Chapter 101: The Qing Army Breaks Songshan

A local government, even if it doesn't know what to do with these powerful families, what should be written down will also be recorded in the paperwork, and this can't be changed.

Even if there is no one in the document, the local government and county records will always find some clues, which are ironclad evidence to punish the local tyrants.

No matter when he moves out, Zhu Youhua is always on the right side.

In fact, this page on the document does not have a record of the four sons of the Peng family robbing the people's daughters, but the officers and soldiers of the Nanyang battalion listened to what the people in the city said.

Zhu Youhua took it for a try, these four sons didn't even know what day it was, and which family had already confessed, which also shows that the Peng family has done this kind of thing more than once, and it really should be killed!!

These rumors are true or false, but if it is about these big families bullying men and women, nine out of ten are true, this is not alarmist, this is the current national situation of the Ming Dynasty.

If Zhu Youhua hadn't led people to defeat Tian Jianxiu, there were no officers and soldiers stationed in this inner township, and the news of the thieves defeating the officers and soldiers came, it was really hard to say what kind of chaos would have happened at this time!

You Hua punished the local landlord Peng family, and took the Peng family's dozen estates outside the city and many properties in the city as their own, and the rest of the big families did not see the slightest anger and corruption, but they all looked like they were dead and tried their best to curry favor.

Come to think of it, they have also done a lot of such things, Zhu Youhua threw the book at his feet, he was afraid that every time he read a page, he would kill the whole family!

What's even more interesting is that although Zhu Youhua only planned to kill the Peng family's monkeys, what he found next obviously didn't want him to let go of these powerful families easily.

In the process of searching the mansions of these heroes, the officers and soldiers found some people's correspondence with Tian Jianxiu, how could Haoqiang have dealings with the rogue?

Zhu Youhua didn't want to ask more questions, he only knew that these letters had now become ironclad evidence of the bandits, and no matter how he dealt with them, there would be no mistakes!

There is also a very interesting situation, the government and officers and soldiers are often aware of local affairs, but these powerful families can always know at the first time, and the exchange of news between each other is extremely convenient.

For example, this time Zhu Youhua met Liukou in Zhenping, Yuan Shizhong, who was in the inner countryside at the time, still received a Pegasus order to know about it, but the local families and heroes knew about it for a long time.

Even on the day Yuan Shizhong left, they began to discuss how to distribute various local industries after Zhu Youhua's defeat.

However, Zhu Youhua did not follow their wishes, the Nanyang battalion won, and it was a big victory, Jukou Yuan Shizhong led 20,000 thieves to be convinced, and the army came to the inner countryside in a blink of an eye.

Before Zhu Youhua entered the city, he was in the Peng family's own village outside the city, and raided the Peng family, who was guilty of Jing petitioning, and more than a dozen gangsters, which greatly shocked the place.

The officers and soldiers were stationed outside the city for a few days, and when Zhu Youhua ordered to enter the inner countryside on the 5th day of May in the 15th year of Chongzhen, the journey was completely different from the desertion when he first came.

Whenever they pass through the fields of a certain family, although the family has nothing good to reward, it is inevitable that men and women will stand in front of the door to greet the so-called teacher of righteousness.

Then Zhu Youhua took advantage of the arrival of Daughter's Day to convene a banquet in the official office in the city.

But when Zhu Youhua put the official booklet on the table, the heroes regretted it one after another, and they nodded one by one, they were really a bunch of disobedient.

But no matter what I thought in my heart, Zhu Youhua's people arrived, and the soldiers came, and the heroes still put all the arrested people home, and all kinds of materials were sent to the treasury according to Zhu Youhua's request.

In front of such a grand festival, Zhu Youhua spoke again, saying that the people of Daming have not had a traditional festival for many years due to war and poverty.

The people have a hard time, but they are all looking forward to the festival, you rich and powerful families have surplus funds, this king will give you this opportunity, and he will host this daughter's festival for the government.

Let's talk ahead, if anyone dares not to use force, then don't blame the king for bringing up the old things, and then kill a chicken to show the monkey.

The Dragon Boat Festival of the Ming Dynasty absorbed the custom of the Jin people to shoot willows, and the folk in the Central Plains and the south called the Dragon Boat Festival "Daughter's Festival", and Liaodong and Shandong regions are still used to call it the Dragon Boat Festival.

I heard that Zhu Youhua, the king of Nanyang, ordered the big families to fund the Daughter's Day celebration and dragon boat race, and the people were very happy to come to such a prince who was the master of the people.

The strangeness and fear caused by the officers and soldiers entering the city on the first day of the new year disappeared in an instant, and the people of every household were actively preparing for this Daughter's Day.

Of course, the common people rarely have spare money to get those expensive things, and they just replace them with some of the cheapest hairpins and clothes.

However, due to the escort of the officers and soldiers and Zhu Youhua personally sitting in the town, the official offices were re-operated, the red lanterns were hung high, and the festive atmosphere inside and outside the township was very high.

At this time, Nanyang may be the only place in the Central Plains and even the north that has the leisure to go to any Daughter's Festival.

The battle of Songjin has broken the deadlock, Songshan has been besieged by the Qing army for a long time, and Emperor Chongzhen's entire mind is focused on Liaodong, and he has no time to take care of the fateful battle between Sun Chuanting and Li Zicheng.

Emperor Chongzhen first ordered Shuntian Governor Yang Shenwu to rescue Hong Chengchou, which was not enough, and within a few days, he ordered to send Fan Zhiwan, the squire of the military department, to rush out of the customs to help.

After receiving the order, these two people gathered troops without fighting, and only Jiao Yin, the deputy general of Shanhaiguan, led his troops to help, but as soon as they came out of Shanhaiguan, they encountered an ambush from the Azig Department and were routed back.

According to Zhu Youhua's estimate, in the past few days of the Daughter's Day, the food in the whole city of Songshan should be exhausted, the Qing army is about to capture Songshan, and the success or failure of the battle of Songjin between the Ming and Qing dynasties is coming.

In fact, as Zhu Youhua estimated, on the day of the festival of the military and civilians in the inner countryside, Xia Chengde, the deputy general of Songshan, was desperate and sent his son to the Qing army as a hostage, and made an appointment with the Qing army to attack the city.

The Qing army attacked Songshan on the prescribed May 3rd, Xia Chengde opened the city and surrendered, and the general soldiers such as Qiu Minyang, the governor of Liaodong, and Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen, who went out to help the suppression, fought unyieldingly in the streets, and more than a dozen Qing soldiers were swords, and none of the rest surrendered, and all of them were killed.

On the day of the destruction of Songshan City, Zhu Youhua was reorganizing the more than 20,000 small Yuan camps in the inner countryside.

These thieves have actually proven their ability in the battle of Zhenping, but there are still some old and weak people and disobedient people within them.

After Zhu Youhua re-screened them according to the specifications for recruiting the Nanyang battalion, he directly prepared weapons and supplies for them and made them a member of the Nanyang battalion.

Those soldiers of the Xiao Yuan Battalion who were not selected also have arrangements, they can settle down in the local area with the pension money or return to their hometowns directly, or they can work hard to become auxiliary soldiers, and if there is a shortage in the Nanyang Battalion, they will be selected from among them.

After the reorganization, the people and horses of Xiao Yuan's camp have been properly settled.

Because the regular soldiers and auxiliary soldiers of the Nanyang battalion are treated more favorably, and those who settle down or are sent back to their hometowns are also given pension money, so no one has any complaints.

After this reorganization of the Xiaoyuan camp, the number of men and horses in the Nanyang camp suddenly expanded by nearly six times, and it quickly increased to nearly 20,000 people.

With 20,000 officers and soldiers, this number is not small, more than the average general soldier and deputy general, and 20,000 is not a rabble like Zuo Liangyu.

They are all elite men with complete equipment, who have experienced great battles, and have been training non-stop day by day.

In recent days, the nearby prefectures and counties have suddenly spread the deeds of Zhu Youhua defeating the thieves and purging the localities, and everyone praised the Nanyang camp as a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and the officials of the various official offices of Nanyang Prefecture have also sent countless meritorious deeds to the Beijing Division.

In order to please the new master of Nanyang Wangye, the powerful people specially made a plaque to send it to the official office, and the festive atmosphere just after the Daughter's Day was still there, and the Nanyang Mansion was really lively for a while.