Chapter 39 Ye Shizi

After the boy went out, he also had some regrets, but he remembered the uncle who had been taking care of him, coupled with the sarcasm of some people behind, but he was reluctant to go back.

Let him go to the overseer, and he will not dare.

After all, he went to die.

In this way, he stayed outside, in a dilemma.

However, in the middle of the night, one of the overseers staggered out, as if to pee, and it was even more coincidental that the overseer had come to the place where he was hiding.

The boy was about to be discovered. He knew that if he was discovered, he would definitely not end well, so he naturally didn't do anything, and he picked up a stone and smashed it on the back of the overseer's head.

Fatal with one hit.

Then he cut off his head.

I don't know, this violent murder gave this teenager infinite courage. Or after pushing himself to a dead end, the young man's wisdom burst out.

He raised his head at this moment and said, "Now these overseers don't know yet, the person I killed them will definitely know tomorrow, and this human head is here at the moment, do you think they will believe that I did it alone, will there be no accomplice?" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was immediately forced into the same desperate situation as the teenager.

It's strange that these overseers will listen to them.

"It's done." I don't know who said it.

"A doll dares to do it, how dare we."

The miners are not without resentment, but they do not see hope, and now they can't even maintain the current situation, so they can only fight desperately.

An old man suddenly took out a cloth bag from the side. "There's a lot of gunpowder here," he said. ”

The boy's eyes lit up. said, "Okay." ”

Truth be told, there is a wooden wall outside the place where the miners live. At the gate there is the house where the overseer lives. The overseer's house is connected with wooden walls and is a row of houses.

Doors can be opened both inside and out.

Generally speaking, the inner door is very sturdy, and who knows how the overseer got inside.

First of all, this is the fortune of heaven.

Now with this package of gunpowder, you can blow the house open. Enough to deal a hard blow to these overseers, and if they can capture the weapon, there is hope of escape.

The young leader immediately gathered dozens of people, carefully hid the gunpowder, and then detonated it.

Many of these miners are very good at playing with gunpowder, after all, these are their production tools, and firing guns has always been a very dangerous thing.

One is not careful, and they are dead. The reality forced them to be proficient in gunpowder.

So after the explosion, the overseer did not die much, and the amount of gunpowder was still a little small, after all, it was deducted little by little when the cannon was fired.

But enough is enough.

Before the overseer could come to his senses, the miners rushed to the scene.

The two sides fought for a while.

The miners are too weak.

Weakened enough that two or three people could hold down an overseer, and if it weren't for the overseers not having time to react, more would have died.

Of course, this is also because the mine is not too big in the first place, with only a few hundred miners and dozens of overseers.

Because this mine is iron ore.

The two major iron works, Zunhua Iron Works and Foshan Iron Works, are the dominant overlords of the Daming Iron Industry.

But it doesn't mean that Daming has no other iron industry besides these two.

Longquan sword is famous all over the world, and the iron production here also has a long history. In addition, it is not near the sea, the transportation is inconvenient, and it is far away from Zunhua and Foshan.

Only then did a certain share of the iron industry be maintained.

But because it is not too profitable, the squeeze of this iron mine on miners is also to the extreme.

That's what happened today.

All the overseers were killed.

The boy gathered some grain and gave all the miners a full meal, and the boy's prestige was greatly increased. So there were rumors among the miners that this young man was after Ye Liuzong.

A lot of people have different evaluations in different people.

From an official point of view, this Ye Liuzong is a traitor, and a big traitor, but in the eyes of the miners, Ye Liuzong is a rare successful person in their township. From a miner to a tycoon, from a tycoon to a tycoon, to the No. 1 anti-king.

Even if it fails in the end, it is an achievement that many miners cannot imagine.

This young man was also a beggar before, he was deceived and became a slave laborer, and he didn't necessarily know what his surname was, so he simply claimed to be the son of Ye Liuzong, known as Ye Shizi. Gather the miners and go down the mountain to plunder.

No, you can't loot.

These hundreds of people have to eat and wear, and a little bit of things on the mine is not enough at all.

Although they have hundreds of people, dozens of knives, and many more are just chopping wood for soldiers, the remnants of the dead are never afraid of death.

destroyed several villages in a row, and they all beat these people with a fierce posture of not fearing death.

Several mines were broken in a row, and there were one or two thousand people who gathered the roar, but Ye Shizi's name was followed.

At this time, the local garrison was transferred to Taihu Lake again, and the governor of Chuzhou heard all kinds of rumors about Ye Shizi and urged the local officers and soldiers to suppress it.

It's just that as soon as the officers and soldiers chased after him, Ye Shizi ran away with people.

Waiting for the officers and soldiers to enter the mountain, Ye Shizi placed all the gunpowder on the mountain wall, and sent a few people who dared to die to ambush on the mountain.

After the officers and soldiers passed by, the gunpowder was ignited, and after an explosion, I don't know how many officers and soldiers were drowned in the stones.

Of course, at this time, if the officers and soldiers can fight calmly, they may not be defeated by Ye Shizi's people, but they have just experienced this

After a catastrophe like the collapse of the heavens and the earth, how many people can still think calmly.

So Ye Shizi took advantage of the chaos to attack it. More than 1,000 officers and soldiers were destroyed and more than 300 people were beheaded.

The mobile strength of the official army of the state capital was suddenly gone.

Ye Shizi took advantage of the victory to invade Longquan County, and after breaking Longquan, he collected a large number of weapons, so it became more and more climatic.

So in the late autumn of the forty-second year of orthodoxy, local officials no longer dared to cover up this matter, and could only report it layer by layer.

And at this time, it was the time for Cao Nai to hold a celebration banquet.

What kind of gong is celebrated?

Naturally, it exterminated the Taihu Lake thieves.

In fact, there are many reasons for the chaos in Jiangnan this time, but the unknown fluctuations of the raw material market in Suzhou are directly related.

Therefore, when suppressing the rebellion, Wang Shu did not forget to sort out the upper and lower industries.

Although it took a lot of effort, the prices of silkworm cocoons, silk, cotton, etc. have grown a lot out of thin air. This led many people to sell their inventory.

In addition, the military discipline of the so-called Great Zhou Heavenly Army from Songjiang was much worse than that of the Ming Army.

Although the military discipline of the Ming army is not good, after all, in the early stage of orthodoxy, many soldiers are not well fed and clothed, and in this case, it is simply difficult for a strong man to require military discipline.

However, Zhu Qizhen was after the reform of military discipline. Other armies don't know, but as long as the army in the Beijing camp system has never had a problem with salaries.

On this basis, military discipline can be demanded.

On the whole, the military discipline of the Ming army is polarized, on the one hand, the military discipline of the various departments of the Beijing camp is much better than before, but if the garrison troops in various places are better than before, it is also quite limited.

Moreover, this peaceful war was presided over by two civil officials, Wang Shu in the early stage, Cao Nai in the later stage, and Wang Shu as the auxiliary. The requirements for military discipline are more stringent.

Under such circumstances, the local people in Suzhou naturally supported the government.

Although this kind of support cannot directly determine the outcome of this big war, it can indirectly determine it. Although these thieves fled from the waterway, they were not too familiar with the water conditions in Jiangnan.

With the guidance of the local people, these thieves lost their geographical advantage.

Not to mention that all the Yangtze River sailors were present, plus the Beijing camp, the armies of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces laid a net on the shore of Taihu Lake, and victory was a normal thing.

The Jiangnan Rebellion, before and after only two or three months, Jiangnan losses are not light, but the vitality is still there, and even if only taxes are counted, because of the collection of commercial taxes, although this year because of changes, half of the tax, but it is estimated that there are about three million taels of taxes.

The reason why it went so smoothly was that the gentry in Jiangnan had seen the power of mud legs, especially Lu Lin, a very important figure who even Wang Shu did not dare to slack off, and lost his head in a daze. Let them realize that they are indispensable for the protection of the Ming court.