Blood from Daming

Chapter 600 Li Zhizhou

The magistrate of Jiangzhou, surnamed Li Henan, was a Jinshi of Bingchen Division in the 44th year of Wanli. The White Lotus Sect members outside, but Li Zhizhou was greedy for meritorious service and always wanted to make a case of the White Lotus Sect. He did not report it to the Pingyang Mansion for a long time. He did not know the situation until unidentified people kept appearing around the Jiangzhou City Prison. It's not good, so I hurriedly reported victory to Pingyang Mansion and asked Pingyang Mansion to send troops to pick up these White Lotus Sect bandits.

Li Zhizhou was only delayed for four or five days, but he didn't know that during these four or five days, the Shaanxi White Lotus Sect (Mingjiao is often called the White Lotus Sect) had already formed a siege on Jiangzhou City. On the day Zhao Riman led [-] cavalry to Jiangzhou City, Li Zhizhou had just breathed a sigh of relief when the White Lotus Sect used a sneak attack to attack Jiangzhou City.

This is mainly because Li Zhizhou didn't realize that there are big fish hidden among the followers of the White Lotus Sect, and Li Zhizhou didn't figure it out when the city of Jiangzhou was broken. Apparently, of the more than 300 people who were captured, apart from the family members of the high-ranking members of the Mingjiao, there were very few people from the White Lotus Sect in Jiangzhou City who were actually members of the Mingjiao.

After the city of Jiangzhou was broken, Li Zhizhou had not had time to summon soldiers and servants to resist, and the Zhizhou mansion was attacked by the White Lotus Sect. Fortunately, Li Zhizhou had already retreated, and hid in the tunnel with his concubine and personal servants. At dawn, he moved to the dry well that was checked by the White Lotus Sect, and then escaped the search of the White Lotus Sect.

It's just that Li Zhizhou didn't expect the Ming army's counterattack to come so quickly. In just one day, the White Lotus Sect in Jiangzhou City was completely defeated by the Ming army. Li Zhizhou immediately ran out of the dry well and continued to be his Zhizhou, commanding the entire Jiangzhou City It is a pity that the military and civilians wiped out the White Lotus Sect, but it is a pity that his majestic Zhizhou is the Ming army who cannot command the city.

Li Zhizhou became very angry, how dare these gangsters disobey the orders of the local officials, they couldn't help but get angry, but the gentry who came to see Li Zhizhou told Li Zhizhou that everyone begged his father to tell his grandma, and invited him When Xue Jiajun was in Datong, Li Zhizhou just got angry and ran away without a trace.

Li Zhizhou is a person who has read a lot of poetry and books. When he learned that the Ming army who came to rescue Jiangzhou City was the passing guest army Xue Jiajun, not the army sent by the Shangguan in Taiyuan and Pingyang, the idea of ​​​​covering up his loss of land and the fall of the city was rash. After all, Jiangzhou City only lost one day. If you manage to make the officials guard each other, you can not only cover up the past, but now the Xue family army has killed so many White Lotus Sect bandits. It is still a great credit, but the key is to Only Xue Jiajun can be dealt with.

So Li Zhizhou left everything behind, and accompanied by the gentry of Jiangzhou City, he went to the gate tower of the east city to find General Wang. The generals can be accommodating, and when reporting meritorious service to the imperial court, only mention the fierce battle of Jiangzhou City, as for the destruction of Jiangzhou City, please cover it up."

Xue Yun despised Li Zhizhou after hearing this, but Xue Yun was not of the same mind with the imperial court. He only cared about corrupt officials and corrupt officials, as long as he could use him for his own use. This is typical pragmatism. A relationship may be of great use at any time, and it can also extend the control of the trade line from Datong to Hangzhou to Jiangzhou City, and the Shanxi border on the north bank of the Yellow River will have a base.

Xue Yun said: "Master Li, there are too many people who know about this matter. Even if our Xue family army doesn't tell us, I'm afraid we still can't hold fire."

When Li Zhizhou saw someone in the Xue family's army talk to him, and his tone was loose, he knew that there was something wrong with his thoughts: "General, as long as your Xue family's army is willing to agree, the other subordinates can settle it by themselves."

After hearing this, Xue Yun said, this official's tone is not small, and it seems that he has some energy in Shanxi official circles. Xue Yun continued: "Master Li, Mr. Zhao Rimanqian has returned to Pingyang Mansion to move troops. The fall of Jiangzhou City is a big deal. I'm afraid the whole Pingyang Mansion knows about it, my lord.

Do you need to think again. "

Li Zhizhou's face became very ugly, and he said after a while: "Generals, it's not easy to be an official, and I don't want to give up lightly.

What's more, heroes and sinners are only a short distance away, and the officials are willing to give it a try, so please the generals. "

Xue Yun was silent and did not speak, Li Zhizhou hurriedly said: "Generals, I will never dare to be less courteous to Xue's army. How about raising [-] silver for your Xue's army? In the future, Xue's army will have something to do in the place under the administration of the lower officials. It must be big. Open the door of convenience."

Xue Yun thought for a while and said: "Master Li, do you think this is good? Why don't you just say that refugees have entered the city to cause chaos, and your lord has been appeasing the hungry people. Our Xue family army was invited by your lord to go to the city to quell the riots instigated by traitors. If you get rid of the crime of falling into the city, you can also realize the lie of the White Lotus Sect entering the city, what do you think, Lord Li?"

Li Zhizhou was overjoyed when he heard this, and said excitedly: "This idea is good, let's do it according to this idea, and I didn't ask General Gao's name."

At this time, there was a lot of crying and shouting downstairs at the city gate. Xue Yun took the opportunity to ignore Li Zhizhou's topic, and some soldiers entered the city tower to report: "General, many gentry and village elders have come to cry and complain and ask Xue's army to give them Revenge, now I'm desperately trying to get up to the tower."

Xue Yun frowned, knowing that these gentry and village elders were very troublesome, and worried that the gold and silver treasures left by Mingjiao in the wing room would be exposed, so he moved to the outside of the tower. The generals who complained about Xue's army had no choice but to curse those damn gentry and villagers in their hearts.

Xue Yun took the opportunity to leave Li Zhizhou because he wanted to chill Li Zhizhou, so that Li Zhizhou would be anxious, so that the cooperation would be more tacit in the future. As soon as the people reached the city wall, they surrounded Wang Erwa crying and demanding revenge for them.

It turned out that these gentry and elders were all victims of the destruction of Jiangzhou City. Either their houses were looted by the White Lotus Sect, or their houses were set on fire by the rebels. As for their relatives, they were beheaded and raped everywhere. Chasing property is even more common.

These gentry and village elders asked the Xue family army to recover their property for them and kill the captured rioters with blood debts. Wang Erwa naturally agreed and agreed with these gentry and village elders to go to the prisoner camp to identify people, as long as the gentry and village elders could identify them. Whoever entered their house, Xue Jiajun must avenge them.

General Xue’s statement made these gentry and villagers a little satisfied, and then asked Wang Erwa to recover the lost property. Now Wang Erwa said that he could only do his best, and in turn asked the gentry and villagers to submit their property He asked the dozen or so gentry and elders that he didn't know how to answer, because they didn't know the whereabouts of their belongings.

The most unlucky thing among them is the father's family in the case of the Ministry of Household Affairs. The so-called "big tree attracts wind" is indeed justified. Mingjiao first aimed at this mansion. Apart from evacuating the valuables in the mansion, Mingjiao did not make any special derailment. Next, the hooligans who flooded into the mansion were different. They robbed people and things when they saw them, and if they resisted a little, they would turn swords and guns at each other. Killing people was like cutting melons and vegetables.

The most vicious thing is the destruction of women. That is a common thing. In the whole mansion, the old servants aged 70 to [-], and the maids and girls down to [-] or [-] years old, did not escape the hands of hooligans and mobs. They spent a whole day and night , Thirteen women were killed in the entire mansion, and only three of them belonged to the resistance and were killed.

The old man followed Xue's army into the city and returned to the mansion. He learned that his family property had been looted, his two concubines, three women who were sons of officials, three other daughters-in-law, two granddaughters and three maids were killed. , and twenty or thirty women, old and young, lying there covered in dirt and half dead.

A few days ago, the old man was playing with other people's little widows in the countryside, and now he is reporting it now, but no matter how embarrassing the old man feels, he still has to find a doctor to treat the living women, otherwise the women who are lying on the ground bleeding profusely will die. The old man was so angry that he was going crazy. After the doctor came to the mansion to start the treatment, the old man ran out to invite the fellow sufferers to go to Xue Jiajun to avenge everyone's blood.

Now that the old man got the promise that Xue Jiajun could help revenge, he felt sorry for his money again, but the money ghost who went out of the house knows where it went, and only God knows how much he can get back, which made the old man very anxious, but he always Looking up, he saw Li Zhizhou, and now the old man finally found an outlet for his resentment.

The old man let out a miserable cry, and rushed towards Li Zhizhou, shouting: "You dog official, I will fight you today."

Li Zhizhou was taken aback by the old man's actions, and quickly hid behind Xue Yun. The old man was in vain and hit the wall of the tower, his head was bleeding for a while. The old man hated Li Zhizhou for not being able to defend Jiangzhou City, causing his family to be ruined, and now Li Zhizhou has not been beaten to vent his anger, so grief came from it, and he lay on the ground and cried bitterly.

But the old man's leadership played a role. Now more than a dozen gentry and village elders have their eyes on Li Zhizhou. Everyone hates this incompetent Zhizhou. Zhizhou and Li Zhizhou hid in the city gate building when they saw something was wrong.

More than a dozen gentry and village elders refused to let go, helped their father in the household department, and rushed into the city gate building together. The soldiers of Xue's army, who were a little hesitant, reacted quickly and sealed off these gentry and village elders. On the way to the gate of the city, these gentry and villagers saw that Li Zhizhou could not be defeated by the beating, they all beat their chests, beat their backs, and wailed loudly.

(End of this chapter)