"Ten thousand victories, ten thousand victories, ten thousand victories!"
The ground trembled faintly, and the brigade marched in order. Someone on horseback shouted: "The Marquis of Jibei has calmed down the chaos. No one can come out rashly, otherwise they will be killed without mercy!"
There are more than twenty yamen in the capital of Yingzhou. According to the strategy of the Hou Mansion, the yamen are being sealed up one by one in an orderly manner!
Every door in the city was closed, and only a sound was heard. The gate of the prefect's Yamen was opened, and two groups of troops rushed in. Seeing the soldiers who dared to break in, the officials in the Yamen were shocked and angry.
An eighth-grade official came out with his yamen servants and shouted: "This is the prefect's yamen. Whose soldiers are you? You dare to rush in and not retreat?"
Before the words were finished, the leader of the team was saying coldly: "The governor is plotting a rebellion, and the Marquis of Jibei is quelling the rebellion. You must obey the order quickly, or else you are rebelling against the party."
The eighth-rank official, who still didn't know the situation, was shocked and angry, and felt even more ridiculous: "Nonsense, how could the governor conspire to rebel? I'm afraid only the Marquis of Jibei could..."
Before he could finish his words, Dui Zheng said coldly: "Take this officer down and kill the others!"
"Kill!" Immediately, dozens of people rushed forward and slashed with the light of their swords. The officer holding only a stick immediately cut off a large piece.
"Ah!" the Yamen shouted, some fought, some fled, and some knelt down.
The eighth-grade officer looked at the situation in front of him, dumbfounded, and wanted to point and scold him. At this time, a soldier turned around with a spear and gave him a heavy blow. The eighth-grade officer screamed, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and he knelt down involuntarily. land!
"Quick, go to the Governor's Mansion." A general on horseback led people to rush towards the Governor's Mansion.
"Madam, hurry up, leave quickly, the Marquis of Jibei has rebelled." There was a chaos in the Governor's Mansion. People were running everywhere, and some were trying to organize resistance.
Jundufu
General Han Wu was reviewing official documents when the guards rushed into the room and shouted: "Sir, it's bad, the Marquis of Jibei has rebelled. You and I have never dealt with each other. Please run away."
"What? How dare the Marquis of Jibei rebel if he is only a mere provincial government?" Han Wu stood up and shouted loudly.
"General, the imperial envoy announced the decree today. Unexpectedly, the Marquis of Jibei ambushed the city, killed the imperial envoy, and now he has even entered the city."
"Sir, leave quickly. It's too late if you don't leave."
"Come here, take my sword." Han Wu sneered: "I, Han Wu, have always been favored by the emperor. There is no reason to escape for nothing. I can only fight to the death."
"Fight out and fight with my army camp." With that said, he led twenty soldiers to kill outside.
The two teams were joining forces and came with hundreds of people. When they saw Han Wu, they laughed: "Haha, as long as we capture Han Wu, it will be a great achievement."
Han Wu's whole body was shaken, and suddenly his whole body became ice-cold. At this time, there was no way out, and he swung his sword to kill. Almost at the same time, hundreds of people came up to kill him, shouting.
The two sides rushed together and fought for their lives.
In fact, both sides are the same founding army, both are elites, screams are constantly heard, and the fighting is very cruel. Han Wu knows that he will not be spared, and they are fighting to the death.
If the weapons and training were not much different, the number of people suddenly became a key factor. The soldiers were all proficient in coordinating martial arts. They surrounded them several times. In just a moment, the more than 20 people inside screamed in agony, and only a few were left.
Han Wu's hair was spread out, and he killed several soldiers with a knife. At this time, he hit him hard with a spear. Han Wu couldn't stand still, fell out, and vomited a mouthful of blood. Several soldiers rushed forward and suppressed Han Wu. Underneath.
Governor's Palace
Hundreds of petty officials and hundreds of officials were separated into separate areas like cattle, surrounded by armored soldiers.
The Marquis of Jibei looked at Shen Zhi: "How to deal with it now?"
Shen Zhi bowed: "Master Hou, if we become bandits, we can do anything, but if we want to fight for this one in ten thousand opportunity, we must have a plan."
"Oh, tell me how this chapter came about?" Ji Beihou said with a smile.
"First of all, we need to control the armies of the three palaces near the city. This is not too difficult. The Marquis was originally the chief officer of the three palaces, and now he is still in charge of the first palace. He only needs to kill the generals and seize the army with the military talisman. .”
"But to seize this one-in-ten-thousand opportunity, simply being in charge of the army is not enough. They are bandits. We also need to establish an official system. The official system is actually not difficult. Just copy the official system of the dynasty and change the name at most."
"The difficulty lies in how to set up a government - the court won't give us much time."
"As for buying people's hearts with free food and money, to be honest, it's only a layman who doesn't know the inside story who would do it in the first place. It's a fool's errand."
The Marquis of Jibei was stunned when he heard this. He pondered for a while, then paced and said, "This is indeed a big problem. You must have an idea after you raised it."
"Yes, it's actually not difficult to put up a shelf."
"We have captured thousands of officials. We will pick them up one after another in a short while and let them choose whether to die or surrender to us."
"Don't think about locking them up and waiting for them to change their minds - by the time they change their minds, we will be defeated, or we will establish a government and we will not need them."
"You have to be so decisive now."
"You can't have too many people at once, because people are afraid of being ugly. When there are more people, many people refuse to surrender just to save face, or they feel that they are not responsible for the law. If they refuse to surrender together, we can't do anything to them."
"So we will interrogate them in batches and kill them, or surrender them - give those who surrender a knife, and kill those who refuse to surrender."
"This way the court will not let them go."
The Marquis of Jibei thought about it carefully and asked: "But these people are oppressed in this way. Even if they surrender, it is difficult to guarantee their loyalty. How to solve this problem?"
"Master Marquis, you said that when the emperor was rebellious, why did the business in the first ten years be miserable and it was difficult to recruit talented people, and then in the next ten years, talents returned to the sea like rivers, and they came to invest one after another?"
The Marquis of Jibei said without hesitation: "Because I was a rogue in the first ten years, but in the next ten years I gained strength and showed signs of success."
"Yes, there are thousands of officials in the city of Yingzhou, and at least half of them are the result of mutual restraint between the imperial courts. If you really want to do things, half of them are more than enough."
"Everyone is afraid of death. It is extraordinary that one-third of these thousand people regard death as their own."
"Then after these officials surrender, a complete system can be established in an instant. With them, troops can be recruited, trained, and the people managed - they must be resentful, passively resistant, or even secretly collaborating with the enemy."
"But as long as the framework is built and can basically operate, the people's hearts are like iron, and the official laws are like furnaces, they will be assimilated. Of course, this is a matter of the future. The matter before us is that the system is established and covered with tiger skin. Outsiders If you don't know, you will be frightened, and you will have the capital to attract people to join - then you can just recruit officials."
"It only takes a few times to gradually fill in the gaps. Those who harbor dissident intentions and refuse to get closer can be eliminated, killed or demoted to follow the Marquis's will."
"The real system was established."
After hearing this, the Marquis of Jibei couldn't help but change his color, and sighed: "Mr. Shen, you and I have known each other for more than ten years, and we only know your color today, so let's do it this way."
"Master, please take a seat. These tasks must not dirty your hands."
Shen Zhi bowed and went down to the courtyard. The Marquis of Jibei was sitting drinking tea when he saw ten people being carried up and divided into two groups. Someone was talking to the first group. All five people shook their heads. He even cursed loudly, but he couldn't hear clearly from a distance.
Shen Zhi was not angry. With a wave of his hand, these five soldiers were immediately pressed down and beheaded on the spot. The second group was so frightened that their whole bodies trembled.
The second group was pulled in for interrogation, and the third group was pulled in to watch.
Two of the second group surrendered, and two were given swords. The two men were trembling all over, and the remaining three were yelling. One suddenly dropped the sword, and the soldier held him down and killed him with a grin. The remaining one closed his eyes and faced a His colleagues stabbed him repeatedly, leaving him covered in blood.
Shen Zhi stepped forward to comfort him and asked him to stand aside.
When the third batch was pulled up, three people immediately surrendered, and they did not regret it halfway. The fourth and fifth batches had an increasing number of corpses and an increasing number of surrenderers, and the success rate continued to increase.
Later, some people even lowered themselves without asking again as soon as they were lifted up.
The Marquis of Jibei noticed that these statuses were from low to high. In just one hour, the courtyard was full of corpses, and blood was constantly flowing out of the corpses.
Some blood was spattered on Shen Zhi's face. He took a white silk scarf and wiped his hands casually. He threw it on the body and went inside to report to the Marquis of Jibei.
"Five hundred and seventy-three officials and ninety-five officials were arrested."
"Four hundred and ninety-six officials were demoted, and eighty-one officials were demoted."
"Congratulations, Lord Marquis. If we don't consider checks and balances at present, these officials can build up the framework of counties and counties in the entire state, let alone a state."
"As long as the Marquis appoints them one by one."
"Okay, haha." Ji Beihou laughed.
At this moment, a school captain and his own soldiers escorted a five-flowered general. This general was Han Wu. He cursed angrily: "Marquis of Jibei, you are an unfaithful, unkind and unfilial person. I didn't expect you to dare to rebel." , just wait, the imperial court will destroy all nine of your clans!"
"Kneel down, kneel down for me." The soldiers pressed Han Wu down and tried to make Han Wu kneel down. Han Wu refused to yield and his face turned red.
One of the soldiers laughed ferociously and hit Han Wu on the foot with the handle of his knife. Han Wu had to kneel on the ground and gave a big salute to the Marquis of Jibei.
Looking at Han Wu, the Marquis of Jibei laughed: "You were my general, but you turned against me and have been against me for many years. However, I cannot be unjust if you are unkind. Han Wu, if you want to surrender to me, I will I can still use you."
"Bah!" Han Wu vomited blood at the Marquis of Jibei and cursed: "Rebel, you are deeply favored by the emperor and have to die a good death. You still want me to surrender to you?"
Han Wu kept scolding, and the Marquis of Jibei sat on the main seat and laughed.
"You are a traitor, how can you laugh?" Han Wu was enraged and struggled desperately to stand up. However, the soldiers were not polite and hit him with a stick, and then he knelt down.
"Why, you know very well."
The Marquis of Jibei smiled calmly and said: "You are my old general. When I raised a team of a thousand people, you were there. You took refuge with the emperor. You fought many times and gradually expanded. When I conquered the world, you will be in my hands." It became 50,000 people, right?”
Seeing that Han Wu was about to speak, the Marquis of Jibei waved his hand: "When the matter comes to this, just listen to what I have to say - the emperor said that he wants to adapt it and eliminate the old and weak, so I will obey his orders."
"Fifty thousand soldiers shrunk by half, to twenty-five thousand, the troops of the Five Prefectures. This happened in the third year of Taiping!"
"In the fifth year of Taiping, the emperor pulled you over, and you were trimmed and trimmed. In my hands, you became the Three Prefectures. In the ninth year of Taiping, I had to cut my own troops and became the Yifu. If you think about it sincerely, the soldiers of the Yifu What can be done? Leave some military power for me and I won’t rebel, but why should this be removed?"
(End of chapter)