Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 590
The chicken crows over and over again.

Xie Qian and Ding Keze's men set off under the boundless moonlight.

Ding Keze led a dozen of his cavalry to lead the way, Xie Qian led more than a hundred riders and a team of more than [-] young and strong horses to follow, and the rest of the four battalions came after him.

The eight guards of Xuntang Lvying City who surrendered were assigned to the front battalion. The front battalion were all young and strong, most of them were farmers and tenants. The back battalion consisted of old and weak women and children. Compiled into such a few battalions, it also has a certain appearance.

Before setting off, the eight people also received a few corn buns. The freshly cooked corn buns were hot, and they felt much more refreshed after eating them.Although the few of them had been hungry for too long and their bodies were relatively weak, they were young after all, and they didn't need to carry armor and bowstrings at this time.

"I heard that they are going to fight the local tyrants!"

"I heard that he was beating Sun Zhixie, and he is hiding in Mount Santai."

"It turned out to be this big traitor. His family is said to be very rich. When he was recruiting in Jiangxi, he was greedy for a lot of treasures. It is said that the number is 10 taels."

Although a few of them were green battalion soldiers who had just landed, they actually looked down on people like Sun Zhixie very much. They had already cut off their braids and wrapped them in turbans, but they were still wearing green battalion robes, and they didn't have anything else to do for a while. Clothes, so put on the clothes inside out.

"After killing this grandson, we can also eat meat." The few people were full of yearning, and they walked even more vigorously.

The team walked very slowly, especially the women and children in the rear battalion. They walked and rested, and several battalions of people and horses stretched for twenty or thirty miles.The few surrendered soldiers were very determined, and they gritted their teeth to keep up with the large army. If they lost track, it would be difficult to keep up.They don't want to miss the opportunity to kill traitors and share gold and silver chunks to eat meat.

Mount Santai is on the bank of the Fanyang River. It is said that Zichuan literati listed it as one of the eight scenic spots in Zichuan, and is also known as one of the 24 scenic spots in ancient Banyang. Therefore, many literati and gentry in Zichuan built other houses on the mountain. The villa is a place to escape the heat in summer, hunt in autumn, and enjoy the snow in winter.

There are also temples on Mount Santai, which were first built in the Tang Dynasty. There are seven halls, three palaces, four caves, two pavilions, and the Bell and Drum Tower.

The main peak is in the west, Bianshan Mountain in the southeast, and Guangyoutou Mountain in the northeast. There are very flat and open areas at the top of the three peaks. Looking up at them, it looks like three platforms, so it is named Santai Mountain.

People say that the three mountains stand like a tripod, so it is also called Zhiguo Mountain.

"The sun thief is at the main peak."

When Xie Qian and his party arrived at the foot of the mountain, it was still early.

Coming down from Changbai Mountain on the other side of Zhangqiu, it was fifty miles away, and they rushed on the horse, and they arrived in less than an hour.

However, the large troops behind have all been left halfway.

Looking around, Mount Santai, with three peaks standing in a tripod, really seems to be a pot on the ground.

Along the way, the ground is withered and yellow, and the eyes are full of desolation.

At the foot of the mountain beside the Fanyang River is a large piece of flat land and fertile land. Ding Keze told Xie Qian, "These lands are basically owned by the Sun and Wen families. It all became their home."

"These dog thieves, good fields and fields, did not pay food and silver before, and they all fell on the heads of us poor people. They should be killed." Xie Qian scolded.

This hero, who is now reported to Beijing by the governor of Shandong Province, is called the number one bandit in Jinan. Since the uprising, he has beaten local tyrants, distributed money and food, and used white robes as a symbol, which has scared many landlords and gentry.

In fact, Santai Mountain is not a big mountain, and there is nothing dangerous at all.

To the west of the foot of the mountain is the Fanyang River, and the surrounding area is Pingchuan Valley. Compared with Mount Lu in the east, Mount Tai in the southwest, and even Changbai Mountain in the northwest, Mount Santai is at most a few small hills on the flat land of the valley.

The Sun family had a manor on the mountain. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were constant wars, thieves and thieves everywhere. The powerful gentry either moved to live in the city, or built fortresses on dangerous mountains for self-defense.

Sun Zhixie used to live in the city of Zichuan. When he heard that the Ming army was coming, he ran up the mountain in a panic. This mountain has been operated in secret for many years. Tiger crouching cannon and so on.

It's no problem to deal with ordinary refugees, even ordinary thieves and bandits can't please them.

But for Xie Qian, he has laid down a few towns in the county, and will he not be able to build a small villa?

After observing carefully for a while, he asked everyone to find a hidden place to rest, wait for the arrival of the troops behind, and act after dark.

They rested in hiding in an abandoned village on the west bank of the Fanyang River a few miles below Santai Mountain.

The next few battalions were asked to stop in a ruin farther away to hide and stand by.

Night falls.

Xie Qian and the others had a hearty meal, then crossed the river and went up the mountain in the dark.

Ding Keze touched the mountain first, and contacted Ying's brother in the villa.

Xie Qian and the others lurked outside the villa, didn't wait long, and finally saw the fire signal, and immediately killed them.

The gate of the villa had already been opened by Ding Keze, who was the guard of the villa, and he had already voted for Ding Keze, and now he opened the gate with a few brothers.

Xie Qian rushed in first.

There was chaos in the villa, although Sun Zhixie had many guards and even bird guns and cannons in the villa, but once the gate was opened, there was no way to stop it.

Many Zhuang Ding even dropped their weapons and surrendered as soon as they heard the names of Xie Qian and Ding Keze.

The chaos lasted for less than half an hour, and Xie Qian and the others completely controlled the entire villa.

Everyone happily started raiding the house.

"Where is the thief Sun?"

"Already captured. The Sun family and the Han family have captured more than [-] clansmen. Most of the guards in the village surrendered. A few ignorant ones were shot to death by our random arrows."

Xie Qian was very happy to hear the news, "Seal the villa, don't let a traitor's family go, interrogate them separately, and find out all the gold, silver, money and food they hide."

Sun Zhixie was brought up.

When the rebel army broke in, he was still hugging his concubine on the bed to make out, but he was so frightened that he almost lost his temper, and before he could react, the rebel army broke in and took him away.

Being tied up with the red fruit, I was frozen in the cold wind for almost an hour, and I was almost frozen to death. When I was brought up, my eyes were full of tears and snot.

"Good man, how much gold, silver and food do you want, just ask, and I will give it to you, please raise your hands high."

Xie Qian snorted coldly, "You traitor, open your dog eyes and see who I am!"

Sun Zhixie looked at the person in front of him in the firelight for a long time, but he didn't recognize him.

"I am Xie Qian, and I was also called Han Qian back then."

Xie Qian froze for a moment, then remembered.

During the Tianqi period, the Daqing River was flooded, and many people fled to Zichuan. At that time, many gentry took the opportunity to buy many girls as slaves, and also took the opportunity to recruit many refugees as tenants.

They borrowed grain from them and recruited them as tenants, but the grain was as expensive as silver. Although they could survive after eating this grain, it was not easy to pay it back. Sun Han and other families did the same in those days, taking the opportunity to lend money to buy people, and even taking the opportunity to buy people. Land harvesting at low prices, etc.

The same is true of Xie Qian's family. One of Xie Qian's sisters was bought by the Han family, and another sister was bought by the Sun family. They sold their two daughters, and they only got a little food. It was difficult to survive the disaster year. In the end, I had to borrow food from the Han family, and then became their tenant.

Xie Qian hated both the Han family and the Sun family.

Because they all eat people without spitting out their bones, his younger sister was tortured to death within a few years in the Han family. The older sister was bought by the Sun family, and finally resold by them. It is not known where it was sold.

Sun Zhixie was a little flustered, and hurriedly begged for mercy, "It turned out to be General Xie. Back then, the housekeeper sold Sister Ling. I didn't know about it. I was still an official in Beijing at the time, but it was indeed my family's fault. I will definitely let someone go." If you investigate this matter, you must find Sister Ling, and I am willing to compensate you, I will pay you 1000 taels of silver..."

"Shut up!" Xie Qian roared angrily, his face flushed.

Although Xie Qian's family was just ordinary people in Gaoyuan back then, at least the family was reunited. Later, when they came to Zichuan, the family was separated from their wives and children, and even became slaves and long-term workers. All kinds of oppression caused his parents to die of early illness.

He also suffered too much.

All these made him extremely hate the landlords and gentry, not to mention that Sun Zhixie was still a traitor. The Tartars invaded and occupied Shandong, making the people even more miserable. He was also surrounded and suppressed by the Tartars several times, and many of his brothers died at the hands of the Tartars. inside.

This blood debt is as deep as the sea.

You must also pay in blood.

"Brother, let me greet this traitorous dog."

Xie Qian wanted to interrogate sun thief himself.

Sun Zhixie first begged for mercy, and then promised to give money, but Xie Qian looked at his face extremely disgustingly.

"I heard that the Tartars didn't even think about asking me Han people to shave their hair back then. It's you, a bastard who is so self-deprecating, insisting on shaving your own hair, and even wrote a letter asking that all Han people in the world shave their hair?"

"How much do you want to be a dog?"

"You used to be a Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty, and you also did a review of the Imperial Academy. What a glorious thing it was in Zichuan? But you have become a big traitor, and you have completely embarrassed Zichuan.

Although I am not from Zichuan, I have lived here for many years, and I feel disgusted thinking about it. "

The more Xie Qian looked at this traitor, the angrier he became.

"Come here, pull out the rat's tail of this dog traitor, and cut off his scalp!"

Seeing this, Sun Zhixie also knew that Xie Qian was going to kill him today, so he didn't beg for mercy at all, and scolded loudly for the sake of pleasure.

"I'll come in person!" The scolded Xie Qian stepped forward, took a knife and personally cut off Sun Zhixie's gray and silver mouse tail, along with the scalp.

Sun Zhixie screamed again and again.

"Good man, spare your life, spare your life."

Sun Zhixie didn't dare to scold anymore, and wailed again and again.

Naked, he even burst into tears, and finally took a pee, which stained Xie Qian's boots.

"groove!"

Xie Qian cursed, "Damn the old thief."

"Sew the old thief's mouth shut!"

Several servants came forward, found needles and threads, and sewed up Sun Zhixie's mouth.

After sewing, one of the servants looked at his bloody bare head and cursed, "You bastard traitor, he lost a single hair on his head, let's replant it."

"Bring a pig's bristle, and I'll plant it for him." This servant used to be a small craftsman who made a bristle brush, but he couldn't survive and voted for Xie Qian. He also put on a white robe and became a rebel.

At this time, he wanted to use his old skills, so he took an awl and asked for bristles, and began to poke holes in Sun Zhixie's head, and then planted bristles.

This craft has been passed down from generation to generation. Although it has not been practiced for a long time, the craft is not new.

He became more and more tempered, so he became more focused.

Everyone also watched the excitement and applauded one after another.

Sun Zhixie, who had his mouth sewn up and tied up, could only struggle in pain.

From night to morning, this craftsman and family member insisted on growing Sun Zhixie a head of fine bristle hair, full of silver bristles like brushes, really amazing.

Everyone came to watch and applauded loudly.

"Just plant pig bristles all over this old thief, and then we will escort him to Zichuan County, and give it to the Emperor's Shence Army, as a gift from us to the Emperor."

Someone suggested.

Xie Qian thinks it is very good, "Okay, there is brother Lao, and I will plant it on the back of this old thief. Since the good people of the Han family are not good, and they have to be dogs for the Tartars, then let's plant it on his head." Pig hair, and dog hair on his back, making him inferior to pigs and dogs!"

"Okay, this is good, it's not as good as pigs and dogs!"

"Not a thing!"

"Damn things!"

"Hahaha!"

After a night of interrogation and search, Xie Qian and the others gained a lot. They found a lot of gold and silver jewelry, as well as land deeds and IOUs, as well as a lot of food.

Xie Qian asked several battalions at the foot of the mountain to descend immediately, directly slaughtered pigs and sheep at the mountain villa to eat large pieces of meat to celebrate, and distributed some copper coins and silver to everyone.

While eating meat and drinking, everyone watched the servant's excellent craftsmanship.

Sun Zhixie struggled in every possible way, but he could only be planted with bristles and dog hairs little by little, turning him into something inferior to pigs and dogs.

"This is the fate of being a traitor!"

"This is what happens to national thieves!"

Eight soldiers from the Green Battalion attached to Changbai Mountain grabbed a big dog's head and rubbed the marrow. The meat was eaten away, but there was still marrow in it.

He was born as a Jinshi, he used to be a student in the Imperial Academy, and he even served as the official examiner of the Shuntian Township Examination. Such a person is willing to be a dog for the Tartars. Most of the others are forced to submit, but he shaves his hair on his own initiative, which is more itchy than his scalp Qian Qianyi was much more disgusted.

After all, it was the Tartars who issued the order to shave their hair and said that they had an itchy scalp to shave their hair, but Sun Zhixie took the initiative to shave his head, and in the end he insisted on writing a letter to suggest that the whole country should shave his head. This kind of person is too disgusting.

This kind of person is disgusting even to the Tartars. Although he was once appointed Minister of the Ministry of Rites and served as the governor of Jiangxi Province, he was quickly dismissed.

The fate that has fallen now is really satisfying.

Looking at him covered in blood holes and covered with pig and dog hair, it is a poor man who must have something to hate.

"Bring up all the sons and grandchildren of this dog thief, and chop them off in front of this dog thief. Cut off their rat tails and scalps, and dedicate this old thief to the Divine Strategy Army."

"Sun thief's family is no taller than a waist knife, but their lives will be spared, but they will be eunuched, and they will be paid tribute to the emperor together."

"The daughters of the Sun thief's family, all the old ones over 14 years old were cut off, and the rest over [-] years old were paid tribute to the emperor to fill the palace. Those under [-] years old were sold to human teeth and sent to brothels, where they will become prostitutes in the future!"

Xie Qian's elder sister was bought by the Sun family back then, and later because they broke a teapot, they called Ren Yazi to sell it, and Ren Yazi was sold into a brothel.

"The Han family's will be dealt with in the same way!"

"All the food will be distributed to the brothers, and the copper coins and silver will be distributed together!"

The rebels below cheered like thunder.

Xie Qian confessed, "Don't let this grandson die, he must be sent alive to the Shence Army."

"Take another 500 taels of gold, 3000 taels of silver, and a thousand shi of fine grain, and prepare them for me. I will take them and send them to the Shence military camp with the old thief."

(End of this chapter)