I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 276 The water is too cold

It's almost useless to fight hand-to-hand with the Xinghe army, just to drive away the rioters and wipe out the Li Tianwang gang in the county seat of Nao County.

Seeing that the situation is over and there is no way out, Li Jin hopes to surrender.

It's a pity that there are more and more rioters anyway, and many of the elite selected by Li Jin have moved their minds.

The rioters broke through three county towns and took down the stockades and Zhuangzi of more than a dozen clans. They not only snatched gold and silver treasures, livestock and food, but also a lot of armor.

According to the laws and regulations of the Ming Dynasty, private possession of armor and crossbows is a felony of beheading.

However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the rituals collapsed and the laws and regulations became a dead letter. There were countless clan armed forces who purchased and made iron armor privately.

Basically, it has become that the people do not raise officials and do not investigate.

Therefore, five or six hundred of Li Jin's elite were equipped with armor, and more than 100 of them were equipped with the steel chain mail common in the Ming army.

They are the elite that Li Jin relies on, but most of them have not followed Li Jin for a long time, and they have no affection or trust between each other.

Seeing that Li Jin, who took the lead in the rebellion and proclaimed himself the governor, was ready to surrender on his own initiative, too many elites questioned in their hearts: "Why did you follow you to surrender?"

"Why don't you cut off your head for money and an official position?"

And so the strife started,

Some young and middle-aged men of the Li family still recognized Li Jin as the leader, and fought with the elite who were about to behead or capture Li Jin for rewards.

At the beginning, the fight was not very intense, but after dozens of casualties, both sides were red-eyed...

Three days later, the Jinzhong bandits were wiped out, and Wang Kun, the chief eunuch of the army, was already thinking about how to report.

Good performance, good treatment, eunuch Wang's hostility has been dissipated seven or eight times, and now he simply serves Huang Yi as his master.

The reason why he is so knowledgeable is not all because of humiliation, but a big reason is that he was impressed by the military appearance, military discipline and combat effectiveness of the Xinghe Army.

Li Tianwang, the bandit leader in the First World War in Nao County, beheaded more than 7 people and captured more than [-].

However, there were no casualties in the Xinghe Army!

Not only that, but the Xinghe Army had two or three thousand more troops.

Wang Kun saw the newly formed soldiers and horses with his own eyes, and felt that those young and middle-aged men with long spears in their hands and wearing blue vests were no weaker than soldiers in other battalions.

Damn!If you have the ability to fight more soldiers and horses, such a general may be invincible in the world!
How could this kind of person be dealt with by the Sa family?

Since you can't deal with it, then surrender!

So whatever Huang Yi said and what Wang Kun did, he dared not disobey at all.

More than half of the gold and silver treasures of Lao Cai, a landlord in the three counties, were robbed by bandits, and all of them have now been confiscated by the Xinghe Army and turned into trophies.

Landlords and riches in this era all hid real gold and silver in their homes, and some families destroyed wealth accumulated for hundreds of years.

Li Tianwang is not a rogue, but a local. He originally wanted to win a territory, gain prestige and negotiate with the imperial court.

Therefore, Li Tianwang's gang is much less destructive than the bandits, at least they don't deliberately set fire to the city.

They also have an advantage, they basically don't rob Shengdou small people, but rob big households.

Coupled with the civil unrest that broke out after the autumn, after being quickly suppressed by Huang Yi, it was not difficult to restore order and resume production.

After the three counties were pacified, another general auxiliary soldier and a general banner cavalry escorted more than 1 people, and hundreds of them drove back to the base area with a fully loaded cart.

The total value of the gold and silver treasures seized and found this time is no less than 60 taels of silver.

Many big families were wiped out, and many landlords and riches hid themselves. Knowing that Li Tianwang's chaos had been quelled, many survivors jumped out and demanded the return of their belongings.

These people are assholes!
When they faced the rogues, they hid themselves like turtles, but dared to threaten the Xinghe army, threatening that if they did not recover the property looted by the rogues, they would contact the family officials to impeach them.

Huang Yi, who is not afraid of anything, is afraid of impeachment by officials?He even scoffed at Emperor Chongzhen!
For those unreasonable tyrants, they can only be even more unreasonable!
Sending them to the Xinghe City Fertilizer Factory to boil manure will definitely get a better transformation.

Don't be afraid that they will escape halfway, just order the families of the rebels who migrated to the base area together to watch over them.

Or if you don't do it, do it!

The Xinghe Army posted a notice requiring the squires and landlords who had their homes destroyed by the rioters to bring the necessary documents and contracts to the Nao county government to register and claim their property within three days.

Of course, this method is to lure the snake out of the hole and lure the survivors of the big landlord's family to Nao County to catch them all.

Not only can these people not get back the property robbed by the rioters, but they will also be robbed by Huang Yi again.

The cunning rabbit and the three caves, of course the landlord Lao Cai knows not to put all his eggs in one basket.

If you catch them and torture them, you will definitely be able to find out where the gold and silver treasures are hidden, and the harvest will definitely not be small.

The Xinghe Army needs to grow stronger, how can it be possible to become a major event if you are soft-hearted?
Moreover, the vast majority of landlords and old fortunes are a big cancer in the late Ming Dynasty, and these people must be cracked down on uniting and fighting against the common people.

Less than half a day after the notice was posted, Chen Mengji, the magistrate of Nao County, who had absconded, came back. It is unknown where the magistrate has been hiding for a month.

The magistrates of the Ming Dynasty were responsible for guarding the soil, even if they did not have military power in their hands, and there was no army in the county.

Chen Mengji, the magistrate of Nao County, abandoned the city and fled when the rioters seized the city. He was sentenced to death and harmed his family.

So Chen Mengji didn't dare to return home at all, but hid in a monastery in the mountains with a few long followers from his hometown.

He has some friendship with the abbot of the monastery.

Chen Mengji thought that "there is no half way to make things right, the only way to repay the king's kindness is to die".

It's a pity that he was afraid of pain when he cut his neck, he felt too suffocated when he hanged himself, and felt that the water was too cold when he threw himself into the water...

well!Better to live than to die!
So Chen Mengji lived day after day, until the court soldiers and horses quelled the civil unrest, and saw the notice of Anmin brought back by Chang Sui.

The long follower named Chen Shaoping was the son of the family, and he was Chen Mengji's school boy when he was young. He was quite clever and often went to Nao County to inquire about news.

He saw the Xinghe Army with strict military discipline with his own eyes, and found out that the leader was General Huang Yi.

Chen Mengji, who wanted to die but couldn't make up his mind, learned that he was a general leading the army, so he decided to take a risk for a while.

Three years of Qing Dynasty prefect, one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver.

Chen Mengji was not an upright official. The county magistrate of Dangnao County was about to complete three years, so he had hidden a lot of money.

Who knows that people are not as good as heaven, and the last shift did not stand properly, and a big event happened.

Now he pins his only hope on the generals of the Xinghe Army who will put down the chaos.

Money can make a ghost run!
Chen Mengji had silver, and it was buried in a pit.

Of course it wasn't buried in the backyard of the county government office, but in an ordinary-looking small courtyard not too far from the county government office.

The long follower Chen Shaoping went to see it, and the small courtyard was intact and had not been looted.

Chen Mengji was going to meet with the generals of the Xinghe Army, and sent 5 taels of snowflake silver as a salary, and asked the generals to share the credit for calming the civil unrest.

(End of this chapter)