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Chapter 13 I want to avenge them!

Liu Xiaoshan was indeed missing because he ran away.

Run down the mountain and surrender!

As a result, he was discovered by patrolling soldiers before reaching the foot of the mountain.

"Enemy attack!"

The soldier yelled, and immediately drew his bow and pointed it at him!

Seeing this, Liu Xiaoshan quickly raised his hand, hid behind a tree and shouted:

"My lord! Don't shoot the arrow, I'm here to surrender!"

The soldier hesitated for a moment and did not let go of his hand, but still looked at Liu Xiaoshan vigilantly.

"Come slowly!"

Liu Xiaoshan cautiously walked out from behind the tree with his hands raised. At this moment, a group of soldiers from the Yongwei Battalion who heard the news rushed up and grabbed Liu Xiaoshan, tied their hands and brought them in front of Lu Xiangsheng.

When Liu Xiaoshan saw Lu Xiangsheng, he fell to his knees and cried loudly.

"My lord, have mercy, I surrender. I was forced to rebel by Wang Er, I don't want to die!"

"What's your name?"

"Master, the younger one is Liu Xiaoshan, from Baishui County."

"How many people are there on the mountain?"

"42."

"Why did you surrender?"

"Wang Er hit me! Please look, my lord, your face is still swollen." After saying that, he turned his face to the side to show Lu Xiangsheng.

Huang Degong on the side moved the torch forward, saw Liu Xiaoshan's face was red and swollen, and nodded to Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng waved his hand, ordered someone to take Liu Xiaoshan down, and turned to look at Zhou Yuji and the others.

"What do you think?"

"I think it should be true," Zhou Yuji said, and Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan also agreed.

"Regardless of whether it's true or not, wait until tomorrow before going up the mountain, and just be careful at night."

"Yes!"

Lu Xiangsheng had no intention of attacking the mountain, but Wang Er was out of control.

"Second brother! Liu Xiaoshan must have surrendered down the mountain, what should we do?" One person asked Wang Er worriedly.

Wang Er's face was gloomy, he didn't expect such a thing to happen at this juncture.He glanced at Zhong Guangdao, and found that his face was also full of despair.

"We have no way out. We will continue to break through tonight. Life and death each have their own destiny! Brothers, if my Wang Er encounters misfortune, you should surrender to the government and save your useful life to avenge me in the future!"

After speaking, he took the lead and rushed down the mountain.

He knew that he would definitely not survive, and he wanted to use his own death to exchange a glimmer of hope for his brother.

Seeing that Wang Er was so tragic, everyone's blood surged up, and they rushed down the mountain after him.

If they were facing ordinary local officers and soldiers, they might still be able to break out of the encirclement with their enthusiasm.But what they encountered was the Valiant Battalion, well-armed Valiant Battalion.

The fighting lasted only for a moment. When Liu Xiaoshan was brought over to identify people, there were corpses lying on the ground.

They didn't intend to surrender, and King Lu Yan didn't intend to keep them alive. There were 42 corpses, one of which was quite a few.

These people must be killed, and keeping them can only become a disaster.Not every rebel thought of robbing the rich and helping the poor, some even robbed and killed innocent poor people.This momentum must be stopped with their blood, even if it is only temporarily suppressed.

In the early morning of the second day, Lu Xiangsheng ordered people to dig a big hole and buried the bodies of these people.

They rebel damn it, but respect it.

Since then, Wang Er, the little man who opened the prelude to the peasant uprising in the Ming Dynasty, died at the hands of Lu Xiangsheng more than a year earlier.

Lu Xiangsheng left [-] infantry in Shaanxi to stabilize the situation, while he brought [-] cavalry from the Yongwei Battalion and returned to Beijing non-stop.

After entering the twelfth lunar month, the weather is already too cold for people to stretch out their hands.

Zhu Youjian stood in front of the hall and looked at the distant eaves in a quiet trance.

During this period of time, he went out of the city several times and met more and more refugees.

These skinny and hungry refugees couldn't even make a loud noise when they knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. Some were already lying on the side of the road dying, and they might lose their lives at any time.He once ordered all prefectures and counties to properly arrange the passing refugees and not to expel them, but the number of refugees flocking to the capital has only increased.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian smiled self-deprecatingly. It seems that the imperial decree of himself, the emperor, can't go very far.

In other words, for some people, it is just a rag.

"Wang Banban, should Lu Xiangsheng arrive?"

"Long live back, I guess it will be these two days."

"Um"

Oh, I can't wait!
On the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhu Youjian finally received the report that Lu Xiangsheng had arrived outside the city.

"Haha! Wang Banban! Lu Xiangsheng is back, call him into the palace! I want to see him!"

On the platform, Zhu Youjian saw Lu Xiangsheng who hadn't seen him for more than two months.

"Qing is tired."

"Serving Your Majesty, don't dare to say I'm tired!"

"Haha" Zhu Youjian smiled, and then asked:

"How about Liu Yuanbin?"

"The minister and Liu cooperate with each other tacitly." Lu Xiangsheng said seriously.

What he didn't know was that before the expedition, Zhu Youjian sent someone to pass an oral order to Liu Yuanbin, telling him to obey Lu Xiangsheng's arrangements and not interfere with his military operations without authorization.

"That's good. Do you have any interesting experiences in suppressing bandits along the way?"

Zhu Youjian's question stopped Lu Xiangsheng from asking, and he was silent for a while.

"May I ask Your Majesty, what kind of knowledge are you talking about?"

"There are refugees along the way?"

"A lot!"

"Why so many?"

"Official corruption, natural disasters."

"Any more?"

Zhu Youjian stared at Lu Xiangsheng with piercing eyes, as if trying to pierce his soul.Lu Xiangsheng's scalp went numb when he saw him, and he knelt down on the ground.

"Chen, I dare not say."

"Get up and tell the truth!" Zhu Youjian said every word.

"I went to Shaanxi to suppress the bandits this time, and saw many unbearable things. Shaanxi has been suffering from drought for years, and the land is barren. In addition, taxes and corvee are too heavy, and famines are everywhere. The courageous rebels, the timid run out, can't escape. Those who move are waiting to die. Many places have been exhausted, and people eat each other."

"Where's the government?" Zhu Youjian's heart became colder and colder, and his tone became colder.

"Do nothing!"

"Okay! What a do-nothing! I know what kind of officials I use! I know why there are so many refugees in this capital. Hahaha!"

Seeing that Zhu Youjian was extremely angry, he smiled back, stood up from the Panlong throne, and walked back and forth.Lu Xiangsheng was so frightened that he knelt down on the ground again.

"Minister, don't spit too fast! Please punish the crime, Your Majesty!"

"Yes! Lu Xiangsheng, you are guilty! You should kill all those officials who sit back and watch the people under their rule die of hunger! What use is it for me to support a group of corpses who are vegetarians? Ah?"

Hearing Zhu Youjian's furious voice next to his ear, Lu Xiangsheng's body trembled violently, lying on the ground without daring to say a word.Even Wang Chengen and the serving servants were so frightened that they fell to their knees and trembled all over.

They have never seen the emperor so angry, like a fierce tiger that chooses to devour people, opening its bloody mouth to devour people at any time.

After a long time, Zhu Youjian calmed down.

He said softly in a slightly hoarse voice:

"The officials appointed by me made my people hungry, so they picked up their hoes and rebelled. I want to avenge them."

(End of this chapter)