Chapter Twenty-Five: The Bandits
The thieves who have been entrenched in the yellow sorghum capital for several years have been eliminated day and night.
At this point, all areas of Xiangshan except Haojing were under the control of the imperial court, and the waterways between Xiangshan County and Shunde and Xinhui were also stabilized.
Xu Laoqi's head was transported to Guangzhou Mansion by Pegasus, and the Lao'anshan Stone Village was also demolished, and the next day all kinds of ox carts and carriages were transferred from Xiangshan Qianhu, and more than a dozen carts were loaded with the booty and returned.
For most of the banner troops of Xiangshan Qianhu, this is just a long-distance training of less than 100 miles round trip.
Of course, climbing training is also included.
Deng Zilong and Sun Aobu's road to climb the mountain was blown up by Xu Laoqi's buried gunpowder, Deng Zilong's luck was good and courageous, the mountain road was not all blown up, and after cutting wood and building bridges, he led the army to board the cottage, just to transfer troops to collect the profits.
Sun Ao's luck was worse, the mountain road on his side may have been unstable, the thief's gunpowder exploded and collapsed directly, hurting many people, not to mention, and blocking the mountain road, and finally had to go down the mountain the same way and take Chen Mu's road.
As soon as he walked to the foot of the mountain, the people on the mountain had already begun to come down, so he simply sent someone back to transfer the horses overnight, and waited at the bottom of the mountain to find Chen Mu to receive the punishment.
If you fail to achieve the battle plan, you can say that it is nothing at a small level, and you can say a demote at a large level.
Chen Mu didn't say any punishment directly, but just led the troops back to Xiangshan after resting for the night, and all the rewards and punishments would be discussed when he returned to Xiangshan.
Along the way, Wei Balang's little face was almost purple, he didn't learn a few words, but it was his responsibility to remember merit and punishment, and there was no proficient document under his hand to ghostwrite for him, just remembering his name made him sad to death.
He had never looked at a person so seriously, but he had been looking at Shiqi on the way back to Xiangshan.
In the past, Shi Qi was the one who recorded the war profits in Qingyuan, but now although Wei Balang is a servant, Chen Mu also knew that he was not enough to calculate so many things for the time being, so he let Shi Qi be responsible for calculating the war profits.
Luodi scholars are not a problem in both mathematics and records, which makes Wei Balang very - not admiration, he is simply greedy for other people's knowledge.
Back at the Qianhu Office, Shi Qi presented three volumes of records in the Qianhu Yamen, which were the list of battlefield rewards and punishments written by Wei Balang and the summary of war profits written by Shi Qi and the list of Xu Laoyu's remaining party, Shi Qi asked: "Qianhu asked Sun Deputy Qianhu to coerce and lure the captives, and made this list in order to wipe out Xu Lao's remaining party?" ”
Shi Qi wondered in his heart, if he wanted to catch them all, he would just garrison the army in Huangliang Capital for a few days, why would he go back to Qianhu and ask for a directory?
"All in one? Chen said that he was not to blame them in the past, so he was not to blame in the past. ”
Chen Mu smiled indifferently and said, "Send someone to send this list to Zhou County, we are not to blame for the past, and Chen can't control the inspection department." ”
Chen Mu, who was looking through the list, was painful and happy, and at the same time it was a little complicated.
Capture the spoils of war on the battlefield, and black eats black to make wealth easy and fast.
The thieves are not as good as the rebels, the rebels have robbed the silver and have nowhere to spend, so they carry a lot of silver, the thieves and the people are all the people, you have me, I have you, and the place to spend money is many and large, Fu Yuan searched all the corpses, and only had to come more than 170 taels, and searched all the houses in the cottage, only to get more than 70,000 Tongbao of different years.
However, Xu Laoqi's stone village hides six hundred taels of silver.
Now seven or eight hundred taels of silver is already a small amount of money in Chen Qianhu's opinion, and it doesn't make him feel extremely happy about it.
Among the trophies, what really pleased him was the weapons and armor, including the yellow sorghum seized, more than 300 guns and spears, more than 40 pairs of bows and crossbows, more than 30 firearms and birds, more than 30 pieces of leather armor, more than 20 pairs of scale armor, and 56 fishing boats hidden on the banks of the Qijiang River.
There are also two broken small generals' cannons, which belong to the front-loading smoothbore cannons, which are old objects in the Yongle period, both of which are small cannons of two or three hundred catties, and in addition to the two broken cannons, they also get some iron, gunpowder, and lead bullets.
Fortunately, this gang of thieves is trying to repair these two cannons, if they come later, Chen Mu will have to face the thieves who have two cannons.
The most interesting thing is that these two statues are cast on the front of the cannon of the Yongle period, and the words of Shunde Thousand Households are written on the side.
But now the cannon is his.
As for his pain, it comes from the list of rewards and punishments, which contains more than 90 names of Fu Yuan and Shiqi respectively, of which 76 people are to be punished - these stupid dicks actually pick up the silver thrown by the enemy on the battlefield!
He hasn't figured out how to punish him, it is definitely not okay to punish or reduce grain, the banner army will starve to death if there is no food, it is a big killing weapon other than direct execution, and it cannot be used lightly.
His purpose was to let the Bannermen know to listen to him, not to kill the Bannermen who had made him so precious that they had been hooked from everywhere.
As for the doubts, they came from Xu Laoqi's last words.
"Dan'er, do you know who Xu Jinmei is?"
After Shi Qi left, only Li Dan was left in the hall, and Chen Mu tapped lightly on the tea case to express his doubts, and said: "Before Xu Laoqi died, he said that Zeng Yiyi and his brother Xu Jinmei would come to avenge him, Zeng Yiyi I know, who is Xu Jinmei?" ”
If you beg for mercy before you die, you may run into a soft-hearted person and let it go, and try your best to save it; Xu Laoqi still said cruel things to himself before he died, isn't this a stupid dick?
But then again, even if Xu Laoqi begged for mercy, Chen Mu would not let him go, and it was estimated that he would directly let Fu Yuan wipe his neck with a knife.
It's all hit, and it's still put?
As the old saying goes, others are not allowed to snore on the side of the couch, Chen Mu wants to build a water village in Xiangshan, and there can be no thieves in the territory.
"Xu Jinmei?"
"Xu Jinmei is Xu Lao's brother?"
Li Dan obviously knew Xu Jinmei, and then slapped the tea case and said: "Father-in-law, Xu Jinmei was in Haojing before, and he just left when the child came to Xiangshan!" ”
"Where did he go?"
"This kid doesn't know, maybe he went to the chicken coop to find Lin Daoqian? Or maybe go to South Australia to find a copy. is what the righteous father called the Japanese Kou, in fact, there were two groups of people in the past, one was Wang Zhi, and the potential base was in the Japanese Kou; The other group was Xu Dong, my father, and Xu Hai in Shuangyu at the earliest, and they were later exterminated by the imperial court, and Wu Ping had the final say in Fujian, Guangzhou, and overseas. ”
Speaking of these things, Li Dan was like a few family treasures, and said: "Now that Wu Ping is dead, the Haikou who respected him in the past is divided into several factions, Chenghai Lin Daoqian, and he has the final say in the chicken coop; After Xu Dong's death, South Australia was ruled by his son Xu Chaoguang, but he was killed by his subordinate Mo Yingfu a few years ago, and now they are still in South Australia; Zeng Yi wanted to avenge Wu Ping and always fought with the imperial court, so he couldn't grab a good place. ”
"But he has many people and ships, and he is the most difficult to deal with." Li Dan said and looked at Chen Mu and said, "Xu Jinmei is Zeng's subordinate, father-in-law, when you say this, Xu Jinmei has lived in Haojing for a long time before, could it be...... Zeng Yi failed to fight Chaozhou last year, and he wants to fight Guangzhou this year? ”
Chen Mu didn't speak, Li Dan gave him a complete picture of the Fujian, Guangzhou, and Japanese pirates in the Jiajing period, how powerful the pirates of the Ming Dynasty were, and they could crisscross the South China Sea.
If this kind of power can be gathered in one place, the Spice Islands can be snatched up and colonized, right?
"Don't care if he comes or not, get the two big ships with 35 guns in Haojing first!"