Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 158: Drive out the wolf and kill the tiger
The melee at the foot of the East Gate City quickly attracted the attention of Qi Jiguang, who was leading his subordinates towards the head of the East Gate City.

Seeing that a good opportunity is rare, Qi Jiguang left five hundred soldiers and asked his subordinates to continue to attack the east gate with a thousand households, while he himself brought the main force down to the city to kill towards the gate of the east gate.

After Yanzhou city was broken, Qi Jiguang led a large group of officers and soldiers to rush to the east gate. He easily killed the stragglers of the peasant army one by one and easily reached the east gate of Yanzhou city.

When Qi Jiguang arrived here, the fighting here had long since ended. King Sweeper and his hundreds of soldiers had been chopped into pieces by tens of thousands of angry peasant soldiers.And now the peasant armies are fighting for the dozens of carts of gold and silver owned by the Sweeper King.

Qi Jiguang led a large group of troops to fight, and the whole street trembled with his heavy footsteps.The peasant army, who were killing each other and grabbing gold, silver and jewels, were startled by this movement. They saw the officers and soldiers lined up neatly, and they were fighting towards them with bright swords and armor.

"Ma! The officers and soldiers are coming, run!"

I don’t know who was the first to roar like this, and then the peasant army who was fighting for gold and silver fled in all directions.These people also knew that the "flood discharge" at the city gate was too slow at the moment, and the officers and soldiers were too close.So after seeing Qi Jiguang leading a large group of officers and soldiers to fight, most of them did not crowd towards the city gate, but fled along the streets and alleys, or hurried up to the city, planning to jump from the city wall to the outside.

All the people behind them ran away, and the peasant army who were still squeezing there and trying to squeeze out from the city gate were suddenly blocked by Qi Jiguang and the others.

When two armies fight on the battlefield, you will die or I will die. There is no room for mercy between life and death.So when he saw that the peasant army was still there trying to squeeze out of the city, Qi Jiguang was not polite and asked the spearmen to block the street, while the archers occupied a favorable position and fired in three sections to ensure a continuous rain of arrows.

Qi Jiguang gave an order, and a powerful rain of arrows was like a summer rainstorm, seamlessly hitting the peasant army blocking the city gate.The arrows passed by, and the iron arrows immediately penetrated the flesh, and screams continued. Rows of peasant soldiers fell down with arrows, and the blood once again turned the city gate into a sea of ​​red.And rows of corpses hit by arrows and falling to the ground blocked the way for the peasant army to counterattack the official army.

So facing the rows of screaming and falling peasant soldiers behind them, those in front didn't care at this time. They had one thought in their minds at this time, no matter what, they must rush out of the city before the arrows of the official soldiers hit Laozhi. go.Therefore, the way they left the city now changed from squeezing to grabbing.If you have a guy in your hand, just copy it. If you don't have a guy, use your fists. Anyway, knock down all the people in front of you, and then you can go out.

In this way, the tens of thousands of peasant troops blocked here began to kill those who stood in front of them in order to survive.Suddenly this place became a hell on earth.

His subordinates were responsible for the violence. After Wang Daoqiu had to report and settle the overall situation, he went back to his central military tent to rest.

Early the next morning, after Wang Daoqiu finished breakfast, he summoned Ma Fang and Qi Jiguang to an empty and deserted place to discuss matters.Wang Daoqiu took the lead and sat down on the grass without paying any attention to anything.

Wang Daoqiu, who served the ministers by the side of the first-rank emperor, was so careless. Naturally, Qi Jiguang and Ma Fang couldn't pretend to be civilized people.So after Wang Daoqiu sat down, Ma Fang and Qi Jiguang quickly sat down on the ground.

As soon as the two of them sat down, Wang Daoqiu said: "I don't care how much you two got yesterday and how you divided it. Anyway, you two are both decent people. I believe in you. It's just that you will divide the gold and silver." , but you have to send me those antique calligraphy and paintings. I have to take care of the civil servants in the Central Government and Shandong, Henan, and Nanzhili. When you still have money, don’t patronize your subordinates. Give it to Shandong and Henan. , and those guardsmen from Nanzhili also sent some to save them from jealousy and talking nonsense outside."

"It's your lord, we understand this. Every time our frontier troops go into battle, they capture what they capture and those who go out to fight and those who defend the city. It's divided into those who go out to fight..."

"Okay, Ma Fang, since there are rules in your army, you can just follow them. Don't ask me, and I don't want to know."

Wang Daoqiu was not greedy and let them divide the money among themselves. This was a show of justice.So facing Wang Daoqiu's interest, Ma Fang continued: "Yes, yes, yes, Sir Gao Yi, leave this matter to me and Qi Jiguang! We will definitely divide the money up and down, inside and outside, without saying anything." . It’s just my lord, the rules in the army are that every time something is captured in battle, the commander must share half of it.” “I wonder, my lord, whether you like gold and silver silk, or land and houses? To be honest, lord, this time the insurrection not only seizes The King of Lu and his family had robbed all the land they had scraped in Yanzhou over the past 100 years. They also robbed the wealth accumulated by Duke Yan and Shenggong over the past millennium, as well as the property of all the local wealthy merchants in Yanzhou. Even Lu They also dug up the graves of the kings of Lu, kings of counties, princesses, and generals in the Wang family, as well as the ancestral graves of the Yanshenggong family for thousands of years."

"To be honest with you, sir, Qi Jiguang and I met last night and tallied up the gains of the two families. Not counting those hidden by the subordinates, we got a total of 59 taels of gold, 8707 million taels of silver, silk 16 pieces of cotton, 45 pieces of cotton, 490 three kilograms of pearls, more than 2000 pieces of antique calligraphy and painting, 48 shi of grain, 740 million acres of land deeds, and more than 3000 house deeds. As for other medicinal materials, furs, cattle and sheep , jewelry, I’m too lazy to count them. So, sir, what do you want for your half this time? I’ll send it to you before I turn around.”

After saying this, Ma Fang lowered her head and looked away from Wang Daoqiu, fearing that Wang Daoqiu would be embarrassed.After Wang Daoqiu thought about Ma Fang's words for a while, he said: "I don't want anything else this time. Give me all those antique calligraphy, paintings and jades. After I finish sorting out what I need to do, there must be some leftover. Those The rest is mine. There are also those land and house deeds. Don't make any plans. Those who give them to the Jinyiwei will tell me what I ordered and send them back to the capital to hand them over to the inner court and let the inner court handle it. By the way, Jinyiwei. Don't be short of that. Except for those in Shandong, you will prepare 3 taels of gold for Jinyiwei's Governor Lu, and 10 taels of silver for Jinyiwei's colleagues. Let Governor Lu divide the silver. Give Jinyiwei's etiquette If you do your best, this will save you a lot of trouble in the army in the future, do you understand this?"

"Yes, Sir Xie, to be honest with you, what we generals are most afraid of are the Yushi and the Imperial Guards. These two kinds of people want to punish us generals, and we really have no reason to complain! Thank you, Sir, if not Sir, even if we want to curry favor with Governor Lu of Jinyiwei, there is no way to reach the sky! Thank you, Sir."

Upon hearing that Wang Daoqiu asked Yun Jinyin to unblock the Jin Yiwei, wasn't this just to help him build a relationship with the Jin Yiwei?Being able to establish a relationship with Jinyiwei is of great benefit to the generals in the army. This is equivalent to giving yourself an inspection-free trademark!So when they heard that Wang Daoqiu helped them establish a relationship with Jin Yiwei, Ma Fang and Qi Jiguang were very happy.

But now Qi Jiguang is just twenty, and he is not thick-skinned enough to give Zhang Juzheng money and women in the future.So now facing this kind of thing, Qi Jiguang was a little embarrassed, his face turned red and lowered.

Qi Jiguang was embarrassed, but Ma Fang, who was going to work on her third day after the Chinese New Year this year, had nothing to be embarrassed about facing this kind of thing.After all, in history, Ma Fang was a very upright person, not greedy or partial to personal interests, but very adaptable to his superiors. Every time he went to work in a place, he would collect local specialties to show his respect for his superiors, so as to show his superiors that he respected the leadership. .

I know that both Ma Fang and Qi Jiguang are the kind of people who have moral integrity, but are not stubborn and do not know how to adapt.Therefore, Wang Daoqiu did not pretend in front of them and was honest about the matter of dividing money.

After talking about dividing the money, Wang Daoqiu, Ma Fang, and Qi Jiguang began to discuss the next matter of suppressing bandits.For those remnant bandits, Wang Daoqiu ordered Qi Jiguang to lure the Shandong Guardsmen who were guarding the front line of Mount Tai with inducements and let them come down the mountain to grab military exploits and gold and silver.

After letting go of the front line of Mount Tai, Ma Fang's cavalry drove the remnants of the White Lotus Sect towards Qingzhou and Jinan, so that these remnants of the White Lotus Sect could help our people of the Ming Dynasty to fight evil with evil, clean up the King of De, and seal him in Jinan. King Heng in Qingzhou, these two evil forces in Shandong.

Ma Fang and Qi Jiguang became a little nervous when they heard that Wang Daoqiu was going to drive away wolves and tigers, and kill people with borrowed knives.So that even if they looked around, there was no one within a hundred meters of where they were talking, Ma Fang still lowered her voice, joined Wang Daoqiu and said, "My lord, those are two princes, and a group of county kings and princesses. Now they will be like King Lu again and be slaughtered by bandits. Sir, how should you explain this to the court?"

"It's okay, this thing seems very risky, but as long as you control the situation, there will be nothing wrong. For example, if those White Lotus bandits attack Jeju Prefecture and Qingzhou Prefecture, you will stay behind and give them three days. Three days later No matter whether the remnants of the White Lotus bandits go to the city or not, you have to fight to the city. In this way, even if the city is breached and King De and King Heng are slaughtered, we will have something to say to the court. After all, it can't be said that we rescued them in three days. Is our rescue ineffective? There is also the harm caused by me, the Ming vassal king. You both know that there are King Lu, King De and King Heng in Shandong. These three kings have made the people of Shandong miserable. Qi Jiguang knows this. Ma Fang, you know how bad the Jin princes in Datong are. Therefore, I, Wang Daoqiu, will never let go of these vassal kings who are causing trouble to the place, even if he is dismissed from office and loses his head."

Since these vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty were deprived of all their power by Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, they were unable to use their talents in business matters.So they used all their IQs on eating, drinking, having fun, and bullying the people.Therefore, the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be disgusting, and the common people do not want them to exterminate their families and kill all their families.

It can be said that exterminating the entire clan of those vassal kings is the common aspiration of all the people of the Ming Dynasty except their own royal family.So now that Wang Daoqiu said he was willing to take the risk and cause the two Ming vassal kings to be exterminated, this immediately made Ma Fang and Qi Jiguang respect him.

Therefore, the young people dared to think and act regardless of the consequences. After understanding Wang Daoqiu's intentions, Ma Fang and Qi Jiguang immediately gritted their teeth and said in unison to Wang Daoqiu: "King Mie De and King Heng are all here."

(End of this chapter)