stubborn thief

Chapter 350

The goal of Wang Cheng'en, the general of Lintao, was not Xining City, nor did he intend to capture the Thousand Households of Guide.

Instead, he was going to the Pingjun Mayi, forty miles east of Xining. Wangjiazhuang was nearby. He led his army to cut in from Henan Hengbing, and rushed westward with thousands of Hezhou soldiers, making it like a thin city, so that he could send his family back home. Take out the mother clan.

A dynasty has a dynasty's naming style.

In the Western Han Dynasty, prolonging life and curing diseases, Wang Mang's single name, the Tao Xuanling of the Tianshi Taoism in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the huge successor and elder brother named Yanmei Jinzhao in the Song Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, due to the unprecedented concentration of power by Emperor Taizu, loyalty to the emperor and serving the country became the absolute main theme.

Among these main theme names, the name Cheng En is one of the representatives, and it is deeply loved by the nobles and nobles.

Tenant Wang Laoqi’s back was bent by taxes. At the age of 45, he finally got married and had a baby. He would not name the baby Wang Chengen, but the tenant named the baby Wang Xiaoshun to continue to be filial to the landlord.

The one who can name the baby Cheng En is either a general or a chieftain, or even a landlord or gentry, an official family who is expected to be honored and honored.

At this time, there are twenty or thirty famous Cheng'en in the court, and Wang Cheng'en alone has four, all of whom are high-ranking and powerful figures who are deeply favored.

The eunuch Wang Chengen next to Emperor Chongzhen, and there is Wang Chengen in Jinyiwei. In addition, there is Wang Chengen Jingyuan who went to North Korea as a guerrilla general in the 23rd year of Wanli. He is too old to lift a knife.

The remaining one is the Lintao General Soldier Wang Chengen.

Lintao commander-in-chief is the person with the highest status and the most authority among Wang Chengen's four avatars.

His ancestor was Qingyuan Hou Wangyou who started his family from Jing Nan. Later, his title was abolished because he offended Emperor Chengzu in his later years. When Renzong succeeded to the throne, he was grateful for Jing Nan's meritorious service and awarded the hereditary commander to future generations.

Since Wanli 33, when he inherited the post of commander of Xining Guard, he has successively served as Gansu Zhuanglang General, Xuanfu Nanshan General, Deputy General of Beijing Shenji Battalion, until he was officially appointed as Lintao Commander-in-Chief.

There is no strong enemy encountered, and naturally there is no difficult battle.

It wasn't until Chongzhen's second year of self-improvement that Wang Chengen finally ushered in his own highlight moment.

His highlight moment was when he went to Beijing to aid Liao Dynasty. He led [-] Lintao soldiers and traveled [-] miles to Beijing.

His army did not mutiny, desert, or run out of food on the march; it did not disturb the people, loot, or collapse in the place where it was stationed; it did not flee, violate orders, or be defeated in Luanzhou.

Under the city of Luanzhou, when Huanglong and Zu Dashou fired artillery to collapse the battlements, and Yang Yanchang led the crowd to fill in the trenches, Cao Wenzhao burned the tower with a spray canister, erected trees, and blocked arrows with horizontal spears, killing five captives and winning applause from thousands of people. Don't let a Donghu leave the city, he did it.

For this reason, Wang Chengen was commended and interviewed by Emperor Chongzhen, and awarded the crown prince Taibao and Zuo Dudu.

Qi Jiguang was 47 years old when he became the governor of the left and the prince Taibao, while Wang Chengen was only 42 years old that year.

Wang Chengen always believed that he must have made meritorious service in aiding Liao Dynasty, but it was far less meritorious than the official position given to him by the emperor. It was greedy for him to be granted the title. He wanted to find an opportunity to prove that he was worthy of the emperor's personal treatment.

In order to repay the holy family, Wang Chengen led his troops to battle in Shaanxi to fight against the bandits for three years. His life was harder than that of Liu Shizi's soldiers, but the credit was very little, and what he had was nothing but hard work.

Encircling and suppressing the peasant army is not an easy task. The standard battalion of the general army in Lintao Town has not bathed for three months, and its face is covered with weather and dirt.

Wang Chengen thought that he had already sent people home, so he couldn't let his mother who was over [-] see that he was in distress, so he took advantage of the opportunity of the Hezhou army marching westward and scouting horses eastward, and asked the brothers from the standard battalion under his command to fight in Huangshui. take a bath.

It was a bit cold to take a bath in this weather, but it was comfortable. After washing, all the sergeants were refreshed.

Wang Chengen also washed himself, and was sitting in the yard of Pingrong Station with his hair loose, wiping off the dust from his armor, when a family member came to report this big wooden sign.

"Master, the house is gone!"

Wang Chengen was taken aback for a moment, and stopped wiping his nails: "What do you mean?"

"The family mansion has become like this."

Jia Ding placed a nanmu plaque that was nearly a person's height upright in front of him, with four gilt characters of "Gendai Zhongliang" shining brightly on it. Wang Chengen said angrily: "The thief demolished the 200-year-old house, so why don't you leave me a plaque?"

"It's not Marshal, the old house is still there, and the plaque is destroyed."

Jia Ding turned the plaque upside down as he spoke, and saw that the reverse side of the nanmu had been wiped with white ash, and the four characters of "Pingrong Xiangbao" were written in ink. Rong Township Security Office, the old lady was taken to Xining."

Wang Chengen didn't think about the old house anymore when he heard it, he stood up and said angrily: "Who are you, just watching my old lady get arrested?"

He even wanted to go to Xining to surrender, but this idea only stayed in his mind for a moment.

He couldn't surrender, not to mention the emperor's kindness to him, but since the homes of these sergeants are all in Lintao, it's useless for him to surrender.

"Commander, Wang Jinzhong's Dada is still in the village, and he said that Thirty thousand soldiers from the Liu bandit meandered eastward from the river valley, and no one dared to move, so they sent three people to the village, and they did everything they wanted to do. "

"What do they want to do, what do they want to do, confiscating land and houses to rob property?"

Wang Chengen sneered, and didn't wipe the armor that had been half wiped. He stood up and clapped his hands to the Tang Bing beside him, saying, "Order to assemble, and move eastward in half an hour to complete the encirclement."

Wang Jinzhong is Wang Chengen's servant, he is honest and honest, and he is also of the same family.

He Dada is a well-known lazy man in the village, he likes to drink, a few years ago his son sent home the military pay, he asked his father to buy wine and drink, and he went to work as a part-time job when he had no money. He could not die of hunger, but his greatest hope in life was to count on his son to make contributions on the battlefield.

However, Wang Jinzhong had never done meritorious service before, but he did in northern Shaanxi the year before last. But money was tight back then, and Hong Chengchou and Lian Guoshi were all staring at Wu Sheng's 10 taels of disaster relief money. In the end, Hong Chengchou had to leave more than 2000 taels of hunger relief troops ; To practice state affairs, 900 taels are needed to relieve tired soldiers.

They got 700 taels in Lintao, and they only got it in the summer of the fifth year of Chongzhen.

Taking the money, Wang Chengen's first consideration must be to pay the three days' arrears for New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, and Shangyuan Festival in the fourth year of Chongzhen to his brothers in the fifth year of Chongzhen.

One cent and six cents per person, only enough for three days, just enough to eat dumplings and be happy.

This little money is only enough to be happy. Lintao has a lot of soldiers, and they can always have enough to eat. Although the profit from sending troops to suppress bandits is not much, at least it can maintain the normal operations of the army.

But this is not a good day for soldiers.

The servant holding the plaque was taken aback for a moment, he stretched out his hand to loosen the plaque and quickly grabbed it, and asked, "Marshal, go east, don't you go to Xining to save the old lady?"

Wang Chengen took a deep breath, stood at the gate of the post city and took a deep look to the west, with a firm tone: "The old mother will be fine."

He knew very well that his mother was taken to Xining by the rebels. She might not be able to eat and live comfortably at home, but her life was absolutely guaranteed. Even if the old lady wanted to die, she probably had no chance.

Only if he dared to attack Xining City at this time, the old mother's life would probably be in danger.

So Wang Chengen planned to go to the east first, and catch only the ancestors and the ancestors, so that he could come back and exchange the old mother with Xining City.

The army is still gathering, and Wang Chengen just learned that all the clansmen have been taken away by the township officials of the Marshal's Mansion, and now there are only six old people left in the village. The most annoying thing in the village is that his family has been renamed.

It was not the old house of the Wang family that was converted into the Pingrong Township Security Office, but the Wangjiazhuang, which was converted into two soil protection offices.

His name was Tubao, one was up and the other was down. Wang Chengen was so angry that his teeth were itchy: "This is going to cut off my head. I'm back. Where are those little chickens?"

"They all ran away a long time ago. Only a few old people from the former village stayed here. Yesterday, there were a few who were bought by the traitors. They were greedy and refused to leave. When they heard that the commander came back, they packed up their things and ran away overnight."

These words sounded funny, but Wang Chengen couldn't laugh at all.

He just felt angry that his 200-year-old mother was robbed, and his [-]-year-old house was confiscated. Just now, he found out that there was nothing left of the family’s money and everything was taken away. The family’s land was stolen by Xining thieves. I don't feel bad about selling my father's land, so I divided it all up.

Wang Chengen listened to the report from his servants about the township protection and land policy, and he thought about it and felt uncomfortable.

Isn't this just tenants?

It’s not as good as the tenants of his family. At least the tenants of his family have tenanted the land, and they can grow whatever they like, as long as they can afford the rent; a landowner.

It is said that they spend money to buy food and do not collect rent, but in fact, they still pay food?
To exchange some silver and some useless cloth tickets, the nearest market is in Xining City, and he can adjust the prices of other things as he wants.

The land rent is written clearly on the lease, as much as it is; according to what Liu thief does, how much the people really have to pay in a year, can you tell?

Wang Chengen was puzzled, just like this, why are the people still grateful?

"They plant the cows." Looking at Wang Chengen's puzzlement, Wang Jinzhong's servant in the crowd whispered, "With cows, day laborers like me Dada can take care of their own land. Hope."

The servants were all gathered in the post city. Wang Jinzhong's words attracted some people's surprise and sideways glances, and some people nodded in agreement.

Wang Jinzhong never thought that his simple words would make Wang Chengen feel frightened from the bottom of his heart.

This fear was unreasonable, but it made Wang Zongbing extremely vigilant. His soldiers had never mutinied before, and it is not likely to mutiny now, but it is obvious that many children of the clan agree with the Xining Mansion's approach.

If even the poor children in the clan agree, then the poor people in the locality that he has never seen will agree even more.

This suddenly brought Wang Chengen back to his senses, and he understood.

It was as if when I heard my old mother was captured, my first thought was to surrender, but the second thought was that I couldn’t surrender because the soldiers’ families were in Lintao.

The people who stayed here are actually the same. The endurance of the poor people is actually not strong, not at all.

They just have nothing to do, Liu Chengzong called, so what can they do?

Liu Chengzong promulgated a policy, so what?

It even said that Liu Chengzong started killing people, so what?

In nearly half a hundred years of his life, he has always known that tenants are not poor people, but tenants who have cattle; no big family will lease land to people who rely on two hands to plan their food in the ground.

It's just that people who are poorer than the tenants are always ignored by his consciousness.

The poorest people he can come into contact with are the tenants. For the rest, Wang Chengen can't see their normal conditions. Once he sees them, it means that they have embarked on another career and are thieves. .

Liu Chengzong's policy is bad for him, and it is not a good thing for the people who can support their families, but what about the more people who live on the line of life and death?
When Wang Chengen put himself on the people who could only be thieves but not yet, he himself felt that Liu Chengzong was a good policy.

To the west is the rebel army, to the east is smallpox, and to the east is Lanzhou, where people are driven to the west. The world is dangerous. It is the most beneficial choice for the people to sit still, no matter what the harvest is, whether it is forced to grow grain, or whether it is autumn How much grain will Liu Chengzong collect?

At least there is... a hope.

"Jin Zhong, I'll leave it to you to do something. The old Wang's family can't afford to suffer like this. You take a few people to the surrounding mountains and call back all the people."

Wang Chengen snorted, he wanted to reunite the children of these clansmen, and not let them be bewitched by Liu Chengzong.

He waved his hand and said: "Tell those people that what they planted is Wangjiatian. Since it is already in their hands and the world is difficult, I will not ask for it back. The land is still mine, but Yongdian...let them all come back to farm the land." , ran into the mountains, this year's harvest is gone?"

After all, before the family members showed surprise, they heard Wang Chengen change the subject: "In the past, there must be cattle in Diantian; now his old Liu's family is generous with our old Wang's land, so our old Wang's family will treat him as old Liu. The cattle at home are generous!"

"This time, the government and the army are only suppressing Liu Bandit and telling them to go home with peace of mind. The cow is their own, so don't return it to Liu Bandit! It's just a daydream to turn Wangjiazhuang into a land protection!"

When Wang Chengen said these words, the servants who were depressed just now cheered up immediately. Their family was allotted land and cattle.

Just now it was unavoidable to worry about gains and losses, but now everyone is alive and well again.

At this time, the frontline Hezhou native soldiers came to report in a hurry. Two groups of troops came out from Xining, followed by several small groups of thieves, about 8000 people.

They sent someone by name, saying that the leader was Liu Chengyun, and asked Wang Chengen if he wanted to fight with him.

"Liu Chengyun...who is it?"

Wang Chengen didn't have the slightest impression of this name. He knew Wang Chengyun, a Gansu general, but he sounded like a member of Liu Chengzong's clan. He immediately waved his hand and said, "Order He Yongji to retreat slowly and not fight. Hurry up and defeat them in one go!"

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)