"On the 80th day of the year, he was loyal to Taizu and represented the figures of the seventeenth dynasty;

One hundred thousand people will die together and leave the country of Ming Dynasty for three hundred miles."

Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu, Feng Shuangdun

This is the first time that Gao Wu has received a handwritten order from the governor since he was ordered to sneak to Jiangnan to work in intelligence two years ago.

This handwritten letter is different from the official documents of several camps transferred from Yangzhou that Gao Wu had received in the past. There are no instructions on it, only three names.

They are Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu, and Feng Houdun.

These three names made Gao Wu wonder. After repeated investigations by the Second Bureau, who was specifically responsible for investigating Ming Dynasty officials, he realized that the three of them were all in the same place, Jiangyin.

And these three people have one characteristic, that is, their names are unknown, and they are an existence that even the Second Bureau, an organization that specializes in investigating the details of Ming Dynasty officials, is too lazy to pay attention to.

It's really unfamous.

Among them, Yan Yingyuan was from Tongzhou, Northern Zhili, and was born in a juren. He served as the Jiangyin Dianshi in the late Chongzhen period and led troops to resist Gu Sanmazi.

After the fall of Beijing and the establishment of Hongguang Dynasty, the Ministry of Personnel transferred Yan Yingyuan to Yingde County, Guangdong. However, Yan's mother was seriously ill and the road to the south was blocked. Therefore, Yan Yingyuan was unable to go to Guangdong to take office. The whole family lived at the foot of Shashan outside Jiangyin City, and his life was quite poor.

Chen Minghui is currently a member of Jiangyin Dianshi. He was originally from Shangyu, Zhejiang. He had no reputation before coming to Jiangyin to take office. It is said that he is not even a Juren, but just a student with scholarship. The result of his family's contribution to the Dianshi.

Feng Houdun, a native of Jintan, Changzhou, served as a coach in Jiangyin in the 16th year of Chongzhen, and is currently in his original position.

The three officials, whether they are clerks or instructors, are all minor officials who are not in the right position. Qu Shi is in charge of arresting and prison affairs in the county; the coach is the deputy of the county school teacher, who assists the teacher in managing students.

No matter from which perspective, these three people have no value to win over. The intelligence system that Gao Wu was responsible for before focused on and win over and bribed was either officials with real power or famous scholars in Jiangnan. Therefore, they did not contact such inequality small officials at all.

Because such a low-ranking official is helpless to the situation.

Unexpectedly, the state of the regent thousands of miles away attached great importance to three inexperienced officials, and wrote the names of the three people in person and delivered them to each other.

This was the first personal edict from Gao Wu that the state supervised state received. He dared not be negligent, so he immediately took people to Jiangyin.

Gao Wu is very familiar with Jiangyin because he has been active in this place for several months. Not only did he help the "nosal cutting team" to open a branch in Jiangyin, structure and organize forces, but he also promoted Xu Youliang, who led to the fuse of the great slaves in Jiangnan, to rebel.

In order to support Xu Youliang's troops, Gao Wu was shameless and asked Cheng of Jiangbei for a lot of weapons and supplies.

After Xu Youliang gathered people to raise the matter, he killed the whole family of the master's family first. Then, with the support of Gao Wu, the "Second Master", led his troops to besiege the county government.

The matter started in a hurry, Lin Zhiji, the magistrate of Jiangyin appointed by the Ming Dynasty, was frightened to climb over the wall and escape to Changzhou Prefecture for news and requesting help.

When the prefect of Changzhou Zong Hao heard the news, he was shocked and sent 300 soldiers to Jiangyin to suppress the slave transformation.

Although there were not many officers and soldiers sent by Changzhou, Xu Youliang was all slaves who had no experience in the battle. He asked them to join forces to kill the master's family, share wealth, and surround the county government. He was not sure at all when he was really pulled out to fight with the officers and soldiers.

Xu Youliang also felt that he could not defeat the officers and soldiers, so he wanted to lead his troops to take a boat to Jiangbei. At the critical moment, Gao Wu had to go on the battle himself and lead more than a hundred heroes transferred from various "nosed squads" branches to "coerce" Xu Youliang's troops out of the city to confront the officers and soldiers in Changzhou.

The "helping punch" of the second-year high school master and the heroes of the headquarters greatly boosted Xu Youliang's courage, and the hundreds of slave soldiers in his army were also called inciting the blood.

Finally, under Gao Wu's deployment, the slave army set up an ambush in Qinwangshan outside Jiangyin City and wiped out the 300 Changzhou officers and soldiers in one fell swoop. This battle not only boosted Xu Youliang's slave army's momentum, but also caused Changzhou and Suzhou to panic.

Because prior information showed that Changzhou Prefecture did not have many officers and soldiers, after winning the Battle of Qin Wangshan, in order to create a big slave change in Jiangnan better and faster, in order to cooperate with the slogan "Say the outside must be safe from the inside" proposed by Sun Erye of the Nandu, Gao Wu was about to hand over the command of the slave army to Xu Youliang and took people to Suzhou, Songjiang and other places to mobilize more slaves to uprising.

However, Gao Wu had just left, but a huge change occurred in Jiangyin City.

The gentry in the city took advantage of the slave army leaving the city to deal with the officers and soldiers, and quietly launched an attack to kill Xu Youliang's brother Xu Youqin and others who were left in the city, and then organized people to keep their hands behind closed doors.

The leader who attacked was Dian Shi Chen Mingyu, who was not killed by the slave army, and the coach Feng Shuangdun.

Because he was afraid that the slaves in the city's mansion would come together with the slave army outside the city, Chen Ming led people to investigate the slaves and announced that they could report the case. The spy would be rewarded with 50 taels of silver. At the same time, in order to shock the slaves, all the 17 slaves who were caught who participated in Xu Youliang's rebellion were hanged at Caishikou, and their heads were hung at the east gate.

Although this move is cruel, it also effectively stabilizes the hearts of the people in Jiangyin City, making those slaves who originally wanted to participate in the slave army dare not move again.

When he heard that his younger brother Xu Youquan was killed and Jiangyin City was taken away by a gentry, Xu Youliang was furious and vowed to avenge his brother's death.

However, although they won the battle of Qin Wangshan, many slave soldiers were killed by the officers and soldiers during the battle because they had no experience. Gao Erye took the heroes of the headquarters to Suzhou. The damaged Xu army had no ability to return to Jiangyin to seize the city.

In addition, before leaving, Gao Erye ordered him to mobilize slaves and landless poor people to form a larger plan to fight against stronger officers and soldiers. Xu Youliang had no choice but to lead his slaves to move around Jiangyin, Changzhou, and Wuxi.

Whenever I go, I must first kill the wealthy gentry, mobilize the people to divide the land and houses, and attract a large number of slaves and poor people to join the slave army. In less than half a month, my troops were expanded to tens of thousands, and there were some officers and soldiers and village soldiers in the middle. These people improved the combat effectiveness of the Xu army.

At this time, the first wave of slave rebellion in Jiangyin spread rapidly in Changzhou, Suzhou, Songjiang, Zhenjiang, Jiading, Huzhou and other places. The entire Jiangnan was involved in this storm. There were dozens of slaves and righteous men who were invaded in various places, with the number of ups and tens of thousands.

The slave troops that appeared in Songjiang, Suzhou and other places actually had weapons such as iron armor, muskets, bows and crossbows. Their combat power was once caused by the Ming army to escape when they heard that they had come before.

After Xu Youliang, whose subordinates had expanded to tens of thousands of people, failed to siege Changzhou, he marched into Zhenjiang. He defeated the Qianzheng Yu Anchun army, Zhang Tianlu, the general of Zhenjiang, near Jurong, and killed more than 90 officers and soldiers. Later, he defeated the team of Lu Shicheng, the magistrate of Jurong, and killed more than 40 officers and soldiers.

After winning consecutive battles, Xu Youliang became more courageous and wanted to take Zhenjiang. However, on the way to lead his troops to march towards Zhenjiang Prefecture City, he received a secret letter from Gao Erye, asking him not to attack Zhenjiang City. When he led his troops to detour Jintan to cooperate with the Baitou Junyi Division and the barefoot Zhang Sanmen to advance to the south.

After receiving the letter, Xu Youliang did not attack Zhenjiang again, but he did not lead his troops to cooperate with other charity divisions to attack Nanjing. Because Xu was worried that the Ming army in Nanjing would be very strong, and he would be defeated by the official army if he was rashly gone. Therefore, despite the opposition of the "nosed-slimming" personnel sent by Gao Erye in his army, he forced his troops back to Changzhou and prepared to attack Jiangyin City to avenge his younger brother Xu Youquan.

The second-year-old Gao of the Second Master, who received the news that Xu's army wanted to attack Jiangyin, did not say anything, but only reduced the supply of the army to Xu's army.

Xu Youliang led the expanded army of tens of thousands of people to Jiangyin City without any obstacles. He first ordered people to shoot the letter of surrender into the city, saying that as long as the people in the city hand over the culprits of killing his younger brother, the army would think that after entering the city, they would not kill anyone randomly.

Lin Zhiji, the magistrate of Jiangyin who fled to Changzhou, had just been dismissed by the Ministry of Personnel not long ago, and the new magistrate of Jiangyin Wang was elected. However, after receiving the appointment of the Ministry of Personnel, he refused to take office on the grounds of being sick. Therefore, Chen Mingyu and Feng Shuangdun are the ones in charge of Jiangyin City.

However, the strength of the defenders in the city was enhanced. Gu Yuanbi, a garrison who was defeated by Zhang Sanbu, a barefoot soldier of Zhang Sanbu, more than ten days ago, led more than a thousand remaining troops to Jiangyin.

Chen Mingyu, who was worried about no soldiers, immediately regarded Gu Yuanbi's troops as the "ballast stone" of Jiangyin, and was entertaining with good wine and food, pointing out that these officers and soldiers could protect the people of Jiangyin.

News came from Changzhou that Nanjing had sent troops to Jiangnan to quell the rebellion, and with serious officers and soldiers stationed, Chen Mingyu and others would definitely not be able to surrender to Xu Youliang.

Seeing that the persuasion of surrender was fruitless, Xu Youliang also saw that his own people were strong and strong, he ordered people to attack the city by force.

The city was closely defended. Because the soldiers guarding the city had no shield, they held the pot lids from the common people's homes and put them on their heads to block arrows. Every day, they could pick up five or six hundred arrows shot into the city by slave soldiers outside the city.

Xu's troops, who lacked siege equipment, siege the city for several days, had no effect except wasting too many arrows and gunpowder.

Fortunately, the Jiangnan slave transformation became more and more intense at this time, and there were rebellious slave troops and righteous troops everywhere. The Ming Dynasty garrisons in Jiangnan did not dare to leave the city except hiding in the city. Therefore, although Xu Youliang was frustrated in the attack on the city in Jiangyin, the morale of the army could not be eliminated for a while.

So he temporarily gave up the forced attack on Jiangyin, instead solicited money and grain in the surrounding areas, and began to build siege equipment.

After a few days, the gentry in Jiangyin City, who had not seen reinforcements, began to panic at this time. Although Chen Mingyu was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, he felt that he lacked military talent, so he wanted to recommend Yan Yingyuan, who was scattered in Shashan outside the city because his mother was seriously ill, took over to defend the city.

Yan Yingyuan was very popular with the people when he was a Jiangyin official, so this proposal was unanimously supported by the gentry in the city, but was firmly opposed by the garrison Gu Yuanbi.

Gu Yuanbi was very talented and thought that the slave army outside the city could not break the city for a few days, and that he had made contributions to defending the city. Therefore, if he handed over the Jiangyin city defense power to Yan Yingyuan, wouldn’t it be equivalent to handing over the credit he received?

The plan to host Yan Yingyuan's city is not allowed to be implemented because of the personal gain.

Little did they know that there was another party trying to persuade Yan Dianshi in Shashan.

It was on the way to Jiangyin that Gao Wu knew that Chen Mingyu and Feng Shuangdun were guarding Jiangyin City for the Ming Dynasty. He also knew that Xu Youliang did not obey his own opinions and cooperate with the Baitou Army to attack Nanjing, but ran back to Jiangyin.

"I think my wings are hard, so I ignore them."

Gao Wu sneered and did not agree to his subordinates' opinions on resolving Xu Youliang, because he believed that it would be beneficial to keep Xu Youliang for the time being, and now the big things are not as important as the things assigned by the governor himself.

The group pretended to be a villager and sneaked into Shashan from under the nose of Xu's army. After inquiring from many sources, they found Yan Yingyuan who was scattered in the mountains.

Seeing the villagers dressed up, their eyes revealed were definitely not as simple as those of the villagers, Gao Wu and others. Yan Yingyuan calmly asked his wife to go to the backyard to take care of his sick mother, and then calmly signaled the leader to sit down and poured a cup of tea for the other party.

Teapots are purple clay teapots specialized in Yixing, and tea leaves are made of bamboo leaves that Changzhou people love to drink.

"Please use tea."

"Thank you for the dictionary!"

Gao Wu picked up the tea bowl and drank it lightly. The bamboo fragrance was faint, and he was very comfortable.

"I heard that your accent is not from Jiangnan?" Yan Yingyuan deserves to have written a classic history.

Gao Wu nodded and said, "I will not hide the classics and history, I will come from Jiangbei."

"If it's not from Huaiyang, it sounds like a person from the Central Plains."

"Dianshi is very good at hearing, and I am indeed from Henan, and now I am from Dashun Dynasty."

"Dashun?"

Yan Yingyuan didn't look shocked or afraid, but just said "Oh" and said, "Recently, slave troops have rebelled in Jiangnan. I think it's related to your Dashun."

"yes."

Gao Wu nodded frankly.

“No wonder,”

Yan Yingyuan tapped the table lightly. Although he was scattered in the sand mountains, he was concerned about external affairs. In just over a month, Jiangnan was in chaos. If it was not for the planning and support of Jiangbei Shunjun behind him, it would be really impossible for even ghosts to believe it.

"Dianshi's hometown has now been reborn as a land of China."

It is necessary for Gao Wu to inform Yan Yingyuan about this matter. Although Yan Yingyuan's mother and wife were here, there were still many relatives of the Yan family in Tongzhou.

Unexpectedly, Yan Yingyuan's reaction was still calm, so he nodded and said, "As long as it's not full of humble smells, that's fine."

Gao Wu was a little surprised: "Dianshi is very different from what I see below."

"oh?"

"I have been to Jiangnan for two years. When others heard about Jiangbei, they cursed the bandits. However, Dianshi is calm, so it is strange."

"All the bandits are just the people."

Yan Yingyuan expressed his feelings about this. In the 15th year of Chongzhen, he went south from the capital to take office. The scenes he saw along the way made him feel heartbroken. No matter how powerful the thieves were in trouble in the Western thieves, the fundamental reason was that the court could not give the people a way to survive.

Although he was a juren, he was not a classic and historical official. Unlike the officials of the court, he was at the bottom of the court and was at the bottom of the people and the misery of the world. I don’t know how much more he felt than the officials of the court.

"This is a blunt statement!"

Gao Wu said in admiration.

Yan Yingyuan suddenly waved his hand and said, "No need to say more about the rest. I think Yan was just a mere minor official in the past, but now he is just a grass man in the mountains, but I don't know why you are here?"
Chapter completed!