I want to be emperor

Chapter 2 Soldiers are Thieves

Tens of miles southwest of Luoyang, a large group of people were slowly heading south. Luo Zhixue was sitting in a two-wheeled carriage in the middle of the crowd, with Lin Ahyu sitting next to him.

Looking at the crowd around him, Luo Zhixue frowned slightly.

After waking up two days ago, he found that something strange happened to him. For some reason, after getting drunk, he returned to ancient times and possessed a young man whose family members had died.

In the past two days, he has already inquired clearly from the words of the people around him that this will be the seventh year of Chongzhen, and he is in the area of ​​Luoyang, Henan Province, and he is a person who has been forced to live because of the drought in his hometown for years. fugitive refugees.

After understanding the environment he was in, Luo Zhixue kept thinking about how to go in the future.

Even though he is not a history major, he also knows that this will be a year of troubled times, and the land of Shaanxi and Henan is the place of war.

How miserable this place is at this time, you can see from the original body's situation.

Except for him, the whole family died!
Moreover, he also found out that he didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, that the original body actually joined the bandit army a few minutes before he leaned over...

Moreover, after joining the bandit army, the first steamed bun he ate was choked to death, and he leaned over in a daze...

This unlucky baby!
Maybe the original body was against joining the bandit army, but Luo Zhixue had nothing against it. On the contrary, after he figured out the situation, he took the initiative to find Li Tonglin, the leader of the cavalry: "The general's life-saving grace, Zhixue will be remembered in his heart, Zhixue Although I don't have the strength to restrain a chicken, but the general has ordered, Zhixue will do his best."

This is a direct expression of defection.

reason?

There is no other reason, just to survive!

If he was allowed to continue to be a refugee, he really didn't have the confidence to survive, and he might starve to death in a few days!

The chaos of the late Ming Dynasty is no joke.

Li Tonglin was obviously very satisfied with Luo Zhixue's attitude, and smiled when he looked at Luo Zhixue: "From now on, follow us and work hard, don't worry, I won't let you fight desperately. The documents that the government encircled and suppressed us are fucking incomprehensible, you just need to help me manage the documents from now on."

"I, Mr. Li, don't dare to speak big words, but we will be brothers from now on. If I have a bite to eat, I will not miss your bite."

Li Tonglin spoke loudly, not only for Luo Zhixue, but also for the other cavalrymen around him.

Sure enough, when the surrounding cavalry heard this, many people had smiles on their faces.

Looking at this scene, Luo Zhixue thought to himself: It seems that this Li Tonglin is not as careless and thoughtless as he looks, his speech is obviously very good, also, how can he be a fool to become the leader of a rebel army in troubled times.

After officially announcing to join this rebel army, Luo Zhixue also learned about the general background of Li Tonglin and his group from the people around him.

To Luo Zhixue's surprise, this group of people was not part of a large-scale rebel army, but a rebel army of their own.

It is actually not accurate to say it is the rebels, it is more accurate to say it is the rebels, because they were officers and soldiers just a few months ago.

Li Tonglin and others were originally Yulin frontier soldiers, who were transferred to the Shaanxi and Henan areas to encircle and suppress the bandits, but the superiors asked them to kill the bandits but they didn't pay them, not to mention the money, they didn't even give them rations.

In order to fill their stomachs, a group of frantically hungry Yulin frontier soldiers couldn't help but robbed a gentry's granary to serve as army rations, and then provoked a hornet's nest.

That gentry family has a big official...

Ever since, Li Tonglin and the others have changed from officers and soldiers besieged and suppressed by the bandits to bandits surrounded by officers and soldiers!
Li Tonglin, a former member of the hundred households of the Ming army, simply took the lead and contacted a hundred or ten old brothers to play a rebellion.

Because if you don't rob, you will die, if you rob, you will die if you don't resist.

And there is still a way to survive the resistance.

In the past few months, they have fled in the area of ​​eastern Shaanxi and western Henan, robbing food and recruiting soldiers while avoiding the siege of officers and soldiers.

Today, Li Tonglin has more than a thousand soldiers under his command.

But in Luo Zhixue's view, among the more than 1000 people, only the 100 cavalry led by Li Tonglin himself were considered soldiers, and the remaining 1000 people were all refugees.

These people are all yellow and thin, and they don't have any serious weapons and equipment. Only a few have spears and swords, let alone armor. Li Tonglin's more than [-] cavalry don't have much armor.

Such more than 1000 people are simply impossible to use for war.

For these, Luo Zhixue saw it, but he didn't say much, and honestly led Lin Ahyu to follow Li Tonglin and his party for the past two days.

Because he and Lin Ahyu had been hungry for a long time and were weak, Li Tonglin also allowed the two of them to ride in the carriage that pulled the luggage.

When they arrived in the southwestern area of ​​Yiyang, Li Tonglin decided to rest for a few days in an abandoned village here.

They had been operating continuously for more than half a month before, and they even ran around the city of Luoyang in the middle. The team needed to rest and recover.

At this time, although Luo Zhixue, who had been fed for several days, was still relatively weak, he had finally recovered to a point where he had basic mobility.

It was also on this day that Li Tonglin found him, first asked Luo Zhixue how his body was recovering, and immediately said after getting a positive answer from Luo Zhixue:

"Mr. Luo, you have also seen that our place is a mess now, and the account books are all in a mess. I don't even know how many days our food can last. Afterwards, you will help the old grandson manage the food and grass, and make out the account books first. , so that Li will be able to know what to pay in the future.”

Although Li Tonglin respectfully called Luo Zhixue Mr. Yiyi, Luo Zhixue knew that this was just a common courtesy, and he would not take it too seriously.

A person like Li Tonglin who directly led troops to rebel and rebel couldn't be as careless as he appeared on the surface, and he would confess his heart as soon as he came up.

Immediately stepped forward and said: "The general is serious. The salary of the king is to worry about the king. The subordinates will not hesitate to make a record of the heavy salary and salary."

Then he turned sideways to a short, thin, pockmarked middle-aged man beside Li Tonglin and said, "General Sun, I will trouble you a lot in the future."

That pockmark was exactly Sun Chengli, who was in charge of logistics in Li Tonglin's rebel army.

Luo Zhixue was polite, and Sun Chengli also laughed: "Mr. Luo is too polite, I should be the one who troubles you a lot in the future. Although I am in charge of food and grass, I am not afraid of your jokes. I don't know a single word, and even the account book Nothing can be done."

Li Tonglin obviously had other matters, so he left first after talking about it, but Sun Chengli stayed and introduced Luo Zhixue to a few people who were also in charge of luggage affairs.

Several of them welcomed Luo Zhixue's arrival, but a middle-aged man named Fang Ada who was dressed in the same long robe was not warm to Luo Zhixue. After the introduction, before leaving, he turned his head and glared at Luo Zhixue. Take a look at Zhixue.

Luo Zhixue frowned slightly when he saw this scene.

He could clearly feel the obvious hostility that Fang Ada showed towards him.

But why?

I'm new here, and I haven't been in contact with other people in the past two days, so I shouldn't offend him, right?

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The next day, Sun Jiancheng began to take Luo Zhixue to check and record the food and supplies in the army, and Fang Ada also participated in this matter.

It was only then that Luo Zhixue knew that Fang Ada was the person who originally registered the military supplies.

This person claimed to be an accountant in a big commercial firm before, but after reading the account books he wrote before, Luo Zhixue was sure that this person was definitely not a serious accountant before, and he couldn't even read a few words. .

There are a lot of typos in the account book, and many of the words do not convey the meaning, and even many of them are simply written by ghosts.

The most important thing is that there are a lot of inexplicable circles and crosses in the account book, let alone Luo Zhixue can't understand, even if Fang Ada is asked what these symbols mean, he is still confused and unable to tell .

As a result, when the materials were re-booked after the follow-up inventory, the numbers obtained from the inventory did not match the numbers recorded in the original account book at all, and there were many mistakes.

This made Sun Chengli very angry, and he scolded Fang Ada bloody in the morning.

In the afternoon, when they checked the horse's materials, they found that they were not right again. They asked Fang Ada again and again, and Sun Chengli, who was furious, took it for granted that he gave him a big mouth.

After beating Sun Chengcheng, he still yelled in displeasure: "Trash, let me manage the accounts like this, and forget about the other things. You even misremembered the food and grass, you bastard. You don’t know how many horse feeds, what the hell are you in charge of?”

After Fang Ada was slapped in the mouth, he was so frightened that he knelt down on the spot and begged for mercy: "General, calm down, I know I was wrong."

Seeing Fang Ada who was kneeling begging for mercy, Sun Chengli was very upset.

He was in charge of all the supplies and supplies in the army, but he couldn't read the Chinese characters himself, so Fang Ada was responsible for the daily registration and bookkeeping of all kinds of supplies.

After all, Fang Ada claimed to be an accountant before, and he could indeed write a few words.

It's just that Sun Chengli couldn't understand the account book, so Fang Ada usually said what he said, but he didn't expect that the account book would be so chaotic that even the amount of food and grass would be so chaotic.

Luo Zhixue at the side silently watched this scene without speaking, and it was not his turn to speak about this matter.

Luo Zhixue followed Sun Jiancheng to check all kinds of materials this day, acting as a human-shaped ledger, and never said anything about the original ledger records.

On the one hand, it has nothing to do with him; on the other hand, there are many dirty things in the account, and he has no intention of lifting the cover and putting himself on the cusp.

Otherwise, there is no reason to be stabbed with a knife one night.

Luo Zhixue felt that he had just crossed over for a few days, and he was still in the bandit army in the troubled times, so he couldn't be too high-profile, he had to keep a low profile and watch the situation first.

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After Sun Jiancheng angrily led people to continue to search for supplies, and Fang Ada also got up from the ground, he touched the slightly red and swollen left side of his face while looking at the few people in front of him, and finally set his eyes on Luo Zhixue's From the back, there was already a stern look in his eyes.

That night, in a dilapidated house in an abandoned village.

Fang Ada and several others discussed secretly under the dim oil lamp.

Just listen to Fang A Dao: "That Luo man is a disaster. If he hadn't run out suddenly, he wouldn't have re-examined the baggage, and if he didn't re-examined, he wouldn't have found that the account books didn't match."

"It's still good now, it's just that the accounts are a bit messy, and the mistakes and omissions found are only minor things, but if Sun Chengli and Luo Zhixue continue to investigate like this, I'm afraid our lives will be in danger."

As he said that, Fang Ada glanced at the other people in the room: "What we have done in the past two months is not enough to cut off even ten heads."

(End of this chapter)