Compared with Quanzhou, a small city with less than 20,000 households and a population of less than 70,000, the population of Liuzhou is too large.

According to statistics in the last years of Wanli, the population of Guangxi was nearly 4 million, of which 100,000 were registered ethnic minorities and about 150,000 were unregistered.

These ethnic minorities also live mainly in the western part of Guangxi, with the vast majority of Han Chinese in central cities such as Liuzhou.

And Liuzhou is also one of the eleven guards and nineteen Zhili thousand households in the whole territory of Guangxi, for Liuzhou Wei, there are tens of thousands of military households in the city, and there are 100,000 displaced people in the south of the Yangtze River.

In such a big city, any kind of big event will quickly spread like ripples, and it is difficult to go unnoticed.

One of the biggest news in recent times was made by the emperor himself, and some people said that His Majesty the Emperor had convulsions, just because an ordinary person who fled from Quanzhou was humiliated by an outsider, and His Majesty the Emperor almost plowed the entire city of Liuzhou.

No, it is to plow the entire officialdom of Guangxi.

Tianlang has arrested a lot of officials these days, and he is waiting for He Tengjiao to lead his troops into the city on this day to behead forty-eight officials above the seventh rank and thirty-six officials above the fifth grade to greet He Tengjiao and his triumphant army.

couldn't help but He Tengjiao, even Gao Bizheng, Hao Yongzhong, Hou He and Chen Youlong were stunned by this formation.

Some people can't help but ask, what is the emperor going to do, is he crazy?

In private, they are also discussing:

The Qing army is still in Huguang, but the emperor wants to kill so many ministers? This is creating civil strife and cutting off one's own arm!

Even if this unobtrusive emperor occasionally wants to play with a child's temper, it doesn't take him to kill so many ministers at once, these are the seeds of reading.

On the newly built high platform in the north of the city, the wind is gentle and smooth, and the high white clouds and blue sky are spread out and waiting to fall, as if to put a soft veil on what is about to happen on the earth.

Among the ministers who got up early and were summoned by the waves of heaven and came to the court to watch the execution, many of them had the mentality of being sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox.

They felt that the waves were tossing like this, and it would definitely not take long for the Ming Dynasty to finish.

When He Tengjiao and others led the army to Liuzhou City, they saw a sea of people outside the north gate.

The high platform in the center of the sea of people resembles a mountain island, and more than 100 prisoners in white prison uniforms have a large and generous sign detailing the names of the crimes on their chests.

Each of them also had a pointed death card with their name written on it on the back of their neck.

All the prisoners knelt in a neat row on the cold, hard planks of the high platform.

"What is the emperor's plan to do, whether it is a murder or a temple fair, there are at least 50,000 people watching the execution, right?"

Hao Yongzhong's face was puzzled, he didn't know why Tianlang killed someone and made such a big move.

Gao Bizheng trembled his fat cheeks and bared his teeth and smiled:

"Shake the flag," the Dashun army is used to calling Hao Yongzhong's nickname, Hao Shaoqi.

"Waving the flag, others don't understand this method, do you and me, brothers who have followed King Chuang for many years, need to think about it again?"

Hao Yongzhong was still puzzled, but Gao Bizheng's eyes had already looked at the law field.

"There is no shortage of dog officials in the Ming Dynasty now, after Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Huguang were lost one after another, in addition to those who died in battle or surrendered in several provinces, almost all of them came to Guangxi with their families."

Hao Yongzhong also thought it was true when he heard Gao Bizheng's words, this statement is not wrong, there is no shortage of dog officials in the Ming Dynasty now.

Gao Bizheng continued to pretend to be profound, helping Hao Yongzhong to popularize:

"Do you know what we're lacking the most right now? What we lack most is the people's heart, do you know the people's heart? ”

Hao Yongzhong looked at him noncommittally.

Gao Bizheng felt that he was not enlightened, "It is often said that the people's hearts are moving together, and what we lack most at present is the trust of the people." ”

He Tengjiao stood tall and looked at the law field from afar, and when Gao Bizheng said these words to Hao Yongzhong, He Tengjiao could also hear it, but he did not say anything.

Du Yinxi muttered beside him: "In ancient times, there was Wei Yingmu Lixin, does the emperor want to kill Guan Lixin today?" ”

The inner question that is difficult to say clearly is why the emperor chose to do it when the army returned to the army.

Gao Bizheng's ears are special, and several people are not far away, and they don't deliberately avoid each other when they talk to each other.

After hearing Du Yinxi muttering this, Gao Bizheng said with a smile: "Haha, that's right, the emperor seems to be acting more perversely than our old Gao, but in fact, we feel that our son of heaven is different from Lao Gao, he has an atmosphere in his chest." ”

He Tengjiao and Du Yinxi, who are contaminated with Confucianism and Taoism, understand that the people can make it, but they can't make it known, so naturally they can't resonate with Gao Bizheng's vision.

Du Yinxi frowned and said, "Could it be that killing officials is the most popular among the people?" ”

"Wrong, it's not killing officials, it's killing corrupt officials that wins the hearts of the people the most, and the bigger the movement, the greater the impact."

Hao Yongzhong also scratched his face and guessed: "I just don't know what the emperor will do next after doing these things, killing people is just a lively moment, the emperor set up such a big stage, it won't just be as simple as wanting people to watch a lively scene, right?" ”

Hao Yongzhong also felt that Gao Bizheng guessed the emperor's purpose, Gao Bizheng was a hob of meat when he was fighting, and he was usually muddy, but he always saw the big things very accurately, but he didn't know how Tianlang would make people popular after killing corrupt officials and gaining popularity.

After this period of understanding, at least in the eyes of these generals, they all feel that Tianlang is very purposeful in everything, and some of them seem to be willful, but they are actually heavily arranged.

Tianlang chose to kill corrupt officials at this time, what is the purpose of the follow-up?

Hou Xing, who came to greet He Ge Lao on behalf of Guangxi Wenwu, also took a long breath at this time, "Hey, what General Longhu said is very reasonable, I just saw this formation, but it choked me enough, and I thought this was Ma Wei who was waiting for me." ”

In fact, what he wanted to say in his heart was that he thought that he had recently committed something in private by being the son of the Queen Mother.

To say, Hou Xing is definitely not the material for being a general, he has no ability to be a royal general, he will only deceive his superiors and subordinates, and he is a guy who can open a dyeing workshop if you give three points of color.

The three brothers of the Hou family are about the same, but Hou Sui and Hou Ke will play the role of a righteous gentleman, while the third Hou is a real villain.

In the battle of Dateng Gorge and the battle of Quanzhou, he made great contributions, and he was given the care of the queen mother and the emperor's royal reward, and he trembled on the first day he returned to Liuzhou.

Engaged in wind and rain among the ministers, boasted that he could do anything.

There was a minister who was convicted and sent to prison, and the party wanted to dredge up and rescue him through his personal relationship with the emperor, but he was slapped in the face, Hou Xing Tianlang talked about it, and couldn't help but be scolded, and Tianlang kicked him in the ass several times, warning him to pick up his tail and be a man.

(End of chapter)