Shang Kexi roasted himself alive, looking at the charred corpse of King Pingnan, Li Shutai's face was cloudy, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Zhou Shixiang watched casually in the hall, picking up one or two small gadgets from time to time and fiddling with them. On the side, Yang's body was still lying on the bed.

Zhou Shixiang didn't let Yang's corpse be removed, nor did he let people destroy this woman's corpse, after all, everything Shang Kexi did had nothing to do with this woman, not to mention that the person was already dead, there was no need to vent his anger with her corpse.

Li Shutai knew that his fate would not be much more favorable than Shang Ke's, and when he was not caught by the Taiping army, he was also scared and panicked, but now he calmed down and began to think.

Zhou Shixiang did not let people kill Li Shutai immediately, so that the governor of Liangguang had to guess the other party's intentions, and it was inevitable that there would be a lot of reverie.

Although Li Shutai was the governor of Liangguang in the Qing court, he was by no means a civilian official. When he was 12 years old, he entered the Qing Dynasty Taizu Nurhachi, and at the age of 16, he was married by Taizu, and successively followed Taizong Hongtai to conquer Chahar, Korea, Jinzhou, and then entered the customs with the Great Bel Abatai to attack Shandong. After entering the customs with Prince Rui Dolgon, he conscripted Li Zicheng's Dashun army, forced more than 10,000 Dashun troops to surrender in Henan, and then conquered Yu Prince Duoduo, attacked Yangzhou to break Jiangning, Dingsu, Song, and Tujiangyin, and then followed Duanzhong Prince Boluo to pacify Zhejiang and Fujian, and then asked Jiang Jiu, who returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, until he was recommended by Hong Chengchou to serve as the governor of Liangguang, it can be said that he participated in all the wars before and after the Qing army entered the customs, and his hands were stained with the blood of the Han people, and he was an out-and-out executioner who helped and abused.

Such a character naturally will not surrender to Zhou Shixiang easily. Moreover, Li Shutai knew the weight of the sins he had committed against the Han people, so the idea of surrendering only flashed for a moment and he didn't think much about it again. He was thinking more about the three-way army outside, and he didn't know what the current situation was, and what impact the fall of Guangzhou would have on the situation of the Qing court in Guangdong. Will it affect the five-province strategy of Jinglu, Hong Chengchou's suggestion to the emperor, and the three-way Pingdian strategy.

Zhou Shixiang didn't kill him, he could only make Li Shutai think that the other party wanted to torture himself and kill again, or show off his might in front of him, and put on his prestige as a thief, that's all, he really couldn't think of what tricks the other party could have besides this.

Zhou Shixiang occasionally glanced at Li Shutai, and the contempt in his eyes was not concealed at all. This made Li Shutai very angry, but he couldn't scold anything, because the other party hadn't said a word to him until now.

Outside the temple. The Taiping army was carrying the corpses out, and Shang Keyuan and a group of soldiers and guards who had laid down their arms were not killed, but were ordered to count the Han army families under the Pingnan Domain, and then make a register of them one by one for further disposal.

Qin Guocheng, the deputy capital commander, did not die. He was struck in the chest with a spear. I lost too much blood, and although I haven't breathed yet, I won't live long.

After learning from the Taiping army that King Pingnan had self-immolated, Qin Guocheng's face showed a smile, and he seemed to see the prince on Huangquan Road waving to him.

Shang Kexi's sons were killed a lot, only a few of them were still in infancy, and they were trapped in an empty hall by the Taiping army with their mother, and there were also Shang Kexi's daughters and daughters-in-law.

They didn't know what they would do with the Taipings. One by one, they wept in the temple as if the end was coming. It wasn't until two days later that the doors of the main hall were opened, and men with glowing faces came in and took them away one by one. From then on, she became another man's mother-in-law and bore children for him. Shang Kexi's sons, who were not very good at speaking, also took another surname from then on, and no longer knew what he had done

"Shall I call you a, or should I call the Governor?"

Zhou Shixiang finally spoke, he picked up a small carriage made of jade, I have to say that the craftsmanship of the carving is really superb, the palm-sized jade can be carved into a vivid carriage out, this thing is afraid that in the future generations it is no worse than the national treasure jade jade cabbage.

Looking at Zhou Shi's smiling expression, Li Shutai snorted: "Since this official has fallen into your hands, if you want to kill it, you have to listen to it, you don't have to tease me." ”

"Ben Shuai doesn't mean to tease the Governor, Ben Shuai has another thing here that I want to hear the Governor's opinion." Zhou Shixiang laughed, and really sincerely stepped forward to ask him: "Now Guangzhou City is owned by Ben Shuai, but there are still tens of thousands of Manchurian women and children in the city, and Ben Shuai doesn't know what to do with them." The Governor has been dealing with the Manchurians for many years, and he is the son-in-law of the Manchurians, but he doesn't know what to teach him? ”

"Let the officer come up with an idea? Haha, ridiculous! Do you want the official to say that it is better to slaughter all the Manchurians, and save you trouble! ”

Li Shutai felt funny, the thief Xiucai actually asked him to come up with ideas on how to deal with the Manchurians, which was really whimsical.

Zhou Shixiang seemed to understand something, "oh", nodded and said: "The Governor originally wanted Ben Shuai to slaughter all the Manchurians, well, it coincides with Ben Shuai's thoughts." ”

"Fart, when did this official say that!" Li Shutai was in a hurry, and the thief Xiucai was clearly talking nonsense.

Zhou Shi was unimpressed by Li Shutai's anger, and said to himself: "If Ben Shuai slaughters the whole city, and then says that it is the Governor's advice, do you think the Qing court will believe it?" ”

"The emperor won't fall for your tricks."

Li Shutai was so angry that his hands and feet trembled, but he was frightened when he said this, if the thief Xiucai really planted him like this, it was the emperor who didn't believe in this flawed counter-plan, and would the Manchurian princes in the court believe it? This kind of thing doesn't need any evidence at all, it is enough to spread it out and let people know about it.

In the case that he can't prove it for himself, the best consequence that Li Shutai can think of is that the imperial court will not guard against his Li family, but I am afraid that the people of the Li family will not be reused. As for his name Li Shutai, after a long time, the emperor probably doesn't want to hear about it. After all, he was the first governor in the history of the Qing Dynasty to be captured alive by the Ming army, and his nature was worse than the dead Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, and Nikan.

Li Shutai could even think that maybe one day the young Emperor Shunzhi would inadvertently complain to the palace people, "Why didn't Li Shutai die?" Then this sentence was quickly spread by people with good intentions, and at that time, his Li family was afraid that he would really fall into a place of no return.

Why didn't I commit suicide, why did I listen to Gui Yongzhi's words and hide in the closet, my dignified governor of Liangguang was not framed by thieves, but hiding in the closet and being searched out was enough to ruin my reputation!

Li Shutai regretted that his intestines were green, and he also hated Gui Yongzhi. (To be continued.) )