stubborn thief

Chapter 226 Corrupted
Leaving Xiaoguan in the west, the drought disappeared.

But the situation along the way made Liu Shizi seem to have known each other.

He still didn't go out of the mountains, but just passed one mountain and went to the next mountain. When he looked up, it was a mountain, and when he looked down, he was still a mountain.

Passing through the villages, it is clear that it has been two thousand miles away from northern Shaanxi, but every village has its own hometown flavor, and the people are not happy.

It's just a straw away from despair.

"The general doesn't need to remember, and he can't remember it. It's none of your business to remember them."

Cao Huachun rode a docile pony, looked down at the list of chieftains in Xining brought out when he left the palace, and said to Liu Chengzong who was walking with the horse: "It is enough to know that there are 25 Namafan families in Xining."

Liu Shizi frowned slightly, and said with a puckered mouth: "Isn't that right? I am the Qinghai Propaganda Envoy, and they are locals. How can you say that it has nothing to do with me, let alone nothing to do with me... Eunuch Cao told me what they are doing? "

Cao Huachun glanced at him and said with a smile: "From now on, they will be colleagues. The commander should know them. The natives in Xining belong to Shaanxi, not Qinghai."

Liu Chengzong nodded: "Yes, they are all colleagues, and they should take care of each other in the future."

Cao Huachun waved his hands in fright. If it wasn't for the riding skills he practiced while hunting with Emperor Tianqi, he would have fallen off his horse and died young. "

Accidentally speaking out what was in his heart made Cao Huachun anxious, as if he was borrowing something and was anxious to pay back, he quickly said: "Don't, just leave them alone."

To be honest, Emperor Chongzhen had explained a lot to Cao Huachun before coming here.

Cao Huachun thought very well at that time!

A well-educated, rational, loyal, filial, benevolent scholar, with the identity of being forced to plunder and rebel, tried his best to write a sincere and touching letter to His Majesty, asking to be sealed to such a bitter and cold place in Qinghai.

At that time, Cao Huachun constructed a figure similar to Xu Huang in his mind. He was born as a Baibo thief in his early years, and later changed his past and made great achievements.

After entering the Hehuang Valley in Qinghai, which is backed by the richest man in the Northwest, there is not much that needs to be done by the Qinghai Propaganda Envoy.

Relying on Hezhou, Lanzhou, and Xining, it is only necessary to implement the national policy of isolating the captives on behalf of the imperial court to the end.

Speaking of which, Liu Chengzong's father and elder brother were pretty much the same as Cao Huachun imagined.

His father is a deep-minded old Juren who has served as a grass-roots official in the imperial court; his elder brother also looks like a young general.

Only when it comes to Liu Chengzong... I'm careless, I'm still a good general of the five sons, how can this be Xu Huang?It was clearly Dong Zhuo.

To put it bluntly, Liu Chengzong didn't do anything, but it just made Cao Huachun feel scared, not knowing what he would do next.

From the bottom of his heart, this person has no respect or fear for the imperial court. It feels like I have paid tribute.

Also count on him to isolate the captives.

Cao Huachun thought to himself that in the future, Hehuang, Gansu will not only need to isolate the Fanlu, but also isolate the Fanlu and Liu Chengzong.

"What about Mr. Zuo Guang?"

Eunuch Cao was thinking about it when he saw a few thieves running over and handing over some paintings, and Liu Chengzong asked someone to call Zuo Guangxian.

It was not easy for Zuo Guangxian, who was sent by Yang He, to bring the four to five hundred men and horses, and he had to protect the front and the rear.

It's really interesting to say that there are still officials who want to blackmail Liu Chengzong's food.

Liu Chengzong's team was frighteningly large, and they walked slowly on the road, especially carrying a lot of soldiers, food and goods.

Cao Huachun didn't know how much food Liu Chengzong had until now. He only knew that there were a few thousand mules and four thousand horse-drawn carts and donkey carts, which couldn't be transported in one trip.

The team at the front has been stopping and going, and the team behind has been transporting back and forth.

There is too much money and food in this season, which will definitely arouse jealousy.

Cao Huachun has dealt with similar matters twice. One wanted to extort food, and the other was a sixth-rank official who didn't know what to do and wanted to ask for bribes from Liu Chengzong.

When he saw Cao Huachun, he had the audacity to say something, why did the father-in-law protect him?
Cao Huachun said in his heart, silly boy, our man is protecting you, and made him anxious, let alone your ancestral grave, even my ancestral grave has to be raised.

"General, General Zuo is leading the way, what's wrong?"

"Look at the road. Where is Zuo Guang going? After passing Anding, he will go to Lanzhou. How can he go south to Gongchang?"

Cao Huachun was at a loss for words for a while, and the diversion was discovered.

Lanzhou is a large grain storage battalion in the northwest, and now the entire Gansu military rations are there in autumn, but there are no soldiers there, only one Lanzhou battalion, led by the Lanzhou general in Shaanxi.

With the experience of Pingliang's [-] battalion in Guanning, three days before and after, and one day's march and being disabled, Cao Huachun dared to let Liu Chengzong go to Lanzhou!

Go to Xining along the line of Gongchang and Lintao, and bypass Lanzhou. There is a general army mansion over there. Although the general soldier is not at home, the force is sufficient after all.

Cao Huachun said: "Commander, let's go to Gongchang, so as not to cause any misunderstandings in Lanzhou."

"You don't come here. When you say good things, you are called Marshal, and you are usually called General. When I go back to the Forbidden City, I will be Liu... Could there be any misunderstanding?"

Liu Chengzong said: "Eunuch Cao, think about it carefully, Lanzhou has more soldiers and rations than I do? I don't care about robbing them. I eat two hundred stones a day, which delays ten days of travel. One stone of rice and grain is calculated as five taels. How much land do I have to rob to get my money back?"

Hearing the word rush, Cao Huachun felt guilty, and hurriedly sent Jing Jun to the front to call Zuo Guangxian, and let him leave Lanzhou obediently.

Cao Huachun was very helpless, the prices in Liu Chengzong's mind were different from his.

Originally, he thought that taking a detour would cost nine coins for a shi of rice, which would not cost much; but when he arrived at Liu Chengzong's place, a shi of rice was five taels of silver, so it would be a waste of money.

When the Jing army left, Cao Huachun said: "Commander, there is still a palace in Lanzhou, so don't disturb Su Fan."

"I'm looking for King Su."

As soon as Liu Chengzong said the words, Cao Huachun's heart turned cold, but he followed him and said: "His Royal Highness asked Sufan to help prepare a bowl of sugar, which is a must-have for going to the south of Qinghai."

After all, Liu Chengzong glanced at him and said, "You don't want me to go to Lanzhou, you just let me sit in Xining if you want?"

Cao Huachun was relieved, as long as Liu Chengzong didn't mean to snatch Sufan, then everything was easy to discuss.

Zuo Guang was eating in the front, he was very worried.

He now understands why Liu Chengzong went to Qinghai very well. If he was Liu Chengzong and brought 30 million shi of grain, he would not want to fight.

Not to mention fighting, these days Zuo Guangxian's guerrilla department, more than 400 soldiers don't want to fight with him anymore.

Those were all Yulin soldiers, who used to drink with him every day and eat dirt so skinny.

It is indeed hard work to lead the way to Liu Chengzong. In order to prevent the Liu Department from fighting with other officers and soldiers, the front is prepared for the rear. The entire team spans twenty or thirty miles of mountain roads, and the horsemen can maneuver on the official roads in the mountains in a day Baili just wanted to spread the news.

But Yulin Bing didn't want to do it with him because of this. His soldiers were all very happy. It's nothing to run a hundred miles a day, let alone riding a horse. Even if they ran on their feet, they were all happy .

Just now, several of his servants are sitting on a tree stump beside the official road.

People hold wooden bowls with one hand, and in the bowls are soup made with a little vegetable sauce, a piece of vinegar cloth, and a piece of smoked horse meat; Hard as hell.

But the Yulin Bing burrito dipped in the soup was a joy to eat, and he ate two bites of the pancake, and then had another one.

While eating, the family member said: "Marshal Liu treats everyone equally, no loss to our brothers in Yulin, he is ten times better than Du Wenhuan."

The surrounding servants and Yulin soldiers from the guerrilla department nodded in agreement, eating more vigorously.

I eat these every day, and I am not tired of eating them. The corners of my mouth are dripping with oil every day. After half a month, everyone has gained six or seven catties.

Two catties of fried noodles were distributed every three to five days for them to eat when it was inconvenient to march, but no one in the entire guerrilla department ate the fried noodles.

Zuo Guang didn't give any order at first, but they all saved the fried noodles, and now each of them saved five or six catties, hiding them where others couldn't find them like treasures.

They plan to save the fried noodles to eat when they go back to Yulin, save ten catties, enough to last for two months.

This scene made Zuo Guang feel dizzy at first.

He is a martial artist from Yulin Town, and he has served in the army for a long time, but at this moment, he only feels that he has learned a lot of military books and battle books, and he is talking nonsense.

Even if Yue Wumu came back to life, his troops would not be able to form a formation to attack Liu Chengzong.

Zuo Guang first took a bite of the dead dough pancake viciously, the hard pancake made his cheek hurt from biting, what happened to this world?
The high-spirited Jing army came on horseback and condescendingly conveyed the news that there was no need to detour, and the sergeants of the guerrilla department immediately complained.

"General, are you not taking a detour?"

There was disappointment in the soldier's eyes, and he said what everyone was thinking: "Then, wouldn't you eat ten days less food?"

Zuo Guang first sighed in his heart.

With an order, the sergeants used the fastest speed to drink the sauce broth that was not willing to touch the cake, wiped the burrito and stuffed it into the entrance of the wooden bowl, ready to go.

A family member shook his head and said, "I used to think that Xining was far away, but now I only hate Xining for being close. I really hope that this journey will never end."

Then a servant said something, and everyone burst into laughter, and pushed that servant to Zuo Guangxian's position.

Zuo Guang first put the saddle hanging from the branch back on the back of the mount, with a smile in his eyes, he deliberately said with a stern face: "What's the trouble!"

Then the tone eased, and urged: "Go and pack up, we are about to leave."

"General, he said otherwise, hahaha!" The servant next to him said with a strange smile: "He said that the general should take us to serve as Qinghai comfort envoys!"

Zuo Guang, who was holding the saddle, froze for a moment, the smile slowly faded from the corners of his eyes, and his whole face turned cold.

The atmosphere is visible to the naked eye and drops to freezing point.

A family member hurriedly broke the siege and pushed the man: "Your parents are gone, and the general still has family members in Yulin. You want to kill the mistress, mother and son? Put on your helmet quickly."

Jia Ding took a cautious look at Zuo Guang first, and quickly apologized: "General, calm down!"

Then they went to pack their bags.

Zuo Guangxian was not angry, but his body seemed to be exhausted.

His loyal army was corrupted, no gold, no silver, corrupted by miso burritos.

In fact, Zuo Guang knew that the soldiers would say that.

Zuo Guang knew that sooner or later the soldiers would say that when they called their own general Du Wenhuan and others' leaders Liu Dashuai.

He didn't take his anger out on anyone. Although he really wanted to be angry, he knew that the court owed the Shaanxi soldiers too much, and venting their anger would only hurt the soldiers' morale further.

So be it.

Going west again, you will arrive at Jin County after crossing the Scale Gou Bay Horse Station.

According to Cao Huachun's order, the post station sent people to send news to Lanzhou and Xining, asking them to send people who were familiar with the intelligence of Qinghai captives to tell Liu Chengzong the situation along the way.

At the same time, let's take a look at the situation of Lanzhou Sufan's preparation of bowls of candy, so as not to offend Liu Chengzong.

The closer he was to Lanzhou, the more worried Cao Huachun was that Liu Chengzong would suddenly order to attack the city.

Fortunately, Liu Chengzong was not even interested in entering the city. After Su Fan sent people to bring in two carts of bowls of sugar, he set off directly to Xining.

Because Zuo Guang in front sent someone to send news that the chieftain from Xining had arrived.

Cao Huachun flipped through the chieftain roster, looked at it and said: "Xi Li, Dong Li, Xi Qi, Dong Qi... I found it. Chen Shiwen was born in the 33rd year of Wanli. His ancestral home is Shanyin. He is not very old. He governs the fourteenth village of the people. There are more than one hundred households and more than six hundred mouths, under the jurisdiction of one Tuqian chief, two Tuba chiefs, and 25 horse infantry."

These words attracted Liu Chengzong's attention: "Just these 28 people, are you called Mr. Qian?"

"Northwest is no better than southwest. There are 2 chieftains in Xining alone. What's more, the chieftains are in charge of themselves, and Xining guards are still required to fight. Even if the chieftain of Dongli, which has the largest population, has more than [-] people, it is no more than the number of horse infantry. Only three hundred."

Liu Chengzong nodded when he heard the words. The Chieftain Dongli mentioned by Cao Huachun was more in line with Liu Chengzong's expectations for the Chieftain, but Chieftain Chen was in charge of too few people.

Not long after, Zuo Guang first led a few people through the formation from the front, and then one person stepped forward and bowed down: "Xining Guard Commander Chen Shiwen, meet the angel!"

Liu Chengzong was waiting at the front. Hearing this, he pulled his horse aside and said to Cao Huachun, "I'm looking for you."

This made Cao Huachun extremely embarrassed, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Commander Chen, that's envoy Liu Xuan."

Only now did Chen Shiwen know that Liu Chengzong was here, and he thought that the person riding the red-haired horse was the team leader.

Hastily bowed again: "Chen Shiwen pays homage to Liu Xuanwei envoy."

Then he apologized and said with a smile: "From now on, the chieftains of the Han people in Xihai will not only belong to the Chen family, but I also hope that the comfort envoy will take care of them in the future."

Cao Huachun frowned and said, "Chief Chen, General Liu is Qinghai's consolation envoy, so he can't control your Xining chieftain."

Chen Shiwen smiled apologetically at Cao Huachun, but his eyes would still look at Liu Chengzong, and he continued, "What the angel said is true."

This made Liu Chengzong feel that this Chieftain Chen should be asking for something from himself.

At this moment, Zuo Guangxian's horsemen ran over and said, "General, there are more than a dozen chieftains in front. The chieftains, clan relatives, Qianzong, and Bazong are all waiting in front."

Both Liu Chengzong and Cao Huachun couldn't help looking at Chieftain Chen in doubt, and Chen Shiwen said with a smile: "They walk slowly, I'll come here first."

　good afternoon!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)