MTL - Poor Family-v2 Chapter 935 long overdue

  Chapter 935 Long overdue

The city of Chengdu was already in chaos. When the Zeng family was still discussing behind closed doors whether to send troops to rescue the patriarch, the news that the ten tigers of Zengmen led an army to kill Chengdu had spread throughout the city. The gossip that the Zeng family had recruited troops had been going on for two years. Everyone knew it before, but ordinary people couldn't understand it, and they weren't interested in it, but those who could understand it and were interested in it didn't dare to express their views under Zeng Xiulin's lustful power.

On the contrary, ordinary people are very interested in the ten tigers of Zengmen. What the ten tigers of Zengmen did has always been the focus of discussion among Chengdu people. Whose son was killed today, whose daughter was robbed yesterday? There will be similar news in Chawu, so that the fierce reputation of Zengmen's ten tigers has already been engraved into the bones of the people of Chengdu.

  So when the news that the Zengmen Ten Tigers led an army to kill Chengdu immediately caused the people of Chengdu to panic.

Before it was dark, there was a wave of rushing for rice in various rice shops in Chengdu. The price of rice in Chengdu rose from 30 yuan per bucket of rice to 60 yuan per bucket of rice in an instant. Not only the price of rice, but also the price of silver also skyrocketed. One tael of silver was exchanged for 5,000 Wen, and suddenly it rose to one tael of silver for 8,000 Wen. Many rich and powerful families began to flee south of the city with their families.

  The entire city of Chengdu is full of turmoil, full of fear of the imminent war.

Zeng Xiulin was locked in a small room in the government office, and two soldiers watched him closely. After waking up, Zeng Xiulin didn't speak, just lay on the bed and looked out the window silently. At this time, his heart was filled with the victor is king , the desolation of the loser as a bandit, full of remorse for his own negligence, if he had seen through Li Yanqing as a wolf, he would not have allowed the Eight Thousand Xiang Army to go north, and his heart was full of hatred for those who betrayed him I mean, if he still had the chance, he would definitely tear people like Xu Qinghui and Zhang Ji into pieces.

But Zeng Xiulin still had a ray of hope in his heart, and this ray of hope was the Supreme Emperor. He believed that the Supreme Emperor would definitely want to control Bashu, and maybe the Supreme Emperor would come to Bashu in person to inspect. None of these matters.

  At this time, there was an angry shout outside, Zeng Xiulin remembered, it seems that Hongsheng rice shop is opposite the government office, what happened?

  He finally turned his head and looked at the two soldiers who were watching him, "What happened outside?" He asked coldly.

  A soldier went out quickly, and came back after a while and said to him: "The rice shop has raised the price again, up to 100 yuan per bucket of rice. The rice buyers are very angry, so they all shouted."

   Zeng Xiulin was taken aback. In just two days, the price of rice has skyrocketed to a hundred dollars per dollar, more than tripled! What's going on here?

  He couldn't help but asked again: "What happened, the price of rice rose so rapidly?"

  At this time, Li Yanqing's voice came from outside the door, "It's because the ten tigers of your Zeng family led 7,000 troops to attack Chengdu, causing panic in the whole city."

  Li Yanqing appeared at the door with a mocking smile on his face, "It seems that your Zeng family is very rich! You can actually support seven thousand troops."

   "You're talking nonsense!"

   Zeng Xiulin suddenly became agitated, and shouted: "You spout blood, when will the Zeng family have an army to kill?"

At this time, Yushi Zhang Shan came out from behind Li Yanqing and explained: "Li Jinglue is not wrong. The Zeng family's army has already reached thirty miles north of Chengdu County. I don't know how many people there are. panicking about it."

   Zeng Xiulin seemed to have stepped on the ground and fell into the abyss. His heart was full of despair. If this was the case, even the Supreme Emperor would not be able to protect himself.

  He pointed at Li Yanqing with a trembling finger and shouted: "You can stop it, but you deliberately made things big and wanted to put my Zeng family to death, didn't you?"

Li Yanqing shook his head, "I'm not as bad as you think, before I ordered all Zhuang Ding of Heming Villa to be executed, just to warn the Zeng family not to mess around, but the Zeng family didn't take my warning to heart. This is the Zeng family seeking their own death, so what does it have to do with me?"

   "Then what exactly do you want? Tell me, if you come up with an offer, I will agree to it."

  Li Yanqing still shook his head, "I am not looking for you now, but Zhang Yushi is going to interrogate you. If you have any objections, you can argue to Zhang Yushi. Maybe the officials will spare your life in the end."

   After speaking, Li Yanqing nodded to Zhang Shan, turned around and walked away.

Zhang Shan sat down opposite Zeng Xiulin, and said calmly: "Prefect Zeng, let's start with the matter of the anti-golden military expenditure! The government attaches great importance to this matter, so they sent a letter here, ordering me to find out the truth .”

Li Yanqing came out of the government office and went directly to the north city wall. The ten thousand men who had been recruited had already entered their seats. Almost all of them were soldiers of the imperial army. Li Yanqing offered a monthly salary of six copper coins, which was equivalent to twelve The iron money is quite tempting, and the registration is very enthusiastic. In just one hour, 10,000 militia soldiers were recruited.

Militia soldiers are required to bring their own equipment, so there are various kinds of equipment. Some wear armor with Shunshui mountain pattern, some wear leather armor, some wear cloth armor, but there are also many people who wear civilian clothes and only wear a helmet. There are also a variety of weapons, including spears, long spears, and big knives and iron bars. Some have swords, others have knives, some have military crossbows, and more often hold bows and arrows.

   But these are not important, what is important is that they are all willing to join the army for a long time, and will become an army of the Jingzhao Army stationed in Chengdu.

The five hundred female soldiers also rushed back to Chengdu City together with Yushi Zhang Shan. They handed over the horses to Yan Qing's five hundred scouts. This was Li Yanqing's first mover. When they came to Bashu, they did not ride horses, but five hundred female soldiers came on horses of the scout army. At the critical moment, they returned the horses to the scout army, and the scout army immediately transformed into a powerful cavalry.

  The 500 female soldiers also had tasks. They were divided into two groups, half of them were responsible for guarding the four city gates, and the other half of the soldiers were responsible for guarding Zeng Xiulin and his people to prevent anyone from taking advantage of troubled waters.

Although Li Yanqing did not pay attention to the armed Zhuang Ding of the Zeng family, he was still very cautious on the other hand. There are nearly half a million people living in Chengdu County, and the Zeng family has a large number of shops in the city. Thousands of people, there is no guarantee that some of them will be loyal to the Zeng family and help the Zeng family fish in troubled waters in the chaos.

  So Li Yanqing did two things. One was to imprison Zeng Xiulin and his people in the government office, and at the same time strictly protect the safety of the government office. The second was to disband the township soldiers and control the four city gates in his own hands.

  As for Yan Qing, he led five hundred cavalry and hid outside the city, preparing to deal a head-on blow to the Zeng family.

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The Zeng family's army didn't arrive late until two days later. The reason was that the ten tigers of Zengmen thought that 700 men were too few, and recruited many local ruffians from nearby counties and counties, bringing the Zeng family's army strength to 2,000. , wearing a helmet and holding a spear and sword in his hand, the army's momentum suddenly increased. At dusk, the army arrived in the north of Chengdu County.

  The alarm bell was sounded on the top of the city, and the militia soldiers who were resting below the city rushed to the top of the north city one after another. The banners on the top of the city were fluttering, and the swords and guns were like forests, equally murderous.

  Three Tigers Zeng Huaibiao looked at the soldiers on the top of the wall, and said to his elder brother Zeng Huaiwu with some concern: "Brother, there are many troops on the top of the wall!"

  Zeng Huaiwu snorted disdainfully, "It's the militia soldiers Li Yanqing just recruited. Many of them don't even have armor. They're just a mob. Don't worry."

  Second brother Zeng Huaiqiang stepped forward and said, "I wonder if Uncle Ning is ready."

Zeng Huaiwu smiled and said: "I have received the news from Uncle Ning that we will attack at three o'clock tonight, when we pretend to attack the north city gate, they will break through from the west gate, third child, you take eight tigers and nine tigers to the west gate to meet them. It’s a matter of success or failure.”

  Zeng Huaibiao became excited, straightened his back and said: "I understand, please rest assured, brother, it will be safe."

  (end of this chapter)