Li Zicheng left Sichuan, passed through the area of Huguang and Yunyang, and went straight to Henan. Although Zuo Liangyu disdainfully called it a small group of rogues, after entering Henan, various forces that had been raising troops in Henan for a long time came to take refuge.

Chuang Jun and Henan have always had a relationship, and when they were active in Henan that day, there were also many old troops who stayed for various reasons, such as "Lao Dangdang, Yilong, Xiao Yuan Ying, Lao Yuan Ying, and Yi Dou Gu", whose names sounded a little ridiculous, were more or less involved in the Shaanxi Ministry.

Li Zicheng is known as the king of Chuang, is the leader of the alliance of the homeless people from all walks of life, and his reputation among the homeless people is extremely high.

The troops, who were originally less than 1,000 people, entered Henan, but in just one month, they had become more than 100,000 troops, and the camp that was about to be destroyed suddenly turned into a giant beast.

More than 100,000 troops suddenly appeared in western Henan, and Henan was panicked, and it seemed that the wax moon of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen must have been unstable.

Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, desperately sent a messenger to Beijing to ask for help, and Yang Sichang, who was still supervising the division in Sichuan, sent an urgent letter, requesting that the soldiers and horses of Henan be transferred back to Henan to resist the thieves.

Li Xianfeng saw the strength of Shandong soldiers and horses last time, and this time the matter was so urgent, and he didn't care about the politeness of officialdom, so he directly asked for the transfer of Shandong soldiers and horses to Henan for rescue.

Yang Sichang, who supervised the encirclement and suppression of Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai's troops in Sichuan, finally felt the embarrassment, and the soldiers and horses under Zhang and Luo gradually recovered their vitality.

The Jingshi Imperial Court is now a little panicked, but it still has some hope for the soldiers and horses of the five provinces led by Yang Sichang, hoping to wait for Yang Sichang to destroy Zhang and Luo's troops, and then return to Henan. Deal with the powerful Li Zicheng.

I don't know if it portends anything, once in the prime of the five provinces. Xiong Wencan, who was in charge of appeasement, was beheaded in Jingshi in November, and it seems that it is not uncommon for such a high-quality official to be sentenced to death at every turn.

Since it was determined that Chen Liu and Zhang Jiang were stationed in the Lianghuai area, the Nanjing military department was in a hurry, and the Yangzhou government and the soldiers and horses of Nanzhili stationed in Jiangbei complained about their grievances in official documents all day long, saying that it was the Huainan army. They often patrol around Yangzhou Prefecture, which is clearly not their jurisdiction.

Moreover, the army acted recklessly, the people and merchants were disturbed, the local soldiers and horses blocked, and the Huainan army of the Jiaozhou battalion did not let them say anything, and they also spoke ill of each other. There is even a hands-on stance.

Nanzhili has been peaceful for so many years, and he knows what kind of material he is, and he dares to turn his face with a tiger and wolf like the other party. Often, it can only be a retreat.

If the troops want to live well, they must also look at the territory they are stationed on and their ability to protect and deter the locality; at present, this territory is being squeezed little by little by the soldiers and horses from Shandong, and they dare not fight. can only retreat step by step, the local businessmen and gentry, and the people of Li gradually see that something is wrong, and see who is in charge.

The local soldiers and horses of Nanzhili were naturally unwilling, but the transfer of Shandong soldiers and horses to be stationed in Nanzhili was the unified opinion of the Nanjing Military Department, local officials and the imperial court. The way Nanjing City is handled. can only pinch his nose and put this in the Huainan army and let them pay attention.

Chen Liuke ignored these documents. It doesn't even count as an itch, he only remembered Li Mengdi's order, the limit is not to merge with Nan Zhili's soldiers and horses, as long as you don't make a move, you try to go south.

If people are about to starve to death, who cares about saltiness, in the documents that Zhou Yang and Ning Qiangui sorted out and submitted to the ground, Li Mengxian, even if he intervened in the Lianghuai salt industry, and had the protection money sent by the salt merchants, but the income growth did not have the expected jump.

Because the chaotic areas in various places have increased, and the sales area of the salt industry has become smaller, the sales of salt have of course also been affected.

However, it is slightly added that the ships in the private port belong to the ships of the Jiaozhou battalion, which has increased to more than 40, and this maritime trade business is the only business that is more prosperous in the troubled times.

At least the grain supply is not worried, and the local security is much more stable because of the existence of this grain supply area, but the development of the Tuntian Grange has gradually stagnated, and the growth of both manpower and fields has become extremely slow.

The reason is very simple, Shandong's land has been concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people, and if it is annexed, it will be swallowed up by these large households.

Moreover, the common people who have supported it, small and medium-sized landlords, are not unable to survive the famine, at least the drought is not so serious, Shandong has caused locust plagues in Yanzhou and Dengzhou, but it is controlled within one or two counties, and it has not spread.

The construction of water conservancy organized in Tuntiangzhuang and other measures to revitalize agriculture have actually improved the environment of the whole Shandong to a certain extent.

Chen Liu and Zhangjiang were stationed in Lianghuai, and the shopkeeper of the Lingshan Commercial Bank used to purchase land and recruit local displaced people to cultivate, as well as those granges established to appease the displaced people in Henan.

This system, in Huai'an Mansion is also quite large, if anyone has any doubts, these businessmen in Jiaozhou are full of words, we are here to buy industries in the two Huai areas, and it is reasonable to say.

On the second day of the twelfth lunar month of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, after Li Meng finished reading the two camps from Nanzhili, he went to the house where Sun Chuanting was.

In this place, every once in a while, I have to come over to wander around, persuade and solicit, Li Meng thought that Liu Xuande's invitation to Zhuge Liang was just a three-way house, and after Sun Chuanting lived in this house, Li Meng came more than a dozen times.

Sun Chuanting's attitude was also strange, in addition to ignoring the first two times, the next few times were also a simple chat, asking about the military politics, civil affairs and economic affairs of the Jiaozhou battalion, these things made Sun Chuanting quite curious, I don't understand that Li Meng, a military general from a salt seller, would have so many ideas to do this.

People are under their own control, and the initiative is in their own hands, and Li Meng is not in a hurry. Under the guidance of Liu Fulai, although he put people under house arrest in the courtyard. Except for Li Meng himself and other personal guards, he could not be contacted, but all kinds of information in the Di Bao, Tang Bao, and Jiaozhou camp system, except for those top secret places, the rest were sent to Sun Chuanting's basement in one go.

and Zhou Yang and Ning Qiangui's daily handling of government affairs were all sent over, but Sun Chuanting did not make any gestures.

When it was sent to him, Sun Chuanting read it in detail almost as much as possible. However, except for asking Li Meng, he didn't put forward any opinions, but seemed to be reading those poems that relieved boredom.

When Li Meng went over, he occasionally talked to him about what the Jiaozhou camp had done recently, and Sun Chuanting listened very carefully, but the way he evaluated made Li Meng very depressed. For example, it is often a faint smile.

This time Li Meng came over, Sun Chuanting's study was almost flooded with paper, and Sun Chuanting looked at a booklet nailed with thread. The beard has not been groomed for a long time, and it is very sloppy.

"If Mr. Sun thinks that there is any shortage of food and clothing, just say to the guards outside the door."

Li Meng sat on the chair opposite and said without words. Sun Chuanting looked at the document with his eyes, did not raise his head, and replied in a deep voice:

"There is General Lao Li to worry about, this place is very stronger than the edict prison, and the old man is very comfortable."

Recently, there is nothing worth talking about for Li Meng, after a word of hello, the room is very awkwardly quiet, and Li Meng also feels quite awkward. If you want to do otherwise, you will stand up and say directly: Sir. You can help me, I only hate that modern times and this era have not seen much of the Three Kingdoms. Otherwise, it is really appropriate to use the joke of "three visits to the thatched house" here.

"Recently, I looked at the method of General Li Bing's land and tuntian, which is indeed a wonderful method, but what is even better is that it is really good to turn the people of Shandong into your Li Zongbing's alone!"

Regarding Sun Chuanting's harshness, Li Meng just replied with a smile:

"Such a superb method is from the hands of Zhou Tongzhi, Li is good at military, and this civil economy is really not good at."

Although Sun Chuanting still looked at the scroll in front of him, he was listening attentively, and after listening to Li Meng's words, he sighed, threw the scroll on the table, and said slowly:

"This method is not a high level, the old man also did it when he was in Xi'an, but as soon as the old man left, the field became the land of King Qin."

After Sun Chuanting went to Shaanxi as a governor, he worked hard in the area of Xi'an Mansion for almost two years, accumulating more than 100,000 taels of silver, 20,000 soldiers and horses, and enough military rations.

"At that time, the old man was still the governor of Shaanxi, but even in the tuntian around Xi'an Mansion, it was also a lot of containment, the fields around Xi'an are the most fertile places in Shaanxi, either the vassal king grange or the noble official's family business, when he moved, he immediately shouted to the imperial court, look at your document, when Li Zongbing ran Tuntian, he was just a general, how can he do such a big thing."

Li Meng listened to Sun Chuanting's emotion, and waited until the other party asked, he couldn't help but be happy in his heart, thinking that after all, this was the other party's affirmation and praise of the Jiaozhou battalion system, and the answer should also be cautious, maybe persuading the other party This is a good start, but after thinking for a long time, he couldn't find the right words, so he simply opened his mouth and said:

"Actually, this matter is not as difficult as Mr. Sun thought, some of those fields were sent, some were bought, gathered into pieces, and then recruited displaced people."

When Sun Chuanting heard what he said, he said with a smile:

"What Mr. Li said is straightforward, is it really that simple?"

Li Meng laughed hesitantly, some words are still good, I don't know if the former governor in front of him, the former governor, has the so-called "character and integrity" of the literati or "spiritual cleanliness", it is better to spread out the behavior of the Jiaozhou camp a little, he said with a smile:

"There are also those that are not sold, and the knife holder is sold on the neck......"

After saying this, Li Meng stared at Sun Chuanting, but saw that there was no anger or disgust on Mr. Sun's face, but he treated it very plainly.

Of course, when Sun Chuanting was in Tuntian, Xi'an Mansion, his hands were not clean. Speaking of which, Li Meng's impression of Sun Chuanting has changed a lot for the better, such a big man who is accustomed to seeing the world and is transparent and insightful, can see many things clearly. Li Meng's many practices not only do they know how to do it, but also understand it very well.

For example, literati like Sun Hedou are a little bookish and overly angry. And Zhou Yang, the psychological struggle was also very powerful at the beginning. once cried with Li Meng after drinking, "I thought I was a talent in the vertical and horizontal, my heart was like an iron stone, and I felt guilty when I saw people who died and been displaced because of my own methods, and I still couldn't sleep all night."

Like that genius Yuan Wenhong is also like this, according to the Shandong Salt Gang surveillance report, Yuan Wenhong once sighed with his wife, "Now there is no shame to talk about the righteousness of the saint"

If this mentality is changed. Naturally, it is loyal to the Jiaozhou battalion system, and if it can't be turned around, there will be hidden dangers after all.

Li Meng hated this mentality very much, and thought to himself that I would provide you with food and clothing, and give you your status and status, every time I Li Meng. You are still freezing and starving in the countryside and waiting to die, how can you have a full stomach, but you still remember what righteous name you have. What a saint's teaching, it's really inexplicable.

Therefore, in the Jiaozhou battalion system, the status of soldiers is higher than that of literati, because officers and soldiers know who feeds them. and they will give their lives to whomever they want.

Sun Chuanting can see clearly, which means that he will recruit the other party, at least there will be no obstacles in terms of morality and morality.

"Although the means are a little more powerful on Mr. Li's side, what the old man did was to pacify the thieves, return peace to the world, and repay the kindness of the Son of Heaven, but what you Mr. Li did was probably for his own selfish interests and monstrous ambitions!"

Li Meng smiled bitterly. It seems that what I think is still too wishful thinking. However, looking at Sun Chuanting's slightly questioning expression, Li Meng sneered and asked:

"Mr. Sun. What kindness is there in this heaven that deserves to be repaid by you......"

After saying this, Li Meng felt that his heart was beating violently a few times, since coming to this era, although the emperor who had never been seen in Jingshi made all kinds of foolish decisions, but the identity of the master of the whole world, and the omniscient awe and fear of the people around him, more or less affected Li Meng.

Although it is from modern times, Li Meng also does not dare to slack off Emperor Chongzhen, which may be an influence of the general environment and atmosphere.

But since when did it start, I felt that the mysterious aura on Emperor Chongzhen's body began to fade slowly, the emperor who was originally high in the earth, the master of the entire Ming Dynasty, gradually became a confused person who listened to and believed partially, and the busier he became, the more chaotic he became, Li Meng's awe was getting less and less, and now he could say it directly. Li Meng's actions are all mixed with all kinds of dissenting intentions, but he has never said it, whether it is him or those around him, there is a tacit understanding.

But he didn't expect that at such an opportunity, everything would be made clear, Sun Chuanting couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard this, his face was angry, and he glared at Li Meng and said coldly:

"Today's saint, the son of tomorrow is also the land you say, and it is indeed a wolf......

Li Meng was able to let go, although Sun Chuanting was angry, but his body did not leave his seat, and there was no ostentatious action, of course, he could get the Qin prisoners out of the edict prison, these days looking at the various actions of the Jiaozhou camp, what kind of loyal courtiers' practices are there, he must also be mentally prepared.

"Mr. Sun, if it is the Son of Saint Tomorrow, why would Mr. be sent to prison pending trial?"

Speaking of which, Li Meng finally figured out when he completely lost his reverence for Emperor Chongzhen, it should be after Yang Sichang entered the center.

In the past, he was considered a tragic figure, and Emperor Chongzhen of the wrong era was born, and the prototype gradually appeared, Emperor Chongzhen seems to be the culprit of this era, if he doesn't do things, the world allows these courtiers to maintain, but they can still maintain, he wants to do things, do a bad thing, the situation collapses like this, and eight points out of ten is the credit of Emperor Chongzhen.

Sun Chuanting was imprisoned pending trial, and the charges could be said to be completely unwarranted, a meritorious and even meritorious minister, but because of Yang Sichang's words "resentment", he was sent to prison pending trial.

There are also cabinet scholars who have been killed and demoted over the years, Shangshu, squires, governors, governors, general soldiers, etc., many of the sins on their bodies are either not so heavy as the punishment, or they are tolerable, but this Emperor Chongzhen is indiscriminately punished heavily.

The change of the center is like a marquee, naturally there is no stability, there is no stable core, and the entire Ming Dynasty is also in chaos.

knows his own family affairs, Sun Chuanting's case, said that the emperor is shengming. It's almost the same as scolding, Li Meng's rhetorical question. made Sun Chuanting pause for a while, smiled bitterly a few times, and said with a sigh:

"Mr. Li, please come back, the old man still has a lot of things to see here, let's talk about it another day!"

Every day you look at these things for leisure, don't say it seems to be a major official matter, Li Mengyu scolded a few words. Laughing and getting up, I was about to say goodbye.

At this moment, two guards outside greeted and walked in with a few papers.

"Dashuai, this is the Tang Bao and Di Bao that I just arrived in the past two days, as well as the clerical information in the following places. According to the old lady's instructions, it was transcribed and sent over. ”

Li Meng nodded, thinking that he would just leave, and this visit would be halfway again. Or continue to sit for a while, it is really sullen, and the head town of a province is here to whisper. However, the Jiaozhou battalion is really short of talents now, and as a commander, he also has the responsibility to recruit and request.

Seeing Li Meng sitting there, Sun Chuanting didn't say anything else, but said slowly:

"Bring the recent papers, and clean up the table."

The two guards looked at each other, both a little annoyed and helpless, Sun Chuanting was really a person in a high position, so it was natural to call his subordinates. But don't say it's Li Meng sitting here. Even if you are not there, you must be treated politely. I had to clean up the desktop and hand over the bound documents of Di Bao and Tang Bao to Sun Chuanting.

After the two guards went out, Li Meng remembered the Di Bao and Tang Bao in the past two days, and he hadn't read it yet, and the review of the soldiers and horses of the two battalions could not be completed in one or two hours, but what made Li Meng feel relieved was that Chen Liu and Zhang Jiang were in the land of Lianghuai, and they did not relax their training at all.

Although the two battalions that were rotated back this time were mainly new soldiers, they were much more experienced in the deployment of feasible troops, and they were more murderous than these "half-old" soldiers stationed in Shandong.

Li Meng also understood in his heart that now the training of all departments is to be grasped to the death, and it is not easy to distinguish the superior from the inferior in training, and what everyone lacks is the experience of actual combat, and the two Huai have not yet been completely pacified, and the Huaibei Army and the Huainan Army have continued to fight small battles, and the soldiers have seen blood and killed people, of course they are different.

"Bang", this sudden sound frightened Li Meng, and the door of the study was immediately pushed open halfway, and several personal soldiers looked inside nervously.

Sun Chuanting, who was opposite Li Meng, had already stood up, holding the scroll of the Didi Newspaper and the Tang Newspaper in his hand, and the paper of the scroll was shaken.

Now Sun Chuanting has the dignity of a minister, his beard flutters, and he shouted loudly:

"Break into Henan, break into Henan, this is a tiger into the mountains, it will be a big disaster, hurry up and prepare a messenger on the horse, play the Son of Heaven, and send troops and horses to encircle and suppress."

Looking at Sun Chuanting's gaffe, Li Meng was also a little dumbfounded, but as soon as he reacted a little, he felt that this scene was really a little sad, the soldiers outside saw that there was nothing to do, and took the door with him, Li Meng cleared his throat and said:

"Mr. Sun, Mr. Sun......"

Li Meng reminded him for the first time, Sun Chuanting reacted, his arm froze in mid-air, the room was quiet for a while, Sun Chuanting's arm hung down, and he sat back in the chair weakly.

Fang Cai's face seemed a little funny, but Li Mengdi's heart twitched for a while, and then he heard Sun Chuanting slowly speak:

"The old man is a criminal in the prison, a lonely ghost who has died, but he still wants to play, it's really ridiculous, ridiculous!!"

The voice became lower and lower, Sun Chuanting's face was full of gloom, and he seemed to be a teenager at this moment.

Li Meng didn't know what to say in this scene, he stepped forward and took the scroll and turned a few pages, which said, "Breaking through the rebellion to the inner countryside in November, Henan thieves have been in tandem, and in four or five days, there have been nearly 100,000 people ......."

Di Bao Tang Bao's previous description of Li Zicheng is that "there are only 1,000 people left", and Li Meng has a clear memory of this period of history is that Li Zicheng led the Dashun army into Beijing, and the Ming Dynasty's legal system in the north was declared extinct. But in the past two years, Li Zicheng's army has been beaten by officers and soldiers, and he is hovering on the verge of extinction.

What Li Meng was worried about was whether there would be a "butterfly effect" in this era because of his arrival, and whether the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which would not have won a victory, achieved a small victory, and the disaster in Shandong was minimized, and whether other historical events would also be affected.

Reading this newspaper, my heart is relieved. This history should still be moving forward on the original track, and you can still use the general understanding of the general trend of history. Occupy some innate advantages.

Sun Chuanting's gaffe was seen by Li Meng, but he felt that the distance between the two people had been much closer, Li Meng cleared his throat and opened his mouth to persuade:

"Mr. Sun, more than 1,000 people died in Henan, and they gathered more than 100,000 in a hurry, which inevitably has an unstable foundation. The soldiers and horses of the court have their hands freed, and this thief will not be able to escape the end of defeat! ”

After Li Meng's words of relief, Sun Chuanting, who was sitting there, shook his head and said in a low voice:

"How can you rush to the army, I saw that Li Chuang had a lot of old troops in Henan that day, and he has not stopped his activities all these years. This gathering is in the thoroughfare of Henan, and it will become a great harm. ”

Sun Chuanting just lowered his head, but suddenly thought of something. Looking up and asking:

In June this year, Li Zongbing once led the Shandong soldiers and horses to Kaifeng City to rescue, and won a complete victory. The surrounding can be mobilized is the soldiers and horses under the command of General Li, and the governor of Henan, Li Xianfeng, also saw the majesty of Qilu's soldiers and horses last time, this time the situation is critical, I am afraid that I can't care about the officialdom decency, and I will directly ask the court for Lu soldiers to rescue. “

Li Menggan laughed a few times, with such a big strength in his hand, even if he was low-key, he couldn't be low-key, and Sun Chuanting, who was sitting there. Fang Cai's anxious panic has disappeared. Staring at Li Meng, he asked:

"Henan is in an emergency, and General Li went to the rescue. There is no benefit, if you don't save it, but you can protect the territory and the people, our generals of the Ming Dynasty are in this situation, there are many people who don't listen to the tune, Mr. Li, if you are transferred, will you go? ”

Li Meng groaned slightly, took a few steps back and sat on his chair, and said with a smile on his face:

"Mr. Sun, if the imperial court transfers my soldiers and horses to Henan to level the thieves, then I will naturally go, there are some things, Mr. Sun is still short, how can you say that there is no benefit, there is a lot of benefit!"

After saying this, Li Meng got up and hugged his fists and said goodbye, there are already a lot of exchanges with Sun Chuanting today, but it can be seen that the exit is different, and the mentality of people is also different, Sun Chuanting is calm on the surface, but he must not be calm in his heart, he is not guilty of going to prison, the world is so erosive, Sun Chuanting's heart is also cold.

And in the end, Sun Chuanting's matter of transferring troops from the imperial court is almost consistent with the Jiaozhou battalion's own judgment and analysis, if Li Zicheng really makes such a fuss in Henan, Shandong soldiers and horses will definitely be mobilized, and it is good to plan early. In the past, the imperial court transferred Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier of Caozhou, to Henan to pacify the thieves, except for the first time, the rest of the time was an excuse not to go, and now Li Meng's strength is several times stronger than Liu Zeqing, if he doesn't go, the court can't do anything about him.

But this is indeed a great benefit to Li Meng, who is still thinking about how to let his soldiers experience actual combat, and Henan Ping Thief is a good opportunity to train his troops.

Shandong soldiers and horses have strength but not reputation, Sun Chuanting had great achievements but was imprisoned, all kinds of unbelievable things are deeply affected by Emperor Chongzhen's new cabinet bachelor, the military department of the secretary Yang Sichang, and now he is no longer the scenery of the day.

At the end of October, when Yang Sichang was in Chongqing, he once offered Zhang Xianzhong a reward: "If you can capture and pay ten thousand gold, the marquis of Juetong" Who thought that the day after this order was issued, his residence and office yamen were covered with notes, which read: "The cabinet department is here to pay three coins of silver."

Seeing this note, Yang Sichang was dumbfounded, he no longer believed in his relatives and guards around him, and was suspicious, this matter was rumored and joked in Sichuan and Chu, and even the officers and soldiers of the army under the command of Yang Sichang were laughing shamefully.

Commanding the army to fight, the majesty of the leader is also very important, at the moment Yang Sichang is face loss, the generals below are all false stories, the so-called situation is erosive, and it is gradually desperate, this is it.

Chongzhen's thirteenth year of the lunar month, there is still a month before the Spring Festival, the Spring Festival is the most important festival of the year, and it should be ready for the New Year when it arrives in the lunar month. No matter how hard you work and how hard you work this year, you should have a good rest, draw a successful end to this year, and make a good start to the next year.

But in Henan, all this is an extravagant hope, nearly ten years of continuous disasters, Fu, Zhou, Zhao, Yi, Zheng, Tang and other nine vassal kings and large and small landlords to exploit the localities, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and the war between officers and soldiers in the Central Plains, so that this so-called heartland has become a thousand miles of red land.

Except for a few cities on the edge of a large river system, the rest of the place is like hell. Outside the city, in the countryside, the landlords and wealthy families gathered together to connect with each other. or in the village, or in the construction of a dock fort. The peasants either starved to death in the countryside, or gathered in gangs to fight to the death against the militia and the officers and soldiers to see if they could have a chance to survive.

In such a situation, don't mention the busy year of Layue, but Baofeng County, Ruzhou is very lively. For some, it's a disaster, for others it's a holiday.

The county seat of Baofeng has been broken by the army led by Li Zicheng, according to the convention, after the army takes a certain amount of stored grain, the remaining grain will be distributed to the people in the city and the hungry people outside the city who can arrive in time. This is also the reason why a large number of displaced people joined Li Zicheng's command.

What really makes people refer to the fact that the small county town of Baofeng was opened by the breaking army. After taking away a part of the stock to meet the needs of the army, the people in the city and the hungry people in the vicinity could still get a small portion.

There was starvation outside the city, and there was still so much food in the city, which was really ironic. The largest household in the city, the outer home of the sealer, is no longer as dignified and grand as it used to be.

Those destitute peasant households are going in and out of it, and since this letter sent his daughter to Baofeng Zhang County as a concubine, he is a tyrant in the county, and ordinary people don't even dare to go in front of the door.

But now, the whole family, together with the servants of the family, has been killed, and the cellars and granaries in the house have been opened, and the poor people are moving in and out.

A woman who described her as withered sat on the steps of the main hall of the house and wept. Crying and scolding. It's already a bit crazy.

"Your family is full of beasts who can't give birth, my son is seriously ill and wants to eat. Come here and beg you, you said that you have no food left, let my mother and son go to graze, my poor son, open your eyes in the sky, look at this Feng family with a thousand cuts, his dog eats all food......"

The woman sat on the steps and cried and cursed in and out of the house, even though it was broad daylight, but because of the woman's crying, the house was still ghostly and gloomy.

The magistrate yamen of Baofeng County is separated from the mansion of this family by a street, and the magistrate of Baofeng County is also all killed when the city is broken.

According to the same rules, the prison behind the county yamen will be opened after the army breaks through the city, and the prisoners in the prison will be released at the same time.

The prisoners in the prison were all offended by the laws of the country or the powerful gentry in the city, and when such people were released, they were born to stand on the side of the rebels, because everyone was equally hostile to the government and the court.

In these years of famine, prisons are actually no different from death, and to survive in them is all dependent on their families bribing the jailers to send some food in, but in these years, who has any extra food.

Not long after the Chuang Jun opened the cell, they didn't care about the prisoners inside, and went straight to do other things, leaving the people inside to do whatever they wanted.

There were not a few prisoners in the prison anymore, and after they were freed, the prisoners were all scattered, and now the people all over the city are carrying food and property on the side of the big families, or to use the word "robbery" more accurately, the whole city is full of commotion, but the county government is a little quiet.

There is no property here at all, and the county yamen is a dilapidated building, and everyone has a good impression of it on weekdays, and there is no one at this time, and around the empty county ya, only the miserable cries from the nearby Feng family are echoing.

At the gate of the county government stood a man, who was rarely dressed in a long shirt when the city was full of poor people in short robes.

This man in the long shirt is not very old, that is, he is in his early twenties, and it seems that he should be a scholar with a reputation for merit, and at this time, the scholar with a reputation for himself either stays at home and does not come out, or runs away early when the army is attacking, which is really an anomaly.

The young man's complexion seems to be much stronger than that of those poor people, and his life is obviously good, but the long shirt on his body is very shabby, indicating that his life has been quite embarrassing recently.

This person was a little expectant and a little frightened at the gate of the county office, desperately looking into the county office, wanting to enter but not daring to move.

After a while, a middle-aged man leaned his body, dragged his steps, and slowly walked out of the county office.

"Father, father......"

Running to him, the young man couldn't control his emotions, choked up and spoke, but he couldn't speak, the middle-aged man smiled tiredly, touched the young man's head, and said gently:

"Son, you are an adult, and you should have some responsibility, isn't it okay to be a father, how is your mother?"

The young man called "Er" hurriedly lowered his head and stretched out his hand to wipe away his tears, nodded, and replied:

"Mother is a little scared, father, our Niu family has nowhere to stay in the Lu family because of the county order, hiding in this Baofeng, why do you still refuse to let our family go, they collude with officials, what are they going to do with us!"

After speaking, the young man's voice was already crying, and the middle-aged man laughed in a low voice, and said slowly:

"If this king enters the city two days late, I am afraid that my father will die in this prison......" The voice was very low, the young man did not hear clearly, the middle-aged man looked up at the sun in the sky, he had not seen the sun for a while, and he felt very dazzling, but the sun of Layue, Henan, did not have a trace of warmth, and there was already a hoarse cry, which made the cold even worse.

The middle-aged man was stunned for a while, sighed heavily, patted his son on the shoulder, and said softly:

"Alright, let's go......"

In December of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the army broke through Baofeng County, Ruzhou, and Niu Jinxing was falsely imprisoned.

Since the beginning of the Shaanxi Rebellion for more than ten years, meritorious celebrities have served as thieves, and Henan has taken Niu Jinxing as an example......