Tianjiadong, Baojing Prefecture, the second town of the Taiping Army, which led the army to suppress the Tusi, was stunned there, he didn't expect that the hundreds of Qing troops and native soldiers on the opposite side would be so unbearable, and the soldiers under him were just a charge, and the Qing army and native soldiers collapsed. The leading Qing soldiers still wanted to hold on, but no matter how he scolded him, no one in his battalion was willing to turn back and fight with the Taiping army, and those native soldiers ran into the mountains and forests as soon as they swarmed.

The Taiping army won the victory so easily, only to be shocked that Liao Lanqi, the local official of Donkey Chidong who led the troops to help suppress it, widened his eyes, and while shouting at his native soldiers to hurry up and chase the Qing army, he ran over and said hello to Si Guoxiao.

"A rabble is not worth congratulating."

Having said that, Si Guoxiao still has a sense of accomplishment in his heart, in terms of military strength alone, he has only more than 200 people, and there are only more than 300 people under the local official Liao Lanqi, and there are no less than 1,000 native soldiers in the Qing army on the opposite side.

"Lord Baihu, I know that there is a path that leads to Denis's stockade."

Thinking that there was a lot of food in the Deni village in collusion with the Qing soldiers, and there were many people in the village, Liao Lanqi's eyes became very eager.

Liao Lanqi is a hereditary local official in Xiangxi, according to the official position of the Ming Dynasty, he is a five-grade official, and the young Baihu adult in front of him is only from the sixth grade, but he does not dare to put a five-grade official shelf.

Liao Lanqi didn't care what others thought of him, and what his subordinates thought of him, he only knew that his ignorant brother Quanzhai asked the Taiping Army to slaughter a chicken and dog, and the whole family was hung on the wooden stakes on the official road to expose the corpses to the public. And he knew the current affairs, and was the first to ask the Taiping Army to surrender when the local officials were still waiting, so he not only got the good official certificate awarded by the Taiping Army, but also became the first local official in Xiangxi to obtain the nameplate of the new Han people, and went to Chenzhou to meet the commander of the Taiping Army, and the other party praised him personally, promising that after Xiangxi was settled, he would personally grant him the post of Baojing Counselor, and give him 100 stones of grain and 100 taels of silver, and allow him to lead his troops to help suppress the wealth of the village.

With such glory and practical benefits, it is worth it to pay only that the whole village will change their surnames to Chinese, wear Chinese clothes, and open schools to teach Chinese characters and speak Chinese. If he is no longer a lowly local official in the mouth of those state and county officials, but really becomes the official of the Ming Dynasty, becomes a parent of a place, and can also show off talents and raise people in the village, Liao Lanqi is a good deal, so he is willing to work for the Taiping Army. Of course, the premise is that the Taiping army really gained a foothold in Lianghu as Zhou Marshal said, and if the Qing soldiers came over again, he Liao Lanqi couldn't help but think about the clansmen. On the Qing side, they are also relatively tolerant of these local officials, as long as they are willing to submit, they still do not pursue the past.

"The Qing soldiers have no courage, and the stockade of Nadeni will be handed over to you, and according to the previous one, the things and people will belong to you, but it is necessary to make a unified book and select some young and strong people to be incorporated into the army."

"Don't worry, my lord, this is a humble duty!"

Before leaving, Si Guoxiao had been instructed by the above, so he responded to the matter very happily. Liao Lanqi also knew the rules of the Taiping Army, so naturally he had no objections, and he wanted to take people to capture Deni's stockade immediately. Si Guoxiao thought about it, and was afraid that the native soldiers under Liao Lanqi would be unusable, so he ordered a general flag to lead the troops in the rear.

"Thank you, sir!"

There was a Taiping army that could fight to suppress the formation for him, Liao Lanqi was more confident, and was about to turn around and leave after thanking him, but Si Guoxiao stopped him again. Liao Lanqi's heart sank, thinking that Si Guoxiao also took a fancy to the money, food and goods of Deni's village, and was thinking about dividing him into a few percent, but he heard Si Guoxiao say: "I still don't feel at ease after thinking about it, although the Qing army is guts, but there are many people, and Deni is protecting his own nest, in case the village refuses to defend, I am afraid that your people will suffer too many casualties." So, take all the captives with you, and if the attack doesn't go well, tell them to storm the village. ”

On the way to Tianjiadong, Si Guoxiao's troops broke two Tusi stockades, captured more than 100 native soldiers, and captured a group of Qing soldiers, the number of which was about 70, in addition to more than 40 bandits, including Han and natives. Liao Lanqi suggested that these prisoners should be pitted at that time, but Si Guoxiao said that these people were useful to keep, and the marshal explained that these prisoners were strategic resources, even if they couldn't be soldiers, they could be sent back to do some coolies, and if they couldn't be sent to Guangdong or Guangxi to be managed, they could also farm, and it was too wasteful to kill them in vain.

Liao Lanqi doesn't know any strategic resources, but he thinks right, he has been in chaos for twenty or thirty years today, not to mention other places, just this Xiangxi, the population is also sharply reduced, and the Han people don't talk about him, but all the toasts take people very seriously. Some villages often sent people down the mountain to kidnap Han Chinese as slaves, in order to obtain more people to produce labor for them.

Liao Lanqi has also done a lot of things over the years to go down the mountain to catch the Han people's mouths, and the evil things that made people's wives separated were not one or two, but many. However, the government of Xiangxi is constantly changing, today is the Ming Dynasty, tomorrow is the Qing Dynasty, and the officials themselves don't know when they will be headed, so they naturally have no time to pay attention to the evil things done by the local officials. I don't want the Taiping army to come, the first thing is not to rush to ask for food, but to move troops against them, the local officials and Tusi. What to say that the Taiping Army is not only the army of the Ming Dynasty, but also the army of the Han people, so anyone who dares to offend the Han people and oppress the Han people must be suppressed.

In addition to asking Tusi, bandits, and remnants of the Qing army to lay down their arms and surrender at designated places, they emphasized the inviolability of the Han people. It was stated that if any of the Tusi families captured a Han man for a living, the soldiers would immediately send it and slaughter his entire village.

At first, the toasts of each family took it seriously, but as several villages were uprooted by the Taiping army, and the men, women and children in the village were cut off their heads, the toasts immediately understood that the list of the Taiping army was not a threat, nor was it the empty mouth and white teeth of the government in the past, but an announcement that could really kill people.

The toasts didn't dare to send people down the mountain to catch the Han people, thinking that the well water would not interfere with the river water, your Taiping army was powerful, we couldn't afford to provoke it, but the Qing soldiers were also powerful, and when the Qing soldiers came, the rabbit tail of your Taiping army couldn't grow. After all, it is a thousand-year-old custom in Xiangxi to catch the Han people, and if you don't catch the Han people, how can the village survive

Author's note: The arrest of Han people continued to occur from time to time after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

It's raining heavily in the past two days, and there's no outer block, so I'm working hard to write. There are two watches, and the time should be after the early morning, so there is no need to wait. (To be continued.) )