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Of course, Zhang Xiaoqi and the others did not gather a crowd to rebel. Their demands were clear from the very beginning, that is, to ask His Royal Highness to keep the memorial for Shaowu's reversal of the verdict not published, and at the same time punish the "lucky villain" who made the memorial. From the beginning to the end, none of the officials who initiated it had the idea of ​​treason, but there was no excuse for guilt. Zhou Shixiang decided the crime of conspiracy to commit treason. In order to make the crime of treason real, Ding Zhi and others from the Ministry of Punishment brought out the law of the Ming Dynasty, and selected 18 crimes from them, and led Zhang Xiaoqi and others to gather the crowd as a conspiracy.

On the same day, 136 court officials, including Zhang Xiaoqi, Ma Anmin, Wang Wanda, Guo Tianxu, Qin Rong, and Cheng Bangjun, were arrested. Another 378 gentry and scholars who did not go to school and did not return home were arrested. The common people who participated in the disturbance were arrested. 2,650 arresters. For a time, the cells in Guangzhou Prefecture were so full that some prisoners had to be detained in the Yuexiu Camp outside the city. Due to the strict order of the military commander's office, the Guangzhou government did not dare to release a person privately, causing the families of the prisoners outside the government to cry.

The king of Tang was very angry at Zhou Shixiang's actions of killing, arresting and imprisoning people without his consent, and ordered his first assistant Guo Zhiqi to take him and order Zhou Shixiang to release them.

Zhou Shixiang was very angry and said to the first assistant Guo Zhiqi: "Anyone who disagrees with the court can go straight to His Royal Highness the Superintendent of the State, or pass it on to the Minister of General Affairs. Privately linked through official procedures, inciting people to attack the palace, so as to create momentum to oppress the country and the imperial court! If this is successful, everyone will learn from it in the future, but if it does not meet their wishes, it will make people attack the official court. How does the country govern? What credibility does the court have?"

Guo Zhiqi repeatedly interceded for Zhang Xiaoqi and others, and Zhou Shixiang was a cold face, only saying that it should be dealt with in accordance with the law, not selfish, let alone perverting the law.

When Guo Zhiqi left, Zhou Shixiang ordered people to submit the case files related to beating, smashing, robbery, etc. that had been collected by the Guangzhou government these days. There were a total of 369 cases, all of which had bitter masters, and the stories were clearly described, and many of them were in prison. sinners. He also took a special volume for the prisoners who were arrested to confess to the chaos of Tatar, and wanted to cause civil strife in Guangzhou, so as to oppose the Tang King's supervision of the country, and thought that the Qing Dynasty would help the confession. In addition, the deeds of the landowners and gentry who participated in the troubles and worked hard for the Qing court in the past were carefully investigated in various places and delivered to Guangzhou by express. It was written in black and white, and there were neighbors who testified, and there was even a paper about the victims of the villagers in the past.

Guo Zhiqi was speechless, knowing that these case files were true and false, but even if Zhou Shixiang all took the falsehood as true, and the people were in his hands, he said everything, and what could he do if he was empty. After Guo Zhiqi failed to return to the Tang King, the Tang King was dissatisfied, and then sent the **** Pan Yinglong to release an order, and even claimed in the palace that Zhou Shixiang would not let him go, and he would no longer supervise the country.

Zhou Shixiang had no choice but to go to the palace to meet the King of Tang in person, and said in the hall: "I told His Highness that day in Wencun: I only aim to kill the prisoners and restore the country in this life. Whoever wants to stop the Northern Expedition and the great cause of restoring the rivers and mountains will be regarded as lost. Even a long-standing infamy will not allow such traitors to succeed. If Your Highness can't trust the minister, His Highness can order Jin Yiwei to push the minister out of the Meridian Gate and behead it, and the minister will never complain!"

He added: "Emperor Yi Zonglie once said: All officials can be killed. These so-called scholar-officials are usually full of benevolence, righteousness and morality. In fact, most of them come to fight, and they have no morals. When the southern capital is broken, some How many scholar-bureaucrats died for the country? But the wat boards piled up into mountains, competing to surrender to the Tartar butcher Duoduo! When the Qing prisoners occupied Guangdong, how many of these people were as righteous and righteous to the Tartars as they are today. Strive?! How many of you have shot an arrow against the Tartars? Recovered an inch of land? Today my army is about to set off for the Northern Expedition, but these rascals are plotting chaos! If you don't punish these hypocrites who ruined my plan for liberation , What do the soldiers of the Northern Expedition think? What do the loyal ministers and righteous men who died for me in the Ming Dynasty think? What do the people of the world think?!”

Tang Wang was speechless for a while.

"Today's minister's words, whether His Highness believes it or not; what the minister has done today, whether His Highness considers it a merit or a crime, please put it on the minister's account. In the future, when the minister destroys the Tartars and restores my Daming Sheji, I will do everything. After my father and the common people of the Han family were thrown out of the water, His Highness executed the minister with what happened today, and the minister will never call out a single word of injustice!"

Zhou Shixiang was resolute and unwilling to back down.

Tang Wang thought about it, Zhou Shixiang's words may not be unreasonable, and Pan Yinglong reminded Tang Wang tactfully that just after he was in charge of the country, some ministers gathered in the palace to attack the palace gate. This matter can be seen as Zhang Xiaoqi and the others against Tang Wang. There is an unruly heart; at a young age, it is also Zhang Xiaoqi who violated the etiquette system, and Yu Jun is rude. So King Tang's anger subsided a little, and he didn't want to make the matter a big deal, so he promised Zhou Shixiang to call the cabinet to announce the vindication of Emperor Shaowu as a condition, in exchange for Zhou Shixiang's promise not to kill.

He succeeded in his ultimate goal, and King Tang was good at persuading him, and Zhou Shixiang could not help but express that, for those arrested, those who had no official position and no criminal record could be fined for the crime; Those who looted, smashed and destroyed people were handed over to the Guangzhou government for trial and conviction. Those with serious crimes were punished according to the law, and those with minor crimes were sent to the Foshan Iron Mine for hard labor. Those who cooperate with the enemy and have no intention of rebelling can be handed over to the king of Tang, and the rest will be decided by the military commander's office after the charges are proved. [Love ↑ go △ small ↓ say △ network WwW.AiQu]

Tang Wang knew that this was Zhou Shixiang's bottom line, and thought that Zhang Xiaoqi and others were also inciting troubles after all, and they aimed directly at Zhou Shixiang. It would be inappropriate not to give Zhou Shixiang an explanation.

After returning from the palace, Zhang An came to see him immediately, and reported that the Department of Military Intelligence had found during the interrogation that many of the people involved in the disturbance were members of the Daoist sect, and there were also such people among the gentry, and many of them were local secret associations. The Taoist host.

Zhou Shixiang ordered people to find Wang Shirong, and told Wang Shirong what Zhang An had reported. In addition, he also said some reports from various places in the previous episode. As well as bandits and stragglers of the Qing army operating in the countryside, these people are rampant in mountainous areas far away from cities and towns and in areas with inconvenient traffic. Although the Taiping Army and local security teams have repeatedly suppressed them, they cannot completely eliminate these forces. The main force of the Taiping army in the northern expedition is likely to cause chaos in the rear, so I want to hear what good solutions Wang Shirong has to solve this problem.

Wang Shirong did not expect that Zhou Shixiang would specifically ask for his opinion, and was very excited. After thinking for a while, he came up with a 12-character policy, that is, "execute evil leaders, imprison followers, transfer students, and release ignorant people".

Wang Shirong first suggested that the arrested landlords and gentry should be returned to the locality in batches, and the locality would find out whether they had collaborated with the enemy during the Puppet Qing period. Discuss. If there is no collusion with the enemy, they will be controlled by the local government, ordered to supervise the village, and not allowed to leave home without permission.

As for those scholars who are not eligible for official positions because of the middle class, Wang Shirong's suggestion is to send these people to Annan and grant them large and small official positions in Annan. Do it without letting them complain in the country. After years of practice, some talents will emerge.

As for the officials, Wang Shirong's opinion was very clear. With King Tang around, it would definitely not be good to kill someone. But they had to kill the previous batch, otherwise this group of people would not be afraid, and the next time they had a chance, they might cause chaos. Therefore, the leader of the officer should be handed over to the Military Intelligence Division to deal with him, and he should be convicted of the crime of collaborating with the enemy, and kill a group of them, so that the remaining officials can recognize the current situation and know how much they have.

After hearing this, Zhou Shixiang felt that Wang Shirong's method was good, and ordered someone to find Zhang An, give him a list, let him go to Shaozhou, and ask the Guangdong Admiral of the Qing Dynasty to help take the charge of making trouble and leading the official's collaborating with the enemy. Of course, if the Military Intelligence Department directly finds out that there are officials secretly collaborating with the enemy, then there is no need to spend much effort.

In response to the questions raised by Zhou Shixiang about the members of the Daoist sect and the details of bandits, Wang Shirong proposed a plan to purge and suppress the rebels.

According to Wang Shirong's plan, the suppression of the rebels is divided into three stages. This year, from July to October of the 13th year of the Yongli calendar, is the first stage. Internal suppression of the rebels will be carried out in Guangdong and Guangxi, and the unstable swing elements within the local government will be eliminated. The focus is on those Former Qing and demoted officials. At the same time, the local garrison and the local security team should also carry out an inventory, and a large-scale mobilization of the people to report and expose those officials who were secretly connected with the Qing army and Huidaomen elements.

The second stage is from October to March next year. At that time, the military commander's office will uniformly command all regions, mobilize the troops of the garrison and the security forces of the county and villages, concentrate their efforts on fighting bandits, spies, traitors and bullies, and set a responsibility system for the parcels and parcels. , to assess the responsible officials, and at the same time began to ban gangs, sects, societies, Taoism and other organizations in Guangdong.

The third stage is after March next year, mainly to promote the experience gained in Guangdong to Guangxi and Hunan, and summarize the experience of the first two stages of Guangdong into a book. The so-called take the essence and get rid of the dross.

After listening to Zhou Shixiang, he felt that this method was similar to the Taiping Army's experience in suppressing bandits in western Hunan. The difference was that this time, the Huidaomen and bully forces in the town were added, and it was the first time to carry out self-examination and self-clearing in the military and political system of the Taiping Army. .

"Commander, I think that for bandit leaders, habitual bandits, bullies, and important traitors and meeting leaders who have real evidence, we should let go of a few batches and kill people. Officials who collude, even generals in the army, should kill those who should be killed, and those who should be caught, must not show mercy."

"The first evil habitual bandits are going to be killed. From the bandits and those believers and gang members, pick up some minor ones and charge them to iron mines in various farms, and those with serious crimes will be sent to Annan. The expeditionary force took two places in Annan. , just to build two new cities, let these people go, and stay there after the city is built. In the future, if there are serious criminals, you can also consider sending them to Annan, so as not to waste manpower."

Zhou Shixiang was very satisfied with Wang Shirong's plan, and motioned Yuan Kuoyu and Ding Zhilian of the Punishment Department to draft a national memorial to the superintendent, called "Please Suppress the Local Peace Table", in order to obtain the support of the Tang King for local rectification.

Song Xianggong was puzzled by Zhou Shixiang's sudden suppression of the rebellion, and he also had to do it in the army. Zhou Shixiang explained to him why he couldn't suppress the remnants of the old landlords and gentry in the past and the local opposition, and not clear the instability in the army. Because the time is not ripe, the population of Guangdong and Guangxi is limited, the problem of shortage of money and food has not been solved, and they have been fighting to the death with the Qing army, and they do not have the time and energy.

The situation is different now. Zhao Ziqiang's expeditionary force won a big victory in Annan~www.NovelMTL.com~ subdued the Annan Zheng clan, got a lot of indemnity and food, and can also get manpower from Annan every year, so there is a shortage of population and money and food. The problem is basically solved. In terms of military, the Taiping army has won consecutive victories, the Qing army in the southwest has been blocked, and the Qing army in Fujian and Jiangxi is no longer a threat. What's more important is that there is a rare incident in the palace, so we must make good use of this opportunity, otherwise it will not be beneficial to accumulate abuses.

Song Xianggong asked why he chose to carry out internal suppression of rebels at the juncture of the Northern Expedition. Zhou Shixiang replied: "The Northern Expedition is good, what are the benefits? The gongs and drums of the Northern Expedition sounded loudly. If the gongs and drums of the old bureaucrats and gentry forces were not heard much, it would be easy. If the gongs and drums of the Northern Expedition were not as loud as the gongs and drums of the Northern Expedition, then the gongs and drums of suppressing the rebels would have been terrible. Here a landlord was killed, and an old bureaucrat was also killed there. , and then killed a group of Taoist elements, arrested some gang elements, and made trouble everywhere, people in the world will feel that our Guangdong and Guangxi are not friendly to landlords and gentry, to scholars, and to the common people. It's easy to do.... Especially our northern expedition focuses on capturing the southern capital and occupying Jiangnan, and Jiangnan has the most gentry, so we must let the world know that we want to kill the gentry who are collaborating with the enemy, those who collude with bandits in the fishing and meat villages. , Daoist officials and gentry who harm the common people, not gentry who know righteousness, general knowledge, close to the people, and reason."

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