"Since Emperor Shenzong, the mining tax (mining and taxation) has been abolished. When today's sages and sages are wise, they will no longer open the policy of cruelty to the people! You Zheng Zhilong keep asking for tax arrears, and the old man will be difficult to understand, whose money does my Ma family owe and whose taxes? ”

Ma Xingming is scolding Zheng Zhilong.

There is no mining tax in the Ming Dynasty, but you Zheng Zhilong came to collect taxes from my Ma family, what does this mean?

Previously, in Zhaoyuan County, Ma Xingming worked very hard to encourage others to go out with him. It's a pity that no one wants to follow him all the way to the dark, but some people also advised him to avoid it for the time being, only bring some soft and easy to carry, and quickly flee to Huangxian. (Huangxian and Dengzhou are both under the rule of Zeng Ying), leaving the green mountains without worrying about no firewood.

Let Ma Xingming be angry.

These people say it lightly, but why don't they run away themselves?

If the Ma family collapses like this, it will be difficult to get back together in the future. Not to mention the Ma family's old house, the Ma family's mines and the shops in the city, it is easy to walk by yourself, and when you come back, even if the Zheng family has left, it is very likely that the things will no longer be your own.

Angrily returned home, and immediately the huge Ma family or the distant brothers of the side branch moved out and fled to Dengzhou and Huang County, of course, there are also one or two descendants inside. And most of the people flocked to the castle in front of them.

A castle built on a hill.

The terrain is not very dangerous, because the hill is only thirty or fifty feet high. There are no cliffs on all sides. Such a hill bag is all too common in the Zhaoyuan mining area.

No one knows why the Ma family built such a strong fortress in this place, and it would be overkill to say that it was just to prevent the troubled times of recent years.

Because such a strong fortress, as long as there is enough manpower, food and water are not lacking, but it is more difficult to break through than a county town.

The Ma family who are now reindented into the fortress are well-manned and have no shortage of food and water.

If it was Xiao Yuanying's earlier Xiaoyuan, Yuan Gang would never provoke this kind of person, because with Xiaoyuanying's ability, such a strong place would not be able to be defeated at all.

But now, compared with before, the biggest change in Yuan Gang is not only the change in the force in his hands, but more of an eye-opener.

The muskets and small cannons in the hands of the Ma family were irresistible in the eyes of Yuan Gang earlier, but now he knows the magic of the shield car, not to mention that there is a team of real elites in the headquarters of the police station under his command, these are regular Zheng army soldiers.

There are not only tiger squat cannons in his hands, but also four mortar cannons.

After the people who went to persuade them to surrender were driven back by Ma Xingming's scolding and the sound of guns and cannons from the city, the battle officially began.

The Ma family naturally heard the sound of harmony below, but the self-sustaining castle was strong, and one by one it was very presumptuous.

screaming and scolding in his mouth, a particularly arrogant guy actually took off his pants and peed in public here, which was really arrogant to the extreme. Yuan Gang didn't care much, he was killed. Even though the time of Xiao Yuanying's uprising was a little late, he had been mixed in the rebel army sequence for two or three years, and he had never seen or heard of anything.

But the officer Zheng Jun next to him frowned and nodded at a soldier next to him.

The young man immediately raised the rifled pistol in his hand, the butt of the rifle against his right shoulder, and with a slight aim, and with a bang, the fellow with the showman's fetish fell down screaming, and the city was in chaos.

It's miserable. The gun is in the middle of the perineum......

The heads of the people who were arrogantly scolding just now all shrank down in an instant.

"Very good, just fight like this, just look at the leader, don't let them get up."

Yuan Gang said with satisfaction.

They are now about sixty zhang away from the opposite wall, this distance is definitely beyond the range of any long-range weapons in the opponent's hands, don't look at the bunch of rabbits on the high wall just now, shooting and firing, but the firearms in their hands are all "Daming" version, just listen to it. Not a single bullet could be fired in front of you.

On the contrary, on this side, sixty zhang is still within the range of the rifled gun. Under the command of the team officer, the five snipers in the team began to suppress the fire on the city.

Although there are only five rifled guns, one shot will take a life, and for the rabble of the Ma family, it can be just the invitation of Lord Yama, and after a few people died in a row, no one dared to lean out and shoot outside.

The gunfire is not dense, but the lethality is real.

The Ma family had no means to resist their sniping, and anyone who dared to stand out in this section of the city wall could have their heads blooming at any time. After only two or three rounds, the wall was empty, and no one dared to gamble their heads on marksmanship on this side.

Immediately, the local policemen brought by Yuan Gang pushed thick shield carts and rushed directly to the foot of Majia Castle. There is no moat here, this is a mountain, and it is a blessing for the Ma family to be able to hit a mountain spring, but they don't have the ability to build a moat.

Behind the shield cart were rows of musketeers, spears pointed straight at the city. A team of three or five people, as long as someone dares to show their heads, they will immediately shoot in unison and shoot in unison.

Two more people came from the city gate with gunpowder bags, which was to be blasted.

It's just that Yuan Gang doesn't think that he can be happy after blowing up the city gate, and the Ma family is not stupid, I'm afraid that the city gate hole has been blocked a long time ago.

Moreover, the fortress of the Ma family is well fortified, and the terrain is high, condescending to resist the enemy, to be honest, just when the enemy approaches and throws rolling wooden stones, it can make the enemy run into blood.

But the comparison is all the Ming army, the people's army and the chaotic people in the past, and it does not include the Zheng army.

Muskets blockaded the city, and it was up to them to see who dared to show their bodies and throw them down with heavy rolling stones? The musket at the bottom is not an ornament.

The city gate was reduced to countless pieces of wood in the loud explosion, but the inside of the gate was blocked by stones.

Yuan Gang just waved his hand at this, which he had expected. It's not worth being angry!

"Boom, boom, boom......, boom" grenades were immediately thrown into the city by the soldiers, and the explosion sounded, and the city was full of crying fathers and mothers.

"Up, on!"

The warden of Zhaoyuan County, that is, the police chief, waved his hand, and thirty or twenty policemen carried a long ladder and went straight to the city. Another platoon of Zheng musketeers followed.

Yuan Gang, who watched the offensive unfold step by step from a distance, relaxed at the corner of his mouth.

It's all at this point, isn't everything settled?

……

With a ghost crying wolf, the battle against Majiabao was over. The castle is still the same castle, but the owner is no longer the same owner.

When the head of the city was broken by Zheng Jun, the guards of the Ma family in the castle became vulnerable.

Either obediently surrender on their knees, or desperately flee in the opposite direction, but where can they flee? In the end, he surrendered obediently.

The Ma family was also all restrained, and when Ma Xingming was caught, the old horseman was holding a knife in his hand, but he didn't have the courage to wipe his neck.

When I searched until the location of the family members and daughters in the back, I encountered a little trouble, but it was not much resistance, it was just a group of women and children crying and making a fuss. At this time, the police came in handy, went up and threatened with sticks to teach a lesson, and immediately quieted down.

At this point, the armament has been completed, and the next thing is to raid the house - Majiabao is the lifeblood of the Ma family, and a large amount of food and materials are stored in it.

Naturally, this is not something that can be easily transported back to Zhaoyuan by the troops who are attacking and suppressing it.

First of all, he recruited a lot of nearby villagers, took food as a payment, and asked them to help transfer the seized materials.

When Yuan Gang first went to call them over, there were still people trembling, but when they saw that the Ma family, which had been entrenched for more than a hundred years, had become vulnerable under the front of the official army, they were all happy.

Especially Yuan Gang announced that everyone who came to help could carry three buckets of grain home and distribute it according to the head! One by one, the villagers were even more jubilant.

Anyway, they are not the Ma family, even if they had something to do with the Ma family earlier, they were just working in the Ma family's mine. This is not a member of the Ma family. Even seeing that the Ma family was unlucky, they were very happy one by one.

Now it looks more affordable, it's so beautiful.

Of course, what is even more beautiful is that when Yuan Gang threw a box of usury IOUs, deeds of sale, etc. into the brazier and turned into black ashes. Many people present shed tears of relief and bitterness.

The first-class powerful and wealthy family in Zhaoyuan County, with millions of family assets, disappeared in an instant......

After the news came out, with the confirmation of the few officials in Zhaoyuan County who had seen the whole process with their own eyes, I don't know how many gentry and wealthy households were terrified.

As members of the ruling class, when the butcher's knife is put on their own necks, these people realize that they are also ruled.

……

In Dengzhou City, Zeng Ying took the information she had just sent and sighed with mixed emotion.

The Zhaoyuan Ma family has set a good example, and the news has spread, not to mention Zheng Zhilong's control area, that is, Dengzhou and Huangxian are unstable.

"Boss, look at it, this Zheng Zhilong just sent a little food and burned some IOUs, which caused such a commotion among the people. If all the money, food, and goods that have been copied and inspected are distributed at once, then the leaders will not hold him up to the sky. ”

"And this is just a Zhuangzi. If all the large and small villages in Denglai are broken by them, what kind of momentum should it be? ”

"Tens of thousands, every day. …… The land of Guanzhong back then was eroded out of control because of this. ”

Guo Shangyou sighed, "What Zhong Han said is not bad. However, what worries the old man even more is that it is the hatred of the local gentry by these Qiantou people. ”

"The gentry is the foundation of the world, and he should be highly respected, enjoy the popularity of the people, and be loved by the head of Qian. But judging from the things in front of them, the Ma family ...... in the local area, and the people of Qianshou not only did not love it, but they were overjoyed when they heard of it. ”

"There are clouds in the Book of Changes: the house of goodness must have afterglow, and the house of unkindness must have aftermath."

"The Ma family is just like that."

"Take a peek and see the whole leopard. If all the gentry and gentry in the world are like this, they can't wait for the other party to die immediately, then they ......"

Guo Shangyou couldn't go on, and there were several swordsmen and penmen around him who understood this conversation, and all of them were sweating like rain. Because the civil uprising has been the most terrible since ancient times, even if the imperial army can suppress it, there is a chance that these low-level officials have become victims.

Not to mention that behind this 'Diao Min', there is Zheng Zhilong supporting him.