Chapter 392 Experienced in a hundred battles, Wang Yangming [2 more]
In three days, more than 200 dignitaries and gentry families in Nanjing City were captured. Nanjing City was almost emptied of all the gentry families. Even if there were some left, there were very few.
More than 200 families, including their relatives and relatives, arrested more than 20,000 people. The prison in Nanjing could not accommodate so many prisoners. Therefore, Chu Yi sent people to build an open-air prison outside Nanjing.
These criminals were detained in prisons and thousands of troops were sent to personally guard them.
It can be said that any one of these wealthy gentry and powerful families can be called a wealthy family when they confiscate their homes and seize people. Even the smallest wealthy gentry has at least tens of thousands of taels of wealth if their family property is counted.
This is the smallest gentry's house among them. As for the top noble houses, they are all marquis and earl houses awarded by the original court. It can be said that they have been passed down for hundreds of years.
When Nanjing City fell, very few of the powerful people in Nanjing City escaped. Nanjing City itself was a place where powerful people gathered. Needless to say, what choices would these powerful people make after King Ning entered Nanjing City?
Moreover, the power of these powerful people is huge, and they are deeply entangled in the land of Jiangnan. It is no exaggeration to say that these powerful people in Nanjing City definitely have extremely strong control over the huge Jiangnan.
Chu Yi wanted to open the sea and raise taxes, so he naturally stood on the opposite side of these people. Otherwise, these people would not have caused so much trouble, and even pushed out Prince Ning in an attempt to change the dynasty.
The top tycoons and powerful families can easily confiscate millions of taels of property.
People are easy to catch, and the speed of confiscating the house is really not fast. For several days, Fang Li, Tang Bohu and others led people to raid the house almost day and night, and cartloads of gold, silver and jewelry were pulled into the palace.
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Several main halls of the Imperial Palace in Nanjing City were vacated to store various properties that were confiscated during the raids. A steady stream of property was brought into the palace. It can be said that the carriages and horses transporting property never stopped for several days.
At this moment, Qi Hu carefully walked into the study with a stack of classics in his hands, and saw Chu Yi sitting there, looking through the information about Jin Yiwei.
Taking a few steps forward, Qi Hu carefully placed some of the classics obtained by ransacking the house on the table.
Chu Yi put down the news from Jin Yiwei, raised his head and glanced at the thick pile of classics on the table.
As someone close to Chu Yi, Qi Hu naturally knew that Chu Yi had an unusual preference for classics handwritten by sages and great scholars, so the people under Chu Yi were naturally very knowledgeable and carefully collected these classics.
In the past few days of searching the house alone, more than a dozen classics were presented almost every day, and Chu Yi also gained a lot of luck from these classics.
After glancing at Qi Hu, Chu Yi said slowly: "How are Qi Hu, Fang Li, Tang Bohu and the others handling it? Have they finished the house confiscation?"
Qi Hu hurriedly said: "Back to the governor, the house confiscation has been completed. Now Fang Li, Tang Bohu and the others are counting the proceeds of the house confiscation. I think it won't be long before there are results."
Chu Yi nodded slightly.
To be honest, Chu Yi didn't care much about the proceeds from confiscating the house. As for how much property could be confiscated, Chu Yi could roughly guess it.
Jiangnan is prosperous, and most of the maritime merchants and wealthy gentry are located in Jiangnan, not to mention the wealthy gentry and powerful people in Nanjing.
I dare not say that there are too many. The wealth gathered in Nanjing is probably greater than the wealth gathered in Beijing.
This time he had cleared out almost all the wealthy gentry and powerful people in Nanjing City. It would be strange if he did not loot tens of millions of taels of silver.
Through maritime trade, overseas silver has begun to flow into the Ming Dynasty in large quantities. Although it has not yet reached its peak, a considerable part of the silver flowing into the Ming Dynasty has settled in the prosperous Jiangnan.
It is a pity that this wealth has not fallen into the hands of the common people, but has been concentrated in the hands of a small group of people. Needless to say, it is these powerful people and gentry who occupy a considerable amount of wealth.
These wealthy gentry and powerful people have accumulated wealth for generations. I don’t know how much of this wealth is stained with blood, but now it has all fallen into the hands of the imperial court.
There was a burst of hurried footsteps. Chu Yi looked over and saw Xu Tianzuo coming quickly with a letter in his hand. As soon as he entered the door, he said to Chu Yi with a happy face: "General Manager, good news, good news."
ah!"
Chu Yi smiled slightly, glanced at Xu Tianzuo and said: "It seems that the news of Wang Shouren's attack on Yangzhou City has arrived!"
Xu Tianzuo, who was originally looking happy, couldn't help but froze when he heard this, with a look of doubt on his face. The good news in his hand was the good news of the attack on Yangzhou City sent by Wang Shouren on horseback.
More than a dozen families including the Xie family and the Mo family in Yangzhou city joined forces to form a rebel army of 20,000 to 30,000 people, occupying Yangzhou. It can be said that they are the most powerful and powerful among the many rebels who responded to King Ning.
Strong.
Wang Shouren went south to put down the rebellion. Wherever he passed, it could be said that the large and small forces entrenched in one area were simply vulnerable and were easily put down by Wang Shouren.
Pushing forward like this, Wang Shouren's troops became more and more numerous. By the time they reached Yangzhou City, Wang Shouren's troops had even reached 30,000.
After all, the rebel army formed by the gentry and powerful people was recruited from among the tenant farmers. After Wang Shouren killed those gentry and powerful people, these tenant farmers were naturally recruited into the army by Wang Shouren.
It was like a snowball all the way, and Wang Shouren was stunned to gather up 30,000 troops and fight in front of Yangzhou City.
If Xie Mingyu and others want them to make money or scheming with others, there are indeed not many people who can scheme against them.
But if these people were to lead the army to fight, to be honest, it would be too difficult for them.
Even though some of them had the experience of leading fleets to fight against pirates at sea, bandits are bandits after all, and a conflict of that scale would only be a fight between hundreds of people.
But now there is a fight between tens of thousands of people. If you are not a true commander, you may not be able to perfectly control an army of tens of thousands.
This is the situation of Xie Mingyu and others. It seems that they have a huge momentum, with tens of thousands of people occupying Yangzhou City. Unfortunately, there are no generals in Yangzhou City. Even if there are generals, Xie Mingyu and others
I'm afraid I wouldn't dare to hand over the military power.
Therefore, Xie Mingyu and the others had to command some of their troops separately. Although they could barely keep the army in chaos, the originally unified army was suddenly divided into more than a dozen parts, and the result can be imagined.
If a good army is divided into more than a dozen parts, no one knows how much combat power it can still have.
When Wang Shouren arrived at Yangzhou City, he learned about the situation in Yangzhou City and immediately ordered the army to attack the city.
The most powerful person in Yangzhou City is Xie Mingyu, and Xie Mingyu also leads a young and strong team of 5,000 people to guard the north gate of Yangzhou City.
Wang Shouren focused on the north gate and attacked the city. The siege battle was the most brutal. However, Wang Shouren did not hesitate to lose money and attacked the city forcefully.
The Xie family was guarding the north gate of Yangzhou City, but was targeted by Wang Shouren. It was conceivable that in just half a day, the Xie family suffered heavy losses.
Those are all tenants of the Xie family. If they lose it, they will lose the strength of the Xie family, although other families have also sent people to help and help defend the city.
But it is unrealistic to expect these people to fight tooth and nail.
As a result, Yangzhou City held out for less than a day and was captured at night.
The news of the destruction of Yangzhou City was naturally sent back to Nanjing by Wang Shouren immediately.
Xu Tianzuo was just stunned for a moment before he realized that the speed at which any of the Dongchang and Jinyiwei families could deliver the news would not be slower than the speed at which Wang Shouren sent someone to deliver the good news, let alone such important news that Yangzhou City had been breached.
In the south of the Yangtze River, apart from Nanjing City, there are only a few big cities such as Yangzhou City and Suzhou City where the number of rebels exceeds ten thousand. As for other county towns, even if there are many people and horses, there are rarely more than three people.
Five thousand.
With the defeat of Nanjing City and Yangzhou City, the Jiangnan Rebellion was actually coming to an end.
Although Chu Yi had already learned about the situation in Yangzhou City through the news from Jinyiwei, Chu Yi still opened the good news and scanned it ten lines at a time.
This good news was naturally written by Wang Shouren himself, detailing the situation in Yangzhou City.
Chu Yi nodded slightly and said in appreciation: "What a Wang Shouren. His military skills are indeed extraordinary. Now it seems that the chaos in Jiangnan can be put down in less than half a month!"
When Xu Tianzuo heard this, he couldn't help but said: "Thanks to the General Manager's keen eye for people, if the General Manager hadn't entrusted Mr. Wang with important tasks, who would have known that Mr. Wang has such talent as a general and a prime minister."
Everyone knows that Wang Shouren was a civil servant. It was Chu Yi who valued him and entrusted him with military power. This gave rise to the famous Wang Shouren.
Wang Shouren's name has become famous all over the world with the rebellion of King Ning.
Although Wang Shouren was not able to quell King Ning's rebellion in this generation and gained such a great reputation, the momentum of King Ning's rebellion was extraordinary, affecting most of the land south of the Yangtze River. The impact it caused was also extraordinary.
Chu Yi put down King Ning's rebellion, which was normal in the eyes of the court and the people of the world. Wang Shouren's outstanding performance was the biggest highlight of King Ning's rebellion.
Wang Shouren was stunned. Before the imperial reinforcements arrived, he relied on his own ability to unite the local soldiers and horses. He first defeated several generals of King Ning, and then captured Nanchang City, King Ning's lair. Next, he went to Jiujiang and plundered Anqing.
Now, in the land of Jiangnan, they are sweeping across the rebels from all over Jiangnan like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves. They have fought at least dozens of large and small battles. It can be said that they have experienced hundreds of battles without losing a single defeat.
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