Anti-Qing: Starting from the Reincarnation of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 21
Although when the Ming army attacked private mines and illegal factories, the enemies they had to deal with were only the servants and supervisors of wealthy gentry families, so they were not difficult to deal with.

But in the process, the army was allowed to kill people with blood.

No matter what, for the newly born Ming army, as long as they go to war, they will definitely gain something.

Even if the fighting intensity is lower, it can allow the army to see blood and adapt to the battlefield march, which will definitely be more effective than dry training on the training ground.

……

At the same time, the wealthy gentry in Jintian Town also began to receive news that their private mines and workshops in Zijing Mountain had been breached by the Ming army, and that their property and workers had been swept away by the Ming army.

The actual loss of interests made these wealthy gentry owners a little anxious.

They gathered at the Yang family residence and constantly urged Mr. Yang to send troops.

"Mr. Yang, can you tell me exactly when we can send troops to suppress the bandits?"

"Yes, Mr. Yang, those bandits are running rampant in the mountains, and each of our families has suffered a lot."

"Brother Yang, we can't wait any longer!"

"..."

Everyone was urging him.

When Mr. Yang heard this, he said with a troubled expression.

"Don't worry, everyone, I am sending people to negotiate with those Hakkas."

"It won't be too late for us to send troops after we finish negotiating with the Hakkas. Otherwise, we may have to fight with the Hakkas before the thieves have even started to suppress them."

The conflict between the Tujia people and the Hakka people in Guangxi has always been sharp. If the Tujia people don't greet the Hakka people well, they will rashly gather together to go into the mountains to suppress the bandits.

And when entering the mountain, you have to pass through a Hakka settlement.

You can really imagine how the Hakka people would react.

Therefore, before sending troops into the mountains, Mr. Yang would send people to negotiate with the Hakkas to avoid conflicts.

As for whether it has any effect?

Most likely not!
After all, the Tujia and Hakka have been fighting for more than a hundred years?

It would not be an exaggeration to say that there is a blood feud between them.

How innocent must the Hakka people across the street be to believe in the guarantee of the Tujia people who are feuding people!

But even so, Mr. Yang still wants to fight for it.

When everyone in the hall saw this, they couldn't say anything more. They all sat down and continued to discuss matters related to organizing a group training to defeat thieves.

"This fight against thieves is something we all share. The food and grass needed for this army to march and fight cannot be provided by the Yang family alone."

Master Yang said.

They have to prepare for team training and go into the mountains to suppress bandits. The feeding, drinking and eating of hundreds of people is not a small number.

Master Yang doesn't want to be taken advantage of.

After hearing this, the clan leader of Lijia Village in Jintian Town stood up and said.

"Mr. Yang's words are wrong."

"This time we went into the mountains to suppress bandits, it was Mr. Yang who strongly advocated it, not everyone else's suggestion."

"We were just invited to help Mr. Yang. Mr. Yang won't pay us for the help. How can we, who are helping the master, have to bring our own dry food?"

As soon as Li Hong made this statement, the clan chiefs, gentry and wealthy people who were still filled with indignation and demanded that troops be sent into the mountains to suppress the bandits as soon as possible all chose to agree.

It seemed that they were not the ones who were anxious just now and urged the army to send troops to suppress the bandits as soon as possible.

Because they didn’t even come up with the money and food!
This year's drought and locust plague in Guangxi have caused heavy losses to every village and severe grain harvest failure.

Every village and village is relatively nervous in terms of food.

No one is willing to give out an extra portion of food just to beg thieves, for fear that the food in the village will not be enough to sustain the next year's harvest.

After hearing this, Mr. Yang spoke. "You can't say that. That bandit is entrenched in the mountains and forests, and it's not just the interests of my Yang family that are harmed."

"All your workshops and mines in the mountains have also been destroyed."

"Nowadays, it is naturally a common thing for everyone to find someone to defeat the thieves. How can I, the Yang family, be responsible for the logistics and food supply of the army alone?"

At the beginning, Mr. Yang was indeed the most active in sending troops to quell the thieves.

Because the matter of defeating the thief is related to the real interests of his Yang family.

If the bandits in the mountains cannot be put down as soon as possible, then the Yang family's private mine may be exposed and real interests will be damaged.

But now it's different.

The Ming army ran rampant in the mountains and successively destroyed the private mines and workshops of the wealthy gentry in the mountains.

The interests of various gentry families in Jintian Town have been seriously harmed.

Naturally, they couldn't sit still!
And it was precisely because Master Yang knew this that he was not in a hurry to send troops to fight against the thieves.

Because he didn't want to bear the food and grass needed to enter the mountain and quell the thieves alone.

Now he is not the only one whose interests have been harmed.

In this case, whoever can't sit still first will take the lead!
No matter what, Mr. Yang is not willing to bear the food and grass needed to defeat the thieves alone.

Li Hongfa heard this and continued.

"If that's the case, then we can only ask the court to send troops to fight against the thieves."

When saying this, Li Hongfa stared at Mr. Yang with burning eyes.

Although everyone has industries in Bauhinia Mountain, many of them are actually legal industries, such as charcoal burning yards, brick burning yards, etc. These are industries that can be seen in the light.

The reason why they opened the workshop in the mountains was just to get materials nearby and to prevent slave workers from escaping.

Not everyone's property is a shady private mine like the Yang family.

Therefore, Li Hongfa chose to report to the official and ask the court to send troops to suppress the thieves to threaten Mr. Yang.

Because he knew that Mr. Yang would definitely not be able to accept this.

When Mr. Yang heard this, his face turned blue and white, and after thinking for a while, he spoke.

"After all, it was my Yang family who brought up the matter of going into the mountains to suppress bandits. Let's put it this way, my Yang family is willing to bear half of the food and grass needed to suppress bandits this time."

"Is it okay for each family to contribute the remaining half?"

When Li Hongfa heard this, he looked at the people around him and knew that he couldn't push Mr. Yang too hastily, so he spoke.

"Okay, that's settled..."

Immediately afterwards, a group of them began to discuss the specific time to send troops into the mountain.

After everyone discussed it, the time was set at the beginning of September.

It's only a few days away from now.

……

In the camp in Zijing Mountain, the Ming army was training.

Nearly a thousand soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were divided into two parts, each holding a spear, arranged in a dense formation, walking towards each other, preparing for a confrontational martial arts exercise.

In order not to accidentally hurt their own people during the martial arts performance, the weapons in their hands were said to be spears, but in fact they were just relatively straight long sticks.

Even one end of the long stick was wrapped in cotton cloth and stained with white lime.

When a spear is struck on a person's body, it will leave a very conspicuous mark.

Once someone was stabbed by a spear, he would be dragged out of the military formation by the officer responsible for supervising the military exercise and be considered dead.

Zhu Jing'an wanted to test the effectiveness of the Ming army's recent training through such a confrontation.

(End of this chapter)