Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2193 Yonghua Appeasement
"Although all of you in Yonghua Township have committed crimes, you were the leaders in besieging the county this time. Is this true?"

The other three Tianchang Lords immediately echoed: "Master, it's true! It was Baimang Village who instigated us to attack the county!"

The Tianchang Lord in Baimanzhai couldn't argue with a hundred words, he just kept calling for grievances, kowtowing like garlic.Whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Song Dynasty, they are always "officers and soldiers". Since ancient times, officers and soldiers "fu Yao", killing people and setting fires, massacring villages and villages is a common occurrence.They all saw how powerful the officers and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty were last night.Just about to go to Yonghua Township to "fuyao", that would be a catastrophe for destroying the family.The Tianchang Lord knew very well what was going on, so he had no choice but to cry for grievances.

Huang Chao himself did not mean to use the Yonghua Yao people to stand up: the Yao people in Yonghua have been registered as households for many years, and they have more contacts with the local Han people. They are objects that can be wooed. Great help.

However, the scale of the Yao people's riots was so large that even the Yonghua Yao people, who had always been "safe and secure" in their daily life, participated in it.If these Yao people are not allowed to "know fear", it is impossible to make them obey my command.

"Let's not say that you colluded with the Ba Pai Yao rebellious party, the crimes you committed in Baimang village are enough to slaughter your whole village." Huang Chao said solemnly.

"Master, please spare me! Xiaozhai is really not the leader! Every village has someone who seduces Ba Pai Yao!...all of them..." Tian Changgong shouted hoarsely, "I am willing to report!"

"He's talking nonsense!" "Speak out of your conscience!" "Won't your conscience hurt when you say that?!"

Huang Chao raised his hand to signal them to stop arguing.He glanced at the four Tianchanggongs, and said: "Who has colluded and who has not, I know very well. You will go down in a while, and each write a letter to argue. If you write clearly, you will get credit for it." Sin! If you are ambiguous and want to be sloppy, don't blame me for being ruthless."

"Little illiterate..."

"You said, I will arrange for someone to write it." Huang Chao said, "There is one more thing, you send people back to the stockade immediately. Anyone who robs things or kidnaps people will be sent back to the county within three days. Come. If you don’t return it when it’s due, I’ll have to send someone to pick it up.”

Several Tianchanggongs were frowning, so they had to say "yes".

"But we still have to buy salt. There is no salt in the village..." Pan Tianshun said with a sad face.

"You can only eat salt if you have a brain." Huang Chao said coldly.

Seeing this, Huang Chao grinned and said, "Do as I say, listen to me, and I will guarantee you salt."

The four heavenly masters knew what Huang Chao would ask for, so they waited silently for Huang Chao to speak again.

"You can go back tomorrow morning, and I can let your people go, but the morning after tomorrow, I will meet your young men outside Lianzhou City: eighteen to forty, all with weapons, come to the county to listen to me order."

The Tianchang Lords glanced at each other. The condition was not harsh, but it was strange.They have been dealing with the government and doing business with businessmen for many years, and they have long developed a suspicious habit.Is this trick going to lure their young and strong to kill them?This kind of thing has been heard to have been done by the government in the past.

Huang Chao saw them faltering one by one, with embarrassment on their faces, and couldn't figure it out at first, thinking what's so rare about this matter?asked:

"What trouble do you have?"

"This, this..." Pan Tianshun was in a dilemma. To be honest, wouldn't it make the official of the Song Dynasty furious? Not to mention whether the other party was planning to frame him, but once he said this, he had to push them all out. Beheading is not allowed.

It was Peng Shouchen who had lived here for a long time and had experience in dealing with the Yao people. Seeing that he already understood the situation, he said a few words to Huang Chao in a low voice.Huang Chao laughed when he heard that, shook his head and said:
"If you want to kill last night, you will kill them all, and you will be kept alive until now, so is it worth doing these tricks?" Huang Chao expressed disdain.

The four Tianchanggong knew that what Huang Chao said was true, but they couldn't make a decision right away. They discussed with each other, and Pan Tianshun put forward a condition on behalf of the four: "We must have a hostage."

"hostage?"

Huang Chao suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed so loudly that everyone couldn't figure it out. It took him a while to stop his smile, and said seriously: "Everyone, open your eyes and have a look! Heavenly soldiers from the Yuanyuan of the Great Song Dynasty are here. If I want you The heads of a few strong men in the village, you could have been slaughtered in the last night's battle, and today you will kill all the villages without leaving any chickens and dogs behind - what is the trouble? You all understand: I want to You have been living in Qimin for many years, and you are all peaceful and kind people. This time, you were instigated by Ba Pai Yao to besiege the county town—a lot of people died. I pity you and wait for a way out! It's death, it's all in your mind!"

These words made several Tianchanggong's faces turn pale.Pan Tianshun glanced at the others and dared not speak again.

Huang Chao told them to release all the captured Yao people, and the wounded also received simple treatment.As for the corpses of the war dead, the heads are not cut off, and the villages are told that they are willing to collect them as they please, and those who are not retrieved are buried on the spot.The seized weapons were also returned to them—the Yao people's weapons were worse than those of the worst officers and soldiers. There were not even many iron weapons, and many of them were bamboo spears.

From the next day, the Yao people from Sizhai came one after another under the leadership of Tianchanggong. They not only brought back the looted property, but also brought back more than 500 men, women, old and young people from Yangshan County and the surrounding areas.

Huang Chao looked at the belongings they handed back, and it was really shabby and pitiful.The Han people in Yangshan can't say how rich they are, and naturally they can't talk about how many small and soft goods.Seeing that they sent back not only the clumsy furniture of ordinary citizens, but also all kinds of farm tools, as for the cloth, food and clothing, in their eyes, they were the best spoils.

"It's really the poor robbing the poor." Huang Chao looked at the Yao people who came to pay their things and the local people who came to claim their things, and secretly sympathized with him. It seems that if we want to live in peace and stability here for a long time, we must let everyone live a life of food and clothing. .

The things returned were miscellaneous and piled up in a large pile in front of the county government office. Except for the large items of furniture, most of the things could not be clearly distinguished. Wang Chuyi followed Huang Chao's instructions to uniformly register and make books and distribute them to the people. .

The looted objects were not registered, and naturally it was impossible to check whether the Yao people in Yonghua had returned them honestly.But Huang Chao just opened his eyes and closed his eyes.Sizhai Tianchanggong said that all the stolen things have been returned, but part of the salt has been used, and there is no way to return it...

"I won't pursue salt. It's difficult for you to eat salt, and it's expensive. I've heard about it." Huang Chao said.

"Thank you sir!"

"Where's Ding Zhuang?"

"They're all here. Wait outside the south gate for the master's inspection."

Outside the south gate, the Sizhai Yao people Ding Zhuang had already assembled, because he only needed 60 to 100 Ding Zhuang, and there were five or [-] people killed and wounded in the ambush, so it was a good time to come. Ding Zhuang only has more than [-] people.According to his prior instructions, they carried bamboo spears and crossbows uniformly.

He looked at Ding Zhuang's complexion and thought it was okay.Anyway, the people in this time and space are all dark and malnourished.It's just that the clothes are a little tattered, and some people are wearing clothes that were obviously stolen.

Huang Chao asked these young men to wear blue armbands and form the National Army Yangshan Temporary Squadron.One of the squads stayed in Yangshan, and the National Army was in charge of "military training", and the other two squads were ordered to follow the main force to Lianzhou.

Huang Chao stayed in Yangshan for a day to take care of some urgent affairs in Yangshan. In the early morning of June 6, he led his troops along the Lianjiang River to the north on the small steamer that was reinforced from Guangzhou, and came with the small steamer for reinforcements There are also two small gunboats, six 12-pound mountain howitzers and their gunners, and 12 artillery cadets.

At noon, the fleet arrived in Lianzhou. Huang Chao is originally from Lianzhou in northern Guangdong. This is the first time he has returned to his hometown in eight years. Looking at his hometown in 1635, Huang Chao was speechless for a while.Back then, he and his wife Huang Susu chose to time travel because their families disagreed with their marriage.Now he has returned to his hometown, but his parents are in another time and space.Huang Chao couldn't help sighing for a while, was he too naive back then, shouldn't he convince both parents again?

Huang Chao didn't want to think too much. He didn't even see the beautiful scenery of the Three Gorges of Huangchuan on the way here. He had a lot of problems to solve in front of him.The troops landed in the west of Lianzhou City, on the other side of the Longjinmen Wharf. There were only 60 or 500 people outside the gates of Lianzhou City, and they were generally older.Huang Chao roughly estimated that there are a total of ten gates in the old city and the new city of Lianzhou City. Except for the south gate of the old city connecting the old and new cities, the other nine gates lead to the outside of the city and now surround Lianzhou City. There are about 600 people, and the rest will either hide in a certain place, or scatter to plunder the surrounding villages, but this is not very risky. Most of the villages in Lianzhou have built walls, and every village has a strong guard. It is impossible to attack a stockade without dispatching five or six hundred people each time. If more people are dispatched, the defenders in Lianzhou City will break through if they seize the opportunity.

According to the information before departure, there are more than a thousand people in the eight rows of Yao who besieged the city. According to Pan Tianshun, Huang Chao estimated that there are about 24 to 3000 young and strong people in the eight rows of 1000 Chong.The Ba Pai Yao who besieged Lianzhou City probably had more than [-] people, ranging from [-] to [-].Therefore, there is still a large part of Ba Pai Yao's troops that have not been discovered, and there is still a large part of the young and strong left behind.

Now, Huang Chao has only 400 people at hand, one national army squadron in Yangshan, one squadron in Yonghua Township, and only one brigade and Li Miao Company who followed Huang Chao to Lianzhou.Huang Chao was unable to attack, so he chose to control the various ferries on the west bank of the Lianjiang River and block the retreat of Ba Pai Yao to the west.Now it depends on whether Yang Zeng can occupy Luming Pass in time.

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