As a day and a night passed, Luoyang gradually regained its calm, and the inhabitants of the city began to wait anxiously for the unpredictable fate hanging over their heads.

Killing, looting, raping, arson, coercion, and many other routine practices of the gangsters are constantly flashing back in everyone's hearts.

But the things that had always been unsettling did not happen, or did not befall the poor people of the city.

They just peeked out with a little excitement and timidity when they peeked out through the crack in the door, and the groups of soldiers who broke into the camp rushed to the Fuwang Palace in an organized, tasked, and purposeful manner, and pounced on the sub-patrol road yamen, the Zhentai yamen, the prefect's yamen, and the deep mansion compounds.

Groups of soldiers kept moving large and small cages and all kinds of belongings from these places, loaded them onto carts, horses, mules and camels, and transported them out of the city.

From time to time, a small group of campers passed by the street in front of the door, and the last one was the small leader, holding the king's arrow, and the front was often a big man with a loud voice. Striking a gong in his hand, he shouted the message of King Chuang An Min.

People waited excitedly and with a little trepidation for the verdict of fate. Characters such as lieutenant chiefs and armor chiefs everywhere have begun to sift gongs on the streets, asking the people to go to the city gate early tomorrow morning to welcome the army of King Chuang into the city.

During this day and night, there were teams of cavalry who transported the property and grain copied from the Fuwang Mansion and the homes of officials and gentry to the outside of the city, and reported the situation to Li Zicheng and others who were stationed in the Zhou Gong Temple.

According to the statistics of Li Shuangxi and Gao Yigong, who are specially responsible for copying and inspecting property. Food, gold and silver can feed 200,000 troops for a year's salary!

What's more, Luoyang is known as the thousand-year-old imperial capital, in this city, countless antiques, calligraphy and paintings, rare books, books, tablets, porcelain, and jade, there are countless and innumerable in the two rows of warehouses in the Fuwang Palace, there are countless kinds of silk and satin for the royal use, all kinds of agate, jade, coral, jade, gold, silver, copper, lacquer antiques and all kinds of precious furnishings.

Although King Fu's father and son are a pair of fat people and have a reputation for drinking and entertaining themselves, they are not fools. There are also a lot of elegant collections on weekdays.

Needless to say, Shang Ding Xia Yi also has paintings like Song Huizong's Lingmao Danqing, thin gold book, and Wu Daozi of the Tang Dynasty. Hui Chong bullfighting. Han Gan's horse. Gu Kaizhi's "Female Palace", Wang Wei's "Rivers and Mountains", and Wang Youjun's calligraphy post in the Jin Dynasty. In addition, Emperor Wanli rewarded King Fu with a set of porcelain used by Chai Shizong in his collection; It's priceless.

Not to mention anything else, just the porcelain given by the emperor, take the Chenghua kiln of this dynasty that is relatively close, it is said that the cost of each teacup was 20,000 taels of silver back then, and now each piece can be exchanged for thousands of loads of grain, in this famine year, grain is the strongest currency. Not to mention those firewood kilns, Tang red and Song green porcelain, Zhou Ding Han statues and the like, as well as those countless celebrity calligraphy and paintings, their value is unimaginable and dare not be imagined by Li Shuangxi.

(Emperor Wanli and Concubine Zheng Guifei favored this son, and had to compensate financially if they failed to win the heir, and there are historical records that Wanli transported half of the palace to Luoyang, Henan, and this half of the wealth is definitely not as simple as gold and silver.) ）

These are only the gold and silver soft and valuable items copied from the palace of King Fu, and they do not include the belongings of the officials and gentry in the official mansions.

In this battle of Luoyang, the camp was definitely in the ranks of the peasant army, and the transformation from dick to rich and handsome was completed.

After being excited for a night, he and his subordinates nervously calculated how much food, cloth, armor, knives, guns, guns, gunpowder and other items could be exchanged for those non-gold and silver valuables, and when the rooster crowed, Li Zicheng barely fell asleep.

At dinner last night, Li Zicheng already knew that King Fu and Lu Weiqi were both caught at dawn. After King Fu took two or three henchmen and eunuchs out of the city, he hid in the Ying'en Temple in the eastern suburbs, and was seen by the people nearby, reported to Zhang Nai, and caught him; And Lu Weiqi was about to escape from the city, but was caught by Yuan Zongdi's soldiers patrolling the city at the head of the north city.

Only Zhu Yousong, the son of King Fu, as well as the old princess and the little princess, fled in the chaos after breaking the city, and now they don't know where to go.

It was not good to search for the prince of Fu and his family for a while, but fortunately, King Fu himself had been arrested, which was enough to cause an uproar in the sea and make the camp famous among the heroes.

At breakfast, Liu Zongmin sent a small leader of his subordinates, Pegasus, to report that he had the whereabouts of the prince of Fuwang, but it was a pity that he hid in the temple when the city was broken, and after taking advantage of the chaos to get out of the city, he passed through a village called Miao Jiahai outside the city and got horses, and fled along the foot of the mountain.

The little leader was very annoyed and pleaded guilty to Li Zicheng, Zicheng pondered for a while, and then said no more, after all, it was the first time to attack such a large city, and it was also the residence of the pro-domain, and it was already an extremely remarkable thing to be able to capture King Fu himself alive.

"What else?" Chewing on the coarse bun in his mouth, Li Zicheng asked the little leader.

"The chief sentinel Liu Ye asked King Chuang to indicate when to enter the city, so that the generals and ordinary people could greet him outside the south gate. In addition, this is a letter written by Liu Ye to King Chuang. The little leader handed the letter written by Liu Zongmin to Li Zicheng's personal soldiers.

This is strange, Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin have known each other for many years, and know that although Liu Zongmin knows some words, he has never seen him write with a pen, which has to make him pay great attention to it, put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand, and hurriedly read it.

Looking at it, his frown gradually relaxed.

"When you go back and tell Sù Jiexuan, you will say that I have designated to enter the city through the south gate before the time of the day."

The little colonel took the order, Li Zicheng ate the coarse noodles and steamed buns in his hand in a few bites, hastily drank the porridge, and gave an order to Li You, the leader of the pro-soldiers outside: "Someone!" Prepare the horses! ”

As usual, Li Zi wore a green cloth arrow jacket, a sheepskin cloak, and a half-worn white felt hat with red tassels on it, which the northern peasants liked to wear. Riding that black barge horse. Under the escort of hundreds of old battalion pro-soldiers, they came towards Luoyang City.

Before entering the great development of Henan, the shape of the camp has not been optimistic, often in the midst of several forces of official and military encirclement, clothing, food, food, weapons, armor and canes are not very abundant, naturally in the honor guard pomp can not be exquisite, can only settle. At the critical juncture, when Li Zicheng had to attack the city and break the formation, Li Zicheng led his own soldiers and generals, personally waved his sword in the shouting of killing, and rushed into the city with his troops; Rushed into the enemy line, though on one or two occasions he entered the city afterwards. But it's also more casual. After he entered the city, many people in the city did not know about it.

But this is not the case. The purpose of fighting Luoyang is to expand its influence and attract domestic heroes. Win popularity. This pomp and circumstance. Naturally, it is necessary to make a big difference.

Today, in addition to the original personal soldiers, who served as his guard to accompany him into the city, he specially selected 500 cavalry from the Chinese military camp guarding the old camp of Zhou Gongmiao. All of them were equipped with fat and strong horses, all dressed in armor, each wearing two layers of armor, cotton or leather armor on the inside, and a one-color Nanzhong cuirass on the outside, which had been carefully wiped with oiled muslin cloth, shining dazzlingly under the nascent sun. In addition to long knives, bows and arrows, the soldiers also had a long spear with an ash rod and a three-foot-long mourning spear head, which was sharp and dazzling. In order to maintain the ability to move quickly, most of the soldiers who broke into the camp gave up long weapons such as spears, and used swords and bows and arrows as the main weapons, as people often say, "fast horses and light knives". However, since the fight and Chen Guoxi connected to the twist, especially after entering Henan, the operational environment of the location has changed, the geographical shape and the military form have changed, and more importantly, the economic form has changed, so now there are a large number of spears in the camp. Among the newly arrived hungry people, poles, and other troops, a large number of them used spears as weapons, of course, these were only spears, not mourning guns. The barrage was not yet large enough to equip all pikemen with mourning guns.

Walking at the front of the team was a flag officer, holding the big flag in his hand, and behind him, a small colonel held a big red umbrella in his hand, as a guard of honor for Li Zicheng's trip. Behind them were two hundred cavalrymen with spears in their hands, marching in groups of five in unison. The length of the barrel and head of the mourning gun in their hands was the same, and the soldiers held the reins in their left hand and the gun in their right hand, and the tail of the gun was inserted into the iron ring installed on the right side of the saddle, and the barrel of the gun was upright, so that in the early spring sun it looked like a very neat column of guns, which fluctuated with the movement of the horses. The sharpened spear head and scarlet spear tassel, as well as the silver spear head, the white-maned banner with the word "Chuang" and the silver float of the red umbrella leading them forward, were particularly dazzling in the sun.

After the cavalry, there were Li Zicheng, Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, Li Yan and other important figures who broke into the camp and the personal soldiers of the brigade who guarded them, and then there were three hundred cavalry of the old battalion who were also dressed up.

"If you can get 10 million gold and silver property into your account, then go to the one surnamed Chen, and replace the old battalion, horse army, Xiao cavalry and other units with such sophisticated equipment!"

Zicheng looked at the momentum of the two hundred elite cavalry walking in front of him, and he couldn't help but feel a little intoxicated in his heart, as long as there were silver dollars and property, in the Nanzhong merchants headed by Chen Guoxi, except for the men's milk and war horses, as long as the rest were in this world, none of them were not reclaimed from the mountains.

According to the route into the city arranged by Liu Zongmin, Yuan Zongdi, Li Guo and others for Li Zicheng, about two or three miles away from the Luoyang City Gate, Li Shuangxi and Zhang Nai's Pegasus came to greet them, and Liu Zongmin, Yuan Zongdi, Li Guo and a large group of generals were all waiting outside Nanguan immediately. Li Zicheng passed through Nanguan surrounded by the generals, and saw that all the shops were open, with incense cases in front of them, and the word "Shun" or "Shunmin" written on yellow paper was pasted on the door, and most of the hats of the ordinary people kneeling on both sides of the road to greet him were also pasted with the word "Shun".

From Nanguan to both sides of the Luohe River, the people of Luoyang City and the hungry people who fled here greeted them on both sides of the road, and behind the crowd, there were tea buckets and cauldrons of rice porridge boiled.

"It's coming! Here it comes! A burst of cheers erupted from the crowd, and from far and near, the crowd fell to their knees on both sides of the road, shouting all sorts of slogans.

"King Chuang! Break the king! ”

"Thank you Li Gongzi for saving us!"

"Thank you Li Gongzi for her porridge!"

The shouts in the crowd made Li Zicheng frown slightly, but he immediately stretched out. However, this shout that shook the sky made the corners of Niu Jinxing's eyebrows and eyes show joy.

Amid cheers, Li Zicheng's team passed through the Luohe River and arrived at the south gate of Luoyang. Li Zicheng glanced up, but saw that the city wall was towering, the city tower was towering, and after passing through the Changxia Gate, his brigade could be regarded as entering Luoyang City.

After visiting the biggest trophy of conquering Luoyang, the Fuwang Palace, you can witness the carved beams and pavilions everywhere. Resplendent as far as the eye can see. Knowing that this huge palace, which almost occupied one-third of Luoyang City, was expanded and rebuilt from the original Yiwang Palace, Li Zicheng smiled at Liu Zongmin, Li Guo, Li Yan, Niu Jinxing and others: "You see, I don't know how many pavilions and pavilions there are in this palace city, just one house is built. I add the furnishings inside. The money spent requires the property of thousands of families. Build a Fu Wang's Mansion. How much money should I spend? How much human power should be wasted? How many people should be bankrupt? How many artisans and folk men were tortured to death? Damn, their Zhu family has dozens of palaces across the country, if they use this money and grain to help the victims. We won't come out to be thieves, and if we use it for military salaries, we won't enter this Luoyang!! ”

Liu Zongmin, Li Guo and others on the side all laughed when they heard this, only Niu Jinxing was dressed and bowed deeply to Li Zicheng, "Breaking into the king's rebellion and hanging the people to fight the crime is a move that obeys the destiny of heaven and responds to the hearts of the people." Everywhere he went, he fought the rich and helped the poor, and opened warehouses to relieve the hungry; cut off corrupt officials and local tyrants and gentry, and avenge the people's grievances; exempt from money and food, suppress soldiers and reassure the people; bought and sold to the people, and there was no crime in autumn; Later, he entered Beijing and rebuilt the Taiping world. This is the way of the Son of Heaven!"

When everyone heard Niu Jinxing's words, they were all overjoyed, laughed, and after laughing for a while, Li Zicheng turned his face to Liu Zongmin and said, "Jiexuan, how are you preparing there?" ”

"King Chuang, one qiē ready! Even the notice has been drafted by Mr. Niu, and the Lin Quan brothers have also passed it, and they can act only after King Chuang has made a decision! ”

In the square outside the noon gate of Fuwang Palace, two piles of skyrocketing fires were lit, and from time to time, there were soldiers who broke into the camp to pick up the flying paper into the fire with their spears, and the paper was immediately rolled and swallowed by the tongue of fire, and in a blink of an eye it turned into a group of flying black butterflies. The crowd of onlookers was crowded, and as the soldiers and leaders of the camp shouted aloud the names of the items thrown into the fire, there were thunderous shouts and applause, and many people cheered while tears rolled in their eyes.

Li Zicheng glanced at the lively scene over there, and his nephew Li Guo next to him immediately took a step forward, "King Chuang, everything has been checked, and the burned things are all the account books of the land and acres of the palace, the land deeds bought by the tyrants, the contract of the slave selling his body, and so on." ”

Li Zicheng snorted, which was regarded as a recognition of Li Guo and the others' diligence and carefulness, and the group rode towards Luoyang West Street.

In the middle of the sky, a round of red sun casts the bright and warm sunlight on the earth, shining on the heads of the people crowded on the streets. Thinking about the officials at all levels in Luoyang who were imprisoned in various temples, people were guessing in their minds, who were going to be killed today?

Soon, the lieutenants sounded the gong to announce that they were going to kill people at the execution ground outside the West Gate, and the notices had been posted in the streets and alleys.

Soon, the news that the emperor's own uncle Fuwang Zhu Changxun was going to be beheaded at three o'clock in the afternoon spread in the streets and alleys. All the people who heard the news were boiling and rushed to tell each other.

From the Fuwang Palace to Luoyang West Street, and then to the execution ground outside the West Gate, both sides of the street have long been full of people, and people want to see how the Fu King, who is closest to the emperor's bloodline, among the many feudal princes of the Ming Dynasty, should be beheaded to show the public! Along the way, every three or five paces, a soldier stood in the camp, holding a sword and a gun to maintain order there, and after leaving the city pass, there was a large group of cavalry standing behind the crowd.

Around the execution ground, there was already a sea of people.

Li had already sent people to repair the prison beheading platform on the execution ground, filling in the soil and ramming it to level it, which was at least twice as large as the original scale. On both sides and behind the platform, Li Guo's personal soldiers stood in two rows, one row of infantry and one layer of cavalry, riding inside and outside, silent. or with a firearm in his hand, or a spear at the flat end, and those outside who are wearing cotton armor covered with dark blue crotch, with a round white cloth on the front and back of the crotch, embroidered with the word "Chuang", these Li Guo's personal soldiers, as the elite of the old battalion, naturally wear an eight-petal hat and an iron-tipped helmet on their heads, and they are covered with iron armor and leather armor.

Under the prison beheading stage, around the execution ground, flags and flags fluttered, and knives, guns, swords, and halberds were dazzling.

Suddenly, a group of people rushed out of the city, and at the same time, a broken gong sounded, and three trumpets sounded, which made the people crowded around the execution ground excited, turned around, and looked at the city gate. The people who had just sat on the ground also stood up. All the people looked towards the gates, and the short ones stood on tiptoe, with their necks stretched and their chins tilted. A team of people walked out of the west gate and escorted King Fu and Lu Weiqi out.

Walking in front were a hundred infantrymen, divided into two rows, with the fire guns in their hands, and the fire ropes were slightly smoking at the dragon's head, and the fire guns carefully took care of the fire guns, and their eyes looked at the left and right and the front. Then, there were a hundred infantrymen, all armed with spears. Then, four swordsmen and axes came out with a push belt and a strap. Behind him, Lu Weiqi, who was also dragged out by the four knife and axe hands like pinching rabbits, couldn't stop shouting: "King! Death and life are life, and the gang is always the most important, anyway, it is death, don't succumb to the thief! ”

Behind them were fifty cavalrymen with long swords. (To be continued......)

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