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Chapter 49 The Heaven of Huangzhou is the Heaven of Master Shen
Yuan Zhongyi is dead!
This big news quickly stirred up waves in the already isolated and remote area of ​​Huangzhou.The aftermath echoed among the mountains of Dabie, triggering a series of chain reactions.

The fastest responders were those country gentry who had chosen to cooperate with Master Tongzhi in exchange for the seeds of new species in the merchant fleet that had never sailed on the Yangtze River.

These people didn't ask too many questions, and immediately further united with Master Tongzhi, doing whatever they asked them to do, and even apportioning donations went smoothly.

However, those gentry who originally chose to follow Yuan Zhongyi's lead were divided.

A small group chose to play with the wind immediately, no matter how Yuan Zhongyi died or whether the person who killed him was Liu Xiyao's gangster or not, just treat him as Liu Xiyao's, and immediately pay the Lord Tongzhi, Express cooperation.

The other part is a little stubborn, wanting to get to the bottom of it, trying to find the truth.

But this is also easy to handle, because when they come to Huangjiakou Town and other Hekou wharfs, they will be stopped by Shen Jiajiading's patrol fleet.

Moreover, Shen Shuren also took advantage of his power to give his confidantes and captains the official positions of "regimental training of thousands of households" and "regimental training of one hundred households", so that they would have more confidence in enforcing the law.

According to the law of the imperial court, the appointment of personnel at this level will not leave any procedural flaws.Because the officers of the regiment training center are not worth much, and they don't need the court to pay money like regular military officers.

With the name of Huangzhou regiment training, Shen Shuren had the right to gather troops and appoint officers during wartime.He is openly nepotism, and no one can say anything about him.

What's more, the captains of the Shen family, who have spent many years in the Yellow Sea, are indeed capable of managing their servants and private soldiers.

Those country gentry who wanted to leave Huangzhou by water all got this answer: "You are not allowed to go out of the river! From now on, the Huangzhou border people's boats are allowed to sail in the Xishui and Qishui, but they are not allowed to go to the Yangtze River!"

Faced with obstruction, some unbelieving gentry tried to reason: "Master Baihu, we are different from Mr. Yuan's fleet. We paid lijin twice at the beginning. Master Tongzhi said that anyone who paid lijin would be punished." Protective ones, you can’t go back on your promises.”

The hundreds of Shen family members who blocked the way immediately retorted: "It's too late! That's the old calendar before Mr. Yuan's accident! Lijin was originally collected every trip. When this happened, Master Tongzhi ordered that For the time being, we will no longer charge you lijin.

It is only required to strictly lock the river for defense, and no one is allowed to go out of the river for trade.If there is a shortage of supplies in the local area, the regiment trained sailors will be responsible for the armed escort.Those who insist on going out of the river will be dealt with according to their schemes to collude with thieves and capital enemies! "

Facing the glaring knives, these gentry could only be intimidated, but they were not willing to tell: "Master Baihu, please calm down! We just want to go to Jiangxi to make some shortages, why do we get involved with thieves? You can't wrong a good person."

All the members of the Shen family took it for granted: "Why are you not suspected of being a thief? Just say Yuan Zhongyi, it doesn't matter if he is dead, but all the supplies on his fleet were robbed by Liu Xiyao's people!
I heard that there are some fine varieties brought back from Fujian!If this is promoted by Liu Xiyao, it will be a big enemy!
Now Liu Xiyao is rampant because the people in Huanggang have been robbed of poverty by him, and he can't support so many soldiers, so he has to continue to harass our Qishui and other counties.

The most important thing now is to strengthen the wall and clear the field!It doesn't matter if you die, the enemy with the ship's property is not ruining the overall situation of Master Tongzhi!If you don't retreat, don't blame the swords and guns for serving you! "

Speaking of this, everyone knows that this hurdle must be difficult to pass.The rest of Yuan's party went back to the county one after another and closed their doors to discuss countermeasures.

One of the richest men surnamed Wang in Qixian County said: "Or, let's completely cooperate with Mr. Tongzhi, and just endure it for two years, and we will give him whatever he wants."

Next to him, the richest man surnamed Xu in Huangmei County retorted worriedly: "Then what will we do next? The government's food has always been getting uglier and uglier. Seeing that we are easy to bully, it will only get worse."

Wang Shoufu shook his head: "I didn't say that I was completely submissive, but I just endured it for two years. I think Shen Shuren made it clear that he wanted to block the Yangtze River, and he was just about to raise the flag. I heard that the Shen family is a tyrant in the Yellow Sea, and their power on the water is far from mine. When people in small places are comparable, he will definitely be able to block it if he wants to block it. Now we resist, that is courting death.

It's better to wait for him to repel Liu Xiyao, or the officials and troops of other state capitals of the imperial court will take Liu Xiyao and Lin Chengyang together and open up the land route, and then we will take the trail in Yinghuo Mountain to report to the officials.Before that, just be patient.

I heard that Liu Guoneng, who was stationed in Ye County on the opposite side of the northern mountain, had a lot of old enemies with Gezuo Fifth Battalion.Although Liu Guoneng is a traitor anyway, since he was trusted and reused by His Majesty, he wants to serve the court like chicken blood. Maybe he can really break Liu Xiyao and save us?

Even if Liu Guoneng can't be counted on, there is Shi Kefa, the governor of Anlu on the opposite side of the east mountain, and Huang Degong and Huang Zongzhen under Shifutai's tent. I heard that they are all loyal and brave loyal ministers. Lin has grown up to destroy the mountain. "

After hearing this, the richest man Xu shook his head in disdain. Obviously he had more information than the richest man in Qi County, and sighed:
"It's okay to count on Shi Kefa. How dare you count on Liu Guoneng? You said that there is no one in your family, and the news is not well-informed. I have heard that earlier this year, it was the time when I would try it. Your Majesty said that Xiong Wencan recruited the generals anyway. , many doubts.

At that time, Liu Guoneng was so jealous that he was not allowed to allocate money and food to the army by the court.Later, it was Shen Shuren who made a blunt remonstrance during the palace audition, persuaded the emperor to punish the culprit, and rewarded him anyway, so the emperor deposed him as a second-class last-ranked crane tail.

But later I heard that His Majesty still partially listened to it, restored part of the supply to Liu Guoneng's Ministry, and let Liu Guoneng's only son go to Nanjing Guozijian to study.I heard that Liu Guoneng is very grateful to Shen Shuren. You expect Liu Guoneng to open up the road to Tongbai Mountain and fight against Shen Shuren, so you should accept this sooner or later! "

Since these mobs still can't agree with each other internally, and no one agrees with the other, there is nothing to say.

They resolutely chose to go their own way, dealing with Shen Shuren according to the method they thought was the most reliable.

Unfortunately, it turns out that those who choose to fight will not end well.

The richest Xu in Huangmei County felt that it was not feasible to wait for other imperial troops to open the way, so he chose to send someone over Dabie Mountain to report to the officials, at least he wanted to inform Yuan Jixian and Yuan Daotai in Yunyang first.

After all, they did not have clear evidence to prove that "Yuan Zhongyi was not killed by Liu Xiyao Jiang thief", and there was not enough evidence to directly sue Shen Shuren for running rampant.

It's a pity that Xu's richest man's attempt to find out ended in the fact that all the messengers and followers were captured or intercepted by thieves.

Later, the richest king of Qi County heard that the richest man Xu sent a messenger but failed, so he decisively chose to betray his accomplices and submit a certificate to Shen Shuren, and told Shen Shuren about the other party's attempt to contact the outside world, so as to clear himself up.

Shen Shuren was also unambiguous, and immediately set up a court for marching law, arrested the richest man, and questioned him for being suspected of being a thief, whether he wanted to send people to the depths of Yingshan to collude with thieves, betray the military situation of various counties in Huangzhou, and seduce thieves to come attack.

The other party tried desperately to deny it, but with the witnesses, it is impossible for his family's dead confidants to come back to testify.

Naturally, thunder skills are needed in wartime, and after Shen Shuren finds out the opponent's behavior, there is no need to investigate the specific motives and why he sent envoys to cross the mountain.

Immediately, Xu Shoufu was executed in public in the name of a thief, and all his family property and fields were confiscated and used as military funds.

Yuan Zhongyi's death was only suspicious, but this Xu squire actually had his whole family killed by Mr. Tongzhi with military law.With two bloody cases in front of them, one dark and one bright, the rest of the people also came to their senses, knowing that the sky in Huangzhou belongs to Master Shen.

A letter from the Yangtze River, the mountainous area of ​​Huangzhou has completely entered the logic of talking with a sword, and everything is in the service of suppressing thieves!

If you want to return to the logic of the peaceful and prosperous age, you must first share the same hatred with Mr. Shen and wipe out all the thieves who occupy the main roads in the surrounding mountainous areas, otherwise there will be no discussion!
These two years have to be endured no matter what, and you must not be the first bird.

……

It only took Shen Shuren half a month to take two waves of human head sacrificial swords to stand up.

Counting the days, it's not yet the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Although the harvest season for this year's autumn grain has not yet arrived, the pre-calculation of the military rations that should be paid by each county has been very smooth, and all the counties have sincerely convinced that they will never be in arrears.

After calculation, Shen Shuren will soon get 15 shi of apportioned military rations—considering that the arable land in Huangzhou is currently controlled by the government, it is only 35 mu, and it is already a very good result to get 15 shi of military rations.

According to the official tax of the imperial court in previous years, the whole mansion is only 4 to [-] shi, and the land Shen Shuren has is only more than [-] shi.

Even if the three additional rates are included, it is only four times the regular tax, and the total collection of the land in Shen Shuren's hands will not reach 20 shi, not to mention that these poor mountainous houses often don't collect all of them.

Shen Shuren was able to collect all the grain when the year was not so good, and he would also like to thank the big gentry for restraining their hands and feet and forbearance and cooperation for the time being. Many gentry listened to Shen Shuren's order and lowered their own rent. It is completely rent-free, and after ensuring that the farmers can survive, the rest of the money is given to the government.

With enough grain bags, Shen Shuren has enough confidence. Although it is not yet the slack season after the autumn harvest, Shen Shuren has already started to prepare for recruiting troops and expanding the regiment's military equipment.

Recently, Zhao Yunfan, the county magistrate of Qizhou, performed relatively well, so Shen Shuren gradually transferred the logistics of money, food and military supplies to him to help him deal with it, and asked him to calculate the appropriate scale for the expansion of the entire Huangzhou army.

Zhao Yunfan was also worried, and helped his colleagues do the calculation overnight, and reported with a sad face:

"My lord, based on the calculation that each soldier consumes one and a half stones of food per month, 15 stones of military food is enough for 10 people to consume per month, that is, to feed 8000 people for a year.

However, the group training cannot completely deny the rations to support the family. If you give some subsidies to the family, you need to have a standing group training throughout the year, with a maximum of 6000 people.

The subordinate officials have repeatedly investigated, and Liu Xiyao's department already had tens of thousands of people before they invaded Huanggang.Recently, he has looted everywhere, not engaged in production, and forced the young and strong in the occupied areas to join the army. I am afraid that it will be easy to gather 2 people.

When Xu Squire was killed in Huangmei County, some of Xu's in-laws and old relatives followed him and fled fearing the crime. Maybe they reported to Liu Xiyao.If Liu Xiyao finds out that your lord is doing this all over Qi County, I'm afraid they will rush in before the autumn harvest and snatch all the grain we have planted for a season.

Now that there are only so few people in the regiment training, and relying on the sailors and servants brought by the adults alone, I am afraid they would not dare to fight with Liu Xiyao to protect food.The situation is serious and cannot be ignored!Although the source of soldiers is easy to talk about now, the military equipment is seriously insufficient, and I have reminded my lord several times before I was dismissed, but my lord..."

Shen Shuren waved his hand confidently: "Don't worry, I have already made arrangements for this."

(End of this chapter)