Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 225 Silly
A puff of thick black smoke lingered over Xinzhou City like a skull. Even at dawn, there was still a crackling fire. The large tracts of shops in the town were robbed directly, and all the residents of Xinzhou in the houses were driven out of the city, and the houses were burned down with a torch. It is really easy to destroy and difficult to build. In just one night, three quarters of Xinzhou City were reduced to ruins. More than [-] Xinzhou residents became refugees.

This is how the Taiping army expanded its strength. After the burning, the Gezuo cavalry set up a recruiting gate outside the city. Tens of thousands of poor people in Xinzhou who could no longer make a living joined the refugee army. It tripled.

It is no wonder that the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty was invincible. Natural disasters and man-made disasters continued to force the settled residents into refugees. With so much land and food, people were naturally unwilling to starve to death. Large groups of refugees continued to attack those unaffected areas, seeking In order to survive, the chaos continues to spread, like a cancer that keeps spreading.

In fact, if the imperial court does its best to provide disaster relief, those well-dressed scholar-bureaucrats will be wiser, and it is not too late to take out the surplus food in the south of the Yangtze River just like when one side is in trouble and the eight sides support it. In the three provinces, the Peasant Army has not spread to the whole country.

It is a pity that there is no if in history. Regardless of the scholar-bureaucrats in the court or the Donglin Party in the opposition, all parties are doing their best to maintain their current vested interests. The huge wealth inequality has made the Ming Dynasty a brewing war. Once the seven years of Chongzhen, the peasant army officially began to flee the country, the Ming Dynasty can be recorded in the countdown to its demise.

There is a peasant army inside, and Eastern captives outside. The Ming Dynasty is now facing a change that has never been seen in China's 4000-year history. Unfortunately, Song Qingshu himself is one of the guys who are standing on the big ship of the Ming Dynasty and tearing down the wooden boards. Looking at the tens of thousands of residents of Xinzhou City who were trembling and displaced outside the city, he also felt helpless.

Even if he put down his weapon, the Ming Dynasty is still rushing towards this abyss at a very fast speed, and he has already learned a lesson in Shaanxi. The only thing he can do now is to keep himself and the people around him alive, and tear down the planks of the big ship , see if I can build myself a lifeboat.

"He's handsome! He's handsome!"

Just when Song Qingshu was fascinated by hiding on the city gate and watching, "Sun Chuanting" ran up from under the city tower with great excitement. Seeing his rigid face and characteristic three-piece beard, Song Qingshu changed his mood a little bit, which is funny Said: "I said yes, why are you still wearing this thing now? Isn't it hot?"

"Qu Shuai, Ma'am, didn't you say that you can't touch it after finally painting it? I don't even dare to bow my head when I'm so young!"

"Okay, okay, there are no outsiders here, pick it up!"

Seeing Song Qingshu waving his hands again and again, this guy is really amnesty. He picked his face with both hands, and actually took off the whole face. Inside, his face was already flushed with sweat, but the human skin mask Zhang Haocai didn't care about it. Without throwing it away, the ball was stuffed into the waist pocket again.

The round image, this guy is really much inferior to Sun Chuanting's tall and righteous appearance, his small eyes are wicked, and his mustache looks like a villain in a movie. Fortunately, this guy is also a scholar, and he was a county magistrate for a while. How should an official pretend to be aggressive? This lost the mask, but the prototype was revealed again.

"Oh, Qu Shuai, you don't know, I was suffocated to death this night, this mask made of pigskin is not breathable at all."

"Okay, okay, what do you want me to do?" Song Qingshu was not in the mood to listen to this scum among scholars slapping his thighs and complaining, so he hurriedly asked, and when he said this, Zhang Haocai slapped his head with great excitement.

"Shuai Qu, the statistics of the wealth and goods are not enough, the leader of Geliyan and the leader of King Zuojin, please go and see for yourself!"

"It's such a hassle to pay the money!" Song Qingshu was really impatient and hummed dissatisfied that he had to take care of such trivial matters.

But when he really went down the city gate building with Zhang Hao, and arrived at a farm yard in the north of the city where the property was temporarily stored, Song Qingshu himself was a little dumbfounded.

What is Priceless?Now, most of the things in the city are here!No less than 12 dans of grain and 5 taels of silver were confiscated from the official granary and silver treasury alone. Know how many.

Especially in his house, Song Qingshu also copied a special gift.

Moreover, there are many merchants in Xinzhou, rich merchants and landlords have a lot of houses in the city, probably not less than a thousand households, and the looted medicinal materials, food, cloth, and various sundries are countless, not to mention there are more than [-] ordinary people.

In the past, if the peasant army washed the city, they usually ran away after grabbing what they needed, and then burned it. Many precious antiques and porcelain were all destroyed. I know, but this time, firstly, it was the state capital of Dacheng, and secondly, Song Qingshu demanded that all be divided equally. After this resistance, let alone Zhang Haocai wrote the account book records, even the two cousins, He Yilong and He Jin, who were in charge of moving shocked.

Song Qingshu himself was also in a daze when he saw it, and he walked around the astonishing mountain of wealth a few times before he finally regained his senses.

"Song Shuai, you share it! Our brothers can take whatever you want, I believe they won't pick and choose!" He Yilong's near-sighted eyes were almost cross-eyed, and he slobbered aside , It was hard to complete the sentence, but Song Qingshu couldn't help being stunned when he heard it. When did these stingy guys become so generous?

But after only a moment, Song Qingshu understood that it wasn't that He Jinhe Yilong was generous, but that he didn't move!The fifth battalion of Gezuo was a bandit without a fixed base, so they couldn't move so much property, no matter how much food and cloth they couldn't move, it was useless, and things that couldn't be moved were like waste to them.

It was so hard to snatch it out, it’s a pity to destroy it, it’s better to give most of it to myself, in this case, I can’t care about things that the peasant army is in short supply, such as weapons, armor, food and medicine.

After figuring this out, Song Qingshu suddenly shook his head heavily, stared at He Yilong and He Jin with a serious look and said.

"I, Song, keep my word. If I say equal share, it will be equally divided! But now the situation is special, I have a proposal, I don't know what you two think?"

"Oh? Song Shuai just say it!"

"If the two brothers can trust me, you can take the most important things now, and store the rest with Mr. Song. When I go back, I will sort them all into books, convert them into silver, and send someone to send the books, everyone. As long as the army is still in Shanxi and needs any supplies or money, I will send someone to Dai County to find me, and I will never refuse if I can help you buy it, what do you think?"

He Jin and He Yilong were really stupid for a moment, this is like a pie in the sky for the peasant army!Crazy people don't agree!Without even a moment's hesitation, the two leaders clasped their fists together.

"Song Shuai Gao Yi, I will do as you say!"

After the discussion was settled, the cavalrymen under their command immediately went to carry them with the order of the two congratulations. They were the first to take away all the iron armor and cloth face armor of the officers and soldiers. In an instant, there were more than 1000 iron armored cavalry and more than 3000 cloth face armor knights. , and then bundles of spears, big knives, and even ordinary people's hatchets, butcher knives, and axes were all scraped away to equip the newly recruited, even the queue would not stand nearly [-] Xinzhou City men and women, as for They didn't move much food. On the one hand, they really couldn't take much away. On the other hand, they had to continue fighting with the government and army soon, so they brought too much stuff and couldn't spare their hands.

Song Qingshu and the others took care of the rest. When planning this black and white take-all, Song Qingshu specially ordered carts and mules and horses to be prepared, and dispatched more than 2000 beggar sabermen to carry them. But when the time came, Song Qingshu Only then did I realize that I had not prepared enough.

Anyway, Xinkou Village is now under his control, and several counties in Yuanping have become shrunken turtles. Song Qingshu simply ordered the convoy to move the things to Xinkou Village first, and then slowly tossed into the mountains.

This strong man was carrying the boxes into the boxes, while Zhang Haocai was still groaning and counting the accounts. Finally, dozens of boxes of silk were loaded into the car, and when he found time, Zhang Haocai got depressed again, and Song Qingshu, who was watching the things moving leisurely, complained. road.

"Shuai Qu, why are you always so generous? It's clear that the two old hats can't take away so much wealth, why do you always divide them in half? It's no less than 10 taels. !"

Holding a straw stick in his mouth, he watched the Gezuo cavalry tensely preparing for the next desperate battle. After a while, Song Qingshu spit out the straw stick and turned around, smiling disdainfully: "This Gezuo, and Cao Cao It’s not so easy to take advantage of it, this time we took the initiative, suppressing them and they have to pretend to be grandchildren, if we take all the things with empty teeth, these six bastards may hate us in the future!”

"Besides, if we win half of the battle, it means that these guys have a hostage in our hands, like a Xianger. In the future, they will have to worry about our Daixian, and they dare not come here to make trouble easily. If you grow up in the future, trade with us a few times to hide the sweetness. In the future, the things they plundered will be sent to us, and the money they can earn is much more than these."

"Besides, things that come in vain, do you feel sorry for the fart?"

Hearing what Song Qingshu said, Zhang Haocai really felt a little stunned. No wonder he, Song, is the boss, and he is the accountant. There are so many ways that I really didn't expect.

"Also, don't be so serious, go back and make up a fake account, and just give them the account book of 30 to [-] taels, and those bastards don't understand!"

"Qu Shuai, you are really tall!"

Zhang Haocai raised his thumb. Immediately, there were bursts of evil laughter unique to profiteers beside Zhuangzi, and the hairs on the backs of the beggars who were moving things were straightened.

On the other side, Lubanzhai official army camp.

As Song Qingshu said, when the money is in place, everything is easy to use. The carts are full of grain, and there are even a lot of strategic materials such as horse feed, bow strings, and horseshoes. One by one, the officers and soldiers drove the carts weakly, but they were transported to the mountains.

"Hurry up, hurry up, you all know very well, don't be greedy, if you lose a bag, my master will take you to jail for questioning!"

Master Shaoxing still threatened every soldier one by one, and then he ran back with a smile on his face, nodding and bowing his head, and reported to the prefect Zhao Qinggong, who was enjoying the shade with a fan in the gazebo.

"Okay, well done. When your master is promoted, I will never forget you. I have already said hello to Shanxi Xuezheng. Next year, I will definitely give you fame!"

"Oh, thank you, master, for your support!" Hearing Zhao Sheng's promise, the master was so excited that he almost wagged his tail.

But at this time when the master and servant were full of ambition and thinking about tomorrow, there was a sudden sound of horseshoes in the barracks, and the dust was swept up by the horse, and rushed to the gazebo, eating Zhao Qing who had a mouthful of ashes. Before he could start cursing, a proud and strong man with a long beard jumped off his horse and rushed in anxiously, picking up his collar.

"Has the food been delivered?"

"Send, send it out, Mr. Xu, what, what's the matter?"

Xu Dingguo's face was terribly pale, and his two copper bell-like eyeballs were bloodshot. Zhao Qing was a literati after all, and seeing his terrifying appearance, his voice changed a little.

After saying a word, Xu Dingguo staggered back two steps, and immediately sat down on the ground exhaustedly.

"Xu Zongbing, what's the matter?" Monk Zhang Er was puzzled by this appearance, and after recovering, Zhao Qing couldn't help but asked again hastily.

"The begging army who disappeared in Taihang Mountain for half a year reappeared. Last night, they went down to Xinzhou City."

Damn, the fan in Zhao Qing's hand fell directly to the ground...

(End of this chapter)