Chapter 197 Kill Hong Chengchou and exercise power on behalf of the emperor!

  Hong Chengchou looked dazed, but he still pretended to be calm and said: "Uncle Guo! Why are you so rude, beating the lower official! No matter what you say, the lower official is an official ordered by the court!"

  Then, Hong Chengchou sat directly on the ground, and said: "In addition, Lu Butang's slanderous words are groundless, how can Uncle Guo be so credulous, and because of this, he beat the subordinate officials and made them feel wronged!"

Seeing what Hong Chengchou said, Lu Xiangsheng trembled when he pointed at Hong Chengchou's hand: "Hong Yanyan, why are you so shameless! You admitted to this church yourself, and you designed and killed tens of thousands of rebels and their families. Tens of thousands of people! If you dare to kill them, why don’t you dare to admit it!”

   "That's not the case, how do you ask the subordinate to admit it?"

   "Lu Butang, if you want to harm the subordinate official, you can directly ask the king to order the flag to kill the subordinate official directly. There is no need to frame the subordinate official in front of the uncle!"

  Hong Chengchou speaks eloquently.

   Shua!

  Zhang Gui drew out his knife, and immediately slashed at Hong Chengchou: "That's okay, I am still willing to trust Lu Butang, and I will satisfy you now, and kill you directly!"

   Seeing the flash of the knife, it was already slashing towards him, Hong Chengchou hurriedly shouted: "I admit it! Don't kill the lower official! The lower official admits it!"

  Zhang Gui retracted the knife and smiled secretly.

  He knew that Hong Chengchou would give in at the last moment.

   Hong Chengchou was already sweating profusely.

   After seeing Zhang Gui retract the knife, he breathed a sigh of relief.

  But immediately, Hong Chengchou realized that he seemed to be seen through by Zhang Gui.

  Therefore, Hong Chengchou said: "Uncle Guo, are you defrauding an official?!"

  Zhang Gui snorted coldly: "If you are really not afraid of death, how can I really deceive you?"

  Hong Chengchou pursed his lips and began to cry, then knelt on the spot and kept banging his head on the ground: "Uncle Guo, Lu Butang, please forgive me! Please spare me!"

   "Go on first! Let him write everything he has done as a confession!"

   Zhang Gui gave an order at this time.

"yes!"

  Sun Yingyuan arranged for Hong Chengchou to be detained.

But Lu Xiangsheng turned around and cupped his hands to Zhang Gui after Hong Chengchou was taken down, and said, "Uncle Guo is so powerful that he tricked Hong Chengchou into voluntarily admitting to him. generation."

  "Those who disregard human life don't necessarily spare their own life."

Zhang Gui said a word, and then said to Lu Xiangsheng: "This Marquis came here to select the bravest fighters in the rebel army to form a tiger and cardinal army, so that they can go out to expand the sea and conquer the barbarians. It is necessary to have the cooperation of the Lao Lu Department to contact the rebel army as soon as possible and start recruiting."

  Lu Xiangsheng nodded and sighed after hearing this: "Uncle Guo, don't worry, the subordinate officials will naturally try their best to cooperate. It's just that Zhang Yuhong and Hong Chengchou have made such a move. I'm afraid that the rebel army will develop suspicions against the officers and soldiers."

   "It's not that it's irretrievable."

Zhang Gui said: "Before this Marquis came to you, I asked my people from the West Factory to ride fast horses and show them the imperial edict given to them by His Majesty, and let them reply to Ben Hou quickly. Wang Zuogui and Miao Mei have not received a reply because they are far away, and they don't know if the imperial decree has been delivered to them. The Marquis has already received the replies from the rebels, and they have already expressed that they will come to you to see the Marquis. At that time, directly in front of them, chop off Zhang Yuhong and Hong Chengchou, the culprits who slaughtered the rebel army, and it should be enough to let them know the true attitude of the imperial court!"

  Lu Xiangsheng nodded: "Then I will send someone to invite Zhang Yuhong, and say that he is invited to discuss the matter of suppressing the thieves, and he will be taken down together when the time comes."

  Zhang Gui nodded: "That's it."

  Zhang Yuhong received Lu Xiangsheng's official letter not long after, and he didn't know what it was, so he hurried to Lu Xiangsheng's place.

  As soon as he saw Lu Xiangsheng, Zhang Yuhong hurriedly asked: "Lu Butang, has the imperial court ordered us to suppress the thieves?"

  Lu Xiangsheng lowered his face: "Take Zhang Yuhong, who is good at slaughtering rebels, to this hall, and wait for the imperial envoy to deal with him!"

  Zhang Yuhong was shocked.

  At this time, an official school came in and was about to take Zhang Yuhong, but Zhang Yuhong waved his hand suddenly and said, "Wait!"

  Zhang Yuhong seemed to understand in an instant that Lu Xiangsheng was going to make decisions for the tens of thousands of rebels who had been slaughtered by himself, so he sneered at Lu Xiangsheng: "Lu Butang, are you really going to betray the world's scholars?!"

  Lu Xiangsheng said: "This church does not understand what you said."

   "Since all the ministers can guess the truth about Wang Zuogui and other unscrupulous people being punished in Yulinwei, it is impossible not to understand what the officials said!"

As Zhang Yuhong said, he continued: "Uncles from other countries and some treacherous ministers in the court want to use border expansion to solve internal problems, which is to destroy the Haili that our gentry monopolizes! Foreign trade must become domestic trade and be controlled by the imperial court! Therefore, even if these redundant common people are forced to become anti-people, they cannot be allowed to go out!"

"Even if they are smuggled out, they should be regarded as a betrayal of China! And Lu Butang, why are you willing to see such a scene! Seeing them doing militaristic actions in order not to kill these common people by themselves, it will damage the interests of our gentry ! Isn’t it rare that you yourself are not a scholar-bureaucrat?!”

  Lu Xiangsheng said: "A gentleman should not talk about profit, but should seek the well-being of the Ming Dynasty and the common people in the world!"

  Zhang Yuhong: "..."

   Talking about interests with an idealist is indeed a very powerless thing.

  Zhang Yuhong, like Hong Chengchou at the time, felt powerless after Lu Xiangsheng said this.

   "I would rather slaughter the extra people than let the imperial court organize them to expand the border. You people are really despicable!"

   Zhang Gui came out and said something.

Then, Zhang Gui said: "This Marquis is Uncle Zhang Guo! Zhang Zhongcheng, what you said today can be regarded as letting me fully understand that it is indeed impossible to expect you Confucian scholars to revive the Ming Dynasty, because you only hope to make the Ming Dynasty rejuvenate." Daming eats nothing, and then another dynasty eats it again, as for the common people, it is just the nourishment that you parasitize in Daming. However, it is a pity, this Marquis wants you to stop easily feeding on the common people."

  Lu Xiangsheng signaled the official school to arrest Zhang Yuhong.

   Zhang Yuhong, who had already been detained by the government school, yelled at Zhang Gui: "Uncle Zhang Guo, you are a disaster! How far are you going to harm my Ming Dynasty?!"

  Zhang Gui knew that he had no intention of talking with Zhang Yuhong, so he just said: "Go ahead."

   Not long after, all the rebels, except Li Zicheng's future, came to Lu Xiangsheng's place and met Zhang Gui.

Zhang Gui said to the various units of the rebel army: "You must have heard that Wang Zuogui and Miao Mei's troops were killed by the army, and you must have doubts about the imperial court in your heart, worrying that the imperial court does not really want to recruit you, but wants to get rid of you. Then hurry up! Today, the Marquis is here to give you an explanation, let you know that you are also His Majesty's subjects, and there will be no situation where you cannot be tolerated!"

  Speaking, Zhang Gui ordered: "Bring up Zhang Yuhong and Hong Chengchou, who are good at slaughtering and suppressing rebels and righteous people!"

Then, Zhang Gui shouted to these rebels: "These two people, one is Zhang Yuhong, the governor of Yansui, and the other is Hong Chengchou, the food supervisor and political governor. In front of you, they will be executed on the spot, and let you see His Majesty caressing you!"

   As he spoke, Zhang Gui ordered: "Cut!"

"yes!"

  Thus, the two officials Zhang Yuhong and Hong Chengchou were pinned to the ground.

   Then, only a swish sound was heard.

  Only two sword shadows appeared.

  The two heads fell directly to the ground.

"good!"

  The rebels cheered and accepted the court's recruitment with peace of mind.

   But only Li Zicheng's department did not, and they suddenly fled to Shandong.

  (end of this chapter)