lady, please calm down

Chapter 242
On the eleventh day of August, night.

"I hope that the general will take state affairs into consideration, quickly wipe out the evil remnants, and return Huaibei to hope for peace and recovery."

In the camp of the Chinese army, Tang Jing'an finished reading the letter from Fan Gongzhi who was in Yingzhou for Chen Chu, and asked in a low voice, "My lord, are you still not replying?"

After the big case, Chen Chu held an oil lamp and was carefully looking at the map of Shouzhou, when he heard a faint 'hmm'.

Ever since the official army surrounded the rebels in Duoji Ridge on the seventh day of August, Fan Gongzhi wrote a letter every day, urging Chen Chu to wipe out the remnants of the rebel army.

Chen Chu couldn't read it back.

Regarding this matter, Zhang Chunxiao, who stayed with the army in the camp, also had an ambiguous attitude. Although he came to ask every day when the mountain would be attacked, it was not urgent.

On the contrary, he was worried about the occupation of Shouzhou by the Taining army.

That's right, Shouzhou has become a piece of white land, and this riot has killed many officials.

After Henan Lu symbolically expressed his grief and won honor from the imperial court for his dead colleague, all eyes were on the vacated position in Shouzhou.

Shouzhou governed one prefecture and seven counties. The magistrate Bai Shanye and the capital commander Ding Jisheng both died.

Not to mention the fifth and sixth grade officials such as prefects, tongzhi, and state magistrates, just talk about how many relatives and friends can be arranged by the magistrates, bookkeepers, classics, edicts, etc. of the seven counties below.
But if the Taining Army didn't leave, all of this would be for naught.

The Shouzhou meat was watched by the imperial court, Henan Road, and the Taining Army. Naturally, Chen Chu also wanted a piece of the pie.

In terms of low emotional intelligence, this is to grab territory.

In terms of high emotional intelligence, everyone wants to contribute to the reconstruction of Shouzhou.

"Any other official documents?" Chen Chu, who had been leaning over his desk to look at the map, moved his sore neck.

"Yes, there is also a letter from Tongzhi Chen in Caizhou."

"Oh, read."

With Chen Chu's words, Tang Jing'an carefully opened Chen Jingyan's letter. Unexpectedly, as soon as the letter was half unfolded, the small pink paper sandwiched in it slipped.

Tang Jing'an was confused for a moment.
The small pink note just landed face up on the big case, '. The days of passing each other are far away, and the days of clothes are slowing down. Thinking about you makes people weary, and the years have suddenly turned into autumn.Don't give up donations, don't go back, try to add meals. '

Tang Jing'an was taken aback by just casually throwing a glance at it.

Chen Tongzhi actually wrote this daughter-in-law's resentment, lovesickness and earnest instructions to "eat well" to Mr. Dutong?
Damn!

did not see it!I didn't see anything!

"Why don't you read it?" Chen Chu waited until Tang Jing'an could speak, and looked over strangely.

Tang Jing'an was startled, bowed quickly, covered the note on the desk with a letter, and said anxiously: "Oh, my lord, I suddenly lost my eyesight, maybe I was too busy, please let my subordinates return Rest for a while."

"." Chen Chu looked at Tang Jing'an, who had suddenly lost his sight, in astonishment. Although he was full of doubts, he still said, "Go, find Taoist Wu Gen for a cure."

"Yes"

Tang Jing'an hurriedly stumbled towards the outside of the tent, for the sake of authenticity, he stretched his hands in front of him, groping out of the tent like a blind man.

"Why did you go blind all of a sudden?"

With a confused face, Chen Chu casually picked up the letter on the big case, and couldn't help being amused.

Chen Jingyan's letter had two pieces of letterhead, but they were written in the same handwriting.

Thinking about it, it was Lao Chen who was lazy when writing the letter and let his daughter do it for him, and the latter secretly included private goods in the letter
Is this Tang Jing'an worried that he will be silenced because he watched something he shouldn't?
While I was reading the poem carefully, Mao Dan, who was guarding outside the account, came to report, "Mr. Yanagawa has arrived."

Chen Chu shoved Xiao Jian into his arms, straightened his clothes, and then said, "Mr. Liu Chuan, please come in."

After Chen Jing'an entered the tent, he ignored the pleasantries, and immediately discussed something in a low voice.

Maodan who was guarding outside could only vaguely hear, "Tomorrow night.", "Change defense." and so on.

After a while, Zhang Chunxiao didn't know if it was because he learned that Chen Jing'an was coming, and he also came to the Chinese army tent.

Compared with the whispering just now, the discussion between the three of them in the account this time was a little louder.

It is mainly Zhang Chunxiao and Chen Jingan who are arguing... er, communicating frankly.

"Mr. Liu Chuan! As a prefect, if there is no approval from the imperial court, even I, Henan Road, may not be able to win. How dare you think!"

"Master Zhang, then we will each take a step back. The magistrate will give you the people of Henan Road, but we will recommend you for the position of governor. Is this reasonable?"

"Don't even think about it! At most, there will be two county officials."

"Hehe, let us Caizhou left-behind department do the bloody war, and let Henan Road take all the benefits. We don't do this loss-making business."

"Mr. Liu Chuan! How can I have such a big face in Henan Road? I dare to say that at this time, Li Zhizai and Qian Shangshu already have candidates for Shouzhou officials in their hearts."

"Master Zhang, don't fool me, officials under the rule of Henan Road, if all the adults of Henan Road disagree, can Lord Chaotang insist?"

"Then Mr. Yanagawa, what's the point of telling the truth?"

"As I said just now, we will nominate you for the position of governor!"

"No! It's really not possible!"

"No? If it doesn't work, then we won't send troops, we'll just spend our time here"

"Chen Jingan! After all, you are also a famous scholar for a while, how can you act like a rogue!"

"Zhang Chunxiao! That's because you don't understand me!"

"Ah, I'm so mad, who are you?"

"Whoever calls me a scoundrel is me!"

"Hey~ hey~, sir, my lord! Don't do it, don't do it! Speak up if you have something to say."

In the tent, Chen Chu, who had been pretending to be dead, finally made a sound.

Outside the tent, Maodan and Baoxi looked at each other, the former was about to turn around to enter the tent, but the latter grabbed him.

"Did you forget, you bastard? I just confessed everything, no summons, no one is allowed to enter!"

"It's all fighting? Shall we not help?"

"Stupid! With Mr. Dutong around, how could Mr. Liu Chuan be at a disadvantage? Didn't you realize that Dutong is trying to persuade you?"

After hearing Baoxi's words, Mao Dan was relieved, peeked in through the gap in the tent, and sighed: "In the past, I thought these scholars relied on their words to persuade them, but I don't want to, and they will do it when they are annoyed! "

Night, Haishi.

When Zhang Chunxiao left the tent of the Chinese army, there was a footprint on his buttocks, but his expression was cheerful.

In the tent, Chen Jing'an was sitting next to the big case, sipping watermelon juice with a 'Zi Liu' sound, looking quite comfortable.

The battle tonight was far from as intense as the two showed.
Zhang Chunxiao, who represented the interests of Henan Road, and Chen Jing'an, who represented the left-behind department of Caizhou, were more like allies than the court princes and Taining army Li Qiong who also coveted Shouzhou.

Henan Road needs to rely on Caizhou Left Behind to help him take back Shouzhou, and Caizhou also needs to rely on Henan Road to ensure the benefits he deserves after the war.

The two of them quarrel like this, it's nothing more than testing each other's bottom line, and finally they have to sit down and have a good discussion.

Chen Chu bent down to pick up the official documents, paperweights, and inkstones that the two had thrown at each other as weapons just now, and said dissatisfiedly, "Sir, what we want is too little."

The fight was fought between Chen Jingan and Zhang Chunxiao; the matter was naturally discussed between the two.

Just now, Chen Chu was sitting in the tent, watching the two of them haggling like a lady in a vegetable market. If you want a magistrate, I must have a governor.

If you want another Tongzhi, the Tongjian must be recommended by me.

In short, except for one governor, Chen Chu only asked for a general judge, plus the county magistrate and master book under Shouzhou's jurisdiction.

Chen Chu was not satisfied with this result.

Chen Jing'an glanced at Chen Chu and said calmly: "Even the officials in the seven counties of Shouzhou are all appointed by people recommended by Yuan Zhang. Can you find so many people?"

"."

What Chen Jing'an said was that Chen Chu's biggest shortcoming was that there was no one in his hands.

Those who follow him are a gang of murderers, let them kill people, but manage a place. Imagine the picture of the eldest son wearing an official robe and sitting in the county government hall to decide the case
It's not like that.

The Yingchuan Chen family did not lack talents, but the relationship between the two parties was far from enough to allow the former to send a large number of children to assist Chen Chu.

Chen Chu tentatively said: "Sir, I originally wanted to recommend Mr. to be an official in Shouzhou." Before Chen Chu finished speaking, Chen Jingyan waved his hand and said calmly: "Yuan Zhang doesn't need to plan for me, if I want to be an official , and there is no need to wait until today. In my life, I will not be an official of Qi."

The so-called "not serving as an official of Qi in this life" is probably because he feels that it is not right for Daqi to win the country.

But in this way, Chen Jingan's integrity is established, and there are fewer people available to Chen Chu who are already stretched.
Even if the position of 'general judge' is not conspicuous, not everyone can take it. In terms of qualifications and reputation, he is the only one who is suitable.

Like Yuezhang's elder brother Cai Yuan, who was born as an official, even if Chen Chu wanted to push him hard, Henan Road would not agree.

"Yuanzhang don't need to be impatient. If he can seize the opportunity to take over the military power of the four prefectures in Huaibei and help my brother right by the way, it will be considered a good result."

"Hehe, sir, come tonight, is it for tomorrow's business?"

"Have arrangements been made for the change of defense?"

"Um"

The next day, the twelfth of August.

noon.

Jin Taiping picked up the light water bag, opened the stopper, poured it into his mouth at a [-]-degree angle, waited for a while, but not a single drop of water came out of the water bag.

With his chapped lips, he couldn't help but look at the Yinghe River, which was more than 100 feet away.
There is no water source on Fenji Ridge, and the brothers have been without water for two days. Although the Ying River is close at hand, there is a group of officers and soldiers stationed between Fenji Ridge and the river bank.

Jin Taiping, who was lying behind the boulder and silently observing the officer's camp, was suddenly stuffed with a water bag in his hand.

"Brother Jin, here you are"

Jin Taiping took the water bag, gulped it down a few gulps, comforted the dry viscera a little, and then said: "Brother mule, thank you."

Li Mule turned around and looked, and said in a low voice: "Brother Jin, if we continue to waste like this, none of the brothers will survive. What do you think of what I told you last night?"

Jin Taiping couldn't help but also looked around, he saw the hundreds of brothers trapped on the mountain, each one of them was weak and exhausted in the shade.

When they were surrounded here on the eighth day of August, there were still fifty or sixty injured brothers, and now they don't hear their wailing.

Some had been dead for days, and the bodies began to swell.

Some were still alive, the exposed wounds were red, swollen and pus-feeding, and a few flies flew in from time to time to lick and lay eggs around the wounds, and the wounded stared at the sky with their dead fish eyes, unaware of it.

The other brothers sat beside them numbly, letting the corpse rot, and didn't bother to clean it up
"Let me think about it again" Jin Taiping said in a low voice.

In the last battle of Fanjiawei, Jin Taiping's troops and the former Guangxiao Army, which faced the attack of the official army and horse army, suffered the heaviest losses, and almost the entire army was wiped out.

On the way to escape, fortunately, he was rescued by Li Mule and other brothers, and Jin Taiping fled to Dujiling.

Nowadays, most of the people on the mountain are Li Kui's people, only Li Mule and his group of about five or sixty people are close to Jin Taiping.

Originally, he was still a little puzzled why Li Mule didn't follow Li Kui, who was so many and powerful, but befriended him as a brilliant commander, but Li Mule said privately: "I was originally a family who lived on the canal in Shouzhou, but Wu Kaiyin forced me to join us." We found out that Brother Jin was originally an official army, and we had no choice but to join the bandits. Brother Jin might as well take our brothers and join the Taining Army stationed in Shouzhou."

At first, Jin Taiping was really moved. He was first hit by floods and then besieged by rebels. At that time, Wu Kaiyin's military adviser Ma Jinxing assured him that he would be recruited by the court in the future, so he made up his mind to surrender.

It's just that, until now, he still has no capital to be recruited.

Seeing his hesitation, Li Mule persuaded him earnestly: "Brother Jin, you must continue to be disturbed by it. The Taining army will stay in Shouzhou for a long time, and they must have plans to occupy the local area. What is needed is an army like my brother who is familiar with the local conditions." General. When we go, we will bring some greetings, so the Taining army can still make things difficult for us?"

The so-called 'meeting ceremony' is naturally the property they looted after they broke up Shouzhou City.

After all, Jin Taiping was born in the army, and he knew that it would be a burden to carry money on the way, so he buried a large amount of gold and silver in a place outside the city when he left Shouzhou.

He was not the only one among the rebels to do this.

After listening to Li Mule's analysis, Jin Taiping became more and more moved. The Caizhou soldiers surrounding them must not vote. This group of soldiers captured the rebellious army. Officers in the bandit army, once caught, can only die.

If you want to vote, you can only vote for the Taining Army.

But right now the besieged iron barrel is like an iron barrel, how can I escape?
However, Li Mule seemed to be able to see through his thoughts, and made another plan: "Brother Jin, it's better like this. Brother can discuss with Li Kui to break out of the encirclement tonight, and only said: The officers and soldiers must think that we are fleeing east to Shouzhou. Go west and catch them off guard."

"What do mules mean?"

"Brother, let's pretend to break out with Li Kui's troops to the west tonight. After he leads people to kill and attract the officers and soldiers, we will quietly turn east, wait for the opportunity to seize the officers' ships, and cross the river to Shouzhou. We have few people, but instead easy to succeed."

This is to sell teammates.

However, Jin Taiping has never been considered to be of one mind with Li Kui, and when it comes to life and death, he doesn't care much.

However, he felt that this plan was too risky, and the probability of success would not be too high
"Brother, you will die sooner or later if you are trapped here, why not fight with your brothers! Also, where are you looking?"

Li Mule pointed to the distance, Jin Taiping looked over, and saw a man with unshaven beard and sloppy clothes, with a broad sword wrapped in rags on his back, leaning against a tree with his eyes closed.

"Brother, my brother is nicknamed 'Dugu Qiubai Gentleman's Sword', and he is famous in Shouzhou, Suzhou, Yingzhou and some areas of Caizhou. He is a well-known expert. With him, I will be able to protect my brother from danger." !"

Li Mule vowed.

"Okay then! It's dead anyway! Let's give it a go!"

"Okay! If my brother goes to the Taining Army and gets a high position, don't forget to promote him!"

"It's easy to say! Brother Mule, I hit it off with you, why not marry Jinlan! We don't want to live together, but we want to die together!"

Die together?

Li Mule's face twitched slightly, and he said: "My little brother can't wait for it! But right now we don't even have any yellow paper, why don't we make a vow after we break through!"

"Alright."

　It seems that I have entered a period of exhaustion recently, writing things is slow and astringent, uncomfortable!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)