Chapter 468: The number one traitor

What do other people think, Wang Shuangxi doesn't know where to go, but he knows that he can't go back to this Wangjia Village!

But it's nothing, the gold, silver, soft and other floating wealth in the family has been transported away overnight, and even a few of the most of the family members have been sent away together.

Although he shouted that he wanted to swear to fight the Tang Dynasty, he was not stupid enough to pull a family to accompany the funeral, after all, even if he conquered Huaiyuan County, but when the pseudo-Tang thief army came back, even if he could hold Huaiyuan County, Wangjia Village would definitely not be able to hold it, and the family would inevitably be slaughtered at that time.

So he sent away the gold and silver in advance and his family members, so he Wang Shuangxi didn't know what the other families thought, but he Wang Shuangxi thought very thoroughly.

This flag raising to defeat Tang is just a helpless move!

In fact, now he regrets it a little, he knew that like several other families, spending money to buy a peace is only a few hundred taels of silver.

When the imperial army comes back, life will still be the same!

But at that time, an impulse came to an armed resistance to taxes, and even though the people under his command killed a member of the tax inspection team of the pseudo-Tang thief army.

This killing someone is equivalent to a complete conclusion, and there is not much room for redemption, so it can only fight to the death.

However, now that even the desperate fight has failed, then it is time to consider a way out, and the only way to do this is to go south to Liuzhou, or even go further south to escape the war.

This grange or something to send some domestic slaves to take care of it, even if it was confiscated by the pseudo-Tang thief army, but when the imperial army returned to Huaiyuan County in the future, this Wangjia Village would still be his, and those lands would be his, even if it wasn't his, maybe some of them would be his.

It's not so easy to want his old Wang's field!

If you want his old Wang family to pay taxes, that's even more impossible!

Wang Shuangxi, who had already made arrangements for the back road, saw that the opportunity was not good, and he did not dare to continue to stay under Huaiyuan City, after all, the hundreds of troops of the puppet Tang thief army were more than a mile away, and if he didn't leave at this time, it would really be too late.

Besides, everyone else has run away, but you don't run, doesn't it seem like you're stupid?

Wang Shuangxi also ran away with hundreds of people!

As a result, the rebellion in Huaiyuan County, which was still very jubilant at the beginning, is completely over, and the interesting thing is that not even a single battle has broken out from beginning to end, regardless of the size!

I thought that after these so-called Ming Huaiyuan righteous divisions saw the arrival of the 19th garrison battalion of the Tang Army, they immediately ran away, and they didn't give the pseudo-Tang thief army a chance to fight at all!

After the people of the 19th garrison battalion arrived at Huaiyuan County, Wang Shuangxi and the others had already run away, and the bald battalion commander did not enter the city, but sent someone to let the city continue to hold the county seat, and he continued to lead people to pursue these deserters.

Needless to say, even if the 19th garrison battalion is just an infantry battalion composed of soldiers from the Ming army, these Ming troops are also troops, and they are equipped with all standard cold weapons, armor, swords, shields, spears, bows and arrows.

The young and strong people and the guards organized by the landlords could not resist it at all, and after catching up with a few deserters, the 19th garrison battalion also broke through the estates of these rebellious landlords and seized a large amount of booty.

Not everyone is as cautious as Wang Shuangxi, and they have already prepared, although several landlords who rebelled also have similar preparations, but the time is relatively tight, and there are not many gold and silver soft and family members sent out, and there is an unlucky egg who is just ready to send away the gold and silver soft and a few family members, and the sound of fighting sounded outside the door, don't think about it, it must be the pseudo-Tang thief army who came to the door.

As a result, the family was turned upside down!

This counterinsurgency operation continued until the next morning, when the 19th Garrison Battalion returned to the station at the wharf west of the city. Anyway, the few families involved in the rebellion were all copied by them, and there was not a single hair left.

But Lin Chaotian, the county tax officer, was not at all dissatisfied, and what those big-headed soldiers could take away was gold, silver, soft and grain, and other physical goods, but they could take the land? Residences, shops they can take away?

For the local haoqiang, how much gold and silver can be soft, but it is just a small head, these landlords and old fortunes like to buy more land, residences, shops, these things are the big heads!

So, immediately after the garrison battalion, the tax inspection team once again exerted the combat effectiveness of the elite division of the Tang Dynasty, and quickly confiscated all the fixed assets of several rebellions, well, the defeat includes the population!

Those who participated in the rebellion were wealthy families, those who joined the rebels became prisoners of war, but some who did not participate became criminals.

Among them, there are many female dependents!

For these people, needless to say, just throw them to the Ministry of Industry!

The Ministry of Industry is now planning to set up a large number of workshops in Liuzhou, which has not yet been taken down, but the officials of the Ministry of Industry have already arrived in Liuzhou Mansion first, and now they are on the side of Rongxian County, I heard that they are recruiting workers, and at the same time they have begun to train ordinary hired workers and a large number of free coolies.

Where do these free coolies come from?

One is a prisoner of war, and the second is a mess of criminals, especially the families of criminals who have been implicated in the raid of their homes.

For these free laborers, the workshops of the Ministry of Industry are also treated differently, and the most stubborn attitudes are directly assigned to the most bitter and tiring purely physical posts.

And some of the more good ones will let them do ordinary work.

If it is a female dependent or the elderly and infirm, it is to allocate some labor that does not require much physical effort, such as sewing clothes, cooking and cleaning, etc.

It's always these free coolies who don't get paid and have to work compulsorily.

In addition to the heinous crimes such as rebellion, the prisoners and prisoners of war who are generally implicated in the raid of their homes are generally released as coolies for free for two or three years, and if they behave well and show great subjectivity, and are willing to serve the revival of the Tang Dynasty, then they can be freed in advance.

However, among these confiscated families, the Wang family is not included!

Why?

I thought that the people of the Wang family had run away early in the morning!

Although they also caught many people surnamed Wang in Wangjia Village, the closest ones were only a few Wang Shuangxi's cousins, uncles and nephews, and Wang Shuangxi's wife, daughter, and even brothers, none of them were arrested.

And not much gold and silver were found, all that was found was some residue, and the underground treasury was empty, and there was nothing.

After asking carefully, I knew that on the eve of Wang Shuangxi's move, he had secretly arranged for people to transport his family members and gold and silver away in advance.

As for Wang Shuangxi himself, he retreated without a fight under Huaiyuan City, and rushed all the way towards Liuzhou, and also bypassed both sides of the Liuhe River, and took the land route in the easterly direction, so that the reconnaissance team sent by the 19th Garrison Battalion would not find it for a while.

However, the people of the 19th garrison battalion had already sent a letter to Mei Pingdong, saying that they had reported the relevant situation to the Rongxian side, and as long as Wang Shuangxi dared to take people south to Liuzhou, then there was a great chance that he would still be able to intercept him.

After all, now all sides of Liuzhou are already monitored by the spies of the Tang Army, and although the garrison troops left behind in Liuzhou are not many, they can still intercept a small group of soldiers and horses from entering Liuzhou City.

Wang Shuangxi ran away, but the others couldn't run away, and this time the Tang Dynasty killed a river of blood in Huaiyuan County, which made many people tremble.

At this time, they remembered that the predecessor of the Tang Dynasty was a group of bandits and thieves, how could they be soft-hearted.

It is even more impossible to be like the Ming Dynasty, what scholarly family is given, and what privileges are given to scholars.

Under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, don't say that you are a scholar, even if you are an official, you still have to pay taxes!

After such a rebellion, the follow-up tax collection work in Huaiyuan County was much smoother, and the remaining landlords and heroes calculated the strength of themselves and the Wang family and several other people who were exterminated, and then found that their strength was inferior to them, so they paid taxes honestly.

Compared with money or something, it's still a small life!

However, there are also many people who have begun to cherish the Ming Dynasty!

In the past, they always said that the dynasty was not good, that was not good, but now it seems that the Ming Dynasty is still very good, at least under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, they don't have to pay taxes!

But most of the people who miss the Ming Dynasty are landlords and heroes, especially those who have a famous scholarly family.

The scholarly family in these years is often linked to the landlord Haoqiang!

Because this year is the illusion of Shinong industry and commerce, the official is the most awesome, and who can be an official, a scholar!

Those scholarly families, in fact, to put it bluntly, are official eunuch families who take the imperial examination as their profession!

And this kind of family, after having power, this money will naturally follow.

And these people are also the most nostalgic for the Ming Dynasty.

However, those ordinary businessmen are relatively nostalgic for the Ming Dynasty, although the Tang Dynasty also has to pay business taxes, and the payment is not low, but there is no need to pay dividends up and down like the Ming Dynasty, so this calculation, in fact, in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, the cost is lower.

Some bold merchant families even dared to come over and take the initiative to do business with the Tang Dynasty!

They won't mention Old Man Sun, now Old Man Sun's financial resources have vaguely become the first imperial businessman in the Tang Dynasty, or the number one traitor in the Ming Dynasty!

There are countless kinds of contraband sold to the Tang Dynasty through his hands!

From the steel used to make swords, muskets and other weapons, to the copper used to cast artillery, the lead to cast bullets, the saltpeter, sulfur, and even grain, cloth, salt, etc., almost everything needed in the purchase list listed by the tax department of the Tang Dynasty was able to find and sell it to the Tang Dynasty at a high price!

In just one year, his net worth has increased I don't know how many times!

His business network has spread all over Liangguang, Huguang, Jiangnan, and even Sichuan, Yunnan and other provinces, and there are more than ten caravans directly under his command, directly employing thousands of people.

This person is simply a successful model among businessmen, who dares to buy anything for money, including the nation and the country!

And now, such a person has also appeared in Huaiyuan County, and this person is Cen Chunlin, the largest grain merchant in Huaiyuan County.