Four hundred and eightieth chapters bloodbath old back three
The so-called gathering of strongholds to defend themselves is a means for local powerful people to protect themselves. Since the rogue bandits invaded the Central Plains, powerful landlords from all over Henan have gathered strongholds to defend themselves. Small villages were merged with larger ones to resist the rogue bandits with weapons in hand, and sometimes they also resisted the troops sent by the government.
Soldiers and horses, the reason is that they don't want to pay food. Half of these powerful people are local big families, and the other half are bandits, and anyone who forms a stronghold must collude with the bandits, otherwise they will not be able to stand on their own. The reason why they collude with the bandits is only because of the supplies in the stronghold.
Their own production alone cannot sustain them for long, so they need to collude with bandits to rob other large households, and sometimes even capture and loot the county town. Most of the village soldiers in the village are not poor farmers, but are composed of landlords and rich peasants who plant crops during busy farming seasons.
During the slack season, they would go out to fight and plunder the land. It is said that when you enter, you become a citizen, and when you leave, you become a bandit.
The powerful people bribed many people in the yamen to act as spies. Once the government wanted to send troops to suppress the people, they would always get the news immediately. They would either flee for safety or turn into law-abiding local gentry. In this case, those who wanted to
The officials who eradicated these local scourges were also powerless. Since the fourth year of Chongzhen in Henan, several foreign county officials were assassinated in the county offices, and no official dared to mention sending troops to suppress bandits.
Fortunately, although the powerful locals who formed strongholds did not obey the government, they were equally hostile to the bandits, because at most the government required them to pay food and wages, but the bandits not only wanted food and wages, but they also wanted their lives.
Compared with the incompetence of the officers and soldiers, these village soldiers sometimes take the initiative to attack small groups of bandits. When encountering lone bandits, they directly kill and behead them. Therefore, the local government now turns a blind eye to them. As long as the other party
If you don't join the rebellion with the bandits, you are like Amitabha, and you won't provoke them. Some officials even regard these powerful people as life-saving straw, and treat them as guests, so that when the bandits come, these powerful people can save them.
's little life.
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Since entering the territory of Henan, I have seen a lot of brave people who form strongholds to defend themselves. If it were in Dengzhou, he might send troops to destroy it. The so-called world is not the king's land. You and a bunch of powerful people refuse to obey the king and do not obey the king's orders.
What's the matter? But after all, his Liaodong Army is a guest army, and the strongholds he formed are in Henan. If he goes to destroy these strongholds rashly, he is afraid that Henan officials will not thank him. It is impossible to say that he helped to suppress them in the front, and impeached the Liaodong Army in the back like rogue bandits.
The memorial upon entry can be reported to the capital.
It is better to do less than to do more. The most important thing now is to encircle and suppress the bandits. The affairs of powerful people should be left to the government later. As long as the world is peaceful, these powerful people will naturally lose the soil for survival, and they will have to obey the king's orders.
Dayong was about to order the army to move forward and ignore the village, but something came to his mind: Are all the people guarding the village wearing white hats?
Thinking of the evil deeds in later generations, Dayong felt disgusted for no reason. He immediately ordered his bodyguard to bring Chen San, the guide sent from Tangyin County. After a while, Chen San was brought to him.
Chen San was a police officer in Tangyin County. When the army passed through Tangyin, he asked the local government to send a guide, so Tangyin County magistrate sent Chen San. Being a guide for the army was not a good job. The Liaodong Army watched
There are many soldiers and horses, but it is uncertain whether they can defeat anyone. If they are surrounded by rogue bandits like the reinforcements and suppression soldiers, their lives will be in danger.
Chen San was really complaining about this hard work, but the county magistrate said that if you don't go to the yamen, you should not do the errand. The whole family depends on the little money and food they get from being an errand. If you are not allowed to work as an errand,
The whole family was not allowed to drink from the northwest wind. Chen San had no choice but to bite the bullet and become the guide, but he was always on guard along the way, fearing that the Liaodong Army would be like the previous officers and soldiers, before they saw the rogue bandits.
They dispersed with a crash. For the sake of his own life, he didn't even dare to wear the clothes of an official. He didn't know where his mother-in-law found a pair of shabby clothes. Putting them on, he looked like a miserable man. What if he was really called a bandit?
If you catch it, you can probably put it back if it doesn't look like a government official.
After the man was brought, Chen San saw Dayong for the first time. He suddenly saw that the army commander had lost half of his face. He was so frightened that he lost his soul. He thought he had seen a ghost during the day and almost ran away without turning around.
This was not the first time that Dayong saw people who were frightened by his appearance. He smiled and asked Chen Sandao: "I want to ask you, who built the village in front of me in this county?"
"What?"
Dayong said again, and then Chen San came back to his senses. He did not dare to look at Dayong anymore, lowered his head and said cautiously: "Return to the general, in front is the village of Mr. Ma Degui, a local wealthy man."
"Ma Degui?"
It was another person named Ma. Dayong shook his head. Why did Hui Hui like the person named Ma so much? Then Hui Hui just called him Ma Shouying.
"Is this Ma Degui Hui Hui?"
Chen Sanyi was startled, but said with a bit of envy, "Master Ma's family believes in steaming, and all the parishioners from all over the country will gather at Ma's Village. It's very lively. I'm so lucky.
I also went to join in the fun a few times. Mr. Ma was really generous. The beef and mutton were open to the public, and I really ate a lot. Now that I think about it..."
Chen San was reminiscing about his good days in Majiazhai, but he saw that there was no sound at all around him. It was so quiet that it was a bit scary. He couldn't help but be startled. When he looked up, the handsome man was looking at him sideways, and he suddenly fell to his knees in fright.
On the ground, I didn’t know what to say.
Dayong said coldly: "So, the people in Ma's village are Huihui?"
"Master Ma's family is the descendant of the Hua Chi Army stationed in Kaifeng during the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, they moved to our Tangyin County. They were not originally named Ma. I don't know the details. I only know that the old man said that the Ma family is
He changed his surname to Ma after Yongle. As for Hui Hui, that’s what the county scholars called those religious people.” Chen San didn’t dare to ramble any more.
"I would like to ask you, can you abide by my Ming law these times, and can you keep yourself safe?"
"this...."
Chen Sanzhi didn't get up. The third son of the Ma family was his immediate boss. If he knew that he had spoken ill of the Ma family in front of these foreign officers and soldiers, would he be there with him when he went back?
Seeing this, Guo Yi shouted angrily: "What is this? If the commander asks you, answer it quickly!"
"Yes, yes, yes." Chen San was frightened by Guo Yi and said hurriedly: "Returning to what the commander said, the villain is just a servant in the county. I only know that Mr. Ma is the leading wealthy family in the county, and the rest of the common people are not.
I know, I really don’t know.”
Dayong frowned: "Is it because he doesn't know or he doesn't want to tell?" He waved his hand at the guards, "Beat him until he is willing to tell!"
"Yes, handsome!"
Immediately, two guards stepped forward and held Chen San down. They kicked him in the back of the knee without any reason. Chen San fell to the ground with a plop. Before he could react, one of the guards hit him hard on the butt with a scabbard.
Smash it away.
The scabbard was not a board. It made a snapping sound when struck, but made a muffled sound. However, the scabbard hit the bones, and the pain was so painful that Chen San almost fainted.
"Commander, please spare my life, Commander, please forgive me!...Ah, ah!..." Chen San couldn't help shouting, but finally couldn't stand the pain and shouted: "The villain said it, the villain said it."
"Let him go." Dayong waved his hand to signal the guards not to fight anymore, and helped Chen San up, asking him to tell him everything he knew about the Ma family.
It's okay if Chen San didn't say it, but when he did, not only Dayongteng became furious, but also all the officers and soldiers of the Liaodong Army were furious.
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It turns out that the Ma family used their status as Huihui to go around the countryside and do many evil things. Not to mention, in the second year of Chongzhen, a rogue son of the Ma family went to a neighboring village to steal sheep and was caught by people from the neighboring village. Because they knew that Huihui in Majia Village was powerful,
The people in the neighboring village did not dare to report the matter to the officials, so they scolded the young man and let him go. Unexpectedly, hundreds of people came to Majia Village that night, beating everyone they saw and smashing things they saw, beating them to death.
More than a dozen Han civilians were injured.
The Han people reported to the government. The county magistrate at that time was a Han. When he heard that there were mobs returning to the territory to hurt people, he was furious. He immediately transferred the Yamen guards and contacted the Nanyang Guards to prepare to go to Majiazhai to arrest the mobs. But the guards did not wait.
When the officers and soldiers arrived, thousands of Muslims rushed into the city and surrounded the magistrate's office. The rebels were so powerful that the officers did not dare to resist. The magistrate could only swallow his anger and came forward, saying that it was a misunderstanding and that the county did not arrest anyone.
This meant that the mob was allowed to disperse.
Afterwards, the magistrate became more and more angry as he thought about it. This time he did not dare to call the people in the yamen to come forward for fear of leaking the news. Instead, he went to Nanyang Mansion to report to the magistrate in person. Unexpectedly, the magistrate not only failed to support the magistrate, but also transferred
The soldiers arrested the mob and reprimanded them for causing trouble. Within two months, the Ministry of Officials came to transfer the county magistrate to Jiangxi.
In the third year of Chongzhen's reign, when a clerk from a carriage and horse racing shop in the county was driving a carriage to see off passengers through Majia Village, he had an argument with Hui Hui from the village for some unknown reason, and was subsequently injured by Hui Hui from the village. Some merchants passing by passed this place and killed the clerk.
He was carried back to the county town to be treated by a doctor, but unexpectedly the gang of returning thugs refused to give up. After following him into the city, they continued to beat the man violently in public, and also injured the merchant.
The merchants hurriedly went to the Yamen to report the crime. After the auxiliary soldiers, police officers and police officers arrived at the scene, they did not dare to step forward to stop it. The merchant's son knelt in front of them and begged, but they still did not step forward to stop it.
After beating up the waiters and merchants, Hui Hui was still angry, and then started to beat up in the street. They smashed everywhere, including Hexianju, the largest restaurant in the city. They didn't even spare the guests eating inside.
One. What’s even more irritating is that they didn’t spare the innocent pedestrians on the street, and suffered varying degrees of violence from the Muslims.
What makes people angry is that from the beginning to the end of the incident, the policemen and officers of the Yamen stood on the opposite side of the street and did nothing to stop these Hui Hui mobs. In Chen San's words: Hui Hui was too fierce and the government could not afford to offend them.
Because of this incident, the merchant no longer came to Tangyin to do business. The clerk in the carriage shop was also afraid of being retaliated by the Hui Hui, so he moved his family to a neighboring county. The shops that were destroyed by the Hui Hui and the people who were injured were also
Did not receive any compensation.
During the Chinese New Year this year, two young men from Majiazhai rode horses to the county seat to molest women. The county school teacher and his son were passing by and shouted at them. The two young men left immediately, but it didn't take long.
, they arrived with dozens of Muslims armed with knives and batons, and beheaded Jiaoyu and his son. At that time, the people who witnessed the atrocities became furious and could no longer bear to swallow their anger. Under the leadership of a butcher, they
Capture the two horses left behind by Hui Hui.
Those Huihui people did not dare to take back their horses because of the fierce public sentiment. After escaping back to Majia Village, they gathered thousands of Huihui people near the village the next day, claiming that the Han people in the city were bullying Huihui children. They rushed into the county town in the morning, armed with machetes. Wooden sticks and spears smashed a street in the county town from top to bottom.
The government mobilized hundreds of auxiliary soldiers, but the police and officers did not dare to take care of them. After all, the rioters were Huihui, and they were outnumbered. The new county magistrate was afraid that the matter would spread to the higher authorities and lose his official position like his predecessor, so he had no choice but to Watching them do whatever they want.
"They smashed everything they saw after they rushed in, even my washbasin!" Thinking back to the scene of the violence in the city, Chen San is still a little scared when he thinks about it.
Dayong said angrily: "Then why don't you people who work for officialdom stop it? You don't have anyone in your hands anymore!"
"How dare you, little man? I was so frightened when I saw them rushing in wearing white hats. They all had weapons in their hands, and they smashed whatever they saw. They were so fierce that even the county boss didn't dare to care. Little man How can I dare to take care of it, not to mention that the county's horse catcher is the third son of the Ma family, and he and those Hui Hui believe in the same religion. If he doesn't say anything, how can a villain dare to cause trouble?"
"So, the Majia Village has been dealt with by the government until now? The government has just watched them run rampant in the countryside in the past few years?"
"No, I'm used to being so arrogant. They stick together, and it's easier to talk when there are a few people. But when there are more people, let alone ordinary people, the government doesn't dare to control them."
"Does this happen often in Tangyin?"
"Not only in our Tang County, but also in various counties in Nanyang, there have been troubles, but I haven't heard that the government has taken any control."
After hearing this, one of the guards was so angry that he cursed: "What does the government do for a living? When I go to the countryside to collect grain and pay, I run faster than anyone else, so no one will care if something goes wrong? It's just a bunch of mobs, just kill them all. Why be afraid of them."
One of the guards asked curiously: "Yes, Hui Hui caused such a big incident, why did the government just ignore it? Aren't the officials afraid that we Han people will also cause trouble?"
Chen San smiled bitterly: "The officials don't care. They only care about eating and drinking themselves and making money. How can they have time to care about our lives? What are they afraid of us? They just need to curry favor with the superiors and keep their black hats!"
After hearing this, one of the guards said angrily: "The government bullies the weak and fears the strong. We Han people abide by the law and don't dare to make trouble, so the government bullies us. Those who stick together and dare to make trouble, the government is afraid of them."
As soon as he finished speaking, the commander's voice came to his ears, "Since the government dare not take care of these incidents, I will take care of them for them. They are afraid of these incidents, but I am not. Sons and daughters, are you afraid again? ?!"