Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 81
Tomorrow time.

Zhu Yihai was sitting under the front porch of Xu Garden, and the cool summer morning breeze blew slowly, making him feel very comfortable after taking a cold shower and changing into a set of dry clothes.

But Xu Min, who was brought up to kneel in the corridor, was terrified, as if the end was coming.

"Xu Min, are you convicted?"

Xu Min was pulled up from the concubine's bed in the middle of the night last night, was given a big footprint, and then was tied up and thrown in the woodshed for the night.

Being brought here now is completely at a loss.

He still doesn't know who captured him last night?
At this time, he quietly looked at the man sitting on the porch, he was very young, his hair was not shaved, he was wearing a general's military uniform, and he couldn't tell his rank, but it was Daming's military officer's military uniform.

Looking at the soldiers around him from the corner of his eye, none of them had shaved hair.

Could it be that the soldiers of King Yiyang have come?

Or did Chen Wu's defeated troops cross the sea and pass by here?

"Don't know the general's name?"

Zhu Yihai looked at this fat old man, and he still had to fight when he was about to die, so he sneered a few times in disdain, "I am Zhu Wu, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Army's Banner Bearer Battalion, His Royal Highness Daming Lu Jianguo. There is a Xu Papi here, the people who fish and meat are rampant in the village, and they are here to suppress."

Xu Min, who had been anxious all the time, got excited when he heard that he was under Lu Jianguo, and he struggled to get up, "Oh my goodness, isn't this the flood that washed into the Dragon King Temple and beat up his own family? He was Xu Min who patrolled the sea, a Jinshi of Tianqi, and an official from the Chongzhen Dynasty to the Ministry of Military Affairs."

"Misunderstanding, this is all a misunderstanding."

Zhu Yihai chuckled.

"The general only knew that there was a king of Lu in Ming Dynasty who supervised the country, but he didn't know that there was a king of Yiyang who supervised the country."

Seeing this, Xu Min hurriedly changed the tone, "It was because Hongguang was captured at that time, King Lu surrendered, and there was no master in the world for a while. Nanzhi Wenwu supported Yiyang King to supervise Chongming. I didn't know that Lu King was also there. Supervise the country in eastern Zhejiang."

"Yes, now you know."

"Speaking of it, His Royal Highness King Lu is a prince, and he is more qualified to be a regent and supervise the country than King Yiyang. Xu is willing to express his support for King Lu to supervise the country. He also asks the general to let Xu be released."

Zhu Yihai couldn't help shaking his head as he looked at this guy who was playing around with the wind.

"Xu Min, do you think that no one will know about the things you did? When you were in Chongzhen and served in Beijing, you would only cling to the powerful. After you were dismissed and returned to your hometown, you even bullied the village. You paid homage to Yiyang Wang seeks the right to be an official, but at the same time, he takes the opportunity to recruit scoundrels to oppress the village, and when the country is in danger, you initiate national calamity."

"Not to mention that you have secretly communicated with Beilu again, intending to surrender and betray the country. The letter of surrender you gave Beilu is in my hands. What is there to argue about?"

"General, these are all misunderstandings. I have always been loyal to the imperial court and Daming. I am only in Cao Ying and my heart is in Han. It is all for the country!"

"shut up!"

Zhu Yihai stopped angrily.

"Don't make yourself cowardly and afraid of death so sanctimonious. Daming's traitors such as Qian Qianyi and Xie Sanbin made the situation worse. Don't make excuses for yourself, and don't say that you are a courtier and official of Daming , Daming is disgusting."

"Come on, take this traitor to the stage outside, gather the people in the village, and put this traitor to trial!"

Regardless of Xu Min's wailing, Zhu Yihai had someone drag him down.

Sitting in front of Zhu Yihai, Shen Chenquan, Yu Dafu, Zhang Mingyang, Zhang Mingzhen and others were all thinking about each other.

After a long time, Zhang Mingyang still spoke out.

"Your Highness, the Xu family in Ganpu is a branch of the Xu family in Haiyan, and they have been married to the Lu family in Jiaxing for generations. They have a great reputation in the local area. Is it prudent to deal with Xu Min?"

Zhu Yihai was furious.

He patted the account books in his hands, "Look at these, each book is full of how the Xu family oppressed the people, and this letter records how they betrayed the country and sought glory. This person, Bi Xie Sanbin Even more hateful!"

"If you don't kill this thief, how will you be outraged by the people, how will you win the hearts of the people?"

This time going north is not only to reinforce Haining, but also to open up a new base area, to mobilize the masses to fight a defense war to defend the world, not a war to fight for the dragon chair as before.

The Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty had been in the country for more than 280 years, but now they are not very popular with the people, just like the boatmen and fishermen recruited from the west of Zhejiang Province in the previous battle of Hengtan in Meishan, they were as merciless as they fought against the Ming army.

If Zhu Yihai can't really care about the interests of the people, who will support his revival.

If Zhu Yihai can truly care for the people and defend the interests of the people, then everyone will be able to support him, and he will be able to find a slight chance to make a comeback in this hellish and arduous task.

With people like Xie Sanbin and Xu Min, what else do you expect?
In history, Zhu Yihai was very polite to Xie Sanbin, and even later let this guy be his cabinet bachelor, but what he got in exchange was a second betrayal.

There are too many such people, they have no loyalty at all, and there is no point in fighting for such people.

Although to win this war, we must unite the majority of people and strive for it as much as possible, but there are some people who cannot and do not need to fight for it.

"Xu Min must be killed, and the Xu family in Ganpu must also be liquidated." Zhu Yihai announced his decision in an unquestionable tone, "There is also the Xu Family Camp. Bandits are no different."

To these people, he pondered for a moment, and then said, "The leader of the bandits, Zhao Da, was originally a private salt dealer, and later became a mountain bandit. He did many evils. He has been killed now and deserves what he deserves. As for the others, all the evil backbones should be punished. The rest of the accomplices, Take it easy."

Xujiaying Zhu Yihai didn't intend to be recruited, a group of scoundrels and bandits and salt dealers were useless.But you can't kill them all, it's enough to kill a few to frighten them.

Most of the rascals and hooligans were arrested and reformed through labor. They were asked to build cities, build roads, and dry salt.

As for the strong men forced by Xujiaying and some poor people who are unemployed and poor, they can be screened. If they are healthy and more honest, they can be recruited and recruited into the army on a voluntary basis.

This time to fight against Xu Yuan, only part of the flag bearer battalion came, but in just seven or eight days, the sentry teams have expanded several times. This snowball-like expansion is too fast, Zhu Yihai is very vigilant, thinking that this is not all good thing.

"I would like to discuss with you about the expansion of the various units after they landed. It is too fast. Our battalions already have a lot of new recruits. The current expansion will only further reduce our combat effectiveness."

Zhang Mingzhen and others were a little surprised. Wouldn't it be a good thing to be able to recruit more troops?

"Gu's plan is like this. At present, the ten battalion heads we go north remain unchanged, but one battalion can form two township battalions to assist. In addition, depending on the situation, we can mobilize the people in the village and form some villagers to defend themselves. The militia battalion of the nature. The township brave battalion and the militia battalion still keep their jobs, but when there are combat missions, they can cooperate with the military battalion in the township to provide support and logistics assistance. At the same time, they also collect intelligence for us, Passing news, transporting food and grass, etc."

"What do you think?"

Zhu Yihai didn't intend to come and shoot and leave. He hoped to establish a base in the countryside here, mobilize the people, and walk the road that the great man walked in the past.

Now he is short of food and equipment, and the blind expansion of troops has no combat effectiveness, which is not conducive to the movement behind the enemy. It is better to cooperate with the army and the people, and select some young and strong to stay in the hometown to become village heroes and militiamen.They are in their hometown, so there is no need to increase military expenditures on food and salaries.

And everyone will be willing to contribute to defending the country.

Zhu Yihai provided instructors or some weapons, and then subsidized some money and food, etc., to organize and mobilize these people, just like fighting devils back then.

As the main force of his ten battalions, he can maneuver more quickly in the enemy's rear.

After the new recruits become veterans, they can naturally expand slowly, instead of pulling people around and grabbing strong men like Zuo Liangyu or Li Zicheng. Such an army is not that big except for the large number of people. Useful, it will only disturb the people and hurt the people, it is really vulnerable to a fight.

Zhu Yihai's idea is very bold.

After all, in the traditional concept of Zhang Mingyang and others, the powerful nobles are all members of the imperial court, especially at this time, shouldn't they win over the powerful and powerful families in these places, why should they be purged now?

According to Jian Guo, the great cause of restoration of eyesight depends on ordinary people?
"Your Highness, the intruder was in a hurry, and he was also in a hurry." Shen Chenquan said halfway, but the meaning was obvious. The intruder Li Zicheng ran around in the early years, and was beaten by the court several times. After entering the city of Beijing, he also established the Dashun Dynasty and proclaimed himself emperor.

Li Zicheng was able to rise up among the thieves. The more important thing is that Li Zicheng played his own political program slogan differently from other thieves. The sentence that the king came and did not pay, I don’t know how many people who can’t survive will rush to support .

However, although Li Zicheng gained power because of this, it is impossible for an army and a government to have no taxes and no money and food, otherwise they would not be able to support the army and provide officials.

Fighting local tyrants everywhere to grab big households solved the problem of money and food for a while, but it also stood on the opposite side of the gentry landlord class. Therefore, Li Zicheng's invasion of the army, for a long time, had no literati and officials to join him.

Even if he broke into Beijing in the end, many officials surrendered, but the ensuing torture and extortion made many people believe that they are the essence of thieves.

As soon as the Qing army came, they scrambled to give up and leave.

Li Zicheng was in a hurry to get up and down, and he was also in a hurry to lose.

Shen Chenquan is a standard civil servant of the Ming Dynasty, and he naturally has that kind of view. A thief like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong who can't really unite with the landlord, powerful and powerful gentry group can't really sit firmly in the world.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang started his career as a beggar monk and joined the Red Turban Army, he did not behave like a thief at all. Instead, he built high walls and accumulated food and became king slowly, recruiting scholars and officials everywhere, and finally established the Ming Dynasty. .

Shen Chenquan felt that Zhu Yihai's thoughts were very dangerous.

What is an emperor?
The emperor is the biggest landlord, and the emperor represents the gentry landlords and powerful people. Why do they want to attack their biggest supporters now?

After hearing this, Zhu Yihai said, "Shen Qing misunderstood the meaning of Gu. Gu is the supervisor of the Ming Dynasty, not Li Zicheng who invaded the country. Gu will not regard all the landlords, powerful and powerful people in the world as enemies, and will not fight against local tyrants and landlords to rob big households." .”

"What Gu wants to do is to crusade against those traitors who collaborate with the enemy and betray the country, suppress those bullies who oppress the people in Yurou Township, and crack down on those rogue bandits and pirates. Gu is not targeting people of a certain class status, but targeting those who have these evil deeds people."

"Are Qian Sule, Lin Shidui, and Ge Shizhen from Ningbo gentry officials? Isn't Chen Zhihan, Ke Xiaqing, and Song Zhipu from Taizhou official gentry? There are also Shaoxing's Sun Jiaji, Xiong Rulin, Yu Ying, Liu Mu, Liu Guangshi, Zheng Zunqian, Huang Zongxi and so on, which one of them is not a gentry and landlord?"

"For example, Wang Zhiren, Zhang Mingzhen, Wu Kai and other generals, isn't that the case?"

"Gu personally killed Xie Sanbin with a sword in Ningbo, but he didn't rob all the big landlords in Ningbo. Now that he comes to Sanwu, Gu's attitude is still the same!"

"I only kill the country's thieves and traitors, punish the bullies and evil gentry, and crack down on thieves and rascals."

The stage outside Xu Garden was changed to a public trial stage.

Xu Min and some of the thieves' leaders in Xujiayuan were tied up and put on a public trial with cards on their bodies.

One charge after another.

There were countless onlookers, watching this rare scene, the high-ranking Xu family was tied up on the stage, and the bullies and rascals who were rampant in the countryside were also tied up.

Following Zhu Yihai's throwing the beheading card, swords fell down one after another, and the heads of the criminals were chopped off one by one.

The Xu family in Ganpu was liquidated, Xu Min was beheaded on the spot, and the property of the fields and houses was confiscated.

Then Zhu Yihai publicly announced that the common people owed usury to the Xu family, and the portion of the debt that exceeded the normal high interest rate could be reduced or exempted. In special cases, the debt could also be exempted.

Then all the Xu family's land was confiscated by Zhu Yihai into his Wang Zhuang, and the rent was re-set for the tenants, which was basically much lower than the original rent.

Rent reduction and interest reduction.

Zhu Yihai also asked to open the warehouse of Xu's family, take out part of the money and food to help the poor people, and distribute money and food to everyone.

For a time, countless people were grateful for their support.

The Xu family in Ganpu copied a lot of money and food, Zhu Yihai only gave a small part to the people, and won so many cheers, and the rest was mostly used as military supplies, and the other small part was used to form various organizations. Township regiments and village militias.

The Xu family in Ganpu was copied, which scared the other nearby landlords and gentry to tremble. Fortunately, Zhu Yihai did not intend to fight the local tyrants and landlords, so he sent someone to invite them to come and meet him, and explained his views openly and honestly.

The local tyrants and landowners actively donated money, but this time Zhu Yihai only accepted a small amount of donations, and then issued an IOU to each of them, borrowing a small amount of money depending on their property.

Those with tens of thousands of taels of wealth can only borrow four or five hundred taels, and those with three or five thousand taels of wealth can only borrow one or two hundred taels. Basically, they borrow money based on about 500% of their property. Five-year period, the principal and interest will be repaid together.

They wanted to donate more, and they were willing not to have an IOU, but Zhu Yihai refused, and each family still only accepted a donation of one hundred and eighty taels, and then borrowed one, two hundred or three, five hundred taels of silver from them with an IOU.

"We are the masters of the Great Ming Dynasty. We are here to protect the people, not to search and persecute the people. Now that the current situation is difficult, we have no choice but to borrow money from everyone, but please rest assured that this is a loan or a donation. If you borrow, you will definitely repay it. "

"One more thing, we owe everyone a big favor when we borrow money from everyone. If you encounter any troubles in the future, you can come to us for help. Whether it is kidnapping and blackmailing by bandits and robbers, or blackmailing by local hooligans, Or being robbed and persecuted by puppet officials, or even conflicts between clans and villages, you can ask us for help. We will ensure the safety of everyone's personal and property. So a security fee."

Zhu Yihai spoke to these landlords very sincerely, and they were startled by what he said.

But everyone held the IOU and didn't take these words too seriously.

(End of this chapter)