For cases related to the grain transport, the Ministry of Justice had a special person stationed in Huai'an for interrogation, that is, the grain affairs were responsible for the crime. This institution was established during the Hongzhi period. After a long time, the yamen was located and the people in Huai'an City called the Ministry of Justice Street.

In any case involving grain, whether it is the Huai'an Prefect, Huaiyang Governor's Office, or even the grain transportation yamen, there is no right to interfere in any case. The grain transportation agency will handle the crime. Therefore, although this is only a sixth-rank official, it has great power in handling cases involving grain.

The Huaiyang officialdom also privately said that the chief of criminal affairs was actually sent by the court to supervise the grain transportation yamen, which was equivalent to an inspector.

Wang Yunduan, who is currently the chief of criminal judiciary in the Cao Transportation, was a Jinshi in the eighth year of Chongzhen. He has been hiding in the yamen since the rebels attacked the city.

Although the judiciary yamen has great power, there are only more than ten members of the family. On weekdays, whenever a case involving grain is filed, the Governor's Office needs to send personnel to assist him. There will be no soldiers guarding him.

When he went south from the capital to take office, Wang Yunduan had encountered a siege army in Nanyang. The siege army camped for more than ten miles outside the city, and the momentum was very powerful, so he had seen a big scene. Therefore, the officials of the same subordinates were scared to death when they heard that the rebels were besieging the city, Wang Yunduan was much calmer.

On the one hand, he ordered his subordinates to remain calm and not to lose their own position; on the other hand, he sent someone to take over Song Qingqing, the head of the Qingjiang Tushiyuan Department of the Ministry of Works, who was also a Beijing official and also served in Huai'an.

The Qingjiang Tuiju Department is responsible for supervising the construction and transportation of ships in Qingjiang Gate. The chief is in charge every three years, and this year is Song Qing's last term, but he does not want to return to Beijing, so the reason needs no further explanation.

Song Qing, who was also asked the rebels to siege the city, was so scared that he had no idea about it. When he saw that Wang Yunduan was not panicked, he was a little calmer.

One of them is the Ministry of Works and the other is the official sent by the Ministry of Justice in Huai'an. Both have the meaning of "supervision". They are somewhat alienated from the local officials in Huai'an on weekdays, so they are not very clear about the specific situation of the rebels outside the city.

It can be said to be a pair of brothers in distress.

The officials in Huai'an did not come to tell them the details, and the two of them would definitely not be blind or deaf, so they could send someone to inquire.

The results of several inquiries were pretty good. Although the rebels were very powerful, they failed to attack the city many times, and hundreds of people were lost in vain.

The Cao Transportation Office and the Huai'an Prefecture Office have made emergency mobilizations after the rebels attacked the city. The Promoter Jin Peng and the Prefect Wu Daqian are both in charge of Xicheng. All signs seem to be in danger of falling into Huai'an City.

Especially after the rebels retreated to Chang'an in the afternoon, Wang Yunduan specially asked someone to bring some wine and food and Song Qing for a few drinks.

After drinking a few books of wine, the two officials also gave advice and guessed the details of the rebels, and said that if they presided over the city defense, what would happen?

The person who went to the Cao Transportation Office to inquire back and said that the Lu Department had sent people to Yangzhou and Fengyang to seek help, and reinforcements would arrive in as early as three or five days.

"The rebels are in a hurry to make trouble, and there will be no siege equipment. As long as there are no internal support in the city, although there are not many fortifications in Huai'an City, the rebels will not have the ability to break the city." Wang Yunduan was very sure of this.

Song Qing also couldn't help but agree, saying that the rebels could not attack today, and they must have lost their morale. They expected that the leader would probably go away to plunder other places at night and would not fight head-on under Huai'an City.

"Eighty percent so!"

Wang Yunduan sighed lightly, and this made the people near Huai'an suffer.

"My brother is compassionate to the world. Now that the thief is in great power, the department must first protect Huaian and then make a decision."

Song Qing was a little drunk, it was almost dark, and the two of them said something and then took a break.

Unexpectedly, not long after lying down, the people below came to report that the rebels had come to attack the city again, which made Wang and Song lose all their worries.

The person sent to inquire about the situation came back and said that the rebels outside the city were all over the rebels, and the offensive was even more fierce than the day. This made Song Qing, who was already at ease, panic again. Even Wang Yun was calm on his face and felt very sad.

In a panic, Song Qing suggested that it would be better to run out of the old city while the rebels had not broken the city. Wang Yunduanlian said no. He said that the river supervisors outside had wrapped up the river workers and rebelled. It was okay for them to stay in Huai'an City. Who would know if they would encounter a rebellious river workers after they left the city? Even if they encountered a small group of thieves, their lives would be difficult to protect.

Outside the city full of unknown dangers and inside the city protected by defenders, Song Qing carefully thought about following Wang Yunduan's advice and just wanted to leave the city.

The two of them sent people to the city to inquire about the news from time to time.

As a result, the official who went to inquire about the news again came back in a panic and reported the news, saying that the city was broken.

"What, the thieves attacked the city!"

Wang Yunduan was shocked, and his first reaction was impossible!

Didn’t the Cao Transportation Office say that the rebels outside were rebelled by the river managers and rebelled, and they were mobs, how could they destroy the city?

Moreover, the Fujian army guarding the city during the day fought very well, and they repelled the rebels several times in succession to attack the city, why can't it be done at night?

"Brother Zhibai, what should I do?" Song Qing was so shocked that he was no longer looking at him.

"Where has the thief gone!"

Wang Yunduan was still able to calm down, but the officials said that thieves rushed into the city, and there were thieves shouting and killing everywhere, and they didn't know where they were.

As soon as he finished speaking, the rebels shouted and killed outside the yamen. The group of officials were all without any help. They could not calm down when they suffered this sudden change. They were all frightened. Several of them had changed their clothes and were about to escape.

"What a panic!"

Wang Yunduan scolded the brave rats, and pulled Song Qing, who was also scared to death: "Go to the back door!"

After saying that, he pulled Song Qing straight to the backyard of the yamen. The clerks and clerks hurriedly followed when they saw this. When they arrived at the backyard of the yamen, there were no thieves on the street. Everyone was relieved, but they immediately didn't know where to go.

"Go to the Cao Transport Office!"

Wang Yunduan still has his own opinions and knows that if a small official like them is as young as 600 ranks, he will have almost no chance of survival when he encounters a thief in chaos.

But if you escape to the Cao Transport Office and the Ministry will meet up with you.

First, we can get the guards and soldiers under the court's bid for the battalion;

Secondly, even if they are besieged by thieves, as long as the Lu Department is willing to surrender, their small officials will still survive.

Aren’t there many officials in the north surrendering Li Chuang and the others?

Song Qing had no idea at this time. He was not just what Wang Yunduan said, but immediately followed Wang towards the Caoyuan Office.

On the way, my ears were filled with panic and help from the nearby people. I ran into a group of officers and soldiers fleeing here at a corner, followed by a group of rebels following closely behind.

If Wang Yundu hadn't seen the opportunity quickly, their small team of more than ten people would have been foolish and joined the defeated soldiers.

It seemed that the entire Huaian City was in chaos.

In fact, this is indeed the case.

Wang Yunduan didn't say a word all the way, just took everyone to escape to the Cao Transportation Office. What he was most worried about now was that the Lu Department Court had been protected by the Biaoying camp and escaped from the Cao Transportation Office, so they would really have no way out.

When the group was almost breathless, they could finally see the canal transportation yamen not far away, but it seemed that the canal transportation yamen had already been occupied by the thief!

They could hear the shouts of thieves everywhere in the yamen.

"What should I do!"

Song Qing was anxious and afraid, and Wang Yunduan was also in a state of confusion. When he was about to take everyone to run to other places, a burst of roar came from his ears: "Get back! Go back! Go back!"

Instinctively, Wang Yunduan secretly looked at the canal gate from the corner of the wall, and immediately took a breath of air conditioning.

In front of the canal gate, hundreds of thieves with red cloth wrapped in arms were carrying bamboo poles more than ten feet long, with dozens of people in a row, and dozens of rows connected in front and back, stepping towards the canal gate step by step.

Following these people, there were a large group of strong men wearing officers and soldiers' clothes, with red cloth wrapped around their arms, but holding big swords in their hands!

Among the strong man, there is a banner with the word "Huai"!
Chapter completed!