In the house of Liu Lu, a wealthy family in Jiaxing, Li Yuchun's soldiers ordered him to donate 10,000 taels of silver and 10,000 shi of grain within one day.
Liu Lu was a Fujianese, a maritime merchant, and ran a grain business. He had previously been offended by the fake Chen Wu who demanded payment from him, so he secretly sent someone to surrender Li Yuchun, and led Li's troops into the city in the middle of the night, even to the city gate.
He sent people to open it.
He also shaved his hair early today.
He had already taken the initiative to give Li Yuchun a thousand taels of silver as a tribute, but he didn't expect that the donation would now be borne by him again, so much. It was several times more cruel than when he pretended to be Chen Wu before.
"Master, have you made a mistake? We are righteous gentry. We took the initiative to surrender before, and even opened the city to lure you to the city. And I have already paid a thousand taels of silver to the master of the town."
As Liu Lu said this, he immediately took out a piece of silver and gave it to the soldier, about two ounces. As a result, the soldier put the silver directly into his waist, and then continued to speak to him with his nose, "You are a righteous gentry, of course, Lord of the town."
I also remembered it, so I was sent to convey a polite message to you."
"The Lord of the town also knows that Liu Gong's family is the richest man in Jiaxing. It's not a big deal to have only 10,000 taels of silver. What's more, your family is the largest grain merchant in the city. It's not difficult to get 10,000 taels of grain out of your family's granary.
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"Master, Mr. Liu is just a businessman. The world is in chaos and business is hard to do. How can he have so much money? The thousand taels given to the chief town were all collected with great difficulty. As for the grain in the grain account
, that’s all suppressed inside.”
The soldier rolled his eyes impatiently.
"Don't be so shameless. It's true that Master Zhen's sword is a vegetarian. I haven't charged you with being a thief. Is it true that you gave the thief thousands of taels of silver and thousands of shi of food?"
"Master, those were all looted by the rebels."
"Fuck you, don't think that I don't know that you wallflowers will fall on both sides when the wind blows, and you still want to step on two boats. Here is the military order from the head of the town. Ten thousand taels of silver and ten thousand shi of food will not be given at all.
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Liu Lu was also anxious.
Why doesn't Li Yuchun follow the rules? How could anyone do this?
He was a hero in welcoming us, why was he being snatched to death now?
"Master, please have mercy."
"Go away."
Liu Lu quickly asked his son to get another silver. This time he spent a lot of money and placed fifty taels of gold ingots in front of him. Such a large amount of silver made the servant's eyes light up.
Although Li Yuchun treated his servants well, he usually only had two taels of silver a month, and most of the money he earned was through robbery.
But last time in Zhujiazhuang, all they lost was a pair of underwear. Although they made some more in Haiyan County and Pinghu County, they still feel heartbroken when they think about what they lost.
Fifty taels of silver is indeed tempting.
This guy was also bold and accepted it without hesitation.
As for whether they can do things after receiving money, in fact, these people are also very slippery.
"Well, I am also an old man in front of the Lord of the Town. I will talk to the Lord of the Town later on for you. You can't come up with ten thousand taels of silver at the moment. You can give half of it first, and you can also give half of the food first.
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"Boss, please do me a favor. I really can't afford so much. Why don't I write a list for the boss and you can find other families in the city? For example, Tu Xiangmei, Li Yuxin, Xu Shiqi, Qian Yu, these people, they
They are all the thieves who are leading the rebellion, and each of them has a lot of wealth. If the general manager asks the mayor to confiscate all their houses, he will definitely make a lot of money. Besides, in addition to frivolous wealth, they also have a lot of land."
"What do we need the fields for? Do we, the soldiers, need to plow the fields?"
Liu Lu perked up and said, "Master, do you think this will work? The master of the town will seize the land from those families, and then I will buy it."
"Didn't you say you don't have any money?"
"How about I find someone to lend money to buy it?"
The soldier deliberately pretended to be in trouble but refused to speak.
So Liu Lu asked his son to get another ingot of silver ingot, another fifty taels.
The soldiers immediately agreed.
"Liu Yuan is so polite. I, Lao Li, can't go out. Now it's on me to carry the message for you. However, you still have to pay some money and food. In this way, I
If you take a risk, you can first get three thousand taels of silver, and then send three thousand shi of food to the military camp."
"Oh, sir, I really can't afford so much at the same time."
"Then just add two thousand taels of silver and one thousand shi of grain."
Liu Lu was very distressed. There was a severe drought in the south of the Yangtze River this year, and grain prices soared. Half a meter of rice cost two taels of silver, and a thousand shi of grain cost two thousand taels of silver.
"Master, what do you think of one thousand taels of silver and five hundred shi of grain?"
The soldier was also impatient, "Are you trying to embarrass me?"
"What about one thousand taels of silver plus one thousand stones of grain?"
In the end, the soldier barely suppressed his anger for the sake of two ingots of silver ingots, "You first have someone send these one thousand taels of silver and one thousand shi of food to the military camp with me, and the remaining two thousand taels of silver and two thousand shi are left."
Food, please hurry up and raise it."
"Definitely, thank you sir."
Almost at the same time, Ding Yishan, Chen Hongfan, and Wang Risheng, all the traitors who had joined the captives to welcome the Tatars last night, were also forced to donate money by Li Yuchun's soldiers.
They didn't care whether they took the lead in surrendering, or even cooperated internally and externally, and Li Yuchun only remembered that they were the richest in the city, and every family donated a high amount of money and food.
In the end, each family bargained and bribed the soldiers, and finally managed to lower the figures, but there was still a lot of blood.
Some companies can only please them on the surface, scold them secretly, and even feel a little regretful.
When Li Yuchun went around Jiaxing City to force people to donate money and force people to shave their heads, his military advisor Zhuge Kongming had already rushed to Hangzhou under the escort of a group of personal soldiers. He was summoned to pay a visit to the captor commander Bolo.
After being deliberately ignored for a day in Shuai Yamen, Mr. Yan spent a whole day sitting on a cold bench and drinking cold tea.
The next day, I finally met Bolo.
After a detailed discussion, Mr. Yan successfully left a good impression on Bolo.
Later, he went to visit Zhang Cunren, the pseudo-Governor of Zhejiang, and Tian Xiong, the pseudo-Admiral of Zhejiang. Zhang Cunren was originally the deputy commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty. He was surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with his ancestors. He was considered a veteran traitor. At the auspicious time of Huangtai, he was appointed as the governor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
, later changed the Imperial Procuratorate to the right to participate in politics, and once sent a letter to recruit Wu Sangui to surrender. With meritorious service, he was promoted to Maile Zhangjing of the Han Army.
He entered the Pass with the Qing army and conquered Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, and all the way to Hangzhou, and was promoted to governor of Zhejiang.
Tian Xiongze was originally the commander-in-chief of Huang Degong in the Yongwei camp. After Huang Degong died in the battle of Wuhu, he and Ma Degong kidnapped Hongguang and his concubine and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Because of his merits, the Tatars valued them.
Beijing arranged for the Boluo division to be appointed General Pingnan to command the Eight Banners in the South of the Yangtze River, while Tian Xiong and Zhang Cunren were appointed to control Hangzhou, while Tu Guobao, Wu Zhaosheng and Li Chengdong were appointed to control Jiangsu.
When Mr. Yan visited Tian Xiong, he secretly looked at his neck. It is said that when he kidnapped Hongguang and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he carried Hongguang and ran towards the Qing army on the battlefield. Hongguang bit his neck angrily and bit off a piece of his neck.
Big chunks of meat.
After that, the wound never healed and kept festering.
He took a peek and discovered that one side of Tian Xiong's neck had indeed been bandaged, and there was even a faint stench of ulceration.
Compared to Bolo, who was quite polite to Mr. Yan, the two traitors Zhang Cunren and Tian Xiong were much more aggressive towards Mr. Yan, who was also a traitor. They were picky and deliberately looking for trouble.
Fortunately, Mr. Yan's attitude was very low, quite flattering and without moral integrity.
In the end, the two people couldn't help but change their attitude towards him under this flattery. After all, they were only military commanders, and in terms of eloquence, they were no match for Yan Wogong, who was born in Juren.
Especially if Yan Wo Gong is so flattering, let alone him.
Anyway, when Yan Wo finally said his goodbyes and left, they all walked to the door in person, holding hands as if they were close friends.
After Bolo heard about it, he couldn't help but feel that Mr. Yan was really talented and loyal. After all, even Zhang and Tian recognized him, so this man was definitely a big traitor.
So with a stroke of his pen, Boluo wrote a letter of recommendation to Beijing, recommending Mr. Yan as Zhejiang's envoy. Using his advantageous power as the commander-in-chief of the Southern Expedition, he appointed Mr. Yan as deputy envoy and concurrently as Zhejiang's envoy.
The Hangzhou-Jiahu-Huzhou Patrol Road and the Sea Road Patrol were divided into two parts. The Procuratorate of Kadu assigned the title of imperial envoy to Qiandu. He also ordered the governor Zhang Cunren to give his king's flag, a flag and an order to Yan Wogong, so that he could act expeditiously and pacify all parts of Zhejiang with orders.
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Yan Wogong, who had never been an official in the Ming Dynasty, suddenly became a local official. He was responsible for patrolling the Hangzhou-Jiahu-Huzhou Highway and patrolling the sea highway. This was an important position with real power, not to mention the title of Imperial Envoy to the Imperial Palace.
Coupled with the title of deputy envoy of the Zhejiang Provincial Inspectorate, the king's flag, and the title of appeasement envoy, it can be said that not to mention deputy generals like Li Yuchun and the commander-in-chief of several newly established towns in Zhejiang are under his supervision.
As for the recruitment of officials and gentry from all over Zhejiang, it has even greater power.
Naturally, Duke Yan expressed his gratitude in every possible way and expressed that he would actively recruit and surrender the civil and military officials of the former Ming Dynasty who were still resisting in various places. He also offered a strategy, saying that in order to win the hearts of the Zhejiang people, he should reopen the imperial examination, so that he could win the hearts of the gentry. As long as the gentry surrendered
After the Qing Dynasty, naturally the local people followed suit.
This suggestion made Zhang Cunren very satisfied, and he immediately asked him to write a memorial, and then signed it himself, and submitted it to the Beijing court in the form of two joint signatures.
"Mr. Yan, Marshal Bolo is about to return to Beijing, and Luck Dehunbeile won't be here for a while. This Zhejiang area has to be guarded by Marshal Tian and I, but we are both military generals, and we always have experience in governing the place.
Inadequately, the officials surrendered here in Zhejiang are all good and bad. In the south, there is a pseudo-Lu supervisor who is stubbornly resisting, and in the north, there is a pseudo-Yiyang supervisor, who is rebellious and restless. We have a heavy burden. We have a great talent like Mr. Yan.
, our burden will be much lighter in the future.”
"I have handed over all of western Zhejiang to Mr. Yan."
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, since the court trusts Yan so much, Yan will have no choice but to dedicate himself to death and die. He will definitely appease Zhexi and not let Your Majesty the Ministry to worry."
"You came from Jiaxing, what do you think of Li Yuchun?"
"He acts rudely and has no courage, but he dares to fight and charge. Now in Jiaxing, the people's hearts are not yet attached. It is not entirely bad to let a barbarian general like Li Yuchun charge for a while. Wait for a while, and then change to another commander.
When ministers take over, the people will feel at ease and the place will be settled."
"Hahaha, that's a good review, but in the opinion of this department, this minister is none other than Mr. Yan. That's right. Let's let that reckless man Li Yuchun give it a hard time and kill those guys who harbor the former dynasty's intentions.
If you get scared, Mr. Yan will come again to clean up the situation, and with a little kindness, you will be able to be safe."
The two of them burst out laughing and regretted meeting each other so late!
