After knocking on the door for a long time, the Guo family's family was still reluctant to open the door. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This time, Li Zhi executed 241 gentry in Shandong who had contributed money to "dump Li", and among them, 182 gentry had contributed more than 1,000 taels to raid their homes.

It's not that Li Zhi is thirsty for killing, but that these gentry are really in trouble. Let's just say that more than 10,000 people killed by the Guanning army in Luanzhou were all killed by the Tiger Ben army because of the greed of these gentry. These soldiers of the Guanning Army died worthless, if they died on the frontier, they could still be regarded as heroes of the country, and it was meaningless to die under the dispatch of the Donglin Party and the gentry.

Therefore, Li Zhi wanted to severely punish these gentry who made trouble, so as to prevent other gentry in Shandong from doing things that would harm the country and the people, and force Li Zhi to kill again.

Zhong Feng and Han Jinxin's people are starting to raid their homes these days. Although the personnel of the secret guard system are very competent under the leadership of Han Jinxin, Li Zhi does not dare to let the secret guard act alone. Zhong Feng's trap division soldiers and secret guards didn't know each other, and there would be no collusion to steal money when they acted together.

Li Zhi is now very short of silver, especially after taking in more than 600,000 people in western Liaoning, he is even more strapped for money. The resettlement of refugees has eaten up Li Zhi's deposits, and Li Zhi still has a deficit of more than one million taels of silver on his books. Therefore, this time the operation of copying the gentry, Li Zhi personally participated.

When I walked to this Guo family, there was some small problem, and the Guo family dared not open the door.

Han Jinxin introduced to Li Zhi: "This Guo family head Wanli won the Jinshi in the twenty-eighth year, and he was originally a seven-grade magistrate, and he returned to live in this county after giving him. His family has more than 20,000 acres of fertile land in the county, and this time he donated 6,000 taels of silver in the reverse tide..."

"The head of the family was already in the county seat a few days ago, and today we raided his home, and his family was emotional and not very cooperative."

Zhong Feng frowned and said, "Ambassador Han, don't worry, I'll let the soldiers blow up this gate with a grenade." ”

Li Zhi smiled and said, "It still depends on Zhong Feng!" Come! Zhong Feng, your soldiers are coming! ”

Zhong Feng waved his hand, and a soldier from the trapped regiment untied two grenades from his waist and hung them on the gate of the Guo family with ropes. The soldier lit the grenade, and only two loud bangs were heard, and two large holes were blown out in the middle of the vermilion lacquer gate. The deadbolt was apparently blown off by a grenade, and Zhong Feng's soldiers rushed up and kicked hard, and the door was opened.

The soldiers of the trap regiment rushed in with rifles in hand.

"The Tiger Army raided the house! All get on your knees! ”

Li Zhi was waiting outside, and suddenly heard the sound of gunshots coming from the courtyard. Obviously, the Guo family's family members still resisted stubbornly when they were dying, and they were forced to shoot in the formation.

Li Zhi shook his head, walked into the courtyard, and sure enough, he saw thirty soldiers of the trapped regiment holding rifles, forcing more than forty Guo family children and family members into a corner. Those Guo family disciples and family members held swords in their hands, and they were actually desperate.

Seeing Li Zhi walk in, a middle-aged man at the head of the Guo family shouted: "Li thief! You killed my father, and now you want to raid our home, and our family is fighting with you! ”

The middle-aged man in charge of the house recognized Li Zhi.

Li Zhi glanced around the courtyard and saw two corpses lying on the ground. The deceased was dressed in satin clothes and was obviously a child of the Guo family.

Li Zhi said lightly: "I'm not going to kill you all. You can join your father's reclamation team like a destitute peasant. The reclamation team will pay one tael of monthly money for food and housing, and you can cultivate the fields after they are cleared. A strong man has 20 acres of dry land, and the land rent is 30%. ”

Hearing Li Zhi's words, the children of the Guo family were stunned, and they all turned their heads to look at the middle-aged man led by them. Although I had learned about the policy from the newspaper before, it was still more convincing for Li Zhi to say it himself. After hearing the way out given by Li Zhi, they were not ready to fight with Li Zhi anymore. As long as the middle-aged man in charge agrees, the Guo family is ready to lay down their arms.

But the middle-aged man in the Guo family who was the leader was still irritable and yelled: "Li thief! You let our family go to farming, what about our wives and concubines? My three brothers have wives and concubines, our eight sons and nephews have more than 20 wives and concubines, and there are more than 30 minor children and grandchildren in the family! Can farming be fed? ”

Li Zhi frowned, and said lightly to Zhong Feng: "Kill him!" ”

Zhong Feng took a rifle from the guard's hand, aimed slightly, and shot a bullet with a snap.

Blood suddenly flew from the middle-aged man's chest, splashing his family members around him. When the ladies of the Guo family who were standing behind saw this scene, they squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands one by one, screaming non-stop. The men of the Guo family looked at the middle-aged man who fell to the ground screaming, as if he had been struck by lightning.

Only then did they understand the fate of resistance, and one by one they dropped their weapons and fell to their knees.

Li Zhi looked at these pathetic and lamentable gentry and shook his head.

Li Zhi gave these gentry the opportunity to be tenant farmers of "public land", which was already a very generous treatment. As long as the water conservancy is repaired for a year and new fields are opened, an adult farmer's annual harvest will be exchanged for 20 or 30 taels of silver, which is enough for food and clothing. However, how could these gentry be willing to be peasants when they had lived too nourishing by the privilege of tax evasion, and were used to living a life of fine clothes and fine food?

Under such contradictions, there was constant bloodshed in the process of raiding homes.

Li Zhi didn't talk much to the children of the Guo family, and took Han Jinxin and Zhong Feng to the warehouse in the backyard.

The soldiers used grenades to blow open the door of the Guo family's warehouse, and Li Zhi walked in to take a look, and sure enough, he found more than a dozen boxes of silver. Li Zhi's guards opened the boxes and looked at them, grabbed the boxes again, lifted them, and said, "Grandpa Guo, this is a thousand taels of silver, and there are more than 10,000 taels here." ”

Zhong Feng was surprised and said, "That's all? This Guo family is a county order, with more than 20,000 acres of land. A family has raised so many children and grandchildren, and has only saved more than 10,000 taels of silver for so many years? Ghosts don't believe it! ”

Han Jinxin moved in a stray position, looked around in the warehouse, and suddenly noticed the pillar in the warehouse. He patted his hand on the pillar and smiled.

"Come on, cut the wood on the outside of the pillar!"

The four guards raised their embroidered knives and began to cut the pillars. Sure enough, when the wooden pillar was stripped of an inch of its outer skin, white silver came out of it.

The four pillars of the treasury were made of silver.

Han Jinxin didn't give up, he trampled back and forth on the floor of the warehouse, and sure enough, he found a loose green brick. He pulled out the green brick, and when he blew it hard, the bottom of the storeroom was exposed.

The whole foundation of the storehouse was made of a layer of silver.

Li Zhi smiled, and secretly said that this Han Jinxin is really a talent, and this Guo family's method of hiding silver can't hide his eyes.

These four pillars, together with the silver on the foundation, amounted to at least 200,000 taels. This Guo family Jinshi has been an official for decades, and he really didn't do it for nothing.

Lee Sik patted Han Jinshin on the shoulder.

Han Jinxin said with a smile: "Grandpa Guo, this time there are one hundred and eighty-two households, although not every family has this Guo family so rich, but there are still more than 20 million taels of silver, and we are not short of money now!" ”