Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 380
"Your father is saying that those chieftains withheld the soldiers' food, rice and salaries?" Zhu Cijiong finally realized.

"There is no doubt about it." Chongzhen said sarcastically, "Not every chieftain is as high-spirited and upright as Old General Qin."

"The vast majority of the chieftains are nothing more than common people. This time, they suddenly received so much food, rice and salary. It would be really weird if they didn't stretch out their hands and withhold it. The difference is nothing more than how much they withheld."

"So, it's the big and small chieftains that the father wants to deal with?" Zhu Cijiong's eyes lit up, "not the soldiers."

"Otherwise?" Chongzhen said, "If you just want to frighten the soldiers, you don't need to bother at all. Gathering the new army equipped with flintlock guns and doing exercises will be enough to make all the soldiers scared!"

"But what I want is not to make the native soldiers fearful, but to separate the native soldiers from the chieftain. I want these more than [-] native soldiers to break away from the chieftain's control and become the town soldiers of Wuchang Township of the Ming Dynasty!"

Speaking of this, Chongzhen raised his flintlock gun and pointed it at the willow tree in front of him.

Fifty steps ahead, an earthen jar hanging from the willow tree shattered.

"Long live god shot!" Gao Qiqian immediately praised, "A shot from a hundred paces hits the bull's-eye."

"This gun is not bad." Chongzhen smiled, and put the flintlock gun back into the box after the trial firing.

Zhu Cijiong asked again: "But, father, when do we have to wait? The army is about to start at the beginning of June, so we can't wait until halfway to settle this matter, right?"

"It won't be too long." Chongzhen waved his hand.

"I guess it's just these few days, and the soldiers should be paid."

After speaking, he turned his head and said to Xu Yingwei: "You can make preparations earlier."

"The minister leads the decree." Xu Yingwei bowed his body, turned around and left in a hurry.

……

Early the next morning, Peng Hongshu, Yongshun's consolation envoy, was counting the money in Xingyuan.

Peng Hongshu is just in his early [-]s this year, wearing a traditional Tujia head wrap and earrings on one side.

"The current emperor is really a holy emperor, and he speaks and does things with ease." Peng Hongshu smiled so that his eyes narrowed into two small slits, "If you say that you will give rice to two months' salary workers, you will give rice to two months' salary workers. "

While talking, Peng Hongshu happily counted the silver ingots in the box.

Peng Hongshu brought [-] native soldiers from our company, so Chongzhen issued him [-] taels of silver and [-] stonework rice at one time. A small part of the work rice had been distributed, but the silver was not distributed.

One of the things that Peng Hongshu must do after getting up every day is to count the money.

Peng Hongshu counts every morning and evening, and Peng Hongshu never gets bored.

"Consolation envoy, do you want to pay part of the salary first?" Peng Tingyu, the local magistrate on the side, persuaded, "The resentment of the people in the past few days has become more and more serious. If you don't pay the salary, there may be accidents."

In terms of seniority, Peng Tingyu is still Peng Hongshu's uncle, and the two of them are even the same ancestor for three generations.

In fact, most of the natives of the Yongshun chieftain are descendants of the first chieftain king Peng Shiyu.

"What's the rush?" Peng Hongshu said angrily, "I didn't say I won't pay the salary, the salary will be paid sooner or later, and they won't be short of anything. If these untouchables are really bored, you can find something for them to do."

Peng Tingyu said: "Xuan Comforter, but the salary has been delayed for almost two months."

"Two months is nothing." Peng Hongshu said angrily, "In the past, when we sent troops to fight for the imperial court, how could we not be in arrears for a year or so? If you want money, let those untouchables wait!"

Peng Tingyu immediately fell silent, because what Peng Hongshu said was true.

Except for the fact that the imperial court gave money and food happily this time, it was really not an ordinary procrastination in the past.

Sometimes the battle has been fought for several years, but the money and food that should be allocated by the court are not enough, so I go to the local officials to ask for it, and sometimes I will be beaten, and it is all tears.

During the Hongwu period, Mrs. Shexiang, the chieftain of Shuixi, went to the capital to command Ma Ye to ask for money and food, but she was insulted by Ma Ye. The head of the Forty-Eight Bulk of Shuixi almost rebelled, but in the end she was suppressed by Mrs. Shexiang and asked for money. Otherwise, the entire Shuixi might have been uprooted by the Ming Dynasty more than two hundred years ago.

While he was talking, Peng Zhaoheng, the eldest son of Peng Hongshu, the deputy envoy of Xuanwei, walked in with a dark face and said, "Abba has had an accident, and the soldiers of Laja Dongsi and Lvchi Dongsi are making trouble again!"

Peng Hongshu said: "Let's make trouble, when will the two of them stop fighting?"

Lara Dongsi and Lvchi Dongsi are both young chieftains of Yongshun, and they are still feuds.

When we were in Xiangxi, because of the chieftain Yongshun, the two families could barely live in peace, but since he came to Wuchang, Peng Hongshu seemed to be a little bit overwhelmed, but in fact he just didn't want to be overwhelmed.

So the soldiers of the two little chieftains would fight almost every day.

This was actually what Peng Hongshu wanted. The little chieftains were fighting and killing each other, and it was better for the native soldiers of the local chieftain to fight and fight, so that no one would bother him and ask him for food and salary.

But there are some things that you can't avoid if you want to hide. If you come out to mess around, you have to pay back after all.

"Father, this time it's not a fight between the two families." Peng Zhaoheng shook his head and said, "It's a joint effort to rob the merchants outside the barracks, and even killed people! They even killed many government servants sent by Wuchang Mansion. "

"What?" Peng Hongshu was startled, "The government servants killed many of them? This is a rebellion!"

"Although it's not a rebellion, it's about the same." Peng Zhaoheng said with a dark face, "The soldiers of the Raja Dongsi and Lvchi Dongsi are gathering at the Dajiaochang, threatening to demand payment from the emperor."

"Ask for salary?" Peng Hongshu's expression changed drastically, "Aren't Tian Shichao and Xiang Yongshun stopping them?"

"Stop it, stop it, it's the two of them who took the lead." Peng Zhaoheng said with a dark face, "These two bastards said that the court didn't give a tael of silver to the army, and they only gave each piece of rice for work. One fight per month, the local soldiers of Lara Dongsi and Lvchi Dongsi have gone crazy, and they insist on asking the emperor for an explanation."

"Tian Shichao and Xiang Yongshun are really crazy." Peng Tingyu said urgently, "Master Xuanwei, don't let the local soldiers of Laja Dongsi and Lvchi Dongsi make this matter worse, otherwise this matter may be serious. It's hard to end!"

The reason is very simple, the emperor has already paid enough food and salary, and it is the chieftain who deducted the food and salary!

If this black pot were really thrown at the emperor's head, would the emperor be willing to let them go?
Before the words were finished, Peng Hongshu's second son, Peng Zhaoxiang, who was also the deputy envoy of Xuanwei, also hurried in.

"It's not good, Dad." Peng Zhaoxiang said in a panic, "The imperial court dispatched a lot of soldiers, and surrounded the local soldiers of Laja Dongsi and Lvchi Dongsi!"

Peng Hongshu said: "Oh, I really come here for whatever I'm afraid of."

"Don't worry." Peng Tingyu calmed down at this moment, and persuaded, "Go and have a look."

Peng Zhaoheng said: "Abba, do you want to call the people together? If the imperial court dares to be tough, we will follow the example of Sha Dingzhou and fight against his mother."

"Of course." A stern look flashed across Peng Hongshu's eyes.

"Assemble all the more than ten chieftains under Yongshun Xuanweisi!"

"Yes." The two brothers Peng Zhaoheng and Peng Zhaoxiang immediately turned to gather the clansmen.

Soon, Peng Hongshu led more than a dozen small chieftains and more than [-] local soldiers to the Dajiaochang.

When he came here, Peng Hongshu was still very aggressive, and he wanted to give the officers and soldiers a blow. After all, the current Ming Dynasty is no longer the Ming Dynasty in the Hongwu period. Now you even have to rely on our chieftains in western Hunan and Hubei to suppress a chieftain in Yunnan, so Don't put on airs like court officers and soldiers anymore.

But when he led the army to the big school field, he couldn't help but take a deep breath.

But I saw that thousands of Ming officials had already surrounded the [-] native soldiers of Lara Dongsi and Lvchi Dongsi.

Moreover, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty appeared to be in order, and thousands of people gathered together in silence. The chilling aura emanating from the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty could be clearly felt by the soldiers from a long distance away.

"This is the Ming Dynasty army?" Peng Tingyu was a little startled, "It's not the same as before."

Peng Tingyu had been to Wuchang several times before, and he had seen Zuo Liangyu's Ming Dynasty army, which was far worse than this.

This time, instead of giving Daming officers and soldiers a disarm, the Daming army gave them a disqualification, which directly shocked the more than [-] native soldiers of Yongshun Chieftain so that they dare not move.

After a while, more than [-] local soldiers from the Baojing Xuanwei Division also arrived.

Not long after, more than [-] local soldiers from Shi Nanxuanfu Division also rushed to the scene of the incident.

Although the rank of Shi Nan Xuanwei Division is not as high as that of Baojing Xuanwei Division and Yongshun Xuanwei Division, it has the largest number of troops, mainly because the ancestors made mistakes, so the rank is low.

Moreover, the old chieftain of Shi Nan's Xuanfu Division had just died not long ago, and the little chieftain was still in his infancy. The person leading the Xuanfu envoy was the old chieftain Tan Hongdao's daughter-in-law Ran Sanniang, a pretty widow in her twenties.

"San Niang, Ah Zhu." Peng Hongshu stepped forward to greet her.

While saying hello, she looked at Ran Sanniang with greedy eyes.

Western Hubei (Enshi) has produced beauties since ancient times, and Ran Sanniang is especially beautiful.

With fair skin, beautiful appearance, and a very tall figure, the key is that big breasts and round buttocks are suitable for childbearing. Peng Hongshu couldn't help but wish that if he could marry home, he would be able to give birth to five sons for him, at least.

If the little chieftain is killed again, Chieftain Shi Nan and Chieftain Yongshun can become one family, then Peng Hongshu can follow Shadingzhou's rebellion and become a real chieftain king!

Sensing Peng Hongshu's greedy eyes, Ran Sanniang subconsciously frowned.

Peng Zhu took a step forward, blocking Peng Hongshu's gaze indiscriminately: "Ah Hong, what's going on? Why did the officers and soldiers suddenly surround Lare Dongsi and Lvchi Dongsi?"

Peng Hongshu said angrily, "This is all good work done by Tian Shichao and Xiang Yongshun."

Listening to Peng Hongshu's explanation of what happened, Peng Zhuchao and Ran Sanniang were also speechless.

It's all about withholding money and food in black heart, but let the emperor take the blame for them?
(End of this chapter)