The bloody facts on the school field educated those old soldiers who had been in peace for a long time and would only bully the common people, and in the face of the sharp long knives and the firelight that spewed out from time to time, they were afraid, first of all, those ragged soldiers, they took the lead in throwing down their weapons, raised their hands and knelt on the ground and begged for mercy loudly. Then there are those family members, although they are the king's personal soldiers, and they are also quite loyal to the king in peace, but now people are swords and I am fish and meat, and these family members will not do those stupid things that are afraid of touching stones, and in the face of the muzzle of the black hole, they have no choice but to throw down the weapons in their hands.

After packing up the soldiers on the school field, Pang Gang sent five hundred soldiers to press them back to the barracks with Wang Zhong to take good care, and then Pang Gang led the troops into the city immediately, and surrounded the command of the same prefect with lightning speed, and a thousand wolf-like sergeants rushed into Wang Zhong's house under the leadership of Pang Gang and began a vigorous raiding activity, scaring the servants and maids in the inner courtyard and the old lady and others like headless flies everywhere.

Pang Gang, accompanied by Qi Wuming, Bin Shiqian, and others, entered the inner courtyard of the commanding prefect's mansion, and looked at the splendid inner courtyard and the various antiques and famous calligraphy and paintings in the hall, and looked at Qi Wuming and others, who had always been accustomed to bitter conversations, in a daze.

Qi Wuming stuck out his tongue and said, "My good man, how much silver does this house have to build, I don't think about it if there are no more than 100,000 taels of silver." Shocked, Qi Wuming even spoke the local dialect of Qingzhou!

Even Bin Shiqian, who was cautious in his words and deeds, sighed: "If you rely on the king's fortune alone, I'm afraid that even if you don't build such a luxurious mansion in a hundred years." ”

Pang Gang also said hatefully: "The original number of 3,000 soldiers was actually eaten by him for more than 2,000 empty salaries, and his courage was inevitably too great." People say that there are 100,000 snowflakes of silver in the Qing Governor's Mansion in three years, and I think that this Lord Wang's land has been scraped down more than 100,000 over the years, and I'm afraid it's more than 500,000! ”

The three of them stood in the hall and watched the sergeants move out the boxes of things in the house one by one, and the military discipline officer who accompanied the army made a handful of bookkeepers, and in the registration of one by one, one by one the gold, silver and jade pieces shone with dazzling golden light in the sun.

At the time of the house raid, a burst of angry voices sounded outside the courtyard, "You all get out of the way of this official, this official is the prefect of Dengzhou, who dares to stop me!" ”

"I don't care what prefect you are, we only know that no one is allowed to enter without the order of the general!" The sergeant's voice was heard outside the courtyard at the same time.

"Oh, Lu Yingzhi is finally here." Pang Gang smiled unexpectedly and said to Qi Wuming: "Qi Baihu, go and invite our Lu Governor's Mansion in, he should be in a hurry after being outside for so long." ”

"Obedience!"

After a while, Qi Wuming led Lu Yingzhi and several errand officers into the inner courtyard, when Lu Yingzhi saw all kinds of antiques and gold and silver piled up in the open space of the inner courtyard, he only felt that his body was shaking, and he almost fainted to the ground, his right hand trembled and pointed at Pang Gang but he couldn't speak, and the officials around him quickly helped him when he saw this.

Lu Yingzhi finally relieved his breath, he pointed at Pang Gang and said hatefully: "Okay, you Pang Gang, you don't have an official document from the court, you dare to raid a government office that is the commander of the same knowledge from Sanpin, what crime should you be guilty of?" ”

Pang Gang looked at the prefect whose thick-soled official boots were covered with dust, and the official robe on his body had been soaked with sweat, and a burst of happiness came from his heart, "Governor Lu, Wang Tongzhi embezzled military salaries, and you didn't know about eating empty quotas, right?" Now that the incident has happened, as a general in charge of the defense of the three states, why not seal up his stolen goods first? ”

"You're quibbling!"

Lu Yingzhi's hand was about to point to Pang Gang's nose, his eyes almost wanted to breathe fire, for several years he and Wang Zhong had cooperated quite happily in Dengzhou, Wang Zhong used his army to support him to almost control the port and trade in Dengzhou, and he used the power in his hands to suppress other traders in Dengzhou City, and the two almost monopolized almost sixty percent of the business in Dengzhou City.

But now as soon as this Pang Gang came, he took down Wang Zhong with lightning speed and raided his home, which is equivalent to cutting off his roots of Lu Yingzhi, how can you let him not go crazy.

Pang Gang looked at the fingers in front of him that almost pointed to the tip of his nose, and a burst of anger swelled up, he didn't understand, why these people liked to point at other people's noses so much. In Chongzhen's Jinluan Palace, Chen Xinjia is like this, and this Lu Yingzhi is also like this, do literati like to do this action?

Pang Gang grabbed the finger in front of him and twisted it gently, only to hear a crisp sound, Lu Yingzhi's fingers suddenly folded upward, and then a terrible scream immediately rang out.

Lu Yingzhi's left hand clenched his right wrist so painfully that even cold sweat broke out, and his eyes waited for Pang Gang with resentment, "You... You tuoba, you dare to beat your own official, you are doomed! This official must join you, so that you will die without a place to be buried! ”

In the face of such a great change, Lu Yingzhi almost couldn't believe what was happening in front of him, Pang Gang not only dared to copy Wang Zhong's house, he also dared to twist his fingers, you must know that since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the status of military attachés is very low, although in the Chongzhen period because of the needs of the war and rebounded, but in general, relatively speaking, military attaches are still in a state of disadvantage. It has been almost unheard of for a person like Pang Gang to dare to break a prefect's finger in the past hundred years.

Faced with Lu Yingzhi's unbelievable expression, Pang Gang didn't pay attention to him, but said lightly: "Lord Lu, don't think too highly of yourself, your prefect is just a fourth-grade official in my opinion, and if you provoke this official, I don't mind leading troops to copy your prefect's yamen, presumably there are only a lot more valuable things in your house than here." ”

Lu Yingzhi finally understood what it was like for Xiucai to meet Bing, but this time although he was so angry that his body trembled, he didn't dare to point his finger at Pang Gang anymore, "Okay...... Okay, you just wait to be asked by the emperor's decree! ”

"Alright, let's get out of here when the is over." Pang Gang waved his hand impatiently, and immediately several sergeants came over and dragged Lu Yingzhi away like a dead dog.

Looking at Lu Yingzhi who was dragged away, Qi Wuming couldn't help but squint his eyes and squint at the embarrassed Lu Yingzhi, and said to Pang Gang: "My lord, if this person stays, I'm afraid that there will be endless troubles, and these civil officials have the most fancy intestines." ”

Pang Gang shook his head and said with a smile: "Brother Qi, do you know why people often say that "Xiucai can't rebel for ten years"? It means that these people will only move their mouths, if the world is peaceful, I will still let him score three points, but now in this world, whoever holds the military power in his hand will have a hard fist, and he will not be able to move a single hair of our hair. ”

For the situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty Pang Gang has already seen very clearly, the current imperial court has become more and more out of control over the military generals who hold heavy troops, and some of the generals who guard the local area also dare to disobey the orders of the imperial court, which was almost unimaginable ten years ago, but with the further erosion of the situation in the Ming Dynasty, the rights of local military generals are also getting bigger and bigger, and their resentment against the civilian and official groups that have been pressing on their heads for hundreds of years seems to have erupted all of a sudden, so that there have been civil and military confrontations in many places.

However, Pang Gang is not surprised by this phenomenon, no matter which dynasty, the act of using civil power to control military can only occur in peaceful and prosperous times, whether you want to or not, in troubled times, the power of military generals will definitely overwhelm civilian officials, this is an objective law that does not depend on anyone's will.

The reason why Pang Gang is so desperate to develop his own power is because he knows very well that the stronger his strength, the safer he is, and the more jealous the court is of himself. The current Pang Gang is precisely because he has 6,000 elite soldiers in his hands, he has the confidence to take down Wang Zhong without worrying about the backlash of the imperial court, of course, there must be a degree here, that is, you can't do too much, if Pang Gang really took Lu Yingzhi out just now, Chongzhen can't bear it anymore.

The raiding continued until the evening, and the final report was that 300,000 taels of silver, 30,000 taels of gold, and antiques, calligraphy and paintings that had not yet been counted were copied from the king's mansion, and this result was beyond everyone's expectations.

"Tut-tut...... This king is really rich, he doesn't know how much he has scraped over the years, and how much empty money he has eaten! Pang Gang shook his head, Wang Zhongcai is just a commander and a fellow knower, he can collect so much property, no wonder Li Zicheng of later generations entered Yanjing City and searched out more than 10 million taels of silver from the mansions of those royal nobles and officials who shouted poverty every day, it can be seen that the Ming Dynasty in this era is not without silver, but all the silver fell into the hands of those officials and businessmen and gentry, they would rather die with the silver buried in the cellar than support the country even a penny, In the end, they were all cheaper than Li Zicheng and his rogues.

"Pack all these things, and we'll take them all away." After Pang Gang finished speaking, he said to Qi Wuming: "Qi Baihu, I now temporarily appoint you as the city defense officer of Dengzhou, and lead five hundred soldiers to garrison Dengzhou, waiting for the arrival of the next group of defenders." Bin Baihu, you also stay, I also want to give you a task, you have to recruit 5,000 recruits, and then send them all to Qingzhou for unified training, can you do it? ”

"Yes, obedience!" Qi Wuming and Bin Shiqian agreed in unison with joyful faces, they knew very well that only the more troops under Pang Gang, the faster their officers would be promoted.

(To be continued)