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 to look. It turned out to be Chen Shiwen, Chen Yan's son, with an old man.

Servants were guarding the door of Ruhou Mansion. Both of them looked miserable. Chen Shiwen, the handsome young master in the past, was even more pale-faced, with both eyelids swollen. He didn't know if he had cried 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.

You are so shameless that everyone avoids you, so there is no way to raise money! How about 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 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 who was doing it. Although Tiqi was ferocious, he knew the severity of his injuries and would not easily kill anyone, even if he only maimed many people.

But how could Huang Hu and Liu Zongmin’s men be so professional? They were really asking for 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 the torture and forced payment. The merchants in Beijing also suffered deeply from this extortion campaign. The money distributed by the Dashun Army was too much, and the market was too depressed, so in an emergency, they could only

Selling goods at low prices. Some shops were so desperate that they even sold the furniture in their stores at low prices. However, the stores could not be sold and could not be sold, and they had to remain open, otherwise the Yongchang Emperor would not

I'm happy. So I just opened it empty...

There are still a lot of Dashun soldiers in white hats and blue clothes wandering around the streets. They were very disciplined when they first entered the city, but now they have completely revealed themselves. They have not openly burned, killed and raped, but they have to eat and drink after breaking in.

Drinking, that's not a big deal. If there are 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 was no way to implement it... because Li Zicheng didn't have that much money to pay now.

There is no way to allocate land to the soldiers below - allocating land requires working hard to manage the local area, and Li Chuang's rise was too fast, and the local foundation was weak, so he could not implement a system similar to military households and government soldiers, and could only pay salaries to the troops.

As for the land occupied by Li Zicheng, he could not collect much money. Even without the promise of "no conquest for three years", how could he possibly receive the land with the war-torn land of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Beizhili?

Military expenditures that can support a million-strong army?

Therefore, brutal torture and looting were actually Li Zicheng's only way 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 is not used to it. His fair face turned green with fear, and he had cramps in his calves, and he could hardly walk.

.

Luo Xiushen looked back at him and said, "That's not your father, it's two earls...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 before. Walk around with your head down later. Don’t look at it. It’s a nightmare.

!”

"This, this, this..." Chen Shiwen, Mr. Chen, is almost dizzy. These thieves turn out to be demons? What should I do? What should I do...

Mr. Chen, who was full of fear, followed Luo Xiushen'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. However, the miserable screams and strong

The indelible smell of blood almost frightened him. In the end, he didn’t even know how to get to the cell where Chen Yan was detained!

Chen Yan is still alive. One of his wrists and two ankles are broken, and the wounds have been bandaged and treated fairly cleanly, so the old man doesn't have a fever, but only feels waves of heartbreaking pain.

Of course, there is 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 100,000 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 again, "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 the Jinyiwei imperial prison. The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty were in the imperial prison.

Going in and out is a common thing. Most of the time, the imperial edicts are not very cruel, and they will only be ruthless when they have strict orders from the emperor.

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 it can't be delivered... Luo Xiushen couldn't bear to say, Liu Laohu is a real tiger, he can eat people without spitting out bones, how can 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 Zhu Cixiang on the sand ship Dalongtou that was slowly sailing to Dagukou. He saluted 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.

To seize the 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.

The officers and soldiers of the Chinese Army Division came from four parts: first, Zhu Cihong's own bodyguards; second, the original Han generals; third, surrendered troops from the old camp of the Dashun Army and Tang Tong's retainers, and fourth, 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 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 Qianhu Station. Ren Yizhou, who was born in Tiqi from Qianhu Station, was on his way to Dagukou to take care of this matter - to select a truly useful spy for Zhu Cixiang.

In Zhu Cixiang's view, one or two useful spies can play a huge role. If they are useless, hundreds or thousands of them are useless.
Chapter completed!