Rabu glanced at the deputy general beside him very tiredly: "Have you notified the Ruzhou side to prepare grain and grass?" ”

"Informed, they said that although three thousand stones of grain and grass were robbed, three or five hundred stones of grain and grass can still be scraped together, and it will not be a problem for our army to eat for two days."

Rabu nodded: "The wind knows the grass, and the board knows the loyal ministers." In such a chaotic situation, the ministers of Ruzhou did not complain at all, but did their best to do things for us, and after this war is over, I must promote them, and the same acquaintance in this mansion is called Cao Sen. ”

"Lord Qiqi, according to Zheng Ze and Li Youtong's report, Cao Sen ran away with his family at the beginning of the war, and the two of them were always responsible for raising food."

Rabu snorted, and couldn't help scolding: "Dog mongrel, I look at Kaifeng Mansion and Henan Mansion are too many people like this, I think about drilling camps and stammering with bosses on weekdays, once I encounter something, no one is willing to stand up, it is simply a shame for Qing officials, if I can still stand in the court after this battle, I must show the truth to the emperor and let him rectify the rule of officials!" ”

As he walked, Rabu suddenly spoke: "The officials of Ruzhou are doing their best, we can't smash the field, and warn the soldiers under our command not to rob the people's things, if anyone dares to violate military discipline, they will not be able to get along with me!" ”

If in the past, Rabu would never think about so many things, but what makes people grow the fastest is failure, after each failure, as long as there is some self-motivation, they must sum up the experience of failure, hoping that they can succeed next time, and now it is the withdrawal of troops caused by the rebellion of Henan Province and Kaifeng Province, plus Rabu is the grandson of Zilharang, it should not be a problem to maintain his position.

Because in this era, everyone thinks that if someone rebels, it means that the people in this place have always been rebellious, and they are all disloyal and unrighteous things, and it is absolutely impossible to have anything to do with a big man like Rabu. After all, it is still an era when the emperor's family is dominant, and when there is something, you can only shirk the responsibility downward, and it is absolutely impossible to bite the superiors, which is the rule of officialdom in this era.

Zheng Ze and Li Youtong went out of the city for ten miles and warmly received Rabu, Cheng Xiaolian did not go out of the city, he didn't want to be slave to this Manchu prince, if necessary, of course he would come forward, but such a person who has no name in the officialdom is easy to show when he goes out, and he has no habit of masochism, so he naturally doesn't want to join in the excitement.

But Yang Youcai still looked worried: "General, what if those two people rebel?" ”

"They are greedy for thousands of stones of grain in two provinces and one state, we are now a partial division of the Ming Dynasty, and the merits and demerits cannot be offset, unless they find out my identity, I don't think they are willing to do this loss-making deal." Besides, whether it is Gu Jiale in front or Chang Xihu in the back, the failure of both is inseparable from his responsibility, if you are Rabu, will you take this credit in your own hands and let these two people carry the black cauldron? ”

Yang Youcai scratched his head: "I'm still not suitable to be an official, so I'm suitable for questioning." ”

"If you want to ask the truth, you have to grasp the minds of these officials, you must know that some people are afraid of pain and death, it is easy for you to ask, and some people are not afraid of death or pain, and your set may not be bright."

Yang Youcai nodded: "I used to read the manuscripts left by my predecessors, but along the way, it was enough to use the means of coercion, so I left that one behind." ”

Cheng Xiaolian sighed: "The biggest harm of the Manchu Qing Dynasty entering the customs is that the backbone of our Han people has been discounted, and it is not a matter of one or two years to recover, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to recover in the future." ”

Yang Youcai doesn't care much about these things, in his opinion, as long as the world is Ming, then what's important about the backbone not breaking, Cheng Xiaolian's words are only regarded as playing the piano to the cow.

Fortunately, there was also a Chen Chengan next to him, and nodded: "Your Highness is right, before the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, we literati went to be officials if we could be officials, and if we disagreed with political opinions, we pointed out the country between the mountains and the wilderness, and there were many listeners." But since the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, this kind of activity is not in accordance with the law, sooner or later there is only one voice left in the world, and at that time the officials will only be responsible for their own bosses, and will never care what the people say, if this goes on for a long time, the backbone of the Han people is afraid that it will really be broken. ”

At this time, a brocade-clothed guard ran in: "General, the two adults greeted Rabu and entered the city. ”

Yang Youcai glared: "How many people did they bring?" ”

"Rabu took only his guards."

Cheng Xiaolian nodded: "Don't make a fuss, since Rabu has arrived in Ruzhou, the two of them naturally have to do their best to be landlords, otherwise they will arouse the suspicion of others." ”

Yang Youcai slowly clenched the hand holding the knife: "General, should we chop up the cloth?" ”

Cheng Xiaolian shook his head: "No, Rabu must live, Tu Hai has already brought people from Jingshi to rush over, if Rabu is dead, Tu Hai can be the only family, now it seems that although Rabu is in full swing, but after all, he is young and not thoughtful, so keeping him is good for Tu Hai." ”

And at this time, Wen Ruzhen also rushed to a place only fifty miles away from Lin Daojin with five thousand cavalry, Lin Daojin had already given up the pursuit of Meng Ke, in his opinion, these traitors in the Ming Dynasty were really able to run, and they couldn't catch up at all, so they could only rush to Nanyang Mansion first so as not to spoil the prince's big thing.

It's not Meng Ke that they run fast, these bandits under him have been trained for at least half a year, and Lin Daojin's soldiers have been reserve soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty before this, and these soldiers have not seen blood for thirty years, so they are very immature in the face of war, and they are given Meng Ke a chance.

Meng Ke saw that they were not chasing, turned around and began to stick to them again, anyway, he just couldn't let them reach Nanyang Mansion safely.

At this time, a bandit who was checking the situation from a high place ran over from a distance: "General, they are fighting. ”

"Who's fighting?"

"A group of cavalry came from the north, and they fought with Lin Daojin's soldiers and horses."

Meng Ke clapped his hands: "It's bad, Your Majesty, they rushed out, hurry up with me to respond, as long as you can take out the people inside in today's battle, each person will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver!" ”

Saying that, he rushed out first, and the thief behind him was stunned for a moment: "One hundred taels? ”

"What are you doing in a daze, hurry up, what if it's too late, if the general repents?"

One tael of silver can buy two stones of rice, and one hundred taels of silver is two hundred stones of rice, that is, more than 30,000 catties of rice.

So these people rushed up with Meng Ke, Meng Ke played a little clever, his purpose was to mess up Lin Daojin's formation, so that Cheng Xiaolian and them could rush out, as long as they rushed out and turned around, they would run, and it didn't matter what these bandits did, what was the difference between a hundred taels and a thousand taels at that time.

(End of chapter)