Blood from Daming

Chapter 86 Suspicion
It was almost noon when Abatai led all kinds of people to the town's border fort, and the soldiers and civilians of the town's border fort thought that the Tartars would not come today.

Abatai, Niu Luzhang Jingborjin, Yaxichan and other Jurchen are still supervising the army, and the five Mongolian Khalkha tribes continue to attack according to yesterday's arrangement. Hundreds of people died in our five departments. Why are we still going up today? Why do you Jurchens stay behind and watch us? What is this?

Khalkha's five tribes were slowly preparing to attack the town's border fort. Rumors spread among the soldiers, saying that the Tartars had hundreds of heads cut off by the Ming army overnight. It was Ming general Feijian who killed people, and some people said that ghosts and gods haunted and bit people's heads to suck blood. There are also rumors that someone took the heads of Tartars to Datong City of Ming Dynasty to exchange for money. I heard that many people made a fortune. You If you are lucky, the head of Niu Lu Zhang Jing is worth 1000 taels of silver.

The Mongolian soldiers who surrounded the fort were disturbed and the team started to herd sheep. It was noon and the attack had not yet started. Abatai's temper was already hot, so he brought his men to Zalut's department and beat them with a whip. The soldiers were tearing apart and crying for their father and mother. They couldn't take it anymore and had to run forward, but the front was the fort wall. As soon as they reached the top of the fort wall, the stone feather arrows came down, causing a lot of casualties. Ji Laxi saw it but didn't see it. Dare to say more, but you are cruel. Anyway, you let my subordinates prepare before attacking. Isn't it a waste of death if you go up like this.

The Mongol soldiers were particularly weak today. Affected by the fact that the heads of the Tartars were cut off in the barracks, everyone lost their spirits, and the attack was weak. When he came back, Abatai was covered in sweat, and he was attacked by soldiers from the five Khalkha tribes everywhere. Finally, he chopped off a few heads to make some progress, but it was getting late, and Abate had no choice but to withdraw his troops.

Abate was so exhausted that he didn't even go to see Huang Taiji once he returned to the camp, so he fell asleep snoringly. About four o'clock, someone from Emperor Taiji's subordinates called him over, and Abate was so angry that he didn't know that the emperor What's wrong with Tai Chi? I've been dozing off and haven't woken up yet.

Abatai entered the big account, there were already many people around Huang Taiji, Niu Luzhang Jingboerjin, Yaxichan, the leaders of the five Khalkha tribes also arrived, and even Mang Gurtai was sleeping on a soft couch , Abatai was the last one to come. He saw that Huang Taiji's complexion had improved a lot, and he seemed to be in a bad mood. Huang Taiji signaled Niu Luzhang Jingboer to advance.

Niu Luzhang Jingboerjin said: "About half an hour ago, the night patrol soldiers found that several camps near the south had a strong smell of blood, so they boldly stepped forward to check and found that 27 people in five camps had their heads cut off, and the blood stains were facing south. There were hoofprints of about a dozen horses."

Niu Luzhang Jing Yaxichan added: "The strange thing is that 27 people were killed in five camps, and the five camps were not very close to each other. Moreover, some people in the camps had their heads cut off, and some were still sleeping soundly, so Lord Belle, please come and take a closer look."

The collective silence of the people is too weird and terrifying, especially where the leader of the five tribes of Khalkha in Mongolia feels uncomfortable. , One by one, cold sweat broke out on their backs.

In the end, everyone believed that although some Mongols had escaped, there should be an inner ghost Huang Taiji ordered Abatai, Borjin, and Yaxichan to search for the inner ghosts in the Mongolian camps.

Huang Taiji asked the leaders of the five tribes of Khalkha to fully cooperate with the investigation. Now that the border fort could not be fought, Abatai took a large group of people to catch the so-called inner ghosts. Finally, the sad day for the soldiers of the five tribes of Mongolia came. up.

Abatai, Borjin, Yaxichan and others dealt with the head-cutting incident roughly and simply, and those who woke up at night and couldn't sleep well in the middle of the night, or looked unnatural, spoke poorly, and suspected that relatives and friends stayed in the south They were all arrested and interrogated. This interrogation was terrible.

At first everyone refused to admit it, but then Abatai, Boerjin, and Yaxichan beat, kicked and whipped them. Some people couldn't take it anymore and began to confess. One by one, they bit more and more. By the end of the interrogation, there were already 2000 people. , and some people confessed that they have not had time to arrest them.

Looking at the clansmen who were beaten to death, dozens of people were killed on the spot.The leaders of Muboha, Qibush, Zarut, Bayuete, and Kuerga can't sit still. They have already found out their cronies. Everyone, the accountant can't let people like Abate mess around, so let's meet Huang Taiji together.

After listening to everyone's words, Huang Taiji was also in a dilemma. Now the impact of the head-cutting incident is very bad. He knows that many people have been wronged, but if the investigation does not go down, what is the prestige of the Jurchen Jin Kingdom? Will these Mongolian barbarians be obedient in the future? , but the leader of the five Khalkha tribes had to give face, and ordered his servants to invite Abate.

Xue Yun is currently sleeping at home, when Miss Yu went into the back room and saw Xue Yun was still on the bed, she stepped forward and slapped Xue Yun with two hands. When Xue Yun woke up, she found that it was Miss Yu who had come, holding her head She fell asleep again, when Miss Yu was about to get angry, Ha Rizhu pulled her over and stopped her, and then told Xue Yun the whole story of sleeping late.

It turned out that Xue Yun bought and sold people, or Mongols who came to join the Ming Dynasty, and let some go back to serve as eyeliners, pass on news, spread rumors and create a terrifying atmosphere, etc.

Last night, Xue Yun felt that it was necessary to light another fire between Huang Taiji and the five Mongolian Khalkhas, and also tried to help the town border fort to win a relatively stable defensive situation. weird events.

Miss Yu blamed Xue Yun for being too disregarding of her own safety. After all, you are no longer alone, so you should think more about your sisters. The eldest lady was as docile as a cat curled up into a ball, and other places naturally became the objects of Xue Yun's patronage.

Recently, Harijula ​​was a bit annoyed. When his brother Wu Keshan heard that Harijula ​​had pulled a team, he sent someone to make irresponsible remarks, and began to ask Harijula ​​for command power. After being rejected by Harijula, Wu Keshan helped Xue On the grounds of Yun, he asked Xue Yun to support him or send a betrothal gift, and made a list of materials worth about 40 taels of silver. He hoped that Xue Yun would fulfill it as soon as possible. We ate.

Xue Yun was very speechless when he found out, this money can’t be given or not given, Wu Keshan will be spoiled if given this money, if this money is not given, there is no guarantee that Wu Keshan will not turn his face and deny others, maybe he will cooperate with Huang Taiji to do something that endangers Daming However, Xue Yun is not an ostentatious rich man, so Xue Yun and Hari Zhula are worrying about it.

Miss Yu giggled: "You should post some money to uncle."

Xue Yun: "Miss, you don't know that the landlord's family doesn't have any surplus food. The head of the Tartar Killing Order, Qian, said that he was looking for a donation from a big family. In fact, I paid for it by myself. Recently, I have spent nearly [-] silver. gone."

Miss Yu: "You don't want to pay yourself, of course you have to ask others to pay. You can find a few fat pigs and kill them."

Xue Yun: "Nowadays Datong City doesn't say that there are no fat pigs killed, even if there are not many lean pigs, and the pigs have to be fattened to kill them to be cost-effective, but I am an honest rich man with clear grievances and grievances. Can't do it."

Miss Yu: "The most irritating thing is that after fighting the battles of Dai Wang Mansion in the past few months, he has nothing to lose, and his business is getting bigger and bigger. Some businessmen came to my Yu's house to report that many merchants who went to Zhangjiakou, Xuan Mansion, enjoyed it under the sign of Wang Mansion. The tax-free treatment makes it impossible for them to compete with these peers and do business."

Xue Yun: "That's right, Miss, tell me the details."

In the past few months, the battle between the Ming army, Jianzhou, and Mongolian armies took place in Datong. For a while, the price of goods out of the mouth soared, especially the Zhangjiakou line, which became the largest golden line for Daming to export to Jianzhou and Mongolia. Businessmen from all over the country flocked. In order to make a fortune here, some people even want to steal the basic government tax while making a fortune, and come up with all kinds of tricks to deal with the inspection of the officials sent by the government. Buying the Daiwangfu is just one of them.

Xue Yun immediately asked Yang Zhenlei to come in and ask him to learn about the transactions of large merchants from Datong to Xuanfu and Zhangjiakou. After Yang Zhenlei went, Miss Yu said, "Xue Lang, you want to attract the attention of the caravan. "

Xue Yun: "You're not accurate, it should be those unscrupulous businessmen who evade taxes, evade taxes, and build captives. I can't be considered a good person, but I have a bottom line, that is, I can't let the honest people suffer, and the cunning people take over as cheap as possible."

In the afternoon, Yang Zhenlei came back and reported to Xue Yun what he had learned: Recently, several caravans have passed through Yingzhou from Yanmen Pass, and Hunyuan Prefecture went directly to Yangyuan, Xuanfu. For taxes and fees, the officials of Datong Mansion only collected taxes from a few small-scale caravans and scattered merchants, so the taxes collected by Datong Mansion recently dropped. Thousands of elite cavalry.

Xue Yun scratched his head for a while before instructing Yang Zhenlei: "You arrange more people to collect all kinds of information around Datong, you can recruit some local people, and expand to Mongolia and Jianzhou if conditions permit, and you will go to the account room to withdraw a sum of money for later use." , In the future, the intelligence will be summarized into a system and sent directly to me.”

Then Xue Yun spent half an hour briefly talking to Yang Zhenlei about intelligence work plans, action guidelines, and specific means of operation, etc., and told him to come and discuss with Yang Zhenlei any time he didn't understand. He was stunned for a while, this young master is simply a god-man, there is nothing in the world that he doesn't know, and he can say something about it if there is nothing in the world, Yang Zhenlei looked at Xue Yun with stars in his eyes, this is a coincidence idol.

After Yang Zhenlei left, Miss Yu pressed Xue Yun's head and asked, "What's inside you, let me open it and have a look."

Xue Yun pretended to be scared: "Missy wants to murder her husband." He turned over and pulled Miss Yu into bed.

(End of this chapter)