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  Chapter 112 110 [White Clothed Scholar]

  Zhao Han was successfully taking over the treasury, but Fei Ruhe, who was sent to quell the chaos, encountered an inexplicable attack.

   Many gangsters took advantage of the chaos to rob, Fei Ruhe sent troops to various streets to stop them. One of the ten-man teams was besieged, and Shi Chang was beaten to the point of bleeding with a stick, and passed out on the spot.

   When Fei Ruhe heard the news, he immediately mobilized his troops to mobilize and interrogate the prisoners himself.

   "Who are you?" Fei Ruhe asked suppressing his anger.

  Those guys were downcast and all knelt on the ground, one of them said: "Ox and horse."

  Fei Ruhe was furious, drew his knife and scolded: "If you are not honest, I will send you to be reincarnated as a cow or a horse!"

  Suddenly, a scholar came over, bowed and said: "This general Rong Rong said that the so-called cattle and horses are the people who fight."

  Daxing is spread all over the southern provinces, and the specific names are different. For example, the Nanzhi area is called "mule driver".

   "Who are you?" Fei Ruhe asked.

  The scholar cupped his hands and said: "Luling scholar, Xiao Huan, named Jingming."

  Fei Ruhe also cupped his hands and said, "Zhao Yaonian, the character is Ruhe."

  Xiao Huan said: "General, please lend me fifty soldiers. Within an hour, the chaos in the south of the city can be completely quelled."

  Fei Ruhe frowned, and said, "If you can't be leveled, I'll level you up!"

   "Dare to issue a military order!" Xiao Huan laughed.

  A small captain, with fifty people, followed Xiao Huan to quell the chaos.

   Encountered scattered troublemakers along the way, Xiao Huan ignored them at all, went straight to a house in a street, and ordered: "Break down the door and arrest people!"

  The rattan players held the lid of the pot and went to knock on the door in turn, and quickly knocked the courtyard door open.

  The wolf soldiers rushed to open the way, and the spearman quickly followed, occupying the house in a short while.

   These well-trained soldiers surprised Xiao Huan. He walked into the courtyard and said to an old man who was caught: "Second Master Liu, hurry up and call your horses back. If you dare to make trouble at this time, are you impatient?"

   Liu Erye sneered and said, "You, a white-clothed scholar, also voted for a thief?"

  Seeing that Master Liu was not cooperating, Xiao Huan said to a rattan player: "Old Cousin, I will lend you a weapon."

  What weapon?

  The bamboo knife used by bamboo strippers to chop bamboo and cut bamboo strips!

  Xiao Huan was wearing a white Confucian shirt, holding a bamboo knife and slashing at it. The boy next to Second Master Liu lost half of his head, and died before he could scream.

   "Little Five!"

   Erye Liu was frightened and angry, and then roared and cried.

  Xiao Huan said: "I have killed one of your sons, do you still want me to kill your whole family?"

  Second Master Liu had a grim expression, gritted his teeth and said, "Let me out!"

   "Please." Xiao Huan smiled.

  The old man came to the street and summoned several tyrants to issue orders.

   Soon, all the dealers from the three nearby streets came to the house to report, and almost everyone had looted goods hanging on their bodies.

   "Shut the door, kill!"

   Xiao Huan gave an order, and the gate of the courtyard was immediately closed.

  A battle formation composed of wolf soldiers, rattan players, and spearmen rushed towards the gangsters holding various weapons, and the two sides decided the victory in an instant.

  It can be said that the gangsters have no power to fight back.

   There were a few rattan players who took the opportunity to change their weapons, throwing away the sickles and kitchen knives in their hands, and replaced them with the iron waist knives they snatched.

   "Not one left," Xiao Huan pointed at Second Master Liu, "Must kill his whole family!"

  The team leader was disobedient: "Mr. Zhao said, don't kill people indiscriminately, tie them all up and take them away."

  Xiao Huan had no choice but to **** the prisoners, including the women and children of Liu Erye's family, to Fei Ruhe, who was in charge of calming the chaos.

   Immediately afterwards, Xiao Huan led these soldiers to find other leaders of the gang.

  In less than an hour, all the riots subsided, and more than 400 people and their family members were killed or captured.

  Fei Ruhe personally wrote the Anmin Notice, and asked his subordinates to post it in every street. He patted Xiao Huan on the shoulder and said, "That's right, there are rules for doing things. I'll take you to meet the meeting leader."

   "But Mr. Zhao?" Xiao Huan asked.

  Fei Ruhe laughed and said, "That's him."

   "Fix what you want." Xiao Huan cupped his hands.

   Government Office.

  Zhao Han pointed to various official documents, and said to a dozen scholars: "Find out all the ones within five years, and I will take them away in a few days."

  Scholars dare not refuse, for fear of being hacked.

  They are all poor scholars, really rich scholars, how can they stay in prefectural and county schools? Although the student status is hung here, the place for daily reading is in Bailuzhou Academy.

  Li Zheng ran in suddenly, and said in a low voice: "Chief, there is not much money in the treasury, but two boxes were found in the government office, probably tens of thousands of taels of silver!"

   "This Prefect Xu is really a rich man," Zhao Han sighed with emotion, and ordered, "When Huang Yao comes back, immediately put the money on board."

   Not long after, Fei Ruhe brought people over: "Chief, there is a talented person to join us. His name is Xiao Huan, and his style name is Jingming. He knows how to do things. He helped me put an end to the chaos in the south of the city."

  Zhao Han turned around to look, but saw that this person was dressed in white, with many bloodstains on his body.

  Xiao Huan clasped his hands and bowed: "Mr. Zhao, late student."

  Zhao Han asked with a smile: "Why do you want to be a thief?"

  Xiao Huan looked as usual, and replied: "Even if you don't follow the thief, and you are born late in the eyes of the world, you are undoubtedly the same as the thief."

   "Oh, let's hear it." Zhao Han became a little interested.

  Xiao Huan said: "I was born in a poor family, and because my father was seriously ill, I had no choice but to borrow usury (usury). I have no money to repay the huge debt, so I can only join the business and make a living as a teacher and litigator."

  Barring prevailed in the late Ming Dynasty, and it developed into a complete system in the Chongzhen Dynasty.

   There are three grades for playing middlemen—

   First class, sons of officials and scholars.

  Second class, sons of gentry and merchants.

   Third class, street hooligans.

  It is often the sons of officials and gentry, who are responsible for opening up the relationship between the upper class. The sons of merchants provide money. Xiucai acted as a litigator, responsible for litigating the lawsuit afterwards, and also offered advice on a part-time basis. Hooligans act as thugs, charging at the forefront of doing bad things.

  Jiangnan likes to go to court, and when he goes to court, he must ask a lawyer for help.

  First, on the day of the court session, you are not afraid of being ambushed halfway;

  If it involves a fight for family property or a feng shui cemetery, the owner has to invite a dealer from another place, because the local dealers will be merciful to each other.

   Gradually, the business of housekeeping and nursing homes was also monopolized by various local **** agencies, and some bodyguard agencies simply served as the headquarters of the agency.

  Weddings and funerals, blocking roads to beg for money, this kind of thing is not a problem.

   There are even special punishments for people...

  The scholar in front of me, if placed in the movie "Young and Dangerous", is equivalent to a full-time lawyer of the Hongxing Gang.

  Zhao Han said with a smile: "You have no worries about food and clothing as a litigator, why are you willing to risk your head to be a traitor?"

  Xiao Huan said solemnly: "If you are a litigator, you will be a litigator for the rest of your life. If you are a rebel, you will either be hacked to death, or ascend to the court to worship the minister!"

   "Do I seem to be able to accomplish things?" Zhao Hankao asked.

Xiao Huan replied: "The wharf in the south of the city is the quintessence of the entire Ji'an Mansion. Mr. has already occupied the mansion, and the wealth and goods outside the city are easily available. But Mr. did not send troops to plunder, but sent soldiers to punish the vicious An people. Don't be moved by wealth. , this kind of great wisdom, how many of the rioters in ancient and modern times can do it?"

  Zhao Han continued to ask: "Do you know how I do things in the countryside?"

   "I heard that killing landlords, equalizing the land, equalizing the high and the low!" Xiao Huan replied.

  Zhao Han asked: "Are you against this approach?"

  Xiao Huan replied: "At the beginning of the uprising, there must be violence, and it is okay to be a hundred times more violent. The most urgent task is to defeat the governor Xie Xuelong, and the rest are trivial matters."

   "How to defeat Xie Xuelong?" Zhao Han continued to ask, but he had no hope.

However, Xiao Huan said in a low voice: "Xie Xuelong has forcibly confiscated countless merchant ships in order to send troops, which is already disgusted by the rich and powerful families. If he does not return the merchant ships after the spring of next year, I am afraid that the impeachment memorial will be handed over to the emperor. Now, Mr. Zhao It will be easier to break through the Fucheng. Please use the wealth obtained from the Fucheng to bribe the **** guarding Jiangxi with a lot of money!"

  Zhao Han smiled: "Go ahead."

  Xiao Huan suddenly asked: "I don't know if Zhang Yin, the guardian eunuch, has been chopped off by Mr. Zhao?"

   "It's still there, it's not dead yet." Zhao Han said.

Xiao Huan came up with an idea: "This man is very useful. You can recruit a group of gangsters for him to serve as his private soldiers. After Xie Xuelong returns to his division to rescue Fucheng, sir can leave immediately and hand over Fucheng to **** Zhang Yin. Let’s just say it was Zhang Yin who recovered the city.”

"Jiangxi guards the eunuchs, and Ji'an guards the eunuchs. They both shoulder the responsibility of guarding the land. The city of Ji'an fell, and they cannot shirk their responsibility. Mr. Ruo wrote another letter, promising not to occupy the prefecture and county cities, and secretly donating a lot of money. These two eunuchs In order to shirk the responsibility for the fall of Fucheng, he must bribe the middle officials to frame Xie Xuelong. And when the master leads the troops to retreat, the gentry and merchants will no longer be frightened, and they will impeach Xie Xuelong together, they just want to get back their merchant ships."

   "At that time, there will be no need to fight head-on. Xie Xuelong will have to resign from office and return to power! How many Xie Xuelongs will there be in the world? The next governor will probably not even have the ability to recruit soldiers."

  This scholar has a dirty heart, he really deserves to be a member of the gang!

  Zhao Han asked again: "What do the merchants and gentry around Fucheng think of me?"

  Xiao Huan thought for a while, and replied: "Frightened, wait and see."

   "Explain in detail." Zhao Han said unhappily.

Xiao Huan explained: "The fear is that they are afraid that they will be killed to divide the land. Wait and see, it is to see what the husband will do next. If the husband only stays in Xuanhua Township, they will not bother to meddle in other things. If the husband does not kill the landlord in the future Tian, ​​and the government is hard to destroy, they may secretly pass the song and choose to cooperate quietly with Mr.

  This analysis is very interesting, and it has a thorough understanding of the landlord's mind.

  Really, as long as their own interests are not harmed, even if the rebels turn the next village upside down, the landlords here are not willing to spend money to train soldiers.

  Once Zhao Han becomes big one day, as long as he doesn't kill the landlords indiscriminately, the things he has done can be ignored.

  How ruthless Li Zicheng killed, compared with that, Zhao Han's methods are nothing. But when Li Zicheng came to Beijing, didn't the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty kowtow to welcome him?

  Zhao Han asked: "Who else is in your family?"

  Xiao Huan said: "There is an old mother, a wife and a son."

   "Take them into the army and go back with me to divide the land." Zhao Han laughed.

   This is not only a kindness, but also holding family members as hostages.

  Xiao Huan cupped his hands and said, "Thank you sir for rewarding the land."

  Zhao Han asked again: "Are you familiar with Bailuzhou Academy?"

  Xiao Huan replied: "After half a year of auditing, I didn't go back because of lack of money."

  Zhao Han stood up and said, "Then come with me and see if the place is worthy of its name."

   (Ask for a monthly pass.)

  (end of this chapter)