Zhenxiwei.
Qi Haiwei, the staff general of the right battalion of the Ninth Army of the National Defense Force, stood outside the Acropolis. Most of the more than 13,000 soldiers of the right battalion had assembled and surrounded the Zhenxi Acropolis.
The artillery commander attached to the right battalion has been deployed in the south of the city. One hundred and forty artillery pieces of various types have been loaded and ready for bombardment at any time.
"I really can't understand..."
Qi Haiwei said to his subordinates: "What do you think Tao Yudi has to rely on to have the courage to confront our National Defense Forces?"
Everyone shook their heads, all confused.
Qi Haiwei sighed and said: "Forget it if you don't understand, let's just stop thinking about it and just go in!"
Everyone agreed.
Immediately, Qi Haiwei ordered the battalion's artillery chief to open fire, and more than 140 artillery pieces of various types began to fire.
boom!
In a burst of roaring, the walls and other defense facilities of Zhenxi Acropolis were shattered with rubble flying everywhere, and gunpowder smoke filled the air everywhere. The soldiers stationed on the city were panicked. These soldiers were temporarily recruited by Tao Yudi after the bandit army was destroyed. The new soldiers and miscellaneous soldiers were unable to organize an effective counterattack at all. The city defense front was directly defeated without even experiencing a confrontation.
"Order the artillery commander to directly bombard the city gates and towers!"
"yes!"
A large amount of artillery fire focused on the city gate, blasting open the gate of Zhenxi Acropolis almost instantly. The city tower was also riddled with holes by more than a dozen cannonballs. The guardsmen were buried directly.
"go ahead!"
Immediately, a group of more than 4,000 bird gunmen stepped forward, quickly passed through the still dusty city gate, and rushed directly into the Zhenxi Guard City. The roar of bird guns came one after another in the city, and the guards
Although there are more than 2,000 soldiers and horses under Tao Yudi, they are basically a mob. Rather than being guardsmen, they are more like idlers collected by Tao Yudi from all over the place, specially brought here to fill up the numbers and put up a good appearance. Yes, totally vulnerable.
Only half an hour later, the Zhenxi Acropolis was captured. Tao Yudi was shot dead by a gunman from the Ninth Army, and all of his more than 2,000 miscellaneous soldiers were wiped out. Except for a few civilians in the Acropolis, There are no more survivors.
Then Qi Haiwei led his troops to surround Tao Yudi's mansion in the Acropolis. More than a dozen servants and dozens of family members inside were all shot and killed, and all Tao Yudi's property was also seized.
After an inventory, it was found that the guard of the west guard of this town had more than 200,000 taels of property, as well as a lot of other land, houses, and shops. All of these properties were confiscated to fund the implementation of the New Deal and military reforms in Shanxi.
Qi Haiwei immediately implemented the policy of military reform around Zhenxiwei, and the members of the accompanying inspection team began to implement the new policy in Kelanzhou, Lanxian, Xingxian, Baodezhou and other places in nearby Taiyuan Prefecture.
The New Deal and military reform policies in Taiyuan Prefecture, because of Tao Yudi's death and the shock of more than 2,000 lives, began to be gradually and smoothly implemented. Military generals from various places put away their previous resistance and took the initiative to communicate. He got rid of the miscellaneous soldiers in his hands and went to the Huangming Martial Arts Hall in Qingzhou Prefecture for further training.
This is also a new requirement added by Liu Yan not long ago. After these generals pass the assessment, those who pass the test can enter the garrison in various places and continue to lead the army. Those who fail will be directly paid travel expenses and let them go back to their homes and find their mothers.
At the same time, Li Jiwen
He also led the inspection team and some soldiers of the Ninth Army down south to Linfen City, Pingyang Prefecture.
Li Jiwen was in charge of implementing the New Deal and military reform policies in southern Shanxi, and Jia Hongyu was in charge of the tasks in Taiyuan Prefecture and other central counties.
After Li Jiwen arrived in Linfen, the first thing he did was to summon the prefect of Pingyang Prefecture and the prefects of various states and counties to Linfen to discuss matters.
At the same time, a group of civil servants from Lu'an Prefecture in southwest Shanxi, as well as Qinzhou and Zezhou, two Zhili prefectures in Shanxi Province, were also summoned to Linfen to discuss matters together.
Three days later, civil servants from all over the country rushed to Linfen and saw Li Jiwen in the prefect's Yamen.
After everyone was seated, Li Jiwen said with a smile: "Haha, I summoned you here today just for the implementation of the New Deal. Even if I don't say it, you should all know it in your heart."
"Now, the generals of the Ninth Army of the National Defense Force are concerned about the implementation of military reform in the prefectures and states in southern Shanxi, and I will not overstep it. Today we will talk about how to implement this new policy."
Immediately, Li Jiwen read out various terms of the court's new policy in public. Dozens of civil servants, large and small, listened to it and their faces were ugly.
To fully implement the new policies, people would have to cut their flesh, vomit blood, and even break up their homes.
After all, with the salary set by the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible for everyone to buy today's properties and mansions, nor can they live a luxurious life today.
So after Li Jiwen read out the terms of the New Deal, dozens of people present fell silent, and no one paid any attention to Li Jiwen.
Li Jiwen was a civilian staff officer. Although he was a third-grade Beijing official, in the eyes of everyone, he was just a local official.
It’s just that, if you want to cut flesh from everyone, don’t even think about it!
When Li Jiwen saw this, the smile on his face gradually dissipated, and after a while his expression turned grim. Following Liu Yan for many years, Li Jiwen was also influenced by Liu Yan's character and behavior, and became ruthless. At this time, he slammed the table, He yelled loudly: "When the bandit army was raging in Shanxi, you civil servants either fled with your families or took refuge with Li Zicheng, and thus saved your family wealth. Now that Li Zicheng has been defeated, everyone has become the magistrates of the Ming Dynasty. The imperial court did not screen you one by one, and convicted those of you who were treasonous and derelict in their duties, which is already an act of mercy outside the law!"
"If you are still stubborn, don't blame me for being ruthless. Whether you live or die, it will be your own life!"
After speaking, Li Jiwen glanced at everyone, and saw that everyone had different expressions. Some were fearful and timid, some were content and not afraid, some were looking around, and some were deep in thought, but some did not respond to Li Jiwen's words.
So Li Jiwen yelled: "Here comes someone!"
"exist!"
Outside the lobby, the gunners of the Ninth Army Battalion rushed in fully armed. Dozens of civil servants were shocked when they saw this. Unexpectedly, Li Jiwen, a civil servant, could be so "rude" and directly dispatch troops at the slightest disagreement?
"Sir, why is this happening?"
"Yes, if the officialdom matters are settled by the officialdom, how can it involve the military revolution? This is unethical!"
"Isn't that polite?"
Li Jiwen said in a cold voice: "You are so uncivilized in your corpse meal position!"
Then Li Jiwen waved his hand and said: "Take them all down and imprison them first."
Go to the prison in Linfen City and wait until I find out whether they have been corrupt and violated the law, and then deal with them! "
"yes!"
"Master Li, you can't do this!"
"Li Jiwen, you are causing trouble to the world!"
Dozens of people were arrested on the spot. After a brief period of chaos, only Li Jiwen was left in the lobby.
"These bastards!"
Li Jiwen was angry in his heart. After calming down for a while, he directly summoned the inspection team and said: "Immediately issue an official document in the name of the inspection team to appoint the Tongzhi of Pingyang Prefecture, the Tongzhi of Qinzhou, the Tongzhi of Lu'an Prefecture, and the Tongpan of Zezhou. , and all the county magistrates in each county temporarily took charge of the local governors and immediately implemented the new policies of the imperial court. Within a month, whoever fell behind would be dismissed from office and imprisoned on the spot; whoever made rapid progress would be appointed as the prefect, prefect or governor. Magistrate!"
"Okay! This is a good idea, sir."
"In this way, we don't have to worry about no one being able to help, and let those dozens of thieves sit in jail, lest they be let out to cause trouble!"
Everyone applauded.
As soon as Li Jiwen issued this order, the civil servants in Pingyang Prefecture, Qinzhou, Zezhou, and Lu'an Prefecture were all in a panic. Those who were temporarily promoted seemed to be possessed and began to implement the New Deal crazily.
These people are very familiar with the local situation and the situation of the powerful gentry, merchants and subordinates in various places. For the sake of their own official future, they all target their former "friends". The implementation of the New Deal has been greatly accelerated, with only a dozen Within days, Li Jiwen saw very good results, so he recorded this method, together with the recent implementation of Shanxi's new policies and military reforms, and sent someone to report it to Liu Yan immediately.
when
However, this is all a story later. At this time, Li Jiwen was commanding the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Army to search their homes separately. The dozens of civil servants who had been imprisoned belonged to various places. Thousands of officers and soldiers of the Ninth Army were divided into dozens of teams and went to various places to search their homes at the same time. They imprisoned and confiscated the families and properties of dozens of civil servants.
When the list of confiscated homes from various places was sent to Li Jiwen, even though the staff member of the general staff had seen the world, he was shocked by the data in front of him.
Shanxi was not a wealthy province to begin with, and it had been ravaged by Li Zicheng's million-strong army for a long time. When Hong Chengchou led the nine-border elite to go south, he fought with Li Zicheng in Xinzhou, and Sun Chuanting also led his army to fight with Li Zicheng in the Tongguan area. In addition, various places The fierce battle between the government troops and the bandit soldiers and horses can be said that almost all parts of Shanxi have been beaten to ashes. The people everywhere are living in misery, with almost no way to survive.
However, the wealth of these dozens of civil servants is extremely huge. Together with real estate, land deeds, shops, silks, jewelry and jades, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc., after the price was calculated, it turned out to be more than 8 million taels, and the food seized was also 700,000 taels. Sixty thousand stones!
Li Jiwen was so angry that he almost ordered to behead all the dozens of civil servants on the spot.
But after calming down, Li Jiwen sighed heavily and sighed: "If Sun Baigu (Sun Chuanting) or Hong Chengchou had been more ruthless and killed all these civil servants along the way, maybe the army's money and food could have been solved, and the world's major events might have been solved. It’s going to change.”
Then Li Jiwen's heart moved. These officials in southern Shanxi alone were already so rich. What about the officials in Shanxi as a whole? Two capitals and thirteen provinces in the Ming Dynasty
Where are the officials? How huge will the wealth they control become!
At this time, Li Jiwen truly understood Liu Yan and understood why Liu Yan risked fighting the whole world and resolutely implemented the New Deal, which was to seize the money, food and wealth that originally belonged to the Ming Dynasty and the people of the world from the hands of these moths. return!
"Mr. Ge is truly an outstanding person throughout history. Through the New Deal, we can nationalize the wealth of officials, gentry, and powerful people all over the world. Not only can it reduce the burden on the people, it can open up financial resources for the court, but it can also intimidate the officials of the world and rebuild the court. Majesty is really a strategy that kills two birds with one stone."
Immediately, Li Jiwen ordered people to seal all the seized money, grain and property in boxes and transport them to the capital. At the same time, dozens of prisoners and their families were escorted back to the capital.
Waiting for their fate, it is estimated that those criminals will inevitably die, and those family members will most likely be demoted as official slaves. The men will be sent to various mines under the Ministry of Commerce to work as coolies, and the women will be sent to the workshops in the capital. Si is a prostitute.
However, Li Jiwen showed no mercy. The prisoners brought this fate upon themselves. Two words: They deserved it!
