"What the hell are you trying to do?"

In a secret courtroom, Li Tianyang personally met with Qiu Xiang, the initiator and leader of the Freemasonry, and questioned him face to face about his original intentions.

"Your Excellency!"

Qiu Xiang showed complete obedience and loyalty in front of Li Tianyang, even if Li Tianyang sent someone to detain and interrogate him and his companions at this moment, but when facing Li Tianyang and others, the fanaticism in Qiu Xiang's eyes, seeing Li Tianyang was like seeing the gods he believed in.

"You led us to create a paradise, so that our villagers live a happy life, as the children of the poor, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts!"

"Others may not feel your plans and ideas for our Hongmen, and don't know that you are ambitious, but we understand your painstaking efforts, you have more of our Hongmen's ideas, and all kinds of education for our children, is it really just to open up that paradise in this Dayuan Island?"

Qiu Xiang once again showed his remarkable eloquence in front of Li Tianyang, and explained to Li Tianyang the original intention of their Freemasonry establishment.

"We know that you are a benevolent and just leader, and that you have great ambitions, but it is not enough to have ambitions in these chaotic and dark times."

"There is nothing wrong with you to keep your great shore, and we, the loyal followers, hope that you can keep your original intention and always be fair and merciful, but many dark and unconscionable things are of great help to our Hongmen, and we can't miss it, so we need someone to mention you to do these things, so that you can always maintain your great face, and continue to lead our companions to go down together without guilt, and fight for the great cause in your heart."

"And we Freemasonry are the unknown dung scoop in your hands, all the dirty work is entrusted to us to do, and all the complaints and curses are our pots, which have nothing to do with you!!"

Qiu Xiang was pious and crazy, showing his heart to Li Tianyang, and he did not show any timidity in front of Li Tianyang, whose eyes were like torches, but it also made that Li Tianyang deeply shocked and moved.

With a snatching look that has been tempered for a long time, Li Tianyang can naturally feel that the words and deeds that this young man shows in front of him are all from his heart, not because he wants to reduce his guilt after becoming a prisoner.

Li Tianyang never thought that one day, a figure who thinks he is not a great man and hero, will already have a group of loyal and crazy fans, willing to do anything dangerous for himself, or even die.

However, even if he was moved by the spontaneous behavior of these fans in his heart, Li Tianyang could still detect from these crazy fans and other behaviors that behind their self-righteous loyalty and other things and behaviors, how much trouble they brought to themselves and Hongmen, although they themselves may not know.

"Feng Min, Ox Zhi filial piety ......"

Li Tianyang suddenly picked up a roster on the table and read it in a low and slow manner, a list of more than 100 people, which took Li Tianyang half an hour of effort: "These people are all talents cultivated by our Hongmen after more than ten years, and they are the pillars of more than 100 families under our Hongmen, but because of your wanton behavior, how many of them can return home and reunite with their families in the end?" ”

"Your Excellency!!"

Qiu Xiang didn't think so, and after Li Tianyang finished speaking, he immediately refuted it: "They are all willing to carry out this dead-like task, and we have told them all this truthfully when we arranged the task, and none of them were forced by us. ”

"War has always been cruel, not to mention far away, let's just say that the year before last, our Dongjiang Town soldiers fought in Panshan, and finally encountered the situation of the Qing Dynasty army in front and back, didn't we also have the loss of more than 10,000 colleagues killed? And how much damage they inflicted on the Jurchens, you've already seen the battle report, right? ”

"Look at the results brought by Feng Min and their more than 100 soldiers, but they are far more than Lord Shang Kexi and his party of Dongjiang Town soldiers for a year, isn't this result enough to make us pay such a loss?"

Qiu Xiang's rebuttal also made Li Tianyang a little dumbfounded, although he knew that there was something wrong with his words, but in terms of the results of the battle, it was also a very convincing thing.

"The result? How many of you are real Jurchen warriors, and how many of you are ordinary ordinary people? ”

"Come and let me read to you the battle report that has just been sent from the Qing Dynasty, and see the 'results' brought by the plan you implemented this time!"

“…… Until the end of the first month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the smallpox epidemic patients in the Qing Dynasty finally disappeared, the smallpox epidemic affected a total of 320,000 households in the Qing Dynasty, infected a total of more than 800,000 people, and finally died of about 570,000 people, especially the elderly and weak women and children mortality rate. ”

"This is from the Qing Dynasty Imperial Court, which may not be informative enough, but it is not much worse."

"Although we can't calculate the discrepancies, we can roughly determine which composition of the Jurchens in the Qing Dynasty was, and we can also estimate how much the Jurchens lost and what the mortality rate of the real ordinary people was."

"Is it really worth it to take the lives of four or five hundred thousand ordinary people in order to die no more than seventy or eighty thousand Jurchens?"

Li Tianyang was heartbroken, which was also an important reason why he had always shelved Xiaoshan's plan.

Most of the Jurchens were nobles, and even if they contracted smallpox, they were several times more likely to survive than ordinary people and slaves, while the ordinary people of the Qing Dynasty only contracted this smallpox plague, and the only way to wait for them was death.

"Why isn't it worth it, my subordinates just said that war is a very cruel private affair, although we have lost so many ordinary and innocent people, we are all deeply sorry, but if you exchange the lives of these hundreds of thousands of people for the lives of the powerful Jurchens for eighty or ninety thousand lives, this is a good deal!!"

"If there really are eighteen layers of hell, my subordinates are willing to bear all the blame and endure the suffering of purgatory for thousands of years, and my subordinates only hope that our Hongmen can sacrifice less, and one more day to continue to grow and so on!"

Qiu Xiang never seemed to know what regret was, even if Li Tianyang's war report because of them caused so shocking damage and death, he still stubbornly believed that he was not wrong.

(End of chapter)