"These are my people?"

Standing in a village on the bank of the canal, Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty looked at the hellish scene in front of him and said in a trembling voice.

It's real hell.

In the rancid mud were broken thatched houses, but they were already high-end dwellings, most of them were shacks, triangular shacks covered by rotten wood and grass, and the scrawny skeletal people came out of them in twos and threes, looking at their emperor with numb eyes. They were more rags than clothes, and some of them, even in the cold of spring, could only cover their bodies with tattered sacks, even women. Among them, some children with big heads and big bellies and thin arms like dry wood crawled in the mud, and several starving corpses lay in the mud without having time to clean them, and an equally scrawny wild dog sniffed at one of the dead bodies that had not yet fully breathed.

"These are your people, born of humility and dying of humbleness, they were born in the mire of hunger and cold, they also died in the mire of hunger and cold, for generations, there is no light in their world, they are all for a little ......"

Yang Qing paused as he spoke.

He stretched out his hand to pick up a child, and in his angry struggle, he broke his little hand and took out a black ball of unknown composition but obviously with coarse plant fibers, and handed it to Chongzhen.

"Live, eat grass like livestock!"

He went on to say.

Chongzhen took it silently, he broke it open and looked at the things that were obviously only in the bark inside, and tried to put this to his mouth, he didn't dare to bite more, but he just bit a little, but because there was no starch in itself, plus there were those coarse fibers, with the action of his bite, the ball instantly turned into pieces and scattered, and Chongzhen also subconsciously spit it out at the same time, and the expression on his face could see that he actually wanted to swallow it hard, but in the end he still didn't carry his instinct.

At the moment, the expression on his face was very strange.

"Your Majesty, they haven't always been like this, these homeless people all make a living by pulling fiber for the boats going to Tongzhou, and now the war is broken, and the winter has just passed and the river has thawed, so the days are a little harder."

Wang Chengen wiped his cold sweat and said cautiously.

"So that the Ming Dynasty is here, all officials can be killed!"

Chongzhen almost gritted his teeth and said.

After saying that, he turned around and walked straight away, Wang Chengen hurriedly took those internal exercises to catch up, and Li Laiheng, who was escorting not far away, looked at this scene with a smile.

Of course, Yang Qing didn't leave.

He waved back, and four soldiers of the Shun army borrowed from Li Laiheng stepped forward with two boxes, put them at his feet and opened them, and the white silver inside was immediately revealed, Yang Qing casually took a silver ingot and stuffed it into the child's hand and put him down, and then looked at the more and more people in front of him.

The latter looked at him with fear.

These people won't know Chongzhen's dragon robe, but they will know his flying fish suit.

"Fifty taels!"

He said, holding up his outstretched right hand.

"Fifty taels to buy a young man, and the silver will be given to his family on the spot, and they will sell it to me."

He then added.

"Official, official, I don't know what the official does when he buys people?"

An older man said cautiously in a Shandong accent.

"You have sold everyone to me, that is my house slave, is the house slave still qualified to ask the master what to let him do? Rest assured, fifty taels of people who buy it will definitely not kill those who eat meat. ”

Yang Qing said.

He won't tell these people that he is going to be a brocade guard, although it costs less, but he will definitely buy back a bunch of treacherous and dishonest people, he wants to be obedient, he wants a group of human flesh machines that only listen to his own words, so it must be the kind of person who really has no choice but to sell himself as a slave. Fifty taels is not low, but it is not too high, and it costs dozens of taels to buy a woman at normal times, although it must be much cheaper to have homeless people everywhere during the famine at this time, but the problem is that these are not the kind of homeless people who are purely hiding from the famine, in fact, these are slender men on the canal.

They are like Wang Chengen said, not that they have always been like this.

As for buying pure outcasts......

That lacks organization, and the training takes too long to get started.

And the slender man is different, their organization is absolutely first-class, it is said that the fiber is really united, but if there is a rhythm is not right, it is everyone who is dragged down, and the slender man horn sounds, it is really in lockstep, otherwise it is not them who pull the boat but the boat that pulls them, such people are also the most suitable for organization.

The slender men hesitated.

"Really give fifty taels?"

A young man stepped forward and said weakly.

Yang Qing lowered his head and picked up the box containing a full thousand taels of silver, lifted it directly above his head, and then poured it down like pouring water, and the silver ingots also fell like a waterfall, falling to the ground in a scream and hitting each other and jumping.

"The silver deed is clear!"

He slammed the box to the side and said with a smile.

The young man immediately stepped forward, a couple and a boy behind him wanted to pull him, but they didn't hold him after all, he walked in front of Yang Qing, turned around and kowtowed to them three times and said: "Daddy, my son can't fulfill his filial piety, instead of the whole family starving to death here, it is better to sell this official as a slave in exchange for silver money to raise my younger brother." ”

Immediately after crying, he turned around and kowtowed to Yang Qing.

Yang Qing waved his hand.

A soldier took fifty taels of silver in his pocket and handed it to him, he handed it to the young man and at the same time took out a deed of sale, and asked him to press the handprint without even asking his name, and after pressing the handprint, the two soldiers stepped forward and tied him with a rope, led him forward and handed the silver to his father, and then dragged the young man aside and waited in the cry of the family's separation.

With this one taking the lead, the other twelve young men came forward one after another, but because the body did not look good, he was eliminated by Yang Qing and three, and finally he bought ten house slaves in this slender village, of course Jin Yiwei can't be a slave, but this is not a big deal, it is nothing more than to return the good people after arriving in Nanjing.

He'll have to build his own power.

These people were purchased as his house slaves, trained by him along the way, and even washed nao while training, basically under his control, even if they were given back good citizenship after arriving in Nanjing, and then included in the Jinyi Wei register, they would also listen to him, so that no matter what official Chongzhen gave him in the end, first of all, these people would form a party with him.

And they are all the backbone of the future Jinyiwei.

Wang Chengen's plan is to re-establish the North and South Town Fu Division after arriving in Nanjing, and set up the North Town Fu Division purely with this group of people, and then use the local Jinyi Wei to mix with this group of people to set up the South Town Fu Division, the latter is responsible for the actual arrest and interrogation, after all, outsiders can't do this kind of work, this must be done by the local Jinyi Wei. But these people can learn from them, and the former is responsible for the internal discipline of Jinyiwei, once there are disobedient or disobedient Jinyiwei in Nanjing, then directly use these people to take them down, and then use these people in Nanzhen Fusi to do what they should do......

The main thing is to raid the house.

After Chongzhen arrived in Nanjing, he also had to face financial problems, he had no money in Beijing, and he also had no money in Nanjing, especially the imperial palace in Nanjing, and he had to control the southern army, all of which had to be paid.

And the easiest and most effective way to raise money is, of course, to raid the home, copy the hometown of those southern officials in Beijing who surrendered to Li Zicheng together, although Li Zicheng was obedient, but it can't change the fact that they once betrayed the Lord and defected to the enemy, Da Ming Law This is the heinous crime, not to mention the nine clans of Zhulian, this three clans of Zhulian should always be, Li Zicheng copied his home in the north and copied dozens of houses in the south, and it is reasonable to vent the anger of his dead wife.

And such a thing must have an absolutely obedient force.

That's what these northerners do.

And Yang Qing estimates that before he finishes these things for Chongzhen, he will not be unloaded and killed by His Majesty the Emperor, after all, it is very difficult to find a perfect thug like him, but after using up, will he use his own head to calm the anger of the southern gentry, this is probably difficult to say, even if he doesn't use his own head, I'm afraid he will have to throw it to a place where birds don't to reflect His Majesty's love for him, as for the next comeback, it depends on when His Majesty the Emperor needs a thug again, saying that this kind of thing is a routine.

So Yang Qing had to prepare early.

In the era of accompanying the king like the tiger, the three holes of the cunning rabbit are a must.

Especially since he also beat the emperor.

Speaking of which, he was impulsive at the time, but who asked him to cut off the arm of the woman he loved? Even if it's his daughter!

"Let's go, go to the next village!"

He waved his hand with some embarrassment.

Then he took ten house slaves strung with a rope, and carried the silver to the next village of the same slender man, and then it was the same set, the silver deed was cleared, according to the handprint, and the silver was taken, and the people were tied up and followed behind, and by the evening, his rope had increased to two hundred, all of them were strong young men of about twenty, and their bodies were absolutely strong all the year round.

"Yes, I'll come back tomorrow, and I'll recruit five hundred people first."

Yang Qing said with satisfaction.

As he spoke, he looked up at the sky......

Suddenly, there was a strange sound in his ears, his right hand grabbed outward, and a sharp arrow was directly caught in his hand, the officer of the Shun army in front of him looked at this scene in amazement, Yang Qing sneered with the arrow, turned his head to look at the woods not far away, and the sneak attacker thirty meters away was running from behind a tree to the depths of the woods.

He stretched out his left hand.

One of the Shun soldiers immediately handed him the bow.

Yang Qing drew his bow and arrow as fast as he could, aiming at the attacker, and the arrow caught up with the target in the blink of an eye, ready to crash into his back.

The man screamed and fell.

"Let's go!"

Yang Qing handed the bow back and said.

This is all indispensable, Yuan Yuzong, who was knocked out by him for 50,000 taels of silver, probably hated to be able to skin and tear him apart, but Li Laiheng was responsible for their safety, and Yuan Yuzong didn't have the courage to play Ming, but it would be a fantasy to say that he didn't shoot him with black arrows. But this kind of thing was not worth mentioning to him, and in vain he gave him the opportunity to pretend to be forced, and he did not even look at the sneak attacker again, and walked towards the ship waiting on the shore under the adoring gaze of those Shun soldiers, and also under the fearful gaze of his two hundred slaves.

And at this time, in that wood, more than a hundred pairs of eyes were looking at him hatefully......