Mingshi

Chapter 1115 Xu Jie's First Book
"boom……"

The bandits, who would never be able to beat the officers and soldiers and were always passively beaten, collapsed. It is unknown who escaped first, and then more than 4 people turned around and ran away.

"Chase!"

Luo Xin shouted, and led the cavalry towards the bandits.Cavalry chasing and killing fleeing infantry is simply a nightmare for infantry.The sound of bowstrings resounded continuously in the sky, and the rogues fell to the ground one by one.500 people, divided into 100 teams, each with [-] people, surrounded the fleeing bandits and hunted them down.

Half an hour later, there were corpses all over the place.

Luo Xin reined in his horse, looked at the corpses on the ground, and sighed.Liu Shouyou urged the horse to come to Luo Xin and said:
"My lord, why should you sigh, they become rogues, there must be such a day."

"If..." Luo Xin sighed again: "If the disaster relief could have been done in time, how could there be so many rogues?"

"Yes!" Liu Shouyou also sighed and said, "They also want to have a bite of food."

The two stood silently for a while, Luo Dao said: "Go and inform the nearest government office, let's each write a memorial."

"Ok!"

The person who notified the government left, and the person who notified the civil servants behind also left.Luo Xin and Liu Shouyou found a stone, laid paper on it and began to write the memorial.Then Liu Shouyou sent a few Jinyi guards to leave with the memorial.At this time, those civil servants also rushed back, and seeing the dead bodies everywhere, they vomited one by one.

Luo Xin stood up, got on his horse and said, "Get out!"

Everyone got on their horses one after another, and the civil servants also climbed into the carriage and walked towards the square of Haicheng.

After walking for about half an hour, Liu Shouyou frowned and said, "My lord, the people from Haicheng should have come, why haven't they come yet?"

Luo Xin frowned slightly, Liu Shouyou lowered his voice and said, "It seems that this gangster is specially waiting for us, could it be?"

"Collusion between officials and bandits?" Luo Xin said lightly.

"Yes." Liu Shouyou nodded slightly.

"The dog jumps over the wall in a hurry! Knowing that I have been corrupted and can't live, I want to kill me, and there will be a way to survive. The gangsters intercepted us. For such a big matter, the prefect of Haicheng hasn't come yet, so I just need an explanation. escaped."

"Escape? Where are you going?"

"Where else can I escape here? At sea."

"This……"

"Just run away." Luo Xin narrowed his eyes slightly, and thought to himself, "Can you escape?"

He had already made contact with Luo Sheng, and temporarily blocked the sea area of ​​the Daming coastline, so that the Japanese pirates would not dare to approach.But they only blocked it from a distance, but they didn't get close to Da Ming.At the same time, Luo Xin also notified Hu Zongxian, asking him to dispatch sailors to arrest the officials who escaped from the sea.

Hu Zongxian readily accepted that instead of fighting the Japanese pirates, he just arrested the escaped officials. He had merit and treasure, so naturally he rushed forward cheerfully.

"Ta Tata..."

There was a sound of hoofbeats, Luo Xin and Liu Shouyou raised their eyes at the same time, and saw the Jin Yiwei who had gone to inform the prefect of Haicheng just now was riding back.When he came to Luo Xin and Liu Shouyou, he got off his horse and knelt on one knee and said:
"Report, the prefect of Haicheng and the prefect are gone."

"Understood, return to the team."

Luo Xin narrowed his eyes slightly and said: "Accelerate forward, now Haicheng has no leader, we can't let Haicheng be in chaos."

"Yes!"

Everyone urged their horses to gallop in the direction of Haicheng.

Haicheng.

Prefect Yamen.

Luo Xin and Liu Shouyou sat opposite each other. After three days of busy work, they beheaded eighteen officials.Even though Luo Xin was young, his face also showed a look of exhaustion when releasing food for disaster relief.

"Ta Tata..."

There was a sound of footsteps, and before anyone arrived, there was a hearty laugh, and the door curtain was lifted.Hu Zongxian walked in.

"No weapon, fortunately not disgraceful."

Luo Xin stood up and said, "Brother, please, let's have a celebration wine today."

Liu Shouyou asked a little confusedly: "My lords, what celebration wine?"

"Hahaha..." Hu Zongxian laughed heartily and said, "It is not expected that some people will escape from the sea, so I have already discussed with me that I will arrest those officials who escaped at sea. Fortunately, it is not disgraceful. A lot of them were caught and returned. Just waiting for the two adults to check and accept."

"Okay! We won't go home if we don't get drunk today!"

Luo Xin wiped out the corrupt officials in the three southern provinces, which was called the dark day of Ming Dynasty officialdom by later generations.A total of [-] officials were killed in the three provinces. At the same time, the rogues in the three southern provinces were also wiped out by the Ming army.With the extermination of the bandits and the beheading of corrupt officials, new officials took over, and the south returned to calm.

The new officials were divided into Shan faction, Luo Xin's people, Gao Gong's people and Xu Jie's people.There is no doubt that Luo Xin's people basically occupy high positions.These people first came to official positions, but they were still able to keep themselves clean and work hard.Even Gao Gong and Xu Jie's people, seeing Luo Xin killing corrupt officials to death with their own eyes, even if they were greedy, they would not dare to embezzle in this limelight.Therefore, the whole south began to see the cleanliness of officials.

In the three southern provinces, 110 corrupt officials were killed, 530 million taels of silver were confiscated, and a large amount of land was confiscated.These lands were all leased to the peasants. The peasants had the disaster relief from the imperial court and the land leased to them by the imperial court, and they settled down one by one. The root of the rogues, the vagrants, disappeared.Vigorous vitality began to appear in the south.

However, Luo Xin knew that this vitality was temporary.Because Daming's food is not enough.Even if there is silver now, there is nowhere to buy grain.Now the relief food is enough for one month.This month has passed, not only is there no food for disaster relief, but the other six provinces, including the capital, are all short of food.

It was simply a catastrophe.If this problem cannot be resolved within a month, there will be wars all over the country immediately.This time, Fenghuo will no longer be bandits, but a real rebel army.There was even a rebellion.

Beiyuan.

Inside the side hall of Emperor Jiajing.

Xu Jie stood in front of Emperor Jiajing, who looked down at the memorial.The more you look, the tighter your brows are furrowed.After a while, Emperor Jiajing's forehead was dripping with sweat. He felt that the memorial in his hand weighed a thousand catties. He put the memorial on the imperial book case in a slump, looked at Xu Jie and said:

"Is this all true?"

"Return to Your Majesty, it's all true."

"Xuan Gaogong." Emperor Jiajing said in a concentrated voice.

Huang Jin left in a hurry, and within a quarter of an hour, Gao Gong walked in.

"Chen Gao Gong..."

"Stop worshiping!" Emperor Jiajing said impatiently, "Let me ask you, how much food does Daming still have?"

Gao Gong's face suddenly became ugly.As the second assistant to the cabinet, how could he not read the reports from various places?How could he not be in control of Daming's finances and food.These days, half of his hair is gray, because he also knows that Daming is on the edge of a cliff.

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