The most difficult thing to ask the emperor is to be afraid of angering the emperor, since the emperor is not angry now, it means that there is still something to talk about.

Therefore, seeing that there was no dissatisfaction on Lao Zhu's face, Li Yan's heart suddenly relaxed a lot.

"The grass people know that they are deeply guilty, and they dare not ask His Majesty to forgive the grass people."

Li Yan, who was kneeling on the ground, leaned down directly and pleaded: "But Li Zicheng has the grace of knowing the grass people, so the grass people want to dare to ask Your Majesty to forgive Li Zicheng's family and leave him a trace of blood." ”

The rebels are generally from the Zhulian Nine Clan, not to mention an anti-thief leader like Li Zicheng, now that he has been arrested, if there is no accident, it will definitely be the life of the whole family.

So Li Yan didn't know what kind of reaction Lao Zhu would have after he made this request, so after saying this, his forehead was tightly pressed against the ground, not daring to look at Lao Zhu's reaction.

Li Zicheng originally thought that Li Yan wanted to leave a way back for himself, but he didn't expect Li Yan to actually intercede for his family, so he was a little surprised for a while.

If Li Yan had told him in advance about this, he would never have let Li Yan do this.

But now Li Yan directly cut it first and then played, and directly made this request in front of the emperor, so that he couldn't open his mouth at all.

Because it was Lao Zhu who made the decision at this time, not their subordinate prisoners, they had no room for bargaining at all, if he refused, in case he angered the emperor, not only would his family scroll not be saved, but even Li Yan would not have a way to live.

If that's the case, it will completely live up to Li Yan's friendship.

Therefore, Li Zicheng looked at Li Yan who was kneeling on the ground, his lips squirmed a few times, but in the end he didn't say anything.

"Spare his family scroll, huh......"

Lao Zhu looked at Li Zicheng and sneered, "When he plundered and killed the people, did he leave a hand on the family files of those innocent people?" ”

Li Zicheng was born as an anti-thief, what is a thief, it is purely a bandit.

Raiding homes and robbing people, almost all evil.

Even, even his daughter-in-law was snatched directly from a big family, so you can imagine how many evil deeds Li Zicheng has committed.

Although later, after Li Yan helped Li Zicheng rectify military discipline, Li Zicheng's army had a trace of a regular army and no longer easily killed the people, but that did not mean that the previous things were written off.

Of course, in comparison, the military discipline of the Ming officers and soldiers is even worse, and the Ming officers and soldiers have killed good people and made meritorious deeds, and even directly slaughtered the village, in this regard, they are worse than Li Zicheng.

However, the military discipline of the officers and men is not as good as Li Zicheng, which does not mean that Li Zicheng is a good person, but it can only be said that both sides are rotten people, but the officers and soldiers are even worse.

So now Li Yan wants to open his mouth to intercede for Li Zicheng's family, but he can't help but think too much.

Just looking at Li Yan who was kneeling on the ground, Lao Zhu's heart suddenly moved slightly, and then he said: "If you want to spare their family scrolls, you don't have to think about it." ”

"However, leave him a trace of blood and spare his young son, this matter is fine."

After Lao Zhu said this, he continued: "However, if you want to leave him a trace of blood, just rely on the little chip in your hand, which is not enough." ”

Li Yan, a scholar, looks like a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, but in fact, he is extremely black.

Those who funded Li Zicheng were written down by all of them, and even took the initiative to contact those officials and gentry to get their handle in advance, which completely put them to death.

It can be seen from this that Li Yan is indeed affectionate, but if you want to say that he is a good person, those who were killed by him will definitely not agree.

It's just that whether he is a good person or not doesn't matter to Lao Zhu.

As long as Li Yan has the means, he can be ruthless, plus he knows the following situation, and even knows more than Sun Chuanting.

So it couldn't be more suitable for him to be a staff member for Sun Chuanting and clean up those corrupt officials.

"That's good, you go to Henan to help Sun Chuanting, we will give you three months, if you can help Sun Chuanting calm down the chaos in Henan within three months, we can promise you and leave a trace of blood for Li Zicheng."

In fact, when it comes to this, it doesn't matter whether Li Zicheng is left with blood or not.

Lao Zhu's current attitude is to solicit Li Yan, if he agrees, then everything is easy to say.

If you don't agree, then Lao Zhu won't talk nonsense with them, and he will definitely push them all out and cut them directly.

Li Yan also understood what Lao Zhu meant, and even he had now figured out why Lao Zhu recruited Li Zicheng, just to let the two of them make a cut.

"Grass People...... Thank you, Your Majesty. ”

Li Yan was silent for a moment, and finally kowtowed to thank him and agreed to the matter.

And after the two left, Lao Zhu looked at Li Zicheng's back and fell into thought.

The reason why he summoned the two of them over this time was not just to recruit Li Yan as Li Yan thought.

In fact, the reason why Li Zicheng was also summoned was that Lao Zhu wanted to observe Li Zicheng.

Judging from the observation results just now, Li Zicheng knows how to advance and retreat, understands forbearance, and Li Yan would rather die than plan for Li Zicheng's future, which is enough to prove that Li Zicheng has a way to go, and so on, it is enough to prove that Li Zicheng can get to this day, and it is by no means simply relying on luck.

So Lao Zhu is now thinking about whether to kill him, exile him and his generals who are loyal to him to a "distant place", and explore the way for Daming?

After all, after all these years of natural and man-made disasters, the population of the Ming Dynasty has been reduced to the extreme.

It would be a pity for an elite soldier like Li Zicheng who was killed in the sea of swords and blood to cut it in vain.

Therefore, if they are exiled to a "distant place" and let them fight with the local forces in the "distant place", if they can take root, then the Ming Dynasty will have enough reasons to reach out to them.

After all, with the current military development speed of the Ming Dynasty, other forces can't catch up, so they are not afraid that Li Zicheng will become a climate in the "distance", and throwing him over is undoubtedly the best choice.

And now, Li Zicheng's ability has been recognized by Lao Zhu, but Lao Zhu hasn't thought about where to exile them yet, so this matter can be slowed down first, and it's not too late to wait for Zheng Zhilong's army to go to sea.

After making up his mind in his heart, Lao Zhu asked Wang Chengen to notify the Imperial Prison and asked them to improve the treatment of Li Zicheng and others in the Imperial Prison, so as not to wait until Lao Zhu wanted to use them in the future, and it would not be good for these people to die and be crippled.

The current Li Zicheng is a relatively important chess piece in Lao Zhu's hands, and Lao Zhu doesn't want him to die in the edict like this.