Chongzhen Undergraduates

"However, I think there will still be a few ministers who will die for the country in the near future."

"You really mean what you said?"

"It's not true, it's not important now. What I'm worried about now are those loyal ministers who are about to die. Don't you want to save them?"

"How to save?"

"I'll write you a list later. If you find a reason to leave the Wu Mansion in the next two days, you should immediately gather your subordinates and contact these loyal and righteous men according to the list. As long as I'm still alive, they won't seek death easily. Would you like to?" At present Zhu Youjian can only rely on Wang Chengen.

Wang Chengen has been in charge of the East Factory for many years, and he still has a lot of power in his hands. If he wants to survive, he can only rely on the power in Wang Chengen's hands.Only by gathering more people, more people who will not betray themselves, can there be hope of escaping from the capital.

"Naturally, as long as it's for the sake of my Daming, the old man is willing to do nothing."

Chapter 5: Liu Zongmin falls in love

After serving Chen Yuanyuan's breakfast, Zhu Youjian discovered a strange thing.

Liu Zongmin is in love.

General Liu was full of spring breeze, dumbfounded like a child, idling around at Wu Sangui's house all day long, pacing around Chen Yuanyuan like a faithful pug dog, no longer caring about military affairs.Whatever Chen Yuanyuan asked, he would agree to; what Chen Yuanyuan didn't ask for, he consciously thought of everything for her.This is clearly a sign of love!

For example: Early this morning, Liu Zongmin emptied half of the warehouse in the Wu Mansion. Silk and satin, jewelry and jade, as long as he thought it was good, he piled it all up in front of Chen Yuanyuan.

"Yuanyuan, look that I brought you so many good things. Do you like it? Hehe!" Liu Zongmin still had that ugly persimmon face, and his exaggerated smile was mixed with a pair of disgusting evil eyes, which made it difficult for anyone. Dare to underestimate his evil spirit.

Chen Yuanyuan got up, walked slowly, and floated lightly to a jewelry box. The orchid finger of her left hand opened the box cover, and she pinched a gold hairpin with her right hand. Looking closely, there was a small word "Yuan" inlaid on the gold hairpin.The beauty smiled slightly, and handed the gold hairpin to the maid beside her: "Xiaoyu, do you remember the origin of this gold hairpin?"

"Miss Hui, this golden hairpin is the dowry you brought with you when you came to the capital from Suzhou." Xiaoyu answered the host's question honestly.

"Marry, dowry?!" Liu Zongmin raised his plump lips again, and his whole face flushed red.Liu Zongmin, who has an EQ of [-], has an IQ of at least [-], otherwise he would not be the number one general in the army.

An angry Liu Zongmin came to the front yard in shame, and beat the subordinates who made up their minds violently, only to beat the strong man crying for his father and mother, begging for mercy.Although Zhu Youjian and Wang Chengen were not Liu Zongmin's people, they brought Wu Mansion together anyway, so they followed the others and stood aside to watch Liu Zongmin's performance of killing chickens and monkeys.

"If you give me a good idea today, I will spare you. If you can't think of it, you are all waiting to be whipped by me." Liu Zongmin put his hips on his hips, and the whip in his hand swung "papapapa "Straight ring.Every time the whip was whipped, Zhu Youjian was terrified.Looking at the barbs on the whip, Zhu Youjian felt that every piece of flesh on his body was hurting, if it really hit him...

"Ah! Ah! Ah!..." Liu Zongmin looked at everyone with their heads down and said nothing, and he was so angry that he started to beat each of them with his whip.

Seeing that the whip was about to fall on him, Zhu Youjian took advantage of the situation and squatted down, dodging the whip swung by Liu Zongmin, squatting on the ground and shouting: "The villain has a way, the villain has a way!"

"Oh! What can I do? Tell me quickly." Liu Zongmin stopped the whip in his hand, impatiently grabbed Zhu Youjian's collar, and stared expectantly into Zhu Youjian's eyes.

"Let it go~ let me down, General. Cough..." Zhu Youjian was so out of breath.

Liu Zongmin let go of his hairy hand, then rubbed his greasy hand on Zhu Youjian's clothes, and said viciously: "Say it quickly, or I will kill you today."

"General, the villain thinks that Miss Chen must like the kind of elegant and scholarly man. General, you are handsome, and you just want to dress up a little bit. By the way, brush your teeth, spray some fragrance powder, and put on a suit of Confucian scholar's clothes. It will definitely please the girl. Of course, if you write one or two more love poems, it is estimated that Miss Chen will immediately bow down at your feet."

"Really?" Liu Zongmin was somewhat skeptical. "Yes, yes." The people around couldn't help nodding their heads in agreement when they saw that someone was coming out, anyway, they had to avoid the whip before they spoke.

"Come on, this general wants to take a bath. No, it's a bath and change of clothes." After Liu Zongmin finished speaking, he stripped off his leather armor, turned his head and walked into the wing.

Everyone stood in the yard and waited for half an hour, only to see more than a dozen large pots of black water and a pile of dirty rags brought out from the room.After another stick of incense came over, Liu Zongmin walked out with a smile.

Everyone fixed their eyes, and their eyeballs fell to the ground.I saw Liu Zongmin's eyebrows shaved into willow-leaf curved eyebrows, all his beards were shaved off, and his nose hairs were trimmed neatly; the most exaggerated thing was that he shaved off his sturdy chest hair.On his head is a grass-green boy hat with a peach blossom stuck in it; he is wearing a turquoise Confucian shirt covering his feet, and he is holding a huge "Sui Han San You" folding fan in his hand. .

Liu Zongmin walked up to Zhu Youjian, showed his slightly less yellow big teeth and said, "How is it?"

"Beautiful! The general is really suave and suave, like the world." Zhu Youjian resisted the urge to vomit, and praised loudly in hypocrisy.Liu Zongmin frightenedly showed it to every standing subordinate before giving up.

"Why do I feel that he is becoming more and more like a eunuch? Look, he has even shaved off his hair." Zhu Youjian whispered to Wang Chengen beside him.

"None of our eunuchs is as coquettish as he is! Don't let the eunuchs die." Ever since he knew that Zhu Youjian was not the emperor, Wang Chengen was somewhat wary of him.

"Let's go, follow me to see Miss Chen." Liu Zongmin waved his hand, and led Zhu Youjian and Wang Chengen into the inner house.Chen Yuanyuan saw a green toad swaying from a distance, stood up quickly, and grabbed the arm of the servant girl Xiaoyu, not knowing what he was going to do.

"Yuanyuan, Yuanyuan, I'm here to see you!" Liu Zongmin's nasty call made Chen Yuanyuan think about this strange monster.Chen Yuanyuan took a closer look, only to realize that it was Liu Zongmin, and couldn't help laughing out loud while holding the handkerchief.Xiaoyu behind him laughed loudly regardless of etiquette.

Seeing Chen Yuanyuan laughing, Liu Zongmin thought it was his dressing that won the hearts of beauties, so he laughed wildly.

"The general's attire is pretty good. Someone must have pointed it out?" Chen Yuanyuan praised Liu Zongmin, and at the same time glanced at Zhu Youjian behind him.

"How come! This general has always been dressed like this, but he was wearing a battle uniform before, and I didn't have time to change it." Liu Zongmin naturally didn't blush when he lied, and the credit was all his own, and the fault was of course others of.

"You two servants, hurry up and get out of here, don't dirty the eyes of Miss Yuanyuan." Liu Zongmin looked at his silk and satin, and immediately felt that wearing good clothes was superior to others, and leaving two servants beside him was a waste His face.

"Slow! I want to eat two different dishes today. If I can't make them, don't blame me for being unhappy." Chen Yuanyuan didn't even look at Zhu Youjian, and took the opportunity to stumble.

"Did you hear that? Girl Yuanyuan wants to try new tricks. If she can't do it, be careful with your skin." Liu Zongmin threatened Zhu Youjian viciously.

"General, to make new dishes, we need to go out of the house to buy them. What if we don't have the badges to go out of the house?"

"Here, you can walk around the city casually with my general token. I'll send you two helpers to help you carry things." For Chen Yuanyuan, Liu Zongmin would do anything, but at the same time he cunningly Two watchers were sent.It is obvious that Liu Zongmin is not as vulgar as he appears on the surface, but an old Jianghu with a careful heart.

After leaving the Wu Mansion, with the help of General Quan's token, the four of them began to wander around the capital.

The Chuang army just entered the city yesterday, and there are patrolling soldiers everywhere in the city.All the yamen and government offices were occupied by the invading army, there were few pedestrians on the street, and most of the shops were closed to thank customers.There are very strict checkpoints at every street corner, and the soldiers who interrogate are meticulous.The rubble and debris all over the place have been collected together, but they have not been cleared out of the city.The gates of the city are closed tightly, and all personnel are not allowed to enter or leave without order.It is obviously impossible to escape in this situation.

"Didn't you say that breaking into the army would search the people?" Wang Chengen asked Zhu Youjian in a low voice.

"What's the rush. Just wait and see, we will see the result in a few days. We should think about how to contact your subordinates now. Do you have a good way?"

"I can still do this little thing. Don't you want to buy something? It just so happens that Dongchang has a secret contact location in the city, which itself is a dry goods store."

"Unfortunately! I didn't expect that your East Factory is still very solid. The key is that the grocery store is reliable? Don't wait for the two of us to show up and sell us."

"Tch! The old man has been in charge of the East Factory for many years, and the person who betrayed the old man has not yet appeared." Wang Chengen is full of confidence, the governor of the East Factory is not just talking about it.

The four of them turned around a few streets, but they didn't see any vegetable sellers.The main reason is that the gates of the city are blocked, and even vegetable farmers cannot enter the city, and the city is currently relying on grain storage.Wang Chengen took the lead and finally found the dry goods store, but found that the door was also closed.

"Dong dong dong~!" Wang Chengen stepped forward and beat on the door panel vigorously.

"Shopkeeper, open the door. We want to buy something." The followers sent by Liu Zongmin also helped to knock on the door.

After a while, the door opened a crack, revealing a thin, short old man in his 60s.

"Master Jun, we are out of business, and we won't do business today." The old man looked out the door tremblingly, first of all he saw two soldiers dressed as soldiers following him.

"Shopkeeper, we really have no choice but to buy something in your store. Could you please make it easier?" Wang Chengen stepped forward, pushed aside two followers, and stood in front of the door.The old man was surprised when he saw Wang Chengen, and was about to salute, but was blocked by Wang Chengen's eyes.

"Okay, then you won't give money when you buy things later, right?" The old man pretended not to know Wang Cheng'en, and played along with him.

"Don't worry, the generals don't rob things. We don't pay rent, don't pay food, and don't collect taxes when we invade the army."

"Then do you have military pay?" Zhu Youjian asked curiously, where does the military pay come from for an army that does not collect taxes?

"Of course there is military pay. Chuang Wang always steals money from big bullies to pay them."

"Then what if the big households are all robbed?"