"Follow me out of the city and kill the thieves. Each of you will be rewarded five taels of silver. When you come back, you will be rewarded another five taels. If you cut off the head of an exposed thief, you will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver. If you can kill the general and seize the flag, you will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver!"
Lin Tianqing asked people to bring over a dozen boxes of silver, and each person received five taels of silver and distributed it to Min Yong on the spot.
He personally distributed the cut and weighed five taels of silver into the hands of the people's braves without waiting for officers. What he wanted was to inspire the courage of these people's braves.
"Brothers, give it a try and get rich and promoted, which will be better than what you can earn in ordinary years."
In order to better boost morale, he also announced that each brave citizen who followed him out of the city would be rewarded with five dou of grain, and another five dou of grain would be rewarded if he came back. If he killed a first-level traitor, he would be rewarded with two shi of grain.
Even if he died in battle, he would still have twenty taels of silver and two stones of food as compensation, and if he was injured, he would still receive the same amount of silver and food.
"Anyone who follows me out of the city to fight today will be exempted from taxes for a year and be given a small amount of silver!"
"Behead a Ming thief, and you will be exempted from taxes for another year and be given Ding Yin."
"I, Lin Tianqing, do what I say!"
Lin Tianqing stood there and preached impassionedly. The boxes of white money were indeed very impactful, not to mention the extra food rewards and even exemption from taxes and servitude, which was indeed very rare.
Many people are eager to give it a try.
After all, life is difficult for everyone these days. Even in ordinary peace years, a long-term worker from a landlord's family, who has food and lodging all year round, only earns about three taels of silver. And some craftsmen may earn one yuan a month.
Two taels of silver, but this is a craftsman, and it is impossible to keep craftsmanship for a year. The kind of people who work as part-time workers to help others earn the most difficult two or three months of money during the busy farming season, which is usually only 1 tael a month.
Two silver coins.
In today's turbulent times, especially when there is widespread food shortage in various places, food is even more precious. Big cities like Jiangning have too many landless non-agricultural handicrafts and other practitioners.
The salary is used to buy food and support the family.
Food prices are rising steadily, but their work wages will not change much. They may even lose their jobs due to war, etc., and they cannot even maintain that little income.
Now that the city is closed, it is even worse.
There are seniors and young children at home, and many people’s homes don’t even have overnight food.
A group of soldiers stood in the distance and watched this scene. They just sneered disdainfully. Although it is good for brave men to be rewarded with heavy rewards, it depends on the situation. For this group of civilians, no matter how much rewards and incentives are given, there will be no real rewards.
The effect can only be temporary, but once faced with the impact of elite armored soldiers, it will inevitably be defeated in one blow.
"Out of town!"
Lin Tianqing took the step with a death heart and full of tragedy. He had just written several suicide notes, leaving them for his family and sending them to Hong Chengchou and the Beijing court. He impeached Yan Wo Gong, thinking that Jiangnan was corrupt, Yan Wo
The government bears the first responsibility for the disorderly administration.
Those who even bluntly said that they misled me about the Qing Dynasty were strict with me.
Outside Jiangning City.
Zhu Yihai received Yan Wogong's secret letter and carefully searched for Lin Tianqing in his mind, and he really had a memory. This was not when he was the governor of Huguang later, he wrote "Wei Chu has talents" in the government school, so he was prosperous.
Is this the Lin Tianqing of this golden sentence?
This man was a close confidant of Hong Chengchou. He was first recommended by him to be the governor of Jiangning, and later the governor of Huguang. Later, he seems to have been the governor of Yunnan. In the early years of Kangxi, he rebelled with Wu Sangui. After Wu Sangui's death, he planned with the generals to arrest Wu Shifan and others and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.
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This man is said to have been a staff member of Hong Chengchou and was a very capable official, but his moral character is hard to say.
After all, he rebelled with Wu Sangui, and later wanted to launch a mutiny to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, which shows that this person is not actually a very principled person.
After thinking about this, Zhu Yihai felt that Lin Tianqing might be someone worth winning over.
"Capturing this man alive is useless."
A prefect came out of the city with three thousand people to fight. Zhu Yihai really didn't care at all. He called Zhu Chenggong and asked him to lead his troops to lure the enemy, and then asked Zhu Shengli to lead Jinwu's cavalry to break up the rear and encircle him.
"They are all strong people. As long as they are willing to abandon their weapons and surrender, don't hurt them."
"Try to capture the prisoners alive."
Of course, if you are the stubborn resister who refuses to give up your weapon, you are naturally welcome.
The city gate of Nanjing slowly opened. Lin Tianqing was riding a mule and was wearing cotton armor. His thin body was a little breathless under the pressure, but he still tried his best to roar the song.
Singing loudly, I wear the same robe as my son, how can I live without clothes?
"Come on!"
Lin Tianqing moved forward indomitably and vowed to die, which was extremely tragic.
Zhu Chenggong led a battalion and immediately stepped forward to fight. The battle could not last for a moment before he turned around and walked away. As he walked, he discarded his helmet and armor, and even threw pieces of silver and copper coins.
When the people behind him saw this, they all rushed forward excitedly. While chasing, they did not forget to bend down to pick up coins and so on. The three thousand men and horses, who were still barely in shape, immediately lost their formation.
Zhu Chenggong, who was responsible for luring the enemy in the distance, saw this scene and couldn't help but said, "Actually, I think our battalion can just turn around and defeat them. It doesn't have to be that complicated at all."
"Indeed, it is much weaker than we imagined. These are just a group of ordinary people who have just put down their hoes, not soldiers."
"Indeed, it seems that only some officers have armor, and armor is less than one in a hundred, right?"
"With just three thousand people like this, our thirty-strong army can destroy them."
Several members of Zhu Chenggong's family stopped and commented there.
Zhu Chenggong thought for a while, then waved, "Forget it, the lion must fight the rabbit with all his strength. Since the military order of the Supervisor is in force, let's just follow it. Let Shengli handle this soft persimmon. Let's cooperate."
There is no need to lure the enemy, the three thousand civilian warriors have already turned into a mess.
Lin Tianqing was riding on a mule, holding up a sword and shouting loudly, "Don't pick up money or armor. This is the enemy's trick to lure the enemy. Form a team!"
"whole team!"
But no matter how much they shouted, it was of no use.
When a group of civilians see broken silver, scattered copper coins, and even fine swords and armor all over the ground, who can't bear to pick them up?
They even fought with each other for the spoils of war.
When Lin Tianqing saw this scene, he knew it was over.
Suddenly, a horn sounded.
Zhu Shengli led the Jinwu cavalry from both wings to encircle them. At this time, the civilian warriors who were fighting over picking up money became panicked.
They took the stolen money and ran away, scrambling for the first place. They only regretted that their parents had lost two legs.
At this time, the heroic words of patting one's chest and killing thieves when collecting money in the city had long been forgotten.
Jinwu's cavalry was as fast as the wind, and he was surrounded in the blink of an eye.
"Those who abandon their weapons and sit on the ground and surrender will avoid death!"
"Those who resist with weapons will be killed without mercy!"
Jin Wuqi shouted while charging. They saw these rural warriors running around like headless flies, so they remembered Zhu Shengli's order and circled around the group of warriors as fast as the wind without killing them indiscriminately.
The cavalry formed a flowing siege, trapping the three thousand people inside.
Several panicked Minzhuangs bumped into him, holding their knives high and not knowing whether to live or die, and were shot down from a distance.
Iron hooves are like thunder.
Finally, someone came to his senses.
They threw down their newly issued weapons, sat on the ground, held their heads, and shouted to surrender.
"I surrender, I surrender!"
"Spare your life!"
Lin Tianqing saw the people around him abandoning their weapons and sitting on the ground one after another, shouting surrender, and put the sword to his neck in despair.
Suddenly, several burly Minzhuangs jumped up, tore Lin Tianqing off the mule and pinned him to the ground.
"Capture the Lingou officer and surrender, and receive the reward for your merits!"
Lin Tianqing was pushed to the ground, and he ate half a mouthful of mud. He even felt that several of his ribs were broken. His chest was extremely tight. Hearing this, he was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, but no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't move.
I could only shed two lines of tears in humiliation.