Chapter 1494 Civil chaos spreads everywhere
Under the light, the "gold" pyramid built with silver ingots flashed, and the "gold" pyramid built with gold ingots shone brightly. Bi Ada admired his masterpiece intoxicatedly, clapping his hands and laughing, "Hehe, all the gold and silver mountains belong to my family."
"Not now." A strange voice suddenly came in from the window.
Bi Ada was startled and turned his head to look at the window. He found that the window door was locked tightly. There was no other movement except the sound of the autumn rain. What a strange thing, was it that he was hallucinating?
"Who is outside? The second child, is it you?"
Bi Ada asked twice in a row, but no response was made, so he scratched the back of his head in confusion, thinking that he had been missing sleep for several days and had really had auditory hallucinations just now.
However, at this moment, with a loud bang, the door of the room was suddenly violently kicked open, and the cold wind mixed with cold rain floated in. Two men in black, soaked in black appeared at the door. They saw them holding a shaky steel knife in their hands, showing a bandit-like grin on their faces, and greedy light in their eyes, and they stepped in.
Bi Ada was so scared that his legs became weak and he thumped. He fell to the ground and said tremblingly: "Okay... 告... 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告, 告
The bandit leader Zhang Lian walked to the two pyramids, reached out to pick up a gold ingot and weighed it, then opened his mouth and bit it lightly. He confirmed that it was the real person, and couldn't help but be extremely happy. He glanced at Bi Ada who was trembling on the ground and sneered: "Bah, you need to give it to me? I won't take it myself?"
The bandit next to him said angrily: "The whole village has turned off the lights and went to bed. This old dog is slapping it, which makes our brothers wet the cold rain outside for a long time, and wait for me to slaughter him and vent his anger!"
After the bandit said that, he wanted to carry a knife forward. Bi Ada was almost scared, but Zhang Lian reached out and stopped him, "We are just seeking money. There is no need to hurt people's lives. Just tie him up and block it."
"Okay, I'll listen to the boss." The bandit put away the knife and stepped forward and brutally tied Bi Ada up.
Seeing that the other party did not kill, Bi Ada was a little shocked, and began to feel distressed about the treasures again and threatened: "I wonder if you have found out before you do the business. My third brother is Bi Chun, the admiral of the Western Factory. Not only is the queen supported by him, but he is also deeply favored by the emperor. Even the prince of Shu said he would arrest him. Killing a provincial governor is similar to killing an ant.
The property you robbed is all stored here by my third brother Bi Chun. Hehe, now you have robbed you, I am afraid that you will never die in the end. My third brother will definitely not let you go. He can attract a 100,000-80,000 army to encircle you with just a wave of his hand.
So the one who knew the truth immediately let me go, leave all the treasures, and then take your people to get out quickly, otherwise the lives of all the young and old in your village will be difficult to protect.”
Zhang Lian was originally planning to call someone to come in to pack gold and silver, but when he heard this, he stopped and turned slowly, with a hint of sarcastic smile on his face. Since he dared to come, he was naturally not afraid of Bi Chun's identity, let alone the Green Forest bandits like them who put their heads on their belts to live on their waistbands, who are not lawless? Now hundreds of thousands of taels of silver are placed in front of him, let alone just the stolen silver of a eunuch, even the tax silver of the court will still be robbed.
"This old dog is indeed a bit in the way." Zhang Lian threw down a lightly and turned around and went out of the door. The bandit behind him smiled and raised the steel knife, but when the sword light flashed, a scream came out. Bi Ada's bloody head rolled to the corner of the wall.
Taking advantage of the autumn rain, the bandits successfully controlled the entire village, gathered all the villagers in one place and tied them up, and then calmly transported all the property of the dozen or so trucks away. It was not until two days later that several villagers who were out went back to the village and discovered the situation and immediately reported to the official. However, at this time, the bandits had successfully transported all their property back to Tongbai Mountain to hide.
The magistrate of Chenzhou heard that Shimenao Village was looted by a group of robbers. Not only did he lose a large amount of property, but the elder brother of the Western Factory Admiral Bi Chun was also killed by the robbers. The Chenzhou parents official was so scared that he hurriedly sent a yamen runaway to investigate and reported to Kaifeng Prefecture. As a result, the magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture was also frightened and hurriedly reported to the governor. The governor was suddenly panicked and ordered a strict investigation.
Soon, the investigation result was revealed. The one who committed the crime was a group of robbers in Tongbai Mountain. The bandit leader was Zhang Lian. So the commander of Henan Le Yi immediately led tens of thousands of troops to encircle and suppress Tongbai Mountain. There was no way. The one who was robbed was the hometown of Bi Chun, the most popular eunuch of the dynasty. Moreover, Bi Chun's eldest brother was cut off by a thief. The court would definitely inquire about it at that time. Suppressing bandits was originally the responsibility of the military. As the top leader of the local army, the commander of Henan was definitely the first to carry a traitor. Therefore, it is best to wipe out the robbers before the court questioned him and recover the lost property, otherwise there would be no good results.
Let’s talk about Bi Chun’s hometown, Chenzhou, and traveled back to Beijing all the way night and night. So when he returned to the capital, he received the news that his hometown was actually robbed by a group of robbers. Not only did his elder brother Bi Ada be killed, but even the hundreds of thousands of taels of property he plundered in Sichuan were all taken away.
Bi Chun felt a dizzy moment, and almost fell over. Then he was furious. Deng immediately sent three tiers from the West Factory to lead hundreds of people to Henan, not to help suppress the bandits, but to urge local officials to suppress the bandits. Bi Chun had already made harsh words. Within a month, if the local officials in Henan could not wipe out the bandits in Tongbai Mountain and recover all their property, then the top leaders of the three systems of administration, judicial and military should not do it anymore, just roll the bed and get out of here.
As a result, the entire Henan Province was blown up, and the pressure was pushed down one by one. Local officials and front-line officers and soldiers were busy running to suppress the bandits. But the bandits were not so easy to suppress. There were not many of them, and they were broken into small pieces and drilled into the dense forests of mountains and mountains. It was simply a waste of time. Even if the officers and soldiers came, they would be useless.
As the one-month period was getting closer, under pressure from superiors, front-line officers and soldiers could only conduct a carpet-style search on Tongbai Mountain. They didn't have enough staff to strengthen the men, but this resulted in a problem.
Originally, there was a severe drought in the first half of this year and the early grain harvest was lost. Local people only looked at the autumn grain to help make up for the year and spent the cold winter. As a result, it was the busy season of autumn harvest and farming. The government actually came to strengthen the men and suppress the bandits, which naturally caused public resentment. Finally, a civil unrest broke out before the beginning of winter.
Unfortunately, the Ming Dynasty was generally not good this year. In the first half of the year, the south was flooded and drought in the north, and most areas in the country were affected to varying degrees. Among them, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Hebei suffered the most severe droughts, so the chaos in the people was in an instant, and it spread rapidly like a spark, affecting dozens of prefectures and counties in several provinces.
At this time, the bandit leader Zhang Lian was in a panic and was struggling by the officers and soldiers. Suddenly, he saw the chaos in the people. He had an idea and directly used the banner to rebel, using all the stolen property as military supplies. In an instant, the rioters and various green forest heroes flocked to him, like snowballs. In late November, Zhang Lian's subordinates had accumulated more than 100,000 troops, and the momentum was extremely large. At this point, the situation in Henan tended to be out of control.
Of course, the above are all later things, so I won’t say that after Bi Chun returned to the capital, he immediately dressed up himself up in a dusty state, and then ran to find Jiajing to cry.
What are you crying?
Naturally, he cried that the Duke of Qian State Mu Shaoxun had slandered and slandered him. After all, Mu Shaoxun issued edicts everywhere to count his various crimes of Bi Chun and also used the banner of "killing the power eunuch Bi Chun". Sooner or later, these things would reach Jiajing's ears, so Bi Chun had to give Jiajing a preconceived injection first, so that Jiajing had preconceived that these were Mu Shaoxun's slander and slander.
It's true that Bi Chun's strategy is old-fashioned, but it works very well. Not long after, as the vanguard official, Qi Jingtong, sent 800 miles to send back a military secret report, which was accompanied by a proclamation of rebellion issued by Mu Shaoxun. Because Bi Chun had vaccinated in advance, Jiajing did not take the consequences of this proclamation seriously after reading it, and still favored and used Bi Chun.
Half a month later, Jia Fa, the chief of the Western Factory, escorted the King of Shu and other criminals back to the capital, including the property seized from the King of Shu's mansion and "evidence" of rebellion.
Speaking of which, the property Bi Chun seized from the Shu Palace this time was worth more than 2 million taels. Although he had grafted a small part of it, there were still 2 million taels. Even Jiajing was amazed at the wealthy family of his clan.
It’s unreasonable! It’s unreasonable!!
When Jiajing saw the "dragon robe" and "jade seal", he was so angry that he had murderous intent. When he saw that the King of Shu was so rich, he didn't know how much wealth and money he had plundered in Shu. No wonder he was so generous that he dared to spend a lot of money to bribe the ministers everywhere under his nose. It was simply unforgivable.
So Jiajing's murderous intent became even more intense!
In the end, Bi Chun took all the crimes committed by the King of Shu in the vassal states over the years, such as bullying men and dominating women, forcing land to occupy people's lives, and all kinds of things were all over the place.
When Jiajing saw this, he immediately slapped the case and sentenced the King of Shu to behead him and deprived him of the title of vassal king. Everyone in the King of Shu was also sentenced to behead him, and all the other clans were demoted to common people, and from then on, the royal family of Shu was abolished.
In addition, Gui E and Fang Xianfu, who had previously accepted huge bribes from the King of Shu, were also sentenced to beheading, Wang Zan, Xi Shu, Xia Yan and others were sentenced to exile and exile, and even Zhang Cong was suspended again.
Bi Chun was highly commended by Jiajing for his contributions in investigating the case. He also served as the eunuch in charge of the imperial horse supervisor. He was also given a python robe and jade belt, and was granted the title of Prince Shaobao. Since then, his status has become even more respectful.
At this time, Xu Jin was on his way back to Beijing by boat. Since he heard that the Duke of Qian sent troops to Sichuan, he knew that it was time to close the net!
Chapter completed!