Chapter Ninety-Five: Enabling Sun Chuanting
When he learned that the personnel sent to Qingzhang were beaten and even killed, he immediately took the case, and immediately sent troops to the various accident sites, directly raided the house, arrested all the perpetrators, and killed the house slaves on the spot.
One of the big families is a relative of the saint today, thinking that Zhang Changfang did not dare to touch him, quite arrogant, when the Qingzhang officials went to his village to ask for the Qingzhang land, he sent people to arrest a few of the officials who went to the village on the spot, hung them outside the village wall, stripped them naked, beat them with a leather whip dipped in salt water, and humiliated them.
When Zhang Changfang sent troops to his Zhuangzi, this guy still refused to stop, and actually shouted that if he had the ability, let the officers and soldiers try it.
But who are these officers and soldiers? Zhang Changfang sent a soldier of the Yu family's army, where would he take this kind of relative in his eyes, after ordering the release of people to no avail, the platoon commander who led the team immediately ordered to open fire without saying a word.
The emperor's cousin, who was originally arrogant on the Zhuang wall, was hit by Yu Jiajun's rifle on the spot, and his brain was splashed, and more than a dozen family members who stood on the Zhuang wall with him didn't even have a chance to escape, so they were knocked down from the Zhuang wall.
This time the Zhuangzi was completely chaotic, and the platoon commander who led the team did not stop doing anything, led the troops to attack Zhuangzi directly, and came to a massacre, and slaughtered all the people in the Zhuangzi except for the children.
After Zhang Changfang heard the news afterwards, he was also taken aback, feeling that this thing had been done a bit too much, but since he had done it, he couldn't reverse time, so he charged the family with treason and showed it to the public.
Zhang Changfang hunted and killed dozens of big families in Shandong for half a year, and such a thunderous method finally let those local magnates know Zhang Changfang's determination, so they finally began to relent.
Although paying taxes makes them feel painful, it is better than being caught and killed, and having their homes raided! Therefore, after a series of events, the local families in Shandong finally chose to bow down and began to accept their land and pay the prescribed taxes.
These big families all hate Xiaotian and Zhang Changjie one by one, and one of the big families is really angry, so they secretly buy the murderer and try to assassinate Zhang Changjie, wanting to assassinate Zhang Changjie to kill Yu Xiaotian's prestige, so that Yu Xiaotian knows that he can't cover the sky with one hand in this world.
But this guy's mind is a little too simple, he actually penetrated the wind in advance, and was immediately informed by Zhang Changjie, Zhang Changjie heard that someone actually wanted his life, so he immediately sent troops to rush to the big family, arrested their whole family, old and young, under torture, this guy finally couldn't stand it and confessed.
Later, this guy was convicted by Zhang Changjie of intending to assassinate the court officials and intending to rebel and cause rebellion, and he was beheaded all over the house and killed dozens of people up and down, which really effectively deterred those local tyrants on the border of Shandong.
This policy, for ordinary people, is undoubtedly a very good good news, the rich are not happy but the ordinary people are happy, has been pressing on them the heavy burden, a lot of unloaded, although there is still so much land, but all year round, can finally leave a few mouthfuls of food for themselves, which is quite good for ordinary people, they are not too high pursuit, for this filial piety is grateful to Dade.
However, after Yu Xiaotian took power, he made a drastic effort to rectify the officialdom and reform taxes, and at the same time, he also officially began to face a problem that had plagued Chongzhen for many years, that is, the problem of the exile army.
After more than ten years of development, as well as the continuous famine in the north for many years, the Liumin Army swept almost the entire Jiangbei region, and the Liumin Army swept through Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Beizhili, Nanzhili, Shandong, Huguang, Sichuan and other places, almost occupying half of the rivers and mountains of the Ming Dynasty.
Although in the first two years, under the strategy of Yang Sichang's four positive and six corners, the exile army suffered a heavy blow, and many of the exile army were wiped out by the government, but with the change of the situation in the north, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting led the troops to the north of Qinwang, and suddenly gave Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others a rare respite.
Hong Chengchou went north to enter the guard, and transferred a large number of Shaanxi officers and troops out of Shaanxi, so that the high pressure borne by the exile army for a year or two was suddenly relaxed.
Li Zicheng, who had been chased by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, originally thought that he was really going to be finished this time, but at this time, he got such a rare respite, so Li Zicheng immediately led the remnants and rushed out of Shangluo Mountain, all the way around Shaanxi, and in just over two months, he reunited tens of thousands of homeless people and restored his original strength.
Zhang Xianzhong once again broke into Henan, and after a great raid in Nanyang and Xinyang, he and Luo Rucai rushed into Huguang and began to operate in Zaoyang and Suizhou, and their strength was quickly restored and strengthened.
In addition to these leaders, many of the exiled people's armies, who had already died down, also took the opportunity to make a comeback, and began to pull people everywhere again, coercing ordinary people into joining the gang.
Although their starting point is not wrong, they only do it for the sake of stuttering and surviving, but among them, there are quite a few people, especially the leaders, many of these people used to be either strong in the previous places, or they were ruffians and fierce people, often these people are ruthless, they can achieve great things, ordinary ordinary people will definitely not be able to do these things.
So no one expects the wandering army to have any military discipline at all, except for a few wandering army and somewhat restrain their subordinates, most of the wandering army, in fact, is like locusts, they attack some rich people's Zhuangzi, they can also be regarded as robbing the rich and helping the poor, but they don't all do this, in fact, they don't care about the rich and poor, as long as they look at it, they will rob, even the poorest people, they will never let go.
And this is also a strategy of theirs, they are like locusts, eat up a place, and then force the people of this place to live even after the exile army leaves, so they can only kill their wives and abandon their children to follow them, seeking a way to live.
And their approach is undoubtedly very strict for the destruction of the social foundation, but wherever the wandering army passes, it is more powerful than the locust plague, it can almost be said that it is a hundred miles of red land, there is not a trace of cooking smoke, many places that pass through the wandering army can be said to be ten rooms and nine empty, the people here are either slaughtered by the exile army, or all the survival capital has been robbed, and as a last resort, they have to follow the exile army from the thief and eat together
And the life of the exile army is never taken seriously, and often the siege of the city will drive countless hungry and skinny homeless people, serving as cannon fodder, these people do not even have a weapon, many people are at most just a stick, and they are driven to the battlefield.
Often the main force of their core is supervising the battle behind, and if anyone does not dare to rush forward, they will be cut down immediately, so the exile army of this era, although it has its righteous side, but often what it does is outrageous, and it is definitely not like the all-positive description of them in the history books of later generations.
Yu Xiaotian is staying in this era now, of course, he is very clear about this, and now Daming can be said to have basically fallen into his hands, he can now be said to be in power, one person is above ten thousand people, and he doesn't have to worry about the one above pointing fingers at him every day.
Therefore, Daming is now his China, and he wants to write a new chapter in this land, and naturally he can't avoid facing the problem of displaced people.
Yu Xiaotian will not be like the previous imperial court, wandering left and right on the issue of suppression and appeasement, now the exile army is his biggest enemy, if he does not completely exterminate this gang of exile army, then he will not be able to realize his dream.
Therefore, after stabilizing the situation in Beijing and the north, Yu Xiaotian pretended to use Chongzhen's mouth to order Sun Chuanting to succeed Lu Xiangsheng as the governor of Henan, Huguang and Guangzhou, and be responsible for the suppression of thieves in these two provinces.
Sun Chuanting originally had a strong hostile attitude towards Xiaotian, this time he and Hong Chengchou led troops into the Weiqin King, but in the area of Fangshan, they were blocked by the Yu family army, they fought more and less, but in the end they were beaten by the Yu family army, which also made Sun Chuanting thoroughly understand what is called a strong soldier.
Sun Chuanting, under the protection of his own soldiers, ran for hundreds of miles, and finally escaped from the pursuit of Yu's army and fled to Juyong Pass to hide.
It has been many days, Sun Chuanting is still like in a nightmare, I can't believe it's true, he can be regarded as a long-time battle, he has been an official in Shaanxi for so many years, and followed Hong Chengchou to conquer the exiled people's army everywhere, at least dozens of large and small battles have been experienced, and he can be regarded as having seen brave and good soldiers.
But he has never seen such a male soldier as Yu Jiajun, nor has he ever seen such a fierce artillery fire, in front of the family army, those Shaanxi soldiers he is proud of are like grass mustard to be slaughtered, and human life lies in the face of the artillery fire of the family army is so worthless, so that he feels extremely aggrieved and is beaten without the power to fight back.
Now he understands why Yu Xiaotian dared to immediately block the way of the Jiannu army with 30,000 lonely divisions, and beat the Jiannu army to the point that he lost his armor, and even the slave chief of the Jiannu army, Dorgon, was beheaded in front of the two armies.
Why was he able to defeat the official army in a row, lead the army into the capital, and control the entire Beijing division, as far as he knows, in this world, I am afraid it is difficult to find more powerful soldiers and horses than his Yu family's army, and he wants to exterminate it, unless Yu Xiaotian himself dies, otherwise, no one wants to defeat his Yu family's army.
So after Sun Chuanting fled to Juyong Pass, the whole person fell into a kind of helplessness and fear, not knowing what to do next, and feeling a little muddy all day long, and he didn't care about anything behind closed doors.