"Eat his mother, wear his mother, open the door to meet the king, and when the king comes, he will not pay food...... Seeking ascension in the morning and seeking harmony in the evening, it is difficult for the poor to survive recently. Open the door early to worship the king, and the discipline is happy for everyone big and small. ”

Suddenly there was a singing voice in his ears, Chang Yu followed the prestige, but saw that it was in an alley, and several children were singing happily, holding a few unnamed snacks in their hands, and laughing.

Hey, this propaganda is done, Li Yan is really cheap, Chang Yu laughed secretly, this is Li Yan's usual method, that is, to let his subordinates pretend to be businessmen and roam the streets and alleys to spread rumors: Break into the king's benevolent and righteous army, don't kill or plunder...... and lure children to learn to sing those propaganda nursery rhymes with snacks, and wantonly demagogue.

But it is this trick that seems to be very crude and shallow in later generations, but at this time it has reaped great success, which is related to the general environment of contemporary people's lives, the country's internal and external troubles, coupled with natural and man-made disasters Food harvest, hunger everywhere, the people are not living, but the court is tyrannical, a piece of pie painted on paper has become the hope of all of them.

Therefore, Li Yan succeeded, and his influence can be seen only by attacking and opening the seal, and the first attack was in the spring of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, "counting his thieves is only 3,000, and there are 30,000 helpers" Who is the person who assists the servant, that is, the poor people who were fooled into being cannon fodder.

And when the third attack on Kaifeng a few months later, the helpers had broken more than 100,000 people, and with the help of these cannon fodder, Kaifeng was finally broken.

There is really a set of them, Chunxiang and a few people feel really fresh, they have been living in the inner palace, although they have heard of it, but the first time they experienced it still made them surprised.

"Uncle Li, are you really leaving?" Not far away, in a house, a woman walked to the door and shouted to the opposite door, and the family opposite was busy packing up, and the big bags seemed to be about to flee.

"What if you don't go, I heard that those thieves have broken through the capital city of Fenzhou, and they are about to arrive in Wenshui, and they can't leave if it's late," a relatively wealthy old man in his sixties responded to him with a frown at the door.

"Hey, just come, I heard that those thieves are very good, and they don't hurt the people"

The woman said and suddenly lowered her voice: "I also heard that they will either not levy money and food, or only half of the original government, to be honest, I really hope they come."

"Bastard, a thief is a thief, how can it be as good as you think" The old man blew his beard angrily and glared, the woman pursed her lips and said no more, and was about to turn around and go home

At this time, two young people came over, and they took the initiative to talk: "What the eldest sister said just now is right, King Chuang will not pay for food."

"Who are you?" The old man glared at the two of them impatiently.

"We from Fenzhou, we fled yesterday, just now my family came to look for me, let me go back, say that the city of Fenzhou is safe, the people and horses of the king are strictly disciplined, do not disturb the people, do not rob or plunder......" One person pointed to another man beside him: "This is my brother, he is here to look for me, I don't believe you ask my brother ......"

Chang Yu shook his head lightly, with a look of disdain.

"Spy," Li Xingzu whispered behind him.

Of course, Chang Yu could see the identities of these two people, and immediately gave Chunxiang and Li Xingzu a look.

Li Xingzu was stunned: "Did it?" ”

"Or else!"

Chang Yu snorted and turned to leave.

Li Xingzu looked around, and took the two of them to quietly follow the two spies.

On the second floor of a teahouse, Chang Yu stood on the railing, looking at the hurried pedestrians at the entrance of the neighborhood and sighed: "But it's much calmer than I imagined."

"That means the thief's scheming has worked well, right?" asked Chunxiang.

Chang Yu nodded: "It also shows that the imperial court has lost the hearts of the people, and it shows that the reputation of the officers and soldiers has been ruined...... Hey, that's a lot."

"Kill, kill......"

Suddenly, there was an exclamation from an alley not far away, Chang Yu looked up, and saw a few hurried figures flashing at the entrance of the street, it was Li Xingzu and the others.

"A lot of people are destined to die today," Chang Yu looked left and right and said in a low voice.

"Is it a spy in the city?"

Chunxiang asked.

"There are only a few in the city" Chang Yu stretched out his hand and pointed to the north: "Over there, if it is as I expected, Zhou Yuji has already done it."

"I estimate that there are a lot of spies in the city" Chunxiang walked to Chang Yu's side and looked around, and then a smile appeared on his face: "We also have a lot of people."

Chang Yu and his party of more than 30 people entered Wenshui City in batches to avoid people's eyes and ears, but they didn't dare to get too far away from Chang Yu, they were all within 100 meters, if there was any accident, they would immediately rush to support with just a voice.

"Big brother, what did you say we took such a big risk to come here for, why don't you wait for the army to advance today and follow all the way to come over calmly, what the hell is going on" Chunxiang really couldn't understand Chang Yu.

Chang Yu laughed, turned his head and said: "I like to be adventurous and exciting, and I have to do what I decide immediately, I don't have the patience to wait, this may have something to do with my personality and career."

"Career? Aren't you just like me, a eunuch serving your master?"

Hey, Chang Yu chuckled and ignored his words: "As for the reason for coming here, I want to see what the most real enemy-occupied area looks like, and by the way, get some information and sabotage, you won't understand this kind of psychology, because you can't understand how strong the curiosity of future generations is."

Hereafter? What nonsense again, Chunxiang shook his head, Chang Yu often said something he didn't understand, and he was already surprised.

Leaving the teahouse, Chang Yu finally found a tavern, and as soon as he entered, he was pushed out by the shopkeeper, saying that he would not accept customers today.

But when a piece of five taels of silver was thrown over, the shopkeeper began to be busy and enthusiastic waiting.

But when he saw that suddenly twenty or thirty people poured in, his face changed again: "Ladies and gentlemen, uncle...... the words of the pit were all out of order, and he took out the ingot of silver tremblingly, walked to Chang Yu's side and returned it with both hands.

"What is this for?"

Chang Yu pretended not to know, got up and stuffed the silver into his arms: "The shopkeeper is a serious person, don't think nonsense, hurry up and get some food to come up."

Serious people, the shopkeeper's psychology shuddered, this strong man in black who was in his twenties and thirties, looking at the bulging in the clothes, it was obvious that there was a hidden guy, and there was a deliberately imitated deflated dialect, when I had never been far away, I had been to Fenzhou Mansion in the south, and I had seen the people in Taiyuan Mansion in the north.

However, people do not admit that they are thieves, and their words and deeds are not arrogant and domineering, as long as they eat, they seem to have no malice.

With enough water and food, Chang Yu and the others left the tavern and looked for an inn, but they were told that it was full, and it turned out to be full of distinguished guests who had fled from Fenzhou Mansion.

Chang Yu thought it was funny, are these people fleeing stupid, if they want to escape, they will not escape far away to Taiyuan and run to this sesame town.

But after thinking about it, it was very likely that they were temporarily resting, because even Zhou Yuji and the others couldn't imagine that the thief army would take Fenzhou non-stop and go north without resting, not to mention these ordinary people.

Wenshui is too small, there are only three or four inns, Chang Yu searched all over again, and finally found a courtyard inn near the east of the city, which is the kind of cheap brand, mainly providing Chase shops to those who run from south to north.

I didn't sleep all night, sneaked away for dozens of miles, I was already sleepy, where to pick and choose at this time, and I was content to have a place to sleep, even if the smell in the room of the big shop was enough to make a fermentation tank, but he who had slept in the eunuch's dormitory felt pediatric.

This night I slept in the dark, but I didn't know that there was a person thousands of miles away who was dizzy.

On the Qianqing door, Chongzhen had a headache, although it had been half a day, but he saw the secret report sent by Chang Yu, on the second day of the second month of February, Fenzhou Mansion and Huaiqing Mansion were lost on the same day!

Lost two cities in one day! It's already a heavy blow, and more importantly, it's closed the prince's dream again! Isn't the will of heaven really inviolable?

Is it true that the naivety wants to kill me, really, I have tried my best, I have tried my best, what else do you want me to do?

Chongzhen rubbed his head vigorously and glanced below, there was a courtier who was foaming at the impeachment of Chang Yu, the commander of the East Factory, domineering, imperious, wanton, and frenzied...... A few courtiers next to him chimed in from time to time,

The crown prince Zhu Cihong, who listened to the government in the hall on one side, looked at those courtiers with red eyes, and said nothing, he wanted to scold these courtiers but couldn't speak, this is the rule, the prince can only listen to the government and can't speak.