In the early morning, fine snowflakes floated in the sky, and scattered on the ground, forming a world of sparkling ice crystals!
Outside the north gate of Jinan City, many small vendors have begun to enter the city. They carry cabbage, dried meat, mountain mushrooms and other local products, and are hurriedly preparing to rush into the city. Fortunately, they can grab a good one at the early morning market.
Stall.
The twelfth lunar month has passed halfway, and the New Year is coming soon. Every household has begun to buy and stock up on new year's goods. This also makes the business of these small vendors outside the city very prosperous!
Although this year is not exactly smooth, and it is the time when the Qing Dynasty is coming, and the world is not peaceful, after all, it is a new year and a new atmosphere. People have worked hard for a year, and it is time to take a little vacation for themselves!
Liu Jianwu stood on the towering city wall of the north gate, condescendingly watching the flow of people coming and going like ants, feeling an indescribable sense of satisfaction in his heart!
"I will be at the top of the mountain, and I can see all the small mountains!" These are two of Liu Jianwu's favorite poems.
Ever since he was a child, he has watched his father Liu Hu stand majestically on a high martial arts stage, shouting at his nearly a thousand soldiers. That soul-stirring domineering attitude has been deeply engraved in Liu Jianwu's mind and cannot be dissipated.
go!
At some point, Liu Jianwu made a vow. He swore that one day he would be more glorious and domineering than his father Liu Hu!
But the ideal is very full, but the reality is too skinny!
Although Liu Jianwu can be regarded as a serious second-generation official and the eldest son, there is nothing wrong with him inheriting his father's legacy. The position of guarding thousands of households in Zhangqiu City can be said to be tailor-made for him!
But after all, Liu Jianwu was born with a "gold spoon" in his mouth. He was not like his father Liu Hu, who earned his wealth by relying on his bravery and martial arts, step by step, putting his head in his belt and risking his life.
After less than half a year of serving as a guard for thousands of households in Zhangqiu, Liu Jianwu suddenly became very tired of this position!
This poor place in Zhangqiu, not to mention the city villains, is even more annoying to those soldiers. They follow the rules and follow the same example. On the surface, they do one thing, but behind the scenes, they do another thing. They never take Liu Jianwu seriously! So much so that,
Apart from his close confidant, Liu Jianwu, there is no one with real power who can use it!
Although Liu Jianwu also found trouble and severely punished a few people, hundreds of these subordinate households were scattered throughout Zhangqiu. They killed the chickens but failed to scare the monkeys. Therefore, Liu Jianwu's tactics had little effect!
Finally, in desperation, Liu Jianwu had no choice but to ask his mother, Qi, to let her exchange money through connections, and then he found a lucrative job in Jinan City!
Although there are many Buddha temples in Jinan City, it is many times more prosperous than Zhangqiu City, which even birds don’t want to poop! Beautiful women, brothels, fine wines, and delicacies all make Liu Jianwu a little happy to miss Shu! Although this is
Later, the power in his hands was reduced a lot, but he couldn't bear the position. Just relying on the small vendors like Beimen, Liu Jianwu had already charged six to seven thousand taels of silver in less than a year!
You don’t have to do anything to earn so much money in one year. This is such a fairy-like day! Therefore, Liu Jianwu is quite satisfied with everything now!
As for the north gate of Jinan City, although it is said to be a thousand-household establishment, in fact, there are less than 600 soldiers in total here. Therefore, Liu Jianwu now has only five 100-households with real power!
But as the Qing troops entered, Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, mobilized troops from all over the country. Liu Jianwu's men were also transferred from two hundred households and nearly three hundred soldiers!
As a result, although the number of Liu Jianwu's men was reduced a lot, Jinan City was already empty of troops, and he became the real master of the North Gate!
"I would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail! The ancients would never deceive me!" Liu Jianwu couldn't help but admire. After having such a feeling of power and tasting the magic of power, Liu Jianwu suddenly discovered that his mind, his
His knowledge and courage seemed to have improved a lot in an instant!
"Sir, the business seems to be good this year! Hehe, shall we..." Just as Liu Jianwu was immersed in a wonderful dream, a hundred households under his command sneaked up to him!
"What is it?" Liu Jianwu didn't notice him, raised his figure and asked, with full airs!
"Sir, I'm talking about Lijin. Shouldn't it be higher? As you know, it's almost the New Year, and brothers all want to have a good New Year, right?" The hundred households explained in a low voice with a smiling face.
At present, since Yan Jizu led his army to leave Jinan, in less than two months, the lijin at the north gate of Jinan has been raised three times. From the initial tax of one per ten to one in seven now, the small traders who come and go have already raised the tax.
A lot of complaints!
But for Liu Jianwu, whether those farts are alive or dead has nothing to do with him?
"Whatever you have to do, do it! Remember, don't let your mother's feet show off. Maybe the governor will come back in a few days!" Liu Jianwu waved his hand to the hundreds of households impatiently, as if trying to shoo away flies.
He waved him away and stood on the city wall, enjoying the wonderful feeling of being "cold at a high place" alone!
At this time, a small black dot suddenly flashed across the wide official road in the distance!
The small black dot gradually enlarged, and a soldier covered in blood galloped on his horse. In a moment, he had already reached the city wall!
"Emergency military information~! Urgent military information! General Xiang Min was killed and Linqing City was lost~! The Qing army, the Qing army is about to kill them~~!" The soldier was hit by several arrows in the back and was bleeding. He seemed to be exhausted.
After using the last of his strength to say these few words, he fell off the horse and never lived again!
"What? Qing army? Isn't this a joke?" Liu Jianwu was stunned, but felt a little disdainful in his heart. Isn't this funny? Aren't the Qing army in Dezhou City? Did they have wings and dare to go there because of their ambition?
Coming to Jinan City?
However, after all, Liu Jianwu came from a family of warriors. He also understood the importance of military intelligence and did not dare to neglect it. He hurriedly waved to the soldiers around him and said, "Go, lift the soldier up and ask him what is there."
Please give me some news at noon! Uh~~~ I got up too early today, I’ll go back and catch up on my sleep first!”
"Yes!" The soldiers rushed towards the city.
Liu Jianwu yawned lazily, turned around and walked towards the inner room of the city gate building!
But at this moment, the earth in the distance began to tremble, slightly at first, but only for a moment, the strong vibration felt like an earthquake, as if the earth was about to collapse!
"No, it's the Qing army! It's the Qing army~~~~~!" On the city wall, the soldiers on the lookout were the first to notice the abnormality. They shouted loudly, and the shrill voice resounded through the sky!
Liu Jianwu was startled and hurriedly came to the edge of the city wall and looked into the distance!
It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, Liu Jianwu was so shocked that he almost fell down from the city wall more than ten meters high!
I saw that in the wilderness not far away, at some point, a large black cavalry suddenly appeared. At a glance, it blocked the sky and the sun, and could not see the edge at all, like a giant monster wandering around!
"Enemy attack~~~~! Enemy attack~~~~~~~!" On the top of the city, the big alarm bell was rang hard by the soldiers. There was chaos in the city and outside the city!
"Quick~~! Quickly release the suspension bridge and close the city gate! Close the city gate~~~~~!" Liu Jianwu also reacted at this time. He shouted loudly and ordered the gatekeepers!
The soldiers guarding the gate were also frightened by this scene. Since the Battle of Jingnan, when had Jinan City seen so many troops again?
"What the hell are you doing here? Do you think you have a long life? Let the suspension bridge go and close the city gate! Hurry~~~~!" Liu Jianwu was so angry that he grabbed a piece of broken brick and threw it at the city gate.
Down!
Only then did the gatekeepers react. They hurriedly pulled up the drawbridge of the city gate without falling, fled back into the city in a panic, and worked together to seal the city gate tightly, and then inserted the door bolts weighing thousands of kilograms.
Go up, then lean against the city gate and breathe heavily!
Seeing that everything was ready, Liu Jianwu breathed a sigh of relief and calmed down for a moment. He hurriedly shouted to the soldiers around him and ordered them to spread the news to the whole city!
"My lord, my lord! Open the door, open the door! Let us in~! Let us in!" At this time, because the incident happened too suddenly, and it was the peak of people coming in and out, many people had just left the city and had not yet arrived.
The people who entered the city were firmly separated from the outside by this cold city gate!
The sound of iron hoofbeats in the distance was getting closer and closer, and the crowd outside the city gate was in panic. They cried for father and mother, begging grandpa to sue grandma, and kept pleading, just asking the officers and soldiers guarding the gate to open a way out for them!
"Young Master, this, this, are we..." A soldier leader couldn't stand it anymore and couldn't help but beg Liu Jianwu.
Liu Jianwu's face was cold. He didn't even look at the people. He turned around and glanced at the leader of the soldiers coldly, "Do you want to die with them? It's very simple. Just jump down from here!"
"Uh~!" The leader of the soldiers was blocked and couldn't say a word. His face turned red and his body was trembling slightly.
"Hmph~!" Liu Jianwu snorted coldly and ran quickly towards the city gate building, where it is safer!
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Not far away, in the middle of the Qing army's battle formation, Duduo whipped his horse whip hard, but he couldn't help but reveal a sinister smile at the corner of his mouth!
Linqing City had just been captured last night. In order to seize this long-coveted first victory, Duduo's troops did not rest all night, and rushed straight to the Jinan City!
In Duduo's eyes, these lowly mud men are not worthy of owning these fertile lands. They are the most docile slaves in the world, and their women always have finer skin and tender flesh than those rough Manchu women.
I don’t know how powerful it is tens of thousands of times!
"Go~! Teach these despicable bastards a lesson! Let them know how to be afraid! Ha~ha~ha~!" Rushing a few hundred steps away, Duduo shouted at a white-armored soldier beside him!
"Your Majesty, just watch! Look at what this slave can do!" The white-armored soldier chuckled sinisterly, leading hundreds of elite cavalry and rushing straight towards the unarmed people gathered outside the city gate!