Chapter 181: Can Li Zicheng's 'King' Vest Be Kept?
"I am the heart of Dashun, I am the heart of Dashun, the military master spares his life, spares his life, the military master spares his life......"
A six-rank official was dragged to the side of the road by a strong Shunjun soldier like a chicken in soup, and then the knife rose and fell, and a cavity of blood stained the ditch red.
"Dog officer, it's really cheap for you to cut it with a knife."
A Dashun Army officer standing next to him smacked at the corpse, his face full of vicious hideousness. The left cheek was a centipede-like scar, bent and trembling, extremely terrifying.
A moment later, a man came to him and reported: "Mr. Sentinel, this dog official is really greedy. There were probably as many as 10,000 taels of silver, more than 40 pieces of gold and silverware, five boxes of jewelry, and 200 taels of gold in small ingots. ”
"Do you want to know where it's sacred?" Mr. Whistle was amazed, this is a six-grade sesame official, and his family background is so rich? If the Ming Dynasty does not die, there is no reason.
"There is a subordinate who explained that this dog official is the head of the Ministry of Officials."
"No wonder this guy has such a thick background." The whistle is always a person who doesn't have much knowledge, but he knows very well what the official is. Da Shunjun had publicly cut off the skull of a family before. The family's surname is Zheng, and the father, son and nephew are thirteen or fourteen people working in the office of the officials, embezzlement and wealth, and the family property is more than 100,000 yuan. Emperor Chongzhen fled in the wilderness, and the people he took away were all officials, such as the Zheng family, such a small official was not among them, but the Zheng family also had enemies in the past, and they sued the Dashun army after entering the city.
The Shun army sent people to raid the house, and only the ingots of silver copied out 50,000 taels.
The wealth of Yanjing is known to countless soldiers of the Shun army.
"Set aside a portion, and the brethren divided it. I'll pack the rest. "That's to be handed over to the duke," the male and female slaves were separated, and the family of the dog official was divided between men and women. ”
According to the regulations set before the departure of the army, when encountering corrupt officials who can't live to die, they will be slashed and killed with a knife. But you can't insult women and children at will, this point can still be defended by the Dashun army.
After all, Li Zicheng only entered Yanjing City, and the military discipline of the Dashun Army has not been corrupted, even if it is placed in the same period of history, the Dashun Army at this time is also a first-class army of kings and a division of benevolence and righteousness.
They just set the rules, and the family members of this kind of criminal officials are two kinds of people from the families of other degraded officials. To distinguish between them.
The former will be given to their brothers, while the latter will most likely be future colleagues in the palace and will be treated with courtesy.
"Let's go, let's go......"
The group braved the rain and drove to the northwest, where Xianghe County was the current base camp of the Dashun army. Not long after, another group of people, under the supervision of more than a dozen Shunjun horsemen, walked towards the direction of Xianghe County with one foot of mud and one foot of water.
This is all a demotion, don't look at the Dashun army on both sides of the horse soldiers shouting fiercely, but in addition to the kung fu on the lips, these soldiers will not do anything. Even if they were really tired of walking and slowing down, they were only verbally urged by the horsemen.
Don't look at anything else, just look at them or have paper umbrellas in their hands, or they have robes, then the treatment is very good. After all, scarcity is expensive.
So much so that when these people came here, they had some confidence in their hearts, and their courage was somewhat magnified.
"Isn't this the chief of the Ministry of Officials?"
"Sure enough, it's Xu Guancai, this person is the same year as the younger brother, and he won't be wrong."
"It's a pity, the person who is also the title of the gold list ended up like this."
"I'm afraid that there is too much greed, and the heavenly soldiers are shaken, so I rewarded him with a knife...... "It's not the first time they've seen such a corpse."
"Haha, the official of the ministry, how can you say that you are honest? It's like the people of the household who have no rice in their homes. An official couldn't help but quip, and it could be regarded as a joy in suffering, "Heavenly soldiers didn't catch Wu Chang." Otherwise, shouldn't the person surnamed Wu be dismembered with a knife? ”
"What kind of person is Wu Changshi? Let you officials and masters treat it like this? The official's words aroused the curiosity of a person on the side. These Shunjun horsemen are all from the bottom, and they are the most curious about the gossip of the upper-class characters, even if those upper-class characters are already in trouble now.
"Wu Changshi? That's amazing......" Seeing that the Dashun army horsemen on the side actually liked to listen, the officials immediately became energetic. One by one, they turned their stomachs and told the ugly things they knew about officialdom. Because they know it's going to please these people.
No, not Qiu Ba. At this time, they didn't think that these horsemen were Qiu Ba, they were obviously all ancestors and uncles.
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Yang Village, north of the Triangle Lake, is about thirty miles away from the Acropolis of Jinmen.
Zheng Zhilong stopped his troops here, and Chongzhen and his entourage rushed to Jinmen Guard early. After the Battle of Xianghe, although Bai Guangen and Ma Ke were still ordered to pursue, how could they dare to come to the truth?
Even if it rains, Zheng Zhilong has thousands of horse troops in his hands, and not all of those battalions are musketeers, even if they are musketeers, are the musketeers wearing Zheng's cotton armor really weaker than the soldiers under them?
Zheng Jun is wearing armor, and this alone will completely destroy the two white horses.
Therefore, Zheng Zhilong's army retreated to Wuqing unharmed, and joined the reinforcements led by Zheng Zhipeng.
Fortunately, their purpose was not really to capture Emperor Chongzhen alive.
Zheng Zhilong led his troops to retreat to Yang Village, Yang Village is a point on the Beijing-Tianjin-Cao Yun, don't look at it as just a village, and it is comparable to an ordinary county seat when it is lively.
There are walls here, there are plenty of manpower and relatively rich materials, and it is not far from the Jinmen guards, and it is even closer to the triangle.
Even if it is to guard the safety of Jinmen, Yang Village cannot lose this point.
To do the play, you have to do everything, Zheng Zhilong wants to play his role of 'loyal minister' at home, this is all in Jinmen, and the horizontal and vertical are not bad. Zheng Zhilong led more than 5,000 troops and personally sat here. That's watching the officials who are pulling behind suffer.
In fact, along the way, many smart officials either lost their belongings early in the morning, only took gold and silver, and rushed to Jinmen in a light car; Or turn around early and return to Dashun Dynasty.
Only those who know that they are wrong but can't give up their money, or simply some people who want money and don't want to die, or people who don't "think much" at all, and hold on to their family property and don't let go, then they can only consider themselves unlucky.
Those who wish to observe talents are the unlucky people among those who are unlucky.
At this time, the people who could still land in the west of Yang Village were all such people, so Zheng Zhilong was not going to save them.
Because of these officers, he killed and injured his soldiers, and he felt that it was not worth it.
Besides, he is now a loyal and good general Zheng Zhilong, even if he doesn't send soldiers to save these officials, others can't find an excuse to say him?
What do you mean by that? Zheng Zhilong has been behind the palace all the way, no matter how you look at it, he has done his best, hasn't he?
Li Zicheng must have gotten a lot of money, and Zheng Zhilong didn't care, because he also got a lot. Especially after the noble emperor's relatives and civil and military officials poured into Jinmen, didn't Zheng Zhilong's opportunity to squeeze silver come again?
That's the big head.
He really hoped that Li Zicheng would be able to keep his good image after getting a part of the silver - the wind of a king, the army of benevolence and righteousness, and not falling off the horse.
Otherwise, after the Qing army entered the customs, there would be another storm, which would only cause trouble for Zheng Zhilong.
Zheng Zhilong wants to keep Nanming's banner, but he never wants to spend too much investment on Nanming.
Nan Ming was just a shield in Zheng Zhilong's heart, he hid behind to quietly develop his strength, and when the time was ripe, he overturned the table and appeared on stage by himself.
If too much energy is involved in the battle of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it will only delay his own development.
The Dutch had already been beaten down by Zheng's sailors, and the British were still gathering momentum, and their strength in the East was far inferior to that of the Dutch. The big duck is also about to decline (relatively), the Portuguese have to get by, and Nanyang is like a plate of fat meat, waiting for Zheng Zhilong to taste it.
Even if we can't quickly occupy the entire South Seas, only repair Angkor, Annam, Siam, Burma and other countries, and collect protection money, I don't know how much oil and water can be squeezed. In the short term, it is much more profitable than farming in Dayuan and the Mekong Delta.
What's more, the first foothold of Zheng's Nanyang plan is in Temasek, as long as he can establish a firm foothold, with only one Huayang trade and one import and export tax, Zheng Zhilong can not make a lot of money?
With silver and food, he can not only strengthen his own foundation, but also raise more armies and build bigger and more ships!
The Dutch suffered heavy losses in the big man, and the effects were cascading. It's not a big deal, and Batavia doesn't have any. Although the Dutch had not yet given in and signed an agreement with Zheng Hongkui, it was only a matter of time.
I believe that if the Zheng family's warship goes around Batavia twice, Anthony van Diemen will be obedient.
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Time passed minute by minute in Zheng Zhilong's 'cranky thoughts', and in the evening, a new news came from Jinmen, Wu Sangui had moved.
Wu Sangui and the soldiers and civilians of Ningyuan entered Shanhaiguan, and were received by the general soldier Gao Di, and the people were stationed in Changli, Leting, Luanzhou, and Kaiping prefectures and counties (Yongping Mansion) near Shanhaiguan. He himself led his 20,000 troops to continue to march to the capital, although he received the news of Emperor Chongzhen's southward migration from Wu Xiang halfway through. In Fengrun County, he received an edict from Emperor Chongzhen.
The choice of fate was placed in front of Wu Sangui's eyes, and he was difficult to make a decision for a while, so he happened to encounter Tang Tongbu, the general sent by Li Zicheng to garrison Zunhua. How could Tang Tong, who had only lost one game at the hands of Zheng Zhilong, be Guan Ningjun's opponent? Wu Sangui easily defeated Tang Tong with his army and surrendered more than 1,000 people.
Tang Tong, who was already tired because of the death of his son, almost couldn't think about it for a while, and died in Fengrun.
Tang Tong retreated to Yutian County, Yutian is in the west of Fengrun County, and the distance between the two is forty or fifty miles.
Wu Sangui did not move his troops again, that is, he did not rush to Jinmen, King Qin rescued him, and he did not send troops to Yutian to destroy the rebels. Instead, after a two-day pause in Fengrun County, he turned his horse's head and returned to Shishanhaiguan.
Because of this, Qiu Minyang, the governor of Jiliao stationed in Luanzhou, completely turned his face with him, and called on the loyal people in the people's army under his command and the loyal soldiers in the Guanning army to rush to King Qinmen of Jinmen.
The news from Jinmen at this time was that Qiu Minyang had arrived with people.
There are 13 civil officials above the seventh grade in the department, three Xiucai, one lifter, and more than 300 soldiers.
When we set out from Luanzhou, there were still more than 2,000 people, 350 of them were officials, and nearly 100 people were famous, and now there are only about 300 people left with the soldiers.
Zheng Zhilong felt a faint sadness in his heart when he heard this!