Chapter 452: Revenge with Straightforwardness
As early as yesterday ashore, Li You organized the miners specially brought from the Liuqiu mine, and ordered them to dig the tunnel leading to the Quanzhou city gate overnight, and finally finished digging at noon today, but Pu Shougeng didn't know anything about it, after the tunnel was dug up, Li You ordered people to send gunpowder to the city gate, put it in a thick wooden box and then use a bamboo pipe to pass to the tunnel entrance, and then light the fuse, and instructed Zhang Shijie to prepare for the attack. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Now the gunpowder used in Zheng He's fleet is reconstituted by Li You according to the formula recorded in the "New Book of Ji Xiao", the power is far above the general gunpowder, maybe it is still not enough to blow up the city wall, but there is no problem in blowing up the city gate, after the explosion, the defenders on the city wall of Quanzhou thought it was a punishment from heaven, and they were so frightened that they ran around, Zhang Shijie immediately easily broke through the city gate, and then Hou Xian, Yang Liangjie and other generals commanded the army to keep up, and the defenders in Quanzhou City suddenly lost their fighting spirit, except for Pu Shougeng's die-hard henchmen, They all knelt on the ground and begged to surrender.
"The order goes down, the army is not allowed to harass the people, and the official only needs Pu Shougeng, You Yongxian, Wang He, Jin Yong and other Mengyuan officials and generals." Today's Quanzhou is the largest maritime trade city in East Asia, the Great Song Dynasty is now a small territory, scarce taxes, want to counterattack Mengyuan without sea trade can not work, so Li You does not want to kill the maritime merchants in Quanzhou City, but Pu Shougeng and others have committed a heinous crime against the Great Song Dynasty before, if not severely punished, how to show the prestige of the Great Song Dynasty.
The defenders in the city of Quanzhou are still mostly Han people, after Pu Shou Geng betrayed the Great Song Dynasty and returned to Meng Yuan, they pressed them more, these people have long been dissatisfied in their hearts, and they were forced to fight with the Song army by the prestige of Pu Shou Geng in the city, but now that the Song army has entered the city, they no longer have any scruples, not only surrendered immediately, but also took the initiative to lead the Song army to attack Pu Shou Geng's mansion, after a night of fighting, Pu Shou Geng and the rest of the generals were all taken by the Song army, and Quanzhou City also fell into their hands.
"Jun Shigong, what should Pu Shougeng and his clansmen do?" On the morning of the second day, everyone gathered at the original Quanzhou prefect's yamen, and now the Song Junmarshal's mansion, and asked without waiting for Li You to speak.
"Pu Shougeng slaughtered no less than tens of thousands of the Great Song Dynasty clan and scholars, and he should be punished with capital punishment and exterminate the nine clans!" Zhang Shijie hated Pu Shougeng very much, and said immediately.
Quanzhou Pu family has been treated favorably by the Southern Song Dynasty for generations, but when the Southern Song Dynasty was in danger, they took revenge, shamelessly slaughtered the Southern Song Dynasty royal family and officials in Quanzhou, and slaughtered tens of thousands of civilians in order to curry favor with Meng Yuan, and even Meng Yuan was surprised by its ferocity; The rebels of the Xu family in Quanzhou resisted Pu Shougeng, covered the second emperor's southward escape, and was almost wiped out by Pu Shougeng. The Yuan soldiers carried out the strategy of exterminating the township, not only burning the hometown of Xu Hanqing and Mrs. Xu in Jinjiang, but also forcing the people surnamed Xu, Chen, and Zeng in Erxiang to flee in all directions. The clan surnamed Nanzhao Xu resisted the Yuan because of the incident, and was also tragically killed and killed, almost exterminating. The monks of Shaolin Temple in Qingyuan, Quanzhou, were suppressed by Pu Shou Geng and the Yuan general Qi Shu Wen Si, they led the Yuan army of 10,000 people to rush into Shaolin, more than 1,000 monks were slaughtered, and only dozens of people escaped.
Many relatives in the Song army died under Pu Shougeng's butcher's knife, and they all nodded in agreement when they heard Zhang Shijie's words, but Wen Tianxiang couldn't bear it, "Jun is really public, how can we and the Song people be like such barbarians?" It is better to only punish the evil, pardon and coerce, and repay the grievances with virtue to show the benevolence and righteousness of my Great Song Dynasty. ”
"How can you repay virtue with virtue?" Li You asked rhetorically, what Confucius said back then was to repay grievances directly, that is to say, there is revenge and grievances and complaints, and there is no reason to take a slap and send the other side of the face, "The crimes of the Pu Shougeng clan are unforgivable, if you don't punish the nine clans, how can you comfort the souls of these tens of thousands of victims in the sky?" ”
Seeing that Wen Tianxiang still wanted to speak, Li You immediately took the soldiers to the camp where Pu Shougeng and his people were escorted, Pu Shougeng seemed to know that no matter what he did, these Song people would not forgive him, so he had no hope of survival, he shrank in the corner of the camp and prayed silently, but his trembling hands and feet had betrayed him, and he was still afraid after all.
His three sons, Shi Wen, Shi Si, Jun Wen, and Pu Shougeng's grandson Pu Chongmo and others saw Li You coming, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged, putting all the blame on Pu Shougeng, trying their best to show their innocence.
Zheng He turned a blind eye to this, but he knew the virtues of the Pu Shougeng clan, and at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Pu clan in Quanzhou wanted to repeat the old trick, and they colluded with the then envoy of Quanzhou City, who was also Pu Shiwen's son-in-law, Na Wu Na to make trouble. But this time the Pu Shou Geng family was no longer as lucky as the end of the Song Dynasty, the rebels were strongly suppressed by the Yuan army, the local Pu family and even many people in the Western Regions were wiped out, Pu Shou Geng and others were exhumed and killed, and the Tianfang Temple inside and outside Quanzhou City was destroyed except for one in the religious vendetta caused by the war.
After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang specially ordered all the Pu clans of Quanzhou's Pu Shou Geng to be untouchable, and they were not allowed to enter the Shi for generations, and this order, at that time, the Confucian society known as benevolence and righteousness was not opposed by anyone, and justice was in the hearts of the people.
Li You walked up to Pu Chongmo and looked at him coldly, until he was sweating profusely, and then said slowly, "What would you do if I forgave your sins and let you go?" ”
Pu Chongmo seemed to see a glimmer of life, not only overjoyed, but also hurriedly knelt down and prayed, "God bless the heels, I will pray to you more sincerely in the future." ”
Li You turned to look at Wen Tianxiang and the others, "You can see it, even if my Great Song forgives their crimes, they still won't have the slightest gratitude, they will still take my Great Song's kindness as a reward for their piety in the past, and in the future, as long as they have the opportunity, they will still raise their butcher's knives against my Great Song." ”
Wen Tianxiang and the others all lowered their heads in shame, Li You shook his head and said, "It's not that my Great Song doesn't understand kindness, but my Great Song's kindness will only be given to those who know how to be grateful and reverent, and a sinister person like the Pu clan is not worthy of the mercy of my Great Song!" ”
After that, Li You called the army, "Come on, escort these people outside the city, and kill them all to comfort the souls of the people of the Great Song Dynasty who were slaughtered by them; The Pu Shougeng brothers and their grandchildren and heirs were sentenced to death by Ling Chi! ”
This time, no one came to advise Li You, Pu Chongmo's actions had made them completely disappointed in these people, when the Pu clan was killed, the city of Quanzhou was full of joy, hundreds of people desperately rushed to the front to try to snatch the flesh thrown by the executioner, they chewed and swallowed Pu Shougeng's flesh and blood to comfort their dead relatives.
Afterwards, the people who took the initiative to join the army in Quanzhou City did not know how many, and the news spread, and the world was shaken. (To be continued.) )