Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

Now that this dream-like place is about to disappear in his hands, Zhu Wangli certainly feels very regretful. Fortunately, he knows that there are not many Zhuangzi who need to give up, and all this in front of him is just the beginning of a huge plan... and the possibility of the future. Compared with what you get, what you lose in front of you is nothing.

After figuring it out, Zhu Wangli was the first to throw the torch at the building in front of him... The building was already full of flammable materials, and as soon as the torch was thrown over, the whole house burned with a bang.

Following his actions, all the more than two hundred riders began to throw torches, and after a quarter of an hour, the entire huge manor began to burn.

"Let's go!"

Zhu Wangli took the lead, and the cavalry behind him lined up in a column and began to gallop along the road. Soon, their figures disappeared behind the raging fire. [

"It's water..."

About half an hour later, when the fire at the sixth village of Changzi lit up most of the sky, all the people within a radius of more than ten miles rushed here. There are more, these people are kind and warm-hearted, and they usually have more contacts with Zhuangzi. They buy and sell some agricultural and sideline products with each other, and the transactions are fair. Well, the farmers around were all carrying firefighting jobs, that is, buckets and shovels, and they rushed over, yelling while running.

"It's good to run through the water, and it's good to burn it up."

After seeing the flames, they were not all on the good side. Many small landowners put on clothes and climbed to the high places in their courtyards. Looking at the flames, they smiled happily and said that their families were also very happy, because these manors They are almost unable to find tenants, even if the wages are raised, they can’t hire long-term workers. Most people only do short-term work and leave when they are done. Almost all the tenants who are rented by the year are gone. These small landlords were almost on the verge of bankruptcy in recent years. At least if their land continued to pile up like this, the only way out was to slowly sell it all to the Fushan Tuntian Office. After the land purchased by the Tuntian Office became larger, a new Zhuangzi might just appeared.

Under such circumstances, it is no wonder that they were not happy to see the fire.

But things changed quickly. The peasants who were carrying buckets to fight the fire quickly scattered and ran back. Behind them were people wearing jackets of various colors, a small number of people in armor, and their heads were all wrapped Soldiers with red scarves and iron spears or spears in their hands, and a small number of cavalry galloped back and forth among the infantry of the brigade. The sound of hooves shaking the ground made people panic.

Everyone was shouting and crying, this fire was obviously a clear sign of the invasion of thieves!

At this moment, the landowners and gentry who were still gloating just now were all in a state of confusion. The whole family yelled and called for all the short-term and long-term laborers in the family to come out, take down all the spears and short knives, and use the muskets if there are archers and arrows. , Shandong is the north. After the Denglai chaos, there were also many firearms scattered among the wealthy people. Of course, now is not the time to hide them, they are all quickly taken out.

Block the gate with the top stone, and then everyone went up to the courtyard wall, staring at the dark wilderness in a daze, the sky was only the waning moon, and the light was very dark, but the sixth village of Changzi was brightly lit with fire, illuminating half the sky brightly.

After a while, I saw a group of thieves wearing various costumes pass by, cursing and swearing as they walked. There were many flags, and everyone had a knife and spear in their hands. When they saw someone on the wall, they all pointed and cursed.

Among the crowd, there were many cavalry teams who rode past, seeming to be supervising the actions of their subordinates.

In the 11th year of Chongzhen, the Qing soldiers entered the boundary of Dongchang. When passing through the Huitong River, many wanderers went south. The people here have experienced the situation when the Qing soldiers went south. Fortunately, the Qing soldiers took the main spearhead Pointing to Jinan, they didn't put much effort into Dongchang, and Dongchang's Fucheng was also left untouched. The rich people took the opportunity to hide in the Fucheng. Of course, the fright they received was not small. In addition to several cities in Linqing being slaughtered by the Qing soldiers, the losses in the south of Dongchang were much smaller.

Now it is completely different, a large number of thieves are passing through the border, and the heads of these wealthy families are desperate. Who would have known that the thieves would come over all at once?

These thieves may have been good people at the beginning and had no choice but to take this path, but after "wandering" on the underworld for a long time, their humanity gradually disappeared. They did more murder, arson, and rape and murder of women. Is there a shred of humanity left?Being beaten by them like this, the possibility of the whole family surviving the disaster is very small. The entire area of ​​Dongchang Mansion may be empty.

"Use the medicine, put the medicine!"

"Shoot with a bow and arrow, if they want to come, shoot with an arrow!"

Under the night sky, I don’t know how many big families are hiding in the courtyard wall, yelling at their servants to prepare to resist, but these tenants usually only manage the crops, who has done such a thing?He couldn't hold the knife steadily, and after a moment of effort, the gunpowder still hadn't been primed well, let alone fired. Seeing more and more thieves, everyone was desperate.

"Transit, they are transit!"

By daybreak, I don't know how many people and horses passed by, there must be more than [-] horses, and there are still remnants of rangers passing by from time to time, scaring the gentry and peasants to hide in the house, usually at this time. My friend said earlier that people going to Fucheng are also walking on the road, or going to work in the fields, but now the field and the road are empty, only in those connected villages, you can see it occasionally. I saw bold people running past... This is people who want to hide in the wilderness during the day, avoiding the countryside in large chaos, avoiding the city in small chaos, tens of thousands of chaos, the city may not be able to defend it, once it falls, Maybe there is no place to run, and the country people also have their own survival wisdom. They dig a cellar in the ground, which can store the harvest at ordinary times, and it is the best place to hide when encountering troubles. [

Rich families all live in decent houses with a large population, so they can't run away, but after dawn, they heard sporadic comments from passing thieves, and then thought about what happened last night, everyone suddenly realized: So these The thief is passing by in transit!

"It must have gone to Dongchang Fucheng and Linqing!"

"I heard that Li Qingshan started Dongping Prefecture, with tens of thousands of shi in grain and tens of thousands of silver, and there are so many good things in the state city, he suddenly became fat."

"Originally he only had a few thousand people, but he only had horses. Because Liangshan is not easy to attack, and we don't have decent soldiers and horses in Shandong, so he kicked it up to now. Now he has become fat all of a sudden, and the number of people and horses has become more than 2. This ambition And it got bigger."

"It must be the idea of ​​attacking Linqing. There are hundreds of thousands of stone grains over there. How many soldiers can he raise? If he gathers [-] soldiers and makes a big splash, he might own Shandong."

"There is Uncle Rong Cheng in Dengzhou. I think he wants to go to the south of the river, or to Fengyang and Huguang. There are hundreds of thousands of thieves there. If they gather together, the world will follow him."

There are many intelligent gentry in the families of the big families. They often read the mansion and the pond newspapers of various towns, and they know everything about the world's major events.

"Oh, the world is in chaos, and even thieves have come out."

"Hurry up and report to Fucheng. Speaking of which, I read the residence newspaper a few days ago. Didn't the imperial court send Liu Zeqing to suppress the thieves? Why did we come to Dongchang to suppress the thieves?"

"It's not easy? Mr. Liu has been thinking about the seat in Jinan City for not a day or two. Now he is rushing to Jinan Mansion, first grabbing the provincial capital in his hands, and then getting the seal of the general officer, then we can talk about it." Suppress the thieves!"

"I think the affairs of the world have been defeated by these warriors. After all, this old man used to be an Imperial Academy. Now I will write a letter to the imperial court to impeach this Liu!"

It must be said that among the gentry, there must be many who used to be officials in the court. You can't find hundreds of officials who have been officials in a whole house, unless it is in the smoky ground like Yunnan and Guizhou. It seems that there is not much threat at this moment, but underneath who knows?If Liu Zeqing is not pressured by submitting a letter to the court, who knows what will happen next?

In the evening, the thieves seemed to have passed away, and many bold people began to come out to inquire about the news. Before dark, the definite news finally came back... In the south of Fucheng, 2 thieves passed by, and there were still many People surrounded Fucheng, and Li Qingshan seemed to be in the team. Now the main force of the thieves has gone to Weijiawan. After arriving at Weijiawan, it is only a hundred miles away from Linqing. If you hurry up, it will take three to five days at most. After a while, Linqing might be taken down.

Hearing such news, the gentry all blew up the camp. Fortunately, there is another consoling news, that is, before the thieves besieged the city, the magistrate in the prefecture city sent people to the north, apparently to appeal to the court.

In addition, several counties near Dongchang Prefecture must have also received news, and they will definitely send urgent messengers to the capital.

Even so, the local gentry will not stay out of the matter. In the past, there was a case where the Zhili and Shandong gentry went to the capital to knock on the palace. Now that such a big event happened in the local area, everyone was furious. Writing hard and writing, the next day they each sent people to detour to Henan, and detour from Henan to the capital to report emergency and ask for reinforcements.

Forget about thieves, even thieves are making a fuss, what kind of world is this!

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The news that Li Qingshan led the main force to invade the north from the Yanggu area spread across the fields like wildfire. On the fourth day, the fastest horse delivery arrived in the capital. The Ministry of War also received an urgent report at the same time, and they were all covered in white sweat from fright.

To tell the truth, if the thieves make trouble again, as long as they don't attack the state and plunder the mansion, let him do the trouble. Anyway, the unlucky ones are only the common people. Attacking the state and counties is another matter. The court is now trying to deal with Li Qingshan, but this guy is really bold Well, Dongpingzhou won't be able to satisfy his appetite, so he came to take Linqing's idea again!

"Bastard, bastard, Liu Zeqing was praised for him, how did he lead the soldiers to fight, good guy, he went to Linqing, he went to Jinan, so selfish, how can it be used!" [

In the main hall of the Ministry of War, Chen Xinjia's face was contorted with anger, he slapped the table and began to curse.