In the cold season, the vast majority of small people have nothing to do.

The "Red Banner Army" organized 500,000 young and middle-aged people to mine, quarry, and repair the passes with stones, and at the same time detained and interrogated those who intended to clear the customs and report the information.

When the crackdown on Jin merchants and corrupt officials to extort money and grain was nearing the end, the imperial court was in a fog, and only felt that Shanxi was unusual, and did not know what was wrong.

It was not until the 27th of the lunar month that Shanxi's crackdown on local tyrants had been carried out for half a month, and many civilian and military generals suddenly came to their senses.

Because they learned that three days ago, Jinyi Wei attacked tens of thousands of lieutenants and helpers, and at the same time confiscated the assets of the collaborating enemy Jin merchants in the capital and Gyeonggi, and arrested the suspects.

On this day, Yang Sichang, who had been under house arrest by Huang Han for more than 20 days, was freed, and Huang Ang brought dozens of mouths to the governor of Xuanda.

After only reading three copies, Yang Sichang began to sweat, the Qing army fled from his defense area, he should be held responsible, but he was able to find a reason to excuse himself.

After all, tens of thousands of Qing soldiers fled, far more than the soldiers and horses he could mobilize, and going to make a contract with the Qing army was tantamount to letting the Ming army die, his decision was wise, and the emperor who wanted to trust him did not necessarily delve into it.

But the confession he saw was clearly written, how many Jin merchants and benefits he had received from his family and his staff over the years, and even how many bribes he had received in the last ten years of his recently deceased Lao Tzu Yang He.

There are very few corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty, and the buttocks of the Yang family are not clean.

In order to dredge up the relationship, the Jin merchants were simply pervasive, and they had just learned the news that Yang Sichang was the governor of Xuanda, so although Yang Sichang did not go to the post, he did not delay receiving gifts during the Ding Wei period.

The vast majority of businessmen are shrewd and know how to cast a long line to catch big fish, and dealing with court officials is not necessarily for immediate interests.

Huang Han had no intention of dealing with Yang Sichang, and put him under house arrest only to facilitate the looting of the property of the Jin merchants, and to facilitate the "Red Banner Army" teenagers to collect evidence of the Jin merchants' crimes of collaborating with the enemy and bribing the Ming civil officials and military generals.

Half a month has passed since the full-scale flowering operation, and under the all-weather full load of interrogation, no Jin merchant can afford it, and now it can be described as ironclad.

Wu Xiang was originally a corrupt official and a businessman, and after being named by Huang Han to collect evidence of the crimes of civil officials above the fourth grade in Shanxi, he did everything he could.

He is smart, and he knows that to deepen his relationship, it is better to do a hundred good things with the leader than to do one bad thing in a partnership.

After Fan Yongdou and his son suffered a lot at Wu Xiang's hands, they found that Wu Xiang was an expert in changing beans, and finally confessed all the beans poured from the bamboo tube, just to be able to leave a life.

At the moment of the showdown, Huang Han saw that Yang Sichang was no longer the arrogant face he had when they first met, not only did he not dare to hold it, but his forehead began to sweat, and he said with a smile:

"Lord Yang, how easy it is for this lord to promise the Son of Heaven that he will be in Pingliao for five years, and how much food and salary are lacking, and the preliminary calculation is that less than 30 million taels of silver is not enough for expenses at all.

Therefore, it was decided to crack down on the traitorous Jin merchants in Shanxi, and punish the civil and military generals who colluded with the Jin merchants. ”

The evidence was ironclad, and Yang Sichang did not plead, and asked in a low voice: "Liao Guogong, I don't know how you are going to deal with the lower officials?" ”

Huang Han said: "Lord Yang misunderstood, there are almost no officials in the Ming officialdom, and there are not too many yellow and white things in your pocket, in order to raise soldiers, Ben Jue asked for money and food and did not want to kill all the officials in Shanxi, including Lord Yang." ”

Yang Sichang heard Huang Han's statement, his eyes lit up, and he followed the words: "Grandpa shoulders the heavy responsibility of Pingliao for five years, no matter what he does in Shanxi, it is not too much.

If you inform the lower officials in advance, the lower officials will definitely do their best to assist the grandfather to take down those traitorous merchants and the officials and officials who are complicit in them. ”

Yang Sichang is indeed a Junjie, because he is so knowledgeable about current affairs, Huang Han asked: "What does Lord Yang mean by his words that Benjue has done the right thing?" ”

Justice is at ease in the hearts of the people, and Yang Sichang is still a talented strategist, he doesn't know that the collusion of officials and businessmen in the Ming Dynasty is rife with corruption, and he is powerless to change the status quo, so he can only choose to go with the flow.

Now that he learned that the general of the conquest had actually wiped out the Shanxi businessmen and civilian and military generals, he was actually so impressed that he really thought that the money and grain being held by the "Red Banner Army" would definitely benefit the country and the people.

Yang Sichang said without hesitation: "General Huiyu, of course you are doing the right thing, the imperial court's finances are stretched, and money and food are needed everywhere for the people, raising troops, and disaster relief. ”

Huang Han said: "So very good, this period of time because of the enemy and I are difficult to distinguish so wronged Lord Yang, today you and I are open and honest, this lord thinks that Lord Yang is a fellow believer, Xuanda, Shanxi is now full of devastation, Lord Yang must continue to perform his duties on the same day." ”

Yang Sichang is definitely a smart person, he respectfully came to the ground and said: "Rest assured, the lower officials will stand firmly on your side, and if you find that there are Jin merchants who dare to confuse right and wrong, you will be severely punished!" ”

The goal was achieved, and Huang Han burned several confessions accusing the Yang family of being corrupt and perverting the law in front of Yang Sichang.

At the same time that Yang Sichang began to work, more than half of Shanxi's civil officials also resumed their work.

The officials who were released from house arrest had bitter words, and too many people were trembling with distress, because the fertile land they had seized and the grain they had hoarded had been confiscated, their money and property had been confiscated, and even a few jars buried in other courtyards had been found by the "Red Banner Army."

The advantages of strengthening education are reflected in the fact that after uninterrupted literacy eradication of veterans, the literacy rate of the "Red Banner Army" is 100 percent, and all young soldiers can write and count.

The vast majority of the young officers with impeccable loyalty came from orphans adopted in previous years, who naturally hated corrupt officials and profiteers, and dug up their wealth to raise military salaries for the "Red Banner Army".

Coercion, inducement, and intimidation, without starting to torture the current officials, deal with the officials' housekeepers, servants, and scholars, and go to bed with big girls, and the corrupt officials' property will be exposed to the world without much trouble.

The "Red Banner Army" teenagers who interrogated Shanxi and Xuanda officials calculated their legal income according to their income and the time they had been in office, minus necessary expenses, and finally returned only a few dozen or several hundred taels of silver.

The civilian, military general, who was close to bankruptcy, was extremely resentful in his heart, but the handle was pinched by the general who was captured, so he had to choose to swallow his anger.

Huang Han is not afraid that these people will turn the tables, because the money and food have been received, and the main purpose has been achieved.