Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 244

The government prison.

Before the war, the entire prison was vacated.

All the prisoners were either executed early or conscripted into the township bravery. The first batch of [-] dead soldiers who carried out the fire attack were selected from the death row prisoners.

So now, there are only Yan Yingyuan and Fan Zhongjie in prison.

With nothing to do, Yan Yingyuan reorganized the whole plan of the dead time again.

Fan Zhongjie couldn't bear it anymore, and said: "Wu Heng, have you finished? How many times have you done this? It doesn't bother you to talk, but it bothers me to hear it. Don't disturb my sleep."

"No, I have to sort it out again before I can rest assured." Yan Yingyuan said.

"Besides, are you worried that you won't have time to sleep? After a while, you won't be able to sleep for long."

"What are you worried about, what are you worried about?" Fan Zhongjie said, "This time we invested so much money, not only with me, the prefect of Huai'an Prefecture, but also with you, a scholar of King Qin, After spending so much material and money, if you can’t fool Duoduo even if you plan to do so, it’s God’s will.”

Yan Yingyuan still insisted on sorting it out from the beginning: "There is no problem with the method of fire attack. The west city was originally an old city with cramped streets and dense buildings. After the people around moved into the city, they built a large number of wooden or straw sheds along the streets and alleys , the fire will soon spread to the entire west city, and it will be unreasonable for Jiannu to enter the city."

Fan Zhongjie took it seriously and said, "As long as Jiannu enters the city, he will definitely die."

Yan Yingyuan went on to say: "Sulphur, fire, nitrate and other fire starters are enough, and the lead wires are also buried very concealed, and double wires are laid, so that there will be no mistakes. If you take ten thousand steps back, even if there is a mistake in the middle, as long as there is a mistake in the middle Ignite a fuse, and the fire can still spread to the whole city in a short time."

Fan Zhongjie said angrily: "There is absolutely no problem with the fire attack."

After a pause, Fan Zhongjie said again: "Death tricks are even more of a problem. In short, it's hard for Doduo not to be fooled."

"Well, the death plan should be fine." Yan Yingyuan nodded, and then said, "The only flaw is that all the people in the west city were transferred to the east city in advance, but our argument can barely be justified."

The silver does not have to be transferred, and even a part of the food can be left as bait, but the people must be transferred.

In order to explain this problem, Yan Yingyuan and Maoxiang carefully designed a conflict. The cause was that Yan Yingyuan was going to use the entire Xicheng as an urn city, lure Jiannu into the city and set fire to the city.

Then, Mao Xiang publicly opposed Yan Yingyuan's plan.

Mao Xiang thought that Shanyang was a thousand-year-old city, and it would be a pity to burn it down.

In the end, Yan Yingyuan disregarded Maoxiang's objection and transferred the people of Xicheng without authorization.

Yan Yingyuan's move worsened the relationship between the two. Finally, when Yan Yingyuan was about to transfer the food and money from Xicheng to Dongcheng, Maoxiang suddenly detained Yan Yingyuan and took control of Xicheng.

Of course, the rhetoric given to Hou Fangyu or Duoduo was not because of the people.

It's the long-standing conflict between the two. They have had conflicts since they first came to Sanyang.

"This is definitely not a problem." Fan Zhongjie said grimly, "After all, you and Brother Pijiang planned to have a conflict, and Hou Fangyu knows this, so Duoduo definitely won't be suspicious."

"I think so too." Yan Yingyuan nodded lightly, and said, "The next step is Xiangyong. Is there any possibility that Xiangyong who stayed in Xicheng made any mistakes?"

"How is it possible?" Fan Zhongjie shook his head.

"Except for Tie Zhu and a few captains who stayed in Xicheng, Xiangyong didn't know the inside story at all. Even if they wanted to leak the inside story, they couldn't. As for Tie Zhu and others, you don't have to worry. The whole Xicheng has betrayed. They A few of them will never betray, because their whole family is in Dongcheng."

Yan Yingyuan said: "Will Sun Shengyu and Zhou Wenshan have problems?"

"Impossible." Fan Zhongjie shook his head resolutely and said, "You and the good brother Pijiang came to Shanyang not long ago, and you don't know much about Sun Shengyu and Zhou Wenshan, but my government has been the magistrate in Huai'an for three years. These two people know each other quite well, although one of them is a pirate and the other is a private salt dealer, they are the most upright people and know the shame."

Yan Yingyuan hummed and said, "Then there are only three of us left."

"The three of us?" Fan Zhongjie's face darkened in an instant, and he said angrily, "Are you suspecting that the government will inform you? Even if the government wants to inform you, you have to go out."

Yan Yingyuan smiled and said, "Master Fu, of course you have no chance to tell the truth."

"Then you are worried about the virtuous brother Pijiang? Since you are worried, you shouldn't have entrusted him with such a heavy responsibility back then, not to mention that I firmly believe that the virtuous brother Pijiang will never tell the truth..."

In the middle of speaking, Fan Zhongjie suddenly noticed that Yan Yingyuan's expression was not right.

Fan Zhongjie also said that Yan Yingyuan was really suspicious of Maoxiang, and immediately became angry: "Yan Yingyuan, what are you thinking? Brother Pijiang is not the villain you imagined, they are Maoxiang..."

"Don't be in a hurry." Yan Yingyuan said, "I have no doubts about Brother Pijiang."

"You don't have any doubts?" Fan Zhongjie said, "You have no doubts and you still put on such a dirty face?"

Yan Yingyuan shook his head, and said with a dark face: "Thousands of calculations, it's still like a miss."

"What? You missed it?" Fan Zhongjie was taken aback when he heard the words, and asked anxiously, "What did you miss?"

Yan Yingyuan said with some annoyance: "We only thought of using our own life as a bargaining chip to deceive Duoduo, but we completely ignored what brother Pijiang would think."

"Brother Pijiang..." Fan Zhongjie said in horror, "You mean he will?"

"He will." Yan Yingyuan nodded heavily, and said solemnly, "Based on what I know about him, he will definitely do it!"

"How can this be done?" Fan Zhongjie became impatient when he heard that, "Brother Pijiang is still too immature, and he is definitely not Duoduo's opponent if you play tricks. If you let him act according to your plan, he can barely do it, but if he does it himself Advocate, it will definitely be a bad thing, so we have to stop him quickly, and we must not let him do whatever he wants."

"It's too late." Yan Yingyuan sighed, "We can't get out of the prison now."

Fan Zhongjie was dumbfounded immediately when he heard this, yes, he can't get out of the prison now, this is really a cocoon.

Yan Yingyuan sighed, and said helplessly: "Now we can only hope that brother Pijiang's revised plan is still meticulous, otherwise this time it will really be a steal."

Fan Zhongjie shook his head with a wry smile: "I see Xuan."

Suddenly there were footsteps in the corridor outside.

……

Ximen, the gate of the Urn City.

Duoduo looked at Maoxiang with his head sideways.

Mao Xiang said calmly: "My lord, please enter the city."

Duoduo grinned and said, "Maoxiang, you seem to be more anxious than this king?"

"What does your lord mean?" Mao Xiang frowned and said, "It is suspected that it is false to submit to the Qing Dynasty? Yan Yingyuan, Fan Zhongjie, and the million stones of grain and one million taels of color silver in the Shanyang Treasury dedicated to the Qing Dynasty are also false. ?”

Duoduo continued to stare into Maoxiang's eyes, and said with a half-smile, "Then is it true or not that Mr. Pijiang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty? This king is stupid, please tell me directly."

Mao Xiang was furious, stretched out his neck and said, "My lord, please cut off this head."

Seeing this, He Luohui quickly smoothed things over and said, "Mr. Pijiang, don't be angry, the prince is just joking."

"Joke?" Mao Xiang said irritably, "How can military affairs be trifling with? How can one's personality be insulted? If the prince treats the returning ministers like this, it can only show that I, Mao Xiang, are blind and should be beheaded."

Seeing Maoxiang getting angry, Duoduo smiled, ready to say something nice.

But when the words came to his lips, he still felt that it was necessary to swindle Mao Xiang with words. What if it was a false surrender?

At that moment Duoduo snorted and said, "Mao Bijiang, you still dare to act in front of this king now?"

"Eh?" He Luohui, Tun Qi and other Eight Banners nobles were stunned when they heard the words, and Hou Fangyu was also stunned.

What do you mean, co-authoring Pijiang is really a fraudulent surrender?And the prince has already caught the ironclad evidence of his false surrender?

Mao Xiang's heart skipped a beat, and for a moment, Mao Xiang really wanted to take out the dagger hidden in the elbow pads and stab Duo Duo. Duo Duo was so close at hand, it shouldn't be difficult to kill him Bar?

But in the end, Maoxiang endured the temptation abruptly.

He, Mao Xiang, is no longer the Mao Xiang he was when he just left Nanjing.

After several months of hard marching and the great battle in Shanyang, he has grown up, Doduo, I don't believe you can really find a flaw, there is no flaw in Brother Huheng's death plan at all.

Even if he made some minor modifications to the entire dead time plan, it was still impeccable.

At that moment, Mao Xiang smiled and said: "Is the prince going to cross the river and demolish the bridge? Then come."

"Crossing the river and tearing down the bridge? It's really pretending. I was almost deceived by you." Duoduo said sarcastically, "It's a pity that there are a lot of secrets, huh, you have missed one of them."

However, Maoxiang has completely calmed down: "It's really a crime that I want to impose, there is no reason to worry about it."

"Still pretending?" Duoduo continued, "This king already knows that this is Yan Yingyuan's trick, right? But there is one thing you didn't lie to this king, that is, you really want to use the entire West City as a big urn city, and use this The king and his [-] troops tricked into the city and burned it to ashes, right?"

While talking, Duoduo fixed his eyes on Maoxiang's eyes.

"Keng Keng!" A few anxious Ba Yala had already pulled out their sabers and pressed them against Mao Xiang's neck.

Mao Xiang, however, was fearless, staring straight back at Duo Duo and said: "It's useless to talk, just do it."

Looking at Mao Xiang's calm, calm and fearless eyes, Duoduo was finally completely relieved, it seemed that he was really paranoid, this was not Yan Yingyuan's trick, Mao Xiang should have surrendered without a doubt.

Otherwise, a young and well-born son like Maoxiang would have revealed his secrets long ago.

Duo Feng immediately changed his smiling face, and said, "Mr. Pijiang, the king just now was just joking."

"Jokes?" Mao Xiang sneered, "Will the prince be able to expose such insults with a single joke? Is this how the Qing Dynasty treated the surrendered officials and scholars?"

(End of this chapter)