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Chapter 71 Destroy the Pan family and recruit the kiln workers

The rebel army's attack on the Pan family in Wayao Village went surprisingly smoothly.

But yesterday, Pan Hongwen's only son took away the kiln worker Luo Zonghuan's daughter to pay off his debt. As a result, this morning the news came out that Luo Zonghuan's daughter was humiliated and hanged herself.

Luo Zonghuan entangled some workers and Luo clan members and went to Pan's house to seek justice.

Pan Hongwen, the master of the Juren Festival, was not at home, so no one could control the scene.

The person in charge of Minyong's patrol affairs in Wayao Village was Pan Hongwen's second brother Pan Changwu. After hearing the news, he took the Pan family and tenants in the Minyong team to the village to deal with the matter.

Wayao villagers were very undisciplined, so others followed to watch the fun, and no one was guarding the village gate for a while.

The rebels arrived just at this moment.

Seeing that the village gate was wide open and no one was guarding it, Wen You thought that the villagers had learned of their arrival and had planned an empty city.

However, Liu Sheng looked through the telescope and saw many people gathering near the Pan family's mansion. It seemed that something was happening.

So he led the rebel army into the village without hesitation and went straight to the Pan family mansion.

Although Pan Hongwen was prestigious in the village, he was ungrateful and ungrateful. His only son was doted on, and he often bullied men and dominated women, even taking human life lightly.

If there is a precautionary situation, the villagers may unite together to protect the village because they are afraid that bandits will enter the village and harm their families.

But now the rebels have entered the village, and Pan Hongwen is not at home, and Pan Hongwen's only son has just killed a girl.

Therefore, when they saw the rebels rushing towards them, both ordinary villagers and brave people dispersed in a rush.

Pan Changwu first wanted to summon the brave men, but after shouting several times but not many people responded, he finally thought of guarding the Pan family's mansion.

The Pan family's mansion was built quite tall, but in a hurry, the defensive personnel were not deployed in place at all.Liu Sheng and others rushed in before the door even had time to close.

What follows is a chase and arrest drama.

Although the scene was a bit chaotic, Liu Sheng was calm.Seeing that the overall situation was decided, he asked Wen You to send people to surround the Pan family mansion first, so as to capture as many Pan family members as possible.

In this way, nearly half an hour later, the Pan family's mansion, which had more than a dozen courtyards, was completely occupied by the rebels.

More than twenty Pan family members, more than 100 Pan family slaves, and seventy or eighty guards were also captured by the rebels.

Then the money and food were copied and the Pan family was put on trial to appease the villagers.

Although there are more than twenty Pan family members, Pan Hongwen alone has five concubines.As for Pan Hongwen's first wife, she died in childbirth when giving birth to a son. After that, Pan Hongwen did not continue their relationship, but took in five concubines one after another.

It's a pity that none of these concubines gave him any more sons, but his daughters gave birth to several more.

Then there is Pan Changwu's family.

Pan Changwu, his first wife, 13-year-old second son, and two concubines were all present. Only the eldest son was studying abroad and was not captured.

This public trial was presided over by Wen You. As a result, Pan Hongwen's only son was beaten to death on the spot by Luo Zonghuan during the public trial.

As for Pan Changwu, he was sentenced to death by hanging.

The rest of the Pan family were all used as hard labor, preparing to be taken to work in the mines or North America.

Later, under the guidance of Liu Sheng, Wen You encouraged the villagers to lodge a complaint, and plucked out 100 people from the Pan family's slaves and nursing homes, and sentenced them all to hard labor.

Don't think that "servants" such as slaves and guards are all good people. After being oppressed by their masters, some of them will rely on their masters' power to oppress others, or even intensify the oppression.

After the public trial, Liu Sheng burned all the deeds and IOUs collected from the Pan family in front of all the villagers.

After that, Liu Sheng spent three days to let the rebels transport more than 1000 stones of grain and more than 1 taels of cash hoarded by the Pan family to the mine.

In the process, he also exchanged money and grain for mules, donkeys and carts from some villagers at high prices.

This is not only a practical need, but also an idea to win over a wave of public support.

Before leaving, Liu Sheng opened the door of Pan's house and called on the villagers to get the Pan's belongings inside.

No one dared to do so at first, but after Luo Zonghuan and other kiln workers took the lead in searching for some valuable things, other villagers couldn't help it anymore and rushed in one after another.

So, when Liu Sheng left with the rebels and prisoners, the entire Wayao Village fell into a carnival of carving up the Pan family's money, food and property.

As for the remaining large households in Wayao Village, they were so scared that they closed their doors and trembled.

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July 25. "Chief, Luo Zonghuan brought more than 100 villagers from Gangyao Village, saying they wanted to defect to us." The captain of the standing army guarding the entrance to the mine came over and reported to Liu Sheng.

"Luo Zonghuan?" Liu Sheng was quite impressed by this kiln worker, "Bring Luo Zonghuan in, and the other villagers will stay outside for the time being."

"Yes."

Soon, Luo Zonghuan was brought to Liu Sheng.

He is about 1.7 meters tall, with gray hair and deep but not many wrinkles on his face.

After Liu Sheng looked him up and down, he asked, "How old are you?"

"Go back to the leader, the young one is 36 years old."

"Why do you think of bringing people to join our rebel army? Don't you want your fields and houses?"

Liu Sheng has inspected the fields in Wayao Village in the past few days. Because there are several weirs and ponds nearby, which store a lot of water, and there are ditches connecting the fields, the fields in Wayao Village should not be short of harvest this year.

In this situation, the villagers should get by without running away.

Luo Zonghuan smiled bitterly and said: "The leader doesn't know something. The people who came with me are all kiln workers and potters, and the land has been taken away by the Pan family a long time ago.

This time, the Pan family was offended to death again. Both Pan Ju and his nephew were still alive, and they were both scholars and very powerful.

If we stay in Wayao Village any longer, even if we don't die, we will still shed our skin. "

Liu Sheng sighed after hearing this and said: "In that case, you can join the rebel army. I will ask people to send you to the rear area, where you can work with confidence and get land in the future."

Luo Zonghuan was originally worried that the rebels would consider them a burden and refuse to take them in if they brought their families with them.

Unexpectedly, Liu Sheng not only took them in, but also made it clear that he would resettle them, which made Luo Zonghuan extremely grateful.

He immediately knelt down and kowtowed, saying repeatedly: "Thank you, chief, thank you, chief..."

"What are you doing?" Liu Sheng quickly helped Luo Zonghuan up.

After Luo Zonghuan stood up, he said: "The leader helped me take revenge, and now he has promised to resettle us. It is right for me to kowtow to the leader."

Liu Sheng said: "You really want to thank me and work well for the rebels in the future."

"I understand, I will do my job well!"

Luo Zonghuan brought a total of 157 people, including 25 kiln workers and 15 potters, and the rest were family members of these craftsmen.

Although there are kiln workers and potters in North America, there are not many, so Liu Sheng still welcomes people like Luo Zonghuan.

After taking Luo Zonghuan and others in, he stayed at the iron mine for another three days, watching the ironworks reopen for ironmaking before preparing to leave.

Among the remaining 52 miners who were not recruited into the standing army, 30 were persuaded by Liu Sheng to stay and work in the iron mines, so Liu Sheng made them captains and supervisors of the miners.

In order to supplement the manpower in the mining area, Liu Sheng extracted a hundred young men (mostly Pan family guards) from the captured Pan family servants and guards, and kept them as hard labor in mining.

Although he was a prisoner, Liu Sheng did not want to use it to death, so he promised these hard laborers that as long as they worked honestly, they could get rid of their status as hard laborers in as soon as three years.

If you have meritorious service or are rewarded by management, this time can be shortened further.

As for the food, Liu Sheng did not explain, but after eating a few meals, they would understand that the rebels treated the miners differently from the Pan family.

In order to prevent the Pan family from retaliating and ensure the normal production of the iron mine, Liu Sheng asked Yang Heqing to lead 1000 standing troops to stay, and more than [-] stones of grain were also left behind as food.

Before leaving, Liu Sheng had a conversation with Yang Heqing.

"Your mission here is to guard the iron mine and supervise the iron smelting. You don't have to worry about anything else. As for the escort of the iron materials, I will send someone from Liujiazhai to be responsible for it."

"I understand." Yang Heqing nodded honestly.

In Liu Sheng's view, Yang Heqing was sometimes impulsive and easy to get into trouble, so he warned: "You only need to stay here patiently for three or four months. When autumn comes, the situation outside will change drastically. You can move away."

Upon hearing this, Yang Heqing's eyes suddenly lit up and he asked, "What big change is the leader talking about?"

Liu Sheng said: "There is such a severe drought this year, but the Ming court still does nothing. Instead, it levies more money and food. Henan is now full of hungry people. You will know what will happen in the autumn when you think about it."

After speaking, Liu Sheng turned around and left with Wen You and others.

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