Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume 9 The Great Tribulation

Chapter 1 The Difficulties and Disasters of the State Arise

Section 8 The generals of all walks of life converge on the Dragon City

In October of the second year of Chongzhen (the second year of Tiancong of the Manchu Dynasty), Taiyuan City.

On this day, the cold wind raged in the entire Taiyuan City, bringing this Jinzhong Dragon City into the early winter in advance. At this time, Liu Yunwei, Zhou Tianyi, Hu Kun, and Li Tianhao were sitting in a side hall in the school field, with a small stove on the table in the middle, and an iron pot on top of the small stove, which was full of delicious mutton. The cold wind rose outside the side hall, but the four of them hid in the house drinking hot wine, eating mutton, and were very uncomfortable talking and laughing.

Li Tianhao raised his head and drank a bowl of hot wine, the hot breath rushed up his throat, and a layer of sweat beads instantly emitted on his forehead, and then said: "Happy!" It's a pleasure to drink a bowl of spirits in such a ghost weather! ”

Zhou Tianyi, who was next to him, took a sip of hot wine, and didn't know what he remembered, but he frowned, sighed, and said, "Alas! It's only October, why is the weather so cold all of a sudden? The weather has become more and more abnormal in the past two years! ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone instantly lost the interest in drinking and eating meat, and the sound of the wind whistling outside the house came to their ears, as if there were countless wolves howling, which was particularly harsh.

At this time, everyone's hearts are very clear, what does such an abnormal climate mean to the already chaotic Daming? That means that natural disasters will continue, crops will fail, taxes will be reduced, and people will quickly break down their homes and be displaced under repeated blows, and eventually become homeless! And the outcasts are the soldiers of the army of thieves!

Liu Yunwei put down the wine glass in his hand, walked to the window with a grim expression and looked at the trees outside that were swaying by the strong wind, and said secretly in his heart: "I don't know when God will be able to open his eyes and look at this devastated Chinese land!" ”

After a sigh, Liu Yunwei sat back at the table and said to Hu Kun: "Governor Hu, it's been more than a month since we checked the assets of the eight major Jin merchants, how about it?" Surprise us! ”

Liu Yunwei's words quickly changed the atmosphere in the room and made everyone's hearts feel a lot better. When Zhou Tianyi and Li Tianhao heard this, they put down the chopsticks in their hands and looked at Hu Kun with a smile on their faces, their eyes full of expectation.

Hu Kun deliberately cleared his throat, then sat up straight for a while, and said to everyone: "Supervisor, everyone, this time our army quickly attacked and uprooted the eight major Jin merchants, which can be described as a huge gain!" The harvest of our army this time is enough to support 300,000 soldiers in the four towns of Jiliao for several years! ”

Liu Yunwei, Zhou Tianyi, and Li Tianhao were overjoyed when they heard this, and their eyes were all flashing with excitement.

Liu Yunwei was so excited that he drank all the spirits in the cup and said, "Governor Hu, say it quickly!" Let's talk about it carefully! ”

Hu Kun saw that everyone couldn't wait, so he took out a list from his arms and read it directly: "This time, our army will Jiexiu Fan family, Yuci Chang family, Taigu Cao family, Jiexiu Hou family, Qi County Qu family, Pingyang Fu Kang family, Taigu Kong family, Qi County Qiao family, these eight traitors and Jin merchants copied their homes and cleared their properties, and obtained a total of 2.91 million taels of silver, 216 silver winter melons weighing 100 catties, more than 800,000 taels of gold, 189 gold winter melons weighing 50 catties, and countless other jewelry, jewelry, leather goods, medicinal materials, etc. It's still being counted, but according to my estimates, these properties of the eight major Jin merchants should be at least more than 10 million taels! ”

In addition, the soldiers of each battalion also sealed a total of 216 shops distributed by the eight major Jin merchants in Shanxi, and the rest of the real estate totaled 354; By the way, there are 33 farms in various parts of Shanxi, plus scattered farmland in various places, just according to the data on the land deed, there are already more than 17,800 acres! The soldiers of the battalions also found a very large number of granaries in the houses of the Eight Great Families, and the grain stored in them was at least more than 5 million stones; However, I am afraid that we can not actually use so much grain as military rations, because a lot of grain has been spoiled due to the age of time. ”

After listening to Hu Kun's words, Liu Yunwei, Zhou Tianyi, and Li Tianhao were already dumbfounded. Although everyone originally knew that the eight Jin merchants were very rich, everyone never expected that these eight Jin merchants would be so rich! You must know that since the Donglin Party abolished the Jiangnan commercial tax and the mining tax in various places, the annual tax revenue of the imperial court is only three million taels of silver; And that's just the amount of money on paper, only God knows how much it actually has! All the wealth of these eight Jin merchants is worth the income of the imperial court for four or five years, and these are all people's fat and people's ointment exchanged from the Qing army with military intelligence!

At this time, Liu Yunwei's heart can be said to be very happy, with the money and grain seized from the hands of the eight major Jin merchants, the Hanwei army can completely fight for several years without considering logistics and supplies! In terms of the strong combat power of the soldiers of the Hanwei Army, a few years is enough time to sweep the north and south of the river, whether it is the Qing army or the thieves, they will be killed by the soldiers of the Hanwei Army!

Thinking of this, Liu Yunwei was already a little impatient to start a war against the thieves, as long as the army of thieves was wiped out and the rear was stabilized, Liu Yunwei could concentrate all the forces of the Han Wei army to go north to Liaodong again, and fight to the death with the Qing army!

So, Liu Yunwei said to Zhou Tianyi: "Governor Zhou, you immediately give an order to the counterinsurgency army in various parts of Shanxi, and rush to Taiyuan City within 15 days to listen to the announcement. ”

Zhou Tianyi nodded, and immediately opened the pen and ink next to him and began to write.

Then, Liu Yunwei said to Hu Kun: "All the money and grain seized from the eight Jin merchants are concentrated in Taiyuan and hoarded, and heavy troops must be sent to guard them; In addition, all shops, real estate, and fields in various places were sold at 80% of the market price. ”

After finishing speaking, Liu Yunwei remembered something again, and said: "Prepare another million taels of silver separately, and hand it over to the imperial court when the army returns to Beijing in triumph." ”

Li Tianhao and Hu Kun glanced at each other and didn't say anything.

However, after Zhou Tianyi wrote the order, he came over and asked, "Inspector, what should be done with the industries of the eight Jin merchants outside Shanxi?" There are a lot of those industries! ”

Liu Yunwei shook his head after thinking for a while, and said, "Let's not worry about those industries!" The governor estimates that now the civil and military officials in the provinces, governments, and counties are probably already red-eyed, and after the eight Jin merchants are uprooted by us, those industries are just pieces of fat, and the wolves in various places have already pounced on them to grab food. ”

Everyone was indignant when they heard this, and the soldiers of the Hanwei Army worked hard to get rid of the traitors, but let those mediocre and corrupt officials pick up a big advantage!

Half a month later, the soldiers of the pacesetter battalion and the Yue cavalry battalion had sold all the houses and land of the eight Jin merchants, and all the seized money, grain, and baggage were hoarded in the school yard in Taiyuan City. In order to ensure the safety of this huge amount of money and food, Li Tianhao deliberately asked the soldiers of Battalion A to guard Jianghang day and night, for fear of any mistakes.

In the past few days, Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, who was in Shanxi to conquer the army of thieves, led his generals Bai An, Hu Dawei, Zuo Liangyu, He Renlong, etc., and the unified army of 8,000 rushed to Taiyuan City; Xu Dingchen, the governor of Shanxi, led his generals Zhang Yingchang, Gou Fuwei, Ai Wannian, Shiji, etc., and the unified army of 7,000 also rushed to Taiyuan City; Subsequently, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, led his subordinates Cao Wenzhao, the general soldier of Nanshan, Wang Chengen, the general soldier of Shaanxi, and Yang Jiamo, the general soldier of Gansu, and led the army of 15,000 into Taiyuan City; In addition, You Shilu, the general soldier of Datong, also led an army of 5,000 to listen to the announcement.

At this time, Taiyuan City has become a huge military camp, together with the Hanwei Army Pacesetter Battalion and the Yue Cavalry Battalion, the Ming Dynasty official army has gathered a total of 100,000 soldiers and horses from all walks of life, and the Taiyuan City is crowded. At the same time, most of the money and grain in Shanxi are also gathering towards Taiyuan City.

It's not that Liu Yunwei is reluctant to use the money and grain seized from the eight Jin merchants, but he doesn't plan to take out this huge amount of money and grain to share with everyone at all, these money and grain are the guarantee for the Hanwei army to recover Liaodong in the future, how can they be used easily?

The school field in the city, the martial arts hall.

Liu Yunwei sat directly above the hall wearing armor, and the next was Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, Xu Dingchen, the governor of Shanxi, and Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides. You Shilu, the general soldier of Datong, and Li Tianhao, the general of the Yue cavalry battalion, who came to Datong alone, sat on the outside.

In addition, Zhou Tianyi and Hu Kun could only stand aside in front of the full hall of governors and generals, and the two stood on the left and right sides of Liu Yunwei respectively.

After everyone sat down, they first greeted each other for a while, and chatted for a while. During this period, Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, Xu Dingchen, the governor of Shanxi, and Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, all secretly observed Liu Yunwei one after another, only to see that although he was young, only in his twenties, his body exuded a thick bloody atmosphere, and at first glance he was a fierce general killed in the sea of corpses and blood; Moreover, Liu Yunwei does not have the vulgar atmosphere of ordinary martial artists, but gives people a sense of unfathomableness, and there is a kind of Confucian general and wise general temperament under careful observation. The three of them didn't particularly care about such a young chief of conquest, but after seeing the real person at this time, they all put away their previous contempt and became respectful.

After a while, Liu Yunwei saw that the time had come, so he nodded slightly to Zhou Tianyi beside him.

After Zhou Tianyi saw it, he took two steps forward and said loudly: "Please all the lords and generals be quiet, please conquer the general manager, Jiliao Governor, and Pojun Bo to grant the Great War Strategy!" ”

As soon as the words fell, everyone in the hall stood up and saluted Liu Yunwei with fists, waiting very respectfully for Liu Yunwei to give orders and grant strategies.

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