Chapter 59: Raiding and Robbing Households

On Genting City, after a night of pondering, Yang Xuan finally figured it out, that is, to evacuate Genting City and go to northern Sichuan for independent development. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although southern Sichuan is close to the Yunnan-Guizhou region, if the war does not go well, it can enter Yunnan-Guizhou and northern Burma, just like the Kuomintang veterans in history to evacuate the mainland.

But now that Zhang Xianzhong has occupied Chengdu, the passage to southern Sichuan has been cut off, and the only possible thing now is to retreat to northern Sichuan, in the hills of northern Sichuan, and develop in the Huaying Mountain, Qinling, and Daba Mountain areas.

In addition, the main force of the official army is in Yunnan, Guizhou and southern Sichuan, and there is no main force in northern Sichuan, so that he can get rid of those mediocre officials and develop independently.

As long as your strategy is appropriate, as long as you make reasonable use of all kinds of natural knowledge from your previous life, use military and political knowledge, and change history, although you dare not say anything, at least you can still gain a firm foothold temporarily.

After thinking about all this, Yang Xuan's whole person seemed very relaxed, and now he wanted to persuade his subordinates to let everyone firmly follow him and become his right and left hand.

Early the next morning, Yang Xuan beat the drum and raised the tent, convened the generals to discuss the matter, everyone's morale was very low, because the city of Chengdu was occupied, the official army dug up Dujiangyan, the Chengdu Plain of the country of thousands of miles of fertile land and abundance is now actually a thousand miles of Ze country, no matter who sees it, they can't be happy.

Now Chengdu Mansion has fallen, the King of Shu, the governor, the governor and other large and small officials have been killed, and now Zhang Xianzhong led an army of 400,000 into Chengdu Mansion, and Li Zicheng appointed the Sichuan Jiedu envoy Li Yutian, the general soldier Ma Ke into northern Sichuan, everyone sees that the road ahead is bleak.

As Chen Yingzong said, Zhang Xianzhong's 400,000 army is an imaginary number, which is a bit exaggerated, but in any case, there are 200,000, even if half of them are the old, weak, sick and disabled with the dependents of the army, and the people who have been coerced to transport food, there are 100,000 people who can really fight.

This is the 100,000 tigers and wolves who have followed Zhang Xianzhong to conquer the world all the year round, and their combat power is not under the official army, with such a strong military force, Zhang Xianzhong can completely sweep the entire territory of Sichuan.

Seeing that everyone was a little disheartened, especially after seeing the government digging up Dujiangyan, in order to cheer everyone up, Yang Xuan not only analyzed the contradictions between Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, but also hoped to let everyone see hope.

The Ming Dynasty includes five provinces in the north, five provinces in the central part of the country, and seven provinces in the south, although Li Zicheng controls several provinces in the north, and Zhang Xianzhong occupies most of Sichuan Province, but the provinces of Nanzhili, Jiangxi, Huguang, Zhejiang, Liangguang, and Yunnan and Guizhou have not suffered from any rogues and local tyrants, and these places are still completely in the hands of my Ming Dynasty.

Besides, the Ming Dynasty has two capitals in the north and south, and the south is my Ming Dynasty's accompanying capital, and the six yamen are still there, so it is entirely possible to elect a virtuous vassal king as the emperor, so no matter how bad it is, it will be like the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty occupy half of the southern part of the country, and compete with Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others in the north.

Sichuan is located in the upper reaches, if the Liukou occupy Sichuan Province, it is completely possible to attack the southern provinces down the river, so from this point of view, the Ming Dynasty will inevitably mobilize heavy troops to recover Sichuan.

In this way, everyone was a little relieved, especially Chen Huaixi, Ma Sunluan, Pan Mengke and others were loyal and righteous people, and they were familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, Sun Tzu's Art of War, and now hearing Yang Xuan say this, Fang once again felt that the future was bright.

Now that the Great Western Army has occupied Chengdu Prefecture, Genting City is difficult and dangerous but not a place to stay for a long time, there are only two roads in front of everyone, or retreat north to northern Sichuan, relying on the high mountains and mountains around the Qinling Mountains, the hills and liukou in northern Sichuan are circling, or retreat to southern Sichuan to converge with the main force of the Ming army.

Originally, there were many children in western Sichuan in the army, but since the expansion this year, a large number of children from northern Sichuan have been recruited in the army, plus Yang Xuan is the acting magistrate of Yilong County.

In this way, the Ma Chao cavalry brigade was the vanguard, and Yang Xuan personally led the personal army brigade to break off, and led the headquarters to march towards Shunqing City.

As a large number of displaced people flocked to the surrounding areas, the people of the Chengdu Plain, who were rich in the past, fell into exiles one by one, and Long Wenguang pulled out Dujiangyan, and knew this human tragedy hundreds of miles away overnight.

From time to time on the road, people fleeing from the famine, in the past, they were still wearing silk and satin, and the people of the Chengdu Plain, who lived a rich life, fled to the south of Sichuan, north of Sichuan, and west of Sichuan, dragging their children and daughters, so they were not miserable.

At first, the people were quite sympathetic, and everyone took out clay bowls and scooped out a small amount of rice from the rice bowl, but when they saw more and more people fleeing the famine, everyone felt quite helpless, and few of them showed kindness.

First of all, it was a large family, and in ancient times, many solid families were hard-hearted, and when they saw a steady stream of countless fleeing people, they used sticks and various weapons to drive away the fleeing crowds.

By ordinary people, although everyone has the heart to help, but their rice tank is now very shallow, if they help these refugees who fell into extreme poverty overnight, then they will also starve.

Seeing that many refugees sold their sons and daughters, Yang Xuan's eyes were moist, and despite everyone's opposition, he asked the major teams to distribute the only military rations, but they often attracted more people.

Looking at the long escape procession, Chen Huaixi sighed: "Zixiu, this, this, life is impermanent, the rich people of the Chengdu Plain are so poor overnight, miserable, really miserable." ”

Yang Xuan shook his head, and said with a choked voice: "Alas, the government, when the people need the government the most, the local government itself is difficult to protect, and there is no way to help these victims." ”

Ma Chao, the captain of the cavalry brigade who was born as a local tyrant, shouted: "My lord, the government? If only the government didn't harm the people, how many officials in the world care about us ordinary people like adults?

My lord, why do we do the horses, because in the year of famine, the common people have no way out, and the government has to expropriate and extort tyranny, so they are helpless. ”

Thinking of what he had seen and heard in his previous life and this life, Yang Xuan was sighing when he suddenly heard a heart-rending cry from in front of him, mixed with angry scolding.

It turned out that four or five refugees came to Wangjiazhuang to beg, the Wang family is a well-known smuggler of salt, and there are four or five vicious dogs in the house.

A refugee couldn't escape, and his body was bitten by a vicious dog and was covered with injuries, the eldest young master of the Wang family thought that this could hinder the refugees, but he didn't expect to cause greater trouble.

In the past, everyone lived in the Chengdu Plain and had food and clothing, so they were uncomfortable, but now they have suffered a disaster, not only did they not get food but were bitten by dogs, and more than a dozen refugees shouted and scolded around Wangjiazhuang.

When Wangjiazhuang saw that these outsiders dared to besiege his own village, Zhuang Ding rushed out one by one and punched and kicked these refugees.

The refugees have had a meal in the past two days, how can they be strong and strong opponents? One by one, they were knocked to the ground, letting out a heart-rending dry howl.

After figuring out what happened, Yang Xuan waved his hand, Wang Gao led the 1st and 4th brigades to rush to the front, and Ma Chao led the cavalry brigade to outflank the village and rushed into the village.

Seeing more than 100 soldiers killed, Zhuang Ding was stupid one by one, everyone bullied and bullied the kind people, but if they met well-equipped soldiers, who thought that their lives were long?

But the officials and soldiers rushed too violently, and Zhuang Ding rushed to the gate one by one, and no one was ready to take care of the gate.

The officers and soldiers followed, firing their guns at the sky from afar, shouting "disarm and don't kill, disarm and don't kill", and rushed into the village in a moment, controlling Wangjiazhuang in a moment.

Zhuang Ding was controlled by a pair, and the old man and young master of the Wang family were dragged out one by one like live pigs, and seeing that the other party was not a bandit but an official army, the old man Wang suddenly had confidence, and suddenly stood up and pointed at Yang Xuan and said: "You, you, do you officers and soldiers want to learn from robbers and rob our big families now?" ”

Yang Xuan snorted coldly, and a tall soldier next to him rushed over and slapped Master Wang viciously in the face, scolding: "Pigs and dogs are not as good as things, open your eyes a little wider, this is our county magistrate."

Your royal family is rich and unkind, and the people not only do not rescue when they are in trouble, but also let the vicious dogs hurt people, and let Zhuang Ding beat the refugees.

Do you want to force the victims to rebel against the disaster? ”

Master Wang was stunned for a moment, bent his waist and asked, "Zhixian, this adult is the magistrate of that county?" ”

Yang Xuan flashed the county magistrate waist card on his waist, and Mr. Qian's waist card said: "This county is a fake county magistrate, why are you not convinced?" ”

Seeing Yang Xuan's thumb covering the name of the county, he could only look at the waist card of the county from a distance, Master Wang shook his head and said: "No, our county magistrate's surname is Liu, he is an old man in his fifties, and he has a very good relationship with the old man."

You, a pretending magistrate, actually dare to pretend to be an official, this, this is a capital crime, aren't you afraid? ”

Yang Xuan's face sank, and he said angrily: "Bold, this county is the magistrate personally appointed by the previous governor, and this county can always listen to orders under the current governor's account."

Since you, an old man, have seen the county's waist card, which obviously has the seal of the governor's yamen on it, you dare to slander the county.

Left and right, Wang Lao'er, Wang Xiao'er dragged down and beat thirty army whips. ”

The surrounding soldiers didn't care about this, and they couldn't help but drag Master Wang and several men in the family down, and there were bursts of ghosts crying and wolf howls outside.

After half a pillar of incense kung fu, Master Wang's family of five was dragged back, their buttocks were bloody, their flesh and blood were blurred, and they were trembling all over, and they didn't dare to make eye contact with Yang Xuan at all.

Yang Xuan lifted Old Man Wang's chin and said with a smile: "Old Man Wang, do you still dare to doubt the identity of this county now?" ”

Master Wang's eyes were closed, and two lines of tears rolled down: "My lord, little old man will never dare anymore." ”

Yang Xuan stood up and said to Chen Huaixi beside him: "Brother Chen, the Wang family has more than ten people, let them leave twenty loads of rice, and the rest will be used as soup and medicine, and pay for the refugees." ”

The prefect of the house, the prefect of the house, this is too ruthless, after a while, his family wealth was confiscated like this, Master Wang was shocked, regardless of the pain on his buttocks, he rushed to Yang Xuan and knelt down, and said hoarsely: "Master, Lao Tzu doesn't care if you are the county magistrate from that place, you are too ruthless."

It is a crime to injure a refugee in my Wangjiazhuang, and a person will pay one or two pieces of silver, no, the old man will admit it for ten taels of silver, but you actually want to copy Lao Tzu's house, Lao Tzu is not convinced. ”

With a long sigh, Yang Xuan grabbed the placket of Master Wang's clothes and said, "If you don't accept it, swallow it in Lao Tzu's stomach, and then you will accept it."

You have done a lot of evil in your daily life, bringing disaster to your neighbors, and now you are actually killing the victims who begged for food.

This is not a simple civil dispute, if there is a slight deviation and the victims riot, is this your responsibility, or the responsibility of the county? ”

Dumbfounded when he heard this, Master Wang sobbed and said, "My lord, the little old man is not convinced, and he is not convinced by killing the little old man." ”

Yang Xuan sighed and said: "If you don't accept it, you ask, are they convinced of these victims?" They live in the rich Chengdu Plain, one by one they have food and clothing, and they live with food and clothing, and now they are reduced to refugees, begging for a living, you ask, do they accept it?

If you want to blame, blame you for your bad reputation in the past, blame you for acting as a tiger, even let dogs bite the victims, even beat the victims, and your conscience is broken.

This county eliminates evil and promotes good, this is the best punishment for you. ”

Chen Huaixi was immediately ordered to take the victims out of the palace and distribute them to the victims, each of whom was divided into five buckets, so that everyone could barely make a living for a period of time.