106. Surrender
"What are you going to do?" Zhou Difu glared at Zhang Wencheng angrily and shouted.
Zhang Wencheng sneered: "On the order of Immortal Master Ye, come and seal the closed grain store, if there is no grain stored in it, it is the best, even if you find half a bucket of grain, it will be sealed and confiscated!" ”
Zhou Difu's face changed greatly: "You dare!" This is the property of our Zhou family, even if it is today, we cannot confiscate the property of the Shi clan casually. Today's imperial court envoy is the person of our Zhou family, you are just the lowest martial artist, what kind of thing! ”
Zhang Wencheng raised his hand slightly, and the hundred riflemen behind him had already raised their rifles.
"Zhou Difu, do you want to let me? The immortal master has a life, and those who dare to stop it will be killed! ”
Zhou Difu couldn't help laughing: "Kill the old man? I see that you have a few dares to touch the old man. ”
Zhang Wencheng was expressionless, and said two words coldly: "Shoot!" ”
Since he followed Ye Xianshi, there was no turning back, and no matter what kind of imperial envoy he was a political envoy, he didn't even have the weight of Ye Xianshi's words in his eyes.
Zhou Difu was still laughing, and then he felt a pain in his chest, and then there was an explosion in his ears, and he looked at the blood oozing from his chest with wide eyes and a little disbelief, not believing that Zhang Wencheng really dared to move him, and it was not as simple as moving a single hair of him, it was to kill him.
In Yecheng, the Zhou family was the leader of the gentry, and many gentry were secretly watching the confrontation between the Zhou family and the Ming Wei soldiers, and the attitude of the Ming Wei soldiers, so as to decide whether they really wanted to hand over half of their wealth.
After all, they are different from the Zhou family, these little gentry, the family is only thirty or fifty people, and there are more than 100 people. It is impossible to raise hundreds of families like the Zhou family, if Ye Feiyu is really arrogant. All it takes is a hundred soldiers to raid their home.
Looking at Zhou Difu and the family next to him who had fallen from an unwarranted disaster, not only the gentry who were watching were startled. Even the new head of the Yecheng County Ya, who followed Zhang Wencheng out to seal the grain store, was taken aback.
This Zhang Wencheng is not afraid of growing hair, is he really not afraid of the Zhou family's revenge? You must know that the Zhou family has a huge fortune, and the people of the Zhou family are official and political envoys, and before that, even if there were a hundred hundred households, it was impossible to be the opponent of the Zhou family!
Zhang Wencheng ignored the moaning family members and Zhou Difu who was not yet dead, and swept his cold and electric gaze over the frightened and commotion Zhou family members: "Whoever is still in the way, don't be killed!" ”
Many of the riflemen behind him had participated in the battle of Zhaoyuan Fort. It's just blind worship of Ye Feiyu, there is no one in this world who can fight against the immortal master, now Zhang Wencheng represents the Ye immortal master, as long as Zhang Wencheng gives the order, they will carry out the order without hesitation.
The family members looked at me, and then their eyes fell on the people directly related to the Zhou family who were also shocked.
Zhou Difu was not the only one who led the crowd to protect the grain store.
Zhou Difu's eldest son came back to his senses at this time, and suddenly screamed miserably: "You killed my father? ”
"Everybody give it to me! Kill a rebel and reward 100 times! Reward a woman! ”
One hundred yuan is about equivalent to 30,000 yuan now, which is still a big temptation for the family, if you kill three or four rebels. It is equivalent to 100,000 Huaxia coins, according to reason, they are long-trained and strong martial artists. It would not be much of a problem for one person to deal with three or four nomadic militia soldiers who had not undergone any training.
The family members cultivated by the scholars are actually the same as the generals' personal soldiers, and they can be said to have been brainwashed and educated by the scholars. Even dare to confront the officers and soldiers, otherwise no gentry will come up with a large amount of money and silver to train the family. At this time, he heard the shouting of the Zhou family, and hesitated slightly. There are still many strong people, carrying waist knives, gritting their teeth and killing Zhang Wencheng and others.
Ye County used to be one of the important places occupied by Kong Youde, Kong Youde's soldiers were defeated and killed, and the remnants of the troops here also fled, so that the Ming Wei soldiers could easily accept Yecheng, so the gentry and people in Yecheng did not know the power of assault rifles.
Now, for the first time, the terrifying lethality of the weapons made beyond the two civilization levels in this world is displayed in the eyes of the gentry and people of Yecheng.
The distance between the two sides is only twenty meters, the charge of hundreds of people, and the strong physical fitness of the ancients make them have a speed faster than the 100-meter champion of the earth, and it only takes two seconds to kill in front of Ming Weibing.
But with a roar of less than a breath, the Zhou family rushed over and fell to the ground, and the ground was instantly stained red with blood, and hundreds of lives were taken away by the impermanence of the underworld without mercy, so dense, such a short-distance shooting, basically every family member was shot four or five times, and it was impossible for anyone to survive.
The Zhou family was very unlucky to be shot by a stray bullet, and the entire Tianling cover was overturned, and Bai Huahua's brain flowed to the ground, and he couldn't die anymore.
Although Ye Feiyu knew that the actions of Ma Dingyuan and others would definitely cause a bloody conflict, behind the dead people, there might be an elderly mother, maybe a child waiting to be fed, and the family was counting on the man's monthly money to live, but the colonists have never been merciful, after all, what the colonists did was to plunder the resources of this world, and no matter how merciful they were, it was just crocodile tears.
The remaining members of the Zhou family finally couldn't bear the huge pressure and fled, Zhang Wencheng ignored them, and coldly asked the original Yecheng Yacha to clean up the scene, and personally led people into the rice shop to seal the grain.
What surprised Ye Feiyu was that although it was bitterly cold in Dengzhou and Laizhou, it was the people who were poor, and those gentry were not poor at all, just like the entire Ming Dynasty, the richest people were not the emperor, but these gentry class.
The seizure of the grain store, there were actually a lot of windfalls, found more than 3,000 taels of gold and more than 100,000 taels of silver, Dengzhou Laizhou is the richest grain merchant, Zhang Wencheng and others will definitely not return these gold and silver to the gentry, all transported back to Mingweibao.
One tael is more than thirty-seven grams, and more than three thousand taels of gold is about one hundred and thirty kilograms, adding thirteen source crystals to Ye Feiyu, and silver is worth a little, 160,000 taels of silver, and it actually added eighteen source crystals to Ye Feiyu, about 10,000 taels of silver and a primary source crystal.
This is the windfall obtained by the seizure of 130 grain shops in five counties, not counting those shops that opened immediately when the situation was not good, the sealed grain added up to more than 200,000 stones, which is about the same as the 10,000 tons of grain that Ye Feiyu bought, enough for the people of the two state capitals to eat for two months.
Ye Feiyu couldn't help but look forward to it, if those gentry really handed over half of their wealth, how much would it be worth? This is still a bitter cold place, what if it is a prosperous place like Yangzhou, Jinling and Beijing?
Legend has it that Li Zicheng entered Beijing and only got 100,000 taels of silver from the treasury, but he copied 70 million taels from the rich households in the capital, which is more than 7,000 primary source crystals!
Ye Feiyu, who tasted the sweetness, said to Ma Dingyuan and the others with a serious face: "You have done a good job. There were still three days to go, and the deadline for the gentry to hand over the money from the fields was reached, and the soldiers were to intensify their patrols, and those who found that they were carrying out with them were confiscated. In addition, every county government sent soldiers to inspect the situation of the gentry's property and fields, and if anyone was found to have filled his own pockets, he was severely punished! ”
The silver that was collected, Ye Feiyu had already made a plan, all of it was collected in private space, and next time he returned to Guinea, he could get a money printing machine to print money and issue it, anyway, in this era, it is impossible for anyone to imitate paper money.
As long as the banknotes are linked to grain, coupled with Ye Feiyu's iron fist rule, he is not afraid that he will not be able to circulate.
Of course, grain planting still has to be carried out, and Ye Feiyu can still buy grain from one or two state capitals, but the entire Ming Dynasty must have more than 100 million people, even if one-third needs Ye Feiyu to provide food, it is impossible for him to buy such a huge amount of grain, so he asked Ma Dingyuan to collect half of the land of the gentry class and distribute it to the people under his rule.
There are many problems in this work, such as unfair distribution, leaving good land to close people, or secretly concealing acres of land, etc., which need to be dealt with slowly.
However, Ye Feiyu plans to set up complaint points in various county offices, and if there are many complaints, he will send people to understand the situation, and as more and more people join him, he can always carry on this arduous task slowly.
Other warlord generals, after obtaining the territory, are to strictly manage the people, build city walls, etc., while Ye Feiyu only has two main jobs, one is to let the people grow food crops, and the other is to step up the mining of various ores, refine them and sell them to the time and space store.
The Zhou family and other clans who intended to fight against Ye Feiyu served as an example, and many gentry had to honestly hand over their wealth and land.
Of course, there must be people who are cunning and cunning, falsely reporting money and silver, but Ye Feiyu also has countermeasures, according to the number of gentry clans, the shop industry they operate, and the number of acres of land they own, with the visit and investigation, they can roughly calculate the amount of the gentry's family wealth, and the gentry report that the money and silver are too different, so they will check the family background, and if the gold and silver property copied out exceeds the amount handed over, all will be confiscated.
After copying dozens of gentry families in a row, the other gentry finally didn't dare to play any tricks, and many people hurriedly made up the money, lest the soldiers come to the door to raid their homes and have nothing left.
Even if the gentry concealed the figures, the officials in charge were also greedy for a small part, but the final figures still made Ye Feiyu feel very emotional, 70,000 taels of gold, more than 2 million taels of silver, hundreds of thousands of copper coins, and many jade coral gems, one of which was an extraterrestrial meteorite, I don't know what material it is, it is actually worth more than a dozen primary source crystals.
As for calligraphy, paintings, and antiques, they are worthless in the space-time store, and Ye Feiyu naturally won't confiscate them.
For his subordinates, Ye Feiyu was very generous, 10,000 taels of gold and tens of thousands of copper coins, let Ma Dingyuan distribute them, Zhang Wencheng and other hundreds of households, each of them shared a hundred taels of gold, and the county officials and yacha all shared a lot, which was their hard work.
However, at the same time, Ye Feiyu also warned these officials, don't think that they can hide from Ye Xianshi's ears and eyes, and those who are traitors and greedy for money will be directly executed, and there is no humanity at all. (To be continued......)