There are 500 households under the Ninghua Thousand Households, two of which are in Qiantun and Beitun in the north, and three are in Matoutun, Chuanhutun and Nantun in the south.

These five hundred households are in charge of Tuntian, and there are also two hundred households of Tuntian soldiers in the Ninghua Institute, who are responsible for the nearby military fields.

The military field of the whole Ninghua Institute is 2,400 acres, from north to south all over the Fen River, there are Shuilan River and West River in Luya Mountain on the west side, and there are Ming River in Yunzhong Mountain in the east, and three seasonal rivers flow into the Fen River through the military field in this area, so the military field of the Ninghua Institute has always had sufficient water sources, which can be regarded as good fertile land.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the situation of the desertion of the guards was very serious, the tuntian system was gradually abandoned, a large number of military fields became the private fields of the guards officers in various forms, and a large number of soldiers also became tenants of various officers, barely making a living by farming for the officers.

Half of the 2,400 mu of military land in the Ninghua Institute is occupied by various officers in the station, and the officers such as the general flag and banner basically have no share, 100 households, 2 deputy 1,000 households, and 1,000 households, and these generals account for about 1,000 mu.

The remaining 1,400 acres belong to several senior officials of the Shanxi Metropolitan Division.

Ninghua Institute is directly under the jurisdiction of the Shanxi Metropolitan Division, and Du Yingtang is rarely in this place, but both of them are commanding Tongzhi Dou Dekang and Wei Shijie, and those who are in command often come.

The 1,400 acres of military land belonged to these officials, of which Dou Dekang and Wei Shijie accounted for 1,000 acres.

The flight of the soldiers of the Ninghua Institute was too serious, and those officials and masters recruited a lot of hungry people to farm for them, and there were about 1,000 people, who dug ground near the military field to live, and some even lived in the abandoned barracks of the hundred households.

In the two miles that Qin Chuan was in Ninghua, he combed all the fields, including his own fields, and all the fields of the officers of the Ninghua Institute were recovered, and the fields of the few commanders who commanded the affairs were naturally also recovered.

The hungry people were not driven away, so they were able to stay, and Qin Chuan also promised to continue to farm for them, and reduced the tenant rent from the original fifty percent to forty percent.

At the same time, Qin Chuan took out fifty stones of the grain brought by the army to help the hungry people.

The hungry people did not rejoice, but silently took the food and watched in silence.

Of course, they know who those fields belong to, although this new Qianhu lord is very kind-hearted, but I am afraid that he will not be able to fight those officials, and in the end they still have to farm for those officials, not only have to pay fifty percent of the rent, but also be exploited by those big stewards.

When the stewards in charge of the hungry people saw that the situation was not good, they hurried back to report to their masters.

They and Qin Chuan's messenger arrived almost at the same time, and as soon as Dou Dekang, Wei Shijie and others got the news, they were immediately furious.

The thousand households who made a lot of nonsense dared to break ground on their heads.

You must know that Dou Dekang and Wei Shijie are both in command and know the same thing, but from the second-grade officers, even a few of them are in the third grade, which is several orders higher than the thousands of households in the fifth grade, who gave him the dog courage to dare to break ground on the heads of several officials?

If you don't give him some hardship, won't he want to fly?

Dou Dekang and the others gathered together to discuss for a while, and then dozens of private soldiers came out, gathered enough 300 people, and under the leadership of a commander named Lu Zhongwei, they went to Ninghua with a few stewards.

The purpose of this trip was not only to get the fields back, but also to teach the surnamed Qin some lessons.

At the same time, these officials and masters crossed Xu Dingchen and Du Yingtang and jointly played a joint performance, exposing Qinchuan for privately casting artillery, overstepping the military system, and wantonly cultivating the army, intending to rebel.

Xu Dingchen and Du Yingtang pretended to be deaf and dumb, and looked deaf and deaf to things.

The former had just arrived in Shanxi and didn't want to be involved too much, and the latter had received Dou Dekang and other rao silver, and knew that the surname Qin was not easy to mess with, so he simply turned a blind eye so as not to get into trouble.

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Because he wanted to lead a large army to Xinzhou to arrest Xu Tingrong, Qin Chuan only left twenty Guan Emperor troops in Ninghua, and the leader was the general banner of the Guan Emperor Army, called Fang Renwu.

These twenty Guan Emperor troops did not stay in the station, but as the personal soldiers of the Thousand Households, they were divided into two groups and inspected several nearby military cantonments.

After the commander Lu Zhongwei arrived at the Ninghua Institute, he asked a few stewards to secretly take dozens of people to the military camp to find a way to arrest a few Guan Di troops, and he took more than 200 other private soldiers and entered the Ninghua Institute with a high spirit.

Several hundred households in the institute hurriedly ran out to greet them, and Lu Zhongwei called a few people into a room and carefully inquired about what Qin Chuan had done in Ninghua.

Fang Renwu, the general banner of the Guan Emperor Army, was leading a group of ten subordinates to inspect the area of Chuanhutun, knowing that hundreds of officers and soldiers were coming, and after seeing a steward from afar and shouting that the things in this place belonged to their master, he sent two subordinates to rush back to Lou Fu to report the news.

He himself led the rest of his men to meet the steward.

But unexpectedly, before he could speak, dozens of Ming soldiers with knives and guns suddenly jumped out of all directions, roaring towards them.

Fang Renwu was taken aback, and led his subordinates to turn around and flee.

However, he and two of his men were shot with arrows from their bows and fell off their horses, and one of them broke his leg.

In the end, the two Guan Emperor soldiers were captured and taken to the Ninghua martial arts field.

Lu Zhongweigao sat on the platform, tilted his head, squinted at the three of them, and suddenly shouted: "Where is the thief, report your name." ”

Fang Renwu raised his head and said: "Master, I am a personal soldier under the command of Lord Qin of Ninghua Thousand Households, and I will not change my name or change my surname, Fang Renwu is also." ”

"Bold thieves, dare to pretend to be Ming officers and soldiers, come, one person beats fifty military sticks."

"Yes."

The private soldiers surrounding him rushed over with a sly smile and pressed Fang Renwu and the other three Guan Emperor soldiers to the ground.

Fang Renwu raised his head, gritted his teeth and scolded: "Dog officer! If you dare to touch a single hair of our hair, Lord Qin will definitely make you worse off than dead! ”

"You dare to insult the officials of the imperial court? Plus fifty more sticks. ”

"Yes."

Fang Renwu and the others were quickly pressed to the ground, stripped off their pants, and those private soldiers took the military stick down fiercely.

They are going to be beaten to the death.

The Guan Emperor Army, which had originally gritted its teeth, quickly sent out a burst of tragic swords

Lu Zhongwei on the stage squinted, always with a sneer on his face.

……

Qin Chuan knew that there were 300 people from Ninghua, so he brought 500 people out.

Moreover, he also brought a tiger squat cannon and thirty flintlock guns.

Halfway through the journey, after receiving the news that Fang Renwu and others had been arrested, Qin Chuan was furious, and immediately rode fast forward and quickly rushed to Ninghua.

When I arrived at the destination, I saw that the gate of the Ninghua Institute was closed, and there was no Rao Arrow Tower next to the door, and there were three corpses with naked bodies and blurred flesh and blood.

Qin Chuan took a closer look, and his eyes suddenly widened angrily, and his hands holding the reins of the horse trembled.

Luo Daniu and the others behind him even pulled out their weapons with a "bang".

The three corpses on the arrow tower were Fang Renwu and the other two Guan Emperor soldiers.

"Da Niu, you lead two hundred people to the military camps on the north and south sides, and bring out those few stewards and a few private soldiers of the official and lord, and bring them here."

"Yes."

Luo Da Niu, who was already furious, quickly ordered two hundred people and went murderously.

Qin Chuan looked at the empty arrow tower, gritted his teeth and said, "Go and tell the people inside that if you don't open the door within a quarter of an hour, the chickens and dogs won't stay!" ”

"Yes."

A red-clothed attendant rode a horse close to the gate of the Ninghua Institute and shouted loudly inside: "Listen to the people inside, Lord Qin of Qianhu is back, if you don't open the door within a quarter of an hour, the chickens and dogs will not stay!" ”

There was no response from inside, and neither did the door.

"Rest for two quarters of an hour and prepare for the assault."

Qin Chuan turned over and dismounted, handed the reins of the horse to the red-clothed attendant next to him, then drew his long knife and waited quietly.

About a quarter of an hour later, there was a sound of footsteps at the arrow tower.

A Ming official wearing a big red painted tiger complement regular uniform appeared on the arrow tower.

This person was waiting for Lu Zhongwei to clean up Qin Chuan, went up to the arrow tower, squinted at Qin Chuan outside the door, raised his chin and said: "This official is Lu Zhongwei, the commander of the Shanxi Metropolitan Division, who is from outside?" ”

Qin Chuan squinted, looked at Lu Zhongwei carefully, and said, "I am Qin Chuan, a thousand households of the Ninghua Institute. ”

Lu Zhongwei asked angrily, "How do you prove that you are Qin Chuan?" ”

"You killed my three brothers?" Qin Chuan asked without answering.

"Yours are these three?"

Lu Zhongwei pointed to the bloody corpse, and said in a strange manner: "These three are the Eastern Prisoner spies captured by the official after arriving at the Ninghua Institute, you are your brothers, are you also Eastern Prisoner spies?" ”

Qin Chuan looked at him coldly and said, "I'll give you a chance, kowtow to my three brothers, and then cut myself off, I can let you go and bring those three hundred people." ”

"Hahahaha...... It's crazy enough......"

"The musketeers lined up a hundred paces away, covered by shields, and then lifted the tiger squat cannon up, preparing to attack, and Lu Zhongwei and the people he brought did not leave any behind."

Qin Chuan didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, so he turned around and walked back.

"Yes."

The red-clothed attendants under his command quickly dispersed, and the Guan Emperor army advanced to a distance of 100 paces, raised the swallowtail card, and quickly erected a shield wall.

Thirty musketeers hid behind their shields, inspected their guns according to strict rules, and loaded them with ammunition.

A forty-five-pound tiger squat cannon was lifted up and nailed with tiger claws about a hundred steps away from the gate of the Ninghua Station.

On the arrow tower, when he saw dozens of musketeers lining up behind the shield wall to reload, and when he saw a strangely shaped tiger squat cannon appear, Lu Zhongwei's face suddenly changed greatly.

"You...... What are you doing? Do you dare to attack Shangguan without permission? ”

"In this world, there is nothing that Qin does not dare to do, so today is your death date."

"You dare?"

"The musketeers aimed at the arrow tower, and the tiger squat cannon directly hit the door."

"Yes."

"You...... You are guilty of treason, aren't you afraid of being beheaded all over the house? ”

"Your Excellency, all flintlock guns have been loaded."

"Your Excellency, the Tiger Squat Cannon has been loaded."

"Hit me hard!"