That night, Cannes was bleeding like a river, and twenty-three local gentry were wiped out, leaving no chickens and dogs.

The intense gunfire continued until near midnight, and the work of cleaning up the bodies did not end until the early morning of the next day.

Early the next morning, Ma Bond resumed his real name and identity as the county magistrate, and briefly explained why he and Lu Heng had changed their identities for the reason of investigating the illegal gentry in Cannes, and then immediately read out to the people the appalling charges of the 23 gentry, and promised that after checking and counting them one by one, the land and shops occupied by the gentry would be returned to the bitter owner. At the same time, each family only needs to pay a small price to get the land that originally belonged to the gentry.

And with the death of these gentry, the usury that the common people originally owed, and the deed of sale signed by the people, were naturally invalidated.

Lu Heng taught Yang Ke a difficult lesson, the people are indeed the best to coax, as long as they see their vital interests and know that the officials need them, this is enough.

Why were the squires able to stir up the people?

It is because they bind the interests of the people to them tightly, so that the people have the illusion that they are both prosperous and lose with the squires. Moreover, there is a reward for helping the squire.

But now, what the squires can give to the people, Lu Heng can also give; What the squires can't give, Lu Heng can still give.

The most important thing is that the gentry who led them before are all dead, and they are leaderless.

And Lu Heng, who destroyed the gentry, did not intend to continue killing, but wanted to give them the land and property of the gentry, making it clear that he needed their support.

The interests and the needs of being valued have been met by Lu Heng, what reason do they have not to support Lu Dashuai?

Seven days later, as the turmoil of the bloody night in Cannes gradually subsided, Lu Heng's reorganization of the new army finally ended.

The 30,000 recruits were divided into three mixed divisions, Zhang Yi served as the commander of the first division, and the commanders of the other two divisions were vacant.

On the day of the formation of the army, Lu Heng took office and became a veritable marshal of Lu. In this Republic of China, he finally had the strength to protect himself and temporarily gained a firm foothold.

The properties of more than 20 wealthy gentry were also counted by Zhang Yi one by one.

4.6 million oceans, 400 gold bars, antique calligraphy and paintings.

The sum of the money of more than 20 wealthy gentry is less than half of Liu Cheng's, so it can be seen that Liu Cheng's money is indeed not his own, which makes Lu Heng's sense of crisis even heavier.

Lu Heng still didn't take this money alone, he took sixty percent, Zhang Yi, who contributed the most, accounted for thirty percent, and Ma Bond accounted for one percent.

Yang Kenan did not contribute to this incident, but what he did made Lu Heng very disappointed, so this time Yang Kenan not only did not get a piece of the benefits of the ocean, but also did not have his share in the adjustment of positions after the reorganization of the new army.

Lu Heng didn't pay attention to Yang Kenan for the time being, the protagonist has always been a creature like "the whole world is wrong", when he and Yang Kenan's ideas conflicted, he expected this result, he didn't think he could convince Yang Kenan, and he didn't need to convince him.

With Yang Kenan's character, he will naturally come if he figures it out, but if he can't figure it out, it's useless to say anything.

Fortunately, the task of subduing Yang Kenan has been completed, and no matter whether this person is used by Lu Heng in the future or not, he will not feel any regrets.

Although Lu Heng, the handsome, made up his mind to be the shopkeeper, but the new army was just formed, and he had to make decisions about many miscellaneous matters in person, so he really worked hard for a few days between the cases.

Although this made Lu Heng miserable, after a few days, under Zhang Yi's careful teaching, he gradually became familiar with military affairs.

On this day, Lu Heng, Zhang Yi, and Ma Bangde gathered in the "Great Marshal's Mansion" transformed from Liu's Mansion to discuss military affairs.

Zhang Yi said with a puzzled face: "What does Commander Xiong mean by this?" He didn't say that he wanted to absorb us, nor did he mention how to arrange us, but let the Southern Army camp thirty miles outside the city, what did he want to do? ”

"It's a threat!" Ma Bond frowned and said, "But he and Liu Cunhou are in full swing, why can't he get along with our little people?" We didn't offend him. ”

"If it weren't for us, Li Weiru of his Southern Army would be able to eat Cao Ying's three divisions so easily? Zhang Yi said angrily, "Now that he is forcing Kangcheng, this is simply revenge!" ”

"Talking about vendetta with a warlord?" Ma Bond scoffed, "That's childish! Kangcheng was originally the territory of the Southern Army, hey, do you think it could be that Li Weiru wants to take back Kangcheng and makes an assertion? ”

Bang!

Suddenly, Lu Heng slapped the table and stood up, startling the two of them.

"Liu Cheng!" Lu Heng slowly spit out two words.

"Liu Cheng?" Ma Bond is also a smart person, he can understand a little, and his face immediately changed, and he muttered: "That's reasonable......"

In the early years of the Republic of China, there were generally three sources of military spending for warlords in various places.

The first is to borrow foreign debts, the second is to eat grain, and the third is to levy taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

Among them, the first type needless to say, local warlords basically have little credibility, and it is common for them to borrow money and not pay it back, so this source is only for emergency use.

The second is to oppress the people and expropriate the land. Fishing with all his might, not caring for the people's hardship. If the regular tax is insufficient, it will be levied in advance, and there will be five or six years of grain in advance in one year. Even in Goose City, the pre-expropriation of Tianfu has been in the Republic of China for more than 100 years, how ridiculous!

The third kind of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, according to statistics, there were more than 10,000 kinds of taxes during the Republic of China!

According to statistics, there are no less than 673 kinds of miscellaneous taxes in the name of "surtax", and there are also land endowment surcharges, apportionments, and so on.

But this is not the most outrageous, in order to raise military funds, many warlords in addition to the pre-levy of land is to grow opium, collect tobacco money, and also set up a fence for fireworks, collect red lantern donations, set up gambling halls, and collect gambling taxes.

Of course, the big smoke hall and the land of fireworks cannot be done by the warlords themselves, so there are agents from all over the country to do this kind of shady deed for them and make huge profits.

Obviously, Liu Cheng is one of such warlord agents.

Judging from Xiong Kewu's incomprehensible actions, Liu Cheng's 10 million family property must belong to the biggest warlord leader in the south!

"This sucks!" Ma Bangde's face turned pale, "It turns out that Liu Cheng is Xiong Kewu's person, he is the overseer and high-ranking official of Sanam Kang Province, with an army of 200,000 under his command, how can we stop it?" ”

"It's just Li Weiru's Southern Army, we can't resist it." Zhang Yi frowned and said, "Although our army has been reorganized, it can only equip 3,000 people with weapons at present, and most of the soldiers are empty-handed, so they can't fight at all." ”

"In addition, the second and third divisions are only in the temporary management of those battalion commanders under me, and we don't have enough officers to lead the troops!"

"Ma Feng has been gone for more than ten days, and there is no news at all, could it be that something happened?" Ma Bangde's face was worried, and he looked at Lu Heng.

"Dashuai, what should we do?" Zhang Yi also looked over.

Ma Feng must have had an accident......

Lu Heng sighed in his heart, the entire southern country is Xiong Kewu's territory, so Kangcheng can't hide this matter from him at all. Ma Feng brought a hundred gold bars to Shanghai to contact weapons, and it was strange that he was not detained by Xiong Kewu's people.

Weapons, officers, and the threat of the Southern Army, these are the three mountains that Lu Heng, as a marshal, can't avoid.

How to fix it?

Although Lu Heng's heart is heavy, he does not show anything on the surface.

He sat down lightly and took a sip of tea, and said slowly: "Don't worry, the sky can't fall." It's not as bad as you think. ”

Hearing Lu Heng say this, Ma Bangde and Zhang Yi immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

I don't know when it began, Lu Heng has really become their backbone.