Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 75 Green Camp
East of Hangzhou Fu, Xiashi Town.

Soldiers and horses holding green flags are wreaking havoc on the town, and the rebellious army with pigtails is slaughtering and looting everywhere.

Under a large banner, the deputy commander-in-chief of Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province was proudly dragging the pig's tail and listening to the scholar in front of him read, "Li Yuchun, the commander-in-chief of Jiaxing, reported to Tang:

On the 25th of this month, the minister gathered in Haining with rebels Zheng Jiwu and Zhu Dagang, attacked and killed the officers and soldiers, and harassed Haining and other counties in Haiyan. Li Yuanshan, a guerrilla general Zhang Biao, and other Manchurian masters led the troops to Xiashi Town. It was reported that they were advancing, and they were leading the rebels. Killed more than 44 thieves, burned two thieves' ships, destroyed two thieves' ships, seized two Frangji doors, [-] pieces of knives, guns, armor, arrows and rattan plates, and reported them to the court.

In order to kill the thieves, the road has been opened, but Chen Wanliang, the leader of the rebellion, escaped and escaped, and has not yet been awarded the leader.

On June 25th, the second year of Shunzhi, Li Yuchun, the deputy general of Jiaxing, was assigned to defend Jiaxing. "

Li Yuchun touched Guangguang's forehead, and frowned dissatisfiedly, "What are they written, why can't I understand?"

The new scholar in that town was originally a failed scholar. He was arrested and wrote a pond newspaper for Li Yuchun.

"These words are all praises for the bravery of the army."

Li Yuchun glanced at Master Manchuria, who was admiring the gold, silver and other trophies he had just snatched from a distance, and said in a low voice, "Why are you so brainless? After fighting for a long time, I captured seven thieves, killed two hundred, and seized weapons." Waiting for more than forty pieces? What kind of credit is this?"

"Won't you modify it a little bit?"

The scholar immediately understood, "Student, how about doubling it?"

Li Yuchun snorted.

"Then the student multiplies ten times?"

"It's too much, let's double it."

"Students understand, so I will revise it." The scholar hurriedly picked up a pen and re-wrote the pond newspaper.

Li Yuchun got up and paced, and walked in front of the Manchu lord, "Master Jishiha, are you satisfied with these gains?"

Jishiha's official position is the third-class Lazhangjing, referring to the Ming official as a guerrilla general, and the first and second-class Lazhangjing above is a general, which is several levels lower than the deputy general Li Yuchun.

This time Li Yuchun led 5000 troops from his headquarters to conquer Haining Guard, and Boluo even sent his third-class Lazhang Jingjishiha to accompany him with [-] Banner cavalry.

Although Ji Shiha's rank is low, Li Yuchun has always treated him as his father along the way, doing everything according to their requirements, and even doing all the rough and dirty work for them, such as camping on the road.

One mouthful of a Manchurian adult, and he almost called his father directly.

Even when looting along the way, the Manchu adults did not need to do it. After Li Yuchun sent his men to rob, the Manchu adults picked the spoils first, and then divided them up after picking.Even the snatched women must be given to the adults of Manchuria to enjoy first.

Passing through Xiashi Town today, Li Yuchun raided again, claiming that there were rebels in the town, and called the town gentry Gao Xiang and Chen Wanliang the bandit leaders.

Cut off the heads of more than 400 people, pretended to kill bandits, burned many people's houses, etc., claiming it was war damage.

Ji Shiha laughed and said, "Well, it's said that Jiangnan is rich and rich, and it really deserves its reputation. Such a small town has such a large population and hides so much gold and silver. But I think those people are not very honest, and they keep saying that they have already Belong to my Qing Dynasty, but why haven't you shaved your hair yet?"

"Those landlords and squires paid too little silver, let alone a few ounces of gold. They must have been hidden. You should send someone to search carefully. It is best to bring out a few cunning gentry and serve them directly. Let's see if other people dare to hide!"

Li Yuchun saw that in the box in front of the guy, there were piles of various gold and silver jewelry, women's gold hairpins, gold bracelets, gold rings, etc., and even men's jade ornaments, many of which were still stained with blood. The guy didn't dislike it at all, he touched this one and looked at that one, with a greedy expression on his face.

Those Manchurian Eight Banners soldiers were also laughing and laughing there, you divided one by one.

Li Yuchun's heart ached when he saw it. He didn't send a group of elites to reinforce him. He obviously invited a group of ancestors to come. They were the ones to do all the food and drink on the way. , Even if they rob good things, they have to take [-]% of them first.

The Five Hundred and Eight Banners get 5000% for doing nothing, but he only gets [-]% for his [-] troops, and the Eight Banners pick the rest.

After flattering Ji Shiha again, Li Yuchun returned to his banner.

"Junmen, if we go on like this, the brothers are very dissatisfied. We finally asked for such an errand from the general town this time, but we spent a lot of money to pay tribute, so we can grab a lot of money by pointing it out. Now Fortunately, we have done all the dirty work along the way, and let those Eight Banners get all the benefits."

Counselor Li Yuanshan reminded Li Yuchun, "Brothers haven't been paid for a long time. If you can't get any benefits, you can't hold back."

Li Yuchun was a little annoyed, "What's the hurry? We haven't even entered Jiaxing's territory yet, so we have to restrain ourselves? This is the territory of Hangzhou Deputy General Zhang Jie, and Boluo Belle is also in Hangzhou. We have gone too far, and the gains outweigh the losses. Wait until later." Xiashi Town has entered the boundary of Jiaxing, let's let go of the robbing, and the brothers followed me all the way from Sizhou, when did I treat everyone badly?"

"What the army said is that the Qing Dynasty said it well at the beginning and would treat us preferentially, but we owed wages in the Ming Dynasty, and we haven't seen a few taels of silver in the Qing Dynasty. This year, it all depends on the brothers themselves. grab."

"It's good to have some robbing, so why bother with so many?"

Li Yuchun also had a headache. The Eight Banners marched south, and the troops were unstoppable. Ming troops from all walks of life surrendered one after another. The Eight Banners did not refuse these Ming troops who surrendered. But the Qing Dynasty didn't care about their food and salary.

The salaries set by Duduo, Boluo and others are quite good, but the problem is that they have never been honored, and they are all big pies.

Li Yuchun was promoted to Jiaxing Deputy Commander-in-Chief, with a fixed monthly salary of 50 taels, and then one member of the capital division of the Chinese army, with a monthly salary of seven taels, a flag and drums for garrison, seven taels of silver, eleven listening officers, and a month for the deputy general. Six taels of silver, all guards, four taels of silver per month... The annual silver of all officers at all levels in the town is 360, [-], and eighty taels.

The standard battalion of his deputy general, the left battalion has 190 soldiers, one guerrilla, one central army, two thousand generals, four general generals, two hundred horse soldiers, five hundred infantry soldiers, and two hundred horse mules. A total of 520 taels of folded-color silver and [-] stones of natural-color rice.

Biaoying Youying is also seven hundred and eighty, and the same annual price is 1 taels of folded silver, and 190 stones of natural color rice.

The Qing army assigned Li Yuchun a total of 420 officers and soldiers, 380 horse mules, a total of [-] taels of colored silver, and [-] stones of natural rice.

The monthly silver for horse soldiers is one tael and five and three dou of rice, the monthly silver for infantry is one tael and three dou for rice, and the monthly payment for each horse and mule is nine qian.

This standard, from officers to soldiers, is actually very low, far less than the military pay of the Guanning Army in the Ming Dynasty, but the problem is that these are just good-looking, because the Qing army did not give them much military pay and money at all, and they all relied on their own ideas. The method is self-raised.

What Li Yuchun and the others can do is to persuade them to donate. They say it is to persuade them to donate, but they are actually robbing directly. Plant it as a bandit or rebel stronghold, and then rob it directly. After the robbing, kill Liang pretending to be the Ming army or bandits to claim credit.

The Qing army only gave Li Yuchun, the deputy commander-in-chief, less than 5000 soldiers, but in fact he had [-] troops, most of whom were threatened along the way to build momentum. Some melons and jujubes are sent away, and if you don't have money, you can find a way by yourself.

In order to maintain their own status, Li Yuchun and others were also reluctant to reduce their subordinates easily, and would only try their best to maintain, and even continuously expand their troops.

Even the soldiers had to raise most of their rations by themselves. The military discipline of Li Yuchun's troops can be imagined. From Sizhou to Yangzhou, from Yangzhou to Nanjing, and then to Hangzhou, it was useless for Li Yuchun and his men to fight, but to rob When it rises, it is as fierce as a tiger.

I’ve only been in Hangzhou for a while, with Bo Luo watching over me, I didn’t dare to be too reckless, the thousands of people couldn’t hold back, this time it took me a lot of money to ask for this job, naturally I want to rob of.

As for Zheng Jiwu or Zhu Dagang, he doesn't care. How can a group of rioters turn against the sky in a mere Haining Acropolis?
It's just that Bo Luofei sent five hundred and eight banners to follow him this time, which caused Li Yuchun and others a lot of headaches. In the past, although they had to show respect to their superiors in robbery, and even had to give Qing Shuai a special share, it wasn't as much as it is now.

Seventy percent was taken away.

"Do you think we should find a way to trap these Manchurian adults? What if they were ambushed by the rebels and wiped out?"

Several officers said very boldly.

Li Yuchun was taken aback, and cursed in a low voice, "You fucking eat the bear's heart and the leopard's gall? How dare you take such an idea out? How can the rebels have such a big ability to kill five hundred people in this damn place? Master Manchu ambushed and wiped out? Besides, there are really such powerful people, how did we survive? If this is investigated, we will not be able to escape.”

"But these guys are too greedy, [-]% was taken away by them, what should we do? Brothers haven't divided the money for a long time, and everyone is very dissatisfied."

Li Yuchun gritted his teeth, "Then after passing through Xiashi Town, report to the rebel bandits more and rob a few more places."

"At that time, arrest those big households, torture and plunder them, don't force out all their hidden silver, and never let them go lightly. Damn it, I still plan to come out this time, recruit more soldiers and horses, and expand to 1 people Well, what a fart if you don’t have any money!”

"Jiaxing is a good place. It should be more than enough to raise our [-] soldiers and horses."

"That's right, those damned squires and landlords, they won't pay money seriously unless they are more ruthless."

"Why don't we go to Haiyan and go to Tongxiang next? Jiaxing is rich and rich, Tongxiang is even worse. I heard that the rich are rich, and there are famous families everywhere. If we just rob a house, can't we get 8000 taels of silver? Ten families and eight families, this money is enough to raise soldiers for a year. If we robbed Tongxiang as a whole, not to mention expanding the number by [-], it would be more than enough to raise [-] soldiers. All of us can share [-] silver among them. ” The general Li Yuanshan said greedily.

Li Yuchun was also very moved, "I remember Hongguang's Zuodu censor, Tang Shiji, that old guy seems to be from Tongxiang. He was the first one to persuade Hongguang to surrender, and later he and Qian Qianyi were among the first to offer Nanjing. It is said that the descendant has always been the guest of Prince Yu Duoduo, and it is also said that he will go to Beijing to become a minister."

"No way, I heard that old guy is almost 80 years old, isn't he dead yet?"

"How can this kind of old and immortal die so easily? The scourge will last for thousands of years."

"That's okay, the big deal is to send troops to guard the Tang family at that time. There are so many famous families in Tongxiang, there must be some who have not surrendered?"

Tongxiang is in the northwest of Xiashi Town, but Hainingwei is in the southeast. In order to rob, Li Yuchun modified the battle plan casually. Hainingwei is in Haiyan County, and it is not important to grab money.

Li Yuchun sneered a few times, "Send someone to torture and plunder the big households in the town again, I don't believe that we can't squeeze out any more money. With such a little money, can we send beggars away?"

"Also, take away all the food and livestock in the town."

"You don't need to be reminded by the military gate. The brothers will never let go of a stitch."

"Tell the guys below, [-]% to [-]% of the stolen things, [-]% will be handed over, [-]% will be kept by yourself, if anyone dares to hide it privately, I will chop one off if I find out."

"It's getting late, I'm resting in Xiashi Town tonight, let them find some young girls for me, find unmarried young girls, don't be like last time, find some who have given birth My old women are here to fool me." Li Yuchun cursed.

(End of this chapter)