Two years after Deyou took office, he encountered five bandits attacking the county town. Although this group of people was combined, it was also frightening. Hundreds of bandit incidents occurred in the countryside. More than 20 yamen runners who went to the countryside to urge rent were killed. It was frightening. Xu Deyou was a literati. When he saw such a thing, he would not live a frightened day? For him, he would rather go to the northwest to be a small county magistrate than play here. What he played here was not the officialdom, but fate.

Early this morning, several injured servants arrived at the yamen in fear and reported that the yamen who went to the countryside to collect rent yesterday beat three more to death by the mob, and the rest were all lucky. They finally escaped and returned to the county town, which saved their lives.

Xu Deyou almost fainted. Since the fall of Jiangnan, the entire Qing Dynasty began to lack food. Naturally, it was the people who had no food. Therefore, the taxes were doubled. Although Kangxi wanted to be a good emperor, the soldiers could not lose food, so he could only let the people levy their heads and impose heavy taxes. Fengyang naturally had a levy. Xu Deyou could only send yamen runners to the countryside to urge grain every day. Since they were urging grain, there were naturally mobs who would cause trouble. Only three were beaten to death at one time, Xu Deyou immediately became angry.

"Which country do these mobs come from?"

"Report to the Lord, I am from Wudian Township." The team leader's eyes were swollen, and he replied with gritted teeth.

"Where is the inner king in the village? It's outrageous and it's against them."

"He was missing when he went to the countryside, I'm afraid this guy is also a mob."

"Come on." Xu Deyou thought that he had made some scruples. The mob openly killed the yamen runners. This was quite a bit: "The fire sign of the quick-taker went to the Green Camp for help and asked them to lead their troops to suppress the enemy."

"Zhe." As a result, Xu Deyou threw down the fire and immediately took a few yamen runners.

When the group arrived at the Green Camp, they were turned away. It turned out that the Green Camp soldiers in the surrounding prefectures had long been drawn out because of the emperor's will. Those who were either old or weak or sick were left behind to suppress the bandits? His grandfather's mother didn't know that the mobs in Fengyang County were all barbarians. With the suppression of these people in the camp, who knew if they had the life to go or go back?

The head of the group asked for a long time. The green camp always refused to agree. He had to go back embarrassedly and waste a day's effort. Xu Deyou cursed the local green camp a few more times. But it was useless. Finally, he was about to make excuses. At this time, someone immediately came to report: "The 300-person green camp is under the west city. Please enter the city with kindness."

Deyou couldn't help but smile and said to the group, "What did you say just now? I will not be able to transfer the green camp after I set up a fire sign? Go and set up more than a dozen tables in the back yamen to comfort the soldiers in the green camp. I will go to the countryside to get people tomorrow."

The head of the troupe also felt strange that when he went to the ground during the day, President Qian refused to bring people out of the camp. Why did he come back by himself? These green camp soldiers arrived? But the adults asked him to arrange a banquet. Naturally, he didn't dare to neglect it. He silenced and went to do it immediately.

It was already dark at this time. The city gate had been closed. The city gate was constantly kicked by the green camp soldiers under the city. During the day, the Qiang General was yelling and scolding under the city. The city gate had to be placed and not allowed to open the city gate. Therefore, several servants on the top of the city immediately reported to the magistrate for a quarter of an hour before they came back and opened the city gate.

A crack had just opened up in the city gate. Hundreds of green camp soldiers rushed in. They viciously scared the two Kaicheng District officers so much that they hurried to hide on the side of the door.

"Hurry. Take me to see Lord Xu." A thousand general in the head was looking around. Then he added: "Close the city gate quickly."

"Sir, Lord Xu is still in the yamen. He has prepared a banquet, just waiting for the banquet with his brothers and his brothers." A servant came over carefully and said with a smile.

With a snap, Mr. Qian slapped the officer without hesitation. Before the poor officer could understand what was going on, five palm prints were added to his left cheek: "I'm the one who got you killed by a thousand swords, damn, tens of thousands of Ming soldiers are coming."

"Ah?" The officer forgot the pain, and his legs were trembling and could not speak.

"Damn it, hurry up and lead the way." Mr. Qian made a vicious gesture to kick, and the officer immediately came to his senses and trotted ahead to lead the way.

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"What? Tens of thousands of Ming troops are going to attack Fengyang?" Xu Deyou's expression was not much better than that of the officer after hearing this news. However, he was a cultural person after all, and after losing his appearance, he quickly calmed down: "What should I do now?"

"What should I do?" Mr. Qian wanted to tell him what to do, but unfortunately he didn't know what to do next. Tens of thousands of troops suddenly appeared near his camp. Without saying a word, he immediately ran away with his people, just thinking about finding a county town to avoid it, but the Ming army kept following them, and arrived

Only then did I realize that the Ming army's target was Fengyang, and he didn't run away, but the Ming army did not deliberately pursue him. The small group of green camp soldiers who fled before they met were disdainful of chasing them. Their target was Fengyang. Mr. Qian now realized that he regretted not running towards Fengyang, but now there was no way. He was silent for a moment: "It is impossible to win the fight, and you must ask for help immediately."

"No, not bad, I have to ask for help." Xu Deyou had never seen such a scene before, so he woke up and nodded repeatedly. When he was about to start writing, he suddenly raised his eyes: "Ask for help? Who should I ask for help?"

Yes, who should I ask for help? The entire Anhui green camp has almost been transferred out, but the Ming army has tens of thousands. If you ask the emperor for help, when the reinforcements arrive, Fengyang will probably have broken the city long ago, and no one present will have a good ending.

Mr. Qian was stunned by Xu Deyou's rhetoric. He hoped that the green camp soldiers left behind in Anhui Province would come to save him. It would be better to hang his neck into the rope now. If he could commit suicide, he might not be able to save them for a while. He gritted his teeth: "Why don't we surrender? The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty had already given a grace order. As long as he was a Han Chinese, those who were willing to surrender could save their lives.

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Xu Deyou's stupid anger came up: "We are deeply grateful to the emperor for his salary and loyalty to the emperor. How can we do this rebellious thing?"

Mr. Qian's face changed slightly, and he unconsciously pressed the handle of the knife: "So, according to the adults, what should we do?"

Xu Deyou hesitated slightly and then said, "There is a solution. There is not much time now, and I don't have much time to explain to you. Do it according to my arrangement. Now I will summon your soldiers immediately, and I will also summon the yamen runners."

President Qian is still there, should this county magistrate believe the words? Xu Deyou seemed to see his thoughts and added: "Don't worry, as long as you guard the city, you and I will make great contributions. You can also be named a marquis and a general. If Lord Qian doesn't believe it, will this official make a joke on his name?"

Mr. Qian felt warm and nodded: "Okay, then I will go back."

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On the other side, Mu Jianming led the Southern Army from Hankou to Fengyang. The two places were hundreds of miles apart, and I don’t know how many prefectures and counties they had to pass through. However, the Qing army guarding the city was obviously too small and did not dare to leave the city at all. The Southern Army obviously had no interest in these prefectures and counties. On the evening of the fourth day, they arrived at the city of Fengyang.

When the Fengyang Townships heard that the army arrived, they were welcomed by roads everywhere. This was a large army of fellow villagers. When Zhu came back, the Fengyang people naturally had a good life. When the Southern Jiangsu Army arrived at Fengyang City, nearly 10,000 villagers with shovels, hoes, and wooden sticks had gathered. The Fengyang people naturally advocated force. Even if the conflicts in the countryside were usually caused by the conflicts in the countryside, hundreds of people gathered together to fight, and they would never stop. The arrival of the Ming army made the Fengyang people, who were oppressed by the crowd, immediately armed the Fengyang people, who were oppressed by the crowd, immediately followed the Ming army. The Fengyang City was crowded with people, and it was really cloudy.

Just as Mu Jianming was confidently planning to attack the city, something strange happened. On the top of Fengyang City, portraits suddenly hung out, and even on the city tower, there was a statue hanging under the eaves.

"What's going on?" Mu Jianming gave the order, but the troops in front did not launch an attack. He rode his horse and went forward to ask with surprise. The Ming army had always been well-trained. If there were no special circumstances, no one would have ignored his orders.

"Sir." The reply was a guerrilla general holding a monocular telescope: "Taizu was hung on the city wall by the Tartars, and the last general..."

"Taizu?" Mu Jianming almost fell from his horse. He looked at the distance at any time and saw portraits hanging from the city wall. Then he understood something and asked the guerrilla general to come over with a telescope to see. There were indeed huge portraits of Taizu on the city wall, and there was also a stone statue of Taizu hanging from the city wall.
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