Lu Fang's meaning is very simple!
It's just that Jiangnan has everything, he wants to unite these gentry to abandon their families, only bring some strong family members, and then bring gold, silver, jewelry, food and other materials, and go south to Jiangnan!
These people have been plotting for a long time, and even the delicacies of the mountains and seas on the table are cold, so they have planned it.When everyone went home, it was already night, and these people, according to Lu Fang's instructions, secretly found the strong family members who were not dragged down by their families, and tricked them into escaping together.As for relatives?
The young and strong ones were brought up, and the old, weak, sick and disabled were all abandoned, and the intermediate process naturally went through a painful struggle, begging, infighting or something, but in the end it was still settled by these gentry.Then they began to pack grain, gold, silver and jewelry.According to Lu Fang's instructions.Food is indispensable along the way, you must bring more, silver is large, it is not worth much, it is better to bring more red gold, more jewelry, if there is still a spare place to bring silver.Then came the disguise.You can't wear silk or even fine muslin, and it's better to find a few patches of coarse cloth to wear.The carts loaded with gold, silver, jewelry, and grain must also be replaced with old and sturdy ones, that is, horses cannot be disguised, and it is impossible to replace them with inferior horses, right?
If you really change to a bad horse, you can't drag things, but I'm afraid it will affect the trip.In the middle of the night, the men finally got it ready, and the cars that looked very shabby, but were actually very strong, gathered at the gate of the city.And these gentry are dressed in shabby clothes one by one, and some of them have stove ashes on their faces, trying to make themselves outcasts.It is?
The fat bodies of individual rich people are not like homeless people no matter how they disguise themselves, and there are horses pulling carts, all of them have thick legs, round waists, and sharp eyes, and they are good horses at a glance, which are definitely not used by real homeless people.In fact, the real homeless people can't even afford to use bad horses and ox carts, they are all carts pulled by people, so these people still don't look like them.Now that these gentry are gathered at the gate of the city, they are not afraid of being known by the government, anyway, the city guards are also their own people, and they have long been ready to go with them.In addition to the city guards and a small number of city guards, even a few powerful officials in the yamen also came with some officials, preparing to escape together.At this time, only Lu Fang had not yet come.This matter is his lead, and he must wait for him, after two pillars of incense, Lu Fang finally came, and everyone looked at his dress, and almost lost their eyes.But seeing that this guy is wearing tatters, although the shoes on his feet are old on the outside, they are not broken, and the soles are extremely thick, and this kind of shoes is not tired after walking long distances.Although they have a carriage, they can't ride in a carriage all the time, right?
Horses are not made of iron.What made everyone speechless the most was that this Lu Fang also wore a big cotton jacket on a hot day, and this outfit really looked like a real homeless.Because for the homeless, the padded jacket is a very precious thing, and generally when fleeing the famine, there is no place to put the padded jacket, regardless of winter and summer.However, although Lu Fang's dress looked more like a real homeless than them, the gentry always felt weird.After everyone arrived, under the leadership of Lu Fang, they left Shanyang County in an orderly manner, and moved along the way towards the rich Jiangnan.Day 2, early in the morning!
After getting up, he called a meeting of the officials in the yamen, only to find that except for a few old, weak, sick and disabled scribes, the rest were gone.Even there were only a dozen or so officials left, and these officials and scribes all looked at the county magistrate with a bewildered expression.Fu Sanmo secretly said that it was not good, and ordered someone to check, and found that the grain depot in the county was all empty, and the weapons were gone, and all the gentry in the county ran away, and these bastards ran away, and they also took away all the food, leaving only the old, weak, sick and disabled, and the women and children were not taken away.Especially Lu Fang, a bastard, he actually left his newborn son behind, don't look at Lu Fangren's age, in fact, he is not old, he is so old, and he actually added several new sons this month?
It's not a full moon yet!
Except for Lu Fang, the rest of the gentry also let the dog eat with their conscience, some lost their parents, and some abandoned their children.As for the wife and concubine?
Not to mention, these people didn't take a woman with them when they left, anyway, there are so many beauties in Jiangnan, and the women in the family are lost, as long as there are gold, silver and jewelry, how many women can't be married?
The most utterly speechless thing is!
These people fled and fled, leaving some food for the old, weak, sick, disabled children and women in the family?
No, most of the gentry took all the food from their homes with them.There is still a lot of grain in Lu Fang's cellar, but this is not because Lu Fang's conscience found out, but because he really can't take it.He almost fainted!
Now there are thieves everywhere, and all the wealthy gentry in Shanyang County have fled, so how can he guard this county?
Originally!
In the Ming Dynasty, because of the embarrassment of local finances, ordinary county towns generally did not have an army, and even the soldiers who served and defended the city were pitiful.If there is a situation where thieves attack the city, the county order is to organize the gentry and wealthy families in the city to contribute food and money, and the monks Ding Qingzhuang resist.Because once the city is broken, these people will also die, so when it comes to a crisis, these wealthy gentry will still contribute food and money.Relying on these rabble to temporarily resist the thieves, and then sent people to the nearby guard post to ask for help, there is a military guard near Shanyang County, and the person in charge is Zhang Qianhu.The Ming Dynasty's guard system was so rotten that Chongzhen revoked all the guards on the outskirts of Beijing, but the local water was too deep for Chongzhen to completely get rid of.The guards near Shanyang County are also rotten, there are hundreds of people who eat empty salaries, and the rest are only a thousand soldiers who can fight.Ordinarily?
It is enough for a thousand soldiers and the young and middle-aged people in the city to guard a small county town, because the main force of the thieves is now pinned down by Zuo Liangyu's army.As long as they don't hit Shanyang County, some scattered thieves have nothing to fear.The question is?
The soldiers of Zhang Qianhu of Teniang have long been requisitioned by General Zuo Liangyu, and now Shanyang County can only rely on the young and strong people in the city to defend the city.Soldiers, guards of the city?
It's okay for people to defend the city in peacetime, but if they really fight, it's not enough to see.But there was no money or food in his hands, and the little food in the warehouse was taken away by the unscrupulous officials.No money and no food, how do you recruit young people?
In these years, people are selfish, they will be a little lucky, and some people even feel that they are poor, and it is a big deal for thieves to join!
Without food and silver, it is impossible to recruit young and middle-aged people to defend the city, and even if they are escorted, people will flee.