Li Yulan and his soldiers had already taken advantage of the chaos to leave on the civilian boat that had arrived, and arrived at the python-robed officer.

This python-robed officer personally met with Li Yulan: "General Li would rather give up the high-ranking officials and ignore the kindness, but also get rid of this traitor for the people of the world, he is really a big husband!" ”

"Uncle praise! The lowly position is just to destroy the chaotic party as soon as possible, and it has to be done! ”

Li Yulan bowed his hand.

Then, the python-robed officer personally took Li Yulan's hand and came to a private room, introduced the officials and gentlemen present to Li Yulan, and pointed to an official gentleman and said: "This is Wujiang Dong Shangshu Dong Gong." ”

Dong Tingsong, who was appointed as the secretary of the household department in Nanjing, gestured to Li Yulan at this time.

Li Yulan also bowed and said, "I've seen Dong Gong!" ”

For a while, after the python-robed officer introduced these gentry to Li Yulan, he said: "They are all squires who have run their own regimental training, and the total number of soldiers and horses under their command is no less than 100,000!" And with the 200,000 soldiers under the command of the old man, the commander of Caojiang, there are 300,000 in total. Now that the 50,000 Guards he has gone south are leaderless, it is undoubtedly the best time for us to annihilate these 50,000 Guards. ”

"That's right! 300,000 against 50,000, the advantage is in my Jiangnan gentry! ”

Dong Tingsong also followed and said: "Just wait for the 50,000 guards to be completely annihilated, and at the same time, on the side of the capital, after the new emperor ascends the throne and orders the extermination of the Xilin Rebellion, the old man will dismiss Xiangyong and return to his hometown to continue to retreat!" ”

"Dong Gong has always had the idea of going into hiding, and the contemptible people know it. But it may not be easy to clean up the Xilin Rebellion, and now almost the entire Changzhou Mansion is the Xilin Rebellion, and there are other places, it is estimated that there are no less than a million plans! ”

The python-robed man said.

Li Yulan took the initiative to interject at this time: "In the opinion of the younger generation, if you want to clean up such a large-scale chaotic party, you need to use both grace and power, and you can't just focus on purging and suppressing!" ”

"Oh, I don't know what General Li thinks, but it's okay to say it."

Dong Tingsong said with a smile at this time.

Li Yulan also got up and said, "That junior has the courage to show off in front of the princes!" According to the theories learned by the juniors in the Martial Arts Academy and the Guards, they knew that Xilin Academy could gather such a large-scale civil uprising in a short period of time, because they actually took advantage of the contradiction between the common people and the uneven wealth of the official gentry, and the common people were very willing to go to the soup for them! ”

"What's more, the common people follow them to make trouble in the Xilin Rebellion, and they can still get a share of the fertile land and get the ministry. In this case, it is better for us to take the initiative to make profits and weaken the gap between the rich and the poor between the common people and our official gentry, so that the Xilin Rebellion Party can become a rootless and earthless tree. ”

"How do you take the initiative to make profits?"

Dong Tingsong hurriedly asked.

Li Yulan replied: "Distribute the land to the clansmen, and reduce the land rent for the tenants!" The profits of each workshop were also distributed among the clansmen, and the wages of the hired workers were increased to ensure their treatment! Don't be treated as a house slave! In this way, you can strengthen the cohesion within the clan first! ”

After hearing this, the python-robed officer asked: "Since we all have to divide ourselves, then what are we going to do to eliminate the Xilin Rebellion." ”

"But if we divide it ourselves, we can form a group of soldiers and horses that are therefore only obeyed by our own orders, and we can get back what we have lost after exterminating the Xilin Rebellion!"

"Or, because we only have soldiers and horses who obey our orders, we can continue to annex more fields and industries, and even avoid the West Factory from taking away the benefits of sea trade! And even rebuild the benefits of smuggling outside the border! ”

Li Yulan replied.

Speaking of this, Li Yulan said again: "Princess, according to what the juniors have learned in the past few years of studying in the Martial Arts Academy and the Guards, if we don't do this first, we won't be able to defeat the Xilin Rebellion. Because if we don't do that, we're always in the minority, and we're in the majority. ”

After Dong Tingsong heard this, he pondered for a moment, then looked at Li Yulan and said with a smile: "I also ask the general to give advice, if the old man Dong clan does this, and distributes hundreds of thousands of acres of mulberry fields and rice fields in the clan to the clansmen, how to form a team of soldiers and horses that only obey our orders?" ”

"Let the clansmen who have been given the land to rule over the tenants of the land they have been allocated, and draw strong men from the tenants under their control to form soldiers, and give them salaries and pensions."

"In addition, set up a children's school to let the children of the clan practice all kinds of skills! and selected the children of the clan to serve as officers at all levels. ”

"For example, Dong Gong's troops, Dong Gong himself is the commander, and the deputy commander should be Dong Gong's closest brothers and nephews, and then by analogy, the subordinate soldiers and horses commanded by Dong Gong's brothers and nephews are also his brothers and nephews."

"In this way, we can use the clan as a link to form an atmosphere in which officers and soldiers are treated equally, and we can do the order and prohibition, so that we will become a strong army, and the organization should not be weaker than the Xilin Township Soldiers and the Guards."

Li Yulan said.

Dong Tingsong said after hearing this: "The old man thinks it's very good to do this!" ”

As he spoke, Dong Tingsong looked at the others: "I don't know what the princes think?" ”

At this time, the python-robed officer on the side laughed first and said, "General Li is the person that Uncle Zhang Guo values, and he is really a wise man!" In the eyes of contempt, it is necessary to do so. The Son of Heaven is the one who is strong and strong. The same is true for Haoqiang! If we do not do this, we will not be able to have our own powerful soldiers and horses, and we will not be able to exterminate the rebels. As General Li said, after the opposition party is exterminated, we can take back the profits we have shared, or we can rely on the soldiers and horses in our hands to take the profits of others to make up for the profits we have lost. ”

"That's right! Otherwise, it is not enough to exterminate the rebel party! ”

"Xilin Academy has now liquidated the gentry of the entire Changzhou Mansion, and the fertile land has also been distributed to those untouchables, and there will be no profit to be taken away in the future, it is nothing more than that we will also come to a liquidation, all the Diao people who have shared the land will be counted as rebels, the land will be recaptured, the wife and children will be enslaved, and they will be killed!"

"It's the best way to go! It's not just that he can buy people's hearts and minds against the party, but it's not that we can't! ”

For a while, these Jiangnan gentry all agreed.

Dong Tingsong also bowed his head at this time and continued: "The most important thing in this is to manage the children of their respective clans, to respect Confucianism and education, and to be fair and trustworthy!" As General Li Shicai said, we should set up schools for children and strengthen their education. ”

After hearing this, Li Yulan said: "What Dong Gong said is extremely true. In the opinion of the juniors, it is not enough to respect Confucianism and education, and the children of their own clan should be used for Confucianism and miscellaneous studies of astronomy and geography. As for the children of tenant employees, they can also be helped to study, but they should not be allowed to have the ability to think critically, only let them learn Zhu Lixue, create their pedantic and dull atmosphere, and only make them have the heart of seeking utilitarianism and wealth, and should not make them like the children of the clan, smart and wise and know the art of governing people! In this way, the son of a tenant is always a tenant, the son of a hired man is always a hired worker, and a few rich and noble people are useless and rotten! ”

Dong Tingsong nodded: "This is right!" ”

Then, Dong Tingsong said: "Tonight, the old man will write a letter back to his family, and order the clansmen to divide the fields and then the production, and then train the troops and run the school!" ”

At this time, the python-robed officer on the side said: "It is appropriate to cross the river first to destroy the guards, and take advantage of the leaderlessness of the dragons." ”

Dong Tingsong and other officials and gentry all nodded.

Li Yulan said: "In this case, please let the juniors draw a map of the deployment of the battalions of the guards on both sides of the strait, so as to prepare for the princes to lead the troops to attack!" ”

Li Yulan was talking, and suddenly there was a loud noise outside.

Artillery thundered.

"What's going on?!"

Dong Tingsong exclaimed.

And Li Yulan said with a solemn expression: "It's the iron-core copper-tired giant cannon of the Guards!" How can they still be combat?! ”

The python-robed officer on the side hurriedly walked out of the window, picked up the monocular made by the Xishan Industrial Division and took a look, and saw that Zhang Gui had already inserted his supervisor's guard of honor in a place in Pukou, Qingjiang.

Seeing this, the python-robed officer couldn't help but say, "It's not good! We've been tricked! ”