Yu Xiaotian didn't know where Lu Dao pulled out a flintlock short gun, and suddenly raised his hand, only to hear a loud bang, and a flower pot on the windowsill was smashed on the spot.

These guys kneeling on the ground were really scared crazy at this moment, they didn't expect Yu Xiaotian to be so ruthless, and cut out their roots, how could they be stupid, if they didn't even know what to do with this, then they should die.

With these handles in Xiaotian's hands, they can only honestly listen to Yu Xiaotian's orders in the future, even if Yu Xiaotian asks them to jump into the sea, they don't dare to say no.

So these guys kowtowed again and again, and they didn't even dare to let go of a fart, and they said again and again that they would be loyal to Xiaotian in the future, and everything was based on Xiaotianma's head.

So Yu Xiaotian put away his cold face and drove these guys back, of course, then he immediately sent his subordinates to go everywhere and began to take over these officials and soldiers, nominally these guys are still in charge, but in fact it is equivalent to setting them all up, Yu Xiaotian himself controlled these officers and soldiers, and those guys didn't even dare to let out a fart about this, so they could only obey Yu Xiaotian's arrangement.

Yu Xiaotian only took less than two months to get almost all the things that should be in his hands, and the generals under him who were shocked were like good babies.

Xiong Wencan received the accusations sent by Yu Xiaotian again and again about several Zhenhai guard generals in Fuzhou City, and immediately understood that Yu Xiaotian wanted to knock the mountain and shock the tiger and subdue those generals who had just been under his control, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, Yu Xiaotian is really a ruthless person, and this kind of method of action is really not something that ordinary people can do.

But since Yu Xiaotian is his right-hand man, then of course Xiong Wencan will not help Yu Xiaotian, and immediately ordered Fujian to interrogate these blind guys according to the Inspectorate Division, these guys went to the prison of the Inspectorate Division, even if they had the intention to deny it, but under Xiong Wencan's instructions, the officials did not dare to release water in private, and all kinds of punishments took turns to serve, and these guys were tossed to death and live, and finally all confessed.

As a result, all of them were dismissed, not to mention in the end, and they were all sentenced to be beheaded after the autumn, and some guys ended up with a full house of beheadings.

Yu Xiaotian's actions couldn't help but make the entire Fujian generals look sideways, they only knew that Yu Xiaotian was a ruthless person, but they didn't expect him to be so ruthless, these guys just didn't convince him, so he made his family ruined, and anyone who encountered this kind of thing in the future would not dare to live with Yu Xiaotian again.

When Zhang Jiace learned the news, he ran to Xie Longyi to keep some of his subordinates, but after Xie Longyi heard it, he sighed secretly, and comforted Zhang Jiace with kind words, so that Zhang Jiace should not care about these things in the future, and be a rich man in his hometown with peace of mind, and it is estimated that he can live some peaceful life.

Zhang Jiace heard a strong sense of threat from Xie Longyi's mouth, and immediately understood what to do, thinking about Yu Xiaotian's methods over the years, he couldn't help but swish cold down his spine, and now he is saying that he has been cut to the people and has become a person with no official body, even if he does not lose his position, if Yu Xiaotian wants to kill him, it is estimated that it will not be too difficult.

Over the years, Zhang Jiace has dealt with Yu Xiaotian a lot, and Yu Xiaotian has also grabbed a lot of his pigtails on hand, once these things are poked out, even if he has been cut to the people now, it is estimated that he will be investigated by the imperial court and pulled back and cut off his head.

What's more, over the years, he has heard that some people are against Yu Xiaotian, and most of these people are inexplicably either caught fire or suffered by bandits, causing all families to be ruined and their wealth lost.

So Zhang Jiace hurriedly agreed, and ran back to his home in a gloomy manner, while sending someone to send a generous gift to Yu Xiaotian, as he apologized to Yu Xiaotian, and closed the door from then on, never to see his old subordinates again, from then on, honestly in his hometown, as his rich man, never asked about the world again.

After Yu Xiaotian received Zhang Jiace's generous gift, he did not continue to pursue it, but asked the person who came to give the gift to Zhang Jiace to give Zhang Jiace a sentence back, telling Zhang Jiace that the matter was over, so that Zhang Jiace could rest assured, but this kind of thing was only once, and he definitely didn't want to see something similar happen in the future.

Under this warning, of course Zhang Jiace didn't dare to jump out and can't get along with Yu Xiaotian, so far Yu Xiaotian can be regarded as sitting firmly in the current position of deputy general in Fujian, and no one dares to easily challenge his authority.

However, the first year of Chongzhen is destined to be an eventful year for Fujian, although Fujian is located in the south, far from the tragic situation of the north that has been dry for thousands of miles, but since the seventh year of the Apocalypse last year, the interior of Fujian has been in a state of little rain.

Last summer, it was supposed to be the rainy season in Fujian, but throughout the summer, the rain in the interior of Fujian was far less than in previous years, so that in the autumn of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, many paddy fields could no longer be planted with rice, and many lands had to be abandoned.

The topography of Fujian itself is seven mountains, one water and two fields, with a large population and little farmland, which is a problem that Fujian has always faced, even if it is a year when the wind and rain are usually smooth, Fujian's self-produced grain is still not enough for the entire Fujian people to eat, not to mention the year of great drought.

By the time of the first year of Chongzhen, the inland of Fujian was still in a state of little rainfall, and many small rivers gradually began to stop flowing, and even the water level of many large rivers began to drop significantly.

In addition, the local farmland in Fujian is seriously annexed, and the government has not thought about water conservancy construction for more than 100 years, so that in the spring of the first year of Chongzhen, many places in Fujian have begun to appear in the scene of a famine year.

In the early days, the officials of the whole Fujian Province did not have enough understanding of this matter, and in addition, a large number of bandits appeared in Yanping Mansion, Tingzhou Mansion and other places, and the government's main energy was focused on the matter of eliminating these thieves.

However, at the end of summer, the summer grain that should have been harvested in many places has been seriously reduced or even the harvest has been lost, and then the great famine year, which has begun to emerge, has begun to completely erupt at this time.

Almost without exception, there were people fleeing the famine, and a large number of people had no choice but to leave their hometowns and embark on the road of escaping the famine, flocking to the prefectures and counties in various places, intending to get relief from the government or some food near these cities, and barely survive this famine year.

As a result, the situation in Fujian suddenly became tense, and as the victims gathered more and more near the cities in various places, a chaotic situation gradually began to appear.

After years of conquest and continuous defeats, the treasury of the feudal domain and the treasury of various localities have been exhausted, and the rats in the granaries of various places have continued to encroach on and lose money, so that the grain reserves in various places have also been greatly reduced, and they have been at a very dangerous level.

Although Xiong Wencan realized that something big might happen, and ordered the officials of the prefectures and counties to find ways to give relief to avoid chaos, on the whole, the governments in Fujian were powerless to do anything about it, and in addition to their own indifference to these victims, they really couldn't give too much food to these victims.

Although some local officials also thought of some ways to persuade the local rich gentry to take out some money and grain to give relief to these victims, there were very few gentry and magnates who were really conscientious and willing to give a large amount of money and grain to the victims.

This kind of donation, for the thousands of victims in various places, is simply a drop in the bucket, coupled with the gentry's malicious stockpiling of grain, constantly raising the price of grain, which makes the disaster victims in various places even worse, originally a rare phenomenon of starving people in Fujian, in August, began to appear in large numbers, every day in many cities can see the corpses of starving people in the streets and alleys.

So the local government can only organize people every day, collect these hungry people on the street, pull out of the city and find a place to bury them hastily, and then the starvation is more and more, so they can find a pit and throw it in and pull it down, but it is cheaper to have some wild dogs, wandering around the city all day long, you can often see wild dogs dragging human body pieces, competing in the wild to eat.

As more and more people were affected, they really couldn't get food, and some of the victims who were strong and brave began to gang up to do the business of killing people and selling goods.

This situation became more and more intense, and gradually some bandit groups were formed, which snowballed bigger and bigger, and the number of bandits in Fujian became more and more immediately, and there was a state of being out of control.

At first, some bandit groups were just ambushing near some official roads or on small roads, doing some cutting and trading, but as their numbers gathered more and more, they became more and more emboldened, and in order to stutter and feed these people, many bandit groups began to move some village forts.

At the end of August and the beginning of September, there were bandit groups in various places to attack some rich people's villages and forts, although the squires and rich people in these towns and villages have formed regimental exercises, recruited village warriors, and tried to protect themselves, but they can only deal with some small numbers of bandit and outcasts, and some bandit groups have gradually gathered thousands or even thousands of people, in order to find food and life, they began to attack some towns and villages at any cost.

(Special thanks to the Huivasda brothers for their tip!) ）