The Fifth Infantry Battalion of Chen Zhenhui of the Guards continued to screen Han Chinese in the simplest way possible.

For a time, more than a dozen prisoners who had been hiding in civilian houses were pulled out and killed by the infantry of the Fifth Association.

Because Wuqiao is just a county seat, there are not many prisoners in the entire Wuqiao, at most a few Ertars who know a little Manchu or go to a place like Wuqiao to be the uncle's low-level Eight Banner sergeants.

Therefore, there were not many Wuqiao county city prisoners who were executed by the Fifth Association.

But the executed Qing army counted too much.

Zhu Youzhen had issued a holy decree before the Northern Expedition, during the Northern Expedition, except for the defection, all the Qing army was not allowed to be appeased, the gentry were the generation of reading and etiquette, but they were weak and weak and shaved their hair to make it easy to build and obey the people, so all the gentry who shaved their hair and were easy to obey were confiscated from their family property, and all the people of the whole clan were executed, and the tenant serfs and servants were abolished for the people, and the land was distributed by the government and the Huangzhuang in a unified manner.

Therefore, after the infantry of the Fifth Association executed the Manchu-speaking Jian, they began to execute the Qing troops who were captured by the guards of the various associations.

Uniformly escorted to the front of the county office, and the infantry of the Fifth Association was uniformly killed, and they came in batches.

By the end of the day, the remaining Qing troops were all executed by the Fifth Guards Infantry.

The Sixth Guards Infantry Association had also occupied the gate of the main city at this time, and Lou Sheng, the magistrate of Wuqiao County in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, had also been escorted down.

As a Manchu official, he naturally could not be as simple as beheading, and the new Wuqiao County Commander would be responsible for execution, so he was temporarily imprisoned.

……

"Compatriots who have been humiliated by the construction can rest in peace!"

Chen Zhenhui spilled a glass of liquor in a pool of blood, and couldn't help shouting: "Northern Expedition!" ”

"Northern Expedition!"

"Northern Expedition!"

The other guards also chanted.

The situation of the Qing army captives was completed, and the execution of the urban and rural gentry of Wuqiao County was completed.

The Fifth Guards Association began to sweep the squires in the city.

It's a hierarchical world, and it's easy to sweep a commoner's mansion as you can see it by looking at the lintel steps.

At this time, it was already night, and the infantry of the Fifth Association of the Guards Army lit lanterns, and began to visit the homes of the gentry in Shunqing with steel swords in their units.

"In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Luo Maoqing of Wuqiao County welcomed Wang Shi!"

At this time, a squire knelt down voluntarily when he saw the Guards appear.

"It's a showman, that's a famous scholar, a shameless guy, as a scholar, but with a barbarian braid, wearing a barbarian uniform, since he refused to go south and refused to die for the country, today I will be ordered to give you a ride!"

Burst!

The Guards infantry decisively cut off the squire's head, and the servants in the house ran to the back room.

"Those who are not the masters of this family do not need to be afraid, we are the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, and we are here to relieve the people from fire and water, and the people who are oppressed by the squire will come to the front, and the people of the court will distribute part of the family property of these squires to you, and the fields will also be contracted and allocated to you, and they will be planted for fifty years free of charge!"

The officers and men of the Guards shouted several times and continued to break inside, when a boy came out: "You kill my father, you bandits!" ”

"Not only to vote for the son of the squire, but also to insult the king and kill him!"

Burst!

One of the Guards soldiers stabbed the boy in the chest.

Soon the squire's family and stewards were all executed, and the exploited servants and maids at the bottom were all taken into custody, and the new county order of Wuqiao County in the Ming Dynasty arranged and distributed their property in a unified manner.

After the new Ming Wuqiao County Decree came, the property of these gentry families would be equally distributed to these people, and at the same time, the tenant farmers of the gentry's family would be released to work freely, and the gentry's fields would be registered in the Huangzhuang, and then the Huangzhuang would be responsible for arranging the contract to these tenant farmers.

In this way, although the gentry who did not expect the Guards to take revenge on them when they went north wanted to make trouble, they were also unwilling to cooperate because the tenant farmers and the low-level commoners were looking forward to the arrival of the king and the distribution of land to them, making these gentry like tigers without claws, waiting to be slaughtered, or they could only embark on the road of rebellion.

This is a policy that Zhu Youzhen has long thought of, he must take advantage of the justice of this Northern Expedition to cut most of the power of these gentry class by half, so as to lay the foundation for the next reform of the official gentry to pay grain in one piece, these northern gentry class to be the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the people is equivalent to defecting to the enemy and betraying the country, Zhu Youzhen is ruthless to them, and no one has anything to say.

Moreover, in order to prevent these northern gentry strata from uniting with the northern common people to support the Manchu Qing Dynasty even more desperately and even use force against the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen directly distributed the benefits seized from these northern gentry strata to these common strata, so that the ultimate beneficiaries were the low-level people in the north, which made the gentry strata a little anti-Ming and powerless.

"Living in such a good house, and there are servants and maids, it seems that they are also readers, sure enough, there are also four books and five classics, and there is also a tablet of Heaven and Earth Jun on the door, you are also embarrassed to read Heaven and Earth Jun and Teacher, pull it out and behead!"

"You have to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty, okay, we will fulfill you, first pull his family members to him one by one and execute him, and then dismantle him in eight pieces!"

"You're not a reader, that's good, this poem, will you read it, if you don't read it right, you will die!"

"Wang Shi set the Central Plains Day in the north, and the family sacrifice did not forget to tell Naiweng, can the students make a mistake?"

"I read very well, I am a student, and I still say that I am not a scholar, and I want to deceive us, so I will be pulled out and killed!"

At that time, the gentry and Qing army in the entire Wuqiao County were all eradicated, and all the fields and property of all the gentry and Qing army were sealed.

"What is a real reader, like us, when the country is ruined and the family is ruined, the one who chooses to put pen to paper, chooses to abandon his family business and goes to the national disaster together, and would rather throw his head and spill his blood than never be a slave of the Hu people is the real reader! So the people we executed in front of us are the scum of the scholars, and on the surface, the gentlemen are actually unethical and unloyal, you say, should they be killed! ”

The execution of so many people by the Guards will more or less make some officers and soldiers feel that their actions are no different from Hu Lu and begin to doubt their own righteousness, so Chen Zhenhui will make such a speech before dinner to clear the minds of the officers and soldiers of the Guards.

"Damn it!"

"Damn it!"

"Damn it!"

Seeing that the officers and soldiers under his command were all righteous and awe-inspiring, Chen Zhenhui nodded:

"Very good, we are the Son of Heaven's pro-army, we are the king's division, we love the people like relatives, freeze to death without demolishing houses, starve to death without plundering, it is our faith, punish national thieves, abandon treachery and promote goodness is also our faith, now I order, early tomorrow morning, except for the Fifth Association of the Guards Infantry Battalion to stay in the county, the rest of the battalions will go to various towns and villages outside Wuqiao County, execute the national thieves and inferior gentry, and rescue the northern Li Shu!"

(End of chapter)