At this time, almost no one has heard of selling sweet potatoes at home, so naturally they don’t understand what it means. However, the last sentence of Emperor Chongzhen was very clear.
Therefore, as soon as he finished speaking, the imperial guard behind him immediately dismounted from his horse, walked forward quickly, and took off the black gauze hat of the Nanyang governor.
Seeing this situation, the king of Tang and other civil and military officials were dumbfounded.
However, what they didn't expect was that something even more stupid happened next.
Emperor Chongzhen himself dismounted from his horse, but instead of going in front of them, he walked quickly to the ruins nearby.
When Li Ruolian saw that he was responsible for guarding, he quickly followed him.
"How is the disaster? How are your family members?" Emperor Chongzhen asked in a gentle tone when he saw a young man looking at him blankly.
This young man, no matter how numb he was, had just seen such a big movement on the street. Therefore, he did not expect that the emperor would come to ask him something, and he was stunned for a moment.
But after all, he cared about his family, so he came to his senses immediately, and immediately fell to his knees with a "pop", and quickly begged: "Your Majesty, please have mercy, please help me, my father, mother, and several of my younger brothers and sisters are still being suppressed. I haven’t eaten for a long time, so I don’t have the strength to move those things away!”
When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he was immediately shocked. He quickly asked about the specific situation, and then ordered the imperial guards around him to help save people.
He originally wanted to do it himself, but with so many people around, it was not the emperor's turn to do it himself. So he asked the next door family again, and the result was similar.
The ordinary people in Nanyang City were on the verge of starvation. The bandits besieged the city and prevented them from going out to find food. They could only lie in their houses and try not to move as much as possible. When the earth dragon turned over, the people who were pinned down had no strength to struggle, and those who were lucky enough to escape had no strength to save others. Now all the officers and soldiers are arresting the thieves outside the city. They know that the government will definitely have no time to care about them. To be honest, they are really desperate when encountering such a thing.
Emperor Chongzhen visited several houses and got a general understanding of the situation in Nanyang City. At the same time, he also knew that after the earthquake, there were seventy-two golden hours. Of course, the sooner you save someone, the better.
With this in mind, he immediately sent a message and mobilized the troops outside the city to search for bandits into the city to rescue people!
"Your Majesty, how many troops will be mobilized?" Li Ruolian asked quickly.
When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he said without hesitation: "Move troops nearby, no matter how many, they will be transferred to Nanyang City to save people!"
Hearing this, Li Ruolian hesitated for a moment, and finally reminded: "Your Majesty, the war outside has just ended, and now is the best time to hunt down the bandits. If too many troops are sent to Nanyang City, I am afraid it will make people Many thieves escaped!"
"It is urgent to save people!" When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he immediately said seriously, "Human lives are a matter of vital importance. The sooner we save people, the more people will survive! If the bandit wants to escape, just run away. Don't be nagging, go immediately. Move troops!"
"According to the order!" After hearing this, Li Ruolian did not dare to hesitate anymore. He quickly agreed and immediately sent people out of the city to mobilize troops.
After finishing all this, Li Ruolian came back to deliver the order, and at the same time persuaded Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty came here in the rain, please go take a bath and change clothes, the dragon body is more important!"
After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen turned his head and scanned the large ruins in Nanyang City. He immediately shook his head and said: "I didn't see the people being rescued, and I felt uneasy. No need to say more, follow me to rescue people immediately."
This scene was heard by the people in the ruins. They looked at each other, and they didn't know whether it was tears or rain on their faces. They knelt down one after another and kowtowed to Emperor Chongzhen.
"The ordinary people are just living with a low life. Your Majesty's dragon body is the most important thing. Please take care of your dragon body!"
"Yes, your Majesty is a good emperor for our people. Please take care of your dragon body!"
"..."
When Emperor Chongzhen saw this, he shook his head and said, "It's important to save people. There are still many people waiting for us to save!"
After he finished speaking, he had to do it himself.
When these people saw it, they were helpless and moved even more.
Who can find such a good emperor in this world? Those thoughts I had about the emperor in the past are really embarrassing to the emperor!
The emperor had already taken action, and other civil servants and generals, not even the King of Tang, could watch from the sidelines. As a result, the rarest scene in history occurred in Nanyang City.
The emperor took the lead and rescued the people buried in the ruins. Civil servants, military generals, and the emperor's troops all followed to rescue the people in the ruins.
Outside the city, the captain of the Jinyi Guards was galloping on horseback. When he met a group of officers and soldiers, he shouted loudly: "The emperor has decreed that all officers and soldiers should return to Nanyang immediately to rescue the people without delay!"
As this decree came out, with Nanyang City as the center, groups of local officers and soldiers were surprised and rushed to Nanyang City from all directions.
Later, in the entire Nanyang City, if you look from the top of the city, you can see almost all the ruins, and there are officers and soldiers searching and rescuing them. Injured people were carried out or carried out one by one. Of course, occasionally the bodies of unfortunate victims were also carried out. The people of Nanyang will probably never forget this scene of soldiers and civilians mingling together!
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It was very difficult for Li Guo to escape secretly with his people. Especially after the rain stopped and the sight slowly recovered, it became even harder to escape. Often, after only a few steps of escape, they had to hide from the roaring cavalry.
However, later on, they suddenly found that there seemed to be fewer cavalry, which made them a little strange.
"What's going on? We've escaped far enough?"
"Impossible. This is not far from Nanyang City. It may be just a gap for the cavalry to search. Leave quickly!"
"..."
However, after walking for a while, they still found that there seemed to be fewer cavalry chasing them, and even the infantry that could be seen in the distance were gone, which made them even more curious.
But less does not mean there is none.
No, another cavalry army came roaring towards them. Li Guo and his men were so frightened that they hurriedly hid themselves.
"Hey, could it be that I was dazzled? I seemed to have seen someone here just now!" As they got closer, someone in the cavalry team spoke, and Li Guo and others could hear it clearly, which made them nervous. .
There are about two hundred people in this cavalry army, and there are only about fifty of them. Once they are discovered, they will definitely not be able to defeat them, and they will not be able to escape. Basically, they are doomed.
"It's okay. Search carefully, but Zuo Mengeng hasn't been found yet!" The leading officer said loudly, "The emperor has an order. If he is caught, he will be cut into pieces in front of the Zuo thief. Let's see who dares to do it." The plague is coming to attack the city!”
"Yes, these thieves and his son are all evil-minded. You must know that the plague will kill everyone. They are really nothing, worse than animals!" Someone immediately agreed, with very angry words.
"Don't you know, that's why the Emperor hates the Zuo thief and his son very much!" Another cavalryman gossiped casually, "I heard that the Zuo thief took the head of the leader of the robbers and tried to trick the Emperor into saying that he wanted to kill the thief. He just pretended to rebel, haha, thanks to the emperor’s wisdom, he just beat his butt with a military stick, and then hung him under Nanyang City, waiting for him to taste the loss of his family!"
"Let me tell you, those bandit leaders died too easily for them. They should be like the Zuo bandit father and son, and let them all taste what it feels like to have their families destroyed!" A cavalryman with a Qin accent was searching, While chatting, he said, "In Qin, only the big cities left are relatively safe. The other places have been attacked by rogue thieves, leaving only broken walls and ruins. The emperor felt very distressed when he saw it! Damn rogue thieves , each one used a false name to rebel, are they afraid of harming their family members? When they harmed others, didn’t they think about how others felt when their families were broken and killed? "
"Yes, thieves are a scourge to the people of the world. Thanks to the emperor's strategizing, we defeated all the thieves in one fell swoop this time. We must search more carefully, hunt down all the thieves, and give peace to the people of the world. !”
"Haha, by the way, I can also take advantage of this opportunity to make some contributions!"
"..."
The cavalry army just talked like this, and then slowly walked away.
Li Guo and others were hiding there, and no one shouted to leave, for fear that the cavalry would come back and hit them.
While waiting for the cavalry to disappear, Li Laiheng suddenly cursed in a low voice in dissatisfaction: "Damn it, these officers and soldiers are not good people, why don't they harm the people? They rob women and plunder everywhere. It’s not like we haven’t seen this before!”
After he said this, no one responded immediately, which was a bit different from before. After a while, the youngest Ai Nengqi suddenly said: "Brother Li, you are talking about the left thief. He rebelled and became a thief because he was afraid that the emperor would punish him!"
When Li Laiheng heard this, he was stunned for a moment and wanted to retort casually. However, he opened his mouth but could not speak. Among the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, the ones they had seen who robbed the people the most were one from Zu Kuan and the other from Zuo Liangyu.
However, these two official armies were successively dealt with by the emperor. They already knew that Zu Kuan had been beheaded and passed down to Jiubian. As for Zuo Liangyu, they have been together for the past month. Now that he has been caught by the emperor and his butt is spanked, it is obviously impossible for him to survive if he has to taste the loss of his family and his family.
With the outstanding performance of these two officers and soldiers, Li Laiheng couldn't think of other officers and soldiers at the moment. To say whether there are, there must be others; however, he can't think of any other army that is like thieves like them, who will harm the people wherever they go?
If they had never thought about this problem carefully in the past, but at this time, their banditry career had reached its lowest ebb. While evading arrest, the leaders of various families were killed again. They happened to hear that the officers and soldiers I had time to make this statement, so I thought about it seriously or not seriously from the perspective of the officers and soldiers.
If what the officers and soldiers were talking about just now was how many government officials they killed during the rebellion, let’s look at their crimes from this perspective. Then maybe they are still proud and proud; however, these officers and soldiers are accusing them of crimes from the perspective of harming the people. This makes it a bit difficult to explain for them who think they were forced to rebel.
It's okay for you to rebel, but why do you want to harm other people? Could it be that other people have offended you?
Speaking of which, these thieves still have conscience in their hearts, so they would have this reflection. Otherwise, those who are determined to be evil would not be touched at all.
"No matter what, those Zu Kuan and Zuo Thief are not good people! And they were not sealed by that dog emperor." Li Laiheng thought for a long time and finally replied, "Anyway, we rebelled, but we just can't survive. We must defeat that dog emperor! As long as that dog emperor is around, Zu Kuan and Zuo Thief will definitely follow!"
After he finished speaking, he looked at Li Guo, then at Gao Yigong and others, and found that no one responded to him. He couldn't help pouting, feeling a little unhappy.
However, the person he was expecting did not respond to him. After being silent for a while, Li Dingguo suddenly reminded them: "The Zuo thief will be like this too. I hope the army can catch Zuo Mengeng!"
As soon as he heard this, he immediately shifted his attention. Many thieves had this idea and wished Zuo Mengeng could catch them earlier so that Zuo Liangyu could taste the destruction of that family.
They were hiding here, talking quietly, when suddenly, they saw the cavalry that was about to disappear in the distance suddenly rush here quickly, and sure enough, they killed one of the cavalrymen.
Fortunately, Li Guo and others did not move and were still hiding there. Therefore, after the cavalry came, they still did not find them immediately.
"Am I really dazzled?" An officer couldn't help but began to doubt himself.
After hearing this, his colleagues smiled and said, "Maybe we are really dazzled. In order to catch the bandits and prevent them from harming the people again, we don't get much rest!"
"Yes, everyone wants to fight. We must take this opportunity to catch more bandits. Naturally, we cannot fall behind!" The leading officer said with a smile, "Okay, let's search carefully!"
"Yes!" After hearing this, the other cavalrymen dispersed with forty or fifty cavalry, and it seemed that they wanted to search this area.
Henan is mostly plains, and there are not many places to hide. Now the officers and soldiers suspect that there are bandits in this area, and they search carefully. If they don't miss any place, they may really find them.
As a result, Li Guo and his group became nervous.
But at this moment, a guard in royal robes came galloping from a distance. When he saw them, he shouted loudly: "The emperor has decreed that all officers and soldiers should return to Nanyang immediately to rescue the people without delay!"
When the officers and soldiers who were searching heard this, they were a little strange. The leader of the officers and soldiers came over and asked, "We are searching for bandits. Are there any people in Nanyang who need to be rescued?"
"The earth dragon turned over. Many houses collapsed in Nanyang City. The emperor personally went to rescue people, but there were not enough manpower. The emperor said that the sooner people are rescued, the more people will be alive. Don't worry about the thieves for now. Save People are important." The Jin Yiwei immediately explained.
When the officer heard this, he immediately nodded and said: "When the emperor was in Jingyang, he personally helped the people to cull the locust plague. With the people in mind, we will go back immediately without any delay!"
After he finished speaking, he waved his hand and summoned all his men. Without coveting military glory, he immediately galloped back to Nanyang City.
Li Guo and others who were hiding clearly heard this conversation. For a moment, they couldn't believe it. They looked at each other, as if they wanted to confirm whether they heard it wrong just now.
