It was almost useless for Xinghe's army to engage in close combat. They just drove away the mob and wiped out Li Tianwang's gang in Guoxian County.
Seeing that the situation was over and there was no way to escape, Li Jin hoped to surrender.
It's a pity that there are more and more rioters anyway, and many of the elite selected by Li Jin have evil intentions.
The rebels broke into three counties and captured the villages and villages of more than a dozen clans. They not only stole gold and silver, livestock and food, but also a lot of armor.
According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, private possession of armor and crossbows among the people was a serious crime of decapitation.
However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, rituals collapsed, laws and regulations became a piece of paper, and there were countless clan armed forces who privately purchased and made iron armor.
Basically, it has become a situation where the people do not punish the officials.
Therefore, five to six hundred of Li Jin's elite troops were equipped with armor, and more than a hundred of them were equipped with steel chainmail, which was common in the Ming army.
They are the elites that Li Jin relies on, but most of them have not been with Li Jin for a long time, and they have no feelings or trust between them.
Seeing that Li Jin, who was leading the rebellion and proclaimed himself the Grand Governor, took it upon himself to surrender, many elites asked in their hearts: "Why should I surrender with you?"
"Why don't you chop off your head in exchange for money and an official position?"
Ever since, internal strife began,
Some of the young men of the Li family recognized Li Jin as the leader, and started fighting with the elites who were preparing to kill or capture Li Jin for reward.
The fighting was not very intense at the beginning, but after dozens of casualties occurred, both sides became red-eyed...
Three days later, the bandits in Jinzhong were wiped out, and the eunuch Wang Kun was already thinking about how to report the incident.
If you perform well, you will be treated well. Eunuch Wang's anger has been eliminated to some extent, and now he simply serves Huang Yi as his master.
The reason why he understood things like this was not entirely due to compromise. The main reason was that he was impressed by the military appearance, military discipline and combat effectiveness of the Xinghe Army.
In the First World War in Guoxian County, the bandit leader Li Tianwang was executed and beheaded more than 3,000 people and captured more than 70,000 people.
Ran Xinghe's army had no casualties!
Not only that, the Xinghe Army also had two to three thousand more troops.
Wang Kun saw the newly formed soldiers and horses with his own eyes and felt that the young men holding spears in their hands and wearing blue vests were no weaker than the soldiers of other battalions.
Damn it! A general who has the ability to fight more and more troops will probably be invincible in the world!
How could the Sa family deal with such a person?
Since you can't deal with it, then surrender!
Therefore, no matter what Huang Yi said or what Wang Kun did, he would not dare to disobey him at all.
More than half of the gold and silver treasures of landlords Lao Cai in the three counties were robbed by rogue bandits, and now they have all been seized and turned into trophies by the Xinghe Army.
In this era, wealthy landlords kept real money and silver in their homes, and some families had their wealth accumulated for hundreds of years destroyed in one fell swoop.
King Li Tian was not a bandit, but a local. He originally wanted to gain territory and gain prestige to negotiate with the imperial court and get into Zhao'an.
Therefore, Li Tianwang's gang was much less destructive than the rogue bandits. At least they did not deliberately set fire to the city.
They also have the advantage that they basically don’t rob the small people, but the big ones.
In addition, the civil unrest broke out after the autumn. After Huang Yi quickly suppressed it, it was not difficult to restore order and resume production.
After the three counties were pacified, another general auxiliary and a general banner cavalry escorted a population of more than 10,000 and hundreds of people back to the base in a fully loaded cart.
The total value of the gold and silver treasures seized and found this time was no less than 600,000 taels of silver.
Many big families were wiped out, and many wealthy landlords went into hiding. After learning that King Li Tianwang's troubles had been quelled, many survivors jumped out and demanded the return of their property.
These people are just scoundrels!
They hid and acted like cowards when faced with the rogue bandits, but dared to threaten the Xinghe Army, threatening that if the property looted by the rogue bandits was not recovered, they would contact family officials for impeachment.
Would Huang Yi, who is fearless, fear the impeachment of officials? He even scorned Emperor Chongzhen!
For those unreasonable powerful people, they can only be even more unreasonable!
Sending them to the Xinghecheng Fertilizer Factory to boil manure will definitely lead to better transformation.
If you are not afraid of them escaping midway, just order the families who are migrating to the base area to keep an eye on them.
Either don’t do it or do it to perfection!
The Xinghe Army posted a notice, requiring the gentry and landlords who had their homes destroyed by the rioters to come to the Nao County government office within three days to bring the necessary documents and contracts to register and claim their property. They would not wait if it was late.
This method is of course to lure the snake out of its hole and lure the survivors of the big landlord's family to Nao County to catch them all.
Not only can these people not get back the property robbed by the rioters, but they will also be robbed again by Huang Yi.
Of course the landlord knows not to put all his eggs in one basket.
If you catch them and interrogate them, you will definitely be able to find out where the gold and silver treasures are hidden, and the harvest will definitely be huge.
The Xinghe Army needs to grow and develop, so how can it be possible for a soft-hearted person to achieve great things?
Moreover, the vast majority of landlords and wealthy people were a major cancer in the late Ming Dynasty. These people must be cracked down on to unite and fight against the common people.
Less than half a day after the notice was posted, Chen Mengji, the absconding magistrate of Nao County, actually came back. I don’t know where the magistrate has been hiding in the past month.
The magistrates of the Ming Dynasty were responsible for guarding the territory, even though they had no military power and no army in the county.
Chen Mengji, the magistrate of Guo County, abandoned the city and fled when the rebels were seizing the city. This was a capital crime and brought disaster to his family.
Therefore, Chen Mengji did not dare to return to his hometown at all. Instead, he hid in a monastery in the mountains with several long followers who had come from his hometown.
He had some friendship with the abbot of the temple.
Chen Mengji thought, "I don't have half a plan to help the current situation, so I can only die to repay your kindness."
It's a pity that he was afraid of the pain when he cut his neck, felt it was too suffocating to hang himself, and felt that the water was too cold when he jumped into the water...
well! It's better to die than to live!
Therefore, Chen Mengji lived day after day until the imperial troops quelled the civil unrest and saw the peace notice brought back by Chang Sui.
The eldest son was named Chen Shaoping. He was Chen Mengji's schoolboy since he was a child. He was quite clever and often went to Guo County to inquire about news.
He saw with his own eyes the Xinghe Army with strict military discipline, and found out that the leader was General Huang Yi.
Chen Mengji, who wanted to die but couldn't make up his mind, learned that he was a general leading the army, so he decided to risk it for a while.
After three years of clearing the magistrate's office, he received one hundred thousand snowflakes and silver.
Chen Mengji was not an upright official. He was about to complete his third year as magistrate of Guo County, so he hid a lot of money. He originally wanted to wait until the three-year exam was completed to do some activities to ensure promotion.
Who knew that fate was not as good as fate, and if the last guard did not stand up properly, it would lead to big trouble.
Now he places his only hope on General Xinghe, who will quell the chaos.
Money can make all the difference!
Chen Mengji had money, and it was money buried in pits.
Of course, he was not buried in the backyard of the county government office, but in an ordinary-looking small courtyard not far from the county government office.
I went to see it with Chen Shaoping. I found that the small courtyard was intact and had not been looted.
Chen Mengji was going to meet General Xinghe, and presented him with 50,000 taels of silver as a salary, asking the general to share the credit for quelling the civil unrest.
