Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 322 Archway
"Let's go quickly! Day and night, within ten days, I will return to Nanjing!"

After reaching an agreement with each wealthy family, Yang Chao sent people to each family one by one to take back the supplies, gold and silver, and immediately urged his men to leave.

In order to take away the capital of these rich families making troubles, Yang Chao stayed at the Xu family for nearly ten days, and it was already March [-]th.

Arrive in Nanjing within ten days, that is also March [-]th, and then set off north to Qin Wang, the time is almost up, maybe I will return to Nanjing by myself, Chongzhen's Qin Wang Ling has already arrived in Nanjing city.

This time the harvest was extremely rich.

Xu's 200 million taels of silver, plus countless gold and silver jewels, and the other seven families' 100 million each, add up to 1000 million taels. I don't know how much of this heavy wealth is stained with blood. Yang Chao has no intention of taking it away. burden.

As for these wealthy families, they will not collapse because Yang Chao looted a huge amount of wealth, because Yang Chao did not move their most important wealth land, and the land deeds of each family are in the hands of each family. , they have a chance to stand up.

In addition to gold and silver, there are also a large number of weapons and equipment.

There are [-] long spears, [-] pairs of iron armor, [-] pairs of cotton armor, [-] bows, [-] pairs of crossbows, and nearly [-] weapons such as waist knives and broadswords. They had the same amount of equipment as the Xu family, so they couldn't get it out. They had to hand over a part of the weapons, but if they had to spend a huge amount of money to make up for it, the fact that they were willing to pay more than ten times the market price in silver proved that they didn't have any extra weapons.

So in the end, he didn't get eight times the weapons and equipment of the Xu family.

These weapons and equipment made Yang Chao feel that he might not need to build weapons and equipment for a long time.

However, the officialdom of Jinhua Mansion, which was swept away by Yang Chao with a lot of property, was a little embarrassed for a while. Suddenly, everyone didn’t know what to say. It was no longer possible to give them benefits as agreed in advance. The officials of Zuo Guangxian and Yao Sunbi found that Yang Chao had erased the crimes of the Hao family. Even if they won the struggle, they would not get any benefits.

The civil officials and local tyrants of the two factions who fought for a while all found that they were all losers, and there was only one winner, and that was Yang Chao.

But the finishing touches still need to be done.

Chen Zilong brought Xu Du back to Jinhua Mansion, Wang Xiong guarantor that Xu Du intends to repent and surrender, so that Xu Du will not die.

But Zuo Guangxian strongly stated that Wang Xiong's promise did not count, and insisted on killing Xu Du, and finally Wang Xiong also acquiesced.

For Zuo Guangxian, these tyrants colluded with Wang Xiong's faction and took advantage of his resignation to attack his faction. Fortunately, he returned in time to suppress Xu Du's rebellion. If Xu didn't question him, it would mean his own failure , and may implicate his confidant Yao Sunfen, so Xu Du must die.

For Wang Xiong's faction, it didn't matter whether Xu Du died or not. Xu Du was defeated under Jinhua City and was thrown to Wang Xiong's tens of thousands of refugees to kill him.

Therefore, Xu Du, who was caught between the two factions, became an outcast, abandoned by both the civil official group and the rich family group.

The Xu family didn't say anything or make any effort for Xu Du, and directly put all the blame on Xu Du, and the civil official group didn't hold the Xu family accountable, and the Xu family continued to be his wealthy family.

On the contrary, Chen Zilong was misunderstood by some friends, thinking that he had deceived Xu Du, who deceived Xu Du to die in Jinhua, and broke up with him.

So Xu is a loser.

Another loser is the Zhu family.

This time, among the eight counties in Jinhua Prefecture, seven wealthy families participated in Xudu's rebellion, but the Jinhua Zhu family did not participate. But what was strange afterwards was that Xu Tiaoyuan, the magistrate of Jinhua County, was found in the roster of Xudu's rebellion. The name of Zhu Wanhua, the eldest son of Zhu.

So the civil officials immediately impeached Zhu Dadaian for the crimes of "longing the son to make friends with the thieves", the Zhu family's "communication with the thieves" and "the thieves go without leaving the soldiers".

This is almost nonsense, this time the Zhu family was completely on the opposite side of Xu Du, and in the end they were accused of being a traitor. The names on the list were very suspicious, but even if they were true, the facts couldn’t explain everything. Zhu Wanhua organized In order to save his father, he risked his life and surrounded Jinhua City, but he was finally said to be a traitor.

Moreover, the civil official group took the lead in impeaching Zhu Dadian's son-in-law, which obviously confronted Zhu Dadian directly, but where is Zhu Dadian at this time?Dismissed from office in Beijing awaiting trial, he has great ability to direct his son to turn against the thief from a distance of thousands of miles, and to fight against the thief to the death?

Obviously, this is another political struggle against Zhu Dadian, and it will never end. Even if he has been dismissed pending trial, he will be put to death.

Moreover, it was first initiated by Xu Tiaoyuan of Wang Xiong's faction, and Zuo Guangxian confirmed that this is obviously a concession from Wang Xiong's group to Zuo Guangxian's group. After all, they lost in this struggle. Cooperate with Zuo Guang first to attack Donglin's political opponents.

So this time the Zhu family was another big loser. In the end, both father and son were arrested and imprisoned, and their family property was confiscated.

And other factions, including the wealthy families who suffered heavy losses, all got a share.

So the biggest losers are actually these people!

Then Ni Zuoshan from Zuo Guangxian's family was promoted from Jinhua Tongzhi to the prefect of Chuzhou. Yao Sunyi was appointed as a meritorious service in recovering Dongyang, and was promoted to the Ministry of War as the head of the Ministry of War. It has to be said that as the vanguard of this battle, Yao Sun He got the most benefit, from being a county magistrate to being directly promoted to the central government, it can be regarded as Donglin Party's reward for Ma Zi.

In the Wang Xiong faction of the other faction, Xu Tiaoyuan was promoted to Nanjing, and Jiang Ruolai, a striker general under his command, was promoted to a general because of his meritorious service in defeating "thieves".

Among the independent faction, Chen Zilong, who recruited Xudu, also got an errand as the head of the Department of Literature and Selection of the Ministry of Officials in Nanjing.

But where does this soup come from?
It is the hundreds of thousands of scattered people, thousands of bankrupt small and medium-sized landlords and rich peasants, whose land was annexed by the rich while taking advantage of the chaos.

Even countless common people can only sell their sons and daughters to the wealthy clan as slaves.

Of course, it was Yang Chao who got the heaviest share of the soup, but Yang Chao was still rushing to Nanjing.

It took Yang Chao seven days to go from Zhenjiang to Jinhua, but this time it only took five days to go back.

After he promised to return to Nanjing, Yang Chao promised to recruit them into the army immediately. These refugees all knew people in the army. They were very envious of the treatment of the army and envied that they could support their families, so they were full of motivation. I also want to go home to see my relatives as soon as possible, so I am very proactive on the road day and night.

After arriving in Zhenjiang on March [-]th, he made some inquiries and found that there was no news of the emperor's Qin Wang Ling, so Yang Chao rushed to Nanjing immediately.

He ventured on the river overnight, and even though the weather was not very good, Yang Chao rushed back to Xinjiangkou Camp the next night.

Of course, it is only the vanguard, and most of the follow-up troops are still on the way.

But in Nanjing, he still didn't hear about King Qin's order, which made Yang Chao breathe a sigh of relief, feeling that he didn't delay.

Perhaps Emperor Chongzhen's Qinwang decree had already been issued, but it hadn't reached Nanjing in time. Even if it was a fast horse flying report, it would never reach Nanjing in a few months.

Although there is no Qin Wang Ling, there are some urgent Tang newspapers.

As a matter of fact, Li Zicheng went out of Shaanxi to conquer the East. On the first day of the first lunar month, Li Zicheng changed Xi'an to Chang'an and called it Xijing.The name of the country was Dashun, and the name of the year was Yongchang. It far respected Li Jiqian, the ancestor of the Xixia Kingdom in the Northern Song Dynasty, as the Taizu.Set up six government ministers of officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers, open courses to obtain scholars, and reduce taxes.Nine people below Liu Zongmin were named marquises, 72 people below Liu Tichun were named uncles, and the rest of the generals added sons and male ranks.

A total of 40 infantry and 60 horse soldiers took a short rest, led the army across the Yellow River, turned to the east of the river, and captured Taiyuan, Xinzhou, Daizhou, Zhangde, Ningwu and other places.

The last Tang newspaper first said that Li Zicheng was heading for Datong, fighting in the Xuanfu area!
However, the Tang newspaper also showed that Li Zicheng's army was invincible, and a city fell almost every few days. Obviously, it could not be captured, but surrendered.

Yang Chao knew that after that, Li Zicheng was almost surrendered all the way to Beijing.

Yang Chao had to fight for time. Although it felt weird to stop Li Zicheng, after all, this person had a perfect image in the history education he received, but Yang Chao knew that it was not true, and even if it was true, Yang Chao would stop him. Just because he can't stop Man Qing, and Ming Dynasty is the only hope, he has to stop him.

So it was time to wait. After reading the Tang newspaper all night in the barracks, early the next morning, he sent someone to give orders to Shi Kefa, report the situation of the Jinhua battle, and hand over the application for meritorious service. Yang Chao himself went home immediately. .

He is saying goodbye to his family.

But I didn't expect that after arriving at home, the family members were very mysterious, and they talked incoherently with Yang Chao, as if they were hiding something.

However, several carriages soon stopped in front of Yang's house.

On the carriage, big figures stepped down.

Bingbi eunuch Wang Chengen.

The Ministry of War Shangshu Shi Kefa.

Nanjing guard eunuch Han Zanzhou and others.

Yang Chao was moved for no reason.

On the contrary, Wang Chengen couldn't wait to pull Yang Chao out, saying that he wanted to show Yang Chao something.

Go out of the gate of Yang's house and go south to the intersection of Tie Workshop Street.

Yang Chaodao didn't pay attention. I don't know when a building was erected here, but the appearance is not clear because they are all wrapped in red silk.

Wang Chengen pulled Yang Chao, and the others followed with smiles on their faces.

Suddenly Wang Chengen nodded, and his entourage immediately set up ladders and climbed up the building. They saw that they cut ribbons one by one, and the red cloth covering the building fell down.

A memorial archway!
There are four big characters in the letter: General Dragon and Tiger!
Looking at both sides of the archway, there are actually some engraved texts, each of which is written in detail. On the left is the deeds of King Qin's bloody battle against Haizhou in the north, and on the right is the record of going south to Jinhua and breaking Xudu.

And the master of these achievements is Yang Chao himself.

Seeing such a thing suddenly, Yang Chao's own heart skipped a beat twice, after all, he has a good reputation.

But looking back, my parents and sister have already shed tears of excitement!

(End of this chapter)