Chapter 33 Wisdom and Calculation

Zhang Zhaohua served Princess Xu and stayed up all night. Princess Xu was hit on the head by the bricks and stones, and the most terrible thing was that when the brick fell, it carried a piece of blown up tribulus, and the iron thorns on the tribulus terrestris were densely pierced into the princess's scalp, and the deepest one was half an inch.

After looking at the wound, he said worriedly: "I have to cut off my hair before I can take out the iron thorn," but he was also very happy: "Although this thing pierced into the skin, it was not deep and did not hurt the skull, and this thing is much better than the wooden thorn, it is hard and not easy to break, and it can be uprooted." ”

Liu Yizheng had previously treated wooden thorns that pierced into his brain, and the wooden thorns were broken into one or two, which was the most difficult to remove. As he spoke, he asked Zhang Zhaohua what he meant.

Zhang Zhaohua, Mama Li, and Ah Wei cut off the princess's waist-length hair, but not all of them were cut, but they only picked the injured place in the center of the top of the head, but cutting it like this makes it look more worrying. When a strand of hair the thickness of his thumb was cut off, Zhang Zhaohua put it in a brocade bag and tied it around his waist.

After that, they also cleaned the wound, and then the two medical women came over to use the medicine, Liu Yizheng wrote the pulse case for keeping, and explained the condition to Gao Chi Gao Sui, who was waiting outside, and several people did not dare to disturb again, because Liu Yizheng said that the princess had better not hear the sound now, otherwise she would feel nauseous and dizzy.

Zhang Zhaohua went to see Yong'an again, she had been moved back to the Yibin Mansion, when Zhang Zhaohua went in, she was still asleep, her face was pale, and the palace people next to her said that when the battle just now, the county lord didn't sleep well at all, she was frightened and frightened, and now she just fell asleep, when the war was at its most intense before, she sent someone to Lizhengmen, wanting to call Yuan Rong back.

Zhang Zhaohua thought about it for a while, Yuan Rong also has a heavy responsibility, looking at the two doors, there is no way to come back, but the woman has lost her child and is depressed, and when she needs someone to accompany and comfort her the most, Zhang Zhaohua said: "If I see the guest of honor, I will ask him to come back." ”

Zhang Zhaohua didn't go far, she saw Yongping's carriage and horse coming, she felt that Yongping saw her, but Yongping did not stay but went straight into the county lord's mansion, Zhang Zhaohua was tired and hungry, almost no strength, along the way through two markets, but did not see a small vendor, let alone sell food, she starved to the city tower, but saw that the soldiers had already eaten the beef soup, because the battle was fought for another day, the whole two cows, two pots of soup were eaten clean, there was no left.

When she was so hungry that Venus was starring, she saw Gao Chi waving to her on the haystack, and she walked over and huddled in the haystack, and her whole body seemed to add a lot of warmth, especially when she was close to Gao Chi, but her stomach was screaming even more.

"Hungry," Gao Chi pinched her face, "You used to have meat here, but now it's all deflated." ”

"I've eaten them all," Zhang Zhaohua said weakly: "I'm just gluttonous, I eat it myself, and when I'm hungry, I'll eat all the meat on my two cheeks!"

Gao Chi couldn't help laughing, he took out a bag of things from his sleeve, and handed it to Zhang Zhaohua.

Zhang Zhaohua took it and saw that it was a round shape wrapped in paper, and she opened it in a hurry, and there were two round cakes inside, sandwiched with thick slices of meat, and the exposed meat was smeared with a layer of thick black sauce.

"Tianfu's sauce elbow slices-" Zhang Zhaohua's eyes lit up, and he swallowed half a cake in one bite, and swallowed it after only a few times in his mouth, "It's delicious, it's delicious, there's nothing more delicious in the world!"

She ate too sweetly, and when she ate the second one, she was reluctant to gobble it up, and asked, "Is the Tianfu still open?"

"It's open, and the business is better than before," Gao Chi said: "In the past, people were reluctant to eat, but now they feel that they are going to die, so they can eat hard." ”

Zhang Zhaohua said: "This is a person who can do businessβ€”β€”"

She chewed a few more bites, although her stomach was still growling with hunger, but her mouth slowed down: "Li Jinglong is attacking the city today, we have no way to delay it this time, today's battle is fierce and long, it seems that he is also in a hurry, afraid that his father will kill back, I think from now on, there may be no time to rest, there may be a war every hour." ”

She said it well, in the next two days, the southern army attacked the city four times, and not only in Lizhengmen, but also in the nine gates, and the most terrible thing is that when the southern army attacked Chongren Gate, there were people in the gate who responded, and they attacked inside and outside, and the casualties were not counted.

At that time, Zhang Zhaohua Gao Chi heard that Chongrenmen was out of the inner response, and he was almost shocked - Zhang Zhaohua had always been full of confidence in Beiping City under the rule of King Yan, but he didn't expect that there would still be people who betrayed him. When they were interrogated later, they found that the people who were causing the rebellion were all poor people, and there were quite a few of them, but these people said that they had been deceived.

"We have read the documents submitted by the officials and soldiers of the imperial court," these people said, "Those who say that anyway, they will be rewarded, and they will be given a thousand taels of gold, and they will be spared death-"

Another person scrambled and said: "It says that the person who opens the door will not die, and if he resists to the death, he will be killed all, the city will be slaughtered, and the chickens and dogs will not be left!"

These people were afraid of being killed, and they coveted the reward of a thousand taels of gold written in the paperwork, so they gathered together, and when they attacked Chongrenmen in Nanjing, they also shouted, but in fact, they did not have the courage to kill, but were killed by dozens of people who defended the city.

When they were told that the Southern Army had not put in any paperwork at all, they did not believe it. And Gao Sui asked them rhetorically: "You pickles, you guys, are illiterate, which one can read what is written on paper?"

It was a literate person who read this thing to them, and the group of people thought about it for a long time, but they were not sure, and they couldn't remember who read the paperwork, and the person who remembered his face did not know his name. When I asked them where they got the papers, they all said that they saw them when they got up in the morning, and they should have thrown them into Renshoufang at night.

After asking and asking for no more results, Gao Chi ordered these people to be imprisoned. Zhang Zhaohua also sat in the back hall and listened to the confessions of these people, and found a lot of suspicions, and she also discovered that one of the key people was this literate person.

Gao Chi watched her read the documents she received one by one, and said, "What do you see?"

"I'm not sure, so I'll tell you my judgment. Zhang Zhaohua said: "This document is beautifully handwritten and fluent in language, it must be written by a reader, which is true." It's just that you can see that the handwriting is sloppy, and there are several places of ink, but it was written in a hurry, and dozens of documents are all in such handwriting. ”

"What does this mean?" Gao Sui was also very interested and came over.

Zhang Zhaohua shrank uncomfortably, but quickly said: "You see these ink, they are folded before they are dry, and he doesn't even have time to dry the ink for a breath, so when he writes the paperwork, the time must be tight, so this person may not be the internal response of the Southern Army, if it is an internal response, he should know the battle plan of the Southern Army in advance, and there will be enough time to plan a mutiny, instead of agitating the people of Chongrenmen the night before." Of course, it is also possible that he came up with such a plan after thinking hard and meditating, and he has just been given to implement it. This is doubtful for the time being, but the same handwriting indicates that it was written by a person, and no one helped him. There are 1,300 people in Renshoufang, and he has to write at least five or six hundred documents, which is a lot of work. ”

"Sister-in-law," Gao Sui said, "it is also possible that among several people, only one of them is literate and can only teach him to copy." ”

Zhang Zhaohua nodded and said: "This is a possibility, so I said I can't be very sure, but in my inference, this rebellion was planned by a person, and it was a temporary idea, he was not the internal response of the Southern Army, but it must be related to the South, he originally held his troops and hoped for Li Jinglong, but Li Jinglong disappointed him, so he planned a rebellion in the city himself." At the same time, he was very wise and knew that Chongrenmen was a gathering place for the poor, and these poor people were weak-hearted, so they could not only fear them with death, but also tempt them with profits, so they chose to start at Chongrenmen. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Zhaohua couldn't help but pause. She originally read the history books and found that most of the people who opened the door and surrendered in the war were the big families in the city, because these people wanted to get all their property and refused to burn all the jade and stones, and those who could live and die with the city with all loyalty, filial piety and righteousness were the small people who were promoted and drugged. She has always been very wary, and for the big households in Beiping City, she also specially took out the rich people's registers, marked them one by one, and asked Gao Chi to divide his troops to monitor day and night.

As a result, these big families did not make the slightest move, and even donated some supplies to the defenders, but the first to rebel became civilians. She suddenly knew that history can be learned, but she can't believe it, and the actual situation should be based on reality, she can't help but be happy when she thinks about it, because since ancient times, the local vassal kings have been in turmoil, and there is almost no success, if King Yan takes history as a mirror, then what else to fight?

"This person is a hidden danger, he is smart and bold, he must be caught," Zhang Zhaohua said: "First check the southerners in the city, whether they are guests, merchants or tourists, they must be supervised, Li Jinglong is in a hurry to attack the city, he will definitely show his feet." ”