Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 395

In Qujing city.

The native soldiers who fought out from the houses and alleys formed a dense horizontal formation, holding spears one foot to four feet long, and slowly pushed forward like a wall of people.

But this is no ordinary human wall.

It's a human wall full of spears, and the spears growing on this human wall can stab people to death.

Looking at the rolling human wall and the forest of spears, the Guangxi wolf soldiers were completely stunned. What's going on?Didn't you say let us go to the city to receive the reward?Didn't it mean that there are beef, mutton, wine and meat to eat?How did you come here?The dog emperor lied to us, the dog emperor wants to cross the river and tear down the bridge, and kill us all?
The Guangxi wolf soldiers who entered the city from the four gates were all dumbfounded, really dumbfounded.

No wolf soldier dared to charge easily. After all, the number of soldiers on the opposite side was not necessarily less than theirs, maybe more. The key soldiers were still fully armed and had four-foot spears.

On the other hand, they are unarmed, and there is no armor on their bodies.

At this time, charging towards the human wall and spear array of the soldiers is really courting death, and you will be stabbed into a sieve in the blink of an eye. No one would do such a stupid thing.

"Kneel down and beg for surrender, but I will not die!"

"Kneel down and beg for surrender, but I will not die!"

"Kneel down and beg for surrender, but I will not die!"

The native soldiers who were slowly advancing suddenly began to shout in unison.

The shout was in official Chinese, and many Guangxi wolf soldiers could understand it.

After all, many of these wolf soldiers have also seen the world in other provinces.

The Guangxi wolf soldiers are naturally unwilling to kneel down and beg for surrender. Who knows if your words count?In case we surrender, we still have to be killed like chickens and sheep in the end, wouldn't we be in a panic?

"Fight with them!" Finally, a group of wolf soldiers couldn't hold back.

Accompanied by the roar, nearly a hundred wolf soldiers rushed towards the spear formation of the native soldiers.

In the end, there was not even a wave of waves, and before the group of wolf soldiers rushed to the front, rows of spears rushed towards them like poisonous snakes, and nearly a hundred wolf soldiers were stabbed into blood sieves at once.

Nearly a hundred wolf soldiers were drenched in blood and fell to the ground without moving.

Seeing this, the other wolf soldiers were terrified. Courage could no longer make up for this situation.

Facing the slowly advancing spear formation of the native soldiers, the wolf soldiers could only retreat and retreat, but soon, they had no way to retreat, because there was a city wall behind them.

Now the Guangxi wolf soldiers are really in a desperate situation.

Behind is the city wall, and there are new troops stationed on the wall.

On the front, tens of thousands of soldiers lined up into a wall, crushing them with spears in their hands.

Soon, the more than [-] wolf soldiers who entered the city from the west gate were crowded into a group, and there was nowhere to retreat. They couldn't stack Arhats and climb on top of their own heads, right?
Facing the spear array of native soldiers who were about to push against them, the outermost wolf soldiers finally gave up.

"I surrender!" A wolf soldier wailed and knelt down on the ground with a puff.

If someone takes the lead, someone will follow, and soon, all the wolf soldiers who entered the city from the west gate fell to their knees.

"Tie them all up and take them outside the city to be detained!" A scholar of King Qin pulled off the visor of the phoenix-winged helmet and shouted loudly.

Teams of native soldiers immediately rushed forward, tied up the kneeling wolf soldiers one by one, strung them together with thick hemp ropes, and drove them back to the barracks outside the city.

……

There was such a big commotion in the direction of the city gate that it was impossible not to disturb the civil servants, generals and chieftains in the Fuya square.

In particular, thousands of local soldiers shouted "Kneel down and beg for surrender, but I will not die." The huge sound could almost knock off the roof of the government office, and it was impossible to pretend not to hear it.

The square, which was very lively just now, suddenly became dead silent.

Mu Tianbo, Tang Zhaoyuan, Wu Wenying and other Yunnan officials all looked at each other in blank dismay.

Ding Kuichu and the leaders of the forty-eight wolf soldiers were secretly startled, begging for surrender on their knees, who should kneel and beg for surrender?But if you don't die, who should you spare?Rebels?
"My lord." Ding Kuichu asked worriedly, "What happened?"

"Nothing." Chongzhen said after toasting a round of wine and walked back to Ding Kuichu, "Ding Qing can just drink."

"Your Majesty, I am worried that the Guangxi wolf soldiers are causing trouble. You know that these wolf soldiers in Guangxi are the most rebellious. In the past, every time they responded to the imperial court, they fought a lot of battles and made a lot of achievements, but there were also many troubles. "Ding Kuichu got up and said, "Why don't I go out and have a look? In case something really happens."

"No need." Chongzhen said, "If I say nothing, it will be nothing."

After Chongzhen said so, Ding Kuichu could only sit back at the table.

Chongzhen walked back to his table and put down the wine bottle, turned around and said: "The celebration wine is almost finished, here is a poem left by Emperor Taizu Gao, and I want to share it with you."

"The poems and essays of Emperor Taizu Gao?" All the civil servants and generals present looked at each other in blank dismay.

Only Yang Weizhi, who was sitting at the bottom of the general class, felt his heart twitch, could it be that sentence?
In Yang Weizhi's second thought, Chongzhen had already recited a poem: "The golden cup will drink with you, and the sword will not spare you."

Chongzhen didn't read very loudly, and the expression on his face was as calm and calm as ever, but the civil servants, military generals and chieftains present clearly felt a first-class chill.

Immediately afterwards, groups of Yi Ding, who were fully dressed and used to belts, swarmed up and surrounded the square.

Hu Guozhu, Wu Batan and other barbarian generals also appeared behind Chongzhen wearing phoenix-winged helmets and mountain armor, scanning the civil and military chieftains in the square with fierce eyes.

At this moment, even Mu Tianbo, who was the slowest to react, realized something was wrong.

After a pause, Chongzhen called his name again: "Yang Weizhi, deputy envoy of Jincang Dao Bing Bei, please explain to me, what do these two lines of poems written by Emperor Taizu Gao mean?"

"Leadership." Yang Weizhi got up and bowed, and said, "The two lines of Emperor Taizu Gao's poem mean that glory and wealth can be shared with nobles, but if there is any noble who dares to rely on his power to fish and meat, he will never give up." I will not forgive you lightly!"

"No!" Chongzhen said loudly, "Not only nobles, but also civil servants. If civil servants rely on their power to do whatever they want, Emperor Taizu Gao will not spare them lightly, nor will they spare each other!"

"Your Majesty said it right." Yang Wei knew, "Your understanding is wrong."

"Sit down." Chongzhen signaled Yang Weizhi to sit back on the table, and said, "Some civil servants always think that they are very smart, and they just want to see the money for themselves, but they insist on dragging others into the water together, and all the time. The dragging is [-] people, he thought that if he dragged [-] people into the water, there would be no future troubles, after all, the law does not blame the public."

"Even if you are the emperor, can you still convict a hundred thousand people?"

"Really, Lord Ding?" Ding Kuichu asked the last sentence.

"Boom." Ding Kuichu dropped the wine bottle in his hand, but he was stunned on the table.

Chongzhen snorted and said again: "But today, I want to punish everyone with the law! Let alone one hundred thousand people, one million, ten million people, I will still punish them!"

"Court laws are not decorations."

"If you commit a crime, you must accept the punishment."

"No one is an exception, and neither is my prince!"

After saying this, he said sharply: "Law of the Ming Dynasty, those who have embezzled more than 60% of bribes will be executed and their homes will be ransacked!"

At this point, Ding Kuichu finally realized that the corruption of Mosha Dingzhou Ergelong Laozhai's property had become known, and the Holy Majesty wanted to make a fuss about it.

"My lord, I'm guilty."

"My lord, I'm guilty, I'm guilty."

Ding Kuichu hurriedly crawled from the seat to the center of the square.

"I shouldn't be greedy for the stolen property of Er Gelong's old village in Dingzhou, Mosha, but I was fascinated by ghosts for a while, and I hope that the emperor will forgive me this time for the sake of what I have just done for Ming Dynasty."

"I have not moved a single cent of the stolen money from Ergelong's old village."

"Returning to the minister, I asked people to hand in the exact number, and never dared to hide their secrets."

"The ministers are also willing to hand over the stolen property as much." Seeing this, the head of the Forty-eight Department hurriedly crawled out to plead guilty.

The situation is stronger than people, and it is impossible not to plead guilty at this time, let's leave here alive first, and wait until we return to the camp to gather more than [-] wolf soldiers from [-] divisions, and I will be blamed for being a dog emperor!
Chongzhen smiled, and asked Ding Kui Chu: "May I ask how much stolen money Mr. Ding has embezzled?"

Ding Kuichu said with a heartbroken face: "Returning to the Holy Lord, I have corrupted a total of [-] taels of silver!"

"The ministers are also greedy for 250 taels of ink!" The heads of the forty-eight departments also agreed one after another. This is a long-standing collusion. I will hand it over, anyway, there are not many people who know that there are more than [-] suitcases, and they are all confidantes.

"One hundred and sixty thousand taels is really a lot." Chongzhen said in disbelief.

"Your servant is confused." Ding Kuichu wept bitterly, "I hope the Holy One will forgive me."

"Your Majesty, don't believe Ding Kuichu's nonsense." Mu Tianbo got anxious, stood up and pointed out, "Sha Dingzhou removed more than 800 million taels of silver from the minister's treasury, as well as more than [-] crates of fine gold. , These more than [-] crates of fine and soft gold are worth at least [-] million taels of colored silver, of which there are more than [-] crates of horseshoe gold."

Hearing this, the chieftain, the civil servant and military commander present, was speechless inwardly.

There are more than a thousand boxes of horseshoe gold, one box is 80 catties and eight hundred taels, and one thousand boxes is 800 taels. The horseshoe gold alone is worth almost [-] million taels of colored silver, not to mention other fines.

The savings of the Guizhou government for nearly three hundred years are indeed rich and incomparable.

Chongzhen then asked Ding Kuichu, "Ding Kuichu, did you hear that?"

"I heard it." Ding Kuichu said suddenly, "Sha Dingzhou may have transported more than 800 boxes of gold and soft goods from the Duke of Qian, but I didn't see it. There are only more than [-] million taels of silver in Er Gelong's old village. And treasures such as silk, ginseng, Shu brocade, Persian carpets, and pepper, and nothing else."

"You're lying." Mu Tianbo said angrily, "The [-] boxes of soft goods were divided up by you!"

"Absolutely not." Ding Kuichu said, "Your Majesty, I have never seen this batch of soft gold."

"Ding Kuichu, you are really stubborn." Chongzhen shook his head, and said again, "But it's true, people die for money, and birds die for food. Some people really don't care about anything for money."

(End of this chapter)