Bang, seeing that the red lady was about to stab her neck with a golden hairpin, the stick hit her elbow, causing her arm to tremble, and the golden hairpin slashed against her neck, leaving a bloody mark.

The red lady didn't expect Li Hongyu to make a move, but she was determined to die, so she stabbed the neck with the golden hairpin in her hand again.

said that it was too late, and the four female soldiers standing behind the red lady reacted at this time, and hurriedly hugged her arm to prevent her from committing suicide.

"You let me go, let me die, let me die." The red lady struggled hard, she not only wanted to give Emperor Chongzhen and the crown prince and the two princes her life, but also lived silently in the world because of surrender.

"Since you have surrendered to the Taishi, then your life is the Taishi's, you can't die without the permission of the Taishi, otherwise the agreement we reached before will be null and void, and the Taishi will immediately order the siege of the city and kill the bandits in the city!"

Seeing that the Red Lady was emotional, Li Hongyu's face sank and he glared at her coldly and shouted, if the Red Lady died like this, then many things could not be explained, and it would be very unfavorable to recruit the Dashun Army in the future.

Li Hongyu knew that the Dashun army had been prosperous and declining, and had fallen into a big trouble, and would face a two-sided attack from the Ming army and the Qing army.

In the final analysis, those people who took refuge in Li Zicheng were forced by life and had to rebel, so Li Hongyu hoped to recruit as many people as possible to surrender Dashun, and let them contribute to the construction of their homes in the future.

The red lady gradually quieted down when she heard this, and her eyes were red and she looked at Li Hongyu who was staring at her with a serious expression, Li Hongyu was right, now her life no longer belongs to her but to Li Hongyu.

Soon, the red lady couldn't control the grievances and depression in her heart, tears burst out of her eyes, in the end, she was just a weak woman, and she couldn't compete at all in front of Li Hongyu's fierce momentum, and crying became the best way to vent at this time.

Seeing that no one was next to the red lady and cried bitterly, looking delicate and helpless with pear blossoms and rain, the generals at the scene couldn't help but look at each other secretly, and couldn't help but feel pity in their hearts.

"Alas!" Looking at the red lady who was crying to his heart's content, Li Hongyu couldn't help but sigh secretly, in his opinion, women should not go to the battlefield, otherwise it would be a sadness of the times.

"She's hurt."

Inadvertently, Li Hongyu noticed that there was something wrong with the clothes in front of the red lady, and the wet color below the chest looked very dark, and then he understood, and said in a deep voice to the woman holding the red lady, "Give her treatment?" ”

As soon as Li Hongyu's Hu Yin fell, the crying red lady's body shook, her eyes closed and she fainted, and fell softly into the arms of the female soldier holding her.

"Go, take the red scarf into the city, and let the bandits in the city surrender."

Seeing this situation, Li Hongyu waved his hand, and several female soldiers took the red lady out for treatment, and then ordered the guard holding the red scarf with a serious look to solve the enemy in the county seat of Yongxing County.

"Obedience!" Hearing this, the guard bowed to Li Hongyu and left in a hurry.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now that Jiannu has taken control of Shanhaiguan, I am afraid that they will go south soon, and they are the biggest disaster for our Ming Dynasty compared to the rebellion."

Waiting for the guard to leave, Li Hongyu glanced around at the generals at the scene, and said solemnly:

"What the red lady said just now is right, the people who follow the rebellion are the people who can't survive, these years of war and chaos have been in the people's livelihood, and we officials have not only lived up to the emperor's love but also lived up to the expectations of the people, so for those people who have gone astray, we still focus on leniency, only punish the first evil, and threaten to obey soon!"

"Obedience!" The generals at the scene glanced at each other when they heard this, and then bowed to Li Hongyu and hugged their fists, shouting in unison, since Li Hongyu has spoken, then the style of the Dashun Army has also been laid.

At night, Yongxing City, the yard of the backyard of a large family.

"I've seen the Grand Master." Li Hongyu entered the courtyard surrounded by a group of guards, and several female soldiers came out of the bedroom and bowed.

"How's she doing?" Li Hongyu bowed slightly, and asked quietly, the "she" in his mouth naturally refers to the red lady.

"Back to the Taishi, the red lady was stabbed in the upper part of the abdomen, and the humble position has cleaned and bandaged her wounds, and there is no big problem."

The leading female soldier said to Li Hongyu when she heard this, "Because the red lady was injured and could not be treated in time, she lost a lot of blood, which caused her to faint before, but she can recover after a few days of rest." ”

Li Hongyu nodded and walked into the bedroom, in the room, the red lady was lying on the bed and sleeping quietly, she had changed into a white undershirt, her delicate cheeks were full of a trace of serenity, it seemed that she hadn't had a good night's sleep for a long time.

"Taishi, this is the red lady's belongings."

Seeing that the red lady was fine, Li Hongyu was about to leave, and at this time, a female soldier brought a tray with belongings carried by the red lady.

There were only two items in the tray, except for the golden hairpin that had been used to commit suicide, there was only one jade pendant, and there were no earrings, bracelets, hairpins and other accessories commonly used by women.

"Huh?" Li Hongyu glanced at the two things on the tray, his eyes suddenly lit up, and his eyes couldn't help but stop at the jade pendant, feeling a sense of déjà vu.

Then, Li Hongyu picked up the jade pendant and looked left and right, with a thoughtful look on his face, he couldn't help but look at the sleeping red lady, he remembered the origin of this jade pendant, but he didn't know what the relationship between the red lady and this jade pendant was.

"Take good care of her!" After a deep groan, Li Hongyu put down the jade pendant and turned to leave, he is really inconvenient for a man to stay here for a long time, so as not to be gossiped about.

The next day, she didn't wake up until the three poles of the sun, and she slept very soundly this night, and she hadn't slept so comfortably for a long time.

The Red Lady is very concerned about the Dashun army in Yongxing City, and most of the Dashun soldiers trapped in the city are her brothers, so she has to find a way out for those people.

The five or six thousand Dashun troops in Yongxing City had already surrendered to the Ming army yesterday out of the city, and were arranged by Li Hongyu to be guarded in the military camp outside the city, and all the wounded were rescued.

Early this morning, under Li Hongyu's arrangement, the soldiers of the Dashun army were escorted to Tianjin Port, ready to go to Xiaoliuqiu by boat, after all, they were from the Dashun army, Li Hongyu was worried that there would be a lot of trouble if he took the land route, so he chose the water route.

After learning that the soldiers were fine, the red lady's hanging heart finally let go, and she had breakfast under the care of the female soldiers.

"Taishi!" Soon after breakfast, the red lady was lying on the bed staring at the jade pendant in her hand in a daze, and the voice of the guard came from the door.

"You are injured, lie down well, don't be polite." The red lady didn't dare to slack off when she heard this, and hurriedly put away the jade pendant and wanted to get up and salute, but was stopped by Li Hongyu, who entered the door.

"I've seen the Grand Master." Hearing this, the red lady gave up the idea of getting up, sat on the bed and bowed to Li Hongyu, with an excited look on her face, she didn't expect that she would have the life to see Li Hongyu for the second time.

"Red lady, there is one thing that Master Ben wants to know, I hope you can answer truthfully."

Li Hongyu sat down on a stool in front of the window, looked at the red lady with a serious expression and asked, "Master Ben has seen the jade pendant you carried with you, and I want to know where this jade pendant came from." ”

"Yes...... It was left to the sinner's daughter by her parents. ”

The red lady was slightly stunned when she heard this, she didn't expect Li Hongyu to know about the jade pendant, her expression suddenly seemed a little flustered, she wanted to make up a reason, but in the face of Li Hongyu's torch-like gaze, she gave up this idea, hesitated for a moment and said with a gloomy expression.

"Who are your parents?" Li Hongyu couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, and then asked lightly.

"Hui Taishi, the parents of the sin girl are two Jianghu artists, who have passed away." The red lady's face showed a sad look and slowly replied.

"Who are Xiuniang and Erniu?" Hearing the words "Jianghu artist", Li Hongyu already knew the identity of the red lady, and it was indeed the daughter of the old man, so he asked after a deep sigh.

"Taishi still remembers the name of his father and mother?" Hearing this, the red lady was stunned, and a stunned look appeared on her face, you must know that Li Hongyu and his parents had only met twenty years ago.

"Meeting your parents back then was also a fate, but I didn't think that side was a farewell."

Li Hongyu can be sure of the identity of the red lady now, how can outsiders know that Xiuniang and Erniu are a couple? No wonder he felt that the red lady was a little familiar at the beginning, it turned out to be Xiuniang's daughter, and then sighed, and asked with a regretful expression, "Your parents are now in the prime of life, why did they die?" ”

"Back to Taishi, Chongzhen nine years of the Central Plains drought, but the imperial court's taxes did not decrease but increased, resulting in rebellions in the Central Plains, wars continued, the parents of the sin girl were unfortunately affected by the fire of the two gangs fighting for territory in that year, and both were killed."

The red lady's eyes were ruddy and she looked at Li Hongyu and said, her words were full of grief and dissatisfaction with the court's disregard for the lives of the people.

Li Hongyu suddenly fell silent when he heard this, if the Emperor of the Apocalypse was alive, there would definitely not be so many people in the Ming Dynasty who would have rebelled.

Because the Emperor of the Apocalypse will definitely not increase taxes on the people in the north, especially in the northwest, but will take those rich places in the south to start a knife, and during the reign of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, he will successively reduce the taxes in the northwest and increase the commercial taxes and other taxes in the south of the Yangtze River, and the northwest has been very stable.

It is the national policy of Ming Taizu to supplement the soldiers in the northwest with the endowment of the south of the Yangtze River, and the taxes in the north have always been lower than those in the south, and the "Liao salary" levied at the end of the Wanli period was under the influence of the important ministers in the south of the court, and the north and south were paid by the people of the north and south for the first time, and the people of the south and the north paid the same tax rate.

On the surface, this seems to be a very fair method, but from the perspective of the regional economy, it is very inappropriate, not only is the north not as rich as the south, but there are frequent wars, and the joint endowment of the north and the south undoubtedly increases the burden on the people in the north.

Therefore, after the Emperor of the Apocalypse ascended the throne, he decisively abolished the Liao Salary and adopted many tax reduction measures to appease the northern regions, especially the northwest regions.

(End of chapter)