Chapter 18: Bending into a Trick
sat in the cell for two days, and on the third day, he was often dragged outside by four or five cells, and entered a small room, where a master looked like he wanted to eat something, worried that the food was poisonous and Yang Lin would not eat it.
The master clapped his hands, rushed in and four or five servants opened their mouths and poured it, Yang Lin struggled desperately, shouting loudly, afraid that the food would be poisonous and lose his life in vain.
Fortunately, it was not the poison but the smashed peppercorns, and after eating, the whole person was so uncomfortable that he couldn't speak.
Yang Lin shook his head desperately, muttering in his throat, while the other party forced him to change into clean new clothes, and then walked to the lobby with two big men.
Li Yitian, the governor of Pengzhou, and Nanchong Zhixian sat high in the lobby, and the officials on both sides stood on both sides, posing in a posture of trial.
Outside the lobby, there were dozens of people standing, and suddenly Yang Lin found that Wang Guangxian was suddenly in the ranks.
Yang Lin tried his best to break free from a man, desperately ran outside the lobby, just ran two steps before the man grabbed him, the whole person knelt in front of the lobby, staring at Wang Guangxian with both eyes, and his hands desperately pointed to his throat, and his throat made a hehe sound.
There was a constant noise outside the lobby, two officials stood behind him, and under the eyes of the four big men, Li Yitian announced the crime on the spot.
Everything has been prepared for a long time, but it is just a matter of script, everything is reversed black and white, and the main crimes are as follows:
indulged in the local rioters, and after destroying the nest of the local rioters, he disobeyed the orders of his boss and released more than 60 local rioters without permission.
greedy for ink and property, seized more than 5,000 taels of property from the local tyrant and embezzled it privately
instigated the people to resist the land endowment
Instigating the populace to beat the tolerance
Hijacking Shangguan
Slander the government
Gather a crowd to make trouble
…….
There are as many as ten listed before and after, and it's very funny to think that I have only been through three months, and I have committed so many days.
There was a commotion below, and some people expressed their dissatisfaction outside the lobby, but Li Yitian actually ignored it and asked three times in the court to force him to sign and draw the detention, and then publicly announced the verdict.
When Yang Lin heard that he was deprived of his fame and exiled to Yunnan, he breathed a sigh of relief, and unfortunately Zhongda was fortunate to finally save his life.
After being thrown back into the cell, Yang Lin gasped and desperately pointed at his mouth with both hands, everyone was surprised when they saw this, and it took a long time to know that after being poured pepper water, everyone screamed desperately, begging bitterly.
The prison ignored it at first, and finally received a pearl from Yao Chonglie's ancestor before scooping water to rinse his mouth.
His mind was numb, beads of sweat lay down one by one, and he felt pain in his heart when he touched his mouth slightly, and Yang Lin held his head and rinsed his mouth desperately.
Although the skin of the mouth is swollen and turned out, I feel stinging when I move it slightly, but it is 10,000 times better than the beginning.
My stomach was rumbling and I couldn't eat, so I had no choice but to lie on the side with my stomach in my arms, and then slowly fell asleep.
I woke up before dawn the next day, and although my mouth was still very painful, it was much better than yesterday, and my voice was still very unclear.
Sitting at the door of the prison and falling into a deep thought, the ancient officials and squires were embarrassed, this time he publicly exposed the officials and officials to steal money from the ink, the other party will definitely not let himself have a good time, and it is very likely that he will be killed in a remote place on the road like Lin Chong.
Yang Lin's face was like ashes, and everyone sighed, they were all fallen people at the end of the world, and everyone had no other ideas after hearing the verdict.
After a day like this, Wang Guangxian visited the prison on this day, and everyone lamented when he talked about the trial process.
There was a lot of discussion outside, and everyone knew that they were beaten into a trick, but the people did not fight with the officials, and few people were willing to come forward to protect them.
Seven or eight people lived in a 20-square-meter cell, the smell was unusually bad, and it seemed boring to read a book, and when I opened the burden sent by Mr. Wang Guang, there were books such as "The Art of War", "The General's Saying", Qi Jiguang's "Record of Military Training", Song Yingxing's "Heavenly Creation", Xu Guangqi's "Principles of Geometry", and Bi Maokang's "Illustrated Description of the Military Flag".
Anyway, in prison to pass the time, idle and bored just read some books to quiet down, and modern books are different, the biggest obstacle for modern people to read ancient books is to break sentences, no punctuation, often the first time to figure out the general meaning, the second time to try to break the sentence, the third time and the fourth time to try to understand.
What people say today is unforgettable, what is said to be ten lines at a glance is because I don't understand ancient books, if the first time the sentence is accurately understood the approximate meaning, it is very good, and it is really unbelievable to remember it.
The ancient characters are quite profound, and several times I begged the prison for a table, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, so that I can read and memorize them, but during the day, there are many people, and the prison does not dare to mess around, but at night I move a table and light an oil lamp, so that I can survive a long night.
But all this has a price, each time it needs 5 yuan of silver (equivalent to a load of grain), Yang Lin was quite resistant at first, I don't know how Wang Guangxian knew the news and brought in dozens of taels of silver, so that he could read it at night.
The days of studying are hard, especially in the prison cell, but ancient books are not useless, such as Qi Jiguang's "Record of Military Training", Xu Guangqi's "Principles of Geometry", Song Yingxing's "Heavenly Creations", and Bi Maokang's "Illustrated Weapons of Weapons" make people sigh that China was not so closed and backward in the late Ming Dynasty.
Not to mention anything else, just to say that weapons actually have self-generated bird guns, which is what we call flintlock pistols, which is a great progress in human firearms.
In addition to weapons, Xu Guangqi's "Principles of Geometry" and Song Yingxing's "Heavenly Creations" allow people to understand ancient production techniques, including steel smelting, coal mining, and salt mining, which can be said to be models of ancient engineering.
Life in the prison cell is extremely boring, except for chatting with Yao Chonglie and other refugee friends, the biggest pleasure of family life is to read books, or chat with everyone about the strange things around them.
Yao Chonglie was born in a family, and he also has many fox friends in society, although he is now in prison and no longer interacts, he likes to talk about some strange things in society.
Yang Lin's favorite thing to listen to is the so-called rogues, every time he will spit, he will be surprised to hear it.
If the local tyrants are a group of thieves who wear the masks of birds and beasts to scare the common people, then the rogues are even more high, and their whereabouts are erratic.
During the Chongzhen period, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong went deep into the hinterland of Sichuan many times, and sometimes they traveled hundreds of miles a day, and they could not catch up with the officials and troops to no avail.
Everyone was amazed, and Yang Lin was also impressed, it is not difficult for a single person to occasionally travel 100 miles a day (my grandmother died of illness at the age of thirteen, and my cousin and I went to a relative's house to report the funeral, and we also walked 70 miles of mountain roads that day), but it is indeed a bit unbelievable that tens of thousands of soldiers and horses can reach such a speed.
Although it cannot be ruled out that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong used the vermilion method to send many suspicious soldiers to make the officers and soldiers exhausted, it also shows that the mobility of the rogues is far better than that of ordinary officers and soldiers.
A careful analysis of the war against bandits at the end of the Ming Dynasty found that both Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were defeated many times by Cao Wenzhao and Zuo Liangyu, who were mainly cavalry, while their achievements against other officers and armies were acceptable.
In addition, that is, after the barbarian Qing Dynasty entered the customs, under the support of the Manchurian and Mongolian iron cavalry with better mobility, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were like frightened birds and were defeated by the Qing army, and their main force was easily defeated by the Qing army.
At the beginning of the training, Yang Lin mainly started from the queue, military discipline, shooting, and fighting, and if he could personally take charge of a brigade in the future, he should work the physical fitness of the soldiers and the mobility of the army.
In such a month, Yang Lin not only read these books well, but also had an in-depth understanding of the social background of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and the tactics of the rogue through the mouths of Yao Chonglie and his fellow inmates, and now his only wish is to be released from prison as soon as possible to show his strengths.