The heads of the four guards of Longli, Xintian, Weiqing, and Pingba were presented in a tray at this moment, and were carried into the banquet hall by four Han soldiers and sent to the toasts who went to the banquet.

It was something they didn't expect.

More than 20 small local officials in Guiyang City were left behind for the banquet, and everyone was thinking about what reason to leave here as soon as possible and return to their own territory.

But I never expected that after the Han army invaded Guiyang and killed Anwei, there was a big move immediately. But this time it was not the Yi people who were killed, not the Miao people, but the Han people. He is also the military attache of the Han army in the Ming Guard.

The local officials looked at each other, and their eyes showed deep horror.

This group of Han soldiers is so ruthless, they will break the city if they don't agree with each other, and they will kill people without saying a word.

The heads of Cao Xun's four people were placed there, and even most of the local officials present with these four people knew each other. Although these are Han Chinese, they have long become large landlords over the years, and they have a lot of Han military households under their hands, and their forces are not weaker than them. Unexpectedly, the marshal of the Han army said that he would kill him.

"This is General Cao Xun, the commander of Long Liwei?" A local official couldn't help but ask, a little incredulous. He was one of the local officials under Long Liwei's former jurisdiction.

"Yes, this person is Cao Xun, but he is not the commander of Long Liwei, when Chongzhen of the previous dynasty had removed the Tianxia Guards and dismissed the military attaches of the various guards. When the dynasty was established, there were no commanders in all provinces, and there were no more guards in the world. Yang Xun is just an arrogant maniac who is good at doing things, invading the army of the country, enslaving and oppressing the people, and secretly communicating with the rebels, intending to resist the power of heaven. ”

It was a staff officer who spoke, and at the end he added, "Xintian, Weiqing, and Pingba Sanwei, the same is true, Xiao Xiao steals power." He was good at power, resisted the power of heaven, was beheaded by Wang Shi, and was dedicated to the army. ”

A local official's face was even more ugly now, and some people even had a deep fear in their hearts.

The methods of the Han army were too ruthless and there was no room for it.

The local officials have never seen such a Han army, and the Han army they dealt with in the past were all Ming troops, and they did not dare to be so tough on the local officials. Most of them are still mainly wooing. How can there be such a killing spree?

An old man stroked his beard, his eyes looked at the few dead heads, and the southern Xinjiang was about to change.

As soon as Liu Qiao waved his hand, the four heads were placed next to the local officials and placed at the end of the hall.

"The will of His Majesty the Emperor is irresistible, and the power of the imperial court is irresistible. Those who dare to resist, Shui Xi'an is a lesson from the past, and these four people are a lesson from the past. ”

"Ben Shuai has done what the emperor wanted. Set up Longli and other four guards as four counties, and stationed soldiers and horses to establish a county government. The next step was to measure the fields in the four counties and dispatch officials. building schools, etc. ”

Liu Qiao smiled, "There will also be townships below the county level, township heads and town mayors will be appointed, villages will be established, and Baojia will be established." ”

For these petty local officials who are attached. Liu Qiao said that the imperial court would guarantee the safety of their property.

The implication is that if others do not come, the safety of the property may not be guaranteed.

The staff officer timely told the Han officials who resisted in the four guards of Longli. After Cao Xun and the others were executed, all their property was confiscated, and their families were sent overseas into exile.

The staff officer also said, "According to the imperial court system, slavery will be abolished, and slavery will not be allowed." All slaves are to be given freedom. ”

The local officials were all stunned.

One of the major features of the Tusi system is slavery. The toasts were all slave owners. Below them, there were many freemen, but more slaves.

Now that the imperial court has abolished slavery and is not allowed to keep slaves, it is a punch to their seven inches.

And the imperial court also had to clear the acres of land and levy taxes according to the acres of fields, which broke the agreement between the imperial court and the Tusi in the past.

In the future, will this toast still be toast?

"Next, the imperial court will send troops to suppress all the rebellions that resist the heavenly soldiers, you can immediately send someone back to deliver the letter, and now the people of the headquarters have come to assist the imperial court heavenly soldiers to suppress the bandits. Ben Shuai is here to assure you that you will assist the imperial court in quelling the rebellion, and after breaking through the thief village, I will give you a rich share of the spoils of war. ”

"Kill the rebel young and strong people or capture a young and strong man, and reward two silver dollars and one for the old and young women."

Guizhou is a remote place, especially in the past 50 years, after two major rebellions, the population has plummeted and the economy has withered. Two silver dollars, for them, is quite attractive. If you kill someone, you will be rewarded with two pieces, even if a young or old person has a piece, this reward makes them feel excited.

What's more, Uncle Liu Huang also promised that after breaking through the rebel fortress, there would be spoils to share.

After Liu Qiao finished speaking, the eyes of more than two dozen local officials lit up.

In fact, it is already obvious how to choose.

On the one hand, the security and four guard Han officials who resisted the heavenly soldiers have now become ghosts under the sword, their property is confiscated, and their wives and concubines and children are exiled. And if you cooperate, your life can be saved, your property can be saved, and you can follow the powerful Han army to make a big profit, why not.

One after another, the local officials raised their wine glasses and saluted Uncle Liu.

Longli County.

Longliwei has been officially renamed Longli County, the four three chief lawsuits under the county have been changed to Qixiang, and the original Longli Acropolis has been changed to Longli Town, which has become the county seat.

Wang Tongan has been dreaming for the past two days, and he always feels a little unreal.

He used to be Cao Xun's tenant, and he was also a military household of Long Liwei, and he had a disabled father who broke a leg in the Rebellion of Luxury, and he also had three younger brothers and several sisters. Except for the eldest sister who married a child of a military family in Benwei, and several younger sisters are still young, there are four brothers, he is already in his twenties, and the fourth brother is fifteen or sixteen, but he has not married any of them.

Moreover, here in Guizhou, there are few Han people, and it is even more difficult to marry a suitable Han girl as a wife.

And now, he suddenly felt that he had turned over, and it was time to run.

The imperial court broke Long Liwei, killed Cao Xun, changed the county to set up a town, and he was allocated 20 acres of land, and a family of five men, so he was allocated a full 100 acres of land.

One acre of land is rented for a year, and only one silver dollar needs to be handed over, which is less than fifty catties of millet. Moreover, the generals of the imperial court also gave them a zero-down payment mortgage to redeem the official land.

Pay an extra silver dollar per mu of land every year, and then after seven years, the field will belong to them, and they will no longer have to pay rent for farming, but only need to pay the field and Ding Yin.

It's hard to believe, but the family has put their fingerprints on the contract, and the newly built county government even has their names on the title deed of 100 acres. However, the contract was not handed over to them in the end, and was handed over to the newly opened bank branch.

This means that before they have spent a penny, the court gave them the land in advance. And they just pay two more dollars of interest on the price of five silver dollars per mu of land, but such an acre of land is only seven silver dollars, and the price is by no means expensive, not to mention that they can get the land without spending money now?

In the next seven years, their family will have to pay a mortgage to the bank every year, one dollar per acre of land, and after seven years, the land will be handed over to them after the seven yuan is paid, and the land will really belong to them in the future.

In addition to this good deed that seemed to fall from the sky, the army also forgave all the debts that their family owed to Cao Xun in the past, and the principal and interest were waived, according to the officer's words, the interest paid by their family in the past had exceeded twice the principal, so the debt was forgiven.

Not only that, but the officer also gave them a sum of money, which was more than a dozen silver dollars, and they said that this was the interest overcharged by the Cao family in the past, and now it is returned to them.

Like him, there are many military households, they all owe Cao Xun's family debts in the past, and they can't pay them off year after year, even if they can't pay them off, this time the Han army forgave their debts and paid them back the excess interest after liquidation.

In addition, the officers and soldiers also gave them 200 catties of grain per household, and rented the Cao family's cattle and farm tools to them for free.

"I've never seen such a good officer and army, Master Wang." Wang Tongan's father received a pension of 20 yuan personally from the Han army officer, saying that it was a reward for his participation in the pacification of the Lu'an Rebellion, as well as a pension allowance for the injured.

When the Yi rebels attacked Longliwei, Wang Tongan's father was called to resist, and broke a leg during the battle, Cao Xun didn't even give a penny of pension afterwards, and even a large part of the debts owed by the Wang family were borrowed from the Cao family because of the treatment of his father's leg injury.

Those military households in Long Liwei all felt that they had turned over and became the masters.

Cao Xun also had many Yi and Miao slaves in the past, and this time the official army promised them that as long as they participated in this counterinsurgency war and served for two years, they would be free.

If they can kill the rebels for a year, they will lose a year, and if they can kill two, they will be freed early. If you can get more than three rebel heads, then the third one in addition to the two will be rewarded with two silver dollars each.

When the slaves heard this announcement, their eyes were red with excitement. Many people were eager for the officers and soldiers to immediately issue them with a sword, and then they immediately slaughtered the toasts who were fighting against the Celestial Army.

For those military families and slaves who were excited, Liu Qiao, who got the report, smiled brightly.

The court does not pay much, give a few fields, give a promise of freedom, and award a reward, which can make countless people's hearts turn to the court, and make countless people willing to charge for the court.

As for Natian, it was originally in the hands of those military attachés and local officials, and the imperial court used to not even get a single grain of taxes, but now it is distributed to these military slaves, and the imperial court can still get taxes, and secondly, it must be able to win the support of the people.

As for freedom, for the imperial court, it was just a promise, but for the slaves, it was worth fighting for their lives.

Two silver dollars and a rebel head, Liu Qiao still felt that it was too cheap. If those tenants and slaves who turned over in anger, as well as those little toasters, could cut off 100,000 heads and send them for reward, it would only be 200,000 silver dollars, and for Liu Qiao, 200,000 silver dollars, what is it?

Before the expedition, the emperor had already given the Eastern Route Army 10 million silver dollars as military expenses, and even the emperor said that as long as it was necessary military expenses, even if he opened his mouth, it was not enough to pull it out.

Liu Qiao felt that he had won this war, and the Southwest Yi should fight him. (To be continued.) )