Once the state violence machine of the Ming Empire was in operation, it was naturally doomed to cause bloodshed and corpses everywhere.
As a result, soldiers and horses across the country began to receive various orders.
Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang, Ma Jin and others all received orders to prepare to go south to quell the rebellion at any time.
Yin Zhengmao and Ling Zhenyun in the southwest were also sent a Privy Council edict to suspend all military offensive activities in the southwest, and asked them to deploy enough Sichuan soldiers and Wolf soldiers to rest in case of disaster.
After all, the imperial court had to be on guard against local right-wingers in Wu who were not willing to be so determined, who would take risks and launch a larger-scale rebellion.
Even other places followed suit.
These are all the responsibility of the Privy Council as appropriate.
The Ministry of War also began to issue orders to local officials to rectify post stations and rectify armaments in various places to avoid communication problems.
At the same time, the Ministry of Personnel also began to recruit a large number of Juren and Bagong as alternate officials to prepare to replenish the local area at any time.
And to avoid the loss of control in some places due to the killing of officials after the war broke out.
Because most of the ministers in the court were reformists or obedient officials, and Zhang Juzheng relied on the emperor's trust to forcefully demand that the ministers must comply with the orders, otherwise they would be accused of being traitors and co-conspirators. Therefore, once Zhang Juzheng decided to implement the emperor's will, These ministers still performed their duties diligently, so that the emperor's will could be well executed in the center.
The center's actions can only be regarded as preparedness.
Hai Rui and his officers and soldiers in Nanzhili were really killing people according to the emperor's will.
“Whether it is restoring order or agitating the people, we start from the villages and towns, and then go to the various prefectures and counties and the southern capital, in order to achieve the goal of driving more rebels, that is, those evil gentry and bully local ruffians, into the city and surround them! "
"To prevent these rebels from being too scattered and not suitable for eradication."
Because of this matter, Hai Rui was strategizing in the governor's office. He continued to give orders to Hu Shouren and Tang Chuanxun, who were directly responsible for the matter, and also told Lu Kun:
"Judging from the current growth rate of the patrol team, it will increase even more in the future. With the official letter from this church, you can go directly to the Nanjing Household Department to pick up 30,000 shi of grain and 500,000 taels of tax silver, and prepare to continue to recruit more people!"
"Since there are people who want Wu people to govern Wu, then we will follow their wishes and mobilize more Wu people to help the government maintain order and use the democratic movement to deal with the popular uprising!"
"Anyway, there are many people in Jiangnan who are oppressed by right-wingers, and their lives are much worse than in other places. With a little salary and food management, we can recruit a large number of people. We don't have to worry about recruiting people to form a patrol team. By the way, we can borrow This opportunity is to solve the livelihood of many unemployed people in the name of recruiting soldiers, and also to strengthen the security and tax administration of some unattended new towns and establish permanent officers and soldiers."
"Budang is right. Although the first strike is preemptive, it is often controlled by others. They caused trouble, but it is not necessarily up to them to have the final say as to when the matter will end."
Lu Kun raised his hand and said yes and then started laughing.
Tang Chuanxun also laughed from the side and said: "I just said that your Majesty will not sacrifice the pro-military guards! As long as your majesty believes in the pro-military guards, the pro-military guards will dare to fight them to the end!"
"The right-wing people behind the scenes will regret engaging in a popular uprising by then!"
"Then you can take the official letter from this church and organize and train more patrol teams. You don't have to worry about recruiting too many. You can lower the salary and recruit patrol team helpers in the name, and then promote some outstanding young people to take charge of these helpers, even the elderly, Even children can be given jobs to do.”
"Although there are only more than 10,000 officials registered in the National Taxation Department, it is not a problem to train hundreds of thousands of young people and mobilize millions of people to maintain law and order based on this!"
"But hurry up. The local powerful right will definitely make trouble after they know that I continue to send pro-military guards to collect taxes and beg for the release of Qi Jin. We must hurry up and expand before they start to make trouble!"
"At least the order in the countryside outside the city must be controlled by us first. The bandits and slaves who cause trouble in the countryside will all be dealt with as rebels, including the distinguished scholars and bureaucrats who go to various inns outside the city to cause trouble. Disciple!"
Hai Rui continued to talk to Tang Chuanxun.
Tang Chuanxun raised his hand and said yes.
After Hai Rui made this arrangement, rural areas and even towns outside Nanjing and other Nanzhifu counties were indeed first cleared by patrol teams.
On this day, it was raining heavily in the southern area of Yingtian Mansion.
Everything was hazy.
In a village not far from Fangshan Mountain in Yingtianfu, several tenant farmers have just come out and want to start farming the abandoned fields again in order to gain some harvest.
But at this time, a group of bandits just wore fake pro-military guard armor and came down the mountain to the village in the rain.
However, because the patrol team guarding the mountain helped Xian pass the news, two hundred patrol soldiers led by the pro-military guard captain Chen Yijiang also arrived at this time.
"Damn it, I asked you to abandon farming, but you guys insist on farming! You think we can't come if it rains, right?"
The bandit leader Zeng Quanfan was originally a slave of the local officials and gentry. Because of the arrangement of his master, he went to the Fangshan area to join the bandits. Responsible for supervising the tenant farmers in response to the rightists' demands that they abandon their farming.
At this time, Zeng Quanfan arrived first, and Zeng Quanfan kicked the local tenant Xia Dongyang into the field, cursed him, and said:
"Cut off his head and hang it on a tree here, and show it to the other tenant farmers in the village. Damn it, let me see who dares to farm secretly and refuse to carry out my order to abandon farming!"
Uh-huh!
One of the bandits under Zeng Quanfan drew his sword and walked towards Xia Dongyang.
The tenant farmer Xia Dongyang hurriedly turned over and knelt in the paddy field with pain: "Please have mercy on the military men, I will never dare to do it again next time!"
Bang!
Suddenly, a series of gunshots appeared.
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.
Suddenly, these bandits and slaves saw the bandits they had brought lying around behind a row of shield walls, falling down like wheat stubble being cut.
"How come there are real officers and soldiers here?"
Zeng Quanfan was shocked.
"All kneel down!"
At this time, Chen Yijiang rode over and shouted.
Zeng Quanfan hurriedly knelt down, and also asked a dozen bandit leaders around him to kneel down, and shouted: "I don't know which master the soldier is serving as a servant. You guys are personal guards of the army. Everyone is the same." Officers and soldiers, could you please be accommodating and sit down and have a good talk?"
Chen Yijiang only asked his men to tie up Zeng Quanfan and others, and then made them kneel in a row on the field ridge.
Under the curtain of rain, rows of bandit leaders pretending to be military guards were kneeling, their heads lowered, and they were no longer as ferocious as they were at the beginning.
The villagers hiding in the thatched houses all called their relatives and friends and put their heads to the window to see this scene.
At this time, Chen Yijiang personally pulled out the knife, stabbed it into Zeng Quanfan's chest, and turned it several times: "Talk about your mother! How dare you slander my own military guard!"
With that said, Chen Yijiang ordered: "The rest will be destroyed directly with a gun! Let the new firearms recruits in the team collapse, and after the collapse, let the swordsman and shield player take care of the damage!"
"yes!"
So, a row of young and strong people who had just joined the team came over with blunderbuss that had already been lit. With trembling hands, they almost pressed the muzzle of the blunderbuss against the heads of the bandit leaders and pulled the trigger.
boom!
boom!
boom!
As white smoke rose, one after another the bandit leaders fell on the field ridge.
The blood was quickly washed into the fields by the rain.
Some bandit leaders shouted anxiously: "Spare our lives! We don't dare to do it anymore! It's all those husbands and uncles (hao slaves) who asked us to do it!"
But in the end, not a single bandit who pretended to be a pro-military guard survived, and they were all shot.
Chen Yijiang walked up to the stunned tenant farmer Xia Dongyang and said: "Go and tell the other tenant farmers in your village that you can continue farming if you want to. At your boss's place, our patrol team will go and reason with him. Not only do you want him to allow you to farm, , and you want them to reduce rent and interest rates for you! Don’t let you bear the increased tax burden caused by the implementation of the New Deal!”
"Thank you Lord Bing!"
"Thank you, Lord Bing! Lord Bing, live a long life!"
This summer Dongyang is very happy. Tenancy rent and loan interest are two big mountains that weigh on him. If there is an opportunity to reduce rent and interest, he will naturally be happy.
"So, who is your boss?"
Chen Yijiang asked.
(End of chapter)
