With Hongday's martial arts, even if he can't kill Xu Yang, it is not difficult to retreat with his whole body, so he doesn't want Xu Yang's hypocrisy to let him live.

However, this does not change the big picture.

"The question I want to ask, you should be able to guess, where is the dancing girl who wants my life now?" Xu Yang looked leisurely and complacent, and even Hongtian believed that he was just asking this question casually.

If he could kill even his own prince, then why should he care about that singer anymore.

If he can even let himself go, what is that singer to him?

Hongyang smiled: "If I don't know where this woman came from, do you believe it?"

"Letter. Xu Yang smiled: "With your pride, you naturally won't deceive me in this kind of thing, you said that you don't know her origin, I naturally believe it." But if you say that, does that mean that you know where she is?"

Hongyang nodded, he really wouldn't deceive Xu Yang in this kind of thing, there was no need at all.

"At this time, she should hide near your imperial capital's mansion and wait for the rabbit, right?"

Xu Yang also seemed to understand what he meant, and also laughed: "I didn't expect that one day I would be treated as a rabbit?"

Just laughter, a little embarrassed.

After laughing for a long time, Hongtian stopped laughing and asked slowly, "Can my subordinates ......?"

Xu Yang shook his head and said: "There are fifteen people in the Red Flower Society who are in ambush outside the mansion, and your subordinates are defenseless, they must be unlucky, you better think about yourself, the Red Flower Society can be regarded as hating you to the core, they have hundreds of lives counted on you, hundreds of lives, hundreds of reasons, it is already difficult for me to keep you." ”

"yes, it's hard. Hongtian sighed lightly, he knew that the era that belonged to him would be over after tonight, and from then on he would be a real idle prince, and he didn't have to think about anything else.

"I have accepted your favor, and you and I are good opponents, but why do I always feel restricted by you everywhere?"

Xu Yang smiled: "Heavenly machine, don't leak it." ”

Two people who were destined to be fateful rivals actually chatted and sighed like friends on such a turbulent night.

Sometimes a good opponent is more rare than a good friend.

It's a pity that Hong Daysheng was born at the wrong time, Xu Yang sighed secretly in his heart.

"I didn't arrange an ambush at the back door, tonight you quit Lanzhou Mansion, and after returning to the imperial capital, you will close the door and be the prince of peace, I guarantee that Honghua will not trouble you again. ”

Hongyang pouted: "If you ambush the master at the back door, you are the real enemy of my Qing Dynasty, but unfortunately, your talent is enough, but your ambition is not enough, what benefits will Honghua give you, and you actually help them like this?"

Even now, he did not forget to woo Xu Yang.

"I owe Yu Wanting, the former leader of the Red Flower Club, a favor, a great favor. Xu Yang said indifferently.

"That's all?" Hongyang looked incredulous: "In my opinion, you are not a person who is obsessed with human feelings, right?"

"If it weren't for your previous poisonous ploy that drove them to a dead end, I probably wouldn't have intervened. Xu Yang nodded and continued: "I only agreed to pull them when the Red Flower Society encountered a crisis, and I can only blame you for your bad luck." ”

"That puff of poisonous smoke should be your handiwork. Hongyang sighed: "I should have thought of it a long time ago, killing people and poisoning doctors, getting some poisonous smoke is really nothing." ”

"Alright, it's not too early, you should go. Xu Yang began to give an eviction order: "But if you hide any gold and silver treasures in the mansion, don't forget to tell me, so as not to cheapen others." ”

Hongyang laughed again: "You are a person, hahahaha......"

laughed, shook his head, and then walked away, looking chic and free, without the slightest indication that he was already a defeated general.

Xu Yang muttered in a low voice: "There is really no treasure, poor ghost prince." ”

That night, all the actions arranged by Xu Yang were extremely successful, and by dawn, all resistance in the city had stopped.

In the manuscript of Qing history, this incident is recorded as follows: the traitor Chen Jialuo, colluded with bandits and rebelled, attacked Lanzhou at night, burned the military rations without calculation, killed people and lost the wilderness, bled and drifted the pestle, the emperor was furious when he heard the news, sent a large army to levy, and the thieves fled.

Of course, history is written by the victors, of course, the military rations will not be burned, and the distribution to the victims is probably not enough, in addition to the 100,000 stone military rations in the treasury, there are about 20,000 stone and five grains stored by the Lanzhou Mansion itself over the years, a total of only 120,000 deniers, and there are no less than 50,000 or 60,000 victims gathered outside the city, and there are more victims coming in a steady stream.

According to a rough estimate, if 120,000 stone of grain is distributed to 150,000 disaster victims, each person will have less than one stone, but the number of disaster victims should be higher, that is, each person can only receive 40 catties of grain at most. (Note 1)

If you pick some wild vegetables to make porridge on weekdays, the victims should be able to rely on these forty catties of life-saving food to survive until next year, but this flood is too big, the number of people affected is too wide, and the wild vegetables in the wilderness have long been exhausted by the hungry, and this bit of food is estimated to be eaten up in less than two months.

Moreover, after the catastrophe, there will be a major epidemic, and some of the most basic epidemic prevention work also needs money and food.

In desperation, Xu Yang donated the silver that originally belonged to him, and purchased another batch of grain and medicine from the grain merchants and pharmacists in the city.

Of course, the price is calculated according to the market price, which ensures that these merchants can make money, but it cannot make it difficult for them to make money.

The grain merchant originally refused, but the group of bandits in front of him dared to kill even the officials and soldiers of the imperial court, considering their own lives, those businessmen who were not pulling out a dime on weekdays were forced to sell this batch of grain at a low price, and they were also forced to take the initiative to "donate" 10,000 stone of grain according to Xu Yang's intentions, which can be regarded as doing good deeds and accumulating virtue.

This expenditure was so distressed that Xu Yang didn't want to talk to people for several days, although saving people should be, why did he always spend his money.

After returning to the imperial capital, he must blackmail Hongday, but he must see if he is reluctant to give up this life-saving money, Xu Yang thought hatefully.

With Xu Yang's funding, each victim was given fifty or sixty catties of food, and they were so moved that they knelt down to thank them and shouted that the Red Flower Society was a living bodhisattva who saved lives.

Out of sight and out of mind, Xu Yang threw off his sleeves and returned to the rudder.

It's time to think about retreat.

It has been delayed here for three days, although the Qing army of the Yellow River camp did not receive Hongday's order and did not dare to attack, but the counterinsurgency army transferred from the imperial capital was only a thousand miles away from Lanzhou City, if it was a rapid march, the forward would definitely arrive within five days, Xu Yang was very happy, if Qianlong could arrange a good general who was good at commanding the cavalry, at this time, Bingfeng was afraid that he had arrived outside Lanzhou City.

Note 1: In all dynasties, the amount of grain in one stone was different, and in the Qing Dynasty, one stone of grain was about 28 kilograms.