Chapter 415 Immoral

Author: The beggar

Chapter 415 Immoral

Faced with this problem, Hong Chengchou could only smile bitterly.

If His Majesty's identity is revealed openly.

So does this need to be said?

This group of Shanxi merchants all became imperial merchants after Jiannu entered the customs. Obviously they had entangled with Jiannu before and contributed a lot to Jiannu. Can His Majesty Chongzhen not keep them in mind?

It's a pity that I can't say.

We can only convey Zhu Youjian's prepared intention to appease the people of the local clans and spread it widely.

Shunzhi also wrote an imperial edict to appease the people.

Unfortunately, the credibility of the Eight Banners in the local area of ​​​​the pass has fallen to the bottom. Black Flag seems to have done something that was cooked by a cunning rabbit and a lackey, and it is not very trustworthy.

In the eyes of the world, he can suddenly launch large-scale troops to attack merchants, and directly rush to confiscate homes and exterminate clans.

On one side are the slaves, on the other side are the savages.

The governance that had some merits in the past few years can only be said to be hypocritical, but now its true colors have been exposed!

Therefore, various local clans in cities and towns in Hebei and Shanxi retreated into the city and their own Zhuangzi and Tuweizi, planning to wait and see for a while, but it was not possible.

I might really consider traveling south in full clothes again.

Therefore, some people along the way joined the Fan family's rebel army.

I want to go south and return to the Ming Dynasty with me.

After all, the Fan family sent a letter asking for help to Huang Degong and Gao Jie, and promised a large sum of money to request help, or else it would be better to use some measures to contain it.

It's a pity that Black Flag and Baqi saw the silver.

Just like a shark that smells blood.

Baqi originally planned to keep one to help him with his business, but when he looked at the money account, Baqi, who had been poor and hungry for several months, immediately turned red.

Even if Dorgon and others wanted to stay, the subordinates would not let him.

That is to say, if you can't beat the black flag, the two sides will divide the spoils entirely based on their abilities. After the distribution, they will hunt the targets separately. There is little cooperation, and the cooperation will be divided equally.

Otherwise, the Eight Banners will even want to grab the black flag.

Black Flag is also an old bandit. He didn't seize the opportunity to go to Khalkha Mongolia, so he pointed to this time.

The cavalry of the two armies attacked overnight, and finally caught the tail of the Fan family's rebel 'army', which had gathered nearly 7,000 people, along the various discarded debris in Xizhou, adjacent to Shaanxi.

Horse hooves were everywhere, and many people knelt down to pray for surrender.

When the so-called rebel army learned that they were being chased, the entire team dispersed! Several Shanxi merchants fled on their own, and the servants and servants below also dispersed! Suddenly, only a hundred or so loyal servants were left around the Fan family to protect them.

The Fan family went into the woods on the hill.

Here we ran up the mountain, and at the foot of the mountain, the vanguard cavalry of the Black Flag and the Eight Banners rushed into the scattered crowd and killed them wantonly! They roared and told everyone to kneel down, and those who surrendered would not be killed.

"A black flag has no virtue! A black flag has no virtue!"

Amidst the chaos, Fan Yongdou, who was tall and bloated, was wrapped in the center of the crowd, with a look of despair and panic. He murmured and retreated to the nearby mountain with the help of his servants.

After decades of exhausting conspiracies, numerous gambles, and doing everything, two generations of people worked together with several families to build a family business!

He was as fragile as paper in front of the army.

Under the orders of the highest authority.

All those barriers and those backers are of no use.

The soldiers can’t even explain it!

With no one to stop them, no one to rescue them, no one to show mercy, they just became like a lost dog and a turtle in a urn!

But Fan Yongdou still couldn't figure it out.

They are almost already members of Heiqi. Several of them have official positions in Heiqi and have completely turned to Heiqi. The Fan family basically just has to kneel down in front of the King of Black Flag and call them master.

Before, I also purchased military supplies for Black Flag at a loss!

Although there are differences among the Eight Banners!

But it’s not like all the Shanxi merchants were confiscated and exterminated!

Why!

With 10,000 regrets, the Fan family was temporarily surrounded in the mountains, and the army gathered the prisoners at the foot of the mountain, searched for loot, and drove the prisoners to gather up the gold and silver that they had run away with.

Those women from Shanxi merchants were naturally unavoidable. Although they were not executed on the spot in the midst of the army's horse racing, they could only hear screams and laughter, and for a while, mourning was everywhere, and they knew what the fate of these female family members would be.

When the remnants of Shanxi merchants who also fled to the mountains like the Fan family saw what happened, some female relatives often asked for a knife or a piece of rope or cloth, and then committed suicide in tears as soon as their family members left.

The Fan family is no exception.

The wails of the female family members penetrated deep into my heart.

But they did not dare to look back and continued to run away under the cover of the mountains and forests.

At this time, all the gold and silver he had brought with him had been discarded, and the servants around him were becoming more and more scattered. Gradually, only a group of servants selected from the Fan family were left to protect him.

When they were groping southward along the mountains, Black Flag and Eight Banners at the foot of the mountain had already pursued their way up under the guidance of the prisoners.

There are also cavalry riding directly around the mountain! Start blocking!

"You can't run away. The mountain is small. If you don't search tonight, you can catch him tomorrow."

Nu Shan took a telescope and looked at the mountain, but Tang Hanfu beside him shook his head and said: "Give those Eight Banners soldiers some benefits and let them give up the people on the mountain to us."

"What? What are you planning again?"

Nushan couldn't figure out why the benefits were allowed to go out, but the Han people were so arrogant that they had to ask.

"Wait for the flag master to come!"

"It's right to build relationships. As for the prince's nephew, from now on the black and yellow flags and the black and red flags should belong to our Black Flag clan as the flag master."

Nushan clapped his hands, thinking that it was indeed a ghost.

Tang Hanfu smiled bitterly in his heart.

What kind of nephew is he?

It was too early to make the bet. Now that he is under the command of the princess, he can no longer follow the prince.

If I had known that the prince was coming, I wouldn't have rushed to greet the princess all day long.

It's blocked here.

Later, the Eight Banners and the Black Banner each searched, confiscated, and hunted down the remnants of several Shanxi merchant families. Those who had a slight relationship with the main clan were confiscated. Those with official positions were confiscated according to the situation, and the larger ones were checked first.

If there are no problems, you can protect your family, and if there are any problems, they will be investigated together.

During this feast of looting and confiscation, it was obvious that Black Flag obtained several times more gold, silver, treasures and other cash than Eight Flags.

However, the Eight Banners were able to take advantage of the situation and take over a large number of Shanxi merchants' industries in Shanxi and Hebei, and take back the salt and iron trade they controlled.

Both parties were very satisfied with this gluttonous feast.

Zhu Cijiong's eyes were red because of this, and he had not slept well for many days.

Too much.

There are too many gold and silver treasures.

It's so bold, these merchants are hiding illegal things, they are treasonous, they are really lawless!

I still didn't calculate it right when it came to sticking to the stick, but I took it for granted when I estimated Shanxi merchants' savings based on their properties on the market.

The wealth worth more than one million and two million taels of silver in a bank shocked Zhu Cijiong to the point where he could not stand still.

But more and more banks were dug out one by one.

Fan family, Wang family, Liang family, Tian family, Huang family, one family is richer than the other!

For five days, three thousand soldiers, as well as civilian husbands and accountants recruited later, set up a camp to collect and liquidate the Shanxi merchants' bank vaults that had been sealed up.

It took five days to finish counting the gold and silver in stock, so I could only come up with a rough figure.

Currently, there are approximately more than 34 million taels of cash treasure under the supervision of Zhengheiqi!!

It’s more than Ming Dynasty’s annual income!

When Zhu Cijiong also heard that the chasing army had seized more than two million taels of gold and silver treasures, and had surrounded the Fan family, the largest merchant family in Shanxi, in a mountain, he immediately rushed over with red eyes!

Although Shanxi merchants were also wealthy in the early Qing Dynasty, the general environment was relatively chaotic. The power of the imperial merchants did not last long, and it is estimated that they were not yet wealthy enough to have a total value of one to two billion silver, and the silver carts would rut the stone road.
Chapter completed!