The officer escaped from death. When he heard Guo Zhiyuan's words, his eyes turned around and bowed to Guo Zhiyuan, and kowtowed repeatedly like a scallion, "Good man, please spare me, please spare me! As long as the uncle is willing to spare the villain's life, the villain will definitely tell the uncle everything he knows!..."

Guo Zhiyuan glanced at the officer and knew that this guy was very cunning and it was not so easy to get reliable news from this guy's mouth. He pointed to the corpse of the common people who were tortured by the soldiers on the tree at the entrance of the village, and snorted coldly: "You are not qualified to tell me the conditions. Whether you can survive depends on your performance. You can also try not to say it, or fool me with lies. I just let you taste the taste of life worse than death!"

The officer shivered and knew that Guo Zhiyuan was not talking about it. He didn't want to be skinned and hung it on the tree. He quickly told the whole story honestly. It turned out that there was a student (school) named Zhao Bingjian in Zhangpu County who claimed to be a descendant of the Song Dynasty and organized a group of people to launch a rebellion. This incident was originally a small incident in the original history, and the record was not very detailed. The Zhangpu County Chronicles recorded this incident, but it was only mentioned in a few words: "In the 34th year of Wanli, Zhao Bingjian, a student of Zhangpu, planned to attack the county, and the magistrate Huang Yingju captured it."

The 34th year of Wanli was 1606 AD. But I don’t know if it was because of Guo Zhiyuan, the little butterfly. This historical event that originally happened next year actually happened one year earlier. It doesn’t matter if it happened in advance. The development of the key events has also changed a lot. In the original history, this incident was more like a farce. Zhao Bingjian, who claimed to be a descendant of the Song Dynasty, was not very lucky. He had agreed with his accomplices to sneak attack Zhangpu County. As a result, it rained heavily in Zhangpu County for four consecutive days before the outbreak. Zhao Bingjian’s accomplices felt that the omen was not good and gave up a little, so they sold Zhao Bingjian. Zhao Bingjian was arrested by Huang Yingju, the magistrate of Zhangpu without even turning up a wave.

Many things in this world are so bizarre. A small change may make things develop in a completely different direction. Although Zhao Bingjian was not sure why he launched a rebellion a year in advance, he did not encounter heavy rains this time and successfully captured Zhangpu County. Even the magistrate Huang Yingju was arrested by him!

There were many illegal people smuggling along the coast of Fujian. These people were afraid that the world would not be in chaos. So as soon as Zhao Bingjian captured Zhangpu County and officially raised the flag of rebellion, these people came to surrender one after another, and more than 5,000 rebels gathered in a short time. At this time, the decay of the Ming Dynasty was completely exposed. In theory, even the county town was captured. Such a major incident occurred. The government should definitely send troops to suppress it as soon as possible. However, the prefect of Zhangzhou was a timid official. When he heard that a rebellion occurred in Zhangpu County, his first reaction was not to send troops to suppress it, but to quickly clean up the fine and soft, and ran away with his beautiful wife and concubine!

Even the prefect ran away, not to mention other officials, the entire Zhangzhou Prefecture was completely in chaos. Although Zhao Bingjian was a little sick from second place (if he was not second place, he would not have a daydream to restore the Song Dynasty at this time), he was not stupid. He knew that his opportunity had come, so he immediately changed his plan and led more than 5,000 rebels to attack other county towns in Zhangzhou Prefecture on a large scale. The officials and soldiers along the way were surrendered. In just a few days, all eight county towns in Zhangzhou Prefecture were lost!

The power of the rebels grew rapidly like a snowball, expanding from 5,000 to 20,000! Many of them were surrendered officials, pirates, bandits, and even many county yamen runners joined in. Naturally, such a team could not be said to be military discipline. They burned, killed, looted, and turned the entire Zhangzhou Prefecture into the Shura battlefield, and the people were suffering. This is also the reason why Guo Zhiyuan encountered riots here!

After hearing the officer's narration, Guo Zhiyuan was also stunned. Before he took office, such a big change occurred in Zhangzhou Prefecture, which really caught him off guard. How should he deal with it?

The safest way is of course to board the ship and return to Penghu Island immediately, watch the situation change, and wait until the court sends a large army to quell the rebellion before coming to Zhangzhou to take office. However, this does not conform to Guo Zhiyuan's style of work. As the upcoming Zhangzhou magistrate, although he is extremely reluctant to be the magistrate, he cannot stay out of the matter at this time. Moreover, with Xu Xueju's character, there is such a big chaos in Fujian. He, as the governor, must give some explanation to the court. Xu Xueju must find a scapegoat to shirk responsibility. The magistrate has the responsibility to control defense. If Xu Xueju wants to take advantage of the issue, it is very likely that he will hold him accountable for deliberately delaying his position before and let him take over the jar!

But what can Guo Zhiyuan do if he stays? There are 20,000 rebels of rebels, but he only brought 50 registras to train the village soldiers, 50 to 20,000. Even if he is a god, it is impossible for him to use the 50 registras to train the village soldiers to suppress the rebellion of 20,000!

Guo Zhiyuan patted his forehead with a headache, and didn't know how to make a decision for a while. At this time, the soldiers of the Tuanjiao Township had completed the encirclement and suppression of the rioters. More than 50 soldiers killed more than 20. The rest surrendered and none of them ran away. It was considered a complete victory. In addition to the factors that the soldiers of the Tuanjiao Township themselves had strong combat power, they were mainly due to their proper tactics and adopted the tactics of attacking both ends. Guo Zhiyuan thought it was the battle commanded by Li Jin, so when the battle ended, Li Jin came to report the results, Guo Zhiyuan specially patted his shoulder and praised: "Li Jin, not bad! He won this battle and did not run away. I will remember you a merit!"

Li Jin scratched his head with some embarrassment and said, "Sir, the villain dare not take credit. It was the idea of ​​the young master Guosui. Originally, the villain was going to take people directly from the end of the village to support the adults. Later, the young master Guosui said that the chaos soldiers might have accomplices. If a few soldiers escaped, it would be troublesome to call accomplices to support him. So the young master Guosui brought half of the troops in the regiment to the village head. We attacked both sides so that the soldiers did not let the soldiers run away!..."

"Oh!" Guo Zhiyuan raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Guosuke, who was commanding the soldiers of the tutors to clean the battlefield in the distance. A gleam flashed in his eyes. He kept Li Guosuke by his side because he knew that in the original history, Li Guosuke would have outstanding points to continue to roam the sea after Li Dan's death, but he didn't know what Li Guosuke had. In addition, he was busy with Penghu Island some time ago and didn't care about him. Unexpectedly, Li Guosuke got along with the soldiers of the tutors so quickly, established his prestige, and showed his calm mind and excellent command ability in the battle just now. It is worth cultivating.
Chapter completed!