The "chasing stolen goods and providing payment" that was in full swing in the area controlled by the "Da Shun Dynasty" also affected Tianjin Wei's Abacus City.
In fact, one of the tasks Li Zicheng assigned to Li Laiheng was to raise money and food in the fertile land of Tianjin.
When Li Laiheng first arrived in Tianjin, in order to successfully control the surrendering Ming army, he temporarily withheld his words and was polite to the Ming officials at all levels in Abacus City, from the governor of Tianjin to the guerrillas guarding the city.
But the 10,000 Shunjun soldiers he brought with him could no longer bear it.
His generals came one after another to collect money, pay, and ask for rewards.
He comforted her in every way and finally suppressed it for the time being.
After he spent many days roughly reorganizing the surrendered troops in Abacus City and Tianjin Guard, news came from Beijing City of Shuntian Prefecture that Liu Zongmin had recovered "stolen" worth tens of millions of taels of silver.
This kind of success and profit made Li Laiheng envious and jealous.
Moreover, the generals under his command also heard the news, and all of them were ready to take action.
If he still suppresses it, even if it does not cause a mutiny, it will greatly affect his prestige in the army.
As a result, the recovery of stolen goods and payment assistance in Tianjin Wei Abacus City also started immediately.
The targets of the recovery of stolen goods were determined to be firstly the chief officials of various Tianjin health yamen offices represented by the governor of Tianjin, secondly the officials and businessmen in the salt industry, and finally the hereditary military attachés of the health bureaus as well as the city garrison, water transportation, and shipping yamen from the general manager to the general manager.
A mid- to high-ranking military attaché.
Suddenly, just like the capital, Abacus City was filled with the screams and cries of men and the screams and cries of women.
In the courtyard of the former governor's yamen, there were sticks and instruments of torture all over the courtyard.
Dozens of former Tianjin guards and wealthy merchants knelt in the open air in the courtyard and were tortured at the same time.
The market in Abacus City suddenly became noisy.
Except for the brothels, wine shops, and opera houses that provided entertainment for wealthy Shunjun soldiers, most of the merchants were closed.
There are many pedestrians on the road.
Only groups of soldiers in black clothes and armor escorting male and female "criminals" passed through the streets from time to time.
Among the many officials of the Ming Dynasty, those who regretted it the most were the middle and senior generals of the Ming army who had just brought troops to join Tianjin's left and right guards.
Because of the blockade of the capital, they had no internal channels to follow the army, so they had no idea what was happening in the capital.
This mistake caused them to fall into a dragon's den and a tiger's den.
When they arrived at Abacus City, Baihu, Qianhu and other middle and high-level officers were arrested on the spot and escorted to Li Laiheng's government office for recovery of the stolen goods.
The low-level officers and soldiers under their command were numb and showed no resistance.
This is not surprising either.
In the past, they were all people who relied on the power given by the Ming court to drink the blood of soldiers, eat their flesh and exploit ordinary military households.
At this time, their soldiers would be righteous if they didn't add insult to injury, and they could still hope to risk their lives to rescue them.
The gold and silver in Li Laiheng's house quickly piled up like a hill.
He also smiled like a flower and drank and had fun all day long with a dozen beauties presented to him by the "prisoners".
But he forgot that among the dozen or so soldiers sent to send messages to the left and right guards, three of them had not returned.
When the brigade in charge of commanding the soldiers reported the matter to him, he had just acquired a stunning beauty and was having an affair with her.
"General, three of our army's soldiers who sent orders to the Tianjin Youwei ministries have not returned yet.
According to the humble post, I asked other soldiers who went with them.
They said that they arrived in Youwei's territory based on the information given by the Tianjin Governor's Yamen.
They divided into several groups and went to each household's camp to deliver the message.
These three people were the group heading to the Acropolis at the mouth of the Jiyuan River. " When the captain was talking, Li Laiheng was holding the beautiful woman in his arms and sipping wine from mouth to mouth.
After the boss finished speaking, Li Laiheng turned around and said with a grin: "These three brats must have met some glamorous people on the road, or they were seduced by the beautiful wives and concubines of the corrupt officials in the guard station.
They are too happy to think about Shu.
They are not sure where they are now.
The wives of Baihu and Qianhu are enjoying themselves."
After saying this, General Shunjun burst into laughter with everyone who was drinking with him.
He didn't take what the commander said seriously at all.
Seeing such a scene, the commander secretly thought to himself that you, the emperor, are not in a hurry, so why should I, the eunuch, be in a hurry?
So he only recorded the disappearance of these three soldiers as deserters, turned around and took his subordinates to "pursue stolen goods and provide salary".
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Just like the capital city, in Tianjin Weibaan City, the scope of "pursuing stolen goods" eventually extended to small merchants and small households.
Even tea shops and vegetable stalls were not spared.
In addition to the surrendered troops from local military households, the only Shunjun in Abacus City was Li Laiheng, so they had not developed to the level of robbing and raping from house to house.
Even so, the Ming soldiers who had just returned began to feel excited, because many of the small merchants and hawkers were relatives of ordinary military households in Tianjin.
At the entrance of Tongluo Alley, a group of soldiers dressed in black and black armor came and patted the door of a closed teahouse.
The door banged loudly, but no one came to open it.
The captain leading the team shouted impatiently: "If there is anyone, please open the door quickly.
If you don't open the door, I will break down the door."
There was a rustling behind the door panel, and then the door creaked open.
An old man leaned out half of his body, clasped his hands in a salute and said: "Master, I'm sorry, I've been sick these past few days, and the teahouse is temporarily closed.
I hope you will, Master."
Before he could finish his words, he was pushed open by the Shunjun Sentry Commander.
The door of the teahouse was also completely pushed open, and more than a dozen Shunjun soldiers poured in.
"We're not here to drink tea today.
We're just here to ask for some money from the boss to help pay.
I hope the boss will not hesitate to donate," the boss stared at the old man and shouted sternly.
The content of the words was polite, but the tone was threatening.
The old man tremblingly took out a few pieces of silver, about one or two taels, from his arms and stuffed them into the hands of the sentry commander, and said, "Please accept this small amount of silver from the Heavenly Soldiers."
The whistleblower weighed the silver coins in his hands and sneered: "That's it.
Send the beggars away.
When I was begging for food in Luoyang City, during the New Year and festivals, I met big merchants who were generous and could beg so much in one day.
I see you.
If you don’t pay for the toast, we will have to chase your stolen goods.
If you don’t come up with twenty taels of silver today, don’t think it’s over.”
"Oh, Master, how can we have so much money in our small business?
This shop is a small business that my family opened on credit this year.
Please do a good job.
My son is also a big man now.
If you serve the Shuntian Army, please be accommodating to me.”
"Damn it, you won't give it to me, right?
Brothers, search for me."
Before he finished speaking, the soldiers began to rummage around in the store, smashing bowls and pots.
"Don't smash it, don't rob it.
These were all bought on credit.
They've all been robbed.
How can our family repay and survive?"
The old man burst into tears and howled.
When he saw the whistleblower packing several large cans of tea on the counter and preparing to take them away, he hugged the whistleblower around his waist.
The boss kicked the old man out of the door and fell to the street.
The old man began to spit out blood
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