Xu Detian sneered and said, "Let me ask you, how much land do you have in your name?" How much land do you have for the military households whose land you have occupied? How did you get the land from them in the first place? Don't bully this thousand households young, I don't know about you rotten things, I have found out every one of you these days! ”

As soon as Xu Detian said this, these soldiers were so choked that they didn't speak for a while. Each of these people has at least more than 100 acres of land in their names, and as for how they bought it, I'm afraid even they don't dare to say that it's a fair deal. At this time, a voice in the crowd said, "They sold it to us voluntarily, one willing to sell and the other willing to buy." No one forced them to sell their land. But you are forcing us to retreat, what is the reason? ”

"That's it, we just won't retreat!" The crowd echoed.

Xu Detian didn't bother to reason with them, and said forcefully: "At the beginning, you used improper means to force the military households to sell their land to you, and today this thousand households want to uphold justice for these military households who sell land, and take back the land that should belong to them from your hands!" You have to retreat, and if you don't retreat, you have to retreat! ”

After that, it is time to return. At this time, when those soldiers saw that Xu Detian was going back to the office, they wanted to step forward to stop him. Jiang Yuanqing took a step last time and said: "Erdao dares to besiege the government with a murder weapon!" Are you trying to rebel? ”

"Xu Qianhu didn't agree to our request, so what!" Someone shouted such unbelievable words.

As soon as he said this, someone began to press forward again, Xu Detian walked to the door and waved his hand lightly. A dense burst of gunfire followed. The soldiers at the front door never expected these soldiers to actually shoot, and when they heard the gunshots, they were immediately frightened. Immediately turned around and ran, and the soldiers fired a few more shots at the fleeing ruffians, and several more fell in an instant.

The rest of the ruffians were so frightened that they didn't dare to move anymore, dropped their weapons, raised their hands and squatted on the ground and obediently surrendered.

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Yuanqing ordered the soldiers to escort the surrendered ruffians into the office and lock them up, and then led the soldiers straight to the homes of the three hundred households, and arrested the three instigated hundred households with lightning speed.

The next day, Xu Detian ordered all officers and soldiers to assemble at the school. It turned out that these soldiers who were lax in military discipline had already heard about yesterday's events, and no one dared to touch the mold in this limelight, and no one dared to be late, and they came to the school to gather in an orderly manner.

At midnight, a group of soldiers with spears on their backs escorted a dozen troublesome soldiers to the podium. Then Xu Detian walked up to the center of the stage, and after scanning the officials in the audience with his eyes, the audience immediately quieted down. Xu Detian looked at the quiet crowd below, coughed lightly and began to say: "All officers and soldiers, everyone listens!" Yesterday, starting from three days ago, some soldiers were instigated by Liu Jichang, Qin Ming, and Ding Guangjiu, three hundred households, to refuse to return the land that had been forcibly seized from ordinary military households, and made trouble. Unexpectedly, they made trouble again and again, and finally besieged the office of Ben Qianhu with weapons, threatening the personal safety of Ben Qianhu! ”

Speaking of this, there was a whisper in the audience, and some soldiers secretly said: "These people are too bold to dare to besiege the office!" ”

"Yes, besieging the bureau with weapons in hand is such an accomplice."

"These people usually set up gambling games in the barracks, cheat everyone's money, buy and sell outside the country, bully men and women, and do all the bad things."

"This kind of person should have been cleared out of our barracks a long time ago, and the atmosphere will bring them badly!"

"This time, they have encountered hard stubble, and they have to peel off the skin if they don't die."

"You don't know, more than half of them were killed on the spot yesterday!"

"Well deserved!"

Xu Detian, who was standing on the stage, could vaguely hear the discussions of the soldiers in the audience, and he felt more confident in his heart. Then he coughed heavily, and the audience immediately fell silent, and then he began to say again: "They are holding weapons in their hands and besieging their superiors, this is no longer an expression of their demands, but a rebellion!" Is it tolerable or unbearable! Under these circumstances, Moto Senho ordered the shooting, killing most of these rebels on the spot, and capturing all the rebel soldiers on the spot! ”

After interrogation, the prisoners confessed that the instigators behind the confessions were their superiors Liu Jichang, Qin Ming, and Ding Guangjiu. It was found out that these soldiers were not from military households at all, but some ruffians, hooligans, scoundrels, and second-rate people, and it was their superiors who recruited these people into the barracks to fill their numbers, and on weekdays, these people acted as thugs of their superiors, bullying ordinary soldiers, bullying ordinary military households under them, gathering people to gamble in the barracks and setting up bureaus to cheat money, and bullying men and women outside to do bad things. ”

Therefore, the officer decided: "At this point, he paused slightly, and the audience was silent, while the dozen or so detained soldiers also pricked up their ears to listen to the verdict against him." Then Xu Detian said: "An Ergou, Wang Dashui and other seventeen rebel soldiers were immediately shot!" Set an example! ”

Hearing this, some of the detained soldiers fainted in fright on the spot, and some directly peed their pants. There are also people who shout: "Lao Tzu is not convinced!" Xu Detian! You don't have to die well! ”

At that moment a soldier slammed the butt of a rifle at the shouting soldier, so that all the teeth of the man's mouth popped out, and he fainted with a tilt of his head.

The men were then dragged off the stage and walked to a corner of the school grounds, where a line of soldiers stood behind them and shot them in the back of the head. Because it was shot at close range, the heads of these people were like a watermelon that had been hit by a gun, bright red blood and milky white brains burst out in all directions, and the people died on the spot, motionless!

The three hundred households standing on the stage trembled with fear at this time, and lowered their heads one by one, no longer having the original spirit.

After the soldiers completed law enforcement and returned to the stage, Xu Detian continued: "Liu Jichang, Qin Ming, and Ding Guangjiu instigated and connived at their subordinates to make trouble, and they intended to rebel and should be beheaded according to the law. At this point, he paused deliberately.

When the three hundred households heard this, they were so frightened that they immediately knelt down and kowtowed like pounding garlic, and said again and again in their mouths: "My lord spare my life, my lord spare my life!" The little ones don't dare anymore! ”

Then Xu Detian continued: "Reading that the three of you have a good attitude of confessing your sins, and you have the intention of repenting, this thousand households decided to fight eighty military sticks each, and charge the army for three thousand miles!" Return all the land you have forcibited! ”

The three military households let out a long sigh of relief when they heard that they didn't have to die. Hurriedly said: "Thank you for not killing!" ”

Then the three of them were dragged off the stage by the soldiers and the military law was enforced.

At this time, the audience was still silent, half of the six hundred households went, and the other three hundred households stood in the team and were also nervous, the three of them had also done the work of forcibly occupying land, enslaving military households, and deducting military officials. At this time, they secretly congratulated themselves that they did not follow them to make trouble and escaped. I was thinking that I would retreat as soon as I went back, stay in the barracks honestly, and no longer go out to make trouble.

Looking at the officers and soldiers in the audience, Xu Detian knew that today's public sentence was announced, and the public execution had greatly deterred these usually lazy officials. Then he said to the audience: "All the officers and men have listened, and today I will announce a few more orders. ”

"First, all the officers of the institute from me down are strictly forbidden to withhold the soldiers' silver, and those who violate it will be beheaded! In the future, ordinary soldiers will receive three taels of silver per month, and then thousands of households will be distributed to everyone. ”

"Second, all officials will be subject to a major examination, and those who fail to pass the examination will be dismissed, and only after passing the examination can they continue to serve in the army. The assessment items are mainly physical fitness tests and peaceday performance surveys, and those old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers dare to apply to leave the unit if they feel that they can't do it, and those officers and soldiers who misbehave on weekdays will also be dismissed. ”

"Third, strictly enforce military discipline, and in the future, it will be found that there are officers and soldiers who fight in the barracks, pick quarrels and provoke trouble, and gather crowds to gamble. Those who buy and sell strongly, enslave subordinate military households at will, and bully men and women are heavily responsible for eighty military sticks, and they are distributed to the army! ”

"Fourth, strengthen training, the soldiers who have been left behind after the assessment must be trained every day, and the training content and training subjects will be known in the future, in short, I want to see a well-disciplined and neat team!"

"Fifth, re-recruit soldiers from military households to make up for the shortage, and the treatment of recruits is also three taels of silver!"

"Sixth, increase the training subjects of ships, and in the future, you will not only train on land, but also train on ships, and practice naval warfare in preparation for fighting against the Japanese invaders."

Xu Detian finished saying these six generals in one breath, and there was a whisper in the audience, which was really happy and worried. The soldier who had been in the barracks with a spear immediately knew that his good days were over. In the future, you will either be laid off, or you will have to train to death. There are also some young and older people, who have been disabled by injuries, and they also know that they are not suitable to stay in the barracks anymore, and it seems that the Lord of the Thousand Households is determined to purge the army and build a strong army. However, these veterans and wounded soldiers also feel relieved in their hearts, for many years, there has never been a general to purge the army, and then go on like this. These guards were really about the same as the peasants, and if a foreign enemy invaded, they would not be able to fight at all.

After this school announcement, Xu Detian immediately began to start the general assessment, and this time it was hard for these soldiers who usually did not train at all. Where did they undergo such high-intensity physical training, and before they had been training for two days, more than 20 people applied to quit. At the beginning, the old, weak, sick and disabled people who applied for withdrawal asked for withdrawal in total, and a total of eighty or ninety people asked to withdraw.

After another five days of training, another 80 or 90 people were dismissed. Later, after a conduct inspection, forty or fifty people were dismissed. In this way, after less than 10 days of evaluation, a total of 237 soldiers were dismissed, and nearly half of the more than 500 guards were eliminated at once. It's not a small effort!

At the same time, the recruitment of new recruits has also begun......