During this meeting, Emperor Chongzhen, in front of a group of cronies and courtiers around him, inquired about the situation of the thieves in the northwest today, and specially asked Luo Rucai himself about Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others.

Emperor Chongzhen asked about Gao Yingxiang's situation and Zhang Xianzhong's situation, and Luo Rucai was not surprised.

After all, after Wang Jiayin and Wang Ziyong died one after another, all the thieves in the northwest were headed by Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang.

And Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, has just taken Xining City, and he has become the only one among the thieves in the northwest, and even a figure who can stand side by side with Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang.

For these two thieves, Emperor Chongzhen personally inquired, and Luo Ru was completely understandable.

However, Li Zicheng was such a character, and the emperor personally asked, which made Luo Rucai a little surprised.

He couldn't figure out for a while what virtue and ability this young general under Gao Yingxiang had, and he actually had a status comparable to Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong in the emperor's heart.

However, no matter how surprised he was in his heart, Luo Rucai, who had now become the commander of Jinyiwei by mistake, still told everything he knew.

Since Wang Jiayin, the king of Hengtian, died in Shennanyu on Luliang Mountain, in the next few years, Luo Rucai participated in almost all the major events in the gangs of thieves in northern Shaanxi, and was very familiar with the inside stories of the gangs of thieves in northern Shaanxi.

Especially after the thieves broke through from northern Jin and returned to Shaanxi, Luo Rucai also quickly rose to become one of the thieves, and began to keep pace with the leaders of the thieves under Gao Yingxiang and participated in various core decisions.

This also makes Luo Rucai know the thieves Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Ma Shouying, Liu Xiyao, Lin Yangcheng, Liu Zhe, and even He Yilong, He Jin, who are dead, as well as Hao Yongzhong, Liu Tichun and others who inherited the team of these two people.

The origins of these people, the temperament and character of these people, the relationship between these people, and even the size of the team, the number of troops, and the location under the command of these people are all in the hands of the thoughtful Luo Rucai.

Now, Luo Rucai broke off the thoughts of the past, accepted his fate, and told everything he knew one by one like pouring beans from a bamboo tube.

In Luo Rucai's heart, in this world, of course he has no chance to get it, so in this case, Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong don't want to fucking leave anything behind!

Therefore, the things that Luo Rucai knew and mastered soon became the things that Emperor Chongzhen and Jinyiwei, Dongchang, the Internal Affairs Office and the Military Aircraft Department knew and mastered.

And these things, for these above-mentioned institutions, are a great fortune!

Speaking of the Northwest thieves, Luo Rucai still has some respect for Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang.

But for Zhang Xianzhong, who now occupies Xining and proclaims himself the king of Daxi, he is a hundred people who look down on him.

Therefore, when Luo Rucai respectfully explained the origin and current situation of the thieves in the northwest to Emperor Chongzhen and the emperor's close ministers present, he finally said:

"The thief Gao Yingxiang has always flaunted righteousness, and he is good at winning the hearts of all thieves with righteousness, and he is also good at driving heroes to serve with righteousness!

"After he entered Gansu from northern Shaanxi to the west, he even regarded himself as a descendant of the Qiang people of the party, wearing white clothes and white hats, and deliberately getting married, which deceived some people's hearts!

"If he resolutely abandons Lanzhou and crosses the river to the west, then Hexi will return to the provinces, or there may be a possibility of returning to the thieves after hearing the wind!

"If it can really get the support of all the Hui tribes, so as to possess Hexi, maybe from now on, nine times out of ten, it will sit in the sweet and cool land of Hexi!

"As for the western thief Zhang Xianzhong, it is very insignificant, not only has he always been arrogant, unpopular among the thieves, but also cruel and killing, the place he passes, people and animals are slaughtered at every turn, and now he has formed a deep enmity with the northwest Hui tribes!

"And since the beginning of winter last year, the western thieves have tens of thousands of people, and they have entered Lintao, and they have actually fed people in Lintao City, although the Demon King of Hell is nothing more than that!

"Long live the Lord today, since he asked, Weichen will tell the truth! The thief is doing this today, it is by no means a pattern that can become a big thing, and Weichen thinks that it will not last long!

"Therefore, in the opinion of Wei Chen, Long Live Lord will send a large army to the northwest to exterminate these two thieves in the future, and the main thing should be to exterminate the thieves, and once the thieves are destroyed, the western thieves will inevitably be difficult to support alone, and they will definitely not be able to maintain it!"

Emperor Chongzhen asked Luo Rucai about his views on Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and others, and also tested and observed his meaning.

On the one hand, it is to see if this Luo Rucai is really the think tank among the thieves in the northwest as said in the history books of later generations.

On the other hand, it is also to see which side this Luo Ru is sitting on when he is at this point today.

Because of the general situation of the thieves in the northwest, now this Emperor Chongzhen from later generations is generally in control.

If Luo Rucai opened his mouth and talked nonsense this time, then Emperor Chongzhen would have to think carefully about what was the use of keeping him.

At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen inquired about Luo Rucai in front of the ministers close to him, and also conveyed the origin, personality and current situation of the thieves in the northwest to these people through Luo Rucai's mouth.

After all, there are some things that Emperor Chongzhen himself knows, but it can't be done.

And as an emperor, he has never been to the northwest, and he has never dealt with these bandit leaders, even if he holds back his words, he can't tell these close ministers around him in person.

When Emperor Chongzhen faced Fang Zhenghua, the admiral and eunuch of Dongchang, and those Dongchang men under Fang Zhenghua to assign tasks, he could swear to tell them that his information about the thieves in the northwest came from Jinyiwei.

And when he assigned tasks to Gong Yonggu, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and the officials of the Jinyi Guard below Gong Yonggu, he could also say that his information about the thieves in the northwest came from Dongchang.

Or he could not give any reason, and no one dared to question the emperor's words in person anyway.

It's just that doing so is not a long-term solution after all.

And the best way is to use the mouths of those who know the thieves in the northwest very well, and convey to these people who rely on them what is inconvenient for them to say and who are not clear about the source of information.

Although the intelligence personnel of Jinyiwei and Dongchang have made arrangements for the thieves in the northwest, their progress is slow, and they cannot obtain confidential information about the leaders of these thieves.

Now that there are Luo Rucai and Ji Jue who are willing to cooperate with Jinyiwei, then the intelligence work in the future, especially the intelligence work of the thieves in the northwest, will immediately be able to step to a new level and enter a new stage.

Just as with Dorzidarhan as the deputy envoy of the Imperial Court, Lin Dan Khan and his subordinate Chahar Mongols no longer had any secrets for the Ming Dynasty.

After Emperor Chongzhen ordered the detention of Manzhu Xili, the situation in the upper echelons of the Jurchen Eight Banners of the Later Jin Kingdom was no longer a secret to the central ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

Now, Jin Yiwei has Luo Rucai and Ji Jue, and the thieves in northern Shaanxi, who have plagued the northwest region of the Ming Dynasty for many years, will soon have no secrets to speak of.

A few close ministers who didn't quite understand the use of Emperor Chongzhen's retention of Luo Rucai quickly changed their views and began to regard this Luo Rucai and the strategist Ji Jue who came to Beijing with him as a treasure trove for digging up the inside information of various bandits in the northwest.

At the end of the whole interview process, Emperor Chongzhen, who was in a good mood after seeing Luo Rucai's performance, rewarded Luo Rucai with 5,000 Chongzhen silver yuan in person on the basis of the previous official award, and gave Ji Ju 3,000 Chongzhen silver yuan for their living expenses at the beginning of their tenure in Beijing.

Luo Rucai saw that Emperor Chongzhen was satisfied with his performance, and he was also greatly relieved, no matter whether he could soar in the future, at least for now, his life was saved, and he was grateful for his kindness at the moment, and bowed down.

After Ji Jue entered Beijing, his position was humble and his rank was not enough, so he was not qualified to meet the emperor.

However, when he learned that Luo Rucai had successfully ended the audience and received a reward, even for such an insignificant little role as himself, the emperor knew about his existence, and even had a share in the reward, and the hanging stone in his heart finally landed, and he was also full of emotion.

The Ming Dynasty is really different, the most important thing is that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is really different from the past.

Luo Rucai and Ji Jue were sent to the capital division of the Ming Dynasty, and after they were settled, it was time for Wu Sangui and Meng Xianjie to return to the Northwest Army.

However, when Wu Sangui told the emperor about this meaning through the eunuch Chu Xianxian, who was in charge of the military attache of the imperial chamberlain, Emperor Chongzhen did not let Wu Sangui return to the northwest immediately.

Instead, Wu Sangui and the soldiers of the Fourth Town of the Guards who followed Wu Sangui and others to Beijing on business were each given a month's vacation, so that they could stay in Beijing to rest and recuperate.

At the same time, the young general Meng Xianjie, who had just handed over an errand and was in a hurry to return to the Northwest Army to fight, was also left behind by Emperor Chongzhen.

Like Zu Keyong and Cao Bianjiao, who came to Beijing on business, as the adopted son of a fierce tiger, he was also arranged to be the military attache of the imperial attendant, and he was kept as an attendant.