The "black-hearted wolf" Zhou Jiali, who plagued the magistrate of Nanzhao County, finally perished at the hands of Xiaoqianglu.

What people didn't expect was that in addition to their outrageous cruelty, their brothers were actually incense smellers who advocated the equality of all beings.

Under the leadership of a few surrendered Smelling Fragrance Cultists, Long Thirteen and they finally discovered several of Zhou Jiali's lair, all of which were built in the depths of the mountains, inaccessible places, and some of them were even cliff caves where the locals hid from the war in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties.

There, there were not only the rest of the Smelling Fragrance cultists, the mountain people who were coerced, and a large number of meat tickets, but also the "Ah Bi" hell set up by Zhou Jiali as the helmsman of the Smelling Fragrance Sect in western Henan according to his own imagination.

There are places dedicated to torturing and executing disobedient believers, such as refining people, sawing people, skinning and cramping, lighting sky lanterns, and human bi, and Zhou Jiali is very smart, and deliberately arranged the "hell" in a dark and miserable place when executing criminals, and let some cronies hide in the dark and make terrifying noises.

Of course, controlling the family members of the cultists is also one of his methods, coupled with his mastery of an ancient mind-reading technique, as well as the blessings of the "Ah Nose" hell, which makes the believers completely believe him.

If it weren't for the fact that a few believers had just joined and had not had a deep experience of Zhou Jiali's methods, it was estimated that even if Long Thirteen sacrificed the big killing move of earth-shaking thunder, it would be useless.

Long 13 brought all the captives, including Zhou Jiadi, to Nanzhao County.

On the square in front of the Chenghuang Temple in the city, Long 13 put all the torture instruments of Zhou Jiali on the stage, and then performed the technique of peeling and cramping Zhou Jiali, and the other brothers each carried out the punishment of waist saw, human bi, Ling Chi, and oil pot.

He did not let go of Zhou Jiali's cronies, and all of them were nailed to the new big cross on the stage.

Then the rest of the captives and villagers were released, and not only that, but also allocated fields, cattle, grain, houses, and farm tools near the county seat.

Zhou Jiali's matter soon spread throughout the entire Nanyang Mansion, and even the Ruzhou Mansion and Henan Mansion near the left also heard of it, saying that there are rods and scales between heaven and earth, and the people are scales, most of them are illiterate, and they rarely go out, and they don't have much knowledge, but they can still distinguish who is good and who is bad.

And since Zhou Jiali appeared in the first year of Chongzhen, the government has not spent time to exterminate it, and it has become bigger and bigger, not only that, but also the villagers in Nanzhao County, Neixiang County, and Xixia County who are close to the mountains have been scourged.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was naturally still a behemoth, but since the Chenghua years, a series of things that damaged the national body have happened one after another.

The rebellion of the Jingxiang refugees, the three major expeditions in Wanli, the rebellion of the southwest luxury in the last year of the Apocalypse, the uprising of the displaced people in northern Shaanxi, the Jianzhou Jurchen in the Chongzhen period avoided the Shanhaiguan Pass and broke the border wall from the north of Ji, and returned with plunder.

In addition, the rebellion of the Wenxiang Sect and the rest of Dongjiang Town in Shandong, as well as the levy of training and Liao salaries in order to exterminate the thieves and the Jianzhou Jurchens, are like straws that continue to load the camel's body more and more.

Daming, this camel is actually overwhelmed, just waiting for the last straw to come.

Back to the present, in the east, Xuanda Governor Lu Xiangsheng and his army are encircling and suppressing the thieves mainly Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai.

And the men and horses led by Fu Zonglong who used to encircle and suppress the small strong brigade in Shanxi also encircled and suppressed Zijin Liang and Bu Mu in Kaifeng Mansion.

Whether it is Lu Xiangsheng, or Fu Zonglong, or Gao Yingxiang and Wang Ziyong, they obviously will not take the ordinary people in the places they pass through to heart, so a large number of people fled from Kaifeng Mansion to Ruzhou Mansion, and also fled from Dabie Mountain to Runing Mansion.

After learning about the incident in Nanyang Mansion, these victims continued to flee westward, and a large number of them fled to Nanyang Mansion!

For Lu Xiangsheng and Fu Zonglong, they wish to do so, because in this way, the pressure on the small strong brigade, which is known as loving the people, is extremely huge.

However, there are two sides to everything.

After seeing a large number of victims driven to Nanyang Mansion by other thieves and officials, Long 13 did not refuse them, but tried his best to settle in various places to farm and work

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Of course, for the teenagers among the victims, Long Thirteen naturally selected them into the army and workshops, recruited people from them, and transferred them all to the barracks.

Since Long Shisan had recruited 3,000 teenagers in the Mining City of Ruzhou Mansion before, and recruited new people in Nanyang Mansion, there were more than 20,000 horses under his command.

After completing the task of exterminating the Zhou Jiali Department, after returning to Nanyang Fucheng, Long 13 changed his troops to "Xiaoqiang Division", under the jurisdiction of two brigades.

The newly recruited troops were all trained near Nanyang Fucheng, and such a number of troops could not be carried by a Nanyang Fucheng with a radius of only eight miles, so Long Shisan upgraded Zaolin Town on the other side of the Baihe River to a large military fort and expanded it into a military fort with a radius of four miles.

With the existence of Zaolin Fort, Nanyang Mansion City has actually become a "twin city", and its defense capability has been strengthened.

Shortly after returning to Fucheng, Long Thirteen finally got a new message.

The news was brought by a villager who had taken refuge as a monk in Manjushri Monastery and returned to the lay world after the collapse of the Zhoujia Rite Department.

The man was a poor scholar, with a compound surname, in his twenties, who was originally a student of the county school in Nanzhao County, and Zhou Jiali fled to Wenshu Temple for refuge when he was wreaking havoc near Nanzhao County.

Although he escaped, his family in the countryside was harmed by Zhou Jiali, so when he learned that the Xiaoqiang Brigade had completely exterminated Zhou Jiali, he was the first scholar to take the initiative to defect to Long Thirteen.

He brought the secrets of Zhou Jiali and Manjusri Monastery.

"The great master, the reason why Wenshu Temple can still exist under the ravages of Zhou Jiali is thanks to one person."

"Who?"

"A layman's name is Cai Jiuyi, a person with the legal name Huiding, this person is a disciple of Shaolin Temple in Putian, Fujian, and was accepted by Hong Chengchou from Fujian very early, Hong Chengchou became the governor of Shaanxi when he also became a Chengxuan official, not long ago, due to Hong Chengchou's encirclement and suppression of the big boss, he also lost his troops and lost his generals, and he was imprisoned by the imperial court."

"This Cai Jiuyi's Chengxuan official naturally couldn't do it, so he had to go south, preparing to return to his hometown in Zhaoqing, Guangdong, when passing by Songshan, because he was also a disciple of Buddhism and martial arts, he was there for a while, so he knew about the big boss in Nanyang."

Long Thirteen nodded, "Is it his intermediary communication between Zhou Jiali and Chen Pin?"

"Yes, but in addition, this person is dedicated to the Buddha, and he also led the monks in the temple to repel Zhou Jiali's many attacks, after the big boss exterminated Zhou Jiali, he took a group of disciples south, through Ruzhou Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion south, and now most of them are in Hubei."

"This person is not only a disciple of Nan Shaolin, but also a martial arts student of Zhaoqing Mansion, and has served in the army, and his martial arts are amazing, presumably no one will embarrass him along the way."

Long 13 secretly thought: "No wonder, it is me who has involved his benefactor Hong Chengchou, he naturally holds a grudge, although Zhou Jiali has also coveted Manjushri Temple for a long time, but he still guards the safety of the temple."

"How has the Manjusri Temple survived over the years?"

"The big boss, firstly, Zhou Jiali thought that Wenxiang Sect and Buddhism were one family hundreds of years ago, and did not have the intention of killing them all, and secondly, the biggest benefactor of Wenshu Temple before was the governor of Henan, because Zhou Jiali and the government have not been severed, so there is still a large amount of grain straw transported to the temple through the Zhao platform."

"The most important thing is that because Manjusri Temple covers an extremely large area, there are many offerings to pilgrims and benefactors over the years, and a little saving can last for many years."

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The matter of the Xiaoqiang Brigade exterminating the "Yidou Valley" Jin Buchang, the "Clay Pot" Zhang Youcai, and the "Black-hearted Wolf" Zhou Jiali soon spread throughout Henan like a spring breeze.

At this time, the army of thieves from two ways was still galloping wantonly in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and although the official army had the advantage, it was not easy to exterminate it overnight.

So, there was one person who saw the opportunity.

Fan Shangxiao, the former governor of Henan, was dismissed because he was broken through the Yellow River by thieves, and the new appointment was Xuanmo, the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple.

Along with Xuan Mo came Tang Jiuzhou, one of the six deputy generals of the newly organized Beijing Battalion.

Because Fu Zonglong's main attack is in Kaifeng Mansion

The king of Zijin Liang used it for his own use, and he did not touch the mud Zhang Mengcun, etc., but in the eyes of the imperial court, the strongest and most harmful small strong brigade was in Nanyang Mansion, so Xuan Mo moved the governor's yamen to Luoyang, and Tang Jiuzhou also went with him.

So, in the north of Dragon Thirteen, in addition to Ma Degong's people and horses, there are also Tang Kyushu people!

In fact, with Mu Wenshou in Yuncheng in the east and Tang Kyushu/Ma Degong in the north, the total number of officers and soldiers has exceeded 10,000, and they are fully capable of fighting a decisive battle with Long 13 in Nanyang Mansion.

But it seems that he was scared by the Xiaoqiang Brigade in Shanxi, Xuan Mo did not do so after taking office, on the one hand, he was watching the movements of Zijin Liang and Chuang Wang, because according to his thoughts, although the thieves are all rebels, there must be contradictions inside.

And once this Dragon Thirteen occupies Nanyang Mansion, it will not be a thief, but will be ready to really raise the flag, which is too terrible, and it must be eliminated first, and it is naturally best to use the contradictions between the thieves to accomplish this goal.

So, after contacting Fu Zonglong, they deliberately drove Zijin Liang and the non-muddy department to Nanyang Mansion.

However, after learning that Dragon Thirteen had annihilated Zhou Jiali, who had been wreaking havoc in Bears Ears Mountain for a long time, Xuan Mo's mind changed again.

"This guy braved the disapproval of the world and occupied a place in a house, except for wanting to erect a flag and raise things, didn't he have the intention of drawing the ground as a prison and accepting Zhao'an?"

"This battle is so strong, if you accept the imperial court's recruitment, and then drive it to attack the other two bandits, won't the imperial court be able to achieve the great achievement of conquering the kingdom without spending a single soldier?"

So, he sent an envoy for peace talks.

It was the former Great Liang soldier Yuan Shu who had been captured by Li Zhanchun - as Long Thirteen expected, all the officials who were captured by the Xiaoqiang Brigade and put back were not reused, and because Xuan Mo had a good relationship with Yuan Shu's father Yuan Ke, Yuan Shu was included in his shogunate.

Long Thirteen didn't say anything, but he still asked Yuan Shu to bring a word to Xuan Mo. qδ.o

"Don't worry, wait until the surrounding area is quiet."

As soon as these words came out, Xuan Mo suddenly felt that the matter of Zhao'an was very promising, so he waited happily.