Chapter 78: Michi

The news that the army can be blocked in the Central Plains until now, Guan Shengyun and Luo Yonghao are very satisfied. The most dangerous place has passed, if it is blocked on the desperate road from Tongguan to Shaanzhou for hundreds of miles, the annihilation of the whole army is a high probability event, even if some people can get away with their lives, they will once again become bandits who have to worry about being wiped out by the magistrate at any time. And now, the stone pass is firmly controlled by Gu Baihua's Gangfeng battalion, the vast imperial heart, and the door is open.

Pan Ding, Jing Xiangshan, Wang Jian and several others died, but they died very decently.

Luo Yonghao had persuaded them in private, and Guan Shengyun also opened his eyes and pretended not to know. Guan Shengyun himself used to be an official soldier, and Luo Junshi used to be a magistrate, and everyone in his bones was no different, especially because of the integrity of a few people, and people at that time valued this the most. But for various reasons, several people can't be "thieves", even if Guan Shengyun doesn't kill them, they will have no way out, and they will even affect their own family, Luo Yonghao fully understands this. On the other hand, after a long conversation all night, everyone also understood the bitterness of Guan Shengyun and Luo Yonghao who had no choice, and they could only sigh to each other.

This is fate.

Righteousness in front of the enemy is the best choice for these truly loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the only choice in this situation - this is reverse elimination: the three divisions of Shaanxi Province that blame the neighbors, the Yulin Mansion that bullied the emperor and the enemy, and the Ansai County that collaborated with the enemy...... All of them were richly rewarded, and the three enemies who were most incompatible with each other were destroyed and resolutely resisted...... In this environment, who will be able to stay in the officialdom of Daming in the end?

After washing and bathing, everyone left a suicide note, and Luo Yonghao asked Luo Shifan and a few other literate people to copy a few copies of each person's suicide note in front of them and paste them all over the city - this is a disguised guarantee: the court will know about their "Dead Festival", not only will their families not be dragged down, but will also be commended, and moreover, it will also shade future generations. Their sons and nephews can directly obtain fame and fame based on this, and the officials will give priority to the actual official position. This kind of background in the officialdom will even be better than the "right way" background of the scientific examination - the elders are loyal ministers and good generals who sacrificed their lives for the empire, and the Shaanzhou government will set up a stone monument for them through the ages, and in their hometowns, they will build a martyr's shrine or enshrine the existing sage shrine, and their deeds will be remembered for centuries.

The three of them had a sumptuous send-off meal, Guan Shengyun led the generals to give the three of them a send-off wine, and in front of the government, the three committed suicide calmly, in front of many people. Immediately, Guan Shengyun used three good coffins to converge them, however, they were not buried deeply. Because when the army leaves, there will definitely be officials and soldiers who will "recover" Shaanzhou, and their remains will be picked up again and transported back to their hometowns under the personal memorial service of officials from all over the country.

Extremely glorious, this is the best arrangement.

Of course, Ma Wensheng is also dead.

Gu Baihua privately spoke well of Wang Jian. The two faced each other head-to-head, and although the latter was defeated, this upright man had more respect for his unyielding opponent. Knowing that Ma Wensheng was bullying the military attachés, he wanted to find his bad luck, but it happened that Luo Shifan was forcing him to ask him about the transportation of Yu Province with flickering and threatening.

Master Xiao Luo dragged his brother-in-law Gu Guerrilla away, asked what he had done, patted his chest and promised that he would relieve Brother Gu's anger, turned back again, patted his chest again to appease Ma Zhizhou and would never kill him - of course, the condition is that he knows everything and answers all questions.

After recording all the information that Ma Wensheng knew about the transportation, cities, garrisons, and officials in Henan Province, Luo Shifan asked Ma Wensheng to write a confession by himself. Ma Wensheng knew that this was a big hole, but he couldn't help but jump so far - it was just a while.

Ma Wensheng's situation Master Xiao Luo already knew a rough idea, so he started from Dingtao killing the rich to fill his pockets, until he moved to the right to the governor of Shaanzhou, forcing him to write the original version of the events of these years, especially focusing on the analysis of psychological activities and the details of bribery, whether it is the imperial court or the provincial government, the time, place, characters, scenes, and amounts, and write a detailed detail. Halfway through, Ma Wensheng couldn't write down several times, so Luo Shifan dictated and asked him to write it himself. It's useless to plead - don't look at this young fellow who is always smiling, but with a bad stomach, sighing or coughing, the ugly and fierce Guan Yehuo next to him will pull out a knife and gesture all over him and ask himself which piece of meat he wants to give up...... Later, Ma Zhizhou's spirit completely collapsed, and he let him write whatever he wanted, and the broken jar simply broke.

Before the army started, when the three Pan Jing kings were about to hit the road, Ma Wensheng was also pulled over. The three of them had a send-off drink in the lobby of the yali, and Ma Wensheng knelt at the foot of the steps outside the yali and read his confession in public. The confession has also been transcribed several times, and it is pasted side by side with the suicide notes of the three. Let him read it with his own mouth, in addition to humiliation, but also the meaning of taking care of those illiterate people. In addition to the old and young people, the audience was more of the wounded soldiers of Hongnongwei who were forcibly driven over (the strong men were all incorporated into the auxiliary barracks of Guoqinglin). After reading it, Master Xiao Luo took the confession and said to him: "You go, I promised that I would not kill you." Ma Wensheng just knelt down again to thank him, and Gu Baihua's big voice had already shouted: "Revenge for injustice, revenge for revenge!" ”

Then Ma Wensheng was beaten to death by the wounded soldiers, with a punch and a cane. Not to mention, Liu Shiting really has two brushes, which really responds to Liu Shenxian's original sentence of "10,000 people bow their heads" - Ma Wensheng didn't have time to get up at all, everyone lowered their heads and beat desperately.

No one went to embarrass Liu Shiting, and no one even touched the silver he confessed to his private collection. On the one hand, all the generals knew in their hearts that Liu Shenxian had let his subordinates shed a lot of blood, and if he really tried to rob him, he couldn't pull his face down; On the other hand, Guan Shengyun is already very rich, and he really doesn't care much about his money.

When Luo Yonghao suggested that he could leave first, Liu Shenxian thought that he was making an excuse to kill him, and swore to join the "righteous teacher" with a strong gamble, Luo Yonghao waved his hand and said: "Mr. Liu, everyone understands people, and there is no need to say these insincere words, it's boring." If it's really him, why does Luo look for you in person? You have great merit first, and you are not a handsome person who breaks his word and gets fat. Sir, please take this warrant and throw it away after passing the stone pass, so as not to cause trouble for yourself. The black donkey outside can walk around. In the future, when I have the opportunity, I may wish to spread some words that are beneficial to my teacher, and I will be grateful. ”

When Liu Shiting left with a thousand thanks, Guan Yehuo asked blankly: "Master Strategist, just let him go like this, will it leak the military information?" ”

Luo Yonghao glanced at Luo Shifan and was silent, and the latter replied with a smile: "Big brother, are you good at using your brains." Where can he go? Do you want to go to Tongguan? It's a dead end, and you know who we are! With that lot of silver on his body, he will definitely be caught as a spy and killed, and everyone will share the silver! He could only go to Luoyang through the Stone Pass. You don't have to worry about him leaking military information—'Huh? Shaanzhou was broken? How did it break? How do you know? How did you escape? Why do you bring so much silver? How did he reply? 'The silver is to deceive Ma Wensheng, and the city is the way I lead? 'Hahahaha......"

Guan Yehuo scratched his head: "Brother has a point!" Why didn't I think of it? In the end, you scholars have a lot of twists and turns in their stomachs. ”

Luo Yonghao smiled and added: "The two small counties of Mianchi and Xin'an are difficult to stop my army, I guess he will go straight to Luoyang, or even farther, and then buy some acres of land to become a rich man from now on." However, in the first half of his life, he had already developed the habit of bragging in the fog cover of Yunshan Mountain, and even if he settled down, he might not be able to control that mouth, so as not to pretend to be a god and make some mysteries. I just ordered him, and the power of my teacher can be widely spread through him, plus the condiments of those fairies, demons and monsters, who listens to it and is afraid. No matter how you look at it, it's a good thing. ”

Master Luo's expectations were not bad - when Liu Shiting ran all the way to the outskirts of Luoyang without stopping, he met head-on with the tolerance sent by Qi Xiaoguang to Shaanzhou to inquire about the news. When those people saw that Liu Shiting was coming from the west, they couldn't help but ask a few words, Liu Shenxian could bluff Zhizhou in front of him, and it was not a piece of cake to fool a few soldiers into service? Looking at the backs of several people galloping towards Shaanzhou, Liu Shenxian smiled contemptuously, and Shi Shiran rode a donkey into Luoyang Mansion City.

At this time, there was already a great chaos in Michi City.

The dismissed officials spread the terror of the imminent attack of a large number of thieves throughout the city, and the people of the city helped the old and the young to flee like headless flies. Families with solid families have fled in the direction of Xin'an, and the price of the car and horse shop has soared more than ten times in an instant, and more are ordinary people who are unable to flee far away and are reluctant to completely abandon their family business. As the saying goes, breaking a family is worth a lot, and no one can bear to leave all their life's work behind. The mountains are full of residents with valuable money in their arms, burdens on their backs, and women and children in their hands, all thinking of staying in the barren mountains for a while to avoid the military disaster.

The happiest are the scoundrels in the city, and there is no better opportunity to take advantage of the fire than at this time. However, when they rushed to the silver vault, they found from a distance that there were already many officials with iron rulers and guns...... The same is true of the granaries and arsenals, so they have to turn around and run again in disappointment to search the empty houses of the people.

The officials guarded the warehouse, not because of how loyal they were, but because of Fu Yuehui's orders. Well, to be exact, it's not that they can still obey Master Fu's orders at this time, they are doing it for themselves. Fu Yuehui told them: You are "officials", officials and iron officials, and you will pass on this profession here from generation to generation. It will certainly not be your turn to pursue the crime of losing the city, and the only threat comes from the impending thieves. If you can be optimistic about the treasury, you won't be too embarrassed by the thieves, otherwise, any city in the future will burn the silver grain before it falls! Thieves don't fail to understand this. So the officials settled their families in the treasury, and they guarded the door in groups of three or five armed guards, which was much more energetic than guarding the national property of the Ming Dynasty in ordinary days.

Sure enough, after Guan Shengyun entered the empty city, he was overjoyed to find that the granary, silver treasury and arsenal were intact.

The soldiers were fast, Guan Shengyun left Zhang Ding's Thunderbolt camp to guard the back road, and the army quickly rushed to Xin'an.