Chapter Forty-Eight: Tricking the Mutineers with Stones Passing False as Silver

Li Zhengming looked at Li Zhengren, the general manager of the Ming army, and said, "How is it?" Are the brethren reliable? Li Zhengren replied: "Brother, you can rest assured!" The brothers are very reliable! ”

Li Zhengming nodded and smiled, Li Zhengren is the president here, and he was also lurking a year ago. Huang Taiji sent the Ming army to surrender the army or the children of the Eight Banners who were well versed in Han affairs into the Ming army to lurk in the Ming army for future use, or to incite the Ming army, or to obtain information about the Ming army.

Now that Huang Taiji is using this team, he is bent on getting rid of Zhang Biwu, so he ordered the lurking Li Zhengming and the generals Li Jiyou and Li Weiguan to do this thing well, and at the same time detained their family members as hostages, and repeatedly promised that as long as they successfully complete the task, then they can obtain high-ranking officials.

Like, how could San Li not be crazy? It happened that Chongzhen gave them a quit smoking order, gave them the truth, and then instigated 2,000 people to mutiny on the grounds that they were owed half a year's salary.

Li Zhengming instructed them: "As soon as Zhang Biwu comes, kill him immediately!" Do you know the way? Li Jiyou, Li Weiguan, and Li Zhengren all nodded, and they said, "Yes! Everything is at the mercy of the general! ”

Li Zhengming stood on the city tower, looked into the distance, and thought, "Okay! Great! Zhang Biwu, hurry up! As soon as you come, you can't help but say that you can kill immediately! What he was holding in his hand was Zhang Biwu's portrait, because Huang Taiji had already issued Zhang Biwu's portrait to them in order to get rid of Zhang Biwu.

And the mutineers in the city all heard that if they could kill Zhang Biwu, the person who killed would get a hundred taels of silver! This was a great encouragement to the mutineers, who wished that their valuable head would come to them soon.

Zhang Biwu didn't know what to say, he went to Funing County to pacify the mutiny, and his head fell off as soon as he arrived. It's just one thing, when Zhang Biwu went, he was full of thoughts about how to calm down this chaos.

Zhang Biwu came to the territory of Funing County, and he heard that the mutineers had occupied Funing County, and even the magistrate was captured. Now the whole Funing County is panicked.

Zhang Biwu couldn't help but think that Wang Chengen came to visit him in person and told him that he must be careful when he goes. Originally, Gao Qiqian wanted to send the eunuchs of the headquarters to follow Zhang Biwu, and wanted to urge Zhang Biwu to enter the city earlier, but because of Wang Chengen's secret help, Gao Qiqian's attempt to install himself alone was unsuccessful.

But now the eunuch Huang Gonggong, who is high and diving, is constantly urging Zhang Biwu to let Zhang Biwu enter the city as soon as possible.

Huang Qi looked at Zhang Biwu and asked, "Biwu, are we going to the city!" That dog eunuch is really urgent! Zhang Biwu shook his head and said, "Don't worry! Hire men to put a wagon of a wagon of a dozen carts of silver under the city. ”

Huang Qiqi was surprised and asked, "Ten cars?" Are you sure? How can we have so many! The silver given by the emperor can be pushed with a wheelbarrow! ”

"Hah!" Zhang Biwu smiled and said, "We don't have so much silver, but we can't say that we don't have so many cars?" There aren't so many boxes, no boxes, and so many wheelbarrows to buy! If you're afraid of pretending to be dissatisfied, it's easy to do! With so many stones everywhere, wouldn't it be enough to fill a chest? ”

When Huang Qi heard this, he frowned tightly and said, "Biwu, it's not good to deceive the soldiers like this!" If they don't have so much money, they'll be on fire! They're going to kill us! This time, even if we didn't enter the city, but we couldn't quell the mutiny, then we wouldn't be able to explain to the emperor. Our lives are not guaranteed! ”

Zhang Biwu smiled and nodded again and again, he knew that this line of work would not be smooth sailing, on the contrary, he would put his life into it! But at this point, he can only take one step at a time.

When Zhang Biwu returned, Huang Gonggong kept urging again. Only the little sixth son sent by Wang Chengen was still speaking for Zhang Biwu, saying that he wanted to hear what Zhang Biwu had to say.

However, Huang Gonggong repeatedly forced Zhang Biwu to go to Funing County quickly to relieve the scourge of the mutiny.

Zhang Biwu slyly called out that he was sick, he had a fever and couldn't move, and he specially asked Huang Qi to use money to invite a Langzhong, falsely claiming that he was very sick, and he could barely go to Funing County after a day or two.

Huang Gonggong was very helpless, he had to wait another day or two, he was afraid that as soon as Wu Sangui's men arrived in a day or two, then Zhang Biwu would be able to use Wu Sangui to threaten more than 2,000 mutinous soldiers, and maybe he would succeed.

Huang Gonggong sneered for a while, he seemed to see that among Wu Sangui's men, Gao Qiqian also sent someone to go, he could send a letter to Wu Gui, let Wu Sangui's men and horses be a little later, and wait until Zhang Biwu entered Funing County, Wu Sangui raised troops and killed all 2,000 people in the name of killing the court envoys.

In fact, Zhang Biwu used these two days to reconnoiter the situation in Funing City, although Zhang Biwu first gave Yao Dongzhao a letter before leaving, asking Yao Dongzhao to help find out the inside story of the mutiny, if he could understand it, it would be better. Yao Dongzhao sent someone to investigate, but it took time, and Zhang Biwu dragged on this time! He also had to think about how to quell the mutiny.

Two days later, Gonggong Huang repeatedly urged Zhang Biwu to not want Zhang Biwu to stay any longer, and asked him to hurry up and enter Funing County to quell this mutiny.

Zhang Biwu didn't shirk it, he didn't say much, he first asked people to transport ten carts to the city, and the mutineers in the city saw that ten wheelbarrows had been pushed.

Three hundred mutineers gathered in the city, and they pointed to the ten wheelbarrows under the city and said, "What is down there?" Is it silver? ”

Someone also said, "If it's silver, it's cool!" Ha Lu Ha! Someone else said excitedly: "Look, if the chests on these ten wheelbarrows were all filled with silver, then all of our arrears would be paid, and we would be able to get some more!" If only that were the case! ”

Someone else said: "If only the imperial court really not only paid us all the arrears, but also gave us the interest owed by us, that would be great!" Lao Tzu will definitely try his best to serve the imperial court and fight! ”

Someone was also happy when he heard it: "Yes! Not only can we get back our arrears, but we can also get interest, such a court must be a good court! It's not in vain that we are fighting for the court with our heads up! ”

Naturally, there are also sensible people who pour cold water: "Everyone said, how could the imperial court send us so much money at once?" If we can pay our arrears in full, Amitabha! Still asking for more? Let's raise the pillow! ”

Zhang Biwu saw the mutineers talking excitedly under the city, he smiled, with a smile on his face, he didn't need to talk much, he just had to ask people to open the box, so that the mutineers could see the contents of the box, then the mutineers would be very happy.

The boxes on the ten wheelbarrows were all opened, and they were all white and silver, shining with dazzling light, and as soon as they saw it, everyone's eyes lit up! Silver! It's really silver!

Gonggong Huang was surprised, he didn't dare to get close, he was far away from Zhang Biwu and the city.

He looked at the white silver and thought, "Elder Yang Ge was instructed by Gonggong Gao to only give Zhang Biwu 40,000 taels of silver, where did he get the silver to fill thirty boxes?" If all thirty chests were filled with silver, a million taels would have it! Could it be that Zhang Biwu really has so much money to pay millions of dollars to reward mutineers? No! It's impossible! So where did Zhang Biwu's silver come from? It's a stone inside! ”

When Huang Gonggong thought of this, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat! As soon as the mutineers verify that they are stones, they will be angry, and Zhang Biwu will die! This Zhang Biwu looks quite shrewd, but why is he so stupid now? Dig your own grave!

"Wow!!" The mutineers in the city were all surprised, and they were all dumbfounded, "Silver! Silver with white flowers! The mutineers were all excited, and they shouted: "The court has sent us silver!" Brethren! Silver! ”

Someone else said, "Good girl! Looking at this formation, the silver of these ten wheelbarrows is at least hundreds of thousands of taels or even millions of taels! I've never seen so much silver! Wow! I'm so hungry! ”

Li Zhengming couldn't help but be surprised when he saw this, and thought: "It's strange! Is Ming Ting really willing to spend hundreds of thousands of taels to appease the mutineers? I think that Ming Ting can come up with 200,000 taels is already the sky! It's almost impossible! Calculate that the one who came to appease this time could bring 100,000 taels of silver. But now it's hundreds of thousands of taels when it is shot! This, how is this possible? ”

Chongzhen must have thought that as long as there was a mutiny, he would be able to get a full ten pieces of silver, and then there would be more mutinies in the future. It's out of control! Chongzhen will definitely not give enough, only a part of the arrears! An emperor like him who wants to save face, even more so! But now ...... "Li Zhengming is a little confused, what can Zhang Biwu bring so much silver?"

Li Jiyou and Li Weiguan looked at each other, if Zhang Biwu and the others really brought enough money, and there was an extra part of the arrears, these mutineers would not obey their command, but obeyed Zhang Biwu's command, and it would be difficult for them to kill Zhang Biwu. Li Zhengren looked at Li Zhengming again, and he didn't know what decision his clan brother had.

What Li Zhengming thought was that now he immediately attacked and shot Zhang Biwu to death, as long as Zhang Biwu died, these two thousand people killed Chongzhen's envoys, and they only had to obey Li Zhengming, and Li Zhengming could quickly bring them to the Manchu Dynasty.

There were already soldiers in ambush at the low wall, they were facing Zhang Biwu with bows and arrows, ready to shoot Zhang Biwu, but the distance was a little farther, they were afraid that they would not die, just wait for Zhang Biwu to take a few steps forward, they were sure, suddenly, random arrows were fired, shooting Zhang Biwu.

Zhang Biwu had already seen it, he pretended not to know, he didn't go forward, but shouted in the spot: "Brothers! In the next Zhang Biwu! He was originally the governor of Xuanda, and he was the personal general of Lord Lu under the title of Shangshu! Now the emperor has sent me to comfort and reward the brothers! ”