Pieces of door panels and paving boards were quickly stacked by the recruits on the dam made of straw bags, so that people and artillery could quickly pass through without worrying about getting stuck in muddy water.

Six or seven six-pounder guns and five large Buddha planes were frantically pouring shells on the river bank towards the city, and the effect of the shooting had already been seen, and the solid bullets were used to deal with this kind of strong walled wall, and the effect was very average, so Mai Tiansheng adopted another artillery battle tactic.

Artillery suppression, creating a window of time for infantry to ascend the city!

More than a dozen long ladders made of bamboo were carried across the moat by the soldiers with shouts, and when one reached the opposite bank, it was poked to the ground by the anxious soldiers, and several spearmen fell forward with their funeral guns against the bamboo ladders.

"Peng!"

With a muffled sound, the ladder trembled a few times and rested on the wall.

"Up!"

A few sword and shield soldiers stepped up the ladder. Under the ladder, a group of firecrackers held firearms, vigilantly searching for possible resistance at the head of the city.

Fortunately, no one was seen trying to stop them before the first sword and shield soldier reached the top of the city.

"Kill!" The sword and shield soldier jumped on the wall, holding a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, covering his head with a shield, and quickly patrolled around the battlements around the ladder, and found no one pounced on him for hand-to-hand combat.

A second man also appeared at the head of the city.

Immediately afterward, the third man jumped to the top of the city, which was littered with broken bricks, rocks, and corpses. The three of them formed a small formation and prepared on the city wall to meet the counterattack of Jiqing Wai.

"Sue Sù Mai was born, concentrate artillery fire on his iron gate!"

Chen Tianhua, who has been watching the battle in the flag array. He could see clearly from the monoculars, and calmly commanded the commander beside him.

After getting the new military order, Mai Tiansheng naturally did not dare to slack off, and transferred four twelve-pounder guns to the position facing the iron gate of Jiqingwei to strengthen the firepower here.

After a round of artillery fire, the drawbridge was shattered by shells.

The gate of Jiqingwei was half opened!

"Grandpa, it's no good, the iron gate can't hold it there! There is also a Nanzhong army at the head of the city, you can go quickly......"

Deng Qiyi held a sword in his hand. The sword was still ticking and beading blood downward. Limped into the ancestral hall, the cuirass and robe of the Nanzhong Army that he had always been proud of were covered with bloodstains, and he was terrified by the blood of the Nanzhong Army, who did not know whether it was his own or the blood of the Nanzhong Army. The helmet on his head was knocked off by a passing shotgun, which broke his bun. The afterglow of the shotgun burned his hair out. There was a disgusting smell of burnt hair. He was also stabbed in the right leg with a mourning gun. Fortunately, the force was not enough, otherwise the shot would have been enough to kill him in the leg.

"The people in the fence were in turmoil, and the people on the walls were scattered. The dog thieves of the Southern Barbarians kept rushing in, Ah Gong, if you don't leave, it's too late! ”

In one day, Deng Yuanxun was already old and haggard, and he did not look like a human form.

"Go, where are you going? I said in the morning, this dress is my shroud, and I will wear it to my ancestors and ancestors! Let's go! Remember to leave a bloodline for the Deng family! Don't let us be cut off from incense and blood! ”

After speaking, he walked towards the depths of the ancestral hall without looking back, where the tablets of the ancestors of the Deng family were enshrined.

"Ah Gong!"

Deng Qi knelt on the ground, unable to cry.

The chain of iron gates, which were once the pride of the residents of Jiqing Wai, lost its former solidity under the key call of artillery fire, and after a loud bang, it fell to the ground.

"My lord, the fence is broken!"

The commander excitedly whispered to Chen Tianhua, who was sleeping on the rattan chair.

"I see. Let the battalions rush in quickly and control the situation. Cooperate with the investigation room and the statistics room to dig up the old roots of the Deng family for me! ”

The news that Jiqingwei had been broken by the South China Army in two days and one night, under the deliberate spread of the South China Army troops monitoring the surrounding villages, spread like lightning to every village on the south bank of the Shenzhen River, and all the people were stunned by this dazzling news.

Fearing that he would become the next target of the South Central Army, and in the face of the half-soft and half-hard demands of the South Central Army outside the wall, the leaders of the surrounding villages everywhere had to take the young people in the village to Jiqingwei to participate in the on-site meeting organized by the South Central Army.

The gate of Jiqing Wai was wide open to welcome this group of guests who came from all directions. Yes, it's a bit of a rush, it's driven here.

In the open space in front of the enclosure, the Nanzhong army set up a wooden platform with wooden planks, and dozens of wooden stakes were buried deep in the soil under the stage, and the leader of a group of Jiqingwei captives led by Deng Qi was tied to the wooden stakes. And Deng Yuanxun, who hanged himself, was also carried by someone, swept with reeds, and put aside. The village chiefs who were driven from the surrounding villages and the small patriarchs of a certain house were politely and politely settled in the tent erected on the side of the platform by the Nanzhong Army, looking at the sharp Nanzhong Army with sharp swords and guns, and the high-spirited figures on weekdays became disgraced and completely devoid of their former majesty: now they all have an idea, as long as they can save their lives, it is worth the humiliation of the crotch! Otherwise, the house in the enclosure, the gold and silver jewelry in the house, as well as the flower-like little wives and big girls in the house, I don't know which guy is going to squirm under the crotch!

And to the surprise and excitement of the people from all over the world who came to see the excitement, in addition to those big men who were high in the past have become pigs and sheep tied to pillars and may be slaughtered at any time, it is the soldiers of the South and Central Army who have picked up and transported all kinds of property, food, clothes, and cloth from the enclosure, and they are dazzled and piled up there in front of the platform, as if they are a pile of insignificant waste.

"Fellow villagers, at the beginning of the rise of our Nanzhong Army, I came with the purpose of hanging the people and fighting crimes and doing the right thing for heaven. What the whole army wishes is that the people of the world will be safe and well-fed, punish the evil and promote the good, and eradicate the local tyrants and inferior gentry. ”

Chen Tianhua stood on the stage and said something official. I can hear that the group of people watching the excitement below are drowsy, and this kind of saying is that the bandits and bullies in the countryside will also say, what kind of robbery is to rob the rich and help the poor, and in the end, it is not false to rob the rich and help the poor, but it is just robbing the rich and helping themselves.

"This time to break through the siege of Jiqing, our army is not for property, in order to win the trust of the people, our army decided. The following supplies will be delivered. Chen Tianhua's words turned sharply, and people felt that the tone was wrong, and they opened their eyes wide to listen to his words.

"5,000 sets of fine satin clothes and more than 800 fur clothes were seized. More than 70,000 sets of various color single clothes. More than 50,000 stone of grain. Among them, there are more than 20,000 stone of rice, 20,000 stone of rice, and the rest are all wheat. There are also more than 10,000 pieces of cloth of various colors. 2,000 citations of good salt. ”

The barrage of numbers fascinates people. In the past, where did people go to hear so many financial figures, even if the financial goods behind these numbers were not their own, it was good to listen to them and enjoy it.

"All these belongings were scavenged from everyone in the Deng clan under various names. This army thinks that God has the virtue of a good life, and cannot bear to compete with the people for profit, and now decides to return all the floating wealth confiscated from the Deng family to the members of the Deng clan, one for each person, and later go to our village to go through the household registration, so that they can receive their own property according to the distribution rules! ”

As soon as the words fell, there was a bang, and the whole open space was like a cannon popping out of the chamber, and the air suddenly became warm, and the people kept asking each other, lest they had heard it wrong. After confirming the news to each other, the eyes of the people began to become crazy!

"If you want to get something, come here to register your household registration!"

At the other end of the field, a town mayor of the Nanzhong Army stood on a table of eight immortals copied from Jiqing Wai, holding a copper trumpet in his hand, and announced loudly there.

Suddenly, thousands of young people, including some women in the prime of life, rushed in this direction like crazy. If it weren't for the fact that there was a sentry at the table to maintain order, and the spears, knives, and firearms in their hands made the villagers feel uncontrollably angry, they would have torn the mayor to pieces.

This elaborately designed scene fell into the eyes of the patriarchs of the four major families, as well as the heads of the nearby walled villages.

"Awesome! These grains, clothes, cloth, salt, and the so-called floating wealth are all the accumulation of Deng Yuanxun's lineage for decades and hundreds of years, and now the Nanzhong Army has divided them all out in a word, and used the accumulation of the Deng family to buy and win over the members of the Deng family, which is a business that has nothing to do! It's just that this businessless business is a thorough conspiracy, which makes people unguardable. If the same trick is used in my family, will the group of unsuccessful people in my family be so positive? The patriarch of the Peng family watched the two long dragons meandering in line on the threshing floor in front of Jiqing in the past to share the floating wealth, and he couldn't help but be entangled.

Once again, the Devil's Law has been verified, there is no worst, only worse!

Two staff members of the investigation room rushed out of the enclosure and handed Chen Tianhua a basket full of documents, contracts, account books, and other things.

"My lord! We copied this thing from Deng Yuanxun's house! A staff member took out an account book made of mulberry paper in the basket and handed it to Chen Tianhua as if he had done it.

Most of these are the Deng family's land deeds, land deeds, house deeds and other documents, as well as the deed of sale for the purchase of maids and servants, various correspondence documents, contracts, and so on. Among them are many usury papers.

The crowd that was still boiling just now, like a bucket of ice water poured into boiling water, suddenly calmed down, and they looked at this big man of the Nanzhong Army with blank eyes, hoping to wait for good news from his mouth.

"Fellow villagers, fathers! This is the account book that we have seized from Mrs. Deng, who may be the relative elder of many people present, from his bedroom, the land deed, the title deed, the house deed, the documents of the person, the documents of sale, etc., do you want to know how much property he has? How did these properties come about?! ”

If it is said that people's feelings just now are boiling, then when Chen Tianhua finished reading the general outline of the property in Deng Yuanxun's name, the villagers present, especially the members of the Deng clan, were already burning!

"There are more than 8,000 acres of paddy fields, 10,400 acres of mountains and forests, four houses in the provincial and county seats, more than 300 market houses, seven shops, 11 fishing boats, and 6 merchant ships."

These simple numbers not only stunned the ordinary people, but also the hall masters and village chiefs of those various branches. and the patriarchs of the other four families, including Hou Wenpeng, were also dumbfounded.

"This old man is really a good hand at collecting money! Quietly, there are so many real estate and shops! ”

Seeing that the love of the people in the venue was almost over, Chen Tianhua motioned to bring Deng Qi and the others to the stage. He was going to question him in public.

"Deng Qishao, it's been a long time! I ask you, is this ledger real? ”

Deng Qi faced Chen Tianhua's questioning, depressed, he no longer had the spirit and pride to scold Fang Xuan, he just wanted how to survive.

Raised his head and glanced at the familiar cover and handwriting. He nodded. "Yes, it's my grandfather's handwriting."

"Guys, do you want to know how Deng Yuanxun amassed a lot of wealth?!"

There were waves in the crowd, lest people who could not hear clearly rush forward. Soldiers of the South Chinese Army who maintain order around the site and in front of the wooden platform. Hurriedly stopped the people with spears. Just in case.

"The autumn sacrifice of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the color archway, and the hiring of musicians. To repair the ancestral hall and make ritual vessels, a total of 473 taels and 44 dollars of silver were spent. The reimbursement cost one thousand seven hundred fifty-six twenty-eight coins. ”

"Chongzhen's first autumn sacrifice, tie the color archway, hire musicians, a total of 213 24 dollars of silver, and 1,068 25 dollars of silver were spent on accounting. Note: The archway used in the first year of the Apocalypse was re-tied after renovation, so it was saved. ”

I see! It's no wonder that we always feel that the scene of the sacrifice does not match the cost of the sacrifice, but we dare not ask! At this moment, the ordinary villagers and those hall masters all turned their resentful eyes on Deng Yuanxun who was lying in the reed mat.

"In addition, there are also matters such as misappropriating the harvest of the sacrificial fields to which the ancestral hall belongs, buying land in the provincial capital to build market houses, building houses, and marrying foreign houses."

These were just fires that lit piles of firewood, and when Chen Tianhua read out the rest aloud, people were already pouring a few more barrels of oil on the small flames.

The content is probably about how much money was spent to buy a certain amount of land from someone on a certain year, month, and day, and how much money was spent to buy a woman from someone.

The location and price of the land purchased in the account book, the name of the seller who bought the woman, and the name of the woman were all familiar places and acquaintances of the people present. The price at which the land is bought and sold. It is obviously much lower than the market price, and at a glance it can be seen that it is a forced buying and selling activity carried out under the so-called fig leaf that can only be sold to the people of the tribe first. The time of these accounts lasted from the Wanli period to half a month ago, and it was thirty years before and after. It just coincides with Deng Yuanxun's long tenure as a clan!

So that's it!

People's love turned into a fire, and Hou Wenpeng and other family elders in the shed on the side were shocked, and they had done similar things, but Cheng Dù was different. The patriarch of the Hou family and the patriarch of the Peng family glanced at each other, and they both found that each other's faces were full of fear.

This kind of practice is much more powerful than killing oneself with a knife and one shot on the battlefield, and in that way of death, the clansmen will sacrifice and miss themselves. In the history of the family, it will also leave its own good name. Such a way of dying will only be scolded by the clansmen for generations. Forever a lonely ghost, without incense offerings.

The fact that the veil of the clan was revealed, and the bloody wounds were exposed in broad daylight, which was even more shocking.

"That year, my family's field and Deng Qi's land were borderlined, and the boundary monument was like having legs, and he ran to my house every month, I went to reason with him, and he scolded me for not saying anything, and he wanted to sue me for falsehood! Later, Mrs. Deng came out to mediate and sold my family's land to Deng Qi at a discount according to the number of acres on the title deed! Just now, the land was under the name of Old Man Deng, and it turned out that they were a nest of snakes and rats! ”

"Deng Qi! You speak! That year, a few of you dragged my family boy to eat and gamble together, my family lost money, and in the last hurry, my daughter-in-law was escorted out, is it a bureau set up by you? forced my boy to go away to the South Seas, and now I don't know if I live or die! You sue me, was my daughter-in-law sold to a brothel by you?! ”

It was as if the underground magma was gushing out of the cracks, and people's anger was directed at these descendants of the Deng family.

Not only did the ordinary villagers scold and scold them, but even some characters such as the village chief or the small branch hall master who had seen them in the past called each other brothers and sisters also rushed to the front and vented their grievances on their faces and bodies for many years.

"That year, you wanted 50 men from my family, but my family only counted 37 men with nursing dolls, and for this, you asked me for 200 yuan, saying that it was for other people's soup money! But no one was hurt that time! You say, where did you get my money?! ”

The soldiers of the Nanzhong Army did not stop the accusations, scoldings and beatings that happened among the Deng clansmen, on the contrary, they saw those angry villagers rushing to the wooden pillars, and immediately flashed to the side, letting the villagers beat and scold, and only stepped forward to stop them when they saw that someone was about to be killed.

"Please make the decision for us!"

After a while, the Deng clan gradually woke up from their state of excitement, knelt down in front of the wooden platform, and begged the Nanzhong Army to punish this group of guys who sucked the flesh and blood of their own clan.

The results of that day's processing were sent to Hue by Chen Tianhua by speedboat and presented to Shouhan's desk.

"First, the properties and fields belonging to the ancestral hall of the Deng family will be sold by the Nanzhong Army after discounting, and the proceeds will be equally distributed to the men, women and children in the clan, and everyone who registers on the household registration of the Nanzhong Army will have a copy."

"Second, the villages to which the Deng family belongs, and the patriarch and village chief no longer have the right to dispose of the clansmen, but only have the responsibility of organizing sacrifices to their ancestors. The security of the village and other matters shall be completed by the village chief appointed by the Nanzhong Army. ”

"Third, Deng Yuanxun and his direct descendants organized armed forces against the Nanzhong Army, and they were beheaded all over the house. The land in the name of the individual has evidence to prove that it was obtained by the owner by cunning and plundering, and it is returned to the owner to cultivate. ”

Another result occurred after Deng Yuanxun, Deng Qi and others were beheaded.

When more than 200 sword and shield soldiers waved their long knives, cut off the heads of Deng Yuanxun and others, and raised them high, the patriarchs of the Hou family, the Wen family and other families could no longer sit still. They came to Chen Tianhua like lost dogs.

"I beg the adults to spare the lives of the villains! As long as you don't kill the head of the villain, you will do it according to the adults and the decrees and military orders of the Southern Chinese Army! (To be continued......)