Chapter 293 I'm Sorry Brother
While Zhao Yulin and Cao Youwen were still talking, Du Baiyue arrived with the Jiading garrison. Baiyue said breathlessly that he had brought 5,000 men with him.
Lao Cao said that since the Baiyue had arrived, there was no need for them to go there in person, and they could just find a yard to sit down and have a cup of tea.
He spoke angrily to Du Baiyue: Launch the attack within half an hour, end the battle within an hour, and take no prisoners.
Then he asked Feihu where to go for tea?
Geng Feihu and he arrived at the same time, and they hadn't even spoken a few words yet, so how could they find the place?
Fortunately, a local named Xie saw the opportunity and invited the general and the commander to his house for tea.
Zhao Yulin and Lao Cao came to the small courtyard of Jie's house outside the east gate and sat down. After taking a sip of tea, Lao Cao said that he was sorry for his brother for not protecting his sister-in-law well, causing Fenghuang to get injured and suffer.
Zhao Yulin's heart immediately trembled, and he carefully asked him where Fenghuang was injured and whether she was seriously injured.
Geng Feihu walked over and said slowly that Sister Fenghuang was hit by an arrow in the chest. Although her life was not in danger, she would be left with a big scar.
When Zhao Yulin heard that his life was not in danger, he stopped being anxious and said with a smile, "We soldiers wield swords and guns all day long, so it's inevitable that we won't get injured. General, why are you so angry?"
He picked up the teacup and invited Lao Cao to have tea.
Lao Cao sighed and said: I hope my sister-in-law won’t blame him.
Then he kept complaining that he was careless.
After leaving Chengdu, Lao Cao and Huo Fenghuang wanted to see what the countryside was like, so they went straight to Dayi and set out for Linqiong the next day.
Unexpectedly, just as he was leaving the city for Linqiong and Fenghuang was in Dayi to review military affairs, the local armed forces of Liu, a big landlord on Heming Mountain, suddenly attacked Lao Cao.
The rebels attacked simultaneously inside and outside the city. Fire Phoenix only had a hundred guards and could only defend the county government office and fight the bandits to the death.
Lao Cao led a light-armed guard of 200 men, who were blocked outside the city by the rebels. It was not until 2,000 cavalrymen from Chengdu arrived that Lao Cao ordered an immediate attack on the city. When Fenghuang was rescued, she was already injured.
Lao Cao was very depressed. He ordered Zhang Guoan to dig three feet deep into the ground to catch the bandits for him, but it was useless to save Fenghuang from being in danger and injured. After sweeping away the rebels in Dayi, he immediately rushed to see him.
At this time, the sound of artillery fire outside Anren City was heard, and the battle to siege the Anren rebels had begun. When Lao Cao heard the sound of artillery fire, he told the guards to tell him to bombard the city carefully, not to be stingy with the shells, and to blow up these bastards.
Geng Feihu believed that the landlord armed forces in Dayi were definitely more than just these, and the reason why they were quickly defeated by the Shenwei Army was because they did not expect our actions to be so swift.
When the young master got the news, he immediately ordered the cavalry of the garrison to rush over. The bandits around Dayi who had received the signal of the uprising were still on their way to the county town, so it was just right for the National Security Bureau to deal with them along the way.
Zhao Yulin nodded and said, "A typical Sichuan-Western forest park in Shu is a large mansion. There are many houses hidden under the bamboo forest within the high walls. It is not easy to tell whether they are the people living in the charity cemetery or a dirty place where filth and dirt are hidden. We have to clean it up thoroughly this time."
At this time, Jie Yuanwai came over and said that hot water was ready, and asked the general to take a bath and change clothes. Zhao Yulin realized that Lao Cao was too dirty after traveling so hard, so he smiled and told him to go.
As soon as Lao Cao left, Feihu went up to him and told him very embarrassedly: Qianqian told him that Sister Fenghuang was shot in the left chest, and the military doctor said that half of her chest might be gone. Sister Fenghuang was furious and was hacking and killing the bandits like a madman.
Zhao Yulin was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what Lao Cao meant when he said that Fenghuang should not blame him.
He sighed and said: I know.
The warm winter sun shone on him with endless warmth. Zhao Yulin felt tired and could not help closing his eyes. Feihu immediately went to find a thin quilt to cover him.
At the west gate of Chengdu, in the house of Liu, the largest grain merchant in Sichuan and Shu, the master was talking to the master, and a thin voice said: "Master, the city has suddenly been put under martial law. With the concentrated patrols of the Shunfeng and the official guards, we can't start a rebellion at all. Dayi has been defeated. It seems that we have no choice but to flee."
The head of the Liu family asked lazily, "Go? Where to? How to go?"
He asked three questions in a row, and his master was unable to answer for a while.
The lawyer continued to say that he didn't expect Zhao Qi'er to react so quickly, and that Old Man Ding had also changed his temper, and his movements were so agile that they actually tied our hands and feet.
The head of the family said that this was also a mistake in his plan. A large number of military forces were placed in the countryside. It was safe, but there were not many troops available in the city.
The lawyer said with some regret that those recruited ruffians were useless. They didn't kill Cao Heizi or shoot down the Fire Phoenix in such a good opportunity. Even the purpose of attracting soldiers from the city was not achieved. Our money was really wasted.
The head of the Liu family said regretfully that perhaps he was too cautious and always felt that the time was not ripe. Now that Zhao Qi'er had moved into Chengdu, there were troops stationed there and the dynasty was changing. It would be more difficult for him to start a rebellion after being restrained.
The lawyer was also somewhat unwilling to say that Zhao Qi'er brought 8,000 people into the city at one time, and after his favorable direction rushed in and blocked the four gates, they really did not dare to act rashly.
Plus, the Inspection Bureau no longer supports the young master, so it seems we really should find another place for him to stay?
The head of the Liu family said that his second brother had caused such a big commotion in Dayi and Anren, and it was hard to say whether Dongmei would find him here later, so he should be prepared first.
Just as the master was about to leave, a man dressed as a martial artist stepped forward quickly to report: "Master, it's bad. Anren has fallen, and the Shenwei Army has wiped out all of our rebel forces."
The head of the Liu family waved his hand in annoyance and said: Forget it, he has already thought of it.
The man said that the streets were still under curfew and there were police stationed in every street and alley, so we couldn't go out.
The head of the house said that if he couldn't go out, he should stay at home. People still need to eat, wear clothes and live, and martial law will eventually be lifted.
The man said "yes" and turned and left.
At the government office, Lu Youpeng was in charge of arresting the suspects but to no avail.
Dongmei told him that the grain and salt merchants in Chengdu were likely involved in the theft of official grain and salt from the Changping Warehouse, and that she had already sent people to investigate secretly.
The landlords in Dayi and Anren also launched an uprising, with the big landlords who were closely related to grain as the backbone. The big landlords produced grain, the grain merchants sold grain, and the grain stored in Changping was stolen. A series of events revolved around the uprising against grain, and we had to focus on grain.
Concentrate on the wealthy Liu family.
However, the Liu family, the largest grain merchant in Chengdu, remained motionless.
However, Master Lu did not gain nothing. From a large amount of secret surveillance, he discovered that the Liu family's spies were very active, but they were very secretive and ordinary people could not see them at all.
Master Lu ordered the message to be sent to the four gates, guarding them tightly inside and outside, and not letting a single ant leave the city without checking whether it was male or female.
In the east of Anren County, Cao Youwen came out after bathing and changing clothes, and saw Zhao Yulin had fallen asleep, drinking tea alone under a ginkgo tree. The guard came in and reported quietly that the Baiyue general had led his troops to attack Anren and was clearing out the remaining bandits.
Cao went to the city to check with great interest. Anren County's officials had been bribed by the Liu family, and had become the nest of the landlord rebellion. The common people threw rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs at the criminals and officials who were being tried, shouting to behead these evil people and kill these corrupt officials.
However, the leader of the rebellion, the second young master of the landlord Liu family, was not caught. The thief and two of his confidants passed through a tunnel that had been dug in the city long ago, drilled three miles out of the sewage ditch in the west of the city, and entered the large drainage ditch outside the city and escaped successfully.
The thieves were smart. They had dug a tunnel connecting to the drainage ditch long ago. The lack of water in the winter made it convenient for them to crawl away.
Judging from these escape facilities that had been prepared long ago, the thieves were really deliberate and had been planning a rebellion for a long time.
Wang Jinger tried the prisoners one by one according to Jiang Yuan's procedure for dealing with rebels, beheading some and imprisoning others. Lao Cao was still not satisfied, so he told him to handle the case specially and execute the prisoners severely and quickly.
He returned to the yard and saw that Zhao Yulin had woken up. He smiled and said that Anren was safe and Baiyue was dealing with the aftermath. Shall we have lunch and go back?
Zhao Yulin nodded and said yes.
Another 8,000 soldiers arrived from Jiading Prefecture, and with Du Baiyue in command, they no longer needed to worry about the bandit problem.
After the two men finished their meal, Du Baiyue came in to report that the bandits in the city had been eliminated, but the landlord Liu, who was known as the second young master, escaped in a tunnel under the protection of the guards in disguise, and could not be caught. They could only rely on the wind to find a way out.
Zhao Yulin already understood it. It was normal to say that. It would be abnormal for a landlord with such strong power and financial resources to not have a few capable generals.
He asked Baiyue to preside over the elimination of the remaining bandits and the restoration of order, and he was going back to Chengdu with Lao Cao.
Cao angrily said that all landlords who participated in the riots would be killed, and all their land and property would be registered and confiscated. All landlords with bloody cases would also be killed, and those who bullied the people would be imprisoned and exiled to the Partridge Mountain.
Du Baiyue nodded and watched Zhao Yulin, Lao Cao and the others leave.
The two of them headed back to Chengdu, and when they passed through Wenjiang, they saw the long lines of work sheds along the Yangliu River.
Lao Cao sighed, fortunately the rebels did not cause trouble for the river workers. If the rebels had gotten involved with the river workers and the people here, he really didn't know how to start.
He told Lao Cao not to worry, because the people have a scale in their hearts and they know clearly who is good to them.
The next day, Zhao Yulin returned home and Ma Ling'er said that Fenghuang had locked herself in the room and cried, and refused to see anyone.
Wu Yuqi told him that what women care about most is the face on their heads and the two little rabbits on their chests. One can imagine how upset Fenghuang must have felt when one of her rabbits was shot and crippled by the thieves.
Zhao Yulin went up and knocked on the door, calling Fenghuang softly, but Yang Qianqian still replied that her sister didn't want to see anyone.
He returned to the living room and saw Zhao Feiyan standing stupidly in the corner without saying a word. He went up to her, patted her shoulder and asked her to take care of Fenghuang and let her rest. Sister Fenghuang was still thinking about her.
The little girl agreed awkwardly.
Later, Madam Cao and some of the ministers' families came to visit Fenghuang, but the little woman found excuses to refuse.
