Chapter 83 With all the knives and axes, killing Yangzhou officials and gentry is like slaughtering dogs!
Next, Zhang Gui left Huai'an City with Chen Jianrong, Governor of Water Transportation, and the head of Huai'an General Soldier Gong Guozheng, and headed for Yangzhou City.
Hacking and killing the Governor of Water Transport and the General Soldier of Huai'an is considered a post-autumn reckoning.
These officials dared to cut off the water transportation, so they naturally had to bear the consequences of the failure of the water transportation.
Of course, Zhang Gui did this to prevent Chen Jianrong, the governor of the water transport, from using his military power in the water transport to stop the reform, and pre-emptively killed Chen Jianrong. pose a threat to reform.
And the new Governor of Water Transport will naturally be taken over by someone who supports the reform.
Zhao Yan here did not hesitate when he learned that his uncle Zhang Gui had captured Huai'an ahead of time and that he had taken over the governor of water transport, Chen Jianrong, and immediately led his subordinate Biaoying and Sun Chuanting to Yangzhou City.
"Report to Futai, the official army is here."
At this time, Min Tinghui, an official of a thousand households who was observing the situation outside the city wall of Yangzhou, also reported the situation to Gao Zhiyuan, the prefect of Yangzhou.
Snapped!
Gao Zhiyuan slapped Min Qianhu straight across the face, angrily shouted: "Fucking officers and soldiers! They're traitors!"
"Yes! The humble official made a mistake, it's the rebels from Xichang who came."
Min Qianhu hurriedly covered his face and replied.
Gao Zhiyuan went directly to the outside of the city, and told Min Qianhu who was following him: "Get ready to shoot! Bomb those people who came to Qingzhang's fields and tax collectors in the south of the Yangtze River to death! Who cares about them? Uncle Guo, Zhao Butang, even Your majesty is coming, you have to lie down too!"
Speaking, Gao Zhiyuan ordered again: "In addition, send someone to the Yamen of the Governor of Water Transport in Huai'an, and tell Enfu Chen Butang that the students are here waiting for his men to come and kill these rebels together!"
"yes!"
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
But at this time, about a mile outside the city, puffs of white smoke first rose.
Then, shells flew towards Yangzhou City.
What Xichang brought was an iron-core copper cannon similar to the red-clothed cannon that was used on a large scale during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty in history. Because of the increased mobility due to the bearing and turntable, Xichang brought it down together. Jiangnan, and is ready to use cannons to implement the New Deal at any time.
Now these shells are also the shells fired by this new type of cannon.
This kind of artillery is very powerful. Although it is not as powerful as the literati in the late Ming Dynasty in history, one cannon can destroy ten miles, but it can indeed blow down the city and rewrite the tactics of attacking the city. For example, Duoduo used this artillery to attack in history. It's the same as going down to Yangzhou City.
Therefore, not long after the bombardment of shells, a city wall in Yangzhou suddenly collapsed and became a low and climbable city wall.
Gao Zhiyun was dumbfounded when he saw this, and thought: "I haven't started firing the cannon here, why did they fire the cannon first?"
At the same time, Gao Zhiyuan also had the same sigh as Chen Jianrong, and began to realize that these people who came to Jiangnan to reform the law did not come to reform the law at all, but they came directly to promote martial arts and rebel.
As soon as Gao Zhiyuan thought of this, he hurriedly said to Min Qianhu: "Stop sending people to the governor's office, open the city gate quickly, and kneel down to welcome the emperor's envoy and the ministerial hall!"
"quick!"
As Gao Zhiyuan spoke, he slapped Min Qianhu in the face again, shouting.
"yes!"
This Min Qianhu covered his face again, and at the same time he slandered rather depressingly: "Why did you slap me again? I didn't order the city gate to be closed. It was obviously your civil servants and the officials and gentry in the city who wanted to do this." of."
After all, not everyone can be as bossy as Zhang Gui, a military official, in front of civil officials.
Zhang Gui is blessed by his relatives, close ministers of the emperor, and uncle of the future prince.
And most military officials can only bow their heads in front of civil servants.
Soon, Gao Zhiyuan left Yangzhou City with a group of officials and gentry from Yangzhou Prefecture, and began to kneel in front of Governor Zhao Yan and others.
Seeing this, Zhao Yan ordered to stop firing cannons after giving Sun Chuanting and others a few words, and took his men and women into Yangzhou City.
"Gaofutai, tell me why the people from my hall and uncle Guo came to ask you to open the gate, but you closed the city gate tightly, so that my hall and uncle Guo thought that Yangzhou city was occupied by rebels. So you have to let the artillery open the city?"
As soon as Zhao Yan entered Yangzhou City, he asked Gao Zhiyuan.
Gao Zhiyuan smiled flatteringly and said: "The department hall looks good! It's all because the water transport has been cut off, and the number of rioters and bandits on the river has increased greatly, and they often make trouble. The lower officials had to close the gates of the city because they heard that a tributary bandit was coming to Yangzhou city. But I didn't expect that I neglected you and Uncle Guo, but I don't know why Uncle Guo didn't show up?"
Zhao Yandao: "He is still on the way, my hall will come first."
Gao Zhiyuan said after hearing this: "Since this is the case, the officials and all the scholars and people in Yangzhou Prefecture will first welcome the Ministry Hall. By the way, it can be regarded as an apology for the Ministry Hall. I wonder if the Ministry Hall can move forward with grace?"
"Since you want to welcome the wind for this hall, it is difficult to refuse the hospitality, but the hall is too lazy to move around. In this case, let's hold a banquet in the front yard of your mansion. The owner of the salt merchant. In this way, after eating, you can discuss political affairs quickly."
Zhao Yan said.
Seeing this, Gao Zhiyuan agreed: "Yes!" Then, he flattered: "I have heard for a long time that the Ministry is diligent in the affairs of the king, and it really deserves its reputation. The lower officials are not as good as the Ministry."
Zhao Yan ignored it.
Gao Zhiyuan left here, and went down to follow Zhao Yan's instructions.
Not long after, Gao Zhiyuan and others followed Zhao Yan's instructions and brought a group of officials, gentry and wealthy businessmen from Yangzhou to the front yard of the magistrate's yamen. They held a banquet here and invited famous oirans from many brothels in Yangzhou.
Zhao Yan was talking and laughing with Gao Zhiyuan and other Yangzhou officials and gentry at first.
But when the lights came on, Sun Chuanting walked up to Zhao Yan and whispered a few words, Zhao Yan suddenly threw the cup on the ground and shouted:
"Do it!"
"To be the leader of the court, all the officials of the Yangzhou government and the heads of the rich and wealthy families of the Yangzhou government will be killed!"
"The Tongzhi temporarily acts as the magistrate to perform the magistrate's affairs and transshipment envoys, and the county magistrate temporarily acts as the magistrate's magistrate's affairs. Next, if there are those who refuse to implement the reform and new policies, they will end up just like the current chief officials!"
"yes!"
Suddenly, before Gao Zhiyuan and others understood what was going on, the moment the oiran who sang the song stopped playing and singing, hundreds of knives rushed in.
With a knife and an axe, he directly cut the throat of Yangzhou Xunyan Censor, and immediately the Xunyan Censor lay down on the table, twitching.
"ah!"
The famous prostitutes and oirans present screamed in fright.
Gao Zhiyuan also came back to his senses, and asked Zhao Yan: "Zhao Butang, who is this?"
Zhao Yan continued to eat his meal very calmly, and said: "In order to prevent all the governments in the south of the Yangtze River from obstructing the New Deal on the grounds of rogue bandits and troubles, I use you and others to use it first!"
After finishing speaking, a knife-axe man first stabbed Gao Zhiyuan's back with a knife, then drew out the knife again, and stabbed it in again, and so on.
Gao Zhiyuan, the prefect of Yangzhou, had several holes added to his body.
Many officials, gentry, and salt merchants in the rest of Yangzhou Prefecture were also killed one after another.
(end of this chapter)