The entry of this iron hoof soon alarmed all the people in Zhangzhou Mansion.

All of a sudden, the streets were filled with frightened crowds, and people rushed back to their homes in desperation.

Fortunately, these Xuanjia elite cavalry did not mean to kill civilians, and their troops pointed directly at the Yamen of the Zhangzhou Prefect and the Yamen of the Zhangzhou Prefecture and the Tongzhi Yamen of the Zhangzhou Prefecture Haiphong.

People along the road avoided each other, and some of the men dressed as sergeants or trappers were unceremoniously killed.

Now in wartime, they must eliminate all unstable factors and take Zhangzhou.

Wang Kangyu, the prefect of Zhangzhou Prefecture, was accompanying his beautiful concubine to dinner, and his master rushed in in a panic.

"My lord, it's no good, a group of thieves have rushed into the city gate, let's run away."

Hearing this, Wang Kangyu couldn't help but be shocked: "Thieves, where did the thieves come from?" Master, you're not joking with your own officials. ”

The master couldn't help but be angry and anxious, and then beat his brother and said, "I don't know where the thief came from." My lord, let's go quickly, it's too late if we don't leave. ”

After speaking, he came to pull Wang Kang's ballad.

Wang Kangyu was confused by his endless words, and at this time, there was a sudden commotion outside.

"What's going on?"

Wang Kangyu hurriedly asked.

The master turned pale, and then said with a dejected face: "It's over, the thieves have come in." ”

Sure enough, soon a few catchers rushed in in a panic, and then said to Wang Kangyu: "Lord Qiyu, hundreds of cavalry from outsiders suddenly came. They were all dressed in black and black armor, and they were coming to the house. ”

"Hundreds of cavalry?"

Hearing this, Wang Kangyu couldn't help but be so shocked that he couldn't even stand on his feet, and almost sat on the ground.

The master hurriedly supported him, but he had a bitter face, knowing this, he should have escaped first.

Soon, a large group of maids and servants rushed in screaming.

Then a large number of black-armored soldiers followed them in.

Blood was dripping from their waist knives, and at the same time, they looked at Wang Kangyu with murderous faces.

Frightened, Wang Kangyu's legs weakened, he held back the fear in his heart, and then said to these black-armored soldiers: "Who are you? Did you storm the prefect's yamen without authorization and kill people in a conspiracy? As long as you retreat, the official can say a good word or two for you and ensure that you are okay. ”

Hearing this, those black-armored soldiers couldn't help but laugh wildly.

Doesn't this prefect know that what they are doing now is a rebellion?

Soon, a middle-aged military general wearing golden bright light armor came out of the crowd, and then said to him: "You are Wang Kangyu, the prefect of Zhangzhou?" ”

Wang Kangyu looked at him carefully, and found that although this person was not very old, he had a dignified face, and there was a look of not being angry and arrogant, and it was obvious that he was a person who had been in the top position for a long time.

So he said cautiously: "That's right, it's Benfu." Who are you, and why do you want to kill officials and rebel? ”

"This official is Li Jing, the former general of Liaodong garrison Lu Yan, my family deeply feels that today's saint is mediocre, and he favors the nurse Niang Ke and the right eunuch Wei Zhongxian, so he wants to lead 100,000 elite soldiers, and raise troops to serve Wang Qingjun's side, I don't know if you are willing to follow my family."

Li Jing said with a smile on his face.

"What do you say? 100,000 elite soldiers? Rise up the king of soldiers? Qingjun side? ”

Hearing this, Wang Kangyu and the master couldn't help but close their mouths in surprise.

"Aren't you kidding?"

Wang Kangyu couldn't help but ask.

Can this thing be shouted casually on the Qingjun side?

The most famous Qing Jun side of the Ming Dynasty was the Battle of Jingjing, and Zhu Di, the king of Yan, robbed his nephew of his country under the banner of the Qing Jun side.

For the Ming Dynasty, the Qing monarch's side was even more sensitive than rebellion.

That's why Wang Kangyu has this question.

"Of course."

Li Jing said with a smile.

"Where did you get your army of 100,000?"

Master asked.

"You don't need to know this, you just need to know that my family will soon lead an army of 100,000 to King Qin."

Li Jing shook his head and said.

"Hahaha, if you think you just tell some lies and come to lie to me, I'll believe it. I, Wang Kang, was born as a minister of the Ming Dynasty, and died as a ghost of the Ming Dynasty. If you want me to betray Daming, it is absolutely impossible. ”

Wang Kangyu laughed wildly.

This made Li Jing feel extremely appreciative, and now Lu Yan's great cause was only in its infancy.

Few officials would believe that Lu Yan could win against the Ming Dynasty, and it was a joke to really think that the Ming Dynasty's million-strong army was a joke.

At the very least, it would be easy to crush the rebellion of the ordinary rebels.

Therefore, Wang Kangyu only judged the situation a little and decided not to surrender to this gang of thieves, so that even if he died, he could save his name.

Of course, the Ming officials turned to the Manchus one after another, and that was because they saw that the Manchus and Li Zicheng might get the whole world.

As long as Lu Yan can show his potential, then the officials of the Ming Dynasty will soon take refuge one after another without discipline.

"Then take it down first and watch it."

Li Jing said.

When the prefect of Zhangzhou was pacified, the Yamen of Zhangzhou Haiphong Tongzhi was soon pacified.

Officials, large and small, did not know how many were captured, and all of them were put in prison by Li Jing.

So Li Jing next ordered that the city gate be closed and no one should be allowed to enter or leave.

At the same time, the list is released to reassure the people, so that people do not panic.

As for the dozens of ruffians who wanted to rob while the army was entering the city, they were also beheaded by Li Jing, and then their bodies were hung for public display.

The news of the fall of Zhangzhou Mansion soon spread, and after learning the news, a Zhejiang military battalion stationed outside Quanzhou could not help but sweat profusely.

He didn't even know that the enemy had occupied Zhangzhou Mansion, and as far as he knew, it seemed that not many officials had escaped at all, and they were almost served by the enemy.

This news is undoubtedly the fall of the sky for him, so many officials have been captured, if the court knows about it, it will have to kill him.

So he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly gathered soldiers from several nearby guards to launch an attack on Zhangzhou Mansion, hoping to atone for his crimes.

However, Li Jing sent five hundred elite cavalry to rush violently, first breaking through the formation of those guards soldiers, and then driving them to disperse the Zhejiang soldiers.

In the end, it was slashed all the way, and those Ming troops were almost cut down.

About five hours after the Ming army was killed, another 300 Xuanjia elite horsemen came to help, still riding two horses.

After getting this reinforcement, Li Jing finally breathed a sigh of relief.

With more than 1,000 cavalry, he finally firmly controlled Zhangzhou Mansion.

Another day passed, and Lu Yan finally arrived late with more than 300 horsemen and 500 infantrymen.

Li Jing led the generals out of the city to greet them.

"Wei Guogong really deserves to be a famous general in the world, and he can successfully raid Zhangzhou, and Wei Guogong should be the first to take the lead."

Lu Yan said with a laugh.

"My lord has an overreputation, if I don't have these elite soldiers, I would also be a clever woman, and it will be difficult to cook without rice."

Li Jing said modestly.

As Li Tang's battle-hardened elite soldier, the quality of the Xuanjia Elite Cavalry is of course first-class.

The crowd exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then they all entered the city.

After learning that a large number of officials had been captured, Lu Yan only thought for a while and released all those civilian officials.

As the so-called useless scholars are, the current literati are not the literati of the Three Kingdoms period, and they are all in a mess.

Putting him in prison is also a waste of his food, and even if it is returned to Daming, they must not be able to make much of a storm.

As for the military attaché still locked up first, he didn't think about how to deal with them for the time being.

Of course, he still has a lot of important things to do.

For example, if he is copying a big household, now his resources are limited, and the only thing he can do is to support the war with war.

And those big people who do a lot of evil are his only source of funds.

Because the Ming squires hid their household registration, rarely paid taxes or even did not pay taxes, and completely transferred the obligation of paying taxes to the heads of those poor people, so those big families were rich to death.

Zhangzhou is close to the only foreign port of the Ming Dynasty, and it is the first month to get the moon near the water, and many large households have earned a huge amount of wealth by going to sea or smuggling.

Therefore, after Lu Yan found someone to inquire about several notorious big households, he immediately copied those big ones without hesitation.

This copy really copied a large amount of gold and silver, and the gold and silver alone amounted to a million taels.

In addition, there are a large amount of food, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and all kinds of materials.

However, Lu Yan believes that those big families must still have a lot of wealth hidden.

Because after Li Jing entered the city, in order to maintain stability, he did not attack those big households, and gave those big households a lot of time to hide their wealth.

With so much wealth, Lu Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

His military spending has finally been settled, and the next step is to plan for the long term.

So Lü Yan then promulgated a series of drastic reforms.

He first took out 100,000 taels of silver to reward the soldiers, and almost everyone shared 50 taels of silver, which was regarded as a reward for their heroic performance during this time.

Immediately afterwards, he sent a large number of cavalry out and forcibly requisitioned almost all the military supplies such as iron, lead, saltpeter, and sulfur at market prices.

Then he took out the two pieces of silver for the month of February, and forcibly called the craftsmen of the guards to make him all kinds of weapons, gunpowder, and cannonballs.

Lu Yanke is very experienced in how to improve the enthusiasm of craftsmen and has formulated a piecework reward system.

The more you do, the more silver you can get.

For Lu Yan's forced conscription, those artisan households were very frightened at first, and many family members were reluctant to let them come over, thinking that this would be the last time they met them.

But how are they the opponents of those fierce thieves, after arriving at Zhangzhou Mansion, they first received 2 taels of silver, and their hearts settled down, knowing that at least their lives were temporarily saved.

Because these thieves will not give money to the dead, 2 taels of silver is definitely a high salary in Fujian, and it is definitely much better than doing things for the government for free.

The next thing is the piecework reward, those craftsmen have the intention to grind foreign workers, and they are worried that they will be charged with being a thief after doing too much.

But I really couldn't help the ** of the silver, and then I did more and more, and finally I simply got up early and did it greedily.

It's not that no one thought that these thieves would kill them and then covet their money.

But when they saw that they were allowed to send someone they trusted to deliver the money to their homes, they were completely relieved.

Whatever charges they may bear in the future, at least for now, they will earn the money.

Of course, Lu Yan's policies have not failed to attract some evil results.

That is, some big families were worried that their property would be confiscated, and even the officers and soldiers called, and they planned to flee one after another, and Lu Yan did not stop this.

It was only stipulated that if he planned to flee, he would leave half of his family property behind.

The so-called wealth is moving, not to mention the silver that those big families don't know how many generations of their ancestors have accumulated.

So some big families can only cry and wipe away their young sons in the family, in case they have three longs and two shorts, so as to leave a queen for the family.

In this regard, Lu Yan also turned one eye open and closed one eye.

Anyway, those big and large industries are in Zhangzhou Mansion, and they can't leave even if they want to.

Of course, there is also the division of the land.

This time, Lu Yan did not plan to divide all the fields, but planned to take the copied fields into a component and give them to those craftsmen, so as to collect the hearts of those craftsmen.

Forty percent was distributed to the poor people to stabilize the hearts of the people in Zhangzhou Prefecture.

The remaining fifty percent was used to raise the army, and Lu Yan planned to set all these fields as official land.

It was divided into one for every 100 acres, and then distributed to those sergeants to reproduce the glory of the Tang Dynasty military system.

Of course, because he had too little land, there was no way to meet his needs.

Therefore, he temporarily handed over these fields to some peasants for planting, and he collected the rent.

Fighting local tyrants and dividing the land is indeed an invincible means to fight the world

As soon as this order came out, the entire Zhangzhou Mansion was in an uproar.

If it weren't for their fear that Lu Yan would fail and then be liquidated by the government, it is estimated that those poor people would have broken the threshold of Lu Yan long ago.

But even so, those craftsmen were still very grateful to Lu Yan, at least Lu Yan brought them a good life.

In addition to this, there are also some poor and displaced people who come to register their territories.

Lu Yan also generously divided these lands, and each person had ten acres of good arable land.

After the fields were distributed, those poor and homeless people were of course extremely grateful, and they said good things about Lu Yan everywhere.

But those civilians who didn't go to the territory scoffed, and when the army of the government came over, you looked good, and those big households were really muddy, and all those big households were connected to the government.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Yan once again announced that there would be no increase in salaries this year, and all taxes collected would be halved.

This is definitely a moral policy that benefits all the people, and Liao Salary is definitely a cannibalistic policy.

Although the court did not collect much, it was enough to bankrupt countless peasants after those officials and officials were sent down layer by layer.

After the levy of Liao salary, more and more people had to be displaced because they could not pay Liao salary, and the displaced people also became a lingering stubborn disease in the Ming Dynasty.

In this regard, the people of Zhangzhou Mansion are both happy and worried.

They were both happy and extremely worried about Lu Yan's policy.

If they can continue to collect only half of the tax, then the burden on them will be greatly reduced, and maybe they will have a good year again.

However, the army of the imperial court will definitely fight, and I am afraid that the entire Zhangzhou will suffer at that time.

However, many people welcome Lu Yan's policy, at least those people at the bottom and middle level can breathe a sigh of relief.

In addition, the most important thing is to tell the world to raise troops and serve the king.

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