Chapter 403: The Native Rebellion

In their simple and savage minds, they are the masters of the land under their feet, even if they sleep lazy every day and do not know how to use this land at all, and even they would rather their land be covered with wild grass than let the Han people grow more useful rice, sugarcane and other crops.

So in the jealousy of the natives, the conflict naturally inevitably occurred, before Zhu Zhishan just arrived, he had dealt with several conflicts between the natives and the Han people, but those conflicts were very small, not a big deal, only one of the conflicts caused by the scale of the relatively large, the death of four natives, that time some natives wanted to enter the Han village to snatch a beautiful woman, but the woman's brother of the same clan hacked to death four with a firewood knife, the rest of the natives were all scared away, afterwards Zhu Zhishan sentenced the Han people not guilty, At the same time, he severely punished the native nobles who instructed them to rob people, and as a result, after this incident, those natives thought that they were acting unfairly, and even became hostile to the government.

Thinking of the stupid and barbaric natives under his rule, Zhu Zhishan felt a headache again, he is a scholar, and has always been responsible for educating the people of the world, after all, in his opinion, although those natives are stupid, but after all, they are also people, Confucius said that there is no class, so he believes that as long as he shows enough sincerity, one day he will influence those natives.

After Zhu Zhishan arrived in Gangnan County, he went to the Turen tribe in the north of the city several times to encourage those Turen to learn from the Han Chinese, and at the same time distributed seeds, farm tools and other things for free. There are even daily necessities such as cloth and salt. It can be said that a magistrate can do it. He did it all.

But what Zhu Zhishan didn't expect was that the seeds he distributed were quickly eaten up by the natives, and the farm tools were sold to the Han people by them, not to mention things like cloth and salt. It's shameless.

However, even after experiencing a series of failures above, Zhu Zhishan still did not lose heart about educating the natives, he has been planning to open a academy in Gangnan County during this time, the academy not only recruits Han people, but also recruits some natives to go to school in the academy, I believe that those natives will definitely be very different from the original natives after being educated by the sage book, and with these natives who know the sage book as a bridge, it will be easier for him to educate the rest of the natives.

But it's a pity that when Zhu Zhishan was working hard for the academy. But they didn't expect the natives in the north of the city to start a riot, and these stupid natives didn't think about the consequences of starting a riot at all. You must know that there are still 3,000 elite soldiers stationed in the old port city of Ludao, and there are also 5,000 troops just recruited from the local area, all of which are armed to the teeth by the Han people, even the Danmu Kingdom and the Banten Kingdom have been defeated in their hands, not to mention those unarmed ordinary natives.

After all, there are more natives than Han people in the old port, and Shen Ying and Tang Bohu are not fools, so they naturally know that they want to guard against those natives, so they have long arranged special manpower to buy those natives and nobles, and the result is that the movements of the natives under the rule of each state and county will be reported to the local government and nearby troops in the shortest possible time.

Zhu Zhishan looked at the information of the local riot in his hand, and his heart was also very heavy, because he knew very clearly that the same information had been sent to the army stationed in the old port city, and the army had already sent someone to deliver the news, so that he didn't have to panic, now the army of the old port had rushed to the area of the Han settlement in the south of the city, and was about to arrive at the county seat, and as long as the local people in the north of the city dared to launch a riot tonight, they would be greeted by a bloody massacre.

Thinking of the two or three hundred thousand natives who launched a riot, but these natives were destined to die in the slaughter of the Ming army, Zhu Zhishan felt a little breathless, and even he had seen the scene of Gangnan County flowing with blood tonight. After all, Zhu Zhishan is a literati, and he always has some rejection of killing.

Just when Zhu Zhishan felt sorry for the natives who were about to be slaughtered tonight, he saw a young man in official uniform walk in from outside the county office, and saluted Zhu Zhishan and said, "Teacher, you don't have to feel sad for those stupid natives anymore, after all, they are looking for death by themselves, and they really can't blame others!" ”

Hearing the words of this young official, Zhu Zhishan also raised his head and glanced at him, and then sighed and said: "Shenzhong, you young people have momentum and courage, but in comparison, being a teacher is a bit of a woman's kindness. ”

The young man who came in was Zhu Zhishan's disciple Xu Shenzhong, and he was also Zhou Chong's close friend when he was in Songjiang, and they also copied the first thirty-four of Journey to the West as a birthday gift to Zhu Zhishan.

Xu Shenzhong was born in a family of eunuchs, and he was full of poetry and books since he was a child, and he learned calligraphy from Zhu Zhishan at a young age. However, it is a pity that Xu Shenzhong and his teacher Zhu Zhishan, like his teacher, are also very bumpy on the way to the imperial examination, he has also participated in the examination several times, but he has also repeatedly fallen first, this time Zhu Zhishan to Nanyang Renzhi County, Xu Shenzhong thought twice, and finally decided to come to Nanyang with the teacher, as a result, after Zhou Chongzhi Dao, he was arranged as the chief secretary of Gangnan County, and now he is the most important assistant of Zhu Zhishan.

Xu Shenzhong heard the teacher's words of lamenting the kindness of his woman, but he smiled and said: "Teacher, you don't have to feel that you are a woman's kindness, in fact, to be honest, student, when I think of the blood flowing in Gangnan County tonight, my heart is still uncomfortable, especially before we have made so many efforts to influence those natives, and even now we are still preparing to open a college to recruit natives, but those natives are like stubborn stones, and they don't know how to be grateful at all, and now with this riot, I'm afraid there won't be many natives left in Gangnan County in the future." ”

When Xu Shenzhong talked about the last days, he also became a little gnashing of teeth. When he first arrived in Gangnan County, he was also the same as his teacher Zhu Zhishan, thinking that he could influence the local natives, but when they made so many efforts for the local natives, but there was no effect in the end, the young Xu Shenzhong finally couldn't hold his breath, and even his attitude towards the local natives began to change, especially when he saw those natives eating the good seeds they had worked so hard to raise, Xu Shenzhong was even more eager to use a knife to chop those stupid natives.

When Zhu Zhishan saw that his always good-tempered disciple mentioned the local natives, he also began to show a trace of murderous aura, it seems that Xu Shenzhong has accumulated a lot of anger towards the natives during this time, but it is not surprising to think about it, sometimes even Zhu Zhishan himself is also angry and hateful to those natives, not to mention the young and vigorous Xu Shenzhong.

"Shenzhong, has the defense of the city been done, although the army has been ambushed in the south of the city, but I guess those natives will definitely attack the county seat as soon as possible, and if those natives are allowed to rush into the county seat, the consequences will be unimaginable." Zhu Zhishan shook his head and began to focus his attention on the defense of the county seat, after all, a rebellion of the Turen could occur at any time, and he had to ensure the safety of the county seat.

"Teacher, don't worry, I have informed the people in the city just now, and the people outside the city have also been temporarily resettled in the city, and they have also sent middle-aged men from their families to help defend the city, and all the officials and militia in the city have been assembled, and the weapons have also been transported to the city wall, although the city wall of our county town is not very tall, but it is impossible to attack it with only those bare-handed natives!" Xu Shenzhong said very confidently, Gangnan County is a newly built small city, most of the Han people in Gangnan County have their own houses in the county, but they usually do not live in the city, but live in their own farms outside the city, only in a critical moment like today, they will temporarily go to the city to live.

Hearing that Xu Shenzhong had already made arrangements, Zhu Zhishan also nodded with satisfaction, for him, the county, the most important thing now is to ensure the safety of the Han people in the county, as for those natives who are in trouble, he has made enough efforts before, since those natives are looking for their own death, he can't save the lives of those natives.

That night, there was a sudden riot in the local settlement in the north of Gangnan County, countless natives were naked and brandished any weapon they could find in their hands, whether it was a man, a woman or a child, they all howled like madmen and hit Gangnan County, but when they rushed to the city wall, they encountered the rolling wood and stones thrown down from the city wall, and they suffered heavy casualties for a while, and they did not have any siege equipment, so they could only die in the face of the strong city wall.

But even so, those crazy natives still hit the county town of Gangnan for nearly half an hour, and the dead people under the city wall were piled up into a hill, which made those crazy natives feel a little frightened, and they didn't know who gave the order, they began to bypass the county in groups, ready to attack the Han people living in the south of the county, after all, they all knew that most of the Han people usually do not live in the city, but live in the farms outside the city.

However, these stupid natives did not calm down at all and think about it, since the county seat was ready, how could the Han settlement in the south of the county not be prepared?

When the natives in the rebellion bypassed the county seat and rushed into the Han settlement in the south of the city, the Ming army, which had long been ambushed here, took advantage of the geographical advantage to introduce the natives in the riot into a Han village built in the valley, and then blocked the exit of the valley, and ignited the fire oil and dry wood placed in the valley, for a time the whole valley was in flames, except for a few natives who survived, most of the rioting natives were buried in the fire. (To be continued......)