When County Lieutenant Li and his men were chasing the gang of thieves, they suddenly heard some frightening news.
Jiaxing City was actually captured by a group of thieves.
After hearing the news, Li County Lieutenant led his army back in a hurry, regardless of the fatigue of his soldiers and the inconveniences of marching at night.
His whole family is still in the city, who knows if those gangs of thieves will be so cruel as to kill innocent people indiscriminately.
Li County Lieutenant urged the army to advance quickly.
When they arrived at Jiaxing City, suddenly a drum beat sounded and flags were raised on the city top.
Zhu Tong fought out of the city, and Li Zhong fought out from behind the Song soldiers, attacking from both inside and outside.
Zhu Tong flew out with his sword across his sword and took Li County Lieutenant directly.
After fighting for less than two rounds, Zhu Tong killed Lieutenant Li County off his horse with a single sword.
The Liangshan army took advantage of the situation and charged for a while.
The Song soldiers were defeated.
Except for a few who escaped, all the others were captured.
In the government office of Jiaxing City, Zhu Ding didn't even take off his armor, so he approached Xu Guanzhong and reported to him.
"Mr.
Xu's brilliant plan, Jiaxing City was easily captured by our army."
Xu Guanzhong nodded and said: "All this depends on General Zhu's bravery, otherwise it would be impossible to capture the city so easily.
General Zhu, now Jiaxing City has been captured by our army.
In order to prevent Haiyan City from being prepared after knowing the news, please ask General Zhu Spare no effort and take advantage of the victory to attack Haiyan County."
Zhu Tong happily shouted: "Mr.
Xu, will Haiyan County follow the old method and transfer them out?"
Xu Guanzhong shook his head and said: "No.
You cannot use the same method twice at the same time.
This time General Zhu directly led his troops to conquer Haiyan City.
General Zhu can do this" Zhu Tong nodded and said: "Okay, let's not delay.
Let the brothers rest for a day, and I will lead the troops to attack Haiyan tomorrow."
After taking Jiaxing City, Zhu Tong left his deputy general Li Zhong and a thousand infantrymen for Xu Guanzhong to drive.
He led another thousand soldiers and horses and immediately attacked Haiyan City.
After Zhu Dian led his troops away, Xu Guanzhong was counting the loot and getting a deeper understanding of the situation in Jiaxing City.
After counting the warehouses in the city, Xu Guanzhong couldn't help but sigh.
Jiangnan is indeed wealthy Xu Guanzhong called for Li Zhong and said: "Captain Li, there are a lot of supplies in Jiaxing City, which is what our army urgently needs.
You immediately send people to escort these supplies to the Zhoushan Islands, and then let General Li and General Zhang return.
When you arrive, take them with you and transport them to the marshal."
Li Zhong nodded and said, "Okay, I'll ask Zhou Tong to do it right now."
Xu Guanzhong continued: "I would also like to ask Lieutenant Li to recruit five hundred soldiers to follow me to do something."
Li Zhong said: "No problem, but Mr.
Xu, I dare to ask why five hundred soldiers are needed.
It's not that I can't trust you.
It's just that the marshal set the rules early in the morning.
All deployments of troops and horses must be recorded in the record for future reference."
Xu Guanzhong said with a smile: "We are bandits now.
As thieves and bandits, if we don't do things that rob families and homes, how can we be called bandits who commit all kinds of evil?"
That afternoon, Xu Guanzhong took five hundred men with him.
These five hundred men all chose the kind of guy who looked fierce and evil at first glance.
They visited the Gu family, a gentry family in Jiaxing City.
To say it was a visit was just Xu Guanzhong's own statement.
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Since the city of Jiaxing was captured by bandits, the gentry and wealthy families have closed their doors.
Xu Guanzhong didn't even knock on the door, he just asked his men to carry the wood and smash open the door of Gu's house.
The door was knocked open, and Xu Guanzhong left 300 people to block the front and back doors of Gu's residence, and then filed in with 200 people.
Xu Guanzhong led his men directly into the central hall of Gu's house.
He sat down on his seat, crossed his legs, knocked on the table and shouted loudly: "Where are the people?
Where have all the people died?
No distinguished guests came to the door." , no one even offered tea.
Is this the way the Gu family treats guests?"
Hearing the shout, Gu Xuanhua, the head of the Gu family, hurriedly came out and said with respect, "I didn't know there were distinguished guests coming, and I was neglecting them.
Hurry, serve some good tea to them."
Soon a servant came forward cautiously, put down a bowl of tea, and ran away quickly.
Xu Guanzhong picked up the tea bowl and shouted, "Who are you?"
without even looking at Gu Xuanhua.
Gu Xuanhua lowered her head and said hurriedly and respectfully: "Sir, I am the head of this family.
Gu Xuanhua doesn't know why you came here today."
Only then did Xu Guanzhong look sideways at Gu Xuanhua and shouted expressionlessly: "Now the Holy Duke is fighting against the Song army and needs the support of you squires.
Shouldn't you express your gratitude to show your loyalty to the Holy Duke?"
When Gu Xuanhua heard this, he knew that it was indeed such a troublesome matter.
He bit the bullet and asked: "Of course we support the Holy Communion, but we don't know what we should do to show our loyalty."
When Xu Guanzhong heard this, he smiled and said: "That's right.
My general said that we are all followers of the Holy Duke and we are all one family.
Since we are one family, of course we will not embarrass you.
Your Chen family Just give me one hundred thousand taels or thirty thousand loads of grain, that's all."
"What about one hundred thousand taels of silver and thirty thousand dan of grain?
Have mercy on us, ordinary people, we have so much money and grain," Gu Xuanhua shouted anxiously.
Xu Guanzhong stood up when he heard that he slapped the table angrily and shouted: "Don't you fucking fool me.
Your Gu family is an ordinary family.
Who doesn't know that your Gu family owns thousands of acres of land outside the city and more than 30 shops in the city.
One The monthly income must be one hundred and eighty thousand, and now I just want you to donate one hundred thousand taels, so why don’t you complain anymore?
Do you want to go against our Holy Duke and become a member of the court?
running dog" When Gu Xuanhua saw Xu Guanzhong getting angry, she hurriedly shouted: "No, it's absolutely nothing.
I believe in Manichaeism.
Look here, good man.
I carry a token with me."
Seeing Gu Xuanhua take out Daming Zun's pendant from his arms, Xu Guanzhong's face softened a lot.
He said: "Since you are also a believer in Manichaeism, you should support the great cause of the Holy Gong.
Only the Holy Gong is the envoy of the Ming Dynasty in the world.
Only he can lead everyone to drive away the darkness and lead everyone towards the light."
Gu Xuanhua nodded repeatedly and said: "Yes, yes, the adults are right.
But the young ones really don't have that much."
Xu Guanzhong looked at Gu Xuanhua and shouted: "Really not" Gu Xuanhua shouted: "I swear to God, there really aren't that many grown-ups.
Please show me your noble hand and let the little one go."
Xu Guanzhong looked around and asked, "How much can your Gu family bring out?"
Gu Xuanhua hesitated and shouted: "The younger one can only contribute three thousand silver at most."
Xu Guanzhong shouted angrily: "Three thousand taels, you are sending the beggar, come and search for me.
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Gu Yuanwai, let me tell you, if I find tens of thousands taels of silver, don't blame me for being rude, men are all Pulled to work as a corvee, it’s a woman."
When they see this gang of thieves, they will rush into the inner courtyard of their home.
If these gang of thieves see the family members and have evil intentions, then the Gu family will not face disaster.
Gu Xuanhua quickly pulled Xu Guanzhong and shouted: "Sir, please spare my life, my lord, my Gu family really can't afford one hundred thousand taels."
Xu Guanzhong hummed and shouted: "You really won't shed tears until you see the coffin.
The price is fifty thousand taels."
"Sir, it really doesn't work, ten thousand taels" "Stop fucking bargaining with me.
Fifty thousand taels, one son less, I will tear down your Gu family," Xu Guanzhong shouted impatiently.
"grown ups" "Brothers, do it" "Don't, don't, don't, sir, I'll give it, I'll give it," Gu Xuanhua cried as if her parents were dead all the way.
Xu Guanzhong shouted: "Gu Yuanwai, I'm not forcing you to do this.
This is your initiative to donate 50,000 taels of silver to the Holy Duke to support the holy war."
Gu Xuanhua said with a smile that was uglier than crying: "Yes, I took the initiative to donate money to support Shenggong."
Only then did Xu Guanzhong sit down again with satisfaction and said: "Gu Yuanwai, hurry up and get the money ready.
You also know that we are a bunch of rough guys and have no patience.
It's too late, I can't guarantee what will happen. thing" After hearing this, Gu Xuanhua could only accept her fate and walked into the inner courtyard warehouse with her butler, and taught the servants to move out boxes and boxes of the Chen family's savings over the years.
Fifty thousand taels was not a small amount.
In order to collect that much, the Gu family took out all the copper coins, gold and silverware.
The gold and silver were piled up in the yard like a hill.
There are probably tens of thousands of copper coins.
It is difficult to calculate the price of gold and silver items.
Xu Guanzhong can only make a rough estimate.
The total value of this pile of gold and silver is about 40,000 to 50,000 taels of silver.
Xu Guanzhong knew that this money was not all of the Gu family, but it was probably the Gu family's bottom line.
If he asked for more, the Gu family would be desperate.
Xu Guanzhong stood up and patted Gu Xuanhua on the shoulder with a smile and said: "Gu Yuanwai is indeed a loyal believer of our religion.
Don't worry, the Holy Church will not forget you believers.
Here, this is a gift given by the Holy Gong to those who sincerely believe in Daming Zun.
As long as you hang it at the door, no one will dare to cause trouble again, and your family will be safe and happy."
Xu Guanzhong thrust a rough mahogany sign that had been made temporarily into Gu Xuanhua's hands and shouted: "Okay, boys, quickly put this silver on the oxcart, let's go."
Gu Xuanhua and the housekeeper stood at the door and sent Xu Guanzhong and the others away with a smile on their faces.
When they saw them walking around the corner and no one was in sight.
Gu Xuanhua's face suddenly became gloomy and scary.
She asked someone to close the damaged door and then blocked it with heavy objects.
Gu Xuanhua walked into the middle hall, slammed the mahogany sign in her hand on the ground, and shouted loudly: "Damn you thief, you are bullying others too much.
I am incompatible with Gu Rong."
The housekeeper hurriedly shouted: "Sir, what's the matter?"
Gu Xuanhua said with a cold face: "I will write a letter later, and you will send someone to secretly deliver it to General Wang of Hangzhou.
Remember to be careful and don't let those thieves know about it.
Do you understand?"
The housekeeper nodded and said, "Yes, I understand.
Master, what should I do with this talisman?"
Gu Xuanhua scolded: "What else can I do?
Hang it at the gate of course.
What if those gang of thieves come again?"
"I understand, little one" Xu Guanzhong took the gold and silver back to the county government and locked them in the warehouse.
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He made a list based on the information in the household registers, field registers, and the information obtained by Liangshan spies.
He took 500 people with him to follow the names on this list, one by one, but he did not let anyone go from the prestigious squire family in Jiaxing City, and the amount of money he forcibly extorted ranged from tens to thousands.
It was not that there were no aristocratic families who wanted to resist, but the families of the two families who wanted to fight were thrown into a cell by Xu Guanzhong and detained.
Of course, their family property and everything else were completely plundered by Xu Guanzhong, and not even a copper was left for these two families.
In just three days, Xu Guanzhong led his men to plunder nearly 300,000 taels of silver, 100,000 dans of grain, 20,000 jins of pig iron, 300 pairs of armor, and more than 70 horses from Jiaxing County.
The marshal ate meat, and Li Zhong also drank some soup.
Thinking about the more than 600 taels of silver that he had secretly collected in the past few days, Li Zhong said to Xu Guanzhong with a smile: "Mr.
Xu still has a way, the marshal is too kind.
If the marshal had done the same thing in Shandong, I'm afraid we would have been there long ago.
With an army of hundreds of thousands, we would have conquered the capital long ago."
Xu Guanzhong shook his head and said: "It's impossible.
This place is different from Shandong.
Shandong is governed by the marshal, so he naturally treats the people well and wins the hearts of the people.
We never thought about staying here for a long time from the beginning, not to mention that we are working under the banner of Fang La.
In name, there is no need to worry about this.
Anyway, what these wealthy gentry will complain about is Fang La.
What does it have to do with the marshal?"
Li Zhong heard it and thought so.
It’s not your own territory anyway, so why bother with him?
Just make a fortune and leave.
Li Zhong asked: "Mr.
Xu, we don't want to stay here for a long time anyway, so why not just confiscate all the property of these squire families?"
Li Zhong thought that since he had already done it anyway, he might as well just do it, so that he could make more money.
Xu Guanzhong explained with a smile: "If we rob all their property, it will not only cost their lives, but they will all fight with us.
None of these families have hundreds of bankers.
If we unite, it is possible There are seven or eight thousand troops.
Although we are not afraid of these people, there is no need to provoke them to avoid unnecessary accidents.
It is not very good now.
They did not fight desperately and we also gained a lot of property."
When Li Zhong heard this, he frowned and said, "But since we forcefully demanded so much property, they should also hold a grudge and think of ways to deal with us."
Xu Guanzhong laughed loudly when he heard it, "Hahaha, they are not thinking, they have already taken action.
I am afraid that many families have sent people to Hangzhou to report the news."
Li Zhong shouted in surprise: "Mr.
Xu, let me take people to kill those guys who dare to spread the news secretly.
To scare them."
Xu Guanzhong shook his head and said: "No need.
Our army attacked Jiaxing City in the first place just to mobilize the garrison from Hangzhou City.
Now they are sending people to inform us, and they are not playing into our hidden agenda."
In order to keep it secret, Li Zhong did not know the purpose of Zhu Tong and Xu Guanzhong's attack on Jiaxing City.
Now when he heard that the Song army in Hangzhou City was to be mobilized, Li Zhong was shocked and said: "What, Mr.
Xu, there are 20,000 troops in Hangzhou, but our army now only has a thousand troops left in Jiaxing city.
If Hangzhou sends The army is coming, I’m afraid” Xu Guanzhong said calmly: "Liu Lieutenant, don't be alarmed.
Anyway, we have finished plundering all the places we should plunder in Jiaxing City.
There is no point in staying here anymore.
Let's return it to the imperial court."
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Li Zhong asked in confusion: "Where should we go, Mr.
Xu?"
"Go to Haiyan.
Compared with General Zhu, we should conquer Haiyan City
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