Beiyang new warlord

"You boy!"

Instead of being angry, Li Zicheng laughed and stood up, and when he went up, he gave this guy a hard kick in the ass.

"Brother, you should keep it moist! This baby is so tender, you can drink water with one hand, no matter what, you have to give me two!"

"Okay! 1 taels of silver each, let alone two, I don't mind if the whole palace is rounded up!"

"Brother, you are too rude! You already have a family, you want two daughters, and you don't care about your brother asking for money!"

Immediately, the bull's eyes widened, he spread his hands sadly, and yelled, Liu Zongmin even stretched the Confucian robe on his body and opened it with a creaking sound.

Sitting back on the dragon chair again, Li Zicheng snorted unhappily.

"Sitting in the mountains and rivers? I know the suffering of Chongzhen. You have seen both warehouses. They are empty. First, the grain cannot be harvested. The food for the army is still brought from Shaanxi. Yuan Manzi's foundation, it won't be long before the army will There is a shortage of food! If it can be sold, I really want to sell this palace for some food!"

"Lack of food?"

He never expected that his own army had brought down the largest city in the world, and faced the problem of food shortage. Liu Zongmin's bull's eyes widened, and he was stunned for a long time. Suddenly, he was ruthless A pat on the thigh.

"Brother, how important is it for me! Don't we have a group of ready-made fat sheep under our hands? There were more than 1000 kneeling in front of Zhengyang Gate that day, and there were at least several times that didn't come. Brother, didn't you let Shall I punish that former Grand Scholar Wei old man? In the past two days, brother, I took a big shackle and put a shackle on Laoer, and let him kneel there. Guess how much he spit out for me, Xiaobai [-] fish, [-] large yellow croakers! There is also a large warehouse for grain and bread."

It's all about banditism, this is in the palace compound, Liu Zongmin's gangster talk is all over the place, this number, Li Zicheng couldn't help but be moved when he heard it.

But after all, he sat in Longting, Li Zicheng also began to worry about his image, pinched his chin, and shook his head involuntarily.

"This is not good! Killing two treacherous ministers, those people surrendered after all! We are also sitting in the Dragon Court here."

"You have also seen this big brother of the palace. The emperor is so poor that he can't even afford clothes. These fat sheep are all delicious and spicy. Which one is not a **** is a traitor? And look at the way they treat Chongzhen, die Even refused to release a coffin, how many poor people have starved to death because of this gang of bastards who have been crushed on our heads in the past?

"Besides, brother! We just want them to return the embezzled dirty silver and give it to our poor people! It's too late to applaud you all over the world? The common people have to support you even more as the emperor!"

Seeing that Li Zicheng was still holding his chin and hesitating, Liu Zongmin simply slapped his thigh: "Brother, don't worry about these dirty officials, let's use those big eunuchs to draw the head office first! No one will say if you kill the eunuchs?"

The eunuch's reputation among the people is not very good, but Li Zicheng finally gave up. He tilted his head and yelled at the door.

"Come on, get that eunuch, Wang Zhixin!"

Now is the time for Xinchao to behave. Hearing that Li Zicheng invited him to have an audience, the fat, fat eunuch was so happy that he swayed all over his fat body and ran and bumped into the platform like a rice cake. on the ground.

"Old slave greets His Majesty, long live long live long live long live!"

Seeing that this peanut-like big white fat man is so polite and served by eunuchs these days is not bad, Li Zicheng didn't have the nerve to be rough as soon as he came up, first he coughed lightly.

"Well, there is no money in the treasury of the Ministry of Household Affairs, you first take 10 taels of silver to rescue the emergency, I want to pay the army!"

With this sentence, Wang Zhixin's fat face suddenly turned green. Chongzhen raised donations earlier and promised to pay back double the tax, but he didn't donate. Now he wants 10 taels, don't you want his life?His face drooped immediately, and he kowtowed like rice cake again.

"Your Majesty, it is clear that this old servant is a servant in the first palace. How can there be so much money! This old servant really can't get it out! I beg Your Majesty to spare this old servant!"

Seeing how pitiful he was crying, Li Zicheng was really fooled. He had also seen a few little eunuchs around him. They were really poor. As a last resort, he cut up the treasure given by his parents with a single knife, and entered the palace to be the head of the family. Slaves come.

But before Li Zicheng could speak, Liu Zongmin rolled forward with his big feet, rolled him onto a big horse, and cursed with spittle flying.

"Fucking eggless thing! Don't fool me, big brother, the whole house in Xizhimen is yours, say you have no money!"

"Brother, give this dead rabbit to brother, and brother will show you his skills, and pull this dead rabbit out!"

I couldn't bear it just now, but when he heard that this guy was so rich and still lied to himself, Li Zicheng suddenly became angry, slapping his hands and shouting.

"Drag it!"

Chapter 571. Gold Mountain and Silver Sea

In the magnificent mansion, it is hard to imagine that there is such a dark and terrifying dungeon. Iron rods with thick forearms separate the freedom outside. In the wet straw on the ground, snakes, mice and centipedes crawl from time to time come and go.

This place used to be used by the high-ranking nobles to torture and punish the servants of the mansion, but now it is used on their masters.

The firelight of the three braziers was flickering, and shadows were shaking in the darkness. In the braziers, the soldering iron was already burning red. Facing the heat of the braziers, two people knelt on the ground tremblingly, with a heavy shackle on each hand and neck. Big shackles.

Don't underestimate this shackle, plus the iron weighs three hundred catties, which is heavier than a human being. Not to mention the soreness of the wrist and neck for a long time, the weight alone is enough to make people want to die. Wang Zhixin's fat body The neck was broken, and blood mixed with sweat had accumulated in a small circle around the shackle circle. As for Wei Zaode next to him, his neck was festered and turned purple!Compared with a few days ago, this former Shoufu University scholar was a few circles thinner, kneeling on the ground, trembling unceasingly.

At this time, the door suddenly opened with a swipe, and changed into a set of eunuch costumes that I don't know where to find, and only the generally fat eunuchs can fit Liu Zongmin's burly body and fleshy tendons, walking around Step, he walked in with a sinister smile.

"How about it, my lords, do you have any silver now?"

"General Liu, this old man, this old man really has no money, and all his belongings have been handed over to you. I beg you to show mercy and let this old man go!"

This Wei Zaode was really unlucky, he was released by Liu Zongmin when he spit out the money, and he was arrested by Liu Zongmin in order to set an example for Li Zicheng before he got home.

His lips were dry and cracked, his voice was extremely weak and hoarse, and he begged for mercy tremblingly.

After only kneeling for a day, the great eunuch Wang Zhixin was full of anger, kowtowing his head with difficulty while crying.

"Grandpa Quan, our family is just servants who serve and serve others. We really have no money!"

"I don't have any money yet! It's easy to say!"

Moved a stool and sat opposite, Liu Zongmin showed his big yellow teeth cruelly, and waved his hand behind him: "It just so happens that I got something good from Jinyiwei, Mr. Wei, come and taste it first!"

With fear in his eyes, he watched a pair of bamboo twisters on the fingers of the shackle being put on by two Chuang Jun. Before they could pull it, Wei Zaode screamed like a pig.

"My lord, spare my life! My lord, spare my life, I really don't have it, ah! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!"

Who cares about him?It was full of cruelty, and even Liu Zongmin's soldiers smiled fiercely and pulled them up to both sides. Suddenly, a more mournful howl echoed in this frightening dungeon.

His hands were bruised and swollen under the yoke, and the blood was squeezed out. After howling for a few minutes, Wei Zaode simply rolled his eyes and passed out.

"It may not be useful! Forget it, Wang Gonggong, you are so strong and strong, you must be able to hold it for a while! Come on! Wait for Wang Gonggong to twist!"

Being tortured directly is just suffering the pain of torture. Seeing others being tortured, and then falling on yourself, you have to bear an extra part of the fear that devours people's hearts. Wang Zhixin was so frightened that he urinated directly, begging with snot and tears.

"Grandpa Quan, this old slave really has no money! This old slave is just a servant who waits on others, where is there, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

The shrill scream sounded again, he was very angry that he made a bad smell, the two soldiers attacked even more ruthlessly, almost no oil was squeezed out of his ten fat fingers, they were as red as Carrots, sure enough, every day big fish and big meat are raised, this guy is much better than Wei Zaode, after more than ten minutes of shackles, he didn't faint.

However, the eunuch's voice was hoarse, and the court clothes were drenched with sweat on his body, and he actually felt a little thinner than when he came in. If this method of weight loss is to be popular in later generations, it will definitely be popular.

It can be regarded as withdrawing the twist, and Wang Zhixin collapsed on the ground as if he had lost his bones.

Snot, tears, saliva, and sweat were mixed together disgustingly, flowing down the shackles, sobbing in an inaudible way, and after a long time, the eunuch spoke weakly.

"Liu, Mr. Liu, don't, don't, don't yoke! Ten, 10 taels of silver, old slave, old slave is out!"

"No! Just now my elder brother asked for 20 taels. Didn't your eunuchs say that there is a rule? It won't be there when I come to Lao Tzu? You have to come up with [-] taels!"

"20 million taels?"

Seeing Liu Zongmin looking like a hooligan with his arms folded and his head tilted, looking proudly at himself even though he had just been tortured, the dead eunuch still bounced like a ball, shouting in disbelief.