Haisheng Mingdi

221 Blood Sacrifice

Outside the city, by the river.

Countless silver piled up into a mountain, shining silver.

The soldiers looked at the silver mountain from a distance, feeling fascinated.

"How much silver is this?"

"I'm afraid there must be one hundred thousand."

"10 taels? 10 taels is not so much, I guess it will cost a million taels of silver."

Everyone couldn't help discussing. Opposite the soldiers, the supervisor and cabinet ministers were sitting.

The Chinese army sits in the center with a large banner.

This flag was sent from Shaoxing. It is very huge, one foot and six feet high, and the flag is one foot larger. It is made of black and green satin, with white silk as the border, and the head of the flag is decorated with beads.

There are several number belts hanging on the sitting flag, each representing a direction, each number belt is also painted with graphics, and in the center of the flag is the Yin Yang Eight Diagrams.

There is a hair ball on the top of the pole, which is made of yak tail, which is called shao. It is said that the use of shao to decorate the 纛 originated from the Yellow Emperor. After he defeated Chi You, he cut Chi You’s hair as a decoration for the 纛. The sacred status of the flag was established.

The Big Banner is naturally the highest-ranking military flag of the Ming Army. Usually, the gossip Taiji flag is specially stored in the Qiqi Temple, and the flag is sacrificed twice a year in the Spring and Autumn.

The flag head general, the six flag generals, the gods of the five flags, and even the gods in charge of warships, the gods in charge of golden drum horns and guns, the gods in charge of bows, crossbows, flying guns and flying stones, the gods of Wuchang before and after the battle , and the god of fire and thunder by Chengzu Zhu Difeng.

It is unusual for the Chinese army to sit on the flag.

Now that the banner of the Chinese army is set up, and so much money is placed under the banner, everyone knows that something big must happen.

"The auspicious time has come!"

"Sacrificial flag!"

A general in armor rode up and shouted loudly.

Jian Guo Zhu Yihai changed into the full set of Jian Guo military uniform that Xing Zai had just delivered, wearing a helmet with golden phoenix wings on his head, decorated with gold Zhenwu Emperor, and a fire-breathing golden dragon on the left and right,
Wearing a full body armor, square collar, double front, sleeveless, left and right sides and back open.The placket is decorated with jujube pit-shaped gold buckles and cloth buckles.The whole body is covered with scale-like armor, arranged in layers, and a golden dragon is decorated on the left and right sides of the front chest.

The skirt of the upper body, the collar, the shoulders, and the hem are all embroidered with red embroidered golden cloud and dragon patterns.

Both shoulders are golden unicorn-shaped shoulder armor with red shoulder tassels.

The bottom edge of the front and back of the body is decorated with double rows of colorful tassels. Under the armor, there is a narrow-sleeved gown with colorful cloud and dragon patterns. Armbands are worn on both arms, made of red velvet ribbons and golden armor pieces.There is a yellow girdle around the waist, and weapons such as saber, bow bag and quiver are hung.

Wearing this set of emperor's military uniform, it is very majestic.

Zhu Yihai passed the sitting banner and went straight forward, and came to the Yaqi in front of the camp gate.

Sacrifice to the army flag is to sacrifice to the tooth flag, and the big flag is to be sacrificed in the flag flag temple, and sacrifices are made according to spring and autumn.

In peacetime, when the flag is sacrificed in the army, the tooth flag is sacrificed.

The ivory flag, as the name suggests, is a flag decorated with ivory on the pole.

The emperor or the general went out to set up an ivory-decorated flag in front of the barracks, and the barracks gate where the ivory flag was erected was called the Yamen, also known as the Military Gate.

"Bring an offering."

In the army to sacrifice the flag, three animals are generally used for sacrifice.

But sometimes there are people offering sacrifices, mainly using captives.

Today, Zhu Yihai also wanted to use people to sacrifice to the army flag, and Jin Yiwei, who was wearing a flying fish suit and embroidered a spring knife, escorted a large number of people up.

One is unkempt.

"Verify integrity!"

Ma Jixiang, the new commander of Jinyiwei, took people forward to verify their identities according to the roster, and then reported them one by one.

"Yu Kai, the magistrate of Yanzhou, Zhu San, the false king of Yiyang, Zhao Huaiming, the commander-in-chief, Fang Shiyan..."

More than 300 individual criminals.

At this time, everyone was in a state of distress, but they all had a lot of background when they reported their names. There were officials from the prefecture and county of Yanzhou, such as Yu Kai, the former prefect, Wang Liang, the former inspector, Deng Zhong, the prefect, Huang Zhenfei, the magistrate, and so on.

There are also Fang Shiyan, the son of the former Fang Guoan, the deputy general, and Zhao Huaiming, the former commander-in-chief of the Hongguang Dynasty.

Even the Yiyang King who claimed to be the supervisor of the country in Longyou before has been captured by the imperial camp. According to the investigation, he was originally a scoundrel, surnamed Zhu Mingsan, who pretended to be the clan, pretended to be Yiyang King, and conspired with Fang Guoan.

There are also many local gentry and powerful people.

Now, these people are all wearing shackles and chains, and escorted to the school grounds.

Zhu Yihai directly wanted to take their tooth-sacrificing flags.

And all the money on the school field was stolen from their family.

Although Yanzhou has many mountains and hills and few fields, it is also an important road because famous Anhui merchants in the late Ming Dynasty went to Hangzhou and went to sea through Yanzhou. At the same time, they went to Hangzhou, Fujian, Guangdong, or even Jiangxi.

Therefore, Yanzhou Mansion is the second largest mansion after Hangzhou among the eight mansions in Zhejiang Province.

There are many businessmen with a net worth of 10,000 plus several 10 taels, but when they insisted on making things difficult for Zhu Yihai, they finally experienced a terrible end.

Even Fang Guoan, an army leader in troubled times, still had a way to stabilize them, but now they misjudged Jian Guo one after another.

They gave the uncle one hundred thousand taels of silver, and they wanted to settle the prison, but whoever succeeded in what they wanted to do did not succeed, and instead set themselves on fire.

Zhu Yihai, who was extremely angry, directly sent Jinyiwei, Dongchang and Yuying to copy them all, this time he was not polite at all.

Let you take the initiative to fill in the shortfall, pay the arrears and return the accounted land. If you still play this game, you will confiscate it all.

Young Fu Fang Fengnian walked forward tremblingly, and began to read the crimes of these township gangsters.

He didn't expect that this incident would end like this in the end.

As I read the names one by one, my body couldn't stop shaking, and my hands and feet felt cold.

After reading the last word, I felt that all the strength in my body was drained, and I almost fainted to the ground.

"cut!"

"Decision!"

Zhu Yihai spat out the final sentence coldly.

There is no need to wait until after the autumn to ask for execution, and there is no need to go through the review of the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple, and kill directly.

Killed more than 300 people in one breath.

Bloody.

These more than 300 people were only the first traitors, and their direct blood relatives could not escape the crime. Although they were spared the death penalty, they were all confiscated and exiled, and they were sent to various mines and saltworks to do hard labor.

Only those under the age of 14 were exempt from hard labor, but they also had to fend for themselves.

The blood-stained red Fang Banner.

The heads of the people who were killed were rolling, and there was a dead silence.

After killing people, Zhu Yihai began to give out rewards.

The warrior town of the imperial camp garrisoned in Yanzhou started first, and the recruits settled down five taels of silver, and then paid the first monthly salary, full salary.

Then the guards of the former Yanzhou garrison of thousands of households were paid three months of monthly rations, plus three months as severance pay.

Then, the arrears were reissued to the subordinate officials of Yanzhou Prefecture.

After distributing them, Zhu Yihai repaid half the salary owed and last month's salary to the other imperial camps around him, and also paid Jinyiwei and Dongchang by the way.

The officials and scribes of the Liangtai lined up and distributed money on the spot according to the roster.

Many soldiers lined up excitedly to receive their pay.

Someone got the payment and found that the money was really paid.

"Huang Jixiong, soldier of the left team of the Zuobiao Zuoxie outpost in the Yuying Warrior Town, a third-class soldier, newly recruited, formerly guarding the Qianhusuo City of Yanzhou."

"Now it's time to pay you the severance allowance from the original guard. The monthly ration is six months, one shimi per month, a total of six shimi. The current price is two taels of shimi, and I will give you 12 taels of silver."

"You were recruited into the Imperial Camp Warriors Town, and you were given five taels of silver as a settling allowance."

"You are new to the army, but as a rule, no matter how many days in the first month, you will still be paid the full monthly salary. The daily salary of a third-class soldier is one cent and three silver, and one month is three twenty-nine."

"So I should give you 20 taels of silver in total."

Huang Jixiong was stunned on the spot, this tall but thin man thought he had heard wrong.

"Didn't you say to give three months of monthly rations as severance pay?"

"Well, Jian Guo is sympathetic to you and others, so he will give you an additional three months as severance pay."

Huang Jixiong asked again, "I applied to enter the Imperial Camp Warriors Town, and I still have An Jiayin?"

"Of course there is. If you lose An Jiayin after entering the imperial camp, wouldn't it be unfair to you? Your Highness has always been kind and will never treat everyone badly."

"Six shi of rice is worth 12 taels of silver? In the past, every shi of rice was worth eight coins."

"Based on the current rice price." The scribe answered patiently.

"If you confirm that it is correct, you will receive the money." The scribe said again.

Watching the clerk take out the money, Huang Jixiong couldn't help asking again, "Aren't you going to withhold the money?"

"What money to deduct?"

"It means deducting clothing fees, shed fees, food expenses, etc." Huang Jixiong used to be a guard in the Weisuo City, and later he was listed in the Yanzhou Guerrilla Battalion, becoming a battalion soldier, and he is considered a veteran.Having stayed in the military camp for a long time, he has long been familiar with the methods used by the superiors to deduct military pay.

From meals to salted vegetables, to camp tents, and even weapons and armor, etc., they all have to be deducted, and Shangguan still has to pay 200% of his salary.Zhou Fugui used to be a guerrilla, with a battalion of [-] soldiers, but in fact there were less than [-] people. They were all city guards from the original Qianhusuo.

But the last time I owed some, Zhou Fugui deducted some, and the soldiers couldn't get much at all.

Zhou Fugui even wrote the names of more than a dozen prostitutes in the brothel he liked into the barracks roster, and also received a monthly salary.

He even lent usury to the soldiers.

Therefore, Huang Jixiong had to work two jobs as a soldier. He had to work for Zhou Fugui when the farming was busy, and he had to help him secure goods and smuggle when the farming was off. Neither can marry.

Logically, he was a soldier and part-time worker, so he should have married a wife, bought land and built a house, and he has a bunch of children.

But that's just what it should be, in fact, you won't see silver skins all year round.

It has always been only the military camp officers who think of ways to deduct everyone's money. When did this get so good?

The monthly grain is converted into silver, and you can still get two taels and one stone to give the silver, let alone one penny and three silver a day, how can you really give so much?

I got a sum of severance pay, and another sum of resettlement pay here, and other good things.

When the silver was placed in front of him, he was stunned for a while.

The silver is shining, but it is different from the usual ones. It is not a waist silver collar, not precious silver ingots, or scattered silver, but pieces of foreign silver coins.

But if you look closely, it's not the foreign silver used by those Fan people, but the silver coins with dragon patterns and Chinese characters on the front.

"This is?"

"This is the Shaotian dragon-patterned silver dollar newly issued by our household department. This one is supposed to be one tael of silver. The actual color is seven or eight, which is lower than treasure silver, and it is mixed with some copper. Cut it open or weigh it for use. Of course, if you are not used to the silver dollar, you can also exchange it directly at the branch counters of the Bank of Accounts in various places.

The 20 yuan silver dollar with dragon patterns is bigger than copper coins and much smaller than ordinary silver pancakes.

Picking up a piece, it was a bit heavy, with no hole in the middle, and touching the dragon on it, he felt a very wonderful and sacred feeling, and he was a little dubious.

One tael of silver mixed with copper is actually only [-]% or [-]% of silver?The ten taels are actually only seven taels, seven cents and eight cents?It's not right, Wenyin is not enough, so these ten taels of dragon silver should be worth more Wenyin, but at least two taels less.

20 taels and nine silvers, actually about four taels or two less?

After Huang Jixiong figured it out, not only did he not get angry, but he felt relieved. He always felt uneasy if he didn't underestimate him. Now that he was overwhelmed by [-]%, he felt at ease, and even felt that there was not much underpaid.

Good.

(End of this chapter)