Chapter 395: Cutting meat with a blunt knife, frying the heart on a simmer
Yan Zheng likes standardization and process, and he also likes to be methodical and unhurried.
His temperament will undoubtedly affect the people below him, and it will also affect their logic in doing things.
Ansan divided Manila into 49 districts, and through the Han merchants, marked the Arab, Indian, and indigenous areas.
The houses in the area are also clearly divided, such as the homes of merchants, commoners, craftsmen, and all walks of life.
The work took two days to complete, and in these two days, except for the Luzon royal family, which was executed one by one, the Chinese army did not commit any crimes.
The residents who were trapped in their homes also began to come out to understand the situation, and only then did they know that it was the Han soldiers who came.
They were frightened at first, but they also pinned their hopes on the mercy of the Huaxia Army, after all, the Huaxia Army had taken steps to calm the chaos, and they had not done anything excessive in the past few days.
The notice only asked residents not to go out and walk around at will, and did not directly levy taxes on them.
The only thing that was frightening was that the Huaxia army took control of the grain trade in the whole city and banned all the grain merchants in the city.
Two days later, a battalion of soldiers entered the 16th district of Luzon City.
Military bands walked through the streets playing cheerful tunes, and the accompanying soldiers knocked on the doors one by one.
With the help of the translator, they learned that the Huaxia Army had asked them to re-register and make a new register, and that all the members of the family must be present.
These people listened to the cheerful music, looked at the soldiers who were waiting for the battle, and slowly walked out into the street.
Men and women were then ordered to separate, and children and babies under 0.8 metres were placed in a column with women and men in a column.
At this moment, this group of people didn't know what the army in front of them was going to do, so they just walked towards the outside of the city under the escort of the soldiers.
The two groups went in different directions, the women and children went in the other direction, and the men went out of the city.
Soon they came to a wood-enclosed barracks, which was somewhat rudimentary.
At the urging of the Huaxia Army, these men were driven into the camp, and they were all faintly flustered at this time.
The soldiers in charge of the escort left after the handover, knowing only that they would try war criminals and foreign races who had slaughtered Han Chinese.
As a voice sounded, rows of soldiers of the Huaxia Army appeared on the barracks.
"The military law court announced that the Arabs living in Manila are the culprits of the murder of overseas Han people, and after being identified by the surviving Han people in Manila, the evidence is conclusive, and they are sentenced to death and immediately executed!"
"Ready!"
Boom - gunshots rang out all around.
Only then did the men inside discover the intentions of the strange men, and they panicked, some of them knelt down and prayed, and some tried to run away.
"Put!"
Bang - a gunshot sounded, and half of the more than 300 people fell in an instant.
The soldiers had little sympathy for these people with thick hair and ugly noses of very different skin colors, especially since they had slaughtered their own race.
Yan Zheng's work to promote the concept of modern nationality was not done in vain, and the people of Eastern Qin could basically understand that he belonged to which race, and the basic characteristics of this race were somewhat there.
With another gunshot, few of the people inside were soon standing.
After the rows of soldiers had mended their knives, they quickly cleaned them up, shoveled out the bloodstains, and sprinkled lime and fine sand on the ground.
The corpses were dragged aside and dug into a large pit, sprinkled with lime, and then buried alive.
The whole process is methodical, unhurried, and especially standardized.
So the speed is getting faster and faster, and the soldiers are also psychologically accepted the fact that they are being tried.
First the Arab merchants, then the Indian merchants, then the indigenous merchants, and finally the Han Chinese in the city to report and find out the "bad elements" among the common people.
Even Han civilians, those with criminal records, and those who have believed in religion, must be screened out one by one.
This work is meticulous and close, so that the Han businessmen who know about it all have their hairs standing on end.
They had seen torture and robbery, but they had never seen such a well-behaved and planned ...... Execution of criminals.
Afterwards, they didn't even know what was going on in the neighborhood next door, and they stayed at home in fear, guarding their last hope until someone knocked on the door.
The gang was not in a hurry to loot for goods, and to clean up an area, that is, to seal it from house to house.
Huang Xin saw it in his eyes, and he was also frightened, he had heard that the people in eastern Zhejiang, not only did not commit any crimes in the autumn of the people, but also helped the poor, and won a lot of appreciation.
Looking at it today, these people are polite and courteous on the surface, rigorous and meticulous in their work, but they also hide cruelty in their bones.
Their approach is even more appalling than not sealing the knife for three days.
This is like Ling Chi, cutting it off little by little, and reducing the resistance to a minimum.
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Ten days later, some residents finally noticed the abnormality, although they were able to buy rice normally, they found that many people in many places were empty.
In the panic, some people tried to escape, but to no avail, the encirclement had been tightened.
The Huaxia Army also began the final step, that is, the Han Chinese in Luzon came forward to testify against the bad elements among the civilians.
After the work began, it immediately became a grudge and a grudge against every family.
Many Han civilians have been bullied by these natives, and even vendetta killers are even more excited.
And the Huaxia Army no longer let the military band take the lead, and began to directly use the soldiers to take the bitter master to find the enemy.
At the same time, a large number of buildings in the city were demolished one by one.
The Han people, who were frightened by the methods of the Huaxia army, spontaneously began to destroy all temples after hearing this order.
The houses where Indian and Arab merchants lived were also demolished one by one.
But then came the shutdown of the city, and the originally prosperous city was silent at the moment.
There is no one to dispose of garbage and feces in the city, and no one to bring in fresh fruits and vegetables.
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"Comrade Zhang Sanfeng, please stop your trial immediately, otherwise we will need to make great efforts to restore Manila City!"
Chen An, the governor of Luzon who accompanied him in this battle, after inspecting the situation in the city, rushed to find the army headquarters.
Zhang Sanfeng was looking at "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and when he heard this, he got up and said: "But this is a secret order given by the king, and it has not been completely completed yet!" ”
"Can't kill anymore!" Chen An was so anxious that he was about to slap the table, he, the governor, was going to make political achievements, and now that there were no craftsmen in the city, if it was destroyed, he would have to spend more time recovering.
"At present, the whole area of Manila has come to a standstill, and the grain, vegetables and fruits in the jurisdiction can no longer be transported into the city. The sea trade has directly stagnated, and now the Arabs and Indians have been expelled, which is almost a huge blow to the sea trade of Luzon!
Moreover, many of Luzon's specialties also need domestic commercial action and the support of various jurisdictions to gather here! If you continue to destroy it, not only will you lose many craftsmen, but you will also lose a lot of labor, and Luzon's trade will be devastated. ”
Zhang Sanfeng smiled, looked at Chen An and said, "Comrade Chen An, you were in charge of education a lot before, right?" ”
"That's right! When he was in the cabinet, he also focused on education. ”
"I see!" Zhang Sanfeng said with a smile: "In terms of business, it seems that you are not as good as me as a soldier!" I would like to ask, do the tribes of Luzon trade their specialties just because they submit to the king?
No, let me tell you, they don't care who they do business with, just like the king used to use salt to envelop other tribes. It's the same today, as long as we have the goods they want, there will naturally be people who come to do business. ”
Chen An thought about it and felt that it was reasonable, but this kind of behavior always had a negative impact and was very detrimental to his restoration of Luzon.
He persuaded: "The current filth cannot be cleaned up, and then let the Han people in the city climb the medicine, is it possible that in the future, they will be engaged in these work?" ”
Zhang Sanfeng thought for a while, asked his subordinates to bring a form, looked at it, nodded and said, "Okay, then stop first!" Wait for me to report the situation to the king before making a decision, there are still some places in Luzon that need to be attacked, and it is also a good thing to stabilize here first! ”
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