These people are all good at fighting among the green battalion generals of the Qing court. Hong Chengchou specially transferred them from all over the place, in order to make the best use of one person and make the best use of his talents.

After leaving the Economic Strategy Office, the generals said goodbye to each other, and then stepped on their horses and rushed to the military camps where their respective subordinates were stationed. After a long time, the army was dispatched again, rushing to Baoqing, Hengzhou, Guangxi and other places, some to assist in the defense, and some to help suppress. Of course, there are also many troops who continue to stay in Changsha City, waiting for Hong Chengchou's military orders at any time.

The armies stepped onto the official road and rushed to their respective destinations. In the past two years, under the vigorous control of the Changsha shogunate, the official roads leading from Changsha to the northern part of Huguang, to the Baoqing front, and to the northern part of Guangxi have all been renovated, and many ships have been built where there are waterways, which undoubtedly strengthened the mobility of the Qing army.

On both sides of the official road are green and vibrant ridges, where ears have begun to bear, and according to the experience of those farmers, they can be harvested next month.

The Qing army of the brigade passed by, and the people in the fields looked cowering, but they did not flee directly or hide.

The lake is wide and ripe, and the world is full, which has replaced Susong as the most important grain production area in the country, especially the commercial grain producing area, which plays a great role in the food stability of the whole country. Hong Chengchou was quite strict in governing the army, especially at present, Huguang's work to restore people's livelihood is not at all neglected than military tasks, and the punishment for the army's harassment of agricultural production has also made those people's fear of the Qing army inevitably less heavy.

The closer we get to the harvest, the more we have to work against time, and agricultural production is extremely time-sensitive. Since there would not be much danger here, those people did not care about the fear in their hearts, and continued to work, but those eyes were still looking at the marching team from time to time, revealing strong fear.

The army was far away, and the city of Changsha was still so orderly, as if nothing had happened. Changsha is a city, with business travelers from the south to the north, and the most important thing to mention is the Naji Palace.

The first vassal king of the Ji clan was the seventh son of Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, and Emperor Yingzong was the one who was captured by Tumubao and launched a rebellion to seize the gate and snatch the throne back from his own brother. However, the Jiwang Mansion in Changsha City was not built at that time, but it was the Tan Wangfu when Zhu Yuanzhang was the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, but the King of Tan and the subsequent King of Gu and King Xiang did not live here for a long time, and when the King of Ji became a domain, it became the Mansion of the King of Ji naturally.

Changsha is a city, built in the middle of the palace, covering an area of quite huge, about half of the scale. Later, this large-scale palace was killed by Zhang Xianzhong, but many streets and alleys named after the palace have been passed down to hundreds of years later. For example, Zuoju Street, such as the Red Pai Building, and then such as the Simen, abound in Changsha City.

Hong Chengchou's Southwest Economic Strategy Office, when selecting the site, used the four generals' mansions of the descendants of the Ji clan - those Zhenguo generals and auxiliary generals, and the old people in Changsha City know a place called Lao Zhaobi Street, which is the location of the Zhaobi wall of the Four Generals' Mansion.

In an inn not too far from the Southwest Economic Office, several gentry who had been running together recently sat in the back of the inn.

Everyone gathers here, but there are no dishes or drinks on the table, not even the simplest side dishes. Yes, it's just a pot of the most ordinary tea, which has long been cool, and there is no trace of heat rising. However, the gentry sitting here all seemed absent-minded, and the melancholy on their faces completely destroyed the elegance of tasting tea.

I don't know how long it took, but a gentleman who looked to be in his fifties strode in, and everyone heard the footsteps and hurriedly got up to greet them. The man who had just arrived made a silent gesture when he saw him, signaling them not to speak for the time being, until the group of people poured into the inner room.

"Mr. An, what do you say?"

When one person asked, everyone's eyes converged on the gentleman. Some of the Mr. An in the mouth of this crowd, surnamed Guo Zhenduxian, a native of Yiyang County, Changsha Prefecture, served as the governor of Jiangxi in the Chongzhen Dynasty, and went to the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the Yongli Dynasty appointed him as the secretary of the military department, but he failed to take office. However, his people in Huguang, especially in the south of Huguang, are first-class gentlemen and representatives of the scholar class.

Speaking of which, when Guo Duxian was an official in the Ministry of Officials, Hong Chengchou was imprisoned. He rescued him in many ways, tried his best to defend him, and asked for an exoneration. Hong Chengchou deeply perceives the grace of encounters and regards him as a teacher. After Hong Chengchou was cleared and reused, he made a special trip to Taohuajiang to pay a visit, and he was very respectful, but Guo Duxian sat in the hall and pretended to squint. So, Hong Chengchou asked in surprise, "When did you get eye disease", and Guo Duxian replied that I was blind when I knew you. Hong Chengluo repaid the kindness of the past acquaintance and gave Guo Duxian money, but Guo Duxian did not accept it. He also asked Guo Duxian's son to serve as the overseer, but Guo Duxian still refused.

Guo Duxian organized the anti-Qing Dynasty in Yuanzhou Mansion and other places in Jiangxi Province, and later participated in the organization of the anti-Qing and Ming restoration struggle of "3,000 Taoist priests in Dongting" in Fuqiu Mountain. Even now, he is the identity of a relic, extremely hateful to the Qing court, and even more shameless of Hong Chengchou. However, during this period, with the outbreak of a major case involving more than 300 gentry in Huguang, Guo Duxian could only go to Hong Chengchou again and again to ask for a meeting, but what he got was often just perfunctory.

The situation is stronger than people, and there is no way to do it. This time, Guo Duxian took advantage of the victory of the Qing army in the first battle of Changde, and wanted to take advantage of Hong Chengchou's good mood to talk about one or two items. As a result, Hong Chengchou released some good news, but he still said that the case would be tried publicly.

"What does this public trial mean?"

He only said that it was a public trial, and the others refused to say anything else. However, the old man felt that Guangdong was like that, and this case should not really be completed in such a big case involving hundreds of families. ”

Speaking of which, Guo Duxian himself didn't dare to guarantee this matter, let alone appease others: "Let's look at the results of the public trial a few days later, what we can do has been done to the extreme." The only thing left is to do our best and obey the destiny of heaven. ”

A sigh, in exchange for a sigh. This time, at this point, it is really as Guo Duxian said, and he is doing his best and obeying the destiny of heaven. However, there is tangible evidence for this big case, and so many people have been implicated so far, even if the final verdict is only on these people, and it does not further implicate other people, it is also a heavy blow to the Shilin of Huguang to the point of breaking bones and tendons, and I am afraid that it may not be able to slow down in the next few decades.

A few days later, the days that Hong Chengchou and Guo Duxian had mentioned, from the Zhenwu Palace to the east of the Jingluo Bureau, where the anti-Qing people had been imprisoned since the Qing Dynasty, a team of Jinglue Mansion soldiers escorted and detained there for nearly two years, and at least more than a year more than 300 Huguang gentry went to the Southwest Economic Strategy Office, and Hong Chengchou personally sat in the court to inquire about the case.

This case originated from the great victory of Hengyang in the sixth year of Yongli. The great victory in Hengyang, Li Dingguo's Formation beheaded Nikan, Megatron the world, and the Huguang gentry Jingcong, including Guo Duxian, Zhou Kangeng and Tao Runai, who had just been escorted into the lobby, went to the Nine Immortals Temple under the Zigai Peak of Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue to pay homage to Li Dingguo, and jointly discussed the matter of "the rebels chasing out the officials". Li Dingguo was later squeezed out by Sun Kewang and forced to go south, but these gentry were in great array, ready to wait for Li Dingguo's army to go north again and raise troops in response.

However, in February of the following year, Pan Zheng, a former Southern Ming official who knew about and participated in the matter, first reported to the Qing court and exposed the anti-Qing crimes of Tao Runai and others. As a result, Jin Tingxian, the governor of the Qing court, arrested the participants on a large scale and imprisoned them in Zhenwu Palace.

However, during the interrogation, Jin Tingxian did not find out anything about the "Hengshan meeting", and a large number of anti-Qing people, including Guo Duxian, the former governor of Jiangxi, Zhou Kangeng, the former waiter of the Ministry of Works, and Du Ji, the Daoji Division, Li Chunyang, the head of Fuqiu Mountain, Li Haobai, the head of the Nine Immortals Temple of Hengshan, and Tu Ruming, the leader of the Meishan barbarian army, were not discovered by the Qing court. Subsequently, after some discussion, it was decided that Guo Duxian, who was kind to Hong Chengchou, would take the lead in the rescue activities, while others continued to secretly contact and organize the anti-Qing struggle.

More than two years have passed since February of the seventh year of Yongli. Guo Duxian has come out several times, and he is finally about to have a landing. Since this was a public trial, he simply went here to watch the trial, and most of the gentry he saw had already been escorted down, leaving only those who needed to be arraigned in advance, including several gentry including Tao Runai.

From a distance, Tao Runai has obviously lost a lot of weight. Guo Duxian and Tao Runai are "born in the same room, grown up as classmates, and comrades at the same time in adversity", and they have always been mutually reversible. This time, it was obvious that the gay friend had suffered a lot in prison, and the fists in the crowd were clenched tightly. However, he is just a gentry, without fists and bravery, and can use his prestige to organize a rebel army against the Qing Dynasty, but the righteous army is a righteous army after all, and there is really no way to compare it with the regular army of the Qing army, not to mention that there is such a figure as Hong Chengchou here, which is also in vain.

The case of the Dongting incident is still related to Li Dingguo. However, Li Dingguo's army went south, opened up a world in Liangguang, and joined forces with Chen Kai of the Zheng Group. But for them, it is always far from being able to quench their thirst, and they can only use it as fish and meat under the sword of the Qing court.

The defendant was escorted to the lobby, and immediately afterward, Pan Zhengxian, as the plaintiff, was summoned up. Guo Duxian didn't know this person, otherwise he wouldn't have slipped through the net, but he saw it here, but he was a richly dressed and somewhat wealthy member with small steps, and then respectfully bowed to Hong Chengchou in the lobby.

"The villain Pan is knocking on the old man first."

There was a banging sound on his head, Guo Duxian saw that this person was living a comfortable life, and his resentment was even worse, and he was already stunned. However, this is where Hong Chengchou's government office is located, and he didn't dare to attack, so he had to grit his teeth in his heart for a while, and secretly thought that the situation would calm down in the future, and the ruthlessness of finding someone to cut this guy with a thousand knives was nothing more.

The plaintiff and the defendant went to court, and Hong Chengchou began to sit in court to question the case. The case began when Pan Zhengxian first accused Tao Runai and others of conspiring against him, and Pan Zhengxian took the lead in making accusations and told everything he knew.

This case has been tossed for more than two years, and Pan Zhengxian has long remembered it. In the meantime, once Hong Chengchou asked about it, Pan Zhengxian told those familiar words in one go, without the slightest stumble, as smooth as if he had been written down by Mr. dozens of times, and it seemed that he would never forget it.

Pan Zheng first told Hong Chengchou how he found out that Tao Runai and others were plotting to rebel. Here, Hong Chengchou was still listening, and there was naturally a document below to record Pan Zhengxian's confession. Subsequently, after Pan Zheng said it first, Hong Chengchou signaled Tao Runai and others to defend the matter. So, the two sides went back and forth in the lobby like this, and they talked until Hong Chengchou was a little sleepy, and it was over.

The rest of the defendants were mostly implicated by the Qing court government because of the relationship between Tao Runai and others, and Hong Chengchou asked Pan Zhengxian and Tao Runai and others, and said that he already had a number of the case. Immediately, he turned to Pan Zhengxian and asked a question that no one else had thought of.

"The plaintiff accused the defendant and others of plotting to rebel, and the ministry was aware of it. However, this ministry would like to ask the plaintiff, can there be written evidence to sue this matter? ”

"Huh?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone present was stunned. The Qing court guarded the Han for a long time, and in the matter of the Han people's opposition to the Qing Dynasty, it would have preferred to kill a thousand by mistake rather than let one go. For example, the literary prison, many of them are just chasing after the wind and shadows, nothing more than the words of Zhu, Hong, Yidi, and Barbarian, etc., which will kill the criminals and the relevant personnel who print, publish, distribute, and sell, and the lighter ones will also be assigned to Ningguta and armored people as slaves. Under the inducement of the Qing court, it has always been a good thing for local officials to regard their political achievements, and often there is a personal witness in place, what physical evidence is not physical evidence, who cares about this.

However, Hong Chengchou's experience is more real. But the problem is that these people are conspiring in tandem, Pan Zhengxian is just an outsider, and he doesn't even know about the crucial Hengshan meeting, let alone what physical evidence can be produced, it is nothing more than that these people he accused are too secretive, and with that confession, the case can be filed, or even closed, how can it be so troublesome.

During this time, Pan Zhengxian couldn't produce physical evidence, so Hong Chengchou turned to Tao Runai and others to explain what they had done very secretly. In this regard, Tao Runai and others couldn't see Hong Chengchou's thoughts, and hurriedly said that they were just normal exchanges between scholars to exchange knowledge, and at most they would write some poems and essays to help the fun. Speaking of this, Tao Runai even improvised a poem about the scenery, insisting that it was written at a certain meeting where Pan Zhengxian accused them of plotting, because he felt that the writing was not good, so he did not record it.

In this regard, Hong Chengchou expressed his convicted attitude, and insisted that it was reasonable for readers to exchange knowledge normally. Next, in Pan Zhengxian's increasingly frightened gaze, Hong Chengchou directly issued the verdict, which subverted everyone's imagination of the case in one fell swoop.

“…… Pan Zhengxian falsely accused others and beheaded and abandoned the city; The defendant should be released on the spot, and those who have been dismissed will be restored together! ”

Originally, it was already a confirmed case according to the convention, Hong Chengchou easily reversed it, and at the same time did not hesitate to execute the informant, such a thunderous method, everyone present was dumbfounded. This is by no means a normal case trial, but Hong Chengchou did just that, and said in court that he would report the trial results of this case to the Qing court in the capacity of Southwest Economic Strategy, making it clear that he wanted to guarantee these Huguang gentry who conspired against the Qing Dynasty.

When the trial of the case was over, when the defendants stepped forward to thank Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou first appeased him, and then encouraged these scholars to participate in the imperial examination of the Qing court, and to serve as officials in the Qing court. In the end, Hong Chengchou said that he would set up a banquet to entertain them and wash the dust for them, and his gesture of wooing them was undisguised.

"It just so happened that the official army defeated the Western Thieves in Changde and beheaded the Western Thieves General Lu Mingchen. By catching the wind and washing the dust, you can also celebrate this great victory for the imperial court, if the monarchs can leave some poems, those slanders against the monarchs can be self-defeating. ”