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  Chapter 235 233 [Lead Mountain Feishi]

  After Li Zheng led troops to occupy Raozhou City, the counties of Raozhou Prefecture had an order of dispatching troops. First, go to Fuliang County first and occupy Jingdezhen; second, go to Dexing County and occupy Yinshan Town.

  Yinshan produces silver, which originated in the Northern and Southern Dynasties and flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties.

  In the Tang and Song dynasties alone, more than 100 million taels of silver were mined, and it is known as "the first mountain of silver metallurgy in the Tang Dynasty".

   Mining continued in the Ming Dynasty, but in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it was reported that the silver mines had been exhausted. What a ghost, the Qing Dynasty was still mining silver here!

   "Woo!"

  Suddenly there was a copper whistle in the mountain, which was the warning from the search team.

   Moreover, the first whistle stopped abruptly, apparently a soldier of the search team was killed.

   "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!"

  The rest of the Soushan team blew their whistles, and Li Zheng immediately asked someone to sound the bugle, and quickly stopped the army in the valley.

"kill!"

   Seeing that their whereabouts were exposed, the ambush soldiers in the mountains rushed out immediately.

  These ambush soldiers are all village warriors and miners recruited by powerful gentry in Dexing County. There are not only miners who mine silver, but also miners who mine copper, tin, and iron. In addition to silver mines, Dexing County also has the largest open-pit copper mine in Asia!

  Under Li Zheng's command, there are only 1,000 regular soldiers, 2,000 peasant soldiers, and 4,000 transport teams.

   And those gentry are powerful and armed, but there are more than 20,000 people!

  There is absolutely no possibility of compromise between the two parties, especially the tyrants who occupy the silver and copper mines. They colluded with eunuchs and civil officials, and even dared to fool the court. They are well aware of the preciousness of copper and silver mines, and Zhao Han will definitely confiscate them. This is an endless situation.

  More than 20,000 ambush soldiers rushed down from the mountains on both sides.

  Due to being discovered by the search team ahead of time, they did not enter their scheduled ambush point, so rushing over wasted a lot of time. Li Zheng had already formed his formation, and was waiting for the enemy to come and die.

   "Raise the bow!"

   "Raise the gun!"

  These ambush soldiers were completely out of order, and they ran away halfway through the charge. Coupled with the rugged terrain, they came running here and there in groups.

  In the early stage, there were missionaries and peasant associations who planned to go to Dexing County to promote Datong thought. Things went smoothly near the county seat, but after entering the mining area, most of them were driven away, and a few were killed.

  The powerful gentry spread rumors everywhere, saying that the Zhao bandits in Luling wanted to kill all the people in Dexing, and then forcibly recruited farmers to fight against miners.

   "Shhhhhh!"

   "Bang bang bang!"

  Bows and arrows and firecrackers were fired one after another, and the ambush soldiers who ran at the front were immediately frightened and scattered.

   Another round of firing, more than 20,000 enemies, all collapsed.

  They were forcibly recruited, and they are not willing to fight for the gentry. If the ambush is successful, there may still be enthusiasm. If the ambush fails, then run away. Only fools are willing to work hard for the few money.

  The mountains and plains were full of routs, and Li Zheng only captured a few hundred, so he ordered the pursuit to stop.

  After the interrogation, the soldiers immediately divided into three groups and went to find trouble with those powerful gentry.

   Li Zheng personally led his troops to a place, and this powerful man actually built an earthen building. It's just that all the slaves ran to set up an ambush, and there were not many people in the tulou to defend.

   Li Zheng asked people to come forward and shout: "If you surrender, only the head of the villain will be punished. If you resist, all will be killed! The slave brothers inside, after you surrender, you can share the land!"

   "Don't believe the nonsense of the rebels, the rebels are going to kill us all!" Hao Qiang in the tulou shouted quickly.

"Brother slaves, come out and divide the fields! According to Mr. Zhao's rules, each person can be divided into four acres of paddy fields. If there is not enough paddy fields, two acres of dry fields count as one mu of paddy fields, and each person can get eight acres of dry fields! House slaves and peasants have already been allocated fields. The hard-working brothers in Fuliang County are already dividing fields. We passed by Leping County, and Leping County is also dividing fields. Mr. Zhao is a family slave, and he will not treat you badly!"

   "Don't go out, let me see who dares!"

   "..."

  The people here may not know that Raozhou is dividing the land.

  However, Leping County is next door, and the news of Leping's land division has more or less spread.

  The domestic slaves guarding the tulou were skeptical, mainly because they did not dare to imagine such a good thing.

  But it is enough to be dubious. When Li Zheng ordered to attack the Tulou, most of the domestic slaves were unwilling to resist.

   "Mother thief, kill him!"

  But it was the sons of this powerful family, who led people to defend various parts of the earth building.

  In one of them, a house slave opened the door secretly, and the son of a powerful man immediately ordered to kill. However, only a few confidantes took action, and the rest of the slaves backed away in fright.

  Datong rattan players climbed up the ladder, and there were also only a few confidant domestic slaves who were still there to resist, and the rest were all working without any effort.

Outside the earth building, the shouting has not stopped: "Brothers, we are all hard-working people, don't sacrifice our lives for the powerful landlord. Isn't it good to save our lives and divide the fields? Hard-working people don't beat hard-working people, kill the landlords , Kill the evil gentry, kill the tyrants! Kill, the poor will rise up to rebel! The land is ours, and the world is ours too! Kill me!"

"kill!"

  When the Datong soldiers attacked the earth building, there were immediately domestic slaves rebelling, aiming their weapons at the tyrants and dogs.

   More and more slaves rebelled, and soon there was a fight inside the Tulou. Cooperating with the Datong soldiers who ascended first, they opened the two gates of the Tulou.

  Once the gate is opened, the battle is basically over, and the rest is just hunting and capturing.

  Once there is a person who resists, he will be killed on the spot immediately, and all those who do not resist will be tied up. This family belongs to the recalcitrant generation, all the men are arrested and sent to mines, the women are assigned to unmarried soldiers, and the children are sent to nursing homes. At the same time, they have to reform their minds.

  After the tulou was occupied, it was used as Li Zheng's temporary command post, leaving the supply troops to garrison the tulou.

   After a brief rest, Li Zheng immediately led his troops to the next family. This time there were many surrendered house slaves as guides.

  Li Zheng was already outraged. He occupied Raozhou Prefecture, Fuliang County, and Leping County without much resistance. This gentry from Dexing County is strong and bold. He killed several missionaries and members of the peasant association before, and today he killed three of his soldiers from Soushan. He also killed one and injured several in the attack on Tulou.

  The second target has no tulou, just an ordinary mansion compound.

  This time, there are house slaves who have surrendered and shouted, which is more convincing. The house slaves in the house quickly rebelled, killed their master and ran to open the door. After Li Zheng finished dealing with it, he immediately ran to the third tycoon.

   As long as they send troops in series to set up an ambush, none of them can escape, even if they surrender and offer land now, Li Zheng wants to completely wipe out the evil gentry and powerful forces in Dexing County!

  Because this place is so important, there are silver mines, copper mines, iron mines, and tin mines. This place will be Zhao Han's coin casting center.

  …

  When Fei Yinghuan returned to Qianshan Mountain, it was snowing heavily and it was already the twelfth lunar month of winter.

  The prefect of Guangxin is called Xie Lijing, a native of Guizhou, a disciple of Wangmen Xinxue in central Guizhou. In history, he belonged to the anti-Qing martyr, who was appointed as the governor of Sichuan by Sun Kewang. After being defeated and captured, he resisted the festival and died of hunger strike.

  Guangxin Mansion is the furthest away from Zhao Han's territory, so it has little influence here.

  Xie Lijing tried his best to help the hungry people in Zhejiang this year, but he was only trying his best. Many hungry people starved to death, and some of them froze to death when it snowed in winter.

  Hearing that the Zhao thieves continued to expand their territory, Xie Lijing immediately persuaded the gentry to pay for recruiting troops.

  A few years ago, Zhang Yinggao recruited thousands of soldiers, and the gentry of Guangxin Prefecture contributed money and personnel. As a result, there were thousands of subordinate soldiers, and there was no news of the expedition to Jishui. A few of them ran back, and there were crazy rumors that Fei Ruhe was a rebel.

   Now that Xie Lijing is recruiting soldiers again, the gentry are unwilling to make any further troubles.

  They will definitely not be able to defeat the Zhao bandits. The disaster in Zhejiang has not allowed them to escape, so they can only stay in their hometown and resign themselves to their fate. Especially in Qianshan County, there are a lot of gentry doing business and opening factories, even if their land is taken away, they can still live.

  Xie Lijing tossed and tossed for two months, and only recruited more than a thousand Xiangyong.

  The news came that the Datong Army had occupied Anren, and of the more than a thousand township braves, only a few hundred remained.

  Fei Yinghuan returned home, and Fei Yuanyi said in surprise: "You have been an official in Fujian, what are you doing when you come back? The rebels are about to kill you!"

   "Father, I'm here to deal with this matter." Fei Yinghuan said.

  Fei Yuanyi urged: "Go back to Fujian quickly and buy more land in Fujian. Maybe the Fei family will have to move in the future."

  Fei Yinghuan said: "Father, Ruhe is that General Zhao Er."

   "For example..." Fei Yuanyi said in shock, "The rumors are actually true? Didn't you write that Ruhe went to Fujian?"

   "It's just a secret." Fei Yinghuan said.

  Fei Yuanyi asked: "Then who is Mr. Zhao from Luling?"

  Fei Yinghuan replied: "Zhao Han."

   "Zhao Han?" Fei Yuanyi trembled all over, he was really scared, he had framed Zhao Han back then!

  Fei Yinghuan said: "Immediately ask the patriarch to call the whole Fei family to discuss!"

   "Okay, good." Fei Yuanyi was both surprised and happy. He was surprised that Zhao Han became the leader of the rebels, and he was happy that his grandson became the second person of the rebels.

   A few days later, the Datong army had already occupied Guixi, only one Yiyang county away from Qianshan.

  At the Fei family's ancestral house in Henglin, representatives from all branches of the Fei family came to the meeting.

  Fei Yuanzhen, head of the Fei clan, and Fei Yuanlu, head of Hanzhu Academy, are still alive. It's just that Fei Yuan is so old that he has to be supported by a maid when he walks, and his ears are a little deaf.

After everyone arrived, Fei Yuanzhen's teeth fell down, and he said with a breath of air: "The Zhao thief is coming soon. This thief is so fierce that even the officers and soldiers can't beat him. I, Fei, have no ability. For the present plan, we can only You can donate the land and keep other properties. If anyone refuses to donate the land, I am afraid it will harm the entire Fei family."

  Some people agree, some people are not happy.

   Those who agreed to donate their land were all those with business names and factories at home. Fei's family started out by doing business. On the whole, the income from commerce and industry far exceeds the output of land.

   Those who do not agree to donate land will mainly rely on land income.

   "Let me say a few words." Fei Yinghuan stood up.

   Those who disagreed with the land donation were overjoyed, because Fei Yinghuan was the most accomplished official in Fei's family. They want to rely on Fei Yinghuan, take their floating wealth to prefectures and counties, buy property and land and become landlords again.

  The land property can no longer be sold, no matter how low the price is, no one will buy it, because everyone knows that Zhao Han will come to divide the land.

  Fei Yinghuan said: "My first suggestion is that the Fei family change the patriarch."

what's the situation?

  Everyone was a little confused, but the patriarch Fei Yuanzhen was still stroking his beard and smiling, because he was hard of hearing and didn't know what Fei Yinghuan was saying.

  Fei Yinghuan approached and shouted: "The Luling Zhao thief is Zhao Han!"

   Others didn't know who Zhao Han was, but Fei Yuanlu was dumbfounded. He was too impressed by the "debate with pearls".

  Fei Yuanzhen finally heard the voice this time, and continued to stroke his beard and said, "Whether it's Zhao Han or Zhao Yan, they are all surnamed Zhao. I'm afraid they are the survivors of Zhao and Song Dynasties."

   Obviously, the patriarch has forgotten who Zhao Han is.

  Fei Yinghuan could only shout again: "Zhao Han, Hanzhu Debate, remove student status!"

   "Zhao Han... Zhao..." Fei Yuanzhen's eyes widened suddenly, and he suddenly remembered what he had instigated Fei Yuanyi to do.

   Did not bring it up in one breath, Fei Yuanzhen slumped on the chair.

   "The patriarch fainted!"

  (end of this chapter)