Daming pirates

Yu Xiaotian pulled out a short flint gun from nowhere. Suddenly he raised his hand and heard a loud bang. A flower pot on the windowsill was smashed to pieces on the spot.

These guys kneeling on the ground were really scared out of their minds at this moment. They didn't expect that Yu Xiaotian would be so cruel and dig out all their roots. How could they be fools? If they didn't even know this

If they should do this, then it would be their turn to die as a co-author.

With these things in Yu Xiaotian's hands, they could only obey Yu Xiaotian's orders honestly from now on. Even if Yu Xiaotian asked them to jump into the sea, they would not dare to say no.

So these guys kept kowtowing in agreement, not even daring to fart, and repeatedly expressed that they would be loyal to Xiaotian in the future, and they would obey Xiaotian in everything.

So Yu Xiaotian put away his cold face and drove these guys back. Of course, he immediately sent out his men and rushed everywhere to take over these officers and soldiers. In name, these guys were in charge, but in fact

But it was equivalent to evading them all. Yu Xiaotian single-handedly controlled these officers and soldiers, and those guys didn't even dare to give a shit about this, so they could only obey Xiaotian's arrangements.

It only took Yu Xiaotian less than two months to get almost everything he needed. This shocked the generals under him, and they all acted like good babies.

Xiong Wencan received the accusations about several Zhenhai Guard generals sent by Yu Xiaotian in Fuzhou City. He immediately understood that Yu Xiaotian was trying to knock down the mountain and subjugate the generals who had just come under his control. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

, Yu Xiaotian is really a ruthless person, and such a method of doing things is really not something ordinary people can do.

But since Yu Xiaotian is his right-hand man, Xiong Wencan will certainly not fail to help Yu Xiaotian. He immediately orders the Fujian Procuratorate to interrogate these blind guys. These guys arrived at the prison of the Procuratorate.

Inside, even if they wanted to deny it, under Xiong Wencan's instructions, the officials did not dare to let it slip in private. Various severe punishments were served in turn, and these guys were tortured to death, and finally they all confessed.

The result was that they were all dismissed from office without telling the truth, and they were all sentenced to execution. Some guys even ended up being executed.

Yu Xiaotian's actions couldn't help but make the entire Fujian military general look at him. They only knew that Yu Xiaotian was a ruthless person, but they didn't expect him to be so ruthless. These guys were just not convinced by him, so they were killed by him.

As a result, the family was ruined. If anyone encounters this kind of thing again in the future, they probably won’t dare to deal with Yu Xiaotian again.

When Zhang Jiace heard the news, he ran to Xie Longyi to save some of his subordinates. However, after hearing this, Xie Longyi sighed secretly and comforted Zhang Jiace with kind words, telling Zhang Jiace not to take care of these things in the future and to feel at ease with him.

If he is a wealthy man in his hometown, he will probably be able to live a peaceful life.

Zhang Jiace heard a strong hint of threat from Xie Longyi's mouth, and immediately understood what to do. Thinking about Yu Xiaotian's methods over the years, he couldn't help but feel a chill running down his spine. Now it was said that he had been

He reduced his position to serve the people and became a person without official status. Even if he did not lose his official position, if Yu Xiaotian wanted to kill him, it probably wouldn't be too difficult.

Over the years, Zhang Jiace has often dealt with Yu Xiaotian, and Yu Xiaotian has also caught a lot of his little pigtails. Once these things are revealed, even if he has now reduced his position to the public, he will probably

The court held him accountable, took him back and beheaded him.

What's more, over the years, he has often heard that there are people who are against Yu Xiaotian, and most of these families have either suffered fires or been robbed for no apparent reason, resulting in the destruction of each family and the loss of all their property.

So Zhang Jiace quickly agreed and ran back home in despair. While sending someone to give Yu Xiaotian a generous gift as an apology to Yu Xiaotian, he closed the door and never saw his old subordinates again.

From then on, he honestly became a wealthy man in his hometown and never cared about worldly affairs again.

After Yu Xiaotian accepted this generous gift from Zhang Jiace, he did not continue to pursue it. Instead, he asked the person who came to give the gift to send a message back to Zhang Jiace, telling Zhang Jiace that the matter was over, so that Zhang Jiace could rest assured, but such a thing was also

This was just this one time, and he definitely didn't want to see similar things happen in the future.

With this warning, Zhang Jiace certainly did not dare to jump out and make trouble with Yu Xiaotian. At this point, Yu Xiaotian had firmly secured his position as the current deputy general of Fujian, and no one dared to challenge his authority easily.

However, the first year of Chongzhen was destined to be an eventful year for Fujian. Although Fujian is located in the south and is far from the tragic situation in the north where there are successive droughts and thousands of miles of bare land, since the seventh year of the Apocalypse last year, the mainland of Fujian has been in a state of chaos.

A state of little rain.

Last summer, it was supposed to be the rainy season in Fujian. However, throughout the summer, the underground rain in Fujian was far less than in previous years. So in the autumn of the seventh year of Tianqi, many paddy fields could no longer grow rice. As a last resort, many

The land can only be abandoned.

The terrain of Fujian itself is divided into seven mountains, one water and two fields. A large population and a small amount of farmland have always been a problem faced by Fujian. Even in normal times with good weather, the food produced by Fujian is still not enough to feed the entire Fujian people, let alone in times of crisis.

There was a severe drought.

By the first year of Chongzhen's reign, the interior of Fujian was still experiencing little rainfall. Many small rivers gradually began to dry up, and even the water levels of many large rivers began to drop significantly.

In addition, the local farmland in Fujian has been seriously annexed, and the government has not thought about water conservancy construction for more than a hundred years. As a result, in the spring of the first year of Chongzhen, many places in Fujian had already begun to experience famine.

In the early days, officials throughout Fujian did not have enough understanding of this matter. In addition, there were large groups of bandits in Yanping Prefecture, Tingzhou Prefecture and other places. The main focus of the government was on eradicating these bandits.

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But at the end of summer, the summer grain that was supposed to be harvested, the land in many places suffered a serious reduction in production or even no harvest. Then the beginning of the Great Famine Year began to fully erupt.

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Almost all the eight prefectures and prefectures in Fujian had refugees fleeing famine. Unable to obtain food, a large number of victims had to leave their homes and embark on the road to escape famine. They flocked to various prefectures and counties, intending to

Near these cities, people received relief from the government or begged for some food, and barely survived this famine.

As a result, the situation in Fujian suddenly became tense. As more and more victims gathered near cities in various places, chaos gradually began to emerge.

After years of wars and continuous defeats, the Fujian officialdom has exhausted the vassal treasury and local government treasuries. In addition, the rats in the granaries in various places have continued to encroach on the deficit, so that the grain reserves in various places have also been greatly reduced, and they are already at a certain level.

A very dangerous level.

Although Xiong Wencan realized that something big might happen and ordered officials from various states and counties to find ways to provide relief to avoid chaos, on the whole, the governments in Fujian were unable to do anything about it. In addition to their own indifference towards these victims, they themselves

It is true that there is not much food available to provide relief to these victims.

Disaster victims continued to gather around cities in various places, and the government had to order the city gates to be closed, strictly prohibiting refugees fleeing from famine from entering the city. Although some local officials also thought of some ways to persuade the local wealthy gentry to spend part of their money and food to help

These disaster victims carried out relief, but there were very few gentry and dignitaries who really had any conscience and were willing to spend a lot of money and food to help the victims. Even if they really couldn't save face, they only gave out dozens of taels or at most a hundred taels of silver as a token of appreciation.

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Such donations are simply a drop in the bucket for thousands of victims in various places. In addition, the gentry maliciously hoards grain and continuously raises food prices, which makes the disaster even worse for the victims. Originally, it is rare in Fujian.

The phenomenon of people dying of starvation began to appear in large numbers in August, and corpses of people who died of starvation could be seen in the streets and alleys in many cities every day.

So the local government could only organize manpower to collect these hungry corpses on the streets every day, drag them out of the city and find a random place to bury them. Later, when the number of hungry corpses became more and more, they would just find a hole and throw them in. This made it easier for wild dogs to bury them.

Wandering around outside the city, you can often see wild dogs dragging human body fragments and fighting for food in the wild.

As the number of victims increased and they could no longer get food, some strong and courageous victims gradually began to gang up and engage in the business of killing people and stealing goods.

This situation intensified, and some bandit groups gradually formed. Like a snowball, the number of bandits in various parts of Fujian also increased, and they were out of control.

At first, some groups of thieves only ambush near some official roads or on the trails and do some trail-cutting business. However, as their numbers grew more and more, they became more and more courageous. In order to feed these people who stuttered, many of them

The thieves group began to have some thoughts about village forts.

By the end of August and the beginning of September, gangs of thieves appeared in various places and attacked the villages and forts of some wealthy people. Although the squires and wealthy people in these villages and towns and forts formed group training and recruited village warriors in an attempt to protect themselves, they

It was only able to deal with a small number of bandit refugees. Some bandit groups gradually gathered thousands or even thousands of people. In order to find food and survive, they began to attack some towns and villages regardless of the cost.

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