In the Ming generation, there was already chaos during the Chongzhen period.

The big families and squires who have a little wealth all understand a truth, that is, the money must not be put on the surface, otherwise you will wait for those tiger and wolf officers and soldiers or rogues to come to your house and rob it.

The officers and soldiers are better for the big families and squires, at least they are a little jealous, and they pay attention to proportion, except when they are very embarrassed, they will not do too ugly most of the time.

The rogue is completely different, if the rogue is targeted, the officers and soldiers can't pass the exam, so it's often a situation where the family is ruined.

Those who have the ability have long fled from this place of right and wrong, and although they are still here, although they are worried, they don't want to scatter their wealth to sacrifice the army, so they bury the gold and silver of their family wealth as much as possible, and over time, the rogues have developed various methods of torture.

Methods like whipping or punching and kicking are long gone, because for people with a little backbone, you can't ask anything with this.

At present, there are many very barbaric and primitive methods popular among the rogues in Henan, and the two most common are barbecue live people and slices of meat, not to mention, most of the squires who do this are really recruited truthfully.

However, there are still a very small number of people who would rather die than reveal the whereabouts of their hard-earned money for generations, and the rogues are even more ruthless in dealing with such people, often roasting them alive.

The officers and men have not changed anything else, and this brutal method of torture and plunder among the rogue gangsters can be learned as soon as they are learned, and the generals in various localities have also developed many new methods with added fuel and vinegar, which shows the absurdity.

No matter where the soldiers and horses of the imperial generals were stationed, the most difficult thing to control was the lower body, so the most common thing that happened was the abduction and humiliation of women, which generally ended with the death of many innocent people.

Although the local civil officials said that they saw it with their own eyes, they hated it extremely in their hearts, but they felt more that they were really afraid, these soldiers and ruffians were lawless, and they didn't even listen to the words of the governor Yang Sichang, and the generals were all conniving at their subordinates, and the yamen sometimes had to rely on them to stabilize the place, and there was no way to manage it.

The Shandong army entered the Kaifeng Fucheng garrison in May, and never left the barracks every day except for recuperation and drills, and even if there were individual soldiers and small merchants and vendors in the city to buy objects, they were all on the spot, and they would not say a word.

In the past few days, the soldiers and civilians in Kaifeng City have gradually relaxed their vigilance, and Wang Zheng has killed all the Xuzhou soldiers who bullied the people, and now they are still hanging on the city, and many people simply go out and walk around again.

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A few days later, in the new city not far south of Kaifeng City, a group of soldiers and horses under the banner of the Ming Dynasty came here.

At first, the yamen of Xincheng thought that the Shandong army was coming to take over, so they directly opened the door and let it in, and when the real situation was discovered, it was too late to close the door.

The first part of the officers and soldiers who entered the city also pretended to be a guerrilla who led them as a guerrilla, claiming to be surnamed Liu.

After the guerrilla surnamed Liu entered the city, he did not care where his subordinates were, nor did he rush to take over the city defense, but took his relatives to the local magistrate's yamen as soon as possible, saying that he would ask the county magistrate to send him a document to ask for merit.

The magistrate was stunned at the time, and asked him what his military exploits were as usual.

The military exploits of soldiers and horses in various parts of the Ming Dynasty have always required a priori to the first level, and then the local civil officials will give documentary proof after verification, and finally they can report to the military department to invite merit and reward.

The intention of setting these rules was good, and I wanted to use civilian officials to supervise military generals, so that the local generals would not have too much military merit and threaten the imperial court with too much power in their hands.

This county commander is about thirty-five years old, and he is already panicked when he sees this scene, and the master, county prince, and head catcher around him dare not say half a word.

After a long silence, this is the opening:

"It turns out that the general wants to test his military merits, and if the thief's head is taken out, the county will be able to report for the general."

Hearing this, Liu Guerrilla grinned and asked rhetorically:

"If there is no thief's head, military merit will not be tested?"

"Yes, there is no thief head, the small county does not dare to report military merits in vain..."When the Xincheng county commander said this, he saw that the guerrilla's face was wrong, and in the end, the voice was already inaudible.

"This is easy! Wait a moment! ”

The guerrilla surnamed Liu laughed, pulled out the knife directly, and jumped out of the county office with a group of family members.

After a while, there were gradually crying and howling outside the city, and the county governor of Xincheng was already paralyzed on the ground at this time, and when he heard the voice outside, he asked in a trembling voice:

"What's going on outside, but the rogues have entered the city?"

Hearing this, the head catcher immediately ran out of the door with a knife to check, but it didn't take long for him to come back, and his eyes widened and said:

"The county master, Liu's guerrilla soldiers and horses are killing people and setting fire to the city, and many people outside the county government have been hacked to death on the street, saying that they want to be the head of military merit and verify the ...... of the master."

The situation in the city is now completely out of control, and it takes about half an hour to bring the guerrilla surnamed Liu to Xincheng County with his soldiers.

The county magistrate looked at the bloody scene in front of him, and was already dumbfounded and speechless, and the heads were piled up into a hill, but the scribes in the county government looked at the broken heads but also understood that they were clearly cut off outside not long ago.

The head catcher is at least seen blood, and his performance is not as unbearable as a few civil officials such as Zhixian and County Cheng, and after a careful examination, among these faces that are extremely distorted due to fear, there are actually many people he knows.

Among them, there are at least a dozen or so people who are members of the county, as well as beggars who saw on the street yesterday, farmers who cut firewood and cultivate land for a living, and even yamen officials who are resting at home today.

At this time, even the head catcher of Xincheng felt that his eyes were black for a while, and he stumbled on his feet, and almost fell to the ground directly.

When he looked back, the county magistrate and the county magistrate had been frightened enough, and now they were trembling and curled up on the ground and couldn't even speak.

"Lord Zhixian, don't you want the first level, this is all for you, is it too small to say nothing?" Liu Guerrilla looked a little impatient, and said in his heart how could these literati be like this.

"No, no, no... Enough is enough..."

Xincheng Zhixian could only nod again and again, these people were really murderous without blinking, and barely stood up under the support of the same trembling master, picked up the pen and ink in front of the copywriter and wrote the document tremblingly, and finally shook his hands to stamp the seal of Xincheng County.

The next moment, the guerrilla surnamed Liu impatiently pulled the document out of the copy, although he couldn't read the words on it, and the handwriting seemed a little flustered, but the county order was scared like this, and he didn't dare to fake it.

He carefully put away the paperwork, and directly turned around and left, Xincheng County Ling Gang breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, who would have thought that this guerrilla had actually turned back, and hurriedly asked:

"General, General, but what did you leave behind...?"

Liu Guerrilla waved his hand with a big grin and said nonchalantly:

"This city is quite comfortable, and the soldiers are reluctant to leave, so they will stay for a few more days, just waiting for news of military exploits."

Hearing this, the people in the county government almost collapsed to the ground in an instant, but this guerrilla was only half spoken.

"The general can say ugly things in front, but if the military merits can't be approved at that time, none of the people in this county government will be able to escape."

Only then did Guerrilla Liu laugh a few times and walked away.