Chapter 57 Chase! Three
After a day of trekking, relying on the early departure, lightweight and simple travel and carriage transport capacity, the Zhou family girl rushed to Tangxi County before closing the city gate.
Tangxi County began in the seventh year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty, and was divided into four counties: Jinhua, Lanxi, Longyou and Suichang. Tangxi County was originally a Tucheng. During the Chongzhen period, it was changed to stone bricks to seal the city wall, with one gate in the southeast and west. Later, the Japanese army repeatedly attacked airstrikes during the War of Resistance. After a young sister of the Zhou family arrived at Tangxi County, they moved into a dilapidated small inn in the east of the city, preparing to pass through the city directly tomorrow and rush to Quzhou from the west gate.
However, they lived in the inn, and the three gates of the county town were closed. In addition, before the gate was closed, a messenger in Ming army uniform who rushed from the city today rushed out of the city, as if he was planning to return to Jinhua City at night.
The next morning, Tangxi County did not open all the city gates as usual, but only opened Yingxu Gate in the east of the city for woodcutting. Moreover, the inspection of the gate guards was very strict.
Relying on the coachman's father, they had been here and told him a little. In addition, the Zhou family's younger sister had heard her brother mention Chen Wen's sending counselors to draw maps. They knew that Tangxi County was just west of Bailongqiao Town, and they arrived here yesterday along a dilapidated official road.
However, the local accent of Tangxi is far from other parts of Jinhua Prefecture, mainly because other counties are deeply influenced by the Mandarin of the Southern Song Dynasty, and Tangxi County is relatively remote, so it still retains the accent of the ancient Yue Kingdom.
The Zhou family and her group were eager to go to Quzhou, and they lived in Jinhua, so they didn't know much about the accent here. However, the unclear words in the city made them not noticable that the people who came and went to the city occasionally mentioned that the city gate was not open. They walked around the city for a long time before leaving the county town. In this way, not only did it take time, but they were even asked by the Ming army to get off the car for inspection. Even if the garrison troops had not been from the old Nantang camp of that year, they had very strict requirements on military discipline and had special supervision from the garrison judges. They had not developed the bad habit of making things difficult for the people entering and leaving the city to enjoy or make a career. Otherwise, they would probably have missed the stuff of dressing up as a man.
Fortunately, they were not completely locked up in the city, but it was delayed for half a day. In addition, when the Qing army retreated last year, it took away a large number of civilians. For half a year, the two places were still the dividing line between the two armies of the Ming and Qing armies. The frequent struggles between the two sides to conquer the Ding and send grain directly led to the destruction of the already small villages.
There are not many people living between the two places, so it is difficult to find a safer inn to spend the night. Spending overnight in the wild is too dangerous for the women of two wealthy families, so they have to change their plans. After consulting local villagers, they go north to Yangbu Town, and then go west along Qujiang. These three Jinhua people who have never been to Quzhou no longer have to worry about going the wrong way.
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At the same time, Zhou Qingui, the Fubiao Camp station in Jinhua Fucheng, has also completed the first day of recruitment work.
With the posting of the Anmin notice published by Cao Conglong in the name of Zhejiang Governor yesterday morning, the internal strife caused by the struggle for authority in Jinhua City was also a reasonable explanation, at least they think this explanation is very reasonable.
In the Anmin Announcement, Cao Conglong denounced Chen Wen's disloyal to the Lu State and his unfaithfulness to the former two military supervisors. He was actually a traitor and was punished by everyone. At the same time, he repeatedly mentioned the loans and land acquisitions, trying to use this to arouse hatred of local gentry and people towards Chen Wen.
Such ruthless rumors were spreading, I think if it weren't for Wang Yi's letter to Feng Jingdi, Huang Zongxi and the other two who were strongly refuted by the two for explaining the reason why Chen Wen opposed going to Japan to beg for his master, so Wang Yi did not write to the Lu Jianguo as scheduled to oppose going to Japan to beg for his master. Otherwise, this matter would have been spread to Zhoushan. It is estimated that Cao Conglong would have used it to prove that Chen Wen is a remnant of the eunuch party, so what he did must have harmed the country and the people.
So since Chen Wen is not a good person, he represents the moon, it is wrong. Cao Conglong, who represents the interests of the Lu Supervisor, can interpret him and the civil servants of Jinhua Mansion to have an internal strife as a "loyal and righteous man" to unite, turn the world, attack Chen Wen****, and contribute to the Ming Dynasty's Zhongxing business, so as to cooperate with the initial successful results of their rebellion to lead public opinion to the so-called evil and unbearable justice.
However, Zhou Qingui, who was not as complacent as those civil officials who were complacent about regaining power, heard some news today, but was almost ignored by Zhou Qingui, who had recruited soldiers all day long, seemed to have been extremely dissatisfied with the actions of Cao Conglong and others, and even strange arguments such as Cao Conglong was actually a spy in the Qing Dynasty.
When Chen Wen first arrived in Jinhua Prefecture, he took advantage of Qi Jiguang and Qi's army's reputation and his own success in winning battles. The local gentry and people regarded him as the savior who could rescue them from Ma Jinbao, so he received a lot of support and a very good reputation.
However, as soon as the loan and land acquisition were made, Chen Wen's reputation began to plummet, and even among some gentry, he was already comparable to Ma Jinbao. However, although there were many people who "incurred losses" in loans and land acquisition, more of them were the rich gentry and wealthy families in various counties and the ignorant villagers who were instigated by them. There were also many people who did not care about themselves. In addition, the large number of Ming army subordinates were about to benefit from it, so it can only be said that they had mixed praise and criticism.
A few days ago, the news that Chen Wen captured Ma Jinbao alive. After a day of silence, the gentry and people in Jinhua City were sure that the news was correct and immediately became excited. Not only did the ordinary people say that, even the rich gentry who usually talked badly about Chen Wen changed their words to Chen Wen, although they were greedy for money, they used troops like gods, which was considered flawless. The reason was mainly because the city was a severely affected area of Ma Jinbao and his subordinate Zhenbiao camp. Moreover, this dog traitor also participated in the Jinhua Slaughter under Boluo's tent. It was as deep as the sea of hatred as locals. Most of the army under Chen Wen's command were children of Jinhua. After capturing such enemies alive, they must be used to vent their anger. Even if the commander of the Ming army who could avenge them, he could use the powerful man on the blade, so he was naturally not the same.
After taking a roller coaster ride, at least the gentry and people in the city were still happy to have such a powerful commander of the Ming army to guard this place. This also directly led to the fact that while Chen Wen went to Quzhou to relieve the threat to Jinhua from the west, Cao Conglong, as a civil servant in the army, jumped out to cause internal strife. That must be the big face of Qin Hui and others. Even the Fubiao camp, composed of the Luo Chengyan Baitou Army, who was once influential in Jinhua Prefecture, completely transformed into accomplices of Wanqi Sen and Luo Ruji and others in the eyes of the gentry and others.
After sitting for a day, the total number of soldiers recruited was zero, and even the propaganda of gongs and drums was rarely visited. Even the rogues in the city seemed to be indifferent to this.
I heard that Chen Wen, a northerner, was able to recruit thousands of soldiers in Yiwu last year, and train a large army to repel the encirclement and suppress the Qing army. However, they were obviously an army organized by locals. The subordinates of Xu Du, Yin Can and other rebel leaders, who were influential among the people of Jinhua, had been struggling in the city for a day, but they did not attract any soldiers. This really made Zhou Qingui and others feel a hint of chill.
Fortunately, Cao Conglong used the family of the Ming Army officers of Jinhua as a threat to the threat, and the guards of a county nearest here have given up the idea of continuing to struggle, hoping to exchange the army for the safety of his family.
Chapter completed!