After hearing this, Ma Youqi felt a little relieved. If Huang Qingya were treated like this, his sins would have been smaller. However, he quickly remembered something and asked: "Grand... Sir, can I take a look at this...? Only the last one."

"Rareless, can you see this?" the clerk beside him scolded.

"What do you want to know?" He Changming asked.

Ma Youqi honestly told the story of Huang Qingya helping the gentry to transfer property and family during this period, and launching guns and bombarding army cavalry in Zhangqiu County. He was not sure whether Huang Qingya's crimes had been calculated just now. If it was not calculated, what punishment would be if it was calculated?

He Changming smiled and signaled that the secretary could give him it. Ma Youqi took it carefully and found that the last page recorded the matter he was worried about in detail. Not only what Huang Qingya did, but also how he cooperated and what he came up with were recorded on the case. After reading it, he was both glad and scared. Fortunately, Huang Qingya had a lot of room for operation for his sentencing, but he was worried about his own case file, so he was afraid that he could not make any judgment.

In fact, small figures like Ma Youqi and Huang Qingya cannot understand the intelligence collection ability of the United States. Although the focus of the United States has been in the southeast and Guangdong and Guangxi since the Battle of Guangdong and Guangxi, the intelligence investment in the Central Plains has increased year by year in Jiangnan. Especially after Fujian achieved great success in the New Dynasty scientific expedition, all the common landlords in the Qing Dynasty occupied areas became the eyes and ears of the United States, not to mention the merchant class and the secret spies sent by the Security Bureau to the Qing Dynasty occupied areas.

"You are here this time to find a way out for yourself and Huang Qingya." He Changming asked. He had seen many such things, but the person in front of him was rare. After all, in this situation, the Qing Dynasty and the United States have not yet decided to win or lose.

At this time, Ma Youqi no longer dared to hide it. He honestly explained and offered Zhangqiu to assist in arresting traitors and war criminals and clearing out the land, money and grain of gentry. As long as the United States needs, Ma Youqi said that he and Huang Qingya would be willing to do for the United States.

"Tell me the requirements." He Changming asked.

Ma Youqi said: "I have only two requirements with the magistrate of Huang County. First, I will do my best to do this, but no matter whether it succeeds or fails, I will be exempted from the crime of my whole family and ensure that my family is safe.

As long as I succeed, I will escort my family to Jiaozhou or Qingdao. If there is any change in Shandong, I will send it to Jeju or Taiwan." At this point, Ma Youqi paused for a moment and said, "This is just a basic requirement. If I make contributions to Zhangqiu's affairs, please give me a prize. Of course, I dare not have any inappropriate thoughts from the Magistrate of Huang County, so please do not misunderstand me."

"You are a honest person." He Changming smiled. This guy wanted to get what he could get, but he didn't want to annoy him.

Ma Youqi asked: "Did the lord agree?"

He Changming smiled and said, "Your conditions are not too much. I can naturally agree to you, come and invite the general of Wuxing."

Not long after, Wu Xing appeared in front of He Changming. He was surrounded by several generals and a little impatient. Because the Qing emperor's personal army had not yet arrived at the battlefield, the Qing army was cowardly and dared not come to the Qingzhou camp to fight. Therefore, the troops entering the hinterland of Shandong were already familiar with the Qing army. Now the front line demanded support for cavalry, Wu Xing personally returned to Jiaozhou to select troops. Time was very urgent. The anti-traitor and liquidation committee where He Changming was located had nothing to do with the front line combat, and he didn't want to waste time.

He Changming didn't have a military map in his hand, so he opened an administrative map, pointed to Zhangqiu on it, and said: "Huang Qingya from Zhangqiu County wants to surrender. The general thinks it is useful for the frontline operations?"

Wu Xing was originally from Shandong and was already familiar with the local geography. When Zhang Qiu heard it, he became interested. Now the front-line army was headed by Gao Feng, confronting the Qing army in Qingzhou camp, while a large number of cavalry were active around Qingzhou camp, with the purpose of blocking the contact between Qingzhou and the outside world. Because the Qing Qing reinforcements had not arrived for a long time and the Qing army in Qingzhou could not retreat, Gao Feng ordered the organization of a larger mobile force to continue to advance westward. In addition to harassing more Qing occupied areas, it put greater political pressure on the Qing court in Beijing, and in order to destroy various resources that can support military in the hinterland of Shandong, it caused more trouble to the Qing reinforcements.

The situation of the Qing army is that Beijing’s reinforcements have already gone south to support, and at the same time, the second wave of reinforcements from the northwest region has also concentrated in the western part of the canal. The purpose is to gather with the main forces of the Qing Dynasty. The main forces led by the Wuxing to advance westward were to shock the Qing army west of the canal.

However, in the hinterland of Shandong, gentry and Qing officials cooperated to implement a solid wall and clear the fields and enter the city. The army advancing west could not carry heavy weapons, and the front-line combat logistics was not good. If Zhangqiu could get it, it would move the supply point forward for 200 miles, which would allow the cavalry advancing west to play a better role and control and harass a larger range.

"If I get Zhangqiu, I will move westward like a fish in water." Wu Xing said.

At this time, Wu Xing had already seen Ma Youqi dressed in a special way, so he asked, "Are you from Zhangqiu?"

Ma Youqi was familiar with the name of the martial arts, and nodded repeatedly. Under the inquiry of the martial arts, Ma Youqi told Zhangqi all the time about Zhangqiu, how many soldiers, how many artillery, how much food, and what the surrounding situation was.

He heard that Ma Youqi was here to find a way out. After Wu Xing discussed with He Changming in private, He Changming said to Ma Youqi: "General Wu will send someone to send you back to Zhangqiu. Cao Yu, the general close to Zhangqiu, will also receive orders to assist you in controlling Zhangqiu. Remember, you can just follow Cao Yu's orders."

"Can the new dynasty..." Ma Youqi still wanted to talk about the conditions.

He Changming took out a letter and handed it to Ma Youqi, saying, "All conditions are in there. This is written by me personally. You can discuss it after meeting Huang Qingya."

Four days later, Zhangqiu and Chaoxianglou.

Today, Chaoxianglou is singing and dancing to the peace. All the well-known people in Zhangqiu County have arrived. Officials, gentry, merchants, everyone came to the banquet with gifts. When they met Huang Qingya, they congratulated: "Congratulations to the old parents, congratulations to the old parents. If you are promoted in the future, you will have a heart to give it to you."

It turned out that just yesterday, a news spread in Zhangqiu City, saying that Ma Youqi, the rank of the army sent to Qingzhou camp, was back. Not only did he safely deliver 13,000 taels of military expenses to the army, he received praise from Governor Zhang Cunren, but he also met an envoy from the capital, saying that the Governor wanted to recommend Huang Qingya as the prefect to the court. As soon as the news came out, all the families received a post from Huang Qingya, saying that he wanted to celebrate at Chaoxianglou, which created the current grand occasion.

Seeing everyone being so polite, Huang Qingya was rarely generous, and grabbed the wine glass and drank a full drink, but was thinking about other things in his heart. He and Cao Yu agreed to gather these people in Chaoxianglou, and catch them all in one go. But now that time has passed, why can't there be any movement in his life? He can't say that the emperor's grace is so great, and he scolds his eighteen generations of ancestors in his heart, which is really embarrassing.

Not long after, there was a noise downstairs, and soon someone smashed the table, chairs and benches. The people at the table were stunned. Now that Zhangqiu County is gathered here, who dares to make trouble in Chaoxianglou? A gentry child cursed and was about to go down to see what was going on, but he never thought that when the door opened, a strong smell of blood came to his face. Cao Yu brought dozens of armored guards in, each carrying three or five heads in his hand. Cao Yu waved his hand and threw a hundred heads on the ground. There was a hill piled up, higher than the wine table. Cao Yu wiped the blood on his face, grabbed the wine pot and took a sip, and said to Huang Qingya, who was scared and limp, "Mr. Huang, what are you doing?"

"Who are you?" asked a gentleman.

Cao Yu pulled out his signature bayonet and inserted it in front of the gentleman, smiling and said, "What do you think?"

"You are...you are the island barbarians in the East!" the gentry cursed.

Cao Yu laughed, stopped the soldier who was about to chop people, smashed the old guy with one punch, and scolded: "Don't play with the knife at any time. If you cut it with one knife, wouldn't this table of food be wasted?"

The subordinate was also Cao Yu's old subordinate. He looked at the leftovers on the table and said, "Sir, you also let us eat leftovers."

Huang Qingya quickly stood up: "No, no, brothers, please let the store prepare the food so that everyone can eat well."

Cao Yu smiled: "It will take some time to cook. Take this group of grandchildren to the county government first and tell the brothers to come to eat in batches and manage the city gates. It's dawn, and the houses will be searched one by one!"

The soldiers responded and escorted the gentry downstairs. The downstairs were originally the guards of the participants, and the first-rate servants were now all cut and killed on the ground. The corpses all over the ground had nowhere to be put on. Huang Qingya smelled the bloody smell and looked at the bloody red on the ground. Only then did he realize that the road he was walking could no longer turn back.

One night, the main roads in Zhangqiu City were controlled by Cao Yu's soldiers and the county yamen runners. During the day, they came to search the house one by one. Cao Yu had already sent thousands of people, and they came with Ma Youqi again with six hundred. With Huang Qingya and Ma Youqi's cooperation, the house was searched very efficiently. After controlling the city gates and streets, no one could escape.

Huang Qingya returned to the county government last night. Although his family was fine, the killing and blood he saw last night still made him tremble in his calves and could not calm down for a long time. He kept holding the letter He Changming wrote like a treasure, which stated that it would protect the safety of Huangma and his family's private wealth. With the first batch of household raids, they were sent to Jiaozhou for temporary resettlement, and each of them was given 5,000 taels of silver. Now that the purpose has been achieved, Huang Qingya's hanging heart has slightly relaxed.

Dongdongdongdongdong

The sudden knock on the door made Huang Qingya frightened, and he asked, "Who?"

"It's me, Master Ma Youqi." Ma Youqi's voice came.

Huang Qingya ran over barefootly, opened the door and held Ma Youqi's hand and said, "My brother Ma, what else is there in the magistrate of the division at this time? Come in quickly. What's going on outside? Is it a corpse and bloody sea?"

Ma Youqi smiled: "No, Chief Cao is raiding the house, and it's not a whole family. From morning to now, no one has been killed."

Huang Qingya said: "Brother Ma, I'm done here. You can also ask your family to clean up and let your family go to Jiaozhou first. Let's ask again when we can leave too."

Ma Youqi comforted her for a few words and asked, "Brother Huang, don't you want to go further with this good opportunity?"

"What does it mean?" Huang Qingya asked.

Ma Youqi said: "It took the Xin Dynasty a few months to go to Qingzhou as reinforcements arrive in Zhangqiu County. But it is precisely this period of time that the opportunity for you and me. What will happen if you and me are relaxed when the house is raided here and the city gate is released?"

Huang Qingya said: "It goes without saying that Chief Cao and the general who was about to arrive will use Zhangqiu as a base and attack from all directions."

"What I'm asking is what happens to the people?" Ma Youqi reminded.

Huang Qingya did not think: "What else? Escape? Not only the city, but the surrounding people are afraid that they will run away. If they don't run away, will they have to wait for the Manchu soldiers to behead their heads?"

Today, the Qing Dynasty has very strict control over the war zone. Like Zhangqiu, supporting the United States' military operations, if they are acquired by the Qing Dynasty, it is inevitable that massacre will be inevitable. This has been done in Denglai, Jiangnan and Southeast, and the people all know it. However, Huang Qingya thought about it and said, "But if all the people escape, this Zhangqiu will not have much significance to the new dynasty."

"That's why I said, this is our opportunity." Ma Youqi said with a smile: "There are no less than 60,000 people in Zhangqiu City, and there are still tens of thousands of people around. In fact, what the Xin Dynasty needs to use military forces is rice, flour, iron smelting, horse raising, vegetables, washing and other services. Not to mention 100,000 people, five thousand people are enough. Brother Huang, how can you find thousands of servants for the Xin Dynasty in Zhangqiu for the past few years? What about craftsmen?"

"This..." Huang Qingya was still hesitating.

Ma Youqi said: "Brother Huang, I went to Jiaozhou and Qingdao this time. It is true that in Shandong, the Xin Dynasty is not short of soldiers, money, and food. The only thing I lack is officials, especially those who are herders and government administration. You are Zhangqiu's parents, and you have yamen runners, aides and other people. You and I will connect with the villages and contact all the places. You and I will join forces to help the Xin Dynasty. The Xin Dynasty has seen your abilities and may not be able to get a job in the future. Does Brother Huang really want to take his family overseas for the rest of his life?

Brother Huang, you and I are old enough to know your destiny. Isn’t it good to find a way out for the younger generation after trying this old bone?”

Huang Qingya nodded, and what else were there to worry about besides this old bone? He said, "Okay, Brother Ma, what should we do now?"

Ma Youqi lowered his voice: "Captain Cao said that the city will be opened for three days after the house is raided. The outsiders don't know about this news, so let's spread it quietly."

"Distribute it?" Huang Qingya didn't understand why he offended Cao Yu.
Chapter completed!