Chapter 240 Burn the rebels Li Yulan and others to destroy the nine Dong clans!
Dong Tingsong was quite shocked when he saw this, and directly called out Zhou Shunchang's name: "Zhou Shunchang! What are you doing, why are you scolding me so much!"
Zhou Shunchang snorted coldly, and replied loudly: "Don't scold you, a treacherous old man! You want to coerce clansmen and tenants, and oppose the imperial court. Have you read all the books of sages and sages into the dog's stomach? ?!"
"you!"
Dong Tingsong was so angry that his liver hurt.
He didn't expect that, within a few days, Zhou Shunchang, one of the Suzhou gentry, from the Zhou family of Wu County, would change his previous views of setting up a regiment with him and discuss Xilin's rebellion against the party. Today, he actually came to Wujiang Outside the city, insult him.
Dong Tingsong naturally knew that this was the result of Zhang Gui's failure to be murdered.
So, he couldn't say anything for a while, so he could only grit his teeth and get angry.
At this time, Zhang Gui rode his horse and stood not far behind Zhou Shunchang, watching the scene in front of him quietly.
Not beyond his expectation, after he led the army to Suzhou.
The big gentry families along the way took the initiative to share their fields evenly, and also offered to donate thousands of shi pork and grain and rice to reward the army. They even took the initiative to say that this was in line with public opinion, and they were particularly conscious.
Not only that, but some big noble families took the initiative to send their clan members who wanted to privately run regiment training and make private firearms to the government, and changed the so-called tradition of keeping relatives hidden from each other, in order not to let Zhang Gui find and govern their entire clan opportunity for guilt.
Moreover, some gentry not only actively cooperated, but also offered to help Zhang Gui persuade other gentry to surrender.
As the supervisor of Ming Dynasty, after all, Zhang Gui is not a foreign force that came to colonize the south of the Yangtze River. When people take the initiative to cooperate with their own rules, it is not easy to forcibly liquidate them. In order to make more people obey the rules, they have to praise them. The gentry are aware of current affairs and encourage them to make their own contributions to the harmony and stability of the south of the Yangtze River. They say that once they successfully persuade some gentry to give up coercing their clansmen to organize their own group training with the bravery of the village, they will give credit to them.
But Dong Tingsong was stubborn after all and did not choose to surrender.
Because he knew that he couldn't end well.
After all, he was one of the masterminds involved in the murder of Zhang Gui.
So, after Zhou Shunchang scolded him like this, he finally just said: "You brazen **** can scold you however you want, if you really want to punish me, the Wujiang Dong family, you have the ability to take down Wujiang City first!"
Wujiang Dong family has already controlled Wujiang City, and the walls of Wujiang City are high and thick.
Therefore, if Zhang Gui and others wanted to capture Wujiang, they naturally had to think of some countermeasures.
Huang Binqing from Xilin Academy wanted to make up for the guilt of these Xilin scholars, and at the same time, he also wanted to let Zhang Gui, the uncle of the country, see his determination, so he volunteered: "The students are willing to organize a death squad and attack first. City, please approve the commander-in-chief."
Zhang Gui waved his hand and said: "No need! Just direct artillery bombardment. This supervisor pays attention to firepower. If the firepower is not enough, he will use human life to fill it."
So, Zhang Gui then ordered the artillery battalion to bombard the city.
Under the bombardment of dozens of cannons, Wujiang City, no matter how high and thick the walls were, could not stop it, and finally more than half of it collapsed in response.
After all, after the appearance of the iron-cored copper cannon, the traditional city wall no longer has the ability to defend the city, unless it is replaced by a concrete city wall.
After the walls of Wujiang City collapsed, a large number of Guards and Xilin Township soldiers rushed in.
Not long after, Dong Ting, Song Jiuzu, Li Yulan and others were brought before Zhang Gui.
Li Yulan, who was **** by five flowers, said: "Through the matter now, there is nothing to say about the lowly position. As the saying goes, people don't kill the world for themselves. How can a general be merciful! Uncle Guo, your kindness to the lowly position is indeed as deep as the ocean, but I really don't want to be equalized in the future, and I really don't want to be restricted by some military disciplines stipulated by my uncle and His Majesty. But to stop this, I must get rid of my uncle. Therefore, I have to do this."
Zhang Gui smiled and said: "It's good to be a person who doesn't kill himself. Even if he fails, he has to be responsible for his actions."
As he spoke, Zhang Gui said, "Drag him out, and burn him to death together with the dozens of soldiers who rebelled under his command! This is the same way to comfort the dead comrades!"
"yes!"
Li Yulan was taken aback after hearing this: "Uncle Guo! Please also read that for the sake of fellowship with you in the humble ranks in the past, please be lenient! Instead of burning him with fire!"
"Didn't you say that people don't kill themselves, and now we have to talk about friendship?"
Zhang Gui asked Li Yulan a question.
Li Yulan froze in place.
Zhang Gui waved directly: "Execute the order!"
"yes!"
Zhang Guowei replied, and sent other Guards officers to drag Li Yulan and others down, gathered them on a broken wooden boat they bought, poured kerosene on them, and burned them all to death.
During the process of being burned, Li Yulan cried out in pain.
None of the other guard academies sympathized with them.
Next, Zhang Gui interrogated Dong Tingsong again, and after asking about a series of situations, he said to Dong Tingsong: "Dong Shangshu, you are very vicious, you have attacked this supervisor twice in a row, first my father, then this supervisor Teacher yourself. It’s just that your methods are really inferior, as a dignified minister, don’t you think it’s very unprofessional to use such inferior conspiracy methods to achieve your own goals?”
Dong Tingsong sneered: "Can you use reason to make Uncle Guo change his mind? But Uncle Guo, will you listen?"
"As long as what you say is reasonable, how can the supervisor not listen to it? For example, the scholars of Xilin Academy want to share the land and labor. I think it is reasonable. Instead of stopping them, I support them."
Zhang Gui said, "I think the reason you have to use this kind of inferior method is because you didn't make sense of it yourself. Well said, if you are innocent, you are guilty, and your Dong family is not really a powerful family in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, when the imperial court wants your family's hundreds of thousands of acres of land, can you hold it?"
Dong Tingsong pondered for a while, then suddenly said: "I hand it over now, is there still time?"
"That's too late!"
As Zhang Gui spoke, he ordered: "Drag it out and cut it into pieces! The rest of the tribe will be dealt with as treason!"
"yes!"
Thus, the Dong family was also punished as nine clans.
Zhang Gui did not stay in Jiangnan for long.
He is asking Huang Binqing's Xilin scholars to cooperate with Zhao Yan in accelerating the popularization of national education in the south of the Yangtze River, and he is asking them to use the pinyin literacy teaching method that Xilin Academy has already begun to implement internally, as well as various textbooks that have been compiled in the academy, for use in Not long after the popularization of national education, he rushed back to the capital with the Guards and Huben Army.
Because the masterminds who participated in his murder in Qingjiangpu were not only nobles and gentry from Jiangnan, but also involved forces outside the pass.
Zhang Gui was worried that the forces outside the pass would also be ready to move because of his murder, so after finishing his work in Jiangnan, he didn't dare to delay, but hurried to the capital.
(end of this chapter)