I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 272 There Are Buts Here

Except for Xiaoqi Diao Debao who scolded Wang Kun for killing the eunuch in front of dozens of people, the rest of Jinyiwei were sent to Xinghe City for labor reform, but their badges and uniforms are still there.

As a result, twenty Xinghe Army soldiers put on flying fish suits and temporarily acted as Wang Kun's bodyguards.

Pretending to be the Son of Heaven's pro-army is a capital offense!

Isn't arresting the supervising army and Jin Yiwei also a capital offense?

Since I have committed a capital crime, I don’t mind committing more, hahaha...

Huang Yi didn't care, and the soldiers under his command didn't care even more.

After they put on the flying fish suits and picked up the Xiuchun knife, their aura was a little bit stronger than that of the real Jinyiwei.

Not all Jinyiwei are fake, at least one of them is completely fake.

This person is of course Diao Debao.

He has been with the army for more than half a month, and he has long been convinced.He knew the consequences of scolding the eunuch of the supervising army face to face, and he didn't want Wang Kun to turn himself over.

So he, like the Jinyiwei pretended by the Xinghe Army, closely monitored Wang Kun's every move.

If Wang Kun dared to make any changes, Diao Debao would dare to slash the dead eunuch with a knife.

Wang Kun's brain is so good, how could he not be able to distinguish the current situation, he didn't want to play tricks at all, and he didn't plan to escape at all.

Because he knew the emperor's bullying and fearful temperament, and understood that even if he could escape back to the capital and report Huang Yi, there was only death waiting for him.

Even if the emperor spared his life, a powerless eunuch who fell out of favor might be bullied by other eunuchs so that his life would be worse than death.

So Wang Kun chose to trust Huang Yi, and worked hard to cooperate with Huang Yi to get what he wanted.

The Xinghe Army came suddenly, fought quickly, and did an impeccable job of shielding the battlefield.

Therefore, the seven big landlords and country gentry who secretly communicated with Xue Mazi didn't know what happened.

Villages and stockades run by rural landlords and squires are capable of defense, and some villages can even organize thousands of strong men to fight defense battles.

Wang Kun has already experienced Huang Yi's lawlessness.

In the past, he might have thought that no one dared to commit such a serious crime as murdering the supervising army.

But through what he saw and heard during this period, Wang Kun suddenly realized that the emperor might really have nothing to do with generals like Huang Yi.

Zhu Jiu Clan has to catch people first!
Do Jinyiwei and Dongchang dare to go to Xinghe City or Dongshan Fort to arrest people?
Even if Huang Yi led the troops into Shanxi, so what?
Who has the ability to come to the Xinghe military camp to arrest the chief general?

Wang Kun has already learned that what happened in the Xuan Mansion did not break the sky. The civil servants and generals of Xuan Da only knew that the eunuch who supervised the army personally went to the Xinghe camp to supervise the suppression of bandits, and could not imagine that the eunuch was actually coerced.

Bitter too!Fate!Wang Kun's teeth itch with hatred, but unfortunately there is nothing he can do!

When Huang Yi ordered him to do things, he nodded and bowed cautiously, his expression was no different from that of serving Long Live God back then.

Houjiazhuang is relatively large, with hundreds of households and thousands of people. There are only three surnames of Hou, Ma, and Sun, and more than [-]% of them are named Hou.

Hou Yuwen is an undeniable figure in the Hou family village. He has studied, but it is a pity that he stopped at Tongsheng, and he didn't even pass the exam as a scholar.

The Hou family not only owns thousands of fertile fields, but is also the largest grain merchant within a radius of [-] miles.

Their grain business is very big, taking over [-]% of the grain business in the three nearby counties.

The reason why their family is able to do this is because Hou Yuwen has been in collusion with Xue Mazi's gang for many years, and the risk of transporting food in and out of other people's homes is too high, otherwise they will lose their personal wealth.

Where other people's homes have stored food, there is a high probability that they will be robbed by Xue Mazi's gang.

If the other grain merchants refused to purchase goods with the Hou family, they might be kidnapped by Xue Mazi's gang.

These days the imperial power does not go to the countryside, Hou Jiansheng is the king of Houjiazhuang, and the county magistrate dare not easily offend such a big squire.

After decades, there is really no one who can go to Houjiazhuang to get someone.

This kind of Zhuangzi even dared to close the door against the officers and soldiers of the imperial court. If the officers and soldiers dared to use force, the young and middle-aged people in Zhuangzi dared to greet them with stones and tiles.

If the officers and soldiers really attacked, Zhuang Ding would not only dare to wield knives and guns, but would even open fire with blunderbusses and Frang machine guns.

However, there are buts.

When the strong men saw Jin Yiwei and the county magistrate coming with Xuan Da's army, no one dared to close the gate, so Hou Jiansheng hurriedly led a dozen clan elders and squires out to greet him.

It stands to reason that reaching out does not hit the smiling face!
Who knew that just after the eunuch of the supervising army was invited to the house, the eunuch Wang turned his face, scaring the county magistrate who didn't know where he was going...

Of course, Wang Kun was able to become the Chief Eunuch of the Supervising Army among thousands of eunuchs.

In order to ensure that there is no bloodshed, he specially wrote an official document ordering the county magistrate to accompany him to investigate the people's conditions.

Facts have proved that with parents and officials accompanying them, it is much easier to lead Jinyiwei and official troops into the strongholds of big landlords and gentry.

As long as the leaders who committed crimes are taken down, the rest of the people will be silent, and no one will dare to fight against the law with arms.

In just two days, the five gangsters living in the countryside, the supervisor, the member, and the master Juren were all captured.

Next, Wang Kun continued his efforts and went directly to the county seat to arrest the two big bosses and bring them to justice.

When luck came, he couldn't stop it. When the house was raided, Wang Kun found a Buddha statue of Wusheng's old mother and more than 100 evil books of the White Lotus Sect in He Yuan's house that was raided.

The imperial court was so corrupt that it couldn't even do such a job as ransacking the house. More than half of the copied wealth was often divided up by the participants.

However, the young soldiers of the Xinghe Army did this kind of work with dedication. Not only did no one dare to hide it privately, but they also tried their best to return it to the warehouse.

First of all, they were all literate, and they were able to check letters when they ransacked their homes. They also adopted different methods to classify the maids and servants in the ransacked houses.

Then they used coercion and lure to force maids and servants to tell the master where the money was hidden.

It doesn't matter if you don't know the location, you just need to tell the most powerful butler in this house.

Don't be afraid of who is tough, what can you ask for under the three trees?
This is different from being tortured into a trick, because fabricating where gold and silver are hidden cannot withstand on-the-spot verification.

Facts have proved that the gold, silver, treasures and food captured by the Xue Mazi gang are far inferior to the seven local tyrants.

Enough food and salaries to support the Xinghe Army for a year are available!
Huang Yi's food and salary are all in full, and the musketeers of the regular soldiers get one or two or five qian per month for the color plus five buckets of wheat.

A cavalry soldier needs five taels of silver a month more, a corporal leader gets an extra tael of silver, and a small flag officer gets two taels more.

The Xinghe Army now has [-] regular soldiers, and this number is still increasing.

The salary alone is no less than 18 taels per year, and the natural grain is at least [-] shi.

These are all taken home by regular soldiers on a monthly basis, not including food and clothing during training.

There is also the cost of armor and weapons, horses, and barracks.

All in all, the cost of raising troops was too high, so most generals in the late Ming Dynasty were only willing to support servants.

Because the servant is a private soldier, the general can take it with him wherever he goes.

(End of this chapter)