Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 87 Massacre
Li Yuchun stayed up all night.

Staring at the group of generals in front of him with red eyes, he gritted his teeth and wanted to eat these guys alive.

When he set off from Hangzhou, he took 5000 people with him.Before the attack, there should have been 8000 people in each of his ministries at this time, but now, the number of people who rushed to Zhujiazhuang according to the order was less than [-].

Not only did a dozen battalion leaders disappear without a trace, but the battalion leaders who came here also encountered several attacks on the road. The attacks caused them to lose some troops, and there were also many new recruits who took advantage of the chaos. ran away.

Because the enemy army was lurking in all directions, each battalion had to give up a lot of food, grass, luggage and looted money in order to gather quickly to the main camp.

This made Li Yuchun very dissatisfied.

What's even more dissatisfying is that those people fought several battles in a daze, and until now they don't even know who they are fighting with.

"The soldiers who attacked us were flying the flag of the Haining Volunteer Camp." An officer bowed his head.

"The gang of thieves who beat us were holding the flag of the Xiashi Camp."

"It was the Jiaxing Camp that beat us."

"Hangzhou Charity Camp."

"Ganpu militia."

"Yangzhou Camp."

The one who said about the Yangzhou camp hadn't finished yet, when he was slapped on the face by an angry Li Yuchun, "Fuck your mother, 80 people in Yangzhou city were slaughtered. I personally brought you to slaughter together. Yangzhou is still alive." Is one alive? No, they all turned into ghosts, where did the Yangzhou camp come from?"

The man was beaten so hard that he didn't dare to make a sound.

"Tell me? Where did the Yangzhou camp come from? Could it be that a group of ghosts from Yangzhou came?"

"Perhaps the thief deliberately used the name of Yangzhou to confuse our army." The man had no choice but to say.

"Even if your brain is still a bit useful, it's not all shit, but since you know this, why don't you kill them, why don't you capture some prisoners and ask them?"

"The other party appears and disappears like a ghost, coming and going like the wind, the lowly position dare not chase after him, fearing that there will be an ambush, and also worried that the military gate will be in danger, so he temporarily ignored those thieves and rushed here."

Li Yuchun didn't believe a word of this subordinate's nonsense, this guy was so cowardly, he was definitely afraid of death and ran away.

asked around.

Those who were attacked halfway said a bunch of banners of the attackers, such as the Hangzhou camp, the Jiaxing camp, and even the Yangzhou camp, Sizhou camp, and Nanjing camp. Isn’t this bullshit?

However, Li Yuchun also heard some useful information from it, that is, the number of attackers was very large, and these subordinates were attacked almost at the same time, and they were in different places at the time, not counting the dozens of battalions who had disappeared and failed to return.

Being able to launch a surprise attack in a dozen or twenty places at the same time, the opponent is definitely not weaker than him, or even superior to him.

He has 8000 people, plus 2 Tartar cavalry, so the opponent should have [-] people, or even [-] people.

But when did 2 horses come out of this ghostly place?
Could it be that the remnants of Nanming's remnant soldiers and defeated generals gathered around Chongming Taihu Lake that were rumored before went south?

However, Li Yuchun thought it was unlikely, because those remnants of the defeated Ming army either fled into Taihu Lake or fled to the islands at the mouth of the Yangtze River. There must have been alarms in Susong and other places along the way.

Li Yuchun couldn't figure it out, could it be that Haiyan County was really rebelled everywhere, all the gentry, landlords and ordinary people were rebellious?

Impossible, why, where does the courage come from?
And even if they really had the guts, how could they have eaten up thousands of his people in one day, and even wiped out several battalions directly.

Although he also knew that his subordinates were all gangsters, this time he underestimated the enemy too much. The battalions were spread apart and scattered, but there were still a lot of troops in the three to five hundred and one battalions. If the mysterious enemy wanted to eat The first battalion, let alone the complete annihilation, must have at least a thousand people, right?
And with dozens of battlefields at the same time, how many tens of thousands of people are there?
Back to the dead end again.

Li Yuchun cursed and cursed, but finally sat down dejectedly.

"Report to Governor Zhang, Zongzhen Tian, ​​and Boluo Belle in Hangzhou."

"How to report?" A scholar accompanying the army was also at a loss.

Li Yuchun gritted his teeth, "Just report the truth according to what these damned guys said, this Jiaxing is full of rebels, it's the sky!"

The scholar fought a cold war.

If it is really reported in this way, and Hangzhou also agrees with this report, then Jiaxing may encounter catastrophe next.

Sure enough, Li Yuchun gritted his teeth, "Since there are rebellions everywhere, they can be killed. I want to see if their necks are stiff or my sword is sharp."

"Starting from this Zhujiazhuang, I want to slaughter Jiaxing for three hundred miles, killing every rebel!"

The scholar's hands trembled, and he couldn't help but persuade him, "Calm down the anger of the military gate, please think twice, after all, there are only a small number of thieves and rioters, and most of the people are innocent. With one hundred thousand people, how can a general be the commander-in-chief of Jiaxing Township?"

Li Yuchun turned his head and stared at the scholar.

"I see that you also want to have an affair with a traitor, so come and kill this dog scholar."

"General, spare your life, the little ones are all for the general's sake..."

Li Yuchun drew his saber and chopped it off, the scholar's head fell to the ground.

"Noisy!"

Putting the knife back into its sheath, Li Yuchun glanced over the officers under him one by one, "Since those people want to fight against us, let them know that the consequences will be serious. Before it gets dark today, take down Zhujiazhuang, Zhuangzhuang!" Among the thieves, young women act as camp prostitutes, and the rest, no matter how old or weak, kill all of them!"

"Tell the brothers, take down Zhujiazhuang, relax for three days, you can do whatever you want, and seal the knife after three days!"

A group of officers responded in unison, all with ferocious eyes.

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The sun rises.

In Ganpu City, tens of miles away, Zhu Yihai yawned and walked into the front hall.

The city was not peaceful last night.

Zhu Yihai issued an order to search the entire city. All forces in the city were obviously unwilling to accept the Ming army's overtures. They refused to hand over the wealth they had amassed, and they were even more unwilling to give up the territory they had painstakingly worked on for many years, nor did they want to hand over their weapons. .

Relying on their superior location, they also attempted to sneak into the ground to resist after the city was broken.

It's a pity that Ganpu is only a small city after all. Although the salt business here is prosperous, it is still only a small city.

Zhang Mingzhen and other officers led troops to seal off a small city, and then plowed the ground to sweep and search. Anyone who tried to resist would be ruthlessly suppressed.

What greeted them were guns and arrows, spears and knives.

Blood flowed all night.

In the morning, those tough fellows finally became terrified.

More and more guys finally stepped out in fear and surrendered, or were hunted out.

Those who resisted were basically hunted down without mercy.

This night's large-scale manhunt has also yielded a lot.

A large amount of salt, grain, cloth, and gold and silver were copied out. It can be said that the wealth of the city of Ganpu was basically copied out.

Anyway, in this turmoil, none of the big households, merchants, salt merchants, gangs, clubs, and even guilds in the city was innocent. In order to fight for the control of Ganpu, they fought openly and secretly, and even started street fighting. But none of them escaped the iron fist of Zhu Yihai, the supervisor of the Ming Dynasty.

On the street, teams of Ming troops were patrolling.

A military Chinese secretary was beating the gong to read out the latest notice on the supervision of the country and the people.

"The dozen or so big families in Ganpu City expressed their willingness to obey the rules, and they also sent a gift list, and they also offered to donate money and food to help the army."

"They should be surprised when they know our identities?" Zhu Yihai asked.

"Indeed, it was even suspected that it was a fake. They all wanted to come to see His Highness."

Zhu Yihai shook his head disdainfully. Ganpusuo City can be said to be a private salt center, so none of the big and powerful families here is actually related to private salt, and none of them are good people.

In the previous battles between these families and the Oolong Society, two families had already lost, and the Oolong Society used the hands of the Chaotic Slave Society to kill and wipe out these two families.They were forced to join forces and formed an armed force.

There was an attempt to resist last night, but it was quickly defeated.

However, after these people confirmed that it was a Ming Dynasty official army, they quickly changed their attitudes. They were originally on the white road, and they were naturally close to the government, so they wanted to follow the usual practice and win over these officers and soldiers for their use. To suppress hostile forces such as the Oolong Society and the Slavery Society.

It's just that they didn't expect that it was not the general army of the Ming Dynasty who came this time, but His Highness the Supervisor of the Ming Dynasty.

"Call together all the forces in the city and meet them alone, and then re-establish the order in this river. I don't care how they divided the territory in the past, but the previous method will not work anymore."

"Ganpu should set up the Ganpu Lijin Bureau as soon as possible to be responsible for setting up tax collection. In addition, the Yanpu Salt Transportation Yamen should also be re-established to be responsible for the approval and issuance of Ganpu salt licenses and the management of salt transportation and sales. , the matter of taxation."

"All the various gangs, clubs, and guilds, such as the messy Oolong Club, were disbanded. Gu also prohibited these salt traders from smuggling. In the future, Gu will allow salt traders to sell salt, but the premise is to pay the salt tax first."

The salt administration of the Ming Dynasty, developed to the end of the Ming Dynasty, has actually become a method for officials and dignitaries to collect money. They wantonly encroach on the interests of the country by means of occupying their nests, monopolizing the middle, entraining multiple branches, and selling private salt. Officials and businessmen colluded At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Huaiyang Salt Merchants Group, which was incomparably rich, and the huge bureaucratic interest group behind them appeared.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, ordinary people didn't even want to get involved in the salt business. The reform of the Salt Law at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the division of salt sales areas, and the distribution of salt quotas were all monopolized by the collusion of officials and businessmen.

The salt law in the late Ming Dynasty was actually a monopoly of the status of salt merchants, dividing agents and distribution areas, and did not give ordinary people a chance at all.

All are specified salt merchants, in fixed salt fields, use fixed salt quotas to get salt, transport it on specified routes, and then sell it in specified salt areas.

It's just that this seemingly good salt administration system has long been a tool for the collusion between officials and businessmen. They occupy the nest, that is, monopolize the status of salt merchants, control the amount of salt imports, and then use multiple sticks to entrain them, and even sell private goods by themselves. Salt and other means to evade the salt tax.

Up to now, half of the world is gone, and the big salt merchants in Yangzhou have also fallen in the Yangzhou massacre, and this set of salt laws is naturally messed up.

Zhu Yihai can't control too much for the time being, but since he has already occupied the small Yancheng of Ganpu, he will naturally have to set up a new system, all for the sake of salt and the little tax money for salt.

Zhu Yihai didn't bother to care about the salt merchants in the salt area anymore. He kept everything simple and only controlled the source of salt. Anyone could come here to buy salt. He didn't need to obtain the identity of a salt dealer first, and he didn't need a license.

Anyone can come and sell salt, but the premise is to pay as much tax as you buy.

Lijin is paid when salt is transported and sold.

As long as the salt-making people sold the salt exclusively to him and stored it in his salt warehouse, the salt merchants could only ask him to buy salt, and at the same time they paid the salt tax first.

Then you can sell it wherever you want, and whatever route you take to transport and sell it, it is all legal and reasonable.

This is essentially a return to the Yanzheng in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Everything is simplified, and it lacks the taste of financial products in the Yanzheng of the Ming Dynasty, but it is also better controlled, reducing unnecessary links, and enhancing controllability and security. Guarantee the public interest.

Returning salt to a normal commodity also makes it easier to tax salt.

The current situation in Ganpu is originally a deformed product caused by the complicated and chaotic salt administration in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, as long as the original profit distribution pattern is broken, then Ganpu will be able to look new again. , the most important thing is that through the new salt policy, Zhu Yihai can obtain a new source of income, and it is quite a lot.

After recovering Liangzhe and even Huaihe in the future, the salt tax revenue will only increase. However, if the salt tax can be collected in the past dynasties, it will be enough to support the national army.

Originally, the salt law of the Ming Dynasty was able to collect more money normally. The identity of a salt merchant can be sold for a sum of money, and Yanyin can be sold for a sum of money. Yanyin can even be issued in excess, just like printing money. Cool.

It's just that the officials took too many loopholes in this salt law, and it has long been a tool for them to amass money. On the contrary, the court's salt tax is not as good as before, so Zhu Yihai simply abandoned it and started a new one with a simple method.

Although Ganpu is small, it has a large salt field, and the annual private salt production is even more astonishing. How can such a big golden rooster that lays eggs be let go for Zhu Yihai who has no normal income now.

"Where is Li Yuchun now?"

Zhu Yihai quickly turned his attention back to Li Yuchun, and the immediate priority was to wipe out this puppet army.

"Good news came from all the battalions. Yesterday, we wiped out hundreds of enemies and captured more than two thousand. In addition, we also took in thousands of strong recruits who were kidnapped by Thief Li."

"Your Highness, in just one day, we wiped out half of Li Thief's troops. Li's bandits had more than [-] troops, and now they are only less than [-]."

Zhu Yihai was very calm.

"It's too early to be happy now. It's just a small victory. Li Yuchun's head is not in front of Gu. It's not a victory. Especially don't forget that this time the Tartars still have five hundred cavalry. These northern captives The cavalry is our great enemy."

After Zhu Yihai listened carefully to the battle report, he stared at the location of Zhujiazhuang on the map.

This Li Yuchun didn't seem to be a complete idiot either. After being beaten in such a mess yesterday, he still didn't lose his mind. Now, while reporting to Hangzhou for help, he began to gather troops and vent his anger on Zhujiazhuang.

It seemed to be an expression of incompetence and rage, but Zhu Yihai thought it was not that simple. Li Yuchun was beaten so hard that he didn't know the situation around him, so he didn't act rashly. Instead, he concentrated his forces to attack Zhujiazhuang nearby. First find a stronghold that can be defended, so that you can attack and defend.

Winning Zhujiazhuang, since it can relieve the battalions of the battered subordinates and calm the morale, it can also plunder the manor, replenish the lost materials, money and food, and obtain a stronghold that can be defended.

This guy has something.

"Your Highness, what shall we do next?"

"My original plan was to take down Ganpu, the city that Li Yuchun must pass through first, and then come to lure you into the urn and then catch the turtle in the urn, but now it seems that Li Yuchun is very cautious. Before he finds out the situation, he may not I will move again." Zhu Yihai looked at the location of Zhujiazhuang on the map.

The distance is only thirty or forty miles, which is only half a day away, but now Li Yuchun is acting like a turtle, and instead of sending troops to sweep around in anger, he is shrinking into a group.

"Since he won't come, let's go!" Zhu Yihai tapped the map and said.

"Your Highness, Li Yuchun still has 4000 troops, especially with [-] cavalry around him, so you must not underestimate the enemy."

"Although Haiyan has a flat river, but the water network is densely covered, the Tartar cavalry will not benefit. As long as we are careful, we will not be afraid." Zhu Yihai can't just sit and wait like this. It will be even more troublesome when Hangzhou sends reinforcements.

(End of this chapter)