The person who has this idea is Dai Dongche, the ninth-grade official who was flattered and slapped on the toilet just now, Ambassador of Xingquan Fucang.
This ambassador was not a diplomat with a distinguished status as the ambassador of a country in later generations, but a miscellaneous official whose official title was even smaller than that of Sesame's son-in-law. If he went further down, he would be out of the ordinary.
Just by hearing the name of this official position, you can tell that he is actually a small boss in charge of the warehouse.
As someone who has no fame and is just a child at best, it can be said that it is not easy for him to survive until today.
He failed to study in his early years and joined the low-level officialdom when he was less than 20 years old. He worked hard for a full thirty years, climbing step by step from an ordinary clerk to a warehouse ambassador. His experience is the best example of countless low-level officials working hard to climb up.
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But even though he is already the role model that countless officials dream of, he is still not satisfied, because he still wants to climb higher. He wants to continue to rise to the ninth rank, or even the eighth rank, or the seventh rank, and become a county magistrate.
But if no miracle happens, he will be like this in his life. Not to mention the seventh-grade county magistrate, even if he is the ninth-grade, he will not be able to get his turn. He can only survive in the ninth-grade until he retires.
But as an ambitious person, he is not willing to give in!
He was able to spend thirty years making continuous progress and finally put on the official robe that everyone envied. This shows that this person is not mediocre and content with the status quo.
Ambitious people are the scariest. They either become heroic protagonists or villains.
After coming out of the magistrate's office, Dai Dongche raised his head and glanced at the sky. The sky was pitch black, with no stars at all. The dark sky seemed like a huge hand, completely covering the city of Xingquan Prefecture.
At this time, his entourage also led someone to carry a two-person sedan in front of him. At this time, his entourage said: "Master, are you going back home?"
Dai Dongche did not answer immediately, but after pondering for a while, he said: "No, go to the king's inspection house!"
Naturally, the entourage would not know, nor would he ask Dai Dongche why he went to Wang Xunjian's house. He said consciously: "Yes!"
Then he greeted the bearer: "Let's go!"
Sitting on the rickety sedan, Dai Dongche half-closed his eyes and didn't know what he was thinking. His face was a little gloomy. His entourage was also an old man who had been following him for many years. When he saw that his master seemed to be in a bad mood, he immediately whispered:
"Master, what's wrong? Is it because of the Puppet Tang traitor army?"
Dai Dongche turned his head slightly, then glanced at him, without saying much, just nodded slightly!
At this time, the entourage following the sedan continued to speak: "Those puppet Tang bandits are outside the city. Now everyone is panicked. I heard that the Yang family in the east of the city wanted to escape from the city, but they just left.
When we entered the city gate, we were stopped by the puppet Tang rebel army outside the city, and we finally managed to escape!"
Dai Dongche snorted coldly at this time and said: "Stupid, the puppet Tang bandits are not fools, they will naturally watch several city gates, how can they escape so easily, let alone them, even if they are detectives
It’s not that easy to ride out of the city!”
"But it doesn't matter if you can't escape. If everyone wants to escape like him, this city will not be defended!"
When Dai Dongche said this, he naturally would not tell others. He had also thought of escaping from the city in the afternoon, but before he could take action, he heard that the gentry and wealthy people who had fled the city first had either
I have never heard of anyone who was shot and captured by the pseudo-Tang outside, or was brought back in embarrassment, and I have never heard of anyone successfully escaping.
That's why he stopped thinking about escaping. It wasn't just him. In fact, most of the people attending the meeting in the prefect's Yamen today had experienced the same thoughts as Dai Dongche.
It's just that this idea has not been implemented.
It is not so easy to leave the city now.
Since the puppet Tang rebels arrived outside the city of Xingquan Prefecture in the afternoon, Xingquan Mansion has closed several gates in and out of the city, and has also sent people to strictly defend it. This is of course to stop the puppet Tang rebels.
Trying to sneak into the city secretly, but on the other hand, it is also to prevent a large number of people in the city from escaping.
With all these people running away, how can the government arrest young men to defend the city?
However, this is only a superficial work. Ordinary people cannot leave the city, but some rich and powerful people want to leave the city, and the people guarding the city gate really dare not stop them.
However, since the afternoon, the number of people who have tried to escape from the city to other places to avoid the war has ranged from less than 100 to 80, but it has not been heard that anyone has been able to break through the blockade of the puppet Tang rebels and escape successfully.
Those who escaped from the city were lucky and could get their money back, but if they were unlucky, they would be shot or captured directly by the puppet Tang rebels outside the city.
In order to prevent important people in the city from escaping and moving reinforcements to other places, Hao Bainian quickly surrounded Xingquan City completely after arriving at Xingquan City. He sent troops to all the four gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest.
People were guarding it, and a peripheral defense line was set up, with soldiers patrolling regularly.
In such an encirclement, if people in the city want to escape, it is okay for one or two people to sneak away. Single people can move flexibly, have small targets, and are easier to hide, so it is still possible to escape.
But if you run away like a whole family moving, you will never be able to escape.
But those who wanted to escape were some wealthy gentry families. Of course, they did not escape alone. They had to take their parents, children, a group of wives and concubines, and a carriage full of gold and silver treasures with them.
Isn't it a joke to bring so many carriages and try to break through the blockade of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty?
For these people, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty took prisoners who could be captured, and those who could not be captured should keep the property they carried as much as possible.
After capturing the convoys of more than a dozen families, the new army of the Tang Dynasty gained a lot. They captured a total of two eldest men, a half-year-old handsome young man, and a dozen charming ladies. As for the beautiful wives and concubines of those old men and young masters, there were even a large group of them.
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Of course, these prisoners were not taken seriously by Hao Bainian. What he valued more was the large amount of loot captured along with these prisoners.
There are a lot of gold and silver jewelry, curios, calligraphy and paintings. If those jewelry are not included, there are more than three hundred taels of gold alone.
The total value of this batch of goods alone is no less than ten thousand taels.
And this number is equivalent to the money that the New Army of the Tang Dynasty looted in Zhengtai County in the past few months.
Even though these gold and silver cannot be eaten or drunk, they can be traded with merchants like Old Man Sun to purchase strategic materials such as copper, iron, saltpeter, and sulfur needed by the new army of the Tang Dynasty.
And in addition to foreign transactions, the Tang Dynasty cannot continue to pay salaries to officials. This can only be done when there is money.
Therefore, for the new army of the Tang Dynasty, the more gold and silver they can seize, the better.
For this reason, Li Xuan, who arrived here in the evening, specially praised Comrade Xiao Hao, saying that he was worried about the Tang Dynasty's urgent needs and worried about my worries. He was really a loyal minister, a very loyal minister!
Xingquan Mansion is besieged. Some people want to escape, some want to defend, and some people will make other plans.
Dai Dongche wanted to run away at first, but when he couldn't escape, he decided to become a militant and defend the city of Xingquan Prefecture. When he went to the prefect's Yamen for a meeting today, he had already thought of several strategies and planned to donate to his colleagues.
Lord Zhi, in order to gain appreciation, I am also planning to take out some good things from the bottom of the warehouse and use them as military supplies.
He planned to do this before, naturally not because he was loyal to the emperor and patriotic, but because he wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to stand out. After making great achievements, was he afraid of not being promoted?
He doesn't have high requirements. He doesn't expect to reach the seventh level in one step, but he has to upgrade one level anyway. The ninth level is quite good.
But what would you have thought was that before he had a chance to express his determination to stick to his guns, he was scolded by his colleague Chang Zhu.
At that time, he not only lost face and could not come to the stage, but also lost the opportunity to provide advice to Dai Dongche in the future. During the meeting for more than an hour, he could only sit there dryly and watch others talk to Dai Dongche.
However, the idea of taking advantage of the opportunity of the puppet Tang bandit army to attack the city has not given up.
Since Dai Dongche didn't give him a chance to make meritorious deeds, and since the court wouldn't give him a promotion, he might as well join his family elsewhere.
Isn't the Puppet Tang Bandit Army a pretty good choice?
I heard that in the past few years, no officials from the puppet Tang rebel army have surrendered. If I take the initiative to surrender, this will be the merit of following the dragon.
Since he couldn't become a high official in the Ming Dynasty, he would go to the Puppet Tang Dynasty to become an official. Isn't he qualified to be an official there?
As for when the Puppet Tang thief army will be destroyed, Dai Dongche is quite optimistic about this. The Puppet Tang thief army can defeat tens of thousands of official troops with a few thousand people. The chance of its development is not great, but it is definitely possible. If ten thousand people retreat,
Bu said, if the traitor army of the Tang Dynasty had been destroyed that day, he would have become a traitor again, and he might be able to get promoted and make a fortune because of his meritorious service in surrendering.
However, as an ambitious official, he did not want to wait until the puppet Tang rebels entered the city before surrendering. That would not demonstrate his talent and value at all. How could he gain the importance of the puppet Tang rebels? For example
Surrender in advance, and it is best to make a contribution to the city.
How to dedicate the city?
This is why Dai Dongche often inspects the mansion before tonight.
Inspector Wang and he were sons and daughters. Of course, this relationship was not important. What was important was that Inspector Wang had nearly dozens of police officers and helpers under his command, and was responsible for the security patrols in the city.
Just like this, it is not worth Dai Dongche running to his house late at night. More importantly, he knows that this inspector Wang is just like him, and he wants to climb up. However, this person was a bandit who surrendered before.
If there is no miracle in his life, he will never be able to climb up in this life.
Dai Dongche thought that he was at least half sure of persuading him to find a way to open the city gate and surrender, so as to gain the merit of dedicating the city.
But what he didn't expect was that when he arrived at the palace of Inspector Wang, he heard someone from the palace saying that Inspector Wang was not there and that he had gone to inspect the city gate with his men.
Going to inspect the city gate?
Are you kidding? The city gate is so dangerous. According to the character of the bastard named Wang, he would take risks at this time. It is impossible.
And in the middle of the night, he took a group of people to patrol? What to patrol? What is there to patrol?
After Dai Dongche stood there and thought for a long time, he suddenly slapped his forehead and couldn't help but cursed: "You bastard, you didn't even call me to surrender!"