Staring at the generals in front of him with red eyes, he gritted his teeth and wanted to eat these guys alive.
When he set out from Hangzhou, he took 5,000 troops with him. Before the attack, he should have had 8,000 troops in each department at this time, but now, the number of troops who rushed to Zhujiazhuang according to the order was less than 4,000.
Not only were more than a dozen battalion heads and the entire battalion missing, but the battalion heads that came were also attacked several times on the road. The attacks caused them to lose some men and horses, and many newly recruited strong men took advantage of the chaos.
escaped.
Because the enemy troops were elusive in all directions, each battalion had to abandon a lot of food, grass, baggage and looted money along the way in order to quickly gather at the main camp.
This made Li Yuchun very dissatisfied.
What's even more dissatisfying is that those people fought a few battles in a confused manner, and still don't even know who they are fighting against.
"The troops that attacked us were flying the flag of Haining Yiying." An officer lowered his head and said.
"The gang of thieves who attacked us were holding the flag of Kip Shek Camp."
"It was the Jiaxing camp that attacked us."
“Hangzhou Yiying.”
"Kanpo Vigilante Group."
"Yangzhou Camp."
Before the man who spoke about Yangzhou Camp could finish his words, he was slapped in the face by the angry Li Yuchun, "Fuck you, all 800,000 people in Yangzhou City were slaughtered. I personally took you to slaughter them together. Yangzhou
Is there anyone alive? No, they are all ghosts. Where did the Yangzhou camp come from?"
The man was beaten so hard that he didn't dare to say anything.
"Tell me? Where did the Yangzhou camp come from? Could it be that a group of ghosts from Yangzhou came here?"
"Perhaps the thieves deliberately used the name of Yangzhou to confuse our army." The man could only say.
"Your brain is still useful, and it's not all shit. But since you know this, why don't you kill them? Why don't you capture some prisoners and question them?"
"The other party is elusive, coming and going like the wind. I don't dare to pursue him because I am afraid of an ambush, and I am also worried that the military gate will be in danger, so I temporarily ignored those thieves and rushed here."
Li Yuchun didn't believe a word of this subordinate's lies. This guy was so cowardly that he was definitely running away in fear of death.
Asked around.
Those who were attacked on the way gave out the banners of a bunch of attackers, such as Hangzhou Camp, Jiaxing Camp, even Yangzhou Camp, Sizhou Camp, and Nanjing Camp. Isn’t this nonsense?
However, Li Yuchun also heard some useful information from it, that is, the number of attackers was very large. These subordinates were attacked almost at the same time and were in different places at the time. This did not include the dozen or so battalions that had disappeared and could not come back.
If he is able to launch surprise attacks in dozens or twenty places at the same time, then the opponent's force is definitely not weaker than his, or even superior to his.
He has 8,000 men, plus 500 Tatar cavalry, so the other side should have 10,000, or even 20,000.
But when did 20,000 troops appear in this damn place?
Could it be that the defeated Nanming soldiers who had gathered in the Taihu Lake area of Chongming were rumored to have gone south?
However, Li Yuchun thought it was unlikely, because the defeated Ming army remnants either collapsed into Taihu Lake or fled to the islands at the mouth of the Yangtze River. They did not have the guts to gather and go south to Jiaxing near Hangzhou, let alone if they really went south in a big way.
There must have been warnings in Susong and other places along the way.
Li Yuchun was puzzled. Could it be that Haiyan County was really full of rebellion, including the gentry, landlords and common people?
Impossible, why, where do you get the courage?
And even if they really had the guts, how could they have the ability to kill thousands of their people in one day, and even wipe out several entire battalions.
Although he also knew that his men were all a bunch of people, he underestimated the enemy too much this time. Each battalion was spread far apart and dispersed. There were quite a lot of people in the 3,511 battalion. If the mysterious enemy wanted to eat him,
One battalion, and to completely annihilate it, there must be at least a thousand people, right?
And with dozens of battlefields at the same time, how many tens of thousands of people came?
We're back to a dead end again.
Li Yuchun cursed and cursed, and in the end he could only sit down dejectedly.
"Report to Governor Zhang of Hangzhou, Mr. Tian, and Boluobele."
"How to report it?" A scholar accompanying the army was also confused.
Li Yuchun gritted his teeth and said, "Just report the truth as these damn guys said. Jiaxing has rebelled against thieves all over the place. It's outrageous!"
The scholar had a cold war.
If this report is really reported and Hangzhou agrees with the report, then Jiaxing may be in for a big disaster.
Sure enough, Li Yuchun gritted his teeth and said, "Since everyone is rebelling, we can kill them all. I want to see if it's their necks that are tough, or my sword's sharpness."
"Starting from Zhujiazhuang, I will slaughter three hundred miles of Jiaxing and kill every rebel!"
The scholar's hands were shaking and he couldn't help but persuade him, "Junmen, please calm down and think twice. After all, there are only a few thieves who cause trouble, and the vast majority of the people are innocent. Besides, if the military gate kills all the people in Jiaxing's three hundred miles,
With one hundred thousand people, how can the general serve as the commander-in-chief of Xiezhen in Jiaxing?"
Li Yuchun turned around and glared at the scholar.
"I see that you also want to have an affair with a traitor. Someone come and chop this bitch scholar up for me."
"General, please spare your life, the little one is doing it for the general's good..."
Li Yuchun drew his sword and slashed it down, causing the scholar's head to fall to the ground.
"Noisy!"
Sheathing the sword, Li Yuchun glanced at his officers one by one, "Since those people want to fight against us, let them know that the consequences will be serious. Before dark today, capture Zhujiazhuang and Zhujiazhuang for me."
Among the thieves, the young women will be used as camp prostitutes, and the rest, old and weak, will be killed and no one will be spared!"
"Tell the brothers to lay down Zhujiazhuang and relax for three days. You can do whatever you want. After three days, seal the sword!"
A group of officers responded in unison, with ferocious looks in their eyes.
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The sun rises.
In Kanpu City, dozens of miles away, Zhu Yihai yawned and walked into the front hall.
It was not peaceful in the city last night.
Zhu Yihai issued an order to search the entire city. The various forces in the city were obviously unwilling to accept the Ming army's overtures. They were unwilling to hand over the wealth they had accumulated, let alone give up the territory they had worked hard for many years, and they did not want to hand over their weapons.
.
Taking advantage of the local advantage, they even tried to sneak underground to resist after the city was broken.
It's a pity that Kanpu is just a small town after all. Although the salt industry here is prosperous, it is still just a small town.
Zhang Mingzhen and other officers led troops to blockade the small city, and then plowed the ground to sweep and search. Anyone who tried to resist would be ruthlessly suppressed.
They were greeted by flying arrows, spears and swords.
Blood flowed all night.
In the morning, those tough guys finally got cold feet.
More and more guys finally came out in fear and surrendered, or were hunted down.
Those who resisted were basically hunted down without mercy.
This night's large-scale manhunt also yielded a lot of results.
A large amount of salt, grain, cloth, gold and silver, etc. were extracted. It can be said that the wealth of the city of Kanpu was basically extracted.
Anyway, in this turmoil, not one of the city's big households, merchants, salt merchants, gangs, clubs, and even guilds was innocent. In order to fight for control of Kanpu, they fought openly and secretly, and even started street fights. In the end,
But none of them escaped the iron fist of Zhu Yihai, the supervisor of the Ming Dynasty.
On the streets, groups of Ming troops were patrolling.
A military official in Chinese was beating a gong and reading out the latest notice on supervising the country and bringing peace to the people.
"The dozen or so large families in Kanpu City all expressed their willingness to obey the rules, and even sent gift orders and offered to donate money and food to support the army."
"They should be surprised to know our identities, right?" Zhu Yihai asked.
"Indeed, they even suspected that this was a lie. They all wanted to come and see His Highness."
Zhu Yihai shook his head disdainfully. Kanpu Suo City can be said to be a private salt center, so in fact, none of the big and powerful households here are related to Guan Private Salt, and none of them are good citizens.
In previous battles between these families and the Oolong Society, two families had already lost. The Oolong Society used the help of the rebel slaves to transform the society and killed these two families and directly wiped them out. They were forced to
Join forces and form an armed force.
I tried to resist last night, but was quickly defeated.
However, after these people confirmed that they were a Ming army, they quickly changed their attitude. They were originally from the White Road and were naturally close to the government, so they wanted to act according to their usual habits and win over these officers and soldiers to use them and borrow their power.
To suppress the Oolong Society, the Slave Society and other hostile forces.
But what they didn't expect was that this time they were not ordinary Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers, but His Highness the Ming Dynasty Supervisor.
"Gather all the forces in the city together and give them a unified reception. Then we will re-establish the order of Kanpu. I don't care how they divided the territory in the past, but the old method no longer works."
"The Kanpu Lijin Bureau Yamen should be established as soon as possible in Kanpu to be responsible for the establishment of the levy. In addition, the Salt Transportation Yamen in Kanpu should also be re-established to be responsible for the approval and issuance of Kanpu salt licenses, as well as the management of salt transportation and sales.
, a matter of taxation.”
"The previous gangs, clubs, and guilds such as the Oolong Club were all disbanded. Gu also prohibited these salt dealers from smuggling. In the future, Gu will allow salt traders to sell salt, but the prerequisite is to pay the salt tax first."
The salt policy of the Ming Dynasty developed to the end of the Ming Dynasty. In fact, it had become a way for officials and powerful officials to make money. They used methods such as petitions to occupy nests, monopolize the center, carry out multiple branches, and sell private salt. They wantonly invaded the national interests and colluded with officials and businessmen.
, harming the public and enriching private interests, led to the emergence of the Huaiyang Salt Merchant Group in the late Ming Dynasty, which was extremely wealthy, and the huge bureaucratic interest group behind them.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, ordinary people had no chance of getting involved in the salt business. The reform of the Salt Law in the late Ming Dynasty, the division of salt sales areas and the distribution of salt import quotas were all monopolized by the collusion of officials and businessmen.
The Salt Law of the late Ming Dynasty was actually a monopoly on the status of salt merchants, divided into agents and distribution areas, and did not give ordinary people any opportunities at all.
Everything is regulated by salt merchants, who use fixed salt quotas to collect salt from fixed salt fields, transport it along prescribed routes, and then sell it in prescribed salt areas.
It's just that this seemingly good salt administration system has long been a tool for collusion between officials and businessmen. They monopolize the identity of salt merchants, control the quantity of salt, use multiple branches, and even sell smuggled salt themselves.
Salt and other ways to evade salt taxes.
Up to now, half of the world has been wiped out, and the big salt merchants in Yangzhou have also fallen into the Yangzhou Massacre. Naturally, the salt law is in chaos.
Zhu Yihai can't control much for the time being, but now that he has occupied the small salt city of Kanpu, he will naturally have to create a new system, all for the sake of salt and the little tax money on salt.
Zhu Yihai is too lazy to care about the salt dealers in the salt area. He is now keeping everything simple and only controls the source of salt. Anyone can come here to buy salt. There is no need to first obtain the identity of a salt dealer or a license.
Anyone can come and sell salt, as long as they pay the tax on how much salt they buy.
When transporting and selling salt, you just need to pay lijin.
As long as the common people who make salt sell the salt exclusively to him and deposit it in his salt warehouse, the salt dealer can only buy salt from him, and when buying salt, he must first pay the salt tax.
Then wherever you go to sell it, whatever route you take for transportation and sales, it will all be legal and reasonable.
This is essentially a return to the salt administration of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Everything is simplified and lacks the flavor of many financial products in the salt administration of the Ming Dynasty. However, it is also better controlled, reducing unnecessary links, enhancing controllability and
Protect public interests.
Let salt return to a normal commodity and make salt tax collection more convenient.
The situation that Kanpu is in today is a deformed product caused by the complicated and chaotic salt policy of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, as long as the original profit distribution pattern is broken, Kanpu will have a new look.
,The most important thing is that through the new salt policy, Zhu Yihai can obtain a new source of income, and there is a lot of it.
After the two Zhejiang and even the Huaihe River are recovered in the future, the salt tax revenue will only increase. In all dynasties, if the salt tax can be collected, it will be enough to support the national army.
Originally, the salt law of the Ming Dynasty could normally make more money. The identity of a salt merchant could be sold for a sum of money, and the salt of salt could be sold for a sum of money. The salt of salt could even be issued in excess, just like printing money.
Cool.
It's just that the officials exploited too many loopholes in this salt law, and it has long been a tool for them to make money. However, the court's salt tax was not as good as before, so Zhu Yihai simply abandoned it and started over with a simple method.
Although Kanpu is small, it has a large salt farm, and its annual private salt output is even more astonishing. How can Zhu Yihai, who has no normal income, let go of such a big golden chicken that lays eggs?
"Where is Li Yuchun now?"
Zhu Yihai quickly turned his attention back to Li Yuchun. The top priority now was to annihilate this puppet army.
"Every battalion has received good news. Yesterday, we killed hundreds of enemies and captured more than 2,000 prisoners. In addition, we also took in thousands of young recruits who were coerced and dragged away by Li's thieves."
"Your Highness, in just one day, we wiped out half of the Li bandits' troops. The Li bandits had more than 8,000 men. Now they only have less than 4,000 men."
Zhu Yihai was very calm.
"It's too early to be happy now. It's just a small victory. If Li Yuchun's head is not placed in front of me, it can't be called a victory. Especially don't forget that this time the Tatars have 500 cavalry coming. These northern captives
The cavalry is our greatest enemy."
After Zhu Yihai carefully listened to the battle report, he stared at the map at the location of Zhujiazhuang.
It seems that this Li Yuchun is not a complete idiot. Even after being beaten in such a mess yesterday, he has not lost his mind. Now he is reporting to Hangzhou for help, and at the same time he is starting to gather his troops together, and then take out his anger on Zhujiazhuang.
It seems to be a sign of incompetence and rage, but Zhu Yihai thinks it is not that simple. Li Yuchun was beaten so hard that he could not understand the situation around him. He did not act rashly. Instead, he concentrated his troops to attack Zhujiazhuang beside him. He thought that Li Yuchun wanted to
First find a stronghold that can be defended so that you can attack or defend it.
Taking Zhujiazhuang will not only relieve the stunned battalions of his subordinates and calm their morale, but also loot the manor, replenish the lost materials, money and food, and gain a defensible stronghold.
There's something about this guy.
"Your Highness, what should we do next?"
"My original plan was to first capture Kanpu, a city that Li Yuchun must pass through, and then lure him into the urn and catch the turtle in the urn. But now it seems that Li Yuchun is very cautious. Before he understands the situation, he may not
It will move again." Zhu Yihai looked at the location of Zhujiazhuang on the map.
They were only thirty or forty miles apart, only half a day away, but Li Yuchun was now acting like a coward, and instead of sending troops to sweep around in anger, he just huddled together.
"Since he won't come, let's go!" Zhu Yihai tapped the map and said.
"Your Highness, Li Yuchun still has 4,000 troops, especially with 500 cavalry around him. We must not underestimate the enemy."
"Although Haiyan is a flat river, there are dense water nets, and the Tartar cavalry will not benefit. As long as we are careful, we will not be afraid." Zhu Yihai cannot just sit back and wait. If he doesn't take advantage of the victory and kill these thousands of troops, he really wants to
It will be even more troublesome when Hangzhou sends reinforcements.
