Chapter 48 Extortion
Liu Xianchun heard Pei Xiaoer praise him for his virtuousness and was quite contented. However, when he heard that this guy was going to surrender to him, he felt that he received a great insult and scolded him: "What do I have to do with you, my virtuous or bad? I am a Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty and a disciple of the emperor. How can I surrender to you, a yellow-haired child? Now I am not careful and defeated and captured, but I want to die quickly, without saying much."
Pei Xiaoer was a little embarrassed by his firm attitude, so he had no choice but to laugh a few times and asked Pei Xiaosan to lock him up first and wait for the future.
When Pei Xiaosan took him away, Pei Xiaoer sighed with relief. Pei Xiaoer did appreciate Liu Xianchun more. Although Liu Xianchun was not good at leading troops to fight, this person was indeed a good at serving as an internal staff member, and he happened to be a talent that Pei Xiaoer was short of.
As early as Xia County, when Pei Xiaoer checked Xia County's official documents, he found that Liu Xianchun liked to speak with data, and various data were detailed and reliable. Pei Xiaoer even discovered records of Liu Xianchun's personal investigation in the countryside.
This point is exactly the itchy point of Pei Xiaoer. Scholars in this era are generally in a posture of being above the top and above. Few people can go to the countryside in person to contact the people face to face, study the sufferings of the people, and thus make corresponding countermeasures.
It can be said that only when Pei Xiaoer's shop is joined by Liu Xianchun, can it be considered that he is truly on the right track.
However, this matter cannot be forced too much, so I can only wait for the future to train it slowly.
There were many deserters who wanted to make some trouble, but the Pei family army was not a vegetarian. They were distributed in various parts of the village as units. They caught them when they saw deserters, and executed them on the spot if they resisted.
Under the iron-blooded policy, the chaotic situation finally stopped. Except for a few rioters who were lucky enough to escape, the rest of the people were either killed or entered Pei Xiaoer's prisoner of war camp, with a total of more than 2,000 people.
The resettlement of these more than 2,000 people is a big problem. First of all, it is definitely not possible to kill them. Pei Xiaoer thinks he is not a murderer. But it is not possible to release them directly. Wherever this group of riots goes, it is a threat to the local area.
Moreover, unlike the officers and soldiers of Hongnong Guard, the soldiers of the garrison were said to be soldiers, but they were actually honest people who were farming. Pei Xiaoer organized them into the new recruits and trained them well, so that they could change them into qualified soldiers.
However, this group of people are all soldiers who have been in the camp for many years, and Pei Xiaoer doesn't want to incorporate all the soldiers into his Pei family army. Otherwise, the good military discipline was finally established and would no longer exist.
In the end, I had no choice but to come up with a compromise. Now I picked out the ones that seemed honest and useful, and sent them to Xia County for Dad Pei to practice to get rid of the anger. I could only make up the rest first and do some miscellaneous work in the future.
After dealing with the prisoners, Pei Xiaoer breathed a sigh of relief. He asked the personal soldiers around him, "Have you found the Wang family and his son?"
"Not yet" the personal soldiers answered.
"Not yet? Could it be that the Wang father and son flew with their wings?" Pei Xiaoer walked around the room anxiously, "Let's go and have a look."
Wang Yuanwai looked out carefully through the crack of the door, not daring to make any sound. The soldiers who came to search came one after another, endlessly. Fortunately, these soldiers were considered strict military discipline and did not dare to break into private houses to search, otherwise they would have discovered their family long ago.
"When is this the beginning?" Pei complained softly, and sat aside with a dejected look.
"It's almost there. In a few days, I don't believe that this bandit can always occupy Shangwangzhuang. When the bandits leave, this Shangwangzhuang will be ours." Wang Yuanwai comforted softly.
"It's not easy to wait for them to leave," Suddenly, a completely unfamiliar voice sounded from the beams, and then a figure fell from above. "Looking at their appearance, I think I don't find you, I'm unwilling to give up easily."
"Who are you?" "Is it you?"
Wang Yuanwai and Wang Silang exclaimed at the same time, a heart-wrenching chill rushed to their brains, making the three people in the room dumbfounded.
They stayed in the room for so long, but they didn't notice that there was one person in the room besides the three of them.
"Shh, whisper, do you want to recruit all the bandits?" The visitor smiled and gestured with his fingers on his mouth, slowly and elegantly.
"Dad, this person is the person I told you last time. He told me about Wang Hong's rebellion in the village." Wang Silang quickly told his father what he knew.
"Oh? So we are friends but not enemies?" Wang Yuanwai took the lead in regaining his calmness and looked at the man of unknown origin in front of him.
"It's not certain whether it's an enemy or a friend," the person who came was not polite, and said, walking around the stool, straightening it, blew the dust on it and sat down on it, "It depends on what price you can offer."
Wang Yuanwai is also a versatile person. When he heard the person coming, he immediately knew what he should do. "Fifty thousand taels of silver! As long as you can take our whole family out, it will be yours."
The visitor looked at Wang Yuanwai in surprise, "I didn't realize that you still have so much silver on you?"
Wang Yuanwai understood that the other party questioned whether he could really take out the 50,000 taels of silver. He didn't say much, and it would be futile to say more now. Wang Yuanwai took out a roll of calligraphy and painting from his baggage.
"This is the original work of Yan Zhenqing of the Tang Dynasty. Someone in Jiangnan offered 70,000 taels. Later, after several twists and turns, it finally fell into my hands. This calligraphy and painting is worth 50,000 taels of silver."
"Oh? The person who came was interested, took the calligraphy and paintings from Wang Yuanwai with great enthusiasm and observed them carefully." After a long time, he raised his head and praised: "It is worthy of being Yan Zhenqing, known as Yan Jin and Liu Gu. This book is truly vigorous and powerful, with true feelings, calm structure, flying dots and strokes, good words, good words."
The visitor obviously had a good understanding of calligraphy and paintings, and praised Wang Yuanwai's original works of Yan Zhenqing. Wang Yuanwai was echoing with him, and a signature smile appeared on his face again.
But it was obvious that he was too happy.
I saw the visitor gently put down the calligraphy and paintings in his hand and looked at Wang Yuanwai with joking words, "The characters are good words, but not enough."
"Not enough?" Wang Yuanwai took a deep breath, and he was shocked by the man's greed.
There are really such greedy people in this world that even calligraphy and paintings worth 70,000 taels of silver cannot satisfy the other party's greedy appetite.
"How much do you want?" Wang Yuanwai gritted his teeth and squeezed out these words from his teeth.
"One hundred thousand taels, I need one hundred thousand taels to bring all your family out of Wangzhuang." The visitor said casually, and his insignificant look seemed like buying a bun on the street.
"Okay, but the remaining money will be given to us after our whole family leaves." Wang Yuanwai clenched his fists and said calmly.
Chapter completed!