Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 280

"This is trying to kill us."

In the Xu family's mansion, a group of people who had just returned from the governor's office sighed.

"How can there be such a thing in the world? Will the new dynasty pay the taxes of the previous dynasty?"

"Yeah, there are three additional rates. Do they know what the three rates are? There is no war in Liaodong, so what kind of Liao pay is levied?"

"Before, Yiyou also added two points of silver, why is it changed to three points now?"

"We can't just let it be slaughtered like this, let's write a letter to Beijing."

Xu Fanxue remained silent all the time with a gloomy face, "The collection of these three rates was originally the intention of the Regent of Beijing, and Governor Zhang had already ordered the collection before."

Everyone was silent.

Someone couldn't help saying, "Before the Ming army entered Hangzhou, they engaged in these things, and we said they were insane, but now these Tartars are even crazier than them."

"Don't talk nonsense, what kind of Tartars are Li Yuchun, Zheng Jiwu, Pan Yinglou? They don't even have the banner of the Han army, and they don't deserve to be called slaves to the Tartars."

"Then what shall we do? It's okay if we want some money, but where can we get food now?"

"Should we send someone to Yuhang to buy grain in Shaoxing, or to Susong to buy grain, and deal with the errand in front of us first?"

Some people retorted, "Don't say that the food is ridiculously high now, even if you have money, you may not be able to buy food now, and they still need so much, it is a bottomless pit."

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work either, you can't just sit and wait for death?"

After all, Xu Fanxue had three Jinshi out of seven sons. After thinking about it, he said, "Looking at it now, Li Yuchun and others are worthy of the name of greed, and he was born in a troubled world, and he is very cruel. We can't fight against it, we can only touch it .”

"This time it seems that they are really short of money and food, so they came to us, and this time they are not only targeting us, they are deliberately asking us for food with the reminder issued by the Ming army, and they are asking us for food from all the prefectures and counties in Zhejiang. The common people collect food and pay taxes, so we can't take the lead in doing it against each other, otherwise the rafters in the early days will rot first."

"Go along first, find a way to pay a sum of money as soon as possible, and then get some food to hand in as soon as possible. The amount is not important, the important thing is that we have to show this attitude first."

"Where to get food?"

"Where did your family get the food they are eating now?" Xu Fanxue said angrily.

"From the black market."

"Where do you get the food on the black market?" He asked again.

"Most of the grain that came up from Yuhang and Qiantang River was the grain that was transported from here before."

"That's right, food is still available, it's just that the price is higher, but now it's not a question of money, but a question of our wealth and life. I figured it out. Whether it's Li Yuchun or Zheng Jiwu, they are all scoundrels. You deliberately messed with us, we can't hold back our arms, so we can't fight him hard."

"After this hurdle, let's go back and tell the strategy, or go to Beijing to write a letter, and then try to find a way to get this thing back."

Someone jumped up, "Go to the black market to buy grain, do you know the current price of grain on the black market? Ten taels of silver for one stone of rice!"

"Go to Yuhang or buy it on the Qiantang River, not so much, at most four or five taels of silver a stone of rice."

"That's four or five times the price of grain in normal years."

"If life is gone, what's the use of saving money? The last time the Ming army entered the city, we were lucky. After all, it was also the former army. If this is like the robbers in the early years of the Central Plains, you know the princes in the city What will happen to the gentry? That’s where the house was ransacked.”

With 1 taels of silver, you can also buy two thousand stone grains, and temporarily deal with the head office.

"Even if we are really willing to pay, we won't be able to buy so much grain. The black markets in Qiantang and Yuhang don't smuggle so much grain. After all, now that the two armies are at war, will the south be willing to flow out so much grain? Now there is a food shortage in eastern Zhejiang." , it will take some time for the autumn grain to come down."

"Think of a way, pay more money."

Besides, what else can I do.

"If I had known this, I might as well have defended the city with the Ming army." Someone complained.

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Yuhang, Tiaoxi.

The admiral Zheng Jiwu personally led the bid, and Zhu Dagang, the general soldier of Zhejiang, came to attack, and launched a surprise attack at night, shouting and killing, fighting all night.

At dawn, the green flag of the Qing army had once again been set up in Yuhang City, and the Ming army had already been defeated.

While Zheng Jiwu asked people to report the victory to the governor of Hangzhou, he began to compile a detailed battle report.

"How much beheading is appropriate?"

"one thousand?"

"There are too many, how can you get so many heads?"

"Eight hundred?"

"There are still a few more, so we will cut seven hundred and take more than a thousand prisoners, and then defeat more than [-] thieves and regain Yuhang."

"How much did we lose in battle?"

"We can write more, just write [-] dead, [-] disabled, and then report more losses of weapons and armor."

Zheng Jiwu, Zhu Dagang and several confidant generals sat there together to study how to compile the battle report. The battle last night was actually a night of screaming.

Even Zheng Jiwu's several soldiers who joined the army are actually the officers of the Banner Bearer Battalion who stayed in Yuhang, and they are sitting together to discuss how to make it more realistic.

"Others are easy to get, how do you get this head?"

An officer of the Bannerman Battalion said, "We collected Yuhang and broke Hangzhou before, and saved some heads in our hands, which were frozen in the ice cellar. I will give them to you."

"Will you see the flaw?"

"Anyway, it's just a pile of bloody flesh that's been frozen into icy balls. Who really studies it carefully, it's almost enough."

"Is it enough?"

"It's about the same. Here are some of the bandits we suppressed before, which should be enough to beheaded."

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Hangzhou.

Li Yuchun was very shocked when he received the victory report. He didn't expect Zheng Jiwu to be so fierce. He had repeatedly defeated the Ming army in Jiaxing before, and later he took the lead in attacking Hangzhou.

Is this the god of war coming to the world?
But if he really had this ability, why did he surrender immediately when he arrived in Haiyan?
Speaking of which, Zheng Jiwu still surrendered to him at the beginning, and the two of them are quite related.

It’s just that when Zheng Jiwu and Zhu Dagang surrendered, they were still wearing the title of Earl Marquis conferred by the Ming Dynasty, and Beijing retained the title as usual, so these two are still Earl Marquis, but he has not even had a world title. Get it, let alone a title.

"Admiral Zheng captured Yuhang, how much food and military supplies did he seize?"

"After breaking the city, they got nothing. The Ming army had already transferred the grain and grass away. Yuhang had no supplies to store. When they retreated, they even set fire to the empty warehouses."

Li Yuchun was dumbfounded when he heard the result.

Then this fight for a long time, did you feel lonely?
Now they are most short of food and grass, and if they can't get food, they have to buy food and grass, which is not worth the loss.

"Admiral Zheng asked Governor Pan to transfer food and grass there. He is going to take advantage of the victory to pursue and recover Lin'an and Fuyang counties together."

(End of this chapter)