Chapter 40: The Yilong Mutiny

After the introduction of everyone was completed one by one, Wu Yinqian, the head of the household, said: "My lord is the Junxiu of my county, and when the soil bag was rampant this year, he even captured a giant like Liang Bao, and assisted the governor and the political master to make such a meritorious service, and now he is acting as the county governor, which is really gratifying."

We know that adults have always been clear, but this Cheng Yi can't be less anyway, and this is not enough to make up a thousand taels of silver for adults to spend. ”

Yang Lin took the silver ticket, took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, and suddenly handed it back: "Wuhu book, the owners of each house, this, this is terrible, isn't it?" ”

Wu Yin was shocked, and hurriedly admonished: "My lord, don't be surprised, this is Cheng Yi of the imperial court, and in the past, the magistrate of the county would pay 1,000 Cheng Yi."

Although the adults are only judges, everyone belongs to the same township, and the villagers should not see outside. ”

Yang Lin grimaced, and suddenly handed this Cheng Yi back and said: "It is true that our county has encountered local riots this year, and the reason for this is really the reason why the former county magistrate Li Yitian and some officials have lost the hearts of the people by tyrannical expropriation.

This Cheng Yiquan is used as the county's arrears of land endowments, what are your opinions? ”

But this is not what everyone is worried about, what everyone is really worried about is their own personal jobs, not to mention that there are more than 400 soldiers under Yang Lin, what everyone is really worried about is that Yang Lin is taking his own jobs on this basis.

Sure enough, after everyone saluted, Yang Lin sat on the lobby and announced that in accordance with the practice in Luojiabao, Xinglongji, Heshu Temple and other places, a capable squire would be selected from the local government to serve as the chief of the guarantee (township) to manage the daily affairs of the market and help the government collect money and grain.

It was announced that local commercial taxes would be used to replace exacting taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and a system of township (guarantee) chiefs would be established, and the townships (guarantees) that collected commercial taxes would be reduced or exempted from the collection of excesses and miscellaneous taxes.

In this battle, a total of 600 homeless people were captured, except for some extremely vicious people, and the rest were placed in the local area for farming.

In order to maintain local stability, ensure the collection of money and grain, and ensure the military needs of the front-line army.

In view of the special nature of the work of the six rooms, Wang Guangxian was appointed as the head of the officials' rooms, and the officials of each room were evaluated, and some stubborn officials were gradually eliminated.

In view of the fact that the three classes (fast class, strong class, and soap class) are not very technical, the three classes are comprehensively rectified, and more than 50 literate, clever, or disabled soldiers are selected from the army to be transferred to government service to carry out government affairs.

Yang Cheng concurrently served as the head of the subordinate class and was responsible for the security of the yamen.

The dragon frame concurrently serves as the head of the strong class, guarding the local traffic points and helping the townships to collect taxes.

Yao Chonglie served as the head of the fast shift and was responsible for arresting the thieves.

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Due to the experience of implementing the new policy in Luojiapu and other places in the past few months, the newly appointed mayors of the bazaars (townships) implemented the new policies at the local level in accordance with the Luojiapu method.

Yang Lin tinkered with local politics as a pastemaker, and at the same time recruited laborers to deliver grain and grass to the front.

Zhu Yuanzhang adheres to the strategy of building a high wall and accumulating grain to slow down the king, this Pengzhou used to store more than tens of thousands of taels of grain, although it was squandered by the local tyrants, there are nearly 10,000 loads of grain in this city, which only need to be simply processed and transported, and do not need to collect from the people as in the past.

Just when everyone thought that the official army would win the flag and would go straight to the nest of the local tyrants, news suddenly came from the front that the officers and soldiers who had just occupied Yilong County (today's Jincheng Town) had mutinied, and the general Wang Chaoyang was killed.

It turned out that this year, natural disasters in various places have continued, and it has been difficult to raise military salaries, and the plan for the army to advance and suppress has been postponed again and again, and even the front-line armies have repeatedly defaulted on military salaries.

A few days ago, it was rumored in the army that Wang Chaoyang seized four large boxes of treasure from the local tyrants, and after the army recovered Yilong County on this day, the squires in the city sent a thousand taels of silver and a few pigs to the army.

When everyone was eating with relish, some soldiers demanded wages, and Wang Chaoyang was brave and brave, and dozens of his own soldiers were arrogantly preparing to arrest people, so as to provoke a mutiny.

The rebels believed that the generals in the army deducted military salaries on weekdays, ate empty salaries, and openly solicited bribes in the army, rewarded and punished unfairly, killed Wang Chaoyang and his henchmen, and publicly promoted Liu Bao, the general manager, as a general, and then poured into the city to rob large households.

The Wang Department has always been elite, and the impact of the mutiny is far greater than that of the local rioters entrenched in northern Sichuan, and after being shocked, Chen Shiqi, the governor of Sichuan, urgently dispatched all the departments on the front line to encircle and intercept it, and it is necessary to quell the rebellion of the officers and soldiers.

Yang Lin, as the judge of Pengzhou, acted like the county government, but now that the governor has not yet arrived, he has to hand over the county government to the official Wang Guang to take care of it first, and as a judge, he was ordered to rush to the front line to obey orders.

Yang Lin was shocked, and hurriedly knelt down and said, "My lord, the lower officials are stupid, and they don't know what kind of crime they have committed?"

Long Wenguang pointed at Yang Lin's nose and said, "It's a shame that you are still a scholar, and Sven is sweeping the floor, and you are still arguing."

There are arrears in the army, everyone knows it, you captured the ancient city of Yunshan and seized four boxes of jewelry, so much money you actually helped Wang Chaoyang to cover.

Don't you want to think about it, if you report these four boxes of gold, silver and jewelry to the Daotai Yamen on the same day, and the Daotai Yamen has these four thousand taels of silver, everyone can also temporarily make up the military salary, so that it will not provoke a mutiny. ”

Yang Lin secretly complained bitterly, Wang Chaoyang is a general, a third-grade military attachΓ©, and he is just a regimental training leader, from the seventh-grade judge, how dare he expose Wang Chaoyang's greed for ink?

Besides, on the same day, he repeatedly asked Wang Chaoyang to distribute the seizures to the meritorious soldiers, who knew that he was actually greedy for all his property?

Ancient officials paid attention to Liwei, and Long Wenguang just wanted to intimidate Yang Lin and act cautiously.

Now seeing Yang Lin like this, his face was slightly soothed, and he stood up and talked back about the matter of appeasement.

I felt sweaty in my vest, although it was a cold winter, and the beads of sweat on my face were one by one, it seemed that the ancient officials were too domineering.

When it comes to how to quell the rebellion, many people advocate appeasement, and the Wang Department can be called the elite in Sichuan, if he can be appeased under his own account, he will definitely rise and be promoted to Galu.

However, there are two poles of opinion on how to appease everyone, Long Wenguang and others advocate suppressing and appeasing at the same time, killing the generals who took the lead in the uprising, and pardoning the Jing Cong soldiers.

Yang Lin knew that the life of the soldiers was hard, and everyone was forced by life to rebel because they had no choice but to do so, so all those involved should be pardoned, and those who took the lead only needed to be cleared out of the army.

Hearing that the rebels should be pardoned so easily, Long Wenguang's face turned pale and said angrily: "Although the mutiny is excusable, the imperial court has the law and discipline of the imperial court, and the official government has the face of the official government.

How can a dignified and upright three-grade general and a military general be killed if he says he will kill, and in the long run, where is the discipline of the imperial court and the face of the government? ”

Yang Lin argued: "My lord, having said that, but now is a troubled time.

The imperial court can appease the rebels, so why should they turn a blind eye to these desperate soldiers who have no way out to mutiny? ”

Glaring at Yang Lin, rolling up his triangular eyes, Long Wenguang said angrily: "In troubled times, you are still a scholar, and you don't know this kind of thing?"

I have made up my mind, except for those who participated in the murder of the generals, the thousand generals, and the generals, how many others will not be held accountable?"

Yang Lin was shocked, and admonished: "Boss, please think twice before acting, this rebellion has spread widely, and there are one general who was killed, one guerrilla, three thousand generals, two deputy thousand generals, a total of 4, and as many as 12 large and small officers.

Now that the government wants to punish the leading generals, and so on, dozens of evildoers are pushed to the top, do you want to wipe out these generals?

These generals who dare to make trouble must have made a lot of friends on weekdays, and they have many friends, coupled with the urgency of the government's pursuit, everyone is afraid, and now they are in troubled times, the rebels will definitely unite around the rebel generals. ”

Seeing that Yang Lin actually dared to break himself in public, Long Wenguang was furious and drove him out of the big tent on the spot, and sent people to the county seat, ordering all the rebel troops to hand over the first offender within a time limit, otherwise the jade would be burned.

Unexpectedly, it was a great success, and some generals signed a letter hoping to be given a few days of grace so that the first culprit could be captured.

After getting the news, everyone was overjoyed, and they happily pondered how to take over the rebels of the royal army to enhance the strength of their own army.

Yang Lin doesn't see it that way, if he wants to capture the first offender, he doesn't need to do it himself, he just needs to borrow the hands of the officers and soldiers.

Now the rebel generals are saying that they want to catch the first culprit by themselves within a period of time, and it is very likely that they will use the golden cicada to get out of their shells.

But he confronted Long Wenguang, who participated in politics in northern Sichuan in person, and the other party is now angry, although Yang Lin feels inappropriate, he is helpless.

After a day of delay, news came from the front that morning that the rebels had evacuated Yilong County and were now retreating to Boryeong.

Long Wenguang woke up like a dream, and urgently recruited Yang Lin to ask for a plan.

Now that the situation is out of the way, there is no other way than to suppress and appease it.

Long Wenguang was in charge of suppression, sending troops to encircle and suppress the rebels, and Yang Lin was in charge of the rebellion, relying on his past connections to recruit rebel generals.

In the ancient city of Yunshan, Yang Lin had fought side by side with the Wang Department for ten days, and was also quite familiar with the generals in the army, and went to Liao Qifang and other generals one after another, covered the Daotai Yamen to print, and after signing his name, he sent someone to copy the path and secretly blend into the army, and met Liao Qifang and others.

When Liao Qifang and others were six gods and had no idea, after receiving Yang Lin's letter, they were half-convinced, and after many verifications, they led their subordinates to return to Shun.

Liao Qifang was reinstated, and in exchange, some ruffians in the army were cleansed.

Those outlaws who participated in the mutiny and killed their colleagues Yang Lin did not dare to take them in, and they were secretly sent out of the barracks for many travel expenses.

With Liao Qifang as the breakthrough point, Yang Lin continued to recruit rebel generals, and more than ten batches before and after, recruiting more than 300 rebels.

In the round-up of the army in the four general soldiers Liu Jiayin, the staff general Cao Xun, the staff general Zhu Hualong, and the Guangyuan garrison Yang Zhan, the rebels retreated all the way north, and the situation became more and more difficult.

On this day, they arrived at Baizhang Pass in Guangyuan, Guangyuan garrison Yang Zhan led his troops to block the way, after a day of fierce fighting, the rebels attacked Baizhang Pass and were frustrated, coupled with the officers and troops rounding up from all directions, the rebels were in crisis.

In order to appease the rebels, Guangyuan garrison Yang Zhanwu Tanhua (national examination) personally rushed to the camp to appease.

The camp was full of wailing, and Liu Bao and others also knew that it was useless to resist, so they were forced to accept the conditions and lead more than a dozen cronies to escape from the barracks, and live incognito.

In late November of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Guangyuan garrison Yang Zhan successfully appeased, and the rebellion of the royal department was quelled after two months.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Shiqi, the governor of Sichuan, made a huge three-way plan to attack the local tyrants in northern Sichuan because of the Wang Chaoyang mutiny, which not only reflected the general corruption and poor nature of the generals in the late Ming Dynasty, but also showed that the small peasant economy supported by Tian Fu and Ding Fu could not support the money and grain needed for large-scale conquests, and it can be said that the Wang Mutiny was a concentrated reflection of the social contradictions in the late Ming Dynasty.

Yang Zhan, who rewarded Guangyuan for meritorious deeds, was promoted to the position of general for recruiting the remnants of the rebel army.

Yang Linran made meritorious contributions to the transportation of grain, led the troops to attack the ancient city of Yunshan, changed the situation of the two sides, and made the first contribution, but the governor Yamen and the Daotai Yamen have not been determined how to reward.