Xicheng, Wu House.

An old man in a gorgeous costume leisurely tasted Biluochun, and then said slowly: "General Luo, thanks to you for sending troops to garrison these days, even if the capital has moved in the past two days!" Chaos, and no chaotic people dare to come to Wu Mansion to make trouble, the general Gao Yi, the old man today specially presented 20,000 taels of silver to comfort the soldiers. ”

As he spoke, he gave the butler on the side a look.

The butler immediately ordered a huge box to be carried and placed on the hall.

Sitting opposite the old man was a tall general, who was smiling from ear to ear at this time, and hurriedly said: "Old General Wu is polite, it's just a duty to be below, why should the old general be so polite." ”

As he spoke, he also gave a look to the pro-soldiers beside him, and the two pro-soldiers quickly lifted the box down.

When the old man saw that he had received the money, he was even happier, and said with a smile: "Don't hide it from General Luo, the old man has a small difficulty here, and I hope the general can help." ”

Luo Rucai said in his heart, if you are really an old fox, you know what kind of moth you have, otherwise where would you be so kind to give yourself silver flowers, and listen to him say what is the matter, if you can do it, you can do it, if you can't do it, then delay, anyway, the silver will not be spit out.

So he hurriedly said: "Old General Wu is polite, you and I are now friends of life and death, but if you have some send, although it is said, as long as I can do it, I will never frown." ”

This old man is naturally Wu Xiang, only to hear him laugh and say: "It is said that General Luo is righteous, and his reputation is well deserved, so the old man will not be polite to General Luo, the thing is like this, my daughter-in-law had a nightmare yesterday, dreaming that the ancient parents were tormented by the earth fire in hell, and entrusted her with a dream, asking her to go to Xiangshan to chant Buddha and chant sutras, and do a Dharma to eliminate disasters and solve problems, my daughter-in-law is a filial daughter, since I had this dream, I don't think about tea and dinner, I am bent on repaying my parents' wishes, I don't know if General Luo can help with this? ”

"Well...... this"

Luo Rucai sneered in his heart, when King Chuang left the capital, he once gave him a secret decree, telling him to look at Chen Yuanyuan every step of the way, not to allow her to leave the Wu Mansion, let alone anyone to come to the Wu Mansion to make trouble.

Although Luo Rucai didn't understand why King Chuang made such a secret decree, he had a character, that is, he promised his brother, no matter how difficult it was, even if he suffered a loss, he must do it, so he achieved a good reputation in the righteous army, and in this regard, his reputation was even better than that of King Chuang Li Zicheng.

Therefore, he felt that since he had promised King Chuang, he must do it.

Then, in the face of Wu Xiang's request, it is obvious how to deal with it!

Luo Rucai paused and said, "Old General Wu, the entire capital has been violent in the past two days!" Chaos, and the general's manpower is not enough, only a mere 2,000 people, I heard that the capital is now gathered in the chaos of no less than 500,000, so at this time, if the princess is escorted out of the city, the general is not completely sure, the old general Wu told the princess to be relieved, wait a few days, the capital is stable. ”

Wu Xiang was about to scold his mother in his stomach, he didn't do anything after receiving the money, and he still found such an outrageous excuse for his mother, 500,000 chaotic people in the capital? It's just a brag about not paying taxes.

But at this time, the capital is indeed violent! Chaos, he used this as an excuse, Wu Xiang was not easy to refute, and when he was thinking about how to impress him again, the soldiers outside the door suddenly came to report: "Report to General Luo, Marshal Li Yan and his wife ask to see him." ”

Luo Rucai was on the verge of amnesty, and just took the opportunity to leave, so he hurriedly left.

……

"Borrowed soldiers?"

Luo Rucai's eyes widened.

"Yes, our husband and wife are short of manpower and are unable to quell the chaos, so Liu Zongmin refuses to help, so he has to come over to ask General Luo for help!"

Li Yan was extremely helpless, the situation in front of him was something he didn't expect, at first he was going all out to recruit new troops, but he didn't expect that there would be a riot caused by a food shortage so soon! Chaos, he did not have time to control the new army, and he lacked available soldiers in his hands.

Luo Rucai instinctively felt that there was something wrong with this, so he said: "Marshal Du, to tell you the truth, when King Chuang left Beijing, he gave the general a secret decree, no matter what, he must be optimistic about Chen Yuanyuan, I am afraid that Ai Mu can help!" ”

The red lady suddenly became angry and said, "Why are you all like this?" The capital is in chaos like this, and if it is not peaceful, I am afraid that it will be self-defeating, don't you have a great shun in your eyes? ”

Luo Rucai was suddenly embarrassed, so he asked: "Red lady, is the situation in the capital really so dangerous?" ”

At first, he thought it was just a small civil unrest, and the Dashun army experienced such a riot! Chao is simply easy to master, so I didn't pay too much attention to it.

Li Yan said: "If it's just civil unrest, it won't hurt, there are mainly a large number of new troops who have joined the riot!" chaos, in the next also worried about the situation erosion. ”

Li Yan is right, if Yang Xin hadn't brought in food, the new army would have been involved in the riot! Chaos, food supply is not available, the situation will definitely be out of control, but this will be gone, but Li Yan didn't know.

Luo Rucai knew that Li Yan had always been loyal to Dashun, and he had said everything about this, and it seemed that the situation was really precarious.

So, he didn't dare to slack off, and said: "Okay, since this is the case, there are priorities, but there are only two thousand personal soldiers below, and I will give you one thousand and five at most, and I have to leave five hundred people to guard the Wu Mansion." ”

Li Yan couldn't help it, and said: "Okay, although it's a little less, at least you can send troops, thank you so much." ”

The 2,000 people in Li Yan's hands have to guard the camp and the city gate, and they can't be transferred at all, he originally planned to transfer the new army to guard the city gate after controlling the new army, but now he naturally can't do it.

At that moment, Li Yan took Luo Rucai's men and horses back to the camp, made arrangements, and ordered all the new barracks to cooperate, make various transfers, and form three teams of 500 people each to quell the rebellion, and prepare to quell the chaos in the streets the next morning.

……

On Luo Rucai's side, not long after his subordinates were transferred, he saw the cavalry of the brigade coming from the direction of the palace, and the sound of horses' hooves rumbled, Luo Rucai was shocked and cried out in his heart.

The leader was Liu Zongmin, who was riding a high-headed horse at this time, and he was extremely high-spirited.

Luo Rucai looked at Liu Zongmin coldly and said, "General Liu, do you want to violate His Majesty's decree?" ”

Liu Zongmin laughed, but did not answer.

An old man with gray hair next to him laughed and said, "General Luo, you misunderstood, our general is His Majesty's brother, how can he violate His Majesty's decree?" ”

Luo Rucai didn't believe it at all, and said angrily: "Then what do you mean by coming over this time?" ”

The old man smiled and said: "General Luo, don't get me wrong, it's just that an important palace maid ran in the palace, and it is reported that she actually ran to the Pingnan Palace, and General Liu brought someone to arrest her, this palace maid has a large number of secrets of my Dashun army, and it may be a Manchu Qing Dynasty, so we must go in and arrest her, and I hope that General Luo will get out of the way and let me wait in!" ”

Luo Rucai almost vomited blood, he kept guarding the door, where did the palace maid come from in the palace?

The key is that this old man is too insidious, he said this, he couldn't even find a reason to stop him, and he stood on the spot for a while.

Liu Zongmin laughed, rode his horse inside, and said loudly: "General Liu Zongmin is here, who dares to stop me!" ”

Luo Rucai's subordinates saw that he didn't speak, so they didn't dare to stop him, and they all got out of the way.