The Chengdu city was already in chaos, and when the Zeng family was still discussing whether to send troops to save the head of the family, the news that the Zeng family led their troops to Chengdu had spread throughout the city. The news of the Zeng family recruiting troops was already known to everyone two years ago, but ordinary people couldn't understand it and were not interested in it. Those who could understand and were interested did not dare to make any statement under Zeng Xiulin's tyranny.

On the contrary, ordinary people are very interested in the Zengmen Ten Tigers. What Zengmen Ten Tigers have always been the focus of discussion among the people of Chengdu. Today, who killed their son and snatched their daughter yesterday. Similar news will be heard every now and then, which makes the Zengmen Ten Tigers' reputation engraved into the bones of the Chengdu people.

Therefore, when the news that the Zengmen Shihu led his army to Chengdu suddenly caused the people of Chengdu to panic. It was rumored that the Zengmen Shihu led 10,000 Zeng family troops to kill and loot all the way, and did all the evil.

Before it was dark, there was a trend of snatching rice in the big rice shops in Chengdu. The rice price in Chengdu instantly rose from 30 cents to 60 cents of rice. Not only the rice price, but the silver price also soared. The silver price in the black market increased from one tael of silver to five thousand cents of money before, and suddenly rose to one tael of silver for eight thousand cents of money. Many wealthy families began to flee with their families and their relatives to the south of the city.

The whole city of Chengdu was full of fear of a war coming.

Zeng Xiulin was locked in a small room in the government office, and two soldiers were watching him closely. Zeng Xiulin didn't say anything after waking up, and lay on the bed and looked out the window silently. At this time, his heart was filled with the sadness of the winner being the king and the loser being the enemy, and full of regret for his negligence. If he could see through Li Yanqing's wolf, he would not have let the Baqianxiang Army go north. He was even more full of hatred for those who betrayed him. If he had a chance, he would definitely tear Xu Qinghui and Zhang Ji and others into pieces.

However, Zeng Xiulin still had a glimmer of hope in his heart. This glimmer of hope was the Supreme Emperor. He believed that the Supreme Emperor would definitely want to control Bashu. Maybe the Supreme Emperor would come to Bashu in person to inspect. As long as the Supreme Emperor wanted to use himself, no matter what he deceived the emperor or was greedy for the people's wealth, all of these were not a problem.

At this time, an angry shout came from outside. Zeng Xiulin remembered that it seemed that there was Hongsheng rice shop opposite the government office. What happened?

He finally turned around and looked at the two soldiers who were monitoring him, "What's wrong outside?" he asked coldly.

A soldier quickly walked out and came back soon and said to him: "The rice shop has increased again, and it has risen to a hundred people in rice. The people who bought rice were very angry, so they all shouted."

Zeng Xiulin was stunned. In just two days, the rice price soared to a hundred-civilian rice, more than three times more! What happened?

He couldn't help asking again: "What happened? The rice price has risen so rapidly?"

At this time, Li Yanqing's voice came from outside the door, "It was because your Zeng family's ten tigers led 7,000 troops to fight towards Chengdu, which caused panic in the whole city."

Li Yanqing appeared at the door with a sarcastic smile on his face, "It seems that your Zeng family is very rich! You can actually support a seven thousand army."

"You're talking nonsense!"

Zeng Xiulin suddenly became excited and shouted: "You are slandering people. When will the Zeng family have troops coming to fight?"

At this time, the censor Zhang Shan walked out from behind Li Yanqing and explained: "Li Jingluo was not wrong. The Zeng family's army had already reached thirty miles north of Chengdu County. How many people are there are still unknown, and the whole city is panicking about this."

Zeng Xiulin fell into the abyss as if he had stepped on the air and fell into the abyss. His heart was filled with despair. If this was the case, even the Supreme Emperor would not be able to protect himself.

He pointed at Li Yanqing with a trembling finger and shouted, "You... you can obviously stop it, but you... you deliberately made things worse and wanted to kill my Zeng family, right?"

Li Yanqing shook his head, "I am not as bad as you think. I ordered all the villagers of Heming Villa to be executed, just to warn the Zeng family not to do anything randomly, but the Zeng family did not take my warning to heart. This is the Zeng family's own way of death, what does it have to do with me?"

"Then what do you want? You said, I promise you if you offer a bid code."

Li Yanqing still shook his head, "It's not me looking for you now, but I'm going to interrogate you. If you have any dissatisfaction, you can justify me. Maybe the official family will spare your life in the end."

After saying that, Li Yanqing nodded to Zhang Shan, turned around and left.

Zhang Shan sat down opposite Zeng Xiulin and said calmly: "Prince Zeng, let's start with the anti-Jin military expenses! The officials attach great importance to this matter and specially sent a letter to me, so I must find out the truth."

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Li Yanqing came out of the government office and went directly to the north city wall. The 10,000 civilians recruited had already entered their respective positions. Almost all of them were imperial soldiers. Li Yanqing offered a monthly salary of six guan copper coins, which was equivalent to 12 guan iron coins. It was quite exciting. The registration was very enthusiastic. He recruited 10,000 militia soldiers in just one hour.

The militia soldiers were asked to bring their own equipment, so they were equipped with various types. Some wore mountain-patterned armor, some wore leather armor, and some wore rag armor, but many people were wearing cloth clothes and only had a helmet, and there were many weapons, including spears, spears, big swords and iron rods, some wore swords, some wore swords, some wore military crossbows, and more wore bows and arrows.

But these are not important. What is important is that they are all willing to join the army for a long time and will become an army stationed in Chengdu Prefecture by the Jingzhao Army.

Five hundred female soldiers also rushed back to Chengdu City with the Censor Zhang Shan. They handed over the war horses to Yan Qing's five hundred scouts. This was Li Yanqing's first move. Yan Qing's five hundred scouts disguised as various identities and scattered to Bashu. They did not ride horses, but the five hundred female soldiers came on the scout's horses and returned the war horses to the scout's army at a critical moment. The scout immediately transformed into a powerful cavalry.

Five hundred female soldiers also have tasks. They divided into two groups, half of whom were responsible for guarding the four city gates, and the other half were responsible for guarding Zeng Xiulin and his tribe members to prevent anyone from catching fish in troubled waters.

Although Li Yanqing did not take the Zeng family's armed Zhuang Ding seriously, he was still very cautious on the other hand. There was nearly 500,000 people living in Chengdu County. The Zeng family had a large number of shops in the city and hired thousands of workers. It was difficult to guarantee that some of them were loyal to the Zeng family and helped the Zeng family take advantage of the chaos.

So Li Yanqing did two things: one was to detain Zeng Xiulin and his tribe members in the government office, and at the same time strictly protected the security of the government office, and the other was to disband the village soldiers and take control of the four city gates into his own hands.

As for Yan Qing, he led 500 cavalrymen to hide outside the city, preparing to give the Zeng family a head-on attack.

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The Zeng family's army did not arrive late until two days later because the Zeng family's Ten Tigers thought that 700 people were too few, so they recruited many rascals and rogues in nearby prefectures and counties, which made the Zeng family's army's strength reach 2,000. They wore leather armor, helmets, and had long spears and swords in their hands, which made the army's momentum suddenly increase. At dusk, the army arrived in the north of Chengdu County.

The alarm bell rang on the top of the city, and the militia soldiers resting under the city rushed to the north city. The flags were waving on the top of the city, and swords and guns were like forests, with the same murderous aura.

Three Hu Zeng Huaibiao looked at the soldiers on the top of the city and said to his elder brother Zeng Huaiwu with some concern: "Brother, there are many troops on the top of the city!"

Zeng Huaiwu snorted disdainfully, "It's the civilian soldiers who Li Yanqing just recruited. Many people don't even have armor. It's just a group of mobs, so don't worry."

The second son Zeng Huaiqiang came forward and said, "I wonder if Uncle Ning is ready."

Zeng Huaiwu smiled and said, "I have received news from Uncle Ning. I will take action at the third update tonight. At that time, we will feint attacking the North City Gate. They will break through the Ximen. Third brother, you will take Bahu and Jiuhu to Ximen to meet him. Success or failure will be here."
Chapter completed!