After leaving Liu Zongmin's Houye Mansion, Luo Xiushen hurried to Beizhen Fusi. After walking a few steps, he suddenly heard someone shouting his name. He turned around and saw that it was Chen Yan's son, Chen Shiwen, who was guarding the door of Ruhou Mansion with an old servant. Both of them looked miserable. Chen Shiwen, the handsome young master in the past, was even more pale-faced. His eyeballs were swollen. He didn't know if he was crying like this.
"What happened? Did you borrow the money?" Luo Xiushen stepped forward quickly and asked in a low voice.
"Where can I borrow it?" Chen Shiwen sighed, "When my father was in office, he had many disciples and old officials... But now my father is detained in the Zhenfu Division, and I, as a son, am not that kind. He's so shameless that everyone avoids him, so there's no way to raise money! Why don't you go talk to Ruhou and let my father out first, and then think of ways to raise money."
"Well," Luo Xiushen thought for a while, "it's better to follow me to the Zhenfu Division to see your father first..."
He only said half of what he said, and the other half was that he didn't know if your father was beaten to death?
Luo Xiushen was not responsible for the torture, nor was it the original Jinyi Guard Tiqi. Although the Tiqi are ferocious, they know the severity of their attacks and will not easily kill anyone, even if they only maim many people.
But how could Huang Hu and Liu Zongmin’s men be so professional? That is really a greeting to death!
Luo Xiushen led the two of them on the streets of Beijing. The streets were extremely depressed. The shops facing the streets were all open, but they were empty inside. There were no customers and nothing to sell.
The reason for this is of course related to torture and forced payment. Businessmen in Beijing also suffered greatly from this extortion campaign. The Dashun Army allocated too much money, and the market was too sluggish, so they could only sell goods at low prices in a hurry. Some shops were so desperate that even the furniture in the store was sold at low prices. However, the store cannot be sold or sold, and it must remain open, otherwise Emperor Yongchang will be unhappy. So it just opened empty...
There are still many Dashun soldiers in white hats and blue clothes wandering around the streets. When they first entered the city, they were in good military order, but now they have completely revealed themselves. Burning, killing and raping openly is not a problem yet, but breaking in and asking for food and drink is no big deal. If there are still things for sale in the shops on the street, they will probably take them away.
Luo Xiushen knew that many generals and officials of the Dashun Army had mentioned the matter of improving discipline to Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng also agreed. But there is no way to implement it... Because Li Zicheng doesn't have that much money to pay now, and he can't allocate land to the soldiers below. To allocate land, you must work hard to manage the local area, and Li Chuang's rise is too fast, and the local level is basically It is weak, so it is impossible to implement a system similar to military households and government soldiers, and can only pay salaries to the troops.
And the territory that Li Zicheng occupied happened to be unprofitable. Even without the promise of "no conquest for three years", how could it be possible to receive military expenditures that could support a million-strong army based on the war-torn territory of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Northern Zhili?
Therefore, brutal torture was actually the only way for Li Zicheng to maintain his army...
...
"Ah, it hurts...ah..."
Before Luo Xiushen and Chen Shiwen entered the gate of Fusi, Beizhen, miserable screams could be heard.
Luo Xiushen has been "pretending to be a good guy" in Beizhen Fusi these days, and has become accustomed to all kinds of horrific things. Chen Shiwen was not used to it. His fair face turned green with fright, his legs and legs were cramping, and he could hardly walk.
Luo Xiushen looked back at him and said, "That's not your father, it's two counts...being beaten!"
"Fuck..." Chen Shiwen trembled, "Why, why?"
"Isn't it enough?" Luo Xiu Shen smiled bitterly, "Your Majesty is a civil servant. If you pay enough money, you will be fine. Didn't you see that Mr. Li Ge has gone back to Shanxi? But those honorary ministers and royal relatives are not so cheap. , it’s all about losing people and money! If you pay enough, you’ll be rewarded, if you don’t, you’ll be stabbed... You’ve never seen this, walk with your head down later, don’t look at it, it’s a nightmare. !”
"This, this, this..." Chen Shiwen, Mr. Chen almost fainted, these gang of thieves turned out to be demons? This is how to do? what to do......
Mr. Chen, whose mind was full of fear, followed Luo Xiu's words and walked with his head lowered, not daring to look at the noble Ming Dynasty who was tied to two pillars inside the door and stabbed a thousand times. But the miserable screams and the smell of blood that was so strong that he couldn't wipe it away almost scared him to death. In the end, I didn’t even know how to get to the cell where Chen Yan was detained!
Chen Yan is still alive. A pair of wrists and a pair of ankles were both broken, and the wounds had been bandaged and treated fairly cleanly, so the old man did not have a fever, but only felt waves of heartbreaking pain.
And of course, regret!
If I had known earlier, I should have run away faster...
"Still, still..." Luo Xiushen's voice suddenly came, and then there was the sound of the cell door being opened.
Chen Yan turned around and saw Luo Xiushen and his son Chen Shiwen walking in one after the other.
"What happened? Did you borrow money?" Chen Yan asked his son hopefully.
He had spent all he had and handed over all 40,000 taels of silver! But the target given by Liu Zongmin was one hundred thousand taels of silver.
"Dad, my son is useless..." Chen Shiwen knelt down in front of Chen Yan.
The hope on Chen Yan's face suddenly disappeared, and then he looked at Luo Xiushen, "Commander Luo, you must save me... As long as I can get out, I will definitely be able to raise the remaining 60,000 taels of silver!" "
Luo Xiushen sighed: "Mr. Ge...this is what you said, sixty thousand taels!"
"Yes, yes!" Chen Yan didn't want to stay in Beizhen Fusi for a moment. When he was an official for Chongzhen, he was actually not very afraid of Jin Yiwei's imprisonment. It was common for civil servants in the Ming Dynasty to go in and out of imperial prisons. Most of the time, the imperial edicts were not very cruel, and they would only be ruthless under the emperor's strict orders.
But Li Zicheng's gang didn't do anything lightly or seriously, and they wanted to torture people to death!
"Okay!" Luo Xiu said, "Just give Mr. Ge three days, and then he will send you 60,000 taels of silver in three days. Then everything will be fine."
If he couldn't deliver it... Luo Xiushen couldn't bear to say it. Tiger Liu was a real tiger. He could eat people without spitting out bones. How could he be so easy to fool? Let Mr. Chen Ge be comfortable for three more days!
...
Jinyiwei's Qianhu Ren Yizhou walked into the cabin of the Dalongtou sand ship that was slowly sailing to Dagukou. He bowed to the cabin where Zhu Cixiang was, and then reported: "Master Qiansui, the person you want has been found."
"Oh." Zhu Cixiang was looking down at a directory of military officers in the new army that had just been compiled by Bijiu City.
Securing armed forces is a matter as big as the sky. On the day the Battle of Tianjin Wei ended, Zhu Cixiang issued an order to form a Chinese military division.
There are four sources for the officers and soldiers of the Central Military Division: one is Zhu Cihong's own bodyguard; the other is the original Han general; the third is the surrendered soldiers from the old camp of Dashun Army and Tang Tong's retainers, and the fourth is the Guanning cavalry brought by Wu Guoyong.
Looking at the sources of these officers and soldiers, we know that Zhu Cixiang wants to make this central military division his main ace!
In addition to organizing the military divisions, Zhu Cixiang was also busy with another major task, which was to establish a truly effective intelligence network.
This task now falls on the Jinyi Guards to investigate the Qianhu Station. Ren Yizhou, who was born in Qianhu from Tiqi, was on his way to Dagukou to deal with this matter - to select a truly useful spy for Zhu Cixiang.
In Zhu Cixiang's view, just one or two useful agents can play a huge role. It's useless, even hundreds or thousands of dollars are useless.
Luo Xiushen, whom he placed in Beijing, should be of great use. Now, Zhu Cixiang needs to send someone to Wu Sangui.
