"Report to the general, kill new information thousands of miles away. In the western part of Henan, there are many thieves who are uprising, and many children sing folk songs."

"What folk songs are there?"

"Eat and wear fucking. Open the door to welcome the King of Chuang. The King of Chuang will not pay food when he comes."

Li Zilong, Liu Yihui, Jiang Hai and other generals looked at each other for a moment, with expressions of ignorance on their faces. They thought to themselves, those people were really ignorant, "Welcome the King of Breaking, and don't pay food." The thief isn't a saint anymore?

If Zhu Zilong was here, he would probably sneer even more and slapped the table. I would be so fucking so hard that I would never be exempted from taxes. Why do you thieves say that?

The so-called "welcome the King of Breaking, not paying grain" means that when Li Zicheng's uprising army came, the people did not need to pay taxes (at that time, the farmers paid taxes, which meant paying grain to the officials).

Paying taxes for grain is a prescribed rule for thousands of years. In which dynasty and generation, no matter what the emperor's surname is, farmers have to pay grain from the government.

The farmers of the Ming Dynasty also didn't think about it: "Welcome the King of Chuang, and do not pay food." What should the King of Chuang eat? What should I drink? What should I wear? What should I use? What should I eat? What should I drink? What should I wear? What should I use?

Could it be that they are all gods? Don’t eat or drink? Don’t get a salary?

At this point, Li Zilong and others did not take these rumors to heart and continued to march as planned.

Until a few days later, new information came. It is said that once these rumors spread, the thieves became more and more powerful, and their troops went to a higher level. The people wanted to surrender, and the thieves' army really realized some of the rumors and did not want the people to pay taxes.

Now, Li Zilong and others were a little puzzled.

The rumor of "Welcome the King of Breaking, not paying food" is unrealistic. Why do the people believe it? And I heard that some thieves have fulfilled this rumor? How is this possible?

With this confusion, he marched for a few more days. When Wanli Killing relied on the carrier pigeon to send new information, Li Zilang and the others realized it.

It turned out that among the thieves, there were down-and-out literati joining them and thought of slogans and ways of doing things.

This is the process of fulfilling this slogan. Wherever they go, they rely on cracking down on the rich to raise military pay and military rations. They have indeed never collected grain and taxed the people.

Besides, they wandered around and did not establish their own regime system, so they could not collect grain and tax the people. This gave the farmers a deep impression and sense of reliability that the rebel army "don't collect grain and tax".

This is simply an early approach in later generations. He beat the local tyrants and divided the land, but the excessive land and property were all over the thief themselves.

Seeing the information, Li Zilong and others couldn't help but look at each other, thinking, "I'm not afraid of the thieves, but I'm afraid of the thieves being educated!"

Pick up the information and take a closer look. Niu Jinxing, the person who helped the thief make a plan?

"What's going on? Niu Jinxing, isn't he an official in the capital? How could that happen?" Li Zilong was shocked and quickly asked someone to ask the brothers who were killed in Wanli to check it out.

No wonder Li Zilong and others were surprised. More than a year ago, Zhu Zilong had appointed Niu Jinxing, Li Yan and others to the capital and went to the capital for official positions. He also secretly let the Jinyiwei observe for several months.

Who could have expected that just one year later, Niu Jinxing was not in the capital, so why did he appear in the bandit army and become a military advisor?

In the history that had not changed, Niu Jinxing (about 15951652), whose courtesy name was Juming, was from Baofeng County, Henan Province at the end of the Ming Dynasty. He later moved to the county town. He was a scholar in his twenties and passed the imperial examination in the seventh year of Tianqi (1627). He was a simple person, liked to read, and was well-versed in the military strategy of heaven, Fengjiao, Sun, and Wu.

Due to the incident, he was accused of being dismissed with the gentry in the village and was accused of being dismissed from the army and served as a serviceman. He was dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty and then joined Li Zicheng's disciple!

But, what's going on now?

A few days later, the pigeon that was killed by Wanli came over and answered the confusion of Li Zilong and others, because it was in the court.

It turned out that during the year when Zhu Zilong was away, the three-year official assessment time for the court was up.

Comrade Niu Jinxing has always been placed on the Qingshui official position. With Zhu Zilong's arrangement, he couldn't help but join the party. As a result, when Zhu Zilong was not around, no one protected him. Other officials excluded him, and he failed the assessment and was dismissed from office.

So, with dissatisfaction with the Ming Dynasty, on the way back to his hometown, he had no intention of letting the thief take it away, and he turned to the thief in anger.

It's such a scam, history is so similar.

In the Ming Dynasty, the assessment of officials was an important part of integrity. In the Ming Dynasty, the assessment of officials was completed and the two methods of examination were conducted in parallel.

The exam is a method to examine the working conditions of officials during their term of office based on their years. The exam is 3 years, 3 years initially, 6 years re-examination, and 9 years full examination. It is conducted according to the level of the official and the yamen to which they belong. Any official examination is divided into three levels, namely competent, ordinary, and incompetent. A total of 9 years of total three examinations are evaluated.

After evaluation and examination, rewards, punishments, promotions and demotions must be determined based on the complexity and simplicity of official positions. Some encourage officials who work in remote areas, while others pay attention to the support of the officials and promote integrity from different perspectives.

The starting point and system are good, but it was controlled by these corrupt officials in the late Ming Dynasty, so there was not much fun to play any good system.

It will indirectly become one of their paths to greed for money!

However, fortunately, Li Yan, who was more knowledgeable and honest in history, passed the exam and passed the exam, and is still in office.

"I heard that every time the thief Zhang broke a city, he would destroy it. The general, according to the last general, said that Li Chuang and Gao Chuang had no ambitions, and this was not enough to be a basis for the bandits." During the military account discussion, a young general in the Zhu family army suggested to Li Zilong.

Li Zilong smiled slightly and replied, "I heard that the thief and Gaozhe are not good at drinking and lust, and they share the joys and sorrows with them. These two are tenacious and are repeatedly beaten up, so they should not be underestimated. Zhang Zhe is not willing to say that he should do his best to do everything and beware of it!"

Years of war tempering can make a person an excellent tactician. Obviously, Comrade Li Zilong has made progress!

"The bandit army has emerged to defeat Lushan, Jiaxian and other places, and form a siege against Luoyang. According to the general's view, it is imperative to invade the bandits to attack Luoyang. Third Senior Brother, what do you think?" Liu Yihui said to Li Zilong.

On the side, Jiang Hai also bowed and said, "The wealth of King Fu is known to all the world, and there are no less than the kings of several provinces. If they take Luoyang, the bandits will have endless gold, silver and wealth to support the army. It can be said that they call for a million. I think they will take it from Luoyang!"

The generals on the side also made suggestions, but the general meaning was to agree that the bandits would attack Luoyang, and that their Zhu family army could no longer run around.

Anyway, we also have the right to be cheap and the Shangfang sword. If we go directly to Luoyang, no one can stop us.

In the end, Li Zilong agreed.

The Zhu family army turned and began to march towards Luoyang.

In terms of love, the generals of the Zhu family army had no good feelings for King Fu and other vassal kings, but reason told him that if the siege of Luoyang was lifted, it would be extremely beneficial to the future of the Zhu family army in politics.

There are four versions of the death of King Fu in later generations. The fourth statement is widely circulated, that is, King Fu was eaten, called the Fulu Banquet.

However, Zhu Zilong's body, who had not yet woken up from his fainting, had asked Wanlisha and Jinyiwei to investigate the man Fu Wang.

He found that King Fu was indeed greedy for money and lust, but this person was not stupid.

He knew that if the city was broken, he would have nothing and his life would not be guaranteed. Therefore, when Zhu Zilong was still here in the Ming Dynasty last time, he heard the news that Luoyang had been strengthening the city under the sponsorship of King Fu.

In addition, King Fu took the initiative to take out his property and food and grass many times to reward the soldiers guarding the city.

From this point of view, the statement that the Fu King himself committed suicide in later generations actually has moisture.

Zhu Zilong once guessed that later generations rumored that after Li Zicheng conquered Luoyang, he only obtained a small amount of food, grass and silver. From this point of view, it was obvious that he had a fortune of tens of millions of yuan and rice of millions of stones, which was inconsistent with King Fu.

There should be only one truth, that is, King Fu was actually actively involved in the defense, and also took out a lot of silver and food to encourage the morale of the soldiers guarding the city.

It was precisely because of the desperate resistance of the military and civilians in Luoyang that Li Zicheng's army suffered a lot of losses. In the end, the defending general surrendered. After the city fell, Li Zicheng went to the city to take revenge and killed King Fu.

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