"Who let them only know how to be your lackeys, and don't know what the consequences of using their brains to think about attacking the imperial court officials and soldiers?"

"It can be seen that they are all uneducated people who have no national consciousness and national consciousness!"

After Zhang Gui replied in a cold voice, he said in a deep voice: "In short, anyone who only knows how to listen to you, or who doesn't know how to stop you, will die!" ”

Zeng Zhishan didn't know what to say for a while, so he only shouted: "Uncle Guo! Count the old man beg you, the old man beg you, be merciful! Please be a living Buddha! ”

"If you want to be a living Buddha, wait until the governor picks up the butcher's knife first."

Zhang Gui replied.

Zhang Gui said and said: "If you really think that these 100,000 people should not die, then you should regret your reactionary behavior in the past!" ”

"If it weren't for your unruliness, they wouldn't be bothered by you. Don't do something unkind and unjust yourself, and then blame others for being unkind and unjust! ”

After Zhang Gui finished speaking, he instructed Zhang Guowei: "Pass on the order of the Governor, take out some military rations and cotton clothes, and hire local people, so that they can use the local people's boats to transport all these corpses onto the ship and transport them to Nanjing along the river, and the Inspector will go down to the south of the Yangtze River in the form of a mountain of blood and corpses!" Otherwise, it will not be enough to quench the anger in the heart of this overseer! ”

"Yes!"

Zhang Guowei replied.

About a few days later.

The entire Huaiyang section of the canal has completely turned bloody.

The boats lined up along the river were full of corpses in armor and robes.

Next to these corpses, the people, who had just changed into cotton clothes, were eating fried rice with the Guards' rations on the shore.

"Ahh

"It hurts!"

"Oh my God! Why do you want to help this butcher Uncle Zhang Guo! Why let him escape this! ”

As the drums sounded, a scream and angry curse from the mouth of the dragon of the city of Scarlet City appeared.

Zhang Guowei and others, who were in charge of managing these people, immediately blew their whistles and shouted: "Board the ship!" Set off with the big ship! ”

So, after eating, the people boarded the boats one after another, and began to drive these civilian boats full of corpses south with the big ships of the Guards.

When the soldiers and civilians along the coast saw these big ships, Zhao Zhilong, who was being cut by a thousand knives, and the civilian ships full of corpses, they were all shocked and couldn't do anything.

Liu Houlu, the transfer envoy of Yangzhou who had fled back to Yangzhou first and participated in the murder of Zhang Gui, had to recruit all the inspectors of the inspection departments under his command to the front and said: "Uncle Zhang Gui is not dead. So, next, we will be retaliated by him. Now I can only find a way to control Yangzhou City first, and defend Yangzhou to prevent them from entering Yangzhou City smoothly! From now on, you go and bring all the soldiers from your respective inspection divisions, and prepare to occupy Yangzhou with the old man and defend Yangzhou City! ”

"Yes!"

After agreeing to the inspections, the inspection divisions returned to their respective inspection divisions, and announced the matter to the soldiers of their own inspection divisions.

But who knows, just one day later, more than half of the soldiers of the inspection department ran away.

The soldiers of the Inspection Department are not fools, and it is naturally a good thing to enter the Inspection Department through their respective relationships, and to bully and bully the common people by virtue of the power of the official.

But now, if you want to offend Uncle Guo, and once you are pinched by him, you will be the uncle of the country who is slaughtered from top to bottom, so naturally few people are willing to provoke it.

"Brother-in-law! Don't you see these mountains of corpses and sea of blood along the river, who dares to provoke Uncle Naguo! ”

"Someone has already brought news from Huai'an that Uncle Guo himself said that those who participated in the murder of him must be killed, whether they know it or not, their brains grow on themselves, if they have to listen to the words of the gentry and offend the guards, they should know what the consequences are!"

"So, if you, the Inspection Division, really work against the Guards, then I still don't want to do this errand with the Inspection Division, you let me go back."

At this time, the inspection department of the stone inspection is no exception.

The soldier of the Inspection Division, his brother-in-law Yu Sangui, said to his brother-in-law Shi Inspector that he didn't want to continue to work in the Inspection Department because of this matter.

After hearing this, Inspector Shi said, "Who wants to go against the officials and soldiers of the imperial court? Unless the man is fed and holding on! It's not like this from above, saying that the uncle of that country wants to divide the land of the people of the world equally. But whether he divides it or not, this master, we really can't afford to mess with it, if you want to leave, let's go. In addition, you go and tell the other brothers that everyone who wants to go is gone, and when the people are gone, it will be difficult for us to go against the court again. When the wind calms down, you will come back and continue to work as the inspection department. ”

"Hey!"

Yu Sangui happily agreed.

As a result, Liu Houlu soon learned from the inspection of the inspection departments in various places that a large number of officers and soldiers patrolling everywhere had escaped and were unwilling to die for them.

"Who are you recruiting! As soon as they encounter serious matters, they all pick and run! The old man sees that you are all taking the opportunity to enrich the inspection department and appoint cronyism, but until now, no one can use it! ”

Liu Houlu was depressed because of this, and taught him a lesson about the inspection of these inspection divisions.

Then, he talked about it to Dong Tingsong and Li Yulan, who had temporarily fled to Yangzhou City, and said: "Two, we can't stop his Uncle Zhang Guo from Yanyun Yamen!" Because the soldiers of the inspection department under the command of Yanyun Yamen actually heard that his uncle Zhang Guo was a butcher, and after slaughtering everyone who offended the guards, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to do it anymore. ”

"It seems that this place should not be left for long. We should evacuate Yangzhou as soon as possible and go back to Suzhou directly! ”

After Li Yulan heard this, she also suggested to Dong Tingsong.

Dong Tingsong nodded.

He was able to escape from Qingjiangpu because Li Yulan took dozens of rebels under his command to protect him and escaped, so he is now obedient to Li Yulan.

Therefore, Dong Tingsong also said to Liu Houlu at this time: "Farewell!" ”

Immediately, Dong Tingsong hurriedly left Yangzhou with the help of Li Yulan and other Guards rebels and went to Suzhou.

Liu Houlu could only watch them leave.

As an official in Yangzhou, he naturally did not leave so easily.

In order to avoid being humiliated like Zhao Zhilong, he could only choose to commit suicide in the end.

When Zhang Gui arrived in Yangzhou, he learned that Liu Houlu had committed suicide.

Zhang Gui didn't say anything about this, and only ordered Liu Houlu's body to be burned to ashes to clarify the law of the country.

However, because Zhang Gui led an army of 50,000, he had to consider the rest of the army and the issue of grain and grass along the way, so it was not as light as Dong Tingsong and Li Yulan.

Dong Tingsong and Li Yulan also rushed back to Wujiang, Suzhou.

As soon as Dong Tingsong returned to Wujiang, he began to divide the land equally among the clansmen in accordance with Li Yulan's suggestion, and also reduced rent and interest for tenants, and even directly exempted poor tenants from interest.

Employees in Dong's workshops also raised their salaries, and punished several domestic slaves who were in arrears of wages.

As a result, the contradictions within the Dong family suddenly disappeared a lot.

Dong Tingsong also took this opportunity to transform the clan studies, so that the children of the clan could follow Li Yulan to receive training and learn the corresponding arithmetic and surveying and mapping knowledge.

At the same time, Dong Tingsong also set up a volunteer school, subsidized the children of tenants and hired workers, and hired the most sour and corrupt people in the clan to teach these children.

In addition, Dong Tingsong will also personally seek opportunities to study ethnicity and righteousness, and personally smear the Xilin Township soldiers, saying that the Xilin Township soldiers are all bandits and robbers who kill people without blinking an eye and do all kinds of evil.

As a result, his clansmen and tenant employees began to be full of rejection of the Xilin villagers.

Three months later, Dong Tingsong thus formed a new type of landlord army.

The officers under his direct command were all his own sons and nephews, and the officers commanded by his sons and nephews were the sons and nephews of his sons and nephews.

As a result, this landlord army, which was based on Confucian family ethics, was indeed quite organized, so they defeated the Xilin Township soldiers in Hushu Pass and captured Tang Zhenru, the son of Xilin Shizi.

Syllable!

After Dong Kui, a member of the Dong clan, captured Tang Zhenru alive, he directly gave Tang Zhenru a whip, and a blood mark appeared on Tang Zhenru's face after he was whipped.

This Dong Kui also scolded Tang Zhenru: "If you want to be rich, why don't you work hard yourself!" You have to rebel, you have to burn, kill and plunder! ”

Tang Zhenru sneered: "Who told you that my Xilin Shizi did this for his own wealth and wealth, and for burning, killing and looting?" ”

"Our patriarch Dong Da said it! How could his words be false! ”

Dong Kui replied.

Tang Zhenru said: "You can also believe his words." ”

"Why don't you believe it, our eldest master is a great good man, and now he has distributed all the fields in the clan to us, and even I, a member of the distant tribe, have obtained 200 acres of mulberry fields! The tenants and employees also benefited, and everyone said that our master Dong was a good owner! ”

Dong Kui snorted coldly as he spoke: "And you despise our patriarch Master Dong so much. ”

"Your master Dong is now giving you a share of the land, which is good for you, just because we Xilin Shizi have been here, if there is no us, you are still like cattle and horses!"

Tang Zhenru sneered.

"He's right!"

At this time, Xu Fuyuan suddenly appeared here with a large number of Xilin Township soldiers, and surrounded Dong Kui and his cadres Dong's armed forces, and shouted first.