Liu Xiaoshan is indeed gone, because he ran away.

Run down the mountain and surrender!

As a result, before reaching the foot of the mountain, he was discovered by patrolling soldiers.

"Enemy attack!"

The soldier shouted, and immediately drew his bow and aimed it at him!

Seeing this, Liu Xiaoshan hurriedly raised his hand, hid behind a lesson tree and shouted:

"My lord! Don't let go of the arrows, I'm here to surrender! ”

The soldier hesitated for a moment, did not let go of his hand, but still looked at Liu Xiaoshan with vigilance.

"Take your time!"

Liu Xiaoshan raised his hand and cautiously walked out from behind the tree, and at this time, a group of soldiers from the Yongwei Battalion who rushed over after hearing the news went up and grabbed Liu Xiaoshan, tied their hands and brought them to Lu Xiangsheng.

When Liu Xiaoshan saw Lu Xiangsheng, he immediately knelt on the ground and cried loudly.

"My lord, spare my life, I surrender. I was forced to rebel by Wang Er, I don't want to die! ”

"What's your name?"

"Back to the adult, the little one is called Liu Xiaoshan, from Baishui County."

"How many people are there on the mountain?"

"Forty-two."

"Why did you surrender?"

"Wang Er beat me! Look, my face is still swollen. After that, he turned his face sideways and asked Lu Xiangsheng to look at it.

Huang Degong, who was on the side, leaned the torch forward, saw that Liu Xiaoshan's face was red and swollen, and nodded at Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng waved his hand, ordered someone to take Liu Xiaoshan down, and turned his head to look at Zhou Yuji and the others.

"What do you think?"

"I think it should be true." Zhou Yuji said, and Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan also agreed.

"Whether it's true or not, wait until tomorrow to go up the mountain, and be careful at night."

"Yes!"

Lu Xiangsheng's side had no intention of attacking the mountain, but Wang Er's side was out of proportion.

"Second brother! Liu Xiaoshan must have gone down the mountain and surrendered, what should we do? One person asked Wang Er worriedly.

Wang Er's face was gloomy, he didn't expect such a thing to happen at this juncture. He glanced at Zhong Guangdao and found that despair was also written on his face.

"We have no way out, continue to break through tonight, life and death have their own destiny! Brothers, if misfortune befalls the second king, you will surrender to the government and be left to avenge me in the future! ”

After speaking, he took the lead and rushed down the mountain.

He knew that he would not survive, and he wanted to exchange his death for a glimmer of hope for his brother's life.

When everyone saw that Wang Er was so tragic, their blood also surged, and they rushed down the mountain with him.

If they were facing ordinary local officers and soldiers, they would still be able to break out of the encirclement with their enthusiasm. But what they encountered was the Brave Guard Battalion, a well-equipped Brave Guard Battalion.

The battle lasted only a moment, and when Liu Xiaoshan was brought over to recognize people, there were corpses lying on the ground.

They didn't plan to surrender, and King Lu Yan didn't plan to stay alive, forty-two corpses, one is not less.

These people must be killed, and if they are kept, they will only be a scourge. Not everyone who rebelled wanted to rob the rich and help the poor, and some even robbed and killed innocent poor people. Their blood must be used to stop the momentum, if only temporarily.

In the early morning of the second day, Lu Xiangsheng ordered people to dig a big pit and bury the bodies of these people.

They are damned for rebellion, but they deserve respect.

Since then, Wang Er, the little man who opened the prelude to the peasant uprising in the Ming Dynasty, died at the hands of Lu Xiangsheng more than a year ahead of schedule.

Lu Xiangsheng left 10,000 infantry in Shaanxi to stabilize the situation, and he took the 3,000 cavalry of the Yongwei battalion all the way back to Beijing to resume his life.

After entering the wax moon, the weather is already so cold that people can't stretch out their hands.

Zhu Youzhen stood in front of the hall and looked at the eaves in the distance, quietly distracted.

During this time, he went out of the city several times and saw more and more homeless people.

These hungry refugees could not even make a loud sound on their knees begging for mercy, and some of them were already lying on the side of the road and were dying, threatening to lose their lives at any moment. He had decreed that all provinces, prefectures and counties should make proper arrangements for passing refugees and not be expelled, but the number of refugees who flocked to the capital was only too large but not too small.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen smiled self-deprecatingly, it seems that he, the emperor's holy decree, will not go far.

Or, for some, it's just a rag.

"Wang Companion, it's time for Lu Xiangsheng to arrive, right?"

"Long live back, I think it will be these two days."

"Hmm..."

I can't wait!

On the eighteenth day of the lunar month, Zhu Youzhen finally received a report that Lu Xiangsheng had arrived outside the city.

"Haha! Wang Companion! Lu Xiangsheng came back and summoned him to the palace! I want to see him! ”

On the platform, Zhu Youzhen met Lu Xiangsheng, who he hadn't seen for more than two months.

"Qing is tired."

"Serve Your Majesty, don't dare to say tired!"

"Haha" Zhu Youzhen smiled heartily and asked:

"How is Liu Yuanbin?"

"Chen and Liu cooperate tacitly." Lu Xiangsheng is colorful.

What he didn't know was that before he set out for the expedition, Zhu Youzhen sent someone to Liu Yuanbin to pass on an edict, telling him to obey Lu Xiangsheng's arrangements and not interfere with his military operations without authorization.

"That's good, what interesting things do you have to say about the bandits along the way?"

Zhu Youzhen's question stopped Lu Xiangsheng and was silent for a while.

"Dare to ask Your Majesty, what kind of experience are you talking about?"

"Can you see displaced people along the way?"

"A lot!"

"Why are there so many?"

"Official corruption, natural disasters."

"Anything else?"

Zhu Youzhen stared at Lu Xiangsheng with blazing eyes, as if he wanted to pierce his soul. Lu Xiangsheng was numb by his scalp and knelt on the ground.

"Minister, don't dare to say it."

"Rise up and speak truthfully!" Zhu Youzhen said word by word.

"The minister went to Shaanxi to suppress bandits this time, and saw many things that he couldn't bear to witness. Shaanxi has been suffering from severe drought for many years, and the land is already barren, coupled with excessive taxes and forced labor, disasters and famines have occurred everywhere. The bold rebel, the timid run out, and those who can't run are waiting to die. In many places, the vegetation has been exhausted, and people are cannibalistic. ”

"What about the government?" Zhu Youzhen's heart became colder and colder, and his tone became colder and colder.

"Do nothing!"

"Good! What a do-nothing! I know what kind of officials I use! I finally know why there are so many homeless people in this Gyeonggi land. Hahaha! ”

Seeing Zhu Youzhen laughing angrily, he stood up from the coiling dragon throne and walked back and forth. Lu Xiangsheng was so frightened that he fell to his knees again.

"Minister, don't vomit and be unhappy! Please punish Your Majesty! ”

"That's right! Lu Xiangsheng, you are guilty! You should kill all the officials who sit back and watch their people die of starvation! What is the use of raising a group of corpses and vegetarians? Yes? ”

Listening to Zhu Youzhen's angry voice in his ears, Lu Xiangsheng's body shook suddenly, lying on the ground and not daring to say a word. Even Wang Chengen and the attendants on the side were so frightened that they fell to their knees and trembled.

They had never seen the emperor so angry, like a fierce tiger that chooses people and devours them, opening their bloody mouths to devour people at any time.

After a long time, Zhu Youzhen calmed down.

In a slightly hoarse voice, he said softly:

"The officials I appointed did not feed my people, so they took up hoes and rebelled. I will avenge them. ”