Chapter 679 The Great Savior, the Great Evil Star

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Shandong, Linqingzhou, and the canal transportation yamen.

Jiang Dafeng, the Linqing Grain Transport Author, walked around the Grain Transport Government, and felt very anxious. From time to time, he would turn his head to see the movement outside the door and see if anyone sent emergency documents. Occasionally, he would listen carefully to hear whether there were any sounds around him. He, the Grain Transport Author, had not been restless like this for a long time.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Linqing rose rapidly by relying on canal transport and became one of the five major commercial ports in Jiangbei. It has been prosperous for 500 years and has the reputation of "prosperity overwhelming the two capitals" and "rich Jiaqi County". During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Linqing cash customs tax revenue was the first of the eight cash customs in the canal. Until now, the tax revenue of Linqing canals is still quite considerable.

Since the launch of the canal transportation, the most powerful government agency in Linqing was not the provincial government office, but the canal transportation yamen. Almost all cities on both sides of the Grand Canal have such a practice. As the tasks of canal transportation become increasingly heavy, the power of the canal transportation yamen has become increasingly greater. As long as there are towns with canal transportation yamen, local governments have basically been marginalized.

The canal transportation yamen has its own armed canal, which is incomparable to the state yamen. At any time, it is a person who has the highest status. If there is no support from the armed forces, no one will take him seriously. For example, if the US president is not backed by the strong American team, who will win him?

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At this moment, Jiang Dafeng, the Linqingzhou conscript, was hesitating. In the past few days, he felt his head was quite painful. He was preparing to unload the food in Linqingzhou, but he couldn't unload the goods, so he had to continue to stay on the dock. This batch of food was to be transported to Hong Chengchou. Jiang Dafeng knew a little about Hong Chengchou's character, Yang Yipeng, the governor of the grain transportation. This was a very strong person. If this batch of food made a mistake in his link, Hong Chengchou would directly find Yang Yipeng.

As the saying goes, long nights and dreams are too long, accidents are prone to happen over time. He even was a little worried that if the Tartars learned the news, they would come here. After all, Linqing was not very far from Northern Zhili. In fact, every time the Tartars went south, it was the busiest time for the canal transportation yamen, because a large amount of military rations had to be unloaded in Linqing and other places, and then transported by land. In this way, it would be impossible for the Tartars not to pay attention to Linqing.

The invasion of the Tartars this time was due to the Hu Ben Army. Otherwise, Linqing would definitely be one of the important targets of the Tartars' plunder. The transportation routes on land were blocked, and it seemed that these foods could only be temporarily placed in Linqingzhou. But, is it safe to place them here? Jiang Dafeng himself was a little worried.

The grain of thirty canal ships is more than 20,000 stones in total. This is a very important batch of materials. If converted into silver, it is worth more than 20,000 taels. However, during war times, grain is more important than silver. The army cannot live with silver. If the military ration cannot be provided, the army may mutiny at any time.

"Sir, it's not good!"

Suddenly, a Caotei rushed to report.

"What's wrong? Are the Tartars coming?"

Jiang Dafeng's face changed slightly, and he felt that his eyes were pitch black.

The thing that I fear the most is inevitable after all.

"It's the Hu Ben Army that is here!"

My subordinates report a little panicked.

"Tiger Army?"

Jiang Dafeng was in a hunch for a moment and said to himself in a difficult manner.

Damn it, I really worry about anything. For Jiang Dafeng, the arrival of the Hu Ben Army is definitely not a good thing. From his perspective, there is no difference between the Hu Ben Army and the Tartars. Because, whether it is the arrival of the Tartars or the Tiger Army, the good days of his canal transport envoy have come to an end, and it is still unknown whether his life can be saved.

Perhaps, for the ordinary people below, they are definitely looking forward to the arrival of the Hu Ben Army day and night. As long as the Hu Ben Army arrives, they will divide the land and let them live a new life. However, for the upper class, the Hu Ben Army is not popular. Because the new life of the poor is based on the sacrifice of the interests of the upper class, such as the upper class.

"Close the city gate!"

Jiang Dafeng shouted hurriedly.

"Sir, the city gate cannot be closed!"

The subordinates' helpless answer.

"What's going on?"

Jiang Dafeng was annoyed?

Linqingzhou is his world, and he can't even close the city gate?

"Li Xiaocheng, Mo Sanmo and the others controlled the East Gate and did not let our people get close."

The subordinate answered sadly.

"It's them again..."

Jiang Dafeng's face changed slightly and he said gritting his teeth.

Li Xiaocheng and Mo Sanmo, it was indeed these two guys again. I knew that these two guys must be going badly. Before the Hu Ben Army arrived, they had already gathered together. Now that the Hu Ben Army is coming, they must be in a mess. Damn, at this critical moment, they took the lead in controlling the East Gate, which is really deadly!

In fact, Li Xiaocheng and Mo Sanmo are both poor military households in Linqingzhou. Due to the special status of Linqingzhou, the Ministry of War of the imperial court specially set up Linqing Guard here, with a total of five thousand households and five or six thousand military households. Together with their respective families and relatives, there are about 30,000. In Linqingzhou, the number of military households is relatively large.

Like the garrisons in other places, all the monthly grains of these military households are in arrears. Especially in Linqing Prefecture, there are also grain garrisons in Linqing Prefecture, so there is no need for the garrison troops to be dispatched. This will cause more monthly grains to be owed. Obviously, this will lead to their serious dissatisfaction with the government, but there was no way to vent the garrisons in the past, and there was high pressure from grain garrisons, so they could not explode.

Now, with the rise of the Hu Ben Army, these poor military households have slowly found a new way out. This way out is to follow the Hu Ben Army. Since the Hu Ben Army can change its destiny through its own efforts, why don’t they join the Hu Ben Army and also change their destiny? So, they spontaneously organized and formed the city defense army, claiming to join the Hu Ben Army's large team.

Because of the combat effectiveness of the Hu Ben Army, neither the prefecture yamen nor the canal transportation yamen in Linqing Prefecture dared to interfere too much in the affairs of the city defense army, nor did they dare to kill people randomly, for fear that the Hu Ben Army would come to find themselves to settle the matters. As a result, the power of the Linqing City Defense Army is getting bigger and bigger. So far, there are almost a thousand people in the so-called city defense army organized by Li Xiaocheng and Mo Sanmo.

If it were not for the support of the Huben Army, it would be no problem to defeat these people with the strength of the Caoshen. However, the Huben Army was about to arrive, which made Jiang Dafeng dare not have any idea of ​​this. If he attacked the people of the City Defense Army in front of the Huben Army, they would definitely not have good results when the Huben Army came. On the land of Shandong, even the governor dared not disobey the Huben Army's wishes, let alone his small Caoshen Army.

"grown ups……"

Seeing Jiang Dafeng's face changing constantly, my subordinate asked hurriedly,

"Open the city gate and welcome the Hu Ben Army!"

"Prepare the banquet and welcome the arrival of the Hu Ben Army!"

Jiang Dafeng had no choice but to say helplessly.

At this point, it is impossible for him to stop the arrival of the Hu Ben Army. Even big cities like Jinan City and Dezhou City cannot stop the arrival of the Hu Ben Army. What ability does he have to fight against the Hu Ben Army in a small Linqingzhou? His family property is of course important, but his life is even more important. The strength of the opponents of the Hu Ben Army is not inferior to the Tartars at all! Why should he ruin his life in vain?

Instead of making the Hu Ben Army hate him, it is better to take the initiative to surrender. Nowadays, if you have milk, you are a mother. Since the Hu Ben Army is powerful, you should surrender to the Hu Ben Army. In fact, if you really want to open it, "Juntian Ling" is not completely unacceptable. The only thing that benefits will be your own relatives. If you go to the end of the dead end, you will be in vain to the Hu Ben Army.

When Jiang Dafeng and others arrived at the east gate, they saw the city defense army led by Li Xiaocheng, Mo Sanmo and others waiting for battle near the city gate. Of course, their weapons were not as advanced as those used by Caoding, and most of them were broken weapons made by the garrison themselves. However, due to the arrival of the Hu Ben Army, their morale was very high, which was very meaningless to be with the Caoding. If both sides rushed to the ranks at this time, Caoding might not be able to take advantage.

Seeing Jiang Dafeng coming, Li Xiaocheng and Mo Sanmo immediately became alert. They immediately walked over, followed by dozens of backbones of the city defense force. Li Xiaocheng shouted loudly: "Jiang Dafeng, what are you doing here?"

Jiang Dafeng hurriedly shouted: "I am here to welcome the Hu Ben Army. Look, we are not carrying weapons. Don't misunderstand, don't misunderstand."

Li Xiaocheng said sternly: "Jiang Dafeng, don't mess around, otherwise, you won't have the best fruits to eat."

Jiang Dafeng cursed in his heart, if it weren't for the Hu Ben Army, how could it be your turn to speak? Why didn't you guys who are not poor or starved to kill you before? However, now the Hu Ben Army is powerful, and he dare not say anything. Instead, he smiled and said, "I dare not, don't I. At this time, I'm not going to hang my birthday boy - do you think he's long?"

Mo Sanmo didn't say much, and said coldly: "It's good that you know."

Jiang Dafeng stood obediently with a professional smile on his face.

He didn't know who the Hu Ben Army was, and it might be just an ordinary officer. However, as long as he was a person after all, he couldn't afford to offend him. Zhang Zhun was said to be very difficult to talk to and was very protective of his subordinates. As long as he offended the Hu Ben Army, it would be equivalent to offending Zhang Zhun. Even Huang Taiji would not end up!

When they learned that Jiang Dafeng welcomed the arrival of the Hu Ben Army at the East Gate, the wealthy families in Linqing City also sent representatives, or personally to the East Gate to join the welcome ranks. Because of the canal transportation, there were many wealthy families in Linqing. They were all merchants and had no land. Therefore, the "Juntian Ling" did not suffer much damage to them. Compared with ordinary landlords, they were more likely to join the Hu Ben Army.

"Da da da da!"

In the afternoon, the rushing sound of horse hooves came.

Soon, the green figures of the Hu Ben cavalry appeared in their sight.

This was the vanguard of the Hu Ben Army's cavalry and also the scout. They arrived outside Lin Qingzhou and found that there was no abnormality here. After finding that everything was normal in Lin Qingzhou, the scout rode his horse around the city wall and went to the west of the city to guard the city.

Not long after, the large cavalry of the Hu Ben Army continued to appear. A total of six or seven hundred cavalry teams were all wearing dark green uniforms. Their team was very neat, giving people a new look and a bright feeling. In front of the team, there was a young man who seemed a little different.

Suddenly, someone whispered in Jiang Dafeng's ear: "Sir, it's Zhang Zhun..."

Jiang Dafeng felt nervous and said in a lost voice: "God! Why did this evil star arrive in person?"

He really didn't expect that Zhang Zhun would come in person. Fortunately, he didn't do anything that made Zhang Zhun unhappy, otherwise he would be done. Isn't Zhang Zhun going to kill him, just like a kill an ant? But Jiang Dafeng was a little confused. What special thing in Linqingzhou can attract Zhang Zhun to come. Zhang Zhun, Zhang Zhun, what are you doing in Linqingzhou?

"Zhang Zhun is here."

"Zhang Zhun is here."

"Zhang Zhun is here."

The news about Zhang Zhun’s arrival in person was like wings growing, and it soon spread throughout the upper class of Linqingzhou. Who hasn’t heard of Zhang Zhun’s name in Linqingzhou? Now, this great savior, the great evil star, suddenly came to Linqingzhou. God knows what will happen here? However, Zhang Zhun’s arrival may not be all bad things. At least, during Zhang Zhun’s stay in Linqingzhou, the safety of Linqingzhou was absolutely guaranteed.

It is hard to say that all the heads of wealthy families and important backbone figures rushed to the scene. Zhang Zhun arrived in person. If they didn't come to the city gate to greet him in person, this would be easily criticized. Even if Zhang Zhun was generous and didn't care, the people around him would remember it. As a result, in a while, all the people in the east gate of Qingzhou were all human.

Before, Li Xiaocheng and Mo Sanmo didn't know that Zhang Zhun had arrived in person. Now, seeing so many upper-level figures gathered here, I realized that Zhang Zhun had arrived in person. For a moment, they were very excited and a little inexplicably frightened. After all, the city defense force they organized did not receive the formal approval of Zhang Zhun, and it is still hard to say what the final result would be.

"Da da da da!"

The sound of horse hooves continues.

The Hu Ben cavalry came straight into the open city gate.

The soldiers of the Dragon Cavalry Camp first rode their horses in, controlling the vicinity of the city gate and around the city tower. Then, snipers from the Tiger Army came in, controlling the commanding heights everywhere in the city. More cavalrymen came over and occupied the main streets and important buildings in the city, including the prefecture yamen and the canal transportation yamen.

Someone greeted Li Xiaocheng and Mo Sanmo, and then the two followed him out of the city. Obviously, they were called by Zhang Zhun. With these two local snakes, Zhang Zhun naturally knew the situation in Linqingzhou. It was impossible for others to hide something.

Jiang Dafeng and others looked at each other, feeling anxious inside. I wonder if Li Xiaocheng, Mo Sanmo and others would say bad things about them behind their backs. If they both "impeached" him hard in front of Zhang Zhun, he would be completely finished.

After a while, Zhang Zhun slowly rode his horse into the city.

Jiang Dafeng and others hurried forward to greet him and greeted him respectfully and diligently: "Governor!"

Zhang Zhun nodded and said gently and friendly: "Thank you all for your hard work."

Jiang Dafeng thought to himself, what's the hard work we have? We only have to work hard when you come. If you don't come, Linqing will be our world, and you can play whatever you want. Once you come, you are the boss of Linqingzhou. We all have to listen to you, which means that the more uncomfortable you are, the more uncomfortable you are. Of course, this cannot be expressed. So, there are more smiles on their faces.

A wealthy businessman said: "The governor defeated the Tartars in a row, which is the supreme glory. The governor arrived in Linqingzhou and was truly full of glory."

Zhang Zhun said calmly: "It is all the result of the efforts of the Hu Ben Army, and it is also inseparable from the support of everyone present."

This is somewhat hypocritical. The Hu Ben Army's record has nothing to do with the people in front of you. However, since Zhang Zhun said that, the people present felt much better. At least, judging from Zhang Zhun's words, he did not mean to start a massacre in Linqingzhou. Of course, the premise is that everyone will do it, and don't deliberately touch Zhang Zhun's reverse scale.

While speaking, Jiang Dafeng and his group welcomed Zhang Zhun all the way to the Cao Transportation Office, where the banquet had already been held. Linqing has always been one of the best commercial ports in Shandong, so the purchase of wine and food was naturally very rich, and the movements were also quite rapid.

After three rounds of drinking, Jiang Dafeng asked intentionally or unintentionally: "I don't know if the governor is coming, what can the subordinates serve?"

Zhang Zhun said calmly: "I want to take away all the canal ships on the pier."

Jiang Dafeng suddenly felt a sudden slap in his heart, and he was secretly screaming. Oh no, Zhang Zhun came, and he was really uneasy. It turned out that he was aiming at those basket ships. If it were someone else's basket ships, it would be fine, but the food was to be given to Hong Chengchou. Hong Chengchou was definitely not a person who was easy to bully. Jiang Dafeng said tactfully: "That's the Governor Hong..."

Zhang Zhun said calmly: "I know. I will write him an IOU, so you won't be difficult to do it."

Jiang Dafeng had a bitter face and dared not say anything else.

Zhang Zhun had already given him great face and started robbing him before he came up. If he couldn't do it, Zhang Zhun might have to adopt the most direct and violent way. Can hundreds of Caoding in Linqingzhou fight against hundreds of Hu Ben Army? You can think of it with your heels.

In desperation, Jiang Dafeng had to surrender and asked flatteringly: "Then... I don't know when the Governor wants it?"

Zhang Zhun smiled and said, "Now."
Chapter completed!