Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 537

When the First Corps of the Fourth Army of the Guards occupied Linfen, the capital of Pingyang Prefecture, the first thing to do was to check the Shanxi merchant Kang's house.

Since Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the scale of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was in a bitterly cold place, had a great relationship with these eight Shanxi merchants.

It is understandable for merchants to seek profit, but this group of Shanxi merchants disregarded the morality of the country and smuggled things prohibited by the court.

And this Kang family is one of them, even the richest of the Shanxi merchants. It is rumored that they have tens of millions of silver in their possession. After that, they are the eight imperial merchants named Fan, Wang, Tian and others.

It just so happened that the root of the Kang family was in Linfen.

Not long after Huang Degong personally brought the First Corps of the Fourth Army of the Guards into Linfen, Jin Yiwei gave Huang Degong the order of Zhu Youjian.

"Confiscate Kang's family! Profitable businessmen who betray the country must not be tolerated. If they take money that belongs to the court, all their family members will kill them!"

Huang Degong just read a sentence after receiving the decree, and someone came to report: "Marshal, there is someone outside who claims to be Kang Wenlan asking to see him, saying he is a businessman."

"A member of the Kang family? Bring his post."

When Huang Degong said this, his guards soon passed Kang Wenlan's post to Huang Degong. Huang Degong opened it and saw that it was a check for [-] silver dollars.

"It's really a big deal, go and call Jiang Yingyun, the commander of the third infantry battalion, to me."

Huang Degong took the one hundred thousand silver dollars in his hand and looked at them carefully, Jiang Yingyun left after a short while: "Master!"

"I heard that you are also from Linfen, Shanxi. Do you know the Kang family?"

When Huang Degong said this, Jiang Yingyun nodded: "I know, he is a well-known big family in Pingyang City. Their family worked part-time."

"Since this is the case, His Majesty has issued a decree, and this matter will be handled by your people."

After Huang Degong said it, he gave Zhu Youjian's decree to Jiang Yingyun.

"I'm afraid the Kang family would never have thought that they would have today. Both Li Zicheng and Jianlu had bought food from him, and even a lot of it was resold imperial army food and disaster relief food. If it wasn't for their Kang family and the government to sell food to Tatars My son, my mother will not starve to death, and my father will not be killed, please rest assured, the commander, this subordinate will definitely be able to complete the tasks that His Majesty instructed."

Soon, Jiang Yingyun led [-] infantry to the Kang family, one of the eight great Shanxi merchants.

The Kang family is indeed very big, the largest street in the entire Pingyang city occupies half of it. Jiang Yingyun wants to command the army to fight, first let [-] infantry surround the entire Kang family at a distance of ten steps.

And he himself led a thousand infantrymen straight to the main gate of Kang's house.

The head of the Kang family, Kang Wenlan, was seeking to see Huang Degong in the government office at this time, so he didn't know that the Guards would appear in front of his house.

At this time, when the housekeeper of the Kang family saw the guards appearing, he thought that his master might have successfully bribed the commander of the guards, so that the Kang family would lose face in front of the new officers and soldiers, so as to achieve future success. The purpose of making all the officers and soldiers afraid of Kang's family came forward boldly, deliberately making an arrogant gesture:
"Several military lords, what are you going to do? Our Kang family is not a squire or a butcher for an official. It is just a commoner who does some business. It would be unseemly for you to come here with such a big fanfare. They all say that the guards The army is strictly disciplined and does not plunder or kill civilians, so is this all fake?"

Jiang Yingyun smiled coldly: "Third Kang, you can't even recognize me, can you? I haven't seen you for so many years, but you've become so eloquent. I remember that when you met Chuangjun and entered the city He kowtowed harder than when your father died, why would you have the guts to talk to my guards like that today!"

"You're the guy with the surname Jiang." Youngest Kang was a little surprised, but immediately understood that it would be better to take advantage of Jiang Yingyun's status as a guard to maintain a good relationship, and there was no need to bicker like before.

Therefore, Kang Lao San suddenly knelt down in front of Jiang Yingyun, and slapped himself on the face: "Master Jiang, the little Kang Lao San doesn't know how to flatter you. I bumped into you before, but now I slap myself on the mouth. I won't bother you!"

Snapped!
The third elder Kang slapped himself and asked Jiang Yingyun with a smile: "Master Jiang, do you think you are satisfied, and are you willing to forgive the younger one? At the beginning, our master Kang said that you will definitely have a future. I didn't believe it at the time, but now I see it." Come out, you are really not the same as us, we are the pheasants in the mountains, you are the real phoenix!"

Jiang Yingyun shook his head speechlessly, ignored Kang Lao San, but took the Chongzhen Type 22 rifle in his hand, drew out the bayonet, blew on the blade, held it in his right hand, and walked to Kang Lao San come before:
"Continue to kowtow, knock your head to the ground, I didn't tell you not to raise your head!"

"Okay, my little one obeys your orders." The youngest Kang originally wanted to show his prestige to the Kang family in front of the guards, but seeing that Jiang Yingyun was an old acquaintance, he thought about lowering his posture to gain Jiang Yingyun's favor.

But what Kang Lao San didn't expect was that just as he knocked his head on the ground, Jiang Yingyun suddenly stabbed the bayonet into Kang Lao San's neck and pierced it directly, even the tip of the knife hit the ground, and the blood flowed The blade flowed down.

Ah!
The youngest Kang made a deep groan, and raised his eyes in disbelief to see Jiang Yingyun.

"Because you are just his family's slave, I didn't choose to cook you, but if you followed your master and betrayed my Ming court, you should die!"

Jiang Yingyun pulled out his rifle as he spoke, and shot twice at the frightened servants of the Kang family in front.

Two servants of the Kang family were beaten to death on the spot.

These are bullies who have always relied on the power of the Kang family to dominate Pingyang City, so it is not an exaggeration for Jiang Yingyun to kill them, not to mention that he is still following his will.

Jiang Yingyun rushed in with the infantry of the Guards, and when he saw the Kang family, he held up his bayonet and shouted: "All stand in the yard for me! Come one by one, you come first, where is your money hidden? Say it quickly! If you don’t say yes, reward him with a knife!”

puff!
A male master of the Kang family was stabbed by a guard, and hurriedly shouted in pain: "Master, please forgive me, all my money is in the wall of Xiuyunxuan."

Soon, the guards copied the money and food, but they also failed to copy the poems of the Kang family praising Dorgon.

"Very well, you are still a loyal servant of Jianlu. In this case, I will definitely not spare you. You are the first Han thief in the Kang family to be dealt with. You can't be too polite to you. Let's find a cauldron and put Let me cook this person on a fire for three days and three nights, you used this method to kill my father, and now I am ordered to deal with you, so I will take revenge in this way!"

(End of this chapter)