Guo Binchang said tremblingly: "Then, the official is now offering the city. Do you think the person with the tiger flag will save me his life?"

Wang Tong was stunned for a moment when he heard this. He never expected that Guo Binchang, the county magistrate, would ask such words, and he did not expect that Guo Binchang would be so backbone as the county magistrate.

Guo Binchang did not wait for Wang Tong's response and said, "You are familiar with the people with the tiger flag, otherwise when the people with the tiger flag enter the city, would you beg for the mercy for me?"

Wang Tong pursed his lips and said, "Sir, I see that the army outside the city does not mean to attack the city, I should just pass by."

"Passing by?" Guo Binchang leaned out of the city again.

At this time, the army of the tiger flag had already walked past the official road outside the city, and only the baggage team behind had not yet completely passed.

Guo Binchang raised his sleeves and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, saying, "When you say that, I really feel that the army with the tiger flag is passing by."

"Sir, since the people with the tiger flag are just passing by, I will think we should be better off as we don't know." Wang Tongxin looked at the army passing by outside the city with lingering fear.

As the garrison of Lingqiu, when he saw the army of tiger flags outside the city, there were dozens of iron cannons. He knew that such an army was definitely not something that his small garrison could handle.

Once the court knew about the tiger flag, he sent him to suppress the tiger flag, fearing that before he could get closer, the person would die under the gun.

"Yes, yes, yes, you're right." Guo Binchang nodded repeatedly and said in agreement, "I haven't seen any army, nor have I seen any iron cannons. This time I came to the top of the city to inspect.

Yes, now that the inspection is over, I will go back to the yamen to rest."

After saying that, he turned around and walked under the outer wall.

Wang Tong hesitated for a moment and did not leave the city wall like Guo Binchang.

Before he saw the army outside the city leave, he was worried and went back like this.

Guo Binchang, who had stepped down the city wall, said to Master Jia around him: "Go and ask the people with the tiger flag, what is the situation of the army passing outside the city? By the way, ask them, send such a large army to transit blatantly.

, What exactly do they want to do?”

"Don't worry, the student will go to the person with the tiger flag in the city to find out clearly." Mr. Jia agreed to do his job.

Guo Binchang said: "Go and go back quickly, I will go back to the county government to wait for your news."

Master Jia left under the city wall, walked along the street and towards the city.

There was a stone pier under the city wall. Guo Binchang didn't care about the cold, so he sat on the stone pier and pressed his knees hard with his hands to prevent his legs from trembling.

"Sir, do you want someone to carry the sedan chair over?"

The Shi Captain next to him saw that Guo Binchang was so scared that he seemed to be unable to walk, so he suggested sending the sedan chair next to the city gate.

Guo Binchang nodded.

As a civil servant who was born in a Jinshi, he suddenly saw a large army that did not belong to the court, and there were so many iron cannons. He was frightened and his legs were disobedient since he knocked down the city wall.

Captain Shi waved his hand to the yamen runner beside him and signaled him to go to the sedan chair.

The yamen runs over.

There was a sedan chairman next to the sedan chair. Not long after the yamen runner passed, he took the sedan chairman and sedan chair back to Guo Binchang.

Captain Shi helped Guo Binchang up from the stone pier with his hands and then into the sedan chair.

Guo Binchang, who was sitting in the sedan chair, lifted the curtain on one side, looked at the stone captain and said, "Do you think Liu Heng, who is the tiger flag, really wants to rebel? Do you think this official should send someone to Datong to deliver a letter immediately?

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Captain Shi hesitated for a moment and said, "The villain thinks that the tiger flag does not seem to be a rebellion. If they really rebel, they have already attacked the county town now."

"Maybe they think it's hard to take down our Lingqiu County, so they turn to attack Guangling County next door." Guo Binchang said.

Shi Captain Toutiao smiled bitterly and said, "Sir, you have thought too much. The walls of our Lingqiu County have been disrepair for a long time, and several places have collapsed. Once the army of the tiger flag attacked the city, they will collapse from those collapsed walls.

You can attack the county town.”

Lingqiu is not a Fu County, and there has been no war with Beilu for more than ten years, so things like restoring the city wall have not been as important as ten years ago.

Not only Lingqiu, but also the walls of other county towns in Datong are not so complete, and there are also collapsed places.

"Go back to the yamen." Guo Binchang put down the curtain of the sedan chair.

Two sedan chairmen lifted the sedan chair and walked towards the city yamen.

Captain Shi led three squads of yamen runners and returned to the county yamen with the sedan.

Lingqiu County was not big, but not long after, the sedan chair entered the yamen and stopped until outside the lobby.

Captain Shi supported Guo Binchang, walked through the lobby, and returned to the back yamen.

A yamen runner brought the hot tea I had just brewed.

Guo Binchang trembled with his arms and picked up the cover bowl and wanted to put it to his mouth, but he could not move it to his mouth. Instead, he sprinkled a lot of tea from it.

Seeing this, Shi Captain Shi felt that scholars were useless. He returned to the yamen and was afraid that he would be so unstable that he could not even hold a cup of hot tea.

He had no choice but to persuade: "Don't worry, Liu Heng, who is a tiger-shaped flag, really wants to rebel, he will have rebelled long ago, and he will not wait until today. Moreover, he is a businessman and has never heard of any merchant rebelling."

Guo Binchang put down the cover bowl in his hand and said, "Yes, you are right. How can there be a reason for merchants to rebel? With the wealth of the tiger-shaped flag, there is no need to do such a head-losing thing as rebellion."

There were few businessmen who took the initiative to rebel in history, which made Guo Binchang, who was familiar with history books, feel much more at ease, and his hands were not as trembling as before.

I had a cup of tea in the past.

Mr. Jia, who was sent to inquire about the news, walked in from outside.

When Guo Binchang saw him, he hurriedly stood up and asked, "Have you found out clearly? What happened to the tiger flag sending a large army?"

As the magistrate of Lingqiu County, although he knew that the Tiger Flag raised a lot of war soldiers as caravan guards, it was normal for the Tiger Flag convoy to go to the grassland and deal with the Beilu, so it was normal for more guards.

But this time he saw thousands of troops with the tiger flag and dozens of iron cannons, which made him really scared.

Such a force cannot be defended with the strength of Lingqiu. More importantly, the Ming Dynasty was responsible for losing its territory. Once Lingqiu was thrown away from his county magistrate, even if he was not dead, he would still be

He was imprisoned and beheaded by the court.

Master Jia said, "Don't worry, sir, the student has already found out clearly. The tiger flag is not a rebellion, but is ordered by the governor to go to Xinpingbao."

"You mean that the tiger flag mobilized an army of thousands of people, just to go to Xinpingbao?" Guo Binchang looked puzzled.

Master Jia nodded and said, "The student saw the person with the tiger flag in Lingqiu City, so what the other party said."

"Do you know what people with the Tiger Flag do when they go to Xinpingbao?" Guo Binchang asked.

Mr. Jia said: "According to the tiger flag, the governor asked them to go to Xinpingbao to persuade the invading Beilu to retreat."

"Have you ever seen a large army with thousands of people and dozens of iron cannons to persuade people to retreat?" Guo Binchang said with a frown.
Chapter completed!