When the soldier heard this, he couldn't help but look at Zhang Shitou. Zhang Shitou quickly shook his head slightly at him and signaled him not to speak.

"If I don't know the reason, how can I help your team leader?" Tan Zong found that Zhang Shitou seemed to have a lot of prestige in the sergeant's mind, so he smiled and said to the sergeant, not using his official position to suppress him.[]

"Qi Qin Envoy, our team doesn't want to leave the city defense force!" The soldier bowed to Tan Zong and told the cause and effect of the matter in a casual manner.

Zhang Shitou's family is poor, and his grandfather is ill in bed all year round. There are six brothers and sisters in the family. The eldest sister is married, the eldest brother is studying in a county school, the second brother works as an apprentice in a money shop in the county town, the third brother and the younger sister are young, and their parents only plant a few acres of thin land, which is entirely due to his salary to support the family.

If Zhang Shitou had not sent his monthly salary home, not only would his grandfather's illness and his eldest brother's studies be delayed, but his family's life would also become hard.

Zhang Shitou had already planned in his mind that he not only wanted his eldest brother to study, but also wanted his third brother to study in the school and get rid of poverty, but also wanted to find a good family for his younger sister in the future, so that he would not endure hardships like his older sister.

According to the Dashun military rules, anyone with broken hands will retire. Zhang Shitou does not want to leave the military camp where he has lived for twelve years. This is not only because he has a good salary here, but also his love for his career in the army.

Since he was sixteen years old, Zhang Shitou joined the Yangzhou City Defense Forces and worked hard all the way. From the commander of the sergeant and commander of the rank of the ninth rank, he has long been accustomed to this militarized life. Once he is asked to leave, he really doesn't know what he can do.

"I thought it was a difficult thing, it turned out to be because of this." After learning the reason, Tan Zong smiled and looked at Zhang Shitou, "As long as you have the intention to kill the enemy and serve the country, you can take the three-foot steel knife in your hand, then Ben Qin feels that you are not unable to stay in the team."

"Sir Qin, what you said is true?" Zhang Shitou was surprised and happy when he heard this, and looked at Tan Zong with some disbelief.

"Enter Benqin promised you that as long as you prove to Enter Benqin that you can still go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, Enter Benqin will allow you to stay in the city defense force." Tan Zong smiled slightly and stretched out his right hand, "If you don't believe it, Enter Benqin can swear to you!"

"I will never let Qin Jun down when I am young!" Zhang Shitou was stunned, then hit Tan Zong's palm and said excitedly, full of gratitude for Tan Zong. He never expected that he would still have the opportunity to stay in the city defense force, so he made up his mind to cherish it.

Seeing that Tan Zong would swear to a small team, Zhou Dunran, Han Tian and Lu Weimin were very surprised. Their identities were too disparate, one was in the sky and the other was underground.

The officialdom is very strict, especially those at the top, both civil officials and military generals attach great importance to their identities. If it were other officials, it would be impossible to do such a rash thing as Tan Zong, which seems to be harmful to Zhou Dunran, Han Tian and Lu Weimin.

Unlike Zhou Dunran and the other two, the sergeant standing beside him and Shi Chang's eyes following him emitted a strange light, and he admired Tan Zong very much.

After exploring all the wounded, it was already midnight. Yangzhou City was shrouded in a quiet night. Tan Zong, Zhou Dunran and others broke up in front of the last clinic and returned to Huang Mansion to rest under the sergeant.

The streets are deserted and there is no one else except the patrolling soldiers. Today, Yangzhou City has lost its former prosperity and noisy, and it looks a bit lifeless.

When he returned to Huang Mansion, the guard guard at the gate told Tan Zong that it was Wei Qi who had been waiting in the hall for a long time, which surprised Tan Zong. Could it be that Wei Qi was here to plead for Zhongyitang?

Although the gang members of Zhongyitang have been detained, because they fought against Zhongyitang's attack together in the government office, the four incense masters including Wei Qi were free, and Tan Zong did not mean to offend them.

"Sir Qin." When Tan Zong entered the hall, Wei Qizheng sat there drinking tea with great worries. When he saw him coming in, he quickly got up to salute.

"Master Wei Xiang is here so late, I don't know what's going on?" Tan Zong smiled slightly at Wei Qi, sat down at the head, and quietly stretched out his hand to signal him to sit down.

"My Lord Qin, I am here this time, hoping that Mr Qin Lord Qin will be treated by the brothers of Zhongyitang because of the deceived," Wei Qi did not sit down, but bowed to Tan Zong and said earnestly, "In the middle and Zhongyitang, I must remember the great kindness and virtue of the Lord."

After the war last night, the wounded officials were naturally taken to the clinic for treatment, while the wounded people of Zhongyitang were imprisoned with the surrendered gang members of Zhongyitang.

Because the gang members of Zhongyitang are of rebels, and the officials hate them very much, the wounded people in Zhongyitang cannot receive any treatment and can only wait for death to approach in the groan of pain.

Wei Qi, Jiang Qing, Zhu Youfu and Zhang Yi were worried about the gang members. Regardless of their injuries, they went to the place where the gang members were detained in the afternoon and found that the brothers in the hall were in a worrying situation, especially the injured. Due to the lack of treatment, many of the injuries worsened, and the seriously injured died one after another.

After seeing the four incense masters, the people from Zhongyitang asked them for help. At this moment, these people already knew how serious the crime they committed was. If nothing unexpected happened, they would definitely be beheaded.

After all, Wei Qi and the other four were the incense masters of Zhongyi Hall. Although Tan Zong did not blame them, they could not refuse to blame for such a big thing in Zhongyi Hall. Now they are unable to protect themselves. How can they have the ability to excuse the gang members for their crimes?

Although they could not escape the crimes of the gang members of Zhongyitang, they could not think about it. Wei Qi and the other four still felt that they should plead for the injured. If the officials showed their compassion, they might not have to die and could escape by chance.

Among the four incense masters, only Wei Qi and Jiang Qing were involved in friendship. However, Jiang Qing was not seriously injured. After some fatigue in the afternoon, his body could no longer support him, so Wei Qi had to bite the bullet and come to the door.

When Wei Qi came, Tan Zong had already gone to the clinic to visit the wounded in the government office, so he naturally had no choice but to go with him, so he had to wait for Tan Zong to come back in the Huang Mansion.

"They haven't received treatment?" Tan Zong was surprised when he heard this. He was busy dealing with various affairs this day, so he had no time to pay attention to the people in Zhongyitang.

But then Tan Zong felt relieved. Who had enough to go to heal the rebels in Zhongyitang, who were so stupid that they caused trouble. No wonder Wei Qi had been waiting here for so long. No one in Yangzhou City could make the decision except him.

"Sir Qin, there are enough people who died last night. Save those brothers." Wei Qi looked at Tan Zong with sad eyes, bent his legs, and knelt on the ground with a thud. This is the only thing he can do for those injured brothers now.

"Brother, save those people." At the same time, Zheng Hu, Tao Yong and Zheng Long walked in from outside the door and knelt side by side in front of Tan Zong.

The personnel of the Cao Gang are divided into internal personnel and peripheral personnel. The internal personnel are the gang members responsible for the killing of each hall, while the external personnel refer to the fishermen who depend on them and the coolies who dock on the wharf.

Although the external personnel of the Cao Gang are also in the position of exploitation and exploitation among the Cao Gang, they are protected by the Cao Gang to the outside world, making outsiders afraid to provoke them. Although their lives are poor, they are still stable.

Zheng Hu and the other two were formerly coolies at the wharf and were peripheral members of Zhongyitang. Since they followed Tan Zong, they have broken off their relationship with Zhongyitang and even had conflicts with Tian Kailin of Zhongyitang.

But no matter what, the three of them are considered to be from the Cao Gang. Now that Zhongyitang is suffering such a disaster, the three of them naturally cannot ignore it.

"You all get up." Tan Zong glanced at Wei Qi and Zheng Hu who were kneeling there, pondered for a moment, stood up, "Go and have a look with me."

According to the requirements of the government, Tan Zong adopted a tactic of fighting and pulling against the Cao Gang. This huge thing is related to the smooth water transportation, and it can only be divided and disintegrated by simmering it in a low heat and cannot be achieved overnight, otherwise it will cause chaos in the Cao Transport.

Although the people from Zhongyitang almost killed Tan Zong last night, Tan Zong knew very well that it was not advisable to fight Zhongyitang now, because this was the scene that I hope to see during the festival.

As the most important hall of the Cao Gang, let alone the entanglements of interest between it and the powerful people in the capital, just saying that he controlled the waterways of the canal and the Yangtze River in the south and central and southern regions is enough to make people dare not act rashly: once the control of the Zhongyi Hall is lost, these waterways will inevitably attract the covetment of new forces, and at that time, the smoke of gunpowder will inevitably arise due to the competition for territory, which will affect the waterway transportation, and also give the forces behind Bi Shijie an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Bi Shijie has now put on Zhongyitang and is a fierce enemy. It can be said that Zhongyitang is an irreconcilable enemy. If the people behind Bi Shijie want to win over Zhongyitang, it may not be an easy task, at least those gang members will not agree.

Therefore, it is better to maintain its status quo than to change the family of Zhongyitang. Tan Zong is sure that the official will definitely pardon the Zhongyitang's rebellion, because doing this is to protect the water transportation between Jiangnan and Central and South China, and to make it difficult for the organizations behind the Bishiqi period to win over Zhongyitang, which has a deep hatred, and to make Zhongyitang move closer to the government and divide the Caogang.

Seeing this, Wei Qi and Zheng Hu quickly got up and followed Tan Zong to the inspector's compound where the Zhongyitang Gang was imprisoned.

When Tan Zong and others came to the Inspection Department, Gu Tianyi had already fallen asleep. Because there were many things in these days, he simply ate and lived in the Inspection Department.

After receiving the news that Tan Zong came, Gu Tianyi quickly put on his clothes to greet him and led him to the Salt Tax Prison where the Zhongyi Hall Gang was detained.

The Salt Tax Department Prison is in the backyard of the Inspection Department. Since the Salt Tax Department has sufficient funds, the scale of the prison is larger than that of the Yangzhou Prefecture Prison Prison, and can accommodate four or five hundred people.

Although the prison guard guarding in front of the prison did not know Tan Zong, after seeing Gu Tianyi following Tan Zong timidly, he immediately guessed that the young man was the Lord Qin Envoy, so he quickly opened the prison door.

As soon as the door of the prison opened, an unpleasant smell rushed towards us, mixed with painful moans and bitter pleas. Tan Zong frowned slightly and strode in.

Several prisoners were sitting at a table in front of the door drinking and chatting. Suddenly, they saw Gu Tianyi and Tan Zong and stood up in a hurry.

The prison was dark and humid. The private salt dealers who were originally locked up had been moved to another place. Every cell on both sides of the corridor was now filled with gangs from Zhongyitang.

At this time, several jailers cursed and carried two dead bodies out along the corridor. When they saw Tan Zong and Gu Tianyi, they immediately stopped there.

Tan Zong walked up and saw that the two dead bodies were injured, but they did not look fatal. They should have died after delaying treatment.

"How many people have died?" Tan Zong waved his hand and signaled the prison guards to carry the dead bodies out, turning his head to ask the prison head who rushed over from the wing room on the side of the prison.

"Sir Qi Bingqin, plus the two just now, twenty-nine are dead." The prison head had already fallen asleep, and nodded and said with his sleepy eyes open, nodding and bowing.

The weather is hot now, and those seriously injured are already weak, and the high temperature and humid environment can easily die.

"Twenty-nine!" Tan Zong couldn't help but frown deeper. He found that the situation was even more serious than he thought, so he stepped forward.

Many hands stretched out from the cells on both sides of the corridor, shaking them constantly, accompanied by waves of weak begging. Tan Zong only heard clearly after approaching that the people in the cell were trying to eat and water.

"Uncle, okay, give me some water."

"Please save my brother, he is injured and he is almost out of reach."

"Master, give me some food. We haven't eaten for a day and a night."

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The appearance of Tan Zong and others immediately attracted the attention of the two prison cells near the prison door. The people locked inside immediately rushed to the wooden fence facing the corridor and begged hard.

Perhaps hearing the voices of the people in the two cells, the prison suddenly became boiling. The people in the cells gathered in front of the wooden fences on both sides of the corridor and begged loudly. The situation became chaotic, making the soldiers guarding Tan Zong nervous and their right hands were involuntarily pressed on the hilt of the knife.

"Why didn't they give them food?" Tan Zong looked at the cells on both sides of the left and right as he walked, and found that it was densely covered with people, with their lips chapped and his expression was muddy. Some injured people looked very bad. They fell on the narrow grass in pain and moaned. He stopped in front of a cell, turned his head and asked the prisoner, his tone full of dissatisfaction: It is natural for them to not treat the wounded, but it shouldn't be cut off from their diet.

"Master Wei Xiang, save us, we are really wronged!" At this moment, a man with a cloth strip wrapped around his head in the prison cell next to him recognized Wei Qi who was following Tan Zong under the dim light, and shouted in infinite grief and anger.

(ps. A friend mentioned the protagonist's skill problem. Because the protagonist's time-travel welfare physique is different from ordinary people, his skills will naturally improve gradually)
Chapter completed!