Once the state violence apparatus of the Ming Empire is in operation, it is naturally destined to bleed and corpses all over the field.

As a result, soldiers and horses throughout the country began to receive various orders.

Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang, Ma Jin, and others all received orders to be ready to go south at any time to quell the rebellion.

Yin Zhengmao and Ling Zhenyun in the southwest were also sent to the Privy Council to suspend all military offensive activities in the southwest, and asked them to send enough Sichuan soldiers and wolf soldiers to rest in case of trouble.

After all, the imperial court has to beware of Wu Di being unwilling to be so determined, really taking risks, and really creating a larger-scale rebellion.

Even other places have followed suit.

These are the responsibilities of the Privy Council.

The military headquarters also began to issue orders to the magistrates to rectify the post stations and the armaments of various localities, so as to avoid problems in communications at that time.

At the same time, the Ministry of Officials also began to hire a large number of people to raise tribute as alternate officials, so as to prepare to replenish the local area at any time.

And to avoid the outbreak of war because of the killing of officials, so that some places lose their dominance.

Because most of the ministers of the court and the central government are reformers or obedient followers, and Zhang Juzheng relied on the emperor's trust and insisted that the ministers must do so, otherwise they would be punished as anti-thieves and fellow parties, so once Zhang Juzheng decided to implement the emperor's will, these ministers were still conscientious, so that the emperor's will could be well implemented in the center.

The center's actions can only be regarded as preparedness.

And Hai Rui and the officers and soldiers under his command in Nanzhili are really killing people according to the emperor's will.

"Whether it is to restore order or to agitate the people, they should start from the villages and towns, and then go to the prefectures and counties and the southern capital, so as to achieve the goal of driving more anti-thieves, that is, those gentry, bullies, and ruffians into the city and surround them!"

"In order to avoid that these anti-thieves are too scattered to be eliminated at that time."

Hai Rui was strategizing in the governor's yamen at this time because of this matter, and continued to give instructions to Hu Shouren and Tang Chuanxun, who were directly responsible for this matter, and instructed Lu Kun:

"According to the current increase rate of the patrol team, there will be more in the future, you take the official letter of this hall, go directly to the household department in Nanjing to raise 30,000 stone grain and 500,000 taels of tax silver, and prepare to continue to recruit!"

"Since someone wants the Wu people to govern Wu, then the main hall will mobilize more Wu people to assist the government in maintaining order according to their wishes, and use the democracy movement to deal with the people's rebellion!"

"Anyway, there are many people in the south of the Yangtze River who are oppressed by the Haoyou, and their lives are much worse than in other places, and a large number of people can be recruited with a little money and food, and they don't have to worry about recruiting people to form a patrol team, and by the way, they take this opportunity to solve the livelihood of many unemployed people in the name of recruiting soldiers, and also strengthen the law and order and tax collection in some new towns that are unmanaged, and set up permanent officers and soldiers."

"What the ministry said is right, although the first strike is preemptive, it is often controlled by others, and they make trouble, but when this matter ends, it is not necessarily up to them to decide."

After Lu Kun said yes, he also laughed.

Tang Chuanxun also smiled from the side: "I said that Your Majesty will not sacrifice the pro-military guard!" As long as Your Majesty believes in the pro-military guard, the pro-military guard will dare to fight them to the end! ”

"When the time comes, the heroes behind the scenes will regret the people's rebellion!"

"Then you can take the official letter of the parish and organize the training of some patrol police teams, and you don't have to worry about recruiting too much, you can reduce the salary, recruit in the name of recruiting patrol police team helpers, and then promote some outstanding young people to manage these helpers, and even the elderly and children can give them a job."

"Although there are more than 10,000 officials in the National Taxation Department, on this basis, it is not a problem to train hundreds of thousands of young people and mobilize millions of people to maintain law and order!"

"But we must hurry, after knowing that I continue to send pro-military guards to collect taxes and ask for the release of Qi Jin, they will definitely make waves, and they must hurry up and expand before they start making waves!"

"At least the order of the rural markets outside the city must be controlled by us first, and the bandits and slaves who cause trouble in the countryside will all be dealt with as anti-thieves, including the children of meritorious men and bureaucrats who go to various post stations outside the city to disturb them!"

Hai Rui continued to talk to Tang Chuanxun.

Tang Chuanxun said yes.

After Hai Jui made such an arrangement, the rural markets and even towns outside Nanjing and other Nanzhifu counties were indeed cleared by the patrol police team first.

On this day, it was raining heavily in the southern part of Yingtianfu.

It was hazy all around.

In a village not far from Fangshan in Yingtianfu, a few tenant farmers had just come out, wanting to start anew in the abandoned fields in order to obtain some harvest.

But at this time, a group of bandits had just come down the mountain in the rain to the village, wearing forged pro-army guard armor.

However, because there was a patrol team guarding the mountain to help deliver the news, two hundred patrol soldiers led by Chen Yijiang, the captain of the pro-army guard, also arrived at this time.

"Damn it, tell you to abandon farming, you have to farm! Think if it's raining, we can't come, right? ”

The leader of the bandits, Zeng Quanfan, was originally a local official gentry and slave, but because of the arrangement of his master's family, he went to the Fangshan area and fell into the bandits, and gathered a group of landlords and slaves who were driven out and ruffians and hooligans, and robbed houses in the name of pro-military guards, and at the same time was responsible for supervising the tenant farmers to respond to the demands of the Haoyou to give up farming.

At this time, after Zeng Quanfan and others arrived first, Zeng Quanfan kicked the local tenant farmer Xia Dongyang into the field, scolded, and said:

"Chop off other people's heads, hang them on the trees here, and let the other tenant farmers in the village see, damn it, Lao Tzu will see who dares to cultivate secretly, and don't carry out Lao Tzu's order to let you abandon farming!"

Swish!

A bandit under Zeng Quanfan's command directly pulled out his waist knife and walked towards Xia Dongyang.

The tenant farmer Xia Dongyang hurriedly turned over and knelt in the paddy field: "Please be gracious to the soldiers, I won't dare next time!" ”

Boom!

Suddenly, there was a series of clanging sounds.

The bandit who walked towards the tenant farmer Xia Dongyang with a waist knife turned his head in fright.

At the same time, Zeng Quanfan also turned around.

Then, these bandit slaves saw that the bandits they had brought with them were falling behind a wall of shields, like stubble being cut.

"How can there be real officers and soldiers here?"

Zeng Quanfan was shocked.

"Get on your knees!"

Chen Yijiang rode over at this time and shouted.

Zeng Quanfan hurriedly knelt down, and also made more than a dozen bandit leaders around him kneel down, and shouted: "I don't know which master is on an errand under the soldier, the little ones are pro-military guards, everyone is an official soldier, can you be accommodating, sit down and have a good talk." ”

Chen Yijiang only asked his subordinates to tie up Zeng Quanfan and the others, and then made them kneel in a row on the ridge.

Under the rain curtain, rows of bandit leaders pretending to be pro-military guards knelt, all drooping their heads, without the fierceness of the beginning.

The villagers who were hiding in the thatched huts called for relatives and friends, and poked their heads out of the window to see the scene.

At this time, Chen Yijiang had already pulled out the knife himself, slammed it into Zeng Quanfan's chest, and turned it a few times: "Talk about your mother!" Dare to defile my pro-military guards! ”

As he spoke, Chen Yijiang ordered: "The rest will collapse directly with a bang!" Let the firearms recruits in the team collapse, and let the sword and shield hand mend the knife after the collapse! ”

"Yes!"

So a row of young and strong people who had just joined the group came up with the bird guns that had been lit with the arquebus, and with trembling hands, they almost pulled the trigger by putting the guns against the heads of the bandit leaders.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

As white smoke rose, one by one the bandit leaders fell on the ridges.

The blood was soon washed into the fields by the rain.

Some bandit leaders shouted anxiously: "Spare your life! We don't dare anymore! It's all those fathers and uncles (Hao Nu) who let us do it! ”

But in the end, not a single bandit pretending to be a pro-military guard was alive, and all of them were shot.

Chen Yijiang walked up to Xia Dongyang, a tenant farmer who was already stunned, and said: "Go and tell the other tenant farmers in your village that if you want to farm, continue to farm, and your owner, our patrol team will go and reason with him, not only asking him to allow you to farm, but also asking them to reduce your rent and interest!" Don't let the new policy make the increase in tax burden borne by you! ”

"Thank you, Bingye!"

"Thank you! The soldier lives a long life! ”

This Xia Dongyang is very happy, tenant rent and loan interest are the two mountains that press on him, if there is an opportunity to reduce rent and interest, he is naturally happy.

"So, who's your owner?"

Chen Yijiang asked.

(End of chapter)