Huoyi Zhixian is called Zhang Bao, originally a scoundrel ruffian in the county, about forty years old, very obese, he went to the county government a few years ago as a servant, when the Jin soldiers killed, Huoyi Zhixian and the county lieutenant abandoned the official and fled, Zhang Bao found an opportunity, ran out of the city to meet the Jin soldiers, Wan Yanchang saw that he was familiar with the situation in the county, so he let him do Huoyi Zhixian.

Zhang Bao loyally carried out the Jin soldiers' various levies and rations, and at the same time, he also took advantage of the opportunity to carry out the various tasks of the Jin soldiers to feast his own pockets, this time the Jin soldiers gave Huoyi County a quota of 5,000 young and strong, Zhang Bao saw the opportunity to make a fortune, he changed the 5,000 quota to 8,000 people, where the task is not completed, the township can be offset with money, a quota of 20 yuan, this extra 3,000 places, can earn him 60,000 yuan at a time.

In the county office, Zhang Bao was in a very good mood, and was drinking and having fun with the new concubine, who was originally the leader of Baihualou in Linfen County, and was bought back by him for five hundred taels of silver to be his own concubine.

"Obediently coax the master to be happy, don't say a set of Baoyan Zhai's fat powder, even if it is a small house in Lin'an City, I will buy you one, and you can use Baoyan Zhai's perfume and rouge at that time."

"Yo! When did the lord become so rich, and the small mansions in Lin'an City could afford it? ”

"Master, I'm about to make a fortune, and in a few days you will lie down in the silver and sleep!" The more Zhang Bao spoke, the more proud he became, and he took the wine glass and drank it all.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of running footsteps outside, and a government official reported urgently at the door: "County gentleman, something has happened, there are many Diao people coming towards the county government." ”

Zhang Bao was suddenly startled, and hurriedly said, "How many people are here?" ”

"I've heard that there are a thousand people!"

Zhang Bao was frightened in his heart, and hurriedly came out and ordered: "You ask the brothers to block the gate of the county government and not allow Diao people to come in, so you say that I will go to Linfen County in the morning." ”

The official agreed, turned around to leave, and Zhang Bao stopped him again: "You quickly let Zhou Mazi ride a horse to Linfen County for help, and let Governor Li immediately send troops to rescue!" ”

Huoyi County originally had 500 garrisons, but the garrison had been transferred to Taiyuan Prefecture, and only Linfen County, the governor of Jinzhou, still had 1,000 township soldiers, and the suppression of Diao people could only ask Linfen County for help.

At this moment, there was a sudden tsunami-like shout outside, Zhang Bao was frightened, got under the table, and shouted: "You don't go quickly!" ”

The head of the government hurriedly ran out......

At this time, seven or eight thousand people have quickly gathered outside the county government, in addition to more than 1,000 people in Baishui Township, there are nearly 2,000 people in the other two townships, they are also driven by Liu Da and others, and they have come to the county seat in a mighty way, and there are thousands of residents in the county, Jin Bing and Zhang Bao's cruel exploitation and oppression, which has already caused the people in Huoyi County to boil.

Seven or eight thousand people surrounded the county government group, Liu Da held a big gun in his hand, pointed at the more than 20 officials in the county government and shouted: "Call Zhang Bao's dog official out to speak!" ”

Liu Da is strong in martial arts, and he is very famous in Huoyi County, and the officials all know him, and Jiang Quan, the head of the officials, shouted: "Liu Da, don't mess around, you gather people to make trouble like this, but you are breaking the law." ”

Liu laughed loudly, "You Jiang Heixin, you are still hard-mouthed when you are dying, hurry up and call Zhang Bao's dog official out and give us an explanation, otherwise Hugh blames my brother for being ruthless today!" ”

Jiang Quanse was very timid, he trembled and shouted: "Liu Da, you are indeed very rampant, tell you that Zhang Zhixian went to Linfen early in the morning, and there is a kind of you going to Linfen to arrest him!" ”

"Big brother, Zhang Gouguan has gone to Linfen, what should we do?" Several brothers of the Liu family gossiped.

Liu Da frowned, "It shouldn't be possible, Du Baozheng said that the above requirements should be completed within three days, how could Zhang Bao leave at this critical time?" ”

Liu Wu was short-tempered and immediately yelled, "Then rush into the county office and arrest him!" ”

At this moment, there was a commotion behind, and everyone turned around, only to see more than a dozen juniors escorting a servant to come, Liu Da knew this servant, who was Zhang Bao's henchman, called Zhou Mazi.

"What's going on?"

"Brother Liu, this Zhou Mazi was going to Linfen County to move rescue troops to suppress us, and he was intercepted by the brothers at the city gate."

Everyone was furious, and the raindrop-like fists hit Zhou Mazi, Liu Da hurriedly stopped everyone and stared at Zhou Mazi coldly, "Zhang Bao asked you to go?" ”

Zhou Mazi cried and begged for mercy, "Give me ten guts, I don't dare to go to Linfen to move troops, Zhang Bao forced me to go, if I don't go, he will kill my whole family......"

"Don't talk nonsense, where is Zhang Bao now?"

"He's in the county office!"

Zhou Mazi was very important to protect his own life, and he couldn't take care of Zhang Bao, so he confessed everything, "This time the forced conscription of the people, the above asked us to recruit 5,000 people in Huoyi County, and he increased it to 8,000 people without authorization, each person counted 20 yuan, and he personally earned 60,000 yuan, and the last time the forced requisition of grain, he privately sold the 2,000 stone grain in the official warehouse, and then spread it all to everyone, and he made at least 20,000 yuan from it." ”

Zhou Mazi's words suddenly became like a fuse, and the anger of thousands of people finally broke out, and they picked up stones and rained down on the more than 20 officials at the gate of the county ya, and the officials were so embarrassed that they hurriedly closed the gate of the county ya.

In a roar, a torch was thrown at the county government, the county government was ignited, the officials fled one after another, kneeling and kowtowing to beg for mercy, at this time, the county magistrate Zhang Bao ran away from the back door with the concubine, the concubine escaped, but Zhang Bao was caught up by the angry people because he was too fat, and was finally beaten to death by the people.

Liu Dayi did not do two endlessly, simply in Huoyi County to pull up the banner of anti-gold, he responded to the call, Jinzhou, Fenzhou, Zezhou, Honglong Mansion and other places people have responded, rushed to Liu Da, just a few days to gather tens of thousands of people, they captured Honglong Mansion Shangdang County, won tens of thousands of stone official grain, quickly became the largest anti-Jin army on Hedong Road.

Li Yanqing also got the news and urgently ordered Yan Qing, who was in Jiexiu County, to rush to Shangdang County to incorporate this anti-Jin rebel army.

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Yan Qing left his lieutenant Li Ying to continue to collect intelligence in Jiexiu County, while he himself rushed to Shangdang County with five of his men.

Shangdang County is full of the Yellow Dragon banner of the Song Army, although Liu Da and his subordinates are unbearable to the oppression of the Jin soldiers, and rise up to raise the banner to resist Jin, but their goal is still very confused, and the capture of Shangdang County is only because there is food here, so that the soldiers can eat enough, but what to do next, Liu Da does not have a clear direction in his heart.

In the morning, Liu Dazheng sat in the temporary military office and listened to a clerk report on the inventory of the warehouse, and the most distressing thing for Liu Da now was that the five brothers were illiterate, could not read all kinds of documents, and did not know how to manage military affairs, so he could only select a few scribes from the county government to do things for him.

At this time, one of his subordinates galloped to report, "Brother Liu, there are several horseback riders from outside the city, saying that they are coming to discuss with the eldest brother on the orders of Li Dutong. ”

"Ahh Liu Da stood up in shock, a few days ago he was just a small hunter, Li Yanqing was like a god-like existence to him, and now Li Yanqing actually sent someone, so that he was a little flustered in addition to being surprised, and hurriedly said: "Hurry up and invite them into the city!" ”

After a pause, he added, "I'll go by myself!" ”

He put on a robe and ran into the courtyard, turned on his horse, and urged his horse to run towards the entrance of the city.

There were several cavalrymen standing outside the north city gate, it was Yan Qing and his four subordinates, they were dressed in civilian clothes, but the horses were indeed genuine war horses, plus they were majestic and well-trained, so that people could guess their identities at a glance.

At this time, the city gate opened, and Liu Da hurriedly greeted him, "How many brothers are from Taiyuan?" ”

Yan Qing turned over and dismounted, hugged his fists and said with a smile: "In Xia Yanqing, the commander of the scout battalion of the Jingzhao Army has come to see General Liu on the order of Li Dutong!" ”

"Haha! Where am I a general, a rough man, which makes Yan Tongzhi smile. ”

Yan Qing saw that he was wearing a pair of high-grade Shunshui Mountain pattern armor, but he was wearing a leather helmet often worn by ordinary village soldiers on his head, which really looked a little nondescript, Yan Qing couldn't help but laugh in his heart, and said: "General Liu is modest, my family is very much praised for General Liu's patriotic and anti-Jin righteous deeds, and I am worried that the righteous army will not be able to withstand the killing of Jin soldiers, so I am ordered to assist General Liu." ”

"It's a send-off! Welcome to the arrival of the Yan system. ”

Liu Da was very enthusiastic to let Yan Qing into the city, the two rode slowly side by side, Yan Qing looked at the situation in the city and asked, "It seems that the army does not have a barracks for the time being?" ”

"It is true that there is no military camp, and the brothers are temporarily living in the west of the county seat, and they all live in some empty houses, which is quite chaotic, mainly because we do not have armor tents and so on."

"I can also see that many of the brothers defending the city are still carrying sticks, hoes, not to mention armor, General Liu, this is the most urgent problem that needs to be solved at present."

"If Li Dutong is willing to support us, we are also willing to become a member of the Jingzhao Army." Liu Da implicitly expressed his willingness to follow Li Yanqing.

Yan Qing smiled slightly, "Li Dutong is the privy envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, he will support any rebel army that resists Jin, first of all, General Liu needs to understand that Li Dutong has no selfish intentions, he just hopes that General Liu can be loyal to the Great Song Dynasty and the imperial court, but he does not want to incorporate General Liu's army." ”

Liu Da's face flushed, and he said for a while: "I really admire Li Dutong very much, and it would be a great honor for me to be his subordinate." ”

"There will definitely be opportunities, but the top priority is for us to build this army first."

The two soon came to the temporary military office, and Yan Qing said with a smile: "I'll go and find out about the soldiers and military rations first, and then we'll talk about it in detail in the evening." ”

Liu Da hurriedly asked two henchmen to accompany Yan Qing to investigate the army and warehouse, but at this time, several of his brothers rushed to hear the news.

"Big brother, Li Yanqing sent someone over, is he going to pick our peaches?" Liu San is upright, he can't hide what he has to say, and he directly picks things out.

Several brothers looked at Liu Da, Liu Da shook his head, "You think too much, if Li Yanqing wants to recruit an army, as long as he raises his arms, with his prestige, he will definitely respond, now that we have nothing, people will not be rare us." ”

"And what did he send someone to do?" The brothers asked in unison.

"Of course he came to help us, he was worried that the Jin soldiers would come back and wipe us out, so he sent General Yan, don't underestimate this General Yan, he is the commander of the scout battalion of the Jingzhao Army, and his official position is higher than that of Zhizhou."

Liu Er shook his head, "It doesn't matter what kind of official he is, if he wants to convince us, he has to show his real skills." ”