent the donated silver to Taizhou. Today, the alchemy sent the money and grain donated by the gentry of Hai'an. If the five thousand taels of silver were not cut off, it would be like not only donating but also donating.

In short, all this was decided by the pawnshop Xie.

Xu Laogui took more than 5,000 taels from Hai'an, and Han Xiufeng donated more than 9,000 taels from the sixth-grade prefecture. However, the five thousand taels were not only borrowed by the pawn shop by the alchemist, but Xu Laogui couldn't get it because the donated silver must be handed over to the Ministry of Revenue.

Wang Jiansheng had already taken back the money he had donated, so he naturally had to do a good job. He immediately made the boatman turn around and return to the white rice with the small boat that Datou and others were riding.

Han Xiufeng looked at Fang Shimei with a smile and said, "Brother Fang, don't go to Taizhou alone. Take the young and strong men who Dean Gu helped to summon him, so that Old Gui Xu can see how unreasonable I am. Let him know that you didn't stop you, but you didn't stop you."

"Bitty plan?" Fang Shimei asked, pointing at the torn official uniform.

"Aren't you worried that you can't make a bad deal? I can only make this decision."

"Brother Han, it's not impossible to have a hard plan, but why didn't you say it earlier? I'm just wearing both official uniforms. This one was torn like this. How do I change my clothes in the future? I'd say I'd change my clothes!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, this official uniform is mine, I'll compensate you afterwards."

"That's what you said."

"It's just an official uniform. You can wait. Even if I'm busy, I have to buy a courier to send you to Hai'an."

...

In order to wait for Wang Jiansheng and Datou and the others to come back, Han Xiufeng simply let the fleet dock. Unexpectedly, Datou waited for Su Jueming. Su Jueming rushed back to report the message. Several yamen runners sent by Han Chen had returned one after another because of sending letters. He had no one under his command, but he could only come back by himself. As a result, he met the fleet of the Township Yongtuan on the river.

"Did you have lunch or not? There is dry food here?"

"Thank you, Mr. Han, let's talk about the serious business first."

"Okay, you'll talk first."

Su Jueming looked at the Fang Shimei sitting next to him curiously, took the baked cake from Han Xiufeng, and said anxiously: "Master Han, this time it is true. Jiangning City was captured by bandits, Lu Jiantai is really dead!"

What was expected, but when Han Xiufeng heard the news with his own ears, he couldn't help but ask: "Do you know how the city was broken by thieves?"

"I know that when the city was broken, many soldiers and people escaped while the chaos was broken. Some fled to Guazhou and some fled to Yangzhou. I heard the escaped people say that on the 10th day of the lunar month, there was still heavy fog. I heard a loud bang, and a gap of two or three feet wide was blown open by bandits.

Some of the soldiers guarding the city were killed by bombing, and some fled everywhere. The bandits rushed into the city through the gap, and the soldiers were divided into two groups, heading straight to the Gulou, and from Jinchuan Gate to Shence Gate, all the way to Jilong Mountain. Later, they divided the troops, fought all the way to the city, and attacked Taiping Gate!"

Su Jueming took a bite of the sesame cake, and after eating in two bites, he didn't even bother to drink water, and then continued: "I heard from the escaped town model Ding that Lu Jiantai was awakened by the explosion, and was so scared that he was so scared that he hurried to take a sedan chair to check it out, and brought more than a dozen Zhuang Yong. As a result, he met a bandit bandit. Zhuang Yong. The sedan chairman was so scared that he left him to run away. The bandits did not chase Zhuang Yong and the sedan chairman, but rushed up and slashed his head with a knife."

"What happened later?" Fang Shimei asked in horror.

"As soon as Lu Jiantai died, the city was in chaos. The bandits were killed when they saw people, and their power was unstoppable. Those flag directors knew that the bandits could not avoid them, so they all retreated into the city. They thought the city was high and thick, and it was easy to defend but difficult to attack. As a result, the bandits attacked the city in one go. General Xianghou, Jiangning, died of the situation."

"Where are other officials?"

"Jiangnan Admiral Fuzhu Hong A was killed in battle. Governor Zou Minghe, who was dismissed by the emperor because of the failure to suppress the bandits, was not only killed in battle but also dismembered the corpses. Originally in Jiangbei, he was rescued from disaster relief, and as soon as the bandits were sent down the river, he returned to Jiangning's governor Qi Suzaoqi, the grain channel Chen Kerang Lord Chen, the governor of Jiangning Wei Hengkui, the governor of Jiangning Chengen, the governor of Tongyuan Chengwenrong, the governor of Shangyuan Liu Tongying, and the governor of Jiangning Zhang Xingshu were all spared, and they all died for their country!"

Thinking of the package with a letter of recommendation that Duan Dazhang helped write to Qi Suzao, Han Xiufeng couldn't believe it was true and couldn't help asking: "Has Lord Qi died for his country?"

"I died for my country, and almost all the officials in the city were killed in battle. It is said that many gentry committed suicide by seeing that they could not escape. I don't know how many of them swallowed gold and jumped into the river."

Han Xiufeng calmed down and asked: "Did the bandits divide their troops to attack Yangzhou, Guazhou?"

"Not yet, but it's too soon." Su Jueming put down the half-eating sesame cake and said with a bitter face: "Master Han, Guazhou doesn't need thieves to attack. When I came back, I heard that Guazhou camp garrison and the Qianzheng generals ran away as soon as they received the news that Jiangning City was broken."

"The bandits ran away before they came?" Fang Shimei asked in surprise.

"It ran away, it's all gone." Su Jueming nodded helplessly, thought about it and smiled bitterly, "Even if you don't run, you can't stop the bandits. I've inquired about the horses, infantry, warriors and guards in Guazhou Camp, a total of more than 300 people, forty-seven war horses, eight wrecking boats, and one gunpowder bureau. But this is on the list, and there are definitely not so many, let alone the flood areas outside the city and the bridge."

"Where is Yangzhou, what's the situation in Yangzhou City now?" Han Xiufeng asked in a low voice.

"It's a mess. I heard that Yang Dianbang, the governor of the canal transportation, is no longer in the city. No one knows where he went." Su Jueming paused and then said, "Some gentry and salt merchants think that the city can be redeemed and are busy raising money. Some gentry and salt merchants think that this is a scam with the tiger. They either go to Qingjiangpu or bring their families to Taizhou. I met dozens of them on the way back."

Thinking that all the Green Camp soldiers of Guazhou Camp ran away, the guards of Yangzhou City were probably too soon. Han Xiufeng immediately got out of the cabin and shouted to Wang Jiansheng and others who had just caught up, "Brother Wang, please take Sanchuanliang and Liang Jiu to Taizhou first, find Lu Daming and Liang Liu, and then go directly to Yangzhou!"

"What are you going to Yangzhou for?" Wang Jiansheng was shocked.

"The city of Jiangning was broken, and the guards of Guazhou Camp were scared away, and the soldiers of the Green Camp were probably faster. We don't lack people now, we just need weapons. You can go over and see if you can gather some."

"But I'm not familiar with Yangzhou!"

"Jueming is back. These news were sent back by Jueming. He is familiar with Yangzhou. He will go with you." Han Xiufeng thought for a while and said, "We still have people in Yangzhou. Zhang Guangcheng's cousin Zhang Guangsheng and Ambassador Han Bo are all there. You just need to bring people and food here!"

Although Wang Jiansheng didn't want to die, he felt that this was an opportunity to make achievements like Han Xiufeng. He felt that wealth should be in danger, so he couldn't help asking: "If you meet a defeated soldier, should you gather it?"
Chapter completed!