Aspiration

Chapter 95 Rebellion
Lu Weiqi explained his purpose.

King Fu was furious.

"What, you want me to donate 5 taels of silver? Dreaming!" Fu Wang heard that everyone discussed asking him to donate [-] taels of silver, and he almost wanted to kill someone.

"No way. Your Highness, there is no money, soldiers want to clamor, and the people are unwilling to go to the city to defend the city. Once Li Zicheng captures the city, everything will be destroyed." Lu Weiqi persuaded earnestly.

"I won't give it! Defending the city is the business of you ministers. The imperial salary supports you, and now it's up to you to do your best. You want to play against me. Huh, don't think about it!" Fu Wang was arrogant and unreasonable.

Fu Wang was unreasonable, and Lu Weiqi was unreasonable.

"I'm going out to guard the city now. Death in battle is a worthy death. Your Highness, you are responsible for guarding your inner city. The old minister can't serve you anymore." Lu Weiqi turned around and left.

When King Fu saw this, he knew that this old minister with personality could do anything, so he hurriedly said, "Oh, oh, don't go, we have something to discuss. How about this, I will donate 500 taels of silver, no matter how much, it will be impossible." .”

Lu Weiqi sighed and didn't say much, knowing that the king's life was not long and there was no need to do his work anymore.

It's better to go to work as the commander-in-chief Wang Shaoyu. It is the right way to ask him to defend the city desperately.

Governor Li Fengxian is in Kaifeng, and he is always thinking about the situation in Luoyang.However, there is no way to inquire about Luoyang now.Roads to and from Luoyang and Kaifeng have been blocked.

The road inspectors, town officials, magistrates, push officials, magistrates, and local gentry still "understood the righteousness, and they donated 1 silver vehicles for emergency relief. The magistrate also moved out the silver for a total of 500 taels. In this way, the total [-] taels of silver were raised.

Lu Weiqi shook his head with a wry smile, a drop in the bucket.

The whole city was mobilized, soldiers and civilians went to the city, rolling logs, stones, bows and arrows, knives and guns, and other things guarding the city went to the city.

Li Zicheng asked Li Laiheng to go to the city to instigate rebellion.

It is reported that since the officers and soldiers have owed their salaries for more than eight months, the officers and soldiers in the city have become unstable. Now that Li Zicheng's army is pressing down on the border, some officers and soldiers are preparing to go to the front.

this is a good news.

After Lao Jiu reported to Li Zicheng and Li Laiheng, Li Zicheng thought, why not let people in to instigate a rebellion?Now, the army is needed, and the soldiers of the officers and soldiers are all people who have served in the army for many years. With a little training and restraint, they can become elite soldiers.Although farmers and hungry people have higher positions and loyalty, it takes a long time for them to develop combat effectiveness.Therefore, Li Zicheng and others prefer to bring the existing officers and soldiers over, which saves a lot of trouble.

Li Laiheng took on the task of instigating rebellion.He didn't bring too many people in.

There were only seven people who went in with Li Laiheng.They are all talents trained by Li Laiheng himself.Wang Si insisted on entering the city with Li Laiheng.Li Laiheng thought to himself, Wang Si was a strong general on the battlefield, and in a year or two, he planned to bring Wang Si a soldier from the front army, but going to the city to instigate rebellion was not his forte.

Since he is going, then follow his wish.

It was not difficult for Li Laiheng to enter the city. The nine of them soon became officers and soldiers guarding the city of Luoyang, and they were also "gendarmes".Of course, at that time it was not called a military police, what was it called?Each period has its own name.

They pretended to be the personal soldiers of Wang Shaoyu's general army.

"The Commander-in-Chief has an order, and no one should relax. Moreover, the Commander-in-Chief has said that those who kill the enemy will be rewarded." Li Laiheng said while patrolling.

"Boss, when will our salary be paid?" A soldier asked.

"Salary? The salary will be paid tomorrow. It will be double. Hehe, there is a fortune to be paid." Li Laiheng said.

"Really?"

"It's not true, can it still be cooked?"

"Boss, I heard that Li Zicheng has [-] elite soldiers, can we fight?"

Li Laiheng said: "If you have money, why can't you beat it?"

At this time, a voice said sullenly: "Now we have to work hard, so we will pay the silver taels. If we don't fight, the salary will be deducted by the officials. Hehe, it's too late to pay the salary now."

"Bold! Bewitching people. It is our duty to be loyal to Ming Dynasty. Even if there is no military pay, don't you dare to resist the enemy passively?" Li Laiheng said sharply.

Li Laiheng didn't stay long.If it stays for a long time, it will be exposed.Wherever he went, he spread the news that the salary would be paid tomorrow, and it would be double the salary owed, which raised people's tastes even higher.

The next day, it really sounded.

However, the hopes of 2 people were dashed. On average, each soldier was only paid three renminbi, and the highest school-level officer was only paid two or two five renminbi.

He was deducted from his salary by the officer again!This was their first reaction. Yesterday, it was said that there was double the salary for eight months, but now there is not even half a month's salary. Isn't it a deduction?
The news was widely circulated in the army.

It’s okay to be hopeless, from yesterday to today I’ve been eagerly waiting for the double salary for eight months, but now it’s all in vain, disappointment turned into anger, and the anger suddenly broke out.

"Is it the other way around?"

"Yes, let's just open the city gate when Li Zicheng attacks."

"Go to King Chuang!"

Wait, there are all kinds of discussions.Now, just a leader is missing.

Wang Si rode a tall horse majesticly, and he became the personal soldier of Wang Shaoyu's general army, and he patrolled on behalf of Wang Shaoyu.

Wang Siyi's team was patrolling the city wall, and anyone who saw anyone coming on horseback would immediately stop talking, and they didn't dare to cause trouble.

All the way here, I didn't see any strange words.It's easy to catch one or two, though.Isn't it?He caught two school officers who spoke strange words.One's surname is Shao and the other's surname is Ma.

"Tie it up!" Wang Si shouted, "shake the morale of the army and punish him with collaborating with the enemy. Behead him!"

"General, the villain didn't say anything. How can you say that I have shaken the morale of the army?" The school officer surnamed Shao cried out for injustice. He really didn't speak just now.

"Why didn't you speak? I heard it!" Wang Si said.

"You're wronged, General!"

"What! Will I wrong you? Beheaded!" Wang Si shouted.

"Crack!"

A soldier behind Wang Si waved his sword, and the school lieutenant surnamed Shao was given down.A piece of blood splattered bloody blood within a radius of ten feet. The head of the man surnamed Shao was staring, and half of his body was twisting and struggling desperately.Everyone was horrified, and no one dared to make a sound.

The one surnamed Ma trembled.He didn't say a word just now, and he didn't dare to say it now, even dared to say anything "wronged".

"You! Did you complain just now?" Wang Si said to the Ma.

"No." The one surnamed Ma trembled violently.

"Huh? Have I wronged you?"

"No, the general didn't wrong the villain. The villain did complain just now." The surname Ma had to wrong himself.

"Well, that's about the same. Hit the Tenth Army Stick!" Wang Si shouted.

Thankfully, no matter how good the Ten Army Stick is, it is a thousand times better than beheading.

Wang Si took a few people to another place to build up his prestige.The man surnamed Ma finally took his life, and he didn't even dare to hum, he hid behind the battlements and hated secretly.

Li Laiheng and the other two sneered not far away, deliberately letting others hear him, he said: "Ha, people are cheap, if they are beaten, they will be honest. If it were me, whoever beats me, I will kill him with a single knife." .”

His personal soldier said, "Yes, me too. I heard that a group of people in the east of the city are already preparing to open the city gate to welcome Li Zicheng. No one at our south gate dares to take the lead."

"Hmph, East Gate? You don't know, do you? The North Gate has already made up its mind."

"Sigh, our Nanmen are all worthless and have no leader. Just now, Shao was planning to lead, but he was discovered by Wang Shaoyu's relatives. Alas, it's a pity, that Ma has no ambition and dare not lead. If he took the lead in dedicating the city gate, he would definitely be a big leader under Li Zicheng."

You speak to me.The surname Ma's anger finally broke out, and he decided to lead his fifty soldiers to surrender to the enemy.

In this way, there is a group of people who are ready to join the enemy.

However, there is still a general missing.

Without the clamor of the general's leadership, it can only be regarded as a mob.Li Laiheng aimed at a middle-aged general named Wu Kui.

This person is a partial general under Wang Shaoyu, and he is relatively honest and responsible.Li Laiheng found that he was eating with the soldiers, and he didn't dislike the rough food.To do this, it is very difficult for a general of this level.

Li Laiheng quickly caught up with him.He appeared as a soldier of Li Fengxian's governor's standard battalion. He said that he came to Luoyang to send the military situation and was ordered to be trapped here.He struck up a conversation with Wu Kui.

"General Li Xiang is not very old this year?" Wu Kui asked.Li Laiheng introduced himself as Li Mingxiang, the deputy leader of Li Fengxian's soldiers.

"Twenty years old. General, you should be almost forty, right? This battle is probably a bit difficult to fight. I heard that Wang Shaoyu withheld military pay, and the sergeants complained a lot." Li Laiheng said.

"Oh." Wu Kui didn't dare to speak ill of his boss.

"General Wu, you Wang Zongbing withheld military pay, you should have distributed a lot of money, right?"

Li Laiheng asked with a smirk.His question does not hurt anyone. The officers of the Ming Dynasty withdrew their military pay blatantly, and whoever did not withhold it shows that they have no ability.Generally speaking, superiors and subordinates cheat together, and no one should try to hide it from the other.

However, Wu Kui seemed to be very hurt. He said angrily, "I'm ashamed, it's not my turn to deduct military pay."

Li Laiheng had already guessed this point, so he chose this person.Li Laiheng said, General Wu must be modest, haven't you heard that King Fu donated 300 silver?Guerrilla and above all get more than 500 taels of silver. If you are partial to the position of general, [-] taels should not be less, right?

When Wu Kui heard this, he was furious. How much did he get?Five taels!He thought, being eaten again, he has been bullied by Wang Shaoyu's trusted generals several times, he did not expect to be bullied so badly this time.

He heard from Wang Shaoyu that the money donated by King Fu was only 500 taels, and it turned out to be 5 taels, which were all taken by them.

Wu Kui thought, in this battle, the high officials must flee first, leaving them to defend to the death. This is already a common practice.Therefore, they dare to be so greedy for money.

The more Wu Kui thought about it, the angrier he became.

(End of this chapter)