At the same time, on April 26th, Chen Binghe, the county magistrate of Xintai County, was in anxiety.
The cause of anxiety is really easy to explain.
In mid-April, news of riots in many places began to be broadcast in Xintai, but Chen Binghe had learned of the riots in Yizhou through a businessman from Yizhou.
He escaped from Linyi county, and the situation in Linyi county is very bad, but the specific situation is as unclear as he is.
How many people rioted? How many people died? Is the county town dangerous? Is the riot suppressed? He doesn’t know anything about running for his life.
Chen Binghe was very alert at that time and sent people into Yizhou to inquire about the news while reporting this matter to Tai’ an Prefecture Secretariat Dalei.
Daley replied that he would continue to explore the news before reporting it, but he sent it to Yizhou people for five days and didn’t send it back.
What makes Chen Binghe feel even more uneasy is that there is no official news from Yizhou.
The government is like a pool of water falling on the ground in a summer afternoon.
This reminds Chen Binghe of the rebellion he experienced many years ago.
It was noticed that an afternoon rebel army suddenly appeared to attack the county seat, and there was chaos in the county seat. I don’t know how many people trampled on each other and died.
The uprising was quickly suppressed by the Jin army, but the chaos of Chen Binghe’s death brought him a deep memory and psychological shadow.
He felt more and more that at this moment, as at that moment, a strange sense of foresight urged him to do something.
So Chen Binghe ordered the grain-shooting army to patrol the county to protect the county, and at the same time sent people to the Zhen Fang Meng ‘an barracks to coordinate the army to protect the county, and then sent people to explore the news one after another.
But there was no reply until April 21st.
Sent to send the news of the riots in Yizhou to Dalei, it brought Dalei’s order.
Daley asked Chen Binghe to continue to explore and strengthen the alert order, and told him that people from all over the country had sent news that riots had occurred in many places, and the government was in chaos. Chen Binghe had to stabilize here.
So Chen Binghe made a decision. He sent people to set up checkpoints at various main roads, set up wolf smoke and bonfires, and sent people to patrol the city walls and counties every day.
On the 25th, he went further to Xintai Shoujiang Sijing to discuss with him the feasibility of a letter of self-control.
Chapter 56 Conquer the county seat
"City self-control? Fu, this is not good, is it? There is no thief in the eye, and the city is closed. If there is a thief who commits a crime, forget it. If it is a false alarm, it will be responsible for it. "
It is a great event to close the city and defend itself. I think it is not necessary to do this step.
And to be honest, Si Jingshi always felt that Chen Binghe was a little too nervous.
Although he is also quite nervous.
From more than ten days ago, the news of rebellion began to spread, but they inquired about it in many ways and didn’t know what was wrong or where there were thieves.
Some people say Yizhou and Mizhou, some people say Dengzhou, some people say Jizhou, some people say Daming House, some people say Yanyun, some people say Xixia invaded, and some people say Song Kingdom went north.
All kinds of news flooded the whole Xintai county for a while, and every news was said with eyes and ears as if it were true, which made the officials panic.
A few days ago, his Laiwu friend also wrote to ask him if the Northern Expedition of the Song Kingdom needed to run now, and he was also nervous.
But this kind of thing …
No, right?
"Not good?"
Chen Binghe himself hesitated to ask, "But recently, there have been four rebellions. Don’t say that Yizhou is so close to us. In case something really happens, we must be immune to it and make early preparations. We can’t be mediocre when we wait for the food."
Si Jing hesitated for a moment.
"Although this makes sense, it’s a big deal for the government to seal off the city. Don’t say that it’s quite dangerous for the residents in the city to be unprepared. Anyway, it’s always necessary to give them firewood, right?
Moreover, there are farmers outside the city who are trying to throw them into the village, and we will close the city to defend ourselves. They will deliberately make trouble when they see it. Do we accept it or not? "
Chen Binghe thinks it makes sense to think about this.
There are more people outside the city than there are people in the city. A small county town can not accommodate so many people. Once the news of closing the city is released, it is hard to say that the farmers outside the city and Meng’ an will not enter the city.
It will definitely cause great confusion then.
An uncertain fact makes such a big mess that something will really happen.
Reasoning, Chen Binghe feels that he is still prepared for it.
While preparing for the closure of the city, more people will be sent to Yizhou to find out more information.
Then Chen Binghe arranged to count the grain depots and armories in the city and stepped up preparations when it was not needed.
He also sent people to hire idlers, beggars and beggars in the city to form a logging team to collect enough wood in the hills outside the city.
Sijing, according to Chen Binghe’s suggestion, privately sent people to contact Meng ‘an Mouke in those living villages to make them grow up.
This is also shirking responsibility.
I told you what you want to do. It’s your own business to enter the city, but if you don’t enter the city, something really happened. You are responsible for it yourself.
In the face of Sijing’s warning, a few villages sent the elderly, women and children in the village to live in the city temporarily, and most of them did not move.
It’s the spring ploughing season, which delays the spring ploughing and affects their harvest for a whole year, but no one will take care of them when they are hungry.
So they didn’t go to the city themselves, nor did they let the Han serfs controlled by them go to the city.
Spring ploughing is the biggest in the world.
The jurchen who moved to the south gradually understood this truth and did it at all costs.
Si Jing and Chen Binghe both said that it’s hard to persuade the damn ghost that you won’t listen to us anyway.
In the next few days, Chen Binghe and Si Jingbing were divided into two ways to prepare materials and arrange military defense and intelligence exploration, which was not bad.
On the afternoon of 29th, Sijing hurried to the county with a person.
This man was one of the sentries sent by Chen Binghe to Yizhou to listen for news. He was very weak when he came back after being injured.
Chen Binghe soon learned that the man was attacked when he entered Yizhou to probe the news. Four companions around him were all dead. He fled all the way to Tengzhou and made a big circle from Tengzhou to Yanzhou before returning.
"Yizhou two counties have fallen and the thief army has controlled Yizhou! There are about thousands of thieves! "
Chen Binghe was frightened to disgrace and immediately looked at Sijing.
"Something really happened!"
Sijing’s face was tense
"If something really happened, we should report it immediately!"
"That’s right! Report immediately! Come and give it to me … "
Chen Binghe didn’t finish his words when suddenly there was a loud noise. Chen Binghe was scared and looked at each other at a loss.
Chen Binghe suddenly reacted and panicked and ran out of the county government. Sijing followed him and stumbled out of the county government to look at the sound.
I really didn’t see anything for a while, but the noise was like a raging tide, and it was breathtaking to face them directly one after another.
Panic is panic.
Women scream, men scream, and all kinds of high notes that tear their throats converge to stimulate Chen Binghe’s heart and make their hearts beat faster.
Something really happened.
Su Yonglin has personally infiltrated Chen Binghe with a good soldier of Victory Army to arrange firewood mining team to rush into Xintai County and seize the gate.
