Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Chapter 44: Staying and Killing Officials

After arguing with Lao Wang and the craftsmen, Li Xin took his men away after sending troops to pick them up tomorrow morning. When he returned to the Fu Palace, it was in a vast crowd and nearly 10,000 refugees gathered. Among them, there were more than 2,000 men and women, and the rest were all old and weak.

According to the most economical approach, it is to recruit juniors and soldiers to join the army, but facing the earnest faces of so many women, children, the elderly and the weak, he could not force himself down. After all, these people belong to the Chinese nation and were also his ancestors. His ruthless and cruelty was directed at the enemy. If only the Teng Zhuang was taken away and the elderly, weak women and children were left behind, he would probably die of coldness and starvation without waiting for the winter.

Although he is still very weak at the moment, he at least has a certain ability.

Li Xin turned around and asked Hong Niangzi: "Is our food enough to eat?"

The Hongniang calculated with her delicate fingers: "I copied 40,000 shi of grain from the Fu Palace. King Fu obtained 6,000 shi of grain in Luoyang's industry and prefecture-level warehouses. If each person consumes one liter a day, we have about 15,000 people. Even if the animals are included, it will not be a problem to eat for a hundred days. It is definitely enough to eat from Luoyang to Gaoyou.

What's more, I copied more than 400,000 taels of silver from the royal palace, and King Fu's property also received nearly 100,000 taels, about 1,000 taels of silver, and from the residences of Wang Yinchang and Wang Shaoyu, I copied 30,000 taels of silver from the residences of Wang Yinchang and Wang Shaoyu. In this way, our silver costs more than 600,000 taels, and if it really doesn't work, I can buy grain in the towns along the way."

Hong Niangzi is a poor man. She has come out to perform since she was a child and has experienced all the hardships in the world. She is afraid that Li Xin will not agree, so she stares at Li Xin without blinking, with a little nervousness.

Li Xin held the hand of Hong Niangzi and smiled slightly: "Don't worry, the people are suffering, I feel it. Li Xin is not the kind of heartless person."

"Um!"

The Hongniang nodded happily.

Li Xin looked at the Hongniang for a moment and suddenly said, "Can you change your clothes in the future? I don't like you wearing red clothes."

"What's wrong?"

The Hong Niang was slightly stunned.

Li Xin explained: "The red clothes are worn by the executioner. You are my fiancée. How can you wear this kind of clothes? You can wear them red. When you get married, look at Mrs. Gao. How beautiful it looks in a dress. If you are not used to it, when I have free time, I will help you design a clothing for you to like."

The queen showed a sweet smile and looked at Gao Guiying. Gao Guiying's dress was indeed beautiful, showing her hot figure. Even she had the urge to wear the skirt.

"Um!"

The Hongniang tapped her head lightly: "Since Mr. Li asked me to change it, I will change it tonight."

Gao Guiying met the eyes of Hong Niangzi and hummed inexplicably. She suddenly thought of the words that Li Xin teased her during the day. The dirty words were the same as they were. Now, with the Empress of the Master, why are you showing love in front of her?

But then, Gao Guiying cursed inwardly, how could she have such an idea?

Mizhi is at the junction of agricultural civilization and nomadic civilization. Both men and women are a bit wild, especially women, who are rarely bound by the three obediences and four virtues. However, Gao Guiying is not a little girl. She is over thirty years old and married twice and gave birth to a daughter for Li Zicheng. She should be careful about her moral virtues. She was ashamed of having such thoughts for herself, and she turned her pretty face to the side as if she was evasive.

Li Xin observed Gao Guiying, smiled secretly, and called out loudly: "Friends, fellow villagers, I am Li Xin, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Revolutionary Army, everyone, let's be quiet."

Refugees turned their attention to them.

Li Xin said again: "I am honored to be willing to follow me, and I can't bear to leave you behind. However, we don't have much food. At the same time, we are still an army, and combat is our main task. If the road is in chaos, once the government army encounters, it is very easy to be defeated. You will be captured by the government army. Life is worse than death. So I want to set some rules for everyone, settle down in the future, and then make redo arrangements. Do you agree?"

"Commander-in-Chief, let's listen to you."

"The commander-in-chief is for our own good, the old man is willing."

There were a lot of shouts coming from the crowd below.

Li Xin immediately arranged personnel, and according to Hong Xiuquan's method, divided the refugees into two battalions of men and women, and sent special personnel to manage them. Although this is inhumane, it is simple and effective. The essence is to disassemble the family and not meet each other. Anyone who wants to escape or surrender to the enemy must consider it. Of course, this is only temporary. If Gaoyou is captured, it will still be resettled.

Among them, women mainly do some sewing and repairing, making fires and cooking, and during the march, they also build some women to join the medical team to make up for the shortage of manpower.

The man acts as a servant, carries a load and drives a car, and transports food, grass and supplies.

Li Xinxin promoted Mien and fought against Mien. He could not be good to others blindly, but had to use a whip to treat him purely. He would only get used to it, even make more demands. After all, most people fear authority but not virtue, and Li Xin did not expect to take good care of refugees carefully, and refugees would always be grateful to themselves.

The reorganization was still underway, and Li Xin looked at the other side again, with nearly a thousand officials from various yamen and officials from the soap. He said to Zhang Quan: "You know the rules. Keep the officials, and don't leave any officials who eat the court. In addition to Lu Weiqi, the dog officials in the royal palace were also brought out and beheaded."

"Get orders!"

Zhang Quan felt a little excited, and he quickly responded.

The Hongniang couldn't help but say, "You killed officials in Qi County because you didn't have many people. Now you have more than 6,000 troops, and you are afraid that you can't control those officials? It's better to kill a few leaders and do evil things. Others give you a chance to make meritorious contributions, and the army also needs literati to take care of them."

Li Xin shook his head and said, "Do you think they will be grateful to me if I don't kill them? This is impossible. Human nature is far ugly than you imagined. They will only hate me for forcing them to follow the thief. They will destroy their innocence in their lifetime, and they will also hate me for implicating them in losing their official positions. Their efforts for life will be destroyed. As long as they have the chance, they will definitely destroy them from the inside.

What's more, these officials have not had a good thing. In recent years, Henan has been drought and locust plagues, and a large number of people have been displaced. But not only do they not provide disaster relief, but the relief funds allocated by the court have been exploited at their hands and are less than one hundred and can be distributed to the victims. This is still a conscience. If you are a nerdy person, you have to peel off the victims.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty were terrible, so we should try not to use them as much as possible. When we arrived at the land, we should cultivate our own personnel.”

The Hongniang knew that Li Xin said it was the truth, but she still asked: "What should I do with the accounts? There is no way to manage so much money and food without literacy."

Li Xin pondered and said, "There are two ways. One is the original official. The people have always said that officials are as slippery as oil. The yin and yang book of officials. If the weaker officials cannot understand it, they will be deceived. The officials are more useful than officials. Moreover, the officials do better. They can be promoted to him. But no matter how good the officials do, what can I promote him? This is also an important reason why I keep officials and kill officials.

Matchmaker, I am not bloodthirsty, and we cannot always stand opposite scholars. This will not accomplish great things. Instead, we are in the initial stage and have a step-by-step crisis. As long as there is a little problem inside, the enemy will seize the opportunity, so I can only kill the wrong one and not let it go.

In fact, whether it is rebellion or business, it is bloody and barbaric in the initial accumulation stage. You need to understand that when we truly establish a foothold in Huaiyang, I will change my style and use comfort instead of killing."

As he was talking, Li Xin smiled: "It's a long way to go. Let's get back to the point. We can ask Mrs. Zhou for help. Didn't we identify more than 40 literate women last night, and first allocate them to Mrs. Zhou, arrange affairs according to their own expertise, and then use your medical team to assist."

The beautiful lady showed a look of heartache in her beautiful eyes. She knew that Li Xin was working hard, like a parent, worried about this and that, but she couldn't help but learn to recognize words. Although she learned to recognize words with Zhou Han during this period, it was really hard to get older. After so long, she could barely write about a hundred simple words. She felt that she was useless and couldn't help holding Li Xin's hand tightly.

"Dog thief, you must die a bad death!"

"It's a scumbag in his clothes, and he's a son!"

At this time, a curse came. Wang Yinchang, Feng Magistrate, Zhang Magistrate and others were tied up and pushed out of the palace gate. They walked and scolded them. They knew they would die, so they simply scolded the thief before they died and fought with a loyal name.

Wang Shaoyu sighed, closed his eyes and waited for death.

"kill!"

Zhang Quan waved his hand violently.
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next