Chapter 533: Destroying the Future Second Minister
The county magistrate, Tian Weijia and a group of gentry were escorted by the Mongolians and knelt on the ground.
Li Hong pointed at Tian Weijia and laughed at the Mongolian soldiers, "Brothers, I heard that Lord Tian was originally the Minister of Rites of the Ming Dynasty. He has been the Minister of Rites for so many years. His family must be full of gold and silver!! I copied Lord Tian's home for me! Miss, maids and concubines, whoever gets it will be! "
"Okay!" A group of Mongolians shouted excitedly.
"Good knight, please spare me! Good knight!" Tian Weijia kowtowed repeatedly, "The villain is willing to surrender to the god of knight, so please ask the god of knight to let go of the villain's family."
"Hmph!" Li Hong sneered, "Lord Tian has been an official for many years and must have done a lot of things that have been ruined, right?"
"The Khan is wronged! The villain has been honest and honest since he was in office and has never done anything that is harmful to the world." Tian Weijia begged like an innocent sheep.
"Be honest and honest? Be honest and honest will be impeached and lost your official position? And I heard that Wu Linzheng, who impeached you, has evidence of your greed! Lord Tian, how do you plan to explain this to Ben Khan?" Li Hong sneered.
Tian Weijia knew that he could not deny it, so he changed the subject and angrily scolded the Mongolian Khan in front of him: "I am an official appointed by the Ming Dynasty court. Even if I punish it, it will be a crime for the Ming Dynasty court to punish me! You are disobedient outside the border and despicable Tartars. How dare you accuse me of the Ming Dynasty officials? You have broken through my Raoyang County and harmed my Ming people! Even if I become a ghost, I will not let you go!"
"Hahaha!" Li Hong laughed, "Mr. Tian, if I remember correctly, you were planning to surrender to Ben Khan just now! Why did you become a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty in a blink of an eye?"
The gentry and merchants in Raoyang City were in great danger. After the Mongols entered the city, they confiscated the homes of these gentry. The first one was naturally the largest gentry in the local area. As a former Minister of Personnel, that was the leader of the six ministries, second only to the Chief Minister and the Second Auxiliary. Tian Weijia was not clean and had his hands and feet. It was normal for him to be greedy for money. As a Minister of Personnel who specializes in managing officials in the world, officials must come to pay tribute and give him gifts, so naturally there are mountains of gold and silver in his family. Although he was impeached and lost his official position, he has been in office for many years. In addition to the greedy silver, there are also land donated by people in his hometown, and the silver bribed by merchants borrowed official ships and other items. The silver saved over the years can be said to be as rich as a country.
There are many things in the land just for donating land. According to the second rank of the Minister of Personnel, the land enjoys tax-free land of 5,000 acres, but in fact there are many farmlands that are concealed when measuring land. Not only are the farmers who are overwhelmed by the imperial taxes, but many merchants also use usury to illegally seize farmers' fields and devote them to officials to avoid the taxes of the court. In order to increase their own land, an official also helped some people with fame and honor among the families or students to obtain land. For example, Qian Qianyi divided the extra land into the tribes and students with fame. On the surface, the fields belong to other tribes and students, but in fact they belong to Qian Qianyi. His tribes and students have to hand over part of the rent to Qian Qianyi.
In addition to land investment, some merchants even devote themselves to officials as "home slaves"! After merchants become officials' "home slaves", they can gain more benefits. After officials get those stores, they will use their own relationships to open profit-making industries such as pawnshops and flower buildings.
Even if the merchants do not contribute to their own slaves, they will try every means to offer shops to those who have fame, or pay to train gentry tribe members to study, so as to seek more benefits for themselves.
It was precisely because the unscrupulous businessmen and civil officials were in a mess that the Ming Dynasty could not be collected at all. Emperor Chongzhen was so poor that he had patched his dragon robe, and the inner treasury was so empty that he could run away with mice. In the end, he had to go to Coal Mountain to find the crooked tree.
Tian Weijia, who had been the Minister of Personnel for many years, was confiscated by the Mongolians. The Mongolians happily carried boxes of gold, silver and treasures from his home. His wives, concubines, daughters, and maids all turned into the trophy of the Tumotes.
Tian Weijia was stabbed by the Mongolians, and he was killed with him, as well as a large number of older gentry in the city. Those people were taken back to the outside of the pass and were all wasteful. They could not work or really give advice. What they were amazing was the deceptions in the officialdom. They could not do anything real, so Li Hong naturally could not raise those wasteful things.
The male and male servants of the gentry in Raoyang were taken away, and some of them would be given to Dorgon as coats. Yue Tuo was dead. Li Hong needed to show his loyalty to Dorgon and hand over the stolen property and the plundered people to the Qing Dynasty, but most of them were left by himself.
The property found in the land deed, sales deeds, IOUs, Offering Contracts, Store Deeds and other properties will fall into Li Guodong's hands in a clever way.
Li Hong did not make things difficult for the ordinary people in the city. He asked his confidants to tell the people privately: "Raoyang City is broken, and you have no property, so it's useless for us to steal you. But Prince Rui Dorgon will come soon, so you should find a place to hide as soon as possible, and wait for them to leave and you will come back."
The Tumotes opened the granary and grain shop, and most of the grain was taken away by them, and a small part of the grain was distributed to the local people.
"How come these Jiannu are different from other Jiannu?"
"Jiannu actually gave us food?"
"They are not Jiannu, they are Mongolians. I heard they are Tumotes."
"So that's it. I heard that the Tumote people have a good relationship with the Ming Dynasty. I don't know why they joined Jiannu."
"They can't defeat Jiannu, and if they don't surrender, they will be killed."
The common people who were assigned food were talking about it, and then they took their families and left the county town, fled westward to hide in the mountains to the west.
When Dorgon got the news that Raoyang City was broken, he saw an empty city. Dorgon complained: "Subud captured Raoyang, which we failed to capture, and snatched all the place! He didn't even leave a grain of food for us!"
Du Du, who escaped from Jinan, said: "Uncle Fourteen, Subude is still very sensible. He will give us some of the property and population he stole. This time he has gained the most in Shandong! We and the people of Korqin have not gained much, but this person has gained a lot."
"Hmph!" Dorgon snorted coldly, "I snatched Qufu and destroyed the whole family of Yan Shenggong! Now our Qing Dynasty offended the Han scholars so fiercely! In the future, when the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, which Han scholars would be willing to work hard for us?"
"Uncle Fourteenth, they are all those poor Han scholars who the emperor valued! Where do we need those people in the Qing Dynasty? We rely on bows and horses to conquer the world! Are there any Nikan scholars, what impact will it have on our Qing Dynasty?"
"You know what's the matter!" Dorgon cursed, and he thought to himself: A stupid thing! The Qing Dynasty will be in the world in the future and will need the support of Han scholars. To govern the country, we cannot rely entirely on Manchurian warriors, right? Most Manchurian warriors only know how to kill and chop people. How many people know how to govern the world, manage the place, and collect taxes? And when we move into the Central Plains, we may have to face the thieves directly. If we don't win over the gentry in the world, would we let the Manchurian warriors roll up their sleeves to deal with those thieves?
The news that Li Hong broke through Raoyang City was soon sent to Li Guodong.
Li Guodong opened the battle report, took a look, and put the note on the fire and burned it. He thought to himself: Li Hong did a really good job! He eliminated many cancers for the Ming Dynasty! Speaking of which, this is what those scholars suffer!
If many civil officials fooled Chongzhen to strip the factory guards himself, Li Guodong would not dare to form a personal guards and asked Li Hong to do these dirty things. If the Jinyiwei was strong, these things would definitely be found out. The Jinyiwei is almost the same as a waste, and there is no place to investigate these things. In the end, the charges were all on the Qing army. The only thing to worry about is how to explain to Huang Taiji that he destroyed the entire family of Yan Shenggong after Li Hong went back.
Chapter completed!