People are afraid of death, and Geng Zhongming is naturally no exception.

It turns out that compared to Li Yingyuan's slow response, Geng Zhongming is still a smart person. He knew that in this hall today, those original soldiers in distress were actually killers, and once he dared to say half a word, Su Baiyi would definitely let people chop him into meat puree as soon as possible.

Therefore, he chose to express his sincerity to Su Baiyi in the most crisp and neat way.

Killing Li Yingyuan is equivalent to directly offending the "Generalissimo" Li Jiucheng, that is to say, he Geng Zhongming cut off his own retreat, and in the future, he can only follow the court and follow him Su Baiyi in a down-to-earth manner.

Li Yingyuan fell silently, and two or three of the guards on the left and right wanted to hurt people, but they were cleanly disposed of by the brocade guards brought by Su Baiyi, and then, the entire hall became silent, and the needles could be heard.

Su Baiyi took a deep breath, and his cold gaze fell on Geng Zhongming.

This is a famous guy in history, surrendered to the Manchurian Tartars and was named the King of Huaishun when Huang Taiji was the emperor, and he should be named the King of Jingnan in the sixth year of Shunzhi. With such an achievement, he has killed a piece of heaven in the Tartar camp, and he is naturally not a coward who is only a promise, let alone a good-for-nothing person.

From the point of view of later generations, this is a talent. Smart, wise, decisive in killing, and from another point of view, Geng Zhongming is still an extremely insidious person.

To recruit such a person, you must be careful at all times.

But Su Baiyi was not afraid, because from another point of view, Geng Zhongming had rebelled against the imperial court before, and now he has rebelled against Li Jiucheng, but there are not many places in the world that can accommodate him.

"From now on, put away your little cleverness, be honest and down-to-earth, and be the pillar of the country!" Su Baiyi shook it off and then sat back in his seat: "What happened in the hall will spread throughout Dengzhou Mansion tonight, once the matter of your killing of Li Yingyuan is revealed, someone will immediately pass the news to Li Jiucheng, how can you think about how to deal with it?" ”

"There is no other way, naturally it is to cut the grass and eradicate the roots!" Geng Zhongming said: "Master Su, Li Jiucheng is by no means a good type, he instigated the Wuqiao Mutiny at the beginning, and he can be described as the culprit. ”

"Yes, that's good!" Su Baiyi spread his hands: "So what?" ”

"This!" Geng Zhongming thought for a moment and said, "The main force of the Dengzhou sergeant is in the hands of Li Jiucheng, and he is attacking Laizhou City at the moment. If his subordinates take people to Laizhou and approach Li Jiucheng in the name of assistance, they can be booby-trapped! ”

"There's no rush for this!" Su Baiyi waved his hand: "There are three things to do now." ”

"Subordinates obey orders!"

Geng Zhongming and Mao Chenglu all stood up and bowed their hands to him.

"First, spread the news that Geng Zhongming killed the rebel general Li Yingyuan, it is best to let the soldiers of the entire city know, and the cronies of the Li family's father and son will naturally take the opportunity to make trouble and destroy them in one fell swoop."

"Yes!" Geng Zhongming gave up.

"Second, gather you and your cronies under Kong Youde's staff, let them know what is happening, and tell him clearly that the court has pardoned everyone for the crime of rebellion."

"Yes!"

"Third, bring the officials of the former Dengzhou who are in prison to see me, and this official needs to rely on them to appease the people of Dengzhou. Go ahead and give you two hours. ”

Jinyiwei opened the door, and many of the previous subordinates left in a panic, Geng Zhongming took a knife to cut off Li Yingyuan's head, grabbed his hair and went out.

Geng Zhongming is naturally not a rammer, he has a deep foundation in Dengzhou Mansion, first a cronie officer and soldier sealed the city gate, and then hung up Li Yingyuan's head in the city, gathered all the soldiers, and pointed to Li Yingyuan's head and said: "Brothers, the mutiny in Wuqiao was really because the Wang family bullied people too much, plus Li Jiucheng's father and son pouted, let us pin our heads on the waistband of our pants to earn a future for his father and son, Li Jiucheng deceived people too much." ”

After a pause, seeing that the assembled soldiers did not react much, he said: "The imperial court has repeatedly appeased me and others, and the Li family father and son have concealed the imperial edict privately, intending to let us continue to work hard for him Li family.

Lord Qincha said, as long as we submit to the imperial court, we are still soldiers of the imperial court, or the army of the Ming Dynasty, and all the sins we should have been forgiven. ”

The soldiers below were ready to move, and began to talk in calamity.

After all, compared with eating with the court, most people are still willing to follow the court.

But that's just the majority of people, and a small number of people have opinions.

Staff General Huang Dahua is a man in his forties, holding a spear in his hand and pointing at Geng Zhongming, scolding: "Dog thief, today is either you die or I live." ”

Huang Dahua has little ability, but he is Li Yingyuan's uncle, so the first thing he had to do when he saw Li Yingyuan's head was to go out to report the news, but unfortunately the north pass of the city gate, the people who patrolled the city were Geng Zhongming's personal soldiers, and he couldn't get out, so he could only break the net and make the final blow.

"Brothers, come on!"

Huang Dahua waved his hand, and forty or fifty soldiers behind him rushed up at the same time, towards Geng Zhongming on the stage.

Geng Zhongming just sneered, and with a wave of his hand, more than 200 people suddenly poured out behind him, all of whom were his cronies: "I've been waiting for you for a long time, Lao Tzu knows that your Huang Dahua will make trouble." ”

"I'm making trouble, who is the thief between us?" Huang Dahua wanted to retreat, but unfortunately the back road had been blocked. I could only grit my teeth, and a gun in my hand danced into a wind, but unfortunately it was useless, and it was taken down by Geng Zhongming's men and horses in less than three minutes.

"Kill, kill all of Li Yingyuan's traitors!" Geng Zhongming waved his hand, and more than forty people all became ghosts under the knife.

"Who else is not convinced?" Geng Zhongming looked at everyone, and finally no one spoke, and shouted loudly: "Han Dan! ”

"The subordinates are here!" A brightly clad man walked out with his hands in his hands.

"Ji Siming, Han Dianxiang, Song Ludan, Chen Peng, are all Li Yingyuan's rebellious party, you lead your own soldiers to arrest all these people and put them in prison, wait for Lord Qincha to interrogate, if there is resistance, kill them on the spot."

"Yes!" Han Dan led a group of people and left in a hurry.

Geng Zhongming said loudly again: "Everyone, gather at the school, Lord Qincha has something to say!" ”

The entire Dengzhou City was like a sneak attack, except for a small number of personal soldiers patrolling the city, the remaining 2,000 people were concentrated on the school grounds.

Su Baiyi came to the school field surrounded by forty brocade guards, looked at the torches burning on both sides and the black pressed people in the middle, waved his hand to the highest place, cleared his throat and said, "Everyone, what, comrades...... Hello brothers! ”

Before the words fell, "Whoosh! ”

Three sounds, three sharp arrows broke through the air and shot from the corner of the school field.

Su Baiyi heard the voice and said that it was not good, the stone lightning next to him stepped a little, his body fluttered up, and the three sharp arrows in the air fell to the ground with a swing of his big sleeves.

Forty brocade guards suddenly pulled out their sabers at their waists at the same time, and stared ahead energetically. Geng Zhongming and Mao Chenglu protected Su Baiyi one after the other, and explained while wiping their sweat: "Lord Su, it's all the fault of your subordinates. ”

Before Geng Zhongming's words fell, a few screams were heard below, and one person shouted Geng Zhongming's name and scolded: "Geng Zhongming, a long-faced black-faced thief, the generalissimo has mistaken you." ”

As soon as the words fell, there were several screams, and it turned out that the soldiers behind spontaneously stopped the three people who were shooting cold arrows, breaking the bones in their arms and legs.

Su Baiyi naturally wouldn't be idle and run to the school field to accept the assassination, the reason why he came here was to convey credibility to the soldiers in the name of the imperial court, and by the way, to improve the loyalty of the soldiers to the imperial court.

There are many ways for soldiers to improve their loyalty, but at present, there is only one way that Su Baiyi can use, and that is: send money.

"Brothers!" Su Baiyi brushed aside Geng Zhongming in front of him and said, "I am Lord Qincha sent by the imperial court, I already know about your affairs, and the imperial court and Your Majesty also know." The meaning of the imperial court, forgive all your sins, as long as you return to the imperial court from today, you will be a good soldier of my Ming Dynasty.

In addition, in order to express the sincerity of the imperial court, the soldiers who are willing to return to the imperial court will be given ten taels of silver each. ”

Su Baiyi gave an order, and the Jinyi guard carried up boxes of silver, looking at the soldiers whose morale was instantly high, the corners of Su Baiyi's mouth involuntarily showed a smile.

Silver can't buy loyalty, but it can buy short-term allegiance.

Of course, the silver belongs to Mao Chenglu, and he doesn't need to be dressed in white.

"Let's go, there's a lot to deal with!"

Su Baiyi waved his hand, and Geng Zhongming and Mao Chenglu, who were staring at the silver with painful eyes, called the two away from the school.

Re-entering the previous hall, the blood stains on the floor of the hall had been wiped clean.

"Sit down!" Su Baiyi sat down first, followed by Shi Dian, who was closely followed by him, stood next to him, and Geng Zhongming and Mao Chenglu also sat down in turn.

"All the captured officials of the original Denglai Land have been released, right?"

"It's all gone!" Geng Zhongming said: "Thirty-four people, all released, are all in the attic behind the governor's yamen. ”

"Okay, I'll see them later!" Su Baiyi took out a letter from his arms and threw it on the table, saying, "Two of you, take a look, this is a note written by someone Su to His Majesty." ”

"Yes!"

Geng Zhongming hurriedly opened it, glanced at it a few times, his face suddenly became bloody, the more he looked at it, the more satisfied he became, and handed it to Mao Chenglu with a smile.

Mao Chenglu was also very satisfied after reading it, and saluted Su Baiyi: "Thank you Suzi." ”

"This time to be able to take Dengzhou without blood, it is indeed the merit of the two, and Su is not a lie, but the merits are offset by the two, and it is impossible to be promoted and make a fortune, but in the same way, the life of the net worth is saved, since the two have no opinion, Su will let Jinyiwei send him back to Beijing quickly."

"Thank you, Lord Su!"

"Master Su is my Geng Zhongming's reborn parents."

"That's it!" Su Baiyi interrupted Geng Zhongming's sycophants, and said very solemnly: "Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde still have 30,000 soldiers and horses in their hands, and it won't be long before Dengzhou returns to the imperial court, so we must start before Li Jiucheng gets the news and seize his soldiers and horses!" ”