"Father is saying that those toasts withheld the soldiers' food, rice, and salary?" Zhu Cijiong finally reacted.

"That's beyond doubt." Chongzhen said abruptly, "Not every toast has the same high style and bright festival as Old General Qin. ”

"The vast majority of toasts are just laymen who are flies and dogs, and this time they suddenly get so much food and rice and salary, if they don't stretch out their hands and don't deduct it, it will be really weird, the difference is nothing more than how much they deduct."

"So, what my father wants to clean up is the big and small toast?" Zhu Cijiong's eyes lit up, "It's not a native soldier." ”

"Or else?" Chongzhen said, "If you just want to deter the native soldiers, you don't need to be so troublesome, and gathering the new army equipped with flintlock pistols for a drill is enough to make all the native soldiers terrified!" ”

"But what I want is not to make the native soldiers frightened, but to let the native soldiers and the Tusi be separated from morality, I want these more than 100,000 native soldiers to get out of the control of the Tusi and become the town soldiers of Wuchang Zhentai in the Ming Dynasty!"

Speaking of this, Chongzhen picked up the flintlock pistol and pointed it at the willow tree in front of him.

Fifty paces ahead, a clay pot hanging from the willow tree shattered.

"Long live the Divine Shooter!" Gao Qiqian immediately praised, "A shot shot from a hundred steps away hit the bull's-eye." ”

"This gun is not bad." Chongzhen smiled and reloaded the flintlock pistol back into the box.

Zhu Cijiong asked again: "But, father, when do we have to wait?" At the beginning of June, the army is about to be mobilized, so it can't be delayed halfway to solve the matter, right? ”

"It won't be long." Chongzhen waved his hand.

"I guess it's just a few days, and the native soldiers should be paid."

After speaking, he turned his head to Xu Yingwei and said, "You can prepare early." ”

"Commandment." Xu Yingwei shook his body, turned around and left in a hurry.

……

Early the next morning, Yongshun comforted Peng Hongshu and counted the silver.

Peng Hongshu is in his early forties this year, wrapped in a traditional Tujia hair wrap and wearing earrings on one side.

"Today's saint is really a saint, and he is cool when he talks and does things." Peng Hongshu smiled so much that his eyes narrowed into two small slits, "If you say that you will give two months of rice, you will give two months of rice." ”

While talking, Peng Hongshu happily counted the silver ingots in the box.

Peng Hongshu brought 10,000 native soldiers from his division, so Chongzhen gave him 20,000 taels of silver and 10,000 masonry rice at one time, of which a small part of the rice has been distributed, but the silver has not been distributed.

One of the things Peng Hongshu has to do every day after getting up is to count the silver.

Every morning and evening, Peng Hongshu never gets bored.

"Consolation envoy, do you want to give out a part of the salary first?" Peng Tingyu, the local acquaintance on the side, persuaded, "In the past few days, the resentment of the people below has become more and more great, and there may be an accident if you don't pay the silver again." ”

Peng Tingyu is still Peng Hongshu's uncle in terms of generation, and the two of them are even an ancestor for three generations.

In fact, most of the local people of Yongshun Tusi are the descendants of Peng Shiyu, the original Tusi king.

"What's the hurry?" Peng Hongshu said angrily, "I didn't say that I won't pay the silver, the silver will be paid sooner or later, and it won't be missing a cent, if these untouchables are really idle and panicked, you can find something to do for them." ”

Peng Tingyu said: "Comfort envoy, but this salary has been delayed for almost two months. ”

"Two months is a piece of." Peng Hongshu said angrily, "In the past, we sent troops to fight for the imperial court, when did we not have to be in arrears for a year and a half?" Want the silver, let those untouchables wait! ”

Peng Tingyu immediately fell silent, because what Peng Hongshu said was also the truth.

In addition to the fact that the imperial court gave money and food happily this time, it was really not an ordinary procrastination in the past.

Sometimes the war has been fought for several years, but the money and food that should be allocated by the court have not been given enough, so they go to the magistrate to ask for it, and sometimes they will be beaten, and they are all in tears.

During the Hongwu period, Mrs. Luxiang of Shuixi Tusi went to the commander Ma Ye to ask for money and food, but she was humiliated by Ma Ye, so angry that the head of the 48th Department of Shuixi almost raised troops to rebel, but in the end she was suppressed by Mrs. Luxiang, otherwise the entire Shuixi would have been uprooted by the Ming Dynasty more than 200 years ago.

While he was talking, Peng Zhaoheng, the deputy envoy of Xuanwei and the eldest son of Peng Hongshu, walked in with a black face and said: "Abba has an accident, and the local soldiers of the Lapa Dongsi and the Donkey Chi Dongsi are making trouble again!" ”

Peng Hongshu said: "Let's make trouble, when will the two of them not make trouble?" ”

The two families of Raja Dongsi and Donkey Chi Dongsi are both Yongshun's small toasts, and the two are still feuding.

When he was in Xiangxi, because of the Yongshun Tusi pressing the two families, they could barely get along, but since he came to Wuchang, Peng Hongshu seemed to be a little unable to suppress, but in fact, he didn't want to press.

So two little toast soldiers would break out into a brawl almost every day.

This is actually the result that Peng Hongshu wants, fighting and killing between the small toasts below, and it is best to fight and make trouble between the local soldiers of the local division, so that no one will bother him and ask him for food.

But there are some things that you can't hide if you want to, and when you come out to mix, you have to pay it back after all.

"Abba, this time it's not a brawl." Peng Zhaoheng shook his head and said, "Instead, they teamed up to rob the vendors outside the barracks, and they also killed people!" even killed several of the officials sent by Wuchang Mansion. ”

"What?" Peng Hongshu was excited, "The officials have killed several of them?" This is to rebel! ”

"It's not a rebellion, but it's almost." Peng Zhaoheng said with a dark face, "The native soldiers of the Laja Dongsi and the Donkey Chidongsi are assembling in the Daxiao field, threatening to go to the emperor for money. ”

"Begging?" Peng Hongshu's face changed drastically, "Tian Shichao and Xiang Yongshun don't stop them?" ”

"Stop, stop, it's the two of them who take the lead." Peng Zhaoheng said with a dark face, "These two bastards said that the imperial court did not give a military salary of one or two silvers just for not practicing, and only gave one bucket per month for each ding of food and rice, and the native soldiers of the Lapa Dongsi and the Donkey Chi Dongsi would have gone crazy, and they had to ask the emperor for an explanation." ”

"Tian Shichao and Xiang Yongshun, this is really crazy." Peng Tingyu hurriedly said, "Your Excellency, you can't let the native soldiers of the Raja Cave Division and the Donkey Chi Cave Division make a big deal about it, otherwise this matter may be difficult to end!" ”

The reason is very simple, the emperor has already given enough food, and it is toast that deducts food!

If this black cauldron is really thrown on the emperor's head, how can the emperor be willing to give up with them?

Before the words fell, Peng Hongshu's second son and deputy envoy Peng Zhaoxiang also hurriedly ran in.

"Oh no, Abba." Peng Zhaoxiang said in a panic, "The imperial court has dispatched a lot of soldiers to surround the native soldiers of the Laja Cave Division and the Donkey Chi Cave Division!" ”

Peng Hongshu said: "Alas, I'm really afraid of anything. ”

"Don't worry." Peng Tingyu calmed down at this time and persuaded, "Let's go and see." ”

Peng Zhaoheng said: "Abba, do you want to gather the clansmen?" If the court dares to come hard, we will follow the example of Sha Dingzhou against his mother. ”

"Absolutely." Peng Hongshu's eyes flashed with a fierce look.

"Gather all the more than ten toasts under the Yongshun Propaganda Division!"

"Yes." The two brothers, Peng Zhaoheng and Peng Zhaoxiang, immediately turned around and went to gather the clansmen.

Soon, Peng Hongshu led more than a dozen small toasts and more than 30,000 local soldiers to the school field.

When he came, Peng Hongshu was still aggressive, and he wanted to give the officials and soldiers a dismount, after all, the current Ming Dynasty was no longer the Ming Dynasty during the Hongwu period, and now you even have to rely on our Tusi in western Hunan and Hubei to suppress a Tusi rebellion in Yunnan, so don't put up a stinky shelf of court officers and soldiers.

But when he led the army to the big school field, he couldn't help but gasp.

But I saw that thousands of Ming officials and soldiers had surrounded the 2,000 native soldiers of the Laja Cave Division and the Donkey Chi Cave Division.

Moreover, the Ming officials and soldiers seemed to be in order, thousands of people gathered together and were silent, and the solemn aura that flowed from the Ming officials and soldiers could be clearly felt by the soldiers from afar.

"This is the Ming official army?" Peng Tingyu was a little shocked, "It's not the same as before." ”

Peng Tingyu had been to Wuchang several times before, and he had seen Zuo Liangyu's Ming official army, which was far worse than that.

This is not to give the Ming official army a dismount, but in turn let the Ming army give a dismount, which directly shocked the more than 30,000 native soldiers of Yongshun Tusi and did not dare to move.

After a while, more than 30,000 native soldiers from the Baojing Propaganda Division also arrived.

Not long after, more than 40,000 soldiers from Shi Nan's Xuanfu Division also arrived at the scene of the incident.

Although the level of the Shi Nan Xuanfu Division is not as high as the Baojing Xuanfu Division and the Yongshun Xuanfu Division, it has the most troops, mainly because the ancestors have made mistakes, so the level is low.

Moreover, not long after Shi Nan Xuanfu's old Tusi died, the little Tusi was still in his infancy, and the one who led the Xuanfu envoy was Ran Sanniang, the daughter-in-law of the old Tusi Qin Hongdao, a pretty widow in her twenties.

"Sanniang, Ah Zhu." Peng Hongshu stepped forward to say hello.

While greeting, he looked at Ran Sanniang with greedy eyes.

Exi (Enshi) has been a beauty since ancient times, and Ran Sanniang is particularly beautiful.

The skin is white and beautiful, the posture is beautiful, and the figure is also extremely tall, the key is that the chest is big and the buttocks are round and suitable for birth, Peng Hongshu can't help but want to marry home, let alone have five more sons for him.

If that little toast is killed again, Shi Nan Tusi and Yongshun Tusi will be able to become a family, then he Peng Hongshu can follow Sha Dingzhou's rebellion and become a real Tusi king!

Ran Sanniang felt Peng Hongshu's greedy gaze and frowned subconsciously.

Peng Zhu took a step forward and blocked Peng Hongshu's gaze without a trace: "Ah Hong, what's going on?" Why did the officials and soldiers suddenly surround the Raja Cave Division and the Donkey Chi Cave Division? ”

Peng Hongshu said angrily: "This is all a good thing that Tian Shichao and Xiang Yongshun have done. ”

Hearing Peng Hongshu explain the truth of the matter clearly, Peng Zhuchao and Ran Sanniang were also speechless.

It's just a matter of deducting money and food with a black heart, and even letting the emperor carry a black pot for them?