Chapter 21: Acne I

After explaining the matter, Chongzhen asked Sun Xuanhuai to go back to rest early and recuperate his spirits, and there was still a big mess of things for him to do tomorrow.

After Sun Xuanhuai thanked him for his farewell, Chongzhen handed over some of his personal guards to Wang Chengen, and asked him to lead Song Xiancai back to the Song Mansion to take care of it.

"Are the uncle's wife and daughter okay?"

"The old slave went to see it before he came, and he slept soundly!"

"Well, bring that old man with you, and let him be a porter, I still have something to do, you can go."

"Yes, Your Majesty must take care of the Holy Communion, and the slave and maid will retire."

When there was no one else in the hall, Chongzhen got up and did a set of stretching exercises, moving his muscles and bones. At this time, Chen Zhuo walked in with a lunch box in both hands, "Let your subordinates make some food for Your Majesty." ”

Busy until now, the drop of rice has not entered, and he is really a little hungry, Chongzhen took a small half bowl of rice, sandwiched some dishes at random, and ate while walking with chopsticks in hand.

"Let's go, accompany me to see the results of tonight's battle."

"Ah, yes." Chen Zhuo didn't react at once, and hurriedly followed with the lunch box.

Your Majesty seems to be different from what you imagined....

There is a large open space outside the government office, and the seized money, grain and objects are placed in different categories, piled up one by one "hills", and some soldiers are interspersed with them to count the number one by one, and occasionally take advantage of the attention of others to sneak a piece into their arms.

On the other side, the captured Shun army captives were black and pressed, huddled on the ground, surrounded by Ming troops armed with torches.

Everyone's eyes were looking at one place at the same time, and there was a person who was tied up and kneeling on the ground, with foul language and swearing incessantly.

The person who was kidnapped was Zhang Tianlin's henchman Zhang Heihu, who was enjoying himself in the kiln, but suddenly broke into a group of people and tied him up and escorted him here.

"This guy is quite a seed." Chongzhen used this scene as a condiment, chewing rice with a bulging mouth, and said to Chen Zhuo.

"Your Majesty, I know this person in a humble position, it is Zhang Tianlin's henchman Zhang Heihu, who robs people's wives and daughters and robs shops in the city on weekdays, and does all kinds of evil, and he should be killed."

"Oh? With such a role, wouldn't it be cheaper for him to be cut with a knife? In prison, I will personally try him tomorrow. ”

"Yes."

Just as the two were talking, a Ming army general took a long whip and walked to Zhang Heihu's side. When Zhang Heihu saw him approaching, he was brute and couldn't use his hands and feet, so he stretched out his head to open his mouth to bite, and his upper and lower teeth "boomed", looking like a vicious tiger.

A few timid soldiers, seeing Zhang Heihu's ferocious energy, felt frightened, and subconsciously moved back.

The general of the Ming army didn't think so, circled around Zhang Heihu, and scolded with a smile: "Zhang Heihu, Naigong is going to beat your milk tiger today, haha." ”

"Ma Harrier, I entered your mother's, and the one with the egg untied the rope, and grandpa swallowed you alive."

"Unravel? Why do you want to untie it, tie it up and smoke it harder, the brothers say no! Zhang Heihu's words, which were called Ma Harriers, caused the surrounding Ming troops to laugh. On the contrary, there was silence in the pile of Shun prisoners, only the eyes mixed with hatred watched silently.

Zhang Heihu scolded, Ma Harrier smoked, Zhang Heihu didn't ask for mercy, Ma Harrier didn't stop, until Zhang Heihu was covered in flesh and fainted in pain, which was over.

Chongzhen looked carefully, this horse harrier was eight feet long, and his face was quite handsome from a distance, but he looked like a rough man, which was a bit interesting.

Chen Zhuo saw that Chongzhen had been staring, and stepped forward to explain: "Your Majesty, this horse harrier was originally an orphan surnamed Li, who was raised in the camp of thieves, and was later accepted as a friend by the royal generals, changed his surname to Wang, and named Fuchen, Ma Harrier is his nickname on weekdays. ”

In the past, Jiang Hao's subordinate battalion soldiers were beaten and humiliated by the camp on weekdays, and Zhang Heihu was whipped in public, which had a certain benefit to the morale of the army, but in front of all the enemy prisoners, the same enemy was prone to chaos, and there were advantages and disadvantages, and there were disadvantages.

Chongzhen thought for a moment and asked Chen Zhuo to call the baggage officer who was in charge of counting the materials for questioning.

After a while, the baggage officer was followed by a few soldiers who were inspected, and Chen Zhuo accompanied him, his face was gloomy, and he was looked at by Chongzhen.

As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first. Logistics is the foundation of the army, and the fat officer who manages money and food is mostly the henchman of the main general, and the fat man with a mustache in front of him has a nepotistic relationship with Jiang Hao.

Chongzhen's true identity is not known to many people in the army, so the baggage officer should only be an adult who is good with the general soldier, so he naturally has to be filial piety.

Before Chongzhen could ask, the baggage officer pinched the mustache on his mouth, and handed over a package with an ambiguous face.

Chongzhen took it, pretended to be puzzled, and asked with a smile, "What do you mean by this, Your Excellency?" ”

Seeing that Chongzhen accepted it, the baggage official realized that the human feelings were in place, clapped his hands, and flattered: "Your Excellency is polite, this is some of the intentions of the humble position, and please take care of it." ”

"What kind of care method, it's the first time I've come to the army to do things, and I don't know much."

The baggage officer approached Chongzhen, covered his mouth with one hand and whispered: "Commander Chen said that the seizure list should be reviewed by adults, and it is not a secret, there are two lists in the hands of the lowly officials, one is the top and the other is the bottom, hehe." ”

The baggage officer thought to himself, this is all said, the adults should understand.

"Can you elaborate on that? What is above? What is Down? ”

Alas, where did the guy come out of nowhere, so unreasonable? The baggage officer was dissatisfied, but now he didn't know the details of the other party, so he had to force a smile and continue to explain: "Up, it's naturally for the top to see, and down, naturally we just know it." ”

Chongzhen had such an expression on his face, and then covered his mouth and whispered: "I once heard that there is a business where civilian heads are filled with thieves' heads, do I have to look for you too?" ”

Hey, it turned out that it wasn't a chick, the baggage officer nodded proudly and replied, "But I don't have to do it for the time being, who will I find to get the money?" The emperor has changed. ”

Chongzhen patted the heavy officer on the shoulder and said, "I will accept these intentions, but I will show me the upper and lower volumes, so that I can not count the mistakes in my heart." ”

The heavy official was overjoyed, handed over the two lists, and said with the icing on the cake: "The adult is really reasonable, and after the matter is completed, there is another heavy thanks, and he will never treat the adult badly, haha." After saying that, he led the people to turn and leave.

Chen Zhuo waited for people to go away, knelt down in place, and felt embarrassed.

Chongzhen squinted at the list and said, "Get up, pick out the leaders of the thief army similar to Zhang Heihu, and put them all in the government prison." Ordinary soldiers, divided into five, were scattered outside the city to guard them, and they were given food and not to be tortured and killed, so as to prevent chaos. ”

Chen Zhuo only felt that the roots behind his ears were burning, and he led the order to go quickly.

Earlier, I heard Jiang Xuan say that there were fleeing civilians outside the city who wanted to enter the city, Chongzhen was not relieved, so he asked for a horse from his own soldiers and rushed to the east gate alone.