The white porridge and pickled mustard is enough, why am I wearing a royal robe?

Chapter 112 Where are the rebels?impossible!
"That's what I said to the Kitchen King."

An old man's dark face had a respectful look. He participated in the entire siege battle just now, saw Wang Wu's performance in his eyes, and was now called to repeat it.

What the old man said was consistent with Wang Wu's self-reported crime.

"Anyone who climbs the city is counted as a soldier during the war. If he runs away during the war, he is a deserter. If you kill the deserter, you are not guilty."

Liu Zhenhua said slowly. He looked at Wang Wu. This man was interesting, quick in reaction, decisive in killing, and clever. He was able to use means to maintain order in the chaos on the city wall, and also prevented the defenders on the city wall from escaping.

It is a talent.

Wang Wu, who was kneeling on the ground, looked slightly stunned. After he realized what he was doing, a look of ecstasy appeared on his face.

"I, the king of the people, will kill Zhang Douliang, the magistrate of Yanchang County. I will be considered as the first meritorious official and be promoted to the third level."

Liu Zhenhua's clear voice resounded on the city wall, and the surrounding soldiers and the people who had not dispersed looked envious.

"The Kitchen King really has clear rewards and punishments."

"Tsk, tsk, it's different from the legend. Didn't they say in the past that if the Kitchen King ate sesame candy, he would stop reporting on it?"

"That's not a snitch. It's not like the Kitchen King can't tell the difference between good and evil."

The people around him were talking quietly.

"Thank you very much, Kitchen King! I, the king of the common people, will serve as the Kitchen King, and I will not give up even if I die!"

Wang Wu knocked on the ground, his head kept tapping the solid city wall, and he expressed his sincerity.

Now that Yanchang County has been captured, and the young and strong people here are basically the defenders of the city, more than 2000 people have seen Liu Zhenhua when he appeared in front of people, and they all know that the Kitchen King is real and very awesome. There is food everywhere.

Liu Zhenhua no longer has to show off his tricks in front of people in this county. Those people will naturally spread his legend.

But this time, it shouldn't be "come up in the clouds and return in the mist".

But come on horseback.

Thinking of this, Liu Zhenhua thought of the fighting spirit turned into a horse. The strong man of the Dou Sect still rides a horse. Isn't it reasonable for him, the Stove King, to ride a horse?

Yanchuan County is in the northeast of Yanchang County. There is a Jiaokou Town between the two counties, and Jiaokou Town has long been in the hands of Liu Zhenhua, which means that the two counties have now been connected by Liu Zhenhua.

Liu Zhenhua also has a way out. If a city is captured, Liu Zhenhua will not become a 'rogue bandit' like other peasant armies.

Of course, with Liu Zhenhua's current number of troops, unless the Ming army ignored the war between Liao and directly let Yuan Chonghuan lead troops, they might be able to capture Liu Zhenhua's city and force Liu Zhenhua to flee like the peasant army.

However, how could the big boss be sent in the early stage?

Liu Zhenhua was sure that Chongzhen would not do this. The Ming Dynasty was riddled with holes, and there were holes everywhere. Some holes were much more difficult to handle than he, the Kitchen King, looked like. Chongzhen would definitely deal with these things first.

Perhaps he, the Stove King, will be regarded as something that can be solved 'easily'.

"Now that the war has been decided, it's time to accumulate some reputation."

Liu Zhenhua was sitting in the Yanchang County Yamen, thinking about the next thing, still in two directions, the population and the quality of prestige meals.

The former requires [-] reputations to upgrade, and Liu Zhenhua's current reputation acquisition speed requires more than three weeks of accumulation.

Upgrading the quality of the prestige meal only requires [-] prestige, which is a matter of seven days.

"That's it," the next stage of the prestige meal can be regarded as a combination of meat and vegetables. I think the heavenly soldiers will be stronger after eating it, and the militiamen will be more eager to eat it.

Liu Zhenhua's side was having a lively fight, as was Fugu County, Yulin City in the north.

Wang Jiayin has already joined Wang Er who is heading north.

Wang Er regretted it.

After Wang Er came here, he learned that Wang Jiayin was once a member of the frontier army. He became a deserter and returned to his hometown. Many of his soldiers were deserters from the frontier army. Although they cannot be said to be elite soldiers and generals, they were better than him. These are people from peasant backgrounds who are much better off.

The most important thing is that this man's subordinates have received much more information than he has.

Gao Yingxiang of Ansai also came here. Wang Jiayin's team had expanded to 3 to [-] people, while Wang Er only had a few thousand people. The situation was reversed when he faced the Stove King.

Of course, he didn't know that Wang Zuogao and others who were supposed to come here to join him had been killed by Liu Zhenhua, as had Monk Wang, otherwise Wang Jiayin's number would have been much larger.

Wang Er can only follow his heart.

"Lead the troops to surrender."

In Wang Jiayin's mind, this was the purpose of Wang Er's coming here, just like Gao Yingxiang, the king used it for himself.

In Fugu County.

The people sitting in the hall are all famous figures in the late Ming Dynasty.

Wang Jiayin sat in the main seat, and the first person sitting on both sides was the later famous King Chuang. Li Zicheng, who later succeeded him, was still an unknown soldier at this time, and had not even joined the ranks of the rebels.

Needless to say, Wang Er was the No. 1 peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty.

"Wangtou, the Stove King of Yanchuan has captured Yanchang County five days ago. The magistrate of Yanchang County was killed by one of his soldiers and his head was hanging on the city! The Stove King has captured two counties!"

A soldier bent down and stood in front of everyone and said.

Wang Er, who was originally worried, suddenly opened his eyes after hearing this, with a look of shock on his face. After seeing each other for three days, he looked at each other with admiration. He did not expect to hear the news from the Kitchen King again. The Kitchen King had already captured two counties. !
You must know that now is not as good as when he started his business in the early days. He led more than a hundred rebels to capture Chengcheng. Now the magistrates of the county are like frightened birds. They all try their best to appease the people and defend the city wall, which greatly increases the difficulty of capturing the city. I think It would take at least a thousand men to capture the city.

The Kitchen King actually conquered two cities, and they were two county towns that were very close to each other.

I'm afraid the Kitchen King must have 3000 or [-] men, almost the same size as him.

"It's developing so fast."

Wang Er sighed in his heart.

But it’s normal if you think about it carefully. Now the people are all like firewood, and those who do justice are like fire. When firewood meets fire, the intensity of the fire will increase at an extremely fast rate.

"Oh? With the support of people in the city, wouldn't it be easy for the Stove King to win the extension?" Wang Jiayin rubbed his chin, "What is the charm of the Stove King? He can actually let his soldiers kill the magistrate and surrender." "Please elaborate."

"Report to the king, extend the spread: The Kitchen King came to the city five days ago, but he did not move his troops. The brave men who defended the city and countryside were shocked and doubtful."

"I saw the Kitchen King waving his hand, and the open space under the city was covered with thousands of white porridge, pickled mustards, and eggs. The aroma of porridge, vegetables, and eggs floated above the city."

"The people all knelt down and shouted: The Stove King is true."

"The Stove King's soldiers all shouted: The Stove King does not kill ordinary people, but only corrupt officials. Anyone who kills an official will enjoy the food of the city."

"The soldiers around the county magistrate instantly cut off the county magistrate's head to show the public, and the people swarmed up. At this point, the Kitchen King captured Yanchang without spending a single soldier."

The soldier who told this story did not believe the rumors he heard. This was too bizarre. Food was everywhere with a wave of his hand, and a county town was captured without a single soldier.

Wang Jiayin looked surprised, and he didn't believe these words, "Are the rumors so mysterious?"

"But it's all groundless. Maybe the Stove King really has something special about him," Wang Jiayin said after thinking about it for a while.

"King's head."

Wang Er suddenly said something. He always felt a little awkward when shouting these two words. There were so many other people who didn't claim the title of king. Instead, he called himself the King of Dashun.

"I've met the Kitchen King before, and I didn't think there was anything strange about him. He was just the leader of a small rebel army, but he looked a bit more handsome."

"I invited him to join my tent, but he refused. If I hadn't seen that capturing him would require losing some soldiers, I would have taken action directly that day."

"This rumor should not be true at the moment."

Wang Jiayin nodded, "It should be spread by the Kitchen King to increase his momentum."

Gao Yingxiang also echoed, "If there are really magical means, why are the people of Shaanxi doing this? Why do we have to sit here, why don't we just go back home and wait for the Kitchen King to give us food."

"Hahaha."

His words made everyone in the hall burst into laughter.

"That's right," Wang Jiayin nodded, "We now have tens of thousands of soldiers, and wherever we go, food has been evacuated. Even so, we still need to rob granaries everywhere to maintain food supply. If the Stove King is real, I Wang Jiayin directly led his troops to seek refuge."

The cost of food and clothing for their tens of thousands of people is a huge amount. There is a severe drought in northern Shaanxi right now, and no grain can be grown on the cultivated land. They can only plunder government granaries or landlords' surplus grain to sustain themselves.

"Haha, if the Kitchen King was real, I wouldn't have gone all the way north."

Wang Er laughed.

No one in the hall took the news about the Kitchen King to heart.

"Everyone," Wang Jiayin suddenly spoke, attracting everyone's attention, "the most urgent task now is to continue to fight in various places, save the people from the fire and water, and let them join us to save the world."

"Right now, the town of Yansui is to the north, and it is heavily guarded. We will definitely not be able to go north."

"So we can only go south, southeast, southwest, and due south."

Wang Jiayin slowly pointed out three directions.

"King Tou, it's better to go directly south to avoid the sharp attack of the Ming army in the north. The extension of Chuanchuan to the south is the Kitchen King's territory. When we send our army down, the Kitchen King will definitely greet us."

Wang Er is still obsessed with conquering the Kitchen King.

The Kitchen King is a talented person who manages his men in an orderly manner.

Although he failed at the beginning and could not overwhelm others to capture the Kitchen King, this time, Wang Jiayin, who had more troops, could definitely subdue the Kitchen King.

"It makes sense to follow the king's words," Gao Yingxiang looked at Wang Er and said, "I think it's okay to go south."

"In this case, we will assemble the army tomorrow and start expanding southward."

Both of their suggestions were in line with Wang Jiayin's thoughts. Firstly, go south to avoid the Ming army's attack in the north and win over the people along the way. Secondly, let's see who the Stove King is. The rumors are getting more and more mysterious. This man is trying not to talk about himself. He opened granaries, killed the rich and helped the poor, and even said that he was a god.

"Sir Governor! All Yanchangyanchuan people have fallen into the hands of the bandit leader. All the magistrates of Yanchangyanchuan County have been killed. The bandit leader calls himself the Stove King and deceives tens of thousands of people. He has become a disaster in northern Shaanxi!"

The messenger knelt down in the hall and shouted!He looked at the old governor Hu Yanyan in the hall.

"Come here! Pull down the newspaper deliverer and beat him up!"

Hu Yanyan slapped the table, glared and shouted.

Someone immediately came forward and dragged the person delivering the newspaper away.

"Ah? Lord Governor, I was wronged! Why did you hit me! I was wronged!"

The man who delivered the newspaper was puzzled, with anxiety and fear on his face. He was so tall that he would lose half his life if he didn't die.

"Pull it off!"

Hu Yanyan made a round gesture with his hands, looking very angry.

The two people hurriedly dragged the newspaper delivery person out of the door.

Suddenly there was a sound of wailing outside the door, and the newspaper deliveryman couldn't understand why the governor wanted to pull him down and beat him up.

Although he came to report the news conscientiously, he was beaten severely by the governor.

Where to go to reason.

Hearing the screams outside the door, Hu Yanyan felt a little better. He stroked his beard, calmed down his emotions, and then said: "Go ahead, if anyone wants to retaliate for 'thieves crossing the border' in the future, don't pay attention." , Those are not thieves, they are people who have no land to farm. If there is snow this winter and light rain next spring, they will go to farm! What is going on, what is there to make such a fuss about!"

Having said that, Hu Yanyan closed his eyes and his head was buzzing. He was already quite old and just wanted to retire after finishing these last few years.

If you can, don't report these things. If you can, just cover it up. News about the thieves cannot get out when he is in office. When he retires, he will care about whoever he loves and whoever he cares about.

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