The rise of the prince

Chapter 286 Worship Crisis
At dusk, when the sun was setting and the city walls were gilded, Di Zhi led a team of soldiers to inspect the city.

Luzhou City is no better than Kaiyuan, but it is also a big city, with four wide gates, of which the south gate of the main gate is the widest, enough for three cars to run side by side without affecting each other.

Struggling back from the brink of starvation, he defeated the rebels and seized the food supplies. Now the morale in Luzhou City is high, and the people all shout the name of King Pingnan.

Wherever Di Zhi went, the soldiers all stood up straight, because everyone knew that he was a general following the prince.

Now there are 5000 defenders around Luzhou City, [-] Xiang troops, [-] Shenji Battalion, and [-] horse troops. Luzhou's military strength has also expanded to about [-] in mid-April.

And more than half of them are in his hands.

Di Zhi looked at the sunset in the sky, and every time he thought of these things, he felt uneasy and filled with emotion.

He is not a servant of King Pingnan, and meeting King Pingnan was also a chance. Because his family was poor and had no money to manage the officials, he was assigned to serve King Pingnan. At that time, King Pingnan was still the name of the people. The capital was greatly harmed, and he was not crowned king, and he was only a small capital.

Later, because of that incident, he also made a fortune and was promoted to the deputy commander of the army, and then the prince just happened to become his boss.

The intersection of the two was nothing more than this, and King Pingnan confidently handed over half of the troops to him!

He is a nobody, with no family background, and no military exploits.Even in Luzhou, which is isolated from the imperial court, if he has any malicious intentions, the prince will be in danger. Even so, King Pingnan still did this.

Every time he thought of these things, he couldn't help feeling grateful and filled with emotion. If he hadn't met King Pingnan, he would have been just a little capital all his life.

Di Zhi heaved a sigh of relief, clung to the hard bricks, and made a vague determination in his heart.

Since the prince believed him so much, he couldn't let him believe him wrongly.

Slowly, he came to his senses. At this time, there were a group of people tied together with several wooden rafters under the city tower, carrying a statue, and incense sticks in front of it. There was also a yellow paper on it, which read "King Pingnan, General Leishen, you have immeasurable merit", and there were people beating gongs and drums around, talking loudly about King Pingnan's deeds.

Wherever he went, the people knelt and worshiped one after another, which was very lively.

In Taoist sacrifices, the white paper sacrifices the dead, and the yellow paper buys off the ghosts and gods of the heaven and earth, which is a psychic thing.The statue is pasted with yellow paper, which means respecting the prince as a god. As for why it is the god of thunder, it is probably because of the sound of the guns fired by Shenjiying.

Di Zhi frowned. He was naturally happy that the people loved King Pingnan so much. Luzhou was full of confidence and he was also happy that he was not afraid of the rebels.

But as an officer of the Forbidden Army, he knew in his heart that they hadn't won this battle yet, they were just fighting for a while, and now they underestimated the enemy in such a blatant way, and preached so much, I'm afraid that the arrogant soldiers will lose.

This trend must not be encouraged, he thought in his heart.But it was embarrassing for the other party to carry the statue of King Pingnan, praising the merits of King Pingnan
Di Zhi stopped and watched the crowd from a distance walk across the stone bridge and towards the city. He was in a dilemma, hesitating for a long time and could not stop.

More and more people gathered in the distance, and the people kneeling down gradually blocked the avenue. Everyone chanted the name of King Pingnan, General Leishen, and the words "General Leishen is here, Luzhou will never be defeated", and some people worshiped with fragrant paper soup and rice.
Seeing the scene like this, and thinking of the kindness King Pingnan had shown him, Di Zhi finally gritted his teeth and said, "Come on, stop those people!"

The soldiers around him were watching the commotion at the top of the city. When they saw him say that suddenly, they couldn't believe it for a while, so Di Zhi gave the order loudly again. Now the soldiers finally understood, but they still hesitated.

"Can't you hear me!" Di Zhi said angrily, "Go and stop those people immediately, if they don't follow the military law!"

At this time, the surrounding soldiers were all frightened. After hesitating for a while, the soldiers at the top of the city rushed down the city wall according to the order, and then chased after them.

In the past few days, Li Xingzhou has been eating at the Princess Mansion, and he has been there more often. He is also used to calling this place the Princess Mansion, because as the people of Luzhou say, his uncle drinks tea and reads in the room every day. , I don’t know anything, I’m idle, I don’t care about anything, and my sister-in-law takes care of the family business, which is pitiful.

Every day he would go from the Princess Mansion to the Luzhou Yamen, where many things had to be arranged, and he was always on guard against rebel counterattacks.

In the morning, Li Xingzhou was looking at the hydrological documents. These are the hydrological data recorded by the Huaihua Prefecture every year. The west of Luzhou is connected to the Dajiang River. If there is no obstruction from the Suzhou rebels, the boats can go directly south from Kyoto, and then pass Suzhou and turn north to arrive at City West Ferry.

Yan Shen is training the Shenji Battalion in the Martial Arts Field, Qi Rui is ordered to investigate and patrol outside the city, Di Zhi is in charge of the defense of the city, and he is the only one left in the government office.

Li Xingzhou handed over the hundreds of rebels captured in the war, as well as the Universal Immortal, to Qi Fang.

But that woman won't show mercy because the Universal Immortal harmed her father, Qidong, the magistrate of Huaihua.

The old man is old and likes alchemy. He is weak, lethargic, and dizzy. He can see the symptoms of heavy metal poisoning at a glance. In the end, he was tricked by the universal immortal to eat dew on the mountain for a few days. He was so hungry that he was as thin as a stick. Then he fell ill in bed.

This account will definitely be counted on the head of Universal Immortal.

But Li Xingzhou knew that the old man Qidong was addicted to alchemy in all likelihood, leading to heavy metal poisoning. Maybe the great immortals tricked him away from his smoky hall, which would be good for his health instead.

Qidong boasted to himself that his "vajra body" is not afraid of the scorching heat, hot water, and no sweating, which is the result of years of hard work and so on.

Li Xingzhou was amused by him. It was obvious that he was poisoned by heavy metals, his senses were paralyzed, and his skin feedback was slow. He didn't even feel that he had burned himself.Humans not only breathe through their lungs, but their skin also breathes all the time, so if you wrap your whole body skin with tight airtight material, and then violently move it, you can "suffocate" to death.

It is estimated that Qidong will not be able to live for a few years in this situation, and it is almost a loss of life.

But he didn't bother to take care of it, because some things couldn't be persuaded with just a few words. The old man's idea of ​​immortals and gods was deeply rooted. He thought his life would be long and let him die by himself. Li Xingzhou had too many things on his hands to take care of them.

And the rebel Qifang will definitely not let it go, his elder brother died at the hands of the rebels.

After reading the hydrological data, Li Xingzhou already had a general understanding of the Luzhou Ferry in the west of the city. He remembered the draft, tide fluctuations, etc. in his heart. After a moment of relaxation, he drank a cup of tea and couldn't help but think of everyone in the palace.

Although thousands of miles away, he can still clearly remember everyone's voice and smile.
Just at this time, Qifang knocked on the door and came in, and stood aside after saluting.

"What are you doing here? What's the matter?" Li Xingzhou asked puzzled.

Qifang was expressionless: "The subordinates are here to wait for King Pingnan's dispatch."

When Li Xingzhou heard this, he burst out laughing. Of course he understood that Qifang was dissatisfied with his monopolizing power and squeezing them out of Qijia, a local snake, so he said on the surface that he was on order, but in fact he came here to complain.

"My lord, what's so funny." Qi Fang was not angry.

"Don't stand still, sit down and talk, prepare to say something, drink tea and talk slowly." Li Xingzhou stood up with a smile, and put the half-drinked tea on her table.

Now it was Qifang's turn to lose her temper.

Li Xingzhou didn't care about her, so he just left her there, stretched himself, and then looked at his hydrological records. He had plenty of ways to deal with a subordinate like her.

After about half an hour, Qi Fang finally couldn't bear it anymore, stood up and said, "What are you doing with those hydrographic charts?"

(End of this chapter)