"Report to the general, kill new information for thousands of miles, in the land of western Henan, there are many thieves who have risen, and they have heard about it, and many children have sung folk songs. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"What are the ballads?"

"Eat his mother, wear his mother, open the door to meet the king, and when the king comes, he will not pay food."

Li Zilong, Liu Yishen, Jiang Hai and the others looked at each other for a moment, with expressions on their faces. I thought to myself, those people are really ignorant, "meet the king, do not pay food" that thief is not a saint?

If Zhu Zilong was here, I am afraid that he would sneer and slap the table. Lao Tzu is so open, and he is not exempt from taxes, why do you thieves say that?

The so-called "welcome the king, do not pay grain", that is, the word means that as soon as Li Zicheng's rebel army came, the common people did not need to pay taxes (at that time, the peasants paid taxes, that is, they paid grain to the officials).

It has been a rule for thousands of years that no matter what the emperor's surname is, the peasants have to pay grain to the government.

The peasants of the Ming Dynasty also don't want to think: "Meet the king, don't pay for food", what does the "king" eat? What to drink? What to wear? With what? What did the hundreds of thousands of troops who followed him eat in the north and south? What to drink? What to wear? With what?

Could it be that they are all immortals? Don't have to eat or drink? Don't get paid?

At this point, Li Zilong and the others did not take these rumors to heart and continued to march as originally planned.

It wasn't until a few days later that new information came, and it was said that once these rumors spread, the thieves' power became bigger and bigger, and the number of people went to the next level. The people wanted to vote, and the army of thieves really fulfilled some of the rumors, and did not want the people to pay taxes.

At this time, Li Zilong and the others were a little puzzled.

The rumor of "facing the king and not paying food" is unrealistic, why should the people believe it, and what have I heard that there are really thieves who have cashed in this rumor, how is this possible?

With this kind of puzzlement, they marched for a few more days, and waited until Wanli Kill relied on carrier pigeons to send new information, and Li Zilong and they suddenly realized.

It turned out that among the thieves, the down-and-out literati joined in and thought of slogans and ways to do things for them.

The process by which this slogan can be fulfilled is like this: everywhere they went, they relied on cracking down on the rich to raise military salaries and rations, and indeed they did not levy taxes on grain from the common people.

Moreover, they were on the move, and they did not have their own system of power, so they could not collect grain taxes from the common people. This gave the peasants a deep impression and a sense of reliability that the rebel army "did not levy grain and no taxes."

This is simply the advance of later generations, beating the local tyrants and dividing the land, but all the land and property divided belong to the thieves themselves.

Seeing the intelligence, Li Zilong and the others couldn't help but look at each other, thinking, I am not afraid that the thieves are powerful, but I am afraid that the thieves are educated!

Pick up the information and take a closer look, the person who helped the thieves plot, Niu Jinxing?

"What's going on? Niu Jinxing, isn't he an official of the Jingshi? How so? Li Zilong was shocked. Hurriedly asked people to inquire and asked the brother who killed Wanli to check.

It's no wonder that Li Zilong and others were surprised, as early as more than a year ago, Zhu Zilong made Niu Jinxing, Li Yan and others officials, and entered the official position in Beijing, and secretly let Jinyiwei observe for a few months.

Who would have thought that it had only been another year, Niu Jinxing was not serving in the Beijing Division, how could he appear in the Rogue Army and become a military division?

In the original unchanged history, Niu Jinxing (about 1595~1652), the word Juming, was a native of Baofeng County, Henan Province at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and later moved to the county seat. In his twenties, he was a talent in his twenties, and he was raised in the seventh year of the Apocalypse (1627). He is simple, likes to read, and is familiar with Tianguan, Fengjiao and Sun, Wu's art of war.

Because of a dispute with the gentry in the township, he was falsely accused of lifting people, and served as an errand after being confiscated into the army. was dissatisfied with Daming, so he voted for Li Zicheng's disciple!

But what's going on now?

A few days later, the carrier pigeon killed by Wanli came over and answered the confusion of Li Zilong and others, and the reason was that it was in the court.

It turned out that in the year or so when Zhu Zilong was away, the time for the triennial official assessment of the court had arrived.

Comrade Niu Jinxing has always been placed in the official position of Qing Shui, and with Zhu Zilong's arrangement, he can't pull the party, but when Zhu Zilong is not there, no one covers him. Other officials squeezed him out, and he failed to pass the evaluation and was dismissed.

So, with dissatisfaction with the Ming Dynasty, on the way back to his hometown, he had no intention of letting the thieves take him away, and he surrendered to the thieves in a fit of anger.

What a cheat, history is so similar.

In the Ming Dynasty, the evaluation of officials was an important part of clean government. The assessment of officials in the Ming Dynasty was carried out in parallel with the completion of the examination and the inspection of the two methods.

The completion of the examination is a method of examining the work status of officials during their tenure of office by the number of years. The examination will last for 3 years, with 3 years of initial examination, 6 years of re-examination, and 9 years of general examination. It is carried out according to the rank of the official and the yamen to which he belongs. All officials who have completed the examination are divided into three classes, that is, competent, ordinary, and incompetent. A total of 9 years of three examinations.

Some encourage officials serving in remote areas, while others pay attention to the popular support of officials, so as to promote a clean and honest government from different angles.

The starting point and system are good, but they are controlled by these corrupt officials in the late Ming Dynasty, and there is not much drama about any good system.

will indirectly become one of the ways for them to be greedy for money!

However, fortunately, Li Yan, who is more knowledgeable and disciplined in history, passed a pass and was assessed as qualified, and is still in office.

"Hearing that every time the thief breaks a city, he will destroy the city as much as possible, the general, according to the opinion of the last general, Li Chuang and Gao Chuang thieves have no great ambitions, and this rogue's behavior is not enough evidence." When the military accounts were discussed, a junior general of the Zhu family army proposed to Li Zilong.

Li Zilong smiled slightly, and replied: "I heard that the thief and the thief are not good at drinking, and they share the joys and hardships with their subordinates. It's good to say that you have to do your best in everything, and you can't be unguarded! ”

Years of war can make a person a great tactician. Obviously, Comrade Li Zilong has progressed!

"The thief army has now broken through Lushan, Jiaxian, and Zhudi, forming a situation of encirclement of Luoyang, according to the general's opinion, it is imperative for the thieves to attack Luoyang. Third Senior Brother, what do you think? Liu Yishen said to Li Zilong.

On the side, Jiang Hai also arched his hand and said: "The wealth of King Fu is known to the world, and there are no less than kings of several provinces. If Luoyang is taken, the army of thieves will have a lot of gold and silver to raise the army. It can be described as a million, I think, they will take Luoyang! ”

The generals on the side also proposed one after another, but the general meaning was that they agreed that the thieves would attack Luoyang, and their own Zhu family army could no longer run around.

Anyway, we also have the right to be cheap, and we have the Shang Fang sword, so we go directly to Luoyang, and no one can stop us.

In the end, Li Zilong agreed.

Zhu Jiajun turned and began to march towards Luoyang.

Emotionally, the generals of the Zhu family army did not have a good impression of King Fu and other vassal kings, but reason told him that if the siege of Luoyang was relieved, it would be extremely beneficial to the future of the Zhu family army politically.

Regarding the death of King Fu, there are four versions in later generations, and the fourth version is more widespread, that is, King Fu was eaten, and the name is Fu Lu Yan.

However, Zhu Zilong's body, who had not yet woken up from his slumber, had asked Wan Lishu and Jinyiwei to investigate the person of King Fu.

He found that King Fu was indeed greedy for money and lustful, but this person was not stupid.

He knew that if the city was broken, he would have nothing and his life would be lost. Therefore, when Zhu Zilong was still on the side of the Ming Dynasty last time, he heard the news that Luoyang had been strengthening the city under the sponsorship of King Fu.

In addition, King Fu took the initiative to take out money and grain and grass many times to reward the soldiers defending the city.

From this point of view, the statement that the Fu King of later generations died by himself is actually watery.

Zhu Zilong once guessed that it was rumored in later generations that after Li Zicheng broke through Luoyang, he only got a small amount of grain, grass and silver. From this point of view, it is obviously inconsistent with the fact that King Fu has a family fortune of tens of millions and millions of stones of grain and rice.

There should be only one truth, that is, King Fu actually actively participated in the defense, and also took out a large amount of silver taels and grain and grass to encourage the morale of the soldiers defending the city.

It was precisely because of the desperate resistance of the Luoyang army and the people that Li Zicheng's army suffered a lot of losses, and finally the defenders surrendered, and after the city fell, Li Zicheng entered the city to retaliate and killed King Fu.

- (To be continued.) )