Nanjie Village is a small village under the rule of Dasongwei. It has a small population, with only more than 20 households and less than 100 villagers.
On this day, a group of Dunjun soldiers from the nearby Huolu Dun came to the village, and then under the command of a small flag officer, they began to collect food from house to house, just like the scene of "devils entering the village" in later generations, without caring about the villagers' needs. Blocking and crying, plundering every grain of food they could find.
These Dunjuns not only searched in the villagers' homes, but also had a lot of experience in searching in the haystacks around the houses, and actually found some gains. The two Dunjun soldiers made a discovery in a haystack, and a small bag of grain was dug out.
The two opened it and saw that there was only a small half bag of food inside, and they were immediately a little dissatisfied. The flag officer who led the team also came over. After checking it, he cursed unluckily.
At this moment, in a nearby residence, an old woman ran over in panic, threw herself to the ground, and stood in front of the small flag officer and the two pier soldiers.
"Master Jun, please do well. My family is still relying on these seeds to make a living. Master Jun took it away. What will my family eat next year?"
"Get away!"
When the flag officer saw this, he immediately flew into a rage, yelled with anger on his face, waved his hand and punched the old woman who was blocking her. The old woman's face was immediately covered with blood, and one of her front teeth was spit out, mixed with the blood. In the snow.
"You bastard, with such a small amount of food, you don't even have enough for one-tenth of the training salary. You still dare to resist the tax. You are looking for death!"
The little flag officer looked at the old woman lying on the ground unable to cry, snorted, and walked away with his two men.
At this time, several other Dunjun soldiers came from nearby houses, more or less holding some food in their hands. The villagers chased them out one after another, but it was in vain. Several Dunjun soldiers started to beat and scold them, and then they chased them out. The villagers rushed to the side.
The little flag official saw that the surrounding villagers were gathering one after another, and he reprimanded loudly: "What are you doing? What are you doing! The court allocates training pay, which is used to train soldiers and horses to pacify the thieves. When the world is peaceful, you will have a good life. However, you don’t understand this logic at all, you deserve to be poor, so get out of here!”
Seeing that many villagers dared to be angry but did not dare to speak out, the flag officer was very proud and said to a dozen of his subordinates: "Take all these grains and things and go to the next place!"
A Dun Jun said with a playful smile: "Master Qin, we have been out for a long time, and the brothers are all very cold. Why don't we go back and have some wine to warm ourselves up, and then go somewhere else tomorrow?"
"shit!"
The flag officer surnamed Qin glared at the Dun Jun and said: "The superiors have allocated so much salary and set a time limit. If we don't hurry up, what will we use to offset it by then? How much can we offset with such a small amount of food?" silver!"
"If you can't pay your share by then, you guys can go and complain to Mao Guerrilla yourself. I won't be scolded on your behalf!"
More than a dozen Dunjun soldiers were obedient and did not dare to say anything. They all picked up the food and a few copper coins they had collected and prepared to leave the village.
At this moment, the surrounding villagers suddenly became excited and gathered around.
"You can't leave!"
"My family only has this food. If you take it away, my family will not be able to survive the winter!"
Seeing hundreds of villagers around him making noise, Qin Xiaoqi was also startled. After all, there were so many villagers. If he really wanted to take action, how could his dozen or so Dunjun soldiers who had not practiced for a long time be their opponents?
So Qin Xiaoqi shouted loudly with a fierce expression: "What are you doing! If you can't resist the tax, is there any way to do it?"
"Leave our food!"
"You don't dare to fight the Tatars, you don't dare to fight the thieves, you only bully the people, and you are not considered an official or an army member!"
"Robbers! You are all robbers!"
At this time, hundreds of villagers became more and more excited as they talked. Many villagers picked up various farm tools, roared and rushed over, pushing and shouting with more than a dozen Dunjun soldiers.
"Asshole!"
Qin Xiaoqi was so angry that he pulled out his waist knife and chopped down a villager, thinking that he could kill him as a warning to others. But then Qin Xiaoqi's heart fell into the ice cellar. He looked at the surrounding villagers and screamed inwardly.
"kill him!"
The hundreds of villagers around were not intimidated. Instead, they angrily besieged Qin Xiaoqi and others. A dozen or so fierce-looking Dunjun soldiers were overwhelmed by the angry villagers in the blink of an eye. After a burst of screams, there was no movement.
In the village at this time, Qin Xiaoqi and more than a dozen Dunjun soldiers were lying dead on the spot, and more than twenty villagers also fell in a pool of blood.
The remaining villagers also regained their senses at this time, anger and sadness were intertwined, and then with a man yelling, the villagers in this village copied various farm tools and embarked on the road to resist the tax.
As various health offices in Shandong began to vigorously allocate training salaries, scenes like this in Dasongwei Village continued to be staged in various places.
The imperial court's apportionment of training salaries was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for generals and officials from all over Shandong to make money. In addition, Lu Xiangsheng personally went to various places to supervise, forcing officials and generals from all over the country to provide money to let Jimo Camp, Wendeng Camp, and The generals in the Dengzhou camp also became ruthless and passed on the allocated training salaries to the military households and tenant households under their control.
Such a situation caused massive bankruptcy in an instant for the people who could no longer survive. It caused countless military households and tenant households in various health stations to flee, and even turmoil broke out in many places.
Pingduzhou.
At this time, Lu Xiangsheng was hesitating whether to go south to Jimo Yingcheng or north to Laizhou Fucheng, so that he stayed in Pingdu Prefecture for a few days, and by the way, he also supervised the officials and generals here.
Suddenly, General Lu Huaiying opened the door in a panic, clasped his fists and said, "Something happened to the Governor!"
Lu Xiangsheng frowned slightly and said, "But training salary forced a civil uprising?"
"The Governor Mingjian, that's exactly what it is!"
Lu Huaiying took out several emergency reports, which were available in various places, all reporting the civil commotion.
Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly took these urgent reports and checked them, then slapped them on the desk and said angrily: "The governor is worried that the officials and generals will bear all the burden on the people, so he spares no effort to inspect various places. Jimo Camp, Wendeng Camp , those generals in the Dengzhou camp did not care about the life and death of the people, ignored the orders of the governor, and put all the burden on the military households and tenant households, how could something not happen!"
Lu Huaiying also said angrily: "The general thinks that the amount of taxes allocated to those things that are more than successful and more likely to fail will definitely be more than the amount assigned by the court. They must take the opportunity to line their own pockets!"
Lu Xiangsheng naturally knew this. If those generals did not take the opportunity to make money, they would not be Ming Dynasty generals.
I saw Lu Xiangsheng raised his head and sighed, and said: "I am on guard, worried that something like this will happen, but after all, I only have one pair of eyes and one pair of feet, and I cannot take care of the whole of Shandong. I am ashamed of the people!"
Lu Huaiying said: "The governor does not need to blame himself. This matter was originally caused by officials and generals from all over the country taking the opportunity to make money. They did not care about the life and death of the people! But now, chaos has gradually arisen in various places. The governor must make up his mind as soon as possible and calm down the situation as soon as possible. .”
Lu Xiangsheng stood up immediately and said, "Hurry back to Jinan Fucheng immediately!"
"In addition, immediately issue an order to the local health stations: no suppression of the people, and the distribution of training salary will be stopped immediately. Anyone who violates the order will be severely punished!"
"Supervisor!"
Lu Huaiying said hurriedly: "What if someone takes the opportunity to mobilize people and start an uprising? What to do with the more than 400,000 taels of training wages allocated by the imperial court?"
Lu Xiangsheng said categorically: "I want the people to live. Is this wrong? I want them to live!"
Lingshan Acropolis, conductor's residence.
Liu Yan rushed here after a long journey. At this time, the commanders of the seven battalions of the New Army, Artillery Chief Qian Qian, as well as Wang Wenzhen, Yue Ming, Song Gongming, Zhang Lei, Tian Huixu, Xun Jingyun, Bao Xuezhen, Zhao Min, Jia Hongyu and others were already waiting here early.
Liu Yan sat down, looked at the hall full of subordinates, and said with a smile: "The weather is very cold, and you have all rushed here, and you are all freezing. However, I have not prepared pot wine to warm you up, but I am going to deploy tasks for you."
Everyone laughed.
"Song Qianhu, Yue Qianhu!"
Song Gongming and Yue Ming stood up, and Liu Yan asked, "How are you preparing the money and food?"
Yue Ming was in charge of money and food, and was the money and food officer under Liu Yan, so he stood up and clasped his fists and said: "Don't worry, sir. After several rounds of raising money with Song Qianhu, my subordinates and Song Qianhu have raised money and food. The money and food ordered by the Lord are ready, and most of them have been transported to Aoshanwei." , the remaining small part can be delivered within the next two days.”
"good!"
Liu Yan was determined and said to everyone: "Everyone must be wondering why I suddenly raised a large amount of money and food, and why I called everyone here. I will tell you now."
"Because Shandong is about to be in chaos, people everywhere will be displaced and become refugees!"
"Because I want to take in and provide relief to the people on a large scale to enrich the population of Lingshan Guard and Aoshan Guard!"
Liu Yan stood up and said loudly: "So I ask you to immediately prepare for large-scale resettlement of refugees. I have only one request, and that is that in this cold winter, not a single refugee will die of cold or hunger. Can you do this? arrive?"
Although everyone didn't understand why Liu Yan was so sure that there would be a wave of refugees and why there was chaos in various parts of Shandong, but seeing Liu Yan's attitude, everyone subconsciously chose to believe it.
It's just that Liu Yan requested that no refugee should freeze or starve to death. This request may seem ordinary, but it is actually very difficult.
Wang Wenzhen clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty cares about the people, and my subordinates admire them very much. It's just that it costs a lot of money and food to help the people. The imperial court doesn't lend a hand and only relies on Lingshan Guard and Aoshan Guard. It's so weak!"
Tian Huixu said: "Is your Lord's judgment like this related to the training salary allocated by the imperial court?"
Liu Yan nodded and said: "Everyone knows that the imperial court has allocated training salary to us in Shandong. Do you know how much it is? More than 400,000 taels!"
"Do you know how much the training salaries that officials and generals in various places allocate to military households and tenant farmers add up? Millions of taels!"
Everyone was shocked. Although they didn’t know where Liu Yan knew these figures, if this matter was true, then Shandong would really be in chaos. The people of Shandong were already poor and could not afford such plunder!
Liu Yan said to Wang Wenzhen: "Wang Tongzhi is right. The matter of relieving the refugees is indeed the court's business. But now the court has no money, otherwise it would not increase the recruitment and training to plunder the people."
"Although we will spend a lot of money and food this time, we can still make money if the money is gone. As long as there are people around, there is hope!"
Everyone clasped their fists and said, "I am willing to follow you to save the people!"
Zhao Min even bowed to Liu Yan and said, "My subordinates admire your great mind!"
Liu Yan also clasped his fists and said, "Thank you for following me and trusting me!"
Then Liu Yan said seriously: "Everyone, listen!"
Everyone stood solemnly, waiting for Liu Yan to give orders.
"Commander Wang Wenzhen, Commander Tian Huixu, and Commander Xun Jingyun immediately prepare to build resettlement sites in Lingshan Guard and Aoshan Guard. Each guard must prepare at least thirty sites!"
"yes!"
"The front and middle battalions of the New Army were immediately deployed at Lingshan Guard and Aoshan Guard to assist the refugees passing by to the nearest resettlement point. The two battalions on the left and right went to Lingshan Guard for support. The rear battalion and the cavalry battalion were supported at Aoshan Guard. The Guards Battalion and the Artillery Command Standby."
"Got the order!"
"Qianhu Baoxue Town immediately led his medical officers to prepare all kinds of necessary medicines and stood on standby at various resettlement sites in Lingshan Guard and Aoshan Guard to treat the people."
"yes."
"Zhao Min from Qian Hu led people to register the refugees and distributed them to various places. Zhang Lei, the officer in charge of Qian Hu, was responsible for allocating farmland and led the refugees to reclaim wasteland after the freeze."
"yes!"
"Song Gongming of Qianhu and Yueming of Qianhu are responsible for allocating money and food to all parties, and there must be no mistakes!"
"yes."
After Liu Yan completed the deployment, he clasped his fists and saluted everyone, and said, "I hope you will do your best. Liu Yan is here to take care of me!"
Some people died, but not completely...
