(Everyone, gout is committed, everyone sees the friendship of Xiaosheng enduring the pain and still coding words, give me a few more monthly passes!) ）

Xu Dingbang saw the patrolling musketeers leaving, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, as a senior officer, it was really troublesome to be found to have killed his subordinates, and now the hundred households solved a trouble for him really made Xu Dingbang grateful.

Xu Dingbang said in a low voice: "Thank you, brother! ”

Which Baihu smiled and said: "Each other, we are in the same boat!" ”

Xu Dingbang knew that the hundred households meant to take a look at the uncle first, don't talk about being injured, even if you are crazy, these people can't afford to be guilty!

Xu Dingbang came to Zhu Jiang, who was standing on the side, and asked in a low voice, "Your Highness! Your Highness! What do you think? ”

Xu Dingbang saw Zhu Jiang slowly raise his head, and his godless eyes were not red and he relaxed, this uncle is fine, it's okay!

"Sir Xu, they are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, why do these soldiers treat these civilians like this?" Zhu Jiang stared at Xu Dingbang's eyes and asked.

This question is difficult for Xu Dingbang, he was originally an illiterate military household, and in the past, the commander in the army ordered to kill people, and no one asked what the reason was. At first, Xu Dingbang couldn't do it, but killing too much was almost like killing chickens, and he became numb, but now Zhu Jiang asked himself why this was embarrassing for Xu Dingbang. If it was an ordinary soldier who asked Xu Dingbang, Lao Xu would definitely go up with two big mouths, and he would be sure that there was no problem with him, but the person in front of him didn't say that he could fight!

Xu Dingbang thought about it for a long time, probably never died so many brain cells when he was so big, and finally held back a sentence: "Lord Wang, I don't know why, I don't know why, maybe Master Ma knows, after all, he is a scholar!" Although the army is influenced by Zhu Hongsan and looks down on scholars, he still admires those stinky old nine in his heart, and Xu Dingbang has no choice but to push it on Ma Jiyuan.

Zhu Jiang also knew Lao Xu's level, and he didn't say anything when he said this, just nodded, stood up and continued to walk north of the city.

There are still more than 40,000 defenders in Yangzhou City, most of these people are Han army banners transferred from Shandong and Huai'an, and their hands are stained with the blood of the Ming army, and they also know that they will not die well if they fall under the hands of the Ming army, so the resistance is very fierce. After the initial chaos, the Qing army, under the command of several generals who reacted, began to resist in the city relying on private houses. However, under the organized purging of the Ming army, relying on the artillery in hand, the living space of the Qing army was slowly squeezed block by block.

Finally, on the third day after entering the city, that is, on the morning of the eighth day of the first month of the second year of Shenwu, the last fortress of the Qing army, the Yamen of the Lianghuai Salt Transport Division, was conquered by artillery, Wang Shixuan, Zhu Shichang and other Manchu and Han generals were killed, and the battle of Yangzhou, which lasted nearly two months, finally ended.

After Ma Jiyuan learned that the entire Yangzhou City had fallen into his hands, he immediately took all his staff to prepare to enter the city to work. Zhao Guodong can't help it, now although there is no large-scale resistance in the city, but there are still sporadic firefights, let the governor enter the city by himself and have some accidents, this admiral of his own will be the end, Zhao Guodong can't bring 200 people to protect Ma Jiyuan into the city.

Now the south gate Anjiangmen has fallen into the hands of the Ming army, Ma Jiyuan and others entered the city in Anjiangmen Shuiguan, which is very close to the yamen of the two Huai Salt Transportation Divisions.

As soon as Ma Jiyuan and others came to the entrance of Anjiang Gate, they saw a large group of people standing outside Anjiang Gate, and when they walked in, they saw that they were all captured prisoners of the Qing army, there were thousands of people, all of them with their hands tied, and there were Ming soldiers escorting them on the side. On the side of the canal, forty or fifty Ming soldiers were executing these Qing prisoners one by one, with no clothes on their upper bodies and machetes in their hands.

Ma Jiyuan was stunned at first glance, he didn't give an order to kill the prisoners, although these Qing troops did a lot of evil, but they were all Han Chinese, and the emperor had an order to transport these people to Luzon to open mines. How is it that now someone openly executes prisoners in flagrant disobedience to his orders?

Ma Jiyuan's face sank and asked, "Admiral Zhao, what's going on?" ”

Zhao Guodong also saw what was happening by the river, and when he heard Ma Jiyuan ask, he quickly replied: "Lord of Taiwan, the last general doesn't know why, the last general didn't let people do this!" After Zhao Guodong finished speaking, he hurriedly ordered his own soldiers to see what was going on.

After a while, the pro-soldiers came back, and there was a tall man without a shirt who came back with the pro-soldiers, it was Jiang Pengju, who was blind.

Zhao Guodong knew what was going on as soon as Jiang was blind, this Jiang Pengju liked to kill prisoners the most, and he must have done it today.

"Blind Jiang, what trouble did you cause to Lao Tzu?"

Jiang Pengju hates being called Jiang Blind the most, but Zhao Guodong has no opinion at all when he calls him.

"It turned out to be Lord Tai and Lord Admiral! These bastards killed and injured many of my comrades-in-arms, and now Yangzhou is ours, and it is time for them to pay for their blood debts! ”

Zhao Guodong really wanted to step forward and slap him a few times when he heard what Jiang Pengju said: "Fart, you don't have the emperor's holy decree, and you dare to kill prisoners without the general order of the Lord of Taiwan?" You don't want to die? ”

After Zhao Guodong finished speaking, he quickly turned his head to Ma Jiyuan and said: "Lord Taiwan, you also know that this Jiang blind man is a person who is not stingy, please ask Lord Taiwan to spare this killing talent for the sake of the old lady and King Qin's face!" ”

Zhao Guodong can't help but speak for Jiang Pengju, Jiang Pengju is his subordinates who don't speak, or is he a brother who was born and died on the battlefield, how can they meet after they don't speak for him? Jiang Pengju was reminded by Zhao Guodong that he also felt that he had gone too far, this was not when he was suppressing bandits in Zhoushan, those dozens of people were killed, but now outside Yangzhou City, a large number of Ming officers and soldiers and officials are watching, if it reaches the emperor's ears, his official position that he has just recovered will be lost again.

Jiang Pengju hurriedly knelt down on one knee and said: "The last general is wrong, please punish the master of Taiwan!" ”

Although Ma Jiyuan was pedantic before, he was not stupid, and now as the governor of Liangjiang, he needs these soldiers to help, if he sanctions this Jiang Pengju, not only will it chill the hearts of the army generals, but even his wife in his own family will not be able to agree, after all, without this Jiang Pengju, his wife would have died in Xinyang City.

Ma Jiyuan pretended to be angry and asked, "Jiang Pengju, this governor ordered you to move the captives outside the city, why did you stay here at the south gate?" Don't move out yet! ”

Zhao Guodong breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Ma Jiyuan say this, and scolded Jiang Pengju: "Jiang is blind, you are so blind!" Don't you know if you block the city gate? Don't hurry up and take these Qing prisoners away! ”

Jiang Pengju hurriedly bowed down to receive the order, and led a group of executioners to escort the Qing army away.

Ma Jiyuan led people into Anjiangmen, this is not the main battlefield, there are not many dead people, and it looks pretty good. But after passing the Taiping Bridge, enter the old city of Yangzhou, most of the places here are official barracks, here is the place where the Qing army and the Ming army fought fiercely, now although the fierce fighting has stopped, but there are dead people everywhere,

Ma Jiyuan saw that it was too miserable, and said to Fang Fengnian, the chief staff member beside him: "Shutian, now I need your brother's help, this Yangzhou prefect asks you to take your place temporarily, collect the officials at all levels who are still alive in Yangzhou Mansion, and organize the local gentry to clean up the corpses, although it is cold now, but this kind of corpses everywhere is really unsightly!" ”

Fang Fengnian is a jinshi in the second year of the Apocalypse, and he used to be a scholar and politician in Huguang, which was a provincial-level cadre from the third grade, and now Ma Jiyuan is suitable for him to serve as the prefect of Yangzhou in the fourth grade. However, Fang Fengnian has been at home since he was demoted before, and his hometown is not eastern Zhejiang, where the resistance is fierce, but Sui'an County, western Zhejiang, which is relatively safe, so when Zhu Hongsan occupied Nanjing, Fang Fengnian also had no capital.

However, Fang Fengnian has a good classmate, that is, Ma Jiyuan, after learning that Ma Jiyuan is the governor of Liangjiang and is still the emperor's father-in-law, Fang Fengnian came to seek refuge with his old classmate Ma Jiyuan.

Fang Fengnian and Ma Jiyuan were both clear streams before, plus Fang Fengnian took care of the Ma family when he was a student in Huguang, otherwise Ma Mingyuan was a showman when he was a teenager, do you really think it is Ma Laoer's own credit?

A good friend and a favor, Ma Jiyuan is respectful to the other party every year, and first let him serve as a staff member in his own scene, and he will be released if he is lacking.

With such a hard backer, he was naturally promoted quickly, and this didn't directly give Fang Fengnian an acting Yangzhou prefect, and the civil officials around Ma Jiyuan were red-eyed. But there is no way, no matter what it is, identity, seniority, and age are all ranked ahead of them, and the civil officials under Ma Jiyuan can only step forward and squint their conscience and say some insincere congratulations. Everyone knows that although this prefect is the acting director, according to the relationship between Ma Jiyuan and the emperor, coupled with Fang Fengnian's popularity, he basically goes through the motions with the emperor, and the acting will soon become a real person.

Fang Fengnian is also very happy, he is not the emperor's Huguang lineage, nor is he the anti-Qing faction in eastern Zhejiang, let alone the Donglin Party, and now he can get a prefect as soon as he comes out of the mountain.

"Xiaguan thanked the master of Taiwan, and Xiaguan will organize the people to clean up the corpses in Yangzhou City!" After Fang Fengnian finished speaking, he took people to Yangzhou Mansion and began to fulfill his responsibilities.

Ma Jiyuan came to the door of the Yamen of the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Division, as the general headquarters of the Qing army, the battle here was the most fierce, the magnificent Yamen of the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Division was basically burned down, there were dead people everywhere inside and out, the fire of some houses had not been extinguished, and a heat wave could be felt at a distance.

Ma Jiyuan didn't expect this place to become like this, and Zhao Guodong on the side said: "My lord, the fire here hasn't been extinguished yet, so it's better to go to Yangzhou Mansion to work!" ”

Ma Jiyuan thought about it, he had already asked Fang Fengnian to go to Yangzhou Mansion just now, and it was really inappropriate to go again.

"Admiral Zhao, is there still an official office in the city?"

Zhao Guodong thought about it, and there was probably only Fuxue left, and Fuxue was very spacious as a place to hold the college exam, and there were probably a few complete houses in that place.

"Lord Zhengtai, there are still a few complete houses in Fuxue!"

Ma Jiyuan is not bad when he hears it, Fuxue is the highest educational institution of the house, and the holy master enshrined in it, Hong Chengchou can't burn it when he is mad.

"Good! Let's go to school! ”