There is a space for passenger planes in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 268 The drama of occupying Luoyang

Luoyang City, Prince Fu's Mansion.

After Lin Feng reached an agreement with Li Zicheng, he left Deng Hao to lead the guard brigade to monitor the situation. He took Panda and a group of guards to Prince Fu's Mansion.

"Yuanshan, why are you here in person?" Li Xiongzhen greeted him.

"It's not that I don't worry about you."

"Hey, I am really inexperienced in leading the troops in the war. I let Li Zicheng take advantage of it. I'm sorry for you Yuanshan." Li Xiongzhen said sheepishly.

"People always have a process of growth. This time Li Zicheng came just in time and sent someone to take the blame." Lin Feng replied.

"Why take the blame?"

"It means you take the blame when others eat, and you take it in name, but there is no actual benefit."

"Then why should Li Zicheng take the blame?" Li Xiongzhen asked still puzzled.

"Let him take away the title of occupying Luoyang City, and we will actually control Luoyang City."

Lin Feng gave Li Xiongzhen a few pieces of jewelry he took out from the treasury and said, "Take it back to comfort Wanyu."

He then thought for a moment and took ten more boxes of silver in, adding up to a total of 55 taels. Lin Feng's small treasury increased several times in an instant, from more than taels to more than taels.

"Let's go and take a look first." Lin Feng became interested as soon as he heard it. He wanted to see what kind of rich and powerful country it was in Prince Fu's treasury.

A rough estimate shows that the total value of the property in the treasury exceeds four million taels.

"Seal the treasury first and organize an inventory together tomorrow. The jewelry and antiques inside can be handed over to the Luoyang branch for sale. We have no use keeping these things. We should exchange them for money and food as soon as possible." Lin Feng ordered.

The wealth of this King Fu's family almost exceeded the Ming Dynasty's annual silver income, and they refused to pay when the country was in crisis. The Ming Dynasty was wasted to death by these pig-like vassals.

"Of course. Let's not talk about it anymore. Has Prince Fu's treasury been under control?" Lin Feng asked, changing the subject.

Fortunately, what I received this time was mainly gold, which took up little space, otherwise it wouldn’t fit in the plane.

"Hey, I got the order." Li Xiongzhen said happily.

"Understood!" Li Xiongzhen accepted the order.

If you open a box at random, it will be filled with silver ingots, arranged neatly. Lin Feng estimated that one box was about five thousand taels.

Pushing open the huge bronze door of King Fu's palace, Lin Feng asked Panda to lead someone to guard the door, and he walked in alone to check.

Lin Feng did not hesitate, opened the space, and took the ten boxes of gold in. There was too much silver, and the space could not accommodate it.

Lin Feng briefly took a look around King Fu's treasury, then collected some good-looking jewelry into the space, and then returned to the door. Li Xiongzhen had already come over.

"Of course, the treasury is really big. I'm going to send more people to do the counting tomorrow." Li Xiongzhen replied.

After looking at four rooms in a row, they all had similar amounts of silver, adding up to two million taels. This was the most cash Lin Feng had ever seen.

"Can this still be done?"

There were about a hundred boxes in one room, adding up to more than five hundred thousand taels of silver.

Lin Feng then walked inside. Each room was filled with all kinds of rare treasures, precious medicinal materials, antiques, calligraphy and paintings.

It was about a thousand square meters in size and was divided into about ten interconnected rooms. The five or six rooms in front were all filled with neat silver boxes.

When I arrived in the fifth room, I opened the box. Finally, it was not silver, but gold. A box of 5,000 taels of gold. There are ten boxes worth 500,000 taels.

It was dawn the next day.

Li Zicheng ordered Liu Zongmin to leave Luoyang City with 1,300 to 400 peasant troops, taking away the 50,000 taels of silver and a batch of ordnance presented by Lin Feng.

He himself took seven to eight hundred people, followed Lu Jun, and began to stage the drama of occupying Luoyang.

After a city-wide search, Henan political participant Wang Yinchang was first captured. Later, in the Laojun Cave of Yuxuguan, Lu Jun led people to capture alive the Henan magistrate Kang Menghui and dozens of other officials. All the captured officials were tied to carriages and paraded through the streets. .

Under Lin Feng's arrangement, Li Zicheng personally led hundreds of peasant troops, and under the supervision of a team of guards brigade officers and soldiers from Panda, surrounded Ying'en Temple where historical records record that King Fu was hiding, broke open the mountain gate, and captured all the monks in front of the Main Hall. , interrogated the presiding monk Faguang and asked him to hand over King Fu.

Monk Faguang refused to admit it, so Li Zicheng asked his men to kill five monks, and told Monk Faguang that if he didn't tell the monks once, he would kill five people, and finally set fire to the temple.

The monks were so frightened that they cried. The old abbot, Monk Faguang, had no choice but to reveal that King Fu was hiding in a secret cave under the Buddha statue in the main hall.

Two days later, Li Zicheng came forward to hold a meeting to celebrate the "attack on Luoyang" in front of Zhougong Temple. At the meeting, Li Zicheng first announced that King Fu Zhu Changxun had committed adultery, exploited people, and harmed good people, and ordered King Fu to be executed. Zhu Changxun was so frightened that he immediately peed his pants. Regardless of his fat body, he crawled up to Li Zicheng and frantically kowtowed to beg for mercy.

Yinchang, the political participant in Henan who was also pushed aside, couldn't stand it anymore and shouted: "Prince Fu, it's just a death. Why do you have to compromise the dignity of the relatives of the Ming Emperor?"

King Fu didn't listen and still begged frantically for mercy.

"Drag it down and chop it!" Li Zicheng ordered in disgust.

Li Guo led his men to drag out the extremely fat King Fu, and pushed him down on the guillotine. Ignoring his deafening wails, he killed King Fu with one blow.

His fat head rolled to the ground, and the spurting blood stained the guillotine red. The people watching below were also shocked. The most noble vassal king of the Ming Dynasty was chopped to death like a pig.

Both the captured officials and the people in the audience felt that the majesty of the Ming Dynasty collapsed at this moment, and it seemed that the Ming Dynasty was really going to die.

It was naturally Lin Feng's responsibility to kill King Fu. If he didn't kill him, how could he seize the wealth of King Fu's Mansion safely. And let Li Zicheng kill King Fu, so that Emperor Chongzhen could direct his anger at him.

Li Zicheng had even dug up the ancestral tomb of Emperor Chongzhen, so naturally he didn't want to commit another crime of killing King Fu. Moreover, he had always looked down on these Ming vassal kings who were waiting for death, so if he was allowed to make his own decision, he would definitely kill him with one knife.

Then, Li Zicheng was preparing to continue announcing the crimes of Kang Menghui, the prefect of Henan, and the crimes of Wang Yinchang, the big landowners in Luoyang counties, Mengjin Sun Tingsheng, Xin'an Dynasty Shan, Wang Yiming of Song County, and others, and carry out a purge after the siege.

At this time, Li Zicheng's general Yuan Zongdi hurried in and shouted: "Your Majesty, the Zhenming Army is attacking the city outside Luoyang City. We can no longer withstand it."

Of course, Lin Feng arranged for Lu Jun to lead a battalion to fight in Shanxi. He and Fang Xiaolin went to the north of the city, integrated Fang Tiedan's refugee army, and created a massive siege.

The peasant army defending the city was also disguised as officers and soldiers of the Shanxi First Brigade. They resisted briefly and then retreated. The army outside the city invaded Luoyang City like a tide.

"What! The Zhenming Army is attacking the city. Kill these people and retreat immediately!" Li Zicheng gave the full order in a dramatic manner.

In the audience, Kang Menghui, the prefect of Henan, Wang Yinchang, the chief minister, and others were overjoyed when they heard the news that someone was attacking the city. When they heard that they were going to be killed immediately, they immediately fell into despair.

Suddenly, a group of people in the audience burst out, chopped down several peasant soldiers guarding the area, and then rushed up to approach the captured officials.

At this time, Li Zicheng had already pretended to lead his people to the city gate to support them and left. Li Guo and others who were left behind pretended to be defeated and immediately retreated.

Finally, the lives of Kang Menghui, the prefect of Henan, and Wang Yinchang, the chief minister, were saved. This was of course arranged by Lin Feng, otherwise there would be no way to tell the court that Li Zicheng conquered Luoyang and killed Prince Fu.

West of Luoyang City.

Li Zicheng took the remaining eight or nine hundred people, pulled dozens of carts full of food, and prepared to evacuate Luoyang City. Lin Feng and his personal guard brigade saw him off at the city gate.

"Governor Lin is such a trustworthy person. He keeps his promise to you! I, Li Zicheng, owe this favor." Li Zicheng said goodbye with his hands in hand.

"King Chuang, you will have time to regret! Here is a piece of news for you. Zhang Xianzhong has rebelled again in Gucheng. You can go find him to join him, but the Eighth Kings are very cruel to the people and have killed countless people. I will not spare him if I encounter him in the future.

I suggest you take over Sichuan instead, as this is also a good place to settle down. Or you can go all the way to the west, where there is a vast world. Lin Feng persuaded.

"Isn't it the Western Region to the west? There are deserts over there, how can we survive?"

"After passing through the Western Region, there is a very fertile land in the far west, called Europa. The people there are blond and blue-eyed. If you don't have a suitable place to go in the future, you can go all the way to the west."

"Thank you, Governor Lin, for your guidance. Farewell!" Li Zicheng stopped being verbose. After saying this, he patted his horse and led the team out of Luoyang City.

When Lin Feng entered Luoyang City with the re-dressed Zhenming Army, Henan Magistrate Kang Menghui, Councilor Wang Yinchang and other officials saw Lin Feng as if they were seeing relatives they hadn't seen for more than ten years, and they were all very affectionate. They had just walked around the gate of hell and were suddenly rescued. Of course they were extremely happy and very grateful to the savior.

"Hey, it's a pity that we came a step too late. His Royal Highness Prince Fu has been killed. I'm afraid we won't be able to explain to the emperor." Lin Feng said pretentiously.

"The murder of King Fu was all done by the thief Li who killed that day. We must immediately write to the emperor to ask for credit for the Marquis. Luoyang is not the Marquis's defense zone. The crime of trapping the vassal will never fall on you." Several officials quickly expressed their goodwill.

"Our Zhenming Army was only conducting long-distance training. When we passed near Luoyang and heard that it was occupied by Li Zicheng's bandits, we came to recover the city. Since Luoyang is not under the jurisdiction of our Zhenming Army, we don't have many people here. We will take a rest and then withdraw." Right." Lin Feng continued.

"Master Marquis, we must not withdraw our troops. Once you leave, what will happen if Li Zicheng comes back? We will write to the emperor together and ask your Zhenming Army to temporarily garrison Luoyang City." Kang Da Prefect quickly persuaded him. He did not want to come back again. It’s been a long journey through hell.

"Yes, yes! How can the city of Luoyang be defenseless for a day? Now that all the officers and soldiers in Luoyang have been killed by Li bandits, we can only ask the Marquis to lend a hand for support. We are willing to provide food and wages as soon as possible." Henan Political Participant Wang Yinchang also hurriedly He persuaded that he was also worried that Lin Feng was leaving because of the lack of food and salary, and he also took care of the food and salary issues.

"Okay, since the officials and elders in Luoyang are willing to fight, my Zhenming Army will temporarily take over the defense of Luoyang City." Lin Feng agreed.

"This is really great. Thank you Lord Marquis for your kindness!" Everyone expressed gratitude.

This big drama of occupying Luoyang was so successful that this group of people were sold and helped count the money. Lin Feng's Zhenming Army finally stayed here with the unanimous support of Luoyang officials and people.

(End of this chapter)