Life in Film and Television: Starting from the Jinshui Bridge

Chapter 306 Destroy the Fan Family Traitor Caravan
When the 500 people were stopped by Liu Meng's team, a middle-aged man at the head came out sweating profusely.

Looking at Liu Meng sitting on the horse, the middle-aged man cupped his hands and said:
"The general is polite, we are Shanxi Fan Yongdou, a businessman from the Fan family! I am Fan Yongjin, and I am traveling with two businessmen from the Wang family and the Jin family from Shanxi!
Please also, general, for the sake of the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi, don't embarrass me, let us go there! "

After finishing speaking, he took a burden from the attendant at the side and said:
"This is 1000 taels of silver. It is a gift from the Fan family to the general. I hope the general will accept it!"

After speaking, he took two steps and handed over the burden to a servant who brought it up to Liu Meng.

Liu Meng already hated businessmen who sold supplies to Houjin, but he didn't want to kill them all.

But when he heard that it was the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi, the unknown fire in Liu Meng's heart couldn't be suppressed, and he sprang up.

Anyone who has studied the history of the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi knows who they are.

The Eight Great Masters are the so-called eight families: Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Jiabin, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, and Huang Yunfa.

They started their business by reselling important materials such as iron ore, salt, and grain to Houjin.

This is not a big deal, the key is that they also sold information about Daming to the Houjin Tartars.

Indirectly caused the consequences of the massacre of the people of Ming Dynasty after Jin entered the pass.

After these eight families took refuge in Huang Taiji, they were named as the Eight Great Imperial Merchants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they also provided a lot of help for Hou Jin to completely occupy Daming.

Thinking about the countless massacres against Han people in the future, such as Yangzhou Shiyue, Jiading Three Massacres, etc., Liu Meng wished to swallow their flesh alive, and they would not be too much to cut into pieces.

If it wasn't so far away and too far away, Liu Meng would have taken the heart to lead people to slaughter the traitorous families of the Eight Great Families.

But he didn't expect that today, on a whim, when he ran to Houjin's territory, he would run into people from these families by chance.

Needless to say, Liu Meng will never let people from these families go.

Unceremoniously beckoning his subordinates to accept the ill-gotten gains, Liu Meng looked at the leader Fan Yongjin contemptuously, and said in a cold tone:

"What a Shanxi Fan family, what a Shanxi Eight Great Masters! Selling grain, iron ore, and gunpowder to Houjin, and providing information on the Ming Dynasty to the Tartars, indirectly killed countless Han people in me!

How many of the old and weak women and children killed by the Tartars were indirectly killed by you?Have you ever calculated it? "

After finishing speaking, Liu Meng's eyes became sharp, and he stared at Fan Yongjin and asked loudly:

"I'm curious! In the dead of night, can you sleep peacefully? Does your conscience really not hurt?"

Hearing Liu Meng's questioning words, Fan Yongjin's face darkened suddenly, and he said in his heart:
Did this general take the wrong medicine?Are there still fewer people who sell goods to Houjin?Why, just dragging my Fan family?Isn't my Fan family just to make some money?Who did you provoke?

Yes, in his mind, this is a simple business behavior, nothing more than buying needs.

But he didn't know, without the eight great families providing Houjin with a large amount of iron ore and gunpowder, how could Houjin get so many armored weapons to attack Daming?

Without the information they provided, how could it be so easy for Hou Jin to break through cities one after another?

After the questioning, Liu Meng also seemed to have vented his anger. He glanced at them in disgust. These 500 people who had already grasped their weapons and were ready to fight waved their hands to Kong Youde beside him and said:
"Kill them all! A group of national thieves who betray their country and seek glory should not live in this world and enjoy the sunshine!"

Kong Youde has long been impatient, and he also hates these people.

My own country lacks these things, and they still sell them to later gold. Isn’t this what traitors and traitors are?
Just kill them if you meet them, so why bother talking nonsense with them.

Hearing Liu Meng's order to kill, Kong Youde immediately nodded excitedly and waved his hand.

A thousand cavalry spread out and surrounded 500 people in the middle.

Five hundred Minnie riflemen stood up neatly under the whistle of the leader commander, loaded their bullets, raised their guns, and took aim.

The 500 members of the Fan family all changed their expressions when the cavalry moved. Those who were timid would throw away their weapons and surrender, and those who were more aggressive would rush forward, and even if they were desperate, they would drag a back.

There is no way, the opponent has 5000 people, surrounded by a thousand cavalry, and can't escape if they want to run, so they have to fight to the death.

Fan Yongjin was surrounded by several loyal servants, sweating on his brow, and said loudly:
"General, you have to think about it clearly. Have you ever thought about the consequences of embarrassing me with the Eight Great Families of Shanxi? Don't..."

Just halfway through the conversation, a hasty whistle sounded, followed by dense "crack bang bang" gunshots.

Fan Yongjin saw a scene that made him terrified and inexplicable. Those soldiers standing in the front, usually brave and capable of fighting three or four times, didn't even have a chance to fight back.

Even just after rushing a few steps, he was knocked to the ground by the firecracker.

Not to mention that they were wearing iron armor, they were just like paper, 50 meters away, they were beaten to death by the firecrackers on the ground.

Seeing this scene, Fan Yongjin immediately thought of a legend about the third year of Chongzhen, about the time when Hou Jin entered the customs.

The one who wiped out tens of thousands of Tartar troops, Liu Meng of Dongjiang Town, just wiped out the Tartar heavy infantry in this way.

Thinking of Fan Yongjin here, his face turned pale, and he shouted anxiously:
"Ah! I see, you are Dong Jiang Liu Meng, that..."

It's a pity that only a few people around him heard his cry, no matter how loud his voice was, it was drowned in the dense sound of Minie rifles and the screams of the dying soldiers.

Before he could finish speaking, he was hit in the chest by a miniature bullet.

Fan Yongjin only felt a sharp pain in his chest, and couldn't help but fell on his back to the ground.

His chest was bright red, which quickly soaked the clothes on his chest, and his consciousness gradually began to blur.

At this moment, before his eyes, he seemed to see those people who were massacred by the Tartars, like him, helplessly looking up at the sky above their heads.

He whispered his last words:

"Patriarch... Maybe, we did something wrong!"

Yes, he seemed to have realized one thing before he died. These Dongjiang soldiers would never let the Fan family and the other seven families who smuggled Tartars go.

The Eight Great Families of Shanxi may be ruined by this Liu Meng. Whether the Eight Great Families can continue is a question, and he regrets it!

Unfortunately, he is destined not to see this scene, Liu Meng will definitely find the Eight Great Families and uproot them later.

500 people, just persisted for less than 10 minutes, before they were all slaughtered.

Even those who wanted to escape were overtaken and killed by the surrounding cavalry.

Liu Meng watched the 500 people being killed expressionlessly, and simply ordered that a pit be dug and buried.

(End of this chapter)