stubborn thief

Chapter 414 Disaster in North Sichuan
In the evening of the third day of August.

On the table in the yamen of the Marshal's Mansion, there were four finely crafted and plainly decorated wooden boxes.

The box was filled with lime and sealed with the heads of four generals. They were Zhang Yingjia, the guard at Erlang Pass in Baoning Prefecture, Sichuan, Huang Chaoxi, the commander, and Guo Zhanchen, the guard at Baizhang Pass, and Chen Zhong, the commander.

Along with the four heads, 500 taels of gold and a joint letter from Daba Mountain at the border of Shaanxi and Sichuan were also sent.

According to the letter, the person who wrote the letter was Yao Zhangru, a student of Hanzhong, whose nickname shook the sky. In his early years, he joined forces with Wang Daliang of Hanzhong. Ning Erfu.

Today there are [-] soldiers, divided into Yao Zhangru who shakes the sky, Huanglong who is the star of Zhongdou, Zhang Xian who is the king of neatness, Wang Youjin who wins the world, Yuan Tao who fights for the sky, Yang Bingyun who fights for the world, Hujiusi who is one hundred thousand people, Liu Weiming who forces rebellion, and Bai who shakes the sky. Fifteen Battalions of Jiaolong, Black Tiger King Wang Gao, Shuntian King Liang Shizheng, Huang Yaozi Jing Keqin, Little Han King Zhao Duoduo, Little Qin King Wang Guangxing, and Huoyan King Ma Chao.

If the Generalissimo intends to accept it, they are willing to be the pioneers of the Marshal's Mansion going south to Sichuan.

Liu Chengzong put down the letter, frowning heavily, and saw Fan Sanlang who was delivering the letter outside the yamen came back, saw his expression, walked around behind and pinched his shoulders and asked, "Whose heads belong to these?"

"The big boss in Bashanli was a Hanzhong thief in the early years. He said in the letter that he would join him and help me enter Sichuan. He killed the four guards in eastern Sichuan and sent his head here. Mostly, he meant that he was afraid of being underestimated."

Liu Chengzong's face was very distressed, this Yao Zhangru would be very troublesome to others, he just planned to build a title very seriously on his side, and then sent a joint letter requesting to belong to him, fifteen people fucking eleven kings.

And things are not easy to handle, he can't afford to pay for the formal collection; if he doesn't go through the strict collection process, if he enters Sichuan, who will help Sichuan gain a firm foothold?
After all, it wasn't Luo Rucai in the early years who met Li Laozhen. After all these years of rebellion, the combat effectiveness of the rebels or thieves has already increased.

What's more, the number of [-] is very sensitive to Liu Chengzong. After all, he himself feeds and pays [-] soldiers. He knows the appetite of this gold-swallowing monster best.

Unless Yao Zhangru has de facto separated, their military discipline will not be good.

It is also impossible for them to separate the regime in eastern Sichuan. If it is separated, the letter sent will not be like this.

Therefore, Liu Shizi already had a rough guess about the situation of Yaozhangru's [-]th Battalion in his heart. Their strength should be true, their military discipline is not good, and they are wandering in eastern Sichuan and northern Sichuan.

Thinking about this clearly, Liu Chengzong shook his head, put the distress behind him, waved his hands and said: "Please craftsmen to make four wooden bodies for the head, put them in the coffin and bury them, and the money for the coffin will come from the gold they sent. Buried under the drying yard in Xishan."

He warned: "Don't bury Dongshan. The four officers and soldiers went down alone and were alone. They turned around and were beaten, and then they came here in the middle of the night to beg me to move the grave."

Fan Sanlang was amused by him, and then he heard him ask seriously: "How long has the messenger been here?"

"Four days, two people, a dog-headed military division and a young guard, the master arranged for them to live outside the city, in the yard where Hauge was."

Hearing this, Liu Chengzong sneered, that courtyard will be the designated guest house of the Marshal's Mansion from now on.

Fan Sanlang asked: "Meet them?"

"Don't worry, isn't your second brother-in-law also here? He came all the way to see me. Let's see him first. He also lives outside the city?"

Fan Sanlang nodded, but followed closely with some hesitation: "Let him wait, I think there is something wrong with him."

The second brother-in-law's name is Che Cai, an old scholar from Xizhou, Shanxi. He ran all the way to Lanzhou in a frenzy. The most weird thing is that he brought two Shaanxi Juren and six Lanzhou scholars to cross the Yellow River. Jing Xiaoliu brought him into Hehuang.

However, they got stuck in the carrier. If they hadn't got a car, they said that they wanted to see General Fan, an old scholar from the Marshal's Mansion. The nine of them, let alone Liu Chengzong, couldn't even get through Uncle Nian.

Liu Chengyun is so smart, and he is the chief official who really takes root in the local area and manages the military and civil affairs of Hehuang.

Not to mention Lanzhou's Juren and Xiucai, in the Hehuang Valley alone, there are only four Juren and 92 scholars left after the war.

Let's put it this way, anyone who didn't run, there was a reason why he couldn't.

Some families have elderly people who are not suitable for long-distance travel, or they themselves are old people. They could not escape to Lanzhou when the war broke out, so they took their families and hid in the mountains.

There are also some people who hid in the mountains, they are confused people who miscalculated the situation.

There are also two kinds. There are 47 scholars who came from poor backgrounds and are resigned to fate; and 24 are from similar backgrounds to Liu Shizi, who stayed as representatives to help the villagers and elders and Liu thief.

Especially for the 24 people behind, their behavior patterns are surprisingly similar. They all proposed to donate money to build the fort in the village as early as Liu Chengzong led the army to advance into Hehuang to occupy Xiningwei. Everyone is ready to fight to the death as long as they are robbed.

As a result, the army of the Marshal's Mansion ignored them at all. After defeating the Allied Forces of the Five Towns, they decided to call Hehuang. They squatted in the fort and didn't know what to do. If not, put the pox doctor in the fort.

After a little bit of testing, they went back home to farm.

Even now, these people have different reasons for staying, but the same thing is that there is not much mutual trust with the Marshal's Mansion, and people are very cooperative. It is no problem to be a doctor of agriculture in each township, and to be a representative of the township when something happens. ; But if the Marshal's Mansion wants to use them as officials, they have to flee to the mountains.

Liu Chengyun never forced them. Even though he was not a scholar, he was by his side guarding scholars and juren. He understood this mentality.

There may be some unintelligent, ignorant of current affairs, and some unlucky ones who have achieved fame and fame, but there are absolutely no fools.

When the common people encounter a military disaster and drought, following the soldiers to fight their lives is to change their fate. In the worst case, they lose their lives; Can be divided into places.

Fame and fame are not afraid of a moment of downfall. They just want to have something to eat and live. If they are not on a dead end, few people will seek illusory wealth and honor. They only want to get through it steadily and wait for the situation to stabilize. .

In the past, a scholar is still a scholar, a person is still a person, knowledge is power.

Suddenly, several Juren and scholars from Lanzhou popped up, saying that they were going to defect to the Marshal's Mansion... Only the leader who was born as a grassroots bandit would believe this kind of nonsense.

It's just that Che said that he is a fellow villager of General Shanfan from Fan's family in Shanxi. Chengyun thought it would be okay to put them in a new city. Anyway, his second brother has always been very wary. The last sentence is about the brave general Song Shouzhen.

Regardless of the tricks, Chengyun believes that these few talented scholars are playing tricks and are not his second brother's opponent.

On the contrary, if you send it over, you can still watch a good show.

This is a good show because Che Cai said that General Fan Sanlang is a man, a veteran of the Liao frontier army, his arms are thicker than Che Cai's legs, and he can use a hundred-jin strong bow to beat eight of them one at a time.

Both of them were dumbfounded when they met.

Che Cai heard that there was General Fan Sanlang in the Marshal's Mansion, and he wanted to find Fan Sanlang from Fanjiashan, but he didn't expect to meet Du Qiaoer; Du Qiaoer thought that Fanjiashan was alive, but he didn't expect to meet him It turned out to be Master Che whose second sister had been a concubine for three days.

Meeting old acquaintances in a foreign land is a very happy thing, not to mention that survivors from two neighboring villages met in distant Qinghai.

Even though Fan Sanlang only met Checai once in the past, and Checai had only been her brother-in-law for three days, Master Che was very kind to Fan Sanlang's family back then. A gown with full sleeves and colorful makeup.

During those three days, Mr. Che from the neighboring village was the hope of their family.

Fan Sanlang repeatedly ordered the guards to take good care of Che Xiucai, and even made preparations in his heart. If Che Cai asked for an officer, she could help to say a good word to Liu Chengzong.

But when she heard that Che came here to see Liu Chengzong, her enthusiasm was a little less.

The car is obviously here to handle errands. It can drive a scholar from Shanxi, travel thousands of miles to Qinghai, and keep him safe and sound. Fan Sanlang doesn't think he should speak out on this kind of matter.

Liu Chengzong didn't care about this kind of thing, he guessed what Fan Sanlang was thinking, and patted his hand on the shoulder: "For good and bad things, you will only know when you see them. Since you said see you later, let him wait a little longer." , I will see the dog-headed military division you mentioned first."

He was very interested in the group of shakers in his heart, he thought that the first person who would send him a letter from Sichuan would be Zhang Xianzhong who entered Hanzhong, but he didn't expect it to be this group of Hanzhong thieves who followed Wang Daliang to rebel in the early years.

Not long after, the dog-headed military division that Fan Sanlang was talking about was brought to the hall together with his little guard.

Only after meeting him did Liu Chengzong know why Saburo called him a dog-headed military adviser.

This man was wearing a brand-new blue satin Taoist robe, a square scarf and glasses. He was obviously a Confucian scholar, but someone had stabbed the word Tianwang with cinnabar on his face, and his whole temperament was like a doormat.

On the other hand, the little guard behind him, who was wearing clothes with his belt in his hand, looked only fourteen or fifteen years old. At this age, he was not like an adult, nor like a child, but he looked like a man with a murderous face.

The little thing has a doll head like a Mongolian, and he wears black cotton trousers on his lower body, his calves are tied with a row, and he holds a belt and a pair of heavy cavalry boots in his hand.

The guards of the Marshal's Mansion handed him the short burqa with sleeves reaching to the elbow, and left with a crotch armor with a large armor on the half of his body.

Tian Bao, the gatekeeper of the Shuai Mansion, stripped him naked in the street before he was willing to let him in. This kid looked young, but his whole body was like a weapon arsenal.

There is a specially made two-foot waist knife handle on the waist, a short knife handle under the short burqa, a hatchet pinned to the back waist, three throwing knives can be taken out from the belt, boots are taken off, and the calves are wrapped around Also tied two daggers.

It was this kid who spoke first. He knelt down on the ground, put his boots aside and kowtowed, then raised his head and said, "Qin Ke, the son of Shaking Heaven, kowtowed to the Generalissimo."

After finishing speaking, Qin Keduo turned his head and glared at the Confucian scholar: "Kowtow!"

The Confucian scholar was stared at, his whole body twitched in fright, and he quickly bowed down and said: "Student Bazhou student Chen Min, I kowtow to the Generalissimo."

Sitting in the hall, Liu Chengzong saw the strange combination of these two people, and said: "Get up and talk, is your surname the adopted son?"

"Back to Mr. Shuai, my father picked me up from the Nanjiang River six years ago. I am the eldest of sixteen adopted sons."

Liu Chengzong nodded, and just about to say something, he saw the student Chen Min just stood up, suddenly took a big step to the side, kowtowed and kowtowed, speaking quickly and urgently: "Please take care of me, handsome man!" Life, please help the handsome man!"

Qin Keduo, who hadn't got up yet, frowned suddenly, and reached for his waist, but found nothing, got up and was about to rush over, but was stopped by Liu Chengzong in the hall: "Don't dare to move!"

The furious Qin Ke was taken aback for a moment, as if he was thinking whether to move, so he was held down by the guards beside him, and then Liu Chengzong asked Chen Min: "You get up and talk, what's the matter?"

Chen Min didn't dare to get up or raise his head, but he just said to himself: "The thieves from the Yellow Emperor crossed the mountains and entered Sichuan in the first year of Chongzhen. They occupied Bashan as bandits. They plundered people and attacked cities and villages whenever they met."

"The student was taken into captivity last year. The thief saw that I could read, so he tied him with a rope. He didn't let go until this year. They also forced me to tattoo on my face. If I escape back, I will surely reward the government for capturing me. I also ask the commander to save my life, student. Be a cow or a horse in return!"

Liu Chengzong was puzzled and said, "Don't you know that I'm also a traitor?"

"Students know it, but after a few days in Huangzhong, the common people don't see weapons and weapons, and they kiss each other. It's a world of bliss. The commander-in-chief and the bandits who shake the yellow stick are definitely not the same people!"

"You fart!"

Qin Keduo was pressed tightly by the guards, his eyes were staring at Chen Min, almost spouting fire, his teeth were about to be crushed, and as soon as he finished speaking, he cursed: "You dog, it's a waste of me to pick grass roots and feed you a dog!" Bastard!"

Chen Min stood up straight and swore to the sky: "The students saw it with their own eyes. Last year, the bandits robbed Guangyuan. The smoke made a fire, killing more than four hundred people!"

The scholar spoke angrily, and the little thief became even more annoyed: "We are not like this!"

Liu Chengzong's evaluation of Yao Zhangru was a little lower in his heart, not to mention the murderous place, but the chosen messenger, why did he come here.

In the Ming Dynasty, so many county government offices were overwhelmed, and they came from Daba Mountain to Hehuang to sue?

He asked Qin Keduo: "What he said is false, to frame you?"

Qin Keduo gouged out Chen Min angrily again, and looked up at Liu Chengzong, but his momentum was a little lower: "No, if a big man dares to act bravely, I set the fire... But we don't kill people on sight, It’s not about killing people at the beginning!”

Liu Chengzong leaned back and did not speak.

Qin Keduo said: "My father and they are all from Qin. There were only more than 80 people when they picked me up. Now our thirteen families have 3 people. How could everyone be kidnapped?"

"Jianmen, Erlang, Chaotian, Qipan, and Baishui in northern Sichuan are surrounded by dangerous barriers, surrounded by officers and soldiers. At first we could only tie up some stupid gentry and ask for ransom; we broke some sticks to rob caravans and mountain guests, and later the officers and soldiers came. Only when we were beaten back did we have some weapons."

Qin Keduo said: "My father always said that the people in northern Sichuan are aggressive and aggressive, and those Dazhai natives are tough, and the gentry are training country soldiers everywhere, and they will kill us whenever they meet. Are they only allowed to kill us when they meet us, and we are not allowed to kill them when we meet them?" kill?"

Liu Chengzong probably understood that Yao Huang and his gang were different from the thieves he knew.

When other people rebelled, they were all starving people who became rogues and moved forward again in the process of fighting the official army. Whether they became rebels or rebels, they were all troops against the imperial court in the final analysis.

Yaohuang is different. As the survivors of Wang Daliang's failed uprising in his early years, they were too weak, so they ran to a place surrounded by defenses, gnawed grass roots in the mountains, and lost all the correctness of their own poor people's uprising.

They are bandits and bandits, very traditional bandits and bandits, who are proficient in robbery, kidnapping, and murder.

If things go on like this, the hatred is so strong that it can't be dissolved, and the whole Sichuan will know their evil deeds. This is a disaster that is about to happen, and it is the same for the people and them. It is a disaster.

Because once this happens, in a few years, any leader who wants to have people in Sichuan must destroy them first.

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)