I want to be emperor

Chapter 4 Rogue
Sun Jiancheng acted very quickly. After listening to Luo Zhixue's report, he directly ordered his confidants to bring Fang Ada here.

"Be careful when you do things, don't disturb other people."

Since the other party planned to poison and murder Luo Zhixue, and Luo Zhixue came to find Sun Chengli early in the morning, there was no guarantee that Fang Ada and the others would become vigilant and run away.

In order to avoid having too many nights and dreams, Sun Chengli directly asked his own soldiers to arrest him.

When Sun Chengli sent his own soldiers to arrest him, Sun Chengli asked Luo Zhixue to take Lin Ahyu to have breakfast with him.

Encountered this morning, Luo Zhixue and Lin Ahyu hadn't had time to eat, so they immediately ate without hesitation.

Just after breakfast, Sun Jiancheng's soldiers came back, and brought back Fang Ada who passed out.

This person was obviously brought here after being knocked out directly on the bed, and he was still wearing a middle coat.

Sun Chengli glanced at Fang Ada who was still on the ground, and immediately ordered his soldiers: "Wake him up."

Immediately, a soldier came over with a basin of cold water and poured it directly on Fang Ada's hijab, and Fang Ada woke up leisurely.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Sun Chengli with a fierce gaze in front of him.

Immediately afterwards, he saw Luo Zhixue standing behind Sun Chengcheng, squinting at him.

At this moment, this scene suddenly made Fang Ah feel bad.

Could it be that things have been brought to light?
Sun Chengli didn't give him too much time to think about it, and immediately asked, "Tell me about your accomplices, and I can spare your life. If you don't, hmph, you know what will happen!"

Fang Ada also tried to resist: "General Sun, I misunderstood, what kind of accomplice, I don't know what you are talking about..."

But it was useless for Fang Ada to cry and cry for injustice. Sun Chengli directly gave him a few knives, and after shaving off a few pieces of meat, the man told all about the corruption of the supplies.

After getting the name he wanted, Sun Chengli laughed, and then took Luo Zhixue out. Before leaving, he said to the soldiers: "Back him up, so that he won't die if he dies without proof, and the general will have to let him know later." What about the interrogation?"

Immediately afterwards, Sun Chengli asked the soldiers to arrest several people in succession, and after interrogating them one by one, they basically got to know about the corruption of the military supplies.

But what Luo Zhixue didn't expect was that Fang Ada and the others were just low-level executors, and they also involved several leaders in the army.

And this is not something Sun Chengli can handle alone.

After thinking for a while, Sun Chengli said: "Go, follow me to see the general!"

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The place where Luo Zhixue and his party were stationed was an abandoned village, most of the houses were dilapidated or had been burnt down and collapsed, only a few houses remained in good condition.

Li Tonglin and his soldiers lived in the best house in the abandoned village, which used to be the house of a small landlord in the village.

It is said to be the best, but in fact most of it has collapsed, leaving only a few houses intact for people to live in.

After Sun Chengli took Luo Zhixue to find Li Tonglin, Sun Chengli stepped forward to whisper a few words into Li Tonglin's ear.

After a while Li Tonglin raised his head and glanced at Luo Zhixue, then he waved his hands and turned away.

After the others retreated, Li Tonglin said, "Is there a problem with the accounts? Is there not enough food in stock?"

Immediately, Luo Zhixue: "Yesterday, when my subordinates and others checked the grain and grass, they found that the food stock was less than ten days old, and the gold and silver in the army were only 6000 taels. The subordinates thought there was something wrong, so they checked the original According to the account book, we found that the food consumption in the army is not normal. We consume enough food for 3000 people every day, but we only have 500 people when we are full."

Li Tonglin has always listened to Sun Jiancheng and Luo Zhixue. When he heard that there was corruption in the army, he was fine. But when he heard Luo Zhixue say that the army had less than ten days' worth of food, the daily food consumption far exceeded what it should have been. After counting, Li Tonglin stood up abruptly:

"When we were outside Luoyang City, we evacuated three Zhuangzi, at least enough for us to eat for more than a month. It has only been a few days, and there is only less than ten days left? They are so courageous. !"

Luo Zhixue lowered his head slightly, but did not answer.

Sun Jianli stepped forward and said: "General, although we haven't completed a comprehensive investigation, the food in the army is indeed insufficient. According to Fang Ada and the others, they exaggerated the daily consumption of food and grass. The extra grain was sold for private pockets."

Li Tonglin's face darkened the more he listened.

Luo Zhixue knew the seriousness of the food shortage, and Li Tonglin, a man in the army, knew it even more.

Why did Li Tonglin and the others rebel?
Wasn't it because there was no food in the army that Li Tonglin and the others were forced to rob a gentry's granary, and ended up offending people who shouldn't be offended, and were forced to directly mutiny and become rebels.

The shortage of food in the army has very serious consequences.

Li Tonglin took a deep breath at this time: "I said how the food in the army has been eaten so fast in recent months. It turns out that there are too many big rats around."

When Li Tonglin spoke, he also gradually controlled his expression, and his face became calm.

At this moment, he took another look at Luo Zhixue:
"Thank you, Mr. Luo. You did a good job in the investigation this time. If it weren't for you, Mr. Luo, I would not have known that there are so many rats around me, and even the army's rations are so short."

"In the future, Mr. Luo will be troubled more, and he will work for Lao Sun as a deputy logistics officer, in charge of the registration and distribution of food and grass."

Luo Zhixue immediately showed an excited expression and said, "Thank you for your kindness, the general, and the subordinates will do their best to manage the food and supplies well under the leadership of the general.

Although Luo Zhixue did not say that he wanted to be a bandit with Li Tonglin all the time, but now that he has just traveled here and is in troubled times, it is okay to hang around with an anti-thief leader like Li Tonglin first.

Since he intends to mess around first, it is also a good thing to be an official.

After all, after having a slightly higher status in the anti-thieves, in the future when officers and soldiers attack and suppress, this is how they can get mixed into the running team!

Luo Zhixue could see very clearly that in the anti-thief team of thousands of people in front of him, except for the more than 100 core cavalry, the other more than 1000 young and strong were hard labor on weekdays, and they were cannon fodder and abandoned children when necessary.

In the event of an encirclement by officers and soldiers, Li Tonglin would most likely only take the 100-odd cavalry to run away, and the 1000-odd young and strong refugees would probably become abandoned.

As for Luo Zhixue, he would allow himself to be abandoned as cannon fodder, he wanted to be one of the more than 100 people who ran away.

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After receiving the reports from Sun Chengli and Luo Zhixue, as well as several witnesses who had already spoken, Li Tonglin personally questioned Fang Ada and the others, and after confirming the truth of the matter, he began to question the three generals involved one by one. called over.

He ambushed more than ten soldiers in the house.

In a short while, the three leaders involved in the incident were arrested, followed by torture and questioning in person, and it didn't take long to figure out the matter.

The matter is very simple, that is, these three bosses just wanted to get money, so they instructed their subordinates to collude with Fang Ada and others who managed the supplies, fabricate expenses, collect food and even armaments and sell them.

In the afternoon of that day, there was a commotion in the rebel camp.

Hearing the commotion outside, Luo Zhixue immediately said to Lin Ah Yu: "Oh boy, stay indoors and don't come out, I'll go out and have a look!"

Lin Ahyu looked up at Luo Zhixue with her still thin face, and then nodded in a childish voice: "Yes, I will be very good."

Luo Zhixue looked at Lin Ahyu, who was about the same age as the little boy from the neighbor's house, and immediately reached out and touched his head and smiled.

Lin Ahyu didn't dodge, and let him touch his head with a smile on his face.

Although young, Lin Ahyu can still feel the goodness of Luo Zhixue, the big brother, in these few days!
He always gives himself plenty to eat!

These few days are the best days he has eaten in his limited years of life since he can remember!

Luo Zhixue came out and saw a group of people in the middle of the camp. When he got closer, he saw that Sun Jiancheng was also in the crowd, and immediately leaned over.

There was a small wooden platform in the open space among the crowd, and there were more than a dozen people tied up in front of it, including Fang Ada.

Seeing Fang Ada, Luo Zhixue nodded slightly towards him and smiled!

This is the smile of a winner!

When Fang Ada on the stage saw Luo Zhixue smiling at him, he showed a ferocious face and wanted to say something, but unfortunately, his mouth was blocked by a rag, so he couldn't say anything.

Soon, he couldn't even look at Luo Zhixue anymore.

Because Li Tonglin had already personally carried a machete and beheaded the corrupt people on the stage one by one!

Among them was Fang Ada, whose head rolled off the stage and rolled all the way to Luo Zhixue's feet. Luo Zhixue looked down, Fang Ada seemed to be dying, his eyes were still wide open.

Li Tonglin on the wooden platform held a machete still stained with blood in his hand, and stepped on the severed head of a corrupt general.

He only heard him speak loudly to the group of people who gathered here: "These damn bastards dare to fill their own pockets and sell the food that brothers have worked so hard to grab privately, bastards, this is what brothers eat They dare to sell the living food, if we don’t kill them, we will starve to death by them sooner or later..."

Li Tonglin was still talking loudly, but Luo Zhixue looked at Li Tonglin on the simple wooden platform, and felt that this person was not simple.

It was easy to kill Fang Ada and the others all at once, but it was obvious that Li Tonglin wanted more than just killing a few people.

He also took this opportunity to boost morale, and directly transferred the contradiction of the lack of food in the army to Fang Ada and others, arousing the common indignation of the soldiers!
Although Li Tonglin's words were a bit blunt and contained a lot of swear words, the soldiers below were obviously aroused, and many of them shouted and cursed angrily.

After Li Tonglin sprayed a lot, he said again: "These bastards have sold a lot of food. Although the money from the sale has been found, the food can't be returned. But it's okay, we still have it on hand. There is enough food for more than half a month, and I will take you to grab a Zhuangzi in two days, and I will be back."

As he said that, he made a smirk on purpose: "I have found out, the one who took those bastards and embezzled the army rations is Sanlinzhuang, not far away, just over 20 miles to the north. I heard that There is a lot of money and food there, and later we will take that Zhuangzi in one pot, and when the time comes, our food will still be ours, and their food will also be ours."

"And it's not just food, their money and women will be ours!!"

"Hey, if we do a good job this time, we can round our stomachs."

When the lowly soldiers heard this, many of them started shouting, "Take it!"

"Grab food!"

"Grab money!"

"Snatch a woman!"

"Sanlin Village is still a big village, there must be a lot of cute little ladies there, hehe... I'm going to play with ten or eight this time."

Hearing the almost crazy words of Li Tonglin and a group of soldiers below, Luo Zhixue was thoughtful.

A few days ago, I didn't think there was anything special about this group of bandits. It was just that the personnel, equipment, and combat effectiveness were a little bit worse, but I didn't think these people were so bad.

But looking at this group of people today, Luo Zhixue knew it.

This group of people is not a serious rebel army, they are just a group of very simple rogues.

Maybe, it's time for me to think about other paths, and follow them to continue messing around like this, not to mention whether I will be as dehumanized and crazy for plundering as they are, but sooner or later it will definitely be a dead word.

Because this group of people is doomed to fail, sooner or later they will be killed by officers and soldiers!

(End of this chapter)