Chapter 42: Is King Li Chuang really the king of commoners?
About three-quarters of an hour later, Bao Jiqiang's slightly wretched figure emerged from the alley on the street. He wandered to the tea shop and sat next to the brother just now.
One foot was still raised on the long stool. He took off his shoes and clasped his big smelly feet in the sun. In his ears, he heard the brother say loudly: "Let's go, let's go to the Zhougong Temple in the west of the city."
, I’ll wait until Shen Shi to see how King Chuang kills those corrupt officials.”
After he finished speaking, he stood up and left the tea shop, heading towards the west gate of Luoyang. When Bao Jiqiang saw him leaving his seat, he hurriedly picked up the remaining tea on the tea table and drank it.
Bao Jiqiang had just taken a few sips when he saw an old man walking towards him. He hurriedly drank the last sip of tea, laughed, ducked out of the tea shop, and turned left and right on the street.
Next, it disappeared again.
He swerved back to the side door of Zhang's house on Chayuan Street, and gently tapped a code of "four long and two short". The small wooden door opened quickly with a "squeak", and Bao Jiqiang quickly ducked out of the way.
Enter.
He didn't talk nonsense, he just exchanged glances with the brothers in the courtyard, then went straight to the main room and opened the door. He reported everything he saw today to Tong Shoushan.
As he spoke, Bao Jiqiang walked to a table in the room, silently picked up his tattered cotton-padded jacket, tore off a piece of rag from his underwear, grabbed a piece of charcoal next to it, and drew random pictures on it.
Got up.
He carefully looked at his painting and made sure that there were no problems or defects before he put it together and handed it to Tong Shoushan, and then reported: "Master Tong, we saw a team from Youshao in the alley in front of the sub-inspection office.
official,
It just so happened that he was our former brother from the Old Right Sentinel, named Du Cheng. He was still our commander when he came to Beijing with the commander-in-chief Qin Wang. We followed him to recognize him. Now he is all painted in code on this picture.
La."
Tong Shoushan also had a smile on his face. He took the map drawn on a piece of rag and said with a relaxed expression: "That's right, your kid didn't go out to watch the fun in vain. When things get over here, we'll be here
Mr. Chen, please give me some credit."
He then asked: "How many brothers have come in from the right post and what is the situation now?"
Bao Jiqiang replied: "We don't have much time to talk. More than sixty brothers have also come in from the right post. Now they are hiding in two places. One of them is the ruined temple shown in the picture.
We haven't had time to find the way to the other place. We are afraid that Mr. Tong will be in a hurry. We think that with this hiding place, we can find Youshao. We will find a time to go there and contact him the next day.
Then I will come back and return my life to Master Tong."
He continued: "Now the civil and military officers and generals in Luoyang City, as well as the houses of the wealthy gentry and wealthy households, are tightly surrounded by thieves and soldiers, who are plundering money, grain, grain, and valuables from house to house.
Although the house we are currently staying in is not a large compound, we still have to be wary of thieves coming to investigate. We heard on the street that there was a clerk named Shao Shichang from the Luoyang Prefecture Yamen, so we surrendered to the thieves.
These local snakes are very familiar with all local affairs, so it’s hard to fool them!
Tong Shoushan said with a smile: "What are we doing? Luoyang City is so big and can't accommodate dozens of people like us. Don't worry, even if some local snakes in the Yamen follow the thieves, we can handle it here."
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After he finished speaking, he found a chair and sat down on it. He looked at Bao Jiqiang for a long time, until Bao Jiqiang looked at him and his heart went crazy, and then he said: "Jiqiang, you still have to go out of the city now.
Let's first go to the Zhougong Temple to see how the intruder dealt with the captured officials and generals, and how he dealt with Prince Fu.
If there is a chance, you don't have to come back to the city. First, bring a message to the brothers outside the city, telling them not to worry, and to find a hidden valley outside the city to hide and wait for orders from our family, or
Act on the commander's military orders.
After that, you rush back to Yanshi and report the situation here to the commander-in-chief. If we have any more urgent information, we will use carrier pigeons to send it back to Yanshi.
One more thing, if it's convenient, it's best to get a copy of the bulletin you mentioned about the intruder and give it to our commander to take home and take a look at!"
Bao Jiqiang answered softly: "Here!"
He turned around and asked: "Master Tong, although we have fewer people in the city, if the intruders don't withdraw in a few days, we won't be able to keep up with the food supply. Are you here?"
It’s very dangerous here.”
"Haha, there are hundreds of thousands of people in this city, not to mention the grains we have in hand, if we save a little bit, we can last for several months!"
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After Li Zicheng entered Luoyang City, he first went to the Yamen of the Patrol Department, accompanied by Liu Zongmin and other generals, to see Li Yan's preparations to provide relief to the victims in the city.
Horses guarded the rear.
The "Nine Questions and Nine Advices" notice was also posted on the wall in front of Fuwang Palace. The same group of people gathered around and watched attentively. Some people came too late and couldn't squeeze in, so they had to stand behind the crowd and stand on tiptoe.
Stand on tiptoes, stretch your neck, and look forward from people's heads or the space between their heads.
"Okay! That's great..."
"...That's really nice to say..."
"...It's better to break into the prince's notice... we ordinary people can understand it..."
"...Wang Laoqi...look at Prince Chuang's notice...it still has a singing voice..."
The common people watched and listened very seriously. They didn't even notice the king of Chuang, Li Zicheng, and his entourage approaching them.
"Look, that's King Li Chuang?"
Until this exclamation was shouted out by a commoner who had just turned around, everyone turned around with panic on their faces. They stood in silence and watched King Chuang and his party pass by.
This situation is unprecedented in Luoyang City. It can be said that it is the first time for a big girl to get on the sedan chair!
In the past, if Prince Fu came out of the palace, the streets would be cleared beforehand, and no one would be allowed to peek. If people on the street couldn't avoid it, they would have to kneel down on the street and not raise their heads at all.
And if the governor of Henan Province came to Luoyang, the streets would be quiet, and the people would kneel to greet him. In front of the governor's eight-carriage sedan, there would be guards and honor guards, and someone would sound gongs and shout.
Even when the small magistrate of Luoyang goes to the streets, he still has to sit in a sedan chair carried by four people. A group of county government officials are cheering in front of and behind them. They also hold up green cloth umbrellas and walk in front of the sedan chair, and they run at the front.
The two yamen servants were holding tiger-head signs. One sign said "Avoid" and the other said "Quiet." In front of the tiger-head sign, there was another yamen officer running, playing gongs and shouting, making the street
People walking around quickly retreated to the street to avoid the situation.
But now these common people saw Chuang Wang Li Zicheng wearing simple clothes and riding his horse casually. He neither sounded gongs or shouted, nor dispersed the people on the street. When he looked at him, he even smiled.
He looked at the people on the street.
After King Chuang, the generals and others passed by and entered the palace of King Fu, an old man with white beard who had just been listening to the announcement couldn't help but sighed: "I have lived for more than seventy years, and this is the first time I have seen such a thing."