Some people will kill you, and some people will resist.
For example, the Zhou family, a large landowner in Pingyin County, Dongping Prefecture.
Because he was a good friend of the local county magistrate, he participated in Chen Luo's corruption case along with the county magistrate, and provided a lot of help to Chen Luo in transferring stolen money and stolen goods, and he was listed on the list.
His family had vast acres of land, considerable financial and military resources, and was originally a well-known powerful man in the local area.
When the Jin people were still there, the Zhou family had set up a private armed force to protect themselves amidst the changes in the situation.
During the Ming Dynasty's war to destroy the Jin Dynasty, they noticed that many of the Jin Kingdom's defeated soldiers were scattered and had nowhere to go. The Zhou family, who thought they were young and strong, took the initiative to extend an olive branch, so some of them were scattered during the war. The remnant soldiers of the Jin Kingdom took refuge in him and became his lackeys in order to survive.
As a result, his power not only did not weaken, but actually increased compared with before the war. His status was improved in the distribution of interests after the war, and he rose from a small and medium-sized landowner to a large landowner and powerful man. He also had a good relationship with the new local magistrate, and his power was further increase.
This also led to the team led by judicial officials who went to pronounce his crime to encounter strong resistance from him.
He mobilized all his private armed forces and used his own good defense facilities to fight to the death. He refused to attack and fought desperately for survival.
He knew that he could not survive in Shandong, so he tried to escape south with his family, to the Southern Song Dynasty, and maybe he could survive.
The team that went to capture him consisted of a hundred people, all of whom were elite and skilled soldiers. The soldiers would never let him go, so they formed a military formation and attacked him with an army, defeating all of his more than 400 private armed forces. , killing many Zhou family members who were stubbornly resisting.
In the end, the big landowner did not surrender. After the resistance completely failed, he chose to hang himself. When the soldiers rushed into the inner hall, he was already dead.
Before his death, he also killed his wife, son and other major relatives, perhaps because he did not want them to accept the cruel fate of surviving.
I have to say, he died too happily.
Therefore, his surviving family members must bear double the responsibility for their crimes.
There is also the Liu family, a large landowner in Dong'e County. When the arrestees went there, the owner of the family happened to be visiting the Wang family, the home of his in-laws. The house was ransacked, and a servant ran to the Wang family to report the news.
Before the arrests arrived, the Wang family knew that they could not escape, so they decided to escape with the Liu family and tried to escape south to the Southern Song Dynasty to survive.
However, the arresting team quickly caught up with them and had a fierce battle with them.
They had more than 300 armed private troops in their hands. Because they took a lot of money, they fought desperately and caused a lot of trouble to the pursuing troops.
But in the end they were no match for the regular army, and were completely wiped out by the regular army's horse attack.
The Liu family and the Wang family still resisted and refused to surrender, so the pursuing troops regarded them as traitors to the Ming Dynasty and killed them all.
Coincidentally, several large landowners in Jinan Prefecture chose to resist because they had a certain amount of private armed forces. Two or three landowners heard the news and decided to unite and pull up a team of thousands of people to try to resist, which also has a certain power. .
However, the purpose of their resistance was basically to escape, because they themselves did not believe that they could defeat the prestigious Ming army. After all, they did not dare to resist Su Yonglin openly. They did not dare to resist when things broke out, so they could only run away.
The direction of escape was quite the same, they all chose to run to the Southern Song Dynasty.
Compared with the landowners, the business travelers ran faster because they had a keener sense of smell. Basically, they fled south with their money, or fled in disguise, trying to cross the border blockade of the Ming army and enter the Southern Song Dynasty. From then on, the sky was high and the birds could fly across the sea. By fish leap.
However, because Su Yonglin conveyed orders to many border prefectures in advance, the border prefectures were prepared in advance and blocked not only the main roads, but also many mountain roads, paths, and waterways.
So these bastards who tried to abscond did not escape the Ming army's blockade after all, and were arrested one after another and became prisoners.
By the beginning of May, Dongping Prefecture, Jinan Prefecture, Dizhou, Zizhou, Yidu Prefecture, and Binzhou were fully blossomed by Su Yonglin and blasted in key areas.
Hundreds of landlords, government officials, and officials were punished, and the corruption case of the Yellow River Project in Shandong completely broke out.
At this point, people finally knew that the emperor Su Yonglin seemed to have changed his appearance, instantly moving from Kaifeng to Shandong, where he sat down to punish corrupt officials.
Those corrupt officials who had colluded before to advance and retreat together did not even react, and were captured instantly by the emperor.
The emperor struck first, catching everyone off guard and completely taking the initiative.
This anti-corruption campaign in person by the emperor shocked the entire Shandong officialdom and upper class society. For a time, Shandong was in a state of panic and everyone was in danger. Many people were trying to find out whether this anti-corruption storm had anything to do with them.
Even those with connections in Zhongdu sent people to deliver letters to Zhongdu, trying to contact relatives and friends who were officials in Zhongdu to inquire about the news, or thinking that if they committed a crime, there would be someone in Zhongdu who could help them.
However, Su Yonglin will never let any criminal go.
And through the disposal and purge of these states, Su Yonglin also had an initial feeling of how much power these old local families had accumulated in the changing situation from the late Northern Song Dynasty to the present.
Although he started the rebellion with such a group of people in the beginning, and he also knew how rich the Shandong powerful people represented by Zhao Kaishan were, but when these things were really compiled and put in front of him, he Still can't help but be surprised.
For example, the Xu family, the landowners of Dizhou, owned 40,000 acres of land, nearly 2,000 tenant households, and a population of over 10,000. The family was extremely powerful.
According to the court accounts, the Xu family is just a small powerhouse with one thousand acres of land and one hundred households of tenants.
For example, the Binzhou landlord Tian family owns 30,000 acres of land, 1,700 tenant households, and a population of nearly 10,000.
But according to the court accounts, they only had 1,500 acres of land and 200 tenant households.
For example, the Qian family, a large landowner in Yidu Prefecture, owns 32,000 acres of land, 1,800 tenants, and a population of nearly 10,000.
According to the court accounts, they only had 1,300 acres of land and 270 tenant households.
These three families alone accounted for nearly 30,000 people, and further accounted for more than 95% of the 30,000 people in the imperial court's demographic chart, making it impossible for the imperial court to truly count their financial resources and tax revenues. .
The local officials also colluded with them, deceived the superiors and concealed the true situation of the local landlords from the court.
This is actually a problem left over from history.
These Shandong tycoons annexed a large amount of land and defeated Song soldiers at the turn of the Jin and Song Dynasties, and then gathered a large number of people, established a huge private power, and accumulated a lot of wealth.
Its power was so huge that the local officials of the Jin Kingdom felt that it was very difficult and did not dare to take action rashly.
The Jin Kingdom's rule in Shandong only lasted for a short period of more than 30 years, and the actual governance of Shandong was only about 20 years. It was unable to effectively manage Shandong and establish an effective household registration system.
Therefore, the past twenty or thirty years were an era when Shandong's powerful landlords rapidly accumulated wealth and increased their strength. It was also an era when the Jin Kingdom continued to migrate people to the local area and ethnic conflicts rapidly expanded.
So when Su Yonglin's uprising came, due to the growing conflict between the Jurchens and the Han landlords, the Shandong landlords started revolting against the Jin soldiers.
The Shandong landlords headed by Zhao Kaishan raised a team of more than 300,000 people to fight against the Jin Kingdom, which was a manifestation of the powerful power of the local landlords in Shandong.
Su Yonglin also had a preliminary understanding of this when he asked Su Yin to collect social information in Shandong and Hebei before going north. However, it would take more time to fully understand this kind of thing. Su Yonglin did not have this need at the time.
Now that there is a need, there is no need to send people to conduct overt and covert inspections to completely destroy their family, just go in and make statistics.
This statistic shows the astronomical wealth of the family.
Most of the wealth generated in Shandong during more than 30 years with almost no government intervention was pocketed by these powerful landlords.
As a result, each of their households had a large number of weapons. Armor and crossbows were found in some large landowners' estates, and some even saw divine arm bows.
There is no doubt that these are products of the war era. They subjectively had no idea of using these weapons to challenge the Ming regime, but in fact, they have mastered these weapons and armor and possess a certain degree of force.
This is something strictly prohibited by the law.
Therefore, Su Yonglin further established the corruption case of these powerful landlords and added the charge of conspiracy to rebel, making it very justifiable for the court to purge them and no one could question them.
After the Great Purge, the huge financial reserves, food reserves, population reserves and ordnance reserves of these landlords became the trophies of Su Yonglin. Su Yonglin felt as if he had defeated a Jin army in the war years and obtained a large number of seizures. .
According to preliminary estimates, including cash, real estate, luxury goods such as gold, silver, jewels, and jade, as well as livestock and weapons, the proceeds from the confiscation of houses in Dongping Prefecture alone are valued at nearly 2 billion yuan.
Jinan Prefecture has more, about 2.3 billion yuan.
Some officials and tycoons in the two governments had property valuations of more than 4 billion yuan due to criminal confiscation of their homes. Su Yonglin was quite surprised by the richness of these people's families.
You must know that the total investment in Su Yonglin's Yellow River Century Project is only 30 billion yuan, and there is an additional investment of 5 billion yuan.
And it is very important that if the 5 billion yuan is not used by then, it will be returned to the Ministry of Finance. It is not entirely a financial investment for the Yellow River Project. Lin Jingchun has been staring at the Yellow River Project, hoping to use these 50 billion yuan. Get back the billions of dollars.
Good guy, it’s so profitable.
