Lin Ziquan was born in the Lin family, because he knew a few words, and he was the first batch of guards who could use muskets, so after the establishment of Yongying in Yuyao County, he was also reused by Lin Zhe, and now serves as the deputy company commander of the fourth company.

This time, he came out, like other officers, the purpose was to make Changxing, these gentry who are not long-sighted, suffer hardships, so as to create favorable conditions for the subsequent collection of military funds in the local area, and he has intimidated at least four or five large families along the way, as for the rumored long-haired spies, naturally none of them have been caught.

As soon as Lin Ziquan said that he wanted to let the soldiers enter the mansion to search, the housekeeper of the Na'an Mansion was even more panicked, if these big-headed soldiers were allowed to enter the mansion, it would have to make a fuss, those soldiers were still light, and more importantly, the wives and ladies in the mansion, if they were teased by those big-headed soldiers, they were not allowed to jump into the well tonight.

Immediately, the housekeeper of Na'an hurriedly said: "Adults are angry, adults are angry!" ”

Lin Ziquan will take care of him there, and with a wave of his hand, the soldiers under his command rushed up with the guns that had been loaded with bayonets, and there were originally more than 20 subordinates of Anfu behind the door, guards and the like, but after seeing the soldiers with guns rushing in, they were scattered in a swarm.

What Lin Ziquan said just now was very loud, and they all clearly heard Lin Ziquan's sentence: Resist and kill!

If you resist stupidly, you may really lose your life.

As more than thirty soldiers rushed in, the entire Anfu was in chaos!

At this time, the master of the An family, who had been hiding behind, finally came forward, and a middle-aged man with a pale face trembled and walked in front of Lin Ziquan: "This adult is angry!" ”

Although it can be seen that this person is very scared, he still speaks in a measured manner, not to the point of being speechless, and he quietly handed over several silver tickets as he spoke: "Little respect, please go and drink with your lords!" ”

Lin Ziquan took it unceremoniously, and then glanced at it slightly, and when he saw the numbers on the silver ticket, he also gasped in his heart.

Good guy, as soon as you make a shot, it is a silver ticket with a face value of one hundred taels, and there are as many as five in your hand, which adds up to five hundred taels!

Since the person was already frightened, and the other party's attack was still as good as five hundred taels of silver, Lin Ziquan's face was also better, and he immediately said to the soldiers around him: "Let the brothers come back, since there are no long-haired thieves here, then it must be somewhere else, let's go!" ”

After all, he just walked away arrogantly with the soldiers without looking back!

Leaving the pale-faced master of the An family, this person also went from fear to anger at the beginning, and finally showed resentment: "These days to kill the mud legs, and that Lin Zhe, so majestic, I will definitely go to the eldest brother to write a letter, and give him a hard shot!" ”

The same situation also happened in the homes of other large families in Changxing County!

Today, Lin Zhe divided the six companies into twelve teams and sent them out, led by the company commander and deputy company commander, on the surface, it was natural to say that the whole city was searching for long-haired thieves, but in fact, it was to create an atmosphere of panic, scare Hou Bingqu and the gentry and wealthy merchants in the city, and force them to take money.

Relying on intimidation to force the local government to take money, this kind of thing is already peaceful for the contemporary army, if it was replaced by the Hunan army or the Taiping army, the whole city would have been looted.

Due to the large scale of the Hunan army and the shortage of military spending, it often engaged in open looting to supplement the lack of military resources. In order to boost morale, soldiers were even promised to plunder a certain city for a few days after taking it, which led to more massacres of the city.

Of course, the Taiping army also often played this kind of thing, the history books record that after the Taiping army took the city of Suzhou, foreign priests came to investigate the situation and found the corpses in the city, and asked why they died, to which the Taiping army replied: These people committed suicide.

It is normal for Qing court officials and gentry families who have lost their cities and lands to commit suicide in these years, but the people of the city will commit suicide?

Whether you believe it or not, I don't believe it anyway, ants still steal life, let alone people!

For the public looting and even the slaughter of the city, Lin Zhe is still under great psychological pressure, after all, his soul is a modern person in the 21st century, no matter how selfish he is, he cannot say that he slaughters unarmed ordinary people.

It's just that he doesn't play public robbery or slaughtering the city or anything, but he doesn't have any psychological pressure on extorting those big families, anyway, those big families are not short of money, if he hides at home and waits for the silver nuggets to have a son, it is better to take it out and let himself raise an army.

Under Lin Zhe's instructions, the actions of the Yongying in Yuyao County were very big, and at the end of the day, dozens of big families in Changxing County were scared enough, and a large group of people gathered in the county government to find Hou Bingqu that night.

asked Hou Bingqu, the parent official, to find justice for them, although Hou Bingqu had this heart, but he didn't have the strength.

After hearing about this in broad daylight, he went to see Lin Zhe, but Lin Zhe rejected him on the grounds that he was busy with military affairs, it was obvious that Lin Zhe was not waiting to see him now, and he knew why this was happening, it was nothing more than asking for money and food!

But the county government will definitely not give it, on the one hand, the county government itself has no money, and on the other hand, Hou Bingqu, who is rich, is not willing to give.

If the county government doesn't give money, then it is natural that Lin Zhe's eyes will fall on these big families.

Although he already knew in his heart that he was powerless, Hou Bingqu also had to appease many gentry, and he couldn't let them think that he was supporting Lin Zhe.

After being pacified that night, Hou Bingqu went to the school again the next day to prepare to see Lin Zhe.

This time, Lin Zhe saw him, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he was playing Tai Chi with Hou Bingqu, and his mouth was full of words such as searching for long-haired thieves and consolidating the city defense, and he didn't mention the intimidation of those big families yesterday.

"Now the situation is difficult, Su Province and Anhui Province have lost their cities and land frequently, many of them are thieves in the city, and the enemy army outside the city should cooperate with the outside to lead the city to destroy people, we can't help but be vigilant about this!" Lin Zhe boasted:

"Now there are a lot of Cantonese rebels in the city, and there are a small number of thieves with a good heart, if they are not cleared, when the Cantonese rebels come to the city, we will be passive at that time!"

Looking at Lin Zhe as a thief and a Cantonese rebel, although Hou Bingqu's face remained calm as an official, he had already begun to scold in his heart, if he wanted to say that there was a Yuecheng in the city, he believed it, but if you want to say that those big families in the city have any Yueren, isn't it nonsense.

In these years, the gentry class, especially the scholar class, had an absolute opposition attitude towards the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, not only because the Taiping army liked to massacre the gentry class everywhere they went, but also because the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom believed in God's religion, and more importantly: the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom deleted and changed the Four Books and Five Classics, and defiled Confucius and Meng, destroyed the Confucian Temple and demolished the school.

The latter is the fundamental reason why almost all the country's scholars maintain an opposition attitude towards them, if you want to change the dynasty, it's okay to change the dynasty, and it's okay to enter the Xia, as long as you can maintain the transcendent status of traditional Confucianism, countless scholars will raise their hands to welcome the king, well, even if it's an army with mud legs.

But if you want to subvert the traditional Chinese and destroy Confucianism, then you are the enemy of the people who read all over the world.

Throughout the more than ten years from the rise of the Taiping Army to its collapse, countless scholars abandoned their pens and joined the Rong Army, or joined the Hunan Army, the Huai Army or their own regimental training to resist the Taiping Army, which was unique in the peasant uprising wars of all dynasties.

You must know that in the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were many scholars who threw themselves into Li Chuang, and in the later period, the high-ranking officials and important ministers in the capital surrendered to Li Chuang, why, because although Li Chuang was a leader of the exiles, but people also respected Confucianism, and later the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and a large number of gentry surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty These aliens, a large part of the reason is also because the Manchu Qing Dynasty respected and supported Confucianism.

This Taiping Heavenly Kingdom alone was opposed by almost the entire class of scholars.

In a certain way, the war between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Qing court, and the Han landlords, had nothing to do with class contradictions and political contradictions, and it was a very simple battle of faith.

This is a battle of faith between the traditional Chinese civilization and the Church of God, and the battle of faith is often endless.

This can also be reflected in a phenomenon in the war between the Qing army and the Taiping army: that is, the Qing army basically did not leave the Taiping prisoners.

Often, after catching a captive, he will be killed directly.

In the minds of countless traditional Confucian students, the so-called Divine Religion created by Hong Xiuquan is definitely a cult, and the Taiping Army needs to be completely eradicated from the roots.

Contemporary foreigners once commented that the Qing army's policy of not leaving prisoners made it countless steps more difficult for them to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Of course, the Taiping army rarely accepted prisoners from the Qing army, and those Qing troops who were defeated and surrendered were often directly stabbed.

But what makes the foreigners of this era feel even more strange is that they know that they will be killed if they surrender, but most of the Qing army will not fight to the death and will not break through when the battle situation is unfavorable.

They would just stupidly lay down their weapons, then kneel on the ground and cry out in an attempt to get the Taiping soldiers to spare their lives.

Of course, the Taiping army will not be soft-hearted, so they will not hesitate to kill these cowards.

Now Lin Zhe actually said that the big families in Changxing County, well, that is, there are long-haired thieves in the gentry and scholar class, isn't this nonsense?

However, although Hou Bingqu knew that what Lin Zhe said was nonsense, he understood that this was just an excuse, and Lin Zhe still wanted money and food.

This meeting was destined to be fruitless, and Lin Zhe and Hou Bingqu left after talking for half an hour.

When Hou Bingqu left, Lin Zhe's face was still calm!

"Order, continue the search operation today, but pay attention to proportion!" Lin Zhe said, "In addition, in my name, invite the gentry in the city to discuss how to capture the long-haired thieves in the city!" ”

On that day, the Yongying camp of Yuyao County was still rampant in the city, but the momentum was much smaller than yesterday, and he didn't do too much excesses, after all, Lin Zhe just wanted to knock them, and he didn't plan to do too much.

At the same time, Lin Zhe invited the gentry in the city to discuss how to protect the city, and the invitation to clean up the bandits in the city was also sent to the homes of the gentry in the city.

In the evening of the same day, Lin Zhe set up a banquet and invited the heads or representatives of dozens of gentry in the city to dinner, but this meal made those gentry eat very unpleasantly.

The people present are not stupid, they have already understood Lin Zhe's actions in the past two days, Lin Zhe just wants money and food, and it is the kind of blatant blackmail!

Many people have already figured it out, since Lin Zhe wants money and food, then give it, it is better than letting the soldiers of the Yongying in Yuyao County come to harass him every day.

But giving is giving, but how much to give is a question.

After everyone was full of wine and food, Lin Zhe didn't mention anything about money and food for a long time, but just blindly said that the current situation in the city defense was grim and long hair was rampant, which made many gentry feel bad in their hearts.

In the end, it was Shi Anjin, the eldest son of the Changxing Shi family, who took the lead to speak: "Lord Lin led the army to protect my Changxing and tranquility, and we are grateful in our hearts. ”

Hearing this five hundred taels, Lin Zhe's eyebrows furrowed slightly, although he had only been in Changxing for a few days, he had already collected the situation of the big rich families in Changxing County, although he did not say how detailed or accurate it was, but the general situation was still understood.

The Changxing historians, like the Yuyao Lin family, are all engaged in the raw silk business, and Huzhou is a famous raw silk producing area, so not only the historians, but at least half of the more than 20 families here are involved in the raw silk business.

This historian is one of the larger ones, and his financial resources are not as rich as the Lin family, but they are also a rich family, and his family wealth is more than one million.

Such a rich family only took out five hundred taels, could it really be that he Lin Zhe was called Huazi?