Ma Xunwu is not only the black glove of the Shandong gentry who oppress the people, but also the white glove of the vassal kings like King De who oppress the people.

For example, in terms of land annexation.

Ma Xunwu would often instigate his soldiers to pretend to be bandits and slaughter the original owner of a piece of land that King De had a crush on.

The king would then annex his land and report it to the governor that there was a bandit in the area, and Ma Xunwu would kill a few more good people, pretending that the bandits had been pacified.

Therefore, after King De saw that the Shandong General Military Mansion was surrounded by many guards, he also intended to come to relieve Ma Xunwu.

After all, he really didn't want to lose such a good black glove.

Because not all commanders-in-chief are willing to do this.

It's not so easy to run into a chief military officer who has no bottom line.

Therefore, after King De appeared here, he couldn't help but stop Zhang Gui.

But Zhang Gui didn't intend to give face to a clan like King De, after all, he hadn't killed the clan, so he asked: "Why did His Royal Highness King De suddenly appear here, and His Royal Highness King Dao also colluded with them?" Participated in the murder of the crown prince?! ”

"Your Highness save me!"

Ma Xunwu was also in a hurry to survive at this time, so he hurriedly shouted.

But after King De heard Zhang Gui say this, he was already timid, afraid that Zhang Gui would really pull him into framing the prince.

What's more, King De also knows Zhang Gui's ruthlessness.

So, King De immediately changed his face and said with a smile: "Lone is just passing by, passing by, because he saw that Uncle Guo was doing eucalyptus here, so he shouted a special shout, and asked Uncle Guo, can you have time to sit in the palace?" Lonely wish to sweep the couch to welcome! In addition, where are there two excellent children in Lonely, who will be waiting for Uncle Guo when the time comes?! ”

"Thanks to His Highness's kindness, this Inspector is on official business, so it is inconvenient to disturb!"

Zhang Gui rejected King De, and then ordered: "Execution!" ”

Ma Xunwu was greatly disappointed, and just as he didn't know what to do, many bayonets had already poked at him.

Poof!

Poof!

Poof!

Soon, dozens of transparent holes were added to Ma Xunwu's body, and his mouth and nose began to bleed, and he died tragically in front of King De.

Zhang Gui continued: "The family wealth of the Shandong General Soldier Yamen will be confiscated, and all of it will be distributed to the local battalion soldiers and military households to make up for the arrears!" Zhang Zanhua went to gather the battalion soldiers and military households. ”

Not long after, many poor battalion soldiers and military households in ragged clothes appeared outside the general army's yamen.

And Ma Xunwu's greedy military salaries and looted family wealth were also piled up in a centralized manner, and piled up into a mountain of gold and silver.

Many impoverished battalion soldiers and military families began to line up to receive registration and pay their salaries.

From the Ming Dynasty to the present, the local military system has been very chaotic, and the soldiers who really have combat effectiveness are all generals and private soldiers, and the battalion soldiers and military households who really belong to the imperial court are worse than the people, not to mention the military salaries, and they are enslaved by the officers like slaves.

In fact, Zhang Gui had long been preparing to wait for the Liao affairs to be dealt with in the future, and by the way, he would carry out a thorough reform of the local military system in the Ming Dynasty.

No further ado.

Now, Zhang Gui killed all the officers who followed Ma Xunwu in one go, and then began to give money directly to these military households and battalion soldiers, so that they could temporarily improve their lives, show that the imperial court had not forgotten them, and it could be regarded as a rude way to rectify the local military system of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the new officers, Zhang Gui was ready to let Xia Yunyi appoint them when the time came.

And when King De saw that a lot of gold and silver had been distributed to the soldiers of the military households, he couldn't help but be speechless, and secretly said: "What a sin, so much gold and silver is distributed to these lowly military household battalion soldiers!" ”

Although King De could not accept the fact that the military households could get their military salaries, the military households themselves were still very happy, and they kowtowed one after another: "Lord Qingtian! ”

As for the Shandong gentry, because they saw Hou Liu being arrested, they knew that the general trend was completely unstoppable, so they killed the house slaves they sent out to play the role of bandits and make trouble, and dedicated them to the official army.

As a result, the bandit problem in Shandong was quickly resolved.

In addition, after Xia Yunyi arrived in Shandong, he was much more capable than when Kong Zhen was the governor of Shandong, so the new policy was quickly implemented in Shandong.

Zhang Gui quickly went south after dealing with all this.

At the same time, Yiwang and his party from Jiangxi also secretly infiltrated the Zhejiang region.

And shortly after that.

This day in June of the eighth year of the Apocalypse.

It's the heat of the year.

Shaoxing, Zhejiang.

The merchant where Zhang Gui's father-in-law, Shang Zhou Zuo, was located, had been surrounded by the entire gentry of eastern Zhejiang and the domestic slaves brought by these gentry.

Even King Yi appeared here.

"Bring it up!"

At the same time, King Yi also gave an order, and let his guards escort Shang Jingrui, the son of Shang Zhouzuo, come up.

has returned to his hometown, and he doesn't want to be married to his relatives because he is greedy for the more powerful Shang Zhouzuo, who is already outside his house at this time, and saw that his only son Shang Jingrui was covered with bruises, and his face was swollen like water, and he looked at King Yi more angrily for a while.

As soon as Shang Jingrui saw Shang Zhouzuo, he also cried: "Dad! The children have embarrassed you, mainly because they are too ruthless! ”

King Yi said with a smile here: "Shang Gong, this king is still the same sentence, as long as you are willing to raise troops with us, and call on the entire Zhedong Shi clan to join the orphan and help the orphan succeed, the orphan will return the order to you, and will not pursue his coming to Jiangxi Kaixilin Academy Branch!" And I'll still leave you a chair in the cabinet! ”

Shang Zhou Zuo had the highest reputation among the Zhedong scholars, and many Zhedong scholars said that as long as King Yi personally came to convince Shang Zhou Zuo, they would follow him and cause trouble.

What's more, Shang Zhouzuo served as the governor of Fujian for many years, and because of his political achievements in Fujian's anti-Japanese war, he was quite respected by the people of Fujian, and he was familiar with the bureaucrats and gentry at all levels in Fujian.

Therefore, King Yi had to come in person, and also brought Shang Jingrui, the only son of Shang Zhou Zuo, who he had secretly captured in Jiangxi, in order to make it easier to force Shang Zhou Zuo to subdue, so that he could easily get Fujian and Zhejiang provinces by relying on Shang Zhou Zuo after the incident.

Shang Zhouzuo heard King Yi say this, so he said: "Shang would rather die than be a rebel!" ”

Shang Zhouzuo even asked King Yi because of this: "His Royal Highness King Yi, although His Majesty has now changed the clan system, and the children of the clan can go to Beijing to study, and they can go to the place to perform their duties by the holy decree, but it is not said that they can travel to other places without permission, and now that you come to the Han Mansion, do you have a holy decree?" ”

King Yi said: "There is no holy decree, but there is the ancestral precept of Fengtian Jingjing." ”

"Then Your Highness is violating the rules! There is no ancestral precept that you can follow the edict of the Son of Heaven to be martyred, and besides, if you want to be appeased, you shouldn't come here. ”

Shang Zhouzuo said neither humbly nor arrogantly.

King Yi said: "As you say, now His Royal Highness is invited by the scholars of eastern Zhejiang, and he has come here to ask your Shang clan to raise troops together, and Dengwen will sever relations with his traitorous minister Zhang Gui, otherwise, we will have to exterminate them first on the grounds of noble rebellion, and Zheng Chaogang!" ”

Shang Zhouzuo understood the meaning of King Yi's words, and he just took a fancy to the property of his merchant and wanted to increase the capital of the rebellion.

Shang Zhouzuo also smiled and said: "Your Royal Highness King Yi, our merchants will not rebel, in addition, the contemptible people also persuade you to go back to your own fiefdom and ask the court for guilt, perhaps, Your Majesty can also treat you lightly for the sake of the same clan." ”

"It seems that you are toasting and not eating and drinking!"

Yiwang sneered, and then pulled out a knife and directly chopped off one of Shang Jingrui's fingers.

"Ahh

Shang Jingrui screamed.

Yiwang also asked: "Shang Gong, aren't you really distressed!" ”

Shang Zhouzuo didn't answer.

Yiwang continued: "It seems that Shang Gong is afraid that his son-in-law will be dissatisfied! That being the case, Shang Gong listened to Lingzi's meaning. ”

As he spoke, Yiwang said to Shang Jingrui: "Say! My brother-in-law, Uncle Zhang Guo, is a traitor who has brought disaster to the country and the people! It's a dog-like thing! How can my merchant be in cahoots with it! ”

Shang Jingrui didn't say, only glanced at Shang Zhouzuo.

"Say!"

King Yi gritted his teeth, and was about to hold a knife to cut Shang Jingrui's finger again, and said, "Hold his hand!" ”

"Slow!"

Zhang Dai shouted at this time and said: "His Royal Highness King Yi, why spend energy on such a small descendant, since Shang Gong is unwilling, it is better to hand over Shang Jingrui to us, you order, let us directly arrest all his clansmen, if he refuses, he will destroy his clan." ”

"That's a good idea!"

King Yi then handed over Shang Jingrui to Zhang Dai, and then, King Yi shouted to the gentry and slaves behind him: "This king allows you to arrest all the merchants and families!" Later, if Shang Zhouzuo refuses to abandon the evil and return to the right, he will kill them all! All the good land of the Shang clan will be given to you, and this king will only use the wealth of the merchant to recruit troops! ”

"His Royal Highness King Yi left the fiefdom without authorization, intending to slaughter the people and destroy Guo, according to the ancestral teachings of the "Great Message", villagers, let us work together to tie up King Yi and send it to the imperial court!"

But just after Zhang Dai rescued Shang Jingrui, Tao Chongdao, one of the scholars from eastern Zhejiang, suddenly shouted.

The children of the Zhedong Shi clan suddenly pressed King Yi to the ground together.

Yiwang was quite surprised: "What are you?" ”

Shang Zhouzuo laughed at this time.