I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 279 What qualifications do you have to negotiate with me

Chapter 278

Zhang Xianzhong naturally knew that Sun Kewang's words were not groundless.For all the things he committed, he couldn't take out any one that would be enough to be lingering, not to mention digging up the Fengyang Imperial Tomb of Ming Dynasty, just the corrupt officials who were ransacked and exterminated by him, or the evil gentry and bullies, there are a thousand if not eight hundred up.

It can be said that there are more people who hate him for not dying than Gao Yingxiang, the ally of the world's rebel army. His death is what everyone expects, and his life is
It is not for ordinary people to decide whether he can survive or not, only one person can pardon him, and that is Emperor Chongzhen.Even if Emperor Chongzhen wanted to pardon him, there were probably a lot of people who wanted to disobey him.

However, Zhang Xianzhong didn't die in the hands of Sun Kewang, but in the hands of Cheng Shijie. He could have died in the hands of Emperor Chongzhen, which would be famous all over the world.If Sun Kewang had his head chopped off now, he would be too aggrieved.

Zhang Xianzhong looked at Sun Kewang and said with a smile: "Kewang, teach me another good boy for my father! Be a man and do things well!"

"Keep one hand? Haha!"

Sun Kewang laughed loudly: "It's funny to keep a hand, Zhang Xianzhong, you killed so many people, which one didn't you kill the grass and roots? How did you ever keep a hand?"

Zhang Xianzhong smiled lightly: "Kai Wang, you are still young, too young!"

Sun Kewang was slightly taken aback: "I'm young?"

Zhang Xianzhong picked up a bag of wine as if no one else was around, raised his head and poured it for a while, wiped his mouth and said, "Wang Wang, do you know that I killed, burned and looted all the way for my father from Shaanxi, guess how much money I got for my adoptive father?"

Sun Kewang was slightly taken aback: "How much money does Zhang Xianzhong have?"

It's really hard for him to guess this matter, but he can be sure that the number will not be too small, because every time Zhang Xianzhong robs a big family, he will arrest the men, women and children of the population and torture them until the family's accumulated wealth is taken away. Dig them all out.

Zhang Xianzhong pointed out that corrupt officials, tyrants and tyrants were all arrested and questioned about their money. Some wealthy households were afraid that they would be killed, so they had to secretly hide their gold and silver treasures in bamboo poles, and then sealed them up. Go out of the city with bamboo sticks.As a result, a local soldier saw through him, so he went up and whispered to Zhang Xianzhong a few times.Hearing this, Zhang Xianzhong pulled out his sword and split the bamboo pole in two, scattering gold, silver and jewels all over the ground.

This is where the rip-off comes in.

When Zhang Xianzhong came out of Guanzhong, they didn't carry much money with them.

The more than 350 million taels of silver that Cheng Shijie seized in Heshun was only robbed from Fengyang, Keluzhou (now Hefei, Anhui), Anqing, Hezhou, Chuzhou and other places.

At this moment, Sun Kewang's eyes widened.

Because the silver and money that Zhang Xianzhong robbed are not accountable at all, because only in Fengyang, Zhang Xianzhong killed all the rich households in Fengyang, and robbed them of all their property, only the money that Sun Kewang led to rob As much as more than 160 million taels of silver, he is just one of the troops, actually the thirteen troops of Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi and Li Dingguo's fifth battalion, among them, the one who robbed the most is not his Sun Kewang, but Ai Nengqi's troops. Ai Nengqi robbed 63 rich families from Fengyang, and got a total of 280 million taels of silver.

Zhang Xianzhong looked at Sun Kewang and asked, "Where did the money go?"

"Where did it go?"

"Being a father just won't tell you!"

Sun Kewang thought for a while, and suddenly realized.

When attacking Macheng, Huang Liu, the general under Zhang Xianzhong, wanted to rebel against him. At that time, Sun Kewang was very surprised. Because Huang Liu was good at climbing, Huang Liu climbed along the brick cracks along the city wall several times when he attacked the city.And this Huang Liu is extremely loyal to Zhang Xianzhong, he is Zhang Xianzhong's fellow from Fushi County.

However, Zhang Xianzhong said that Huang Liu had betrayed him, Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo didn't say anything, and directly led the troops to kill Huang Liu and more than [-] people under his command.

Sun Kewang said: "Huang Liu was silenced by you!"

"It's not stupid!"

Zhang Xianzhong said with a faint smile: "Kaiwang, you have been with me for five years, there are not seven or eight generals who betrayed their father in these five years, but there are more than a dozen?"

Sun Kewang looked at Zhang Xianzhong speechless for a long time, why didn't he think of this?

Silver is different from precious banknotes, because it is not afraid of damage. Just dig a big hole, or find a pond, and sink it in the pond. As long as you kill the insider, you will be invisible.

Sun Kewang smiled and said, "Father, you are at the end of your rope now, why don't you help your child?"

"Take me to see Cheng Shijie!"

The most important factor for Zhang Xianzhong to stand out among the feudal lords at the end of Ming Dynasty, run rampant in the world, and establish a country based on his territory was Zhang Xianzhong's superb guerrilla tactics.It is said in history that "Xian (loyalty)'s marching troops come like a sudden wind and rain, and their departure is as unpredictable as ghosts. Therefore, in a few months, they may go north of the river, or go to Chu and Yu, and ravage the three provinces, making the officers and soldiers chasing them. Sun Tzu said the method of "go out of what you don't want, follow what you don't want, avoid the reality and strike the emptiness". The general will fall into his tricks without hearing it!"

Now that Zhang Xianzhong lost to Cheng Shijie, he was still a little unconvinced in his heart. He also wanted to meet Cheng Shijie who defeated him. For Zhang Xianzhong, there are not many people in the entire Ming Dynasty who can catch your eye, and Cheng Shijie is one of them.

Sun Kewang's face darkened, and he held the horizontal knife to Zhang Xianzhong's neck: "Father, don't force Kewang not to miss the old love!"

"Now that there is money in this world, there is food, there are soldiers and horses. In your hands, this money is a disaster, but in Cheng Shijie's hands, it will be of great use. The father's money can allow Cheng Shijie to expand an army of [-]!"

Zhang Xianzhong is different from Cheng Shijie, he is a bandit, has no base, and has a bad reputation, money is not very useful in his hands, and when he can grab it, he will never spend money to buy it.

But Cheng Shijie is different, he can't grab it, he can only buy it, and his money can indeed expand Ning Haijun to tens of 10 horses.

It was absolutely impossible for Cheng Shijie to remain indifferent to that sum of money.

"laugh……"

A line of blood flowed from Zhang Xianzhong's neck.

Zhang Xianzhong sneered coldly: "Yes, if you use your strength, you will lose your father's head. You'd better kill them all. Otherwise, as long as the news is revealed, Sun Kewang, don't say you want to be rich, it depends on Cheng Shijie's ability." I can't tolerate you, a rebellious son!"

Sun Kewang looked at the old thieves around him, his face suddenly turned ugly, and he thought about his heart. If he heard this secret, he would definitely report it to Cheng Shijie. If Cheng Shijie was upset, his future would be over.

"you are vicious!"

"Fight against your father, you should be more tender!"

Zhang Xianzhong wiped the blood on his neck with his hand, put it in his mouth, and chattered endlessly: "For the wound on my father's neck, if it bleeds to death..."

"Come here, treat him!"

Sun Kewang was very upset.

……

In Three Bow Village, the battle was finally over under the mediation of Sun Xiucai.When Meng En promised these rogues that as long as these miners and their families were put down, they would spare them from death.

As a result, six or seven thousand bandits laid down their weapons to Ning Haijun, and all kinds of weapons in their hands piled up into hills.These rogues let go of their hanging hearts. Ning Haijun's artillery is too fierce. If you fight against them, you may not be able to win if the King of Hades is here.

However, at this moment, there was a scream of "Ah!", and a thin girl screamed piercingly while holding a head.

Wu Yatou saw her sister and turned into a head.Do not rest in peace.

Her eyes searched around in the crowd, and found that the instigator was the one-eyed dragon who caught her sister. At that time, her sister fell into the hands of the other party in order to let her escape.

Wu Yatou screamed, and threw herself on Cyclops desperately. Wu Yatou didn't know how to fight, she just grabbed the Cyclops with her hands, and her face was covered with blood. Cyclops was also anxious, and punched Wu Yatou in the chest, knocking her down .

Just when the one-eyed dragon was about to make a move, a Ning navy officer rushed up and kicked the one-eyed dragon hard on the waist. The one-eyed dragon's body curled up into a ball, its throat rattled, and blood sprayed out.

Wu Yatou grabbed a rock and threw herself on the one-eyed dragon's head, screaming as she smashed: "I'll smash you to death, I'll smash you to death!"

After only a few hits, the head of the one-eyed dragon was smashed to a bloody mess, and the fifth girl was still smashing lifelessly, screaming as she smashed: "Smash you to death, smash you to death!"

Wu Yatou's actions made the surrounding Ning Haijun officers and soldiers indifferent. More and more miners screamed and joined the battle. They took shovels, crowbars, hammers, and axes to kill these rogues.These miners are strong, and the rogues are now little sheep, killed by these miners.

"My lord, we all surrender!"

"Yes, you surrendered!"

"But, you said, you won't kill us as long as we surrender!"

"Yeah, we didn't kill you, it was the miners who killed you, not our Ning navy officers!"

Under Cheng Shijie's teaching, Ning Haijun's officers and men have very strong thinking. In the face of a strong enemy, Ning Haijun's officers and men will be fearless even if they are outnumbered.

Of course, in the face of the common people, they must bravely promise that it is their duty and responsibility as soldiers to protect the common people. However, these rogues slaughtered more than 460 people in just over a day in Sangong Village, and almost all the women died. Being ruined, these beasts, even fifty or sixty old women will not let them go.

There were even quite a few men who did not keep their innocence. It can be said that the entire Sangong village was crying.That's why they are extremely angry at the bestiality of these rogues.These bastards, wearing this skin in vain, pointed their knives at the unarmed ordinary people. What kind of garbage like this has the right to live in the world, they should all die early!

As for Cheng Shijie's immigration plan, let's look for good people to emigrate, and at worst they will be dealt with.

Seeing these miners like tigers in the flock, killing the unarmed rogues to the ground, these miners are also red-eyed, the more they cut, the more violent they are, the more they kill, the more tyrannical. At this time, the death of the rogues has become the best relief. Many rogues were beaten beyond recognition by miners, and it is estimated that they could not be sewn into a complete corpse.

Fortunately, these miners didn't lose their minds, they killed Huo Huo's rogues, and those rogues who didn't get started were frightened and squatted on the ground trembling.

At this time, Monk Peng, who was the head of the mine, finally woke up.With the support of two miners, he came to Meng En and kowtowed his thanks to Meng En.

Meng En looked at Monk Peng and said, "Next, what are your plans?"

At this moment, Monk Peng, Sun Xiucai and others looked at each other in silence, and there were mutilated corpses everywhere around them. Everyone was silent, feeling wronged, hesitant, and fearful.They are already homeless.

Originally, Sangong Village was their settlement, and they were mining phosphate rock. Although the life in the mountains was very hard, they could barely get by by tightening their belts.But now that the entire Sangongzhai Mountain has been completely exposed, and they have killed so many rogues, don't think that they will have a better life in the future.

In fact, they had no way to retreat at this time, and Zhang Xianzhong's rogues were basically finished. This great achievement was not achieved by the officers and soldiers of Nanzhili, but by the Ning Haijun who fought in a foreign land.

Although it is said that Ning Haijun eliminated Zhang Xianzhong, the problem is that under the comparison of Ning Haijun, the commander of Nanzhili must make some military exploits to whitewash himself. They all know how to make military exploits, and they must use them These refugees are under the knife.

It is certain to kill the good and pretend to be meritorious. The peasants who really own the land will not be killed by the army, because the government will not agree. Refugees and refugees without household registration are the best targets for them to kill good people.

Ning Haijun can leave at any time, but they have nowhere to go.The world is so big, there is no home!

Meng En looked at Monk Peng and said, "If you don't have a place to go, come with me and go to Huangzhou Mansion. Our commander-in-chief is going to immigrate..."

Before Meng En could finish speaking, Monk Peng said excitedly, "Are you asking us to immigrate to Liaodong?"

"Don't think about Liaodong. There is not much land that can be reclaimed in Liaodong now. The place is too cold, and crops are often frozen to death, and the production is severely reduced!"

Meng En said, "However, can you go to Luzon?"

"Luzon? Where is Luzon?"

The people of today are not like the people of later generations, who can know what happened on the other side of the world without leaving their homes, but the people of Ming Dynasty are different. Many of them have never even been to a county town hundreds of miles away, let alone Luzon overseas. up.

Of course, not everything is unknown, at least Sun Xiucai knows.

"Lu Song is a small country in the southeast sea. It produces gold. Yongle paid tribute for three years. In Jiajing, it came back. It traded with the people of Zhang and Quan, and the number of people settled in the land, as many as tens of thousands. In Wanli, the people of Tong'an Zhang Ni made a false statement, the sea is organic and the mountains are close to Fujian, and the real estate gold can be taken. In 36 years, the nobles were sent to investigate. The people of Lu Song suspected that the various streams were living in trouble, and they knew that they would kill them. The first culprit. The trade continues to this day..."

"Luzon is overseas, and now it is the territory of our Ning Navy. You can allocate land there, you can farm it, and you can also mine it. Anyway, you won't be hungry!"

Sun Xiucai is a smart person, he could hear the taste of bewitching from Meng En's words, but he didn't open his mouth, because he knew that if Meng En's plan was destroyed, he could turn into a dead person at any time.

Sun Xiucai said: "Pengtou, now that the rogues have been wiped out, the officers and soldiers will definitely enter the mountain soon. If we stay in Three Bow Village, we will definitely be treated as rogues and killed!"

Monk Peng gritted his teeth, bowed his hand to Meng En and said: "General Meng avenged our old and weak women and children who died tragically under the bandits' knife, and he treated us with kindness again. , there is no repayment, but in the future, we can just speak up if it is useful to us!"

"Don't talk about it, hurry up and pack up your things, and then move away, the officers and soldiers will really come over later!" Meng En's thick Liaodong accent reassured Monk Peng and the others, and the people nowadays are very fond of Liaodong and Ning Haijun. Have a sense of identity.

Anyone who has dealt with Liaodong now knows that Liaodong people are very polite, honest and fair in doing business, one is one, and the other is two, especially the Ning Navy officers and soldiers, who are the only army in the Ming Dynasty that will not rob people. This is the only one in Daming, there is no other semicolon.

However, it is said that you can leave, of course, you can't leave right away.The miners who calmed down began to take care of the funeral of their relatives. The entire mining area was in a mess. The houses that had been built with great difficulty had been burned to the ground. Hundreds of decapitated corpses were lying on the ground.

The elderly and children wept bitterly around these horrific corpses. A woman with disheveled hair knelt beside a little girl whose head had been smashed and slapped the ground frantically with her palms, making her hands bloody and making a hoarse voice. Weeping so loudly, as if his heart was being torn apart, Meng En felt sad for a while.

Amid the mournful cries, shallow pits were dug out one by one, and the corpse was wrapped in a tattered straw mat, then buried, and then filled back with soil to build a short grave.There are no tombstones, and there will be no offerings such as fruits, flower baskets, and wreaths. Except for these heartbroken relatives, no one will care about them. Maybe it won't be long before no one will remember them.

No one would care how many people died here, there were too many such things, and it was impossible to remember them all.But the families of the dead care.When burying the dead, they also planted the seeds of hatred in their hearts. The seeds of hatred will break out of the ground under the water of poisonous juice, and the poisonous flowers will bear bitter fruits. The tragedy of people swallowing.

When Zhang Xianzhong was escorted by Sun Kewang to Sangongzhai, the miners and their families in Sangongzhai had already buried their relatives.If these thousands of corpses are exposed to the air, or how long it takes, the plague will be triggered, and the consequences will be disastrous.

Meng En looked at these grief-stricken people, picked up a knife and wanted to cut Zhang Xianzhong.

Sun Kewang stopped Meng En and said, "General Meng, wait a minute, Zhang Xianzhong is still useful!"

"What's the use of this bastard?"

Sun Kewang told Meng En about Zhang Xianzhong's treasure in a low voice.

After hearing this, Meng En said indifferently: "Purchase your life with money? Isn't the idea too beautiful?"

After finishing the cooking, the still alive Sangongzhai Mine and his family packed up the few possessions they had, helped the old and the young, and staggered to Huangzhou Mansion with Meng En and others.

The dead are gone, and those who are still alive have to find a way to live hard. If they are all dead, who will remember those who died tragically under the butcher's knife of the bandits?
Monk Peng hurriedly dispatched some agile miners to the surrounding villages. Some of these villages, like them, mined ore for a living, while others were bandits, and some were struggling to survive by cultivating terraced fields on the hills.In any case, this news must be told to them, otherwise they will not leave at ease.

In this way, Meng En, Zhao Wencai, Sun Kewang and others took Zhang Xianzhong, more than [-] captive bandits, more than [-] miners and their families to the camp in Chibi Mountain, Huangzhou.

Along the way, more and more miners and refugees followed Ning Haijun to Huangzhou Mansion.

In fact, it is not too far from Susong to Huangzhou, only more than 300 miles away. However, the problem is that not all of them are soldiers, but most of them are refugees with extremely weak constitutions, so they do not travel fast.

It took a full ten days to arrive at the Chibi Mountain Camp.

Originally, Cheng Shijie was planning to return to Liaodong with Gao Qiqian. Of course, Gao Qiqian had to sit at Wusongkou to collect money, but he heard the news that Zhao Wencai and others had returned.

"What did you say that captured Zhang Xianzhong?"

Cheng Shijie couldn't believe it: "Are you sure you didn't make a mistake?"

Cheng Shijie couldn't believe that Zhang Xianzhong could be caught.If Zhang Xianzhong is so easy to catch, is he still Zhang Xianzhong?

"Could it be a substitute?"

Sun Kewang said excitedly: "Marshal, the general will not admit the wrong person in the end, even if I peel off Zhang Xianzhong's skin, I will still recognize his bones!"

"Okay, stop bragging, if you can recognize Zhang Xianzhong's skin, you're awesome!"

Sun Kewang said: "Marshal, do you want to meet Zhang Xianzhong!"

"Then it's gone, anyway, he's going to be sent to Lingchi, the capital!"

Cheng Shijie knew that in history, Gao Yingxiang, who was an accomplice in the burning of the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum, was ambushed and captured by the famous Ming general Sun Chuanting in Ziwu Valley. The number of knives reached 1560 knives, and the death was extremely miserable.

If Zhang Xianzhong is also sent to the capital, he will definitely not be better off than Gao Yingxiang.Gao Yingxiang was only an accessory, and Zhang Xianzhong was the principal offender.

"Marshal, what I mean by humble position is that you still meet Zhang Xianzhong!"

Then, Sun Kewang told about Zhang Xianzhong's possession of silver.

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Zhang Xianzhong lied to you, how could he have any money, and some money was spent by him!"

"Master, let's meet again!"

Cheng Shijie reluctantly met Zhang Xianzhong.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong was tied up into rice dumplings and sent to Cheng Shijie.

Zhang Xianzhong looked at Cheng Shijie, and Cheng Shijie was a little different from the wise and powerful image he imagined.

"Your Majesty!"

Zhang Xianzhong stood upright, looked at Cheng Shijie with a rebellious face, and said with a sneer, "Cheng Shijie, if you want to kill or scrape, please feel free to do so. You can kill but not humiliate!"

"Ha ha!"

Cheng Shijie laughed and said, "What kind of "scholar" are you! You can kill a soldier but not be humiliated?"

Zhang Xianzhong said: "The master said: If you are ashamed of your conduct, you can be called a scholar if you go on an envoy to the four directions without disgrace to the king's order. If you call him filial piety in the clan, and brotherhood in the township party, you can also be called a scholar. You must believe what you say and do what you say. If you can also be called a scholar, even though you are not talented, if you kill the whole family, you will kill the grass and roots, and you can also be called a scholar!"

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