Seeing that Yang An had eaten with peace of mind, Zhu Defei left the room with peace of mind and went to gather the gentlemen in the city to discuss the matter of food.

Gobbling up the food on the table, Yang An looked at the back of Zhu Defei leaving, a light flashed in his eyes, called the servants outside the door in, and sent him to call Wang Wu and Zhao Si for him, and then concentrated on dealing with the food on the table.

In fact, Yang An is not optimistic about the results of Zhu Defei's trip, he said that he was going to borrow grain, but in fact it was an act of borrowing but not repaying, to put it bluntly, it was robbery, and it was strange that those squires were willing. Yang An never believed that landlords and businessmen would be a good class, a class that would be oppressed and would not resist, so Zhu Defei's trip would definitely be closed.

Therefore, that incident must have been planned in advance, Yang An neighed viciously and bit off a piece of meat and swallowed his stomach.

……

Sure enough, when Yang An finished eating, he rested for a while, and saw Zhu Defei walking in with a gloomy face.

"It's just too much of a deception, and they all deceive the old man."

Yang An suddenly understood his appearance when he saw it, and asked quietly, "What's the situation?" ”

Zhu Defei's face showed a look of anger, and he said ashamedly: "Old man, I have been entrusted by my nephew, I only borrowed a mere fifty stones of grain from these squires, and only the Yang family in the city helped out, and the rest of the gentlemen were vague and refused to contribute!" ”

"These meritorious squires are simply indebted to my Ming Emperor's grace, I have been a Ming monk for three hundred years, and I used to be coerced by the Tartars, but now that we have laid down Luoding, these people are still like this, and they are not even willing to help with food, it is just, it is simply ......"

"Oh! Is it. ”

After learning about his grain raising situation from Zhu Defei, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought, Yang An didn't expect that there were still landlords in this city who would see his plan clearly and take the initiative to show goodwill. The woman who was defiled before was a member of the Lin family, and now the head of the Lin family spares no effort to help himself and others, it seems that he is a figure who can see the situation clearly, and he will have to meet him well in the future.

While the two were talking, Wang Wu walked in quickly with a knife on his shoulder, and after saluting the two people in the house, he reported to Yang Anyu with a cautious expression: "Yang Guerrilla, everything you have explained is ready, and the brothers have been assembled." ”

Yang An's expression moved, and he said softly: "I didn't alarm anyone." ”

"Don't worry, you ordered a concealed gathering, and of course the lower officials will not alarm others."

"Very good, you go first, I'll come."

Seeing Wang Wu leaving, Zhu Defei asked Yang An suspiciously, "Virtuous nephew, are you gathering people so late?" ”

Yang An's eyes showed a fierce light, "Since they don't borrow it, then we have to go and get it, I mean, the dead won't make trouble for us." ”

"This.... No, never! ”

Zhu Defei was taken aback by Yang An's words, but he didn't expect Yang An to have the idea of killing the gentry in the city, and he couldn't accept it for a while.

In Zhu Defei's view, the government has always relied on the local gentry to govern the people, these people have identity and status, and they have a great influence on the people, and the gentry are even more scholars.

What do mud legs know!

The government governs the people under its jurisdiction through the gentry and large households, which is the practice of dynasties for thousands of years, and this method is effective, that is, today's Ming and Qing dynasties, the Manchu Qing Dynasty still used this method to control the people, and did not listen to them kill the gentry like Li Chuang to please the people.

So this caused these gentry to see that Yang An and others were the reason why they couldn't work hard, anyway, the city changed the banner of the king, today your Ming army came in, I am your Ming Ziming; Tomorrow your army of the Great Qing Dynasty will come in, and I will be the Shunmin of the Great Qing Dynasty. Anyway, you have to rely on us to rule the people.

But it's a pity that they met Yang An, a modern person, in Yang An's opinion, they are the culprits of land annexation, and Yang An will not be soft at all when he kills them when necessary.

Of course, this matter is not to be blown away, so Yang An arranged for Wang Wu and others to take down these squires in one fell swoop while it was dark.

……

The moon is dark and the wind is high at night, when people are killed and set on fire.

In the middle of the night, Luoding City, everything is silent, only one or two cats and dogs can be heard from the corner, most of the residents in the city have fallen asleep, the lights of thousands of homes have long been extinguished, and the Lin family's mansion is still brightly lit at this time in the study.

Lin Qiansi, the eldest son of the Lin family, looked at his father who was writing in front of him, and thought of what his father promised just now, and the whole person was restless like an ant on a fire.

"Father, why did you promise General Zhu of the Ming Army that my Lin family would give forty stone of grain, which would empty my Lin family's granary! Why don't you like the Wang family and the Qian family, just fool around a little, just mean it, this time it has touched the root of my Lin family, even if that Lord Yang advocates justice for the second aunt, there is no need to spend so much. ”

Lin Wanquan ignored Lin Qiansi's complaints, but instead wrote the last stroke on the paper, and after the ink dried slightly, he picked up the desk, picked up the rice paper on the table, and said calmly: "Son, how are you looking at the father's handwriting?" ”

"Father, when is this, you are still in the mood to write."

"Stupid!"

Lin Wanquan saw that Lin Qiansi's mood was not on it at all, and a trace of disappointment couldn't help but flash in his heart.

"Father, are you saying that the time of the Wang and Qian families is running out?"

Lin Qianxiang, the second son standing next to him, looked at the words in Lin Wanquan's hand and replied thoughtfully.

A look of relief flashed in Lin Wanquan's eyes, and he glared at his eldest son as if he was annoyed, the latter immediately lowered his head weakly, and Lin Wanquan said slowly: "That's right, in today's troubled world, people's lives are not as cheap as dogs, and we have no power in our hands, so we still have to be slaughtered after all!" ”

"It's ridiculous that those people can't see the situation clearly, I look at Lord Yang today, he is definitely a ruthless person, I guess, I'm afraid he will ......" Lin Wanquan made a movement to wipe his neck, which made Lin Qiansi startled, and said in disbelief: "This, this shouldn't be, if the Ming army wants to rule Luoding, it must rely on our support, if he makes a move on one of them, I'm afraid everyone will squeeze them out." ”

"Yes, father, I'm afraid they wouldn't have done such a rebellious thing."

Lin Qianxiang also didn't believe that Yang An would attack them, but Lin Wanquan just lowered his head and was silent, which made a haze rise in the hearts of the two.

"Knock knock."

"Come in."

A black figure flashed in through the crack in the open door, revealing the appearance of a visitor in the candlelight of the study.

"Ergou, why are you dressed like this?"

Lin Qiansi, who saw the appearance of the person who came, was suddenly surprised and asked, the person who came was the family member of the Lin Mansion.

"Dog, what's going on, what's going on?"

"Master, as you expected, then Lord Yang is indeed gathering people to go out of the yamen, the small one sees that the direction they are going should be the direction of the Wang family, and the small one doesn't dare to follow, so he will come back and report to you quickly."

Lin Wanquan's heart was shocked, and he waved to the second dog who was standing and said, "Okay, you have worked hard, go to the account room tomorrow to get some reward." ”

"Thank you, sir." A hint of joy flashed on the face of the second dog who was rewarded, and when he saw that Lin Wanquan and the others had something to discuss, he hurriedly thanked him and went out, and took the door intimately before leaving.

"Father, then Lord Yang really dares to act like this, then what should my Lin family do?"

"It's okay, don't worry, Qiansi, you inform the family to guard the door, Qianxiang, you order the softness, and wait with your family, just in case. However, that Lord Yang should not do anything to my Lin family, but there is nothing wrong with being careful. ”

Just when the Lin family was nervous, Yang An and the others slowly approached the target under the cover of black, holding butcher knives in their hands.

The Wang family is in charge of the grain business in Luoding City, and it is the most powerful of the three, with dozens of thugs in captivity, and it can be said that they are also the tyrants in the city.

At this time, a red signal flare suddenly lit up in the dark sky, and Yang An's face was bewitching and evil under the red halo, and it was uncertain.

Yang An's eyes were full of coldness, and the cold words sounded in everyone's ears: "Do it, don't leave any of them." ”

A trace of excitement flashed on the faces of Wang Wu and the others, a cruel smile appeared on the corner of their mouths, and they took the knife and touched it into the dark Wang family mansion.

Blood, screams, and cries rose up in the courtyard.

The cursing, crying, and begging for mercy of the people of the Wang family reached Yang An's ears, stimulating his fragile heart, but Yang An did not bear to close his eyes, but stared at everything in front of him, because he understood that this was what he had to bear and face.

The thugs of the Wang family can only show off their prestige with ordinary people, but when they meet soldiers like Wang Wu and Zhao Si who have seen blood and fought in battles, the two are not a level contest at all.

The flames were soaring, and there was a sound of fighting in Luoding City, and someone was heard shouting the words Tartar coming in from afar, and the ordinary residents who were awakened by this could only hide in fear at home, hugging each other tightly, hoping that this war would not affect themselves.

Early the next morning, when people walked out of the house in fear and came to the street, they saw the Wang family and the Qian family, who were the rich gentry in the city, and other squires dying on the street, until they saw the notice posted by Yang An's order, only to know that a small Qing army came back last night and slaughtered the rich gentry in the city, saying that it was to retaliate for their failure to contribute when the Ming army attacked the city, and only the Lin family, who was a medicinal herb merchant, was safe and sound under the protection of the Ming army led by Lord Yang.

For this explanation, the surviving Lin family head testified that everyone was still very convinced. Although the attacking Qing army was repulsed, the attacking Qing army still ran out of the city a lot, and it must have been a comeback soon.

And the rumor that the Qing army would slaughter the city if it defeated Luoding gradually spread in the city, and it intensified, and soon caused an uproar among the residents, after all, the Qing army fought for so long, and the slaughter of the city was already a common thing, which couldn't help but make the residents of Luoding City not believe.