Half an hour later, Xu Yingyuan came over to report with an excited face, saying that he had lived up to the trust of the commander, and that the 136 captive officials and scholars had all expressed their willingness to return to the Taiping Army except for the first two.

"Oh, really? Let's go, take Ben Shuai to meet them. ”

Zhou Shixiang was very happy, the effect of the butcher knife was really immediate, and it solved his most difficult trouble at once. He couldn't wait to see these officials and scholars who were about to join the Taiping Army, and he had to appease these people on the scene, so that he could win people's hearts.

"Yes, Dashuai, please!"

Xu Yingyuan was busy leading the way. When he arrived at the school grounds, without waiting for anyone to approach, he shouted loudly: "Handsome here!" The voice was extremely loud, and Zhou Shixiang secretly praised it: What a host!

Zhou Shixiang glanced at all the officials and scholars, and saw that most of them were very frightened, and they didn't dare to look up at themselves, nor did they dare to move. Knowing that they were frightened, he was not surprised, and looked at them with a smile.

"You don't have to be restrained, this marshal is the chief military officer of the great tomorrow son Qinfeng, and today this marshal led 100,000 sons to Xiangshan, which is to expel the Tartars and restore my Ming and Han dynasty."

Zhou Shixiang wrapped himself and bluffed. After that, he slowly glanced at these officials and scholars who did not dare to look at him directly, and said in a harmonious voice: "Ben Shuai knows that some of you are officials who have served the Qing court, and some are scholars in the township, and it is not your intention to come to Xiangshan this time, but it doesn't matter, since you have decided to serve Ben Shuai, then Ben Shuai will treat you as your own family." In the future, we must also trust you and entrust you to reuse. You can rest assured that you are bold in Xiangshan, as long as you are loyal and bright. Have the courage to do anything, this handsome will never hesitate to reward, you have merit, this handsome will also play to the court to ask for credit for you, he will be crowned by his wife and son! ”

After speaking, Zhou Shixiang stopped, waiting for someone in the crowd to come out to pick him up, but the crowd was silent. There was no reaction at all.

Zhou Shixiang's heart sank, Xu Yingyuan saw a sudden surprise, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "You all made a clear statement just now. Now that the marshal is meeting you in person, why don't you hurry up and show your loyalty to the marshal? ”

After a pause, the crowd still didn't react, and his face couldn't be hung up. He gestured to the three soldiers who were still holding bamboo poles. The soldiers hurriedly shook the bamboo poles over the crowd, and immediately blood dripped into the crowd, causing a commotion in the crowd.

"You are willing to serve my Taiping Army, and my Taiping Army will protect your lives and your families, but if you are just lying and deceiving me just now, then I am not polite to you."

Xu Yingyuan was afraid that things would be messed up again, so he ignored Zhou Shixiang's presence. directly threatened a group of officials and scholars.

Zhou Shi had no opinion on this, and stood there with his hands in his hands. Waiting for the reaction of these people. But the crowd was still silent, and no one came forward.

Zhou Shixiang's face became more and more ugly, he was not angry that Xu Yingyuan didn't get things done and came to report him for nothing, but that he was annoyed that these people were too ignorant and embarrassed, and they had already taken off their pants and returned him. Mother's death tugging on her pants is what's the matter.

"Dashuai, why don't you let me hammer two more to death!"

The blind man Li rubbed his fists, and when Zhou Shixiang agreed, he went to pick two scholars to practice his hands. Ever since he sawed Tayinbu that day, the blind man Li has liked this kind of quick killing in public. Feel.

"Wait and see."

Zhou Shixiang was quite calm and didn't let the blind man Li do it. He had already calculated in his heart that since these people had promised Xu Yingyuan to serve in the Taiping Army, no matter whether they were willing or forced to do so, they had to fulfill their choice. I don't expect them to be grateful to Dade to thank the Taiping Army Zhou Dashuai for not killing him, but a few words on the scene will always work. Now they are so stagnant, how to point to them and do things. It seems that the shock power of the three heads is not enough, and there are a few more to pick.

When he was impatient, finally a middle-aged man who was still wearing the official uniform of the Qing court slowly raised his head, and when he saw Zhou Shixiang looking at him, he hurriedly lowered his head again, but within two seconds, he raised his head again, and the corners of his mouth also moved, as if he had something to say.

Well?

Zhou Shixiang was happy in his heart, as long as someone took the lead, others would be easy to do, so he immediately pointed to this eight-grade petty official and asked him, "What's your name?" ”

"Back to the handsome words, the official surname is Chen Jiantai!" When the eight-rank official saw that Zhou Shixiang really asked about himself, he was also overjoyed, and added: "The lower official is the puppet dynasty Zengcheng teaching. ”

"Zengcheng's teachings? Okay, good, Ben Shuai's subordinates are lacking such a big material as you. Zhou Shixiang praised him and asked him: "Since you have made an edict, then Ben Shuai will let you be the edict of Xiangshan County, do you think it is good?" ”

Chen Jiantai glanced at his companions left and right, and after a little hesitation, he nodded firmly: "Xia Guan is willing to do things for the handsome!" ”

Zhou Shixiang nodded slightly and ordered: "Come on, reward Chen Jiantai with twenty taels of silver!" ”

"Thank you, Dashuai!"

After receiving a few silver ingots, Chen Jiantai's eyes lit up. He didn't know that the so-called Taiping Army did not have 100,000 people at all, and it was just a lone soldier of the Ming army near Guangzhou, and it was difficult to say whether he would be able to gain a foothold in Xiangshan in the future.

But people are under the eaves, they have to bow their heads, heroes don't eat immediate losses, and those who know the times are Junjie, compared to the two unlucky people who were cut off their heads, Chen Jiantai thought that he would always be luckier than them, at least he could live longer than them. As for whether the wife in the family will be implicated by her own enlightenment, it doesn't matter, isn't there a good saying, the sky is high and the birds fly, and the husband has no wife. Xianggong is going back to see the lady for his life, but he doesn't really want to put the lady to death, you don't see it, Lord Wang's bloody head is still in the air!

As long as this person has a leader, there must be many followers.

With Chen Jiantai as an example, he won both officials and silver, and suddenly a few officials in the Qing Dynasty stood up. Their officials are not big, they are all eight or nine grade officials, one by one they said what they did as officials in the Qing Dynasty, and Zhou Shixiang also entrusted them with the same official position and gave them a reward. Then there were scholars who stood up, there were Shunzhi 16 years of people, there were also Yongli years of people, there were more talents, most of the origins are from Guangdong, there are a small number of Fujian and Jiangxi, and two are from Nanzhili.

"Okay, since you are all willing to do things for Ben Shuai, Ben Shuai will definitely not treat you badly. You all go down, this Shuai will be very happy, it is rare for you to understand the righteousness so well, willing to help this Shuai, this Shuai does not dare to guarantee anything else, to ensure that you have no worries about food and clothing, glory and wealth is a trivial matter! ”

There are more than 100 people, Zhou Shixiang naturally can't talk to them one by one, just say a few words to the leader, he has a lot of things now, and it is impossible to spend all his time here. Signaled Xu Yingyuan to bring everyone down and send them to Song Xianggong for arrangement, Song Xianggong was preparing to set up a short-term crash course for officials, and the teaching materials were compiled according to the advice given by Zhou Shixiang.

Zhou Shixiang was not worried that these people would be in the Ming camp, and their hearts would be clear, eating the food of the Taiping Army but smashing the bowl of the Taiping Army. He has a targeted measure, that is, to let Liao Ruixiang arrange people to supervise these people, until it is confirmed that they are honest and not cheating and cheating, and the knife of the Taiping Army stabbed behind his back will not give real credit.

Even if there is a need, Zhou Shixiang doesn't mind learning from Ming Taizu, and when these guys are doing things, they specially get a few big-headed soldiers to stand by with knives and watch them. Although this practice greatly hurts the face of these readers, it is the most effective method in the short term. In the long run, take one step at a time, Zhou Shixiang now also understands what it is to cross the river by feeling the stones, Xiangshan is in ruins, all affairs are grass-roots, and a lot of manpower and material resources are needed. When the Taiping army itself cultivated people can come out to enrich the political power at all levels, this problem will no longer exist. And all this requires the Taiping army to be able to have at least one province of territory, otherwise, everything is in the air.

Zhou Shixiang was leaving, and a group of officials and scholars were naturally interested, and the voices of praise continued, but at this time, a scholar stood up to stop Zhou Shixiang, and he said: "Lord General Soldier, the student is a subordinate of King Tang, and I implore Lord General Soldier to send the student back to King Tang." ”

Tang Wang?

Zhou Shixiang stopped and was stunned: Where did a subordinate of King Tang come out?

After Emperor Longwu ascended the throne, the Tang King was sealed by his younger brother Zhu Yulu, that is, Emperor Shaowu. Emperor Longwu and Emperor Shaowu were both martyred, how could there be a Tang king?

"What a bold man dares to deceive Ben Shuai, the two Tang kings of my dynasty have been martyred, how can the Tang king say!"

Zhou Shixiang was furious, his family is also a showman, this scholar has eaten the gall of a bear's heart and a leopard, and he dares to use a fake Tang King to coax himself. If you want to go, just say it, Ben Shuai is not unreasonable, and he dares to deceive me like this!

In a fit of rage, he commanded left and right: "Take down this fool!" ”

After finishing speaking, he was pulled by Xu Yingyuan behind him, and reminded him very embarrassedly: "Dashuai, there is still a Tang King who is not dead." ”

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