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Chapter 461 Is King Li Chuang Really a Commoner King?
About three quarters of an hour later, Bao Jiqiang showed his slightly wretched figure from the alley on the side of the street. He wandered to the tea shop and sat beside the brother just now.

One foot was still raised and stepped on the long bench. He took off his shoes and buttoned his big smelly feet in the sun. He heard the brother say loudly: "Let's go, let's go to the Zhougong Temple in the west of the city too." Let’s see how King Chuang kills those corrupt officials when it comes time to spread the word.”

After he finished speaking, he got up and left the tea shop, heading towards the west gate of Luoyang. Seeing him leaving his seat, Bao Jiqiang hurriedly picked up the residual tea on the tea table and drank it.

Bao Jiqiang only took a few sips when he saw an old man walking towards him. He drank the last sip of tea in a hurry, laughed and fled out of the tea shop, turned left and right a few times on the street. Next, it disappeared again.

He returned to the side door of Zhang's house on Chayuan Street, and tapped lightly on a "four long and two short" signal, and the small wooden door opened quickly with a "squeak", and Bao Jiqiang walked quickly. Enter.

He didn't talk nonsense, he just made eye contact with the brothers in the courtyard, then went straight to the main room and opened the door, and he reported to Tong Shoushan what he saw today.

As Bao Jiqiang said, he walked to a table in the house, picked up his ragged cotton jacket without making a sound, tore a rag from the inner underwear, grabbed a piece of charcoal next to it, and drew random pictures on it. up.

He looked at his painting carefully, and after confirming that there were no problems or defects, he got up and handed it to Tong Shoushan, and said: "Master Tong, we saw a team from the right post in the alley in front of the sub-road patrol office." official,
Coincidentally, it was a brother from our old right sentry team, named Du Cheng. He was still the chief armor under our command when he joined the commander-in-chief King Jingqin. We followed him to identify the door, and now it is all drawn on this picture in secret characters. La. "

Tong Shoushan also had a smile on his face, he took the map drawn on the rag, and said with a relaxed expression: "Yes, you didn't go out to watch the fun this time, kid, wait for things to happen here, we are here Mr. Chen will give you credit."

He then asked: "How many brothers came in from the right post, and how is the situation now?"

Bao Jiqiang replied: "I don't have much time to talk too much, more than 60 brothers have come in from the right post, and now they are hiding in two places, one of which is the ruined temple drawn in the picture.

The other place has not had time to identify the way, we are afraid that Master Tong is in a hurry here, thinking in our hearts that there is this hiding place, we can find the right post, and we will contact you when we find a time in the future, Only then came back to report to Master Tong. "

He went on to say: "Now the civil and military officers and generals in Luoyang City, as well as the houses of the rich gentry and wealthy households, are tightly surrounded by bandits and soldiers, and they are going from house to house to plunder money, grain, grain, and precious goods.

Although the house we are staying in now is not a deep house, we must beware of bandits coming to investigate. We heard that there was a book office named Shao Shichang in the Luoyang magistrate's yamen on the street, so we surrendered to the bandits.

These local snakes are very familiar with all kinds of local affairs, so I'm afraid it's not easy to be fooled!

Tong Shoushan said with a smile: "What are we doing? The huge city of Luoyang can't accommodate dozens of us. Don't worry, even if there are local snakes in the yamen who follow the thieves, we can handle it here." .”

After he finished speaking, he found a chair and sat down on it. He looked at Bao Jiqiang for a long time, and then he said, "Jiqiang, you have to go to the city now. First, go to Zhougong Temple to see how the intruder dealt with the captured officers and generals, and how he dealt with the Prince Fu.

If you have a chance, you don’t have to come back to the city. Send a letter to the brothers outside the city, tell them not to worry, and find a hidden valley outside the city to hide, waiting for our family’s order, or Marshal's military order, let's do it again.

After that, you run back to Yanshi and report the situation here to the commander. If there is any urgent information from our side, send it back to Yanshi with a carrier pigeon.

Another point, if it's convenient, it's best to get a copy of the nine or so proclamation you said about the intruder, and give it to our commander to take it back and have a look! "

Bao Jiqiang replied softly: "Here!"

He turned his head and asked again: "Master Tong, although we have fewer troops in the city, in a few days, if the intruders don't withdraw, our food will not be able to keep up. It’s very dangerous in here.”

"Haha, there are several 10 people in this city, not to mention the grains we have in our hands, enough to last for a month or so!"

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After Li Zicheng entered the city of Luoyang, accompanied by Liu Zongmin and other generals, he went to the yamen of the patrol office to see Li Yan's preparations to relieve the victims in the city. The horse followed behind to guard.

On the palace wall in front of Fuwang Palace, there is also a notice of "Nine Questions and Nine Persuasions". The same group of people are watching it intently. Standing on tiptoe, stretching neck, looking over people's heads or between heads.

"Good! That's great..."

"...It's such a joy to say..."

"...It's better to read the notice of Chuang Wangye... we ordinary people can understand it too..."

"...Wang Laoqi...Look at the notice of Prince Chuang...it still has a singing voice..."

The common people watched very seriously, or it could be said that they listened very seriously, and they didn't even notice that Chuang Wang Li Zicheng and his party approached them.

"Look, that's Li Chuang Wang Xi?"

Until this exclamation was called out by a commoner who had just turned around, everyone turned around with panicked faces, and they stood silently, watching King Chuang and his party pass by.

This kind of situation is unprecedented in Luoyang City, it can be said that it is the first time for a big girl to get on a sedan chair!
In the past, if Prince Fu came out of the palace, the streets would be cleared beforehand, and idlers were not allowed to peep. If people on the street couldn't avoid it in time, they would have to kneel down beside the street and not be allowed to raise their heads at all.

And if the governor of Yu Province came to Luoyang, the streets would be quiet, and the people would kneel down to greet him. In front of the governor's eight-carried sedan chair, there would be guards and guards of honor, and some people would sing gongs and shout.

Even the small county magistrate of Luoyang had to sit in a sedan chair carried by four people, and a group of government servants from the county crowded in front of the sedan chair and walked in front of the sedan chair with green cloth umbrellas. The two yamen servants even held tiger-head cards, one with "Avoidance" and the other with "Quiet". In front of the tiger-tou card, there was another yamen servant who was running, beating gongs and shouting, making the street The walking people quickly backed down to the side of the street to avoid it.

But now these common people see Chuang Wang Li Zicheng's clothes are frugal, and he rides his horse casually. He neither sings gongs, nor disperses the people on the street. When he looks at him, he smiles. Looking at the people on the street.

After King Chuang, the generals and others passed by and entered the palace of King Fu, an old man with white beard who had just listened to the announcement here couldn't help sighing: "This is the first time I see such a commoner in my 70s. King!"

(End of this chapter)