Everything was as Cao Huachun and Luo Chen expected.

Half a month later, the three battalions that sent troops to suppress the bandits were defeated, and the emperor was furious.

With more than 10,000 troops, the Qingzhu Gang was defeated in the first battle against thousands of people.

Not many people died in the battle, and more were captured or escaped, and the three battalions that finally returned to the capital were less than 3,000 soldiers and horses.

The weak chickens of the three battalions are dumbfounded, and the strength of the bandits is also shocking, and this is only one of the bandits with a few thousand people.

Such a miserable defeat made the Manchu Dynasty civil and military unexpected, Shun time the government and the opposition were shaken, and no one dared to ignore this banditry.

And Chongzhen is even more worried about being like Cao Huachun reminded, in case these bandits are instigated by the thieves and cast the rogues, then the imperial court may have to suffer from the enemy.

This made him unable to sleep and eat, and the side of the couch did not allow others to snore.

And those who have a heart lack of understanding only found out that the three major battalions wanted to take it by surprise and caught one of the Qingzhu Gang off guard, and as a result, it became a turtle in the urn. It turned out that the Qingzhu Gang seemed to have been prepared for a long time, waiting for the rabbits, taking advantage of the geographical advantages to lure the enemy into an ambush.

This made many people suspect that there were thieves in the three major battalions, after all, the people who knew about this operation were not only the emperor, but also the people who believed in the emperor.

I'm afraid that from now on, the three major battalions will also be beaten into the cold palace by Chongzhen.

Of course, Chongzhen also knew for a long time that his princess was mixed in the Qingzhu Gang, how could he tolerate his daughter wandering outside the palace without a guard by her side.

Therefore, after the order was given to the three major camps at that time, Chongzhen put his daughter under house arrest in the palace and was not allowed to take half a step out of the palace. Therefore, Ah Jiu didn't know about this move, and it was impossible for him to secretly pass on the news to the Qingzhu Gang.

……

North Town Fuji.

Zhang Jin's face was bloodless, and he walked into the yamen with a trembling mood.

Behind him was a girl dressed in white men's clothes, sassy and cold, about fifteen or sixteen years old, she was holding a scimitar in one hand and holding Zhang Jin with the other, frowning and saying: "Dad..."

Zhang Jin pulled out an ugly smile and said, "Dad is fine!" ”

Lux who was on duty at the gate saw that the girl was Zhang Jin's daughter, and he also extinguished the idea of coming forward to ask, and did not dare to block the chief without interest.

After Zhang Jin entered the yamen, he stopped a person and asked, "Where is the Lord of the Pacification Envoy?" ”

The little banner of the brocade guard replied: "Your Excellency, the pacification envoy is in the back office." ”

Zhang Jin nodded, motioned to his daughter, and walked to the back office.

He didn't believe that there were so many coincidences, he didn't know that the three battalions attacked the Qingzhu Gang, and he wouldn't have thought that the three battalions would be defeated by a gang of bandits, but it was not long after he sent the letter from Luo Chen.

The crime of collaborating with the enemy, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, should be copied and beheaded all over the house......

He didn't dare to think that Luo Chen's petition for him would be so bad, if it was exposed...... He didn't dare to imagine. He began to regret why he hadn't opened the letter and read it first, why he was so honest.

Now, the road is blocked.

Houya——

Zhang Jin saw Luo Chen, and in addition to that, he also saw a middle-aged monk with a handsome face and a dusty temperament.

"Humble duty, meet your lordship!"

Zhang Jin gestured to his daughter's eyes and bowed together.

Luo Chen nodded at him, glanced at the girl who was following him, and then chuckled at the monk on the side: "Master Jingxuan, let's get here first today." ”

Monk Jingxuan didn't dare to disagree: "If the adults have something, the little monk doesn't dare to disturb." ”

Watching Monk Jingxuan retreat, Luo Chen put down the Buddhist scriptures in his hand and looked at Zhang Jin's father and son.

"Well done."

Zhang Jin's heart trembled, and said, "Big... My lord, this is what a lowly duty should do. ”

Luo Chen said: "Don't think too much, as long as you are always loyal to me, I will give you what you should get." After two days, you will go out and make some merits, and I will play to promote you to a thousand households. ”

"Zhang Jin, thank you, my lord!" Zhang Jin can only go all the way to the black until now.

The girl standing behind Zhang Jin straightened upright, unheard of all this.

He didn't look much, he didn't make a sound, his head hung slightly, and his eyes looked down at the ground.

"Is this your daughter?" Luo Chen had read Zhang Jin's file.

"Oh, my lord, it's the daughter of a lowly position!" Zhang Jin said to Luo Chen, looking sideways at the girl: "Ying'er, I've seen Lord Pacification." ”

The girl looked up at Luo Chen, her little face was not stunning, but it was more cold, her eyes were calm: "Zhang Ying, I have seen the soothing envoy!" ”

Luo Chen nodded and looked at Zhang Jin.

Zhang Jin stiffly pulled out a flattering smile on his face: "Don't get me wrong, there is no other meaning to humble duties, although the little girl is young, her martial arts qualifications are far above the humble position, and she has won the essence of the Golden Daomen knife technique, and her martial arts are also good at putting them on the rivers and lakes."

Although there is no shortage of masters around adults, it is more convenient to need a woman by your side for some things, so I want the little girl to follow the adult to help. ”

It seems that Zhang Jin has already talked to Zhang Ying first and already knows about it, so there is not much fluctuation on her face.

Luo Chen looked at Zhang Jin, then at Zhang Ying, and smiled.

He understood what Zhang Jin meant.

Sending his only loved one to him is both a trust and a hostage, so as to gain more trust from him.

"Then stay."

This in itself is also widening Jin's heart and giving him a reassurance. If not, I'm afraid Zhang Jin can't help but have some superfluous thoughts.

As for the criticism?

If this kind of thing falls into these powerful people in the capital, I am afraid that they will laugh at it and laugh about it as a romantic affair.

Luo Chen got up: "Follow me." ”

In the main hall of the Yamen, Luo Chen asked people to take some case records and motioned for Zhang Jin to take a look.

Zhang Ying stood at the door of the hall very self-awarely, silent.

Zhang Jin read the case records one by one, and looked up at Luo Chen: "My lord, what is this?" ”

Luo Chen said: "This is the thirteen cases of bandit robbery that happened in Beizhili recently, this is the ten gangs of bandits I picked, the smallest is only more than a hundred people, and the largest is only three or four hundred people, not the kind of giant gangsters like the Qingzhu Gang."

If you want to go up to 1,000 households, your qualifications are enough, but your merits are still poor. Even if I wanted to be promoted, it would be difficult to convince the public. At a time when the three battalions are now in a crushing defeat at the hands of bandits, this is a very easy opportunity to perform. ”

Inspecting and eliminating thieves and bandits is one of the duties of the Jinyi Guard, and it is completely unnecessary for the three battalions to need orders from above to move troops.

Zhang Jin thought of the letter that Luo Chen had asked him to send before, and he wanted to see the case records in his hand, and a sense of absurdity inexplicably rose in his heart.

Thinking of the merits in this, he said with gratitude on his face: "Don't worry, my lord, I will do my best to live up to my promotion!" ”

Luo Chen nodded and handed another notebook to Zhang Jin: "This is the internal scheduling paperwork, and the support I can give you is here." ”

Zhang Jin opened it and looked at it, and his face suddenly showed joy.

Luo Chen's support for him was not small, five hundred brocade-clothed guards, one hundred bird guns, two hundred machine crossbows, two hundred longbows, and thirty 'flintlock pistols' that Zhang Jin didn't know what they were.

With these configurations alone, combined with the 'special operations' method that Jinyiwei is best at, as long as he doesn't face giants like the Qingzhu Gang, he has the confidence that ordinary bandits can be easily destroyed. After all, it's not always time someone reports to the bandits.

Zhang Jin really felt Luo Chen's support for him.

He knelt down on one knee and said loudly: "Humble duty, I will die for my lord!" ”

Luo Chen nodded: "Let's go down and make arrangements!" ”

……

In the following month, Luo Chen calmly stayed in the yamen, paying attention to the progress of Zhang Jin's suppression of bandits from time to time, and the overall situation was quite smooth, and he did not encounter too strong resistance.

Therefore, every once in a while, Luo Chen's experience points will skyrocket a lot.

Dozens of points, hundreds of points, and constantly accumulating.

In fact, he also wanted to attack those powerful people in the capital, after all, it was also their duty to inspect traitors and corrupt officials.

If you really look into it, none of these powerful people in the DPRK and China have a clean ass.

Even if the person in power is honest and honest, and there are so many concubines, relatives, and descendants in the family, how can no one not pull the banner of tiger skin and abuse their privileges.

Open the edict and get involved, absolutely one is accurate.

But he also knew that Chongzhen and Cao Huachun would definitely not allow him to do this, and those powerful people really wanted to make trouble, and Cao Huachun couldn't hold it.

Luo Chen can only keep these people for now, and then cut them all off when he takes power in the future.

However, the Jinyi Guard in the Beisi Yamen found that the figures of doctors, Taoist priests, and monks in the back yamen often appeared. Especially those monks, some people found that many of them were well-known Buddhist monks in Beijing.

Then I don't know when the appeasement envoy always likes to tie a belt with an embroidered gold and black bottom on his head to cover his forehead.

Moreover, the pacification made the adult no longer compare martial arts with others, but liked to watch others compete in front of him.

There are even times when it is very strange to ask the master of the yamen who knows how to practice internal strength in front of him, and then stare at it for several hours.

Luo Chen didn't know what quirks his subordinates were speculating about, and this month, he learned the knowledge of meridian acupuncture points with some famous doctors, and his understanding of the relationship between meridian acupuncture points and various combinations of the body has also deepened.

In addition, Luo Chen can directly explore the internal structure of the human body through perspective ability, which is clearer than the hospital X-ray, and can often find out a lot of problems for these famous doctors, and humbly solve them, so his learning progress is advancing rapidly.

In the end, some of the things that these famous doctors pressed the family were dug up by Luo Chen, which made these famous doctors who were famous in the capital almost drop their jaws.

In addition to secretly shouting in his heart that he had encountered a demon, he could only endure the oppression in silence.

In addition, Luo Chen also likes to observe the way the true qi of the inner body of the qi refining martial artist operates during the battle, and has even begun to summarize some formulas to roughly infer the opponent's action intentions and moves from the operation of the true qi in the opponent's body.

Through observing other people's cultivation of internal strength, they also began to discover some changes and subtleties in 'refining and refining qi', combined with some popular internal skills within Jinyiwei, and continued to understand the connection between true qi, meridians, and acupoints.