Fenghou

Chapter 26 An Min
Li Boliang couldn't escape in the end. He was dragged to Chen Qing by soldiers of the Song Army, and he was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground.

"General, I can't help it. The Jurchens are too ruthless. Song people are like pigs and dogs in their eyes. I also want to protect the people, but I can't!"

When the Jin soldiers retreated, they burned, killed and looted all the way. More than [-] people were killed, hundreds of young women were taken away, and countless families were destroyed.

Chen Qing stared at him and said coldly: "As long as you are a little bit bloody, you will abandon your official position and leave, instead of bowing your knees in front of the Jin people, and constantly betraying the interests of the people in order to please the Jin people. How much harm have you done in the past nine days? Don't you think about it yourself?"

"I was forced, General, the shopkeeper who sells animal food betrayed you, and I killed him in the end. I also have credit for it!"

Chen Qing stepped forward and stared at his fat face and said, "Do you know why I must kill you? Because I know very well that you will betray me!"

Li Boliang hurriedly waved his hands, "I won't, I assure you, I will never betray the general!"

Chen Qing shook his head, his eyes became cruel, "My principle is that I would rather kill by mistake than let it go, besides...you deserve to die!"

Chen Qing stood up, waved his hand, "Push it out, chop!"

"General, please forgive me! Please forgive me!"

Li Boliang was dragged out, crying and shouting all the way, and finally was beheaded by soldiers of the Song Army on the ground, and his head was hung on the county government office. Countless people still came to smash his head with stones, hating him to the bone.

These days, Li Boliang led a group of Han soldiers to search for young women from house to house, offering them to the Jurchen soldiers to spoil, and these women were continued to be raped by the Han soldiers, and finally hanged themselves and jumped into a well, half of them died.

As for the scrapping of pigs and sheep, there are countless, and there is still more than a month before the New Year, and he almost snatches all the meat that the people prepare for the New Year, and dedicates it to the golden soldiers for squandering.

Chen Qing not only killed Li Boliang, the county magistrate, but also the county lieutenant Min Wu and Li Boliang's aide, Du Jing.

Wei Qing was born in Jingzhao Wei's family, but he was a concubine. In the sixth year of Xuanhe Jinshi, he was awarded the post of chief bookkeeper of Baoji County. In the third year of Jianyan, Wanyan Loushi led an army into Guanzhong, and captured Jingzhao Mansion and Fengxiang successively. Mansion, Wei Qing fled to Linyou County with his wife, children and mother who abandoned his official position and opened a private school to support his family.

This time it was Wei Qing who took the initiative to help Chen Qing rebuild order in the county. He has lived in Linyou County for more than a year and knows the situation in Linyou County very well.

In the county government office, Wei Qing poured Chen Qing a cup of hot tea.

"Commander, the most urgent task now is to solve the food and housing problems of the people, especially the refugees. The refugees living on the street were all buried by the heavy snow. More than [-] people died of freezing last night, and many families have no food."

"What good advice do you have?"

"In fact, the method is very simple. It is to prepare money and food. At present, the county warehouse has [-] shi of grain and [-] copper coins. There is still a long way to go. We have to raise money and food from other channels."

"I can understand the need for food, why do you need to raise money?" Chen Qing asked in confusion.

"Commander, the best way to solve the housing problem for refugees is to help them rent a house to live in. In fact, many people in the county have vacant rooms, but they just don't want to give them up for nothing.

Rent is very cheap now, you can rent a house with only [-] Wen copper coins a month, and you can rent a house for a year and a half with regular money, but most refugees can’t afford even [-] Wen coins, so they can only sleep on the street, so Money must be raised by the government. "

Chen Qing thought for a while and said: "There are more than two thousand taels of silver in the hands of the army, all of which were seized from the hands of Jin Bing. If we copy the houses of Li Boliang and Min Wu, we can probably get several thousand taels of silver. Solve the shortage of rent!"

Wei Qing was overjoyed, silver is a hard currency, one tael of silver can be exchanged for five pennies, "Commander, silver alone is enough!"

"But I can only give you half of the silver, and I will keep half for recruiting soldiers. Instead, I can confiscate all the property of Li Boliang and Min Wu, including grain. The grain in Li Boliang's warehouse exceeds five hundred shi. He is in the county There is also a small farm, and I guess there is money and grain hidden there."

Wei Qing suddenly remembered something, slapped the table and said: "The commander is right, he had forcibly confiscated three thousand shi of grain before, saying that it was for the Jinbing army, but in the end the Jinbing only consumed two or three hundred shi, and the rest of the grain was in the where it goes?
I asked the county official, the grain in the county warehouse has never been touched, so I am sure that most of the remaining grain must have been embezzled by him and Min Wu. "

Chen Qing said coldly: "As long as the food is still there, even if you dig three feet into the ground, you have to dig it out!"

The army began to move, and searched the homes of Li Boliang and Min Wu, as well as Li Boliang's farm of several hundred mu outside the city. Zheng Ping, the head of the capital, led [-] cavalry to search.

At the same time, at the county gate, the young and strong who applied for the Song Army formed a long line.

Chen Qing came to the gate of the city on horseback, and heard Yang Yuanqing shouting from a distance: "Join our army, don't think about serving as a soldier with food and salary. On the battlefield, everyone thinks things through."

Some of the young men who lined up left, but most of the young men still did not leave.

At this time, a tall and strong young man clasped his fists and said: "In Xialugui, a native of Weinan County, Huazhou, was originally a corporal commander of the Jingyuan Army. After Fuping was defeated, I fled back home. Unexpectedly, my parents and wife All my sons were killed by Jin soldiers, and my house was burned to the ground. I want to avenge my family with all my heart, and I implore the general to accept it!"

Chen Qing and Yang Yuanqing had discussed that this time recruiting recruits was given priority to scattered soldiers, especially the soldiers of the Western Army were generally well-trained and very good at fighting. Chen Qing was the battalion commander personally appointed by Zhang Jun, and he was specially given a staff of [-] soldiers , as long as the strength reaches a thousand, their room for maneuver is much greater.

Yang Yuanqing nodded and asked, "Can you know how to ride a horse and shoot an arrow?"

"The humble can ride a horse and walk with a bow!"

It is true that most soldiers of the Western Army can ride horses. Yang Yuanqing pointed to the stone lock on the ground, "Raise it above your head with both hands and lift it three times!"

Lu Gui stepped forward and grabbed the sixty-jin stone lock, shouted, and lifted it high above his head, three times in a row.

A sixty-jin stone lock can be lifted by a strong man. The main test here is whether there is any injury on the body.

"You have been hired, go to the tent to register!"

Lu Gui was overjoyed, he clasped his fists in a salute, and went to register in the big tent at the back.

At this time, Yang Yuanqing saw Chen Qing and asked Yang Hua to replace him. He smiled and walked forward, "I thought the commander was in the county government office!"

Chen Qing got off his horse and gave the reins to Zhao Xiaoyi who was behind him. He said with a smile, "Leave all the miscellaneous matters to Lord Wei. I am more concerned about recruiting troops. How is the situation?"

"It's not bad. More than [-] people have been recruited since morning. They are basically stragglers. Fortunately, there are so many refugees. There are not many stragglers in Linyou County alone."

"Have you paid An's family?"

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "According to the command of the commander, each person will be given three taels of silver, and let them settle down at home."

Three taels of silver is not a small amount of money. After Jingkang, in order to flee south, rich and wealthy merchants sold their real estate and land, and exchanged a large amount of gold and silver, which caused the price of gold and silver to skyrocket. At the peak, one tael of silver could be exchanged for more than a dozen coins. However, one tael of silver can still be exchanged for five Guanxuan and copper coins.

The banknotes issued during the Xuanhe period have become waste paper, and the iron coins issued on Shaanxi Road have also depreciated sharply. One penny of copper coins can be exchanged for five pennies of iron coins, so that many shops do not accept iron coins, only copper coins.

Three taels of silver can be exchanged for fifteen copper coins, [-] Wen, which is enough for ordinary people to spend a few years. This is also Chen Qing's philosophy all along. Only by treating his subordinates generously can they fight bloody battles with the enemy at critical moments.

At this time, Yang Yuanqing thought of something, and said to Chen Qing: "In the matter of recruitment in the morning, several recruits mentioned that there is an archery hall in the county. I heard that the owner of the hall is an instructor of the Imperial Army who specializes in archery."

Later, Zhao Xiaoyi blurted out, "Xu Shenqiang!"

"You know?" Chen Qing looked back at him.

Zhao Xiaoyi scratched his head. He didn't dare to intervene casually when the general above said something. He was embarrassed and said, "In fact, everyone in Linyou County knows that Xu Shenqiang is the instructor of the [-] Imperial Army in Tokyo. After Jingkang, he returned to his hometown and opened an archery gym. Yes, Liu Wu also learned the step bow in his archery."

Chen Qing couldn't help laughing, "Tokyo's [-] Forbidden Army Coach", a very bluffing name.

"What's his name?"

"It's called Xu Ning!"

Chen Qing was taken aback. In "Water Margin", there is a golden spear general named Xu Ning. Is it related to this person?
However, the golden gun general Xu Ning in "Water Margin" was killed when he conquered Fang La. Could this sharp gun Xu Ning be the prototype of the golden gun general Xu Ning?

But in any case, if he wants to practice riding and archery, it is best to have a famous teacher to guide him.

Chen Qing was quite interested, so he smiled slightly and said, "Then go and have a look!"

(End of this chapter)