Chapter 189 Destroying rebels and serving the country, stabbing traitors several times!

Seeing that Wang Yongguang recommended Mao Yujian so strongly, Zhu Changhao thought that Wang Yongguang would not have any selfish intentions, otherwise he would not let the imperial court's official ministers improperly assist him, so he agreed and let Mao Yujian still lead the general Soldiers and horses from the five provinces attacked Guanzhong.

  Zhu Changhao also had to tighten his belt again, and took out 300,000 taels of silver to Mao Yujian as military pay for the Raiders of Guanzhong.

  At this point, the center of gravity of the rebel army's strategy has shifted from east to west.

  The capital city of the Ming court was temporarily relieved of the crisis of being attacked by rebels.

  Tianqi was silent for a long time after seeing Mao Yujian continuing to serve as the prime minister of the five provinces of the rebel army, and then said to Zhang Gui: "My rebellious uncle was misunderstood by people like Wang Yongguang!"

  Zhang Gui also said: "Your Majesty said yes, but this is a good thing for the court."

  Tianqi nodded, then asked again: "How is the liquidation of the officials and gentry in Shunde Mansion?"

   "Still in liquidation."

   University scholar Zhu Guozhen replied at this time.

At this time, Xie Sheng stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the strategy of liquidating the gentry proposed by Yuan Keli and the others may not be conducive to countering the rebellion. Once the gentry is strictly liquidated, it will make the gentry in the cities occupied by the rebel army better." They don't even want to surrender."

   Zhang Gui saw this and asked Xie Sheng: "Should they be allowed to wantonly betray the imperial court without bearing the consequences? How can the majesty of the imperial court exist?"

  Xie Sheng replied: "But it's better than letting more people die in order to suppress the rebellion in order to maintain the court's discipline!"

   "The liquidation now is to prevent more people from losing their lives in the future!"

   "Otherwise, if a family betrays the court and does not pursue it, more people will betray the court at will in the future, and that will only make the rebellion easily spread like a prairie fire in a short period of time!"

   Zhang Gui then retorted.

  Tianqi waved his hand and said: "After recovering a city, it is a national policy to liquidate the famous gentry! No need to talk about it."

"yes!"

  Xie Sheng and other civil officials who opposed the liquidation of the gentry had no choice but to accept the reality.

   As a result, the gentry in Shunde Mansion were also liquidated by the imperial court.

A liquidation team composed of a group of students from the Armed Forces Academy had already conducted a public trial on these gentry, and like Xia Yunyi, they dug up the sins of these gentry, shot many heinous gentry, and confiscated many gentry fields and gave them to the people.

   And this did arouse the shock and dissatisfaction of the gentry in other state capitals who had defected to the rebels.

  They did not expect that the imperial court would be so ruthless that they would liquidate them. The key point is that even if there is no evidence that the gentry themselves have colluded with the enemy, they will confiscate most of the land of the gentry themselves on the grounds of disloyalty.

  These gentry were naturally unwilling to give up their land.

  For example, the gentry in Quang Binh are now unwilling to give up their land, and are forcing Quang Binh prefect Li Quang Lu to stay with them, just like they were forced to join the rebels before.

   "The imperial court did not practice benevolent government, but extorted and extorted violently! It has long been unpopular! Therefore, we would rather resist to the end than let Guangping City fall into the hands of treacherous ministers like you."

  Therefore, when Tianqi's army arrived outside the city of Guangping Mansion, all the gentry in Guangping Mansion shouted like this.

"Your Majesty, we have found out from our detailed investigations that the gentry in Guangping Mansion guarded the city for them in order to coerce the people in the city, and maliciously said that our emperor's own army burned, killed and looted in Shunde Mansion. Not good, there are bandits who are like a comb, and soldiers who are like a grate, so the common people believe it very much, so they actively guard the city for the officials and gentry in the city. The smoke and dust on the city is the common people who are cooking us overnight of golden juice."

   "We can use cannons to bombard the city gate directly, but it is conceivable that after entering the city, we will still encounter resistance, which will cause casualties."

   Lu Xiangsheng returned.

At this time, Xie Sheng followed up and said: "Your Majesty, I have already said that instead of worrying about whether the dignity of the country's laws is upheld, it is better to think about how to avoid losing some lives. Fortunately, these gentry directly coerce the people to fight against the court. In the end, it’s really worth the candle!”

  Apocalypse said: "There is no one who is undead in battle."

   "Your Majesty! The minister has a way to defeat others without fighting."

   Zhang Gui said at this time.

"speak."

   Apocalypse replied.

  Zhang Gui replied: "In the presence of His Majesty, since the people of Guangping Mansion still resisted to the end and did not open the city to surrender, or kill the traitors and dedicate the city to the court, it means that they have all betrayed the court."

   "Then we don't need to rush to conquer Guangping Prefecture, why bother to fight for the gains and losses of one city and one pool."

   "Open your mind, first carry out the liquidation work in the countryside outside the city, and divide the land outside the city of these gentry who have betrayed the imperial court!"

   "After all these lands are divided, the city of Quang Binh is estimated to have already been besieged with no food and grass. By that time, the city of Guang Binh will naturally be destroyed without attack."

   "Who taught you this? Why are you always better than others?! You would think of encircling the city from the countryside, meat-eaters, it's probably hard to think of such a strategy!"

Tian Qi asked Zhang Gui in surprise, and then said: "But the siege still has to be attacked. How can I do it without seeing any blood on my own army? According to my order, Zhu Guozhen, a scholar of the University, and Bi Ziyan, the Zuo Shilang of the household department, led the officials in the retinue. In charge of dividing the fields outside the city, Marquis Zhanggui of Suizhou and Lu Xiangsheng, the left servant of the Ministry of War, will command the army to attack the city together with me!"

"yes!"

So, next, the prefect Li Guanglu and the gentry on the Fucheng of Quang Binh Prefecture soon saw these court officials leading the official school to clear their fields outside the city, and even forcibly took over their shops outside the city and inn restaurants.

   "They are planning to divide our fields and properties outside the city first! Why are they so despicable! They are not here to suppress the rebellion, they are here to rebel!"

"what should we do?"

   "Masters, quickly think of a way!"

   "Everyone has a good strategy!"

   "Why don't you just take Xiangyong out!"

"We can't fight out. If we don't defend the city, we are no match for the tyrant's own army. The tyrant's army is a powerful army that even the Tartars can defeat! Moreover, not long ago, Mao Gong's army of 120,000 Because of going out of the city for a decisive battle, we were defeated by them, not to mention that we are only strong people, so it can be seen that there is no chance of winning if we go out of the city!"

   "Then we can't just sit back and watch them divide the fields of our various clans, gentlemen!"

  The gentry in Quang Binh Mansion became anxious, like ants on a hot pot.

  Boom!

  Boom!

  Boom!

   At this time, the artillery of the Guards also rang.

  Guangping Fucheng was bombarded with bricks and stones, and it didn't take long before a large piece of the city wall fell down.

   "Kill!"

   At this moment, killing sounds came from outside.

  Li Guanglu, the governor of Quang Binh Prefecture, saw this and said: "Quick! Go and block the collapsed city wall!"

  Puff!

  Li Guanglu had just finished yelling when he suddenly felt someone push him from behind, followed by a sharp pain.

  Li Guanglu looked back, and it was Dai Xingde, the younger brother of the local gentry Dai Xingsu, who stabbed him in the back: "You!"

  Puff!

   At this time, Li Guanglu felt that someone had touched his abdomen again, and he couldn't help turning his head to look, but another local gentry, Liu Xiuzong, stabbed him in the abdomen.

"you!"

   "It's today to get rid of adversity and serve the country!"

   Then, another gentry boy yelled and stabbed Li Guanglu with a knife.

  From the moment the court officers and soldiers outside decided to distribute their fields to the refugees, they knew that they had no cards to fight! Because the countryside can live without the city, but the city cannot live without the countryside.

  (end of this chapter)