Liu Changshi, the garrison of Taiyuan City, wandered back and forth in the courtyard, always undecided.
He is the defender of Taiyuan City and is responsible for the city defense of half of Taiyuan. Although this city defense is only a garrison, it is also a position that various Shanxi merchants compete for. Because the garrison can directly handle city defense matters, it has a say in all major and minor affairs in Taiyuan City.
, although the official is not a big one, it is a position with considerable power.
Various Shanxi merchants in the city would give this garrison some benefits from time to time to facilitate work in the city.
In Taiyuan, the eight major Shanxi merchants have great influence. Because Shanxi merchants smuggled goods through outposts and camps in various places, Shanxi merchants actually took over all the generals in Shanxi Town. Not only did Shanxi merchants use money offensives, they also made extensive marriage alliances with generals from various places.
, over the past few decades, the government and business people have all become their own people.
So yesterday, Shanxi Town soldiers and horses came out in full force to fight against the Huben Army - in these days of chaos, whoever has the bigger fist has the right. If the united Shanxi local generals defeated the Huben Army, the emperor would probably be able to do nothing about the raids on Shanxi merchants.
Of.
However, the soldiers and horses in Shanxi Town suffered a huge defeat yesterday, and Li Zhi's Tiger Army surrounded Taiyuan City last night, which made Liu Changshi panic.
Last night, Taiyuan Commander-in-Chief Zhou Yuji came to Liu Changshi and asked him to open the gate and dedicate the city today.
Zhou Yuji said that the era of the eight major Shanxi merchants is over. From now on, Shanxi will have its origins cleared up. A large number of military attachés who have taken refuge with Shanxi merchants will be dismissed. Liu Changshi's personal future depends on whether Liu Changshi can abandon the dark side and join the bright side this time, and fight against Li Zhi's troops.
The horse was sacrificed in Taiyuan City.
Liu Changshi hesitated.
Liu Changshi's official position was not earned by himself. At first, he was just a defense officer of the guard station. In order to become a guard officer, he married the grand niece of Fan Yongdou of the Jiexiu Fan family, which was regarded as joining Fan Yongdou, the leader of the eight Shanxi merchants.
He became an official.
Liu Changshi was hesitating there, but he saw his wife Fan Youzhu dragging his concubine Xi'er out of the wing! Fan Youzhu was very tough, and it was common for Liu Changshi's concubines to be insulted. At this time, she began to torture Xi'er again.
Son.
The fat Fan Youzhu was very strong. She dragged Xi'er's hair, making the concubine on the ground cry like a ghost and howl like a wolf, with tears streaming down her face.
"I'll beat you to death, you vixen!"
However, this time was different from the past. The Fan family was already on the verge of falling, and Fan Youzhu was no longer the Fan family woman who frightened Liu Changshi. Liu Changshi felt his head heat up and rushed forward with big strides.
"Fan Youzhu, let go of my Xi'er!"
Fan Youzhu was stunned when she heard Liu Changshi calling him by his first name: "Liu Changshi, what did you call me?"
Liu Changshi cursed loudly: "Shrew! I tell you to let go of Xi'er!"
Fan Youzhu pulled Xi'er's hair hard, causing the Zhou family's concubine on the ground to scream in pain. Fan Youzhu shouted loudly: "Liu Changshi, you used to call me Zhu'er, okay, now you see the people from Tianjin coming
You raided my Fan family, so you called me Fan Youzhu?"
Fan Youzhu's eyes widened, and he slapped Xi'er on the face, then slapped Xi'er on the face again, and cursed loudly: "Are you feeling sorry for your vixen? I'll beat her! I'll beat her to death! I'll let her
You sleep with her at night!"
Seeing Fan Youzhu acting recklessly, Liu Changshi felt the blood rushing to his head. He changed his usual cowardice, rushed up and kicked Fan Youzhu in the stomach. The force of the kick was really strong, and Fan Youzhu was kicked hard.
It flew out and rolled three times on the ground.
Fan Youzhu groaned on the ground for a long time before slowly getting up. However, the kick was too painful. Fan Youzhu looked at Liu Changshi in disbelief, holding his stomach and not daring to speak.
Liu Changshi cursed loudly: "Fan Youzhu, let me tell you, the eight major Shanxi merchants are finished, and your Fan family is finished. From now on, people in Shanxi will only know the emperor, not the eight major Shanxi merchants. In the past, you were riding on my head to dominate me, but you
You tortured my two concubines to death, and I will settle this debt with you slowly!"
Fan Youzhu suddenly became frightened when she heard Liu Changshi's words.
"You want to divorce me?"
Liu Changshi said ferociously: "I'll divorce you? You have a good idea!"
"I'm telling you, if you dare to act naughty again today, I will beat you to death when I come back!"
Hearing Liu Changshi's words, Fan Youzhu trembled and his hands trembled uncontrollably.
Liu Changshi snorted coldly, walked out of the Liu family gate with a dozen servants without saying a word, and went up to the city tower to open the city gate.
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In Jiexiu County, Fan Yongdou, who had white hair and beard, was kneeling on the bluestone ground in the Fan family courtyard, his face pale.
Unexpectedly, the county seat of Jiexiu County, which was defended by five thousand rural soldiers, could not hold its ground for a day in front of the Huben army, and was captured by Li Laosi in just a few hours. The Fan family built a deep-walled compound in Jiexiu to celebrate the New Year.
However, in front of those Tianjin soldiers armed with grenades, the Fan family mansion seemed as fragile as if it were made of tofu.
Li Zhi's soldiers began to attack Jiexiu County in the morning, and by the afternoon they had entered the Fan family mansion and arrested hundreds of members of the Fan family.
Li Zhi's raid on the eight major Shanxi merchants this time was almost equivalent to attacking Shanxi Province. Fan Yongdou originally thought that the eight major Shanxi merchants had been operating in Xuan, Da, and Shanxi for a hundred years, and were almost integrated with officials from all over the country. By mobilizing troops from all walks of life, they could at least cooperate with
Li Zhi from Tianjin held him back for half a year.
As long as Li Zhi's soldiers and horses are dragged into the quagmire of Shanxi, Li Zhi will eventually retreat. Li Zhi has gone to death to offend the gentry everywhere in these years. If Tianjin's soldiers and horses are trapped in Shanxi, the local Ming army in other places will
They will attack Li Zhi, and even the Manchu Qing may take the opportunity to attack the weakly defended Tianjin. Now that the Liaoxi Corridor is in the hands of the Manchu and Qing Dynasty, it is easier for the Manchu and Qing Dynasty to enter the pass from the mountainous area to the west of Shanhaiguan than before.
However, Fan Yongdou did not expect that Li Zhi's soldiers and horses were so elite. General Li Laosi only brought 5,000 men to Jiexiu, but the attack on Jiexiu city was as if it was destroyed. At this time, Fan Yongdou was pinned to the ground by Li Zhi's soldiers and was kneeling on the ground.
, he realized that the situation was truly over.
Li Laosi, wearing an eye-catching division commander's military uniform, stood at the door of the Fan family compound with his hands behind his back, looking at the hundreds of people in the Fan family with an indifferent expression.
Soldiers from the Huben Army searched the Fan family compound for an hour. An officer ran up to Li Laosi and said, "Commander, we only found more than 300,000 taels of property."
Li Laosi frowned when he heard this. He walked straight up to Fan Yongdou and kicked the old traitor down with his leather-booted foot, beating the shit out of him.
"Old thief from the Fan family! Where are you hiding the money you earned from doing business with the Tatars?"
Fan Yongdou was kicked by Li Laosi until he was a little out of breath, and his stomach groaned a few times.
Seeing that Fan Yongdou was still silent, Li Laosi frowned and said: "Fan Yongdou, the head on your neck is definitely not safe. But whether the other men in the Fan family can survive depends entirely on your cooperation. We will start to dismantle Fan right now.
We have a big house, and we have to dig three feet into the ground to dig out money. If we find out that one tael of silver is concealed, your nephew will not be able to save it!"
Hearing this, Fan Yongdou suddenly turned pale.
"The sandwich wall...there are silver bricks in the sandwich wall..."
