A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 624
Along the way, Fan Qinluan was escorted near Zhangjiakou.

Here, along the south side of the fort, at the foot of the West Mountain, a large area of ​​crude camps was established, densely packed, full of arrested officers and generals on Fenshou Road, Shangxi Road, Xiaxi Road, Fenxundao North Road, and Middle Road in Xuanfu Town. , soldiers, military households, women and children, etc.

After Lai Tianlu and others sent women and children to the battle that day, Wen Fangliang was furious and led his army in hot pursuit. He quickly captured Lai Tianlu, his father and son brothers, as well as Yang Tianfu, Li Jiane and others. Those soldiers and military households who had fled home were also arrested.

A large number of town officials also went to Zhangjiakou to sort out the arrestees carefully.

Their convictions are divided into serious crimes, serious crimes, medium grades, and minor grades. The first two grades will definitely be executed. Those who are moderate will be sentenced to several years or months of hard labor. Draw a charge, and after writing a letter of repentance, let him go home.

It is not a simple matter to tell the farewell of more than ten thousand people, and the workload is huge.

For those who were arrested, all of them were uneasy. They thought they were just following the battle and making a strong momentum, but unexpectedly they were captured by those vicious Jingbian soldiers. Many people were terrified about their future fate.

"...Criminal, medium, sentenced to three years of hard labor, take away!"

"My lord, please forgive me..."

Amid the wailing of mourning concubines, another group of people were escorted away.

"next batch."

"...The crime is minor, and I shall be sentenced to seven days' imprisonment!"

The kneeling women breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, they were only sentenced to seven days of imprisonment. They repaired the barracks nearby. : "Thank you, Master Qingtian!"

"Aunt Yan Chun!"

The governor looked at the documents, and when the women were about to be taken away, he stopped one of them.

The woman turned her head in horror.

Zhenfu said: "After investigation, your daughter-in-law, Sun Yuerong, died in the battle on the 28th of last month. The general was kind enough to give her a coffin and a stone of food and rice as compensation. After investigation, your son died early, and now you are the only one left in the family." , so you will receive the pension on your behalf, let’s make a deposit.”

The woman howled and kowtowed desperately: "Thank you, Lord Yongning."

The people around were all looking at her enviously, they didn't expect that there was a pension of one shi grain of rice, in this world, it would be good for a human life to be worth a bucket of rice, let alone a shi rice.

Scenes like this are everywhere in this camp.

But at this time, a group of dejected officials and soldiers were escorted over, but it was Lai Tianlu and others, as well as some key soldiers under their command. They had already interrogated the first batch and escorted them to the East Road, where ten thousand people will be tried publicly.

Wherever they passed, the military households and civilians in the nearby cities and forts all looked at them indifferently. Everyone was a prisoner, and Lai Tianlu and others who were originally high above had lost their majesty in their eyes.

Moreover, in the eyes of onlookers and others, apart from indifference, there is also resentment.

As it turned out, all the military households and common people did not dare to have any dissatisfaction with the Jingbian army, and the resentment in their hearts was transferred to Lai Tianlu, Li Jian'e and others.

That woman, Yan Chungu, also had fiery eyes, looking at Li Jian'e among the escorted crowd.

It's all the fault of this thief, if he hadn't incited him, he and his wife wouldn't have come, let alone his daughter-in-law would not have died.

She screamed suddenly: "Give me back my Yuerong."

All of a sudden, he jumped up, and suddenly jumped in front of Li Jian'e, and bit off a piece of flesh on his face alive.

"what!"

Li Jian'e screamed, his hands were tied, unable to struggle, he watched the woman bite him with her mouth open.

"It was you, the thief, who killed my daughter-in-law."

The woman looked stern, with a bloody mouth, very terrifying.

"Return my man."

"Return my son..."

Driven by this woman, many women also rushed forward, surrounded Lai Tianlu, Li Jiane, etc., screaming, scratching and biting their flesh, biting off their flesh piece by piece. For a while, it was extremely painful Roaring one after another.

When the escorting Jingbian army tore them apart, Lai Tianlu, Li Jian'e and others had already lost several catties of flesh, and all of them were dripping with blood, and their appearance was terrifying...

……

One after another, Fan Qinluan, Lai Tianlu, Fan Yongdou and others were taken to the East Road one by one. For these people, the interest groups and interest networks behind them had already given up.

Even out of the consideration of killing people, a large number of officials in Beijing and other places have appealed that traitors and traitors are unforgivable crimes, and these thieves should be tried as soon as possible and executed early, so that the soldiers and civilians who were killed should be given an explanation.

In various places in Xuanda, and even in the rest of the Ming Dynasty, everyone also fell into trouble in the same way.

Or actively lead the Jingbian army to ransack the homes of their clansmen, hoping to gain some benefits, or take the opportunity to annex their properties. After all, everyone's business can be said to be in all parts of Ming Dynasty, not just the three towns of Xuanda.

For example, Fan Yongdou is also a big salt merchant. He has many industries in Jiangnan and Hebei. These places are not in the sphere of influence of the Jingbian army, so they are naturally divided up by the locals. Could it be that Wang Dou can go to Yangzhou and Suzhou to search his house?

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In the middle of the twelfth lunar month, because of Wang Dou's insistence, Fan Yongdou and others were put on public trial in Xuanfu Town. After the court meeting, the officials of the three divisions began to set off to the East Road, accompanied by six officials from the Ministry of Households led by Ni Yuanlu, Zhonggong Messenger Wang Dehua and others.

The joint trial of the three divisions attracted the attention of all. The officials of the three divisions all shouldered the heavy responsibility of killing and silence, and at the same time, they had the hope of fighting the autumn wind.

The officials of the six ministries came here for the purpose of ransacking their homes.

More than 200 million taels of gold and silver, as well as many commercial goods, fertile land and houses, who is not envious?
As Beijing officials, they shoulder the great trust of the cabinet elders and members of the six ministries, and will fight fiercely with local officials.

It’s pitiful to say that, on paper, Daming’s finances amount to tens of millions of taels a year. However, this is made up of many real and folded colors. Many real objects are not escorted to the court, and Daming’s tax revenue Accounting is very confusing.

The place needs to be preserved, which is a muddled account, and the food and salaries of many guards and border towns are directly supplied by the local area, which is even more muddled.

The summer tax and autumn grain are directly shipped from a certain place to a certain place, a certain government to a certain guard, and even more detailed, a certain household to a certain household, without going through the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of War, oh, there will be account books reported.

Therefore, although the Ming Dynasty had a lot of money, there were few direct revenues to the national treasury, often some trough grain and discounted silver. Later generations talked about the several million taels of Ming's annual income, mostly referring to the direct revenue from the national treasury.

There are tens of millions of places and various objects, but they have no meaning except that they look good on paper.

Ni Yuanlu was hopeful. Recently, he felt a little uneasy. He felt that during the court meeting, the emperor looked at the ministers with strange eyes, like a hungry wolf.

He hoped that the amount of money confiscated from the house would be more than 100 million taels directly to the national treasury. This would solve the urgent need of the treasury, and those real objects could also be converted into a part of silver and handed over.

Wang Dehua was naturally entrusted by Emperor Chongzhen, and he was looking forward to the 100 million taels promised to him by Wang Dou day and night.

Wang Dehua was also eager. According to his understanding of Wang Dou, the Marquis of Yongning was very forthright. For the sake of running around in the twelfth lunar month, he should give himself some hard work, right?Of course, he had to share part of the more than 200 million taels of stolen money.

With different purposes, Wang Dehua, Ni Yuanlu and others hurried to the east road.

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"No, no, how can my little brother, He De, dare to take 100 million taels of silver? It's too much, 50 taels is fine."

"Brother Wang Pu, if it weren't for your great assistance, how could it be so easy to wipe out the evil? One million taels is really what you deserve."

"Don't dare, I'm really ashamed, little brother. The capture of all traitors is mainly due to the merits of the Marquis of Yongning and the Jingbian army. The little brother's Datong army is just running errands, so I really dare not take the credit... Besides, the little brother also shared the food. Rice and salt, Datong and Shanxi will have business harvest in the future, my brother really gave too much, 50 taels would be fine..."

Seeing Wang Pu's resolute refusal, Wang Dou said: "Forget it, as you said, um, Yang Shuai's side, 10 taels of silver, let me pay it."

Wang Pu hurriedly said: "How dare you have my brother come out alone, half of one person is, and General Li will definitely not forget Yang Shuai..."

After Wang Pu left with a smile on his face, Wang Dou smiled slightly. It seemed that Wang Pu had made up his mind and stood with him, and he was worthy of being from a merchant family.

Confiscated the homes of everyone, and the harvest was unexpectedly rich, 500 million taels of cash, just one, all kinds of objects, as well as houses, fields, shops, warehouses, etc., equivalent to silver, would not be less than 500 million taels .

After the operation was over, Wang Dou began to share the money with Wang Pu, Li Yunshu and others.

Although they didn't know the exact amount, Li Yunshu and other Shanxi town officials took a total of 50 taels of silver. Much money.

Moreover, they also divided some of the rice, salt, tea, cloth, etc. far away in Shanxi Town, and they also got a lot of money. They were all satisfied and deeply felt the wisdom of cooperating with Wang Dou.

For Wang Pu, the harvest of money is one thing. The most important thing is that everyone is wiped out. In the future, the Wang family's business in Datong Town, or even Shanxi Town, will usher in a vigorous development. This is the mother who can lay eggs. chicken.

Wang Pu also intended to support Wang Pu and replace him in the family. It happened that the Wang family made a mistake and half of their family property was confiscated. It was a good opportunity for Wang Pu's family to enter.

The Sanjin Chamber of Commerce, in Wang Dou's conception, is mainly composed of merchants from Donglu and Xuanzhen Towns, together with merchants from Datong Town and Shanxi Town, to establish a huge Chamber of Commerce and integrate the commercial forces of the three towns. Among them, Wang Pu It is a very important pawn.

However, there is information that apart from Xuanda’s original merchants, Beijing merchants, Lu merchants, Qin merchants, and even Zhejiang merchants are all staring at this missing blank land, especially greedy, confiscated, and some shops in the golden zone .

The Liangtian house not only promotes the local area, but also the outside world, and countless people covet it.

Perhaps, some people can be absorbed.

Wang Dou pondered, everything has been decided, and there is a lot of money, it is time to make a new plan, continue to improve the shogunate, upgrade weapons, and vigorously develop the region.

I am already the chief soldier of the Xuan Mansion, so I should spend some time to upgrade the East Road Taoyuan to Xuanzhen Taoyuan.

(End of this chapter)