On the eighteenth day of the first month, Liu Min rushed to Dengzhou, Ninghai Prefecture and Fushan along the way were very calm, the road from time to time can meet the Wendeng Tang horses, the horses of the Wendeng camp gradually increased, the corresponding expenses also increased, and the qualified war horses were insufficient, most of the good horses were captured in the battle of Gu'an and Luanzhou, the total number was only five or six hundred, all of which were distributed to the cavalry battalion and the sentinels of the various departments, and the mounts of ordinary Tang horses could only be selected among ordinary horses.

Liu Min has an ordinary horse that he sits on, the xìng is relatively gentle, the foot strength is ordinary, the bodyguard brought two, both of which are newly arranged, and the stupid monk is too heavy to ride a horse because he often can't keep up with Liu Min's speed, and only when he is in Wendeng.

When a few miles away from the east gate, there was a Fu Lu army to check, Liu Min now has a waist card of his own, handed over to those soldiers know that it is the famous Mr. Liu, and quickly sent in all the way to escort to the city gate.

The east gate was wide open, and the endless oxen and carriages came out of the city and entered the camp at the foot of Wollongong Mountain.

There used to be many houses around Dengzhou City, mainly concentrated in the southeast and due south, but now most of the eastern ones are only ruins left, and some people who have just returned are rummaging around for their belongings.

When he arrived at the east gate, there was a porridge shed outside the city, the black pressure of the refugees were waiting for the porridge, there was a team of Wendeng camp soldiers at the gate of the city were singing songs out of the city, led by the third general thousand Fan Shouye, he was the first group of slender men, and Liu Min was very familiar with him, and when he got married, Liu Min was also the main marriage.

After Fan Shouye saw that it was Liu Minyou, he hurriedly dismounted and came over to salute, and then said with a smile: "Mr. Liu, in previous years, in order to give silver to the army, I saw that you were worried about the silver, and your hair was pulled off, but this time the army earned it back for you." ”

Liu Min said: "Have you earned it back?" How many were seized? ”

Fan Shouye gently pulled him to the side, and said in a low voice: "I don't know, but it must be indispensable, the rebels in the city have arrested three or four thousand, and they have found more than 200,000 taels on their bodies. ”

Liu Minyou was surprised: "So much for 200,000? ”

"Not only that, the government treasury, the state treasury, and the county treasury have all been moved, and the rebels don't know why they didn't take it away, they were all placed outside the warehouse, Chen Dajin asked the auxiliary soldiers to move them and put them in the urn city, adding up to more than 200,000 taels, the serious treasury silver, and some of them are gold and silver, and many of the big families in the city have been wiped out, and it is said that some of the cellars in the house have more than 100,000 taels of silver, but I didn't see it, I heard that the military judge supervised the auxiliary soldiers to pack the boxes and transport them out of the city at night."

"This, whether this is good or not, are all belongings that don't enter the house, and it's not appropriate to move like this."

"Mr. Liu, what's wrong, it's all ownerless now, let's not move, it's not Lu Zhi and Shuiying's move, Chen Dajin is now in the state office, Mr. Liu, you go along the avenue, some places in the city are still clearing out the remnants of bandits, Mr. don't take the road."

Liu Minyou sighed softly, the horse led by Fan Shouye had already gone away at this time, he hurriedly said goodbye to Liu Minyou, and chased after him on horseback. Liu Minyou walked into the urn city with two bodyguards, and the flags of the Wendeng camp fluttered on the wall, which made him feel proud again.

After passing through the door hole, he was dumbfounded by the dilapidated state of Chūn Shengmen Street, and the rebel army was only two or three in the city, but it destroyed the prosperity of Dengzhou that had only been operated for hundreds of years.

Groups of prisoners cleaned up the ruins under the supervision of the detachment soldiers, some civilians searched for some useful household goods in front of their houses, and some auxiliary soldiers of the Wendeng battalion helped them build simple shacks on the ruins, and constantly moved furniture from the mansions to their homes, and there were also two porridge sheds on the street, one at the entrance of the urn city and the other outside the county office.

Liu Minyou's heart swelled up with a burst of discomfort, and he got off the horse and walked all the way to take a closer look, the corpses in the street had been cleaned up, the pools of blood on the ground had become black, and there were some messy bloody footprints next to them.

When passing by the county office, there was a cry from a large mansion next to it, and a group of people wearing Ming army clothes came out of the gate, and the surrounding people hurriedly put down their work and hid far away.

This group carried large and small boxes in their hands, and a woman chased after them crying and grabbing the ground, shouting "That's not a rebel, it's from my family, you all took it, how many years did our master save it......"

The group of Ming soldiers were all wearing mandarin duck battle jackets, some of them were new, and some of them were even wearing ordinary people's clothes, the only thing that was the same was that all of them were tied with a strip of red cloth on their left arm.

The leader kicked the woman over, raised his knife and threatened: "If you call again, Lao Tzu will slash you with a knife." ”

Another pockmarked man who wore people's clothes also scolded: "There are obviously three rebels in the house, who were caught and killed by us, these things are not what they snatched from the outside, if it weren't for Chen Dajin's refusal to kill, Lao Tzu would have taken your head down earlier, sold your daughter to the secret door, see if you are still screaming, get out of the way." ”

The woman was quite spicy, rolled up and got up and hugged the leader's leg, her face was attached to her pants, and she cried loudly: "Anyway, the old man was killed by the rebels, you robbed the money, our family can't live, you cut the old lady." ”

The leader spat at the pockmark just now, "Who the hell told you not to kill." He pointed the knife at the woman and scolded, "Don't let go of Lao Tzu, don't get the snot on Lao Tzu's new pants, your mother's ......" He scolded and saw that the woman didn't let go, and turned the handle of the knife and smashed it on the door of the woman's entrance, smashing the nosebleed.

This one saw blood, and the other finalists came over and punched and kicked them. The woman was soon beaten to the point of dying, and she couldn't get up for a while, Liu Minyou hurriedly rushed over, and he saw Zhang Dong wearing Ming army clothes mixed in the group. After the leading Ming army finished fighting, he nodded at Zhang Dong and said something.

Mazi didn't stop his hand, and scolded the woman on the ground while beating him, "Your lord didn't bully our Liao people, and called Lao Tzu as a cow and horse, you didn't look at Lao Tzu, and you also called in to break Lao Tzu's brother's legs, you also have a bad day, and Lao Tzu also broke your legs." After he finished scolding, he grabbed the flat pole that carried the thing, and raised it high to smash the woman's leg.

"Stop !!"

Mazi was startled, and turned his head to see that it was a scribe dressed as a scholar, he was not afraid of these scholars at all now, and pointed at it and scolded: "What are you screaming nonsense, Lao Tzu and others will beat you together." ”

Zhang Dong saw that it was Liu Minyou, and hurriedly hid in the pile, Liu Minyou went up and pushed the pockmarked man into a fight, and the others shouted and scolded in unison, and pulled out their swords and pointed at Liu Minyou, Liu Minyou's two bodyguards immediately stopped in front, Liu Minyou didn't look at them, and scolded to the group: "Zhang Dong, get out." ”

Zhang Dong saw that he couldn't hide, so he hurriedly stood up and said: "It turned out to be Mr. Liu, Xiao Jie didn't see it clearly, and he had something to report to Mr. Liu." ”

A group of rebels who surrendered saw Zhang Dong behaving like this, and hurriedly put away their swords, and the pockmarked man knelt directly on the ground, Zhang Dong didn't dare to pull Liu Minyou, and came over and said with a low smile: "My subordinates are cleaning up the rebels with the righteous people, and I didn't want to surprise Mr., please forgive me." ”

Liu Minyou stared at the crowd angrily, Zhang Dong he had seen it several times, all of them came to discuss how civil affairs should cooperate with counter-espionage, his brain was more flexible, and he could also see that he was very ruthless in his speech, he was indeed a spy, and Liu Minyou did not have a very good impression of him.

He asked Zhang Dong coldly: "These are the righteous people? ”

Zhang Dong was slightly embarrassed, "This, that is, they are all volunteers and righteous people who rebelled before the battle, and they have not yet been able to complete the training, and the ruffians are a little heavier, and Chen Dajin is also worried that they will disturb the people, so he specially ordered me to supervise them." ”

Liu Minyou looked at the woman who had just stood up on the ground, "Why do you want to take this thing?" ”

"A group of rebels were found in this house, and these belongings were hidden here, and they could only retrieve them first, waiting for the bitter lord to claim them."

When the woman on the ground heard this, she cried loudly and said: "Lord Qingyao, which of these are hidden by the rebels, they are all earned by my master, and the green beads and gold hairpins in the red box still have the name of the slave family, the slave family is called Shuyan, and the slave family is the bitter master." ”

Liu Minyou opened the red box, and there was indeed a pearl hairpin engraved with the woman's name inside, glared at Zhang Dong and asked: "The intelligence bureau has changed to robbery, I want to ask Zhou Shifa, and immediately return the things to this woman." ”

Zhang Dong lowered his head and put away his smile after listening and replied lightly: "Mr. Liu, Chen Dajin and Director Zhou are the first generation, and all the property must be confiscated if they find the rebels, and they will be returned to the bitter lord after the screening is clear. ”

Liu Minyou said coldly: "This woman lives in this house, if it weren't for her property, how could she dare to block it so desperately, there are other objects in the box, if she can say them one by one, it will be difficult to pretend." ”

"The subordinates also have no right to return this thing to this woman, because Director Zhou arranged for a thousand general managers of Toushun to take charge of this matter, and Xiao Jin is just a supervisor. Mr. still don't embarrass his subordinates, besides, the Intelligence Bureau only obeys Chen Dajin's orders. ”

Zhang Dong lowered his eyebrows and finished speaking, Liu Min took out a knife from his bodyguard, and the surrounding rebels retreated a few steps, they didn't know the details, but they understood that they would definitely not be able to provoke them, only Zhang Dong stood still and said calmly: "Xiao Jin died in Dengzhou, and his life was earned, if Mr. Liu wanted it, his subordinates would give it with both hands, but Zhou Dajin's strict order must not be disobeyed." ”

Liu Min ignored him, squatted on the ground and said to the woman: "You said that you have something that can understand the quality of the terrain, so I will return it to you, and I dare not stop it." ”

The woman immediately came to the god of jīng, opened her mouth and said, "The four-inch long cat's eyes are inlaid with gold hairpins, engraved with phoenix auspicious clouds, which belong to the fourth mother of my family, two dense wax thunderbolts, and two golden crow bracelets......"

She said the same, Liu Min returned the same after verification, Zhang Dong watched quietly, and his eyes slowly flashed with coldness......

Half an hour later, Liu Minyou came to the Dengzhou Prefecture, and he found a number of blatant robberies along the way, and except for a military judge belonging to the bureau at the head of the Mifen Bridge, there was not a single military judge and a sergeant in the whole Chūn Shengmen Street, but the oxen and carriages escorted by the intelligence bureau and auxiliary soldiers kept going out of the city, all saying that they were transporting ownerless things, waiting for the bitter lord to claim them.

The only thing that reassured him was that only the mansion had this situation, the ordinary people did not enter the house, the soldiers maintained order, and the auxiliaries helped them build temporary housing, and it could be seen that the people were very grateful to the Wenden camp.

Liu Minyou was very dissatisfied with Chen Xin's handing over to the Intelligence Bureau to clean up the chaos, so he angrily walked into the wall outside the state yamen, showed the waist card to the sentry, and then entered the lobby and bumped into the sea seal head-on.

The sea dog shouted with a look of surprise: "Brother Liu, why are you here so soon." ”

Liu Minyou split his head and asked, "What about Chen Xin?" ”

"Chen, Chen Dajin is in a meeting, it's a military meeting."

Liu Minyou suppressed his anger, the army has military law, this kind of military meeting did not invite him, he couldn't go to observe, so he had to hold his breath and find a staff room to sit in, and the sea dog smirked and came in to talk with him.

Liu Minyou asked casually: "What kind of meeting is there today, is it that Li Jiucheng hasn't caught it yet?" ”

"No, they fled a few nights ago, and after the sentry horse found out, he notified Liu Pojun, the deputy commander outside the city, that he did not allow the battalions to go out outside the city, saying that it was easy to ambush in the dark, and he took Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde and ran away."

"Oh, if you run away like this, then the meeting is about pursuit?"

"No, after they ran away, Chen Dajin stayed in Dengzhou to deal with the aftermath, and then Liu Pojun led the troops to chase, Geng Zhongming stopped our white spoon chasing soldiers in Huang County, Liu Pojun said that the terrain was difficult and dangerous, and he was afraid of too many casualties, so Wang Changfu and Zhu Guobin were not allowed to attack, and as a result, the rebels broke through Huang County and fled to Laizhou, Liu Pojun said that he was afraid of being ambushed and was pulled away for several miles, Zhu Guobin was angry, and Wang Changfu and Wang Changfu jointly sent an urgent report to Chen Dajin, asking to change the commander, and punish Liu Pojun for delaying the military plane."

Liu Min took a long breath, Liu Pojun has been conscientious, doing things very steadily, usually a little decisive, it is estimated that it is not intentional, and he said to Hai Gouzi at the moment: "Liu Pojun has never been alone, there are mountain roads on the side of Huangshan, it is right to be safe, this time there are enough deaths, I heard that there are four hundred casualties among the soldiers and reserve battalions." ”

"No, the intelligence bureau and the special service team have lost dozens of them, all of them died in Zhenhaimen, they are powerful, when the soldiers have not arrived, then point in to block thousands of chaotic soldiers."

"The Intelligence Bureau? Are they in Dengzhou early in the morning? ”

The fur dog opened his mouth and quickly changed his words: "They happened to be there, well, what, it seems to have caught something." ”

Liu Min looked at the sea dog suspiciously, the sea dog immediately changed to a smirk, Liu Min glanced at him, suddenly remembered Wang Zheng, and asked the sea dog: "How are Sun Dajin and Wang Zheng?" ”

"Sun Dajin was taken away by Li Jiucheng, and they released Wang Zheng and locked him in the state government, waiting for the court to fall."

"Take me to meet him."