The 40,000 people Li Zhi rescued from Zhenghuang Banner are now placed outside the north gate of Fanjiazhuang.
Nowadays, the Manchu and Qing armies of Azige and Abatai are still attacking and plundering cities near Gyeonggi. Gyeonggi is full of Qing army rovers, which is very unrest. These 40,000 people do not dare to return to their prefectures and counties, but are willing to
Stay outside the city wall of Fanjiazhuang - if Fanjiazhuang can drive away Zhenghuang Banner, there will be no fear of attack by other Tatars. Fanjiazhuang is now the safest place in the capital.
Fortunately, Li Zhi captured more than 3,000 pack horses, 130,000 taels of silver, and more than 60,000 shi of grain in Yangguli's camp. Especially these 60,000 shi of grain were very important. With these grains, Li Zhi could
Save these 40,000 refugees during this extraordinary time.
Mao Xin is one of the refugees.
He was originally an ordinary farmer in Pujia Village, Liangguli, Xianghe County. He had two old parents and a younger sister. The family had three mud houses and cultivated 23 acres of dry land. Although Mao Xin never got married,
It is also a well-fed family.
But in this era of war and chaos, ordinary people's lives were never so easy. Half a month ago, the Tatars came. Mao Xin heard that the Tatars were ferocious, so he quickly drove his livestock and hid in Liangguli with his parents and sister.
There is a wall outside Liangguli, and there are fifty archers inside. Mao Xin hopes that these archers can defend Liangguli.
However, when the Tatars really came, Mao Xin realized that things were not that simple. More than a hundred Tatars took bows and arrows and shot all the archers on the Liangguli city wall to death and ran away. The Tatars used rams to drive them away.
They opened the gate and arrested all the more than 3,000 people in Liangguli who were hiding from the disaster, saying that they would be taken to Liaodong to be slaves.
Mao Xin's family of four fell into the hands of the Tatars.
Along the way, the Tatars hurried to the south to capture more slaves. They walked very fast and kept whipping the people who were walking slowly. Mao Xin's old parents were almost fifty years old and had inconvenient legs and feet. They could not walk very well.
When he was slow, he was beaten by the Tatars with whips one after another. The Tatars only let the people drink gruel once a day. The people were malnourished. How could the old man recover after being beaten? The two old men had high fever and died one after another.
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What's even worse is Mao Xin's sister. Mao Xin's sister is fifteen years old this year. She is the same age as a flower. She is a beautiful girl that young men from all over the country send people to marry her. But she falls into the Tatars
In his hands, the Tatars took away his innocence. Later, he was killed by the Tatars. When Mao Xin went to collect the body of his sister, he heard someone say that it was his sister who was unwilling to cooperate when she was insulted, which angered the Tatars and killed her.
Killed.
In the blink of an eye, Mao Xin's warm family disappeared in the blink of an eye, and Mao Xin became a loner.
That night, under the supervision of two Tatars, Mao Xin and several men from the village dug a hole near the camp and buried his sister. In front of his sister's grave, Mao Xin cried loudly and secretly vowed to save his sister.
Revenge means killing a Tatar with your teeth.
However, heaven has eyes and did not let Mao Xin's sacrifice be in vain. After the Tatars entered the boundary of Fanjiazhuang, they encountered the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers who dared to fight - the defenders of Fanjiazhuang defeated the Tatars. After a defeat in Fanjiazhuang, the Tatars
After fleeing north for ten miles, the Tatars stopped again and all headed south to meet Fanjiazhuang's army.
There was another big battle, and the officers and soldiers of Fanjiazhuang killed all the Tatars! The Tatars who were still alive rushed to the camp to snatch the horses, and ran away on the horses without daring to look back.
In this way, the people were saved.
The officers and soldiers of Fanjiazhuang who saved the people treated them very well and never offended them. These days, it is said that the officers and soldiers are like bandits, and even more vicious than the bandits. It is really difficult to find officers and soldiers who do not bully the people. There are many officers and soldiers who do not bully the people.
When the officers and soldiers saw the refugees, they would kill them and hand over the refugees' heads, falsely claiming that they were Tatar heads.
The officers and soldiers of Fanjiazhuang not only did not bully and kill the people, but also saved them.
These officers and soldiers placed the people under the city wall in the north of the city, led the people to cut down trees, and let the people dig earthen nests under the city wall to live temporarily. The officers and soldiers organized the people to dig wells and build public toilets outside the city, and also selected people from among the people.
He recruited some young and powerful people and asked them to cook porridge for other people. The thick porridge was made once in the morning and evening, and each person had a big bowl. The porridge was so thick that even if a chopstick was stuck on it, it would not fall down.
Although I can't eat to my fullest, I won't get sick from hunger if I don't do any physical work in Fanjiazhuang.
Sometimes, the wife of Mr. Fanjiazhuang's chief official would come out and personally distribute porridge to the people. Mao Xin saw it and thought that she was like a fairy. Only a hero like Mr. Fanjiazhuang was worthy of such a fairy-like wife.
Mao Xin asked around and finally found out that the man of integrity in Fanjiazhuang was named Li Zhi.
On this day, Master Li Zhi finally came to see the refugees in the north of the city.
Master Chengshou was very young, wearing a bright red official robe and carrying more than a dozen followers, and walked grandly to the refugee hut. The refugees in the hut knew that their savior was coming, and they all ran out one by one.
After entering the home, he stood outside and looked around. The conductor inspected the refugees' homes one by one to see if the refugees had been exposed to wind and rain and whether they were malnourished.
Seeing how kind their savior was, many people cried on the spot.
Several elderly people who were famous among the refugees walked out of the crowd, walked up to Master Cheng, and knelt down tremblingly.
"Thank you Ming Gong for annihilating the Tatars with thunderous means, and for saving our people with your compassionate heart. Your kindness will be remembered by the common people forever!"
Seeing the old people kneeling down, the entire refugee group felt the same and knelt down together. Tens of thousands of people were prostrate in front of the home, kowtowing to the man who saved his life, and only the head could be seen in the dark area. The scene was so vivid.
Both Mao and Xin were in awe. How capable and upright an official must be to be so loved by the people?
Master Chengshou helped up the elders who were leading the way, and said with a smile: "It is my duty as a military attaché of the Ming Dynasty to help the people, so there is no need to perform this ceremony!"
Master Cheng looked around at the people and said loudly: "Everyone, get up quickly, get up quickly!"
The old man walked up to Lord Chanshou with a bowl of well water and said: "The people have nothing to gain and have nothing to repay Lord Chanshou. This is the well water dug by the saved people in the north of the city to moisten Lord Chanshou."
Moisturize your throat.”
Master Cheng drank the well water without saying a word.
When the old people saw that Chan Shou had drank the well water, he was about to kneel down again, but the guard stopped him and pulled him up.
Master Chengshou said goodbye to the old people, and walked to the huts one after another to inspect. When Master Chengshou walked in front of Mao Xin, Mao Xin finally couldn't help it and knelt on the ground with a thud.
Li Zhi came up to help Mao Xin and said with a smile: "Young man, what are you doing?"
However, Mao Xin lay on the ground and refused to get up, and said loudly: "Sir, my parents and sister were killed by the Tatars! Your Excellency, please let me join your army. I don't want military pay. As long as I can fight the Tatars, as long as I can
I will be willing to save a few suffering people in this life!"
