Lu Ming

Although the equipment has been restrained, the level of organization is much higher than that of the indigenous officers and soldiers, and they still take down the opponent like melons and vegetables.

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The Chen family thought that a catastrophe was imminent.

After the first earthen building that gathered the young and strong of the whole clan was breached, the whole clan was in fact a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

Everyone knows that the reason why the tyrants can compete with the bandits and the government is because of the tortoises who gather together.

Today, under the watchful eyes of everyone, the Chen family was not only defeated by officers and soldiers far less than their own in the field, but even the hardest fortress was easily breached.

This seemingly simple way of breaking the city, but it contains a strong high-tech, not only completely wiped out the Chen family's will to resist, but also surprised the melon-eating crowd watching the battle-some people were surprised with a smile on their faces. His expression became cloudy and uncertain.

Then it was time for the post-war trial.

To everyone's surprise, the high-spirited officers and soldiers not only did not wantonly ravage and loot Chenjiazhai, but instead summoned people from various forces to the public house in the middle of the earth building, and Ding Liqiu Ding Master came forward and solemnly announced a piece of good news: Heipigou Mining Co., Ltd. was established from now on!

The mining company is composed of the following shareholders: the cross-country party responsible for purchasing products and investing in technology and machinery, the county businessman responsible for providing start-up capital and management, and the Chen family and several nearby clans responsible for providing manpower.

The agreement was quickly signed.

The merchants headed by Dong Daxing had been prepared long ago, but the Chen family of local snakes had already lost their bargaining power-dozens of young corpses and dilapidated gates made the patriarch extremely sober. Everyone knows how to choose.

The cold and embarrassing listing ceremony of the mining company was completed in a pool of bayonets and blood.

After that, there is the liquidation procedure: the officers and soldiers are not dispatched for nothing. If the Chen family is not punished, wouldn't everyone be able to violently resist the law?

Therefore, the Chen family's [-] strong men were "confiscated" as punishment.These people will work for three months at the dock construction site in the county seat, and the cross-travelers will only pay for food without paying wages... As for the fines and the like, to be honest, some people really don't like the little money.

However, something that people don't like in time travel does not mean that others don't like it——Wang Haogu, the master Wang Haogu, who came forward to evaluate the action on behalf of the county magistrate, stepped forward in time.

After Master Wang jumped out, he immediately pointed out from a strategic position: First, the Chen family owed the government taxes over the years, and it is time to take this opportunity to clear up.

Second, since this newly-opened commercial firm wants to run a mine, it needs to go to the county government to buy an official certificate, and in the future it will have to levy taxes-in fact, most of the coal mines are located on barren official land, and the newly established company buys The title deed should also be.

The Chen family on the side wanted to say something about MMP: So they were waiting here.

However, people are knives and I am fish, and it is useless to understand.This time the Chen family suffered a big defeat: after an imaginary fight with incompetent officers and soldiers, the Chen family not only lost dozens of young men, but also had hundreds more wounded, and lost hundreds of loads of grain and rice. , Not to mention a large sum of money, and a hundred masters were forcibly taken away...

The tragedy of the severely injured Chen family spread to all nearby forces overnight.

Chapter 284 Longyan Battle ([-])

After the establishment of the Heipigou Mining Company, big households within the designated area came to join in the charitable deeds - if you don't come, you will be paid taxes by the broken village, and it's a fool not to come.

This is the reason why the people across the board are trying their best to do Chenjiazhai: after making a name for themselves, the work of the masses will be easier.And these shareholders who are forced to join the mining company will soon discover that the so-called company shares are worth a lot of money!

...The people who travel through have the coordinates of all the coal wells in the Longyan area.Of course, these coal mines that required underground work in later generations are basically useless now: there were open-pit coal seedlings in the 17th century.

The newly established mining company will soon determine the location of several open-pit coal yards under the command of professional prospecting personnel, and then a large number of high-quality tools, small tracks, small mine cars, and the most important black powder will be shipped downstream and nitroglycerin.When the surface coal mine is uncovered, the company's profits will quickly rise.

By this time, the Travelers will have a large number of allies in the local area: After the shareholders have earned food and salt, they will naturally be devoted to the new company and support every policy of the Travelers.

The government will also benefit from it: not only can it sell the wasteland, but it can also collect taxes from the coal mines.In addition, the grain and rice that these bastards have accumulated over the years is now settled: with the endorsement of the cross-travelers, the big households promised to pay back 100 catties of debt for every 10 catties of rice they got.

In short, everyone is happy, and a community of interests has been formed.

This pattern continues to replicate nearby.You know, there are not only coal mines, but also iron ore and high-quality limestone.Except for the gold and copper mine in Zijin Mountain, which is temporarily "state-owned", the rest of the mines will be jointly developed by the indigenous people in the future.

If this development continues, Longyan will become more and more prosperous in the future, and there will be more and more outsiders: relying on the resources of the local aborigines, it is impossible to support so many mining companies.

Traveling through the congregation will guide a large number of wealthy businessmen from Zhangzhou and Xiamen to settle in this impoverished mountainous county, and gather their resources into mining companies...by the way, gather and pack the nearby mountain people, and transport what needs to be transported away, urbanization, That's it.

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The civil and military team headed by Ding Liqiu and Wei Yuan came to Longyan for half a month, and through various means, both soft and hard, finally set up the framework of several companies and gathered a group of local interest groups.

At this time, the outsiders will have a preliminary mass base and can carry out the next step of work.

County town, Qiao's restaurant, Accord.Ding Liqiu was having a banquet, and the visitor was Bo Wang Yuanzai, the head of the county yamen.

Wang Yuanzai is a local, a petty official, over 40 years old, with a thin face and a goatee. He looks very official and dresses very official.

Wang Zhubo, since his army came to Longyan, whether it is enlisting corvee or handling the contract procedures of various mining companies, it can be said that he has done his best. He is a model of indigenous army supporters who actively move closer to the organization, vigorously assist and support the work of the crossing people.

"For those things before, Mr. Wang worked tirelessly and worked hard. Zaishi (Ding Liqiu's word for himself) borrowed these glasses of water and wine today, thank you sir."

"Where is there, your ministry's coming to Longyan does not disturb the people, and does not cause trouble. On the contrary, it builds bridges and paves roads to benefit the hometown. Wang Mou sees these things." The smiling Wang Zhubo held up the wine glass and Ding Ding with both hands. After clinking a cup, Li Qiu put down the cup and continued: "Although Wang is a lowly official, he is also a local. Naturally, he is willing to contribute to such a good deed."

"Well, it's good for both public and private." Ding Liqiu took a mouthful of the five-step snake and simmered the tiger whip, and said while eating: "The new mines will be opened more and more, and now this "filial piety" is not counted. What. Dong Daxing and his group are all old businessmen, they know the rules, and in the future, all the masters in the county will have a prosperous family business."

"Haha, then Wang has borrowed a good word from Mr. Ding!" After speaking, the two drank two more cups happily.

After drinking for three rounds, Ding Liqiu began to bring the topic to the real thing: "I wonder what Mr. Wang thinks about this bandit suppression?"

"Well, sir, the people of He County have been suffering from bandits for a long time..." Wang Yuanzai's face darkened at this moment: "Longyan has been frequented by bandits since ancient times, and the people of Li have suffered from them. My nephew was kidnapped by bandits ten years ago... Sigh, when he came back, he was already a dead body."

"It's a matter of great pleasure for the nobles to eliminate harm for Longyan." When Wang Yuanzai said this, his eyes turned a little red, and then his expression became hard again: "Wang is not talented, this time I would like to be driven by Mr. If you have something to trust, you will not disappoint your husband."

"Okay, okay! That's what I've been waiting for." Ding Liqiu was overjoyed when he heard the words: "Now our department has been in Longyan for more than half a month, but the matter of suppressing the bandits has not made any progress. Why? What is missing is Brother Wang, who is familiar with the county. The old land of love and banditry!"

Speaking of this, Ding Liqiu leaned down and whispered to Wang Yuanzai: "To tell you the truth, my general has urged me many times... The general boasted about this matter in front of the governor."

When Wang Yuanzai heard this, he couldn't help worrying about Ding Liqiu: "Since that's the case, we must hurry up."

"Who says it's not?" Ding Liqiu would be a little annoyed: "The general has ordered that a gangster must be wiped out before the end of the month. Alas, I have to collect news about the gangsters everywhere these two days, and I can't stop."

"Oh, Wang also has some news about bandits here, so let's talk about Mr. Yu."

"Okay, okay, Zaishi is all ears."

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Capture the thief first and capture the king first.The crossing crowd came here to suppress the bandits, naturally they wanted to pick out the powerful and well-known gangsters, and the two groups are currently the strongest in the vicinity.

The most powerful is the Lin Shiwan Gang.

Lin Shiwan is a local double-foreigner.He was cunning and treacherous, and led his people to occupy the area around Duomaling, Shuangyang Town, in the north of Longyan County. There were more than 400 men under him standing on the run, and his reputation spread far and wide. He was the enemy of merchants and local villagers.

The other is the soldiers and horses of Yantou Village.Yantouzhai is located in the southwest of the county, and the head of the family is called Ma Shixia.It is rumored that this man was born in the frontier army, with high martial arts skills, good at wielding a nine-ringed broadsword, and has 200 brothers under his command.

These two gangs are basically the most powerful local gangsters.

After listening to Wang Zhubo's introduction, Ding Liqiu was not surprised: these are basically public information, and there is not much difference from what he has already mastered.

But then Lao Wang gave him a surprise: Lao Wang's wife had a nephew named Su Tieqiang. The gun was able to escape the murder.

After he was released from prison, because all his family property was filled in the Yamen, Su Tieqiang turned around and joined the gang—the gang of Lin Shiwan.Recently, due to an injury, he happened to go home and become a house bandit.

Wang Zhubo's solution is very simple: let him, the savior, instigate the rebellion against Su Tieqiang. In this way, the crossing crowd will have an internal response among the Lin Shiwan gangsters.

Chapter 285 Longyan Battle ([-])

The talks between Ding Liqiu and Wang Yuanzai Bo that day were fruitful.Not only did the two sides unify their minds, but they might also get an internal response from Lin Shiwan's gangsters. It can be said that sleepiness met a pillow.

Coincidentally, on the night that Ding Liqiu was drinking, Wei Yuan was also drinking in the barracks of Tianhou Palace outside the city.

Eating wine in the military camp is not so particular. You can find a table in the cafeteria next to the kitchen, and then you can start the whole meal with wine and food.

Who is the guest?Ma Rulin, Ma Jigong and his son from a hundred households of Jinyiwei.

In the Ming Dynasty, Jinyiwei ranged from commanders to small flags, and most of them were hereditary military households.And the father and son sitting in the cafeteria eating wine today are the hereditary guards of the Hundred Households Office in Longyan County.

Ma Rulin, the current hundred householder, is in his 40s. He has a solid body, a hard red face, and is wearing an indigo muslin robe. Judging from his appearance and conversation, he is a very honest person.

This kind of situation is not uncommon, especially in remote areas-not all Jinyiwei are shrewd and tricky urbanites who "speak the capital's language".

His son Ma Jigong is 20 years old this year, with a square face and thick eyebrows, and looks very calm.This one has already made up the captain of Jinyiwei, and when his father retires, he will be able to fill the shortage of hundreds of households.

In a remote and small county like Longyan, the biggest official is only a seventh-rank county magistrate. There are usually few officials and gentry who are unemployed and stay at home. Therefore, the biggest responsibility of the local Jinyiwei: the function of monitoring the public opinion of the gentry is basically abolished. Lost.

And the father and son who came here today can also be regarded as the "last Jinyiwei" in history-Ma Jigong was one of the hundred households of Jinyiwei when the Qing soldiers entered Longyan.

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The Jinyiwei in the Ming Dynasty is quite important.

Although this department has a variety of responsibilities, for example, during the Wanli period when the imperial court used force in North Korea, Jin Yiwei provided a lot of information about Japan; usually these uncles would occasionally catch a gangster or something.

However, the purpose of Zhu Baba's establishment of Jinyiwei at the beginning was to check and balance-Jinyiwei was a tool used by the imperial power to fight against the power of the gentry.

The ancients were sometimes very direct.As the emperor monitors and suppresses the eyes and ears of the gentry, in a metropolis like the capital, any official with a slightly higher rank has fans in his family who "sit and listen" all the year round.

This is equivalent to the Disciplinary Commission appointing someone to work in the living room of the leader's house all the year round... Fortunately, the houses of the leaders in ancient times were big, well, the ancients were so direct, and they looked very cute.

Jinyiwei South Town Fusi is in charge of internal supervision and let’s not talk about it. Jinyiwei North Town Fusi has a prison dedicated to the emperor, specializing in cases appointed by the emperor, and can arrest, torture, and execute officials without going through ordinary judicial mechanism.

This app is the root of Jinyiwei's existence. It is the core function of deterring officials, suppressing gentry, and maintaining the dynamic balance of the court.

Once the senior civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty committed crimes, they could not get out of the "prison under imperial edict". This is the root cause - Jin Yiwei did not need to go through legal procedures to deal with officials, and acted completely according to the emperor's will.You know, if a case goes to the three courts, it will be done according to the wishes of the civil servants, and the difference here is decisive.

In the Ming Dynasty, the many emperors before Chongzhen dealt with the issue of Jinyiwei in a relatively "balanced" way. In short, the court was generally in a smooth transition.

The abolition of Jinyiwei by Chongzhen is actually a rumor that has been circulated in later generations-in the Ming Dynasty, Jinyiwei has always existed.It lasted until 1661, when Ma Jixiang, the commander of the Jinyiwei under Emperor Yongli of the Southern Ming Dynasty, was killed in the curse water, and it can be said that the 290-year history of the Jinyiwei was officially ended.

However, Chongzhen, who came to power after eating a dead chicken, was different.

At this time in 1628, Chongzhen was about to do a stupid thing: he would reduce the core rights of Jinyiwei.What are core rights?Supervise and suppress the gentry.

Although the factory security system that lost its core application was not abolished, it soon became half-dead, and the consequences were naturally borne by Chongzhen himself.

This is the natural weakness of the emperor who came to power after eating a dead chicken: without systematic imperial education, he doesn't know where his butt is.

For a qualified emperor, the officials of the outer dynasty and the eunuchs of the inner court are in a dynamic balance: whichever side starts to be arrogant, he must support the other side to suppress and bite, while he himself sits firmly on the Diaoyutai.The emperor's butt will always sit on the weak side.

In this process, the factory guard system is the core fulcrum used by the emperor to cut peaks and fill valleys and maintain a triangular balance.

However, under the flickering of civil officials, Chongzhen disabled Jinyiwei himself, just like he abolished the post station system that didn't cost much money for a year.

The consequences of things soon became apparent.The gentry class in the late Ming Dynasty can be said to be the craziest era in all dynasties: forming gangs, fighting against dissidents, interfering in administration, controlling the village, going in and out of public offices, and robbing people's property.

These scholar-bureaucrats who got out of the rein during the Ming and Qing Dynasties completely destroyed the entire administrative system. It is no exaggeration to say that they were the source of disaster for the country: in the early years of Chongzhen, when Qi Biaojia was appointed as the inspector of Su Song, Zhang Pu, the leader of Fushe, went to have an audience, that is, " The sleeves are uncovered. They belong to each of Suzhou, and they are famous scholars of the Yun family," and asked to be taken care of.

The scholar-bureaucrats were extravagant and promiscuous, drunk and dreamed of death, and the students at the bottom were no less inferior: taking up lawsuits, concealing money and food, being insane and insane, gathering crowds to make trouble, and students besieged local officials everywhere.

...This kind of crazy behavior of destroying the country and destroying the government caused people in the Ming and Qing Dynasties to talk about the Jiangnan gentry at that time, almost unanimously hating them.It was not until a series of "crying temple cases" and "money and food effective cases" in the early Qing Dynasty that the gentry class was completely broken by the Qing court, canceling the ability of this class to disrupt administration and evade taxes.

How should I put it, it's a bit embarrassing: because the ethnic minorities are not used to those problems, the gentry instead began to be obedient citizens of the braided country.Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, the gentry class did not interfere with administrative operations.

Ten permanent attendants at the end of Han Dynasty, warlords at the end of Tang Dynasty, officials and gentry at the end of Ming Dynasty.The internal, external, and military systems of a regime must be kept in balance. Dominance by any one system is a sign of national subjugation.

In short, Chongzhen, a non-professional emperor, reduced the factory guards, causing the officials and gentry to completely lose control, which was undoubtedly one of the important reasons leading to the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

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Closer to home.

Ma Rulin and his son, the hereditary Jinyiwei family in Longyan, a small remote county, naturally couldn't afford such a big pot of death.

In fact, as mentioned above, the Jinyiwei in this small mountain town is like the village police station in later generations. There are not so many officials and gentry to monitor, and there is not so much money to fish for. There are only a few big families who come and go , it is not easy to make accusations.

Coupled with the fact that several generations have taken root in the local area, the Ma family has become a local aborigine, that is, a middle-class family.So being invited by Wei Yuan to come to the barracks for a "drink" today, to be honest, the Ma family father and son were a little flattered.

Even if Jinyiwei has lost its main business, it still has a side job of monitoring the local military and civilian social situation, so the news of the Ma family and his son is usually relatively well-informed.They knew Wei Yuan's identity very well: he wiped out the giant bandits in the sea overnight, he was a popular fried chicken in Xinke, and he was a direct subordinate of Cao Chuan, a powerful general with over ten thousand troops.

Although it is not yet the time of corruption in the end of the Ming Dynasty when the army heads were everywhere, it is an indisputable fact that with the smoke everywhere in the Ming Kingdom, the status of warriors is gradually rising.

So Ma Baihu came here respectfully today: he is different from those idiots who can't figure out the situation, he knows very well that this group of short-haired people have a monstrous background, if they really offend the other party, they will kill Jin Yiwei Hundreds of households, the court will not even blink.

Unlike Master Baihu who was a little panicked, Wei Yuan admired the father and son very much.Ma Rulin is calm and serious, Ma Jigong is young and mature, and the two of them don't have that disgusting officialdom. In fact, Ma and his son have a good reputation in the local area, and the old horse seldom gets involved in those messy things.

All of this information was collected in advance by the time traveler.Before the Red Spear Battalion entered Longyan, the intelligence department of the crossing people had already secretly deployed in this small county. This is why Wei Yuan invited Ma and his son to drink today.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Wei Yuan saw that the heat was almost ready, so he explained the purpose of today's visit: "Master Ma is a landlord, my department is new here, and I am not familiar with the place, so I still need your help in the future!"

Hearing this, Ma Rulin clasped his fists quickly: "Don't dare, General Wei is a general on the battlefield, so polite, it's really hard to kill him."

After saying this sentence, Ma Rulin thought for a while and then said: "The general is summoned today, and I probably know the meaning of it."

Having said that, Ma Rulin turned his head and winked at his son.After Ma Jigong saw the signal, he reached out and took out a stack of light yellow bamboo paper from his pocket: "This is the military situation of 13 local bandits, big and small, and the inside story of a big family who collaborated with and raised bandits."

"In addition." When Ma Jigong said this, he smiled and took away his palm pressed on the paper: "There are still 26 lists of old bandits who have lived at home for many years."

"Hohohoho..." Wei Yuan shook his head with a smile when he heard this: "It is true that the drum does not need a heavy hammer. Ma Rulin is loyal to the state, and Wu Qianhu in Zhangzhou will not deceive me!"

Hearing Wei Yuan's words, Ma Baihu really let go of the big stone in his heart-as expected, his immediate boss had already leaked his family's foundation.

After complimenting the old horse, Wei Yuan nodded, then stretched out his finger, and flicked the kerosene lamp on the table: "Master Ma, what do you think of this?"

"This thing is exquisite, and I'm afraid it's not vegetable oil inside, so it's expensive." Ma Rulin, who had studied kerosene lamps for a long time from the beginning, didn't know what Wei Yuan meant, so he could only answer honestly.

"In Hangzhou, this lamp costs 500 taels of silver, and the lamp oil is sold in taels."

"This lamp is produced by the workshop run by my general, so my general is as rich as an enemy."