Qingzhi's words made Xu Ping feel relieved, after he boasted of breaking the military star, Xu Ping often thought that he would bring chaos to the world, and he also had the idea of breaking the jar. But after arriving in Henan, Xu Ping felt that he couldn't be a demon king of the mixed world. On the way here, Xu Ping only felt at ease when he helped the hungry people, and after leading the army into Kaifeng, he only felt a little calm when he thought that what he had done was to get a large number of peasants out of hunger and cold, especially when he saw the corpses of the defeated Ming army strewn all over the field.

"Master, I have a secret, I have never told the initiative, not many people know it, and they all keep it secret for me, that is, the fundamental reason why I left the court is to take revenge and personal revenge." Xu Ping hesitated for a moment, and did not say all his hatred to Qingzhi, but only talked about the hatred of some relatives and friends in the Changqing Battalion, and after the introduction, Xu Ping said: "Originally, I planned to be incognito, originally, I planned to help the two." ”

"Why wouldn't the general want to serve the court anymore?"

Xu Ping remembered his ambitions before joining the army, and remembered that he had often heard the stories about Zhendonghou told by storytellers in Jingshi since he was a child, and at that time he listened to it every time: "I have always believed that what Huang Hou did was right, as long as he did what Huang Hou said, he would never make mistakes, and he would be able to be loyal to the monarch and serve the country at the same time, and obtain glory and wealth." Even if I unfortunately die on the battlefield, the blood I shed will be lost to future generations, and it will bring benefits to the people of the world. Even when I get to the underworld, I don't have to worry about the incense after death, and those I saved will remember my sacrifice. ”

"I once believed in these, just as I once believed that Hou Ye's regulations were flawless," Xu Ping remembered the first Texas War, if he hadn't seen Zhao Jingzhi's death with his own eyes and heard Zhao Jingzhi's temporary words, he would never have thought that Zhendong Hou's regulations might be wrong; If it were not for the firm belief that the General Staff Department would never make mistakes, Xu Ping might not have been stubborn and resolutely implemented the strategy of facing the enemy head-on despite the opposition of the two thousand generals; If it weren't for the firm belief in every word taught by the teaching team, Xu Ping would not have deployed a horn formation with the confidence of victory: "I used to think that I had implemented the good regulations wrongly, not that the regulations were wrong, until I became the battalion officer of the Evergreen Battalion, I would always encounter all kinds of problems, and I couldn't bear it, so I had to secretly start to work around." At the beginning, when Xu Ping secretly revised the regulations, he didn't dare to show people, he didn't dare to leave a written record, and he was always worried that his adaptation would bring huge losses to the Changqing Battalion, but he didn't expect that the Changqing Battalion was the first place in the exercise, leaving the other battalions far behind, He Baodao, Yang Zhiyuan and Jia Minghe unanimously praised the three commanders of the Changqing Battalion, among which Yang Zhiyuan asked Xu Ping to sort out the improvements and report: "At that time, I had an idea for the first time: maybe it was not that I implemented the Hou Ye's regulations wrongly, but that the Hou Ye's regulations themselves had problems. ”

"Before the battle of Shandong, I sincerely believed that killing all the traitors was the wish of all the people," when Xu Ping saw that the people of Shandong fled when they encountered the officers and soldiers, he did not hesitate to believe that this was caused by the rumors of the Dongjiang Army, and instinctively prepared to counterattack them with practical actions, sweeping away the demagogic propaganda of the Dongjiang Army. Until Lin Chongyue's case, Xu Ping still couldn't understand what happened: "I don't know what I did wrong, but I think it must be that I didn't understand Hou Ye's order correctly, so after seeing Zhao Slowxiong's warrant, I didn't hesitate to continue to execute it, because I knew that Zhao Slowxiong was Hou Ye's henchman, and I thought: Since it's Lord Zhao, then he must understand correctly, and I must continue to listen to the order." Continuing to obey Hou Xun's command made Xu Ping feel that something was wrong, but he still couldn't tell where it was wrong: "A large number of peasants resisted with their lives, and they rushed towards my battalion and failed to kill or injure a few of my subordinates. But I felt a mess in my mind, and at that time I felt as if I was in a drill, and it was the first time I thought: maybe it was not that I had carried out Hou Ye's order wrong, but that Hou Ye's order had been wrong. ”

A lot of food, Xu Ping often thought about what would be the scene now if he hadn't seen the volume of information in Zhong Guinian, if he didn't know that the Evergreen Camp was betrayed, and it was very likely that he was betrayed because of him.

At this time, Qingzhi asked again: "If General Xu is really the doppelganger of Po Junxing in the world, then Poor Dao dares to ask, did the general have the intention of disturbing the world from the beginning, or did he awaken because he heard and witnessed the tragic scene in the world?" ”

"Master," Xu Ping recalled the bloody battles since he led the troops, countless Ming soldiers were killed, and when the soldier named Yue Mu shouted that he wanted to be a deserter, Xu Ping not only did not get angry, but deeply resonated. In the end, Xu Ping used himself to be a broken army star, and he was originally killing the world into a river of blood to relieve himself, he shook his head and said: "What you said is very different from what others say." ”

"Even if they are both doppelgangers of the Broken Army Star Monarch in the human world, their exploits are very different. Some people mistakenly think that the broken army star should be an evil star and a fierce god, while some people have retired and lived for a hundred years. Kiyoji's voice was full of mystery. At this moment, Xu Ping felt as if there was a star monarch who spit out to him with Qingzhi's mouth: "Whether General Xu believes in the poor way or those rumors still depends on General Xu's expectations for himself, whether he wants to be a demon king of the mixed world, or a hero who sets things right?" ”

"Well said!" Behind the two of them, in the shadows under the eaves, there was a person who shouted in his heart, Li Zicheng has been here for a long time, and just now Niu Jinxing persuaded him to come to see Xu Ping immediately - he has mastered a considerable military strength to break into the camp, and at the same time has formed a de facto alliance with Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo. Li Zicheng didn't let the guards report when he came, he just walked to the backyard when Xu Ping talked about the little girl, and when he heard Xu Ping confide in his heart, Li Zicheng couldn't help but hide behind secretly, he wanted to know what kind of thoughts this general with heavy troops was on his mind. Later, when he heard Qingzhi talk about the broken military star, Li Zicheng never came out after listening to it, and now he quietly retreated to the gate of the backyard, where there were no Xu Ping's guards. Then Li Zicheng deliberately stepped heavily, waved his arms vigorously to wipe his clothes, and shouted when he strode towards the gate of the courtyard: "Is Brother Xu there?" ”

When Li Zicheng walked into the courtyard, Xu Ping had already turned to face him, bowed and said, "The king is here?" ”

Qingzhi also nodded to Li Zicheng and said, "General Li is here." ”

Li Zicheng smiled and said, "Brother Xu is watching the sky at night? ”

"yes." Xu Ping didn't hide it, and bluntly told Li Zicheng what he was talking about with Qingzhi just now.

When listening to Xu Ping's retelling, Li Zicheng looked up at the starry sky for a moment, and after Xu Ping stopped talking, he exhaled deeply and shouted: "My past, I guess Brother Xu knows it, right?" ”

Xu Ping nodded lightly in the dark.

Li has no expertise, he didn't know a word when he was a teenager because of his poor family, and he had some leisure to learn a few words after joining the righteous army, but he asked himself if he was not a smart person, and he forgot about the front after learning the latter. Brother Liu Zongmin learned to read and write later than me, he was able to write letters many years ago, and I can only read but not write now. Without waiting for Xu Ping to answer, Li Zicheng said loudly: "Brothers, you can afford to be Li, let Li be the head of the camp." I also know very well in my heart that it is not that I am smarter than your brothers, but that I am the most righteous and fair. ”

Since the uprising, Li Zicheng has shared weal and woe with his brothers in the camp, eating the same food and wearing the same clothes, and has never had any special enjoyment for more than ten years; As the head of the first army, Li Zicheng had only one wife, and when the first wife ran away with others, Li Zicheng married the second wife.

In the year of the catastrophe, the Shaanxi government was still rampant, and there was no one to support the lonely and widowed families, and he himself was a person who relied on hard work to eat, and often went to help those who were too hungry to eat, and was affectionately called "Brother Li" by his fathers and elders. Li Zicheng can get this title instead of "Li Daxia", which is enough to show that Li Zicheng's behavior is a real benevolent and chivalrous act, not an underworld thing of selling dog meat on the head of a sheep. In the year of the catastrophe, Li Zicheng always persuaded the villagers to help each other through the difficulties, but he did not expect that this would eventually become the cause of Li Zicheng's forced to go to Liangshan.

That year, a large family surnamed Ding temporarily doubled the rent from the tenants, in order to pass on the new taxes from the imperial court to the tenants. Li Zicheng, who was so upset, couldn't stand it, so he volunteered to go to the government to cry out for everyone. Unexpectedly, the government accepted the money from the Ding family, but instead beat Li Zicheng to forty boards, and then let him stand in the flail. The Ding family wanted to kill the chicken to show the monkey, so they instructed the officials of the government not to give Li Zicheng food and drink. Li Zicheng stood under the scorching sun all day long and did not drink water, although the people in the county wanted to send him some water, but if the young and middle-aged people went to send it, they would definitely be beaten by the officials, and finally everyone decided to let the old people send it.

The officials are all natives of their hometown, and they are related to the people in the county, and when they see those lonely old people who have been rescued by Li Zicheng in the past come to bring him water to drink, it is naturally not good to beat these old people, after all, they don't want to be poked in the backbone by the villagers. Although these old people came to bring water, the Ding family was already intent on killing Li Zicheng at that time, so as long as others did not have a death penalty law, it would not end. After being tortured for several days, Li Zicheng still fainted in front of the county office, and he was about to be sunburned to death on the street.

Those officials who took care of Li Zicheng also knew that Li Zicheng was a person, and these people couldn't bear it in their hearts, so they dragged Li Zicheng, who had fainted, to the shade of a tree. The Ding family's family happened to come to the county government to check whether Li Zicheng was dead, and when they saw this scene, they scolded and said that Li Zicheng, a mud-legged man, had not died for so many days.

Li Zicheng, who had passed out during the dispute, woke up, and after he understood the content of the dispute, he dragged the thick flail around his neck and struggled back into the sun, shouting angrily: "Let me die in the sun, don't bother others." ”

Liu Zongmin in the crowd of onlookers was furious and rushed out to smash Li Zicheng's wooden flail, and several other young adults also ran over, embracing Li Zicheng and escaping from the county.

"What Li hates most in his life is corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and what he hates most is those local tyrants and gentry who collude with officials and are unkind to the rich, and they just want to kill them with swords," Li Zicheng did not tell Xu Ping about this history, but said to himself: "Last year, I broke into Luoyang and broke through the city, I copied 60,000 taels of silver from King Fu's palace, but I copied 1.2 million taels from the homes of Luoyang officials!" ”

On the day that the army arrived at the city of Luoyang, the soldiers of the Ming army in the city had been out of food for three days. Behind him is the bustling Luoyang City, not to mention the official residences of the palace and hundreds of officials, that is, the Luoyang Market, which hoards a large number of vegetables and rice noodles, is not far from the city, but just a stone's throw away, the defenders on the upper floor of Luoyang City have not been able to eat for three days!

Then things became logical, and the hungry and cold soldiers mutinied, tied up their prisoners, and opened the gates to welcome the intruders.

"Lu Weiqi, this dog official!" When Li Zicheng talked about this person who praised Shilin, was known as a model of Shilin, and a heroic martyr of the country, his face was full of disdain: "Three days before our army attacked Luoyang, King Fu gave him 5,000 taels of silver at the request of Lu Weiqi, and asked him to give it to the defenders of Luoyang as a reward. As a result, after Lu Weiqi got the money, the first thing he did was to deduct 20% of the money for himself first, and then transfer it. First, the civilian officials withheld layer by layer, and then after the general soldiers, deputy generals, and staff generals were exploited all the way, and in the end, only 200 taels of 5,000 taels of silver were left, which were distributed to more than 10,000 officers and soldiers. ”

"Two hundred taels?" Xu Ping couldn't help but interject and asked, "Since there are only two hundred taels left, why bother sending them again?" ”

"Buy wine!" Li Zicheng replied: "I asked a few dog officials, and they all thought that if all the silver given to the soldiers defending the city by the Fuwang Mansion was greedy, they would not be able to account for it, so no matter how much, they would always keep some of it." ”

Xu Ping only shook his head when he heard this, the wine bought for two hundred taels of silver was not enough for more than 10,000 officers and soldiers to drink a sip each, and since the army was out of food for three days at that time, it was a jar of wine for one person, how could it calm the grievances of the officers and soldiers?

"When I caught Lu Weiqi, I asked this dog official face to face: Lu Shangshu asked for soldiers today and salaries tomorrow, in order to exterminate us bandits, why did the soldiers who invited the court all surrender to the bandits today? You have invited millions of taels of military salaries, why can't the soldiers under your command even eat a mouthful of food? Li Zicheng couldn't help sneering a few times when he said this. On that day, Lu Weiqi was speechless in the face of questioning, and Li Zicheng immediately ordered him to be beheaded for public display.

When Li Zicheng said this, Xu Ping couldn't help nodding, and when the words stopped, Xu Ping said: "I see, why did I say that the situation in Kaifeng has become so strange." Xu Ping told Li Zicheng that the king of Zhou did not send the silver to the ministers who guarded the city, but let the prince of Zhou serve as the soldier and horse envoy at the city gate, responsible for the distribution of food and salary for the imperial court: "In Kaifeng City, not only the military salary, but also the rewards of the palace were all sent to the army through the hands of the prince of Zhou." ”

"Will the officers and soldiers in the city be able to eat and drink enough now?" Li Zicheng asked.

"Yes," Xu Ping told Li Zicheng that the defenders of Kaifeng had no shortage of food and clothing, and that there had been no mutiny.

Although Qingzhi had heard of these things, he had never understood them in such detail, he shook his head and sighed: "Lu Shangshu is also a talented man who is full of wealth, and he is a person who has seen a big scene, how can he be so unwise?" He can't even have heard of 'the skin does not exist, and the hair will be attached'. ”

After hearing the doubts of the Qingzhi Taoist priest, Li Zicheng immediately asked, "The master has seen the wasps?" ”

"Yes."

The sight of the ancient Chinese who were quite emotional about the scene of the bees collecting honey while they were collecting honey, and who often liked to compare themselves with bees, and regarded the hornets as those alien races that entered the customs to plunder the Chinese peasants, and disparaged them as "wasps".

"When I was a teenager, I would shout loud cheers every time I saw a praying mantis catch a wasp and crouch down to see how the wasp was torn to pieces by the mantis. I once saw a wasp caught by a praying mantis with a bee in its mouth, and the wasp was still eating the bee in its mouth when the mantis tore open the wasp's belly. Li Zichang sighed: "I often feel that these corrupt officials who are not sorry to die are as greedy as that wasp." ”

Hearing this, Qingzhi only shook his head and said nothing, but Xu Ping echoed with deep sympathy: "What the king said is extremely true. Therefore, our army worked together to prevent the people of Henan from being poisoned by the government again. ”

These words made Li Zicheng suddenly remember his intentions, he paused for a while, and asked in a low voice: "Brother Xu must know about Lord Liu Mao Liu, right?" ”

"Lord Liu?" Li Zicheng's title to Liu Mao surprised Xu Ping. The name he had certainly heard of, and far from it once. Liu Mao was the advocate and presiding officer of the abolition of the post station, and Li Zicheng was unemployed during Liu Mao's reform. Therefore, whenever the officials of the DPRK and China mentioned Li Zicheng and Chuang Jun, they inevitably mentioned Liu Mao's name, and there was no time when they did not scold. Originally, Xu Ping thought that Li Zicheng would definitely hate Liu Mao to the bone, but he didn't expect to hear the honorific title for Liu Mao from Li Zicheng's mouth.

Xu Ping hesitated for a moment and asked, "The king doesn't hate Liu Mao, but is it because if there is no such person, there would be no king today?" ”

"Hehe," Li Zicheng's laughter was quite bitter: "If it weren't for Lord Liu's abolition of the post station back then, I, Li, might have been a pawn of the post station, and after the world is in turmoil, I will probably be incorporated into the army." If it weren't for Lord Liu, I might be wielding a knife at the homeless people right now, and I might have been slaughtered by the rebels.

"Yes, I am very grateful to Lord Liu, but not because of my status today, but because after the post station was abolished, I Li was a person, not a beast." Li Zicheng's voice became deeper and lower, and gradually became almost inaudible.

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