The moment when the explosion sounded from the sea before, Wang Changsheng also followed a large group of people to watch the fun on the city wall. When he saw the giant blue and white ship on the sea in the distance, he was both surprised and happy.

So he took advantage of the arrival of the North Navy and the crowds near the city gate were in chaos, and hid in a tea shop near the South Gate. When the South Gate Tower was blown down, Wang Changsheng estimated that the North Navy would attack, so he led his two subordinates to the South Gate, shot and killed several soldiers guarding the door, and then opened the city gate.

With Wang Changsheng, the North Navy's Marines broke through Rongcheng. Later, under his leadership, the Marines quickly seized three city gates in the west, north and east, blocking a group of Qing officials and wealthy families who were trying to escape in the city.

The local county magistrate Jiang did not commit suicide in the city in the end. Because the city was lost too quickly, the county magistrate Jiang had not had time to dig into the well or hang himself. The Beihai Army had already attacked the county magistrate and blocked him and a few officials and gentry who had not had time to run away in the second hall. Later, when Yu Shuncong's prison was rescued from the county magistrate Jiang realized how stupid he had done.

After the Northern Hai Army captured the county government, it did not make any big scale to divide gold and silver, nor did it open a warehouse to release grain, and even the warehouse in the county government government was not opened. This surprised several county government government secretaries. He had never heard of the pirates who did not rob food or money.

According to Deng Fei's order, the company commander led the team left a notice of peace on the screen wall outside the county government, and then escorted the captured county magistrate Jiang, Pan Qianzong, Dianshi, the water camp garrison and a group of wealthy men blocked in the county government to return to the headquarters of Chengshanxunshui Camp, which has been changed to Deng Fei's temporary command center.

Taking advantage of the attack on the Qing Dynasty government, Deng Fei used his limited manpower to the extreme. Two platoons of the Second Company and the Third Company followed Wang Changsheng to Wendeng County overnight; another platoon of the Third Company, under the guidance of an old farmer who came to find work, captured the fortress of Longkou Cliff before dark.

At noon the next day, the news from Wendeng had not yet come back, but someone came from Rongcheng County.

Now there are no leaders in Rongcheng County. Whether it is the county magistrate or the clerk, the clerks were "invited" to the Shuiying camp by the Beihai Army. Only the teacher named Li escaped because he was hiding in the academy next to the county government. After the Beihai Army with his prisoners, the frightened teacher Li waited until dark and plucked away from the academy. Unexpectedly, he was seen by the crowd gathered in front of the county government government as soon as he left the gate.

The largest wealthy families in the city were all captured with the Magistrate Wang County. Now the families were anxious and begged Teacher Li to find a solution. Lord Li originally wanted to go to Wendeng for help, but the people sent to run back shortly after they left the city, saying that the pirates had already killed Wendeng and almost ran into it.

Li Zhiyu had no choice but to order people to take a boat from Liugong Island to Dengzhou for help after dawn. At the same time, he summoned the students and other gentry in the city overnight.

After discussion, when each family raised the remuneration to 20,000 yuan, a student named Liang Zhenyu volunteered to represent Rongcheng County to negotiate with the pirates. This is an augmented student, and his family is not rich, and 20,000 yuan is really not a decimal to him.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, students from local officials, state and county schools were commonly known as "scholars". Although donations were offered during the Kangxi period, ordinary people could pay for the qualification of students, but those who did not have real talents were called "regular students" or "salary students"; those who were truly knowledgeable were included in the ranks of students and enlarged students in the academy.

Students in the Qing Dynasty were divided into three levels: students with statutory points, students with statutory points and students with statutory points, and were collectively called "students". Except for the fact that students with statutory points have no statutory points, the other treatments are the same as those with statutory points.

The people who came with Liang Xiucai were all managers and servants from wealthy families. The gifts these people brought were nothing more than a few slaughtered pigs and sheep carried on a wheelbarrow, more than a dozen jars of wine and dozens of stones of grain, and a gift list and a prayer book.

Yesterday, when the Northern Navy attacked the county town, they all hid at home. They did not show their heads until the Northern Navy left. So when they walked to a mile away, they saw the true appearance of these "pirates".

"Stop! What's the matter?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a North Navy soldier walked out of the grass beside the road, which scared Liang Xiucai and his group.

When the man walked up to him, everyone looked at him carefully and saw that the other party was wearing a semi-circular helmet with eyebrows, covering it with a fine net, and many messy weeds and leaves; the tops and pants were in the same style, with colorful patterns, and the more they looked, the more dizzy it became. There was a belt around his waist, and several small bags were hung, and they didn't know what was inside. They were all bulging; there were yellow short boots on his feet, and the legs seemed to be put in the short boots, and there was a "bird gun" with a short sword in his hand.

Liang Xiucai quickly handed over the gift letter and gift list to explain his purpose. To everyone present, the North Navy soldier took the gift list and gift list and actually looked at it, muttering unconsciously.

"Are you literate?" Liang Xiucai was a little surprised, but the other party's next words surprised him even more.

"Haha, is it very fresh to read? Everyone knows to read." The soldier put away the greetings and gift list, and said to Liang Xiucai and others: "Everyone is waiting here, move around and be careful to get shot!"

Looking at the backs of the "bandit soldiers" who went away, Liang Xiucai was a little confused. Everyone knew how to read? Where was that? According to his cognition, Qufu, the one with the highest literacy rate in Shandong, was the one with the highest literacy rate in Shandong.

After a meal, a few "bandit soldiers" who were dressed exactly the same as before came from the water camp, and led Liang Xiucai and his party to the water camp. When they arrived outside the water camp gate, the two giant boats parked in Yangyuchi Bay shocked these people again. Yesterday they were both far away, but today they walked closer, Liang Zhenyu realized how big it was, and it was completely different from any ship type he had seen.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Both boats are in general style, with a length of more than twenty meters and several meters wide. The height from the sea surface to the side of the boat must be more than two meters high. There are three masts on the deck, and one in the middle is even dozens of meters high. There is a huge red flag floating at the top, and a white gear-shaped ring is painted in the middle, and there is a white five-star inside.

At this time, the sails on the deck had been rolled up, revealing ropes that were intertwined like spider webs; there were several wide windows on the hull, and the covers on them were all open, so dark inside they could not be seen clearly; as for the pointed bow of the ship and a tilted mast on it, Liang Zhenyu had no idea what it was for.

The group of people from Rongcheng County were shocked to see the scene. This was not something that ordinary pirates could have, and there was no trace of contempt he had before.

When they followed the two soldiers into the gate of the water camp, they found that there were neither gongs nor gongs nor flags, which was not the same as the bandit camp they knew. Among the people who followed Liang Xiucai, a guy who had come to the water camp suddenly said "huh". Everyone asked him what was going on, and the man said why the water camp was so clean!

As soon as this was said, everyone noticed that the ground in the water camp was filled with loess and was not even seen in a mud hole; the ground was even clean without even weeds.

At this time, Liang Xiucai looked back at the two guards standing guard at the gate, all of whom were raising their chests and raised their heads, straight as pineapple, and the four words "military power" suddenly surged into his heart.

"The famous generals from ancient times are just like this." Liang Xiucai became more and more curious, and he was even more eager to see what the generals who led the troops looked like.

However, when he saw Deng Fei in the water camp signing room, he became stunned. Unexpectedly, the other party was dressed like the soldiers before, but he didn't wear a hat, revealing his short hair that was about an inch long.

"You are the student Liang? My surname is Deng, and I have a single name. Please sit down." Deng Fei smiled and nodded and said hello, signaling the other party to sit down and talk, but Liang Xiucai's face changed suddenly.

Hearing Deng Fei's straight accent and clear words, looking at the other party's short hair, and recalling what he saw just now, Liang Xiucai suddenly realized that these people were not pirates and giant bandits at all, but definitely thieves!

As a scholar, Liang Zhenyu didn't want to be submissive in front of the other party, but he was really scared, afraid that he would be charged with a private thief in the future.

"I'm... I'm here to come by the entrusted by the elders of this county. I want to ask General Deng, who are you?"

Deng Fei smiled and said, "I am not a general, I am just a captain. Since Mr. Liang is a scholar, have you ever read the mansion of the Qing court?"

Liang Zhenyu bowed and said, "Rongcheng is located in a remote place. Even if it is a Beijing newspaper residence, it is news from a month or two ago."

The document copying is copied and printed by the communiqué houses established by various provinces in Titang, Beijing, and then distributed to prefectures and counties. Only after the county magistrate reads it was the turn of the gentry below to read it. As a student, Liang Xiucai only had one channel for reading the document copying of the Beijing document, and the county school palace. So it is not surprising that there is a delay.

"It's okay, have you heard of Beihai Town?"

Liang Zhenyu recalled it and had no impression at all. At this time, he heard Deng Fei say: "I have heard of the emperor's edict for guilt in the past few years?"

"What! Are you?"

Deng Fei nodded slightly and said, "That's right, we are the rebels who defeated the imperial army several times. Not to mention a county magistrate of Rongcheng, we have even arrested Fukang'an."

Now, Liang Xiucai was really scared...

On the afternoon of that day, Li Jiayu and the extremely anxious gentry waited. When they saw Liang Zhenyu coming back, the first thing they said was to ask the other party how much money and food they asked for, but Liang Xiucai was distraught and said that they didn’t want money or food, but they wanted people.

"What? Who do they want? They don't want the head of the county magistrate, right?" The gentry thought to themselves that the county magistrate just came from Guizhou and his head was not worth a lot of money.

However, when Liang Xiucai told the story of Beihai Town and conveyed Deng Fei's meaning, Li Zhiyu and the gentry were stunned.

A thief? And a thief who beat the imperial army to the gray-headed and rat-faced one? You want to take people to farm outside the customs? Every time you take away a young man and get money? You will release people when the ship is full?

After hearing this, everyone felt as if they were struck by lightning, and they were beaten to the inside and outside.

Teacher Li lamented: "How can this be done? Then the court will pursue the matter and we will lose the head!"

After a while, Liang Zhenyu said to Teacher Li and Master Bi who was present: "The thief leader said that the short gun collected in the yamen before must be returned. And the noble house... the widowed woman is going to take away."

Master Bi was blown up as soon as he heard this. Why do these thieves even rob a widow? Isn’t this ruining my reputation as a Bi family? He slammed the table and said angrily: “Everyone is dead, I can’t hand over it!”

Liang Xiucai glanced at the other party and said, "I said that before, but the thief named Deng said that if he didn't hand over the person, he would send someone to attack the Bi family's house."

"I..." Mr. Bi almost shouted "I'll fight with them", but in the end he still held it back. He really didn't dare.

Teacher Li lost his mind for a moment. It was already late at this time, and everyone here said goodbye. In the end, only Teacher Li stayed. He lamented for a while, and just wanted to get up and go home, but he saw Xiucai Liang tiptoe in again.

"Why are you back?"

Liang Zhenyu looked at the door sneakily for a long time before walking to Teacher Li, who was surprised and whispered: "Master, the student has an idea, please ask the teacher to correct me."

"Oh? Why not talk about it?" Teacher Li was like a life-saving straw. He took Liang Xiucai's hand and said, "If I can overcome this disaster, I will definitely recommend it to the academic and political education master. This year's test questions will be included."

The reason why Teacher Li said this is because if scholars in the Qing Dynasty want to take the provincial examination, they must first pass the "scientific examination". Before each provincial examination, the examination will be held by the provincial government and the provinces and counties. This year is the year of Wushen, which is the year of the scientific examination.

Hearing the teacher's assurance, Liang Xiucai said: "The students' suggestions are worse than silent."

"Hiss~" Teacher Li twisted his beard and turned his mind for a while, and then said, "Are you pretending to not know?"

"Mr., you think, these rebels in Beihai Town are not even afraid of the Eight Banners Army. Tens of thousands of troops in the court were defeated. Finally, they pinched their noses and paid the ransom to return to General Fu. Rongcheng is only a small area, how can they defeat such bandits? I believe the governor will not blame him at that time."

Liang Xiucai was dry and he picked up the herbal tea on the table and drank it all, and continued: "According to what the students saw, since those people wanted to take people to the outside of the pass, the rich families and people in the city would definitely not go there. They could only go to the four towns to pull people without any tiles. Instead of doing this, it would be better to let the students say hello to the leader of the thief named Deng. At that time, the mentor would only have to close the four doors and survive for a few days, and when they pulled enough people, they would naturally leave. At that time, the gentry in the city would see the merit of defending the city and resisting the enemy."

The more Li Tuyu listened, his eyes became brighter. He didn't expect that this student who he usually disliked the most and often helped people write papers was so thoughtful. When Liang Xiucai saw that the teacher did not stop nodding, he knew that the method Deng Fei had taught him had already been accomplished.

Early the next morning, Liang Zhenyu hurried to the water camp as soon as the city gate was unlocked, and he told Deng Fei about the situation, and then hurried back to the city. Then the four gates of Rongcheng County were closed tightly again, and the vendors who entered the city to sell vegetables and firewood were bombarded out of the city by Teacher Li. Of course, Rongcheng County would still open the north gate at night, otherwise the people in the county would not even have to burn firewood.

Then Wang Changsheng and Yu Shun, who was wrapped in gauze, started wandering around the villages again, and the middle-aged people who had contacted each other before were found. Wang Changsheng didn't say nonsense this time, and each middle-aged person gave ten taels of silver to continue their previous career of attracting people.

After he and Yu Shun were busy for a day, the news that Wendeng County was conquered by the Northern Navy came back. So Wang Changsheng stayed with Yu Shun and took his men to Wendeng.

The middle-aged people who had made enough money rely on their 3-inch tongue and tried their best to lobby everywhere in villages and shops.

Two or three days later, from Wendeng County to Rongcheng, from Rongcheng County to the Navy Camp, there were poor peasants in groups of three or three on the official road, and then more and more people gathered into a stream of people. Some of these people were with their families, while others were bachelors. In addition, there was a little widow who was hungry and almost unable to walk on the road and a peddler with a crutch nose and a blue-faced peddler.

At the same time, Ding Guofeng, who had arrived in Nanjiuzhou to unload the supplies and was about to return to Beihai Town, received a telegram from the Jinglei.
Chapter completed!