On this day, when Zhang Gui and others had just arrived in the area of Qingjiangpu, an important canal town, and planned to go straight to Yangzhou, Huang Degong came to report to Zhang Guiyu: "Commander! The gate of Yangzhou is closed, and the humble rank can't be opened! ”

Zhang Gui smiled slightly: "The Yangzhou gentry are trying to rebel?" ”

Zhao Yan heard Zhang Gui say this, and said: "Uncle Guo's words are wrong, and people are only afraid that they will think that we are thieves." ”

"Who is a Han and who is a thief, it depends on whose hand the deer dies!"

Zhang Gui replied.

Zhao Yan nodded.

Zhang Gui said again: "Zhao Butang, now it seems that you and I have to be powerful." ”

After hearing this, Zhao Yan looked ahead: "Uncle Guo is not wrong, it is De Liwei!" ”

Zhang Gui then asked with a smile: "From Zhao Butang's point of view, how can you establish your authority?" ”

"Kill to be powerful!"

Zhao Yan suddenly replied with a solemn expression.

"It's a good person to kill to be powerful!"

Zhang Gui couldn't help but applaud, and then said: "There is a master surnamed Zhou who said that you should not speculate on your enemy with the greatest malice!" Therefore, from the perspective of this governor, now that the gate of this Yangzhou Mansion is closed, and he refuses to open the door for us, it must be the opposite! It may not only be the Yangzhou Mansion that is reversed, but I am afraid that the gentry and salt merchants from the Caoyun Governor here to the gentry and salt merchants in this area have become thieves. ”

"Uncle Guo, who is this master surnamed Zhou? It makes a lot of sense. ”

Zhao Yan asked hurriedly.

"Zhao Butang doesn't have to know, just wait for the next killing."

Zhang Gui replied with a smile.

Zhao Yan said: "In this case, can you ask Uncle Guo to borrow a few cannons for the contemptible governor standard camp?" The contemptible people have seen that the cannons contained in the Xichang Official School under the command of Uncle Guo are very sophisticated, and they must be sharp weapons in Kecheng. ”

"Zhao Butang has good eyesight!"

Zhang Gui commanded as he spoke: "Sun Chuanting! ”

"Humble duty!"

Sun Chuanting stood up.

"Your ministry stays and assists Zhao Butang in attacking Yangzhou City."

Zhang Gui commanded.

"Yes!"

Sun Chuanting agreed.

Then, Zhang Gui ordered: "The rest of the official schools in the West Factory will be sent to Huai'an with this superintendent!" The governor of Caoyun and others intend to rebel, the evidence is conclusive, the governor is ordered by the emperor to supervise the world's tax administration, and has the right to act cheaply, so it should be a preemptive strike, capture this thief, Ming Zhengcanon, and the Zheng Dynasty Gang! ”

"Yes!"

As a result, most of the official schools in the West Factory were led by Zhang Gui and went straight to Huai'an.

Zhao Yan also ordered his governor Biaoying and Sun Chuanting's subordinates here: "Yangzhou officials and gentry rebelled against the city, and this hall was ordered by the emperor to be the governor of Zhejiang's direct military affairs and civil affairs, and immediately from now on, attack Yangzhou with this hall and exterminate the rebels!" ”

"Yes!"

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The most powerful military official in Yangzhou in the Ming Dynasty was the governor of Caoyun.

Therefore, Zhang Gui would tell Zhao Yan before that all the governors in this area had rebelled.

The full name of the governor of Caoyun in the Ming Dynasty was Governor Caoyun, Governor of Fengyang and other places.

The jurisdiction has Fengyang, Luzhou, Huai'an, Yangzhou four prefectures, and Chuzhou, Hezhou, Xuzhou three prefectures and the central capital left behind the division of eight guards, Zhili Dahe and other guards, and also manages the river.

The station is in Huai'an.

Therefore, Zhang Gui directly led his troops to attack Huai'an.

At this time, Chen Jianrong, the governor of Caoyun in Huai'an City, did not expect that Zhang Gui would directly lead troops to fight Huai'an City.

He only thought that Zhang Gui and the others would go directly to Yangzhou after arriving at Qingjiangpu along the Huai'an Canal.

Even he had already colluded with the Yangzhou gentry, and when Zhang Gui and others arrived in Yangzhou, he closed Yangzhou City, and then when Zhang Gui and others were stopped outside Yangzhou City and were hungry and thirsty, he sent his own soldiers and horses to pretend to be rogues to attack and kill Zhang Gui and others.

Therefore, he did not let Huai'an City strengthen its defenses in advance.

And Huai'an City is still open as usual, allowing merchants and scholars to enter and exit.

When the Xichang Huang Deli cavalry came, they saw that at the Huai'an city gate, there were only a few soldiers guarding inside and outside the city gate, but except for two people who were carefully checking the people entering and leaving, the rest were lazily leaning against the city gate to nap.

Seeing this, Huang Degong simply led the cavalry to rush over.

As soon as these Huai'an soldiers were awakened by the sound of hurried horses' hooves, they were cut down to the ground by Huang Degong and others.

Huang Degong and others thus successfully captured Huai'an City.

At this time, the governor of Caoyun, Chen Weirong, was speaking to his henchmen and generals: "It is reported that Uncle Zhang Guo and Zhao Butang have arrived in Qingjiangpu and will soon go straight to Yangzhou City, and you must do things clean up at that time, you know?" In addition, if anyone can capture or kill Zhang Gui and Zhao Yan alive, they will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver! ”

As soon as Chen Wanrong finished speaking, a family ran in loosely: "Master, it's not good, the official school of the West Factory has invaded Huai'an City!" ”

"What?!"

Chen was shocked when he heard this.

This Ding cried: "It's coming this way now!" Here came a lot of horses! ”

"How could this be the case, they came directly to attack Huai'an City, didn't they go south to implement the new policy, but rebelled? And the intention is to come to Huai'an first to relieve the military power of the hall? ”

Chen Jianrong muttered.

Gong Guozheng, the chief military officer under Chen Jianrong, therefore asked: "Ministry, do we still want to go to Yangzhou?" ”

Syllable!

Chen Jianrong threw an inkstone directly into Gong Guozheng's face, and scolded in a frustration: "Fuck you!" ”

As he spoke, Chen gradually said, "Go and meet the business immediately!" ”

Not long after, Chen Weirong led the officials in Huai'an City to the city gate and knelt down to greet him.

When Zhang Gui also entered Huai'an City at this time, he saw Chen Wanrong and the others kneeling outside the city, so he asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

Chen Jianrong said humbly: "Chen Jianrong, the lowly governor of Caoyun, led the Huai'an bureaucrats and gentry to greet the errand!" ”

After hearing this, Zhang Gui said, "Get up." ”

"Thank you!"

Chen Jianrong waited for the agreement and stood up.

And Zhang Gui then made it clear that his Xichang soldiers and horses had completely controlled Huai'an City, so he suddenly shouted: "Detain Chen Jianrong, the governor of Caoyun, and Gong Guozheng, the chief soldier of Huai'an!" Dare to resist, don't kill! ”

"Yes!"

Huang Degong agreed and waved his hand, and the Xichang Official Academy under his command detained Chen Weirong and Gong Guozheng, the chief soldier, on the ground.

At the same time, Zhang Gui's pro-soldiers and family members all held turtledoves and surrounded Chen Jianrong and Gong Guozheng and other official gentry and their families.

When Chen Jianrong and the others saw so many firearms facing them, they didn't dare to make a mistake.

Chen Weirong and Gong Guozheng were naturally shocked, and they shouted while struggling: "Shangcha, what is this for?" ”

"Ask by order!"

Zhang Gui looked at the two as he spoke: "Chen Jianrong, the governor of Caoyun, and Gong Guozheng, the chief soldier who guards Huai'an and is in charge of Caoding, why didn't last year's Caoyun arrive in Beijing?" ”

"Talk back!"

Zhang Gui then asked loudly.

Chen Jianrong had already made up a reason and explained: "Jiangnan didn't transport the grain, and we can't do it." ”

"How did you become the governor of Caoyun, and the 100,000 Cao soldiers and civilians under him are all decorations?! They don't ship and don't know how to collect? Your Majesty has granted you the right to supervise the transportation of Cao, not that you are just waiting for them to bring the grain in Huai'an City! ”

Zhang Gui questioned and taught Chen Wanrong a lesson.

"Dereliction of duty!"

Because Zhang Gui is now being asked to interrogate, and Zhang Gui's identity is the Qincha who went south on behalf of the Son of Heaven, Chen Jianrong called himself a minister in front of Zhang Gui.

"I see that you are not derelict in your duties, you are rebelling and rebelling, and you are deliberately conspiring to cut off the grain and damage my Ming foundation!"

Zhang Gui also asked because he was ordered to ask, so he also said in the tone of the Son of Heaven.

After hearing this, Chen Jianrong hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, you are wronged!" How dare the minister have such a mind, the minister really just doesn't dare to accept it. ”

"Don't tell the truth, do you, do you have to wait for a thousand knives, or do you have to wait for the people in Yangzhou to confess all the evidence?"

Seeing this, Zhang Gui asked Chen Wanrong.

Chen Jianrong heard Zhang Gui say this: "I said, I said, I am willing to recruit everything, it was Zhao Nanxing and Zuo Guangdou who wrote a letter to the minister, and asked the minister to do this, and the minister colluded with the Yangzhou gentry to assassinate the uncle and Zhao Butang, and they also instructed it." ”

Then, Zhang Gui looked at Gong Guozheng: "What he said is the truth? ”

Gong Guozheng didn't dare to hide it at this time, and hurriedly said: "It's the truth!" ”

"Let them write a confession with the details of the process and sign it!"

Zhang Gui therefore commanded.

A quarter of an hour later, Chen and Gong Guozheng signed the written confession.

And Zhang Gui handed over these signed confessions to Huang Degong after getting them: "Seal them immediately and send them to Beijing in an 800-mile hurry!" ”

Then, Zhang Gui looked at Chen Jianrong and Gong Guozheng again: "You two are still honest, for the sake of the two of you truthfully explaining, this governor will exempt you from the punishment of a thousand knives on behalf of the Son of Heaven, but since you have done the crime of murdering Qin Cha in a bad society, you have to bear the consequences of doing so." ”

As he spoke, Zhang Gui shouted: "Cut these two people in front of all the officials and gentry in Huai'an!" Then pack up its head and take it away! ”

"Yes!"

After hearing this, Chen Jianrong cried out in a panic: "I beg Uncle Guo to spare the death penalty!" I don't want to die! I really don't want to die! ”

Gong Guozheng also said: "Uncle Guo spared his life, and promised that he would never listen to them again in the future, and murdered Uncle Guo, and begged Uncle Guo to give him a way to live!" ”

Zhang Gui didn't care.

He knew that from the moment he decided to support the reform of the law, he could not be soft on the reactionaries, because throughout the history of the reform of the law, those who lost the benefits of the reform of the law never treated those who changed the law because of the softness of the hearts of those who changed the law.

What's more, if the top-down reform wants to be completely reformed, it is actually no different from the revolution itself.

"Uncle Guo's mercy! We don't dare to break our luck anymore! ”

Chen Wanrong, the governor of Caoyun, was shouting, and he was pressed to the ground, and his neck was exposed.

Click!

Immediately, a knife fell.

Chen Wanrong's head fell to the ground, and the blood from the broken neck spilled out, and the Huai'an officials and gentry present suddenly turned pale with fright.

Gong Guozheng, the chief military officer of Huai'an who assisted in organizing the Cao Yun, was also beheaded, and his head rolled to the ground, which made the Huai'an officials and gentry present pale with fright, and their whole bodies trembled.

They didn't expect that Uncle Zhang Guo would cut down a Caoyun governor and a Huai'an general soldier as soon as he got to the south of the Yangtze River.