Three days after the order was issued, a total of 53 landlords and squires in the Ganzhou Prefecture took the initiative to hand over the land deeds, but none of them handed over their grain.

Seventeen large families were left who had neither handed over their grain nor their land deeds.

These people belong to high-ranking families in Ganzhou, and there are several high-ranking officials in the imperial court.

They thought that Mo Qian had just arrived in Ganzhou, and they didn't dare to do anything to them, and they had an extremely bad attitude, and some evil slaves even beat away the people sent by Mo Qian with sticks.

When Mo Qian, who was sitting in Ganzhou City, learned of this, he immediately ordered the army to attack and behead these seventeen high-ranking families who did not pay their land and grain.

For a while, the heads of people killed in Ganzhou City were rolling, and someone said to Mo Qian that it was too cruel to kill seventeen households and more than a hundred lives in a row.

Mo Qian didn't think so, he had already given those squires and landlords three days, and it was they who chose to destroy the door, no wonder Mo Qian was ruthless.

Ganzhou is too messy, this place is different from central and northern Jiangxi, Ganzhou is extremely powerful, although the land factor is inevitable, but these squires and landlords are not less fueled.

Although there are also armed fights in central and northern Jiangxi, they are far less fierce than in Ganzhou.

In addition, Ganzhou has few mountains and many mountains, and the people are all counting on the rice in the fields to live, these squires and landlords occupy more than seventy percent of the land in Ganzhou, they do not produce, but they master eighty percent of Ganzhou's grain production, which is simply a group of blood-sucking leeches.

If you want to give the people of Ganzhou a better future and do not overturn the previous distribution of wealth and interests, there will never be a future.

It is completely worth it to exchange the heads of seventeen households for a hundred years of peace in Ganzhou.

What's more, these high-ranking families are not good birds, even if there are a few good ones in the family, it is inevitable in this situation.

Seventeen landlords were killed in a row, and the rest of the landlords in Ganzhou were instantly suppressed, and the big families who had no grain at home were called to take the initiative to hand over the grain at home, which was called funding the rebels.

Mo Qian knew this in his heart, he didn't pursue those landlords, and left three hundred stones of grain for each of their households, which could be regarded as giving these landlords some food to live on.

Mo Qian used thunderous means to instantly deter the whole Ganzhou Mansion, and even the landlords of Nan'an Mansion hurriedly took their families to hand over their family property after hearing about this move.

If you give the family property, you can at least survive, and if you don't give the family property, it will really kill the whole family.

In just half a month, Nanjiang has taken on a new look, the people have gained the fields, and the grain and seeds have been distributed from the hands of the rebels, and every household is looking forward to the next year's wind and rain, looking forward to a bumper harvest.

After solving the problem of Ganzhou, Mo Qian set his sights on the north gate of Guangdong, Heping County.

When Heping Zhixian learned that Mo Qian's army had captured Ganzhou, he immediately realized that the next goal of the rebel army was peace.

He knew very well that a small county of peace, with no danger to defend and no heavy troops, would definitely not be able to stop the onslaught of the rebel army.

The magistrate fled overnight with his concubine and gold and silver, and ran directly to Guangzhou Mansion in one go.

Mo Qian first sent the vanguard Yi Jiu to lead 10,000 troops to the south, and the 10,000 righteous troops traveled 80 miles a day, and in just seven days, the news reached the Guangzhou Mansion, and the Guangzhou prefect Li Hui first learned the news, and immediately felt bad.

Xiong Wencan, the governor of Liangguang, had already been transferred to Huguang, and now the new governor had not yet been sent by the imperial court, and after the two envoys of the other two departments and yamen in Guangdong learned the news of the righteous army's southward movement, they actually fled from Guangxi overnight, and in the name of inspecting the localities.

Li Hui first learned that the two envoys ran away, and scolded directly in anger.

But there was no way, the rebel army would be under the city of Guangzhou in a few days, and as the prefect of Guangzhou, Li Huixian had to face this reality.

He immediately summoned soldiers and horses from all walks of life and began to gather in Guangzhou Prefecture, recruited village warriors, opened the official warehouse to release grain, and called on the people to join the army to defend the city.

After such an operation, in just seven days, Li Huixian recruited more than 15,000 people.

Changing into the old armor in the warehouse, these 15,000 people looked quite presentable, and those who didn't understand military affairs thought that they were well-trained elite soldiers.

On the 22nd day of the 11th month of the lunar calendar, Yi Jiu, the vanguard general of the Righteous Army, was like a bamboo, and the army arrived outside Panyu County, Guangzhou Prefecture on the afternoon of the 22nd.

Seeing the 10,000 army showing off their might outside the city, Li Huixian was both shocked and frightened, he didn't expect the righteous army to be so fast, and it only took seven days to kill the city of Guangzhou.

Looking at the group of villagers he recruited, Li Huixian was really not sure in his heart, and he didn't know if he could hold Guangzhou City.

After Yi Jiu arrived in Panyu, he did not rush to attack, but sent troops to search for the official army in Guangzhou Prefecture, and when he saw a small force, he was directly destroyed.

In less than two days, the periphery of Guangzhou Mansion was swept away, and on the 25th, Mo Qian led a large army to arrive.

Coming to the city, Mo Qian looked at the tall city wall and sighed: "It's another tough battle!" ”

Mo Qian asked Yi Jiudao, who came first, "How is the surrounding situation?" ”

"Back to Dashuai, the periphery of Guangzhou has been swept away by the last general, and now Guangzhou Mansion has become a lonely city, there are 15,000 defenders in the city, except for more than 2,000 guards, the rest of the people are all people temporarily recruited by Li Huixian, and there is no combat power at all.

We only need to attack the city directly, and in less than two days, we will definitely be able to break the city! ”

"Well, don't be in a hurry to attack the city first, let's come from afar, the soldiers are tired of hurrying, rest for five days first, Brother Jiu, you are guarding here, don't let these people run away, I will go to Macau, at least three or five days, at most seven or eight days, I have not come back, you must not attack the city without authorization, those who dare to disobey the order, behead!"

"Yes!"

Mo Qian left his large army, and he only led 1,000 men and horses through the territory of Guangzhou Prefecture and went straight to Macao in the south.

After arriving in Macau, Mo Qian met his old friends Bernie and Cooper.

These two men are now living in a chic manner in Macao, because they have brought nearly one million taels of silver to the arms business of the Governor of Macau, Luo Lang.

Domini, the new Governor of Macau, arrived in Macau last month, but was driven back to Portugal by Luo Lang.

When Domini returned to China, he blackened Luo Lang in front of the king, and hoped that the king would send troops to arrest him back to the country and sentence him.

The current Portuguese is King Felipe III, who is a bit similar to Song Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty, and is a full art student.

This man is obsessed with art, but it does not mean that he is a fool, and Felipe still knows what a great fortune a kingdom can be for an arms business as 500 guns.

Felipe readily asked Luo Lang to continue as the governor of Macau, and ordered him to have a good relationship with the governor of Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty, which was their big customer.

Luo Lang also learned that Mo Qian had come to Macao in person, and immediately led the troops stationed in Macao out of Ma Island to greet him.

Seeing this new warlord of the Ming Dynasty, Luo Lang didn't expect him to be so young, so he was a little taken aback.

"Your Excellency the Governor, on behalf of His Royal Highness King Philip III of Portugal, I would like to express my sincere greetings to you, and I ask you to accept the greetings of my King!"

Mo Qian said very generously: "I accept, Governor Luo speaks Chinese quite fluently!" ”

"Whereever, living in Macau, how can you do it without learning Chinese!"

"Well, that's right, Governor Luo, how is my batch of munitions now?"

"Your Excellency the Governor, rest assured that the production of munitions is being intensified, and it is believed that they will be delivered in less than three months."

"Very good!"

"Your Excellency the Governor, please let me salute the friendship of the landlords, please!"

"Please!"

The two came to the Governor's Palace, came to the second floor of the Governor's Palace, and saw the cannon set up outside, Mo Qian couldn't help but say: "Governor Luo, I have a reluctant request, I don't know if Governor Luo will agree!" ”

"Your Excellency the Governor, please speak!"

"I want to borrow dozens of artillery pieces from Governor Luo, and use them first!"

"Oh? What does Your Excellency want the artillery of my Doge's Palace? ”

"My army is besieging Guangzhou Mansion, lack of siege artillery, I see that Governor Luo has a lot of ready-made, it is better to borrow it from me first, after all, I have placed more than 800,000 taels of silver in your country for arms trading, I have to try your goods first, right?"

Luo Lang also listened to this explanation and couldn't help but think about it.

He turned around and began to communicate with several other compatriots in their native language, and after a while, Luo Lang also turned around and was said by Mo Qian: "Your Excellency the Governor, you can use these artillery!" ”

"Okay, Governor Luo is refreshing!"

"Whereever, Your Excellency the Governor, I also have a reluctant request, and I hope Your Excellency the Governor will agree."

"Governor Luo, please speak!"

"We now have a very large number of compatriots living in Macao, but our place is too small, and I hope that His Excellency the Governor will give us more land to live in after he conquers Guangdong.......

"No way!" Without waiting for Luo Lang to finish speaking, Mo Qian refused this request.

He said: "Macao is the ancestral home of my Chinese people, and it is already an exception for the imperial court to give you a piece of land to rent, if I give you land after I take power, will this Macao become your Portuguese in the future, and it will be impossible to expand the lease." ”

Luo Lang also saw that Mo Qian's attitude was so resolute, so he knew that this matter was no matter, and he didn't dare to mention it again at the moment.

After all, the person in front of him is his financier, and he hasn't received the money for the arms sale yet.

You must not offend this great warlord, and if you don't do it, Macao will have to be taken back by him by force.

After this incident, the two sides had no more topics, and the next morning, Mo Qian resigned to Luo Lang, and Luo Lang did not keep it, but just gave Mo Qian the thirty cannons placed outside the Governor's Palace of Macao, and he never mentioned the intention of returning.

Mo Qian didn't plan to return these thirty cannons, these foreign devils are thieves and thieves, so you have to be careful when dealing with them.

Mo Qian returned to Guangzhou Mansion with thirty huge cannons, just in time for the evening of the seventh day.

At this time, Guangzhou was already besieged, and the people in the city couldn't get out at all, and the rebels didn't attack the city, so they surrounded it like this, and the people inside didn't dare to fight out, because Li Huixian knew that it was impossible for his rabble to win against the rebels outside.

Guangdong used to have many garrisons, but since the death of the pirate giant Liu Xiang, Guangdong's soldiers and horses have been scattered and stationed in various provinces.

Li Hui first wanted to recruit these people to rescue, but he was a prefect and couldn't command those soldiers at all, not to mention that those generals were so scared to death when they heard that it was Mo Qian, where did they have the courage to come.

Mo Qian's current reputation has spread around Jiangxi, and with five people at the beginning, he has almost defeated half of Jiangnan in two years, who would dare to offend such a ruthless person.

Besides, now the imperial court is about to die, officials and generals from all over the country are watching and watching, surrendering and surrendering, everyone is thinking about their own future, where to care about the life and death of a Guangzhou Mansion.

The new governor of the imperial court has not yet arrived, and Guangzhou has become a dead end.

Although Li Huixian has the ability, it is difficult for a clever woman to make a rice-free cook!

On the eighth day of the siege, Mo Qian was finally ready to attack the city, and he swung the thirty cannons he had, and the faces of the defenders in the city changed instantly.

Li Hui first saw Mo Qian's large-caliber artillery from the diorama, and then looked at the small cannon on the city wall of Guangzhou, and instantly everyone was not calm.

"Where did these thieves get the red-coated cannons?"

"I must have gone to Macau to find a foreigner to buy it, these foreign devils, I knew it was unreliable, Master Li went to ask them to bring troops to help ten days ago, and asked him to borrow a firearm, the foreign devil still refused, it turned out that he was waiting for this hand, it seems that this foreigner has long been in collusion with the thieves outside the city." Commander Chai Zhengtao said in his ear.

When Li Hui heard this, he couldn't help but sigh and said, "Guangzhou is over!" ”

The siege soon began, and Mo Qian lined up thirty cannons and let the Portuguese soldiers who came together set fire to the cannons.

The Portuguese artillery had a high military quality, and all thirty shells hit the city wall, and when the cannon went down, there was a wail on the wall.

Mo Qian called Gao Sheng, the commander of the firearms battalion, and said to him: "Take the brothers of the firearms battalion to go to school, watch well, study hard, you must learn for me!" ”

Goldman Sachs' spirit was shocked, he knew that Dashuai was cultivating his own brother, so he didn't dare to slack off at the moment, and replied seriously: "Yes!" ”

Thirty artillery pieces fired in turn, and in less than a stick of incense, one part of the city wall was blown down, and a dozen officers and soldiers fell through the gap, and their flesh and blood were blurred by the bricks.

When the Portuguese soldiers saw that a gap had been blown out, they immediately turned the muzzle of their guns and bombarded indiscriminately at the gap, and soon the gap quickly expanded.

Mo Qian saw that the gap could accommodate three soldiers to pass, so he immediately drew his sword and shouted, "Brothers, attack the city!" ”

The marshal gave an order, and Yi Jiu, as the vanguard general, was the first to lead the troops to charge.

Behind him were tens of thousands of rebel soldiers, and the crowd rushed straight towards the city wall.

On the city wall, seeing the righteous army entering the city from the gap, Li Huixian's face was already like ashes, and he looked up to the sky and sighed: "Your Majesty, Weichen has been loyal to you!" ”

With that, Li Hui jumped from the city wall first, and his body fell into the moat under the city.

This jump shocked Li Hui first, and when he floated up from the water, he realized that he was not dead.

As soon as he came out of the water, more than a dozen spears were instantly placed around his neck.

"Don't move!"

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