After the capture of Yichuan, Luoyang City was directly exposed to the revolutionary army.

In Luoyang, since last month, there have been rumors about Huang Zide in the market. The real and the fake are mixed together and fly all over the city. Although there are Luoyang sub-patrol roads, Henan Prefecture prefects and Luoyang garrison general officers will announce that rumors are strictly prohibited, but rumors are more and more banned. The civil and military yamen wanted to manage it at first, but it couldn't manage it at all. Moreover, because of the famine, there were also a large number of hungry people in Luoyang City, and these hungry people were not displaced people who fled the famine—Luoyang City would not allow these people to enter the city at all—but the native citizens of Luoyang. Every morning, hundreds of corpses were dragged out of the city, all of them citizens who died of hunger and cold, and many more were struggling with life and death. The government knows that these people can no longer be frightened by "death", so they don't dare to control it too closely, for fear of provoking a popular uprising. On the other hand, it is not even the ordinary people in the city who are starving now, but also some low-status officials in the yamen, and their families are almost unable to open the pot. In fact, part of the news about Huang Zide came from the yamen.

The big difference from previous years is that in previous years, nine out of ten of the various rumors that flew into Luoyang City were about what "rogues" used stone mortars to mash people with bones to make meat patties to eat, and what "rogues" did not allow women to wear clothes, so that they could be obscene and insulting at any time, but the recent rumors are eight or nine out of ten about how Huang Zide's people only kill corrupt officials, not the people; How to open a warehouse to give relief to the hungry. And "my friends" and "my relatives" have been given more or less food, and the whole family has been able to survive and so on. These rumors are vivid, not to mention that for a person who falls into the water, even a straw must be clung to, for those who are about to starve to death, the legend of Huang Zide is this straw, how can they not believe it?

In addition to the legend about Huang Zide, a new rumor has recently emerged. And this kind of rumor made the government in Luoyang even more worried. This rumor is the rumor about the blessed king.

There are legends in the market that when the first emperor was the emperor, the poor world was rich and blessed. There was so much grain in King Fu's mansion that it was moldy and spoiled, there was too much money to be used up, the ropes that strung the money were rotten, and gold, silver, and jewelry were piled up. Now that there is a famine in Luoyang, King Fu only needs to pull out the hair to save everyone's lives, but he just refuses, but hopes that everyone will die, so that he can embezzle everyone's real estate and property.

Wang Yinchang's sedan chair passed through the depressed streets. A distant burst of singing reached his ears. "Eat his mother, wear his mother, open the door to welcome the king of Shun, and the king of Shun will not accept food when he comes!" When Wang Yinchang heard this, he was immediately furious. I wanted to ask the officials around me to hurry up and arrest people, but thinking about the conversation with the chief soldier Wang Shaoyu just now, I could only sigh a long time, but I didn't give any orders.

Just now, Wang Shaoyu, the chief soldier of Luoyang, discussed the city defense of Luoyang with him and the prefect Feng Yijun.

"Luoyang is difficult to defend." Wang Shaoyu said, "The difficulty of defending is not in the thief, but in the soldier." These soldiers under my command have not received the state's salary for a whole year, and the soldiers are scolding behind their backs. Nowadays, some soldiers scold the court, and they no longer avoid the officers. The last general didn't dare to care. They all have knives and guns in their hands, and if they manage it fiercely, they are afraid that there will be a mutiny all of a sudden! Recently, they have been influenced by rumors, and they have all said: 'King Fu has too much gold and silver to count, and the strings of money are rotten.' We haven't been paid for a year, which bastard works for him to defend the city! It is the duty of the last general to receive the grace of the court and die for the sake of the country. But my men refused to give their lives, so how could I defend the city? What is the use of the last general even if he is dead? Now don't talk about fighting with Huang Zide, even if there is a civil uprising, these soldiers in my hands may not be able to suppress it. ”

Several people discussed it, and now there is only one way, and that is to go to King Fu for help. As long as King Fu can come up with some money and food, so that the soldiers have food, the soldiers may be willing to die, but King Fu is okay with everything else, but he is extremely stingy in money, and it is not easy to ask him for money.

Thinking like this, the sedan chair turned, but it had already arrived at the door of King Fu's mansion......

Since Fu Ping got that kind of criticism, King Fu's mood has become more and more bad. He kept his face calm all day, and in the afternoon, even because of a little thing, he killed a maid, which made everyone in the palace fearful, for fear that he would hit King Fu's knife headlong.

After dinner, King Fu left Princess Zou and the prince behind. said: "What do you think of the judgment of Jun Chi Jun? ”

Princess Zou is not King Fu's wife, but a continuation of the string, she has always been a little afraid of King Fu, so she naturally didn't dare to speak indiscriminately at this time. But the son of the world was the first to speak: "Father, could that old way be a lie?" My family has money, and there are many guys with red eyes who just want to cheat money out of my family. ”

King Fu shook his head and said, "This old Taoist invites down the righteous god. My family also has the worship of the Dao Law Division, and they are different from ordinary Taoist priests, but they rely on the dragon qi of the imperial court to cultivate. Although they can't invite the gods, they can't be wrong to judge whether they are righteous gods or not. ”

"Why don't we come up with some money?" Shizi Road.

"Take out a little money?" King Fu suddenly became angry, "Take out a little money, you can say it easily!" I'm not really reluctant to pay for it, but once this kind of thing is opened, there will be a series of followers! You're going to take out all the money later? ”

"This ......," the son, "or we will talk to them about it as an example......

"What's next?" King Fu sneered, "I don't know how many things that don't become routine in the end!" ”

"But Father, the judgment of the gods ......"

King Fu was silent, and the judgment of the gods put a lot of pressure on him. At last he said, "Then when those guys want to come to fight the autumn wind again, give them a little silver." ”

However, on this very night, King Fu had another dream. This dream is much clearer than the previous dream, so King Fu can clearly remember the content of this dream: he allocated a large amount of money to Wang Yinchang and Wang Shaoyu, the chief soldier, so that they can use this money to reward the army and strengthen the city defense. Unexpectedly, these sanctimonious fellows took out the silver from him with their front hand, and directly divided the silver with their back hand. Naturally, the soldiers didn't get a tael of silver, and they didn't even know about it. As soon as the rogues arrived at the city, the soldiers immediately mutinied, and they opened the gates and let the rogues in. He also brought those rogues to the palace to arrest people. And those who divided his money took advantage of the chaos and ran away with the money, and ran away with the money! In the end, he was caught by those rebels and sent to the thief leader Huang Zide, who had a blue face and fangs, and a blood-red tongue sticking out all the way to his eyebrows, so he didn't look human. Na Huang shouted Zide: "Sons, clean this fat pork chop and make it into a meatloaf for everyone to eat!" Immediately some thieves with the head of a tiger and a wolf came up, seized him, stripped him of his clothes, and threw him into a huge mortar......

After waking up from the dream, King Fu's mind changed again. He felt that it was entirely possible for the events in that dream to come true. Because he knows too well the lower limits of those who are in office. This kind of thing, they do it completely! Therefore, he felt that the money should not be given to them casually.

The day after this dream, Wang Yinchang arrived at the door of King Fu's mansion.

Wang Yinchang got off the sedan chair, handed the greeting post in, and waited in the gatehouse. Menzi took the prayer post and went in to repay the blessing of the king.

At this time, King Fu had just had lunch and was lying on a recliner in a bedroom behind the Fu'an Palace. He stretched his legs forward and rested his feet in yellow satin boots on a carved sandalwood table covered with thick red velvet pads. To his left and right were kneeling two palace maids, who were pounding his thighs for him. The other two maidens sat on low stools on either side, each placing one of his thick arms on his lap and gently pounding it. A foot away at his feet, on the mat knelt a group of courtesans dressed as court maids, holding musical instruments of various colors, only one woman sat on a low stool playing the lute, and the other knelt to play the accompaniment of Dong Xiao. King Fu closed his eyes, and most of the time he was snoring softly, sometimes suddenly snoring very loudly, but then it fell down. When the pipa was finished, King Fu also stopped snoring, opened his eyes slightly, and asked in a sleepy voice:

"When is it?"

A eunuch standing behind him took two steps forward, bowed down and replied, "Lord Qiqi, it's not a moment now." ”

"Oh." King Fu answered and closed his eyes again.

The two maidens played a new tune.

King Fu opened his eyes again and said, "Change a tune, let's change it to "Autumn Moon in the Han Palace"." ”

The palace maid answered, and was about to start playing, but Eunuch Liu opened the curtain and came in, bowed to King Fu and said, "Lord Wang, King Yinchang of the Patrol Road asks to see you." ”

As soon as King Fu heard the words "Wang Yinchang of the Patrol Road", that dream suddenly appeared in front of his eyes. He frowned and said, "Not sooner or later, but at this time, it can be seen that it is a fallacy!" ”

"Then the prince, the slave and maid went out to say that the prince had something to do and let him go back?" Eunuch Liu said.

King Fu shook his head and said to himself: "It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided." Anyway, let him wait in the Fu'an Palace. ”

Eunuch Liu answered, kowtowed and retreated. King Fu sighed again and said, "A few of you, come and scout this king to change his clothes." ”