After knocking on the door for a long time, the Guo family members were still unwilling to open the door.
This time Li Zhi executed 241 gentry in Shandong who had paid to "defeat Li". Among them, 182 gentry households had paid more than 1,000 taels and wanted to ransack their homes.
It’s not that Li Zhi is bloodthirsty, but that these gentry are really causing a lot of trouble. For example, the more than 10,000 people killed by Guan Ning’s army in Luanzhou were all killed by the Huben army because of the greed of these gentry. These Guan Ning’s army
A soldier's death is worthless. If he dies on the border, he can still be considered a hero of the country, but if he dies at the command of the Donglin Party and the gentry, it means nothing at all.
Therefore, Li Zhi wanted to severely punish these rebellious gentry to prevent other gentry in Shandong from doing things that would harm the country and the people again and force Li Zhi to kill again.
Zhong Feng and Han Jinxin's people have begun to raid homes these days. This house raiding is a very lucrative matter. Although the personnel of the secret guard system are very competent under the leadership of Han Jinxin, Li Zhi does not dare to let the secret guards act alone. Zhong Feng's trapper
Soldiers and secret guards do not know each other, so if they act together, there will be no collusion in embezzling money.
Li Zhi is now very short of money, especially after taking in more than 600,000 people from western Liaoning. He is even more strapped for money. The refugee resettlement has eaten up Li Zhi's savings, and Li Zhi still has a deficit of more than one million taels of silver on his account.
.So Li Zhi personally participated in this action of raiding the gentry.
When I walked to the Guo family's house, there was something wrong. The Guo family dared not open the door.
Han Jinxin introduced to Li Zhi: "The head of the Guo family won the Jinshi in the 28th year of Wanli. He was originally a seventh-grade county magistrate. After becoming an official, he returned to the county to live. His family has more than 20,000 acres of fertile land in the county. This time
He donated 6,000 taels of silver to counter the trend of Li..."
"The head of the family has been conducting Fa-rectification at Caishikou in the county seat a few days ago. Today we ransacked his home. His family members were very emotional and not very cooperative."
Zhong Feng frowned and said, "Ambassador Han, don't worry, I'll ask the soldiers to blow up the door with grenades."
Li Zhi smiled and said: "We still have to rely on Zhong Feng! Come! Zhong Feng, come with your soldiers!"
Zhong Feng waved his hand, and a soldier from the formation group untied two grenades from his waist and hung them on the door of Guo's house with a rope. The soldier lit the grenades and only heard two loud bangs.
Two big holes were blown out. The door bolt was obviously broken by a grenade. Zhong Feng's soldiers rushed up and kicked it hard, and the door was opened.
The soldiers of the trap group rushed in with their rifles raised.
"The Huben army raided the house! Everyone kneels down!"
Li Zhi was waiting outside when he suddenly heard the sound of gunshots coming from the yard. Apparently, the Guo family's servant was still resisting even when he was about to die, forcing the group to open fire.
Li Zhi shook his head and strolled into the yard. Sure enough, he saw thirty soldiers from the formation regiment holding rifles and forcing more than forty Guo family disciples and servants into the corner. Those Guo family disciples and servants held swords in their hands.
It was a desperate gesture.
Seeing Li Zhi walking in, a middle-aged man who was the leader of the Guo family shouted loudly: "Li thief! You killed my father, and now you want to ransack our home. Our whole family will fight with you!"
The middle-aged man who headed the family actually recognized Li Zhi.
Li Zhi glanced around the yard and saw two corpses lying on the ground. The deceased was wearing silk and satin clothes and was obviously a child of the Guo family.
Li Zhi said calmly: "I'm not going to kill you all. You can join my land reclamation team like poor farmers. The land reclamation team will take care of food, housing, and a monthly salary of one tael. You can cultivate the fields after they are cleared.
.A strong man has twenty acres of dry land, and the land rent is 30%."
Hearing Li Zhi's words, the children of the Guo family were stunned, and all turned to look at the middle-aged man at the head. Although they had learned about the policy from newspapers before, it was still more convincing if Li Zhi said it himself.
After hearing the way out Li Zhi gave them, they were no longer prepared to fight Li Zhi. As long as the middle-aged man in charge agreed, the Guo family was ready to lay down their weapons.
But the leader of the Guo family, an elderly man, was still irritable and yelled: "Thief Li! If you let our whole family go farming, what will happen to our wives and concubines? My three brothers have ten wives and concubines, and our eight nephews have ten wives and concubines."
We have more than 20 wives and concubines, and more than 30 underage children and grandchildren! Can we support ourselves by farming?"
Li Zhi frowned and said calmly to Zhong Feng: "Beat him to death!"
Zhong Feng took a rifle from the guard, took a slight aim, and fired the bullet with a bang.
Blood suddenly flew out of the middle-aged man's chest, splashing all over the surrounding family members. When the female members of the Guo family standing behind saw this scene, they squatted on the ground one by one with their heads in their hands, screaming. The men of the Guo family all watched.
He looked at the middle-aged man who screamed and fell to the ground, as if he had been struck by lightning.
Only then did they understand the consequences of resistance. They dropped their weapons one by one and knelt on the ground.
Li Zhi looked at these pitiful gentry and shook his head.
Li Zhi gave these gentry the opportunity to be tenant farmers on "public land", which was already a very generous treatment. As long as one year of water conservancy work was needed to open up new fields, an adult farmer's annual harvest would be converted into 20 to 30 taels of silver, which would be enough for food and clothing.
.However, these gentry used to rely on tax evasion privileges to live a prosperous life. They were used to living a life of fine clothes and fine food. How could they be willing to become farmers?
Under such contradictions, bloodshed continued to occur during house raids.
Li Zhi stopped talking to the children of the Guo family and took Han Jinxin and Zhong Feng to the warehouse in the backyard.
The soldiers used grenades to blow open the door of the Guo family's warehouse. Li Zhi walked in and took a look. Sure enough, he found more than a dozen boxes of grained silver inside. Li Zhi's personal guards opened the boxes, looked at them, and then grabbed the boxes and carried them away.
He lifted it up and said: "My lord, this is a box of one thousand taels of silver, and here are more than ten thousand taels."
Zhong Feng said in surprise: "That's all? The Guo family is a county magistrate and has more than 20,000 acres of land. The family has raised so many children and grandchildren, but they only have more than 10,000 taels of silver in savings over the years? You won't believe it!"
Han Jinxin walked erratically, looking around in the warehouse, and suddenly noticed the pillar in the warehouse. He patted the pillar with his hand and smiled.
"Come on, cut the wood outside the pillar!"
The four secret guards raised their embroidered spring knives and began to cut the pillars. Sure enough, when an inch of the wooden pillar's outer skin was shaved off, brilliant white silver was revealed inside.
The four pillars of the storehouse were all made of silver.
Han Jinxin didn't give up. He stepped back and forth on the floor of the warehouse and found a loose green brick. He dug out the green brick and blew hard, revealing the bottom of the warehouse.
The entire foundation of the warehouse was actually made of a layer of silver.
Li Zhi smiled and secretly thought that Han Jinxin was really a talented person, and the Guo family's method of hiding money could not be hidden from his eyes.
These four pillars plus the silver on the foundation amount to at least two hundred thousand taels. This Jinshi of the Guo family has been an official for decades, and it is true that his work was not in vain.
Li Zhi patted Han Jinxin on the shoulder.
Han Jinxin said with a smile: "My lord, one hundred and eighty-two households were raided this time. Although not every family is as rich as the Guo family, they still have more than 20 million taels of silver. Now we are not short of money!"
