"This is what life will be like for you military households from now on."
Yang Feng said.
Of course, he is in disguise.
The same makeup as no makeup.
Ningshan Wei has seen him a lot. After the last battle of Xingjinyi, he came to Zezhou amidst a crowd of onlookers. So even though he is wearing civilian clothes, these military households can recognize him unless they are blind.
Find out who he is.
but……
This is trustworthy!
If it weren’t for Ambassador Yang, they still wouldn’t believe it!
"Look, what did I say?
Your Majesty is still here, and Chen Baihu dares to secretly force us to buy his cotton. His cotton is 30% more expensive than others and is also adulterated. He will deliberately arrange hard work for anyone who doesn't buy. This is because he is afraid of Your Majesty's big brother.
Gao, he didn't dare to go too far. If he didn't have His Majesty's pressure, what else would he dare to do? His Majesty came from a poor background and sympathized with military families. Although the emperor's grandson was said to be benevolent and filial, after all, he grew up in wealth, just like that
A young master from a wealthy family will certainly not be as sympathetic to military households as His Majesty.
Don't talk about the emperor's grandson.
Even among the King of Jin, King of Qin, and even Prince Yiwen, who is as good as Your Majesty?
Not to mention being considerate of military households, it was common to kill guarding military households at will, even like King Lu.
Just like Chen Baihu did.
"That's enough!
You guys are all copycats, we really can’t count on others for a good life for our own children and grandchildren!
Yuan Yu said next to him.
I dare not do anything else.
Xie Cheng said.
Also punished.
The military households all wanted to divide the land, and although the generals wanted to maintain the old system, they did not dare to do anything when their subordinates were united, so they only restrained their subordinates not to follow the unruly people and cause mischief.
"If you put it down, Yang will live up to his trust!"
"If it's not at Tianjing Pass, what's the use of a cannon?"
I won't look down at you.
Yang Feng said.
Shanxi's unique coal crucible casting technology.
"Baihu, you have such great authority. Let's go in and have a good talk."
Uncle Chen took the people and left.
Although His Majesty the Emperor specifically stated it and severely punished it in the imperial edict, it cannot really be changed, because this is an extremely common situation. For example, if a general's family wants to repair a house, it is certainly not too much to call some military households to help, right? Everyone does it
Old brother, you can help with this kind of work, but when a military household repairs a house, do you expect officers to help? He needs help repairing the house, and he also needs help with weddings and funerals? So is this considered a private soldier?
Of course there is also the case of withholding money and food.
Withhold money and food.
At this time, the faint sound of gunfire could be heard.
What if the emperor is gone?
These generals do not have the pressure of the emperor, and do not need to be as careful as they are now. Then what Yang Feng said will inevitably become a reality. These military households will have to become serfs of the generals. Their wives and children will starve to death if they go to war.
Fighting and being enslaved by generals for generations.
"Uncle Li, there's a fight at Tianjingguan!"
But these are not regular armies after all.
This is when the emperor is still alive.
This is inevitable.
Their field artillery is smaller than this gun, and its range is slightly lower.
The iron-made Hongyi cannon used extensively on the Great Wall Line in the north in the late Ming Dynasty was made in Shanxi.
At this time, if the military households are forced to clear out the unruly people, the military households may turn against them. After all, everyone fights together and knows each other well. Who are these military households? That is all in the past.
The unruly people, and they are the most unruly among the unruly people. They are indeed people who live their lives now, but at their core, they are still the same group of people who rose up and killed people in a sea of blood all over the world.
"These troublesome people!"
Yang Feng said.
But without him?
Who will sympathize with military households?
Then Chen Baihu appeared on horseback.
A young man ran in and said.
Immediately after the young men shouted, they quickly rushed to the armory, smashed the door lock, and took out armors and weapons from inside. Those Yu Ding also quickly armed themselves. Uncle Li grabbed the messenger and asked him to inform the other few.
Baihutun, the latter left immediately, and soon a team of nearly 400 people gathered. Several older veterans directly acted as commanders. They have cooperated with each other for decades, and the young and strong also
They are all juniors, and it can be said that the reorganization was completed in a blink of an eye.
The 16th Military Post records 16 cases all over the country where military officers at the level of 1,000 households and 100 households embezzled money and food.
Zezhou is the main producing area.
After all, they are all sober.
In the 29th military post, Fei Jin, a Qianhu of Haining Guard, sent soldiers to chop bamboo and thatch under the guise of building barracks, and then hoarded them. He also ordered that military households were not allowed to go out to cut firewood. If they wanted to cook, they had to ask him for money to buy these.
Bamboo thatch.
Yang Feng said.
A general came over to report.
Tianjingguan.
have.
Unless you force them to bow their heads."
He is indeed cunning...
Yang Feng simply threw Chen Baihu into the door and ignored it. Chen Baihu, who was thrown inside, just struggled to get up when his IQ suddenly came online and he just lay there and pretended to be dead.
At this time, there were three to four hundred young men gathered here, all of whom were the main soldiers and Yu Ding of this Baihu Village.
"Ambassador, please give me a clear message. If the imperial court launches a large-scale attack, will you help us?"
Arrogant people are not enough to describe them.
It's just that Zhu Yuanzhang was there and he was discovered and punished severely.
Just a quarter of an hour later, flames suddenly exploded from the barrel on the top of the mountain, and the gunpowder barrel should have detonated. The explosion of a large amount of gunpowder raised a black smoke column there, and the blown masonry turned into a cannonball and fell in the black smoke.
Xie Cheng shouted.
This is only the second generation, and the third generation of the emperor's grandson is even less sympathetic to military households. Once they no longer care about military households like His Majesty, then Chen Baihu will do whatever he wants? We have to listen to him, and I'm afraid at that time
It’s true as Ambassador Yang said, no one cares about treating us military households as slaves.”
He raped a woman from a military household and killed him after the incident. He used a clever pretext to force the military households to pay money and then embezzled it. He intercepted the military households who came to Beijing to complain, captured them and then framed them for treason and executed them in Ling Chi. He took the military households out to build the city, and several generals took the military rations.
They embezzled and forced the military households to buy their own food. In the end, hundreds of them starved to death. Even Jinwu's defenders sent hundreds of households with their navy to transport food. In order to pray for safety, the soldiers raised their own money to buy wine and meat for sacrifices, but the sacrifices were not sent to him afterwards.
, he was so angry that he cursed the soldiers to capsize and drown when they went to sea. He also said that I was hereditary and my son would still be an official even if I died.
Yang Feng watched with satisfaction from behind.
Then he grabbed Chen Baihu by the neck and dragged him towards the house next door.
To run away is to be a deserter.
Xie Cheng, who took command personally, looked bitterly at the retreating Shenji Battalion.
Because of the undulating mountains along this route, the road actually follows the ridgeline, and Tianjingguan is at the highest point of the ridgeline. A pass was built with stones. The commanding height inside is the top of the mountain, but now it is full of rapid-fire cannons, which are condescending.
They kept firing with shotgun shells, especially since there was a cannon inside that was obviously larger than the field cannon. That shot out more shotshells, and with one shot, more than a dozen Shenji Battalion soldiers fell down.
The other military households looked at each other.
But the unruly people on the Tianjingguan city wall were in chaos.
But the general forces military households to buy the goods sold by his family and then profit from them. So what is going on?
Can't do it either.
Uncle Li turned around and asked.
"No wonder Yang Feng said the bigger the cannon, the better. Our field artillery is a baby at best."
Good at killing military households.
"What do you all want to do? Those unruly people are causing chaos. Do you also want to cause chaos?"
They are not Zhu Yuanzhang. They have never experienced suffering, and they will not look at the demands of military households at the bottom. In their eyes, military households are just numbers. They are all high-ranking descendants. How can they look down at military households? Don't talk about them.
In fact, military households were not having a good time during Zhu Di's time. The tribute envoys recorded that military households starved to death outside the capital. It was just that he expanded externally and used external plunder to cover up internal problems.
And you can get promoted quickly.
Tianjingguan is the top of the mountain.
You must understand that people have to strive for their own good life, and cannot rely on any holy master or wise emperor. Your emperor is a special case. There has never been another emperor like him since ancient times. His descendants will also not have the same.
Like him, no matter the King of Yan, the Emperor's grandson, or the King of Guangze, they were all born to be aloof.
After all, as long as they go out to fight, as long as the Ming army's combat effectiveness still exists, it can be replenished by looting.
There are three thousand young men who came from Zezhou and several nearby counties. They control Tianjingguan under the leadership of more than a dozen leaders, and their weapons and equipment are not bad, mainly because of the full support of Yi Guoye. This Shanxi main
One of the craftsmen of Guanye made them a large number of rapid-fire cannons as quickly as possible. They even imitated the field cannons of the Shenji Battalion and enlarged them to cast real heavy cannons...
"Master Marquis, we found out that it was the thousand-jin cannon cast by Yi Guoye for them. It was actually 1,500 jin, but it was not made of copper, but made of iron. These unscrupulous people didn't know where they got the pattern and making method, and then
Cast iron cannons. And not just Yiguoye, all iron smelters in Shanxi are making this kind of thing. It is said that the inside is a steel bore and the outside is iron, which is cheaper than our bronze field cannon."
"Ambassador, please do everything!"
Generals, private servants and soldiers.
There are also various methods that are relatively hidden, but in fact are still used to squeeze military households.
An old soldier said.
In the end, he changed from a hero who conquered the world for the Ming Dynasty to a serf at the lowest level.
"boom!"
The latter didn't say anything more, and immediately rushed to Tianjing Pass with these young men.
These are clearly recorded in the imperial edict.
Indeed, the key is not the cannon, but the location of Tianjing Pass. There are deep trenches on the left and right, and flanking attacks are meaningless. After all, soldiers cannot be expected to climb the steep hill and still have the strength to attack the towering city wall, and the commanding heights are blocked.
The city is surrounded by cannons and cannons fire from a high position. If the Shenji Battalion wants to rush forward, they have to hit the city wall and withstand the firepower of this cannon and a large number of rapid-fire cannons.
And now...
Uncle Li glanced at him, and then waved his hand crisply. A group of young men immediately rushed towards Chen Baihu. The latter hurriedly drew his sword, but the moment he drew it out, Yang Feng appeared in front of him, smiling beside his horse.
Looking at him with a non-smile, Chen Baihu struggled with the knife, not knowing whether to attack or not, but the next moment Yang Feng grabbed his arm and simply tore it off the horse...
We expect the tyrannical King of Qin and the King of Lu who cut off the eggs of the children of military households to make elixirs. Are they the only second generation to show sympathy to military households?
Not to mention that the emperor's grandson is already three generations old.
Xie Cheng sneered.
This Baihu Tuen was the closest to Tianjing Pass and was originally used for support. Everyone ran out and looked in the direction of Tianjing Pass. Gunpowder smoke had already appeared in the sky.
In fact, the performance of the Shenji Battalion was up to standard, with field artillery bombardment, mortar artillery bombardment, and then the infantry used cold weapons to board the city under the cover of the platoon of guns at the back. There were even grenadiers throwing grenades. Based on Xie Cheng's experience, it was clear that if it was in the past,
Basically, I won it in one go.
"You can rest assured that if Xie Cheng just breaks through to arrest people, then I will not intervene. If the government troops from other directions also attack, then the river god will appear again."
Currently Ningshan Wei is actually sitting and watching.
These are all against the people.
Because in history, what happened to military households has already happened at this time. Didn’t the generals follow Zhu Yuanzhang just to be a master? Their military positions are hereditary. As long as they don’t make big mistakes, they will always belong to their family. Isn’t it true that military households are
Their private property?
There are all kinds of things.
This one really doesn't require much encouragement.
Of course, it’s not that the Shenji Battalion isn’t brave.
What is typed is the real thing.”
These generals were all hiding. They must have heard that Yang Feng was coming and knew something was up to them, so they hurried back.
have.
Just now Ambassador Yang had clearly told them how military households would become serfs in the future, and they also knew very well that Ambassador Yang could not lie to them...
Therefore, being suppressed by the latter's cannonballs, we could only fight back with single-head bullets outside the range of the latter's shotguns. However, because it was only a two-pound cannonball, it could not hit the solid city wall at all. It only made sparks splash on the city wall, and could only hit
Only by chance can it cause damage to the defenders.
"The opportunity for change is here.
And it was in this delicate situation that Ambassador Yang sneaked in.
But it doesn’t work now, because the unscrupulous people on the opposite side have the commanding heights...
Uncle Li saluted Yang Feng.
"Iron? No matter how good it is, it is still iron. Our bronze cannons all have exploding chambers. I don't believe that iron cannons are not easier to explode. Each unit takes turns to attack. There is no need to rush forward, just let these unscrupulous people keep firing."
have.
"Attack, all at once!"
have.
Article 14 of the Great Imperial Military Commission states that military officers at the level of one thousand and one hundred households in six regions will kill military households for minor crimes.
It is true that he did not withhold money and food, but he still put all the military households' money and food into his own pocket.
Uncle Li shouted.
Yang Feng said.
What Yang Feng said already existed.
The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who had been waiting for a long time immediately shouted and started the general attack. They were carrying ladders and quickly set up the ladders, and then rushed towards the city wall. The young men on the city wall struggled to stop them, but they were constantly hit by bullets fired from outside the city.
fell. The grenadiers also rushed to the city walls and kept throwing small grenades at the city wall. Although the lethality was insufficient, it disrupted the defense of the defenders. Soon the first heavily armored Shenji Battalion soldiers were arranging guns and grenades to cover
He climbed onto the city wall, swung a small hammer and knocked down a young man, and then roared at several young men who rushed towards him.
However……
Suddenly, an arrow hit him right in the face. The guy fell straight out, and then landed under the city wall.
"Master Marquis, their reinforcements have arrived. They are wearing armor, and they are the imperial armor."
The observer on the hot air balloon immediately shouted.