Chapter 294: The West Factory’s business is not about evidence, but only about assets!
Wang Yan cried so hard that he snotted and cried, and told them all the difficulties they had suffered since they cleared the land in the world in one breath.
From Jinghai being coerced and tempted by the Wang brothers, to the civil rebellion in Puzhou, to the house arrest in Fengxian, to the impact of Peixian and killing the county magistrate.
Their journey can be said to be full of disasters and difficulties, and they have experienced many difficulties and obstacles in the world, and their grievances are even deeper than the sea. ,
Wang Zhi patted Wang Yan on the shoulder and spoke in a deep voice.
"Two sirs, you have suffered a lot of difficulties since you cleared the land in the world again, and it is really a grievance for you."
"I have heard from Qin Lu about these things. Don't worry, the court will never let you suffer any grievances from today."
"This..."
Wang Yan wiped away the tears from his eyes and was about to ask the court what to do, the leader of the 100 soldiers of the trapped camp around him spoke first.
"We will protect the safety of the members of the Qingzhangtianmu team from now on until the end of Qingzhangtianmu. "
"Ah?!"
Wang Yan and Yang Jizong's pupils shrank, and their faces showed extremely shocked expressions.
The Crane Camp is the most elite unit of the Ming Dynasty. Any battles involving the Crane Camp will be won in every battle and will be invincible.
Every soldier in such a powerful army is extremely precious.
And there are a group of such precious soldiers, one hundred, so that these soldiers can protect their safety.
This... this... Wang Yan and Yang Jizong both felt a little flattered.
Wang Yan looked at Wang Zhi in shock: "This... is this your order, or your Majesty's?"
Wang Zhi nodded to him: "Of course it's Your Majesty. In the future, anyone who dares to obstruct the land in the world from now on will take action first and then report, and the imperial power will be granted!"
When talking about the last eight words, Wang Zhi increased his tone, which made Wang Yan and Yang Jizong feel the murderous intent.
After Wang Yan was initially shocked, all that was left was touching.
On the one hand, because with these 100 soldiers from the camp joining, their efficiency in clearing the land will be much faster, and those gods and demons will not dare to have any bad ideas.
On the other hand, it is because they suffered a grievance and hardship in the matter of clearing the fields in the world, which is worth it.
His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty has been paying attention to the difficulties they encountered and has given strong support!
Wang Yan bowed his hand and said sincerely to Wang Zhiqing: "Please Governor Wang, and thank Your Majesty on behalf of me!"
"Please rest assured that as long as I have a breath, the progress of investigating the world's fields will never stop!"
Yang Jizong also bowed his hand and looked extremely focused: "Investigate the land in the world and benefit the people of Jiuzhou and all directions. I will never refuse to die!"
Wang Zhi nodded with relief and said, "Check out the fields in the world, the time is tight, the task is heavy, so I will no longer bother you."
"Dr. Wang, Censor Yang, I will say goodbye."
Wang Yan quickly answered, "Yes, the Peixian mutiny has wasted a lot of time."
"We will immediately continue to clear the number of land in Pei County, and we will definitely clear out the number of land in Pei County as quickly as possible."
Wang Zhi nodded, stopped staying here, and left Pei County with the Xichang Fanzi behind him.
Wang Yan and Yang Jizong looked at each other, and both saw joy and expectation from each other's eyes.
After they settled their luggage as quickly as possible, they immediately took the team and left the county town again and headed to the fields.
But this time, their team became much bigger.
One hundred trapped camps were protected by the side, which made Wang Yan, Yang Jizong and others feel full of security.
This time, they cleared the fields and felt extremely happy.
No one dared to make trouble, no one dared to disturb the situation at all. The speed of clearing the land of a hundred thousand feet has never been so smooth and comfortable.
Wang Yan and Yang Jizong didn't ask much about the reason, but they knew a rough idea in their hearts.
Perhaps those who want to stop them from clearing their land are dead.
The Xichang and the Shantou camp were dispatched at the same time, and they had no reason to survive.
...
Xuzhou Prefecture City.
Inside the government office, Gao Shun, Wang Zhi, Qin Lu, Xu Chang and others gathered together to hold a military meeting.
Xu Chang first spoke: "General Gao Shun, all the soldiers in the guards of Xuzhou Prefecture, have been under control, and all the officers have been detained."
"What should we do with these guards?"
How to deal with these guards is indeed a difficult problem.
There are at least thousands of soldiers in the guards in a palace.
Some of these guards were trained soldiers, while others had completely become serfs of officers, who only knew how to farm and had no combat ability.
Whether it is supervision or escort, you need to distribute a certain amount of troops to watch these guards.
This is a great consumption for the army that went south to suppress the rebellion.
Gao Shun thought for a while and replied, "This matter will be reported to Your Majesty and apply to send some northern guard soldiers to take over these southern guard soldiers."
"Send them to the nearby northern prefectures and be detained in another place."
"Yes, General Gao Shun."
Xu Chang sat back, and then Qin Lu spoke again.
"The Chief of Factory Governor, the four major families of Xuzhou Prefecture, have all been slaughtered, and all the people associated with them have been executed."
"And in Xuzhou Prefecture, all the landlords and gentry have been detained by the Western Factory."
"After just checking out their property, you can follow His Majesty's orders to kill what should be killed and release what should be released."
No wonder Wang Yan, Yang Jizong and others made such a rapid progress in clearing the fields of Zhangzhang in Xuzhou Prefecture.
It turned out that it was not just the four major families in Xuzhou Prefecture, but were destroyed by the West Factory.
The entire landlords and gentry of Xuzhou Prefecture were arrested by the Xichang.
When doing business in Xichang, it does not tell the evidence, but only looks at assets.
Any landlord, regardless of character or reputation.
As long as the family has assets and land, they will be arrested first.
As for whether to kill or release it, it depends on the subsequent investigation.
And the investigation is not about whether these landlords and gentry have committed any illegal crimes, but about how much property you have.
According to Zhu Youzhang's order, all families with more than 100,000 taels of silver, more than 10,000 mu of fertile land, and privately harboring large ships in the sea were slaughtered.
And the landlords and squire below this number can escape.
Zhu Youzhang issued this seemingly unreasonable order, not because he hated the rich.
It is because the landlords and gentry whose property is larger than this number have the ability to shake the foundation of the Zhu family's rule.
Another reason is that in a feudal era with such strict hierarchy and such severe class solidification.
Without the Industrial Revolution, there is basically no one who can accumulate such a huge amount of wealth.
Any path that can quickly accumulate original capital has been blocked by predecessors. If you work step by step, you can only have enough food and clothing, but not get rich. To get rich, you can only exploit the surplus value of others and harshly exploit other ordinary people.
Therefore, when an individual's capital exceeds one order of magnitude, killing nine out of ten will not be wronged.
Of course, this refers to feudal society.
In these families with more than 100,000 taels of Tibetan silver and more than 10,000 mu of fertile land, will there be people who have worked hard for generations and never done any illegal activities?
There may be, but Zhu Youzhang doesn't have that much energy to find them from a bunch of cannibalized capitalists and landlords.
These people were killed unjustly. Compared with the happiness of tens of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty, their lives are insignificant.
Besides, on this land of the Ming Dynasty, how many unjust cases will not occur one day?
One day, were there not many innocent people persecuted to death by landlords, gentry and noble officials?
For Zhu Youzhang, the life of a big landlord and a big official is no different from that of an ordinary person.
After Qin Lu said that, Wang Zhi nodded without any emotion on his face: "Not bad."
Then, Wang Zhi looked at Gao Shun beside him: "General Gao Shun, now the matter in Xuzhou is over. Should we continue to march in other directions?"
Gao Shun nodded: "This is the reason, our movements are still too slow."
"After Xuzhou Prefecture opened a gap, I was about to divide my troops into three groups and march towards Huai'an Prefecture, Yangzhou Prefecture and Zhongdu Fengyang Prefecture."
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"Three groups attack at the same time to speed up the speed of suppressing the rebellion."
Wang Zhi nodded, without objection to Gao Shun's arrangement.
No matter which mansion they arrived in, they were all dimensional reduction attacks on the local rebels.
In order to speed up the rebellion, division of troops was also expected.
Soon, everyone implemented the deployment arrangements, with Gao Shun, Xu Chang and Wang Zhi each leading 40,000 troops to Yangzhou Prefecture, Huai'an Prefecture and Zhongdu Fengyang Prefecture.
Although Wang Zhi is just the leader of a spy agency, not a military general, and has no right to command troops.
But why is Zhu Youting's confidant and has the experience of commanding troops and fighting.
Gao Shun was very relieved to hand over the command of the 40,000 army to Wang Zhi.
"Since everyone has no objection, then we will set out from Xuzhou tomorrow and go deep into Nanzhili!"
After Gao Shun finished speaking, Wang Zhi just nodded, but the others hurriedly bowed and took the order: "Yes, General Gao Shun!"
...
Two days ago, the day when the rebel army went south to suppress the Xuzhou Prefecture.
Yingtian Prefecture.
Nanjing.
A panicked guest came to the mansion of Zhang Peng, the Minister of War.
He sat in a restless manner on the chair in the living room, looking around constantly, shaking his legs anxiously.
Suddenly, he saw Zhang Peng's figure and stood up immediately.
"Mr. Zhang!"
His movements were too big and he hit the wooden table beside him and knocked the teacup beside the table to the ground.
"Bang!"
The tea cup fell to the ground and suddenly shattered and splashed.
"What's so anxious?"
"What do you think of your insane look like?!"
Zhang Peng walked from the backyard and looked at Tang Fang's anxious look, and couldn't help but frowned and said a few words.
Then he sat down happily, picked up the hot tea at hand, and took a sip.
"Tell me, what happened in Xuzhou?"
Zhang Peng has been in a good mood these days.
His plan is being carried out step by step, and every link is as expected, without a half-point difference.
The landlords and gentry in the entire Jiangnan region were united by them, organized the local people and carried out civil rebellion.
The commanders of various prefectures either agreed to take their guards and follow their orders with them, or agreed to stand by and watch and not send troops to obstruct them.
Even the prefects and prefects of various government offices are willing to obey their orders and fight against the court's scrutiny.
Not to mention that the entire Nanjing officialdom was standing behind him to support him.
Zhang Peng never expected that with a shout, there would be so many landlords and gentry from Jiangnan and noble officials who would respond to their call.
His confidants, Jiangnan Shipyard and Fuqing Shipyard, these two shipyards that can manufacture large ships in the West, finally suspended the construction of sea ships for some reason.
All of this is developing towards the best ending.
There were only some small accidents, such as the Japanese pirates he sent to destroy the two shipyards, and until now, Zhang Peng has not received any news from them.
But this is irrelevant. Maybe they hid for safety after they succeeded?
In short, their plan went well, and the final victory seemed to be near.
Zhang Peng was in a long time and was only scolded for his rude behavior to Tang Fang, and he was not really angry.
Compared to Zhang Peng's comfort, Tang Fang was really anxious, and the hope that had risen in his heart turned into despair.
"Mr. Zhang, it's not good!"
"The army of the imperial court has come down and has already attacked Xuzhou Prefecture!"
"What? Your Majesty sent troops?!"
Zhang Peng shook the teacup in his hand and some tea splashed out.
He stared at Tang Fang with his eyes tightly, frowning tightly, but in short, he was not like Tang Fang, who was in chaos.
"Yes, Lord Zhang, what should we do? You should think of a solution!"
Zhang Peng lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and asked again: "How many soldiers are there in total in the army heading south this time?"
Tang Fang replied quickly, "According to them, Your Majesty sent a hundred thousand troops to the south of the Yangtze River this time!"
Zhang Peng's eyes widened in shock, his expression was astonished.
He thought that Zhu Youzhan would send troops to Jiangnan, but he never thought that Zhu Youzhan would send an army of 100,000 to Jiangnan at one time.
A hundred thousand troops went to Jiangnan. Even if he had received the support of all the landlords, gentry, officials and nobles in Jiangnan, he might not be able to stop him so easily.
Zhang Peng's eyes suddenly became sharp: "It is said to be? One hundred thousand?!"
"So, didn't you see it with your own eyes?"
Tang Fang was stunned for a moment, lowered his head, and said with a dodge in his eyes: "Yes, I...I...I heard that after His Majesty sent a 100,000 army south, I would come back immediately and report this to the Lord..."
Zhang Peng did not expose Tang Fang's words, but just smiled coldly: "Since you haven't seen it with your own eyes, don't be so full of words."
"The name of a 100,000 army is probably just a fool. Maybe the real army will only have 30,000 to 40,000 people."
After Zhang Peng finished speaking, he smiled lightly, full of luck.
(This chapter ends)