Chapter 178: Torture

Zheng Guochang is not stupid, of course he knows that it is impossible for the imperial court to be captured by the full army, and it is already Amitabha Buddha to be able to hand over one or two percent to the imperial court.

He chose to turn a blind eye, knowing that the "Red Flag Army" was running between Yongping and Kaiping Town these days, and he did not stop pulling things from horse-drawn carts, ox carts, and wheelbarrows.

Zheng Guochang's idea was that instead of cheapening people like Liaozhen, it was better to make the "Red Flag Army" more affordable.

Anyway, it won't be long before he returns to Beijing to perform his duties, because the official office of his domain is in the capital, and Yongping Mansion is just a yamen here.

In order to avoid suspicion, he never asked Zheng Xiaowen about the secrets of the "Red Flag Army", and these days his son is sparing no effort to get supplies, and he also intentionally or unintentionally provides convenience.

Zheng Guochang knows that there are some things that are not easy to get hold of, Zheng Xiaowen often goes out in person, where will people give face to the small master of the "Red Flag Army" Zhengbapin, and it is not to pull his tiger skin as a big banner to seek the selfishness of the "Red Banner Army".

Huang Han captured Yongping to avoid the doom of this big city that was slaughtered and burned down in history, of course, he wanted to strive for the greatest benefits, and the materials, money and grain have been in progress.

Gao Youmou had the experience of cleaning up the local tyrants and inferior gentry in Kaiping Town and Hazelnut Town last time, and he copied it in Yongping Mansion.

Although the families who surrendered in the city of Yongping Mansion were all bloodbathed by the Houjin army without exception, because Jiannu was very experienced in robbery, they specially selected the mansion to start, but due to the rush of time, there will always be some lucky landlords and old fortunes who escaped by luck and left a life.

These scholars, doctors and gentry who were destined to be not human inside and outside had been frightened by the massacre created by the Later Jin Army.

Gao Youmou mobilized the masses to report, and on the same day, he confirmed that many local tyrants and gentry who had been traitors were confirmed, and when he took the "Red Flag Army" to arrest these people who were in shock, they all thought that this time they were afraid of death.

Who knew that Gao Youmou actually announced that as long as there was no bloody case and people who were not incumbent officials of the imperial court, they could open the net, and as for who was released and which one was killed, it depended on the confession.

As a result, these people did everything they could to earn performance in order to survive, and the most effective performance of these people all understood - to pay money for the "Red Banner Army".

Their home was searched by the Houjin Army and carefully searched by the "Red Flag Army", so it stands to reason that there should be no oil and water.

In fact, it may not be the case, and the three holes of the cunning rabbit are also!

What landlord would be so stupid as to keep all his gold and silver treasures at home? Put it in a jar, seal it, and bury it secretly at night, which is the easiest way for everyone to do.

It is also common to hide some of the gold and silver treasures in other courtyards or bury them deep underground in old houses outside the city.

Gao Youmou himself once personally hid the gold and silver treasures of his room at night, and he was very good at it.

What Amin got from robbery and murder was only a small part of the goods of these local tyrants and shoddy gentry, and the "Red Banner Army" could only get obvious gold and silver treasures when they dug into the ground.

Gao Youmou led the "Red Banner Army" to adopt the tactics of attacking the heart, and let the local tyrants and inferior gentry reveal the burial place of gold and silver treasures, and the harvest may be far greater than that of Amin.

As for those former Ming officials who surrendered to Jiannu and escaped the Amin massacre by luck, there is no need for Gao Youmou to come forward, because his image is to give people hope, and the cases he handles will not kill the parties.

Wang Zhanpeng specially dealt with these mortal people, and the methods he adopted were somewhat similar to the torture and salary of thieves, using torture, starvation, exposure to the sun, and so on, and so on, and the purpose was naturally to squeeze these corrupt officials and corrupt officials dry before the Ming Dynasty was punished.

It's not that Huang Han is easy to kill, or that he is unwilling to give the Han people a chance to change their minds, but that if they don't deal with the incumbent officials who blatantly surrender to Jiannu for personal gain, in front of everyone's eyes.

Not only is it difficult to block Youyou's mouth, but it is also impossible to educate the public, killing an example to deter traitors and traitors is a must, and it is also a way for the imperial court to end up.

Gao Youmou and Wang Zhanpeng, one adopts the policy of softness, and the other adopts the style of peeling skin and cramping to blow up oil from the bones, and the interests of the "Red Flag Army" are expanding.

Huang Han will not laugh at all the benefits, at this time he has already given Zheng Guochang 50,000 taels of silver worth of gold and silver treasures, and said that the recovery of stolen goods is underway, and there will be a lot of them in the future.

As for whether Zheng Guochang is going to put all of the money in his account or to keep part of it, Huang Sheng will not care about it, and he can't care about it.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, greed for ink became a trend, how easy it is to be a second-grade master to do a clear stream, not deliberately to be corrupt, just to usher in the silver sent to spend I don't know how much, where does the silver come from? It won't be an official from his own home.

Zheng Guochang is not a bad person, under normal circumstances, most of the scholars who have integrity and are willing to die generously are not extremely greedy people. He was given a large amount of silver, and he had plenty of money on hand, which he would use to some extent for the people.

The newly appointed Lu Longzhi County has recently been busy collecting deed taxes to change the number of acres of land, that is, many terra nullius land has been seized by the Huang Han, and many of the good land that still has owners have also been transferred to the Huang family by the owners.

Of course, the county magistrate did not suffer a loss, and smiled at the fertile and beautiful fields of hundreds of acres.

A large part of the property of the Ming Dynasty family is reflected in the land, those who surrendered and escaped the Amin massacre after the Jin Dynasty will be punished by the Ming Dynasty, the land and property will be confiscated, and the women of the family will be confiscated into the Jiaofang Division.

But how did the imperial court know how much property and land these scholars and gentry had in their names? Just give the court a meaning, Huang Han and officials at all levels cooperated, so the Huang family became one of the big landlords in Yongping Mansion.

Huang Han knew that at the moment when he was about to lose the country, it would be a fool to deliberately buy land and property, and he couldn't take this thing away.

But in order to face the tens of millions of hungry Han people, what can we do if we don't adopt the way of supporting the people in Tuntian?

He understands the benefits of large-scale farming, so he tries to contiguous the acres of land he owns, and it doesn't matter if he intersperses with the land of other influential incumbents.

Sending Gao Youmou and Zheng Xiaowen to adopt the method of not letting the other party suffer losses and replacing them with good land, there is basically nothing that cannot be done.

After all, there are very few high-ranking officials and nobles who don't know how to be flexible in these years, and the upstart Huang Han sent the son of the current lord of the domain and the eldest son of the former Liaodong Jinglu to negotiate the exchange of acres.

With the acres of land under their own control and a certain scale, the next step is, of course, to carry out scientific management and strive to increase production and income.

How to ensure the harvest under the harsh natural conditions at the end of the Ming Dynasty is related to the future development of the "Red Banner Army", and it is the only choice to build ditches to form an irrigation system and ensure the harvest of the acres of land obtained by drought and flood.