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Standing in front of his troops, looking at the men in the queue, Wu Liuqi felt quite emotional.

The soldiers of this guard battalion are all his old roots, and belong to the most elite part of his army.

"Uncles and brothers!"

He stood in front of the queue with an iron rod and mobilized with this group of tough guys in his vernacular.

"How are you doing these days?"

"Good!"

"If we want to live well in the Nanzhong Army and let others look down on us, we have to show some real skills! In order to live this comfortable life! Brothers, sue sù Lao Tzu, is it a seed? ”

"Which one doesn't bring seeds?!"

"Good! I led the team, and the people have already broken the city, and they will give us the credit for landing the city first! All fight for Lao Tzu, break the city in one fell swoop, and plant our flag at the head of the city! ”

"Kill!"

A loud trumpet sounded, the mortar bombardment of the city head stopped temporarily, and hundreds of soldiers and people of Wu Liuqi's troops, who were responsible for carrying shells for the mortar artillery team, immediately sat on the ground, opened their mouths and gasped for breath.

The artillery team moved several large Buddha machines under the city, and the muzzles of the guns were raised as high as possible, aiming at the gaps in the city walls.

Wu Liuqi carried an iron rod in one hand and a flag in the other, and led the crowd to pounce on it with a tiger roar.

Behind him were hundreds of soldiers of the Guards Battalion of the New Brigade with swords and guns.

Taoyuan Village, this village has never been breached for hundreds of years since it was completed at the end of the Song Dynasty. One drum! ……

Along a passage paved with countless straw bags outside the east city wall, and along the ramp formed by a mixture of broken bricks and rocks and mud and straw bags, Ou Dapeng slowly ascended to the top of the city under the escort of more than a dozen personal soldiers.

At the breach at the head of the city, less than 15 meters wide, nearly 100 corpses lay down, and hundreds of people used door panels to carry the wounded and not dead wounded on both sides down the city and handed them over to the health team for treatment.

As far as the eye could see, there were soldiers who had died in hand-to-hand combat with each other when the city was breached, and the eyes were full of bubbling houses and the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke and burning.

Looking down from the wall, dozens of fires erupted on all sides of the wall. Countless women and children cried and shook the sky. Some quiet alleys. From time to time, there are scattered regiments who are robbing property, ignoring that the owner of this property is a person of the same clan.

There were also people who knelt on both sides of the road and discarded the weapons in their hands and surrendered, and the armor and clothes on their bodies explained the different identities of their Tuanding, Tian Yong, and ordinary clansmen. Leave your fate to these conquerors who rush into the stockade like a tidal wave.

In accordance with the principle of encircling three without one, the walled wall leading to the mountainous area to the north was not arranged for troops to attack. There are now large numbers of hedgehogs trying to escape from here into the forest. The villagers who fled the war disaster.

Tuan Ding, Tian Yong, ordinary people, old and weak, women and children. Crowded near the walled gate, those with weapons in their hands wielded knives and guns to cut out a passage for themselves, and constantly fought with the fleeing people to loot their property. He even lit torches everywhere and ran for his life.

There were constant cheers from the west and south, but it was Wu Biao and Wang Jin who organized people to clear the bricks and stones piled up at the two gates, opened the gates, and the large group of people swarmed in.

"Your Excellency has an order! Whoever abandons his weapon and kneels on the ground shall not be killed! No insults! ”

Several heralds waved red flags in their hands and galloped through the streets, conveying the orders of the two brigade commanders to every corner of the stockade.

"Herald! The battalion is on standby for two battalions of men and horses to pursue at the north gate, and no one can be missed! ”

There was still sporadic resistance in the stockade, some of which were desperately resisted when the captives were captured, and some were desperate and stubborn resistance when they went to capture the group of leaders, patriarchs, and leaders of the regiment.

"Stubborn, kill!"

Standing in front of the ancestral hall, looking at the ancestral hall and the door of the family temple, hanging "In the three, the three died, and now enjoy the worship of the Jews; Righteousness, righteousness, since the past Ming Xun bandit stranger", Ou Dapeng couldn't help frowning, I don't know who it was, and he poured a bubble of urine under the stone carved couplet.

Not far away, behind the streets, bursts of women's cries and men's scolding faintly came.

There were the two compounds that soldiers from the newly formed brigade had just rushed into.

Hearing this voice, Wu Liuqi's face was a little unsightly. The green tendons on the hand holding the iron rod were exposed, and it was a very face-saving thing to welcome the follow-up troops into the city in front of the ancestral hall of the three families, but he didn't want to be slapped by a few blind guys Wu Liuqi slapped.

"Go! Arrest those bastards! ”

Wu Liuqi was annoyed and angry.

"Order the troops to enter the city as best they can, clean up the battlefield and end the battle! Then out of the list An Min! ”

"In the past, the virtuous and virtuous were cloudy, and the way to govern the country was to focus on the weak people. Because the people are strong, the government decrees will not work, and the country will be weak. My Ming Taizu set the world with a three-foot sword, and all the barren at home and abroad surrendered, but he was also worried about the merger of the powerful and powerful, so the law was lawful, the tax burden of the people was light, and the transportation of the powerful and powerful. However, since Wanli, the country has been troubled, suffering from the invasion of traitors in Liaodong and the flooding of the Yellow River internally. Therefore, there was the Jiqingwei Rebellion in the past, and there was the change of Taoyuan Taisha in the near future. Fortunately, God blesses China, and people are effective, and as soon as the general's army comes out, it will be chaotic. However, the traitor was unwilling to be killed, but fabricated rumors, slandered the general's virtue and government, said that he appeased and ordered the people to harm the people, and used the clan as a tool to gather the villagers in a vain attempt to resist. In order to cover up the retrograde, it is said that the ancestors abide by the family law, but when is the year of the living, when is the day of the dead, how dare to represent the words of the ancient ancestors? In addition, what the three emperors and five emperors seek is the people's livelihood and happiness, and they cannot afford swordsmen, and they themselves have no long things. Today's patriarch, Tian Lian Qianmo, ten of the field, it has eight points, this is what the three emperors and five emperors want? If Bishang is not satisfied, and cleverly set up a name, in the name of sacrifice, etc., to collect all kinds of donations, and the slightest disobedience, then the ancestors have taken the name and humiliated them. ”

In front of the ancestral hall, more than 10,000 villagers of Taoyuan Taisha gathered in the dark, and around them, more than 1,000 Nanzhong soldiers lined up according to their battalion sentry posts to monitor the scene.

"Pu you Eminem! Well said! "Although the village has been broken, the heroic spirit in people's hearts has not diminished at all.

"I know. There are no parents who are willing to bully poor children, and the argument of the patriarch of the rebel clan says that there are ancestors in the world who are willing to bully the younger generations! It's tolerable, it's unbearable. You and other rebel patriarchs are only a hundred years of life, dare to represent the words of the ancestors of 10,000 years, forcibly occupy the land of the same clan to make a living, and wantonly slander the ancestors, if you don't know the canonical punishment, how can you uphold the law and discipline of the country and the hearts of the people. If the crimes of the patriarchs of the thieves such as El. Thousands of cuts. Not for cruelty, for swords and fire, not for unkindness. However, the general has the virtue of a good life, and he can't bear to slaughter too much. Therefore, the order of appeasement was issued. Whoever is willing to be appeased. Keep his family safe. Leave it safe. The people of Li have their own livelihood and industry, and there are those who are poor and in danger. If you can ask for help from the general's task force, there will be a pension. Everywhere the team went, the patriarch Li Min could listen to his lectures and answer with him, and over time he knew the benevolence and righteousness of the general's law. The three emperors and five emperors have spirits in the sky, and they will distinguish between right and wrong, otherwise why would the generals rise and rebel against the thieves? Heaven is clear, so do it yourself. ”

The same notices were either posted in the most densely populated places in the three inner houses and the seven outer houses, or were read aloud by the soldiers and officers of the Nanzhong Army.

This was followed by the announcement that in the next few days, the military control and curfew systems would be temporarily implemented, and the personnel, fields, forests, weapons, and artillery positions in the area under the jurisdiction of the former Taoyuan Taisha would be counted one by one, and then re-registered.

However, to the surprise of these villagers, the connotation of the method of re-registration of land was very surprising.

"Pu you Eminem!"

A villager angrily scolded the officer on the stage who was reading the field registration method according to the script, "Really? ”

He didn't understand the words in front of him, and he didn't want to hear them, but the most important sentence in the back was clearly poured into his ears.

"The clan fields and public lands cultivated by each household, and the kindness of the generals, shall be owned by those who have cultivated them. When the team arrived, they were issued a deed of land as a certificate. ”

The peasants who cultivated the fields that originally belonged to ancestral halls, clans, and shrines were actually tenants of these "dead landlords" and had to pay all kinds of rents.

"My lord! We don't pay rent to the ancestral hall anymore, do we have to pay rent to you? ”

Some in the crowd had the audacity to ask questions of the officer who read the notice.

"It's not about paying rent to us, it's about paying money and grain to the state! The national tax on imperial grain is a matter of course! ”

"How much does that pay? Thirty or forty percent? ”

"Thirty percent? Cannibalism?! Let the farmer live? ”

The officer paused slightly, and someone next to him adjusted the brass horn slightly to make him speak more clearly.

"How much should I pay?"

There are more and more people in the crowd who are concerned about the money and food figures, and they are all nervous and expectant to look at the guy in front of them who has broken their stockade, well, this person doesn't look so vicious!

"According to the tax rate in Nanzhong, the proportion of rice handed over is 20 tax one. Other cash crops are excluded. Those who have surplus grain in each household can sell it to the Nanzhong Army at a price three times the market price! ”

"Boom!"

There was an immediate uproar in the crowd.

The impact of these two events on them was even greater than the breach of the stockade.

The land belonged to the cultivators, and the rice was harvested for one-twentieth of the grain, and the surplus was bought at three times the price.

People were so dizzy by the sudden good news that they were at a loss for what was going on.

Seven or eight soldiers of the Nanzhong Army, who were bound by ropes like zongzi, were kicked and beaten and escorted to the square in front of the Sanyi Temple.

"What did I say to the district brigade commander before the siege?!"

Wu Liuqi shouted loudly to the people in front of him on the horse.

"After entering the city, he who abandons his arms and kneels on the ground shall not kill, nor plunder, nor commit adultery!"

A thunderous roar came, which overwhelmed the people of Taoyuan Village.

"Good! Since you remember this military discipline, then, brothers, these Pu Ta Emu brothers, there is no military discipline in their eyes, there is no military order, after entering the city, they have committed murder, robbery, adultery, and all three things, what do you say, how should we deal with it?! ”

The soldiers who were tied up were all soldiers under Wu Liuqi, and one of them was a brother in his Wu clan. Accompanied by Wu Liuqi was the first to rush into the village, and saw that the jade silk of the children in the villages near the left were all accumulated, and the old state reverted for a while, and he began to smash the kiln that day.

"Kill according to the law!"

Several soldiers of the law enforcement team carried a guillotine, which was used in the village to enforce family law and kill people. The sharpest of all.

"Go with peace of mind. I told the district brothers, you are considered dead in battle. There is a pension! Your parents, wives and children are fed up! ”

After saying this, Wu Liuqi waved his hand and motioned for those law enforcement teams to start the execution. Pull out the long trick in the neck, stuff the person under the guillotine, and press down sharply.

A head flew out of the way after the sharp guillotine was swung, and rolled into the shallow pool in the recess with a few grunts, and several bloody arrows shot out of the neck cavity of the lost head for several meters, and the convulsive body fell obliquely after shaking violently a few times. The onlookers were stunned for a moment. Then, there was the habitual thunderstorm that also seemed to cry "Okay!" "The second, the third, the fourth...... One by one, the heads were cut off. The air was thick with the stench of blood and incontinence.

Then he was pushed under the guillotine. It is dozens of patriarchs, leaders, and leaders. For these, the villagers are not so excited.

However, some old people had tears in their eyes, after all, they were acquaintances for decades. Just like that, he was pushed under the guillotine.

Soon, however, the experience that was put to the test in Bao'an County continued to be used here again.

"Uncles, brothers, this is the ledger we copied from the homes of several patriarchs. You can take a look at the public expenditure of the past dynasties, from the sacrifice to the repair of the family temple, from the rent of the clan field to the military salary of the regiment, all of which can be remembered clearly, how they cleverly set up a name and exploited the villagers! ”……

Human society is a pyramid, and the number of people at the bottom is always the largest. In the face of the powerful Nanzhong Army, which distributed land, purchased grain at a high price, and had a frighteningly low tax on money and grain, and then rectified military discipline and beheaded the sergeants who robbed, killed, and committed adultery, people naturally felt psychologically close.

When I heard that for many years, these patriarch leaders, who are full of benevolence and morality on weekdays, have been so bold-sucking and squeezing oil and water from themselves, people are angry!

One by one, the leaders and patriarchs were sent to different places under the guillotine, and the onlookers not only did not have the slightest sadness, but cheered continuously.

In the next few days, the people of Taoyuan Village, including Wu Liuqi and others, were even more dazzled.

First, the barn was opened, and the rice accumulated over the years was confiscated and distributed according to the population of each household, as compensation for the innocent people suffered by the Governor Li Shouhan.

Of course, with the piggyback, the population of Taoyuan Village was thoroughly investigated.

After that, it was necessary to clean up the garbage in the village, renovate the houses destroyed by fire, and implement the policies and decrees of the South China Army.

In the counties on the left, several clan armed forces that have always been only the leaders of the Taoyuan Taisha have sent people to contact them.

"As long as we save our lives, we are willing to hand over our arms and clan fields, and we will do everything in accordance with the laws of the Nanzhong Army!"

In the days after the breakthrough of Taoyuan Village, such envoys appeared in front of the Sanyi Temple temporarily serving as the Chinese army like a carp crossing the river, panting, and the messengers all rushed into the main hall with the expressions of death row prisoners trying to get amnesty, and then after receiving the promise that as long as they surrendered their arms, handed over the public land and clan land, and the ancestral hall could only be used as a place of sacrifice and not interfere with local administration and justice, they could keep the personal family property of the leader and not harm their lives, and their eyes were full of tears, just like the long-lost revolutionaries found an organization. In front of the statue of Uncle Liu, who is full of kindness, kowtow like a chicken pecking rice.

This group of emissaries was followed by more than 1,000 members of the task force, who were in a team of dozens of people, and a sentry as an escort, each demarcating an area. It manages the population, villages, clans, production, taxes, administration, justice, education and many other aspects within the jurisdiction.

The villages that have declared their attachment under the muzzle of the cannon will find out after a few months that the patriarchs are no longer so talkative. In his place were teams that had recently arrived and were unable to speak the local dialect.

Ancestral halls that have been deprived of administrative and judicial powers are expressly stipulated to have no more than 8 percent of the land in their village or clan, and the proceeds are used for the daily expenses and sporadic repairs of the ancestral halls. As for major repairs, it is necessary to make the accounts public.

On days when there are no sacrificial activities, public buildings such as ancestral halls find another place for them. It has become the seat of middle schools for all ethnic groups in each village.

As a result, a very wonderful scene often appears in northern Guangdong.

During the day, children carry schoolbags to the school to receive compulsory education, and after the lantern is held, the young and strong people who have been busy all day have to carry the schoolbags of their younger brothers or nephews with sad faces, and go to the night school opened by the ancestral hall to receive compulsory education.

Those workers who teach in the school told them with a tiger face, "If you are absent from class for no reason, we will not knock on the door and hit your palms, but if you do not pass the class records and test scores, the money and food will be doubled in the summer and autumn after the beginning of spring!" ”

was beaten down by this dazzling and unrivaled combination of punches, and the clan forces that had previously been entrenched in Wuhua and Tai Po in northern Guangdong, making it impossible for the official law to leave the county government, had a momentum of collapse.

"Unexpectedly, this law, education, and taxation are even more powerful than mortars!"

When drinking tea relatively, Wu Liuqi sighed and said to Ou Dapeng.

"Cannons can only break down the walls and shatter the armor, but they can't break through people's hearts. This education, taxation, acre system, etc., can break everyone's heart. ”

The two tasted a few cups of tea, and Ou Dapeng ordered someone to get an official letter.

"Boss Wu, this is an official letter sent by the messenger yesterday, and since the northern part of Guangdong has probably been pacified, your department does not need to stay in the mountainous areas of northern Guangdong. Transferred your department to Guangzhou for training, the lord also has the meaning of praising the brother! (To be continued......)