Wanli Youming

Chapter 205

Chapter 205 Kneeling in a Row and Shooting

Once the state violence machine of the Ming Empire is in operation, it is naturally doomed to bleed and scatter across the fields.

As a result, soldiers and horses across the country began to receive various orders.

Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang, Ma Jin and others all received orders to prepare to go south to suppress the rebellion at any time.

Yin Zhengmao and Ling Zhenyun in the southwest were also sent to the Privy Council to suspend all military offensives in the southwest, and asked them to dispatch enough Sichuan soldiers and wolf soldiers to rest in case of emergency.

After all, the imperial court had to beware of any local arrogance in Wu who was unwilling to be so determined, really took risks, and really caused a larger-scale rebellion.

Even other places followed suit.

These are all in charge of the Privy Council at any time.

The Ministry of War also began to issue orders to local officials to rectify post stations and armaments in various places to avoid communication problems at that time.

At the same time, the Ministry of Officials also began to recruit a large number of Juren and Bagong as alternate officials, in order to prepare to replenish places at any time.

And to avoid the loss of control in some places due to the killing of officials after the outbreak of war.

Because most of the ministers in the court are reformists or obedient officials, and Zhang Juzheng relied on the emperor's trust and insisted that the ministers must do so, otherwise they will be accused of crimes against the gangsters. Therefore, once Zhang Juzheng decides to implement the emperor's will, These ministers are still doing their duty, so that the emperor's will can be well executed in the center.

The action of the center can only be regarded as a precaution.

Hai Rui and his officers and soldiers in Southern Zhili were already killing people according to the emperor's will.

"Whether it's restoring order or mobilizing the people, start with the villages and towns, and then go to the various prefectures and counties and the capital of the southern capital, in order to drive more rebels, that is, those evil gentry, bullies, local ruffians, into the city to surround them! "

"To avoid the fact that these rebels are too scattered at that time, it is not suitable to clear them up."

Because of this incident, Hai Rui was planning strategies in the governor's office at this time, and continued to give orders to Hu Shouren and Tang Chuanxun, who were directly in charge of the matter, and also gave orders to Lu Kun:

"According to the current increase rate of the patrol team, there will be more in the future. You take the official letter from the church and go directly to the Nanjing Household Department to collect 50 stone grains and [-] taels of tax silver, and prepare to continue to recruit more!"

"Since there are people who want Wu people to govern Wu, then our church will follow their wishes and mobilize more Wu people to help the government maintain order, and use the democratic movement to deal with the civil uprising!"

"Anyway, there are many people in the south of the Yangtze River who are oppressed by the right and the right, and their lives are much worse than in other places. A small amount of money and food can recruit a large number of people. You don't have to worry about not being able to recruit people to form a patrol team. By the way, borrow This opportunity is to solve the livelihood of many unemployed people in the name of recruiting soldiers, and also strengthen the law and order and tax administration of some new towns that are left unattended, and establish permanent officers and soldiers."

"What the Ministry said is correct. Although the preemptive strikes control others, they are often controlled by others. They cause trouble, but when this matter ends, they may not necessarily have the final say."

Lu Kun clapped his hands and said yes, and then laughed.

Tang Chuanxun also laughed from the side: "I told you His Majesty will not sacrifice the military guards! As long as His Majesty believes in the military guards, the military guards will dare to fight them to the end!"

"At that time, the powerful people behind the scenes will regret the civil uprising!"

"Then you take the official letter from the church and organize and train more patrol teams. You don't have to worry about recruiting too many. You can lower the salary and recruit in the name of recruiting patrol team helpers, and then promote some outstanding young adults to take care of these helpers, even the elderly, Kids can give them a job."

"Although there are more than 1 officials registered in the Department of National Taxation, based on this, it is not a problem to train hundreds of thousands of young adults and mobilize millions of people to maintain law and order!"

"But hurry up. After the local Haoyou knows that I will continue to send pro-military guards to collect taxes and ask for the release of Qi Jin, he will definitely make trouble. Before they start to make trouble, hurry up and expand!"

"At least the order of the villages outside the city must be controlled by us first. The bandits and slaves who cause trouble in the countryside are all dealt with as rebels, including the famous scholars and bureaucrats who go to various post stations outside the city to harass. son!"

Hai Rui continued talking to Tang Chuanxun.

Tang Chuanxun bowed his hands and said yes.

And after Hai Rui made such an arrangement, the rural markets and even the towns outside Nanjing and other Nanzhifu counties were indeed cleaned up first by the patrol team.

On this day, it was raining heavily in the south of Yingtianfu.

It was hazy all around.

In a village not far from Fangshan in Yingtianfu, a few tenant farmers just came out and wanted to re-plow the abandoned fields in order to gain some harvest.

But at this time, a group of bandits had just come down to the village in the rain, wearing forged military guard armor.

However, because there was a patrol team guarding the mountain to help deliver the news, [-] patrol soldiers led by the pro-military guard captain Chen Yijiang also arrived at this time.

"Damn it, I told you to abandon the plowing, but you insist on plowing! You think we can't come if it rains, right?"

The leader of the bandits, Zeng Quanfan, was originally a local official, gentry and slave. Because of the arrangement of his master's family, he came to Fangshan to arrest the bandits. Responsible for supervising the tenant farmers' response to the Haoyou's request for them to abandon their farmland.

At this time, after Zeng Quanfan arrived first, Zeng Quanfan kicked the local tenant farmer Xia Dongyang into the field, cursed, and said:

"Chop off the head, hang it on the tree here, and show the other tenant farmers in the village. Damn it, I will see who dares to cultivate secretly, and don't follow my order to let you abandon the farm!"

Swish!

One of the bandits under Zeng Quanfan pulled out his waist knife and walked towards Xia Dongyang.

The tenant farmer Xia Dongyang hastily turned over and knelt in the paddy field with pain: "I beg the army to be merciful, I won't dare to do it again next time!"

Bang!

Suddenly, a series of gunshots appeared.

The bandit who was walking towards the tenant farmer Xia Dongyang with a waist knife turned his head back in fright.

At the same time, Zeng Quanfan also turned his head.

Suddenly, these bandit slaves saw the bandits they brought with them around them, behind a row of shield walls, falling down like stubble being cut.

"How come there are real officers and soldiers here?"

Zeng Quanfan was shocked.

"All kneel down!"

At this moment, Chen Yijiang rode over and shouted.

Zeng Quanfan knelt down in a hurry, and also made the dozen or so bandit leaders around him kneel down, and shouted: "I don't know which master Bing is working under, the younger ones are the guards of the army, everyone Guanjun, can you be accommodating and sit down and have a good talk."

Chen Yijiang only asked his subordinates to tie up Zeng Quanfan and others, and then ordered them to kneel down in a row on the ridge of the field.

Under the rain, rows of bandit leaders pretending to be military guards knelt down, their heads bowed, without the viciousness they had at the beginning.

The villagers hiding in the thatched huts all called their relatives and friends to stick their heads to the window and saw this scene.

At this time, Chen Yijiang had already pulled out the knife himself, stabbed it into Zeng Quanfan's chest, and turned it around fiercely a few times: "Talk about your mother! How dare you insult my military guard!"

As he said that, Chen Yijiang ordered: "The rest will be destroyed with a gun! Let the firearms recruits in the team collapse, and let the sword and shield make up the sword after the collapse!"

"Yes!"

Then, a row of young and strong people who had just joined the team came over with the blunderbusses that had been lit. With trembling hands, they almost pulled the trigger by pressing the muzzles of the blunderbusses on the heads of these bandit leaders.

boom!

boom!

boom!

As white smoke rose one after another, the bandit leaders fell on the field ridge one after another.

The blood was soon washed into the fields by the rain.

A bandit leader shouted anxiously because of this: "Spare me! We don't dare anymore! Those husbands and uncles (hao slaves) made us do it!"

But in the end, none of the bandits pretending to be pro-military guards survived, and all of them were shot.

Chen Yijiang walked up to Xia Dongyang, a tenant farmer who had been stupefied, and said, "Go and tell the other tenant farmers in your village that if you want to farm, you can continue to farm. At your employer, our patrol team will go and reason with him, not only to let him allow you to farm. , and want them to reduce rent and interest for you! Don’t let the increased tax burden after the implementation of the New Deal be borne by you!”

"Thank you Bingye!"

"Thank you Bing Ye! Bing Ye has a long life!"

Xia Dongyang is overjoyed this time, rent and loan interest are two big mountains on his body, if there is an opportunity to reduce rent and interest, he will naturally be happy.

"So, who is your employer?"

Chen Yijiang asked.

(End of this chapter)