Soldiers and horses holding green flags are ravaging the town, and the rebels dragging pig tails are killing and looting everywhere.
Under a big banner, the deputy commander of Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province was proudly dragging the pig's tail and listened to the scholar in front of him read, "Li Yuchun, the commander of the Jiaxing branch, reported the incident to the pond:
On the 25th of this month, I thought that the rebels Zheng Jiwu, Zhu Gang and others gathered in Haining, attacked and killed the officers and soldiers, and harassed Haiyan, Haining and other counties. The residents suffered from Ningyu. I discussed with the Manchu Lord Jia Lazhangjing Qishiha.
, General Li Yuanshan of Haining, Guerrilla General Zhang Biao and other Manchurian adults led the troops to pursue the enemy to Xia Shi Town. It was reported that Zheng was advancing in front of the rebels. They rushed to kill countless people and captured the leader of the bandits, Gao Xiang and seven others alive.
Name, killed more than 200 thieves, burned two thieves' ships, destroyed two thieves' ships, seized two Franconian machines, a total of forty-four items such as swords, guns, armor, arrows and rattans, etc., and reported to the minister in Tang.
In order to suppress the gang of thieves, the road has been opened, but Chen Wanliang, who turned against him, escaped and has not yet been beheaded. In addition to further investigating the whereabouts of the thieves, wiping them out with one blow, and permanently eliminating the traitors, I will report it accordingly.
On June 25, the second year of Shunzhi, Li Yuchun, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Jiaxing garrison was assigned."
Li Yuchun touched his bare forehead and frowned with dissatisfaction, "What are you writing about? Why can't I understand it well?"
The newly promoted scholar in the town was originally a failed scholar, and was captured to write a newspaper for Li Yuchun. He was unavoidably worried and wanted to show off his literary talent. Although he tried his best to write clearly, he did not expect that Deputy Commander Li would be dissatisfied.
"These words are all praise for the bravery of the military."
Li Yuchun glanced at the Manchu master in the distance who was admiring the gold and silver and other trophies he had just snatched, and lowered his voice and said, "Why are you so stubborn? I fought for a long time and caught seven thieves, killed two hundred of them, and seized the weapons."
Waiting for more than 40 pieces? What kind of credit is this?"
"Wouldn't you like to polish it up a little?"
The scholar immediately understood, "Student, just modify it, how about doubling it?"
Li Yuchun snorted.
"What about students getting ten times more?"
"It's too much, just double it."
"Students understand, let's revise it." The scholar quickly picked up the pen and wrote the Tang Bao again.
Li Yuchun stood up and walked up to the Manchu Lord, "Lord Jishika, are you satisfied with these harvests?"
The official position of Qishiha is the third-class Lazhangjing, which is a guerrilla general compared to the Mingguan. The first- and second-class Lazhangjing above is a staff general. Compared with the deputy commander-in-chief Li Yuchun, he is several ranks lower.
This time Li Yuchun led 5,000 troops under his command to conquer Haining Guards, and Boluo specially sent his third-class La Zhangjing Qishiha to accompany him with 580 banner cavalry.
Although Jishiha's rank was low, Li Yuchun had always treated him like a father figure along the way and acted in accordance with their requests. He even did all the menial and dirty work such as setting up camp on the road for them.
A man from Manchuria can hardly call him daddy.
Even when looting along the way, the Manchu adults did not need to take action. After Li Yuchun sent his men to loot, he let the Manchu adults pick the spoils first, and then divided them up. Even the women they robbed had to be given to the Manchu adults first.
Enjoy first.
When passing through Kip Shek Town today, Li Yuchun made another raid, claiming that there were rebel bandits in the town and calling the gentry Gao Xiang and Chen Wanliang the bandit leaders.
They beheaded more than 400 people, pretended to kill bandits, burned many people's houses, etc., claiming it was war damage.
Jishiha laughed and said, "Well, they say that Jiangnan is rich, and it is indeed well-deserved. Such a small town has such a large population and has so much gold and silver hidden in it. But I think those people are not very honest. They keep saying that they have already
You have joined the Qing Dynasty, but why haven’t you shaved your head yet?”
"Those landowners and squires paid too little silver, not to mention a few taels of gold. They must have all been hidden. You should send people to search carefully. It is best to bring a few cunning gentry out to serve them directly.
Let’s see if others dare to hide it!”
Li Yuchun saw that in the box in front of the guy, there was a box of various gold and silver jewelry, women's gold hairpins, gold bracelets, gold rings, etc., and even men's jade jewelry, many of which were stained with blood, but this
The guy didn't dislike it at all. He touched this thing and looked at it with a greedy look on his face.
Those soldiers from the Eight Banners of Manchuria were also laughing and laughing wildly there, and you were carving up one piece for me.
Li Yuchun felt extremely distressed when he saw this. This was not sending an elite team for reinforcements. This was obviously inviting a group of ancestors to come. They would provide good food and drink on the way, build camps, set up tents, feed the horses, and collect food. They were all responsible for this.
, even if they rob good things, they have to take away 70% first.
The Five Hundred and Eight Banners got 70% for doing nothing, but they only got 30% for their five thousand troops, which was what was left over from the Eight Banners.
After flattering Ji Shiha again, Li Yuchun returned to his own banner.
"Junmen, if we continue like this, the brothers are very dissatisfied. We finally asked for such an errand from the main town this time, but we didn't spend any money to pay tribute. We pointed out that we could make a huge profit. Now
Fortunately, we have done all the dirty work along the way, and all the benefits have gone to those Eight Banners."
General Li Yuanshan reminded Li Yuchun, "Brothers, it's been a long time since they've been paid. If we can't get any benefits, we can't hold it back anymore."
Li Yuchun was a little annoyed, "Why are you so anxious? This has not yet entered the territory of Jiaxing, so we have to restrain ourselves? This is the territory of Zhang Jie, the deputy general of Hangzhou, and Boluobele is also in Hangzhou. We have gone too far, and the gains are not worth the losses. We have waited.
Xiashi Town has entered the territory of Jiaxing, let's just let go of the robbery, brothers follow me all the way from Sizhou, when have I ever treated you badly?"
"What the military gate said is that the Qing Dynasty said nicely at first and would treat us preferentially, but we owed wages in the Ming Dynasty, and we haven't seen a few taels of silver in the Qing Dynasty. In the past year, we have all relied on the brothers themselves.
Rob."
"It's good to grab some, but why do you care so much?"
Li Yuchun also had a headache. The Eight Banners moved south, and their troops were unstoppable. All Ming armies surrendered one after another. The Eight Banners did not refuse these surrendered Ming armies, and even promoted them to higher ranks. But the problem was that they still brought their troops with them.
But the Qing Dynasty did not care about their food and salary.
The rates Duduo, Bolo and others set for them were quite good, but the problem was that they were never fulfilled, and they were all just free money.
Li Yuchun was promoted to Deputy General of the Army in Jiaxing, with a fixed monthly salary of fifty taels, and then a member of the Central Military Department, with a monthly salary of seven taels, a guard with flags and drums, seven taels of silver, eleven listening officers, and deputy staff general
There are six taels of silver per month for all the guards, and forty taels of silver per month... The officers at all levels in the town have one thousand three hundred and sixty-eight taels of silver per year.
His deputy general's standard camp has 780 soldiers in the left camp, including one guerrilla member, one member of the Chinese army, two members of the general, four members of the general, 200 horsemen, 500 infantry, and 200 horses and mules.
The above total is twelve thousand one hundred and ninety-two taels of silver, and two thousand five hundred and twenty stones of pure rice.
The right camp of Biao Ying is also seven hundred and eighty, and the annual discount of colored silver is twelve thousand one hundred and ninety two taels, and the natural color rice is twenty five hundred and twenty stones.
The Qing army assigned Li Yuchun a total of 1,429 officers and men, 400 horses and mules, a total of 24,384 taels of silver, and 5,400 taels of natural rice.
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Horse soldiers are paid one tael of silver and three dou of rice per month, infantrymen are paid one tael of silver and three dou of rice per month, and each horse and mule is paid nine qian of silver per month.
This standard is actually very low from officers to soldiers, far less than the military pay of the Guan Ning Army in the Ming Dynasty. But the problem is that these are just good-looking, because the Qing army did not give them much military pay, silver and food, and they all relied on their own imagination.
Find your own way.
What Li Yuchun and the others could do was to persuade them to donate. They said they were persuading donations, but in fact they were directly robbing. Overt robbing was also covert robbing. Overt robbing was of course openly robbing, and covert robbing was like taking a wealthy village right now.
They framed it as a stronghold of bandits or rebels, and then robbed it directly. After the robbery, they killed Liang and pretended to be Ming soldiers or bandits to ask for credit.
The Qing army only gave Li Yuchun, the deputy general, less than 1,500 troops. In fact, he had 5,000 troops. Most of them were recruited along the way to build momentum. The Qing army didn't care about this. If they had money, they would give them to him.
Three melons and two dates to throw around. If you don’t have any money, you’ll find a way on your own.
In order to maintain their status, Li Yuchun and others were unwilling to reduce their subordinates easily, and would only try their best to maintain or even continuously expand their troops.
Even the soldiers had to raise most of their own rations. The military discipline of Li Yuchun's army can be imagined. They robbed from Sizhou to Yangzhou, from Yangzhou to Nanjing, and then to Hangzhou. Li Yuchun and his men had no use in fighting, but in robbing.
It rises as fiercely as a tiger.
I had only been in Hangzhou for a while, and with Bolo watching over me, I didn't dare to act too recklessly. The thousands of people couldn't hold themselves back for a long time. They finally paid for this job, so naturally they wanted to rob it.
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As for Zheng Jiwu or Zhu Gang, he didn't care. How could a group of rioters rebel against the mere Haining Acropolis?
It's just that this time Bo Luofei sent five hundred and eight banners to follow him, which gave Li Yuchun and others a headache. In the past, although robbers had to honor their superiors and even give a special share to the commander-in-chief, there were not as many as now.
Seventy percent was taken away.
"Do you think we should find a way to trick these Manchu adults? What if they were ambushed by the rebels and were completely wiped out?"
Several officers said very boldly.
Li Yuchun was startled, and lowered his voice and cursed, "How dare you dare to think such an idea outside? How can any rebel in this damn place be so capable of killing five hundred people?"
Lord Manchu ambushed and annihilated him? Besides, if there are such powerful people, how did we survive? If this is investigated and revealed, we will not be able to escape in heaven or on earth."
"But these guys are too greedy. They took away 70% of the money. What should we do? The brothers haven't shared the money for a long time, and everyone is very dissatisfied."
Li Yuchun gritted his teeth, "Then we'll wait until we get past Xiashi Town, report more rebels, and rob more places."
"When the time comes, we will arrest those big businessmen, torture them and plunder them, and we will not let them off lightly until all their hidden wealth is forced out. Damn it, I plan to come out this time and recruit more troops to expand the number to 10,000 people."
Well, you don’t have any money to talk about!”
"Jiaxing is a good place. It should be more than enough to support our ten thousand soldiers and horses."
"It's just that, those damn squire and landlords, they won't pay seriously unless they are ruthless."
"How about we go to Tongxiang instead of Haiyan next? Jiaxing is rich, and Tongxiang is even more prosperous. I heard that it is extremely rich, and there are famous families all over the place. If we just rob a house, can we get 18,000 taels of silver?"
Eight out of ten families, this money is enough to raise troops for a year. If we rob Tongxiang, we will have more than enough to raise 20,000 soldiers, not to mention expanding by 10,000. We can all share their 100,000 and 50,000 silver.
"Yes." General Li Yuanshan said with greed on his face.
Li Yuchun was also very moved, "I remember that the old guy Tang Shiji, Hongguang's Zuodu censor, seemed to be from Tongxiang. He was the first to urge Hongguang to surrender. Later, he and Qian Qianyi were among the first to offer sacrifices to Nanjing.
It is said that the one who surrendered has always been a guest of Prince Duduo of Yu, and he is also said to be going to Beijing to become a minister."
"No way. I heard that the old guy is almost eighty years old and he's not dead yet?"
"How can such an old and immortal person die so easily? He will be a disaster for thousands of years."
"That's okay. The worst we can do is send troops to guard the Tang family. There are so many famous families in Tongxiang, there must be some who haven't surrendered yet, right?"
Tongxiang is in the northwest of Xiashi Town, but Hainingwei is in the southeast. In order to rob, Li Yuchun casually modified the battle plan. Hainingwei and Haiyan County are not as important as robbing money.
Li Yuchun sneered a few times, "Send people to torture the big families in the town again. I don't believe that we can't squeeze out any more money. Why should we send them to beggars for such a small amount of money?"
"Also, take away all the food and livestock in the town."
"You don't need to be reminded by the military, brothers will never let go of a single stitch."
"Tell the guys below that what you grabbed will be divided into 28%, 80% will be handed over, and 20% will be kept for yourself. If anyone dares to keep it privately, I will chop them all down when I see them."
"It's getting late. Let's rest in Kip Shek Town tonight. Let them find some young ladies for me. Find some unmarried girls. Don't do the same as last time. Find some who have given birth to children.
The old ladies are here to fool me." Li Yuchun cursed.
