Chapter 232
She believes that if Chen Jinning wants to focus on the Dongzhe Prince's Mansion, it will be the best time to rain heavily.
Then, I waited until tomorrow morning, before Chen Jinning's army arrived, and ordered people to investigate. Chen Jinning's people were still placed in a stone house and never moved.
It’s strange to check the light and darkness. Could it be that I guessed wrong?
Chen Jinning What exactly are you going to do?
She felt very uneasy and transferred another 5,000 troops back to defense.
In the stone house, Su Yi, Zhen Shi'an and Jinning were discussing the attack.
"We cannot stay here for a long time. Heavy rain is our barrier. Once the rain stops, the stone house will be attacked. Although Jingting destroyed his arsenal, the palace must be prepared for the gunpowder that Princess Ping'an said. They all know our intentions and will definitely take advantage of this hurricane and rain to kill us here. Therefore, we must evacuate before the rain stops."
"Evacuate?" Su Yi was stunned for a moment, "Didn't you mean to attack the royal palace when the heavy rain came?"
Jinning said: "That's right, but this heavy rain won't stop so quickly. Now is not the best opportunity. Since it is a surprise attack, it will naturally catch the other party off guard. The heavy rain will last for five days and floods will cause disasters. Now our first priority is to stay with the people, so as to ensure safety. At the same time, we have five days of opportunity to perform to recover the hearts of the people of East and Zhejiang. If I was not wrong, the King of East and Zhejiang would definitely not provide disaster relief, because the court's movements are unknown. He will never open the granary at this time. This is the best time for the court to recover the people's hearts. What the people's will will definitely help us win a great victory."
Zhen Shi'an looked at her strangely. What the child said was not such a clever tactic. To put it bluntly, it was actually the simplest tactic. It was nothing more than using natural disasters to first seize the hearts of the people and then attack the arrows. This was actually a bit sinister.
But she said so justly.
However, looking at the whole thing is indeed just.
The King of Dongzhe was indeed a traitor.
Cha Duanming's defense did not come to an assault.
Instead, he received news that the 3,000 people led by Chen Jinning had already rushed to the coastal areas in the heavy rain to assist the people in escaping disasters.
This heavy rain has never stopped since the moment the hurricane came.
There are countless houses collapsed in the suburbs and trees are uprooted, and even the city has collapsed houses and raised tiled roofs.
Moreover, the heavy rain has not stopped yet. The government opened schools, ancestral halls in various townships, and major temples to let the people whose houses collapsed come to shelter from the rain.
However, the heavy rain is getting heavier and heavier, and the people near the mountain must evacuate. Otherwise, once a landslide occurs and the mud pours out, the consequences will be unimaginable.
However, with so many villages by the mountain, evacuation is not an easy task. Some mountain people are unwilling to leave their homes. Persuasion is ineffective and can only be forced to carry it away, which requires a large amount of manpower.
The government had insufficient staff, so we could only hope that the army of the King of East Zhejiang would return to defense. The King of East Zhejiang would send another 10,000 people to the coastal areas, and there would be few people left.
On the other side of the government, I knew that the King of East Zhejiang had more than just such a handful. The prefect, Lord Zhou, rode his horse to the palace in the rain, but saw that the streets of the palace were full of soldiers wearing straw raincoats. Under the extremely dark sky, heavy rain poured on. The three streets inside and outside the palace were covered with straw straw hats.
Master Zhou was so angry that his whole body trembled and rushed in front of the formation, "I'll give it a word, I have something important to see the prince."
The sergeant was ruthless and in the heavy rain, he refused to give in, and no one even paid attention to Lord Zhou.
Master Zhou looked at the formation and knew that it was impossible to see the prince, so he shouted again: "That guard, come out and say something to the official? Now that the disaster is in urgent need of the emergency, please send someone to rescue the disaster and evacuate."
The rainstorm was heavy, and apart from that, it was silent.
Lord Zhou was unwilling to give up, so he shouted several times, and he screamed so hard that no one could speak.
He was so angry that he knew there was no hope, so he would not waste time here, so he rode his horse and wanted to go straight to the granary, so that the resettled people would have a full meal first.
However, when I arrived at the granary, I found that the original guards of the granary were gone, and replaced by an army of at least two or three thousand men.
These people, like those outside the palace just now, were wearing straw raincoats and holding long swords, standing in the heavy rain, with no expression on their faces.
Lord Zhou shouted: "Where is the guardian?"
This time, a person came out of the crowd.
He was wearing a straw raincoat like other soldiers, but it was covered with black iron armor.
"Mr. Zhou, is there anything wrong with the rainstorm here?" the guard asked loudly.
Lord Zhou had just eaten a nail in the palace. Now, when someone answered, he was overjoyed and said quickly: "I want to order people to open a granary to help the victims. Now some of the victims are temporarily resettled..."
The guard interrupted him without waiting for him to finish speaking, "Master Zhou, do you have any prince's handwriting?"
Lord Zhou was stunned, "The prince's hand order?"
The East Zhejiang Grain Silver is a granary belonging to the government, not from the royal family. This is the spare grain left by the government. The grain that should be handed over to the prince has been handed over. There are several granaries of the East Zhejiang Prince, but this one is not his.
"That's right, the prince's orders that whenever a warehouse is opened, the prince's hand order must be required." said the guard.
Lord Zhou hurriedly said, "Are you mistaken for the general? This is not the granary of the royal palace."
The guard sneered, "The granaries in Dongzhecheng belong to the prince."
Lord Zhou was cold all over. What does this mean?
Is this King of East Zhejiang really going to rebel?
Lord Zhou was an official in the Dongzhe Palace, and was an official in the Dongzhe Palace and the court.
After serving here for five years, he knew very well that the character of the King of Dongzhe was not the kindness that outsiders thought, but he always believed that he would always do a complete job on the surface.
However, today's major disaster, he actually sealed the granary? Is this going to starve the people to death?
Is he really going to rebel?
The officials in Dongzhecheng are almost all the confidants of the King of Dongzhe, but Lord Zhou is not.
He vaguely felt that something was wrong.
He came alone, and everyone in the yamen was sent out. How could he fight against these two or three thousand soldiers with his own strength?
Moreover, the original guards didn't know where they went. He was frightened, so he wouldn't have been destroyed, right?
Lord Zhou didn't dare to say anything else, so he had to ride his horse back.
The granary is gone, and the victims who are resettled have to eat. The major resettlement sites do not have much food in stock, and it is not even enough for the people to have a meal.
Once the people go hungry, they will cause trouble.
After running this round, Lord Zhou was anxious and the corners of his mouth were almost smoking.
Looking at the chaos in the city and looking at the torrential rainstorm, Lord Zhou was helpless.
When I went to Guangfu Temple, I saw the people hungry and asked when they would give me porridge. Lord Zhou didn't know how to answer.
The captain stepped forward to comfort him, "Don't worry, lord has gone to find the King of Dongzhe, and the prince will definitely open a warehouse to provide relief."
"No, no!" Two people rushed in from outside. They were running from the heavy rain, soaked all over, with blue faces and veins on their foreheads burst out. "The King of Dongzhe has closed the granary, and all granaries are guarded by heavy troops."
Chapter completed!