Li Guodong walked to the door of a yard and knocked gently at the rhythm of two three short sessions.

Hearing the sound of code words, they drove away. A man saw Li Guodong and hurriedly welcomed him into the courtyard.

"Lord, Boss Zhang has been waiting for you inside for a long time." said the agent who opened the door to Li Guodong.

Li Guodong walked into the backyard and went straight into the study. He saw that Zhang Shuheng had been waiting in the study for a long time.

"Lord!" Zhang Shuheng quickly knelt on one knee and saluted.

Li Guodong helped Zhang Shuheng up and asked again: "Xiao Zhang, what's going on in the Fu Palace?"

Zhang Shuheng smiled and said, "Lord, there is a shortage of silver and food in Luoyang City. I heard that Wang Shaoyu's soldiers have not received a piece of copper pay for more than eight months and almost nine months! The officials in the city are ants on the hot pan, and they pushed Lu Weiqi to the Fu Palace to ask for silver. But as you expected, the Fu Palace is just a shit. You didn't see it. Lu Weiqi, such an old man, when he came out of the royal palace, he was snot and tears, and he cried so much!"

"What's going on with the thief?"

Zhang Shuheng replied: "There are also many of their works in the city. When we went to stare at the palace, we found suspicious people around us. We can see that those people are not from the palace or from the government, so they must be thieves."

"They didn't find you?"

"No!" Zhang Shuheng said with a smile, "Our people are hiding in the dark, they are much more conspicuous than us. Although the thieves are dressed up by hungry people, our people have sharp eyes and can be seen at a glance."

"Well, that's good! When the thief breaks into Luoyang, you can send a few more people to the thief army. We will find a chance to go back to Kaifeng." Li Guodong nodded with satisfaction.

Since Li Guodong has many detailed works in the city, Niu Jinxing has arranged for Hao Yaoqi and Hongniang to sneak into the city in advance, there are also many detailed works of the rebels in the city.

There was insufficient food and salary in Luoyang City, and soldiers did not pay military salary for eight months. Both Guodong knew about this. Hao Yaoqi also knew about it. Later, when both sides saw Lu Weiqi walking into the palace, they guessed that they were leaving to find King Fu to raise funds. Later, when they saw Lu Weiqi walking out of the palace with tears in their eyes, they knew that the fundraising failed.

In the courtyard where Hao Yaoqi lives, he heard the news sent back by Xiu Zuo and said happily: "Okay! King Fu is causing his own destruction!"

"If you do evil for more than one's own good, you will die! If King Fu is willing to be generous, he will not make everyone want to eat his meat!" The Hongniang snorted coldly.

"I don't know where Brother Li has gone, but the guards of the royal palace are looking for him everywhere." Hao Yaoqi said worriedly.

The Hongniang smiled and said, "Brother Hao, you don't have to worry about him anymore. When I saw him that day, I knew he was not an ordinary person! Not only was he very skilled in martial arts, but he was also full of murderous aura! This is a person with many lives on his body! But I think he has no malice towards us and is not satisfied with the court. We can fight for this person."

Hao Yaoqi nodded: "If this person can be used by our rebel army, then the rebel king will have another powerful general!"

"Brother Hao, how does his martial arts compare to you?"

"Only above me!" Hao Yaoqi praised.

In the rebellion army, Hao Yaoqi ranked among the top in martial arts. Every time he fought, he rushed to the first place. Hao Yaoqi also had injuries on his body, but none of his injuries were on the back! All were injuries in front. It cannot be said that Hao Yaoqi had never been defeated. On the one hand, this shows that he was brave in fighting, and on the other hand, it shows that he also knew how to get out when something was wrong.

Even a powerful general like Hao Yaoqi admitted that Li Guodong's force was higher than himself, which made Hong Niangzi and the others even more interested in recruiting Li Guodong.

"Brother Li is back." Someone outside came to report.

The people outside picked up Li Guodong in.

When Hao Yaoqi saw Li Guodong coming back, he stepped forward and asked, "Brother Li, where are you going? The rebel army is coming soon, and there is a lot of chaos outside."

Li Guodong laughed: "It's better if the rebel army comes! We offended Prince Fu. If King Chuang took Luoyang, we wouldn't have to be trapped here anymore. King Fu complained and should have received the punishment he deserved!"

At this time, the whistle cavalry of the rebel army had appeared outside the city, and the sound of the rebel army attacking Luoyang became increasingly tense.

The gentry in Luoyang City, seeing that the wealthy king who was as rich as a country, refused to take out silver and food, so naturally they were unwilling to take out silver and food.

Lu Weiqi saw it and was anxious. He lobbled the rich gentry in the city everywhere, hoping that they could take out the money to pay military salaries to the soldiers, take out food to provide disaster relief, and buy hungry people to assist the officials in defending the city.

"Mr. Lu, our family is not as good as the Fu Wang Mansion. The Fu Wang family has great business and cannot afford to pay for the money. How can we afford to pay so much money?" a gentleman complained.

Another gentleman said, "Yes, even His Highness Fu doesn't care about it anymore. Why should we take care of this?"

"Mr. Lu, please let us go. Everyone knows Luoyang, who is the richest person, is the Fu Palace!"

"That's right, Mr. Lu, let's run away quickly. Anyway, Luoyang is lost, it's not our business."

But Lu Weiqi was unwilling to run away. He knew that he was the center of attention of the gentry in Luoyang City and was regarded as the person who was responsible for the safety of Luoyang. It was precisely because he occupied such an important position that he decided to live and die with Luoyang.

Lu Weiqi took the lead in taking out the grain stored in the family to provide disaster relief in the city. Under Lu Weiqi's persuasion, the prefect and other officials took out the silver and grain, but most of these local officials were from other places, and their family's banking industry was basically in their hometowns. Who would put so much silver in the yamen? There was even less grain. The grain they stocked in was just a drop in the bucket for the hungry people in the city. Spend money to buy grain. At this time, the price of grain in the city rose, and their money could not meet the needs of so many hungry people. What's more serious is that the soldiers no longer paid off the silver, but hoped to give them food directly.

The grain prices in Luoyang City have risen to the sky. Even if the officers and soldiers have paid eight months of military pay, the amount of money can't buy a few liters of silver. Once the army sieges the city, the most valuable thing in the city is probably silver.

On the 19th day of the first lunar month, the rebels arrived in Luoyang. Nearby Yanqiu, Longmen and many villages and towns on the south bank of the Luo River were captured by the rebels. More than one million rebels formed an encirclement of Luoyang.

In the Fu Palace, King Fu Zhu Changxun quickly rushed his warehouse in the mansion with the support of two eunuchs.

"Open this warehouse." King Fu said, pointing to the door of a warehouse.

The warehouse was opened and looking at the pile of gold, silver, treasures and copper coins, Zhu Changxun said to himself: "This was given to me by the late emperor back then, and some of them were the property I had run for thirty years. I don't even give a copper plate to those mud legs!"

Then, the eunuch opened the grain warehouse again. Looking at the piles of grains inside, Zhu Changxun snorted coldly: "These grains were saved after thirty years of accumulation. Why should I take them out and ruin those mud legs?"

Li Zicheng had already made a stance to attack the city. King Fu knew that Li Zicheng was going to attack the city, but he still believed that those local officials were afraid of the imperial court and would definitely defend the city to the death, so he did not need to take out the silver and food at all.
Chapter completed!