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Chapter 48: Using stones as money to deceive soldiers

Lee Zhengming looked at the Qianzheng General of the Ming army, Lee Zhengren and said, "How is it? Are all brothers reliable?" Lee Zhengren replied, "Brother, don't worry! Brothers are very reliable!"

Li Zhengming nodded and smiled. Li Zhengren was the general of the thousand general here, and he also came to lurk a year ago. Huang Taiji sent many Ming army surrendered troops or Eight Banners children who were well aware of the Han affairs into the Ming army for future use, or incite the Ming army, or obtain information from the Ming army.

Now Huang Taiji has used this team, and he is determined to get rid of Zhang Biwu, so he ordered the lurking Li Zhengming and the surrendered general Li Jiyou and Li Weiguan to do this, and at the same time he took down their families as hostages. He also repeatedly promised that as long as they successfully completed the task, they would get high-ranking officials and generous salaries.

Like this, how could San Li not be crazy? Chongzhen happened to issue a quit smoking order, giving them a justification, and inciting two thousand people to mutiny on the grounds of owing wages for half a year.

Li Zhengming ordered them: "As soon as Zhang Biwu comes, he will be killed immediately! Do you know?" Li Jiyou, Li Weiguan, and Li Zhengren nodded, and they said: "Yes! Everything follows the general's arrangement!"

Li Zhengming stood on the city tower, looking into the distance, thinking: "Okay! Great! Zhang Biwu, come quickly! You can kill me immediately when you come!" He was holding the portrait of Zhang Biwu, because in order to get rid of Zhang Biwu, Huang Taiji had already distributed the portrait of Zhang Biwu to them.

The warriors in the city heard that if they could kill Zhang Biwu, the person they killed would get 100 taels of silver! This was a very great encouragement for warriors, and they wanted to come to their side as soon as possible.

Zhang Biwu didn't know that he would lose his head as soon as he went to Funing County to pacify the rebels. But there was one thing that when Zhang Biwu went there, he was thinking about how to quell the rebellion.

Zhang Biwu came to Funing County. He heard that he had rebeled and occupied Funing County, and even the magistrate was captured. Now the entire Funing County is panic.

Zhang Biwu couldn't help but remember that Wang Chengen came to visit him in person and told him to be careful when he went there. Originally, Gao Qiqian wanted to send the eunuch in the headquarters to follow Zhang Biwu and wanted to urge Zhang Biwu to enter the city earlier, but because of Wang Chengen's secret help, Gao Qiqian wanted to install his own talents alone but failed.

But now Gao Qiqian's eunuch Huang is constantly urging Zhang Biwu to let Zhang Biwu enter the city as soon as possible.

Huang Qi looked at Zhang Biwu and asked, "Biwu, are we going to the city? That dog eunuch is so anxious!" Zhang Biwu shook his head and said, "No hurry! You hire someone to put a cart of cars and a dozen cars of silver under the city!"

Huang Qiqi asked, "Are you ten or so cars? Are you sure? How can we have so much? The money given by the emperor can be pushed with a wheelbarrow!"

"Ha!" Zhang Biwu smiled and said, "We don't have so much money, but we can't say we don't have so many cars? There are not so many boxes, there are not so many wheelbarrows to buy! If you are afraid of not filling it, it's easy to do! There are so many stones everywhere, can you fill the boxes?"

When Huang Qi heard this, he frowned and said, "Biwu, it's not good to deceive the soldiers like this! If they know that there is no such money, they will become popular! They will kill us! Even if we didn't enter the city this time, but we cannot calm the mutiny, then we will not be able to explain to the emperor. Our lives will not be guaranteed!"

Zhang Biwu smiled and nodded repeatedly. He knew that this industry would not be smooth sailing, but would also take his life into it! But at this point, he could only take one step at a time.

When Zhang Biwu returned, Eunuch Huang kept urging him again. Only Xiao Liuzi sent by Wang Chengen was still talking to Zhang Biwu, saying that he wanted to hear what Zhang Biwu thought.

However, Eunuch Huang repeatedly forced Zhang Biwu to quickly go to Funing County to resolve the disaster of the mutiny.

Zhang Biwu cunningly claimed that he had a fever and could not move. He even asked Huang Qi to use money to hire a doctor, who pretended to be very sick and could only barely go to Funing County after a day or two.

Eunuch Huang was helpless, so he had to wait for another day or two. What he was afraid of was that once Wu Sangui's troops arrived in one or two days, Zhang Biwu could use Wu Sangui to threaten more than 2,000 mutiny soldiers, and maybe he would succeed.

Eunuch Huang sneered, and he seemed to see that Gao Qiqian also sent someone among Wu Sangui's men. He could send a letter to Wu Gui and ask Wu Sangui's men to be a little late. When Zhang Biwu entered Funing County, Wu Sangui rose up and killed all two thousand people in the name of killing the envoys of the court.

In fact, Zhang Biwu used the past two days to reconnaise the situation in Funing City. Although Zhang Biwu first sent Yao Dongzhao a letter before setting off, asking Yao Dongzhao to help find out the inside story of the mutiny. It would be even better if he could understand it. Yao Dongzhao sent someone to investigate, but it only took time for Zhang Biwu to delay this period of time! He also had to consider how to quell the mutiny.

Two days later, Eunuch Huang repeatedly urged Zhang Biwu, not wanting Zhang Biwu to stay any longer, and asked him to enter Funing County quickly to quell the mutiny.

Zhang Biwu refused, and he didn't say much. He first asked someone to transport ten cars to the city. When the warriors on the city saw that ten wheelbarrows were pushed.

Three hundred warriors gathered on the city. The warriors pointed at the ten wheelbarrows under the city and said, "What is below? Is it silver?"

Some people also said, "If it's money, it's going to be good! Haha!" Some people also said excitedly, "Good, look at the boxes on these ten wheelbarrows that are filled with money, then all our owed wages will be paid, and there will be an extra part of them! That would be great!"

Some people also said: "If the court really pays more than just all of our owed wages and gives us the interest, that would be great! I will definitely do my best to serve the court in war!"

Someone was also happy when he heard this: "Yes! Not only can we get back our owed wages but also get interest. Such a court must be a good court! It's not in vain that we are holding our heads to fight for the court!"

Of course, there are also people who are sensible and pouring cold water on them: "Everyone said, how could the court give us so much money at once? If we can pay our full amount of money, we will be able to pay Amitabha Buddha! Is there too much? Let's raise the pillow before talking about it!"

Zhang Biwu saw the soldiers talking excitedly under the city. He smiled and smiled. He didn't have to talk much. He just needed someone to open the box and let the soldiers see the things in the box, so the soldiers would be very happy.

The boxes on the ten wheelbarrows were all opened, and they were covered with white silver, shining with dazzling light. Whenever they saw them, everyone's eyes were shining! Silver! It's really silver!

Eunuch Huang was surprised. He didn't dare to get close. He was far away from Zhang Biwu and the city.

He looked at the white silver and thought, "Old Yang Ge was ordered by Eunuch Gao, and only gave Zhang Biwu 40,000 taels of silver. Where did he get the silver that filled thirty boxes? If the thirty boxes were full of silver, there would be one million taels! Could it be that Zhang Biwu really has so much money to pay millions of dollars to reward the war? No! This is absolutely impossible! So where did Zhang Biwu's silver come from? Could it be that there is a stone inside!"

When Eunuch Huang thought of this, he couldn't help but burst into a cold sweat! As long as the transformers proved that they were stones, they would get angry and Zhang Biwu would be dead! This Zhang Biwu looks quite smart, but why is he so stupid now? Digging his own grave!

"Wow!!" The warriors in the city were all surprised. They were all stunned. "Silver! White silver!" The warriors were all excited and shouted: "The court has sent us silver! Brothers! Silver!"

Someone said again: "Good! Look at this situation, the silver for these ten wheelbarrows is at least hundreds of thousands or even millions of taels! I have never seen so much silver before! Wow! I am so greedy!"

Li Zhengming was surprised when he saw this and thought to himself: "Strange! Is the Ming court really willing to take out hundreds of thousands of taels to appease the rebels? I think it's already the best for the Ming court to take out 200,000 taels! This is almost impossible! Imagine that the one who came to appease this time can bring 100,000 taels of silver. But now it takes hundreds of thousands of taels! How is this possible?"

"Chongzhen must have thought that as long as a mutiny is in full swing, there will be more mutiny matters in the future. It will reach an uncontrollable level! Chongzhen will definitely not give enough, only a part of the owed salary! An emperor like him who wants face will be even more so! But now..." Li Zhengming was a little confused. Why could Zhang Biwu bring so much money?

Li Jiyou and Li Weiguan looked at each other. If Zhang Biwu and the others really brought enough money and had more arrears, these changers would not obey their commands. Instead, they obeyed Zhang Biwu's commands. It would be difficult for them to kill Zhang Biwu. Li Zhengren looked at Li Zhengming again, wondering what decision the clan brother had.

What Li Zhengming thought was that he would attack immediately and shoot Zhang Biwu. As long as Zhang Biwu died, these two thousand people would kill Chongzhen's envoys, and they would only obey Li Zhengming. Li Zhengming could quickly bring them to the Qing Dynasty.

Soldiers were already ambushing at the low wall. They were facing Zhang Biwu with bows and arrows, preparing to shoot Zhang Biwu, but the distance was a little farther away. They were afraid that they would not be able to shoot. They just waited for Zhang Biwu to take a few more steps forward and were sure. Suddenly, the arrows were fired at once, shooting Zhang Biwu.
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