The Most Powerful Man in the World

Chu Yi nodded slightly in appreciation and said, "What a good Wang Shouren, and indeed his tactics are quite extraordinary. Now, it seems that in less than half a month, the chaos in Jiangnan can be pacified!"

Xu Tianzuo couldn't help but said: "Thanks to the great general manager's insight and knowledge, if it were not for the high general manager who entrusted Mr. Wang with a heavy responsibility, who would have known that Mr. Wang had such talent."

Everyone knows that Wang Shouren is a civil servant, and it is Chu Yi who values ​​him and entrusts him with military power, which is why the famous Wang Shouren is born.

Wang Shouren's reputation has already moved the world with King Ning's rebellion.

Although it is said that Wang Shouren has not been able to quell the rebellion of King Ning and gain a great reputation in this life, the momentum of King Ning's rebellion this time is not trivial, and it has spread to more than half of Jiangnan.The impact is also extraordinary.

Chu Yi quelled King Ning's rebellion, whether it was seen by the court or the world, it was normal, and Wang Shouren's outstanding performance was the biggest highlight of this King Ning's rebellion.

Wang Shouren was stunned that before the reinforcements of the imperial court arrived, he relied on his own ability to unite the local troops, first defeated a few generals under King Ning, and then seized the lair of King Ning in Nanchang City, and then went to Jiujiang and swept Anqing. Now, in the land of Jiangnan, the rebels are swept across the Jiangnan like the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, and there have been at least dozens of wars, large and small.

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Wang Shouren's outstanding performance was naturally passed on to the capital. I don't know how many people in the capital were surprised by it. Who would have thought that Wang Shouren, who has always been a book businessman, would have such a military talent.

If Wang Shouren managed one side and performed outstandingly, then everyone would not be so shocked. After all, Wang Shouren is a pure literati, and it is normal to govern one side, but he has fought thousands of miles and dozens of wars, big and small, without a single defeat. Where does talent come from.

It can only be said that Wang Shouren is a natural talent, and Yunwen Yunwu is a rare virtuous person in the court.

It is said that even Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but admire Wang Shouren's performance when he learned about it.

A few days later, Chu Yi looked at Fang Li and Tang Bohu who looked tired and couldn't help but smiled and said, "Fang Li, you have to take care of your body. If everyone is tired, who will help? The Governor shares his worries!"

Fang Li stepped forward and presented a thick book of accounts: "The chief is so kind, we should do our best to do it. This is what we have stolen from each family. The statistics are already clear, please ask the chief. reading!"

Chu Yi took the ledger with a slight smile and said, "Oh, let's hear it, how much did you get from copying your family's wealth?"

Fang Li and Tang Bohu looked at each other, only to hear Tang Bohu speak slowly, his voice a little dry: "Return to the chief executive, according to our statistics, we have not made any money from this copy, totaling [-] million taels of gold and [-] silver taels. [-] taels, including tens of thousands of jade and jewelry, nearly [-] acres of land, and thousands of shops all over the south of the Yangtze River. The total amount of food collected is more than [-] million stone, and hundreds of mines... Such a variety, if estimated, is worth hundreds of millions!"

Chu Yi nodded slightly, but there was a calm expression on his face.

If the entire city of Nanjing was seized, it is not uncommon to be able to seize such a large amount of property. In the huge southern part of the Yangtze River, at least [-] to [-]% of the wealth is gathered in the hands of these powerful and tyrannical gentry.

The court is naturally rich all of a sudden, but this is only part of it. Don’t forget that the Jiangnan rebellion is not limited to Nanjing City. There are also hundreds of large and small families participating in the Jiangnan. These families may be more than The wealth of these powerful families in Nanjing City is not allowed, but these families are also local snakes.

Not to mention more, if you live in a county, you should have a net worth of more than [-] taels. If you do the math, after Wang Yangming pacified the place, the income from looting will definitely not be less than tens of millions of taels. When the two are combined, Jiangnan At least a small half of the wealth should be looted.

Looking at Chu Yi, Fang Li said slowly, "General Manager, the property obtained from these raids..."

If Chu Yi had the heart, he could easily greed for tens of millions of taels of ink without being aware of it. If it were someone like Liu Jin who was greedy for money, at least half of the property would have to go into Liu Jin's hands.

But Chu Yi has no interest in these properties at all. When the wealth reaches a certain level, that is, a number, no amount of wealth can be taken away, so Chu Yi glanced at Fang Li and waved his hand: "You personally Lead someone to supervise them, and pack the gold, silver, and property into boxes, and the Governor will send someone to escort them back to the capital in person."

Take it from the people, use it for the people.

The annual tax of the Daming court is only a few million taels. It can be said that there is no poorer than the Daming court in all dynasties. If there are these stolen goods, the court will inevitably become rich, and then the water conservancy will be built, disaster relief will be built, and armour will be built. You can drop a lot of silver taels when you wait.

Not to mention, the construction of water conservancy alone must be put on the agenda. Others don't know, but Chu Yi knows that Daming has entered the Little Ice Age, and more and more natural disasters will break out in the future. If the imperial court can invest a lot of gold and silver to build water conservancy at this time, it can at least resist natural disasters to a certain extent.

Tang Bohu, Fang Li and the others all looked at Chu Yi with admiration, like Chu Yi, who has no greed for gold and silver jewelry. It was Chu Yi's incomparable admiration.

After all, if Chu Yi really wanted to be greedy for ink, he could easily get tens of millions of taels of silver. Think about Liu Jin. Liu Jin was only greedy for tens of millions of taels of silver, and it fell. A title of the first great greed of the Ming Dynasty.

That is, Tang Bohu, Fang Li, and the others didn't know that He Shen was the most corrupt official in the world. If they knew that He Shen was greedy for hundreds of millions of ink and silver, they wondered if their eyes would drop in surprise.

In Beijing City, on the long street, a fast horse rushes towards, but anyone who sees that fast horse rushing has a change in expression.

Eight hundred miles to speed up the military report. Anyone who dares to stop them is a capital offense. Even if they are hit and killed on the long street, it is a waste of death.

In the Forbidden City, following waves of good news from Jiangnan, the smile on Emperor Zhu Houzhao's face was a bit more than usual.

On this day, Zhu Houzhao had just convened the chief assistant of the cabinet headed by Jiao Fang to discuss political affairs, and this time he was returning to the palace to rest.

Gu Dayong stayed by Zhu Houzhao's side, and the ruler and minister were joking.

Just as he was talking, he saw a servant in a hurry and said, "Your Majesty, several ministers in the cabinet are in a hurry to see Your Majesty!"

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the words. It is said that Jiao Fang and the others have not left for a long time. If there is no urgent matter, even if there is something, he will not come to see him until tomorrow.

Being able to let Jiao Fang and the others go and return, and having two interviews in one day, it can be seen that there must be something important.

Zhu Houzhao took a deep breath and said solemnly, "Let's pass on the pavilion quickly!"

Taking a look at Gu Dayong, Zhu Houzhao said, "Gu Dayong, as you see it, Jiao Ge and the others have gone back and forth, why is that?"

Gu Dayong shook his head and said, "I don't know this old slave!"

Seeing that Jiao Fang and the others entered the hall with anxious expressions and bowed to Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help his heart sinking when he saw the expressions of Jiao Fang and the others. will look like this.

With a wave of his hand, Zhu Houzhao said, "You Aiqings don't have to hold the ceremony, but quickly waive the ceremony."

After speaking, Zhu Houzhao looked at a few people and said, "Jiao Aiqing, you are here in a hurry, what's the matter?"

Jiao Fang took out an urgent note from his sleeve and said, "Your Majesty, there is an urgent report for eight hundred miles from the north!"

When Zhu Houzhao heard the words, he suddenly felt a thump in his heart, and now Gu Dayong took the emergency report and presented it to Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Houzhao quickly opened it, and at first glance he couldn't help but exclaimed: "What, the odious Tartar, how dare you? Send out [-] pirates, and one of them has already broken through Taiyuan and entered the land of Shanxi!"

Seeing the urgent report, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but stand up suddenly. The border gate nine towns were the important border gates set up by the Ming Dynasty to defend against the remnants of northern Mongolia.

Among them, Taiyuan Town, Datong Town, and Xuanfu Town are the most famous. These towns can be said to be the important barrier towns in Beijing. Once they cross Datong and Xuanfu, they can directly threaten the heart of Gyeonggi. Therefore, these towns are extremely important. important.

Before the Tatar bandits and Chu Yi went south to suppress the rebellion, the court had already made arrangements.

Yang Yiqing, the governor of Beidibian Town, has full authority to defend the border against the Tatar bandits. For this reason, the capital dispatched [-] Jingying troops to the north.

In addition to the more than [-] troops in Bianzhen, there are more than [-] troops. Excluding some of the old, weak, sick, and empty wages in Bianzhen, there are almost [-] troops in Bianzhen.

It's a pity that as a defensive side, there are nearly ten important border towns alone. Even if there are [-] troops, once they are scattered like this, there will be only ten thousand people in one place.

Even in the most important towns such as Xuanfu and Datong, Yang Yiqing was able to leave more than [-] people at most.

For example, in Taiyuan Town, Yang Yiqing arranged for a general to lead a [-]-strong army to sit in the important town of Taiyuan. However, this time the Tatars went south, indeed, [-] troops attacked Xuanfu and Datong, trying to invade Xuanfu and Datong.

It's a pity that the [-] Tatar army was blocked by Yang Yiqing with the help of the defense of the important border town, and for half a month, he was unable to advance an inch.

Originally, Yang Yiqing breathed a sigh of relief, but unexpectedly, Dayan Khan not only mobilized a hundred thousand troops, but more than doubled.

The third prince, Barsborough, quietly led an army of [-] to bypass Datong and Xuanfu, and took advantage of Yang Yiqing's attention to be attracted by the army led by Dayan Khan, and went straight to Taiyuan Town.

Taiyuan Town can be said to be caught off guard. In addition, the Miao clan in Taiyuan Town attacked the city gate at night and welcomed the Tartars into the city.

The town of Taiyuan fell within a day, and the imperial court in the city was tens of thousands of troops, hundreds of people were killed, and the rest were all captured.

On the vast land, a majestic big city lies on the land. It is Taiyuan Town, one of the important border towns. However, the flag of Daming on the city wall of Taiyuan Town has disappeared at this moment, and it is replaced by the Tatars. banner.

At this moment, among the desolate hills outside Taiyuan City, thousands of captured imperial soldiers and horses are being bundled into a string and brought here from the prisoner of war camp.

As the third prince of the Tatar, Barsborot was deeply loved by Dayan Khan, and Dayan Khan ordered him to run several places that were wealthy places on the verge of the Ming Dynasty.

And Ballsborough is also very capable. It can be said that there is a shadow of Ballsborough behind every Koubian over the years.

After all, in the borderlands, the major Tatar tribes that came into contact with Daming were all led by Barthborough. Without his leadership, there would be absolutely no way that so many Tatars would go to the border frequently.

At this moment, Ballsborough was riding on a high-headed horse, dressed in a robe, with only a small braid left on the top of his head, and his full beard looked at the Ming prisoners with excitement.

A chubby gentleman standing beside Ballsborot was the head of the Taiyuan Miao family, Miao Yuan, who welcomed the Tatars into Taiyuan Town this time.

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Miao Yuan looked at Ballsborough flatteringly and said, "His Royal Highness, I don't know that His Royal Highness recruited the old man here, but do you have any orders?"

Ballsborough glanced at Miao Yuan and said, "This time my Tatar army was able to break through Taiyuan City so smoothly, thanks to Mr. Miao's great help!"

Miao Yuan hurriedly bowed and said: "His Royal Highness has broken the old man, this is just what the old man should do, if it was not for His Highness to take care of the old man these years, it is impossible for my Miao family to become one of the best in Taiyuan City in such a short period of time. The wealthy merchant. Helping His Highness break the city is what this old man should do!"

Ballsborough looked at Miao Yuan with satisfaction, nodded and said: "My Tatar family will never let my friends suffer, and the jade and jewelry obtained in Taiyuan City this time will be handed over to Mr. Buy grain and weapons from the Central Plains."

Miao Yuan's eyes lit up when he heard the words. He knew very well how much wealth the Tatar army had looted in Taiyuan Town.

Even though Taiyuan Town is located in the north, in fact, because it is located in a border town, many traders will set up a base in Taiyuan Town to trade with the grassland peoples on the prairie.

Therefore, a lot of wealth has been accumulated in this Taiyuan Town. At least in the northern land, the border towns are not necessarily barren, especially in Taiyuan Town in Shanxi, where there are more than one family or two.

This time, the Tatar army looted a lot of wealth in Taiyuan Town, and those jade and jewelry are not really useful to the Tatars.

Compared with the more practical supplies such as grain and armament, the Tatars naturally do not have much desire for jade and jewelry.

Ballsborough was willing to hand over those jades and jewels to him, and he exchanged them from the Ming Dynasty for food, tea, weapons and other materials that were extremely important to the Tartars. Obviously, it was a kind of value for him.

Just like this, their Miao family can at least make a profit of tens of millions. If this kind of thing happens several times, their Miao family can definitely become a worthy lord in the north in a short period of time.

Miao Yuan resisted the surprise in his heart and bowed to Ballsborough: "The old man will definitely live up to His Highness's expectations, and he will do his best to raise arms and provisions for His Highness."

Ballsborough patted Miao Yuan on the shoulder and said, "Very good, this prince is good at seeing Mr. Miao's daughter, why don't you give this prince a concubine."

Miao Yuan couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the words, obviously he didn't expect that Ballsborough would take a fancy to his daughter.

He has only one daughter under his knees, and he is only twenty-eight years old now. Although he has reached the age of marriage, Miao Yuan treats him like a pearl in his palm. She, but he knew better that this was Ballsborough's marriage to him, to be precise, to make the relationship between the two parties closer and more stable.

Therefore, Miao Yuan just hesitated for a moment, then immediately turned to Ballsborough and said, "It is an honor for your maiden to see the little girl, and the old man will send someone to deliver the little girl to your highness later, please also ask your majesty. Pity!"

Ballsborough nodded and said: "Very good, I invited Mr. Miao to come here, but I want to invite Mr. Miao to watch a good show."

Miao Yuan's face showed a bit of doubt, and he was very puzzled.

Ballsborough pointed to the field of Ming soldiers in front of him and said, "Has Mr. Miao seen those prisoners?"

There were so many Daming soldiers, and there were thousands of them in darkness. Miao Yuan saw it as soon as he came over, how could he possibly notice it.

With a bit of a ferocious look, Ballsborough glanced at Miao Yuan, and then said to the pro-military beside him: "Send the order and send these people on their way!"

"what!"

After listening to Ballsborough's words, Miao Yuan couldn't help but be startled, with a look of horror on his face, and looked at Ballsborough in amazement.

Ballsborough said indifferently: "It is said that these captives, this prince, are going to be brought back to the grasslands, but this time Father Khan's goal is to break through the city of Beijing and capture the emperor alive, so it is a burden to bring these captives."

Miao Yuan said in a trembling voice, "Your Highness is trying to kill prisoners?"

Ballsborough nodded as a matter of course: "Yes, to keep these people, this prince has to assign some of his guards to guard, it is better to kill them."

Miao Yuan looked at the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty in the distance, and then looked at the Tatar cavalry in the surrounding groups, one by one, aiming arrows at those soldiers, and a little cold sweat could not help oozing out on his forehead.

While speaking, Ballsborough's order was issued, and he immediately saw the arrows in the hands of the Tatar cavalry shoot towards the bound soldiers.

These soldiers were brought out, especially to this wilderness, surrounded by Tatar cavalry looking at them viciously. Many soldiers were muttering in their hearts. a feeling of.

Now that Ballsborough gave an order, he immediately saw a flurry of arrows falling like pouring rain.

Screams, begging for mercy and even cursing could be heard incessantly, and many soldiers were running around like headless flies.

However, all the prisoners of war were tied into a string. You run here, I run there, and the consequence is that no one can escape, and they can only watch the arrows fall.