The New Year of the 14th year of Chongzhen is about to usher in. Li Zicheng, who conquered Yongning and killed King Wan'an, took a million victorious army and advanced towards Luoyang.

Because King Wan'an was killed, the Henan Governor Li Xianfeng felt that the situation was serious. He temporarily detained Yongning was defeated. The murder of King Wan'an was suppressed for a while before submitting the court.

Li Zicheng's army approached Luoyang because Luoyang was a land of great title and King Fu was the emperor's uncle. Li Xianfeng had to send an edict to Wang Shaoyu, the general of the police stationed in Luoyang, to "reach the defense and not lose any mistakes."

As a chief official of the imperial court, Li Xianfeng didn't know that Wang Shaoyu's strength could not defend Luoyang at all!

Just as Li Zicheng's army attacked Luoyang, the Fu Palace was completely addicted to the New Year's carnival! The New Year's Eve began, and the palace firecrackers continued, and it became denser by the fifth day of the first lunar month. As soon as the sky was dawn, King Fu worshipped the sky, led all the princes, clans, rituals, civil and military officials to pay homage to the long live card. After the ceremony, he turned to the imperial palace and sat on the throne to receive congratulations. After the congratulations, he was given a banquet. After that, the kings and nobles took turns to hold banquets and invited each other. Such carnivals would not stop until the Lantern Festival.

"Brother, I'm really sorry. It's the New Year, but we can't afford to even have a good meal." Hao Yaoqi said to Li Guodong apologetically.

The table was filled with New Year's dishes, but there was not even a meat dish, nor white flour dumplings. The table was filled with fried cabbage, roasted tofu, and stewed cabbage with tofu. The main food was mixed grains and steamed buns.

The Hongniang said, "Uncle, it's good that we can eat such things. The hungry people inside and outside the city can't even drink porridge! The abominable King of Blessings is as rich as a country, and he can't even bear to take some food to serve porridge!"

"Sister, the imperial government has not even given porridge? Just let the people starve to death?" Xiaoyun asked.

"Hmph! The government? The government is full of corrupt officials! How could they consider the lives and death of the people!" Hongniang snorted coldly.

Li Guodong said: "Miss, the court actually has no money. Emperor Chongzhen is not bad. He has exempted taxes from Shandong and Henan, but local officials still collect taxes and force the people to death. If you want to make mistakes, it is the fault of the gentry and officials."

"Watching the corrupt officials below are rampant, it's not that dog emperor is incompetent!" said Hongniang disdainfully.

After entering the first month of the year, the weather became colder and countless people who fled to famine in the streets and alleys were frozen to death. Heavy snow fell on the fifth day of the first month of the year, and the sound of hungry people crying and crying in the cold was endless.

"There are bones that are frozen on the road of the wine and meat of the rich! King Fu deserves to die!" Li Guodong sighed.

"Uncle Li, don't worry, evil will be punished, the time is coming soon! In a few days, when the army of the King of Breaking Kings arrives, the King of Blessing will be over!" Xiao Cui accidentally let out a joke.

"Yeah, yeah." Li Guodong just responded casually. In the past few days, he had been thinking about how to leave the city. He had beaten the guards of the Fu Palace and disguised as hungry people and mixed into the city to tell him that the city gate was sealed, and the guards of the Fu Palace were capturing him, Hao Yaoqi, and his daughter all over the city.

Forget it, since you can't get out, then wait. When the rebel army breaks through Luoyang, you will find another opportunity to escape.

The royal family of the Ming Dynasty was also an important reason for the defeat of the Ming Dynasty. In the final analysis, it was all the disaster left by Zhu Yunwen, the second-generation ancestor. When Zhu Yuanzhang used his vassal kings to guard the border, the vassal kings' troops to help the Ming court resist foreign captives. As a result, Zhu Yunwen, the second-generation ancestor, had a vassal kings who had vassal kings, and forced Zhu Di to rebel.

After Zhu Di rebelled and seized power, he began a pig farming policy. Each vassal king turned into a pig, kept in a fiefdom and was not allowed to leave casually. Even if the capital was threatened, the vassal king was not allowed to lead troops into the capital to serve the king. The Tang king Zhu Youjian is a living example. Now Zhu Youjian is still eating braised vegetables in the Fengyang prison and is bullied by eunuchs.

The vassal kings who were regarded as pigs and had no ambitions could only eat and wait for death. People would live to live and wait for death, so they might as well make money. So the vassal kings encircled land, bullied men and women, and used their royal status to do all kinds of bad things, and lived a luxurious and destitute life every day.

On the 14th day of the first lunar month, as Li Zicheng's army approached Luoyang, nine out of ten of the legends in the streets and alleys in the city talked about Li Zicheng, saying that the rebel army was strict in discipline and did not violate it, only punished the powerful gentry and powerful households, protected the kind people, opened warehouses and released relief, helped the hungry people, and how poor people burned incense and welcomed them, and fought for surrender, etc. The legends that flew into Luoyang City every day, and there were many moving stories, and the stories were famous and vivid, so that those who listened could not refuse to believe it.

Li Zicheng's army is coming to Luoyang, but the Fu Palace still lives a luxurious and corrupt life. Painted door lamps are hung in front of the palace, fighting for rockets and fireworks. The fireworks in the palace soar into the sky, and all kinds of fireworks compete for ingenuity, regardless of money, and a prosperous scene.

On the evening of the 16th, there were more people under the moon. Men and women were in groups, rushing in the streets, carrying wine and singing, or reunion and singing, fighting tiger-wearing elephants, and singing with the pipa.

It is about the second update that the female family members of the giant house are on a trip, servants carry lanterns, maids and maids are surrounded by flowers, and the fragrance is blowing. These female members of the family who do not easily leave the house and do not leave the curtains even when they go out. It is rare that there is a Lantern Festival every year, and they can boldly wander under the stars and moon, linger in the light of the lights.

"The thief army is here! The thief army is here!" The rebel army is less than thirty miles away from Luoyang! The dignitaries and nobles in the city finally couldn't sit still.

Lu Weiqi, who once served as the Minister of War in Nanjing, was anxious. He once served as the Minister of War in Nanjing, and now he retired and returned home. He is the most famous and has the highest status among the gentry in Luoyang City.

In Yiluo Academy, Lu Weiqi sat in the middle of the hall. Luoyang magistrate Feng Yijun, Luoyang magistrate Wang Yinchang, Luoyang general Wang Shaoyu, magistrate Zhang Zhengxue, and a group of gentry in Luoyang City sat in the hall, discussing how to resist the rebels.

"Now the thief army is powerful, what are the good strategies for defending the enemy?" Lu Weiqi looked around and asked.

The prefect Feng Yijun hesitated for a moment and said, "Luoyang's survival is the responsibility of defending the territory, and cannot be shirked. However, at this time when the people are in a state of chaos and the army's spirit is shaken, survival is actually determined by His Highness Fu. The people in Luoyang all said that the food in the Fuwang's warehouse is piled up like a mountain and is so rotten that it cannot be eaten anymore. However, the people are displaced on the streets and starved to death a large number of people every day. In this case, it would be strange if the thieves arrive and the people in the city do not surrender!"

General Wang Shaoyu angrily patted the armrest of the chair: "The soldiers have not received a copper coin for eight months! They are scolding King Fu behind their backs. They say that King Fu has a lot of gold and silver piled up into mountains, countless gold and silver treasures, and the copper coins are almost rotten! But the soldiers have not received a copper coin for eight months! I am a military general, and I die for the country's loyalty. But my soldiers are unwilling to use their lives. How can I defend Luoyang City?"

Wang Yinchang said: "To save Luoyang, we can only ask His Highness Fu to open the warehouse, take out tens of thousands of taels of silver to reward the soldiers, and take out thousands of tantares of grain to help the hungry people. If you leave this last move, Luoyang will not be guarded, and the Fu Palace will not be guaranteed. We all die together!"

The prefect Feng Yijun nodded: "As long as King Fu is willing to give up money, the hungry people in the city are not a bad thing, but a good thing! As long as they survive, they can let them climb the city to fight and resist the bandits' army!"

Lu Weiqi thought about it, looked around again, and asked, "Why don't you present this pasta to His Highness, King Fu?"

Wang Yinchang said sadly and angrily: "I went into the palace to ask for a meeting with King Fu. The first time I just opened my mouth to bring up the silver, and was bombarded by King Fu. When I went there the second time, King Fu simply closed the door!"

Feng Yijun also said: "I went to ask for a meeting with King Fu. When I mentioned the money, I was also bombed out of the palace."

"Hahaha!" Lu Weiqi laughed in a bad mood, "I'm almost gone, why can't I bear to give up money?"
Chapter completed!