Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 507
What Song Qingshu was worried about did not happen.

The first time Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng, it ended in failure. Li Xianfeng returned to the defense in time. When the army was attacking the city, he encountered a surprise attack by Chen Yongfu and lost more than a hundred soldiers. It was unrealistic to attack again, so Li Zicheng retreated knowingly.

And even if Mangshan was defeated and Kaifeng retreated, Li Zicheng's army not only did not go downhill, but became even more prosperous. The 15 troops defeated in Luoyang were replenished in less than a month, and among them, there were even those who had just risked their lives with Li Zicheng. The meritorious deeds of Fu Wang, who took revenge for killing his father.

On February 29, the old Fu Wang died, and the memorial of Fu Wang's son begging to inherit the throne was sent to the capital. In just three days, the imperial edict approved by Emperor Chongzhen was issued.

What also annoyed Song Qingshu was that Emperor Chongzhen, who was usually stingy with military pay to the limit, actually squeezed out 28 taels of silver and sent eunuchs to send it over. Ouchi also specially sent several engineering eunuchs to supervise the reconstruction of the Fuwang Mansion.

Rebuilding the palace needs food and people, and the people near Luoyang are out of luck. Wangzhuang draws [-] dans of grain, and as long as the farmers who cultivate the king's land are forced to work hard to open the Mangshan Tomb and build the Fuwang Palace.

what time is thisIn spring, the season of planting is about to be planted, and it is the season when the harvest is slow and the harvest is busy. After such two major projects, Song Qingshu saw that the farmers who did not run away with the Chuangjun also threw down their hoes and went south. The whole village fled, that kind of The shocking feeling makes people shudder.

It's not over yet, I didn't see it during the war, his mother's Song Qingshu took Luoyang back, what about He Renlong, Zuo Liangyu also pulled soldiers and horses out of Shaanxi, I didn't see how serious the war was, and it harmed the people alone One by one, and what was even more exasperating was that Zuo Liangyu even came to provoke him from time to time, which made everyone in the begging army suffocate.

Luoyang, who was already seriously injured, was even more disfigured by the scourge.

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Mangshan.

A huge pit was excavated, and at the other end, piles of blue bricks were neatly stacked there, ready to be used, with knees hugged, Little Pepper was watching there with a dazed expression, directing the workers to go back and forth, Song Qingshu looked at it with some interest.

In the previous life, I only watched the excavation of ancient tombs. It was the first time to build an ancient tomb by myself. Xiaojiao’s biological mother died young. This time, the adoptive mother who brought her up and a few good stepmothers, all brothers and sisters died in the catastrophe , quite displeased with the smog in Luoyang City, Song Qingshu simply took over the matter of building King Fu's tomb.

There were no excavators in this era, so it took several days to dig a deep enough pit for burial, and then put waterproof compound soil on it, pound it down bit by bit with a millstone, and listen to the hey-yo roar of the strong man underneath, Song Qingshu paced anxiously, but when he turned around and saw the thin figure of Little Pepper sitting on the mound, he couldn't help sighing again, walked forward involuntarily, took off his cloak, draped over her.

Seems to have finally regained consciousness, but Little Pepper did not speak, but obediently leaned on Song Qingshu, sat down and stretched out his arms, Song Qingshu directly hugged the poor woman in his arms.

Who said that being born in an emperor's family would bring happiness?Apart from Zhu Yousong, Xiaojiao's husband is the last one in this world now, besides, he has no relatives.

But this rare warmth didn't last long, a dozen war horses roared and galloped over suddenly, looking at the neck flag, Li Tiezhu's subordinates of the fourth division rushed over in such a hurry, probably something happened.

Seemingly feeling Song Qingshu's helplessness and embarrassment, Little Pepper raised her head obediently, and said softly to Song Qingshu: "Officials and big men are also troublesome for the world, just go by yourself, I'm fine!"

"Well, I'm done, I'll be with you when I come back!"

Nodding helplessly, he stood up from the large mound dug out, brushed away the dust, and Song Qingshu greeted the cavalry directly.

It was actually Li Tiezhu who arrived in person. As soon as he saw Song Qingshu, this big-armed guy immediately jumped off his horse, and anxiously bowed to Song Qingshu, "Commander, something happened, that bastard Zuo Liangyu came to the door! "

"what?"

Hearing this, the veins on Song Qingshu's forehead couldn't help but twitch.

It's really called the door. The beggar army is next to a warehouse near Luoyang. There are hundreds of left soldiers in tattered clothes. The soldier who looks like a living army is probably caught off guard by a murderous hand. Inside the warehouse, more than 50 bayonets are facing the outside with a cold light, shouting and scolding, one after another.

Just at this time, the sound of horseshoes came from outside, and Xiaobao ran in front carrying the Song Dynasty flag, and Xiaobao yelled angrily: "General Pingliao is here, the idlers wait and get out of the way!"

"What kind of general Ping Liao, a thief and a bird, we will recognize a general Ping Liao, General Zuo, if you are sensible, get out of the way quickly, otherwise the guy in Grandpa's hands is not for nothing!"

It's really embarrassing, facing the cavalry, a guy who seems to be the leader of the Zuo Army opened his mouth arrogantly, seeing his exaggerated appearance of tilting his neck and holding his head up, it made a group of Zuo Liangyu soldiers raise their heads Come on, grinning wildly, swearing and swearing.

The master humiliated the subject to death, and these bastards dared to curse their own commander. Xiaobao was so angry that he almost fell off his horse, and was so angry that he reached out to draw a knife. Who knew that Song Qingshu stretched out his hand to push him back, turned over, laughed Hehe didn't jump off the horse.

"This commander is General Song Qingshu of Pingliao, the commander-in-chief of the Lianghuai army, and I repelled the intruders. You really don't know him?"

That smile is genuine and harmless to humans and animals, pointing at his nose, Song Qingshu asked in a gentle manner, this appearance is really not lethal at all, the little leader of the left army who is watching is naturally not in his eyes, and he is getting more and more arrogance. rowing.

"Which hole are you the grandson of, I've never heard of it!"

"General Ping Liao, have you heard of it?"

"I do not know!"

Following the leader, more than a dozen gangsters shook their heads from side to side in a strange way, just like hooligans, but before they had finished laughing, a musket blast sounded suddenly in the crowd, and the arrogant expression on their faces It quickly turned into pain, and with his hands covering the blood gushing at the base of his thigh, the officer of the left army pointed at Song Qingshu with his finger in disbelief.

"you you……"

"You will know me, General Pingliao, right?" Song Qingshu still had a pleasant face while blowing the gunpowder smoke of the revolver, but that smile looked like a devil in Zuo Jun's eyes.

No one expected that Song Qingshu would fight as soon as he said so. The gangsters were stunned for a few seconds, and then another officer of the Left Army screamed like ghosts and wolves: "Anyone who dares to hit us, kill him!"

"Destroy this group of soldiers, bandits and ruffians!" Xiaobao also roared angrily. In the sound of clattering, more than a hundred soldiers drew their swords and guns together, and at the same time, there were a large number of footsteps on the street, left and right, side by side. The beggars armed with bayonets surrounded him as if they had descended from the sky, and they clearly noticed that the surrounded Zuo army was rushing towards Song Qingshu howling like beasts, but dozens of revolvers had already blocked him, and a puff of white smoke lingered in the air. In the bean-like sound of gunshots, the left army in front fell down.

No one knows how many times the short-fire guns of the Qihuo Army can fire. The bullying nature of these gangsters is undoubtedly revealed. Facing the dark muzzle of the guns, the group of left soldiers turned their heads directly and rushed out, but the people outside The beggar army is not a vegetarian either. Seeing this group of bastards wanting to break out, they also fired unceremoniously, leaving dozens of corpses behind. At this time, surrounded by bayonets, the left army's rebellious army was directly pushed to the corner of the warehouse.

He didn't even bother to act with these bastards anymore, Song Qingshu put away his smile, put the revolver back into his waist with a hum, and waved his hand like chasing flies: "The heads are all cut off, and the rest have their noses cut off, let them grow Long memory, know who Lao Tzu is!"

"The last will obey!"

I don’t know how many Zuo Jun came to do miscellaneous things these days. Li Tiezhu, who was full of anger, immediately pulled out his knife with a grinning grin, and picked up a frightened Zuo Jun who was about to use the knife. There was a long cheer.

"General Zuo Dashuai is here!"

Another large group of Ming army cavalry rushed over, yelling and cursing behind them, looked at Song Qingshu and nodded, Li Tiezhu waved his hands helplessly to make way, the sergeants opened a gap, and after a while, the team of soldiers also squeezed in.

This is the first time Song Qingshu has seen Zuo Liangyu. Not to mention, this guy is really handsome, with sword eyebrows and star eyes, and a neat beard, which is completely different from his reputation as a murderer, but obviously because of anger, this guy's face is distorted Getting up, holding the reins of the horse, he rushed in high above, looked at the corpses on the ground, and yelled angrily at Song Qingshu directly.

"Fool Song, you dare to kill my generals, you are so fucking courageous! I'm going to abolish you!"

"Tsk tsk, I don't know where the bastard came from today. He trespassed in the official warehouse. He didn't even know the commander. I thought he was a deserter from somewhere. I didn't expect it to be under the command of Commander Zuo!"

Holding the revolver, Song Qingshu raised his head arrogantly, and hummed softly. Following his movements, the beggars on the left and right suddenly yelled, swiped the bayonet down, and pointed at Zuo Liang. The riders of Yu's soldiers looked at the mountains of knives on the left and right. Even if they were as strong as the soldiers of the Zuo army, they couldn't help but became messy.

He is always arrogant and domineering on weekdays, bullying others, sometimes Zuo Jun raped other people's trophies and even killed people, but due to Zuo Liangyu's strength, no one dared to look for him, so he could only hold his nose to recognize him. No, but I didn't expect that the Song Qingshu I met this time was even more lawless than him, and he really wanted to kill him. This time he met a cruel person.

Yelling for a mistake, Zuo Liangyu yelled, "Song silly..., General Song, we are all officials of the imperial court. If you want to do something to me, aren't you afraid that the imperial court will hold you accountable?"

"Lord Zuo, Song also wants to ask you, are you not afraid of being investigated by the court if you join the bandits and plunder the official warehouse?"

"What about looting the official warehouse? The commander under his command was ordered by King Fu to take food and rice from King Fu's mansion to support the construction of the mansion! Master Song, please don't spout blood!"

As he said that, Zuo Liangyu really took out a shiny golden copy of Wang Ming from his bosom, looking at that thing, Song Qingshu couldn't help being stunned...

(End of this chapter)