Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 346 Humiliation Tears
"Follow me out of the city to kill thieves. Each person will be rewarded with five taels of silver. When I come back, I will be rewarded with another five taels of silver. For cutting off a bright thief's head, I will be rewarded with 20 taels of silver. Those who can behead the general and capture the flag will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver!"

Lin Tianqing asked for more than a dozen boxes of silver to be distributed to Min Yong on the spot.

He personally distributed the cut and weighed five taels of silver to Minyong without going through the hands of the officers, all he wanted was to inspire the courage of these Minyongs.

"Brothers, if you work hard, you will get rich and get promoted, which is comparable to the ordinary years' income."

In order to better boost morale, he also announced that every citizen who followed him out of the city would be rewarded with five dou of grain, and another five dou when he came back, and two stones of grain for killing a first-level thief.

Even if you die in battle, you will still have 20 taels of silver plus two stone grains for compensation, and the wounded will also be given equal compensation.

"Whoever follows me out of the city to fight today will be exempted from taxes and taxes for one year!"

"If you cut off the head of a Ming thief, you will be exempted from paying Ding Yin for another year."

"I, Lin Tianqing, will do what I say!"

Lin Tianqing stood there and proclaimed impassionedly that the boxes of white money were indeed very impactful, not to mention the extra food rewards and even exemption from taxes and labor, which is indeed very rare.

Many folks are unavoidably eager to try.

After all, these days, everyone's life is difficult. Even in ordinary peacetime, a long-term worker of a landlord's family, in addition to food and housing throughout the year, only costs about three taels of silver.And some craftsmen, although it is possible to earn a tael of silver a month, but they are craftsmen, and it is impossible to have crafts all the time for a year. The money for the two or three months of hard work is generally only one tael of silver a month.

And in today's turbulent times, especially when there is a general shortage of food in various places, food is even more precious. For example, a big city like Jiangning has too many landless non-agricultural handicrafts and other practitioners. The salary buys food and supports the family.

Food prices are rising, but their salaries will not change much, and they may even lose their jobs due to the war, and even that income cannot be maintained.

It's even worse now that the city has one letter.

There are old and young in the family, and many families don't even have overnight food.

A group of standard soldiers stood in the distance watching this scene, just sneered with disdain, although there are brave men under heavy rewards, it depends on the situation, as for this group of civilian men, no matter how rewarding and encouraging they are, there will be no real rewards. It can only play a temporary role, but once it faces the impact of elite armored soldiers, it will inevitably be defeated by one blow.

"Out of town!"

With the heart of death, Lin Tianqing stepped out with a tragic heart. He had just written several suicide notes and left them to his family, and sent them to Hong Chengchou and the Beijing court. The public's disorderly government bears the first responsibility.

Even those who bluntly misunderstood my Qing Dynasty are strict with me.

Outside Jiangning City.

Zhu Yihai received the secret letter from Mr. Yan, and searched Lin Tianqing carefully in his mind, and he really remembered it. This is not when he was appointed as the governor of Huguang later, he wrote in the government school that only Chu has talent, and he is prosperous here. Is it Lin Tianqing in this golden sentence?
This person is a close friend of Hong Chengchou, who was first recommended by him as the governor of Jiangning, and later as the governor of Huguang, and later seemed to be the governor of Yunnan. In the early years of Kangxi, he rebelled against Wu Sangui, and after Wu Sangui died, he planned to arrest Wu Shifan and others to surrender .

This person is said to be from Hong Chengchou's staff, and he is a very competent official, but his moral character is hard to say.

After all, he followed Wu Sangui's rebellion, and later planned to launch a mutiny to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, which shows that this person is not completely a principled person.

After thinking about this, Zhu Yihai felt that Lin Tianqing might be someone worth wooing.

"It's useless to capture this person alive."

Zhu Yihai really didn't care about a magistrate with three thousand people coming out of the city to fight. He called Zhu Chenggong, asked him to lead his troops to lure the enemy, and then asked Zhu Shengli to lead the Jinwu cavalry to break through and encircle.

"They are all strong people, as long as they are willing to give up their weapons and surrender, they will not be harmed."

"Try to capture the prisoners alive."

Of course, if those recalcitrants refused to give up their weapons, they would naturally not be polite.

The gate of Nanjing slowly opened, and Lin Tianqing was riding a mule, wearing cotton armor, his thin body was a little suffocated, but he was still singing hard.

Singing loudly with the son in the same robe, how can the sun have no clothes.

"Come on!"

Lin Tianqing went forward indomitably, vowed to die as if returning home, and was extremely tragic.

Zhu Chenggong led a battalion of troops and immediately stepped forward to fight. After fighting for a while, he turned around and left, throwing away his helmets and armor, and even throwing broken silver and copper coins.

Seeing this, Min Zhuang at the back rushed forward excitedly, not forgetting to bend down to pick up the money while chasing. The 3000 people who were barely in shape at first disappeared immediately.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Chenggong, who was in charge of luring the enemy in the distance, couldn't help but said, "Actually, I think our battalion can turn around and overthrow them. It doesn't have to be so complicated at all."

"Indeed, it is much weaker than we imagined. This is simply a group of ordinary people who have just put down their hoes. How can they be soldiers."

"Indeed, it seems that only some officers have armor, and less than a hundred wear armor, right?"

"With just 3000 people like this, our Thirty Iron Man Army can destroy them."

Several members of Zhu Chenggong's family will stop and comment there.

Zhu Chenggong thought for a while, and then waved, "Forget it, a lion must fight a rabbit with all its strength. Since the military order of the supervisory state is ordered, we can just follow it. Let Shengli pinch this soft persimmon. Let's cooperate."

There is no need to lure the enemy at all, the three thousand minyongs have already become a mess.

Lin Tianqing rode on the mule, held up a sword, and shouted loudly, "Don't pick up money and armor, this is the enemy's trick to lure the enemy, form a team!"

"whole team!"

But no matter how much they shouted, it was useless.

A group of people, seeing broken silver, scattered copper coins, and even sophisticated swords and armors all over the ground, who can't help but pick them up?
They even fought each other for the spoils.

When Lin Tianqing saw this scene, he knew it was over.

Suddenly, a horn sounded.

Zhu Shengli led the Jinwu cavalry to encircle from the back of the two wings. At this time, the minyong who picked up the money and fought for it could not be opened and fought. Only then did they panic.

They ran away with the money they had picked up and robbed, scrambling to be the first, only hating their parents for losing two legs.

At this time, the rhetoric of patting his chest and killing thieves when he was collecting money in the city just now has long been forgotten.

Jin Wuqi was as fast as the wind, and surrounded him in a blink of an eye.

"Those who abandon their weapons and sit on the ground and surrender will not die!"

"Those who resist with weapons will be killed without mercy!"

Jin Wuqi yelled while rushing, they saw these Xiangyongs running around like headless chickens, so they kept Zhu Shengli's order in mind, and only quickly surrounded the group of Xiangyongs by galloping like the wind, and did not hack and kill them indiscriminately.

The cavalry formed a galloping siege, trapping the three thousand strong men inside.

A few panic-stricken Min Zhuang bumped into them head-on, holding their knives up high, and were shot down from a distance.

Iron hoofs like thunder.

Finally, someone came back to his senses.

They threw down the weapons they had just received, sat on the ground with their heads in their hands, and shouted surrender.

"I drop, I drop!"

"Forgive me!"

Lin Tianqing saw the people around him abandoning their weapons and sitting on the ground one by one, shouting to surrender, and put their swords on their necks in despair.

Suddenly, several burly Min Zhuang jumped up, tore Lin Tianqing off the mule, and pressed him to the ground.

"Captured Lin Gouguan and surrendered, and received the reward!"

Lin Tianqing was pressed to the ground, took half a mouthful of sand in his mouth, and even felt that several ribs were broken, and his chest was extremely tight. Hearing this, he was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, but despite struggling, he couldn't move.

I had to shed two lines of tears in humiliation.

(End of this chapter)