Chapter 342: Complete Liquidation

The infantry of the rebels was basically all down, and only the children of those classes had horses, and some of them saw that the momentum was not right, and took advantage of the chaos to run.

However, the officers and soldiers are not vegetarians, those who run away are the big fish, these people just slipped away, and they were stuck by the official cavalry, and they were chased and fled one by one.

There is no rule for these rebels to escape, where can they outrun these professional cavalry with rich war experience, one by one by some of the cavalry of the official army chased with all their strength and galloped wildly, but after running for a distance, the horse's physical strength has been exhausted, and most of the official cavalry is unhurriedly chasing from behind.

This pursuit strategy has been used countless times against Jiannu on the Liaodong battlefield and against the Mongols on the Mongolian battlefield, and it has long been familiar with it. When these rebels ran away, they could only run for their lives in the face of such a pursuit, even if they knew that they were over.

Running and running, he was overtaken.

Their horses could not run, and their physical exhaustion was very serious. And the war horses of the official cavalry that slowly caught up were not so fast, and the horses were still very strong.

This is the difference between the 100-meter sprint and the 10,000-meter run.

The rebels who were caught up could be said to be ineffective every day, and they either surrendered or were slashed with a knife.

Under the pursuit of the cavalry troops, not many rebel cavalry managed to escape, most of them were intercepted, and only a few were lucky enough to escape.

On the battlefield, King Fu has been captured by the official army.

Obviously, King Fu did not have the courage to commit suicide, King Fu, who was born in the house of the Son of Heaven, has been golden branches and jade leaves since he was a child, and he is extremely favored, not to mention that he broke off on his own, and he can't bear the pain of flesh and skin a few times.

King Fu was captured. It means that the rebellion has completely failed.

The officers and soldiers immediately began to clean up the battlefield. The officers and soldiers of the various units involved in the counterinsurgency operation immediately cleaned up the battlefield. There were many prisoners of war, including nearly 200,000 rebel soldiers, as well as a lot of grain, grass, gold, silver and jewelry.

What is even more exciting is that the official army seized an account book from King Fu, which is the 'merit book' that King Fu had registered, which records the amount of money, food, and soldiers that those scholars, merchants, and landlords supported him. Immediately afterwards, a roster was found, and it was the roster of those black-clothed children who had taken refuge in King Fu.

When Sun Chuanting, who was in charge of commanding the counterinsurgency operation, arrived at the battlefield, the counterinsurgency campaign had already ended. It's not that Sun Chuanting came too slowly, but that King Fu was defeated too quickly.

Sun Chuanting, who got the roster, immediately ordered the counterinsurgency army to counterattack Luoyang to completely exterminate the traitors, and at the same time sent the roster to the factory guard, so that the factory guard led the army to arrest people according to the roster.

All the scholars, landlords, and merchants on the list were arrested.

"Wherever the army passes, it is not permissible to disturb the people, not to trample on the crops, and not to cut down trees indiscriminately." Sun Chuanting reaffirmed discipline and immediately ordered the march.

The 100,000-strong counterinsurgency army then marched westward, and the states and counties where it passed changed flags again.

The news of King Fu's defeat has been received, and the army has not yet reached those states and counties. One by one, they changed back to the banner of the Ming Dynasty.

See the wind and rudder, but that's it.

However, the counterinsurgency army of the imperial court is not so easy to talk to. All the officials canonized by King Fu were arrested, and at the same time, the factory guards also led the army to arrest people everywhere, but all those class forces who supported King Fu were arrested, and their assets were sealed.

The counterinsurgency army not only committed no offense to the people in the autumn and autumn, but also provided relief to the people who had suffered from military disasters, and distributed military rations to the people along the way.

Even if they do not disturb the people, nor trample on the crops, they are also very careful when cutting down trees, and do not cut down a single grave tree, and if the people plant trees, they will be compensated for expropriation at the market price.

When the army entered the city, the soldiers did not sleep in the houses, and the soldiers who had nowhere to sleep slept on the streets.

When the people saw such a well-disciplined army, they all greeted each other with pot pulp, and cooperated with the Central Army to arrest and report the remnants of the rebels.

These rebels are too hated, and when they rebelled, they not only caught strong men everywhere, but also often robbed and **** the people, and the people were simply miserable under the harassment of thieves.

Now as soon as the counterinsurgency army of the imperial court arrived, it not only did not commit any offense to the people, but also distributed military rations to help the people. Compared with the two, it was suddenly like a cloud.

King Fu was cursed by the people over and over again, and he bravely reported the remnants of the rebels.

King Fu, who was defeated after only nine days of raising troops, was loaded into a prisoner cart and escorted to the capital for trial.

In the Forbidden City, Zhu Youxiao received a good report from Sun Chuanting, and was very satisfied with the speed of counterinsurgency. Zhu Youxiao, who had just been assassinated, was holding back a fire at this time!

After seeing the list of people who supported King Fu reported by Sun Chuanting, he read the merit book of King Fu, and then ordered Li Chaoqing and Qian Guoxing: "Divide this list, those who strongly support King Fu will be beheaded by men, and women will be reduced to official slaves." In the second level, all family property was confiscated and all exiled to the Northeast. At the lowest level, all property is confiscated. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." After Li Chaoqing and Qian Guoxing received the order, they immediately got busy and graded the people on the roster.

Half a month after King Fu's rebellion, the rebellion officially ended. Sun Chuanting commanded the counterinsurgency army and successfully recovered the rebel area.

And the most critical part of this counterinsurgency campaign began, and that was the liquidation activity.

This was a complete reckoning, but all the landlords, merchants, scholars, and Fu Wang who supported King Fu's rebellion were interrogated, and they bit one by one, biting out a large number of people.

Every day, the factory guards were arresting people everywhere, and notices were posted everywhere to arrest escaped traitors.

Arresting people, raiding homes, and interrogating people are simply busy. The factory guards were short of manpower, and a large number of people were transferred from all over the country.

According to the results of the interrogation and verification, one by one the landlords, merchants, and members of the noble clan were convicted, and the most serious ones were confiscated from the family property.

More seriously, after the family property was confiscated, he was exiled to the northeast. And those who danced the most happily, the men were all beheaded, and the female dependents were all reduced to official slaves, either sent to work in factories, or sent to brothels, green buildings, or sold as maids.

This liquidation activity is actually a link to obtain the dividends of the war.

There are war dividends in any war, and there are also rich war dividends in this internal rebellion, and the main war dividend is land.

Whether it is a merchant or a nobleman, they are basically landlords, and some are pure landlords.

These Henan landlords control a large amount of land. As a result of the confiscation of assets, all these lands fell into the hands of the imperial court and became state-owned assets.

After some liquidation, it was again full of people.

In the same way, the imperial court once again made a windfall, confiscating more than 30 million mu of land alone, and at the same time obtained various assets and more than 20 million yuan in cash.

The Ming Dynasty has accumulated wealth for more than 200 years, and the wealth of the rich people is naturally very huge. It's just that under normal circumstances, the wealth of these rich people cannot be obtained. After all, people have not done anything illegal, and the court cannot raid the house indiscriminately. However, this time they supported King Fu, how could Zhu Youxiao not take the opportunity to get these riches? (To be continued.) )