The Great Song Hussar General led 100,000 Beijing troops to the south to collect grain and grass along the way, all the way to "bravely clear" the pirates and rebel Song thieves to recover the lost territory, the results were good, "unstoppable", "urgent" to kill the Suzhou and Hangzhou regions, and so on to get the Yangtze River, Suzhou and Hangzhou in sight, more than half a month has passed, the pirate army has indeed been looted and withdrawn, no need to fight to the death. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The officers and men were all happy, and as far as the eye could see, along the north bank of the Yangtze River, there were dense rows of large and small river boats that could not be seen from east to west.

Among these vessels, the large ones are the government's transport ships or the merchant ships of wealthy merchants that were obtained by pirates when they robbed and collected taxes, and the more large and small boats, including cargo ships and fishing boats, were left near the coastal estuaries by immigrants who took the initiative to take refuge from various inland parts of the Jianghuai River.

The seizure of the government's ship is a merit. Other ships represent huge sums of money, which can be recaptured and sold to the people who need them, even if they are disposed of cheaply.

The officers and soldiers all understood in their hearts, and their eyes were red again.

The officers and men who relied on water and could use boats at home had even redder eyes, and they all wanted to get free and good boats for their families. It's better than money. There was a shortage of shipbuilders in the Great Song Dynasty, and ordinary people could not necessarily order or purchase the boats they wanted, so they could only stare at the people who had boats and made a fortune on the water. With so many ownerless ships in front of you, how can you not be red-eyed?

As soon as the mighty Tianwei of the imperial army came, the little pirates were "frightened and urinated", and the few remaining pirates who looted along the north coast of the river also "hastily" abandoned the boats along the river, fled and fled to the sea in a hurry.

The majestic hussar general who sat high on his horse looked at the fleeing pirates, and said arrogantly and disdainfully: "Even if you know each other, you don't dare to touch the power of the official." Otherwise, you will all be packed up and thrown into the river and floated into the sea to feed the shrimp, soldiers and crabs. ”

In the sycophancy of subordinate officials, the officers and soldiers easily recaptured the ships to cross the Yangtze River, and recaptured the (empty city) Suzhou and Hangzhou prefectures in several "bloody battles".

As for the thief who didn't really fight with the pirates, where did the thief's head come from to prove the results?

Hehe, there are many dead corpses left by pirates in Jiangnan to replace, and if you collect your head, you can deal with it in case the day envoy comes to check it.

Anyway, all the officials here are dead, there are not many local people, the weather is hot, the corpses decompose quickly, and those who die early are all rotten these days, it is difficult to distinguish, no one can uncover this trick, and the results of the battle can be made up as much as they want.

The emperor was overjoyed, issued a decree of commendation, and ordered the army to be stationed in Suzhou and Hangzhou to prevent pirates from committing crimes again and deter the outlaws in Jiangnan to quickly restore order.

The pirates had already completed the task of transporting along the river and receiving the large tide of immigrants from the interior, and deliberately left some men to control the used river boats to stay on the north bank and wait for the officers and soldiers to receive them, in order to prevent these ships from being entrenched on Sanshan Island in Taihu Lake, and the Manichaean naval army trained by Liu Menglong would be able to dissolve the water transportation channel of the Great Song Dynasty for money and grain supply in the south of the Yangtze River.

The hussar general was busy dealing with the ships to make a fortune. Gao Yu has achieved more brilliant results in this regard.

If anyone dares to say that Gao Taiwei is not familiar with military affairs, irresponsible and does not pay attention to military equipment, he is just a courtier who plays a ball to make the emperor happy, and he is not worthy of being the commander of the unified army, and Gao Taiwei will not accept it.

In the past few years, especially in Huaixi, Wang Qing was stirred up, and strong pirates were raised along the coast, and after feeling threatened, he vigorously rectified the central forbidden army, gradually dismissed all the old and weak, whether officials or pawns, and drove them back to their hometowns, and according to the military policy formulated by Song Taizu at the beginning, he transferred young, strong, brave and good soldiers from all armies across the country to fill the central forbidden army, and the insufficient part was selected from the people to be tall and strong and some young men with some martial arts to make up for it.

This guy had another kind of courage, with 300,000 elite Beijing troops quickly left the capital, but instead of rushing to the Jianghuai coastal areas that were being plundered by pirates, he went to the west instead of going east, so that the two deputy generals, the champion general and the Huaihua general, were divided into 100,000 troops, and brought 100,000 of the highest and strongest model army, lined up in a line, and began to slaughter and plunder the big families in the Jianghuai region in the name of eliminating the evil smugglers and pirates who were hiding in the Great Song Dynasty and the pirates who were the root of the scourge of the imperial court.

Everywhere the army swept away, whether it was a giant businessman in the city or a big landlord in the countryside, whether it was a wealthy household with official backers or a wealthy household without an official background, all those who had no direct stake in Cai Jingbai, Zhang Bangchang, Tong Guan and other important ministers, who were not strong enough to support the rich people who were not the emperor's first favorite minister, were all among the targets of looting, and even the related households of the local state officials were not spared.

Today's Gao Yu is not afraid of anyone except for a very small number of people in the court, with the support and help of those powerful ministers to cover up, and the emperor's incomparably strong determination to clean up and crack down on smuggling and weaken pirates, he is even more fearless.

Gao Yu is well versed in the way of being an official, shrewd and slippery, dares to be ruthless, and dares to offend a large number of officials, but he is not blindly arrogant and blind by relying on power and force.

None of the Jianghuai tycoons who can get rich and have a lot of connections but occupy a wide range of land and property are not related to smuggling.

According to the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, smuggling, disrupting normal commercial activities, evading taxes, and selling prohibited items stipulated by the imperial court for huge profits are all capital crimes.

As a Song Min, you are selling some illicit salt, and the government has to cut off your head to show the public if you catch it.

Gao Yu did not make a mistake in this trip, he first had a basis for starting the handle, and treated them differently, and directly destroyed those who were insignificant and could not threaten him, and those who had a relationship to participate in the impeachment of him were all tortured and interrogated to confess to the bandits, and all the men who could work in these people's families were detained in the army as coolies to help the army do heavy work such as transportation and camping, so that the soldiers could be relaxed and happy while robbing a small fortune, and they supported Lord Taiwei more, and the prisoners and hostages were still in Gao Yu's hands.

If the relatives and backers of these hostages and the bureaucrats dare to make clever remarks about Gao Taiwei because their interests have been harmed, Gao Taiwei will be able to backhand and involve them in the major case of smuggling and banditry, which is the most serious crime at present, and the officials who dare to impeach him will be convicted and their families will be ruined. In this way, who would dare to impeach and anger the authority of Gao Taiwei.

Gao Yu also had the means to appease the main local bureaucrats.

He took the gold, silver, jewelry, precious calligraphy and paintings and other valuable things looted by the three-way army in the Chinese army and followed the Chinese army, and was not in a hurry to return to Beijing, one is that it is too eye-catching to be sent back at this time, and the other is that he can't control it, and when the sweep is over, he has to take stock of the harvest clearly, grasp the initiative, calculate how to divide the dirt with his subordinates and Cai Jing, Liang Shicheng and others, and how much to hand over to the treasury, but the cumbersome copper coins are handed over to the local government for silver and handed over to Tokyo, In addition to the local consumption of the army, all the countless grains seized from the landlord's house were handed over to the local government to be paid to Tokyo, so as to alleviate the urgent needs of the imperial court and the hunger of Tokyo. The reason why the food that was grabbed was not taken away as military rations was because the military rations were grabbed again in the next place.

There are many large households in Jianghuai and the sea, so why worry about the lack of food everywhere for the army.

And the many shops, fields, and real estate vacated by the many wealthy families who disappeared in the city and the countryside...... It is the harvest of the local government, and a part of the money is handed over to the state or the land is included in the public property, which proves the merit of Gao Taiwei and the local government to cooperate and make the emperor happy. For the rest, the local bureaucrats can collude with the important officials of the DPRK and the central government to scrape the points as much as they want, which is a huge benefit, which is enough to appease the hurt hearts of the local government dignitaries who have lost their smuggling ties and cut off their financial routes.

After eating a full meal, the local bureaucrats naturally did not dare to hate the first celebrity in front of the hostile emperor, Gao Taiwei.

Dare to provoke the small-minded Captain Gao, that is looking for death.

As for the unrelated smugglers, it's really not a big deal.

Pirate smuggling continues. Profiteering and bile fat. There will be new smugglers who will come up and take the initiative to send money, forming a new chain of local interests.

In other words, aren't the rich people without a strong political background just pigs raised by the imperial court?

It is the pig that will be killed sooner or later for meat. At present, the national crisis is at hand, and there is an urgent need for money and food supplements, so it is naturally time to kill the rich porcupine pigs. The local bureaucracy quickly figured it out.

Don't expect people in officialdom to really show affection and conscience to people who have no political value. It's time to turn your face faster than a book.

Gao Yu's move made most of the people in real power inside and outside the DPRK and China very happy.

I don't like those high-ranking officials who don't deal with the big traitors who are in the alliance of interests. The relatives and important contributors of these high-ranking officials in Jianghuai were the focus of Gao Yu's trip to eradicate and plunder, and they were severely retaliated and weakened, and they also made people suffer and could not speak on this matter. That was the political purpose of the raid.

Gao Yu's 300,000 army was spread out in a gang, and it could easily sweep hundreds of miles, easily crossing the area between the Jianghuai River, grabbing the red eye, killing the red eye, and advancing rapidly, so that the powerful families in the neighboring areas who heard the news could not escape if they wanted to, and there was nowhere to hide. The Jianghuai region, which was not harmed by pirates, who would have thought that it would be completed by high-ranking officials of the imperial court.

When the kingdom is about to perish, there will be demons. Heaven and earth are converted, and there are evil and absurd things.

But Gao's move is not without positive significance.

First, it dealt a heavy blow to the increasingly arrogant and uncontrollable rampant illegal smuggling of the country, deterred the nationwide trend of crazy smuggling in the Great Song Dynasty, and suppressed the trend of becoming more and more serious harm to the country. It strengthened the rule of the Great Song Dynasty over this dependent land, and also strengthened the security of the area near the capital. Second, it has solved the most urgent and fatal problem of the current shortage of grain taxes, and has also alleviated the shortage of money and taxes to a certain extent.

In short, this was a military operation of great significance to strengthen the rule of the Great Song Dynasty, but it was carried out too brutally and bloody, and it was a large-scale bloodbath launched by Cai Jing Gao Yu and others in order to satisfy their selfish desires and keep their official positions and glory and wealth.

Eliminating the remnants of the Han nation and the traitorous scum is also in line with the goals of the pirate empire.

In the future, pirate smuggling was mainly salt and sugar distribution, the unit price was low, and the quantity could be freely distributed, mainly aimed at the lower class people of the Great Song Dynasty to have smuggling money, the purpose was to improve the life and health of ordinary people, and at the same time further strengthen the attraction and immigration of the common people. You don't need to be well-capitalized to participate. It is better to have less smugglers, old households, and large households.

In addition, the 300,000 strongest and potential Janissaries in the capital who had nothing to do all day and stayed in the prosperous and peaceful area of the capital and hardly saw blood or gradually lost their courage and blood, but they also honed their combat effectiveness and courage in the plundering of the powerful and the minions, and grew up.

When Gao Yu continued to report to the emperor, he cleaned up how many traitors who hid in the Great Song Dynasty and killed how many pirates he encountered, which greatly deterred the pirates, eliminated the hidden dangers of the country, and allowed the emperor to harvest money and grain, especially the most scarce food at the moment, and became more and more satisfied with Gao Qing, Wang Qing, who established himself as the king of Chu in Huaixi, was so nervous.

The several state capitals occupied by Wang Qing suffered serious population loss due to constant thieves and wars. The land of Lianghuai Jingxiang is rich and has many rivers, many smart people, many smugglers, many people who come into contact with smuggling pirates to understand the situation of the pirate empire, and many people who leave Huaixi to join pirates, and it is much more convenient to leave with a ship.

This pirate raid showed for the first time the tyrannical power that crushed the Great Song Dynasty and lured more Huaixi people to flee and emigrate.

Wang Qingqiang's soldiers who had been conscripted into the army fled with their families one after another, and this war-torn and increasingly heavy tax area also took the opportunity to flee in the order to intercept the loss of population, and it was impossible to prevent it at all, which quickly reduced the more than 400,000 troops of the Huaixi Army to less than half.

At this time, I heard that the palace marshal Gao Yu led 300,000 elite Beijing troops to the west, the intention was unknown, the march was rapid, the momentum was violent, and the collection of money and grain along the way seemed to have a tendency to store grain and grass for a big war, and it may not be possible to exterminate the Huaixi army on a large scale, so that the puppet Chu State was in a cold sweat, and quickly abandoned several state capitals and concentrated troops to defend the base camp.

As soon as the Huaixi army withdrew, it had no intention of intercepting it, which made it more convenient for the population to drain.

Although it turned out that Gao Yu was only for plundering, not to fight the Huaixi traitors, Wang Qingjunchen had a false alarm, but the population of the jurisdiction was becoming more and more sparse, in order to retain the population, he had to implement "benevolent government", which reduced the cruelty and exploitation of the people. This is probably a good effect of the Pirate campaign.

When the army of Gao Yu swept to the coast of Jiangbei with more and more wealth, the pirates had naturally completed the plundering target of Jianghuai, and all the southern troops withdrew. Only the Marines were left to move to Shandong and began to continue to raid the coastal cities and mansions from south to north according to the progress of summer tax collection.

Gao Yu defeated the pirates and drove the pirates away from the Jianghuai region, and under the pretense of Cai Jing and others, Emperor Zhao Ji was overjoyed and favored Gao Aiqing more and more.

In order to reduce the burden of grain and grass on the march and speed up the pace of marching to pursue and suppress pirates, Gao Yu naturally could not march in the empty areas robbed by pirates, and had to eat from the state capitals that the pirates had not invaded. Gao Yu tasted the sweetness, looking at these mountains of treasures of the Chinese army that he had never seen before, his heart of robbery became even more fanatical, and he hated to rob the world.

It's been a crazy trip. Gao Taiwei is so beautiful in his heart. (To be continued.) )