Yu Guowang is right, Cao Conglong really can't die, let alone die in Chen Wen's hands.

In that year, Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, the general of Dongjiang Town, the military commander of the festival, without authorization, which not only led to the chaos in Dongjiang Town, but also laid the groundwork for the Dengzhou Rebellion and the surrender of a large number of Dongjiang troops. Yuan Chonghuan shattered the last bit of trust between the civil and military forces of the Ming Dynasty, undermined the integrity of the system, and made the Ming generals from all walks of life begin to spontaneously become feudal towns since the Chongzhen Dynasty to protect their lives, and the dynasty's ability to control the armed forces also began to decline rapidly, which profoundly affected the anti-Qing movement of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

As an earl, Chen Wen had Shang Fang's sword in his hand, so logically speaking, he had the right to act cheaply, but Shang Fang's sword power was not enough to give Chen Wen the right to execute a civil servant with an official position like Cao Conglong, especially since this person was also the supervisor of this official army under his command.

To put it bluntly, even if Cao Conglong launched a rebellion, he deserved death, and the right to execute this guy was only available to Lu Jianguo!

If Chen Wen executes Cao Conglong, it will not only lead to the last remaining pitiful authority of the Ming court will inevitably disappear, but Chen Wen, who has destroyed the system and tacit understanding, will also become a public enemy. And it also meant total isolation, and stillbirth of the system of military supervision he intended to establish.

Chen Wen knew that Yu Guowang believed that he could figure out the stakes of all this, but he was afraid that it would be too late for him to understand this matter, and Yu Guowang knew that his fate was not long in coming, and he wanted to settle down on this big stone in his heart to close his eyes with peace of mind.

Looking at the few trusted allies of this era looking at him eagerly at the moment when the oil was running out, Chen Wen knew very well that Yu Guowang's move was not only to maintain the authority of the Ming court, but also for his future - so that he could unite more people to drive out the Tartars together, and also for him to be able to avoid being pointed at by thousands of people in the future.

Chen Wen, who knew that he could not cut it with his own hands to be happy and revenge, satisfied Yu Guowang's plea, and personally sent the old general on his last journey.

The reason why Cao Conglong launched this rebellion was out of loyalty to the Lu Jianguo group, and Yu Guowang persuaded Chen Wen to hand over the right to execute Cao Conglong's life and death to the king of the prison state Lu, also out of loyalty to the Lu Jianguo group. However, one loyal minister killed another loyal minister, and also destroyed the overall situation of Zhejiang's previous good anti-Qing situation.

Such loyal ministers, Chen Wen would rather they do not exist in this world, maybe this is better for the times, for everyone in the present and future generations!

"I can not kill him, but that doesn't mean I won't let him live or die, and I won't let him stink for 10,000 years!"

By figuring out the movements of the Qing army in Taizhou, Chen Wen attended Yu Guowang's funeral. At the same time, Chen Guobao also bloodlessly recovered the three counties of Wuyi, Yongkang and Jinyun, and restored the control area of the Ming army.

The rebels in Wuyi County gave up resistance and chose to surrender after discovering that the counterinsurgency army of the brigade had entered the country, mainly because their troops were simply not enough to hold the county seat with a circumference of ten miles and nine gates; Jinyun County, on the other hand, reproduced the scene of last year - the deterrent power of the Ming army frightened the Qing army back and abandoned the county town without city walls.

As for Yongkang County, in Cao Conglong's intelligence, the main general and deputy of the defending army were fighting among themselves, and they each occupied half of the county seat, and no one could help anyone. But when Chen Guobao arrived there, he found that these two guys had clearly sung a big drama to Cao Conglong, in order to not only protect the officers' families, but also ensure that the county town was not gained by the rebels. From now on, the ploy was a bit clumsy, but it worked well.

The situation in Yushan Town was quickly clarified, and all the warehouses were burned down, but the Taizhou Qing army led by Ma Xin withdrew to Tiantai County, and there was no sign of continuing to invade Dongyang County. In this way, less than a month after the outbreak of the Cao Conglong Rebellion, Chen Wen's swift counterinsurgency was able to regain his original control.

However, the counties were back in the arms of the Ming army, but the previous order to disband the regimental training was obviously not as easy as retaking the counties and counties occupied by the rebels and the Qing army.

For the Chinese, land is the foundation of their lives, and it is normal for the gentry and wealthy households in the Ming Dynasty to take advantage of policy loopholes to damage the public and enrich themselves, so it is not surprising that tax resistance also occurs every year.

In the past two hundred years, the gentry not only used the policy to collude with local officials to conceal the taxes of land that were not within the scope of tax exemption, but also induced and forced the people to surrender, and even hid fugitives to force the good people to become slaves.

As soon as the order to set up regimental training to protect the township was issued, the gentry and wealthy families in the counties, who were accustomed to finding loopholes in the policy, released the cunning gangsters who were kept in the shadows, and wantonly occupied land in the name of forming regimental training and needing to raise troops in the land. These forcibly seized lands were not limited to wasteland, but were more cultivated people's fields, and even more so, they even forcibly seized military land and stretched out their hands to the "guard posts" where they had bullied more than 200 people. As for forcing the people to sell themselves into slavery, adulterous wives and daughters, murder and exfiltration, and the list goes on.

After more than a month, the officers and non-commissioned officers of the regiment training were still the same group of cunning gangsters, tenants, and domestic slaves, and the training task assigned by Cao Conglong was also shelved because of the seizure of land. In this way, the disbandment of the group training actually did not suffer any loss for the gentry and wealthy households in the counties. However, Chen Wen ordered them to disband the group and return the land they occupied, which touched their scales.

Since the decree was issued, fearing Chen Wen's momentum, most of the gentry and wealthy households in various counties expressed their willingness to disband the group training, but after a small series of connections in various places, they soon unified their voices, or said that the land they occupied was a fair trade, not forcibly occupied, or that the wasteland was forcibly occupied by the people, and they damaged the people in the process of retaking it for the imperial court, thinking that the land should compensate them for the losses, and even the forcible occupation of military land also detained the black pot on some people who did not want to do it or coerced it.

All in all, the regimental training can be disbanded, and the land will never be returned!

The Ming court's affirmation of the Confucian scholarly class's rich traditions, as well as the fact that Chen Wen had just quelled the rebellion, and the fact that he was out and his army was out there, were the basis on which they continued to fight and achieve a fait accompli.

However, Chen Wen was not born in this era, and the impact of the information explosion made him more aware that the redistribution of land was the key to all forms of revolution in China. Whoever has a more rational land redistribution policy will have the last laugh.

These policies were the most solid material and spiritual foundation of his army, and anyone who wanted to take advantage of him in this regard would be his mortal enemy, and he must be suppressed with the force of thunder. Otherwise, as soon as the mouth is opened, and those Confucian scholars and doctors ride on their heads, they don't want to do anything, and can only watch how they can't play the "anti-Qing base area in southwest Zhejiang" that he has worked so hard to build like the Ming Empire.

This rebellion has made Chen Wen's mentality change a lot, if it was in the past, maybe he would have tried to make some necessary compromises, but this time when the response of the gentry and wealthy families from all over the country came, Chen Wen did not hesitate to give the order to suppress, because he didn't have much time to spend on these people, it is now June, if nothing else, next month will be a great victory in Guilin, and he has not yet recovered Quzhou, it can be said that time is running out.

According to Chen Wen's order, basically all those who had formed regimental training had been registered with the county government, but all the gentry and wealthy households who formed regimental training during this period had to be inspected to check whether their regimental training was disbanded, whether they had done evil during the rebellion, whether they had forcibly seized land, and especially whether they had forcibly occupied military land and attacked military households.

Yes or no, this is the key question, the deadline is up, and those who refuse to disband the regiment are the remnants of the rebels, and those who complete the disbandment will be punished according to the degree of bad deeds, and those who complete the dissolution and have no bad deeds need to go to the county government to sign a pledge.

In accordance with this principle, with the garrisons of each county as the point, and the headquarters of Chen Guobao stationed in Wuyi, Yongkang, and Jinyun counties and the headquarters of Chen Wensuo stationed in Dongyang County as the line, the Jinhua Ming army, which had just put down the Cao Conglong Rebellion, was dispatched in a big way and began to suppress it according to the plan.

Yongkang County is located in the backing of Jinyun County, so the garrison is slightly more, with two infantry posts and a scale of more than 200 people. After receiving the support sent by Chen Guobao, Qian Garrison, as a guard, continued to stay in the city, while Qian Zongan Youfu, as a deputy, personally led the team out of the city, and his first target was Ding Shenyan, the student who forcibly seized the military field a few days ago and tried to burn the mother and son of the Ding family in vain.

The Ding family lived in a manor in a small village in the south of the city, not far from the county seat, and in the same year that he made the master book, Ding Shenyan originally knew about the ups and downs of the county seat in time. However, as the county seat was controlled by the Yongkang County garrison, the severance of news made his family miss the opportunity to flee.

Ding Shenyan had personally led a team to attack military households, and Chen Wen's "excessive" reaction was undoubtedly a major crime of participating in the rebellion. For this reason, he connected with a lot of local gentry, but most of these people were not as reckless as him before, and many of them were still lucky about the punishment, so Ding Shenyan himself was not confident in how many reinforcements could come, and now he could only rely on the high courtyard wall built over the years to prevent bandits and rebels from looting to temporarily resist for a while.

Ding Shenyan's old mother, wife and daughter are all chanting scriptures and praying in the Buddhist hall, and the family members of close cronies and those who have been nurturing them for a long time have all carried sticks, knives, guns, bows and arrows behind the wall. However, he had also seen the Ming army outside the city in the small village at the foot of Phoenix Mountain, and it was not at all something that his fugitives and scoundrels could compete with who used to bully small landlords, yeoman farmers, and tenants on weekdays.

After thinking about it, he can only hope that the reinforcements will arrive in time so that he can have the opportunity to break out with his family. As for the destination, although Quzhou is not close, and it is still under the front of the Ming army, but when you get there, Zhu Hanlin will take care of it, it is better than being in a foreign country and being helpless.

Thinking of this, Ding Shenyan couldn't help but begin to regret it, and at the "aftermath conference" at the beginning of the year, in order to establish prestige among the local gentry and wealthy households, he took the lead in opposing Chen Wen's big loan for the aftermath. After Cao Conglong launched a rebellion, he underestimated Chen Wen's ability to quell the rebellion and reacted, and he couldn't wait to seize the land of the army.

The first to rot is the first to rot, how can he forget this truth. But at this moment, the house slave who climbed the ladder to observe the movement shouted and even fell off the ladder at once.

"Cannons, cannons, there are cannons for the officers and soldiers outside!"

The order had just arrived in Yongkang County, in line with the principle of taking it by surprise and attacking it unprepared, An Youfu was far from having the patience to continue waiting, and when he saw that the Fulong cannon he had dragged was loaded and placed in front of the door, he simply omitted the necessary shouting and directly ordered the cannon to be fired.

With a "boom", the thick gate used to defend against the bandits could not withstand the impact of the cannonballs at all, but it completely collapsed at once, slapping several house slaves in the courtyard to the ground, but it seemed that they were no longer alive, and the cannonballs rushed straight into the lobby.

Ding Shenyan and the people guarding the courtyard looked at this scene in amazement, as if they had been hit by the immobilization magic or had been pointed at by a martial arts master. But before they could react, the Franc cannon outside the courtyard was replaced by a second gun, and a second shelling broke out amid the roar of fire.

The raised muzzle caused the shells to miss the open gate, and instead broke a hole in the high wall, shattering the ladder behind the wall, and taking the lives and limbs of several house slaves with them. I don't know where the sound of running water came, but for a while, the smell of urine and feces began to spread, but before these began to stimulate the senses, everyone in the courtyard broke out into meaningless cries, and ran towards the back of the house, even Ding Shenyan was no exception.

Using artillery to attack these local tyrants and inferior gentry is more useless than killing chickens with knives, but what Chen Wen wants is to suppress it quickly, suppressing not only the rebellion, but also the people's hearts, only in this way can the aftermath of this be calmed down as quickly as possible. Of course, An Youfu likes this approach very much, otherwise one shot is enough, and there is no need to waste shells at all.

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When the Ming army of Yongkang County entered the home of the rebellious Ding Shenyan, a Dongyang County garrison led by the new Dongyang County guerrilla general Du Lei also invaded the Feng family's house in Hengdian Town, began to search for the Feng family's clansmen, and began to raid the home of this rebel who had been determined to have colluded with the Manchu Qing and Cao Conglong.

Covering his mouth and crying, the head of the Feng family trembled and hid in the secret room of the family. The shouting of the Ming army outside the mansion just now, he was not useless to hear. In the matter of forming a group training, he himself was only helping an old gentleman friend, and at most he could only be regarded as an accomplice. As for collusion with the Qing army, it is nothing more than the Ming army because his son-in-law took the Manchu Qing Dynasty to play on the topic.

Now he was completely cornered, and he could only hide for a while through this secret room, but with the sound of the door being kicked open, a figure soon found the mechanism, exposing the secret room where he was hiding.

"The military master spares his life, the little old man has hidden a large amount of gold and silver outside, and he is willing to pay filial piety to the military master, I just hope that the military master can close this door and don't let people find the little old man. The little old man must have a grass ring to repay the great kindness of the military master. ”

Seeing that Master Feng, who was still acting as a prestige not long ago, wanted to get him home from the barracks and practiced family law, knelt in front of him and kept kowtowing, the former Feng Qi, and now Zhang Yida can be said to be extremely happy, and then kicked him to the ground, so that Master Feng could see his appearance clearly.

When Master Feng raised his head tremblingly, what he saw was Zhang Yida, and the whole person immediately collapsed on the ground of the secret room like a deflated ball, with feces and urine flowing together, and even trembling was more intense than just now.

Zhang Yida's grandparents, parents and the first half of his life were all domestic slaves of the Feng family, and even the family name was changed, and what caused all this was the usury that the Feng family's ancestors tricked his grandfather into signing. For these, Zhang Yida is very clear, and Master Feng is also very clear, and even when he saw Zhang Yida pull out the arrows in the quiver, Master Feng did not move, but continued to tremble there, as if this was the only thing he could do.

"Grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, the child has avenged you!"

Anyway, kill one stone. Immediately pulled out the arrow and slashed the neck of Master Feng with a close-fitting dagger, Zhang Yida pressed the mechanism of the secret room again, and returned to the lobby with tears in his eyes. (To be continued.) )