Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 99 Soldiers are coming to Chengdu! [The fifth update, please subscribe]

Liu Zhibo looked towards the throne.

I saw Zhu Zhishu sitting crookedly on it, eating watermelon.

Zhu Zhishu is about forty years old, with a slightly fat body and fair skin, with two mustaches on his lips. Because he is well maintained, he looks like he is in his thirties.

Seeing Liu Zhibo come in, Zhu Zhishu put down the watermelon skin that still had a lot of flesh, wiped his mouth with a silk scarf, and said, "It's so hot, what is Liu Xun doing here to find Gu? How about eating a piece of watermelon to cool off?" "

Hearing this, Liu Zhibo couldn't help but sarcastically, "Zhang Xianzhong has captured Chongqing, and he will attack Chengdu in the near future. It's really admirable that His Highness still has such leisure!"

Zhu Zhishu showed an innocent expression, spread his hands and said, "What can Gu Neng do? Gu is also very afraid that Zhang Xianzhong will attack Chengdu. But Gu has neither money, food nor military power, so he can't do anything."

Liu Zhibo realized that if this gossip continued, Zhu Zhishu, who had nothing to do, could go on talking all morning.

He shoulders the important task of city defense, but he has no time to waste here.

So he said directly: "Everyone in Sichuan knows the wealth of the King of Shu. Now that Zhang Xianzhong has entered Sichuan and is about to attack Chengdu, if Your Highness does not want to end up miserable like King Fu, King Chu and other vassal lords, please take out money and food to reward the soldiers and civilians defending the city, and strengthen the city defense of Chengdu." !"

"Impossible!" Zhu Zhishu subconsciously refused at first, and then added: "There are only a handful of money and food in the solitary treasury, how can there be enough to reward the soldiers and civilians? If money is not needed, there is a Chengyun Palace. The old man will demolish it." Let's sell it and pay for it."

Hearing this, Liu Zhibo almost died of anger.

He stared at Zhu Zhishu and said angrily: "Your Highness, no one in Chengyun Palace can afford it, and only Li Zicheng is the recipient!"

After speaking, he waved his sleeves and left.

Liu Zhibo's heart went cold.

The situation is now urgent, and he has said this, but Zhu Zhishu is still not repentant.

It's all about money and life, short-sighted.

Thinking of the city defense situation, he only felt that when Zhang Xianzhong came to attack, he, the inspector censor, could do nothing but serve the country with his death.

He had just left the palace of the Prince of Shu, so he rushed over sweating through his armor, clasped his fists and bowed to him, and said, "According to the platform, nearly ten thousand horses came from outside the north city gate, and the first woman claimed to be Princess Kunxing. "

"what?"

Liu Zhibo suspected that he had heard it wrong, or that he had misunderstood total heat stroke.

"You mean Princess Kunxing?" He asked with a frown.

"That's right, Mr. Zhu Qian asked again and again, the woman did indeed call herself Princess Kunxing, and she also brought the late emperor's will."

Hearing this, Liu Zhibo couldn't help saying to himself: "Could it be that she is really Princess Kunxing? But why did she come to Chengdu and bring nearly ten thousand horses with her?"

Suddenly Liu Zhibo thought of a possibility, and hurriedly asked, "Are the nearly ten thousand horses dressed as officials or soldiers?"

The bandit army refers to the peasant army.

Ba Zong said: "Half of them are dressed as thieves, and generally they are dressed as officers and soldiers, but they all wear my bright sun and moon flag."

Liu Zhibo couldn't help rolling his eyes angrily after hearing this, and said, "Are you talking nonsense? If she wants to defraud the city, how can she not fly the Sun and Moon Banner and pretend to be an officer?"

"Ah." The boss was taken aback for a moment, and then he couldn't help asking: "But why don't the other half of the people dress like an official?"

"How does this old man know?" Liu Zhibo replied angrily, and hurried towards the north gate.

None of the officers and generals in the city made him look up to, otherwise he wouldn't be so unconfident in defending Chengdu.

When he came to the north city gate, Liu Zhibo met Long Wenguang, the governor of Sichuan, who also hurried over.

Speaking of which, Long Wenguang, the governor of Sichuan, participated in politics in northern Sichuan not long ago.

His promotion order was issued before the capital was besieged by Li Zicheng's army, but it spread to Sichuan not long ago together with the news that the capital was captured and Chongzhen was martyred.

It just so happened that Chen Shiqi, the original governor of Sichuan, was killed by Zhang Xianzhong in Chongqing, and Long Wenguang filled the gap.

He originally organized an army in Shunqing Prefecture to resist Zhang Xianzhong's attack on Kuizhou and Shunqing. When he learned that Chongqing had been captured, he became the governor of Sichuan again, so he rushed to Chengdu with the general Liu Zhenfan.

It's a pity that Liu Zhenfan's tribe is also full of remnants and weak soldiers, and the public treasuries in Chengdu have no money or food.

Like Liu Zhibo, the newly appointed governor, Long Wenguang, was at a loss for what to do about the city defense.

It was only the day before yesterday that an order was issued for the officials and rebels from the surrounding prefectures and counties to come to rescue Chengdu.

Long Wenguang is a very traditional literati, one of the "Eight Sages of Liuzhou" in the Ming Dynasty.

But on this hot day, even those who rushed here in a sedan chair were sweating profusely, and their clothes were quite wet.

The two had no time to communicate, so they carefully looked out from the top of the city.

I saw a mile away from the moat, standing a vast crowd of people, but as the general said, the uniforms of the official soldiers and the thief soldiers were half and half.

In addition, there are two handsome flags of "red" and "horse" in the army.

Although they were separated by a distance of one mile, both Liu Zhibo and Long Wenguang had good eyesight. Seeing that no matter whether it was the "official army" or the "bandit army", the soldiers were all lined up, standing there motionless, and they felt flustered.

Long Wenguang blocked the sun with one palm and said, "Liu Xunyong, these soldiers and horses look very elite."

"Futai clearly sees that they are indeed much more elite than the officers and soldiers in Chengdu."

Liu Zhibo replied, looking at the group of hundreds of knights by the moat.

There are two people in the lead, one is a young man dressed as a scholar, and the other is a woman wearing a crimson brocade robe and a woman's single bun.

The distance from the moat to the top of the city was less than one mile. Liu Zhibo took a closer look and found that the woman was indeed about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a heroic appearance and a noble air.

But he had never met any of the princesses, so he couldn't confirm the identity of the other party, so he asked, "Have you seen Princess Kunxing in Futai?"

Long Wenguang was also looking over there, and said with a wry smile: "The princess is in the deep palace, how can this court see her? Why, Liu Xunyan suspects that she is a fake?"

Liu Zhibo sighed: "The capital was captured by Li Chuang's army, the late emperor was martyred, and there is no news of the three princes. How did Princess Kunxing, a weak woman, escape? And how could she attract nearly ten thousand elites to accompany her?"

Long Wenguang nodded, "It is true that there are many doubts, but since she has the edict of the first emperor, why don't we come over to check the authenticity first."

"indeed."

Immediately, Long Wenguang asked the soldiers with loud voices to pass on the message.

"Since your Excellency has the edict of the first emperor, how about handing it over for us to have a look at?"

Beside the suspension bridge over the moat, Auntie Zhu was not surprised when she heard the words, she immediately took out a loudspeaker and said, "How can the imperial edict be handed over to you casually? If you want to read it, send someone over to check it out."

The boss hadn't mentioned the princess's loud voice before, so Long Wenguang and Liu Zhibo were startled when they suddenly heard Auntie Zhu's "loud" voice.

Long Wenguang said: "What is she holding? How can she speak so loudly?"

"I don't know." Liu Zhibo shook his head, then looked at Long Wenguang, "Can you go down to Futai to check?"

Long Wenguang's expression froze when he heard this, and then he said with an unnatural expression: "This court is not good at distinguishing the authenticity of edicts, not to mention that the city of Chengdu still needs our court..."

Liu Zhibo understood what Long Wenguang was thinking, so before he finished speaking, he said, "Then let me go. Come and arrange the hanging basket."

The entourage behind him immediately persuaded: "You can't take risks by pressing the table, why don't you send a low-level official to check?"

Liu Zhibo said: "How convincing are the inspection results of the low-level officials? Which low-level officials are willing to take risks?"

Liu Zhibo's two questions made the attendant speechless, and Long Wenguang's face turned redder.

Immediately, the city defender arranged a hanging basket to put Liu Zhibo down.

When Liu Zhibo crossed the bridge alone and came in front of the group of knights, Long Wenguang and others on the top of the wall felt aroused, fearing that the next moment the group of knights would turn their backs and chop off Liu Zhibo's head, or trample him into flesh mud.

Long Wenguang even winked at the followers around him, signaling him to ask the officers and soldiers to prepare to deal with the enemy's attack on the city.

···
Although Liu Zhibo had put life and death aside when he made the decision, but when he walked slowly in front of this group of knights, he still couldn't help but feel nervous and his heart beat faster.

But he tried his best to maintain the majesty of the censor of a province, looked at the girl, and said: "This old man is Liu Zhibo, the censor of Sichuan, what about the imperial edict?"

Auntie Zhu looked at the gray-bearded old man, smiled slightly and said, "So it's Liu Xunyong, I've admired it for a long time. The content of this imperial decree from my palace is a bit shocking, so don't be scared when you read it."

After speaking, he took out a wooden box from his luggage and handed it to Fei Zhen'e who was dressed as a knight next to him.

Fei Zhen'e got off the horse and walked over after taking the imperial decree.

Only then did Liu Zhibo realize that this knight, or most of the knights in front of him, were all women!
Fei Zhen'e opened the box and handed it over. Seeing Liu Zhibo was in a daze, she reminded: "Should Liu press the table to read the imperial decree?"

Only then did Liu Zhibo come back to his senses, and took out the imperial decree to check.

Liu Zhibo had seen many imperial decrees to be promoted to the censor of a province, so the first time he saw this imperial decree, he felt it was true.

Looking at the seal, it is correct, and the handwriting is written by Emperor Chongzhen himself.

But when he carefully read the content of the imperial decree, his jaw almost dropped in shock.

　In this chapter, I would like to thank all the book friends who rewarded and subscribed, parents who live and eat!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)