In Huai'an City, in a small attic facing the canal of the Dadewang Business Hotel, there is a blazing fire, and the attic is as warm as spring.

Li Guodong sat comfortably on the lounge chair, Liu Rushi's pair of delicate hands were gently pinching his neck, and the two girls Mo Zhu and Hexiang gently beat him their legs. Not long ago, the inside line received news that some censors in the court wanted to harm him, and there were also news in the palace that Chongzhen still wanted to reuse himself, and Wang Chengen, Cao Huachun, and Yang Sichang helped him speak, and those people would not succeed.

Just now, Zhang Shuheng, the leader of the personal guard, received an even more horrifying news: a censor in the court accepted the benefits of Jiannu and wanted to eradicate himself. However, his spy agency has not yet found out which one did it.

Even if Chongzhen really listened to the words of the censors and wanted to send the Jinyiwei cavalry to capture him, Li Guodong was not afraid. If Chongzhen was so stupid, he would have to raise the flag of rebellion and lead the army to join Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong. It would be strange if those censors who forced him to rebel against him were not killed by Chongzhen.

Since Chongzhen has not listened to those people and plans to reuse himself, there is no need to raise the anti-bank for the time being. Resigning to Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong is not a good idea. Those bandits are short-sighted and joining them can only harm the people. The foundation they have built up with hard work will be invalidated, and everything can only start over. Therefore, Li Guodong will not raise the anti-bank before he has to.

That night, Li Guodong left Liu Rushi in his room and had been with Liu Rushi for four years. The girl who was originally a fourteen-year-old is now an eighteen-year-old girl. In this era, a girl who was eighteen-year-old was considered an older left-over girl before she got married at the age of eighteen. So Li Guodong wants to give her a title tonight.

Twelve days later, Zhang Shuheng secretly reported to Li Guodong: "Lord, you have found out who it is! Both are from the Donglin Party! One is Shen Weibing and the other is Fang Kezhuang."

Li Guodong recalled these two names. Both of them later surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and became traitors. He recalled his previous life, and he had argued with people on forums and post bars. Some people said that Jiannu bribed some people from the Donglin Party to frame Xiong Tingbi; but some people said that besides the Donglin Party, who else surrendered to Jiannu?

Although there were not many people in the Donglin Party surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, many small people surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and secretly did things for the enemy. However, those are shameful things and it is impossible to say much in natural historical materials. Many things, if Li Guodong had not established his own secret service agency this time, he would not have been able to understand that relying solely on historical knowledge in his previous life would be insufficient.

"Lord, how about it? Should I kill these Jiannu spies?" Wang Quan asked.

"It's not easy for us to take action in the capital. If you do it, you can't escape. I don't want to sacrifice my brother's life for these garbage." Li Guodong replied.

"But if we provide the information to the Jinyiwei, will they believe us? Even if they believe it, they will wonder how we can learn about this confidential information? If the Jinyiwei finds out that we have our own intelligence system, then we will have to rebel." Wang Quan said in embarrassment.

"We don't have to touch these people by the time being. We just need to reveal the situation to the prince. As for how to do it, it depends on the emperor himself. Whether he can build a spy depends on his ability to the Jinyiwei. Let's consider it and take action against those guys who make fake cigarettes first. Fake cigarettes pose a threat to our financial path. How can we raise soldiers without money?"

"promise!"

Two days later, Zhang Shuheng submitted a list of officials involved in the manufacturing of fake cigarettes. Li Guodong saw at a glance that the list of fake cigarettes included two names Li Guoying and Bai Yongfu. Among them, Li Guoying was Zuo Liangyu's man, and Bai Yongfu was Liu Liangzuo's man.

Li Guoying and Bai Yongfu are currently just small generals, but Li Guodong knew that these two characters were later generals of the Qing Dynasty, especially Li Guoying. Later, after Zuo Menggeng surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he became the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi. After Bai Yongfu followed Liu Liangzuo to the Qing Dynasty, he finally became the governor of Shaanxi.

Li Guodong pointed to the two names on the list: "These two people must be eliminated! Do things cleanly!"

"Please don't worry, lord! Bei Zhi will definitely help lord get rid of these two guys cleanly!" Zhang Shuheng replied loudly.

"If you have the chance to get rid of Zuo Liangyu and Liu Liangzuo, that's the best! If you can't do it, then you'll spare their life for the time being."

People like Zuo Liangyu are truly self-respecting and have poor military discipline. They are officers and soldiers who wipe out bandits, but they do things worse than bandits.

Shucheng, Zuo Liangyu's camp.

"Bah, let's send troops to Qianshan to suppress the bandits? The bandits are familiar with the terrain in the mountains. I'll do it!" Zuo Liangyu cursed and tore off the manifesto sent by the governor of Yingtian Zhang Guowei to send troops to suppress the bandits.

This is the third time that Zhang Guowei asked Zuo Liangyu to send troops, but Zuo Liangyu refused to send troops.

"My father, this is an order from the court after all. If we don't go, what should we do if the court punishes us?" Zuo Menggeng asked.

"I have made great contributions to defeating the thieves in Lu'an. We now have more than 100,000 troops. Isn't the court still relying on us? Thank you, Emperor Chongzhen dares not do anything to us!" Zuo Liangyu snorted coldly.

The gate of Shucheng opened, and a group of fierce guys wearing mandarin duck battle jackets and red tassels and hats walked out of the city in a mess. Some of these people were veterans, some were rogues who were recruited by Zuo Liangyu from all over the place, and some were robbers who were incorporated. Now they all have a common name: officers and soldiers, strictly speaking, are the Zuo family army. These people are not loyal to the court and love the people. They are hundreds of times worse than bandits.

"He is a good woman, the few women he caught the day before yesterday, and the brothers were all gone by the military gate before they could eat meat." A bearded officer in the lead said indignantly.

"Sir, let's catch a few more women now."

"What a fool!" said the officer, "Women nearby heard that we were here and had already run away. Can they stay at home and let us catch us?"

"Sir, let's go a little further. Bei Zhi knows how to walk the road in this mountain. The women in that mountain are beautiful. The mountains and rivers are beautiful here, and the women are like water." said a soldier.

Passing by a small village, the people in the village saw these officers and soldiers under the banner of "left" from afar, and they were in chaos. The village was full of chaos, and countless people rolled up their packages and fled into the mountains. The women even smeared their faces with the bottom of the pot and put on men's clothes. In fact, there are some pretty girls here, who have been kidnapped by the officers and soldiers, and the rest are either ugly or old, but they are afraid that the officers and soldiers of the Zuo Army who are hungry will take themselves.

The common people know that these officers and soldiers are even more abominable than bandits. The bandits pass like combs and soldiers pass like combs. An army that does not have discipline and harms the people is a more abominable thief than bandits.

Seeing the people fleeing in horror, the officers and soldiers of the Left Army screamed and howled excitedly, and they felt like they were venting.

"Sir, those mud legs ran away. Let's go in and look for it. Maybe there's something left behind." A soldier suggested.

"Silly donkey! We have been here several times. What else can they have at home? Let's go to the mountains to find women!" The officer cursed.

The bandits walked into the mountain with great swagger. The nearby villages were looted by them a few days ago. There were neither women nor food and property, and they had already robbed them. So today they had to work harder, run more roads, and robbed farther places.

A mountain girl named Shan Tao was carrying a bamboo basket and digging bamboo shoots in the mountains. She opened her voice and sang a mountain song out loud. The buffalo was her childhood sweetheart. At this time, her beloved buffalo brother was hunting not far ahead.

"Sir, smoke a cigarette." A soldier took apart the cigarette.
Chapter completed!