Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Chapter 71: Raid Home

After receiving the guarantee that she would only raid the house and not kill anyone, Lin Wan’er silently stepped forward to clean up the dishes, and when she was about to go out, she seemed to want to stop and say something, but she bit her thin lip while breathing and pushed the door away.

After the door was closed, Zhou Shixiang turned his head to look at the oil lamp on the table. The wick was half burned, and only half of the kerosene remained. With the flames jumping, his fingers tapped lightly on the table. After a long time, there was a heavy blow on the desktop.

In the early hours of the morning, Wu Qingde’s family, who had been out of office in Hongguang’s Chao Pedestrian Division, was the first to come to the Taiping Army. After seeing Wu Qingde, the commander-in-chief Ge Yi, who led the team, shook an official document in front of his eyes and ordered the soldiers behind him. Rush in and raid the house.

Wu Qingde, who had already done bloodletting again, never expected that the Taiping Battalion would raid his home directly. In a panic, he refused to fight and tried his best to describe his identity as an official of the Ming Dynasty. Ignoring his five-rank walk of the Hongguang Dynasty, the stack of sleeves actually took the lead in checking.

When a scholar meets a soldier, there is no reason to explain it.

In front of him was the Taiping army who were copying and copying from his own house like bandits. The exclamations of his female family members were in his ears, and there were intermittent roars of soldiers. Wu Qingde was in a hurry to attack his heart, and he actually fainted. When he was dizzy, all the old and young of the Wu family panicked and cried.

The same scene was staged at the same time in the family of Qi Yuantai, the head of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, the family of Zhang Chang and the family of Huai’an, the family of Datong Mipu, the family of Yang of TEDA, and the family of Zhao, the largest landlord in Luoding.

Qi Yuantai seemed to have long known that the Taiping Camp would be like this. After the soldiers entered the gate, they carried the whole family and retreated in a corner. They did not dare to say a word during the whole process. No one in his family dared to shout or scold him. The Taiping Army, the other side can open whatever door they want. It can be said that they cannot cooperate any more. From beginning to end, Qi Yuantai maintained the same look, that is, neither happy nor angry, but the chill in his eyes never disappeared.

Zhang Changquan, who was lying in bed with a little wind and cold, heard that the Taiping Camp came to the door, but he was so frightened that he hid under the bed, and his concubine Wu could not find him. After Zhang Changquan was dragged out from under the bed by the Taiping Army, Mrs Wu stepped forward and hugged him, still crying.

The TEDAbuxing Yang family and the big landowner Zhao family were a bit daring, but they were limited to verbal accusations and scolding, but they did not dare to take any action, and let the Taiping army scavenge their food and valuables in their homes. There are also some women in the two families who want to hide the gold and silver, but after a woman was ripped off her skirt in public, and a small bag of gold and silver was caught between her thighs, no one dared to hide it, honestly. Really hand over things, so as not to be naked in public.

Zhou Shixiang had already prepared for the violence that might occur in the process of raiding his home. Except for the prohibition of unprovoked murder and **** of women, all other things could be tolerated. Of course, a well-disciplined army was his dream, but he would never have this dream when he could not provide enough food and clothing for the soldiers.

The only thing that made people “impressive” was Lin Wanfu, who was ridiculed by everyone on weekdays. Before the Taiping army arrived at his house, he opened the door wide, knelt on the ground with the whole family, and presented the account book to Zhao Sihai, who came to check. Key, saying that he is willing to take the whole family to the Taiping Camp, and also asks the Taiping Camp to stay, and the little old man is also willing to contribute to the Ming Dynasty in his lifetime.

Such a statement made Zhao Sihai embarrassed and stepped forward to help him up. After Lin Wanfu got up, he complimented Zhao Sihai again, and finally dragged Zhao Sihai in to taste the good tea from Jiangnan. , then temporarily put it in his home, and come back to count it later.

When the news came, Zhou Shixiang didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Because his daughter was by his side, he couldn’t handle the matter, so he pushed it to Duke Song Xiang to deal with it.

The Taiping Camp raided the big gentry, and there was a lot of noise in the city, some applauding and some panicking.

Compared with the large gentry, the raids were relatively mild, and for those in Luoding City and the Qing army’s money pass, the Taiping Camp was a thunderbolt method.

Although Zhou Shixiang did not know that Lu Changyuan had sent people to Deqing to report it, Duke Xiang of Song explained some of Lu Changyuan and others’ small actions in the city one by one in the past two days, although these small actions did not prove that Lu Changyuan and others and the Qing army There was collusion, and it didn’t prove that he was in a series of rebellions, but Zhou Shixiang sentenced Lu Changyuan and others to death with the ruthless idea that he would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go.

Unwilling to kill, Lu Changyuan led a dozen people to resist with weapons, but he was surrounded by his backyard.

After dawn, the overall situation has been set.

Since ancient times, most of the people who have the ability to link up rebellion are people with status and status in the local area, especially the big gentry~www.readwn.com~ These people have a certain amount of money and food resources in their hands, plus their status in the eyes of the common people. , often when they climb high and call, the responders do not say that they are gathered, but they are also numerous, and a little use is a force for rebellion. However, now the six major gentry families headed by Qi Yuantai have been settled by the Taiping Camp, and Lu Changyuan and others hidden in the yamen have also been put to death. No matter how many people there are in Luoding, they will not pose a threat to the Taiping Camp. A piece of soil is far more powerful than a plate of loose sand.

All morning, the Taiping Camp was busy transporting the money and grain copied from these six families to the Houying in Dongcheng. It was very different from the previous six families complaining to Duke Xiang of Song. The total amount of money and food copied from their home was more than they had donated. The number was twice as high, and Song Xianggong was so angry that he copied it well, and it really was for the sake of wealth and unkindness.

I don’t know how Lin Wanfu did it. When Zhou Shixiang saw him again, he was already the accountant of the public treasury.

Zhou Shixiang asked Song Xianggong why Lin Wanfu was responsible for the account. This Lin Wanfu was able to sell his own daughter for his own benefit. He had to say that his character was despicable. It might not be appropriate to use such a person to manage the account. As a result, Song Xianggong’s words “make the best use of everything and make the best use of people” left him speechless. After thinking about it carefully, Lin Wanfu was able to run the Datong Rice Shop in Luoding’s poor mountains and rivers. The family’s food business has also been done without delay. Whether it is Ming or Qing, the Lin family can survive. This shows that Lin Wanfu is not useless, and it is not impossible to use him to manage accounts. His ability to raise food for the Taiping Camp.

The notice from the Zhizhou Yamen was posted in the afternoon, and the notice asked the people of the city to “voluntarily” join the Taiping Camp, thinking that Ming ZTE would contribute.