When the red lady saw the situation in the room, she knew it in her heart, and she shouted coldly: "Let him go, you go out!" ”

Although the two thieves hated Yang Ling to the bone, but under the power of Yang Crossing, the two did not dare to attack easily, anyway, Yang Ling had fallen into their hands, and they were not afraid that he would escape, the two thieves spat heavily at Yang Ling, and walked out.

Yang Ling covered his chest and gasped and stood up straight, the red lady glanced at him lightly, turned around and walked out, after a while, the red lady walked back, handed a bag of water and two steamed buns to Yang Ling, sat down against the stone wall with a sword, and said: "I'm watching you here, rest after eating, tomorrow morning you personally write a letter, take it to the government to change people, and save your dog's life."

Yang Hu has already fled, if she knows the truth, will she still be able to live? Yang Ling had nothing to do for a while, so he had to sit down opposite her with a water bag and steamed buns against the stone wall, and sighed softly: "When I first saw Mrs., Mrs. bought grain for disaster relief, and the ancient road was hot, quite chivalrous, although Yang was in the imperial court, he asked himself if he had never done anything sorry for the people, why did you want to kill me?" ”

He wanted to point out the matter of warming the cellar, but he was afraid that this woman would be angry and angry, and he would suffer more again, so he swallowed back the words when they came to his mouth. Cui Ying'er was speechless, she paused before sneering: "I am helping the victims because I am also a poor person, and I know the pain of starvation and cold. We don't just want to kill you, we want to kill all the officials, overthrow this harmful world, and rebuild a court."

Yang Ling sighed and said: "You help the people, you can only let him eat this meal, natural disasters [***] continue, the people are waiting to be fed, how much money do you have to buy food?" When the official warehouse is empty, what do you let the people of the world eat? You are in a moment's errand, and I am bringing in those exotic crops, but I am planning for the long term.

Don't think that you are the only one who sympathizes with the people, although there is maladministration today, but the court is not corrupt, many officials are worried about the people, you want to rebuild a court, how many battles will be fought and how many people will die? How can we support the honest and upright ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee to reform and eliminate the old, eliminate corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and let the people have food, clothing, and land? Besides, can you overthrow the world? ”

The red lady said proudly: "Are the officers and soldiers amazing? How many times have our cottages been suppressed, and what can those officers and soldiers do to me? If the people and horses of each mountain and village are concentrated, they are an elite army far superior to the imperial court, and why is it difficult to take the world? ”

Yang Ling sneered: "Wishful thinking! ”

Cui Ying'er glared, and Yang Ling hurriedly continued: "With the help of the geographical advantage, the officers and soldiers will hide in the deep mountains, and if you can escape unscathed from the hands of the officers and soldiers, you think you can deal with the thousands of troops and horses of the government?"

You go south and smell the north, you are well-informed, you should know that the orthodoxy of the Ming royal family is the Zhu family, and there are countless people in the world who are good and lowly believers, and you don't seem to matter when you are the king of the mountain, if you really want to rebel, how many people believe in you? However, the four words of Ming orthodoxy can be turned into real money, food, knives and guns, and soldiers, and into a force of resolute support. ”

Cui Ying'er sneered, Yang Ling mustered up the courage to continue: "You said that you want to overthrow the imperial court and create another world, okay, let me ask you, if your red lady is the lord of the world, how do you benefit the people?" ”

Cui Ying'er's eyes lit up, and she blurted out: "Of course, it is to cancel those damn taxes, and no longer want the people of Henan and Hebei to raise horses for the imperial court, so that the people can live a good life, have food to eat, meat to eat, clothes to wear, and will not be cold and hungry, I myself am bitter haha, and I will not treat the people badly."

Yang Ling chuckled, Cui Ying'er's face flushed, and she scolded uncomfortably: "What are you laughing at?" Am I not right? ”

Yang Ling bowed his head and said: "Yes, all right, then let me ask you, this year's great flood in Henan, the drought in Shaanxi, the locust plague in Shandong covered the sky, and the Tuyao in the Miaoshan area was in turmoil, you cancel the tax, what will you use to support your army, support the officials who manage the world for you, and what will you use to relieve the people who are about to starve to death?" Under the natural disaster [***], the grain harvest is less than 30%, how do you make the people worry about food and clothing? ”

Cui Ying'er was stunned, she always only complained about the incompetence of the government, thinking about laying down the country and letting the people live a good life, she didn't think about it, Cui Ying'er bit her lip and said: "Those gentry landlords have thousands of acres of land, even in the year of famine, the family is full of food and clothing, I can let the people eat big households, and they will not starve to death."

Yang Ling shook his head and said: "At that time, these rich gentry were also your people, their property and land were accumulated for many generations, and you want to force them to rebel again?" Moreover, the rich gentry in the world are less than one percent of the ten sincere benevolence, and the money and grain gathered in the hands of a few of them are considered rich flowing oil, and after distributing it to the people, each person only has a mouth of porridge to drink, and the court leads the people to eat big households? Is this your way? ”

"You said that the Ma Zheng was abolished, yes, I also heard that the Ma Zheng is harsh, and the people are miserable, this is to be changed by the imperial court a little bit, is it a good way not to raise horses? Now that the Tatars are on the border, there are tens of thousands of iron cavalry, if there are no cavalry, how can you protect your country and people? Is the Tatar a hundred times more fierce than the tax collector?

Coastal pirates are in turmoil, do you want to build ships? Do you want to train a sailor? Logging and shipbuilding require conscription, raising and training soldiers requires taxes, and shipbuilding and armor cost everywhere, but you just want to be kind to the people in your heart, have you done it? ”

The red lady's face turned a little blue, Yang Ling continued to destroy her self-confidence, and said mercilessly: "Taxes and horse breeding can't be avoided, it depends on how to implement it." Officials and cultivators cannot be left untreated, and it depends on how to govern them. Do you know how to govern administration and manage finance? You will only destroy, not build! ”

The red lady couldn't help but scolded: "Shut up, let you quibble, what kind of background is Zhu Hongwu, isn't he sitting in the world?" ”

Yang Ling said leisurely: "Emperor Hongwu came from a meager background, but he is not a martial artist who does not learn and does not know how to do it, and he is against the tyranny of the Yuan, how many talented people are around him to help him?" What about you? You don't know whose side of the hearts of the world's scholars is, right?

If it's really the other way around, you are just a bandit who has become a bandit, rising with the wind and waves, falling with the wind and waves, and more than a hundred years later, when the future generations talk about you, you are just bandits who have caused trouble in the history books, stirred up the blood of the world, and have no benefit to the people, if you have children and grandchildren, they will also be ashamed of you."

Before Yang Ling finished speaking, there was a "choking" sound, a cold light flashed, and the short sword had been pressed against his throat, causing him to tremble when he swallowed his skin. Yang Ling was flustered for a while, but then calmed down and looked at the red lady calmly.

The stone room was silent for a while, only the sound of the two people breathing, and after a while, the red lady said coldly: "I know that you read a lot of books, you don't need to drop the book bag with me, I only know that our whole family was forced to go up the mountain by the government, I only know that there are countless people in Bazhou who are still under the oppression of the government, so we have to fight!" ”

After she finished speaking, Huo Di put away the sword, put the short sword into the sheath with a "bang", leaned on the wall of the ground and closed her eyes slightly, and said: "Don't fight the idea of escaping, rest honestly, and if you rap more, you will cut your tongue!" ”

Yang Ling saw that the muscles on her face were beating faintly, obviously holding back her anger, and it was inconvenient to talk about it anymore, and after sitting for a while, he still didn't think of how Ming said that if the red lady exchanged him for Yang Hu, how could he escape.

Yang Ling pondered for a while, thinking that Wu Jie, Huang Qiyin and others were very scheming, and there was no shortage of wise people in the court, and it was clear that a letter exchanging hostages was delivered to them, and no one would be stupid enough to say something directly to the bandits, so now they had to take one step at a time and look for another opportunity.

He sighed, feeling a little hungry in his belly, so he ate a steamed bun with clear water, and then leaned against the wall and pretended to sleep. In the end, the torches on the wall gradually faded and were finally extinguished.

Yang Ling also gradually became tired, but he had never slept on the cold hard stone surface, and it was difficult to sleep for a while, the stone cave was quiet, Yang Ling was leaning there quietly, thinking about countermeasures, and suddenly found that the other side was all about Suosuo, as if it was difficult to fall asleep, and occasionally, there was a soft sigh. Yang Ling's words, she still heard in her ears.

I didn't know the dawn in the cave, but when the hour came, I would wake up naturally, and the torches were lit again in the room, and the people who carried the wind outside slipped into the cave quietly, followed by Liu Laodao, it turned out that he did not stay here last night, and he returned from the residence of other secret believers at dawn.

The Red Lady and Cui'er hurriedly greeted her, and the Red Lady asked, "Mr. Liu, how is the situation outside now?" ”

Liu Laodao smiled and said: "The officers and soldiers will rest after tossing for a long time, but the inner city has been curfew, and all the intersections around the Beijing Division have set up checkpoints, and there is no restriction on entering the city, and those who go out of the city must have a road guide to the official, and even a fly can not escape from all the carriages, horses and goods that are checked, and those who enter the city in the suburbs without a road guide must go to the government to register, and they can only go out with relatives as a guarantee."

The red lady said movingly: "The movement is so big? Has Mr. Lau ever attracted attention? ”

Liu Laodao said: "Fortunately, I am a Youfang Daoist, Lu Yin is from the south and the north, and the suspicion is the smallest, and I only wander in the city, not out of Beijing, so it will be okay to investigate, but this time the bottom is leaked, and the foundation we have worked so hard to lay in Bazhou is afraid that it will be ruined."

The red lady said disapprerovingly: "What are you afraid of? Stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood, not to mention that the total village has already moved out of Bazhou. I immediately asked Yang Ling to write a handwritten letter, as long as they agree to change people, we will threaten people out of the city, exchange hostages in Fengtai, with the fast horses and riding skills we have prepared, once out of the Beijing Division, there will be no one to stop them."

When the thieves next to them heard that the boss would be rescued from the cage immediately, they were very excited for a while. Liu Laodao carried the flag, took the word fortune-telling as a cover, and the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone were carried with him, and he took it out of the jacket and handed it to the red lady, and took it in to ask Yang Ling to write a letter.

Yang Ling hesitated again and again, Fang Tipen wrote a letter, he was also well-behaved, the letter did not dare to hint at his approximate location, in fact, he was not familiar with Yanjing City, except that he knew that he was under an unfinished Taoist temple, he did not know where he was now.

Yang Ling's letter explained that he had been taken hostage, and the gangster proposed to exchange Yang Hu for his freedom, and wanted to see the letter to the emperor as soon as possible, if the emperor allowed it, he went to Jinyiwei to put out the thief Yang Hu who was in prison, and then sent it to the designated place according to the other party's requirements.

This letter pointed out the place where Yang Hu was detained, even if the person who read the letter in the government was mentally retarded, he would not still understand what he meant.

However, at that time, it was the era of cold weapons, and it was easy for bandits with strong martial arts and superb riding skills to get out of the hands of officers and soldiers, and besides, the two sides exchanged hostages, and they would not allow the official to send too many people, so that the two sides exchanged hostages at most twenty or thirty zhang apart, and Yang Ling was still not optimistic about whether he could escape from the other party's grasp.

If the government uses a fake to pretend to be, the Bazhou thieves will not fail to check his appearance, and the red lady is Yang Hu's pillow person, and she can see six or seven points just by looking at her figure.

The red lady looked at him from the side, and Yang Ling didn't have time to think about it, so he had to write it hard, and then handed it over to the red lady, hoping that there would be someone in the court who could come up with a plan that could hide from the world.

The red lady took the letter and the jade ornament, asked the two of them to look at Yang Ling, and hurriedly went out to hand it to Liu Laodao, Liu Laodao looked at it carefully six or seven times under the torch, and confirmed that there was no trick in and out of the words, horizontally and vertically, so she was relieved to carefully roll the letter into the belt under the robe, and then said: "You eat something, wait here first, wait for me to go to the Five Cities Terracotta Division, and look for an opportunity to hand in the letter."

Liu Laodao hurriedly climbed out of the tunnel, covered the entrance of the cave again, and went quietly. A hideous thief next to the red lady coldly glanced at the room where Yang Ling was imprisoned, and whispered to the red lady: "Sister-in-law, when the eldest brother rescues him, we will end up with this kid, and then escape, as soon as we get out of Beijing, we will be a tiger returning to the mountain and a dragon entering the water, and no one will be able to stumble over us."

The red lady was stunned for a moment, and hesitated: "Nonsense, if you do it here, the officers and soldiers won't do it?" If I can save your brother Tiger today, don't make more trouble."

Another bald man with a potholed face and a frightened face said in a cruel voice: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, if we don't do it, the officers and soldiers will be willing to watch us go?" Hu Da Hammer's quenched sleeve arrow is the Hades poster within ten zhang, Brother Tiger knows how to punch the ground, when the brother greets, sticking to the ground and rushing out, it will be fine, do we still talk to the officers and soldiers about faith? ”

The red lady was a little confused in her heart, what Yang Ling said yesterday left a deep mark in her heart, she really wanted to have a good talk with her husband after rescuing him, and she really couldn't kill Yang Ling.

Cui'er looked at her face on the side, and interjected at the right time: "Miss, what Brother Hu said is that my uncle treats his brothers like brothers, but this time two hundred of his closest brothers died in his hands.

If the dog officer goes back safely, the defense will be strict in the future, and the uncle will take revenge again, wouldn't it be very dangerous for him? He ended up his dog's life, and avenged his dead brothers, and returned to the mountain gate to give an explanation, so as not to let my uncle go into danger again."

Several big eavesdroppers nodded again and again, and all of them turned their eyes to the red lady, the red lady was in a state of confusion, and after thinking for a long time, she stomped her foot heavily, gritted her teeth and said: "That's it, it's up to you, but you must be careful, and you must put the safety of Brother Tiger first!" ”

Several thieves nodded in unison and said, "Sister-in-law, don't worry, we can take care of this", Cui'er smiled slightly beside her, and a trace of pride flashed from her eyes.

The streets of Jingshi are still bustling, but there is a tense atmosphere, all the gates of the city are heavily guarded, and due to the slow inspection, there are long queues of people leaving the city to enter the city.

The festive spirit of the New Year on the streets of Beijing has been diluted a lot, and groups of officers and soldiers of the Beijing battalion and patrols have passed through the streets and alleys from time to time, and all the yamen and official residences have been deployed with heavy troops and guarded at various levels.

Such a tense atmosphere was unprecedented in Beijing, and due to the inconvenience of entering and exiting the city gates, a large number of New Year's goods could not enter the city, resulting in soaring prices. Due to the rumors that if the governor of Yang Factory could not be found, the city ban would not be lifted for a while, and the people who were worried about the price increase of the goods again had to face the swishing cold wind and go to the street to purchase New Year's goods.

Liu Laodao staggered down the street holding a flag, and the officers and soldiers passing by saw that it was just a shriveled old man, looking for business with a calm expression, and walked over after only a few glances.

Liu Laodao slowly walked to the gate of the Wucheng Terracotta Division, penetrated into an alley outside the side wall, and when he was about to reach the entrance of the alley, he pretended to put down the banner to rest, then picked up a stone, took out the letter from his waist, wrapped it in a cloth towel together, threw it into the courtyard wall while people were unprepared, and then lifted the flag and left in a hurry.

If the court agrees to change people, he will mark the prominent buildings he designates, and then find another yamen to send a letter, pointing out that the further requirements are.

There are a lot of hawkers on Changdian Street, it is a more prosperous street, Liu Laodao spent a penny on the side of the street like a wonton stall rented a table and opened a stall, leisurely waiting for the guests, there are not many people who have the heart to tell fortunes today, not only no one patronizes, everyone is not even interested in taking a look. Liu Laodao didn't care, squinted at the direction of the light, estimated the hour, and was about to close the stall to find a place to eat something, when a handsome young man who looked like a small guy stood in front of his stall.

Liu Laodao glanced at him indifferently, and said with a smile: "Is the little brother a word tester or a fortune teller?" Or is it a ghostwriter? ”

The young man smiled: "I don't know how to read, this life is to serve people's lives, what is it?" Ask Mr. to write a letter to the family on his behalf", as he said his fingers as if bored, he flicked a few times on his compass, and his fingers made a few gestures very quickly.

Liu Laodao's face changed slightly, his hands were under his sleeves, and he also replied with a few gestures that only a standing teenager could see, and then said affectionately: "Please sit down, please sit", he took out the pen and ink, and asked quietly: "What are the instructions from above?" ”

The little guy glanced around with his chin propped up, and said softly: "It's very urgent, I want you to save Yang Ling's life no matter what, and you must send him back to the imperial court, no matter what method you use!" ”

Liu Laodao was stunned, gently spread out a piece of paper, picked up the inkstone and grinded it, and said: "This person is the emperor's confidant, killing him is very helpful to our great cause, why let him go?" Besides, he killed so many people in Yang Hu, how could the red lady be willing to give up? Please reply to the altar master, this person can't let go."

Although the young man looked like a small man, he was arrogant and very imposing, and he sneered when he heard this: "If the red lady stops, even the red lady will be killed, you remember, no matter what, be sure to protect him, this is not the order of the altar master, but the order of the sect master!" ”

Liu Laodao was taken aback, Mo Yan's hand suddenly stopped, and said in surprise: "Sect Master, his old man is also in Jingshi?" This matter is very difficult, why do you suddenly want to protect him again? ”

The young man's eyes were cold, and he said coldly: "Where is the sect leader, you also inquired?" ”

Liu Laodao shuddered and didn't dare to ask again, the young man's thin lips hooked an arc, and said: "The news that has just come out of the palace is that the real dragon is going to come out of the water, and he may not be able to do it without him, if you want to fish for the green dragon, you have to give up this crab general." Also, Yang Hu has already escaped, and the red lady is dead, are you afraid that he won't work harder to help us fight the world? ”

(To be continued)