The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 178
Zheng Guochang was not stupid, of course he knew that the imperial court would never be able to capture the full amount of the army, if one or two percent was handed over to the imperial court, it would be Amitabha.

He chose to turn his eyes and close his eyes, knowing that the "Red Banner Army" laborers have been running between Yongping and Kaiping Town these days, using horse-drawn carts, ox carts, and wheelbarrows to pull things.

Zheng Guochang's idea is that it is better to let the "Red Banner Army" benefit more than to make people like Liaozhen cheaper.

Anyway, he will return to the capital to perform his duties in a short time, because the official office of his vassal is in the capital, and the Yongping Mansion is just a yamen here according to the inspector.

In order to avoid suspicion, he never asked Zheng Xiaowen about the secrets of the "Red Banner Army". These days, his son is spared no effort to obtain supplies, and he even provides convenience intentionally or unintentionally.

Zheng Guochang knows that there are some things that are not easy to get. Zheng Xiaowen often goes out in person. How can he save face for the little master of the "Red Banner Army" Zhengbapin? The "Red Banner Army" is a private camp.

Huang Han captured Yongping and saved this city that had been massacred and burned in history from bad luck. Of course, he wanted to strive for the maximum benefit, and he was always in the process of getting supplies, money and food.

Gao Youmou had the experience of dealing with local tyrants and evil gentry in Kaiping Town and Zhenzi Town last time, and he was able to easily capture them by replicating them in Yongping Mansion.

Although the aristocratic families who surrendered in Yongping Prefecture were all bloodbathed by the Jin army without exception, because they were very experienced in slavery and robbery, they specially selected the gate of the mansion, but due to the rush of time, there will always be some lucky landlords and old fortunes who escaped the catastrophe One life was left.

These scholar-bureaucrats and gentry, who were destined to be human inside and out, have been frightened out of their souls by the massacre created by the Hou Jin army.

Gao Youmou mobilized the masses to report, and on the same day, he identified many local tyrants and gentry who had been traitors. When he led the "Red Banner Army" to arrest these people who were still in shock, they thought they might die this time.

Unexpectedly, Gao Youmou actually announced that as long as there is no bloody case and anyone who is not an official of the imperial court can be lenient, as for who is released and who kills which one, it depends on the performance of the confession.

Ever since, these people tried their best to earn performance in order to survive, and the most effective performance, these people all understand-give money to help the "Red Banner Army".

Their home was ransacked by the Hou Jin army, and then searched carefully by the "Red Banner Army". It stands to reason that there should be no fuss.

In fact, not necessarily so, the cunning rabbit and the three caves!

Which landlord and old fortune would be so stupid as to put all the gold and silver treasures at home?Put it in a jar, seal it, and bury it secretly at night. This is the simplest method that everyone knows.

It is also common practice to hide part of the gold and silver treasures in other courtyards or deep underground in old houses outside the city.

Gao Youmou himself once hid the gold and silver treasures in his house at night, and he is very good at this.

Amin's robbing and murdering only got a small part of the goods of these local tyrants and evil gentry, and the "red flag army" came to dig three feet to get only obvious gold and silver treasures.

Gao Youmou led the "Red Banner Army" to adopt tactics of attacking the heart, so that the local tyrants and evil gentry revealed the burial places of the gold and silver treasures, and the gains would probably be far greater than what Amin gained.

As for the current officials of the original Daming who surrendered to become slaves and survived the Amin massacre, there is no need for Gao Youmou to come forward, because his image is to give people hope that none of the cases he handles will kill the parties involved.

Wang Zhanpeng specializes in dealing with these mortals. The methods he adopts are somewhat similar to those of burglars. They use torture, starvation, exposure to the sun, etc. The purpose is naturally to defile these corrupt officials before the official punishment. Officials squeezed dry.

It's not that Huang Han is easy to kill, or that he doesn't want to give Han people a chance to change their minds, but that if they don't deal with serving officials who blatantly surrendered and became slaves under the watchful eyes of everyone.

Not only is it difficult to stop Youyou's mouth, but it is also impossible to educate the public. It is necessary to kill traitors and traitors as an example, and it is also a way of ending that the court needs.

Gao Youmou and Wang Zhanpeng, one adopts a policy of softness, and the other adopts the style of peeling and cramping to fry oil from the bones. The interests of the "Red Banner Army" are expanding.

Huang Han will not accept all the benefits, he has already given Zheng Guochang gold and silver treasures worth 5 taels of silver, and said that the recovery of stolen goods is in progress and there will be more in the future.

As for whether Zheng Guochang intends to put all the money in the account or withhold part of it, Huang Sheng doesn't care, and he doesn't care.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, corruption became common practice. It is not easy for a second-rank official to become a clean streamer. If you don’t deliberately go to corruption, you don’t know how much money you spend just by receiving and sending it. Where does the money come from?It will never be brought by officials from their own homes.

Zheng Guochang is not a bad person. Generally speaking, most of the scholar-bureaucrats who have integrity and are willing to die generously are not extremely greedy people.He got a lot of money, and he has a lot of money, and he will use it for the people more or less.

The new magistrate of Lulong County has been busy collecting the deed tax and going through the formalities of changing the acres of land recently. At that time, many unowned lands were seized by the Huang Han, and many good lands with owners were also transferred to the Huang family by the owners.

Of course, the county magistrate didn't suffer a loss, and he accepted hundreds of acres of fertile and beautiful Xia Tian with a smile.

A large part of the property of the aristocratic families of the Ming Dynasty is reflected in the land property. Those former officials of the Ming Dynasty who escaped the Amin massacre after surrendering will be punished by the Ming Dynasty. Join the Jiaofang Division.

But how did the imperial court know how much property and land these gentry and gentry had under their names?It's enough to give the court the meaning. Huang Han cooperated with officials at all levels to do their best. Ever since, the Huang family became one of the big landlords in Yongping Prefecture.

Huang Han knew that at the moment when the country was about to be subjugated, it would be a fool to deliberately buy land property, and this thing could not be taken away.

But in order to face the tens of millions of Han people who are hungry, what else can we do if we don’t adopt the method of farming to support the people?
He understands the benefits of large-scale planting, so he can contiguously own the fields he owns as much as possible, and it doesn't matter if the fields of other prominent current officials are mixed in.

Send Gao Youmou and Zheng Xiaowen to take the method of not letting the other party suffer and replace them with fertile land, basically there is nothing that cannot be done.

After all, there are very few high-ranking officials who don't know how to adapt these days. The upstart Huang Han sent the son of the feudal master and the eldest son of the former Liaodong Economic Strategy to negotiate the exchange of acres. , wouldn't it be to plant the root of disaster for oneself?

With the acres under his control and a certain scale, the next step is of course to carry out scientific governance and strive to increase production and income.

There is a deep-rooted consensus among the Han people that there is food at home and there is no panic. How to ensure the harvest under the harsh natural conditions at the end of the Ming Dynasty is related to the future development of the "Red Banner Army". Building ditches to form an irrigation system to ensure the harvest of the obtained acres of drought and flood is the only choice.

(End of this chapter)