On December 24, Li Zhi sat in the second hall and listened to Li Laosi and Huan Yihua's report on the situation in Shandong.
This time Li Zhi dispatched more than 10,000 troops, so naturally he could not let Huan Yihua be the commander-in-chief. Li Zhi asked Li Laosi to sit in Jinan and be the governor of this suppressive operation.
Li Laosi cupped his hands and said: "My boss, after the more than 10,000 soldiers of the Huben Division arrived, the locals still took chances and smashed the newspaper readers and burned the newspapers. But the soldiers of the Huben Division did not show mercy. During these five days, the soldiers were there.
More than 400 people were killed in various places and 27 households were ransacked, thus suppressing the resistance."
Li Zhi was stunned when he heard the number of more than 400 people. Li Zhi originally thought that after the troops of the Huben Division were in place, the local gentry would assess the situation and stop. He did not expect that Shandong's resistance to the newspaper was so strong. These gentry dared to
There was trouble in the county seat when there were soldiers and horses of the Tiger Division.
But speaking of it, it is actually understandable. After all, Li Zhi only sent a hundred people to a county. A county the size of a place has a radius of dozens or even hundreds of miles. The deterrent effect of a hundred people is extremely limited in such a large area.
.To completely control the order of a place, at least several hundred people are needed.
For example, in the Ming Dynasty, although there were very few government servants, there were a large number of privately employed civil servants under the government officials. Among them, Minzhuang, Kuding, Doujie, Pubingweiliang, Zao, Kuai, Jie, Wu, jailer and Menzi were humble.
There are often thousands of civil servants in a county. Liu Heng, who once served as the magistrate of Ba County, Sichuan, recorded that when he took office in Ba County, the total number of civil servants of all kinds was as many as 7,000. Even with so many civil servants, the country's legal system still remained in the Ming Dynasty.
Unable to control the countryside, clan autonomy is often implemented in the countryside.
Li Zhi stationed a hundred men in a county, and it was impossible to scare the gentry with bare hands. Without killing some people as a warning, the gentry in the countryside would not be afraid of Li Zhi at all. Only by hanging the bloody heads on the city gates could they
To frighten those gentry who are ready to take action and even risk their lives.
Li Laosi is not a good person. When encountering provocative squires, Li Laosi will definitely suppress them with iron blood. Under such a confrontation, killing more than 400 people is the inevitable result.
Li Laosi added: "My boss, I got 720,000 taels of goods from the house raid and have already sent them to Tianjin."
Li Zhi nodded and said: "All these goods should be given to the emperor, lest the emperor blame us for killing too many people." After a pause, Li Zhi asked again: "We have killed so many people, how is the situation in various places now?
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Li Laosi cupped his hands and said: "My boss, now that so many people have been killed, the gentry everywhere have been frightened, and no one dares to make trouble in public. However, although there are no more people who do it openly, there are still some who do it in private. Read the newspaper
There are still many cases in various places where people are attacked by masked men when they go home at night."
"There are two teahouses that were set on fire by unknown people at night. Our soldiers are trying to find out who set the fire, but they still don't have a clue for a while."
"If we don't suppress these little tricks in the dark for a year, they probably won't be suppressed for half a year."
Huan Yihua said: "Uncle, I think the tenacious resistance of the gentry is also related to the fierce articles in our newspapers. Our "Shandong Daily" publicized commercial taxes and collected land taxes from the gentry, which frightened these gentry.
If it's bad, they have to fight us desperately. I think if we don't talk about these reforms at the beginning and only report on world affairs, I'm afraid the resistance of the gentry will not be so fierce."
Li Zhi nodded and said: "This is also a reason. We can really slow down for a while and not publicize these things. Later, we will slowly increase the fire after the newspapers spread."
When everyone heard Li Zhi's words, no one spoke.
Li Zhi did not expect that promoting a newspaper would be so difficult. More than 10,000 people were stationed in Shandong, and now it seemed that the force was far from enough. He took a long breath and frowned.
Li Xing, who was sitting on the side, suddenly said: "Brother, now our more than 10,000 troops are stuck in the quagmire of Shandong. They will not be able to get out for a while. What should we do about supporting Jinzhou? If we don't send troops, we are really disobeying."
It’s an imperial edict.”
Li Zhi said calmly: "The matter in Jinzhou cannot be rushed. Let's report to the emperor and explain our situation in Shandong clearly and see if the emperor can help us."
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In Tashan City in western Liaoning, Cao Bianjiao led his three thousand soldiers and horses to defend the city.
Tashan is located in the middle section of Ningjin's defense line, 200 miles south of Jinzhou, and is the only place to pass to support Jinzhou from the pass. Cao Bianjiao received the emperor's imperial edict on November 19th, and sent troops at starry night to reinforce Ningyuan.
Cao Bianjiao is now the crown prince Shaobao, and Jiu Mu is loyal to the emperor. The troops under his command are strong, and there will be no ineffective command, bombing of the camp, or mutiny like other battalions. There was no delay along the way. This is the first time.
A general soldier from Guan Nei arrived in Ningyuan.
Seeing that all the reinforcements had not yet arrived, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, asked Cao Bianjiao to station himself in Tashan City in the north of Ningyuan, waiting for other reinforcements to gather.
However, the Qing troops who stationed troops in Yizhou and surrounded Jinzhou were very arrogant. They could not attack Jinzhou where Zu Dashou was stationed, so they drove 200 miles south and reached the foot of Tashan City. They surrounded Tashan City with a small number of defenders with 20,000 people.
Cao Bianjiao secretly poked his head out of the wall and looked outside the city.
It is said that there are more than ten thousand soldiers and horses, and it is boundless. Twenty thousand Qing troops surrounded Tashan City, and the groups of soldiers and horses made people feel numb. Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses had small flags on their backs flying in the wind, making hunting noises, and the Tatars each
The command flags and banners set up at the officer's office looked like a strong force and an invincible momentum.
The Tatar soldiers and horses are not only powerful, but also very powerful in combat. Not to mention the Manchu bannermen of the Eight Banners who are good at riding and shooting, Cao Bianjiao was eaten up by the newly trained Han army's flag-fire musketry alone.
Painful.
The Tatars not only followed Li Zhi's example in forming firecrackers, but also learned Li Zhi's manhole tactics. Along the line of the northern city wall, the Tatars built fifty manhole carts. These manhole carts were pushed to the edge of the city wall.
On the top, sixty steps away from the city wall. Two thousand gunmen on the well railing fired suppressively at the Ji Liao Ming army on the city wall.
Sixty paces is a very suitable distance for fire gunners to shoot, and bows and arrows have no lethality at this distance. Cao Bianjiao's men and horses are all horse soldiers, equipped with three-eyed blunderbuss, but not equipped with long-range firearms such as bird blunderbuss.
The fire gun soldiers with high accuracy were suppressed behind the wall, not daring to show their heads.
Under the pressure of the well fence, the Tatar soldiers and horses under the city calmly dug earth to fill the moat. They were about to be filled in by the moat in the north of the city.
Cao Bianjiao cursed a traitor, waved his hand, and asked a few soldiers to push a rocket car to the crenellations of the city wall.
The captain who was driving the car lit the match rope behind the car, and only heard hundreds of huge hissing sounds, which merged into a roar. One hundred Tigers and two hundred Long Snake arrows were carried on the rocket car.
The magic arrow shot out and hit the Qing soldiers on the well fence.
