Wang Qiang ordered to go down, told the grain team to prepare for departure, and then took a retinue out of the post house.

The sky was a little overcast, the rain was falling from the sky intermittently, and the smell of dampness was in the air.

On both sides of the street outside the post house, there were dense layers of hungry people from Yanzhou Mansion, and dozens of brocade guards were on guard at the intersections around the post house. Officials from Dengzhou, Yingzhou, and Laizhou were waiting for Wang Qiang at the door of the post house.

As soon as Wang Qiang appeared, Qin Xiao, the prefect of Laizhou, rushed to Wang Qiang, knelt down, clasped his fists on his back and said: "Lord Wang, I know that it is not appropriate to do this, but tens of thousands of hungry people in Laizhou are waiting to be fed, and I implore the adults to release food to help, and this official is willing to go to Beijing with the adults and be punished for the same crime as the adults." He bowed his head deeply as he spoke.

Wang Qiang had already made up his mind, and helped Qin Xiao up with a smile and said loudly: "You are willing to kneel for the people under your jurisdiction, which shows that you are a good official who loves the people, and Ben Qincha will naturally be fulfilled." He pointed to the officials of several other state capitals and said: "There are a few of you, presumably I also hope that this lord will release grain, you quickly return to the county to prepare, and when the official leads the grain team through the states, all the relief grains will be distributed, but there is a sentence that the official wants to say ahead, if any of these relief grains are greedy by you, Yang Lichang is an example!" ”

"Lord Xie Qincha!" Dengzhou, Yingzhou and other officials knelt down and kowtowed happily.

Wang Qiang walked around surrounded by everyone, and the people on both sides automatically gathered together to follow Wang Qiang.

When Wang Qiang and others arrived at the storage yard, the grain team was ready to go, and the prisoner cart escorting Li Yan and others was inserted in the middle of the team.

Wang Qiang waved to the people who saw him off, then stepped in front of an empty prisoner car, bowed his head and got in, closed the wooden door himself, and commanded loudly: "Let's go!" ”

"Lord Wang!" Qin Xiao, the prefect of Laizhou, choked and screamed, and the first one knelt down, followed by the officials who saw him off and the tens of thousands of people around him.

The rain gradually became heavier, adding to the solemn and tragic atmosphere in the square!

The grain team started, and the prisoner cart creaked and followed the team. Wang Qiang looked up at the sky, let the rain wet his face, and couldn't help but think of a popular song: "------ in the wind, in the morning, in the night, singing the ballad that no one cares about, if one day, I am old and nowhere to go, please leave me, in this spring, if one day I leave quietly, please bury me in this spring." ”

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The brocade-clothed guards brought by Zhang Yu were all men who had gone through life and death, and were selected from the army of ten thousand horses after a hundred battles, listening to Wang Qiang's desolate tone roared in a hoarse voice, he didn't feel that his faces were solemn, and he puffed up his chest, as if he was going to die generously.

The news of Wang Qiang's killing of officials in Yanzhou and releasing grain was like spreading his wings, and it soon spread all over the northern land, and wherever the grain team went, hungry people all flocked to greet him, like a bodhisattva coming in person. Although Wang Qiang was in a prisoner's car, he was still a messenger, and he stopped at every place to arrange for the distribution of relief food on the spot. The team stopped and stopped all the way north, and the less food in the car, the higher Wang Qiang's prestige!

On this day, the grain team went out of Shandong Province and entered Zhili. The team marched to Renqiu and entered a mountainous area, the mountain road was narrow, and in some places it could only be passed by single horse. Wang Qiang's prisoner car and Li Yan's prisoner car are connected from end to end, because he witnessed Wang Qiang's righteous act of killing officials and releasing grain, Li Yan's view of Wang Qiang has greatly changed, and the two chatted happily along the way, from national politics to folk wild interests, Li Yan is talented and well-informed, and Wang Qiang has taken advantage of having modern knowledge.

At noon, the road was blocked by rolling stones in front, Zhang Yu commanded the soldiers to clear the road, the prisoner car rested on the road, and Wang Qiang and Li Yan chatted again through the wooden fence.

Li Yan held the wooden fence with both hands and said: "Wang Qiang, now that you have arrived in the territory of Zhili, you will soon arrive in the capital, I don't know what your plans are in the future." ”

Wang Qiang sat cross-legged in the prison car, took the red girl's kettle and took a sip of it, and said nonchalantly: "What can you do, just straighten your neck and wait for the knife." ”

"Hehe, that's too stupid, your act of releasing grain has countless people, and the country and the people are all loyal and good, isn't the emperor faint when he kills you?" Li Yandao.

"I can't care about the faint king, the matter of eating the king's loyalty to the king, since I have done a bad job, the emperor is not wronged to kill me!"

"Alas, it's really stubborn, the Ming Dynasty is full of corrupt officials, wolf smoke everywhere, soldiers are exhausted, it's sunset, why do you bother to bury him. I Chuang Wang is wise and powerful, won the hearts of the people, he will achieve a great cause one day, you are very young, and talented, if you can follow King Chuang, why worry that he will not be able to rank in Lingxiao Pavilion one day. Li Yan persuaded.

"King Chuang's wisdom and martial arts are right, one day I believe that I can sit in the Jinluan Palace and face the south and call the king, but I don't think it may be possible to sit firmly in the country. As the saying goes, it is easy to fight the country, but it is difficult to sit on the country. For example, it's easier to tear down a house than to build it. I see that the king has attacked the city and plundered a lot of land, but he can't stand anywhere, why? Because it won't govern. So after so many years, he didn't even have a base, and it didn't bend him to say that he was a rogue. Now it is a fact that the Ming army is not the opponent of the king, but don't forget the Manchu Qing outside the Guan, people have been fighting hard for so many years, and they have been aiming at the fat of the Central Plains. Wang Qiang said confidently that he knew history, so he naturally said so.

Li Yan was loyal to King Chuang, and he was dissatisfied when he heard Wang Qiang say that King Chuang was a rogue, but when he calmed down and thought about it, he felt that what Wang Qiang said was also somewhat reasonable, and it was difficult to refute. He smiled and changed the topic and whispered: "The world is unpredictable, the future will be discussed later, let's talk about how to pass the current level first." ”

Wang Qiang smiled and said: "This level is better, isn't there an opportunity in front of you?" ”

"Oh, what chance?"

Wang Qiang said teasingly: "You just pretend to me, you have already planned to escape tonight, do you think I don't know?" ”

"Oh, how so!" Li Yan pretended to be calm and said.

Wang Qiang said with a smile: "Since I broke out of the Shandong realm, there are more people around us, others can't see it, I don't know the people around me." As he spoke, he secretly pointed his finger at the man who was following several prisoner cars.

"Besides, this blue sky and white day, the road will be broken without wind and rain, and I think nine out of ten are your troublemakers. As soon as the mountain road is broken, you can only stay in this wilderness today, when the moon is dark and the wind is high, you should take advantage of the chaos to escape, this plan is really good. Wang Qiang whispered.

Listening to Wang Qiang's words, Li Yan and the red girl next to him were secretly shocked, they did arrange it like this, and Li Yan also wanted to save Wang Qiang together, so he brought out the words just now.

The red girl approached Wang Qiang and pleaded, "Don't forget what you promised me." ”

"Of course, I haven't forgotten that our Wang Qiang has no other skills, as long as he promises a beautiful girl, he will definitely do it. Don't worry, I won't say it. Wang Qiang said with a hippie smile.

The red girl blushed and said, "Don't talk about those useless things, you know, can you escape with us?" ”

"I'd better forget it, Li Gongzi will go out and be accompanied by a red girl like a flower, I'm a little eunuch, it's the same thing to escape, no one cares about it and no one loves it, it's better to go back to the palace." Wang Qiang also tilted his head and leaned close to the red girl's ear and said.

"You! You're about to move your head, but you still have the leisure to rap, no matter what you do!" The red girl said with some annoyance.

The two muttered and said, Li Yan only listened with interest, Wang Qiang saw that the red girl was annoyed, so he changed his shape and said: "I still have to think about whether I can go or not, whether I can go is still between the two, do you think this Jinyiwei is a vegetarian." After speaking, he leaned on the wooden fence and pretended to sleep.

In fact, the idea of escaping appeared in Wang Qiang's mind more than once, and Zhang Yu and others still treated him as if he were an errand, and did not bother to send people to watch him, and even hinted that Wang Qiang fled on his own during a few chats. It turned out that this Zhang Yu was originally from Shandong, and most of the people in this class of Jinyi were from Shandong Zhili, and everyone was grateful for Wang Qiang's kindness in releasing grain, so they naturally did not want to embarrass Wang Qiang. But Wang Qiang was reluctant to leave. First, the places he passed along the way, all the people praised him, and he was out of the limelight, which felt like taking drugs, which made him want to stop, and it felt so good to be a hero, if he escaped, he would lose his reputation; Second, Wang Qiang felt that although he did this to resist the decree, but his heart was for the sake of the court and the people, as far as he knew, that Chongzhen was a monarch who loved the people, and he would not be so mediocre as to kill himself, at most he would be beaten up, demoted by two or three levels, and he would return to Zhongcui Palace on an errand, and it would be good to relive the dream of Concubine Li's mother, but it was not bad that Chongzhen killed himself, maybe he could return to modern society. If you escape, at most, you will rely on Li Yan's relationship to eat under King Li Chuang, you don't know martial arts, let alone lead troops to fight, and you won't be famous in the rebel army, and Li Zicheng will be defeated sooner or later, and it will not be much better to follow him. Because of these thoughts, Wang Qiang has been staying in the prisoner car safely.

Li Yan saw that Wang Qiang refused to flee with him, so he only said that this little eunuch was stupid and loyal, so he had to give up.

As Wang Qiang expected, due to the difficulty of the mountain road, in the evening, the team had to camp and rest in a leeward place of the mountain pass. The prisoner car of Wang Qiang and others was arranged in Xitou, with only two loose guards in brocade clothes.

Wang Qiang knew that Li Yan and they were going to escape, so he waited to see a good show, but he didn't see any movement until the second half of the night, he felt a little urinating for a while, pushed the car door out, and said hello to the Jinyi guard who was on duty not far away: "Brother, I'll pee." ”

The guard clasped his fists and said, "Lord Wang, please take care of yourself, you should go to the west, where the woods are cleaner." After speaking, he smiled strangely at Wang Qiang.

Wang Qiang didn't know why, so he walked into the forest in the direction of the guard's finger, but saw that there was no one around, and there was a war horse tied to a tree not far away. He was hiding behind a tree to pee, and suddenly saw a fire coming from the east side of the camp, and then heard someone shouting: "It's a fire, put out the fire!" "It's important to protect military rations!" The camp was suddenly in chaos, and the few brocade guards guarding the prisoner car ran towards the east forest together as if they had discussed it, and only the few entourages led by Wang Qiang and a few men secretly arranged by Li Yan were left beside the prisoner car. Those men took the opportunity to launch, punched and kicked down the entourage, cut the chains of the prisoner car, and led Li Yan and the others to run towards the forest to the west.

Wang Qiang was afraid that Li Yan and the others would be embarrassed, so he hurriedly hid in the bushes. Li Yan and the others rushed into the woods and stopped not far from Wang Qiang's hiding, only to hear Li Yan ask: "This is just over time, why is it ahead of schedule?" ”

"We don't know what's going on." A man next to him said.

"By the way, Wang Qiang, I just saw him running here, I should take him with me." It was the Red Girl who spoke. Everyone looked around by the moonlight, but there was no trace of Wang Qiang.

At this time, a few people rushed over from the depths of the forest, and the leader was the one who had seen Cui Fenglin in Yanzhou, Cui Fenglin rushed to the front, and saw that Li Yan and the others were safe and sound, so he was relieved and asked: "Li Gongzi, we are hiding nearby, and we originally planned to set fire to save people at the end of the night (three o'clock in the middle of the night), but we rushed over when we saw the fire, why did the plan advance in advance?" ”

"You didn't set the fire in the east?" Li Yan asked in surprise.

"It's not!"

"Oh, I see, this should be done by someone sent by Wang Qiang, he is really a believer!" Li Yan said with emotion.

Hearing Li Yan say this, Wang Qiang was also confused when he hid aside, and shouted in his heart: "Fuck, I really didn't set this fucking fire!" ”

I only heard Cui Fenglin say: "Li Gongzi, taking advantage of the chaos of the official army, let's go quickly." ”

"What about Wang Qiang?!" The red lady on the side asked anxiously.

"With Wang Qiang's ability, if you want to escape, I'm afraid you will flee early, forget it, everyone has their own ambitions, don't force it, let's go." Li Yan waved his hand, and everyone quickly followed the forest path, and soon disappeared into the darkness.

Seeing everyone walking away, Wang Qiang got up and walked back, and saw Zhang Yu and a group of brocade guards shouting around his prisoner car: "Oh no, the robbers have robbed Lord Qincha, search quickly, escape to the mountain, go and chase after him." A large group of guards swarmed up the hill. Wang Qiang suddenly realized that it was Zhang Yu who had planned to let him go, and the fire in the east of the camp must have been sent by Zhang Yu.

He coughed loudly, walked out of the woods, and said loudly: "Lao Zhang, what's the matter, is there a mess in my peeing skills?" ”

Seeing Wang Qiang suddenly appear, Zhang Yu and the others were immediately disappointed, and came up to him and said: "Lord Wang, this, this bandit suddenly attacked the grain team just now, and took advantage of the chaos to rob a few Qin criminals, I can't wait to see the adult, and you were kidnapped and left." ”

Wang Qiang was also interested, and said along the stubble: "Yes, I saw it in the forest just now, hundreds of bandits came to grab food with knives and guns, General Zhang took all the brothers to desperately protect the army food, and finally repelled the bandits, but those Qin criminals actually took advantage of the chaos to run away, they also wanted to kidnap Lord Ben, it was General Zhang who took the brothers to save Lord Ben again, this life-saving grace, I Wang Qiang wrote it down!" ”

Zhang Yu smiled wryly: "Hehe, it was the adults who escaped the grasp of the bandits." He and several cronies from Shandong planned this chaos, wanting Wang Qiang to escape by taking advantage of the chaos, but seeing that Wang Qiang refused to escape, he couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

The next day, the convoy turned out of the hills on the official road, was marching, only to see the dust and smoke on the road in front, a team of cavalry in a blink of an eye to the front, these cavalry are all the color of the Jinyi Guard, the first member of the general is the deputy commander of the Jinyi Guard in front of the Chongzhen Emperor Fan Hu.

Seeing that it was an old acquaintance, Wang Qiang hugged his fists and said, "Hello Lord Fan." ”

Fan Hu jumped off his horse and hurried to the front of the prisoner car, and also hugged his fists and saluted back: "Brother Wang, your killing of officials and releasing grain has caused a sensation in the capital, and I admire you as a man, but you are good at killing the prefect of Yanzhou and losing military rations, the emperor is furious, but this basket is also not small." ”

"Hahahaha." Wang Qiang said with a smile: "Brother doesn't have to be polite, the emperor must have sent you to take me, even if you take out the shackles." ”

"Brother Wang is really refreshing, and he is under the emperor's order, so he has to offend." Fan Hu said and waved his hand, and several brocade guards stepped forward to shackle Wang Qiang and put him in the wooden cage prisoner car again.

This time Wang Qiang really became a prisoner!