On July 24, in a teahouse in the east of the capital, two middle-aged men dressed as businessmen drank tea and talked loudly. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, the stage in the teahouse had just finished singing a play, and the actors entered the backstage. The tea guests were sitting bored, just listening to the words of the two merchants.

The conversation between the two businessmen shocked everyone at the beginning, which greatly aroused the interest of other tea customers.

The older businessman took a sip of tea and said loudly: "Tianjin Xingguobo is probably going to reverse this time!" ”

The younger businessman said, "Brother Gu, what do you mean by this? ”

"Brother Qi, I'm afraid you don't know yet! Xing Guobo built a four-zhang high city wall in Tianjin, and practiced day and night to attack such a city wall. Li Zhi not only practiced privately, but also called the civil and military officials in Tianjin to watch, watching the tiger division beat the four-zhang high city wall into dust with one cannon. ”

When the tea guests heard such a lively discussion, they looked at each other and stopped the topic one by one. The people who come to the teahouse are idlers, and it is best to be lively. At this time, when I hear such a topic, where is I willing to let it go. The tea guests pricked up their ears, lest they miss a word that the old merchant had said.

The young merchant said, "So there is such a thing? ”

The elder merchant lowered his voice and said, "Brother Qi, this Li Zhi is not a person who is willing to live under the people. I heard people say that Xing Guobo set up a guard of honor for the Son of Heaven in the General Military Palace, built a dragon chair, made a dragon robe, and said that he would be called 'I', which was too addicted to the emperor. ”

Although the merchant lowered his voice, for some reason, the volume was still heard clearly by the tea guests in the teahouse. None of the tea guests in the teahouse spoke, and they all leaned over to the two merchants, trying to understand what the two merchants said.

"Even Xingguobo's wife, Cui, uses the queen's etiquette in the General Military Mansion, and is ready for the mother's etiquette in the world?"

The tea guests were taken aback when they heard this, and they couldn't imagine that Xingguo Bonan was considered the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty, and finally rebelled? Addicted to the emperor in the General Soldier's Mansion, sooner or later he will be beaten to the capital! The tens of thousands of Beijing camps in the capital, can they stop Xingguobo's tiger master?

The young merchant seemed to be thinking of going with other tea guests, shook his head and asked, "Brother Gu, Xingguo Bo is strong and strong, can you conquer the capital?" ”

The old merchant shook his head, sighed and said, "There are tens of thousands of soldiers who can fight in the Beijing camp. Xingguobo's soldiers and horses are only 20,000 people. Coupled with the high-rise buildings in the capital, at first glance, Xingguobo's soldiers and horses could not defeat the capital. ”

"But in fact, this is not the case, Xingguobo's soldiers and horses are strong, and those fire cannons are like playing with the guards on the city wall. In front of Xingguobo's cannons, the walls of the capital were like wooden fences, and a few cannons were gone. If Xingguobo's army surrounded the city of Beijing, the Beijing camp would not be able to hold it for a month. ”

The old businessman bowed his head and said, "In this world, sooner or later, the surname will be Li!" Brother Qi, we have already made a plan, run more to Tianjin, get close to Xingguobo's subordinates, and have the merit of the dragon in the future! ”

The young merchant snorted a few times and said no more. The two businessmen threw more than a dozen yuan of tea money on the table and left the teahouse.

The conversation between the two businessmen was like a stone thrown into the middle of a lake, stirring up a thousand waves. The tea customers in the teahouse began to talk when they watched the figures of the two merchants disappear at the end of the road.

"This Xingguo Uncle is really going to rebel!"

"These two businessmen actually want to assist the Li thief in his rebellion, and their hearts can be punished!"

"Li Thief has killed two governors, why hasn't the Son of Heaven transferred troops to suppress Li Thief?"

A young man dressed as a scholar stood up suddenly, gritted his teeth and said: "Li Thief is so arrogant, the Son of Heaven is so weak, the country will not be a country!" ”

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The capital city is a place where literati gather. It was originally a place to sell calligraphy and paintings, and later because there were many readers, various entertainment facilities were opened, and the most cultured theater and wine shop in the capital were concentrated, and now it is a place for the sergeants in the capital to have fun. Eight out of ten people on this road are literate and hyphenated readers.

On this day, on the main road, people dressed in splendid clothes were walking, and suddenly they saw a young man running through the middle of the street with a face scarf covering his face.

Running to the middle of the street, the boy suddenly took out a handful of things from the bag behind him and sprinkled them into the sky.

The boy ran all the way and sprinkled hundreds of leaflets. The leaflets fluttered in the air and gradually fell to the ground. The boy who threw the leaflet took advantage of the moment when the passers-by looked at the leaflet, ran from the middle of the two rooms to the alley behind, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Pedestrians on the road were curious and picked up the leaflet from the ground to see what it was for.

When I picked it up, I saw that the leaflet was printed in movable type, and it clearly read:

"Daming Huode, it has been two hundred and seventy-three years ago. Time has passed, and the fire is not open. The king of faith was not the emperor's ruler, and his brother was the last brother, and he lacked virtue to be ugly. The fire of the Ming Dynasty has spread to the king of letters, but it has faded and smelled, which is the root cause of the chaos in the world. ”

"Xingguo Bo Li Zhi, overcoming thorns and thorns, rose in Tianjin's land and water throat, and is following the water virtue. Fire virtue declines, and water virtue is born. If the world thinks of peace, it will be in accordance with the virtues of the water. If the people of the world want to repay the service, they will follow the virtue. On the day of the great unification of Xingguo Bo Li Zhideng, the water virtue was greatly opened, and the world was peaceful! ”

It turned out to be a leaflet to publicize the death of the Ming Dynasty and the Emperor Xingguo.

Most of these scholars on the street are from the gentry, and even if they are not from the gentry, they have already regarded themselves as part of the gentry when they mingle with the children of the gentry every day. What these scholars hate the most is Li Zhi, who killed the gentry. When they saw this leaflet promoting Xingguobo, their first reaction was to be furious, and they wanted to throw the leaflet to the ground and stomp on it a few times.

The second reaction was, who made this flyer? How dare you say such a rebellious thing and promote Tianjin's Li thief to represent Ming?

The scholars on the street looked at each other, and while they were questioning, someone shouted, "Who else but the Li thief would make such a leaflet?" Li Thief attacked Xiangyang, Jinan and Suzhou Prefecture, killed two governors and three prefects, and also drilled in Tianjin to attack the Beijing city wall. Now that the Li thief is going to invade the capital, he will first spread public opinion and pave the way for the rebellion! ”

"Li Thief dares to call the Son of Heaven the King of Faith, it is really a great rebellion!"

"I heard that Li Thief has already put on the emperor's honor guard in the General Soldier's Mansion, and he has already had enough of the emperor's addiction at home!"

"When the Li thief entered Beijing the year before last, I saw the Li thief, this thief looks at the wolf, and he is not a human minister!"

"I'll send these leaflets into the Imperial City, so that the Son of Heaven will not hesitate any longer. Where do I have no soldiers? There are 70,000 soldiers in Guanning! All abandoned the city outside the pass and entered the pass to crusade against the Li thief. Even if you give up the 500-mile Guanning defense line, you will destroy this openly rebellious Li thief! ”