Seeing Chen Guiqi being dragged out by the soldiers and hung up on a tree, several errand officers who followed Chen Guiqi to the Ming army barracks were stunned. As soon as they turned around and wanted to run, they heard a loud warning from the Ming soldiers next to them, and then more than a dozen flintlock pistols were aimed at their front and back, making them feel a chill.

"Don't let it go, the Ming military master spares his life." The servants all knelt down, no matter how dull they were, they also knew that they had provoked people they couldn't provoke, and they said that Luzon had already been destroyed, even back then, the Ming officers and soldiers were not something that the Luzon people could afford to provoke.

A group of errand soldiers were tied hand and foot by the Ming soldiers and put into the Chinese army tent of Deng Kui and Zhang Yunlong. Without waiting for the punishment, a few of them who could speak Chinese explained Chen Guiqi's details to Deng Kui and Zhang Yunlong.

It turned out that Chen Guiqi was indeed the local county magistrate, of course, before the king of Luzon was destroyed by the Spaniards in 1571. After that, Chen Guiqi fled back to the countryside and lived on the hundreds of acres of land he had placed when he was the county magistrate, and he was a small landowner at ease.

Yesterday, the news about the entry of the Ming army was reported to Chen Guiqi by the people of Linjia Village, and the person who reported the news told Chen Guiqi that the Ming army was very benevolent and righteous, not only did not plunder the villagers, but also bought and sold fairly, and was very polite to the villagers.

Hearing the news, Chen Guiqi was moved. With his old experience, he knows that Daming is a very polite country, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as "strict self-discipline and leniency towards others". Chen Guiqi couldn't figure out why the Ming army came to Luzon, but he thought that if the Ming army drove out the Spaniards, then it was necessary to rebuild the local regime, and his expired county order would be able to relive its glory?

Once this kind of thought sprouted in Chen Guiqi's heart, it became irrepressible. He immediately sent his family to find a few old servants, changed into crumpled old official robes, and then came to negotiate with Deng Kui and them as magistrates. Deng Kui's initial politeness. made Chen Guiqi firm up the concept that the Ming army was easy to bully, so he put his nose on the face, and the more he talked, the more arrogant he became. What he didn't expect was that a young man who suddenly broke in didn't play his cards according to common sense, and directly ordered him to be hanged.

The latter ones were naturally made up by Deng Kui, Cheng Dong and others based on the confessions of those officers, but they were not much different from Chen Guiqi's true thoughts. As early as when Zheng He went to the West, the Ming Dynasty implemented a policy of appeasing Huairou, so that overseas countries felt the goodwill of the Ming Dynasty, but also produced the feeling that the Ming Dynasty was pedantic and deceitful. Chen Guiqi has such an idea, and it is not an exception.

"You all used to be on an errand with Chen County's order?" Cheng Dong asked.

"Yes, yes!" Several of the officers nodded their heads.

"So, do you all know about the situation in this county?" Cheng Dong asked again.

The messenger said: "We are very familiar with this county. ”

Cheng Dong nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll tell you, now that this official is temporarily serving as the county commander of the county, you will take this official to the county seat and take back the original county office." Recall past officers. In addition, he immediately told the village chiefs of each village that the county was already under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, as long as everyone obeyed the laws of the Ming Dynasty. The official will definitely let them live a prosperous life like the people of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"But......" one of the officers hesitated, "my lord, there are still Hongyi people in the county. ”

"I'll leave this to the general." Deng Kui said with a big grin, "How many Hongyi people are there in the county. Explain to Ben where he lives, and Ben will send someone to cut off their heads. ”

"Yes, yes...... The villain immediately explained it to the general. The officers were frightened by Deng Kui's words. Hurry up and say yes.

Several officers were taken out, and the junior officers of their own battalion went to inquire about the local Spanish garrison. Deng Kui turned his head to Cheng Dong and smiled: "Bangzhi, do you really want to be a county magistrate here?" How can your brother-in-law be willing to let you deign to be a little county magistrate? ”

Cheng Dong smiled reservedly and said, "General Deng laughed, but the meaning of General Su and Vice Li is indeed not to let Cheng Dong be a county commander here." Dong also wanted to borrow a few powerful people from General Deng so that he could be assigned to the surrounding counties to serve as county commanders. As for Dong himself, Vice Li said that if the errand was done well, he would promote Dong to be the deputy governor of Luzon. ”

Deng Kui smiled: "Hahahaha, Deng Mou has already seen that Bangzhi is not a thing in a cage, this deputy governor, I think Bangzhi is decided." There's nothing to say, as long as Bang Zhi speaks, Deng asks someone to give it to people and ask for money...... Deng will help you grab it. ”

"Thank you, General Deng." Cheng Dong thanked Deng Kui and said goodbye first.

"General Deng, I think this Cheng Bangzhi is much more sensible than in the past." Zhang Yunlong, who had been beside him without speaking, muttered to Deng Kui in a low voice.

Deng Kui said: "Why did Yunlong say this? ”

Zhang Yunlong said: "It turns out that this kid is sour, and his mouth is full of sage articles, like this kind of thing to hang the Fanbang County Order up to show the public, he can't do it, even if he sees it, I'm afraid that he will have to chirp crookedly for a long time, maybe because of this matter, we will be involved in the general army." It's good now, he's done more ruthlessly than us Qiuba. ”

Deng Kui said: "So you mean this. This kid went to the county to be the county magistrate for two years, and he knew some of the people's sufferings, so he naturally stopped holding the old set of things. Look at our Mr. Li, isn't that much more knowledgeable than this hairy child, and I haven't seen how Mr. Li pantothenic tastes. ”

Zhang Yunlong agreed: "Yes, it can be seen that reading books will really make people stupid, or a big old man like us, who can see things more clearly." ”

Not to mention how Deng Kui and Zhang Yunlong talked about Cheng Dong behind their backs, after Cheng Dong left Deng Kui's camp, he called a team of soldiers, escorted Chen Guiqi and other errands, and headed towards the county seat.

There was originally a small group of Spanish soldiers stationed in the county seat, and when Christo's company fled the day before, some people passed by the county town and spread the news that the Ming army had landed in the county seat, but the Spaniards in the county town fled overnight for fear of being attacked. When Cheng Dong and the others entered the city, they were not hindered in any way, and they came to the original county government smoothly.

The county government of Luzon and the county government of Daming are naturally not the same, but they are just a small courtyard with two entrances in front and back, and the area of the public court is also very pitiful. During the occupation by the Spaniards, the prefectural government was transformed into their administrative center, so the houses, furniture, etc. were not damaged.

Cheng Dong entered the county office, sat down in the public hall, and instructed the soldiers who brought him: "Come here, tie Chen Guiqi to the door of the county government to show the public, and you will send a few more people to watch, and if there are people who come to watch, preach to them." ”

"What do you preach? Please also tell me about it. Among the soldiers, the small flag officer Shi Xiangui asked.

Cheng Dong said: "Let me tell you that Chen Guiqi dared to offend the great Ming Wei, and he has been arrested by the order of my governor of Daming, and he will be shown here for three days, and then he will be escorted back to Daming for trial." The people of each village and each square should elect the village head and the head of the village as soon as possible and accept the command of the county order. Those who disobeyed the command waited to go to Daming with Chen Guiqi to receive the punishment. ”

"Order!" Shi Xiangui happily agreed, and ran out with people to carry out the order. The survey camp is usually constrained by three major disciplines, and the soldiers dare not disturb the people, but when they encounter this kind of abuse by order, everyone is still very interested.

Seeing that the past county order was tied up outside the yamen for public display, the people in the county town were shocked, and some peasants outside the city also rushed to the city to see the excitement when they heard the news. For a while, the entrance of the county government was crowded, and everyone was standing more than a dozen steps away from the soldiers of the survey camp, and they wanted to know some information, but they didn't dare to get too close.

"Folks, this official is in Luzon to rescue everyone by the holy decree of Emperor Daming." Cheng Dong walked out of the county office, stood on a big rock, and said loudly to the people around him.

At first, the people were still talking about the things in front of them, and when they saw a Ming Dynasty official coming out of the county office, they all calmed down and began to listen to Cheng Dong's speech. Forty or fifty percent of the people in the crowd knew Chinese, so they began to interpret simultaneously for those who did not understand Chinese.

"The Ming Emperor knew that everyone was bullied by the Hongyi and lived a hard life, so he couldn't sleep at night, so he sent a million Ming officers and soldiers to drive out the Hongyi and save the people of Luzon from fire and water." Cheng Dong's mouth is a mouthful, Su Hao and Deng Zilong brought a total of less than 10,000 people, and it expanded 100 times in his mouth at once.

"A million officers and soldiers?"

"Isn't Hongyi miserable?"

"Not necessarily, Hongyi has a fire gun, didn't our Luzon king not win the battle?"

"How do you know, Da Ming is much stronger than us Luzon, otherwise how could those Hongyi soldiers in our city run away in the middle of the night?"

"Really! Where did the Red Yi soldiers go? ”

“……”

The people whispered to each other about what they knew, but no one doubted the strength of the Ming Dynasty.

"Just by driving Hongyi away, everyone's life can't be improved, so my Ming Sheng also specially sent capable officials to take charge of the officials at all levels in Luzon. Everyone has also seen that Chen Guiqi, the original county commander of this county, could not lead the crowd to expel Hongyi on the day of his appointment, and when my soldiers arrived, he made things difficult in every way, and he was clearly Hongyi's accomplice. The official held it here to tell those who hooked up with Hongyi that those who hooked up with Hongyi were guilty of the same crime as Hongyi. Our Ming officers and soldiers will be killed! Cheng Dong issued a murderous threat.

The people subconsciously shrunk their necks, and some of them were a little dull-minded, and they also felt that since they had not fornicated with Hongyi, such a punishment would not reach their heads. Those smart people realized the meaning of Cheng Dong's words, who is Hongyi and who is not Hongyi, isn't the adult in front of him having the final say? If anyone dares not to do what the Lord does, then a Tongyi hat will be buttoned to your head. One million Ming officers and soldiers, the number of people is not much less than that of the entire Luzon people, this is the position of man-made swords, and I am fish and meat.

"We are willing to obey the dispatch of the Ming Dynasty, and we dare not disobey!" Some of the people fell to their knees, and when others saw this, they also quickly knelt down, and in a moment there was no one standing around. (To be continued......)